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[Assistant] This is something that Yvonne and I were talking about recently. The concept of, like, investments being risky, right? Investments carry an inherent risk. So, buying something like the lab, something that, an investment that has gone down, right? And investment carries risk. And it's like, yes, that's true.


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[Assistant] But literally every asset class can be seen as an investment on some level. Like here, here's something interesting. Did you know that the Canadian dollar has lost five cents to the U.S. dollar in the last three weeks? I know that because I saw it on your screen. Right.


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[Assistant] The mere act of having cash in the bank not invested is an investment.


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[Assistant] A good one. Well, with inflation being what it is, I would say no. But it is certainly an investment. So this is where the concept of a land bank was introduced to me, where it was kind of like, well, here's the thing. You actually can't trust cash.


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[Assistant] I mean, Dubai would have something to say about that, I suppose, but in general. Most places are. In general, they're not making more of it, right? And so I, uhm, uh, this, coming back to sort of the reason for having this conversation, we're already looking around the lab going, holy crap, we're gonna run out of space in this place.


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[Assistant] And I had wanted to explore the idea of, I don't know, renting the unit next door or in the long term, you know, because my understanding is there's a long term tenant there now. So I'm kind of sitting here going, okay.


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[Assistant] Maybe if we could scrape together a down payment between now and when that lease expires, maybe we could acquire that. And I was informed that the owner is using it as a land bank.


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[Assistant] That's just sound financial planning apparently when you just like have 10 million dollars that you don't want to just disappear because there was a bank run. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Uh, SVB, uh, Silicon Valley Bank, it's Linus.


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[Assistant] No, no, I just mean like, like you, like you guys don't keep your money there, right? Silicon Valley Bank? Okay. Just checking.


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[Assistant] Your chase. Cool. Oh yeah, SVB experienced a bank run. They're like, gone, essentially.


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[Assistant] This is the one that I was most worried about because these guys are very much in like stealth mode right now. They have absolutely, like, framework has cash flow. They're selling laptops. That helps a lot. You can refill the coffers. That helps a lot. See, okay, actually, you know what? It occurs to me that Linus Media Group would probably be okay.


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[Assistant] Because we could borrow from Creator Warehouse, where we have consistent cash coming in. Linus Media Group, I mean, think about it, many of our customers are probably impacted. Yep. So, oh crap. Yeah, that's not good.


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[Assistant] But it piecemeal from individual customers, that would mean that creator warehouse could lend us money to operate and we would probably stay.


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[Assistant] Uhm, we'd probably be fine. So, so that was my point, was that if you have regular income,


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[Assistant] Probably you can ride this out a lot more easily, but if like this NAS software that we


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[Assistant] I mean, I have no idea if I'm gonna get anything back from this. They just, they're creating a product that I really want to exist. It's like a simpler, user-friendly, and yet still powerful NAS solution for DIY and enthusiasts. Uhm, and they are completely in like,


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[Assistant] Oh, how do I say this without it coming across the wrong way? Not expecting a return? Yeah, uhm, I went in in both, if, if there's a return, I'mma be like,


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[Assistant] Cool, but like we talked about last week, the reality of it is, if I really wanted more money, my biggest investment is Linus Media Group Inc., Creator Warehouse Inc., and Float Plane Inc.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I, I kinda danced around it last week, but it was, it was a nine-figure offer. Okay? For the, for the whole shebang.


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[Assistant] I get to just do stuff like this. So I get to just say, hey, that's something I really want to exist, I know you guys are super cool, and even if I never get anything out of it,


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[Assistant] This is great. I will be the most hands-off investor that you have ever had. Uhm, like, it's really funny, because even internally, people will want to know, like, what's going on with framework and stuff, because it's, like, interesting technology, and I'm like,


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[Assistant] Yeah, you haven't, and like, I would imagine the paperwork of putting that investment into it means you've probably increased their valuation or whatever. Like, I don't think you can just be, say, oh, I won't, I need to replace the, like, money that disappeared.


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[Assistant] Cause, cause you already have the shares that presumably you were issued based on that initial investment. The fact that they, like, pissed it away in a, you know, bank or whether they, whether they pissed it away or lost it or lost it or whatever.


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[Assistant] The vehicle by which they lost the money, cause they bought, I don't know, 300 Herman Miller chairs or whatever, like it doesn't matter how they lost it, it's gone.


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[Assistant] They would have to issue more shares, or you would have to find some justification for the valuation to be higher or something, or some combination of the two, right? Like, you can't have something for nothing.


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[Assistant] So people are talking low interest loans is something you could do. I can tell you from researching it, you can't just issue like a 1% interest loan, even if you're just super dupey, definitely best friends.


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[Assistant] Oh man, there's people on Reddit apparently, this is in floatplane chat, people on Reddit posting about how their payroll companies went through SVB so they weren't getting paychecks. Like the fact that this is the bank of, of the cradle of, you know, modern internet technology, it means that there's,


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[Assistant] I've got people saying the government is the reason for this. It is not that simple. Uhm, like a bank run doesn't just happen because the government, uhm,


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[Assistant] Man, apparently Roblox has many SVB, I don't even feel bad for them though. No offense.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think they'll figure it out. Wow. Alright.


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[Assistant] Okay, well, uhm, neat, uh, good luck everybody. What do you want to talk about next, Mr. Luke?


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[Assistant] Last week, we announced this. It's a pouch that holds technology, but we were informed that


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[Assistant] That name that we announced for it is in fact trademarked. How anyone managed to trademark a descriptive name, uhm, is baffling to me because when we went through the process of trademarking the name of our, uh, joystick covers, which, uhm, will go on sale at some point,


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[Assistant] They're little, they're little silicone covers that go in your joysticks for travel. Is that the game that was in the bag last time? Uh, oh, were they? Uh, no, different one. No, they're not for grip when you're gaming, they're for travel.


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[Assistant] We hope. Yeah. We don't, we don't guarantee anything. No. So we're not- That would be a bad idea. We're not making any claims about anything. But they go over your joysticks, and they lock them in place, uh, when it's sitting in a bag, or in storage, or- Tight end. Oh no. When you're traveling or whatever else. Uhm.


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[Assistant] So anyway, when we were going through the trademark process for that, we wanted to call them stick locks, and we wanted to trademark that. And we were basically told, yeaah, you can't really trademark a name that is simply descriptive of the function of the product.


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[Assistant] So, how anyone managed to trademark Tech Pouch is sort of baffling to me. Uhm, it's cool to me that the owner of the Tech Pouch trademark apparently considers us an important enough rival to bother to send a cease and desist to.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so, it holds tech. I mean, it can hold anything. We have a couple of ideas. Uh, do you want- Do you have sandwiches? Do you want to- I mean-


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[Assistant] I wouldn't recommend putting a sandwich in it. It could though. Yeah, but these are fabric materials. They're fairly absorbent. If your sandwich gets a little leaky, get like some mayo in there. I don't know if it would be great. That'd be not great. Yeah, you don't need like sandwich mayo in this thing. Anyway, the point is that


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[Assistant] Uh, where does this, uh, where does this go? Uh, yes, idea number one, gamer pouch.


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[Assistant] Once again, I think that would be pretty difficult to, uh, pretty difficult to trademark, so it shouldn't be an issue. Uh, but my, my problem with that is it sounds an awful lot like, uhm, you know,


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[Assistant] Yeaah, we call that like the compartment of holding, so I don't know. Um, beg of tech, yeaah, that's pretty funny. Uh, Linus's tech sack. Okay, I appreciate the suggestions, floatplane chat.


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[Assistant] LOM says tech sack is fine. I kinda like tech sack. Yeah, tech sack's not bad. Thanks, bro. Yeah, yeah, it's pretty good. Uh, we could call it LTT pouch. Yeah, yeah, that's actually not bad. Throw LTT pouch in there.


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[Assistant] You should throw Pouchy McPouchface in there just to make sure that we've got the internet culture represented. Would we actually launch that?


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[Assistant] No we couldn't do that. That would definitely be an actual trademark issue.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Tech Sack is making up a lot of ground here. Uh, why don't we, why don't we change gears a little bit here. And, oh man, Paul, Luke, we've got so much stuff to talk about this week. We've got a secret shopper update. Dell.


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[Assistant] Our own stuff in the first four announcements. No, this is Dell. Dell reached out to me out of nowhere being like, Hey, we have no idea if you have a secret shopper plan or anything like that, but we're ready.


