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[Assistant] Well, the margin of their partner and selling the, the chip. Usually it comes as a set of chip and memory. So.


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[Assistant] They just keep whatever margin their partner would have made so they can actually undercut their partners in that way.


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[Assistant] And the way that it's outlined here is actually exactly that. EVGA needs to buy chips from Nvidia, but Nvidia can make the chip and the board


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[Assistant] has a negative impact on the Nvidia brand, which is why Nvidia cares.


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[Assistant] Because now that Nvidia controls everything down to the box art,


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[Assistant] I mean, going back even further, you used to be able to download drivers from an AIB website. Your ChainTech GeForce card, you would download drivers from ChainTech.tw or whatever. Not so much anymore. It's an Nvidia card in an Nvidia box, and you go to the Nvidia website.


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[Assistant] So now that they have taken such a, such control over the way that the products are branded and presented to the customer,


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[Assistant] Well, the customer perception then is that their Nvidia GPU suddenly has no warranty, which hurts the perceived stability of Nvidia as a company. Which is why they don't actually want their partners going out of business outright.


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[Assistant] So, their control freak approach then forces them to keep their partners on just enough life support that they don't completely abandon the GPU business. Or at least, that's what they've been trying to do. Looks like it's not working.


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[Assistant] Uhm, as for why they have so many adding board partners or AIBs at all, well in the old days, I think the main...


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[Assistant] Benefit of the strategy was that you could take up more retail shelf space by having more variants of cards from supposedly different GPU manufacturers


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[Assistant] different box art, but all with the same silicon. And so there was, there was this explosion in AIB partners, both for Nvidia and for ATI.


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[Assistant] Back in like the early 2000s where you could go to, you could go to a store and there would be, there would be a chain tech one. I think Avid even got into GPUs at one point, like Asus, MSI.


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[Assistant] There were a ton, there were a ton, right? And...


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[Assistant] The, uh, the addon board partners also acted as a meat shield.


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[Assistant] So, while Nvidia might not be able to have like, like a horrible, you know, 5% margin business on their balance sheet as a publicly traded company, and they would be, they would be encouraged to ditch that,


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[Assistant] Uhm, especially with the support costs that come along with covering, I mean back then lifetime warranties were not just EVGA, BFG and EVGA.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so. It was a pretty cool time to be a customer. Yeah, it sure was. So Nvidia could use their board partners as this like shield to keep this low margin, high risk business away from their books so that their shareholders wouldn't look at it and go, well what in the heck are you guys doing over there? Uhm.


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[Assistant] So it was highly beneficial to have a ton of these AIBs. It also allowed someone like an Nvidia or an ATI to artificially make it seem as though there was a ton of choice in the market. So your diamond GPU might come with Tomb Raider.


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[Assistant] And your MSI version of that same GPU might come with SimCity something and like some other, some other game.


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[Assistant] Game bundles do cost the GPU manufacturers money to run. Far less than the retail sticker price of the game, but more than zero dollars. And it got to the point where there was not enough margin left in selling these products for the board ma- uh, for the board manufacturers.


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[Assistant] For them to differentiate based on it, so they would only get any game bundles that were passed down from the parent, uh, chip manufacturer.


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[Assistant] No, they're not. But it looks like it's gonna be about half of it at least.


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[Assistant] I mean, maybe they go hard into motherboards, but it's never worked for them. So I just don't really know what that would look like. It's hard to compete.


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[Assistant] Uh, EVGA does have actual manufacturing capacity though, so that's, that's something. In fact, that's one of the things that, um, EVGA seems pretty, pretty frustrated about. Apparently, EVGA was doing


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[Assistant] Uh, manufacturing for Founder's Edition cards.


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[Assistant] And that is no longer the case. NVIDIA has been, wait, EVGA used to be the primary manufacturer, oh, of NVIDIA reference cards, until NVIDIA began selling their own Founders Edition cards with the 10 series GPUs.


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[Assistant] The move towards Nvidia, and this is going to be interesting. I saw someone talking in the chat earlier about some of the, some of the bad takes, or like wrong takes that I've had over the years. Apparently I said Nintendo wouldn't sell hardware within eight years, like on an ancient Wanshow or something like that.


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[Assistant] This is one that I think I probably got right back when Nvidia first started selling first party like Nvidia branded GPUs. I'm pretty sure I called it that the writing was on the wall and that was 12 years ago.


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[Assistant] When, and it was, uh, Best Buy exclusive.


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[Assistant] And really, are you not gonna redirect for me? Here we go. It was Best Buy exclusive, and it was only midrange cards. And I can explain to you exactly why this is.


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[Assistant] Because Nvidia, excuse me, would have plausible deniability, well, it's about the partnership with Best Buy, we're just, uh, you know, making sure that there's like a consistent whatever, blah blah blah blah blah, Best Buy asked us to, you know, and don't worry about it, don't worry about it.


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[Assistant] It's just like the entry level GeForce cards. It's, it's not like, you know, the high, the high big ticket items.


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[Assistant] Literally, literally, a one decade game plan. That's uh, that's how they roll.


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[Assistant] Uhm, alright, so I already talked about them caring a little bit, uhm.


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[Assistant] After what happened with the hardware unboxed,


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[Assistant] Scandal. The second we went to bat for hardware unboxed, Nvidia was never going to work with us again.


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[Assistant] They'll send cards because they can't afford the bad PR of not supporting independent media. They've seen that now, so that's good. At least they learned that much. But they never forgive and they never forget. And XFX is the


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[Assistant] The only example we need to point to, to demonstrate that. XFX used to be Nvidia exclusive, and they made the switch to Team Red, man, that's been over 10 years ago now, and I can tell you that everyone knew


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[Assistant] At the time that they would never sell another Nvidia GPU. Not. Ever.


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[Assistant] Uh, and it's just, it's just the way they are. So what EVGA has done here is they've been, I mean, now that they've spoken out about Nvidia, I mean, realistically, I don't, I don't see them ever selling an Nvidia GPU again anyway.


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[Assistant] But, at least they haven't poisoned the well so much as to, as to, uhm,


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[Assistant] As they would if they were to sell, uh, like a Radeon GPU. So what this does in my mind is it leaves


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[Assistant] Maybe not a foot, but at least one toe in that door.


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[Assistant] In case they ever want to open it back up and start selling GPUs again.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and that wouldn't, it wouldn't even necessarily just be like under the brand name EVGA. Uhm, that, like it wouldn't just be the EVGA brand that would be a problem. I suspect that anyone who was responsible


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[Assistant] For making that decision to sell Radeon GPUs, even if they formed a new company.


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[Assistant] I, I, I just, I don't see them, I don't see them getting an Nvidia board partner. Uhm.


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[Assistant] I don't know what it would be, a certification, a license, agreement, board partner agreement.


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[Assistant] Uhm, Jive Turkey asks, I wonder if Nvidia is nicer to someone like Asus.


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[Assistant] I couldn't say for sure, but what I can say is that they're not nice to anyone. So make of that what you will.


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[Assistant] So let's go back to, let's go back to my doc here. Actually, let me just make sure I don't have any.


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[Assistant] Identifying information for any of my sources here, because I don't want to get anybody in trouble, you know what I mean?


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[Assistant] Okay, I think I'm in pretty good shape here. Sorry guys, I just need a sec.


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[Assistant] Oh wow, I actually wrote a lot more of this than I thought.


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[Assistant] Man, I went really hard. No wonder I didn't release this. This is really long. Holy shnakeys. Okay. Just...


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[Assistant] Oh man. Oh man, I've got this whole thing here. Oh, this is great. Examples of Nvidia being a bad guy. Uh, yeaah. Okay.


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[Assistant] Well, I don't have any personally identifying information, so let's go through and let's talk about this a little bit. This is a video that I had originally


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[Assistant] Slated for shortly after April of 2021, and uhm, so I guess what I'm trying to say is, while the news of EVGA terminating their partnership with Nvidia, uhm, is,


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[Assistant] Uh, surprising to me, it is not shocking. So I, I, I, I'm not.


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[Assistant] I could have seen some kind of breakdown in relationship coming, I just didn't know what was happening now. So uhm.


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[Assistant] I guess this is a good opportunity for us to talk about the, the aftermath of the hardware unboxed.


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[Assistant] I heard through the grapevine from more than one industry contact.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and it's, it's the kind of thing that, you know, I can't, I can't verify. You know, no one from Nvidia is gonna tell me that, obviously, right?


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[Assistant] Uhm, and I have no way of knowing if it's true because maybe Nvidia didn't realize this at the time, but at their peak, they were like 0.5% of our annual revenue.


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[Assistant] I have spent my entire career in media trying to reduce my reliance on industry titans like Nvidia. I do not need their money.


