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[Assistant] But then, okay, okay, there's a legit question in this other one here, hold on a second. Linus, how can I get 10 gigabit ethernet to my house? And remember me? Uhm...


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[Assistant] 10 gigabit ethernet. Well, it doesn't really work that way. So, okay. So if you want 10 gig LAN, you need to get a 10 gig switch, Cat6a cable, and 10 gig network cards for all your devices. If you want 10 gigabit internet, it won't come over ethernet.


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[Assistant] It'll come over a fiber connection that you like literally pay contractors to dig a trench to your house and tie into your local ISP cause like- I mean, he might have the money for it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean if you give out $100 super chats for no apparent reason. Like they're candy. Okay, I'll just read the ones that are related to the Final Fantasy VI mod. Al Baker says yes. Yugi Satan says yes. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Uh, Glarung says, you realize Final Fantasy VI is older than most of your audience, and on that note, I think we're done here. Thank you very much, and good night. Good niiight.


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[Assistant] Uh, I mean, AMD confirming Zen 3 details, uh, Google Stadia thoughts, uh, which was gonna be after stream but apparently isn't anymore.


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[Assistant] Uh, that's bad, that's bad, that's bad. Hide.


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[Assistant] Oh, I thought that was the other, that was the target.


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[Assistant] One of my favorite things about the likes is you actually do have exactly seven dislikes, but not, oh and then it changed right when I said it.


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[Assistant] So I'm gonna try the new one. You know the one, you know the one redeeming, uh, feature of the new dashboard? Is if you look up how to do something in the YouTube dashboard, that's the only one that they still have in the FAQs.


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[Assistant] So if you don't remember how to do something, you have to look it up, then you have to use a new dashboard and that's great.


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[Assistant] At least you can look up how to do something when it's impossible to figure out how to do it natively.


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[Assistant] By the way, this video, this is difficult, because there's a lot, there's a lot more going on in this than like a normal, like you have a lot of noise happening in this video, sir.


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[Assistant] There's a lot of reflections and there's a lot, like there's not a ton of genuine static image as a part of this video.


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[Assistant] It's awesome. So, on the floatplane side of things, we're almost wondering how much we can melt your systems. Uh, cause we're genuinely not sure how many people in the audience are gonna have a computer that's gonna be able to watch something.


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[Assistant] Right now we're working on like, transcoding it properly, which is its own problem.


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[Assistant] H-E-V-C specifically, yeaah. So, so we're gonna have to play it in something that we don't normally play stuff in, which is not a huge deal, but there's some like learning steps that we want to take before we actually post a video. Yeah, learning steps.


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[Assistant] Yeah, this, I had not seen this angle either. They definitely chose the worst angle I've ever seen as this truck as their cover photo. Holy.


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[Assistant] The worst thing about this is that's probably how you're often going to see it.


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[Assistant] The tailgate has like, a ramp built into it. Or at least that might be an option or something, I'm not sure.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so my biggest problem with the truck is, we need a, we need a, What's your biggest problem with the truck? So okay, I can, I can see, oh there's 37 photos in here. Okay, alright.


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[Assistant] Ignore the smashed windows, which is a whole different part of the conversation. But this part, you guys can see my mouse on there. This whole section right here, immediately makes it very difficult, also known as probably impossible, to work out of slash load from the side.


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[Assistant] That's like, seems like a massive oversight in my opinion. I don't know what's going on there, but yeah.


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[Assistant] Other than that, until I saw these photos, uh, I wasn't that against how it looked, to be completely honest.


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[Assistant] I don't think it's a conventionally attractive, uh, truck by any means, but I think it's interesting. I really like the light bar actually. Okay. And like watching it drive down the street with that light bar on, I was like, yeah, wow, that's an amazing amount of illumination.


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[Assistant] Kind of, actually. Uhm, I'm struggling to remember the name of it, but the Toyota truck that's super popular. Tacoma? Toyota Tacoma. It hasn't had an interior update in like forever.


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[Assistant] And they, they did one with a similar vehicle that they have in their product line and everyone freaking hated it.


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[Assistant] Because the stuff just kinda works, and they don't wanna mess around with, like, electronical stuff as much, they'd rather use buttons and dials. Which I kind of understand. If it's a work truck, and you're like, I just need the thing that I'm pressing to function.


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[Assistant] The ramp tailgate. Yep. Super cool. Yeah. The fact that it looks like it's like tilting up to help you get the quad out. Yep. Pretty freaking cool.


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[Assistant] That's very cool. It has onboard, uh, air compression. It has like the amazing amount of output on the battery that you can use for things that aren't just the vehicle, obviously. Uh, the camping stuff. This is super cool.


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[Assistant] That's awesome. Nobody's gonna do that. I guarantee you people will do that.


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[Assistant] Hammocks are sweet. But there's like almost no setup time when I hammock and it's not on the ground. So?


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[Assistant] But you're in a tent on a board, like you're not in the vehicle. This is tent material, you can tell.


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[Assistant] That will also sell pretty well. I've been talking to my brother who drives like big trucks for the movies and stuff. When they have to get generators out of like


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[Assistant] Like trying to slam these generators over the mud and stuff. Really? And then like that one gets stuck and they have to make like a train of trucks to pull all the other trucks and the generator out and like.


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[Assistant] They need as much as they can possibly get, and he has like a F-150, and there's people on his crew that are like, you know, like,


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[Assistant] You might need a bigger truck, cause like some of the stuff we have to haul is like a little too much for it. And sometimes it is, but he's not gonna go buy an insanely expensive truck.


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[Assistant] So like, whatever. But, like, those will sell. The three engines will absolutely sell. I don't know. It's interesting.


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[Assistant] I do, I, I'm, I'm kind of mixed on my opinions of it. Cause I, I don't think, uh, I didn't originally think it looked that bad. I think shots like this, the one with the quad in it, uhm, actually make it look pretty cool.


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[Assistant] So my original idea when I saw it was, oh, manufacturing reasons.


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[Assistant] Thinking that it's probably cheaper, I'm also thinking that it's probably more reliable and easier.


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[Assistant] And what he's been talking about for a long time is we're gonna put out more vehicles, we're gonna put out more vehicles, we're gonna put out more vehicles. This doesn't have crazy wing doors, it doesn't have all this other stuff, it doesn't have fancy curved paneling or any of that kind of stuff. There's like two polygons on a lot of different sections on here. There's like one bend of the metal and that's a whole section.


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[Assistant] Which is great, like that's a good thing, in this case, but, like I think, I'm hoping this means they'll be able to churn them out a lot faster. So this could maybe be the vehicle that they like whip off the line, you know what I mean?


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[Assistant] And it still took a large metal ball to the window and didn't shatter.


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[Assistant] And they, they, they talked in their like official statement. You're done. You changed the scene.


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[Assistant] In their official statement thing, they even mentioned about how they like, threw tons of other stuff at the glass.


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[Assistant] The tesla transit company, whatever they're called. I don't remember. Tezcab or something. They only use tesla vehicles and they have like over 300,000 miles on all their vehicles. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.


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[Assistant] Okay, okay, I know there are questions about what it looks like, but one of those as a cop vehicle would probably look freaking sick. That's true.


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[Assistant] I still have my concerns about the angled parts by the truck bed.


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[Assistant] So inside as well is like a three-port USB. Yeah, this thing's sick. So check it out!


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[Assistant] I took this one camping with me last time I went. It was fantastic.


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[Assistant] Wonderful. And like, everyone there liked it. Yeah. Unanimously. That's because you didn't show up and try to camp in the back of your truck. Cause that would've been stupid. Yeah, I slept on the rocks and it was actually the best sleep I've had in like, a really long time.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna stand up here for a second with an incredibly unpopular opinion. If you stand up, you will be out of the frame. Yeah, that's fair. Okay. Can I interject?


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[Assistant] Uhm, actually speaking of it's a free country. They're a business. They can absolutely do this.


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[Assistant] I think, I think a lot of people look at YouTube, especially because they have basically no competitors, which is a problem, but that's more of the problem than this.


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[Assistant] Cause like they're not a government service. They, they can absolutely do that.


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[Assistant] They're a company. If something that they're doing is not commercially viable in a lot of situations, they're gonna not do it.


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[Assistant] They're a publicly traded company, so especially yes.


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[Assistant] And we could turn off like a singular subforum or something. However.


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[Assistant] That is changing, I think. I think, this, sorry to interject, again, this feels kind of like Google. Go ahead.


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[Assistant] Yeah, this feels like when Google dropped the Don't Be Evil moniker.


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[Assistant] Yes, absolutely, but they're losing that thing that really made them feel like what they were at the start.


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[Assistant] It's like everyone should be able to upload to YouTube. Which again, the wording there, video is basic human right. It's not, it's not, it's not a government thing. But yes, they did make it seem like that.


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[Assistant] And that is in the same vein of this is not a government thing, they can do whatever they want.