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[Assistant] You advised him to completely wipe his drive, fresh install, and the reason for that was because in order to expose the cheaters, Goat installed the same cheat software that they were using, which, I mean, I don't wanna generalize.


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[Assistant] But if I was gonna generalize, I would say that if you're a developer of cheating software for video games, you're probably not the most, uh,


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[Assistant] Ah crap, I forget the details, but basically there's, there's the first, uh, instance of, of, it's been theorized for a while, but there's the first instance of like a firmware based, uh, malware.


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[Assistant] That can, uh, survive a complete system reformat because it can fool the, all the like trusted, uhm, trusted boot jobs.


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[Assistant] Ah man, secure boot. It can fool secure boot and like all the, uh, the trust elements in that chain that, uhm, that protect the pre-operating system loading, actually even pre-UEFI loading environment. So that's a whole, that's a whole thing.


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[Assistant] Man, like, seriously? Malware that can survive a complete system format and then just go and reinstall


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[Assistant] We've talked before about how there are cheats that are literally a robot arm playing the game. But that's not fun. Very few people are going to set up a 3D printer to move the mouse around for them to play the game.


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[Assistant] Most cheaters wanna press the button, and feel like a Chad, cause they, you know, I'm sick of this game. Or whatever, right? So I feel like for most cheaters, that's not gonna be that appealing.


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[Assistant] I know that developing game cheats is illegal in I think, South Korea. I think also using them is illegal in South Korea.


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[Assistant] Like the last story we were talking about, this is very much a developing story right now, and I cannot believe, I mean- The level of impact? When we first talked about this, I went-


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[Assistant] Wow, that's really cool. F*** that game. Right? Uh, like, like, I love this kind of expose, investigative journalism type of content. Yea, and he's done a great job, yea. Yea, like, like, you know, good job, kudos, and all of that, right?


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[Assistant] I didn't expect the explosion on their community last week. I didn't expect that we're gonna be looking at people getting literally arrested over the development of this cheating software.


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[Assistant] Uh, Chinese police and gaming giant Tencent has led to the...


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[Assistant] Oh, oh, oh, two years ago. Nevermind, this is old. This is, yeah. Okay. Yeah, cause it said like- Well, okay, oh, I think they posted this to show that yes, it is very much a thing.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's not a fanny pack. If we were to ever do a fanny pack...


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[Assistant] I give you my personal Linus Tech Tips guarantee, we will call it the Wanny Pack, I promise.


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[Assistant] As long as it has like a WAN, a WAN. It would have to be WAN. Yeah, color scheme. But yes, yes, yes, we will do it, we'll do it. Okay, we should remake the poll. It's Tech Sack versus Pouchy McPouchface. Okay. Guys, come on.


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[Assistant] Oh, actually Linus Tech-Tote had a lot of people asking for it as well. Should we just do another round? And then do one more after? I think it's gotta come down to two. Yeah, we'll put these two more options in. So let's put in the two new options. So Linus Tech-Tote and, uh, or no, that's the only one. And then Tech-Sack and Pouchy McPouchface.


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[Assistant] Oh man, ow, the LTT bag. That's pretty funny, actually. Throw in the LTT bag. So just LTT bag, but it's funny if you say it out loud, cause... testicles.


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[Assistant] Oh no. Uhm, alright, why don't we, why don't we change gears and, oh my, is there any good news this week? Uhm, ring!


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[Assistant] Is giving police invasive user footage. I mean, we're not just talking like, you know, porch pirates need a reckoning and you gotta like, catch these guys. We're talking last year.


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[Assistant] Ring announced that at the end of this month, it will require new and existing users to buy a subscription for basic security features that used to be included with the purchase of the camera, including using the Ring app to arm and disarm security, receiving notifications when an alarm triggers, or customizing the camera to record during an alarm.


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[Assistant] It was allowing police access to users cameras without a warrant or the owners consent because the police claimed it was an emergency.


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[Assistant] Ring has also been repeatedly criticized for providing users footage to police even when it has no legal obligation to do so.


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[Assistant] Ring claims that they carefully review all requests from law enforcement and ask for revising warrants when the demands are inappropriate or overly broad. But last year,


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[Assistant] Michael Larkin, a ring user in Ohio with 21 cameras around his home and business, was asked by police to provide footage from his outside-facing cameras to aid in an ongoing investigation into a neighbor.


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[Assistant] The police then asked for all the footage from the day in question, which he declined. The cameras record in short bursts whenever there's movement and it would have taken a long time to download and send each file.


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[Assistant] The police then sent a warrant to Ring, requesting all of the footage from all of his cameras, which Ring gave them, including footage from the three cameras inside his house, and the 13 cameras at his business, which is at a completely separate location.


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[Assistant] One of the cameras inside the home is located in his bedroom.


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[Assistant] Larkin only found out about this when Ring sent him a notification that police had been given his footage. They didn't request or otherwise push back on the warrant or anything like that. They're just like, yup, here's footage from this guy's bedroom.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we, we, we did a couple sponsor spots with Ring way back in the day. I think that was like pre-Amazon acquisition.


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[Assistant] Uh, I forget when it happened, but there was, there was like a fairly early incident where they were just handing over footage and we basically said, look, you guys need to change this policy or we're not gonna work with you anymore.


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[Assistant] Okay, I was about to be all judgy and say, well, why would you have a camera in your bedroom in the first place? That's stupid. Or something like that. But, I mean, okay, I don't know. Maybe they have pets. And maybe their pets like to hang out in the bedroom and they, you know, like to keep an eye on them for whatever reason. Like they could have health problems or...


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[Assistant] You don't know, right? You never know what someone's situation is. Maybe there's a very good reason that they have- Conrad.


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[Assistant] Okay, it's time for our last poll. Uh, we, we do need this name. We need to get this thing relaunched on the store. Uh, the results- Okay, is it our- Okay.


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[Assistant] This Tech Tote is out. New poll, it's Tech Sack at 26% of the vote versus LTT Bag at 24% versus Pouchy McPouchface at 35%.


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[Assistant] Fine, Luke, we will do the three-way vote, and then we will do a two-way final. It's gonna last the whole show, which is really impressive, because Wancho's like, four hours now.


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[Assistant] It's ridiculous. Why are- why is WAN Show four hours? We've gotta fix this. Okay, that's it. WAN Show's done. Bye.


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[Assistant] I'm kidding, I'm not done. There's so much more to talk about this week. How were you not able to find topics to- Oh! Oh, this is great! Okay, I guess we're gonna talk about more LTT store stuff because this is super exciting.


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[Assistant] Uhm, actually, you know what, let's get the sponsors out of the way, and then we will, and then we will get to the next thing. Actually very excited for the sponsors.


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[Assistant] You're excited for the sponsors. I am. Since when are you excited for sponsors, Mr. Privateer? Cause there's a Dennis integration. Oh no. Wait, what is this?


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[Assistant] Okay, today's show is brought to you by FreshBooks. If your math is as bad as mine.


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[Assistant] You will need FreshBooks. Linus, I know you're not that good with math. Thanks, Dennis. Uh, FreshBooks is an easy to use accounting software that makes it simple to send invoices and collect your cash. FreshBooks was created specifically for business owners and accounting professionals, so it hits that sweet spot between usable and useful.


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[Assistant] It has everything you need to manage your books, like invoicing, expense and time tracking, automated payments, and reports to tell you how healthy your business is. If you bank with SVB, uh, not very. Uh, go to freshbooks.com slash when to save 90% on your first four months. Wow, that was very choreographed, so sorry.


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[Assistant] The show is also brought to you by Goliath Technologies.


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[Assistant] Uh, Goliath is a best-in-class end-user experience monitoring and troubleshooting software. It allows you to find the root cause of any IT issue in three clicks or less. Wow, that is a bold claim.


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[Assistant] Uh, with Goliath, you can solve even the most complex Citrix or VMware Horizon user interface issues in minutes, and you get a troubleshooting expert out of the box. So even a level one service desk can resolve issues without escalating them further.


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[Assistant] The technology comes with embedded intelligence and automation so you can be set up and operating in minutes and all the policies are designed by experts and tell you what to monitor for and how to interpret the data.


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[Assistant] So if you have Citrix or VMware Horizon and are having performance issues, Goliath can help you. And if you're in healthcare, Goliath comes with industry-only modules for Cerner, Epic, and Metatech. Sign up for a free trial and save 20% using the link in the video description.


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[Assistant] Man, that is like very fancy. All these like animations and stuff and everything. Although that LTT logo just like hanging out in the middle of the screen looks a little clunky. And 20% off quote Linus Tech Tips to avail the discount. Dennis must have wrote this.


