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[Assistant] Jacob's fine. So, so Jacob was there, someone from our business team was there, I was there, and then the, the media relations guy, uh, from Nvidia was there. And like,


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[Assistant] These isolated instances of, of bad behavior. Uhm, and he was like, okay.


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[Assistant] I'mma work with it and I'mma get back to you. And anyway, we, we connected briefly again at CES. So this is six months later and three months ago. And he was like, yeah, you know, we really want to work with you guys. And you know what? In fairness, everything I've heard from Gary from the lab has been that Nvidia has been taking feedback like, like actually like really seriously.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, anytime we're, we're finding any, any odd behavior with the product or, or bugs or whatever else, uhm, they, they seem to, the GeForce team,


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[Assistant] Even though I, I, I've talked about, uh, actually, well, these, these things actually kind of go together, but the GeForce team seems to still care a lot about gaming, even if Nvidia as a company has largely moved on to AI. Uhm, and I, I talked about how I, I would actually be really interested to see Nvidia just split off GeForce.


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[Assistant] As a, as a separate entity that can just be scrappy and not have to have the same kinds of margins or else they're stock tanks or whatever else and just focus on gaming because those guys are passionate.


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[Assistant] They're passionate. So anyway, we are, uhm, we are working with Nvidia on a sponsored video that is going to be upgrading our worst setups.


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[Assistant] Our worst setup. So we had people at the company submit their... Personal rig setups or work PC setups? There are some... You're gonna see some stuff. Personal setups. Not everybody owns a vacuum. Apparently.


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[Assistant] I don't know that for sure, but what I will say is I didn't see one and I didn't see evidence of one existing.


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[Assistant] The point is, I was on my way to that shoot, I forget how I got onto this topic, and I was talking to Dennis about the creative reads, and I hadn't seen, uh, anything that was on YouTube because I watch Flipplane.


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[Assistant] It is definitely made of the water resistant material, so make of that what you will.


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[Assistant] Here, I'm just gonna look at, uh, Colton. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it has the hole still. Okay, there you go.


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[Assistant] Yep, alright, it definitely has holes, but it is made of the water-resistant material. Alright, uh, where was, yeah, where was I going with the story about, uh, oh yeah, anyway, well, NVIDIA, NVIDIA's back. So we are, they are sponsoring a video, upgrading our worst setup, and yeah, you guys are gonna see some stuff. Uh, I... I, uh, you know, I...


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[Assistant] The person who I'm talking about will know who they are. Oh no. And uhm, is going to watch this. I know that for a fact. So, you know,


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[Assistant] Don't, don't, don't, don't say anything. I won't say. Cause the video's gonna start with us meeting all of the finalists, and then it'll, it'll go from there. Wow. And, uh, and, and,


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[Assistant] All I know so far is that I have been to all the finalists setups. I have seen all the setups. Uhm, but we're gonna do, we're gonna film, uhm, probably on Tuesday. We're gonna film announcing to them who is going to be getting, uh, the setup upgrade. And then we're gonna do some stuff.


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[Assistant] Elijah, LMAO, everyone's saying it's me. It's not, I promise. Uh, I will say this much. It is not Elijah. There. It's not Elijah.


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[Assistant] I mean, as far as I can tell, the point of starting a business is, uhm, to make money.


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[Assistant] And the best way to make money is to find some sucker with a lot of money and take it off their hands for them.


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[Assistant] I mean that's the goal in basically anything that's not mom and pop and I feel like


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[Assistant] I mean, I wasn't around when it was any different, but I feel like it wasn't always like that. Like the point of running a business was to...


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[Assistant] And so it seems to be a push-pull, right? Because on the one hand, you've got people whose goal, whose sole goal when they created their business was to sell it for as much as possible, but then you've also got these acquisition companies who exist


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[Assistant] Only to acquire other businesses, not to create, not to create anything.


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[Assistant] And, you know, that can sometimes lead to really tragic results because


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[Assistant] Roosterteeth content. I didn't follow any of the controversies that have taken place. I don't know if they were resolved and everything was cool, or if they were not resolved, so there could be a myriad.


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[Assistant] And many of Rooster Teeth's existing properties will either be sold or transferred elsewhere within its parent company.


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[Assistant] So the problem with this is not that it necessarily affects the ability of the game to still be available. He can relist it himself because he owns the rights, which is really great.


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[Assistant] But he loses anyone who ever wishlisted the game. He loses all of the reviews of the game, the historical reviews of the game. Uhm, another dev, Owen Deary, uh, responded by offering a free download of his game, small radios, big televisions on his website, rather than have it completely disappear. Uhm,


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[Assistant] So our discussion question is, why would Warner Bros. delist these games rather than just leaving them alone? The only thing that I can possibly guess


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[Assistant] That's one possible option. Speaking of seamless transitions into other topics, I definitely have some more to say about tax write-offs.


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[Assistant] But that, that's one, that's one potential option. Another one is they just, uh, don't want to fund development of these and make sure that they don't have any security potential liability. Yeah, I don't know, I don't know.


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[Assistant] It's hard for me to imagine a mindset where you have something that is, as far as I can tell, completely passive. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Requires no input from you whatsoever and generates any amount of revenue, however small, and just going, you know what, I'll just turn that off.


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[Assistant] I just, I don't get it. It doesn't make any sense to me.


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[Assistant] Uhm, does anyone have any additional context for this? Float plane chat, anyone?


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[Assistant] One dev, according to Anaheek Yaj, uhm, was told that he could relist the game if he removed everyone in Adult Swim games from the credits? Like, what? I, uh...


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[Assistant] Very weird. Yeah, I don't really get it. Uhm, I, I saw you kinda, I saw you kind of googling


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[Assistant] Uh, Rooster Teeth, did, uh, were you, were you checking if their controversies were resolved or what were you up to there?


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[Assistant] Hmm. I don't see number two on Steam right now. In fact, I don't see any robot unicorn attack on Steam right now. Is it already?


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[Assistant] Oh, okay, Robot Unicorn Attack 2 is on mobile. Ah.


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[Assistant] So maybe, maybe it's just like a mobile port that's not really a 2, or I-I'm not sure. Not sure.


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[Assistant] 150 people working for Rooster Teeth. That's a lot. It does seem like kind of a lot.


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[Assistant] I'm really not sure. I, I, I don't know what the, uh, I don't know what the revenue model was.


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[Assistant] Apparently in addition to the 150 employees, there's also like tons of contractors and stuff too that are, that are getting the boot.


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[Assistant] I know at one point they were like killing it with their own streaming service, like they had like tens of thousands of subscribers, like monthly subscribers.


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[Assistant] Yeah, okay. Ooh, not a single comment. That's, uh, not a good indicator.


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[Assistant] People are saying it seems like at some point Rooster Teeth had the mindset of green lighting just about anything and seeing what sticks.


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[Assistant] And that I think brings us full circle back around to the point that I was trying to make as I transitioned into this topic, that there is nobody who would buy LMG who would treat it the way that we did.


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[Assistant] And it's possible that we could find someone pretty good. I think that the, the party that, that made an acquisition offer, was it last year or the year before?


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[Assistant] They seemed pretty good. They were pretty darn close to what we would be looking for if, if we were to do something like that. But I think as you guys have seen, uh, we didn't do that and instead we've made, uh, significant reinvestments for the future and we're, we're sticking around whether you like it or not.


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[Assistant] These mics are tax write-off.


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[Assistant] Actually, I think, uh, I think they provided these mics. I don't think they're a write-off at all. They have to break them for them to become a tax write-off. These mic stands are a tax write-off. Uhm, okay. Basically free. So, just a second. Can you, can you just relax for a minute here? In the Linus Reads Mean Comments video. He's shaking.


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[Assistant] I ended up going off a little bit at the end of the video because Elijah put up not one but many comments from people talking about how, you know, whatever, Linus just does whatever he does because it's a tax write-off, it's a tax write-off.


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[Assistant] And, so I, I basically was like, okay, okay, I need a money.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and it doesn't quite work like that because I don't have to pay both personal income tax and corporate income tax. I either pay personal income tax and the company doesn't pay tax on the revenue or I pay corporate income tax and then pay out a shareholder dividend that works out about the same.


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[Assistant] Whatever. So by the time you pay income tax to get it into my own hands, and the various, you know, other taxes that we deal with around here, sales tax and whatever, uh, we're down to about...


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[Assistant] And then I explained that if I use it to buy something, say for example a slate, like a video slate, then I spend $50 on that. Okay, now I have a slate.


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[Assistant] And then I still have to rip the remainder in half, and I get only $25 of my $100 to actually use and do anything with personally.


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[Assistant] Most people, it seems like, followed along pretty well. But one of the comments was accusing me of using my pool as a tax write-off. You did. Really?


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[Assistant] Okay, explain to me, this is not financial advice, how I can use my pool as a tax write-off. Use it for work events, it's in videos.


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[Assistant] If I tried to write off my pool on my taxes.