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[Assistant] Absolutely. Feel betrayed. Because you can also do that. Like that's, you gotta understand, I'm saying kinda both sides here. I would be extremely annoyed if I was still a YouTube creator. I would feel very uncomfortable. And I would try to join Fallowplane. Uhm, but like, yea, you know.


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[Assistant] At the same time, YouTube is very well known for enacting policy with AI and then just like heavy handed, very large glove smacking and getting a lot of extra stuff that they didn't mean to get. Uh, so I wouldn't be surprised if a bunch of firearm YouTubers and, and like,


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[Assistant] Camping is, we've talked about camping a couple times on here. Camping YouTubers get caught up in this all the time.


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[Assistant] Cause some of the gear that they have is not like, super advertiser friendly. Cause they might have knives. And knives just, well, you're screwed.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uhm, and like, uh, have you ever talked about your, do you even still have it?


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[Assistant] A, like, camping knife YouTube channel thing, they do a bunch of different other kind of stuff, recognized, uh, you in one of their videos, as they went through, and they looked at different YouTubers that have shown knives on screen, and they like, rated,


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[Assistant] The, the knife, basically. Raid, they raided my knife. And you were one of the, like, most positively reviewed people on there. Why? Because- Did I have my ladybug?


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[Assistant] You had your ladybug, and I think they showed one other one that you had like on your hip, and they were like, that is very good, but the ladybug they were particularly impressed with, because they were like, that makes specifically very good sense for what he's using it for. And I was like, that's pretty cool.


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[Assistant] Which is like a... nigh impossible.


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[Assistant] To be fair, there's a lot of companies that don't have ratings in their stores. Yeaah, that's fair. But to have it there and then remove it, I think is pretty bad.


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[Assistant] You know what's kind of interesting? I wanna show you guys this just because I find it hilarious how useless it is. I'm eating another piece of bacon, I'm so sorry everyone. Microsoft has been in pretty good graces with the community for a long time now.


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[Assistant] When's the last time there was a strong Microsoft controversy? There's a lot of like, that patch with Windows 10 sucked.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it took like six months. Yeah, but like Windows 10 patches have been terrible forever.


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[Assistant] Anyways, show my screen. Ironically though, people didn't seem as mad. As you'd kind of expect.


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[Assistant] See, this is my cynical, I absolutely detest Windows 10 and it is inferior to Windows 8.1 and it crushes my soul that 7 and 10 got DX12 and not 8.1. Uuuh, but.


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[Assistant] I think it's in my, in my brain it's just because Windows 10 sucks so bad that they're just kind of rolling with the punches at this point. But okay, I find this hilarious. These are the reviews on Microsoft.com for Windows. This is shopping Windows. I know when you scroll this far down it looks like a website from


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[Assistant] 2002 maybe, but, uh, once you scroll up it looks a little bit better. Uhm, but this, this is the reviews. Windows 10 Pro for Workstation has none. It's new. It's just not, it's not that new. Windows 10 Pro, 37. Yeah. No one uses it. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Their video on, uh, glass as a storage medium was actually pretty cool.


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[Assistant] Okay, how is that specific to prover workstation?


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[Assistant] Let me just make sure we got the requirements. We spoke about a few things. Okay, so Stadia is just kinda boring. Are we gonna bring people on for that? No, I forget it. They probably went home already. There's the... I wanna try it at least. Me too. There's the AMD Zen 3 details. Sorry, I might...


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[Assistant] I'm still sick and my throat's kinda had it for today, I think.


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[Assistant] Also, Kate, this is amazing. If you scroll down to the bottom, there's more there, but the scroll bar goes outside of the box and you can't see them.


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[Assistant] You guys should set up a Twitch channel that is just Linus Media TV. I've heard of people doing that.


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[Assistant] I like it. You could just have it on this stream on Twitch. Okay, make it sell. Looks like no.


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[Assistant] Oh my god, if you made a voting system where people could like buy votes and you can vote on what video plays next? You're evil.


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[Assistant] At least I'm certain you're not in the, you couldn't catch me in one crowd, cause I'm sure you'd drive it.


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[Assistant] We should get her and Joe to just form an office down there.


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[Assistant] This has been some difficult stuff, but I'm doing okay. Alright. It's mostly just been like my back being a problem. Basically all the muscles in my like the back of my right leg and my butt and my lower right back are just destroyed.


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[Assistant] And I have to go on like not even that long of walks and then measure my pain to see how well I'm doing while we work on it. It's great.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but I think this is genuinely the source issue of all of the other issues. We're finally there? Cause I've heard that. I know. I've heard that before. That's fair. I don't know, dude. I know nothing about this stuff.


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[Assistant] Apparently, apparently people found Madison's livestream and it has blown the heck up.


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[Assistant] Okay, one second. They've acquired their third big creator. Officially.


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[Assistant] Yes. That stuff is actually everything that I own that's fashionable. Just gonna say.


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[Assistant] That's better than most of my stuff. No, I meant literally clean. Oh. This is also literally.


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[Assistant] Don't worry about it. That is how my fashion sense works.


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[Assistant] My dad is a plumbing instructor and he doesn't understand. So just, I want to put that out there first because it's really weird.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, uhm, but I, I brought him over to try to figure this out because like my, my sink in my bathroom at home, if I turn on one tap, one day it might be cold, the next day it might be warm. If I turn on the other one, it's the opposite of what, but like they rotate randomly.


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[Assistant] And that happens to every tap in the house. So Luke lives in a condo just to be clear. Yeah. Yeah. Not a house. Yeah. Um, if I have a shower, if it's at,


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[Assistant] Like three to seven in the morning, it is always maximum heat no matter what I do. But I have found out that I can trick it a little bit by turning on random taps in the house.


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[Assistant] And then sometimes it will flip to maximum cold only. There's no other options. Later parts of the day it's okay. But yea, you can put it on maximum cold and it's like, nope, I'm fully hot. Anyways, this becomes a problem.


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[Assistant] When, you know, all the water sources are affected, and you get to the washer dryer, cause you put it on cold.


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[Assistant] Yeah, the dryer is no problem. But you put the washing machine on cold and your clothes come out steaming. It's like, well that wasn't intended. Uhm, so. And then you wash some stuff that's the right size. And it's no longer the right size. Or you wash some stuff that's red. And now other things are also kind of red.


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[Assistant] He had a theory that the pipes are too close to each other. So the hot pipe might heat transfer.


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[Assistant] That was his initial theory, and by the time he left the house, he was like, I dunno. I'm done.


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[Assistant] Something weird's going on. Uhm, yeaah, that was, that was very odd, so a significant amount of my clothes don't, don't fit anymore, but.


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[Assistant] So I couldn't really watch it properly at all. And then when it wasn't the call, I had it on like a side monitor, but I was super focused on other things. So like I got some vague stuff. I was roughly trying to pay attention to the iPad things because my mom needs an iPad for work. So I was like, is there an iPad coming? Yes.


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[Assistant] It's even more great because she was going to buy one and I was like, wait, don't.


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[Assistant] I completely agree, but I'm gonna jump slightly on the other- slightly on the other side. It's not actually the other side. I'm gonna adjust my position on this side? I don't know how to call it. Woah, okay, there we go. Position adjustment. No, no, no. Um, is, we always hammer on people for terrible naming schemes. We do. And I feel extremely justified every time.


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[Assistant] I agree, they could have done it better, all this other kind of stuff, but they did it, and I prefer it this way.


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[Assistant] Usually if I want to game on my phone, it's cause I'm stuck somewhere, I don't have access to my switch, I don't have access to my laptop, I don't have access to my desktop.


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[Assistant] So I'm caught waiting for something probably for like a couple hours and there's nothing to do. I'm just on my phone and I'm tired of Twitter now and I've done all the work I can do on my phone and whatever else. And I look through my phone and I go, I don't really want to play anything.


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[Assistant] I checked the free to play section of the store. This all looks like cancer and free to the transactions and all this kind of stuff. So being able to just pay five bucks and have a bunch of games and there's no more micro transactions, that sounds like a very reasonable solution.


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[Assistant] I like games where progression is either skill or effort.


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[Assistant] Sure. I'm down with either of those. If it's like, oh I just wait, or oh I just pay money, it's like, okay, neither of those things are interesting.


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[Assistant] I hate that mentality. I actually really hate that mentality. Every, like, for a while there when a whole bunch of MMOs were coming out, like Elder Scrolls Online and all that other kind of stuff, every single time when they hadn't announced if it was free to play or not, I was like, please be subscription based.


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[Assistant] Because it's free to play, it will be trash. And it happens every time. I absolutely hate that. There is room for some free games. League of Legends works. There are other games that work as well. But like, on a whole,


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[Assistant] Especially with mobile games, they're built to manipulate you, they're built to be a waiting game where they hit you with dopamine so you just keep waiting, but you're not like accomplishing anything, there's no skill, there's no effort, all this kind of stuff. It's just, oh, I, uh, I set an alarm so that I could wake up exactly when this thing finished building or whatever, and then I could


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[Assistant] Press the button twice and then I went back to sleep.


