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[Assistant] Wow, that value. Yeaah. That's, that's what it's about, right? That's a lot of value. Although I don't know if we did the intro for the other shows. It's okay. So, there's, there's that. Uh, Jake. Hi. We have to do you first, cause you're leaving. Yeaah. You're abandoning the post. Mhm. So, uh, we gotta cover your, your emails first. Best part of this year. Is my watch over? What do you do? Have you been on my show before?


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[Assistant] That should be good. What's your favorite thing that happened this year to do with Linux Media Group?


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[Assistant] I've already done mine, but I'll go through it again. My favorite part of this year, hands down, was the most recent Scrapyard Wars with, uh,


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[Assistant] They can probably hear that. Anyways, my, my favorite thing this year was the, yea, brand new Skype Red Wars with BS mods, Bob and Rod. Rod was on my team, had tons of fun, built probably one of my favorite mods ever, which is right, uh, there.


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[Assistant] But yea, that was a ton of fun and inspired me to do.


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[Assistant] Giga what? DIY gifts, uh, for Christmas. Which have been a bit of an adventure. Jake's been there for a fair amount of that. Thank you, Jake's dad, uhm, who's helped me with things. I'm not gonna say what things, cause it's not Christmas yet. Yea, like two days? Jeez.


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[Assistant] That came quick. Yeah, so those have been a little bit of a nightmare. I've lost a lot of sleep over those projects. Same dude.


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[Assistant] Get rekt. You don't really need sleep to do work. You just drink more caffeine. And survive.


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[Assistant] Anyways, that's all, I might, no, you guys will probably never hear about what those are. But yeah, I'm doing DIY projects, and that's my favorite thing about this year. My least favorite thing about this year, related to work. Hmmmm.


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[Assistant] Appreciate you. That was a good call. Oh, okay. Yep. Wow.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so I, I don't really have a ton of other details to add to that. It's just his general presence and overall aura. It's just negativity. Just, yeah, you know. No, no, that's not it. Uhm, really? Least favorite thing that happened this year?


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[Assistant] There's probably the time that Linus' Twitter got hijacked. Oh gosh. That was pretty bad. We were out doing- Actors. This cra- Oh come- Just a little bit of an exaggeration.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I got you. Like hackers. Uh, we were out filming this crazy video.


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[Assistant] No, not the pizza computer. This got brought up last time too. I love the pizza computer. I love shooting the pizza compu- picha? I love shooting the pizza computer. I loved making the pizza heater computer. I love the pizza heater computer itself, even though it doesn't exist anymore. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Just because you guys didn't like it doesn't mean that I didn't like it. I might have disliked the amount of dislikes that were on the video and all the negative comments. That might have sucked, but I love that computer.


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[Assistant] And that was not the worst part of this year. That was- I'm changing my answer. My favorite part of this year was building the pizza heater computer. Oh, you can get wrecked. I'm kidding. Rod, sorry. No, got rid of horses is the best.


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[Assistant] But yea, uhm, probably dealing with that was pretty, that was pretty terrible. Pretty terrible indeed.


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[Assistant] Work was fairly straight up this year, I think. Except this week. Well no, things were difficult.


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[Assistant] And stressful and strenuous, but like, everything mostly works.


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[Assistant] Was that I wanted to show everyone in real time with minimal editing, showing everything on camera, benchmarking things, so that they could, so that could hopefully add to the legitimacy and make it feel more real?


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[Assistant] What that turned into, however, was just kind of a mess. Uhm, people didn't really like it. People didn't like hearing that everything that they do doesn't really matter. Uhm, and...


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[Assistant] It's just, it was kinda boring to watch.


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[Assistant] But they make it quieter, like there's, there are benefits.


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[Assistant] Anyways, yea, that was probably the worst thing that happened this year was my workshop series. Are you- we should do a guide on overclocking pizza. It's adding hot sauce?


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[Assistant] Alright, next up we have Tyler. So I think, is this the first time you've talked on camera?


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[Assistant] There we go, nice. Welcome to the most disastrous WAN show of 2016. I don't even know if that's actually true, to be completely fair. Okay, so what do you do here?


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[Assistant] Also, you have to wear the hat. I have to wear the hat. Unless you're worried about lice, in which case you can avoid that rule. But I think it's fine. So, sorry, say that again?


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[Assistant] I don't know if you want to give away that other thing that you're working on, but the tabletop thing you can probably talk a little bit about.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, so Tyler wrote and I helped edit and Linus helped edit and Tyler kind of sculpted this video that is about, uhm, so it said Minecraft t-shirt. It's not.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it sort of almost gets there. Uh, but it's, it's not just about tabletop simulator. It's about how technology has helped push tabletop gaming, whether that's card gaming or role playing or whatever, basically forward.


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[Assistant] What was your favorite thing that happened this year that had to do with work?


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[Assistant] Uhm, yeaah. I don't know. I don't have a ton else to say. Do you have any crazy plans?


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[Assistant] I'm excited for the one with the woodworking and the tall stuff


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[Assistant] That should be a good one. I'll give him that much. I'll leave you with that. That's all you get. Uh, someone's saying that you're, you're possibly the legend 27.


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[Assistant] See? He doesn't know that, which is kinda like the same as when someone farts and then they're like, I don't smell anything. Right? So you are the legend.


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[Assistant] It means you're pretty much the most powerful person in the game.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I think that's about it. We were basically just asking best and least.


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[Assistant] Is there anything you wanna say? This is the first time you've been on camera. Or, no, first time you've spoken on camera.


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[Assistant] I think possibly the first time I was ever on camera was on The Wancho and my arm was in like a sling and I was like beat up. And I just hung out while Linus hosted everything, which was pretty cool.


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[Assistant] Uh, yeah, I think I'll get someone else. I wish, like, someone stayed here so that we could, like, relay people in, but if you want to go grab someone, that'll also work.


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[Assistant] Uh, Colton or Nick would be great. Yeah, that'll work. Thank you. And then give them the Santa hat. Or just leave it here. That works. Cool. Thank you.


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[Assistant] Okay. Great show. This is, this is working really well. I technically do have a Wandoch. There's a few things. Uhm.


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[Assistant] There was an Nvidia job posting, I'll try to drop this in the chat, that revealed GTX 1080 Ti and, uh,


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[Assistant] A premium Club GeForce Elite subscription, which was kind of interesting. You might even have something to say for this. Currently we're talking about Club GeForce Elite subscriptions.


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[Assistant] Is it the worst thing that has literally ever happened to the universe? I mean, yes. Just kidding. No, it's not. No.


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[Assistant] I don't think we have a ton of information, uh, there's one little kind of thing where there was, uh, under targeted spot prizes to drive, uh, all this other weird kind of stuff. There's something about possibly a form of step up program, uh,


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[Assistant] And like, does anyone even have a screenshot? Cause I haven't seen one.


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[Assistant] Okay, so I kinda wonder if it was like a fake Nvidia posting it, but who knows. Who knows.


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[Assistant] And then there's the Club GeForce Elite kinda deal. Uhm, this has been...


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[Assistant] Interesting. It says that there's possibly beta access for Talos, uhm, and Nvidia first party content. There's like, you get some indie games and you get a subscription to their cloud gaming service thing and you get some other stuff maybe.


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[Assistant] Custom skin or in-game items for AAA games every few months.


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[Assistant] Yeah, there's, you get free game codes, in-game currency, early beta access to certain games, gaming accessories, and tickets to gaming events, like BlizzCon or PAX. That's pretty crazy. That'd be cool. Actually.


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[Assistant] There's also users who will be rewarded for submitting bug reports or contributing useful feature requests.


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[Assistant] Does Nvidia want trolls? But then this is all rumor mail stuff. So, who knows? But moving back from that topic, Cal Tain. Hey, what up?


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[Assistant] How you doing? That's my question to you. What? How's it going? Oh good man. That's pretty good.


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[Assistant] Nice. Doin' good. Yeah. Doin' better. Cause everything's workin'. Everything's workin'. Anyways. Yeah, man. Speaking of which, worst thing this year.


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[Assistant] I was. No, I was. Definitely. Yeah, no, no, no, no. Definitely positive as well. So you had a couple of those. Yeah. Make a sand friend. Was that you this year?


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[Assistant] I've had one other than this one. Thanks, Ed. Yeah, thanks, dude. Um, Ed's probably not gonna be on the show because he's feeling really sick. Is that a confirm, Ed? Edzel, you wanna be on the WAN Show? Come here. Are you gonna be on the show or are you too sick? Come here. I know talking has been not...


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[Assistant] Are you excited for this year's- Okay, are you excited for next year's CES?


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[Assistant] Baaah. Alright. Coming back to the dock.


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[Assistant] Okay, so the Nintendo Switch's CPU, GPU, clock speeds were revealed. Uh, you can check that out on Eurogamer. I'm gonna post a link to that in the description here.


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[Assistant] This like, in my opinion, is probably the least important thing about the Nintendo Switch. That might sound weird.