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[Assistant] I'll work with them if it makes sense. I'm happy to work with them because, let's face it, they make products that people love, that I love, right?


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[Assistant] But do not kid yourself, I will survive without them. Just fine. Uhm.


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[Assistant] So, so anyway, that was, that was pretty funny.


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[Assistant] And, you know, I guess what I, what I had to say about that was, you know, why talk to me directly about a problem, explain your viewpoint, and resolve our differences like adults that mutually respect each other when you can just


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[Assistant] Take someone like me who put a toe out of line to make an example out of me. Not that it worked, but...


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[Assistant] They certainly tried. Uhm, you know, I noted that it's noteworthy that a mere six months ago, I was one of only two influencers tapped to premiere the 8K gaming capabilities of the RTX 3090, making the message clear, no one is safe from retaliation.


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[Assistant] And remember guys, this is a message they weren't sending out to the public. This is a message they were sending out to partners. And it's possible that they knew that they were not going to be able to have any impact on my business because


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[Assistant] I, I had in here that I wanted to proactively address any perception that I'm just butthurt about being cut off from the Nvidia gravy train. Uhm, Nvidia, yeaah, okay.


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[Assistant] I, I had that they were, this is how I put it in the doc, I hadn't checked the exact numbers. It was point whatever percent of our revenue, uh, directly, and as a pass through from partners, it was point something percent. Like, they,


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[Assistant] Now this was, this was, this is kind of the big turning point in the script. For years, I've seen some of their moves as a kind of 4D chess. But looking back with the new context I have, their behavior might have just been emotional and reactive, rather than calculated and carefully planned.


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[Assistant] And seeing them lose such an important partner as EVGA kind of reinforces that for me.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and then I pointed out that the Hardware in Box situation is such a perfect example of this. They did something objectively awful. They got predictably called out on it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so I was sitting here going, nah dog, there's like, there's a master plan here. But then, instead of the master plan becoming clear, uhm,


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[Assistant] They walked it back in public, and then based on what I've been able to gather since,


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[Assistant] I've never been able to understand what that master plan might have been. I don't even think they still understand that what they did was wrong. They just...


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[Assistant] You know, touch something hot and got burned and they're like, okay, well, I guess I won't touch that again.


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[Assistant] But I don't think they've made the connection that fire hot, you know, do you kind of get what I mean?


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[Assistant] Because here they were putting pressure on media, a media outlet again over wrong think. And it's like, you guys, you guys still don't get it, do you? Like it actually, that isn't going to work. That is not how this works.


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[Assistant] Uhm, the only way that it was smarter was by being sneakier, by not talking to me directly. But even that's not that smart because...


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[Assistant] This is the thing you guys gotta understand. Hardware industry is so...


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[Assistant] It's so small. And it's not just small in terms of the number of people working in it.


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[Assistant] It's small in terms of the relationships, the connections. It's inbred.


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[Assistant] Right? Over a span, over the span of the 15 plus years that I've been in the industry, I've seen individual people who have represented, you know, half a dozen different companies. So you gotta be really nice to people because you never know if you're gonna be working shoulder to shoulder with them a year from now.


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[Assistant] But that's something that Nvidia has never understood. Never understood. Uhm.


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[Assistant] I had in here that I should do, uh, that I should do a really good explanation of MDF. So that's marketing development funds.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so it's Nvidia's money to do with what they will. It's like an incentive program for you to sell more or like market Nvidia products. And what it really is though, is a form of control.


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[Assistant] It is necessary for the survival of much of the PC component in system ecosystem, and you need to look no further than main gear.


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[Assistant] And new eggs attempted IPOs. They just, they're not profitable enough to go public.


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[Assistant] And the reason for it, well part of the reason for it is that there's no margin in just selling the components. And the only thing that keeps them propped up is this marketing development funding that forces them to just push, push, push, push, push, drive the price lower, keep the volume up so that you can keep getting these kickbacks so that you can just survive another quarter.


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[Assistant] I had in here to talk about percentages of kickback that I'm aware of from my time at NCIX. I don't remember any of the percentages, unfortunately, so I wouldn't be able to do that. And then the dynamic is that they use MDF to rob you blind up front and then give your money that you need back to you.


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[Assistant] For fulfilling certain duties that they dictate. Uhm, it's rough.


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[Assistant] To be clear, I don't have a better solution because another problem in the computer industry is that it's, like, I don't get it.


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[Assistant] Whether it's retailers or whether it's system integrators, there's this race to zero. If Nvidia were to drop the price on RTX 3080 by $10, I guarantee you that the retailers wouldn't, and to be clear, I'm not promoting collusion, I'm not saying that they should collude.


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[Assistant] But what I will say is that they're not smart enough to make $10 for a couple weeks.


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[Assistant] So in a way, MDF is the way to make sure that the little mom and pop shops who will do anything to get someone to walk through their door, including selling at a loss, can't just continue to trash the price of the product and take all the margin out of it for everyone.


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[Assistant] So yeaah, I don't, I don't have a better solution, but it is a toxic power dynamic. Uhm, what else?


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, so I had the whole bit where uhm, where Arm partners were upset about the potential NVIDIA acquisition of Arm and then, you know, my point there was


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[Assistant] Maybe if you guys, maybe if you guys weren't such a-holes, this wouldn't happen. Did you ever think of that? Uh, that's no longer in the news, so that's not really a relevant one, but.


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[Assistant] Uh, I have a point here. I thought long and hard about whether to make this video. I'm already on Apple's list. And alienating industry titans isn't the best path to a long and successful career. Uhm, but hey, whatever, right?


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[Assistant] Everyone that I talked to, this was really interesting, supported the basic idea of doing this video, but would not go on the record for me.


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[Assistant] That was one of the big problems that ultimately canned this concept was that nobody would come out and say, yeah, they're awful.


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[Assistant] Project Greenlight is awful. Uhm, the way that they...


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[Assistant] The way that they handled G-Sync certification is awful. They just wouldn't do it.


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[Assistant] So I had to do a recap of what happened with Hardware Inbox.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so here's where we actually got into the scripted part of the video. I get it, only the paranoid survive, but there's a limit. You can't and probably don't even want to win 100% market share, so why do you keep tightening your grip? Let's not pretend this pressure on the media through hardware and box was somehow an isolated incident.


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[Assistant] The difference is that most of Nvidia's pressure gets applied to partners behind the scenes.


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[Assistant] So it comes across petty, emotional, and scared. Are you really so insecure that when you're in a position of unassailable power, you need to put down everyone else who thrives in your ecosystem to reassure yourself you're the top dog? You're top dog! There. I said it. Can we put it behind us now?


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[Assistant] Is it an insurance policy? So next time you release a GTX 480, you'll be able to force manufacturing partners to market it under their high performance sub-brands. Don't think we've forgotten GPP.


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[Assistant] So here's an idea. How about treating your partners with respect and dignity? You don't have to fight over every scrap anymore. There is lots to go around.


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[Assistant] The craziest part of all this is that sometimes Nvidia is super cool. We praised the transparency of their move to release their internal tools for evaluating total board power for graphics cards and click to photon latency to the public.


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[Assistant] What was really telling about that was that it projected confidence. Nvidia went out and equipped a big cross-section of independent media with the tools they needed to hold graphics card manufacturers, including Nvidia, accountable for meeting the specs they advertised and delivering the best gaming experience beyond FPS.


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[Assistant] Obviously, from my experience with Nvidia, I know that I wouldn't have received any such tool if they weren't confident that it would show that Nvidia is king.


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[Assistant] But Nvidia has tons of smart people working there who know that that may not always be the case, and if they give us these tools now, it could reflect poorly on them at some point in the future.


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[Assistant] But they did it anyway, because smart people at Nvidia know that a strong, well-informed, independent media results in more educated customers, which pushes their competition to do better, which pushes them to do better.


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[Assistant] The smart people at Nvidia want feedback about what they can do to make their products better.


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[Assistant] I know for a fact there are suits there who wish it wasn't this way, and that Nvidia could just control all the messaging to consumers directly.


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[Assistant] But like it or not, we're the conduit. We're the ones who look at our audience feedback all day, every day. We are the ones who have that relationship, not you.


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[Assistant] And I guess I should thank you for this latest move because if you keep going about your business this way, consumers will never trust you and they will always need us.


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[Assistant] Uhm, now I had a little not finished paragraph here where I said, uh, there are problems with this model.


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[Assistant] Uhm, personal biases, echo chambers, uh, lack of control, potential for corruption, but as long as we're engaging,


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[Assistant] So with that in mind, Nvidia, I think it's time to reflect on your pride. I'm not saying not to feel proud, if I wore a green


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[Assistant] Name badge? I'd be proud of everything the team accomplished there too. It's mind blowing. I'm just talking about this inability to take constructive criticism. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so there's a little bit more, but I just... I think that's the main point.