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[Assistant] But that's not the most popular version of free games. I just need to, you know, especially on a phone.


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[Assistant] There's also, like, Lego Brawls looks like it could be really cool, actually. It's a multiplayer, like, fighting game. Yeah, that looks pretty sweet. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Yes, this is actually very interesting. There are two noun definitions for family. And they contradict each other really heavily. Specifically in this scenario. The first one is a group consisting of parents and children living together in a household.


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[Assistant] Number two is all the descendants of a common ancestor.


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[Assistant] They are actual opposites and they completely counter. So like Spotify is going with definition one. Yes. And I went with definition two. Right. They are both definitions of the word family.


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[Assistant] So wait, you could just say I live here and then you're done? Cause it says or.


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[Assistant] Okay, so was I. I don't know if you knew that or not. I didn't. Because we used it for a floatplane. Yeah. Uhm, I just used it personally. But, I was still okay with, yeah.


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[Assistant] If you took like two minutes of your own time, you could set it up for them. Yes.


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[Assistant] Moho is my, with my first love. Oh, that's my actual favorite. Have you not tried that?


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[Assistant] About how you started off with people being like, oh, people don't like when I eat on the show. And then you end the show with shoving an entire fistful of bacon into your face.


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[Assistant] Moho is really mild. I like spice, but moho is really good.


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[Assistant] That yellow one, it's pineapple something, uh, the sauce. I think it's barbecue sauce. Carolina Habanero pineapple. Yeah, barbecue sauce. Brought that camping, was very good. It was absolutely fantastic.


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[Assistant] Wrong keyboard. You might have to YubiKey that as well.


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[Assistant] We've been, we've been waiting to film this video for I think at least two years.


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[Assistant] At least two years? No. Over a year for sure. Over a year. At least over a year. Yeah. Uh, this is not mine actually. This is the one that Linus Media Group acquired from someone who's quite amazing and did a bunch of modifications to it that are like, really clean. That's one thing I want to point out too, is it was done very well.


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[Assistant] I can basically guarantee you though, if you handed this to someone who didn't know it was modded, they wouldn't think it was modded.


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[Assistant] Like it's, it's, it's almost successful in a way that it is now 2019 and you and I are looking at this thing, fascinated and we had a solid amount of fun and I still have a headache. But like, but it's just, it's a


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[Assistant] Because we turned the game off and back on so we didn't get the like warning that you should stop playing.


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[Assistant] 15 minutes should not be too long for a game.


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[Assistant] The experience has some issues. I also think, uh, if we turned the game on and like looked away for a while.


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[Assistant] And then when into it might have been better, because when it's like first start, I'm not gonna get necessarily into why, because you should watch the video. But when it's first starting, it's a little bit more jarring.


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[Assistant] It's awkward when you have to like play a game like this, but it does position you correctly.


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[Assistant] But yea, it was, it was really fun, actually.


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[Assistant] It's, I, I think, I genuinely think a big part of the fun is playing some weird Derpy game on a weird Derpy device. Multiplayer. Weird Derpy controllers. With weird Derpy controllers. Multiplayer. Yea, they have D-pads on each side. There's a D-pad here and here. I realize you can't see that that well, but there's D-pads on both sides.


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[Assistant] Which is odd, and then the start and select are the exact same format as the A and B, and you can't see the controller because you're in the thing. And then there's triggers on the back, but they're not labeled. Oh, they are, just left and right. And they didn't do anything in any of the games we played, did they? They did in the, uh, what do they call it? Hyperfighter. Hyperfighter.


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[Assistant] Is it gonna take 18 months? It might. I've got other, I've been doing one major project for my house thing, apartment, whatever, every weekend. Well now you're doing a koi pond, is that right? Yeah. Why koi pond?


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[Assistant] So my girlfriend went a little, uh, plant crazy out of nowhere and we now own, uh, 40 plants. What? Most of them are really small.


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[Assistant] Don't, right? They're like hers. And I have technically owned exactly one singular plant since around 2013 and is still alive.


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[Assistant] I thought I lost it when I moved, but it's in my parents' garage and I haven't bothered to pick it up yet. But I guarantee you it is still alive. In your parents' garage. With all the light in your parents' garage. I have forgotten that thing.


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[Assistant] Behind stuff? Nick knows. I've forgotten that thing behind stuff for like a year at a time and it's still alive. No, Nick agrees with me. It's an, remember the aloe vera plant?


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[Assistant] Oh, it's an aloe vera plant. That burnt. It is still a plant. That barely counts. It still counts. Anyways, I'm not in charge of these. It's literally a cactus. It's a plant. It's a plant. It's green.


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[Assistant] Yeah, oh. Oh, that, yeah. That was, yeah, that was a terrible time. But, uhm, yeah, so now we have a bajillion plants now. And then, uh, she wanted to do something with the deck.


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[Assistant] She knows you can get fake ones, right? That you don't have to water? Apparently she's like against that now. And she's like on some... I don't know. She's super into it. Whatever.


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[Assistant] You can speak freely here. No I am. Okay, for her, she's into something and I think that's cool. Okay. And it makes the house look better. And like, plants and water and stuff smells good. So like, the house looks and smells good. Okay. So, sweet. Was she sending you a message? I don't, I genuinely don't think so. But maybe.


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[Assistant] So you're not like ditching your current OLED for a new OLED? No. Okay.


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[Assistant] They seem to be pretty late with displays a lot. Yeaah. Just putting that out there.


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[Assistant] I might be mounting mine to my standing desk above my monitors so I can lower my standing desk as much as possible so when you sit on the couch you can watch it more better because I don't have space.


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[Assistant] You know what would be super cool is if you opened a specific application.


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[Assistant] If it knew the zone that it wanted it in and it like enabled that and put it there right away.


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[Assistant] So that like, okay, if I open, uh, like this one desktop link that I have for like the status page for flow plane, it's going to open it, but it's going to put it up there in the corner. Cause I don't need to stare at this thing.


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[Assistant] That's what I'm saying. Yeah. It'd be very nice if I could do that properly. That would be.


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[Assistant] Basically the whole screen is gonna be lit the whole time. Yeaah, kind of. The ocean's pretty dark.


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[Assistant] Okay. I was gonna say like, if you played like a horror game...


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[Assistant] Or like say you were playing like Halo and you're going through one of the, um, the, uh, the flood missions when it gets really dark. Sometimes you're like aimer and stuff is probably going to be pretty annoying because it's going to glow just around. It's going to almost feel like you have a flashlight on.


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[Assistant] Hey, uh, power play is awesome. Power play? Power play?


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[Assistant] Yeah, we might do something official at some point. We just have so many like hyper high priority tasks right now and we have for a while, but yeah, we might do


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[Assistant] We'll get 4k support, although that has to be enabled by the creators and plans have to be set up for that. And like there's, once it's done on our side, it's not, it's going to probably be a while before creators actually start using it. Um, but 4k support, yearly subscriptions. I know you guys have been asking for them for freaking ever. They are finally coming. Um, some backend improvements that we need, uh, just


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[Assistant] For our own reasons. And, uh, some other fun stuff as well. The, the app!


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[Assistant] Continually gets better. Uhm, if you've had frustrations with the app in the past, I recommend you use it again. The Chromecast support has gotten way better. Uh, you can now pull videos down and keep navigating the rest of the app. There's like a bunch of other cool features. The biggest update that the app has ever gotten launched this week. Uhm, so.


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[Assistant] Go check that out. And there was a quick little problem with it. I don't remember what it was with the auto rotation and that's already been patched. So yeah.


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[Assistant] So the issues that Apple had, one of them was that if you went to go register for an account, you couldn't register for the account in the app. And they were like, no, no, no, we don't like that. And the other one was they were running it. That is not trivial to fix.


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[Assistant] It's not as hard as you'd think. So that's coming. But we didn't think it was important to be in this update, so whatever. And then the other one was that it wasn't working properly for them, but it's because they ran it in dev mode, and we didn't expect them to do that. Or debug mode.


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[Assistant] So, I don't know. It's, by the time we fix that stuff on our end, it's gonna be, as far as I can tell, even though they say an average maximum of one day, every single time we've done anything with them, it's taken at least two weeks. So, it will probably be quite a while.


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[Assistant] They're taking away their opportunity to get their voice in there.


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[Assistant] Wow, go! I've wanted to go really badly. But I think I kinda wanna go with someone.


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[Assistant] And coordinating schedules with adults to fly somewhere is like nearly impossible, so I don't know if I'll end up ever actually going. Uh, Disney has not ruined Star Wars for me. You just have to adopt a new mentality called headcanon.