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[Assistant] Oh no, it's centered, it's just my angle. He's trying, he's trying, he's doing a good job. Good job, Dennis.


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[Assistant] Thank you Luke, that's really helpful. May seem daunting, but Squarespace is here to make it easier than figuring out how the self serve line works at your local grocery store.


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[Assistant] Squarespace is an easy to use platform to start building your online presence right away. They offer customizable themes and templates for your online store, local business, portfolio, and more. They even look great on mobile devices. We use Squarespace for the Linus Media Group website and the LTX 2023 website.


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[Assistant] Okay, and if you already have a website, Squarespace makes it super simple to port your domain over. Their 24-7 support is always there for you if you encounter a problem, and you can get started on your webpage today.


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[Assistant] That's how you avail your discount. Well, that's certainly eye-catching. Thank you, Dennis, very much for the helpful additions to our otherwise bland and boring sponsor reads on the show.


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[Assistant] Xsack at 33% of the vote. LTTBag at 30% of the vote and Pouchy McPouchface at just 36% of the vote.


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[Assistant] So it's Tech Sack versus Pouchy McPouchface. Let's go! Let's go! Last pull.


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[Assistant] Excuse me, last poll. Uhm, hey, we should do a couple of merch messages. For those of you who are new to the WAN Show, which seems to be a lot of you today, we've got 21,000 live viewers over on YouTube. We've got...


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[Assistant] Twitch is slow. One moment please, my dashboard is loading.


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[Assistant] You get owned. Get owned yourself. Uhm, anyway, uh, so yeaah, we've got a lot of new people watching. The way to interact with the show is not through


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[Assistant] Superchats, I almost said merch messages. Not through superchats, not through twitch bits, it's merch messages. And what makes them superior to superchats and twitch bits is that


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[Assistant] While just like those methods, you can absolutely throw your money at the screen for no reason other than hoping for acknowledgement from people that you only know through a little screen.


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[Assistant] In front of you, uhm, not only that, but in case we don't get to your message, or just even if we do, instead of just like lining Google or Amazon's pockets, you will get merchandise in the mail, water bottles, desk pads,


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[Assistant] Whatever we're gonna call this thing that holds tech stuff in his, uh, pouch. Uhm, oh, oh man, we've got a new product to announce today that I'm-


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[Assistant] So excited about, we'll talk about that later. Do we have multiple? Uh, no, no, just one. Oh, okay. The point is that if you send a merch mess, just go to lttstore.com and in the checkout,


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[Assistant] It's a funny thing because as the platform has matured and as the tools to create video have become more and more accessible


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[Assistant] The production values you can get for a thousand dollars today are better than what you could do for probably 10,000 back when we started. Honestly, like really, particularly in spaces like lighting, lighting has gotten.


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[Assistant] Cheap. It's incredible what you can do with cheap lighting these days. Like you can get high CRI bulbs at Home Depot now. You know, that's the kind of thing that just didn't exist ten years ago, right?


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[Assistant] What's funny is that as access to the tools and as the strength of the platform overall has gotten better,


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[Assistant] The competition has also gotten fiercer. So I would say that today, it is easier than ever to have a video blow up.


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[Assistant] Like, YouTube algorithmically is so powerful.


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[Assistant] But, I would say that today, it's as hard as ever to build


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[Assistant] Momentum. Yes. To build a large, to build a large channel, to build a team. Yeah, exactly. So, it's...


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[Assistant] What were we talking about again? Right, yeah, yeah, could you break out? So yeah, I, I would have said, I would have said no. Until...


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[Assistant] I think we have said no in the past, actually.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think, cause I, and I will tell you that initially I thought the question was, can you still, like, can you still break out in the tech space? And for that, the answer is absolutely yes, because I think the future of the platform is many


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[Assistant] Niche channels. More than these like uhm, you know, like I see us kind of like a department store channel.


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[Assistant] Away from the one stop shop, away from the department store, into the niche experts. And that's a big part of the reason why we're growing our team. That's why we're building the lab. That's why we're hiring engineers and subject matter experts, so that when it's time for us to really get laser focused on niches, whether they're display,


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[Assistant] Or, uh, you know, CPU GPU or cooling or whatever it is, we're properly equipped for it because I think that


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[Assistant] A niche that has a hundred thousand people that are super dialed into it.


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[Assistant] Is way, way easier to tackle these days than trying to, uh, than trying to make broadly appealing tech content to try to hit a million or two million or ten million people. Uhm, especially when there are so many channels that are doing that broad content so well. Cause it's not just us.


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[Assistant] You have to, I mean, you already mentioned MKBHD, right? So you're going up against us, you're going up against Marquez, you're going up against Aaron, you're going up against Ajay's Two Cents, Austin, you're going up against all these folks.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and then if you went on for long enough, you might end up with the, uh,


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[Assistant] The creators were hoping to have an LTX. Sorry, uh, well, we will confirm those eventually for you guys. We just need approval from these folks to tell you who's going to be coming. But if you, so if you ask me that, I'd say, you know, yeah, breaking out in a niche, no problem, but building a mega channel.


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[Assistant] Nan, I'm not gonna say that I didn't work hard. I'm not gonna say you didn't work hard. But we would be...


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[Assistant] Just dishonest, if we didn't acknowledge that there was a significant degree of right place, right time.


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[Assistant] You know what? It's always kind of funny to me. Having access to NCX was such a huge... Even back then, I thought the ship had sailed.


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[Assistant] And it wasn't that, it wasn't that stupid of a thought, right? Like think back to when, when the channel started. So what was, what was that, 2009? We uploaded the first NCIX Tech Tips video. So, back then, I mean,


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[Assistant] How long did web startup, you know, social platforms exist for?


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[Assistant] Nothing had lasted as long as, what, 2009 to 14 years. Nothing last, or, I think YouTube started in 2006. Something like that. So, so nothing, nothing lasted.


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, 17, 18 years. So for me to look at it and go, yeah, I'm, I'm three years, I'm four years late to the party.


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[Assistant] PC whiz kid, and uh, chiller frilla, and locker gnome, you know.


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[Assistant] These folks have all got it on lock, right? Like, how could I possibly hope to break into this space? It wasn't even that stupid a thing for me to think, especially with the importance of subscribers back in that time, right?


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[Assistant] Once you had that critical mass, well how else could anyone possibly hope to get on the home page?


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[Assistant] You know, things that mattered back then.


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[Assistant] But I ended up being wrong. So I could be wrong again. Maybe the next big all you can eat tech channel is brewing in the mind of someone who's watching this show right now.


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[Assistant] Okay, that's an old joke, that's like, going back to, uh, what's his nuts, like gore, gore bush or whatever. Uhm, anywho. Bring me Pouchy or bring me Dad. Oh no, okay, we're going back.


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[Assistant] Speaking of run, uhm, uh, Mr. Wage posted in floatplane chat, at Silicon Valley Bank, north of 93% of the bank's $161 billion in deposits are apparently uninsured per a recent regulatory filing.


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[Assistant] Okay, uh, okay, well, okay, Nick, it's, it's Tech Sack, uh, if you're watching. Uh, Tech Sack 1.


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[Assistant] Yeah, float plane- float plane's never happy. It's funny because the more people love us, it seems like the more angry they get with us.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and like, we love you back floatplane, and we're never angry with you.


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[Assistant] Annihilating their targets for floatplane exclusive content these days. Not, not in terms of like the volume.


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[Assistant] They, they, they hit the volume targets, but they are crushing it in terms of the quality of the exclusives that we've been uploading.


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[Assistant] Uhm, this, this one was really good. Uh, they were hanging out with the engineers over in Creator warehouse. Just a casual 99.5% like dislike ratio on this test run with our desktop injection molder.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it's just really cool to see some of the stuff that goes on behind the scenes here that normally wouldn't get any, any exposure being appreciated.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that one actually went up on LMG clips as a promotion for Float Plane. And I think it's gonna stay up for either hours or a day or two or something like that. But Float Plane is full of Meet the Teams with, like, I think dozens, literally dozens of members of the team at this point. Um, Kyle's is a recent one that, uh,


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[Assistant] Well, uh, no, no, I would still go OLED because from a gaming perspective,


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[Assistant] The biggest benefit of OLED is not the contrast or the color accuracy, because like you said, you know, for a competitive edge, many gamers will totally mess with their colors or their contrast or whatever else, gamma curves and all that.