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[Assistant] To be clear, uh, AMD and Intel have both had their fair share of completely stupid events that have made it very difficult to cover them.


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[Assistant] Nvidia had a special way of having a little F-U buried in the difficulty.


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[Assistant] Uhm, our last discussion question here is, what's next for EVGA?


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[Assistant] And Nvidia provides in the tech industry a nearly unprecedented level of legacy product support.


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[Assistant] Like they are still providing security drivers for Kepler.


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[Assistant] I mean, imagine if your, imagine if your Android phone maker was actually giving you software updates for that long. I mean, there'd be less e-waste in the world. It's a good thing.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we've got people talking about how they're gonna miss EVGA. Hey dude, it's Mike in Twitch chat. Says EVGA replaced a like five generation old card for me once with zero hassle.


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[Assistant] And that's the problem. That's what EVGA needs out of this business.


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[Assistant] Because their brand reputation is that they want to be bros like that. And they can't afford it.


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[Assistant] There's no one with a spotless reputation at this point.


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[Assistant] So, GG, Nvidia wins, they just sell founders edition cards and take the margin.


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[Assistant] Well, why don't we move on to our next topic? Let's talk about the.


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[Assistant] Chase has curated a whopping 38 merch messages for us so far.


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[Assistant] Oh, okay, well one of them we just did, so, Benides, I think we just addressed yours. Uh, we'll have to get through some of these, but we'll do them a little bit later. Let's get through a couple more tech topics first. The Ethereum merger and the move to proof of stake was successful!


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[Assistant] Uhm, it's the merging of Ethereum's main network with the layer that uses the new consensus mechanism. Basically, uh, proof of stake has been in a sort of trial period for a while until now, and this move has been actually quite a few years in the making.


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[Assistant] Proof of Stake is good because it reduces the amount of computational work that's needed to verify blocks and transactions.


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[Assistant] It's decentralized, man. It's out of the hands of the elites, man.


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[Assistant] Cool. Uh, people can pool resources though to become validators, similar to mining pools.


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[Assistant] But you can no longer mine Ethereum.


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[Assistant] Proof of Work does still work for Ethereum Classic, but it's not exactly profitable. Even with cheap power and efficient cards, mining on a GPU is now a very tough sell.


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[Assistant] Uh, the price has also dropped. Ethereum was above $1,700 US dollars just a couple days ago. It is now at $1,400 US dollars. It's almost like people just want to like mine on their GPUs for sport. And it was never about it actually being, uhm, practical to buy things with Ethereum.


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[Assistant] Uh, bitcoin has also dropped from almost 23,000 US dollars, it had recovered a little bit, down to 19 and a half today. Whoo! Okay. Wow.


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[Assistant] Vitalik, the Ethereum creator says this should reduce global power consumption by 0.2%. Can that possibly be right? Cause that is. So much. Bananas.


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[Assistant] Uhm, the White House has put out a framework for regulating crypto in the US.


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[Assistant] An illicit finance risk assessment on decentralized finance by the end of February, 2023.


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[Assistant] The framework points out that a stable, USD-based coin could promote financial inclusion and equity by enabling access for a broad side of consumers. So an official, an official cryptocurrency. It's, it's even more centralized, man.


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[Assistant] Uhm, to make stable coins safer, the administration says the treasury will work with financial institutions to bolster their capacity to identify and mitigate cyber vulnerabilities by sharing info, promoting a wide range of datasets and analytical tools. What does that even mean?


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[Assistant] Okay, this is from Ploof. Discussion question. What happens now? Will anything really change other than graphics cards being cheaper? Linus coin win.


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[Assistant] Yeah, oh, uh, getting into our next topic then, there were some leaks from Nvidia. Uh, next Tuesday, they are expected to announce their upcoming generation of GPUs at their GeForce Beyond event, and in classic tech fashion, it's all spoiled.


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[Assistant] So, keeping everything to yourself, yeaah, that works really well, you guys.


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[Assistant] And there is a torrent of information on the upcoming GPUs. Oh no, this wasn't the thing that I had wanted to talk about. There had been rumors that, uh, Nvidia was, uhm, was...


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[Assistant] Tightening supply of 30 series chips to keep prices from falling even further.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so here's the leaked Lenovo images here. I mean, it looks pretty chunky.


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[Assistant] Seven heatpipes, uh, gigabyte. The gigabyte leagues chose some box art. Uh, here you go. Look at that, it looks like an Nvidia card because they control what the box art can look like. Ayyyy. What keeps happening? Stop. Okay, sorry, I'm trying to, I'm trying to show you guys here.


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[Assistant] RTX 4090, that font doesn't look very Nvidia-y. Are they changing their official font? Cause that looks stupid.


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[Assistant] You'd think if they're gonna be control freaks about it, they'd at least settle on something good. Yeah, typically they're pretty good at branding.


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[Assistant] Uhm, there's some Zotac pictures over on Baidu.


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[Assistant] That's uh, woo, woo, there's some, there's some RTX.


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[Assistant] Spicy. Uhm, so yeaah, these will be, if you want to keep supporting Nvidia, which realistically we're all going to because they like make really good GPUs, then yeaah.


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[Assistant] What if gaming has compiled the latest leaked specs? Looks like we're gonna be clocked over 2 gigahertz! Almost, wow, 2.5 gigahertz boost? That's wild. 16,384 CUDA cores on the RTX 4090.


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[Assistant] Uh, 450 watts of total board power and it's going to be built on TSMC's 5nm process.


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[Assistant] Pretty expiting. Pretty exciting. Notably.


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[Assistant] No cards have shown an exposed NVLink connector, meaning that perhaps SLI is finally dead.


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[Assistant] Our discussion questions here from Adam Asundergaard are, what excites you about the next generation of Nvidia GPUs? They'll be faster.


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[Assistant] Hey, no, Cyberpunk's gonna get cool. Cause like, yeaah. No, no, no, no, no. They gave the community- Okay, hold on, hold on. What did they- Chase, do you know what's going on with this?


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[Assistant] Why don't you show us, uhm, like some of the, some of the neat, like, uh, filters and stuff.


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[Assistant] It was kinda wild going to the backpack pop-up, which we did at our distribution center because


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[Assistant] I get a run rate report every week that shows how much inventory we have.


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[Assistant] But there's a big difference between seeing


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[Assistant] The number 1000 in like an on hand column in a spreadsheet and seeing a thousand water bottles. You know what I mean?


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[Assistant] Speaking of a thousand water bottles, we have a lot of these in stock. To give you some idea of the scale of this magnificent beast of a 64 ounce water bottle, this


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[Assistant] Is our 40 ounce, which is already a pretty chunky boy. And this is our 20, what is it, 22, whatever, like 20-ish ounce. This is the original LTT water bottle. It's like...


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[Assistant] It is insulated just like the, uh, the 2022, I think it's 22, like the 22 and the, uh, the 40 ounce.


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[Assistant] Uhm, uses the same cap, the same new cap style as the 40 ounce.


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[Assistant] And is available in a ton of different colors. We have, this has been one of the most requested products for the store in the last year.


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[Assistant] So hopefully you guys all, hopefully you guys all enjoy that!


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[Assistant] Okay, so here are our colors for the waffle long sleeve. We've got olive, what a nice picture. Great work David. We've got charcoal, we've got wine.


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[Assistant] And we have ultramarine. Four different colors of the waffle. It's a popular one. People, people love the waffle. So now we have even more couloirs.


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[Assistant] Alright. You know what? Let's do our sponsors, and then I want to talk about, uh, how I was significantly injured fighting Dennis this week.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so I'll, I'll, I'll run you through that, but, uh, the show is brought to you today by... Oh, ba ba ba ba ba ba, Keoksia! Wait, Chase, do you know how to put the thing there? Chase doesn't know that he has to do anything. You do know how to do the thing? Nice. Nice!


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[Assistant] Kyoksia's CM7 series NVMe SSD is optimized for the needs of high performance and highly efficient servers. It's PCIe Gen 5 NVMe 2.0 and has the capability to support U.3 systems.


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[Assistant] Won't be cheap. On top of that, it's rated at read speeds of almost 14 gigabytes per second. That is not a typo. That is not gigabits. That is gigabytes per second.


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[Assistant] So you can learn more about their CM7 series Enterprise NVMe SSDs at Kyoksia's link down below. That's LMG.GG slash Kyoksia CM7. The show is also brought to you by Squarespace. If you want to build a brand online, you need a website.


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[Assistant] This is great. We've got new talking points. These are funny. But I just learned how to turn on the little flashlight on my phone. How am I gonna build a whole website?