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[Assistant] We just kind of decide what's real. And if you headcanon out all of the recent movies, everything's just better.


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[Assistant] I'm also legitimately pretty excited about The Mandalorian, and I'm legitimately pretty excited about the, uh, new Obi-Wan Kenobi show. Cause it has Ewan McGregor in it. That's cheating. What do you mean?


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[Assistant] Alright, I think I can. I've been doing it quite actively and it's been pretty good.


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[Assistant] Yep. So... I need to know why I don't care.


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[Assistant] Uuuuuh. Something I care enough about it, if that makes sense.


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[Assistant] No, it doesn't. Or I'll wait to watch it on like a plane or something. I won't necessarily go see it in theater. I'm going to watch it at some point.


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[Assistant] What do you mean? It does matter to me that it has no soul. That's why I don't like it.


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[Assistant] No, but people want to talk to me about it all the time because I talk about Star Wars stuff way too much. So I need to understand the context of why I don't like it.


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[Assistant] I can explain all the other recent movies, so I might as well be able to explain that one as well.


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[Assistant] I have a lot of hope for the Mandalorian and the new Obi-Wan Kenobi show.


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[Assistant] I have no hope for the movie. I only have hope for the shows.


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[Assistant] And the, uh, Star Wars animated series is probably my favorite digital production Star Wars ever made.


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[Assistant] Mostly the later episodes and the episodes focused on the clones. But...


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[Assistant] So, I was never really into expanding universe.


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[Assistant] It doesn't feel, and this is kind of funny because it's true, but it doesn't feel like it was made by someone who likes Star Wars.


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[Assistant] It feels like it was made by someone who has a really popular series that they know people are gonna watch, and they're trying to do something with it. Instead of just liking Star Wars.


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[Assistant] You know what I mean? And it like, that vibe comes across really heavily. I was never really that into Expanded Universe. Not because I didn't like it, because I had no exposure to it. I didn't have any of the books. I didn't have Kotor. I didn't even know Kotor was a thing. I have played it a little bit on stream.


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[Assistant] I tried to start playing Kotor like a year and a half ago, which was a little painful. Uh, but yeah, I had never got into EU and then I watched the first of the new movies and I was like, okay.


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[Assistant] There's only a few parts that I viciously hated, but some of it was okay, but they just like recreated an old movie. And then everything else since then was just way worse. So I was, I started getting more like, I like,


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[Assistant] The idea. I wanna be more into Star Wars. I started diving into EU and I'm like super aggressively into Star Wars. But just the stuff that I wanna be into. And I think you have to take that approach with EU. Cause there's some...


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[Assistant] There's some not great stuff in EU, but there's also some pure gold.


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[Assistant] I'm amazed they still do it. That's some dedication. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Uh, my wife Yvonne. So guys, we've got a great show for you guys today. Uh, Tesla competitor Rivian raises another 1.3 billion in funding, meaning Tesla might actually end up with a worthy competitor.


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[Assistant] Dedicated Graphics 1 graphic card has a new round of rumors. Western Digital has started shipping 20 terabyte hard drives, so there's definitely some room for discussion there. And the iPhone XR remains the best-selling phone of 2019. Did you have anything that you in particular wanted to talk about today?


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[Assistant] Sweet. Let's go ahead and roll that intro! Oh boy. Just so you know, they can hear you right now.


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[Assistant] Small body parts, just, you know, make sure it's, uh, make sure it's at least humorous.


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[Assistant] Sponsored by Tisplate, Honey, and Squarespace.


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[Assistant] Alright, so why don't we jump right into our first and most important topic of the day, the Intel XeDG1.


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[Assistant] So, EEC filings have leaked information about Intel's new dedicated graphics card. So for those of you who are sort of


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[Assistant] Is, uh, that anyone especially wants to use. Now, way back in the day, Intel's onboard graphics were terrible in basically every meaningful way. I mean, you remember computers with onboard graphics?


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[Assistant] Okay, but the thing is, they were bad for reasons that they aren't really bad for anymore. So,


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[Assistant] Back in the old days, when your integrated graphics was on your north bridge, was where you'd usually find it. So that was on your chipset.


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[Assistant] Separate from, uh, your CPU. Uh, it would actually suck up some of your system memory. Well, I mean, integrated graphics still usually does that now. Uh, anyway, that's not the point, that's not the point. So it would suck up your system memory, often times a significant chunk of it, and back when system memory was really expensive,


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[Assistant] It was slow, and in some cases it was not very efficient, so that Northbridge would end up with like a noisy fan on it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so there were other solutions. Nvidia, back in the Nforce chipset days, used to ship integrated graphics versions of their chipsets, and these didn't necessarily solve the efficiency problem, but they solved one of the other big problems, and that's that integrated graphics used to have


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[Assistant] Horrible compatibility for games, let alone enough performance to run them. Sorry, what is that sound?


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[Assistant] Yeah, but that's different. Okay, that's like DOS compatible. That's Windows switching from like, using a DOS kernel to the NT kernel. That's not like... Okay, anyway.


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[Assistant] Uhm, okay, so yeah, we can talk about that a little bit. I don't know what I'm gonna say about it. Our Apple Pro Display XDR is here.


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[Assistant] So anyway, the main problem was not necessarily even the performance. It was just outright compatibility. So either it would lack the features, you know, like hardware transform and lighting or whatever else, or the, or the most up-to-date DirectX feature set.


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[Assistant] Or, it would just have such broken terrible drivers, that even if the game should run, it wouldn't. It would just, it would just crash all the time.


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[Assistant] And so, Intel, over the last 10 years or so, has come a long way. So their onboard graphics are now so power efficient that they can bake them right onto the CPU themselves and still hit sub 100 watt TDPs. Their drivers and feature set are now


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[Assistant] Basically up to date, I think there's still a lot of work they could do in terms of, uh, you know, catching up to what AMD and Nvidia are doing with respect to things like sharpening filters and all these like cool features that you can enable in your games like a 3D


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[Assistant] You know, screenshots and all that kind of cool stuff. They're a long way away from that. But in terms of just basically functioning in games...


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[Assistant] They are worlds ahead of where they used to be. So if you've got good efficiency and you've got, you know, uhm,


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[Assistant] Decent compatibility and you've got the feature set sorta down, then why not scale it up? Now unfortunately,


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[Assistant] It's not really that simple and, oh man, what do they call it? Gen, I think is what they call their, their onboard graphics that are built into their CPUs. These little, little, tiny, tiny graphics chips. Uhm, was never really designed to go


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[Assistant] Ultra wide. Not like the monitors, but it was never designed to be like a wider design. Uhm, so they've had to re-architect this.


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[Assistant] Basically from scratch as far as we can tell. So DG-1 is supposed to be a proper dedicated graphics card and


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[Assistant] Gaming and enthusiast community people to handle the messaging around this. They grabbed Chris Hook from AMD, they grabbed Kyle Bennett,


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[Assistant] Actually, I don't know if Kyle Bennett was on the GPU team specifically. Anyway, he's not there anymore. Uhm, so they grabbed Chris Hook. I'm trying to think of who else they grabbed. Uhm, but there was this like big push towards better messaging and a better relationship with the enthusiast community. And so that's got people thinking, okay, maybe, maybe it is gonna be like a gaming graphics card.


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[Assistant] Alright, so here's the latest information that we've got. Uhm, the specs include 96 execution units, which incidentally, uhm,


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[Assistant] It seems to be, uh, the same as what they're planning to use in their next generation 10nm Tiger Lake CPUs. So that would put its performance on par with onboard graphics. And then there's three SKUs listed. DG1 External FRD1 Accessory Kit.


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[Assistant] Discrete Graphics DG1 8 plus 2, and Discrete Graphics DG1 6 plus 2.


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[Assistant] Uhm, the latter could be designation for, designations for gigabytes of RAM, but that's not really clear.


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[Assistant] Right, so what we, what it looks like right now is that they're gonna ship what would be integrated graphics, but on a discreet card with its own frame buffer built onto it. There's some-


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[Assistant] Well, we don't know. There is some speculation that Intel is working on drivers for like multi-GPU performance scaling and so then there's some speculation that maybe this could be intended as kind of like


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[Assistant] Like a, like a nitrous boost card for your system that only has integrated graphics and the two of them will like work together or something.


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[Assistant] Well, lots of people do, but mostly at the low end of the market. So the thing about dedicated graphics is it tends not to really make a ton of sense below about the hundred dollar, hundred and twenty dollar price point because there's so much cost overhead in building a card


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[Assistant] Getting an HDMI license, like, it's like two dollars per connector or something like that, like that's nothing in the context of a thousand dollar graphics card, but it's a big deal when you're trying to hit 99.99.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, you gotta build a- you gotta put a cooler on it. That's another, you know, seven dollars or whatever. Like there's- there's all these things that are kind of fixed costs. Uh, packaging.