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[Assistant] That could totally sound weird, and I get that. Uhm, but at the same time,


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[Assistant] It's not like Nintendo consoles for a long time have exactly been on like,


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[Assistant] The forefront of performance technology. I am a self-proclaimed Nintendo fanboy. And I'm excited for this thing regardless because I want to play the games that are on it. I'm interested in the games that are on it. I'm...


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[Assistant] I will go for amazing, beautiful, detailed cinematic experiences on my PC. I will go for playing Zelda because hell yeaah on my console. That's how that's gonna work. Uh, one interesting thing is that there's different performance specs for it when it's docked versus undocked.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so it's memory bandwidth is 200, sorry, 25.6 gigabytes per second. It's VRAM is shared through the GPU and the CPU. Uh, it has 256 CUDA cores at a maximum of 1 gigahertz. Uhm, and I actually can't find in this specific picture, but it has a pretty drastically different performance.


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[Assistant] Depending on whether it's plugged into a TV or it is, uh, taken remotely with you. If you remember, you can take, you can put the controllers on the side of the Switch and take it as if it is a mobile gaming device.


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[Assistant] The mic is fine. Uhm, thank you. Oh god.


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[Assistant] Was it stressful? Is it, is it good? Is it chill? It's a day. It's a day. It's a day. How did the year go?


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[Assistant] The queen's gonna make it, apparently. Did you hear about that? The queen? Yeah, the queen was sick. Was she? But she's good now. Oh. Seemingly good now.


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[Assistant] I mean, that would probably get more clicks. True.


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[Assistant] Uh, my favorite title we've done in a while was, was my suggestion, which I don't do enough, I'm sorry. Uhm, but the, the USB killer thing.


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[Assistant] Like, work-related. I know your laptop was work-related, but yeah.


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[Assistant] This is, I think it's, it's good that this is everyone's hardest question to answer so far.


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[Assistant] I don't- that's- that's actually been really... confusing for me. Cause I feel like-


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[Assistant] Like what I hear from the audience, that is the most in tune with what people, like, seem to ask for?


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[Assistant] He actually cares, which is fine.


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[Assistant] See, that would make sense. Also, the name, I think Tech Showdown as a name is pretty garbage. Uhm, I liked the original not saying it name that is way too close. Can we say it? Maybe. So, okay.


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[Assistant] The original concept for Tech Showdown was that Linus and I would be standing there, or whoever the competitors were would be standing there, and then everything that you had to build with was going to be on a table under a cloth just like Iron Chef, and then whoever the host was was going to whip the cloth off, and, uh,


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[Assistant] Something that I think was still really cool, but it was different. Uh, where you would go pre-shopping and you'd go to the store and buy everything for the mod that you wanted and then it was just a start time and a fixed amount of time.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, it's way too close to Iron Chef. Sorry!


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[Assistant] One, one that people are saying is scrapyard wars, which is very close to junkyard wars.


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[Assistant] Where like iron, iron tech was named iron tech very specifically because it was essentially exactly iron chef. But with technology.


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[Assistant] Yeah, anyways, that concept didn't really work out, which sucks because yeaah, I really like the tech show now.


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[Assistant] Someone said aluminum tech. That's the name of a dude on the forum. Tintech. We probably shouldn't do that.


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[Assistant] If you could teach someone how to make Jarvis so we could all have voice control systems that were anywhere close to that good, that would be wonderful.


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[Assistant] Anyways, any other comments? Uhm.


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[Assistant] I'm just like, it's been a year, man. It's been a year. It has, it has by definition. I was saying.


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[Assistant] It's too rare. His brain was like, I can't do this.


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[Assistant] He needs to be. Is he coming on my show? Oh my goodness. Intermission topic. Oh, KFC.


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[Assistant] What? KFC's latest weird text suggests an order based on your face.


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[Assistant] That's where I think Taren was trying to go, when he said it to me, cause he's a


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[Assistant] Maybe, like if you're a little kid maybe you want like a kids meal thing?


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[Assistant] Hold up, hold that thought, hold that thought. The audio went away, and I think it's gonna be back now. We're back. Okay, say that again. It's gonna be finished soon. Do we have waveforms that you can see? We do not.


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[Assistant] We have employees this year. We, we grew, uh, we added 50% more than we had before.


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[Assistant] Potentially, yes. Maybe. It's borderline. The thing is it's always like 100% capacity so it's hard to like tell if it's...


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[Assistant] If I can taste the alcohol at all, I absolutely hate it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's gonna be close. Yeah, a lot of people were thinking that it had held up and we weren't actually gonna get a white Christmas and then it snowed last night. And just for context, it's very rare.


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[Assistant] Yes, yes. Just for whatever reason. We would usually get like maybe one day of snow a year. Yeah. It would just be sloshing and it would be terrible.


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[Assistant] We have to do ad spots at some point, I can do that just by time, you don't have to worry about anything. By time. Oh dang, get it? Speaking of which...


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[Assistant] We both have beards. Dollar Shave Club. If you're not a member of Dollar Shave Club, I need to join the thing. You're not a member of Dollar Shave- Okay, but to be fair, do you have a neck beard?


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, a little bit. And do you have to shave this? All the time, bro. Yeah, see, then there we go. We still shave. How about you? Do you shave? Colton's on the show. Oh yeah. See, okay, so every single one of us has a beard, so this isn't...


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[Assistant] But we all shaved this part. Yeah, there we go. Uh, if you're not a member of Dollar Shave Club yet and you joined today, you'll get your first month of razors for free. And once you try dollarshaveclub.com, you'll become a member, like millions of other people have.


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[Assistant] They deliver amazing razors directly to your door and membership means that you can have a fresh shave anytime you want. You get a first class shave with their executive blade without hurting your wallet. You can also use Dr. Carver's shave butter which goes on like clear and stuff so you can like see where you're shaving which can be beneficial unless you're


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[Assistant] Use Doctor Shape Club stuff, you will smell delicious. Duh. It's great. Anyways, uh, it can ship to the US, Canada, and Australia, so head over to dollarshapeclub.com slash Linus, and give it a try for real.


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[Assistant] So Super Mario Run breaks a record, gets 40 million downloads in four days, which is like...


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[Assistant] Okay, so, anyways, uhm, yeaah, so Super Mario Run breaks record, gets 40 million downloads in four days, which is pretty, pretty insane, but it's only on iOS.


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[Assistant] Anyways, what do you think about Nintendo games? On Apple products. On mobile devices. That's on a phone.


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[Assistant] To be clear about what I said earlier, the $10 asking price is to unlock all of the content.


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[Assistant] Uh, it is technically a free app. You can download the app. It is number one in the like free app category for like 140 countries. Uhm, and it is number one in the top grossing app in a whole bunch of different countries as well. Uhm, so it seems to be going splendidly for that.


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[Assistant] Absolutely wonderful. Uh, I don't know, but I know there's content that's behind a paywall.


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[Assistant] Sorry. I know cause my brother's really into it and he's caught like Christmas, Pikachu's and Christmas, right? Yeah. Stuff that have Santa hats on like me. So I'm a Christmas Luke. If you catch me, I'm only a seasonal thing.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Well next year it might be a slightly different model. It'll look a little different. Hopefully a little thinner.


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[Assistant] Well, most of my like physical stuff is based around fixing my knee. Yeah, I have already been doing both of them.


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[Assistant] Both of mine are a little bit. I bet you want my right one is probably on the same level as yours. My left one is very bad.


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[Assistant] Car. Yeah, I do. So if your knees are screwed up...


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[Assistant] I'm just wondering, you have the e-bikes now, are you interested in taking the car off the road? Oh, you mean not paying for it at all anymore? Yeah.


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[Assistant] That's funny. That's actually pretty good. Uh, my, I'm in the same spot, but I've actually been driving for the majority of that.


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[Assistant] But it's still not that low because we live in BC. Insurance here is just expensive. That's just a fact of life.


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[Assistant] Uh, Panasonic has developed a new IPS panel to rival OLED, apparently. The new type of panel is an IPS LED that has 1 million to 1 contrast ratio, but like,


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[Assistant] Sorry, I've been reading this, I haven't been fully listening to what you were saying. It's speculated that these IPS panels may appear at CES 2017, so pay attention to that, we'll probably have something going on there.


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[Assistant] Let's see here. Gskilla has new Trident Z RGB memory kits that are like really fast and stuff. DDR4, 4266 MHz. So that's pretty cool.


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[Assistant] So, like, I guess it's just like putting a text on computers? Does that include phones? This is very odd.


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[Assistant] I just, topics I don't wanna talk about on Lancho. It's cause like, someone's gonna freak out somewhere.


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[Assistant] Okay, here's a cool one. This will be our last topic of the day. Tim Cook has said that great desktop Macs are in the works. That's actually good. Uhm, some people might be like,


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[Assistant] Yeah. And having good competition, even if you don't like it, uh, I have no problem with Mac, but having good competition, even if you don't like it, is a good thing.


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[Assistant] It's scripted right now, I am very interested in injecting your stuff, but it is scripted so I can put it wherever.