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[Assistant] We love Squarespace so much, we use it here for LinusMediaGroup.com and oh no. Oh no. Sad Chase. They took LTXExpo.com out of the talking points. Cause we haven't done one in...


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[Assistant] We do use it for that website though, it really is really easy to use. And, while that website might have been sitting there dormant, we don't have to worry about any security updates.


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[Assistant] Or any updates, Squarespace just takes care of all of it for us. They've got a variety of themes and customization options to fit your needs.


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[Assistant] The show is also brought to you by Secret Lab. Secret Lab chairs are engineered to keep you incredibly comfortable for long hours, whether you're at work or at play. Their Titan Evo 2022 Series chair offers four-way lumbar support, comes with a magnetic memory foam head pillow, and is offered in different upholsteries, like hybrid leatherette, soft weave fabric, and Nappa leather.


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[Assistant] With up to a 5 year extended warranty and a 49 day return policy, guys, don't take my word for it!


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[Assistant] Try it. Try Secret Lab. I can have any chair I want and I went to Secret Lab for home. They're really, really good chairs. Uhm, so go to the link in the description and check out Secret Lab today. Alright.


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[Assistant] Sorry you haven't been able to go to LTX in three years.


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[Assistant] Now, I saw you working on a floor plan.


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[Assistant] Okay, we're turning off the producer cam again. This guy, I want, I want Belle back!


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[Assistant] Where's my, where's my frowned and caped Jake Bellavance?


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[Assistant] I got injured at work this week. You did, I watched it. Uhm, I'm not gonna spoil the result for you.


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[Assistant] But all I can say, if you guys haven't been, if you guys haven't been keeping up, uh, let's just go to twitter.com slash, is it just?


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[Assistant] Uh, redactedretracted, by the way, asks if the Backstreet Boys are playing in Vancouver next year. I don't know, but I saw them this year, so I have, I have ticked that off my bucket list.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and for those of you who don't get that reference, I missed my Backstreet Boys concert twice. I had tickets and missed it twice because LTX absolutely had to be on the exact same day that they were playing in Vancouver. Uh, so let's go over to my screen here for a second. For those of you out of the loop,


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[Assistant] Dennis has spent, uh, the better part of this month being trained in a combination of taekwondo and kickboxing.


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[Assistant] And what? And Krav Maga. I don't even know what that is.


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[Assistant] So Dennis has been, uh, getting, getting trained up in preparation for a fight with yours truly. Uh, that fight took place on Wednesday of this week.


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[Assistant] Post fight teaser is my feet hurt a lot from kicking Linus. Make sure you follow channel super fun for the video. Uh, my post fight teaser, here hold on, he's actually got, he's got a few more interesting videos on his personal Twitter. Uh, yeaah, this, this is, this is something.


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[Assistant] He's been doing some practicing, this is super appropriate, burning the eyes out of a picture of me for sparring practice. Anyway, the point is, the fight took place on Wednesday of this week, I'm not gonna spoil the result, but my teaser is that whatever you think the outcome is, you will be surprised. Do you think that's fair to say? Absolutely, yep.


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[Assistant] As for what happened to me, I have been limping around. I unfortunately aggravated a, an old existing injury in my left knee. I have a torn meniscus, uhm, in my left knee that was, mmm.


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[Assistant] Not so deep that I had to get surgery when I took a few months off at the beginning of COVID lockdowns. It actually healed up well enough that I've been able to do anything that I would wanna do for quite a while now. Uhm, but didn't heal enough that I don't have to worry about re-injuring it and I did unfortunately re-injure it.


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[Assistant] Adding some tension and drama to the video for sure.


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[Assistant] Because it happened about halfway through the match. And to real life.


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[Assistant] I'm going to be careful here. When it was at its worst, I could only go down about this far before it would give up. Yeah.


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[Assistant] When it was at its best, like, up until, no no no, I'm good, I've got the table. When it was at its best, up until the match on Wednesday, I was able to go all the way down, heel to butt, and then lift myself up with just one leg. Now...


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[Assistant] Dennis actually, surprisingly, has a black belt in Taekwondo. Both of us.


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[Assistant] And both of us have black belts, but like first degree black belts in our respective martial arts.


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[Assistant] And I mean, I guess we both got injured, so...


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[Assistant] I have no idea. I think it's gonna be a bit of a longer edit.


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[Assistant] So, guys, I'm sorry to tease you, but-


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[Assistant] Do you even really want to? No. This is terrible. Yep.


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[Assistant] This is terrible. I'm gonna give the stray cats update first. Okay. Uhm, we have taken them to the vet once. Okay. They have their first vaccination shots.


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[Assistant] But, because they were near other stray cats, up until the very moment we captured them and brought them inside,


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[Assistant] It's possible that they are positive for very horrible cat diseases.


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[Assistant] So that vaccine they gave them is hoping that they don't already have like feline HIV or whatever. But if they do, we can test them in a month.


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[Assistant] Find that out, and if they don't have it, then we can give them their second booster, neuter them, and they're good to stay.


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[Assistant] But it is, but it is possible that they have


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[Assistant] And there's, there's just, there's no way that if this is going to be an, uh, an unbearable burden on her that we can go forward. And I would say if they had an infectious disease that could put her health at risk, then that's just not.


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[Assistant] Uhm, ever since we first brought them into the house, she's chilled out a little bit.


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[Assistant] What I'm hoping is that we can go real slow, so they'll just be in the house.


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[Assistant] And then they'll be on the other side of a transparent plastic barrier. And then they'll be on the other side of like maybe a mesh barrier.


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[Assistant] And we'll see, yeaah, we'll see what, we'll see what happens. See if they kind of get over it. I think it might be fun for her, she's been getting a little fat.


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[Assistant] So we're just gonna take it real slow, we're not gonna, we're not gonna force it. And if she decides, yeah, you know what, I'm gonna be just like the aloof, you know, alpha, and I want nothing to do with you guys, then that's chill, because I think these boys are very close to each other. Uhm, and if she decides she wants to...


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[Assistant] Be, you know, super, super into playing with the kittens, then hey, that's great too.


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[Assistant] Uh, so that's, that's the update. We won't know for a month if we can keep them, so we're gonna try and keep the kids from naming them. Cause otherwise that would be pretty rough.


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[Assistant] But if they get a clean bill of health, then I- the plan is to go ahead and keep it.


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[Assistant] So we need to wash our hands, like, like the for realsies, like for 30 seconds, wash our hands after we touch them. Uh, but other than that, they said no, it's not a problem for Dash.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so uhm, and then, oh, also, there's a, there's a local organization that we're working with to


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[Assistant] Put some cameras up in the yard and hopefully figure out, cause they think it's a colony.


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[Assistant] It turns out the mom that was going around the yard looking for them after we captured them was not mom, it was dad. Oh.


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[Assistant] Which they said was very unusual, but they are as sure as I was that it is dad, cause the second I brought the big cat into the bathroom where I had them at that point, everyone calmed down. Like that, clearly he was looking for them. Oh wait.


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[Assistant] Super unusual for cats. So wait, you, you caught the third? Oh yeah, we did catch dad. So dad has already been surrendered to a, a no-kill, uh, like rehabilitation organization for feral cats. Um, yeah. That's cool.


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[Assistant] It's not even so much that like, it would be impossible, but I think that integrating, um, an adult cat, huge adult feral cat with, with Dash and with the little kids was just,


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[Assistant] A little beyond our bandwidth at the moment. Seems fair.


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[Assistant] Because I'm already putting five ads in the video. That's gonna make it ten.


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[Assistant] Okay, you know what the really funny thing is? One of the reactions in floatplane chat was, man, now I'm gonna have to get premium.


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[Assistant] If I watch six ads before the video starts, do I not have to sit through any mid-rolls?


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[Assistant] That's a little much. I actually, man, I forgot how much, uh, ads on YouTube drive me crazy because I, I allowed my credit card information to lapse in my Google account.


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[Assistant] Like play a specific song in your song, in your playlist, like if you don't have a paid account.


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[Assistant] Uhm, discussion question, is this the death of YouTube? And what happens to NCT if it is? No, it's not because Google will keep pushing to the brink. I mean, that's their game, right?


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[Assistant] Uhm, there already are 5, 6 ads on some videos, particularly like, you know, 15, 20, 30 minute videos. If creators enable, if creators enable just algorithmically placed mid-rolls, YouTube will serve you an ad.


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[Assistant] Often as they think you'll tolerate. So one of the things I've noticed is that on my personal account, I actually get served fewer ads than I do on some of our corporate accounts. Oh, do you abandon? Because I will just abandon. I will, I will close the app when I get an ad.


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[Assistant] Uhm, not because it's like I'm, it's like some form of silent protest, but because I just, honestly was done pooping anyway.