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[Assistant] Shipping and logistics, just time on the SMT line as they're, as they're producing the damn thing, cause it takes up exactly as much space as something that you could sell for 200 or 300 or 500 dollars. So there's all this, there's overhead, uh, even if some of it is just in the form of opportunity costs. You still have to QC it the same, you can't just ship a dead one, so you still have to,


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[Assistant] Put it in the hotbox and run it for 24 hours or whatever, make sure it works. I don't know, or maybe you don't, whatever. Uhm, but the point is there's a lot of overhead that you're-


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[Assistant] And people are saying F in YouTube, so I, I have no way of, uh, Yeah, I have no way of fixing that. Our preview looks good.


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[Assistant] And this is why, this is why we've been getting really, really frustrated with, uh, with YouTube streaming lately.


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[Assistant] Anyway, so there's all this overhead involved in building a graphics card, so low-end discrete cards tend not to make any sense. Now, AMD had this idea back in the Radeon, like, four thousand, three thousand days, like, you know, seven, eight, nine years ago, whenever it was.


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[Assistant] That one of the ways that you could make low-end cards make more sense was if they worked together with the onboard graphics that are built into your APU, as AMD calls them, which is a CPU with built-in graphics, uhm, running in crossfire.


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[Assistant] Then, then at least you're not throwing away one or the other. You're getting the combined performance of both of them and you could, you could make that kind of make sense. Now as soon as you get into higher end cards, the overhead of trying to communicate with those on board graphics cores, uhm,


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[Assistant] Basically means that any positive contribution is pretty much wasted, but, but at the very low end maybe it could make sense.


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[Assistant] So that's where some of the speculation is coming from. I believe it was like, someone found some Linux code that seemed to suggest that Intel was working on multi-GPU. The specs for this thing, 768 shader units, 96 execution units, seem to suggest that it's going to be similarly


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[Assistant] If I buy it, uhm, because the amount of frame buffer here doesn't make a ton of sense to me, like, there's no way that you'd need 8 gigs of VRAM for something that's competitive with like an RX 570 or 1050 Ti. I mean, actually, I guess you can get, you can get RX 570s with 8 gigs of VRAM, can't you? So,


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[Assistant] If the Tiger Lake graphics core is similar to Ice Lake Iris Plus, uhm, that would put performance of DG1 at roughly a 1.5x improvement over the 64 execution unit, Iris Plus now putting it in 1050 Ti and RX 570 territory. I mean,


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[Assistant] It's not the threat to Nvidia and AMD that, or especially Nvidia, that everyone out there has been hoping for, but uhm, I mean, I guess it's a start.


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[Assistant] The thing to me that's really baffling about all of this is that Intel has been sharing such like, like riced out, like juiced up looking imagery of this card, like let me see if I can find it. Sure. Uh, Intel DG1 render.


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[Assistant] Uhm, let's have a look. Intel set sites on whatever. Intel discrete GPU struggles. Yea, I'm just trying to, I'm trying to find out which ones are the ones that Intel has actually shared. This might just be a cool render from someone, I don't know.


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[Assistant] Maybe, and maybe I've fallen for it. Guys, if anyone has a link to any renders that Intel has actually directly shared for their upcoming graphics card product, that would be good to know.


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[Assistant] Oh no, I mean it's undoubtedly a good thing. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Okay, so it's a good thing, but only for a certain customer. So if you're someone who plays nothing but Dota, League of Legends, Rocket League, and you want to upgrade an older system, and you want, I mean, for all of Intel's faults, the products are reliable, for the most part. They make mistakes. I mean, I think the, uh,


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[Assistant] The speculative execution issues, you know, your meltdown, your specter, all that kind of stuff, they definitely make mistakes. But when it comes to hardware engineering, if nothing else, they build a reliable product, whether it's an SSD or a CPU or whatever the case may be.


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[Assistant] So you've got this reliable brand name, uhm, I mean, something that graphics card makers, especially the low-end ones, are notorious for is terrible warranty support.


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[Assistant] So they've got the, they've got the support infrastructure set up around the world, so they're this, this trusted company.


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[Assistant] That could bring this entry level graphics card to market for people who have an older system.


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[Assistant] Okay, uhm, and if you're in a market like Brazil where you have literally hundreds of percent tariffs on anything that you buy, you know, every ten dollars cheaper for something that's in the same


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[Assistant] Uh, performance tier as like a $150 card. That makes a big difference to the affordability to you, especially if your income isn't very high. So, having more options.


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[Assistant] Always fantastic for the market. But I think that the enthusiast community, especially with some of the hires that Intel was making around the time that the graphics unit seemed to be spinning up, and Roger Kuduri moved over from AMD, uhm, and all this stuff was happening.


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[Assistant] Uhm, the enthusiast community, I think, got the idea that we were gonna be looking at something very, very high performance. And this speculation was fueled by...


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[Assistant] Rumors that Intel was really targeting the data center space where they wanted to go up against things like AMD's Radeon Instinct and, uh, Nvidia's Tesla cards in like super computing applications. Now.


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[Assistant] That may still be possible. And that may actually be why we're seeing, uh, this Linux code around multi-GPU. Maybe it's not about, you know, Intel


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[Assistant] Crossfire or SLI or whatever you wanna call it. Maybe it's not about putting this discrete card into an entry level system and getting a performance boost. Or maybe they'll do that too because they're already working on it anyway. Maybe what's more likely is that we're gonna see like some honkin' giant card that's got like 16 of these things on it.


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[Assistant] That's all powered by like a couple of 8-pin PCIe connectors, cause remember guys, that's what Intel does well. Extraordinarily efficient GPUs that you can pack right onto a CPU. With that said, AMD also does that very well, and actually in many cases better, but. The point is we're talking about


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[Assistant] We're speculating about what Intel might be doing here, not AMD. So...


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[Assistant] Maybe what we're looking at then is we're looking at many of these operating on a single card, many of which you could slot into a server, and maybe cumulatively, it has a lot of performance, but that ultimately probably won't be that meaningful for enthusiasts. So I think this is just a matter of enthusiasts seeing, like, fan renders like this,


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[Assistant] Which, as far as we can tell, is not real at all. This is just concept art done by, uh, let's see. A student from Brazil.


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[Assistant] So people are looking at stuff like this going, okay, you know, finally someone to...


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[Assistant] You know, give Nvidia some humility, uhm, but, but no. It looks like-


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[Assistant] To Nvidia, not so much. Nvidia is running a process node behind them and still competitive, if not better at almost every price point. Cause Nvidia really over the last...


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[Assistant] I mean five to, not ten, uh, I'd say ever since CUDA, so, yeaah, almost over the last ten years. NVIDIA has really tried to differentiate, uh, on software. Because NVIDIA launched some, and I guess it's been probably, you could say accelerated, ever since their dud of a 400 series. So they've launched some bad hardware products.


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[Assistant] But Nvidia's whole argument over the last, you know, really especially five to seven years has been right. So there's the performance. We can talk about FPS per dollar until we're blue in the face, but that just becomes like a,


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[Assistant] Who can slash their price the best? Who can get their cost the lowest? Uhm, you know, that's a fool's game, is their attitude about it. So they've really been focused on trying to build software that differentiates their product such that if they're 10% slower at the same price point or if they cost 15% more, they're like, okay.


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[Assistant] Well, if you want GeForce Experience, let's say, which does have redeeming features, or if you want, uhm, you know, our awesome, uhm, built-in encoder, or if you want this great, you know, screenshotting, you know, feature that's built into some games, or whatever the case may be, then you're just gonna have to run Nvidia.


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[Assistant] Uhm, things like in-home streaming. They were one of the pioneers in that space. I mean, now anyone can do it, Nvidia or AMD. Uh, G-Sync's another example, which now you can run on AMD or Nvidia. It's not quite the same solution. So, so that's kind of their whole thing. It's like, look, we built it a little better, so we're just gonna charge more. And,


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[Assistant] AMD has competitive products, but really only in the several hundred dollar range. As soon as you get up into kind of the five hundred dollar or so range, AMD doesn't have anything compelling. As far as we can tell, Radeon 7 was just a way to burn through some GPU inventory that they couldn't move to their data center clients, and then it was


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[Assistant] Forgotten about as soon as it appeared.


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[Assistant] We want a competitor to Nvidia, a legitimate competitor in the high end, and we were really hoping that if AMD couldn't get their act together, Intel would step in motivated by chasing that business in the data center where you can sell, you know, tens of thousands of GPUs on a single PO.


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[Assistant] Uhm, motivated by that, they would come in, they would compete in the gaming space, which is...


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[Assistant] Less lucrative, but certainly a high volume market and something that is worthwhile to participate in. It's just, it might be baby steps. We might be looking at something that's pretty much, you know, for running CSGO at decent frame rates on a budget, and then if we're lucky, it'll scale from there.