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[Assistant] But, from a pixel persistent, like an image persistence standpoint, from a pixel response time standpoint,


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[Assistant] Nothing else modern, like I'm not, CRTs aside, nothing else modern even comes close to touching an OLED. So the clarity of the image, particularly during fast movements, like if you are, if you're whipping the mouse,


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[Assistant] I say that out of ignorance though, because we haven't yet been actually hands-on with a 500Hz LCD. I think we're gonna get to check it out soon.


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[Assistant] That's how I feel about it right now. Really, really love OLED gaming. And it's all about that lightning fast pixel response time and image clarity in motion.


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[Assistant] Let me move one more and then we'll get to some more topics here.


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[Assistant] Yeah, man, I gotta say, I was, I was really blown away when I visited IBM, and I got to get hands-on with IBM Z. Cause on the one hand,


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[Assistant] I look at a product like IBM Z and I go...


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[Assistant] There's gotta be a more economical, open source, like, way to do this with off the shelf, like, super micro servers running in a cluster or something. You know, like, the geek in me is sitting here going,


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[Assistant] This seems like yesterday's solution tomorrow. You know what I mean?


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[Assistant] Are they really engineering an entire CPU for one system for like six customers? Like is this really the best way to do it? You know, like that's kind of my gut feeling.


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[Assistant] But then, you go and you look, kinda like you're talking about, you look at the way that they build, you know, raid one, directly onto, onto, like into a, a memory subsystem.


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[Assistant] Or you look at the way that you can literally just yank Maine's power out of this thing and it completely doesn't notice. And it's...


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[Assistant] It's pretty cool. I would say that if you wanna see me kinda geek out over fault tolerance, that's the video to go watch because those things are, what is it, four nines they target? Something stupid like that. I forget how many nines. While I look it up, do you wanna explain the concept of nines?


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[Assistant] IBM Z reliability. Four Z15s, their commitment is seven nines. So on average, 3.2 seconds of downtime per year.


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[Assistant] Yeah, see, like, that's sick. That's actually kinda stupid.


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[Assistant] Some of what didn't make it into the video, unfortunately, just, just like talking to the people who work on and who design these systems was, was very cool because it's a, it's a completely different mindset. Like you talk about running RAM in RAID 1, right?


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[Assistant] I think to the average gamer, if I said, hey,


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[Assistant] You can experience three minutes less downtime per year, and all it'll cost you is spending $600 instead of $300 on your memory. They look at you like you're a f***ing idiot.


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[Assistant] Yeah, apparently it does include the first whatevers. So that is five nines past the decimal. That's still wild. Anyway, the point is, if you told the average gamer, hey, you can spend twice as much on your memory and it'll save you three minutes of downtime a year.


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[Assistant] Well, they'd tell you you're an idiot. Like, no, I think I can handle, what is that, two game crashes over a span of 365 days? Probably okay, and I'll save my few hundred dollars. But, when three minutes of downtime could back up all of your client's systems, or cause some kind of


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[Assistant] Catastrophic system fail. Okay. Oh, perfect example of this. When the Canadian debit infrastructure went down.


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[Assistant] You remember that? Or, or when, when, uh, our Rogers, uh, Telecom, man, I'm making Canada sound like some kind of backwater.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uhm, or when, uh, so Rogers Communications had downtime for like a day. And my understanding is in the postmortem to that, it basically came down to like,


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[Assistant] One system, you know, managed by one person, like had something went wrong with it. It's, it's actually kind of amazing how patchwork our systems are. I mean, okay, for an example, not in Canada. Okay. You get like one bank.


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[Assistant] That disappears in the states, and all of a sudden it's like, oh, okay, uh, well, the Silicon Valley startup scene has no money, so that's cool.


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[Assistant] Right? Like the way that the world is architected for...


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[Assistant] Very few points of failure that can take down the entire system. I've said this many times, and I don't know, maybe this is a dumb thing to talk about on a podcast, but like,


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[Assistant] Done, it's out, it's out. Um, pontoon bridges for the wind, say people. There are places where I don't think it would be feasible. How would you put in a pontoon bridge to replace the port man? I don't think so.


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[Assistant] Okay, okay, let's talk about something good about Canada. I think the Portman is the longest, uhm, like, suspension bridge. Like, like free- it's like the longest freestanding suspension bridge or something like that in- in something. I don't know if it's like in North- maybe it's only in Canada. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Longest, uh, suspension, something, yeaah. I'm pretty sure this is a thing. Portman bridge, the, uh, one of the longest in the world was constructed using the balanced cantilever method. Okay, one of the longest in the world. Well, alright, nevermind.


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[Assistant] But it's two kilometers long, which in real units that anyone cares about is 1.26.


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[Assistant] In my preteens, leading up to, you know, thinking about that I would become a driver at some point, I asked my mom, uh, to explain to me, because I hear the terms thrown around a lot, to explain to me the difference between a highway and another road. And the-


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[Assistant] The reason for that is that one of the major arteries that, um, we would travel on regularly, one low heat highway, uh, at the part of low heat highway where we would turn off into like our, our neighborhood, like our residential region, um, at that part, it had traffic lights.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it was only two lanes, not, not two and two, like two lanes, one each way, with not even a shoulder.


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[Assistant] Like I don't mean, I don't mean, you know, no fancy, fancy paved shoulder, uh, no, you know, uh, sidewalk. I mean, it actually didn't have a shoulder. Not only that, but the left turn that we had to make into our neighborhood wasn't even traffic light controlled.


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[Assistant] And there wasn't a left turning lane. Like you would just stop in the middle of this supposed highway to perform a left turn. And the worst part is that that was very rarely a problem.


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[Assistant] YouTube finally relaxes their overly restrictive profanity policy. Sort of. So does that mean I can say words like fuck and


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't, I don't know how to, I don't, I don't know the, I don't know the best way to deal with that because I, I can see how, how, uh, uh, an advertiser with modern sensibilities might


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[Assistant] I picked up episodes of, you know, old shows that I hadn't watched in a long time from like the early 2000s and just the casual, uhm, the casual sort of gay humor.


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[Assistant] Casual use of the hard R. Uhm. Oh really? It's jarring. Yeaah, it's jarring now. And for- Casual use of hard R. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, absolutely. Like, uh, like, okay, it was an episode of American Dad. Really? Yeah, it wasn't for shock value, it was just...


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[Assistant] That was in 2003 or something, like 2002.


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[Assistant] Like, I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna deny that I dropped my fair share of hard R's back then because we didn't even, the term hard R didn't even exist. We didn't think about it.


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[Assistant] Right? And it's funny because to me, that doesn't feel like that long ago, but to my kid,


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[Assistant] What are you guys talking about? Am I mistaken? I think so.


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[Assistant] No, the one, the one with the, uh, like, for, like, mental disability.


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[Assistant] I understand, I understand, I understand what you mean. No, I'm not talking about that. Okay, cool. So, I'm glad that we cleared that up.


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[Assistant] Point is that, to like, to my kids, 2002-2003 is a long time ago. It's kind of like, you know, ten years before I was born. 1976?


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[Assistant] Never coexist- I never coexisted with. Right? And so it was, it was just, it was interesting to me how jarring it was, even though, like I said, to me,


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[Assistant] People casually using the R word then, is that better? I think so. Okay, casually using the R word was what, yeah, it was, it was surprising. Uhm. Alright. So. Why don't we do a couple of merch messages?


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[Assistant] No, I hate it when, I hate it when McDonald's calls their burgers sandwiches. A, because they're burgers, and B, because I think that sandwich has a connotation associated with it that whatever the thing is is actual food.


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[Assistant] And I strongly disagree that anything McDonald's sells is food. Heck yeaah.


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[Assistant] You would never eat soup dry, but you can eat cereal dry. That's the distinction. Never had like a packet of ramen without cooking it? Oh crap.


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[Assistant] Oh, I mean, well, you nailed it on printers. Printers is just too easy. Yeaah, that's a super low hanging fruit. Man, I feel like this is the sort of thing that I rant about all the time. I would say voice recognition.


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[Assistant] Is a huge disappointment for me. Not because it's terrible compared to what we started with, but because the promises were so much better than what we ended up with. It took me four attempts to call my wife the other night.


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[Assistant] I said call Yvonne Ho Mobile, and the first time it got Yvonne Home Mobile.


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[Assistant] Which I don't have a home number listed for her, so I don't know why it would think Yvonne Anything Home Anything, because there is no home number, so it was just like, I'm sorry, who do you want to reach? And then I said Yvonne Ho Mobile, and it goes Yvonne How?