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[Assistant] You guys are actually behaving like ignorant viewers right now. That's what you guys are doing right now.


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[Assistant] I know I said it was fake. Of course I said it was fake. I'm not gonna admit to a felony offense on camera. Not that stupid. Like writing off your pool? Like writing off my pool.


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[Assistant] So, I just wanna, I just wanna, I just wanna back up a little bit here. The number of people that think, because people did point out that what I said was an oversimplification. Linus, you don't have fifty dollars.


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[Assistant] The company does. Linus Media Group Incorporated has a slate. Which he owns. I don't need a slate though.


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[Assistant] I can't eat a slate. I can't drive a slate. I can't swim in a slate.


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[Assistant] Or, or I, the person, were to, were to, oh, what's, what's it called? Uhm, if I were just to operate as like an independent contractor and I were to reconcile all of this on my, my annual like personal taxes and everything, what I could do is I, the owner of the pool, who paid for it with after-tax money, could


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[Assistant] Make an invoice for the company, billing the company to rent our pool as a location for a shoot and then the company could pay me and then I could report that income and then I could pay my income tax on that.


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[Assistant] That is a way that I could subsidize the construction of the pool, but


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[Assistant] There's a lot of regulations that dictate what I'm allowed to write off and what I'm not allowed to write off. For example, the EV chargers that we have here at the office. If I install them in a parking stall that is designated for my use, I cannot expense those.


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[Assistant] And I cannot participate in any subsidies. What if you did for Taryn? No.


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[Assistant] However, if they are for general reuse of the employees,


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[Assistant] Then, oh wait, no, no, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, this one was separate. Uh, if, if, if it is for my personal use, then it counts as a taxable benefit. That's right. So a taxable benefit is something that the company


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[Assistant] Is something that the company pays for, but that you the employee still have to pay personal tax on. So if I were to, as the business owner, install an EV charger in a stall, that only I can use,


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[Assistant] Then any money of the use of that charger and the electricity use


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[Assistant] He would have to pay income tax on. You can't just, you can't just pay people in gift cards and vacations and like, haha! We figured out the system! We, we beat the system!


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[Assistant] Whereas, there is a carve out here in BC anyway, if we install an EV charger that is for anyone to use, and does not belong to, to any, that is not in like a designated parking stall,


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[Assistant] Then nobody has to pay, has to count as a taxable benefit. Anyone can use it and you just essentially get to charge for free on the, well, the company pays for it, but.


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[Assistant] Uhm, the company gets to write off our energy usage because that's not money we made. You don't pay income tax on money you didn't make.


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[Assistant] Right? So we write off the taxes, and then they don't have to pay income tax, so it's optimization, but no one is actually, no one is able to avoid


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[Assistant] Very, either very clever, or very illegal. And so if you were to say, well yeah, but Linus could just


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[Assistant] On the income, if I get content out of it, I'm gonna make money on the content.


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[Assistant] Elijah, bro, he wouldn't have bought the 115-inch TV if he couldn't make a fucking video. Guys!


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[Assistant] 99% of the tech that I acquire is to make a video. The camera that you are watching this through, the laptop in front of me.


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[Assistant] I do it on purpose, I suffer for you. I legitimately love new tech and I love tinkering around with things and it's not like we're not doing things that I'm approving or are my idea in the first place, but I would


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[Assistant] If I, if I, way cheaper, way easier, I could have just put air conditioning in there. In fact,


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[Assistant] I have air conditioning capacity for that room. I choose not to use it. A, because I feel like it's pretty stupid to air condition in the winter when you could just move the heat through much more energy efficient means. Okay, like, you know, eh. Cool. Yep. I like it. And, and B, because that's lame.


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[Assistant] You could put a water cooling loop in your server room. Uhm.


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[Assistant] So yes, if you, if you have a conspiracy theory that I do things on hard mode just because it's hard mode and because it's more fun that way.


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[Assistant] Oh, sponsor, oh yea, speaking of, uh, speaking of tax write-offs, let's write off this message from our sponsor, AG1.


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[Assistant] All you need is one scoop a day. A few members here at LMG have tried or even used AG1 daily. Maria, our thumbnail artist, who by the way did an awesome exclusive over on Floatplane,


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[Assistant] Dang it, I clicked the wrong thing. One moment please. Okay, check this out. Uh, this is a really great exclusive over on floatplane.


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[Assistant] Maria shares funny thumbnail drawings by our writers. So she's responsible for what you guys see. Uh, by the way, she's wearing one of my favorite hoodies right now, the Dropo. But we often provide her with guidance.


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[Assistant] In order to- because a picture's worth a thousand words, right? In order to give her some idea of what exactly it is that we expect for the final thumbnail. So she did this- she did such a great job with this video of showing our version- Oh wow! versus


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[Assistant] Unfortunately. Wow, that's amazing. Uhm, except cables on the sides. Uh, pretty much across the board. They're, they're awful.


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[Assistant] Okay, sorry, uh, sponsors. Uh, the show is also brought to you by Oracle. If you're in London during March,


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[Assistant] Uhm, the free Oracle Dev Live Build with Data and AI two-day event is dedicated to highly technical developer sessions, hands-on labs, and lightning talks.


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[Assistant] This can also happen to your website if you're trying to build one from scratch. Squarespace is here to save you from disaster.


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[Assistant] Theoretically, the biometric services that you're using, assuming you're talking about your iPhone, for example, theoretically,


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[Assistant] The way that it works is that the actual fingerprint itself is not stored.


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[Assistant] On that third party server. It's just, uhm, just a value is created.


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[Assistant] However, there are exceptions to that. For example, I applied to renew my, uh, my Nexus card, uh, yesterday. And...


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[Assistant] You very much in a government database are storing your actual biometric information.


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[Assistant] I didn't scan my fingerprint into my computer when I signed up for it, but that just reminded me that there are definitely places where there are gigantic treasure troves of real biometric data.


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[Assistant] I don't think I've done the retina scan. That's for air travel. With U.S. border services. They definitely have facial ID for me, and they definitely have fingerprints for me, but I don't think they have anything else. Man, the number of countries that have my fingerprints is very unsettling. If I ever decided to be a criminal, I would have to be the kind that takes a belt sander to the ol' meat paws. Ouch. Yeah. A thing, though. A thing, definitely a thing. Prove I haven't already.


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[Assistant] Now Luke's mind contains my fingerprints too.


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[Assistant] I'm very sorry. So what happened was there was a bit of a miscommunication. Uhm, we were not moving forward with the original supplier for it due to uhm, things that were not our fault.


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[Assistant] And while I love the sample shirt that I have, we were, we were not able to reach an agreement on moving forward with the mass production run. So we went in search of a new supplier for it and somewhere in there, uh, my,


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[Assistant] Requirements for the garment were not fully communicated and we've got a new supplier and we've got a new fabric.


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[Assistant] But, while it has the UV blocking properties of the original fabric, and a very similar hand feel, good stretch characteristics, everything's fine, what it doesn't have is the antimicrobial properties of the original garment, which was part of what I loved so much about it. So I could just wear this thing to the beach, go out swimming in the ocean,


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[Assistant] Not do anything, just dry off and not stink and not be sunburned. It is a flipping awesome garment, however.


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[Assistant] There are problems with antimicrobial clothing.


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[Assistant] Uhm, construction techniques. You can put an antimicrobial treatment on it, but realistically, that's gonna wash off in 20 washes, 30.


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[Assistant] The thing that made the original garment antimicrobial was that it had a bamboo component to the, to the fabric itself.


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[Assistant] Uh, but what our compliance, uhm, what our compliance person, who I don't know if they're off probation or not, and, uh, Tatiana, our, our materials specialist have informed me of, is that bamboo, even though theoretically it's a super renewable resource, uhm,


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[Assistant] You know, it's your call. And I was like, no bamboo. Silver is an option. But silver has recently been found, because of the size of the particles, to have potential, uhm,


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[Assistant] Detrimental health effects on the people who wear it. So any silver in the fabric, not an option now that we know what we know about it.


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[Assistant] I doubt that just from wearing a loose fitting...


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[Assistant] But I, uhm, but yeah, basically we're not, we're not doing it. Uh, Merino wool has strong antimicrobial properties as well, but is very expensive to the point where that garment would be like a hundred and fifty dollar sun hoodie and, like, come on, what are we even?


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[Assistant] I've asked them if we can do it uhm,


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[Assistant] Yeah, if, if, if we can, if we can do it, if we can find a source for a bamboo-based fabric that does the recapture thing or whatever, I still, I still wanna do it. But, I uhm...


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[Assistant] I think it's dead for now. But hey, positive side? I've got mine already.


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[Assistant] I think you're talking about the memory training issues on AM5.


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[Assistant] I don't consider it to be a huge problem, but the first time that you boot up an AM5 system, there can be a long, and I mean long, like sometimes minutes long memory training period where the system does not indicate in any meaningful way that it is doing anything and just sits there


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[Assistant] Make that better and smoother. It would seem like a more, you know, mature, refined experience if they did, but I don't think it's the end of the world because I haven't found overall on a well optimized bios that subsequent boot times are really any, are really any worse. So minor problem in my humble opinion.