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[Assistant] Tim Cook, in response to a question about whether Mac desktops were strategic for Apple, he said, I added place in. It just says, the desktop is very strategic for us. Uh, it's unique compared to the notebook because you can pack a lot more performance in a desktop.


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[Assistant] The largest screens, the most memory and storage, a greater variety of IO, and fastest performance. So there are many different reasons why desktops are really important, and in some cases, critical to people. The current generation of iMac is the best desktop we have ever made, and its beautiful Retina 5K display is the best display in the world.


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[Assistant] Some people, some folks in the media have raised the question about whether we're committed to desktops. If there's any doubt about that with our teams, let me be really, uh, let me be very clear. We have great desktops in our roadmap. Nobody should worry about that. The Mac people say that.


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[Assistant] This is a weird show. Hopefully you guys liked it. We got to see Jake. We got to see Tyler. They're not normally on camera. That was cool. We got to see some other members of the Linus Media Group come in. It's Christmas.


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[Assistant] Why would they make the camera but not have the lens mount on it? Why would you want a camera without a lens mount?


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[Assistant] That's funny. Best and worst things that happened this year. For you, related to work.


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[Assistant] There was a light that was dropped today. Oh god, what?


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[Assistant] Colton? Nope. Nope. I won't tell you who it was. That's the last person I'm confirming or denying. I said it was not Colton.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so, but it's fine, everything still works and whatnot. Uh, people in the chat are asking about what, what camera specifically.


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[Assistant] Okay, but to be fair, it looks really freaking cool. One thing that I really like that they did is it looks extremely industrial.


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[Assistant] Are you gonna do a camera review like you did the other camera reviews with the red?


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[Assistant] I'm very tempted to put bold options as yes, because I just want you to do it.


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[Assistant] But I will just put yes and no. Just, just in case. What? I see a lot of yeses.


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[Assistant] Your favorite thing was winning the burger challenge, and your least favorite thing was looking at yourself when you weighed more.


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[Assistant] You know, last year on the New Year's WAN Show, Terran, you drank.


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[Assistant] But that was a related to work response, which might actually make sense. I'm gonna go on the defense for you, Linus, I got this.


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[Assistant] His response was, the questions were, what were the best and worst things that happened to you this year related to work. So the impact of the new child related to work does make sense as being the worst thing that happened this year. Outside of work is his own thing and we're not taking comments on that at this time.


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[Assistant] But related to work, that might make sense. You ever consider law school, Luke? There we go. Thank you. I don't think I actually would be, but I appreciate it. Anyways, I think we're done now. I'm gonna stop this thing and upload this thing and then go home. Thanks for watching, guys.


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[Assistant] I hope you did too. Drive safe. If you want to let us know, hit us up at Linus Tech on Twitter and let us know what the best and worst things we did this year was.


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[Assistant] No, it's not. No, definitely not. But I mean, like, it depends on what exactly it is, and like the subscription, it's kinda like, what?


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's from a LinkedIn job posting which has since been taken down.


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[Assistant] I mean like, 1080 Ti, it's gonna come out.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no, it's not like cra- the craziest news we've ever heard, so.


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[Assistant] Uhm... I already went over my best thing, but we're still... I know that's tough, like I was saying to Nick earlier, like... This year's actually been pretty good, like...


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[Assistant] Nothing like, really, really, really bad, like, sticks out in my mind. I'm like, oh my-


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's cool. Thanks. Yeah, no problem. I appreciate it. No problem.


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[Assistant] Worst thing that happened this year. I think the chat's saying, uh, when you were running at 360p on the WAN. You know what? You know what, guys? You know what? Yes. So this one time, when this goes to YouTube, uh, we did the WAN show at 360p, and then we had to restart the whole WAN show. I don't remember when that happened, I don't remember what date that was, but...


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[Assistant] I mean, we're fixing it, literally right now. I was. No, I was. Definitely. Yeah, no, no, no, no. Definitely positive.


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[Assistant] Okay, Luke, come on dude. That was last year. That was last November.


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[Assistant] That was last November. We went to San Francisco for a, a VR thing. So it's been over a year. Yes, it has been over a year. But, so this year, uh, CES, going to CES for the first time after hearing about it from all you guys. You know, it's this big crazy thing. Linus Tech Tips, we, you know, we make like between 40 and 50 videos in like a week.


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[Assistant] I don't know why, being on the sales side of things, I'm like, oh yea, just make some videos and you guys will be fine, it'll be easy. Get there, and I'm like-


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[Assistant] Checking things out. So, that was a really cool experience. Uhm, also, the Mexico trip. I thought that was a lot of fun. I can see why some people didn't have as much fun. On a work-cation, cause they had a lot of stuff to do.


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[Assistant] Unless he was working. Unless he was working, yea. But, I thought that was really cool too, cause I've never been...


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[Assistant] Yeaah. Well, don't touch the mic.


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[Assistant] Well, I didn't touch the mic. I didn't touch the mic cable, so we're good now. So I touched the mic cable and it was like, GAH!


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[Assistant] Oh. But we're good now, everything's fine. Okay, cool. Everything's fine. Yeah, uhm, and then- So the shows. Yeah, and I also- I actually went to VidCon by myself. Which was... different. So, I don't know, I didn't see a lot of our, uh- How was- You came to PAX. Yeah, PAX was cool. That was the first PAX I've ever been to. Yeah.


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[Assistant] So, that was really cool to see. I kinda like geeked out at like Final Fantasy 15. I was like, oh my gosh, Final Fantasy 15.


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[Assistant] Play that. Hang out with you guys. The LAN. That was a lot of fun. Oh my gosh. Oh, thanks dude. Candy? Yeah. Candy! I choose.


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[Assistant] Do you guys know Edzel? You guys ever met Edzel?


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[Assistant] Definitely excited for next year's CES, cause I actually know what's going on now. I'm like, I get it. I get how crazy this is.


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[Assistant] Cause, cause I, I started here last August, August 2015.


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[Assistant] And the whole, like, from the day I started, it was like, you ready for CES, man? You hear the stories of CES? What happened to CES? Crazy, man. Do lots of stuff. And I'm like, okay, like, I get it, like, let's calm down. And then it actually happens. I'm like, wow, I was pretty busy. Pretty busy. You don't get to sleep much. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Yep. Wow, it's pretty busy. Yeah, no, looking forward to that. Uhm, yeah, and another cool thing about this year too is just like, expanding, getting more people. There's 15 people that work here now. Do you know how many we had last year? I'm number 10.


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[Assistant] I'm number ten. Number ten. Double digits. And were you the newest person at CES?


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[Assistant] Or was that John? At CES? Yes, that would have been me. Yeah. John got hired, uh, two months before I did. Three months maybe.


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[Assistant] Pretty much. When did, when did Dennis get hired? Was Dennis before John? Oh gosh. Dennis was well before John. Oh, okay.


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[Assistant] Yeah, then yeah, then pretty much we've doubled in size in like a year and a half.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Okay, we've been through this before. Yes. You don't get to wear a nerd fusion shirt.


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[Assistant] We've been through this before. I'm pretty sure we've been through this on stream before, so you guys bore witness to this. We wear nerd fusion shirts.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that was really a, a shouting match that I would, that I would have loved to participate in. Drink coffee too? Yeah, drink coffee too. Yeah. Calmly. Yes. In a sedate manner. Um, what were we talking about? I literally don't, wait, these shirts.


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[Assistant] Oh right, there was the bet with, uh, there was the bet with Sevadus. So there's a bet with Matt Sevadus Zygurski on who wins the election. I said Trump was gonna win. He said not Trump was gonna win. They should have to wear our shirts for way long. I actually don't remember the exact terms.


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[Assistant] I don't know. I might have, I might have not gone one to one odds actually. I think I might have demanded like, better Vegas odds on it than, uh, than just, you know, one month to one month.


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[Assistant] Well, I, yeah, well, I don't want to win at all. But that's a whole other conversation.


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[Assistant] They are going head to head, uh, there's a new Mario game for iOS, uh, Sony launched their AMD Polaris powered PlayStation 4 Pro, and VR adoption among Steam users has crashed to a halt. Yep. To a halt! Not surprised.


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[Assistant] Is a really cool new segment. And I know you guys are gonna give me a bunch of crap about new segments all the time. This is- I like this a lot.


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[Assistant] Okay, so the new segment is called Haunted Hardware.


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[Assistant] And basically, I'm always telling stories, especially on Wenshou, I'm always telling you guys stories about, like, just bizarro land stuff that I have witnessed. Like, you know, uhm...


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[Assistant] Okay, it's hard to do this. It's like it's hard to come up with something on the spot. It is. Okay, okay, perfect example that isn't the one that I use in the video as an example is I had a machine once that would not install an operating system. It would crash.


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[Assistant] On the loading bar for Windows XP, while it was like, unpacking files or whatever, every single time, consistently, 100% of the time, I swapped the power supply, installed Windows just fine, I went, okay, bad power supply.