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[Assistant] You know how it'll do like the, like, like it'll, it'll kind of try to, um, transcribe it to text as you're talking? So it got it. Yvonne Ho Mobile. And then it'll, and then it like changed it. Yeah, yeah.


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[Assistant] How is there no share menu, like you have on Android and iOS and Mac OS, basically everything else, yeaah. How is there no built-in screen recording? I don't know.


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[Assistant] You, I think, I wanna revise my answer because file sharing has gotta be it for me. Yeaah. And like how Windows hasn't taken care of that. How is it that I'm sitting here next to you


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[Assistant] And we cannot transfer at line speed over a simple A to A USB cable, or at full Wi-Fi speed over the hotspot we are both connected to, without going through some, some onerous, tedious handshaking authentication system. It's like, no, it's fine, it's that guy, it's okay. Just chill.


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[Assistant] Uh, or the fact that my phone is sitting here and it's not as simple as just like beep boop and it's on. And now there are ways to do that. Like for example, there's actually pretty good, uh, file browsing apps where you can just dump files into SMB shares on Android and, and on iOS for that matter, which is more impressive to me. But it all needs to be premeditated.


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[Assistant] I can't just spontaneously be sitting in a coffee shop next to someone that I'm meeting and go, here, let me just drag and drop this file over to you. That is


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[Assistant] And search was better in Vista. Search was better. It had some innovations that have actually gone away. Like the, uh, the games folder. That would organize all your games for you. Yeaah. Like that was pretty cool.


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[Assistant] Because you have to get the games industry to cooperate with you, so that's tough. If there's a more fragmented industry, uhm, I haven't seen it. But it has potential that has been


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[Assistant] SteveJ3D says, I'm hearing 30 day vista challenge. No, that would actually be very risky for people like us because of security. We'd be, uh, we might get a


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[Assistant] Uh, that's super cool, GiancarlosR. Basically, uh, charity raising thing. That's awesome.


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[Assistant] Uh, let's talk about a new product on LTT Store, but not the one that we're actually launching this week.


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[Assistant] We are planning a collab with the original makers of the modmat.


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[Assistant] ModRite. Oh. Yeah. We have, we have reached an agreement in principle to move forward, uh, licensing their, their, licensing their trademarks and patents to, uh, to create a ModMap product. But,


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[Assistant] Right now, we're in the very, very early stages. We obviously have some ideas of what we want to make it the best possible modmat on the market.


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[Assistant] But, there are some things that we wanna add. So, I don't know how many of these are gonna make it from my wish list into an actual physical product.


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[Assistant] But uhm, some of the ideas that we've had are heat resistant. Dan, I was thinking of you. Uh, heat resistance, so if anyone were to accidentally leave a soldering iron or a hot glue gun or something like that on one. Did he do this? Uh, no, no. Okay. I just, I think of Dan sometimes.


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[Assistant] I'd love to have some kind of embedded, um, like screw management, like kind of, uh, like embedded magnets so that we can kind of just stick


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[Assistant] Uh, stick meh, uh, stick like iron containing screws, uh, ferrous screws or, or whatever else. Yeah, onto, onto like a little spot or maybe it could be an attachment. I don't know, there's lots of different ideas. Uhm, one idea we have already that I'd really like to move forward with is, right now,


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[Assistant] Uh, like whether you pick up one from Uline or even the original modmat or anything like that, the way that you attach an anti-static strap to it is with that awful like button interface.


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[Assistant] But, what if you could make it modular? So what if you had a really strong magnetic interface that you can stick the button thing on, so that every time you attach your strap, it just sticks onto there. Then,


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[Assistant] Then, you could have different pieces, you could have a little, uhm, like a little, okay, like you know like those little wrist strap, uhm, things? So they have like a, like a little bar and then you put a thing through it and you tie a wrist strap onto it?


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[Assistant] So you could just have like a little bar that you could clip an alligator clamp to.


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[Assistant] Because, I mean, that's super annoying, right? When you have one of those button interface ones, and then you have a wrist strap that has an alligator clamp, and you're like, this doesn't really, this doesn't really go on here. So if you could have like a modular interface for that, and it could be magnetic, uh, that was one of the ideas that I had, uhm,


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[Assistant] Yeah, I, so anyway, the point is that there is a post in the merch section of the forum, so if you guys have any creative ideas for what you'd like to see in a modmat,


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[Assistant] Talk about what you look for, what you like, what you dislike, uh, your favorite, your least favorite, and why, and if you think there are any key features that are missing from any modmats that are currently on the market, and we are gonna try to address it. We wanna make the best darn modmat, and uh, like I said,


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[Assistant] Really, really excited to be starting from a place where we're, where we're working with, like, the original creators of the modmat.


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[Assistant] Uhm, pretty pretty cool. I actually still have my original mod right mod mat on my build station at home in the basement. And that was one of the things that sort of prompted me to finally get off my butt and ask someone else to do something for me. Nick was the one who reached out.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's pretty old, and I was like, yeah, like what happened to these guys? Oh, they're still around? Okay. Why don't we reach out? Because I think that would be awesome.


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[Assistant] My unboxing! This video must still be around. Wow!


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[Assistant] That's awesome. ModWriteModMad unboxing video. Just casual 9 year old video. June 13th, 2013. Almost 10 years old.


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[Assistant] Uh, yeaah. No, this is the one. Or wait, is this the one I have at home? I'm not sure, it might be the bigger one.


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[Assistant] But yes, that is the act- that is the actual one from that video nine years ago. Still going strong nine years later, right? It's literally perfect. I- I would not have guessed that it's-


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[Assistant] Yep, so we're going for it. We're going for it. I'm really excited. I think we've got the right starting point. I think we've got kind of some really good ideas to evolve what is sitting at my build station and what's on your desk.


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[Assistant] That's gonna be good. Uh, okay, we will finally talk about the product we're launching this week. I didn't let Luke, I didn't let Luke touch it, but this is one that has been in the works for good gravy.


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[Assistant] I'm pretty sure we started this before Bridgette joined. Whoa, okay. Wait, no, is that quite right? No, no, it must have been very early in her tenure. So it's been well over a year in development. So we, we completely missed like an entire spring, winter, fall,


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[Assistant] Through the fall and winter and in getting dangerously close to the spring of like the next target for it.


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[Assistant] But we wanted to take the time to get it right. And it's finally here. It's the 3D Down jacket.


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[Assistant] We did a- oh, is that- wait, which one? That's yours. That's yours. Oh, no, this isn't mine. This is the small. I have a mind in my backpack. Oh.


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[Assistant] Okay, so yeaah, you get to play with it now. So, what's really cool about this thing,


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[Assistant] And we sought a material to make it out of.


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[Assistant] They can't see any of that. Uh, actually Dan, do you wanna, do you wanna man the camera? Uhm. Hold on, let me, let me redo it. With the 3D Down jacket, we found this really cool material. Uhm, it's not


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[Assistant] It's white down, it's not quite 3D printed, but there is a down layer out of the, I believe it's 11 layers on the jacket. Let me double check.


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[Assistant] Okay, it's not 3D printed in the same way that you would imagine like a plastic part. But it is an additive process... Did I just? Oh, hello Dan. I was like, is this a video of how it's made? Wow.


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[Assistant] But it is laid down with an additive process that deposits the fibers rather than weaving them.


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[Assistant] So what that allows you to do is it allows you to have this kind of cobweb pattern that puts room between them for better breathability and it also makes the insulation absolutely fantastic for the thickness. Uhm, so yeaah, check it out. The outer shell is a blend of nylon and spandex.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I believe it's 18,000 millimeters of water resistance. We never call anything waterproof. Uh, water resistance, internal, internal pockets. But what's really special about it is the, the 3D, the 3D down or a 3D printed down or whatever you kinda wanna call it. There, there is a down component to it.


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[Assistant] Uh, but the, the interior material because it's super insulated. It's really comfy. So if you're the kind of person like me and


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[Assistant] Like I assume Luke, who would just be in a t-shirt, even in fairly adverse weather, but might want a jacket when he goes outside. It's really, really nice on the skin.


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[Assistant] I just absolutely love this thing. It looks really sharp. Where's uhm, is there any branding on it? Just a little bit. I haven't seen any. On the very bottom right, I think, uhm, of the bottom there. Yea, if you stand up, maybe we'll be able to see it.


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[Assistant] Whoop, whoop, and he whacks the, and he whacks the thing. There's a little, uh, can you see it?