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[Assistant] I mean, I'm, I'm sure there were some terrible ideas on the forum. Uh, remember when we, remember when we launched, like, a half-baked, um, like, way of, way of getting rid of old, like, uh, equipment?


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[Assistant] They didn't say floatplane. They just said best linus land development ideas. Fair.


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[Assistant] About their GPUs ending up in the hands of gamers at a reasonable price. I think it was pretty clear by the end of it that the whole thing was kind of lip service. Cause it's not like we did that to make money. We made very little money. In fact, by the time you factor in the development cost. We probably lost money. I'm not gonna say we lost money, but we also got some RMAs and stuff like that.


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[Assistant] Oh, well sure, yeah, then we definitely lost money, but that's not losing money, that's... Losing opportunity. Not making other money. Yeah. So, you know, I try to be, words mean what they mean, I try to be careful with them. Fair enough, fair enough. For the most part. Yeah.


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[Assistant] I mean, the images from it are sick. Oh, this thing is so cool. Did anyone put any information about it? Did we even name them? Nope. You guys, uh, hold on a second. Ugh.


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[Assistant] CT scanner. Y'all looks super cool. Uh, basically, uh, what it does is it, um, at varying exposure times slash


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[Assistant] I'm not sure if the energy level actually varies, but the exposure time definitely varies. Uhm, it moves around an object, blasts it with x-rays, and spits out an extremely high fidelity 3D view.


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[Assistant] X-ray vision for engineers, yeaah. Uhm, from talking to Lucas from the lab, who it seems has spent most of the time with it so far, uh, the largest object we can do is about the size of a basketball. So unfortunately, it's not big enough for us to do something like a laptop, but we could do something like a smartphone.


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[Assistant] Okay, yeah. Yeah, so it's, it's no big deal. Uhm. Oh, but that's not the-


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[Assistant] Okay, nobody who is allowed to make those kinds of decisions is saying that there.


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[Assistant] The funny thing is, you guys are memeing, a lot of other people in the comments are gonna be memeing because they know how much I get triggered by this kind of tax write-off, but a significant number. After I did the spiel, like a significant amount of the comments section is still people who completely


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[Assistant] Uhm, let me put it this way, I am not a small enough fish that I could possibly hope to get away with that.


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[Assistant] Our companies have been audited all of them multiple times in the time we've been running them. And if we had anything, if we had anything even approaching the egregiousness of trying to write off a home renovation, I would get


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[Assistant] Oh man, I'm so annoyed. Uh, Dan, yeah, confirmed. We have to use that one app. Uhm, we cannot use a different one, and that's very, very annoying.


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[Assistant] Can we deal with this on Monday? How did this conversation even start? Uh, cause I was logging into my work account before the show and it told me I have one more warning before I must use this. And then I used up my one. Which work account? Well, this one.


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[Assistant] Uuuh. The maker of this tool. Yeah, yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so this. So I'm- Can I type? Can we- yeah, I mean, we'll talk about it, we can do it this Monday, but- Okay, so is there, is there no other option for the app for this?


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[Assistant] No. Well that's stupid. Yeah. And I'm very unhappy about it. I have to have an entirely separate app just for this one stupid login.


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[Assistant] And after all that, I don't have access to the SharePoint share that Lucas sent to me. Why is it on SharePoint?


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[Assistant] I don't even have a, I don't even have a, there was a prompt to request access to it and I'm not getting a prompt anymore.


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[Assistant] Anyway, uh, I can't show you the scan of the mouse because it is in SharePoint and I don't have access to it, but this is the inside of that promotional dbrand Rubik's Cube. How cool is that?


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[Assistant] So you're seeing like the, uh, uh, the magnets for aligning it or something like that. And then you're seeing the internal gear mechanism for rotating it around. Ah, Luke? Rubik's Cube?


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[Assistant] Oh yeah, that picture is sick. Really like that one. Super cool. Uh, here we go, here we go. Here's a Noctua Edition LTE screwdriver on an overnight. So this is a 12 hour scan. The longer you go, uh, the more detail you can get. So here it is.


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[Assistant] Pretty sick. And there's, there's things that we can refine, there's things that we can fine tune. Uh, one of the things that we agreed to...


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[Assistant] Okay, I hate this, but I'm downloading a file from Teams, then I'm gonna have to upload it to Drive, then I'm gonna have to open it on there because I'm not logged into Teams on this for what are probably fairly obvious reasons. What if you just have them send it to that email?


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[Assistant] At this point, I can email it to myself faster than I can have someone else send me the stupid things, so I'm just gonna do it myself. Sounds good. Uhm, okay, hold on, now I gotta reply, I love coordinating stuff like this on my, uh, yes, thanks. Okay.


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[Assistant] Anyway, that's the internals. Oh, here's a metal 3D printed keycap. Scanned for 80 minutes. Pretty cool as well. Guys, how f-


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[Assistant] What the frickin' cool is this? And it's, it's apparently super accurate. Like, super accurate. Like to, within point one somethings. I can't remember what they are, but they're small. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Really excited about this, man. The options are endless. And what would you guys like to see us use it for? Oh my god, we're not doing tax write-off shirts.


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[Assistant] The Rubik's Cube? I-I-I didn't pay for it at all. Dbrand sent it, and it doesn't even... No offense, Dbrand, but it's worthless.


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[Assistant] So we can, like we can see the internal trace layout of a PCB potentially. Not on anything super complex in all likelihood, but on something relatively simple like a mouse. Yeah. So the switches are so small. Small.


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[Assistant] Okay, what are we supposed to be talking about now? Samsung. Samsung, Samsung, Samsung.


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[Assistant] By the way, it's not the same thing as Samsung Electronics.


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[Assistant] So we worked with Samsung display, uh, we hung out with those guys a little bit at CES. I shouldn't say hung out, we went to their booth. We went to their booth at CES. Uhm, I, I, I genuinely, like, I would have been happy to make that video without a sponsorship check. I don't even care. I love this tech. It's so cool. QD OLED, amazing. Samsung electronics. What are you doing, bud?


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[Assistant] They announced their upcoming OLED TV lineup, but for unknown reasons, the company has apparently chosen not to state


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[Assistant] Whether a given television uses a quantum dot OLED panel, the kind that Samsung display makes, or a W-OLED panel, the kind that LG display makes.


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[Assistant] While all of Samsung's high-end S95C TVs will be QDO-led, its mid-range S90D series will apparently be sometimes QDO-led, and sometimes WO-led.


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[Assistant] Samsung has previously HEAVILY advocated for quantum dots, both for color purity and for avoiding burn-in, which appear to be very legitimate advantages of their technology,


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[Assistant] And know what exact, uhm, sorry, excuse me. So you can't look at both of them and know what generation of Zen architecture they're using even though traditionally the model number has gone up to correspond with a move from Zen to Zen Plus to Zen 2 to Zen 3 to Zen 4.


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[Assistant] And I'm trying to think of some other really good examples of this. I mean, Nvidia's had some GPUs where you might get, uh, one architecture, you might get another one, and the performance characteristics can be different across them. Uh, we've seen from, uhm,


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[Assistant] Man, I'm trying to, I'm trying to think now. I'm pretty sure Intel has pulled this nonsense at some point or another where at the low end they were using, uh, like a previous architecture even though it had the same, like, family name, uh, in the branding, like the same generational branding. And I just,


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[Assistant] I don't have to, like I don't imagine, right? I don't imagine for a second that when I buy the low end product, I'm getting exactly the same thing as the high end one.


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[Assistant] I mean, sure, if I buy the, you know, whatever 90 instead of the 95.


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[Assistant] And I don't think that that's an unfair expectation. I think that that should be a baseline expectation.


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[Assistant] They are getting an also good product. W OLED has advantages. When we're talking pure brightness, okay? W OLED can achieve higher highs, especially on white.


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[Assistant] Also, LG's own TV, so again, LG display, LG electronics, not the same thing, but LG electronics displays, as we saw when we checked out that Flandre scientific display, can do a great job, even though they have, uh, you know,


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[Assistant] Inferior panel technology when it comes to color brightness, because that's the thing that QD OLED does so well, is when you're talking about the brightest possible representation of a pure color, QD OLED is superior to W OLED because it's not washed out by that white sub-pixel when it's trying to achieve that level of brightness.


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[Assistant] And market it as such, cause they're not the same thing.


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[Assistant] LG display, if they stop running the fabs, is basically like, lehooped. And so if I had to guess, I would say it's because LG display needs to sell panels.


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[Assistant] Samsung Electronics moves a lot of TVs, and so they've done a deal to move LG panels, and as part of that business arrangement, this kind of makes sense, there's a combination of what's being reported here, which is that LG has asked


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[Assistant] So part of it is that, and another part of it, is that from Samsung Electronics' standpoint, they're sitting here going,


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[Assistant] LG has spent the last 8 years hyping OLED. Why don't we just...