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[Assistant] But I don't have a lot of money. I'm a student. I'm gonna put that other power supply back in and just kinda see if it was a fl- system runs perfectly. Absolutely perfectly. Stress test all day. No problems whatsoever. I can do anything with it. In fact, I left the power supply in there. It ran for years after that. Years. Okay? But, I wasn't done yet. Okay, so I put...


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[Assistant] I-I actually, I was so curious, I was like, okay, I'm gonna burn another half an hour to an hour of my time because I wanna know if this is reproducible.


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[Assistant] So I put it back in, and I tried to install Windows again. Same exact hardware. Crash.


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[Assistant] And I'm just sitting here going, how can you have a system that is 100% stable other than that you cannot install Windows on it?


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[Assistant] So anyway, but the point of that is that, that story is just a story. And you guys can, you guys could not believe me, or you could believe me, or you could say, gee I wish you had tried another thing.


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[Assistant] Oh, I'm not gonna tell them what it is. No, absolutely not. But, stay tuned for haunted hardware.


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[Assistant] I demonstrate, like, there's a point where I go from scratch with a lot of the camera rolling the entire time. And what I'm thinking is we will upload that video in its entirety.


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[Assistant] I'm listed separately, we'll link it in the description. If you don't believe me, here's the proof.


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[Assistant] Yeah, in the last, in the last 20 years. So, uh, mostly in the, uh, central, in central Africa and in the tropics. So that would be a tropical topic. Or a topical tropic. Yeah, there we go. But they are not the same thing.


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[Assistant] It does kind of. It's in the workshop. I don't know where the cocking gun is. Oh, I know what they're using it for.


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[Assistant] If you ask your mom, you look fully angelic. Aww, thanks mom. Yea, you know she would say it. Probably.


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[Assistant] Can't say I always agree, you know, sometimes he gets kinda naughty.


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[Assistant] They back down y'all on censoring the napalm girl photo after public outcry. Facebook plans to restore the image.


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[Assistant] And review its processes. So if you weren't following this along, Norway's largest newspaper published a front page open letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zupp-er- Zupp-erberg?


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[Assistant] Zuckerberg! It's like the body snatcher replacement for Mark Zuckerberg. Uh, so they're lambasting the company's decision to censor an historic photo and historic. No, it's a-historic or anhistoric.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, because Facebook and Google are both always publishing statistics of like how many people log in and look at their Facebook feed like once per day. And I think Facebook's numbers are actually scarier. Really? Because with Google...


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[Assistant] That's true. That's true, but all you have to do is go to Facebook.com and your feed, which is, uhm,


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[Assistant] Not the active user, because I personally look at Google a lot more than I look at Facebook. Google and Google services a lot more than Facebook ones. But for the passive user who's just like...


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[Assistant] Vegging, like sitting at their computer, kind of browsing something. Probably Facebook.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so anyway, I could elaborate on the story, but I realized I never posted on Facebook. Since we're talking about this. Oh snap. Tune into the WAN Show. Yeah, I can't, I can't have it waterfall anymore. Uh, from Twitter to Facebook, cause it just completely buries everything we post that way.


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[Assistant] Which is pretty annoying because basically all they're doing is wasting my time. They're making me copy paste things.


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[Assistant] Alright, so going back into what happened, the writer of the story was suspended from posting on Facebook for 24 hours. He posted a historic Vietnam War image of a naked girl fleeing from her napalm bombed village. They then published a story discussing and criticizing the deletion of the image and that post was also removed, well, for containing the same image.


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[Assistant] The notice from Facebook explains that any images with nudity in them will be removed. So, Espen Hansen, editor in chief and CEO of Afton Poston


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[Assistant] We discussed this on Wanshow last week without you, but, uh, YouTube, Google. RUDE.


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[Assistant] Well, you weren't there. You did anything without me? Yes. I did something without you. I will make it up to you tonight.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so basically, Google has cracked down on the, not the posting of, so this was why I publicly and strongly disagreed with some YouTuber's statements that this is censorship, which it is not. If you can say whatever you want, that is not censorship. When someone refuses to pay you for saying whatever you want,


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[Assistant] That's not censorship. That's a completely different thing. And, and...


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[Assistant] Yes. Because you're not making money anymore. Which is a whole other issue, and it's just a cold hard reality for if you're taking money from sponsors that you're going to have to behave in a way that sponsors approve of, and it was going to happen eventually. Uhm, but, it's a very-


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[Assistant] But basically, what I didn't agree with was the way Google's doing it, where they take this heavy-handed, ban-everything approach, and then probably what they will do is they will- they will chip away


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[Assistant] Like, kinda, it's kinda like they take like a big, like, a big brick of marble, and they just kinda go, SHOOT. Okay, so we're just like, everything's covered, and then they're just gonna slowly chip away at the stuff that it turns out is actually okay, until they end up with a statue of the devil stuff that no sponsor wants their con- wants their advertisements anywhere near.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and, and Facebook is doing it in much the same way, but the reality of it is, is do they really have a choice?


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[Assistant] Uh, yeaah, so it was, uh, Erna Solberg, Prime Minister of Norway.


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[Assistant] If it managed to make it off WAN Show, and back to you, because I'm pretty sure you didn't watch the WAN Show, or you didn't know that I was the one who said that, I mean someone else has probably come up with the idea independently as well. I'm sure it's already the plan. It's just a matter of it being


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[Assistant] This is something a lot of people don't know. A typical sponsor, if you're lucky, is negotiating their ad buys on a quarterly basis. Some of them will do it on like a yearly basis. Like, we'll talk to a sponsor in like, June.


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[Assistant] And we'll be like, hey, so we'd love to work together. We've got this cool idea for Q4. They'll be like, yep, all of our ad buys are pre-allocated at the beginning of the year. And I'm kind of sitting here going,


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[Assistant] And I hope none of our sponsors are watching this because especially those ones, but what do you even do all day?


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[Assistant] Like seriously, like what is your actual job if at one point at the beginning of the year you basically take all of the brain power out of deciding how to spend the advertising dollars that you have for the year


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[Assistant] Understand though too, that a lot of the time, bigger brands, they, they, they subcontract this through agencies, right?


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[Assistant] We had a deal fall through recently where we got on a call with the agency and the brand and it turned out that our, okay, so there were actually four layers here. So there was us, our MCN, there was the brand agency, and there was the brand. Four layers. So our MCN did a great job.


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[Assistant] The brand had a clear idea of what they wanted, and honestly, those things were pretty well aligned. The agency basically passed along no information, the call was a complete cluster hump, and we found out shortly after the call, it's like the guys last week there anyway,


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[Assistant] Yep. Bye bye. And, again, this is going back to my personal theories. It is a personal shield as well.


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[Assistant] So all they have to say is, okay, well next year we will reallocate that entire chunk somewhere else. We're gonna reallocate it into social.


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[Assistant] So basically someone gets paid an actual salary for an actual entire year to make a decision at the beginning of the year at one point in time.


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[Assistant] To go, okay, we are going to allocate, uh, we are going to listen to some proposals, and we are going to allocate budget here, here, here, and here, and then if it works, then I will be submitting a great report about how well it worked, and if it doesn't work, I'm going to submit a report about how I fired those people. Aw, man. Corporations, man.


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[Assistant] Yes. So in much the same way, you can either survive as a meat shield and get promoted, or you can just be born into it because, like nepotism or whatever.


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[Assistant] It's probably fine because this is like, there's actually like a press release. Here are some specs, like it's not speculation.


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[Assistant] Okay, we have a 1.84 teraflop AMD Radeon based graphics engine, so we know that this is not quite double the theoretical performance of what was already in the PlayStation 4.


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[Assistant] It's available with a 500 gig or a 1 terabyte drive. It's got 8 gigs of GDDR5 memory. Uhm, it has a blu-ray drive, an ethernet port, 10 gig LAN. No, I'm just kidding, just gigabit. Uh, it's approximately 2.1 kilograms. Starts at 400 US dollars. Starts at 400 US dollars. Wait a second.


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[Assistant] Dang it, where is the pro one? Anontac had a good article on it, I was looking at that.


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[Assistant] Uh, okay, so the pro one, higher clock speeds, it is still 8 gigs of ram that is said to run at higher clocks too, and is bolstered by new lossless memory compression technology from AMD.


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[Assistant] Uh, the GPU component features over double the shading power of the PlayStation 4 and is based on the Polaris. Okay, so basically I got everything right. The Pro starts at $399. Okay, we got everything right. Even though we were looking at an article that I don't actually think was about it. So!


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[Assistant] Go, Linus and Luke! So, okay. In a nutshell, what Sony is trying to do is they are trying to make their console all about 4K. And, they're still approaching it from sort of a, uhm, uhm, a lackluster sort of... Angle.


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[Assistant] That's not grammatically correct, but let's go with it. Lackluster angle. So they're still approaching it in a way that is quite frankly just not gonna work because as the college-educated among you may know, 4K is four times the pixel count of 1080p.


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[Assistant] So, right off the hop, if we're running games at anything less than 60 FPS, native 1080p on the PlayStation 4, which we most assuredly are, we will need...