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[Assistant] Absolutely, and it's not like they rolled this out en masse, so I'm not panicking yet, but I, uh,


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[Assistant] I don't personally think that YouTube needs more ads than they currently have. Uh, the ones that drive me, I don't mind the one skippable one.


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[Assistant] Even if it's like a longer cooldown, but when, when I have to interact with it multiple times, like when I get to, to uhm,


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[Assistant] Is it two skip, one unskippable? No, one unskippable is better than two skippable? I don't know. Whatever I don't have to interact with, I guess is what I'm trying to say. Cause I can just, I can kind of just blank out and have no idea what I just looked at.


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[Assistant] Which is, I guess, a life skill. Uh, but if I have to interact with it, then it is a hassle.


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[Assistant] Uh, probably, like I would think, I would think that would prompt some more people.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's tough because it really depends on how the user's blocking, whether they're using PyHole, whether they're using a browser extension. I suspect they have the tools to...


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[Assistant] Yeah, to figure it out one way or another, but there'd be, there'd be some noise in that signal.


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[Assistant] Logicus asks, what if you could just pre-watch as many ads as you want and unlock points that you spend on watch time?


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[Assistant] No, no, because they could just, uh, they could attention track through your webcam.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Matter of time before you can go and like, towel bow and buy like, fake eye things.


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[Assistant] Oh, we should do a couple of merch messages, cause I think we've got a lot of them! Hey, uh, Chase, you've got, uh, 21 incoming. Are you, uh- I have four incoming.


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[Assistant] Good gravy. We have 43 curated merch messages, which means we're gonna have to move through them a little quicker than usual. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Ooh, different strokes for different folks. The Dream Machine Unify setup is not cheap, whereas a DIY PFSense box can be as cheap as...


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[Assistant] Ubiquiti makes some nice stuff. But if you want to save a buck, PF cents. It's good stuff too. Yeah. Alfonso!


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[Assistant] I want to livestream games, but I don't think my PC can handle streaming and gaming simultaneously. Rather than getting a second computer, do you think a Steam Deck and a dock would work well? I think the look on his face says it all. No.


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[Assistant] I mean, you could do it. Like if you wanted to game on the Steam Deck and stream with your computer, that could absolutely work.


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[Assistant] I mean, hm. Okay, it's not ideal. Did I say it was ideal?


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[Assistant] I didn't say it was ideal. Nope. Okay.


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[Assistant] And for 400 bucks, I mean, check out the video we uploaded recently, $69 gaming PC. Like- All the GPUs are on crazy sale right now. Yeah, like it's a- it- man, we're working on the upgraded $69 gaming PC, the $169 gaming PC. Nice.


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[Assistant] It's a good, it's a good time to be a PC gamer again for a freaking change.


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[Assistant] Ah, Joe B. I have a Quadro that works when I boot into Linux, but when using Windows it not only doesn't output a signal, but also my 5600G doesn't output a signal until the card is removed. Should I chuck it?


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[Assistant] Let's go. It sounds, I mean, okay, I have to ask.


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[Assistant] You know, Joe, have you tried reformatting your Windows partition?


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[Assistant] Absolutely do that. It could be some kind of bugged out driver situation. I mean DDU before you reformat. And then if that's the case, then I would absolutely try it in another computer to see if it's just isolated to something about your machine, your Windows install. Then at that point,


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[Assistant] I mean, hey, hook a, hook a brother or a sister up and, uh, give one of your Linux using friends a quadro.


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[Assistant] Zachary asks, will we be getting short circuit sweatpants to go with the short circuit hoodie? I think so. I'm actually not sure. I'm sorry.


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[Assistant] Tim, your apocalypse PC, did you think about adding mesh or a filter to keep out mice or other vermin? I'll be honest with you. Did you see the apocalypse PC? I skimmed it. Okay.


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[Assistant] So, the real, uh, concept for that video, and I think


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[Assistant] This got lost in translation somewhere along the line. I kind of arrived on set on that one after having been off for a week while all the prep was done for it. Like I was on vacation. Normally I would be, I would have my finger on the pulse for the projects that we're working on.


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[Assistant] And what happened with that one was the Apocalypse PC, which was supposed to be like a bomb-proof, bullet-proof kind of PC concept where the whole thing was like sealed and like indestructible.


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[Assistant] Kind of got, mm, morphed into the, or like the prepper PC, like the indestructible one.


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[Assistant] Uh, kind of got merged into the plausible deniability PC.


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[Assistant] Which was the one that was supposed to be buried out in the yard.


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[Assistant] With cables that could be quickly cut, with one command the thing could be wiped, and no one would ever find it.


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[Assistant] And they kind of became one. And so I saw some comments going, Hey, why did you bury it? Why didn't you think of like flooding? Also, if you were going to be inside with the keyboard, monitor and mouse, why don't you just have the computer there and just put the solar panels outside?


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[Assistant] Uhm, the, in fact, the pipe tracking thing was something that I was, I had actually asked because I knew the video was, I already did know the video was gonna be a little content light.


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[Assistant] I had a couple people critiquing my form, apparently the blade's supposed to go in the front. I actually had the blade in the front. And then, uh, I, like Kalanand told me I was supposed to have it at the back as a, as a thing or something. You're supposed to put the blade down, uh, instead of just leaving the tracks while you're digging.


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[Assistant] Cause I thought it was like, to keep me from tipping back, but then that wasn't working at all. But I think I'm at the back, unlike my dad's bigger Komatsu thing back when I was a teenager, I don't know. But yea, I hadn't touched one in almost 20 years. So it was, it was like throwback to my childhood basically, like sitting there at the controls, it's fun.


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[Assistant] Anyway, uh, that whole video, so the, the, I, I emphasized the excavator, even though that was not really supposed to be a ton of the content, and then,


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[Assistant] I arrived on set, which is at my house, but still, like, at the prepared shoot.


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[Assistant] Whether I'm gonna use these conduits or not, we need to go find them.


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[Assistant] So, if you guys were wondering, yes, sometimes we do go into a video knowing that it's probably going to be kind of shit. Uhm, but we do our best.


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[Assistant] Like construction bro made impossible. Which is great.


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[Assistant] Hey Linus and Luke, waiting for new CPUs and GPUs to go live. Gonna build my first water-cooled build. Who do you think has the best water blocks?


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[Assistant] I honestly couldn't tell you, we mostly use EVGA.


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[Assistant] We mostly use EK these days just because they are awesome to work with. The quality is good. I think their stuff looks great too. No complaints. It looks awesome. So because a lot of the time we're doing showcase builds for videos, we want it to look really great.


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[Assistant] Uh, so I couldn't really, I can't really, I honestly can't really comment.


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[Assistant] Beyond that, there's lots of good reputable brands out there. We've just mostly been an EK shop for some time now.


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[Assistant] Uhm, yeaah, you asked about Corsair, yeaah, I've had no complaints with Corsair's products, but...


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[Assistant] We've just, yeaah, we've used a lot of, a lot of EK and I haven't had a reason to use something else.


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[Assistant] Have you considered opening a merch warehouse in the Maritimes to have coverage of both coasts? Yeah, that worked really great for NCIX when they opened an Eastern warehouse. In all seriousness, there were other much bigger problems that ultimately killed NCIX, but...


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[Assistant] I'm aware that commercial warehouse space in the Maritimes is cheap, and I'm aware that we could get cheaper shipping to particularly the Eastern seaboard, but it's just, even though we've gotten, like, big,


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[Assistant] BC still classifies us as a small business. Did you know that?


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[Assistant] Up until 100 employees are still technically a small business, like we're not.


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[Assistant] We're not that big. If we were to open up a shipping facility, whether it was on the East Coast or whether it was in Europe or wherever else, I think it's fair to say we would need at least a staff of somewhere between 5 and 10 people to run it. Does that seem reasonable?


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[Assistant] So we would be increasing our headcount by as, anywhere from like 7 to 12% or whatever that works out to.


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[Assistant] That is, that's, that's not trivial! You don't just, you don't just, increase your head count by 10%.


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[Assistant] It's a lot to manage. Who's gonna, who's gonna keep track of it all?


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[Assistant] I just don't have the bandwidth right now. I think that's the biggest, the biggest takeaway there.


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[Assistant] Uhm, Michael asks, I don't even know what you mean by production support.


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[Assistant] Uhm, like, like video production or like product production? I'm sorry Michael, I don't know if I can answer this.


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[Assistant] No, I do not have much experience with how that works in large companies. At NCIX, I would fix my own workstation.


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[Assistant] Do we think this will cause a ripple effect with other companies breaking their partnerships with Nvidia?


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[Assistant] Or even moving to AMD in response in some way to the whole situation.