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[Assistant] Stop talking about the differences in the different kinds of OLED, and we can take these discount OLED panels,


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[Assistant] QD-OLED is THAT much better than W-OLED because you gotta understand Samsung Display, Samsung Electronics, yes, they are definitely related and they definitely, you know, co-benefit each other.


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[Assistant] But Samsung Electronics has to buy panels from Samsung Display and it's in their best interest to take as much of the margin of that finished product away from Samsung Display and into Samsung Electronics because that makes them look good.


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[Assistant] There. And none of this is a tax write-off. Stop.


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[Assistant] Although there are plenty of tax incentives and tax write-offs and the operation of their businesses, I'm sure. I'm sure lots. Especially in the South Korea. Like the whole, you know, the government and the big companies things.


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[Assistant] But, it shouldn't matter anyway because, couldn't you just use an APK anyway?


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[Assistant] Not everything has those available. Uhm. Every time I've looked for one, I've been able to find one. But I'm not-


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[Assistant] It's not something I've done often. Yeah, there's just like APK repository sites and some of them seem real, but not advice. Uh, some of them have seemed reasonably trustworthy and I've downloaded things from them and not had any problems.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I just, I just couldn't find, I couldn't find any reason to use it compared to apps that are readily available on Windows already. Or phone link.


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[Assistant] You know, at a, at a, at a baseball game, you know, they're, they're in the crowd, they're, they're, they're pulling down their trousers, you know, they're, they're calling, they're calling the pitcher's name, and they're pulling down their pants, they're turning around, they're going, take a shot. Come on.


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[Assistant] You've seen that clip of Randy Johnson hitting the bird, right? It's kind of crazy. Incredible. I thought it was fake. Like for years. I'm like, oh no, that like actually happened. That's unbelievable. Pretty wild.


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[Assistant] There is baseball in Canada, it just sucks. It's called basketball up here. It's not, stop it. Sorry, basketball.


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[Assistant] Everything I remember- I will not go back and watch it again. Yeah, it's probably- it would not convince me to rewatch it. Yeah. I mean...


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[Assistant] Yeah, I know. Red Digital Cinema. What? See you later. Acquired by Nikon. Is this a good thing? Do we like this? I think we just don't care. I think no one really cares about Red anymore. And so, yeah, it's one of those things that's sort of noteworthy because it's like, oh yeah, I remember Red.


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[Assistant] You know, when they were making waves, and big films were using red cameras, and then, like, prominent online creators were like, cool, you know, red cameras. We shoot on red now. How many K's? How many K's can you make? Team Crispy.


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[Assistant] Completely faded from relevance, remember the red phone I know, right? Completely faded from relevance, and I just kind of forgot they existed.


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[Assistant] Like Sony's completely eaten the sort of low-end filmmaker space. Uh, Ahri never really seems to have regarded Red as anything other than a minor inconvenience. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Oh come on, black magic. I think black magic is more interested in the ecosystem than cameras these days.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that was an acquisition. The, the one that we have upstairs. So cool. So cool. My goodness. That's cool. Yeah. Hardware accelerated baby. Although I got to imagine the next level of that is going to be AI accelerated and it's going to absolutely blow your brainstem away. Yeah, probably.


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[Assistant] Now what I'd like to know, and I don't know if this is addressed in any of the coverage, Ars Technica did a good article about it, uhm, I don't know if this is addressed in any of the coverage, but what I would like to know is, are they counting something like a Steam Deck?


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[Assistant] Because the Steam Deck is first and foremost a game console. A gaming device. It's a console. Everything about it is designed to be a console to the greatest degree that Valve was able to achieve that. From the instant wake to the power optimization. It's, it's, yeah. You can plug it into a dock. Put a keyboard and mouse again.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so, in my mind, this number is probably underrepresented. Now, you could make the same arguments for other operating systems, uh, you know, oh, well on this kind of, you know, on POS terminals that run Windows, of which there are millions worldwide, you know, they don't browse the web on those, sure, sure, sure, fine enough, that's fair enough.


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[Assistant] Given how small the Linux number is, and given how many Steam decks I suspect that Valve is selling. At the same time.


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[Assistant] So if you're gonna include one mobile device, you gotta include a different mobile device. I don't know. I don't consider the steam- I consider the Steam Deck a computer. I know I just said it's a console.


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[Assistant] It's yes, but it doesn't have any kind of general purpose utility. Steam Deck does. It's a computer.


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[Assistant] Man, how do we fix cheating in games the way that they are right now?


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[Assistant] You can't fix it at an OS level. You can't fix it at a game level. You can't fix it. Can't fix it at a driver level. You just can't fix it. And video games?


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[Assistant] So by support for it, I mean locked off servers where only people who have this device can participate. Would you buy a device that is essentially a camera?


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[Assistant] And a piece of software that monitors the screen that uses machine vision to track your actions on your peripherals and tra- hold on, hold on.


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[Assistant] Locally. Locally tracks what's happening on your peripherals and locally tracks what's happening on your screen and ensures that they correspond.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I guess that wouldn't help because then everything would still correspond. And unless it's watching your eyes. Okay, so. Eye tracking as well. Next level. Now you're not allowed to look at a spare monitor though.


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[Assistant] Uhm, well you're not allowed to, basically you would still be able to do some stuff. Like you'd be able to stop moving, look at something else,


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[Assistant] Mime that you're doing something. No, you wouldn't because you're just looking at something else. You'd be able to take your mouse off your, your hand off your mouse and pretend you're looking at your phone over here for a little bit. And then you'd be able to go back to your thing. But that would put you at a significant competitive disadvantage in a lot of games.


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[Assistant] If you, if you actually, so you, okay, so theoretically, remember guys, this is a theoretical product.


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[Assistant] So theoretically, it is a device that has a camera that monitors your hand movements, an eye tracker that monitors your eye movements, and then a piece of software that is tied into it. Or better yet, not software. A third camera.


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[Assistant] That monitors the screen and ensures that everything is synced. And how does this work? It, like, reports an everything okay signal? Basically, it's, it's an every, meh, meh, everything's fine alarm. All the time. And it, so it'll ping, it'll ping the multiplayer server saying everything's okay, everything's okay, everything's okay, and then if any, if it ever stops, then you're kicked. Immediately. If it worked, let's say it's, I'm gonna,


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[Assistant] Hold on, let's do stages like this. Hold on. It's just, it's what I've described so far. Would you consider buying it?


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[Assistant] If there was a big enough ecosystem that you knew that in a game you liked to play, other people would be using it and you could play on a cheat-free server.


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[Assistant] Everything was essentially locally stored other than the everything's okay alarm.


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[Assistant] Buddy? Uhm, that doesn't sound cheap.


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[Assistant] Let's say it's $300. Does it work in multiple games? It works in any game where the developer implements support and has cheat free, like, like, cheat eye.


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[Assistant] Or whatever you wanna call it. So can we assume this is like, not a hundred percent, but pretty ubiquitous? Uh, look, it's not ubiquitous. No? It's supported in a handful of games, but one or two of them happen to be ones that you like to play.


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[Assistant] I would consider it depending on the games. 300 bucks. I would consider it depending on the games. Let's say it was supported in Tarkov. Yea. Would you play, would you play, uh, whatever, not raids, not extractions, whatever they're called, instances, raids, sure. Would you play raids with this device and this device alone if it was available and would you spend the money on it?


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[Assistant] Elijah, uh, said something else, but it made me think of something different. Good job Elijah. Uhm, you're doing great. It's a valuable skill. Knowing that there's going to be a cost in terms of latency, right, you're going to probably, it'll cost you a frame of latency, let's say 15 milliseconds.


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[Assistant] If you knew that every other client connected was also using the same cloud stream service and the whole thing was running locally so they could monitor what absolutely everyone is doing. So nothing goes in, nothing goes out other than mouse and keyboard inputs and frame data.


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[Assistant] Uh, European New Car Assessment Program has declared that all cars need physical controls like buttons, switches, and dials for important features like turn signals, windshield wipers, horns, hazard warning lights, and any built-in SOS features. I mean, that should have been common sense before, but hey, thanks, Tesla.


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[Assistant] Yup. And, uh, Oregon passed a right to repair law that Apple is not a fan of. Uhm, basically they're going after, uh, locking


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[Assistant] Google has been vocally in support of the bill, but Apple has expressed concerns saying that the bill's language around parts pairing could force them to allow third-party biometric sensors to work in our devices without any form of authentication which could lead to unauthorized access to an individual's personal data.


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[Assistant] To the detriment of customers everywhere because they do not have the ability to restrict such provisions regionally. Uhm, yeaah. Yeaah, you're gonna have to just figure it out, Apple, which we know you can, so just do it. Because you did it before, so just do it like that. Uhm...


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[Assistant] Yeah, the bill covers all consumer electronics, but excludes motor vehicles, farming equip- Really?