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[Assistant] There's like little dots that make a little LTT. We're going for really subtle branding on this. We wanted it to just look really clean. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Yeah, don't worry about it. It's, it's fine. The point is that it's, uh, yeah, it's light, it's comfy, it's super, super warm for the weight.


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[Assistant] And the hood is big enough. That was something that we actually really struggled with.


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[Assistant] But there's two things that, uhm, okay, again, this took a while.


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[Assistant] You can adjust the hood such that, and the way that it pulls on it, it doesn't have to be huge. And then there's adjustments around the bottom as well. Uhm, another thing that took us kind of forever, yeaah, there's another one on the other side. Uhm, another thing that took us forever to get right is the adhesive on the sleeves.


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[Assistant] So the sleeves air a little bit on the long side because we've gotten really good feedback from people about long sleeves.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but obviously, if you want them to stay in place, you're gonna have to have adjuster things. Okay, but hold that up to the mic while you rip it off.


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[Assistant] It will not come off, and it's not like your typical hook and loop fastener if you look at it closely.


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[Assistant] It's like a really cool one that really definitely super does not come apart.


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[Assistant] This is really nice. It's really expensive, thanks Dan. Uhm, it's a $250 jacket, like,


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[Assistant] Our cost is pretty high, because these materials are...


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[Assistant] People, I, you know, it's a, it's a really funny thing. Whenever we talk about pricing for stuff, there's two camps. There's the, oh my god, I would never spend more than $30 on a jacket camp. And then there's the- Which is fine. That seems cheap, I would never spend less than $600 on a jacket camp. This is also fine.


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[Assistant] There's shockingly little middle ground. It's a really, it's a really interesting, it's a really interesting thing seeing everyone's different perception of value. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't know, it's interesting, it's an interesting observation, uhm, WB something, anyway, whatever, in Twitch chat says, $250 without apparent branding is weird. I feel like people who shop on LTT want it to be known. We want it to stand without the brand. Uhm, that's a big part of what we're doing. I was happy that there was subtle branding. Yeah. Like, I, I...


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[Assistant] So I, uh, I'm looking for, I've seen a lot of people picking them up in the merch messages today and I'm looking forward to seeing people's feedback on the store. If you're not convinced, don't believe me, believe what people post on the store. I mean, our, our reviews are...


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[Assistant] The thing is that like, stuff is designed a lot of the time, for like, I need to wear it. Yeah. Yeah.


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[Assistant] And I don't want to be, like, you guys gotta think about this, right? On Saturday?


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[Assistant] I don't want to be a billboard for LTT, actually. I don't want to get approached because people recognize the merch necessarily. So when we were putting together like an outerwear item,


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[Assistant] I'm kinda sitting here going, once in a while, like I'm into it, I'll wear my swag get out, or whatever.


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[Assistant] But if it's raining and miserable and I'm cranky, I'm just on a black jacket. Just don't talk to me.


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[Assistant] To be clear, it's fine, it's fine to talk to me, I'm super down. I just mean, I don't want to be, I don't want it to be so loud.


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[Assistant] Let's, uh, let's move on, next topic. Secret Shopper Update!


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[Assistant] Uhm, no details on the date, but obviously, at some point, we will be working on another round of Secret Shopper, or maybe we're already working on it, who knows. Uhm, but during the last round, the company that wound up well behind the pack was Dell Alienware.


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[Assistant] After promising up and down, after the first Secret Shopper, that they had completely overhauled their customer service standards, their terrible, pushy customer service got us an overpriced, underperforming gaming computer that earns them dead last.


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[Assistant] Dell is once again asking you to, sorry. Dell is once again promising that they've changed. They've really changed this time. And they have instated extensive diagnostics and quality control measures to find gaps in their customer service.


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[Assistant] They also claim that they have dialed back sales incentives and increased focus on customer satisfaction scores, which was a key criticism that we made about the incentives for their sales team at the time.


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[Assistant] There is no word on whether they've increased base salary for reps, which we also brought up, and is a key part of what makes those commission incentives so tantalizing because, as far as I could tell, these people were desperate.


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[Assistant] Absolutely desperate to sell these warranties and, uh, on-site services and, uh, financing because clearly there was, I don't know, sometimes you get a vibe sometimes, right? Where it's like,


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[Assistant] This is not just training. Like, this is survival. Yeah. Was how I felt about it. Yeah. Uhm, so, I told Del, alright, I'll pass this along.


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[Assistant] But, I'm not your PR department. I'm not a mouthpiece for you guys. I am passing this along for only one reason. The reason I'm passing it along is so that now,


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[Assistant] You guys, and us, and Dell, are all on the same page, that it should be really good. So when Secret Shopper happens, or happened, I really hope


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[Assistant] That we do not find the same things that we did last time.


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[Assistant] Cause un, unprompted, okay, this is an email that landed in my inbox. Hold on a second. Let me, let me just, let me just check something real quick here. Cause I think it was, it was pretty much out of the blue. Like out of absolutely nowhere.


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[Assistant] Here. Uuuh, ba ba ba ba ba, here we go.


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[Assistant] Okay, so my first outreach about this was in 2020. Uhm, so I heard from my Dell contact who put me in touch with


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[Assistant] Uh, director of communications for client solutions group, something, something, something, something, okay. And I basically went, yeah, you know, uh, good luck with that. Okay, I didn't hear anything.


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[Assistant] But it's like this long thing, that's pretty much like, here's all the ways that we're fixing everything. And so I'm sitting here going, if you are completely unprompted essentially, gonna send me this list of ways that you're doing way better.


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[Assistant] Something might have changed. I expect it to darn well be better when it comes time to have a look at it. Yeah.


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[Assistant] See ya! Yeah, uh, it'll have its last security update this month.


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[Assistant] Seven years! Wow. After it first launched. They only promised three to five years of updates back in 2015, and they will apparently continue to sell parts while supplies last. If you wish to continue using a Fairphone 2, you'll have the option of installing a custom ROM like Lineage OS, or trading it in for a 50 euro voucher for Fairphone's eStore.


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[Assistant] So the discussion question here is it's clearly possible to make a profit with a modular, long-lasting phone. What would happen if a major manufacturer took the lead with a genuinely sustainable, high-powered phone? Uh, well, um, hell would freeze over, I guess, because the direction the industry's been going has been the complete opposite of that. Yeah, not that.


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[Assistant] And I don't know, their investors would probably be mad because I don't think you can make as much money. I mean, that's the problem.


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[Assistant] Right? I think we've proven with LTT Store that you can, you can make money and not be super toxic about it.


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[Assistant] But can you make enough to satisfy investors?


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[Assistant] Cause it's not enough to be profitable. I mean, we've talked about this a ton. You have to be more profitable than the other guy. And more profitable than last year. It's just...


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[Assistant] In a finite world, how can you, how can you expect infinite growth?


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[Assistant] Yeah, people are talking about, yeah, it's never enough to satisfy investors. Yeah, 100%. Exactly. Uhm, speaking of investors, Asetek.


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[Assistant] Despite rough financial seas. So Asetek, uh, you might not know of them because they don't have much of a consumer-facing brand anymore, but they are best known for their LCLC, or Low Cost Liquid Cooling Solutions, the likes of which that you would have seen over the years resold by companies like


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[Assistant] Corsair or, I mean, Corsair I think is really the biggest partner, but also system integrators,


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[Assistant] They had a pretty weak last year and they have now reported a 47% drop in revenue in the fourth quarter of 2022 compared to 2021. The tax sector is taking an absolute pounding.


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[Assistant] Like, I mean that in every sense. Yeah. It's bad. You see, Intel's last results are like, they lost like 700 million dollars or something like that. Like, I'm just, I'm looking at this going, holy schnikes, are these...


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[Assistant] You guys are riding high on this and you're super excited, but here's the thing. There's a finite number of computers that I need. And I feel like...


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[Assistant] It's a lot more than what most people need.


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[Assistant] Like, I'm obviously kidding, I have a lot of computers.


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[Assistant] The upgrade cycle has, from what I can see, gotten longer, and so if you guys are selling twice as many computers today,


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[Assistant] So the reckoning is here. People just don't need a new computer. I really do think it's...


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[Assistant] Partly economic uncertainty, but also partly people just straight up not


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[Assistant] In the same quarter, they announced their 8th gen coolers and sales are currently trending slowly upwards, so they believe the market is stabilizing that they have the financial health to maintain operations until conditions improve. Anyway, the main reason for this is not that I think you guys particularly care about Ace Attack, but it was just an excuse to talk about


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[Assistant] How that, the, that boom and bust has definitely happened and it's, uh, yeaah, it's kinda scary because there's definitely gonna be some smaller players that are struggling more than the Intels and AMDs and Microsofts of the world.