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[Assistant] Honestly, I kind of doubt it. I don't think Nvidia is genuinely going to do any introspection. I don't think that the rest of their partners will risk damaging that relationship.


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[Assistant] Because, and this is one of the reasons I'm so worried about EVGA's future. Without GPUs, you know, what is their identity anymore? You know?


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[Assistant] Why would I necessarily, and I'm not saying, they make great power supplies.


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[Assistant] But why would I get an EVGA power supply when I'm already on Asus' product page getting in a Strix


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[Assistant] GPU, well I'll just get a Strix power supply. You gotta think about the way that an average consumer might shop.


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[Assistant] And so I think that that's one of the ways that Nvidia, uhm, keeps a lot of their partners in line because even if GPUs are lost leaders, which is ridiculous and they shouldn't be, lost leaders do


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[Assistant] Play a role in a manufacturer or a retailer's strategy.


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[Assistant] So if you just don't have that product that drives people to your brand, that keeps people talking about you.


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[Assistant] How will you sell your other products? It's very challenging.


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[Assistant] So no, I don't think anyone else is bound to break ranks, but if they do, then hey, maybe Nvidia will have to reconsider.


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[Assistant] Uh, Matthew P. asks, Hey Linus, can we get the pet goat story? Oh boy.


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[Assistant] Uhm, we were at, uh, an animal auction, and, uh,


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[Assistant] For some reason, I don't know why.


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[Assistant] I got it in my head that I wanted to get a goat.


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[Assistant] Uhm, they were super cute. Baby goats. Adorable.


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[Assistant] And so I got a goat. My goat's name was Gobi. And uhm, the, the understanding was the goat would be my pet. Uhm, she had a, she had a...


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[Assistant] Like a pen that was separate from, from all the other animals and I'd go out and hang with Gobi.


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[Assistant] Uh, like very, very friendly, very, uh, very engaged animal.


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[Assistant] The problem is that as Gobi got older, she would, uh, escape.


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[Assistant] A lot. Goats are natural escape artists.


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[Assistant] And uhm, if it had been possible to keep Gobi pinned, I don't think that we ever would have.


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[Assistant] Uh, we ever would, I don't think I ever would have consented to have Gobi taken to slaughter.


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[Assistant] But the problem was that in the area that we were living, the probability of Gobi getting out on the road, which was what she was doing,


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[Assistant] And ultimately getting either hit by a car or killed by a bear, as there were many of those in the area, uh, was getting uncomfortably high. And tracking down Gobi and bringing her home was getting more and more and more difficult.


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[Assistant] And so what I, what I ultimately agreed to with my parents was that, yeaah, uhm,


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[Assistant] And so Gobi was far from the first animal and not even the first animal with a name that we ultimately slaughtered, but that I didn't want to eat Gobi. So if they were having Gobi for dinner, I would have something else was sort of the agreement. And then they tricked me and told me it was like ostrich or something. And so I did end up, um.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but I don't think that it's particularly funny, personally. That is the pet goat story.


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[Assistant] I'm sure that if my sister and I got together and built another computer, we could probably tell lots more stories. If you're not a Floatplane subscriber, I think there's gonna be some stuff that ends up in an exclusive on Floatplane that didn't make it into the YouTube cut, but uhm, I don't know that we're gonna get too deep into our childhood stuff, you know, in public.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it's just not worth it. I don't need the drama in my life.


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[Assistant] Yikes. Now to be clear, you sell enough hundreds of thousands of products, eventually you're gonna have a couple defects. Uhm, but...


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[Assistant] The main reason that I wanted to bring this up was because I felt like it, uh, it opened up a really, uh, a really, I think a deeper conversation about how consumer


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[Assistant] Consumer protection has changed in the move from retail to online.


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[Assistant] There is essentially zero barrier to entry for some random to produce some random product and start selling it


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[Assistant] To any random person, regardless of which jurisdiction they live in, what their level of technical expertise is, like whether they're qualified to use the product. And, you know, I'm trying to think, like, would I have even had access to buy something as dangerous as that mail-to-mail power cord when I was 15?


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[Assistant] That was really the main thing that I had wanted to discuss here, was that there is


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[Assistant] Comparatively, nothing standing between, because at least with like, a retailer, there is, they have to be the first line, right? When something goes wrong, when a customer gets mad and comes and complains about a problem, they have to deal with it.


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[Assistant] Whereas Amazon has this level of abstraction with these third party sellers and they're not the only one. Anyone, anyone that takes a marketplace approach to third party products that are available on their site has this like,


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[Assistant] This, this shield in front of them, that's like, oh well, I mean, we, we didn't sell that, we just had the listing. Yeah, we'll take it down, but.


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[Assistant] They're not, they're not doing, and they're not being forced to do the due diligence that I feel like a brick and mortar retailer would just inherently have to do. Oh yea, definitely.


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[Assistant] And not even just have to do, that would just inherently do. You wouldn't put something on the shelf without like looking at it first, cause shelf space is valuable.


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[Assistant] Okay, I'll, I'll talk to, I'll talk to the team because I like even in.


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[Assistant] Uh, okay, so Vessi, long time sponsor of ours, love Vessi, uh, their talking points say waterproof, and I always, when I do the read, I always change it to water resistant, and I've told them, like, I'm not gonna say that, that's stupid. Nothing is waterproof. Water will literally cut a path through stone. Nothing is waterproof. And that's fun.


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[Assistant] It's like if we said our 64 ounce water bottle will keep your drink ice cold for 23 days. Yeah.


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[Assistant] It's like everything. It's everything. I mean, we went through this with uh, dash cams.


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[Assistant] Dash cams are one of those categories where until we made that video, I would have had absolutely no idea what to buy. In fact, I tried, which is why we made that video.


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[Assistant] Uh, there's another comment in floatplane chat from Jayden. That's a very good, that's a very good point.


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[Assistant] Neurisys says, can't wait for the lab to start testing this kind of misleading marketing.


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[Assistant] Looking at how underserved the public is. Absolutely. In areas I didn't even think about. I didn't even, I'm sorry, I didn't consider extension courts. I just, I didn't.


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[Assistant] Our lab could be three times the size tomorrow, and we would run out of space if we wanted to try to do everything that I'm looking at going, this needs to be tested, someone needs to do this.


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[Assistant] CNGtoons over on YouTube asks, what's with the whole sponsoring this or that portion of a video thing? What's that about? What is that about?


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[Assistant] Some brand agencies have it in their head that there could be some kind of


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[Assistant] Liability, excuse me, or negative brand association or something bad that could somehow be mitigated by changing the wording from they sponsored the video to they sponsored


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[Assistant] Personally, I find that wording kind of jarring and, uh, flow breaking for the content. Oh, absolutely. And from my point of view, and who knows, maybe I'm about to lose a sponsor or two.


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[Assistant] From my point of view, if you're not man enough to sponsor the video, if you don't like the content or think it's safe enough to sponsor the video, then maybe you just shouldn't sponsor the video.


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[Assistant] I obviously am being toxic masculinity-y just to make my point.


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[Assistant] That's fair. It's fair. There's a- anyway.


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[Assistant] The point, the point is that if you, if you have such misgivings about sponsoring a given channel that you're afraid that their content is going to reflect so poorly on your brand that you would hate for the whole video to be sponsored. No, only this portion.


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[Assistant] Should you really be engaging with that channel? That's what I'm saying. Yep.


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[Assistant] Or something like that. Okay, our results are brought to you by... Whatever.


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[Assistant] This part of the video is a message from this brand.


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[Assistant] Cause it's not sponsored by them. It's just the wrong word.


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[Assistant] So I've had a lot of people ask me over the last little bit, cause we did a couple spots recently that were structured like that. And that is my response. I think it's silly, but I understand.


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[Assistant] In a lot of cases, why the legal department is stepping in and saying uhm, actually we need to be super, super careful about this because it wouldn't be the first time that a brand


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[Assistant] Then, you know, I guess there's some plausible deniability there, but I think that if the person's so toxic that you're worried about that, then you probably just shouldn't sponsor them.


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[Assistant] I have to deal with enough agencies that I am not going to weigh in on the thing he just said.


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[Assistant] Oh, Intel's doing some stupid rebranding. Yeah, let's do some merch messages. Oh yeah, I dunno, here we'll gloss over it. Intel rebrands laptop, Pentium, and Celeron processors. Now it will be... what will it be now?


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[Assistant] Flagship brands are now Core, Evo, and vPro. That's the thing. They will just be labeled Intel Processor. So they're taking Pentium and Celeron names off.


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[Assistant] The new Intel processor branding will simplify our offer. Will it?


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[Assistant] I honestly, okay, look, Intel or whoever else,


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[Assistant] I will, I will contract for you, okay?