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[Assistant] Yeah, hopefully, hopefully the audience was into it. Uhm, yeah, it's funny, I, I feel like I tend to explain things more thoroughly if I can't just take for granted that the person sitting next to me already knows what I'm talking about. So, that's, that's interesting.


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[Assistant] Why don't we talk about Western Digital and their 20 terabyte hard drives?


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[Assistant] Here is, and we can, we can, we can talk about sort of the, the technical details a little bit later. So this was posted by André Argenal? Argenu? Arginu?


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[Assistant] André Argenieux on the forums, and we'll go through this stuff later.


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[Assistant] Is anybody actually asking for a 20 terabyte hard drive? You are, aren't you? Am I?


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[Assistant] Okay, so, you know what, fine, let's run through, let's run, let's, let's run through this. So they're sampling enterprise OEMs with 20 terabyte UltraStar DC HC650 hard drives utilizing


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[Assistant] Shingled magnetic recording and helium filled enclosure. So the helium is to improve the efficiency of the drive as the platter spins because there's more air resistance although it's helium resistance now, it's not air.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and Shingled Magnetic Recording takes the tracks that are laid out in circles on the drive platter and actually


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[Assistant] Overlaps them a little bit. We've done some really good content on this in the past. Uh, basically what it means is that there's no penalty while you're reading it. Means you can squeeze them closer together, there's no penalty while you're reading it, but if you need to write it, well here, give me another shingle.


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[Assistant] Perfect, thank you. If I need to change this middle shingle, now I need to also delete this one so that I can get at it, change it, and then put this back.


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[Assistant] So there is a write performance penalty with shingled magnetic drives. So Seagate has used shingled magnetic recording in their archive series in the past, and I've actually used them. I have found that the write penalty, uh, particularly if it is a write once, read many application,


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[Assistant] Doesn't really matter that much. Uhm, but your mileage may vary. If you're gonna try and write a ton of random data to it, like sequential's okay. If you're just archiving like a bunch of video footage, uh, which is the only thing I was using them for in the time we had them deployed.


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[Assistant] No big deal. But if you're gonna hit them with a bunch of random I.O. You're really gonna suffer because every single one of those


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[Assistant] Uh, bits that you need to flip is gonna have a whole bunch of them that you need to then upend, move somewhere else, flip it, and then rewrite. It's, it's a total mess. And really it's actually kind of akin to the way that SSDs write, which is part of why writing performance on SSDs is so much worse than shingled magnetic drives. Yes, guys.


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[Assistant] I understand that they are functionally very different on a hardware level, I just mean conceptually they are similar in that you might need to change a very small thing, but you actually have to erase


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[Assistant] And move, then change it, and then put other stuff back once you're done.


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[Assistant] Uh, the new drives utilize nine platters. Are you familiar with what a hard drive platter is?


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[Assistant] Little metal disc. So traditional hard drives used a single platter, and you could have, uhm, recording space on both sides.


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[Assistant] You've got nine of those packed into a- no wonder they need to fill it with helium in order to keep the air resistance down low enough to make this thing even reasonably efficient.


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[Assistant] No, if one platter goes, you can in some cases, uh, we actually did a great video about this where we toured drive savers. Uhm, so someone like drive savers might be able to go in, replace the, uh, the read head.


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[Assistant] So, that's like this arm that sticks out over all the different platters. They might be able to replace it, and then put on a new one, cause usually it would be that that fails, not like the platter itself that fails, cause it's just...


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[Assistant] It's just magnetic ones and zeros on a metal disk. Uhm, there's not as much to fail, unless the, uh, the read head were to fail spectacularly and crash. It's called a head crash. If that were to hit it, well, it might scratch a bunch of the data, but you might still be able to get a bunch of it back, assuming that you can get, uh, a new read head in.


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[Assistant] So, anyway, where was I going with this? Right, you've got nine of these monsters, you've got this immensely complicated apparatus that's required to read off of them, uhm,


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[Assistant] Meantime between failure. So, that's really kind of where I was eventually going to make my way to with this. Uhm, so they're advertising them for their sequential right use case because, uh, yeaah, singled magnetic voting is not fast enough for random rights. So here's my problem.


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[Assistant] The only way that we can make hard drives faster is either by shrinking the size of the bits on the platters


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[Assistant] Or by spinning them faster. Really that's, that's it. Because if you think about it like the way that a record player works. Right? The only way to make the song go faster is to put the notes closer together or to spin the record faster.


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[Assistant] That's all that you can really do. Now Seagate actually is working on a dual actuator technology that would allow two separate read and write operations to take place simultaneously.


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[Assistant] The nine that are on these 20 terabyte drives, they would all move together. So if you need something on, like, the top platter,


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[Assistant] Well, I'm getting to that. Okay. So on paper, this is great. 20 terabyte drives would mean that in something like a 60 drive storinator, let's just do a quick calculator. I don't, I don't, why is PowerShell opening?


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[Assistant] Wow, I hate you so much. Okay, so 60 times 20. In something like a 60 drive Stornator, in a single 4U rack, with just 60 drives, you could put 1.2 petabytes of data. Even if you're giving up, let's say one in every six drive, as you might, to something like, uh, you know,


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[Assistant] Is that the only way to speed up the performance of these drives is complicated technology like dual actuators. Remember, we're in these tiny three and a half inch enclosures.


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[Assistant] Spinning it faster, which adds more, uh, it adds more drag as the platters spin. It adds more complexity because all of a sudden everything has to be done to within-


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[Assistant] Right. That's exactly where we're going with this. So, hard drives, their capacities keep getting bigger, but their performance is stuck.


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[Assistant] Because we can't spin them faster and we can't really put the bits meaningfully any closer together. All we can do is add more platters at this point. And so what that means is that a 20 terabyte drive at what is pretty typical, uh, you know, let's say like a, uh,


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[Assistant] Ah man, these are shingled. So, let's say it can write at 200 megabytes a second, alright? So let's do, let's do some quick napkin math. We can do...


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[Assistant] What just happened? I don't know what you did. Hold on, hold on. 200 megabytes a second times, uh...


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[Assistant] Hold on a second, 60 seconds. Okay, so we've managed- oh, what can I do for you?


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[Assistant] Alright. Yeah, we had a great holiday season. Thank you guys so much, by the way. Uhm, on LTT store. Okay, so, uh, in a minute, I can write, uh, 12,000 megabytes. Okay, so let's do x60 again.


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[Assistant] Alright, in a day, I can finally write almost the entire surface of this drive.


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[Assistant] Although I think it was in the context of USB thumb drives.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I doubt you're gonna remember, but the point is, guys, when we were in, like, probably I'd say around grade 10, USB thumb drives were like...


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[Assistant] The biz. They were so cool, remember that?


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[Assistant] Okay, well, it was, it was, I remember when I got my first, what was it, it was,


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[Assistant] I think it was 16 megabytes. I got my first USB thumb drive.


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[Assistant] I remember your birthday now. I forgot her birthday the first year we were dating.


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[Assistant] I have never heard the end of it, as you guys can see. Okay, so anyway, back to USB thumb drives. My first USB thumb drive was 16 megabytes, and I was jazzed because I didn't have to use floppy disks to carry my assignments to and from school anymore.


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[Assistant] Wow. And I could even put files that weren't just text. Like if I wanted to share a cool song that I definitely got totally legally on Napst-


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[Assistant] Uh, with a friend. I could bring that to school and give it to them and they could transfer it to their thumb drive and it was like, woah, I can take this to my computer at home and put it on my- my-


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[Assistant] Mini-disc, player, whatever the case may be. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Around the time that I met you, we started to run into this problem. So USB 3 hadn't come along yet to fix it, but USB 2 thumb drives were getting to the point where the capacity was so large,


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[Assistant] That, and there were still some kind of reliability issues with them, especially when you were using them on older systems, that you couldn't really count on them to not have some kind of a problem.


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[Assistant] If you needed to get all the data off of it in an emergency or something like that, like it wasn't really safe to store that much data on this tiny thing, and I remember we had this conversation, do you remember this at all?


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, that's fine. So the point is, the point that I'm getting to, and we solved that problem with faster interfaces, so now you can use USB 3 or Thunderbolt 3 to read and write off of these multi-terabyte portable drives, and we kind of fixed it by just going really, really way faster.


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[Assistant] But hard drives. In that time, hard drives have maybe doubled in speed, except that when I met you, uh, 500 gig hard drive was pretty sweet, and now we're talking drives that are literally what?


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[Assistant] What is this? Why is this fullscreen? Here's my rough napkin math here, guys.


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[Assistant] Uuuh, let's just make sure there's nothing incriminating. There's my rough death command. So in 24 hours...


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[Assistant] I can write not quite that entire drive.


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[Assistant] Practical for this kind of storage even if they are cheap. Well, we might be there.


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[Assistant] Unless they're really cheap. Unless you can literally buy two or three of them for the price that you could store that data on something else.