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[Assistant] This, it, this sucks. Oh yea. This sucks so much. Oh yea. I love my old Samsung laser printer. I have like an ML 2010 or something like that, 2020. I can't remember. It was like, it has a sticker on it that's like, world's most compact color laser printer. So whichever one that is.


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[Assistant] And when Samsung sold their printer business to HP, I didn't really think about it at the time, but-


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[Assistant] But the only way that HP could extract a ton of value from that, aside from just eliminating a competitor, had to be to engage in these kinds of toxic anti-consumer practices. Oh yea. HP is, is essentially making it so your printer won't work.


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[Assistant] If you have ink in it that doesn't have an HP chip in it, uhm, they've engaged in similar behavior for years using the rationale, and this is a joke, I remember back in NCIX, I had to sit through a presentation like this from an HP rep.


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[Assistant] Like explaining the consumer benefits of first party ink and I'm sitting here going


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[Assistant] You know I have like whole jars of ink at home, and I'ma keep using them with my little syringes, right? Like, and they're talking about like the technology of the nano droplets or whatever. I'm like, yeah sure, if I was...


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[Assistant] A professional printing house by all means, but I just need to hand in my stupid report and I need a colored bar graph on it or whatever.


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[Assistant] So they've used the rationale that they're ensuring the customer experience, but courts in three different countries have ruled against them in multiple class action lawsuits with penalties worth millions of dollars. That's the problem though. Millions of dollars is just cost of doing business to a company that's operating at HP.


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[Assistant] Final Fantasy Tactics doesn't have a great translation in its original North American release, but this is a gem. Uh, WeGraph says, if the penalty for a crime is a fine, that law only exists for the lower classes. That's 100% true.


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[Assistant] Played Final Fantasy Tactics? It is so good.


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[Assistant] It is so good. I think they released it on Android. There is no excuse, sir. You need to play Final Fantasy Tactics, because aside from the stellar gameplay, and it really is good, and it really does hold up,


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[Assistant] The story is outstanding. Everything is morally ambiguous. And it's not clear who the good guys are and who the bad guys are. And it's deep and it's wonderful. What is waddle? War of the lions.


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[Assistant] Is it Final Fantasy Tactics War of the Lions? Well, it depends. So one of the releases, I think, like the advanced release? I don't know. There's multiple releases of the game. War of the Lions, I think, is like a more updated version of it.


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[Assistant] Final Fantasy Tactics, so good. So good.


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[Assistant] AMD drivers have been borking computers with a rare bug.


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[Assistant] The glitch only occurs when installing the AMD GPU driver, opting for a factory reset clean installation, then having the misfortune of having Windows automatically update in the background. It's always Windows update!


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[Assistant] Speaking of things that just should be way better by now. No permanent fix yet exists, but it can be avoided by updating Windows before performing any installations. We have some LTX Expo updates. Ooh, this is exciting.


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[Assistant] Asus ROG is our title sponsor for LTX 2023. Let's go! Thanks Asus ROG! Also, Ubiquiti is our title sponsor for the whale land. I knew they were going to provide networking equipment, but that's awesome! Since when does Ubiquiti ever spend money?


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[Assistant] Uhm, and, oh this is cool, Epic Games X PC Build Simulator 2 sponsorship.


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[Assistant] For the water cooling workshop booth, we're also going to be working with EK Water Blocks. Details coming in a future update. I haven't seen Rod in the chat today, but I assume you guys are coming up, right? Got to. I mean, if Bob and Rod aren't there, is it really LTX? I don't- Have they missed one? I don't think so.


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[Assistant] I'm trying to remember. The first one's like, uh, it's a blur for me. They weren't involved in running the first one, I know that. But they had hosted booths for us.


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[Assistant] At the last couple, and those guys are absolute chads. Yeah, Rod's in there. I'll be at LTX. Heck yeah. Has anyone reached out to you about like, doing something at LTX though? Cause we'd love to have you.


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[Assistant] Uhm, we'd love to have both of you there. I know you can't necessarily speak for Bob, but yeah, we can take this conversation offline. Like literally offline. Uhm, and we can chat. Yeah, this is awesome. Oh, they had a wall pewter at the first one. Oh, that's right!


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[Assistant] Cool, yes, so they have been involved as exhibitors every single time. Ah, I love it. It wouldn't be, it wouldn't be LTX without Bob and Ron. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Okay, cool. Looking forward to it. Uh, oh, what else do- oh, hide image URLs on stream. Okay. Oh, this is awesome! Uh, we're going to have some special designer edition desk pads.


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[Assistant] What exactly these have to do with LTX? Hard to say, but our designers have been hard at work creating some of the coolest desk pads that you are EVER gonna see. I'm gonna start with Sarah's design. What do you think?


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[Assistant] Big dinosaur lady, I think, would be one way of putting it. So that's one of them. The next one to show you guys is from Lloyd, who is one of our long time designers that many of you will probably have


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[Assistant] If you've ever bought anything from LTTStore.com, let's say this. If you've bought more than one thing from LTTStore.com, there's a solid chance you've worn a Lloyd Pan. Okay? Uhm.


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[Assistant] We're gonna be here. Okay, yeah, that is it. Yep. So here's the convention center, and then we've got some other iconic, uh, elements of the Vancouver skyline. Super cool. I haven't seen this actually printed yet. I really hope that IRL, it says, it says vibrant and bold as, uh, as the work that he's done here, but super cool. Um, and then finally, this is, um,


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[Assistant] Well, a new, a new person you'll be meeting. Some of you, if you just like kind of hang around on our corporate website, might know Maria, or you might see her in, uh, you know, shorts or behind the scenes or stuff like that. But she, aside from just doing our thumbnails, uh, also has some pretty


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[Assistant] I confess, I kind of thought of her as the thumbnail.


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[Assistant] Her as a graphic designer, I mean sort of, cause thumbnails are that. But we didn't intend to have her just like do general design work, like especially not for like merch or whatever, but I think she did an absolutely bang up job. I absolutely love it.


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[Assistant] So the only hard part is going to be figuring out


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[Assistant] I'm not sure. I'm super excited though. I'm super excited. They're super cool.


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[Assistant] Uh, I'm pretty sure- Not yet, at least. I'm pretty sure there's some stuff that we're doing that is eligible for shred credits, which are like a tax, uh, like a tax credit. Uhm.


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[Assistant] I know that for some people working on the lab team, because what they're doing is directly involved in video production, uh, we can be eligible for some, uhm, uh, production services tax credits. I gotta be honest with you guys, we are not the best when it comes to


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[Assistant] Optimizing our, our tax credits and stuff. I don't think we've actually, like I think we've submitted but not collected any, going all the way back to like 2018 or 2019. Uhm, I don't think we've submitted 2021 or 2022. It's not out of laziness, it's just extremely complicated and I know, I know


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[Assistant] Now people are talking about like loopholes or avoidance. This is not loopholes or avoidance. This is, this is...


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[Assistant] Uhm, we, we should take it. Right? Like that's it. We're not, we're not committing fraud. These are all things that we're eligible for. We just need to be on top of it.


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[Assistant] That'd be sick. We should bring back the design now that we have a t-shirt printer again. Hey, yeah. I'd be super down.


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[Assistant] I've kept a lot less of like just old merch because


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[Assistant] Like Nick gets mad at me if I wear it. It's like, yo.


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[Assistant] I'm getting better at it. You have to... I mean it's all training, right? Like...


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[Assistant] You have to delegate with the assumption that everything they're gonna do is wrong.


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[Assistant] And so sitting down and talking through...


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[Assistant] How you feel it should have been done can have multiple positive effects. It can help them to reason through it better for themselves next time.


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[Assistant] Or, conversely, it could actually open you up to new perspectives and new approaches, which is, I think, one of our biggest strengths here, is that


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[Assistant] No idea is automatically stupid based on the position of whoever proposed it. And that's sort of a complicated way of saying that anyone can have a valid idea for how we can do things better. Uhm, and so


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[Assistant] I've had a lot, I've had to let a lot go over the years in terms of perfectionism. Uh, I'm not gonna call it anything.


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[Assistant] Not anything specific, but like I watched a video recently where I kinda went like, in the first two minutes there were four obvious moments where I was like,


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[Assistant] Well, there should have been a, like, the thing I was talking about, there should have been an image on screen of it, like, what, what, this is supposed to imagine? What's the point of this even being a video? Why don't we just upload it as a audio clip? Like, you know, little things like that, you know, obviously I'm, you know, I can be


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[Assistant] I can be pretty demanding, I can be pretty picky.