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[Assistant] Solar panels and electric toothbrushes. So right to repair doesn't... What is this, the oral bee lobby? Like, what's going on?


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[Assistant] That's what I did. Last year I installed solar on my house, says Andrew Q. With an EV, uh, was close to net zero electricity. Linus, do you monitor your solar? If so, how has your electricity usage been with an EV and many electronics? I actually do monitor my solar.


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[Assistant] Occasionally, uh, to give you some idea of how often it is, I forget what the app is called, but I do have it. I just need to find it.


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[Assistant] It's not very good in the winter because we don't get a lot of sun here in Canada, which is why the ROI point for solar in Canada, there's some parts of Canada that get sun, but in Vancouver, we definitely don't get enough to make it make a ton of sense. Uh, but in the summer, in the summer, it's not bad.


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[Assistant] Dang it, I forget what it's called. It's one of those stupid apps where the name, it's, it's not, you know, solar or, you know, energy app or anything like that. It just has some random stupid name and I have to remember exactly what it is. Like, uh, okay, okay, my pool, for example. The app for my pool.


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[Assistant] Uh, instead of being called Aqualink, it's called iAqualink. So when I'm going through all the apps, I don't really use all that often. I have to remember, uh, right, right, the pool starts with an i for some reason that I can't possibly imagine what it would be other than- Apparently you can rename apps?


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[Assistant] I don't see an obvious way to do that. App details in store.


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[Assistant] Uhm, select item? Okay, select it. Depends on your launcher. Oh, okay, well I don't have a custom launcher.


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[Assistant] If I find it, I'll let you guys know. In the meantime, we might have to move on to the other one. But basically, on my best days, uh, I'm about neutral, and most days, I- I'm not. I'm still- I'm still paying for electricity very much. Very much so.


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[Assistant] Oh, it's probably not on here. I probably had it on my fold. I think I probably just haven't bothered to install it on here because it doesn't matter that much. Oh, you know what? I think Home Assistant has the tracking for it as well. I will double check.


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[Assistant] Uhm, wow, that's it. 6.1 kilowatt hours from my solar. Meaning I drew over 100 kilowatt hours from the grid. Nice.


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[Assistant] However, I could pick a summer day, uh, let's go back to last summer. So, I don't know, uh, arbitrarily August 23rd. There we go.


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[Assistant] So on that day, uhm, oh wow. When I said that I was even on some days, that was a big lie, because it was 27.7 from the solar, but still over 100 from the grid. I have no idea what was going on that day.


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[Assistant] Occasionally I see big spikes where it's obvious that I was like charging my car. Uh, like here's one where I get home after work. And the blue is it. Yeah. I'm very much charging my car. Uhm, yep. Yep. It makes a small difference. Not much. Okay. Here we go. What's next?


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[Assistant] Uh, Anonymous asks, how's Taryn's Chrome PC office coming along? And sorry for not suggesting it. Uh, we, I, to my knowledge, we haven't really made any progress because I think we were trying to source a really, some really wild stuff for it. And we expect that to take a little while.


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[Assistant] Victor asks, can we sponsor Luke to gush about games on air? I mean, given how much he mostly hates games. He just did. He hates games. I hate games? I mean, you seem to hate a lot of them. Baldur's Gate 3 is pretty good. Got em! Let's go! So if your name is Larian Studios, then


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[Assistant] The funny thing for me is even some of the big traditional players are doing great. Like when Sony announced those layoffs, they also announced record profits.


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[Assistant] It's gonna suck by comparison. Yeah. For probably a while.


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[Assistant] GTA Online, I guess they call it, but you know what I mean. The online experience that GTA 5 ultimately morphed into. That is far beyond what I, certainly, I expected.


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[Assistant] That asks, hey DLL, Aliens Special Edition is the best. Aliens Special Edition. Oh, okay, yeah. Yep. Cargo pants when? Uhm, I don't know.


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[Assistant] We are at, oh, I should say we're at least two to three months out, because we haven't started mass production yet. But they're gonna be pretty similar to this, and they're not gonna be cheap. All the pockets and everything ended up, uhm,


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[Assistant] Richard says, thanks LTT and team, question for Linus if he gets it. What treats do you like to give your cats? Oh, we're really bad, we, uh...


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[Assistant] We just give them like friskies, like the name brand ones that are probably full of garbage and gonna kill them or whatever. Uhm, we don't give them to them often, but they, they do like them. Sometimes we'll put them in like 3D printed stimulus toys that are fun to play with and they like can try to get it out of it. Uh, but I, I like giving them catnip, even though I know you're not supposed to.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I dunno. Uhm, yeah, Temptations, that's the one Jay sit on in Floatplane Chat. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Are the 3D printed toys safe for them to be chewing and licking? They don't, they're not dogs. Like they're, they're like fidget toys. Like they have like spinny bits or they have little like, uh, thing, sliders that they can try to get the, the food underneath. It's, it's fine. Apparently the nip is perfectly fine. Uh, some people are saying occasionally it's fine. Natural is fine. Yeah, I don't know.


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[Assistant] Which would it be? Size, refresh rate, color accuracy, etc.


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[Assistant] Minimum size. How small is that? Yeah, I don't- I mean these days I would say like- 17 these days probably? Yeah, probably something like that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I almost got it when we bought our Odyssey. It was coming soon, and I didn't want to be the first person to buy a Chrysler all-new model.


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[Assistant] So I was like, this looks super cool. This is right up my alley, plug-in hybrid. I could do a lot of my, you know, just putting about dropping kids off at lessons on electric. Uh, totally my jam, right? Chevy Volt guy. Uhm, but it's a Chrysler.


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[Assistant] I, I don't, I don't believe in, I don't believe in first gen. Even an established product line, I don't want a new, an all new. I don't want an all new. I want the facelift. Or, or I want the last one before the facelift or the second one after the facelift. I forget what like the ones are, but I don't want an all new, I know that for sure.


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[Assistant] Apparently, no, Chrysler's not GM, it's Fiat Chrysler, that's right. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, my bad. I think there's one dealership locally that does Chrysler and GM, and so I get that confused sometimes. Yeah, so I, I would just, nah. Nah. I was not, I was not into that.


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[Assistant] Anonymous says, being water resistant, how does the LTT hat hold up to head sweat compared to the standard version?


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[Assistant] Uh, well what I would imagine is that it would not pass through it as easily, but I would have to get back to you on that. Uhm, I have no idea how to do anything.


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[Assistant] With respect to following this up. So maybe someone will see it and we will update the product page at some point. But I would say that if you sweat a lot and your main concern when it comes to your head getting wet is from the inside, then you should just get the regular cotton one and save yourself 20 bucks.


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[Assistant] Man, I feel like, uh, you know what? I was looking into this recently. I feel like I'd figure out stuff where I can buy a small piece of equipment and then turn that into like a recurring profit at home. A rental?


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[Assistant] No, actually, what I had in mind was more along the lines of, like, you can buy, there's this really weird Chinese company, Vivor, and they have kind of,


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[Assistant] Like, hey, you know, here, learn to run a business. Uhm, I will, I will invest, you know, the cost of this high pressure compressor thing. You're responsible for having a web.


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[Assistant] Uh, or like air gun or paintball gun, uh, high pressure air tanks. And...


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[Assistant] So I could see myself doing stuff like that. So making small investments like into a badminton, yea yea, these guys, into like a badminton stringing machine, uhm, and then streaming, streaming, ah, badminton streaming, badminton stringing machine and stringing people's rackets for them and stuff like that. Man, these guys got everything.


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[Assistant] So, uh, yeaah, don't go to cleaning equipment, just go to, like, the main, the main site. Like, super weird company, man. Like, is that a milking machine? Or like, what the, what the fuck am I even looking at here? Is that a lawnmower? I don't even know.


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[Assistant] I don't even know. It's like a still. I don't even know. Prices as low as 68 dollars. A curb ramp? Like, would I trust a jack from these guys? Oh wow, I would not.


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[Assistant] Right? Like, the lowest price ever. Oh good.


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[Assistant] Archive. Anonymous says, hey Dan, and the talent.


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[Assistant] What is the most comfortable LTT merch to wear while traveling? My wife and I are flying to the Maritimes in April to see the total solar eclipse and want to get us some merch.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but you could wear the merino underwear and that would keep the print, you know, contained.


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[Assistant] Linus or Luke tried Quake Champions. I stand by it being the best shooter around at the moment. Similar vibe to Halo, but much faster movement and no aim assist. I haven't tried it. I would probably enjoy it. I love Quake and its Quake rivatives.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it's all about cutting down the angles. So you, you basically have to look at whatever part of your net is exposed, you put your goalie in whatever the most likely spot they are to hit is, and then you get a player in between the puck and the rest of the net. And you can, our, our games tend to be very tight checking games.


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[Assistant] And then, because neither of us is that into that.