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[Assistant] Four times the theoretical performance. It doesn't quite work like that, but we will need more than two times the theoretical performance.


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[Assistant] Of the original PlayStation 4 in order to game it 4K smoothly at the same frame rates.


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[Assistant] Even if you fully, like, double-doubled, without making any kind of architectural change, I don't know that you would get double the performance. We could test it though.


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[Assistant] Like we could, we could go find a GPU that has exactly half of the CUDA cores of the higher end one. See how it works out.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. Okay, I don't know if it would be possible. Well, let me tell you what. We'll call up Nvidia, or AMD. We'll be like, hey, can you send us a custom GPU? Can you like seal off half of the... Are you there still? Hello?


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[Assistant] Do you wanna redo 792p versus 6 year old graphics card? I can. That'd be pretty funny.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and I get a kick out of, uh, I get a kick out of how much more and more PC-like the consoles continue to become. It's like now all of a sudden you can get PlayStations with different specs.


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[Assistant] Yes, my friends, PlayStation 4's with different core specs.


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[Assistant] And when you run games in your better PlayStation 4 versus your peasant PlayStation 4, we're gonna, we're gonna have like a whole new level. There's gonna be like, there's gonna be like, like the, the PCMR guys are gonna be like, there's like console peasants and then there's like console like vassals or something.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but, but in a nutshell, okay, Sony needed to do this for a couple of reasons. Number one is it's all about 4K. Even Sony, it's like, you know, the TV division's kind of sitting there going, like,


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[Assistant] How are you guys not helping us out here? Okay? We're trying to sell some 4k TVs here, alright?


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[Assistant] So they had to have 4K support, whether it's for Blu-ray or whether it is for gaming. 4K support had to come, so they had to do something more powerful because the original PlayStation 4 was going to run games at like 12 frames per second. Twice as cinematic as 24 frames per second. Uhm, also PlayStation VR.


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[Assistant] Looks like they didn't. PS4 Pro is going to be the way to experience PSVR if you care at all about a good experience. How does it make you professional?


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[Assistant] If you were a pro gamer, you probably wouldn't game on a, like, peasant station 4.


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[Assistant] I bet they're gonna call it Peasant Station 4. Someone will call it Peasant Station 4. A PlayStation 4 Pro owner is gonna start that.


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[Assistant] Here's the newest one. Here is one game. The only game that matters right now. Your son or daughter will have to wait two years. For more interesting games.


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[Assistant] Do you want the pro model? Do you want the non-pro model? Is your son not a professional? Is your daughter gonna grow up to pump gas all her life? I mean that's okay, but you're not gonna want the professional. You're gonna want this one.


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[Assistant] Poop station? Poop station sounds like a different thing.


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[Assistant] I did not follow the PlayStation 4 Pro news because I don't care.


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[Assistant] But no, the absence of a 4k blu-ray player is due to a lack of consumer demand according to PlayStation boss Andrew House. Support cannot be patched in via firmware update at a later date either, he confirmed.


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[Assistant] I, I do, like honestly, I'll tell you, I have bought DVDs, like even recently, like before I got that set up, and now I'm really disappointed I own DVDs.


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[Assistant] But streaming 4k does not look better than 1080p blu-ray, and 1080p blu-ray looks great. Even at that distance.


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[Assistant] So I'll tell you what, I will obtain a 4K Blu-ray at some point, and we will revisit this conversation.


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[Assistant] Especially if they were cheap, like, especially by the time, maybe that's part of the problem. Maybe they don't feel like supporting it because they're not gonna get $29.99 for a Blu-ray disc anymore. Uh, so maybe the royalties just aren't even, like, I don't know what the rationale internally at Sony is exactly.


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[Assistant] But basically they've decided it's not worth it.


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[Assistant] But like, personally, especially for like 5 bucks, like in the 7 dollar bin, maybe not tomorrow, cause 4k blu-ray is gonna be expensive for a bit, but in the 7 dollar bin in a few years, I would rather own it than stream it. In a lot of cases.


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[Assistant] I don't buy everything. A lot of stuff I stream. Certain content though, especially like, I'm buying House of Cards even though I have a 4k Netflix subscription.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean I don't keep them on physical media because I made that video.


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[Assistant] And it's designed that way, like it's supposed to be like that, they're not going to license everything because that costs money. And I love it and it's fine. And people who watch Netflix are going to like watch Netflix regularly, they want to be refreshing it, so that's fine. It also creates that urgency, like when you see something. Like it's very smart actually. Uhm, what was I talking, oh right, I was going to add this to the uhm,


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[Assistant] So, is 4k blu-ray worth it? No, but I like it. So there, that's already the whole video. All 6,782 of you can save yourselves the effort.


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[Assistant] So many things could be done that way. Everyone's suggesting we do Techquickie reviews. Techquickie reviews? Techquickie could start doing product reviews.


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[Assistant] Hmm. We even have a place to put it, potentially.


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[Assistant] As, as much history and context as possible. Yeah. Yeah, they're not that short.


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[Assistant] I don't know, Twitch chat's freaking out. They want it on, they want it on Techquickie. It's so short cause these would be like- They're like patent it.


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[Assistant] By the way, if you want to put your old CPU on it, get crapped on it. CPUs. More cores. They're slightly faster. It consumes less power. Enjoy.


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[Assistant] I think we're gonna get killed on, like, comments. Cause like, we're gonna have to, like, that's the thing.


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[Assistant] Is we're gonna have to get down and dirty with like fanboy arguments.


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[Assistant] Like if we're gonna try and summarize an AMD or an Nvidia graphics card, we're gonna have to be like, runs hot, is loud, worst drivers.


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[Assistant] Like I have intentionally over the years on Linus Tech Tips and on Tech Quickie increased the length of the videos to add more depth and more analysis and more-


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[Assistant] And the audience expects, they expect like a seven to eight minute video and they expect us to say something meaningful in that time.


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[Assistant] So maybe this would just be a way to let off steam. Yeaah. Be like, this thing sucks, it costs too much, don't buy it.


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[Assistant] But I have to say Canada because it's like the most important one. So we can't say the other ones twice so not Canada.


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[Assistant] Now I think we actually do guarantee our sponsors a certain amount of airtime, and I'm pretty sure that wasn't it. Butt wipes for men! But we usually go over it. So like, does it work that way? Can you- Can you like, bank that time? Yeah, can you bank it? Like, could we just do, from now on, because we usually do like, double or triple, because we just go off on these tangents during our sponsor reads. Like this one?


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[Assistant] Exactly like this one. Okay, so maybe this will be the last one, the last Tangental sponsor read. So, could we just kind of go, okay, Dollar Shave, you guys are gonna pay us the same rate that you've always paid us, but from now on, we're just gonna like, flash it up there for a second. We're gonna be like, Dollar Shave Club. You guys know the drill. Boom. Back to the show.


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[Assistant] Squarespace still writes checks. So they've got 24x7 support via live chat and email. It's only 8 bucks a month and you get a free domain if you buy it for a year. All their templates feature responsive design meaning they look great on any device. They come with commerce, they come with a bunch of other cool tools including their logo designer as well as the, uh, build a one page website because you wanna be that guy.


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[Assistant] See, that's still loud because we didn't say it as a slogan. Yea, we said build them beautiful. Your websites. Yep. Not Squarespace. Yep. We did it in Squarespace. Your websites with Squarespace.


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[Assistant] Because each of them only cost eight dollars a month. You should have so many websites. You should. Have so many websites. That, uh.


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[Assistant] Well I hate him telling me that I can't do my sponsor reads the way I want to do them.


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[Assistant] Actually, I don't hate him. It's more amusing than anything else, cause I'm just gonna ignore him anyway.


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[Assistant] There's really nothing to hate about it. Other than, like, just thinking it's funny.


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[Assistant] That's right. He's a hypocrite. I think I heard the door open up there and he was gonna come down and yell at us. But he heard us talking about- he knows we're onto him. He knows we know he's a hypocrite.


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[Assistant] And that- oh, I didn't go back to my Squarespace lower third. Yeah, this is technically still the Squarespace launcher clock. So, uh...


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[Assistant] Squarespace! Squarespace. Build your website, make it look awesome, use Squarespace, and use offer code WEN to save 10% so you don't pay more than you have to.


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[Assistant] Okay, there is some- Editing time, 10 minutes. There is some work that has to go into the video, though. Yeah, cause you- Like, we have to actually benchmark it. You need performance graphs. Yes, we need to validate that the- if we're gonna say it doesn't matter, we have to actually make sure it doesn't matter.


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[Assistant] Someone could make a magic heat sink, although if Noctua is to be believed, it's much more difficult than you would think. Did you ever watch my video from the Noctua booth?


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[Assistant] Oh, okay. Well, for those of you who didn't, so I'm not gonna talk to you anymore. And I talked to them.


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[Assistant] Okay, so my video from the Noctua booth was really cool because basically it was an explanation for why Noctua appears to have been completely sitting on their ass for the last three years. They haven't released a successor to the NH-D15, which took forever after the NH-D14 and was just bigger anyway. They haven't released a successor to it in years. And the answer is that they were like,


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[Assistant] It's like, super balls heavy, and super duper balls expensive.