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[Assistant] And then you can just have it like, duplicated, and in the event that something fails while you're trying to recover it, you just grab it from the other one, copy it over to, like, it starts to become this very complicated data management scheme.


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[Assistant] So hard drive manufacturers are still pretty bullish on their future. They think the hard drive is gonna be around for a good long while. But, I think that for general consumers, who can't afford these complicated data management schemes,


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[Assistant] We might be getting close to the end, because I don't know about you guys, but I don't necessarily want, even in my home NAS,


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[Assistant] I don't necessarily want a drive that, remember, if I'm copying this over gigabit is now gonna take more than two days. I don't necessarily want a drive that in the event that I'm dealing with some kind of data emergency is gonna take two days for me to know if it's gonna be okay.


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[Assistant] And, the, like, especially crazy thing about this is if you talk to some data center clients, some enterprise clients, they're not even asking for this. Backblaze famously uses, I think it's, shoot, don't quote me on this, it's either 4 or 6 terabyte drives.


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[Assistant] Backblaze, uh, drives, which ones do they use?


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[Assistant] And the reason is that they found that from a, from a cost per terabyte total cost of ownership perspective,


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[Assistant] The newer models actually have not had a great advantage for them. And they have preferred the better reliability of these less complex drives, even if it means that they ultimately have to deploy more servers over more cabinets in a larger area in the data center.


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[Assistant] They did have higher failure rates with those 12 terabyte drives than they did on here. Guys, I can pull up their latest reliability report. They actually, uhm, published this back in, it looks like, March.


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[Assistant] Remember too though guys that, uh, let's see, drive days. Oh wow, actually those Toshiba ones are looking pretty good. Single failure, annualized failure rate.


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[Assistant] Uh, I think that's the total day, like it's, um, how long it's been used times the number of drives would be my, would be my understanding here.


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[Assistant] So yea, it might be that that was, uh, it might be that that was outdated information. So either way, it's gonna come down to this complex relationship between how much the drive costs versus how much it costs for the thing that it needs to go in versus how often it fails and how complex and disastrous it is when it fails.


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[Assistant] Some people are like, what about SSHD? So, SSHD is basically a small SSD that's kind of like, soldered onto a hard drive. And I think you may be sort of misunderstanding the purpose of SSHD if you think that it's applicable here. So,


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[Assistant] Any hard drive, whether it's got a small SSD cache on it or not, is ultimately limited by how fast it spins and how close the bits are.


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[Assistant] An SSHD takes frequently accessed data and caches it onto an SSD so that in the event that there's like a game that you always play, uhm, instead of grabbing it from the magnetic platters, it can grab that off the SSD and you feel like it's super responsive. Now usually,


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[Assistant] These, these SSDs are so small that something like a game wouldn't end up being cached. It's more like, uh, files that Windows frequently accesses. Stuff like that.


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[Assistant] Uhm, or maybe, you know, components of DirectX or your graphics driver that it would access as you're loading up a game. So it can accelerate almost anything. Uhm, but it doesn't help if the data doesn't fit in the cache. So when we're talking about writing to the entire surface of a drive,


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[Assistant] It would do meaningfully nothing. And when you're talking about reading from the entire surface of the drive, it's negligible again. So it wouldn't really help with that.


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[Assistant] Uhm, well, okay, so here's an example. Uh, we're rolling a new, uh, petabyte project.


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[Assistant] So another scenario, and this is the dangerous scenario, and it might not matter today, but it might matter five years from now.


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[Assistant] Here's the scenario. You've got eight of these things spinning in a little enclosure like this sitting on your desk. One of them dies.


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[Assistant] Alright, so that's a total of 8 times 20 is 160 terabytes of data, right? Uhm, is that right? 180 terabytes? Help me. No, 160. 160, yea. 160 terabytes of data. All of it is now at risk.


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[Assistant] Because of 20 terabytes of data that now needs to be restored to another drive.


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[Assistant] During that restore operation, I pull that failed drive as soon as I possibly can, I put in a new one, now I need to wait. Every one of those drives has to be read entirely, and one of them has to be written to entirely. A process that could take over a day, while I'm sitting there going,


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[Assistant] But, that was back when a hard drive might be 80 gigs. So what have you got on there? You got two blu-rays?


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[Assistant] So, okay, that's fine. 20 terabytes! You can have your whole life on 20 terabytes! Okay. And, and, there's, okay, there's like a psychological component to this too. When people see 20 terabytes, just fill it.


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[Assistant] Don't think about it, because we gotta remember that this is from not necessarily a techie person's perspective as well. When you see a 20 terabyte storage drive in your computer, you might go, oh, gee, you know, I can store everything on this. And people don't practice safe backup.


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[Assistant] Actually, our stuff could be safer right now. It could be safer.


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[Assistant] I told the drives not to- yeah, that's not safe at all. Well- Cause I don't have your desktop backed up at all, because why would I? It's just Windows, it's utterly meaningless at this point. It doesn't do anything.


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[Assistant] Uhm, speaking of bringing things back, I'm bringing us back to our sponsors for today's video, who I actually, uhm,


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[Assistant] I can't get the dock open because Google managed to log me out while I was sitting here in the middle of the thing. So the sponsors for today's show are Squarespace! You wanna do a sponsor read? Sure. Think you got it in ya?


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[Assistant] It's also brought to you by Honey! Not my Honey, different Honey. Hey Honey. Honey is the free shopping tool that finds the best promo codes whenever you shop online at sites like Amazon, eBay, Newegg, Razer, Best Buy, Walmart, and more. Those of you who have downloaded Honey using our code have saved over $100,000 in the past few months.


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[Assistant] And the best part of Honey is that, like I said, it is free. They make their commission from the sites that you shop at, not from you.


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[Assistant] So go ahead and install it, it's just two clicks. Uh, Colton, Brandon, Luke, I'm trying to think who else uses it around here.


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[Assistant] I know, right? Adulting. Uhm, anyway guys, there's no excuse. Get honey for f-


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[Assistant] Is a magnet mounted metal print that looks a little something like that. They're durable and, hey, great news for my honey, you don't need any power tools to hang them.


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[Assistant] Alright, Tesla competitor Rivian raises another 1.3 billion in funding. Where's my 1.3 billion in funding, Miss CFO, over here?


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[Assistant] Okay, well, you will at some point. So the original article here is actually from everywhere. Everyone's reporting on this. Bloomberg, Ars Technica, The Verge.


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[Assistant] Eevee manufacturer Rivian, established way back in 2009 actually, has been playing the long game, keeping news and memes and smoking weed on the largest podcasts in the world to a minimum while quietly developing their core technology in the background, like their batteries, power train, etc.


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[Assistant] This year, they have raised funding numerous times. The first round in February, led by, uh, Amazon, yielded 700 million. In April, Ford invested 500 million, and in September, Cox Automotive invested 350 million. This is 1.55 billion. Then,


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[Assistant] Led by T. Rowe Price Associates, they raised another 1.3 billion, bringing the total up to 2.85. So for comparison, Tesla has raised more than 20 billion in equity and debt financing over the last decade. With this new funding, they hope to have vehicles rolling off their once Mitsubishi owned plant in 2020.


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[Assistant] I think ultimately I'm going to end up being right to wait on the electric vehicle bandwagon.


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[Assistant] Because there's already some really interesting stuff. Like, on the one hand, you could go, okay, yeaah. Well, the Model S still beats, uh, Porsches. Is, is it Porsches? Uuuuh.


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[Assistant] Model S versus Porsche, yeah, Porsche Taycan. Uhm, so, okay, yeah, maybe the Model S like still beats it or whatever, so I could have just as easily bought myself a Model S, you know, a few years back and have been enjoying it all this time, that's a fair enough point. But, the flip side of that is that,


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[Assistant] At least, it's a competition that we're talking about.


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[Assistant] So by the time I'm ready to move on from the vault, which I still need to do a video on. By the time I'm ready to move on from the vault, uhm, there could be enough competition that you can get something really sweet for a lot less than what you're spending now. With that said, the Model 3 is looking pretty sweet. I just-


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[Assistant] That's- that's fair. I just- there's- there's things that I don't like about the way Tesla is going about this. I- So, three things.


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[Assistant] I don't like how Tesla is approaching the right to repair thing. Uhm, not allowing people and non-authorized repair services to have access to the tools that they need to fix the car safely. Uhm, I'm not a fan of what-


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[Assistant] They can still build tools, uh, that will make it so other people can interface with it without giving away their proprietary software. Uhm, thing I don't like number two is this whole, uhm, hardware as a service


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[Assistant] Uhm, thing that's kind of creeping up on us. So Tesla has actually developed a very good reputation for keeping the software of their cars up to date and adding new features over time.


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[Assistant] But what it seems like to me is that they've been playing a very careful, very intentional long game here because a recent update for the Model 3 is actually a paid update. So you can pay for your Model 3, assuming you have the correct hardware configuration, to go a little bit faster.