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[Assistant] Uhm, whenever he outmet as me at something, he explains what he's doing. And whenever I outmet a him at something, We both just generally want to be better. We'll win, we'll win some games. Yeah. If we figure something out. Yeah. But then we'll be like, hey. Once you've kind of got it on lock. The reason I'm scoring with my left winger, like,


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[Assistant] Every game, all the time, is because you're not, you're moving this guy this way, and you should be moving him this way. Uhm, nowadays,


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[Assistant] Also, you just generally gotta work on your muscle memory. Uh, manage your goalie. That's a big one. Is whenever the puck's on this side, get your goalie to that side and then proceed to play. And then when it moves to the other side, get it over there, get back. Just keep your goalie so that he's best cutting down on the angles. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Daniela. Hey, Lane, Lindsay, and Delilah.


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[Assistant] As a floatplane subscriber for a long time, I feel like I have missed out on all the Dennis ads that appear in videos. Could we get a floatplane compilation of them? Love this show. That's a really good idea.


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[Assistant] That's a, that's a, that's a super good idea. I will, I will send that to Artie. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Dennis presents his favorite Dennis ads. Period.


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[Assistant] Idea for a floatplane exclusive where Dennis acts as the host and shows them some of the best creative sponsor spots that he's done because they don't see them.


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[Assistant] Antonio says, hey, Linux, Luke Skywalker, and Dirty Dan, with the retirement of MatPat, what are your thoughts on YouTubers retiring and the impact theorists have had on the gaming community and game development? So thoughts on YouTubers retiring, man, I, uh,


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[Assistant] I've been tempted myself many times, I mean, I've said guys, I'm not doing this for the money anymore, don't need more of it. Uhm.


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[Assistant] I do have a tendency to develop greater ambitions once I've achieved what I have. Yvonne calls me insatiable. Um, but, but I assure, I, I, I swear the badminton center is the last thing. No, it's the last thing.


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[Assistant] It's the last thing, Luke. Well, I mean, the lab still, like, is not done, and the badminton center is still not done. I just mean I'm not gonna add any more massive projects.


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[Assistant] Yeah. As for MatPat's impact, I mean, yeah, man, create, create, the creative industry, just...


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[Assistant] An innovator is the word that I would use to describe him. I've only, I've only had the pleasure of meeting him.


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[Assistant] Twice, I wanna say. Uhm, but he's one of those people that A, is exactly the way that you expect him to be, based on seeing him on camera, and B, somehow still manages to surprise you. If that makes sense.


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[Assistant] Be firm and never, ever break ranks. The second you and your S.O. say anything that contradicts the other, you are done. They will find that tiny gap in the armor and they will wedge their way into it.


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[Assistant] And there, and, doesn't matter how smart you are, cause remember, they're your genetic junk, they're every bit as smart as you are.


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[Assistant] You know, passion of mine, I like tidiness, I like order, uhm, and ours will be available in in between lengths. The other thing that we're gonna do really well is cut out the BS. So instead of


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[Assistant] Super Ultra Megaspeedblebleblebleble. Our cables will simply be labeled with the maximum data rate that they can handle and with the maximum power that they can carry. That's it.


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[Assistant] No BS, just excellent cables. I also haven't seen


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[Assistant] Many, if any cable manufacturers use super high quality silicone sleeving.


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[Assistant] Uhm, Apple used to have some cables like that, but they haven't done them in a long time. I've seen it in DIY electronics cabling, like wiring rather.


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[Assistant] Uh, but seeing it in actually finished cables is pretty rare. So between the quality of the cables, the availability of middle lengths for optimal cable management, and the just no BS labels, I think that there's an opportunity for us to make a difference.


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[Assistant] Uh, anonymous says, Hey Linus and his two carers. Just curious to know which rig you've had the most fun building at LTT. P.S. More of the jank water cooling guy, please. The most fun.


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[Assistant] Ugh. I don't know, cause there's a fine line between fun and derangement.


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[Assistant] I almost feel like, like, you know, we have that video coming very soon of us reflecting on our favourite builds. Alright, so I curated this as a call out for that video, basically.


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[Assistant] Well, I'm nothing if not predictable. We got there. We got there. Uhm, the mineral oil PC was just sheer joy.


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[Assistant] We did how to clean your water cooling recently, and it ended up being a really fun video.


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[Assistant] Uh, like how to clean your water cooling thing. And we weren't really sure if there'd be enough of an audience for that, so it wasn't a high priority, uh, even though we did want to do it. And then, and then things got even better because one of my favorite degenerates that works here, David, who doesn't take care of his stuff, which you guys would have seen in his Intel Extreme Tech upgrade, hasn't touched those water-cooled systems since I built them.


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[Assistant] And they had some scary stuff in them. So we combined checking in on a previous upgrade.


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[Assistant] Uh, oop. Archive. Sean says, hey Dillel, just got my screwdriver.


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[Assistant] No, that just kinda happened by chance. Uhm, it's kind of a cool idea, but I don't think it's the sort of thing that we'll go out of our way for if you want to see people's real world reviews. Uh, lttstore.com is chock full of them. Like, if you ever have any doubt in the product, feel free to, you know, peruse the reviews where you will find


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[Assistant] Lots and lots and lots of real world impressions of our products. There's over 8,000 reviews for the LTT screwdriver, many of which include photos. Uh, or some of which include photos. I shouldn't say many. Many, they can include photos. Uhm, a lot of people don't use the feature, but they definitely can.


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[Assistant] Man, I, every once in a while I'll just sit and like read reviews. I can't even keep up, look at this. All of these are from the 6th of March.


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[Assistant] Okay, so we're on March 5th here. Here we go. All of these are from March the 5th. Okay, now we're on to March the 4th. Like, people are really passionate about this product. Even the ones that aren't 5 star are like,


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[Assistant] Dang. I really appreciate the behind the scenes decision. This is a reflection of the dedication of the quality of LTT. Like I can't read all the amazing wonderful things that people say about our screwdrivers.


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[Assistant] Aw man, I'm s- I'm glad I can support great content with actual great products. Like, dang man, yeah, exactly.


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[Assistant] I'll use the mousepad for work. Oh, then yes, maybe.


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[Assistant] We like know of other sort of creator, uhm, you know, platform things and they have a team of like,


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[Assistant] Not shouting out anyone in particular. No. Just our team is very talented and they're great. Yeaah. And you know what? Their leader is pretty great.


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[Assistant] Thanks, man. Oh, you mean you. Oh. I mean... You mean you. No, I mean Taron.


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[Assistant] Alias says, hey Linus, have you switched to that Alienware AW2725DF monitor that you unboxed for First Circuit? Don't want to get back! Oh.


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[Assistant] So I haven't gotten one yet cause I'm lazy, also it's really small, so my incentive to upgrade to it has been pretty low. I do want it though, man it was-


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[Assistant] Just, I couldn't miss. I couldn't miss, Luke. It's like I was cheating. I'm tempted, but it's so much money. It's so good.


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[Assistant] This monitor is true wow factor. Best monitor I ever owned. Astounding OLED monitor. OLED is the wave. IT'S THE WAVE!


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[Assistant] This is almost as good as our screwdriver, Luke. Look at this.


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[Assistant] Okay, so let's see what they end up with then. What just happened? Did that just do anything? I don't think so. Oh my god.


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[Assistant] Most relevant, hello? Okay, that one changed. Okay, most recent.


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[Assistant] A shining star on my desk. Okay, is this? Okay, I don't know what just happened here. Anyway, it may be even better than the LTT sca- oh, died after a week.


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[Assistant] Dude, this is, uh, okay, other than DOA, it gets five stars. Which is gonna happen with monitors. Disappointing packaging, so it's, so it's got a problem with it.


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[Assistant] Screen lottery risks, packaging, again, anyone who gets a working one is like, OMG, the best thing ever, and I, I, I back that up. Epic. Had to get a replacement. Literally, every single one that isn't five stars, is like, it's broky.


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[Assistant] Some of what? Oh, maybe. Yeah, sure, I mean they might be fake. We don't know. Ours are not.


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[Assistant] Mike says, I'm saving this gift card until I can buy an LTT tax write-off shirt in big and tall sizes. Linus, please tell me when I'll be able to spend this. I'm not guaranteeing that! I guarantee nothing! But thank you for your tax liability gift card.


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[Assistant] It's not a tax liability, it's just a, wait, hold on, is it? No, I think it might be. Cause it counts as an


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[Assistant] Like sort of inconvenient in a sense, like there are, there are, there are liability when you count your business assets or whatever. It's fine though. Please buy gift cards or whatever.


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[Assistant] I have personally just run power out of my computer for fans that are not actually in the computer or lights that are not actually in the computer that are just somewhere else because it was just convenient because it was a molex connector and I was like, here we go.


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[Assistant] Don't use it as a crutch. The biggest obstacle to managing kids' screen time is parents.


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[Assistant] You have to learn, you have to be disciplined enough to force them to be disciplined enough to not just stare at a screen. Your kids are gonna scream and cry in a restaurant. So, you have two options. You can have a pleasant meal by giving them your phone.