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[Assistant] In like a very short period of time.


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[Assistant] I am just inherently a verbose person. I think that's why I needed a podcast that was like an hour long.


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[Assistant] Alright, so let's screen share with me the Verge's article, the 11 most important thing from Apple's iPhone 7 event. You didn't even get all 11 of them, you suck.


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[Assistant] Mind you, I think they have the Apple Watch 2 as one of the most important things. Oh god. So, I really don't think that, uh, I'm gonna agree with- Yup, yup, nope, nope, sorry bird, we're done, we're done here.


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[Assistant] Uhm, although what I don't know yet, I can't believe they showed off a Pokemon Go app for the Apple Watch. That took up like a significant amount of time in the keynote.


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[Assistant] What I don't know about the Apple Watch is whether the screen is always on.


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[Assistant] I haven't actually seen that in anyone's summary and I haven't finished watching the event yet. I haven't watched that part. Uh, so maybe Twitch chat can let me know. Supposedly it is twice as bright, which is wonderful, but I never asked for that. What I asked for was to be able to tell the freaking time when I look at it. Was the brightness a problem at all? No, it wasn't. The problem was that it isn't on.


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[Assistant] And a lot of people have criticized me over this. They've been like, Linus, you don't get it. My Apple Watch lasts all day. I'm like, good for you. Not the point. Not the point.


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[Assistant] I wanna be able to tell what time it is when I'm sitting...


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[Assistant] Having an awkward conversation and I'm trying to figure out when I need to dismiss myself from this so that I can be somewhere on time. And that doesn't work when I have to go like this.


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[Assistant] I mean, that should be like a dance. Do the watch. Do the watch. Do this specific gesture if you wanna know the time. Do the watch. Do the watch.


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[Assistant] Take this conversation offline. Okay, Apple iPhone 7. Same display as the 6S. They say it's 25% brighter, cool. Same resolution, which I don't personally care about. I'd just assume save the battery life and have a lower resolution display, as long as I can't tell that it's lower resolution, which quite frankly I cannot.


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[Assistant] If the phone didn't have other crippling problems with it, could convince me that an iPhone is a more worthwhile purchase now than it was yesterday.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and there are other issues, like for a while Apple wasn't allowing people to retain touch ID if they replaced the button themselves, which is ridiculous. I think they've addressed that now. But, the point is, now it's haptic feedback, so it feels like a click, but it's not, and if it works anywhere near as well as the MacBook 2015, it'll be awesome, and I will love it.


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[Assistant] Very good. Okay, it's water resistant, they're calling it out as IP67, and there have been scandals, so the S7 active, uhm,


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[Assistant] You know, was found with, I think it was two samples, Consumer Reports or something like that, anyway, was found to not necessarily be all that water resistant, uh, if Apple's claiming it, what I will say is it's probably pretty darn good, and I talked about this, and this is gonna be really embarrassing because I did a review of the Odyssey Sign, uhm, headphones, a lightning headphone.


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[Assistant] And it got bumped because of Pax, so the release to YouTube is a two week window instead of a one week window. And I speculate about the new iPhone 7.


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[Assistant] If that's what they're gonna call it, and then I speculate that if the objective was to increase water resistance, like if they're gonna give me some meaningful benefit out of taking away my headphone jack, then that will probably be it, because I could see Apple, now they've eliminated the home button, which is very difficult to Ingress protect.


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[Assistant] They have eliminated the headphone jack which is difficult to Ingress protect. So if the objective here was not only to, you know,


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[Assistant] Make the phone slightly slimmer, which I don't care about, but if it was to give me a meaningful upgrade in some other way, I would be a lot more receptive to it, and it looks like that is indeed what they did, although that video will still be kind of embarrassing.


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[Assistant] On the other hand, the Galaxy S7 has been the best performing water resistant device that I've yet seen surviving, I think we went 20 feet down before it died, or 20 or 30 feet down in salt water before it managed to die. So this audio jack. Basically.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so basically the point is, there's a lot of variability, and if Apple has been quietly working on improving the water resistance of their devices over time, which we know,


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[Assistant] And they're basi- they've basically determined, okay, well for us to put IP67 on something, we need to eliminate these ports.


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[Assistant] And they were just kind of waiting for the right moment to do it, because it's not like water resistant competitors haven't been out for quite a while now.


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[Assistant] Maybe they kind of went, okay, you know, you have to be, what is it, you have to have the courage to move forward with a thing that no one was... Something like that.


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[Assistant] Apple is, I mean, I think they're philosophically opposed to that. Like, they've never put, yea, they've never put an extra port on anything if they didn't have to. I mean, they even have a laptop computer that only has one port.


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[Assistant] I mean, are we gonna see Apple's laptop? Like, have they been waiting to refresh their laptops so they can put lightning connectors on them? Like... Interesting. There's a thought.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but the summary is, it's a mixed bag. You get a little bit of extra space inside the device that you can use for whatever it is that you determine you need to use it for. You lose compatibility with 99.999% of headphones on the planet.


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[Assistant] Uh, so I have another device here in the studio, the, uh, Droid Z Force, uh, from Lenovo. The Moto Droid Z Force from, yeah, Lenovo acquired them. I think they're branding it Lenovo? Anyway, the point is, it only has a USB Type-C connector, does not have a headphone jack, and I've used the adapter, and


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[Assistant] I would prefer to just be able to plug in natively. Uhm, I don't personally find that upgraded amps and DACs make a huge difference for me with the kind of source material that I use and that quite, if we're all being honest with ourselves, none of you use either. Uhm, so I never wanted this, but at the end of the day, oh, I think it's this cable.


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[Assistant] Oh, for crying out loud. But, uh, at the end of the day, people are going to accept it. No, it's still fine. And, uh, yeah, I think we're all gonna move on.


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[Assistant] I mean, Apple is pushing their wireless earpods. Airpods, is that what they're calling them?


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[Assistant] Yeah, they have new, uh, they have new, uh, wireless beats.


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[Assistant] The problem for me is that this introduces yet another freaking thing in my life that I have to charge every day.


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[Assistant] Now, Intel showed off, a couple of years ago at CES, they showed off a wireless charging bull.


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[Assistant] The concept for which is AWESOME! Okay? That, I would be okay with wireless crap if all I had to do at the end of the day


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[Assistant] I get up in the morning and everything is wirelessly charged, it slow charges so my battery doesn't heat up and I work like, it's awesome and it's amazing. That would be great.


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[Assistant] And maybe that's the future we're heading towards and maybe you have to take these steps in order to get enough mass appeal for these wireless devices that you can get the economies of scale that are associated with shrinking the batteries and shrinking the electronics and blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Maybe we're heading towards that.


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[Assistant] It is a very frustrating stepping stone, and I personally would still use my iPhone 6S, although I'm saying this without having used the 7, they say the camera's amazing, I probably will still use my iPhone 6S if I need to use an iOS device. There. That's my two cents.


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[Assistant] Uh, I don't remember how much they cost, but I'm sure we'll see cheaper ones after the fact. Someone said 40 bucks in the Twitch chat, but I don't think that's right.


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[Assistant] Blah, blah, blah. We are the biggest mobile gaming platform. Blah, blah, blah, blah. You can only game for a few hours on an iPhone before it runs out of battery. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Good luck listening to your headphones so you don't have to be that jerk on the bus that's got fucking Clash of Clans.


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[Assistant] Well, I said freaking by the way. That sort of slipped out. Kind of funny. I don't swear on this show. Kids at home.


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[Assistant] Don't repeat what you heard here. Uhm, I mean, you know, Clash of Clans on the bus, making everyone around you mad.


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[Assistant] That's like saying the most elegant way to put a tutu on a hippo. Like-


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[Assistant] So, there's a new camera, larger aperture, optical image stabilization. The iPhone 7 actually gets an additional telephoto lens on the back that works like a built-in zoom feature. Uh, longer battery life.


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[Assistant] The front facing camera is now 7 megapixels and includes auto image stabilization, which is not the same as optical image stabilization, so we'll find out exactly what that means. And they have finally done away with the 16 gig capacity and they have a glossy jet black that will look great in photos and will validate once and for all


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[Assistant] Why Luke and I have to spend so much time being angry at manufacturers for making glossy black things?


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[Assistant] And it will be because the iPhone 7 will sell better in that color than anything else because Apple made it more exclusive by making it only available in the higher capacities, so people are gonna wanna show off that they have a ball in one, they're gonna get a glossy jet black one, and we are gonna have to continue to be mad that our wireless routers are glossy black plastic.


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[Assistant] And look stupid after four seconds because you had the audacity to plug a cable in.


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[Assistant] So we asked on Twitter, uhm, if people wanted to suggest what we should talk about on Wanshow about the iPhone 7. I completely forgot to look at this, but I'm pretty sure that we talked about most of them. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Uhm, yeah, yeah, I saw them. I think they look ridiculous. They do. Yeah.