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[Assistant] Look, I'm not gonna come up with the branding for you, but I will, I will contract, I'll tell you what, a hundred bucks.


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[Assistant] That's my rate to do a sanity check on your new branding concept. That's not bad. I'll have a look at it for you, as long as it takes me less than like, five minutes. I'll look at it for you, you can, you can put your checks in the mail, address them to Chase Douglas, alright?


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[Assistant] He's got you, okay? And I will tell you if it is among the 5% stupidest things I've ever heard. Okay? That is the service that I will offer you. And Intel could have avoided this if they had just paid $100 to Chase Douglas over here. Uhm.


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[Assistant] So that I could tell them that this is among the 5% stupidest things I've ever heard.


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[Assistant] No, I haven't played Timberborn or the wandering


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[Assistant] Uh, yeah, yeah, I do have plans. That is where the pool house will be. So if nothing else, I can run power from the mechanical room to the pool house instead of digging a new trench.


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[Assistant] Unfortunately, we still have to get gas from somewhere else around the side of the house, so we still had to trench all the way over to get gas, because there's not enough gas pressure in the mechanical room to also, uh, do the pool heating. But it did save us a trench, at least. So, yeaah, it was totally worth it.


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[Assistant] And also we made a video about it, because the video sure as heck wasn't about putting a PC in a box, it was about finding those conduits.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I, ooh, ethernet overpower could work if they're both through the same panel.


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[Assistant] Dishes? Yea, you could do a point to point dish from someone like Yubekuri. They have some pretty affordable stuff.


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[Assistant] Direct bury it, and it'll be good for at least like 10 years or whatever, assuming it's decent direct burial cable.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you can always, uh, you can always, uh, jury rig a dish to dish set up with like literally tin cans on like a regular consumer wifi router. That's actually a thing. So you do two.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I forget what it's called, but you can set them up so that one is essentially a switch that you plug client devices in and then it's just got this wireless backbone back to the main network. So there's lots of different ways.


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[Assistant] I mean, it's not your looks, it's not your, you know, the money you make, it's fixing her tech crap.


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[Assistant] Unless we can get a million and a half to three million views on something, it doesn't make sense anymore because it will harm our ability to get a million and a half or three million views tomorrow if we upload something that only gets 500,000 today.


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[Assistant] It's just the game that we play and you can expect over the next few years to see smaller channels that I intend to keep smaller.


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[Assistant] For that reason, so that we can cover stuff that would destroy the LTT channel that funds


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[Assistant] All of that other content. I can't kill the golden goose.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think that would be, that would be definitely like a cool thing to investigate. Does multi-monitor like tank your FPS? I know there was a bug a while back where, I forget if it was Nvidia or AMD, but they had like super high power consumption if you had.


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[Assistant] Two monitors plugged in and like it was totally fine if you had only one.


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[Assistant] I don't think we would test regularly. We would kind of, you know, look into it and kind of go, oh, okay, is there anything interesting here? And then if there isn't.


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[Assistant] I think that might just be the end of it. We'd just say, okay yea, there's nothing interesting, no article, no nothing. Cause it's either, it's either a problem or it's not really news.


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[Assistant] Should we have Chase read a couple of merch messages? I realized he's our producer today, but we've hardly had him do anything. You've been reading all of them. Yea, I'm sorry.


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[Assistant] Oh man, there was that GPU that was completely mislabeled, I bought from Sapphire back in the day.


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[Assistant] Man, worst tech purchasing experience. I probably shouldn't count anything to do with an ISP.


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[Assistant] Everyone knows that they're awful, you know, basically universally.


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[Assistant] Worst tech purchase experience. Yeah, probably that like falsely advertised GPU from Sapphire way, way, way back, like in the, in the 2000s. It's tough for me because I don't, I don't, uhm, have to buy tech as often anymore.


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[Assistant] And even when I did, I tended to research it pretty thoroughly, like that's my passion, right? So...


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[Assistant] Oh, oh yeaah, the dash cams I bought, that was terrible. I bought two of them, and neither of them worked, not even for a moment. So that sucked, and that inspired that dash cam video we did recently. There you go, alright, I got one. Do you have a terrible one, or are you busy on, uh,


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[Assistant] Your worst tech purchasing experience.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we, we do our research. That's sort of why we're sitting in these chairs at this point. If we didn't, then you shouldn't listen to us.


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[Assistant] I came up with a couple bad things. I bought some dash cams that ended up just being manufactured anyways.


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[Assistant] No one can even check unless I could get my hands on like the old NCIX servers that got found.


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[Assistant] Uhm, after the fact and that was a whole, that was a whole data privacy security problem.


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[Assistant] Why are you trying to get discounts? Do you not want to support the channel?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I, so I can't really show this to you guys easily, but we are, we are getting samples in, so like size run samples, which means it's, it's months away, not quarters away, at the very least. Cool.


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[Assistant] Like, I think you could point at my love of Noctua and call that like fanboy or shameless or whatever, but like, it's more of like a respect. I respect their approach to product engineering.


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[Assistant] Um, and that, and that approach has led to my trust in them being well founded. It's not like fanaticism. It's just.


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[Assistant] Shameless fanboy. I mean, I, uh,


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[Assistant] Intel fanboy knows. That's a funny thing, man. I get accused of being a fanboy of...


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[Assistant] Only because they made the better processors at the time. First processor that I purchased was AMD. That's not even fan, that's just...


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean like I lo- okay, people are talking about LG, like I love OLED, love OLED displays, and I will, I will tolerate some of their problems for the benefits, but that's not- It's a tech, it's a technology that's not a company. Yeah, like I'm a fan of the performance, I'm always a fan of performance.


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[Assistant] Oh, sorry, people are like team green. Sorry, AMD used to have a green logo. Blizzard, not a chance. Not Nvidia. Uhm, I said team green for AMD. AMD is team red now. Sorry about that. Sorry about that.


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[Assistant] Oh, I mean, it was pretty fun having my eldest son, uhm, like, carry us in Minecraft.


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[Assistant] Yeah. That's pretty cool. He can also hang with us in Towerfall, which is... Yeah.


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[Assistant] Surprising, because neither, neither Luke nor I are like, crappy sidescroller players.


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[Assistant] New old man never touched a controller when it comes to 2D sidescrollers, and he won some rounds. Like, for real, beat us. So, that's-


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[Assistant] Uh, and, yeah, I don't know, it's been, I guess it's just been good. It's, it's less like proud. I'm not proud of kids for like enjoying video games. They're...


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[Assistant] It's, it's like being proud of them for getting addicted to crack. Like they're designed to, they're, they're designed to be addictive.


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[Assistant] Yeah, exactly, right? But I'm definitely, I'm definitely, uh, you know, I enjoy playing with them. It's fun. I'm glad that we can connect over that.


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[Assistant] Yes. They are allowed to play Minecraft mostly when they want to. So that's uhm.


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[Assistant] Well, within their daily, like, screen time limits, because that's the thing parents do now.


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[Assistant] Yes, we have talked about doing a camera focused insert for the backpack.


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[Assistant] But I think that right now it's a lower priority than the tech pouch, which is really designed for like all your accessories and like USB drives and maybe like, you know, parasite cutters, little things like that. And a smaller version of the backpack and we just don't have the bandwidth to tackle.


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[Assistant] A camera focused insert just yet.


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[Assistant] If we did, we'd want to make sure that it was something that was really adding a choice that's not already available. You pointed out that you don't necessarily want a full on camera backpack, but you want to carry a camera sometimes. Well, I would like that insert to be able to come out and like,


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[Assistant] Be a sling or something like that, like I'd want it to be cool, uhm, and we just, we don't have the, we don't have the time right now to work on it.


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[Assistant] Okay, we now have not one, but two people who have deep experience in machine vision.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and machine vision is going to be really, really important going forward as it becomes more and more difficult to objectively, empirically measure the performance of a GPU just by FPS alone.


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[Assistant] Uh, dynamic image quality is becoming critical to being able to run games at all.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so whether it's through upscaling technology or dynamically changing, uh, like texture quality or whatever else it is. And that's going to be a huge focus for us is building out benchmarks. It's already a thing in mobile, right? Building out benchmarks that can monitor changes in image quality.


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[Assistant] Alongside changes in frame rate so that we can better evaluate the relative performance of different hardware.


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[Assistant] What can a shopper look for in a riser cable to avoid headaches? What a great question for the lab. All you can look for is, like, if you trust the brand to send you a new one if you get a bad one. That's all I can really tell you.


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[Assistant] As long as you get something that's not a steel or aluminum frame, as long as it's actually like a carbon style frame, uh, if it's been a long time, just, yeah, don't spend a ton of money, right?