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[Assistant] Not like this. I just meant grab your kid. No shake. Take them out of the restaurant. I used to do this all the time. Your food's gonna get cold. Your steak is gonna get tough while it sits there and you are not eating it.


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[Assistant] You sit them down outside the restaurant and you go, the way you're behaving is not okay. Do you like being out here? No? Do you think I want to be out here? Well, what do we need to do?


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[Assistant] You need to stop the noise you're making. That's not okay. Nobody wants to hear that. And when you're done, we can go back inside. If it takes too long.


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[Assistant] You go back inside, you leave them there, you stand there, you watch them through the window, you make sure no one's gonna take off with your kid or whatever. You wait it out. There will be times when it will take an hour.


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[Assistant] But what they learn is when you say, you will eat this food, you will do it quietly.


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[Assistant] They can have a lot of tears in between. Or they can yell. Or they can do whatever. But that's what's gonna happen.


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[Assistant] I mean, I've never had to hit my kids, never had to, like, you know, be, we focused on whatever we say will happen and we will wait you out. And it has been so effective. I've seen some of it. Time.


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[Assistant] Yep, and I don't mind putting them in a slightly unpleasant situation.


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[Assistant] And there will be escalating levels of unpleasantness. Like, the first place I might put them when they're not behaving at the restaurant is inside the restaurant, sitting at the front.


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[Assistant] And I just ignore them while they do not get it. They want attention, right? So don't give them attention for that. And then if they keep doing it, well hey, next up is outside.


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[Assistant] I think some people justify it by saying that they had to, that there was no other way.


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[Assistant] And I strongly believe that patience.


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[Assistant] If you're willing to, you can always outlast them. Always. And like I said, I'm not, it's not that I'm not willing to put them in an unpleasant situation. So at our old house,


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[Assistant] Step one of time out was the laundry room. Step two was through the door in the garage. And step three was out the back door outside. And I don't care what the weather is.


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[Assistant] I don't care how late it is, I don't care how tired you are. If I said, brush your teeth, you will brush your teeth. You will.


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[Assistant] And then when we're done, I say, okay, did I say brush your teeth? Okay, did you brush your teeth? Yep. Could that have gone a lot faster and a lot more pleasantly?


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[Assistant] And you've gotta be- you've gotta be willing to stand your ground. Man, I remember this one time in Ikea.


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[Assistant] I could hear, I could hear everyone around me, like talking about me.


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[Assistant] Uh, because my middle, my middle child was crying for over an hour in the food court because I said she had to take one more bite.


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[Assistant] And she didn't want to, and I felt awful because she was overtired. I knew, I knew, I knew as soon as we were getting into it that she was, she was overtired. She was overdue for her nap and it had been kind of a long day. And realistically it was like, it was crankiness. It's not cause she's a bad kid or whatever.


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[Assistant] So it's been stated, the word has been uttered. And as soon as they, as soon as they find the gaps, uhm.


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[Assistant] Oh, that's not the big one is when they finally take the bite, huge positive reinforcement. Like that's really good to big snuggles and pick them up and like whatever, right? Oh, and never bribe. That's another one. Always reward unexpectedly.


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[Assistant] It's terrible. Uh, there was the one time my eldest, um, who was very shy, um, almost made us miss a fairy because we were at the park playing and as we were leaving, um, he had borrowed a toy from another kid, like a little truck or something. And I said, okay, uh, go give the toy back and thank him for letting you borrow it. And he went and he put the truck down and he left.


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[Assistant] I said, hey, I said you need to thank that boy for lending you his toy.


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[Assistant] And, uh, that was one of our biggest battles. It was also one of our last ones. Um, cause he was getting to the age where... He was kinda getting it. It was, he, where he...


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[Assistant] Then you better get with me on convincing him to go thank that kid. And I think our compromise was that she got to play good cop a little bit, which you must always agree on. If someone's gonna be good cop and someone's gonna be bad cop, you agree, you take turns. But she was gonna be good cop and she was gonna go with him.


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[Assistant] We're already having that conversation with the eldest where we're going like, look, you are going to be making a lot of your own decisions.


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[Assistant] On going here, a lot more of your own decisions over time. And so we start to involve him in them. Like, uh, uhm, he had a bit of a persistent injury and really wanted to keep doing his badminton training. But.


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[Assistant] We, we have some concerns about developing a chronic injury before you're even an adult. And we're basically like, okay, so here's what we're gonna do. We're not gonna, we're not gonna tell you what you're gonna do. We're going to...


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[Assistant] Uh, doing exactly what you're doing. Uhm, the, the pro is that, you know, you enjoy it, you're gonna improve. The con is that you might not improve at the rate that you think you're going to, because having an injury can affect your form, it can affect your performance in games, it can affect you menta-, mentally, it's, it doesn't make people happy to not being, to not be improving, right?


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[Assistant] You can go cold turkey, which, um, I think will be best for your recovery. Uh, or we also presented the option of training on an adjusted schedule on a, on like a, at a lower rate. And he ultimately made his own decision. And, uh, you know, that's the next part is you have to respect it, even if he makes the wrong one. Cause that'll happen.


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[Assistant] And, you know, I've, you know, realistically, guys, I get the opportunity to talk a lot about, you know, the things that go right and I get to put, you know, my own, my own spin on it. I'm sure there's times that my kids have been unhappy with the approach and I'm sure there's ways that everything that we're doing


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[Assistant] Uh, could backfire. You know, the strategy that works for one kid does not necessarily work for another. So don't take all of this as just like, oh, you know, Linus thinks he's a perfect parent. I don't.


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[Assistant] Own it. That's a big one. Apologize. Seriously, when you get something wrong, say sorry.


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[Assistant] Man, I felt, I felt bad when, uh, I, I, I was so tired of reminding the kids on weekends to brush their teeth in the morning, because they do it automatically on the weekdays, but they just


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[Assistant] Get distracted and forget in the mornings on weekends. And I came up and the girls hadn't brushed their teeth and I basically went, okay, no treats this weekend at all. Nothing, nothing with sugar in it. Period. I didn't realize one of them was going to a birthday party.


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[Assistant] But I said it. Now that I've said it, it is said. So, she got no cake. She got no treats. I felt terrible. And I know this happened because, uhm, Yvonne went to the party with her. She got nothing. You know what? You know how many times she's missed brushing her teeth? Goose egg.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that makes sense. But I apologized. I said, sorry, I wouldn't have said that if I had realized that you were going to a birthday party. And, you know, so, you kiss and make up, right? You, like, hey, I'm sorry, but also when I say something, it's law. Might have been Dan, not sure. Alright. Uh, oh, this is the same one.


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[Assistant] That's pretty good. I pulled that once over a donut. What? I was probably about eight.


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[Assistant] Oh, yep. He, I've, I, it's, it's like a core memory.


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[Assistant] My, my dad immediately dropped whatever groceries we had, grabbed me by the arm, took me to the car, gave me one good one, and went, don't ever do that again.


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[Assistant] I'll give reminders. Like, this is one of my favorites, you've probably seen me do it. I think so, yea.


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[Assistant] So I, uh, I, I was inspired, um, by watching like, uh, like some kind of bird remind its young about something. And so I was like-


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[Assistant] Uh, so when they forget like a please, or something like that, and I don't want to have to verbally remind them, cause we're-


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[Assistant] I, I actually, I haven't competed much in my life, like in competition, obviously life is a competition, but, uh, like at, at even like stupid recreational badminton tournaments and stuff when it's a big match, even not even at a tournament, even when I'm playing against like,


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[Assistant] Uh, Chris asked, any idea when water bottles will be back in stock? Uh, hopefully soon? I, um, I dunno. We, we... The store has grown a lot.


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[Assistant] The business has grown a lot over the years and we haven't necessarily kept up with our processes and we've got some consultants that started a little while ago that have a lot of experience in detail in business management and are going to be kind of helping the team.


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[Assistant] And that doesn't mean that we suck or we're stupid or anything like that, it just means like, you're not born knowing anything.


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[Assistant] Sometimes there's a better wheel already. Uh, Josiah asks, Hi Mr. Tooltips and the gang. I recently loved the LTT video on the K-Swap to the Synchro Q704, which I had to look up to remember what it is. It's that one with the One Connect power supply from, uhm, Seasonic.


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[Assistant] Super, super cool. Wait, no, this isn't the right one.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, yeaah, yeaah, yeaah, yeaah. This, this one. Yeaah, exactly. This is the one. So it has that, like, uh, power distribution thing, uh, from Alex's, from Alex's upgrade. Anyway, the point is, uh, they ask,


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[Assistant] Uh, has he had any issues? Not that I know of. Uhm, also, can you do an SFF PC plus theater setup video?


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[Assistant] Because you want it to be as quiet as possible and small form factors tend to compromise on cooling. So if it was me I would probably go with


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[Assistant] In order to have big fans in it that move a lot of air without spinning too fast, that would be the best advice that I could give. With that said, I definitely am going to do a video turning our original Steam Machine prototype into a home theater PC at some point.