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[Assistant] They're gonna turn into a status symbol. They're gonna be like the original white earpods. Or no, they weren't called earpods, whatever, I don't care. White ear- white earphones. Uuuh, I don't know, man. We'll see.


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[Assistant] And these will make you look like a douche, unless you're like, cool. And then they will make you look like a douche.


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[Assistant] Uh, most people really just ask for the headphone jack removal controversy. So... Yeaah. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] Uhm, Robert Preston says, I'm an easy man to make happy. I want a phone that makes calls and doesn't explode. Yep, I like that.


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[Assistant] Alright, so yea, talk about waterproof, talk about, okay, so our summary knows we're fine. Excellent, good!


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[Assistant] You could get a better video card than you probably have if you didn't buy an Apple Watch.


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[Assistant] Uh, there's a new Mario game for iOS, the original article here is from Kotaku. Coming on Android later. Yep. So there you go, Mario is on a phone.


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[Assistant] Okay, you claimed to see this coming, I did not. Really? Hit me. VR adoption among Steam users has crashed to a halt. Original article here is from VentureBeat.


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[Assistant] Apparently it means, uh, it is not free, you pay, there are no microtransactions.


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[Assistant] So here is sort of where I didn't see this coming. Because I agree with everything you just said. Okay. But what I thought was that


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[Assistant] People would do that. People would show their friends and they'd be like, whoa, I want one. Yes. So what you're saying is that the people who play VR games don't have friends.


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[Assistant] Alright, so basically the numbers are here. Uh, according to a survey of customers that use Steam conducted by Valve, uhm,


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[Assistant] The number of new HTC Vive owners on Steam only grew by 0.3% in July and remained flat in August. Oculus saw similar results of 0.3% in July and 0.1% in August.


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[Assistant] Alright, uhm, let me just see if we got anything else that's really interesting here.


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[Assistant] So this made me mad and then I got over it. Google Chrome to disallow backspace as the back button. See, I'm gonna press backspace and it's not gonna do anything. Mind you, this is the first page I loaded in this tab, so it probably wouldn't have done anything anyway.


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[Assistant] But I'll demonstrate again. I'm pressing C. Oh, look at that.


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[Assistant] Press alt left or alt right, alt right Chrome. There you go. So the idea is to keep people from losing all their work by accidentally trying to backspace something and then losing a web form.


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[Assistant] Which I personally don't really have a lot of difficulty with.


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[Assistant] Well, whatever, I know- no, they've been rolling it out slowly. Oh, okay. It hit me this week. Okay. And I hadn't heard about it, and it made me mad. You use that? That's all. I use Backspace? To go, yeah. Yeah! I don't. All the time. I don't. Well... I just do it with my mouse. Whatever.


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[Assistant] Which will still work. I do it with both. Correct. Sometimes I touch the little back button on the touch screen.


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[Assistant] What? Nah, I kinda, I'll, uh, sure, alright. Nah, I'll, I'll, I'll do it, I'll, I'll bite, I'll bite on this one.


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[Assistant] Okay, Turing phone cadenza will apparently feature dual Snapdragon 830s.


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[Assistant] With a 60 megapixel quad rear camera triplet lens.


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[Assistant] Why would you have quad-beer cameras too? So iMac 6K is the resolution they're calling that.


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[Assistant] Dual front cameras, 20 megapixels, 12 gigs of RAM, 1 terabyte of storage.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so Turing Robotics has revealed plans for the future of the Turing phone.


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[Assistant] Uh, should be a leading edge program to realize the next generation of mobile devices.


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[Assistant] Uhm, 1 gigabit per second, 60 gigahertz, Y gig support. I mean, what are they planning? Saying the phone will be released sometime in 2017. Quad Nano SIM support. I mean, this basically just sounds like someone going on PC parts picker and just like picking all the most expensive stuff that totally won't work together and just putting it in a cart.


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[Assistant] Graphene oxide composite bodywork with liquid metal 2.0 structural frame.


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[Assistant] It's only gonna have a 2400 mAh, oh, 2400 mAh graphene supercapacitor battery. So like, basically like, instant charging. And a 1600 mAh lithium-hydrogen-hydrogen fuel cell.


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[Assistant] And it's really funny because our next topic is Half-Life 3 Confirmed, which is almost like that phone is like Half-Life 3 Confirmed. Why is this in here? What is this? We're almost at the Back to the Future date.


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[Assistant] We're even closer to the Star Wars tipping point, the wet. On May 13th, the Phantom Menace will have come out closer to Return of the Jedi than to the present.


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[Assistant] It's weird how I'm consistently surprised by the passage of time when it's literally the most predictable thing in the universe. You know, a long time ago it should have plus four more decades added into the re-releases. What? Oh, hold on a second, Half-Life?


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[Assistant] Half-Life Episode 2. It's been that many days. September 10th, 2016. So that's the- oh, I see. Okay.


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[Assistant] Wow, has it really, was it, yea it was 10 years, has it really been 10 years since Half-Life Episode 2? Holy crap, I feel bad.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean what if he makes us pay for a wall? That is like a really long border. It is.


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[Assistant] Alright, so thank you for tuning into the WAN Show. We will see you again next week, same bad time, same bad channel.


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[Assistant] Alright guys, welcome to the WAN Show. It is that time again this week, the time that I set aside to spend with you. All of you out there.


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[Assistant] In Twitch, Twitch streaming land and OH CRAP I've got the tab open on my, on my laptop and I'm like 20 seconds behind and I can hear myself and okay I've, uh, I've managed to make it so that I'm not going crazy anymore which is nice.


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[Assistant] I am unfortunately without Luke this week, which is, which is a real shame, but he's basically got some stuff he's gotta deal with this week, and I totally get it. So I'm gonna hopefully have someone join me in a short while here, and uh,


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[Assistant] You know, it's funny, I was planning to have the show go completely smoothly with no hitches,


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[Assistant] In his absence, the way that he claims that it always goes when I'm not around, but I will confess to you now, I have not yet actually tested, uh, my screen share. So, this is the moment of truth.


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[Assistant] Will I be having, uh, uh, an easy, well not easy, I mean, you know, live streaming is, it's very difficult, very, very difficult. But will I be having a seamless show today? Or an, oh, look at that! Nailed it.


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[Assistant] Yes, my friend. So we've got a lot of great topics for you today. There's been some big news and there's been some little news. Uhm, researchers built a 1000 core processor. I'll be talking about that and why it probably doesn't mean a whole lot to you and won't for, for quite some time.


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[Assistant] Uh, YouTube's Terms of Service have been updated, uh, it's mostly around their harassment and cyberbullying policy, so that is gonna have potentially


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[Assistant] Huge, uhm, ramifications for some YouTubers out there who are basically making a living out of harassment and cyberbullying. Uh, Twitch brings CFAA and trademark claim against bot operators.


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[Assistant] Apparently they are a persistent frustration. That is some strong language coming from their, uh, senior vice president. Marketing.


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[Assistant] Okay, and in much huger news that's not necessarily directly, purely tech related, but will absolutely have an effect on technology and


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[Assistant] How that, how that works, especially for Europeans moving forward, the UK has voted to leave the EU. It is, it is final, but


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[Assistant] There are some important other notes about it that we're gonna be talking a little bit about later. So without further ado, let's, uh,


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[Assistant] Get on Twitch chat here and see if uh, see if uh, wow. No one is complaining. That is amazing.


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[Assistant] And here come all the complaints. So let's roll the intro so that I can just... You don't even have to watch me pretending not to read them.


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[Assistant] Also, for some reason we have much darker skin in this one. Fascinating. TUNNELBEAR!


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[Assistant] Fresh buuuucks. And those are all the same, but the blank ones...


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[Assistant] One of these days, one of these days, we're gonna become a real professional media company, and we're not gonna, we're not gonna make little mistakes. Who am I kidding? That's never happening. Alright, so let's jump right into our first topic here. The original article here is from Engadget. Researchers build a one thousand core processor that they call... The Kilo Core. Yep, that makes sense.


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[Assistant] So, in a nutshell, what a, what a kilo core or a, or a many, many core processor would be optimized for is...


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[Assistant] As you can well imagine, performing many, many parallel operations. So that's many, many, many, many small things.


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[Assistant] All at once. This is not going to have pretty much any relevance to you, the person sitting there who wants to play games or, uhm, encode video that you edited or, I mean,


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[Assistant] Really, most of what you would consider to be a home use for a computer. This is not going to have any relevance for you.


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[Assistant] I don't want to say ever, because ever is a really big word, but...


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[Assistant] Uh, for a very, very long time because the limitation of the way that we currently code software is usually, when it comes to performance, the single threaded performance of the CPU or CPUs that are being used to handle the workload.


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[Assistant] It will take an enormous change in the way that programming is done for something like this hyper low-power kilocore processor to have much relevance to someone who wants to even, you know, general web browsing can consume a lot of CPU horsepower these days. But!