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[Assistant] Now these are things that they used to either have you buy at the time of purchase, uhm, or, uhm, sorry, where was I going with this?


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[Assistant] Alright, or they would actually provide free upgrades over time as they realized that, oh, you know, the battery packs can actually output a little bit more juice, we can, we can handle this, let's just go ahead and roll it out. And that was really cool.


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[Assistant] And then now, we're finding that they're putting software locks at the time of purchase.


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[Assistant] Instead of actually changing out the hardware depending on the features you buy. So, software locks made their way in. Uh, I think particularly with their, their autopilot features and now with performance. And then now software locks are coming after the fact. So they're finding ways to monetize these cars.


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[Assistant] On an ongoing basis, I think this is a really dangerous path to go down, but I also don't


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[Assistant] I don't know what the right solution is because, uh, what the existing big car manufacturers have been doing obviously isn't right, where they just put it out in the wild and go, ehh.


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[Assistant] You know, if it's buggy, then I- I don't know, I guess that one has issues with the CD changer. Too bad, we'll fix it in the next model year, I guess you can just get a new car. Ha! So that's not right either. And I also know that ongoing software development has to be funded by something. I just am not a huge fan of, uhm, you know, having my-


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[Assistant] How do we know that we're not going down a slippery slope where I have to pay on a monthly basis to have that performance? Or maybe, oh, let's turn it into a microtransaction. So every time I press the pedal, like, you know, twice hard or something, I get the extra boost and it costs me 50 cents.


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[Assistant] Oh man. I hope no one from Tesla is watching this right now. Microtransactions!


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[Assistant] I find it offensive that I paid for something that you put in there, or maybe I, okay, maybe I didn't pay for it, whatever. The point is, you sold me this hardware that has capability X. So clearly, at the price I paid, let's say $50,000, you were making a profit on it.


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[Assistant] And then, arbitrarily, you've decided that that wasn't the right amount of profit, and you want a little bit more for me to get everything that I paid for. It was all there.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but they did all that software development. They are just artificially segmenting it.


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[Assistant] And now, arguably, they did do additional engineering and additional software development for something like a speed boost. And somebody's gotta pay for that. So I get it, I just think it is an extremely slippery slope.


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[Assistant] The last thing I don't like is I don't like their marketing. I don't like them calling it autopilot. I think that is extremely misleading for what the capabilities of their autonomous driving features are.


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[Assistant] No, no, that was the, I believe it was the summoning or remote control feature. And yes, they have features that are deployed today that are effectively your car basically driving itself as long as you have your hands on the wheel every once in a while.


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[Assistant] Bunging it up right at the beginning causing legislators and Luddites and all the other people who are gonna hold up signs and yell about how bad this is and they took our cars and whatever.


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[Assistant] They're gonna just add fuel to that fire and make it take longer than it has to. Because I want a level 5 autonomous vehicle as soon as possible, but...


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[Assistant] It's not going to happen if someone screws up at level 3 and then...


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[Assistant] It's just illegal for the longest time, even though we had the technology and it was there, if only we'd been patient and we had set expectations correctly. Those are my three problems with Tesla. Those are the three reasons that I have a hard time supporting them.


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[Assistant] Uhm, 100L3 says, Ah, dangerous day. My childhood memories. You have a kindred spirit out there.


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[Assistant] Side hilarious thing, Rivian's vehicles now apparently have a feature called tank turn, which looks amazing.


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[Assistant] I mean if you're gonna have a motor on every wheel, it might as well.


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[Assistant] I think their truck looks, like, less ridiculous too, actually. It looks more like a regular truck. Yeah, but it still looks kinda futuristic and cool.


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[Assistant] Oh yea, definitely. I mean, but that's the thing. Tesla's done a great job of, of building that brand for themselves. I mean, maybe part of it is I'm just, like, I'm trying to be contrarian. Maybe that's, maybe that's part of it. I can, I can admit that, uhm, you know,


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[Assistant] Honestly, I get a little annoyed when I'm shopping for a car, as I was a year ago, and people are just like, oh you're a tech guy, get a Tesla. It's like,


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[Assistant] It's not the only car manufacturer on earth, and there are reasons that it might not be optimal.


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[Assistant] Uhm, let's just see- Okay, well I won't ruin it for everybody. Let's just see if there's anything else that we really want to talk through. The iPhone XR continues to be the best-selling phone of 2019, uh, in spite of the iPhone 11's launch.


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[Assistant] Yeah, okay. This is considered globally. Uhm, their selling price was adjusted in China and other markets this year, and the XR became even more affordable after the XI released. XI is also on the bestseller list, along with three Samsung and three Oppo smartphones, if you guys wanna see the whole thing. Uhm...


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[Assistant] It's on 9 to 5 Mac. Uh, Apple Insider also reported that Apple earned 66% of the entire smartphone industry's profits in 2019. Wow.


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[Assistant] That's what happens when you differentiate based on software. Uhm, so yeaah, seems to be working out well for Nvidia, seems to be working out just fine for Tesla, and seems to be working out pretty darn well for Apple because they don't have 66% of the hardware market share. Selling hardware ain't nearly as profitable as selling software. Uhm, what else we got here?


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[Assistant] Yeah, this is pretty cool. Color E Ink displays are now available. I'm just gonna go ahead and bring up, uh, ctimes.com.tw. So that's pretty sick.


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[Assistant] E-ink, if you guys aren't familiar, is super efficient, so like on our Kindle.


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[Assistant] So, you know, you wouldn't watch a video using an E-Ink display or anything like that because the whole point of it is that it only refreshes as often as the, uh, as the on-screen image needs to change. So that's what gives it that stunning efficiency and you basically don't need to power it once it's, uh, once it's actually got the image on screen.


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[Assistant] You could, you could draw, but yea, no, it would be, I would see it as something that you could use for reading. So now you could read a children's book in color on your, on your reader.


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[Assistant] Yeah, e-paper displays have been single-digit color in the form of like, dye capsules. So this contains four pigments per microcapsule for a total gamut of 32,000 colors and it costs $800!


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[Assistant] Uh, for this 13.3 inch advanced color e-paper display. Now, obviously we're hoping for prices to come down a little bit in the long term. Ahem. Uh, if we're gonna be buying, you know, Kindle readers or whatever with this technology, but,


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[Assistant] Every time we see an advancement like this, it's a matter of time before it makes its way into a reasonable priced product. So I'm, I'm looking forward to it. I think it'd be really cool to, you know, read Bernstein Bears or whatever.


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[Assistant] I mean, we were, we were driving down the street, and uh, I was, I was just looking at this building off to the side, and I was like, they're, they're building something. It's a giant construction project, very expensive. And I was like,


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[Assistant] It's another one of those bloody you store things. Are these that popular? Cause I've never had one. Uhm, and then the moment that the words were out of my mouth, I was like,


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[Assistant] Oh right, obviously, like we got into the real estate market here in Vancouver at a time when, I mean we were very lucky to be able to afford a detached home when we did.


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[Assistant] Almost 10 years ago. Almost 10 years ago we bought our home together. And we were also very lucky in terms of our life stage at that time. So we were only 22?


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[Assistant] We were 22, uhm, when we were shopping and, and, you know, getting a mortgage and all that stuff. And it just so happened that Yvonne finished her program with her pharmacy degree. A lot of people think that she married me for my money. Actually, the other way around.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so Yvonne just graduated with her pharmacy degree, and then she got a job almost immediately as a pharmacy manager, clearly destined for business.


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[Assistant] So she had the income. She was making six figures basically right out of university. Which was sick.


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[Assistant] And then I had flunked out, like two and a half years prior or something like that, at least two and a half years prior, and I had been working that whole time. Now I had accumulated zero student loan debt.


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[Assistant] In the time that I was in school, because of the summer painting program that I was doing, I was able to make, it was like the worst time of my life, but I was able to make enough money to entirely pay for my school, uh, just in the, with my summer job, which was pretty sick, and I had even helped pay for some of hers, and her parents had helped pay for some of hers,


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[Assistant] Uhm, and so we were in this great position where our credit was good because I'd had a credit card since I- the day I turned


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[Assistant] Sixteen, I guess. Yeah, when my parents were able to co-sign with me because they were like, look, you need to get your credit score up. There's just...


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[Assistant] I had like a $500 limit or something like that, like I had a super low limit, but the idea was I just needed to use it for everything.


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[Assistant] So, we were extraordinarily lucky, and sometimes it's easy to forget that, and we look at something like a, yet another one of these used stores going in, and go like, what is everybody using these for? And I went, right, of course. Because for the price of what we paid for a detached home ten years ago,


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[Assistant] People are buying a townhouse or a condo now. And it's like, right, where are they gonna, I mean, we already struggle with like, where the devil are we gonna keep like snowboards and stuff when the kids all want snowboards.