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[Assistant] We still have it kicking around. I want to build like a rip and fast compact machine in it. So no, but yeah. And I think that's it.


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[Assistant] What's the, what's the word? Is it not traditional? Customary? Not customary. Give me some more, give me some more words. Traditional, customary, ritual. Yes, ritual. Ah, that works. That's the one I want. Our, our weekly super checks ritual. Best of what? Five? I mean, really? For the people?


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[Assistant] Well you can't, cause you can't decide what it's gonna be out of midway through.


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[Assistant] I feel like you can't. No you can't. Not unless you're tied.


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[Assistant] But then, after one game, you might not be tied anymore, so... People are like best of eight. Come on, you.


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[Assistant] Okay, I'm gonna have to let the people decide.


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[Assistant] Okay, but let's not let the people decide. Let's let Luke decide, but he'll decide sometime between now and when we start.


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[Assistant] Okay, so what do we do now? I don't know how to end the show. Anymore.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I'm assuming that's what he wants to do, but I don't actually know. He hasn't come back down. But I don't know how to end the show. Like, he doesn't have us end it anymore. There's a thing he does.


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[Assistant] I haven't heard from him during the show, so I actually have no idea what his status is.


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[Assistant] I already added that, uh, fun idea of Dennis presenting his sponsor spots to, uh, their content calendar.


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[Assistant] I did that on purpose. Perfect timing on purpose. Nice. He could tell by the, the percussion of the footsteps. Yup.


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[Assistant] Scary. Anytime anyone hits infrastructure, it's kind of like, oh.


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[Assistant] Everyone kind of realizes that that can happen again for the however manyth time. Yeah, yeah. Oh yeah, that thing.


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[Assistant] I guess there's, there's follow-up information that's more new. So yea, drug, uh, drug dealers are using, uh, they're using drones. Uh, because they'll use anything. Uh, the last thing I saw was avocados. Uhm. Cool. I know they've put them in submarines.


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[Assistant] Everyone's saving everything. Everyone's on vacation. We can talk through some leaks and stuff. It'll be fun. It'll still be a good show. You guys don't even watch this for the news. Who cares?


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[Assistant] Where you're uploading, you're theoretically trying to drive more people there.


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[Assistant] I haven't looked in a while. Yeah, usually it's like, like 80 to 200 is where I'm seeing most of them.


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[Assistant] Sounds like a, uh, uh, it sounds like a supreme drop.


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[Assistant] I don't think it makes a lot of sense now. Basically, it's a key that opens up, uhm, whatever they call it, Windows Copilot, uhm, which, if you end up using Windows Copilot in a very similar way that you would use Windows Search,


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[Assistant] Then I think it kind of makes sense. Right now, that's super obviously not worth doing.


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[Assistant] It feels like they're investing an immense amount of money, not really getting the product that they want, and then doing something that feels more like a marketing push than anything else, to try to stir more news and more push around it, because they still want this thing that they've sunk billions of dollars into to be more relevant than it is. Uhm, the AI space is moving fast and very exciting,


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[Assistant] But is hurting on actual products that are usable by users. Uhm, I, I pointed this out a really long time ago, it was gonna be hard for people to actually ship. Uhm, and a lot of things that...


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[Assistant] People have wanted from the AI space have had issues shipping. Uhm, including Copilot. So... Yeaah, it feels premature to me. I think.


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[Assistant] Back to actually searching your computer instead of being this like weird internet thing.


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[Assistant] Because then if they had one button that was like, this is local, and they had another button that was like, this is AI stuff and it can search the, uh, the internet and it can give me links and it can do whatever, that would actually be probably useful. I think one thing that's fairly telling is it's on the right side of the keyboard, isn't it?


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[Assistant] There's also key combinations for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, OneDrive, OneNote, and Teams.


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[Assistant] What about when it forcibly logs you out and then you can't even minimize it because it keeps forcing its thing up. Yeah, that. So you're like working on something important and it logs you out randomly in the background and you have to go through its entire login process or else it'll force itself to the front of screen.


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[Assistant] You wanna hear an interesting one? Yeah! Recommended by password managers.


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[Assistant] People are starting to store their 2FA in their password managers.


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[Assistant] And there are security arguments for this. That's not what to do. Password managers and security researchers.


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[Assistant] Like, a surprising amount of other people do this too.


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[Assistant] It's interesting to me. One of the big arguments for it is...


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[Assistant] There's just no point in not, because if they have this, they have that.


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[Assistant] A kind of interesting argument. Cause like, if, if someone gets into your password manager, do they really not also have your 2FA?


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[Assistant] What they're saying is if they had access to your password vault, they may as well just have access to your 2FA. But they don't.


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[Assistant] Your password for your 2FA? Yeah, I have it memorized. See, this is why I don't like it. But this is like actually an argument that's being made by like, smart people. Which I find very interesting.


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[Assistant] Some people do that too, but that's, that's not, I don't think that in particular is recommended. Just the 2FA. So you can, you can have like rolling 2FA.


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[Assistant] This is, this is where like, man, I find this so interesting. Here's an article on blog.onepassword.com. And there are other, I'm just using them as an example, there are other


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[Assistant] Password vault, password storage, password security sites that say the exact same thing.


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[Assistant] We need to unpack what 2FA does and how your data is protected by one password security model.


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[Assistant] This isn't the article that I meant to bring up, but it's like, there's still so many hot takes in the one password blog. Hold on.


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[Assistant] Against adding additional factors is interesting to me.


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[Assistant] I wish I could find it. I know they have an article on this. I found someone talking about the article, but I can't find the actual root article.


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[Assistant] So this, this reads different than the last time I saw it. I don't know if it's been edited or maybe I'm remembering.


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[Assistant] They like, all do, I think. I'm pretty sure LastPass does, I know Keeper does, and clearly OnePassword does. And I think the other ones do as well. Uhm, and yeaah, they argue that it's like, secure, and fine. But they also say,


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[Assistant] You know, the correct choice is the one that works best for you.


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[Assistant] Some were and. Google wasn't. Yeaah. I don't know of anything that is now, like I just said. Yeaah. But for a little brief beard of time, when we first got our Yubi keys, some sites were and. And that was actually very cool. Uh, cause if you wanted like hyper security, it felt like you had the, you know, the two nuclear keys or whatever. Uhm.


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[Assistant] But yeah, now it's just like various ways to bypass the thing. Uhm, I don't know. There's also, I've found a lot of places that accept YubiKey's require


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[Assistant] Sick. Yeaah. I don't know. Uhm, YubiKey has gotten...


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[Assistant] I find with a lot of things that we use, it's gotten a little bit less useful over the years. Uh, because more and more places that do support it require you to have two enabled and less and less places seem to support it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, what I'm questioning is some people talking about how you can


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[Assistant] My whole thing is I'm just very unsure about the idea of storing all of your two factor in one application. The main argument I'm seeing around it is.


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[Assistant] In general, if someone is going to have access to this thing, they probably have access to your whole device, uhm, and that device is usually described as a phone, uhm,


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[Assistant] Remote desktop plus autofill plus developer tools equals compromise without 2FA. Yeah, there's lots of different.


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[Assistant] Yeah, there's tons of different attack vectors. Yeah. Uhm, I just questioned the idea of...


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[Assistant] Reducing the layers. Cause it feels like reducing the layers. And I understand some of the arguments. Like, okay, if they're literally in your phone, then they already have it anyways. It's like, well,


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[Assistant] I don't know about that. Cause like, the things that I hear getting compromised more often these days are computers. And I never have my two factor authentication stuff on my computer. I know some people do, but I don't.


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[Assistant] Like I never run Authy. Some people run Authy in their browser. Really? Yea. Oh.


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[Assistant] It'll also just like aggressively take over certain things or it'll decide that the wrong box is the right one and it won't let me progress on the website because it keeps trying to spam into the wrong box which is really bad.


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[Assistant] Someone asking, uh, Brandon P. LMG is asking, wait, can I merch request a bidet? I guess.


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[Assistant] I-I would've considered one of these, but I bought in too early before he started doing that, cause when there was the toilet paper shortages during the pandemic, I was just like, screw this man. Yeah. And got a bidet.


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[Assistant] Very, very archaic and out of date at this point.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't know. I think for them too, it's like, it's gotta be one of those things where I believe a lot of them are made there. Uhm, and it's so ubiquitous there that the pricing is probably not as bad. Like when I tried to get a bidet here, it was kind of rough.


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[Assistant] Yeah, cause like, with my understanding, uhm, they don't really break that often.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we live somewhere where water is very cheap, but I believe basically everywhere that would still be a cheaper alternative than buying toilet paper.


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[Assistant] Now obviously this, I'm sure there's like an example of somewhere where that's not the case. But I think most places that will be the case.


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[Assistant] It moved some air. I was, uh, I was feeling cooled. I wonder how fast it was actually spinning. I'm not sure. We could have... There's gotta be a lot more resistance than it normally has.