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[Assistant] Get strings. Spend $30 and pay $20 to get new strings on it. Grab a grip for a few bucks. That's gonna be more important than the racket as long as you don't get a steel or aluminum frame. That's gonna really, really hurt your game. Speaking of badminton, if there's any local coaches in the Vancouver area that are looking to pick up some shifts, I don't know, DM me on the forum or something like that because uhm,


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[Assistant] Oh, I know some, I know some people who wanna get some badminton coaching.


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[Assistant] Including him, uh, and it would be cool if we could find someone who wants to do that.


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[Assistant] Alright, uh, Arthur says I have a weird question for Luke.


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[Assistant] So they have invoice 45 and thought that was pretty cool.


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[Assistant] Kira asks, any update on the stealth desk pad and what do you think is the most technologically


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[Assistant] What do you think is most technologically exciting for data science in the coming years?


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[Assistant] I mean, I don't think, other than, you know, just the, the leaps and bounds with which machine learning is advancing right now, I don't think there's anything, uh, past that horizon that I'm looking to at the moment.


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[Assistant] As for stealth desk pad, it'll come when it comes.


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[Assistant] We're actually sending out a message to wave one backpack purchasers that our shipment, which was supposed to arrive in


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[Assistant] We gave ourselves three weeks, from when all backpacks for each wave were supposed to be here,


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[Assistant] To when we would have them shipped out and wave 1 is supposed to be shipped out by September 20th. Two thirds of our wave 1 backpacks are not here yet.


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[Assistant] And will not be here by the 20th. So they are over three weeks late. So we're sending out a message to everyone saying, hey, here's all the information we have.


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[Assistant] This is where we started. Uhm, this is where they're estimating right now. It could slip again. There's nothing we can do to control this. We are just...


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[Assistant] Helpless leaves being blown around by the wind at this point.


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[Assistant] Uh, Sam D. asks, love the show, who are your favorite musicians?


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[Assistant] I mean, you know, love me some, some backstreet boys, uh, just love the Barenaked Ladies a lot. Honestly, I don't really like fan out over individual musicians so much. Yeah. So it's just kinda, it's gonna...


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[Assistant] Kind of depend on who happens to make a lot of songs I like. Uh, you know, always down to listen to some T-Swift.


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[Assistant] They are working on some really cool rackmount gaming cases right now though that honestly could just...


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[Assistant] I mean, prioritize. That's the big one. Whatever's most important, do it first. It really is that simple a lot of the time. Too tired? Do it anyway.


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[Assistant] That's how, that's how you make sure you don't have regrets.


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[Assistant] I will say that so far I haven't seen any ideas in public that we hadn't already had internally.


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[Assistant] Uhm, however, it's not as simple as just taking different plastic dye, mixing it in with the Triax chips, and shooting it.


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[Assistant] Because the dies are also plastic, they can affect the shrinkage ratio of the finished parts, which can affect the fit and finish, and can affect the durability of the finished driver.


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[Assistant] So every single color will need to be validated individually and with each other in order for us to do different color ways of the driver.


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[Assistant] Right now, our focus is on shipping out the 80 plus thousand drivers that people have ordered and once we are well on our way, we will


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[Assistant] Think about, we will look at the R&D that is necessary for doing additional colors. I wish.


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[Assistant] It was as easy as that because we would have launched with like a dozen colors.


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[Assistant] Putting different ink on the side of the bottle, yeaah. Huh, heck yeaah, let's go!


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[Assistant] Unfortunately when it comes to plastics, it's just not that simple.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I mean yeaah, you gotta lead by example, right? So, they're gonna be so curious about everything you do. The second you do something, they're gonna wanna do it, so...


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[Assistant] Uh, don't do anything in front of them that you wouldn't want them to do and, uhm,


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[Assistant] And just, you know, be there to answer their questions. I mean, at the end of the day, they're gonna...


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[Assistant] They're gonna lead the nest at some point, they're gonna make their own decisions, but just try and be a good example for as long as you have. It's the best I can really give you.


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[Assistant] I don't see why not. There's nothing about it that, uhm, like you'd get a little bit of rust on the bits, for sure. That's, that's normal. What about the Ratchet though? Uh, well no, the Ratchet is Zinc and Delrin.


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[Assistant] It's fresh water, so uhm. Wait, did he say it's fresh water? Yea, he said rivers.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so, uh, yeah, I, I don't, I don't know what kind of coverage you might get if you, you know, tell us, hey, yeah, it's full of shmoo because I was in a river and shmoo grew.


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[Assistant] But if you were to get it wet once in a while, I don't think that would necessarily be the end of the world.


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[Assistant] Uh, yeaah, but the grease in the ratchet, again, it's fresh water. Uhm, it is not water soluble grease.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, shouldn't much. It's cold water, which is less likely to carry away grease. So, it is not for that. Not for that.


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[Assistant] I don't know, I saw rumors that 7000 series is supposed to be like, chiplet.


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[Assistant] And AMD chipleted Intel and it's taken years for them to come back.


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[Assistant] I put a Radeon GPU in my personal rig for the first time in like over 10 years.


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[Assistant] It's impossible for me to know. I mean, we talked about this earlier in the show. Nvidia doesn't even tell their board partners what the pricing of the cards is gonna be.


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[Assistant] So I, I, I don't have a, I don't have a crystal ball. I, I just don't know. I'm sorry.


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[Assistant] Yeah, the reason that they don't have a standardization for cables is that in the early days, everyone was just doing their own thing, developing modular cabling systems internally, and


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[Assistant] Everyone took a slightly different approach and it's not been worth it to change and create incompatibility within their own product lines, so there's no standard.


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[Assistant] I'm doing a jewelry making workshop with life. So we're going to make rings, which I thought was pretty cool. I actually did it back in high school, so it might be a bit of a refresher for me, but I don't think she's ever done it.


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[Assistant] Uh, ALC5440, what are you talking about? There's a comment in the floatplane chat, sorry.


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[Assistant] Do you- Oh, do you mean the Final Fantasy VII remake was really good? I thought you were talking about like a Final Fantasy VI remake and they killed it, cause like, Final Fantasy VI is like, oh, love it. Anyway.


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[Assistant] I mean, honestly, I like the Star Trek reboots a lot better than anything that Lucasfilm has done since Lucas stopped being involved. And honestly, for a while before Lucas stopped being involved.


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[Assistant] Clayton asks, with the GPU market dropping back down to reasonable levels, would you recommend upgrading from a 1080 Ti or do you feel it still holds up? 1080 Ti is beast!


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[Assistant] We actually were going to do a video, like, how does the 1080 Ti hold up today? And then I think like Hardware Unboxed uploaded it like the day after we pitched it. Okay, well they did a good job, so whatever, we won't do that video.


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[Assistant] And it all depends on you. If it isn't enough performance for you, then do or don't upgrade, right? Like, I can't tell you what to do. Cyberblade42.


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[Assistant] Wanted to get a Seasonic power supply based on all the praise you give them. However, Canada Computers has almost all models out of stock besides 1000 watts and I'm not a fan of Newegg. Any other brand recommendations? I mean, hey, EVGA could probably use the help at the moment. And they have very solid power supplies, so why don't you check out EVGA's offerings?


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[Assistant] Uh, Mark R. Ever since I saw your old home office setup, I've been running my PC in another room. What method is best? KVM over IP?


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[Assistant] Uh, long cables? Mmm. Thunderbolt, which is just long cables. So, yeaah, long, long cables. Just go long, long, proper cables. In my humble opinion. Uh, Anonymous.


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[Assistant] Do you have trouble attracting talent to work at LMG because of the Vancouver area's prohibitively expensive real estate prices?


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[Assistant] Our internal minimum wage is so much higher than the BC minimum wage just because if we will not just because we actually go higher than what is absolutely necessary, but partially because


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[Assistant] It would be impossible for our people to like...


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[Assistant] Live here and work here otherwise. How would Chase afford to live?


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[Assistant] I hope it improves. Uhm, there's a, there's a dip that we're going through right now and I hope it's a big one even. And this is with...


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[Assistant] Being substantially invested in Vancouver real estate. I'm rooting for it. Let's see a crash.


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[Assistant] Like, I, I want everyone who works here to be able to afford a house. And honestly, the rate at which housing prices are increasing is greater than the rate at which our, like, revenues are increasing. Like, it's ridiculous.


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[Assistant] Depending on the class of, depending on the area you're looking at, depending on the class of, of, of housing or class of building rather, uhm, like it's, it's absurd. There have been times when, yeaah, we cannot actually grow fast enough to keep up with the rate of, the rate of Vancouver property price increases. It's, it's absurd.


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[Assistant] Right? And besides, that's not the goal. The goal would be for people to-