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[Assistant] There are things that it can be used for. Sorting through data, encryption, uh, one of the applicability sort of notes that I have in here is encoding videos, but that is,


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[Assistant] Heavily dependent on the codec being used for one thing and for, well, I mean, how many video streams you're trying to encode. So, if you could make


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[Assistant] A thousand cores, each of which can handle an incoming video encoding request from a file upload.


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[Assistant] By itself, and these things can consume, uh, let's see.


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[Assistant] 0.7 watts total? I mean the whole thing could run on a AA battery. And this is without the benefit of the latest manufacturing process node. So this was actually built on 32 nanometer technology, which is quite archaic at this point in time.


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[Assistant] Though it should be noted that a mere, what, I dunno, four or five years ago, that would have been considered state of the art.


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[Assistant] So the processor handles 115 billion instructions per second, and part of what makes it operate so efficiently at the core is that the cores transfer data to each other directly rather than on a shared cache of memory. Though again, it should be noted that that will only be more efficient


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[Assistant] Is there like a picture I can show you or anything like that? It looks like most of the news articles, this one's over on BGR.com, are just pulling generic CPU pictures off of Shutterstock here. Ooh, flight attendants and passengers get away with this all the time. Fascinating.


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[Assistant] Alright, so the original source here is Dexerto.com, a site that we've never actually referred to before as far as I'm aware. Just go ahead and make sure that's paused.


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[Assistant] So there have been some changes to the YouTube Terms of Service that target harassment. Now, to be clear, I don't have a strong objection.


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[Assistant] I mean, honestly, I don't know why we really even call it cyberbullying. Bullying is bullying. And calling it e-bullying is almost like, or cyberbullying, is almost like softening it.


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[Assistant] What's actually, you know, what would be considered more adulterous? Sex or cybersex?


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[Assistant] You know, what do we consider to be more sport-like? Sports or e-sports? And I don't personally believe that cyberbullying


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[Assistant] Where harassment crosses the line into a malicious attack


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[Assistant] It can be reported and will be removed. So this is referring specifically to a video that a user would upload. So harassment may include abusive videos, comments, and messages.


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[Assistant] Revealing someone's personal information, which is great. I mean, doxxing is never okay. Maliciously recording someone without their consent. That's interesting. How do you determine that it is malicious?


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[Assistant] And I mean, what does that do for an awful lot of YouTube videos that are just like,


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[Assistant] That's, uh, that's interesting. That could have serious ramifications for...


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[Assistant] Content that will be uploaded and a lot of content that's already on the site. Making hurtful and negative comments and videos about another person. Deliberately posting content in order to humiliate someone. Unwanted sexualization. Which encompasses sexual harassment or sexual bullying in any form.


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[Assistant] And incitement to harass other users or creators.


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[Assistant] Interesting note is that, uh, what's that channel called? Drama Alert?


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[Assistant] Or something, yeaah. Yeaah, Drama Alert got a new host within minutes? Minutes of this announcement? Hours of this announcement? Hi Nick, welcome to the show.


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[Assistant] Anyway, you can report people that are breaking the new and updated Terms of Service using YouTube's reporting tool. Speaking of which, I actually need to deal with a false flag on one of our stupid videos. Uh, yeah, every, uh, every, it's, uh, basically it's like, just, you know, no, this isn't valid. Um, especially once you're, once you're a, uh,


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[Assistant] Verified YouTuber. It's, it's pretty simple to deal with a lot of those types of reports. But, uh, every once in a while someone will say that our video needs closed captioning. Uhm, which... That would be nice.


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[Assistant] No, they're saying it needs it. Some videos legally must have closed captioning. Uhm, if they've been uploaded as broadcast television in the United States, then they, they must be closed captioned. So for us, it's just a matter of going, no, actually it doesn't need that. I think it's also in Canada.


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[Assistant] So there's, there's some, there's some Terms of Service-y funny stuff that, you know, every once in a while happens, but, uh,


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[Assistant] This is, this is pretty, potentially pretty far reaching. I mean, fortunately, it doesn't have an impact on us, but what it does do is it highlights for us, and I mean really for any online content creator once again, the, uh, powerlessness that we have. I mean,


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[Assistant] On the one hand, you think, yeaah, you know, internet video, you know, kind of freedom of expression, say whatever, say whatever you want. But at the end of the day, what people have to realize is that YouTube.com is Google's playground.


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[Assistant] And if you wanna play in Google's Playground, you gotta play by Google's rules. And while this, again, doesn't affect us because we don't harass or bully people on the Linus Tech Tips channel because...


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[Assistant] A, well, okay, there are certain manufacturers that you could argue that I wasn't very nice to their product, but that's not personal. That's the product.


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[Assistant] With that said, they are making strides towards improving these things. For example, uhm, it used to be that if someone filed a copyright claim against you, your monetization got pulled.


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[Assistant] Even though the video might stay up during the appeal period, but your monetization got pulled, so uhm, for example-


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[Assistant] But depending on what it was, sometimes monetization, and I've had monetization just pulled for other reasons during a dispute or an appeal period. For example, uhm, this is, this is actually a great example, it's an older one now, but I'm just gonna, I'm gonna pull up the video because this was, I was so


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[Assistant] I'm freaking mad about this at the time. Obviously it's water under the bridge at this point. I love my YouTube overlords.


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[Assistant] Yeah, please don't, please don't shut down my channel, but check this out. So, this is one of my older videos. This is back from, uh, 2012, and I have no idea how loud this is for you guys. But this is my unboxing of the original Razer Blade.


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[Assistant] Let's go ahead and fullscreen this baby. Yeaah, check that out. It was a, what was it, a 15, 17 inch? Something like that. Yeaah, it was a big old thing. It had like this weird, weird, uh, this was called the Switchblade interface.


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[Assistant] So Razer Blade thin and light gaming notebook featuring, and you guys can't read all the way over here because we were covering it and you know, I'll just move us. Featuring Switchblade unboxing. So what happened with this video was that YouTube actually flagged it automatically.


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[Assistant] For dangerous content containing weapons.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so I think it was as high as 45 at one time. 45 unboxings was like my quota. And I got a flat rate and it was, it was very little. It was like $10 per unboxing or something like that. Like it was, it was a pretty low rate or like $15 or something.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but remember the production values weren't what they are now. It was like- It was one shot. Me and my wife. Here's the camera. Okay, sometimes there were two shots. If you made a mistake.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so let's go, let's pull up my analytics for this video here and, uh, and I will show you guys why I was so upset because, okay, so I got a flat rate for the videos that I made and then what I also got was a cut of the YouTube AdSense.


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[Assistant] So that was how we ended up with ads on the videos. So here are the first, uhm, I don't know how many days this is, like 20, 20 days somewhat of this video.


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[Assistant] It got pulled immediately because of the word switchblade.


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[Assistant] About 80,000 to 90,000 views in the first week was unheard of. That was a big deal. That was like huge for me. Uhm, also the CPMs I believe were higher on the platform at the time and a variety of other reasons why this was really upsetting. But it just got pulled.


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[Assistant] It just got completely pulled, I got nothing for it. And even though, like, my appeal was like, yo, this is clearly a laptop computer, and nothing to do with razors, nothing to do with blades, and nothing to do with switchblade knives, uhm, hey, put this back!


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[Assistant] But they would just turn the monetization off, and it's just gone, poof. So...


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[Assistant] The point of that really long story was they're improving, they're getting better. But, uh...


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[Assistant] It's not perfect yet, and uh, and I totally, totally hope that they don't screw this up.


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[Assistant] Alright, speaking of screwing things up, the original article here is from Polygon, and I'll let, uh, I'll let Nick go ahead and, uh, introduce this topic here. I haven't even read this one. You haven't read this one? Oh, okay, this is a Colton topic? That's fine. We'll jump into this one.


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[Assistant] I don't know if you know this, but the Google AdSense Terms of Service basically do not care why bot traffic is viewing ads on your site.


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[Assistant] So this is like a really scary thing. This is not actually why we lost our Google, uhm, our Google AdSense account. That had to do with people posting.


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[Assistant] You know, you need to be moderating, it's like, yeah.


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[Assistant] That is what it is. So that's why you don't see Google Ads on the Linus Tech Tips forum anymore. But this is an interesting fact is that


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[Assistant] Their terms of service don't give a crap why there are bots viewing them or why there are bots clicking on the ads. They are going to go after you with a shoot first, ask questions later approach. You'll get cut off and it will be up to you to prove that someone else was maliciously


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[Assistant] Yeah, paying for absolutely nothing. I mean, with Twitch it's more complicated because...


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[Assistant] I mean, you can't just go, you know, oh, Twitch streamer X, Y, or Z, you know, uh, yo, you're banned from the platform until, cause I mean, malicious actions towards Twitch streamers that have nothing to do with them, you know.


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[Assistant] As, as silly as, you know, fake pizza deliveries, or...


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[Assistant] You know, getting into a much more malicious territory. Things like swatting. Uhm, this is a huge thing. It's something about that community that thinks, you know, trolling the on-air personality is somehow appropriate. So...