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[Assistant] But the best way to move forward with that is to just have those conversations, figure out what the rationale was, and then figure out how to best move forward. That's the only way you can do it.


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[Assistant] I mean, should we- I did a business. Should we announce your role change?


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[Assistant] I don't really care. Okay, so uhm, Luke is, Luke is, is, is out as CTO, or whatever the heck his role was at Float Play Media, which is a lie because he actually retains that role, but he's, he's now,


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[Assistant] Uh, he's now officially back in the Linus Media Group, Inc. fold as our CTO, and he's gonna be just kind of...


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[Assistant] Whether it's the migration from last pass or some of our data, um, resiliency practices or whether it's our documentation, there's things that he's gotten really good at, um, with his team over at Floatplane over the last


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[Assistant] Take everything that's really good at floatplane, technology-wise, and also do it here, because no offense to some of the people who work on some of the tech stuff here.


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[Assistant] It's made of duct tape and popsicle sticks, but it actually functions.


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[Assistant] Nope, I'm having a really hard time finding it. Anyway, it was super cool, so I'm pretty sure, I'm pretty sure we sent over a care package. We did.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that was, that was awesome. Just like seeing the water bottle out in the wild, like just casually supporting an elite athlete, you know, keeping him hydrated. Uh, that was super cool. Alright, hit me with another Dan.


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[Assistant] Didn't you do it? I thought you were gonna do it. Yeah, I'm, I'm using it. I don't know that I like it as much as you do. Oh. So we're, we're both playing around with the Sleep 8 or 8 Sleep. 8 Sleep. The 8 Sleep. Uhm, I kinda find that it's either


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[Assistant] Uhm, like, when I have it on, okay, both of us run pretty warm at night compared to our SOs. And I kind of find, oh, Dan was muted. Okay. Basically, bed tech ideas.


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[Assistant] I find that it's either really warm- Okay, how do I put this? I don't really like, just stay on one side of the bed. A lot. What, I'm a cuddler.


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[Assistant] What ends up happening is if I move around in the night, I'm either boiling because I'm like over the threshold to her side, or I'm freezing because I got all sweaty on her side and I'm on my chilled side. And I just, I don't know, I'm actually


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[Assistant] So their function where it's supposed to keep you at the right temperature all the time doesn't work. You just have to set this like super


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[Assistant] It's got to knock to a fan, bro. It does! Like, ugh, that's the thing.


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[Assistant] Maybe, and maybe it's worth it. Like maybe, maybe by that time.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but I already bought the computer. I just, I find it so offensive. No, I hear ya. But like, okay, it's not like there aren't subscription services that I do pay for. I pay for like Nabucasa, the home assistant cloud subscription.


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[Assistant] And it's not even the only way to do that. You can work around it with your own thing, but it's just, uh, it's way more convenient. It's like five dollars a month or something like that. And honestly, for the bed, maybe I, maybe I just should, because it would be more comfortable or whatever, but like, I mean, you've been pretty happy with it, I think.


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[Assistant] Blanket too. Which would be inherently weighted, and weighted blankets are apparently really good. So you need a cooled weighted blanket.


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[Assistant] Man, other stuff, I don't know. If anything could magically cure my insomnia, I'd be down for that. Like, I don't need another device to tell me you had a terrible f***ing sleep last night. It's like, yeah, thanks. Yep.


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[Assistant] Oh my goodness, the merch messages are coming in too fast for poor Dan to read them to us and also curate and reply to them.


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[Assistant] Yeah, AJ's in the chat, so maybe AJ remembers, cause I'm pretty sure that AJ did it, and Luke just supervised. Probably. That was a long time ago, so. That was when AJ was doing literally all of our infrastructure, so. Yeah. I mean, he did that for a long time.


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[Assistant] So maybe, uh, maybe AJ will get back to us in the float plane chat, or maybe AJ doesn't have to be working right now because it's late, but whatever.


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[Assistant] I'm really happy with my ubiquity stuff. I...


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[Assistant] It's tough though, because obviously it's easy for me to say when Ubiquiti is a, is a long time collaborator of ours and sends us a lot of the stuff that we need from them. It's really expensive, especially for home use. So it's tough, right? There was that, uhm.


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[Assistant] Man, what was that, uh, wise. There was that, uh, that cheap brand that everyone loved for a while, and then they started locking things down, so it like apparently sucks now. I have-


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[Assistant] I haven't completely looked into it. We did a, we did a video on like a DIY solution back in the day. Jake, Jake did something up and it was like a, it was like a pi zero like DIY security camera thing. Something like that could obviously work. There's...


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't know, maybe this is something that we just need to really dig into and do a video.


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[Assistant] We know that, uhm. That's fair. Antarctica guy is not actually in the float plane chat. That was a merge message? Yea.


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[Assistant] Okay, uh, AJ says we had a VM with a specific host at the time where we did pretty much all our CDN things. Okay, that's a really vague, posty explanation. Thank you for that, AJ.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I actually had a former colleague from NCIX who wanted to start up like a partnership doing like alertness gamer CBD gummies and stuff like that and they sent me over some of the products.


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[Assistant] Seemed really good. I actually really liked it. The sleep one was not bad. Uhm, not a perfect solution. I still do struggle to sleep sometimes, but definitely better than nothing, which is about all you can really ask for when it comes to like supplements and stuff.


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[Assistant] It's gotta be what's going on. It's like nothing. It's what, like ground up snail shells or whatever, right? Like it's worthless. It's way, yeah, it's just way. Yeah. I, I, I, I know, I know.


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[Assistant] Was, I had a lot of concern about, even, even if I don't give a rat's patoot about CBD or weed or whatever.


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[Assistant] There's a lot of uptight people out there, and it's one of those spaces that, as a loosely regulated industry, there's just a lot of like, crap going on. A lot of shady stuff, a lot of shady people are involved, and I just, I don't need the association.


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[Assistant] Number two is I've always been extremely hesitant about anything that people ingest.


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[Assistant] Frankly speaking, I thought MrBeast was absolutely batshit crazy to do Beastburger. These like random, well the chocolate one I don't even mind as much because at least it's coming from presumably some kind of factory that actually has some kind of actual


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[Assistant] And it only takes as far, like depending on how your company is set up, it only takes one person to like f***ing die for the whole thing to come crumbling down. So anything that people ingest, I've just, I've just been...


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[Assistant] Very sketched out by it. It's possible we'll do like gamer snacks or something at some point, but it just hasn't, hasn't happened. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Enable. Yeah. Yeah, she, she will, she will try to talk you down off of the branch, but if you insist on climbing more or jumping or swinging from it or doing whatever stupid thing it is. She'll try to help you do it the best way. She'll try and make sure you don't get hurt, right? That's her, that's her thing.


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[Assistant] Vetoed. I think if she could go back in time she would veto the smart light switches, but other than that we don't disagree about that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you didn't have to spend that money. You could have also gotten 5,000 hours in Fortnite and not spent that money. And then the dollar per hour ratio would be even lower, which would be even better.


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[Assistant] Let's talk about World of Warcraft. Okay. You've probably spent more than $2400 on WoW.


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[Assistant] It was like 50 bucks a month back in the day if I recall correctly. Oh no, it was 50 bucks to buy the thing. Okay, with all the expansions though, are you sure? It's 15.


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[Assistant] 15 a month. Okay, so that's almost $200 a year.


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[Assistant] I bet you're close. To, to five thousand?


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[Assistant] Let he who is without sin cast the first stone here, sir. I promise you, I have never spent two thousand dollars on a- Oh, wait, hold on. How much did I spend on Star Citizen? No, I have never spent two thousand dollars on a video game.


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[Assistant] When you compare- I've spent a bunch on games, yea. When you compare this ratio to something like a wow, does it actually seem that outlandish?


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[Assistant] Uhm, the goal of Right to Repair is that


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[Assistant] The ability to repair your device is a right, and more so that your ability


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[Assistant] So the fact that you have been able to get replacement parts for your electronics since you broke your iPhone 3G ages ago, uhm, is not


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[Assistant] For their lack of trying to make those replacement parts impossible or inordinately expensive to get.


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[Assistant] You've been lucky and you should be thankful to the right to repair advocates and crusaders that are out there.


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[Assistant] What you're talking about, except it is establishing it as a right. It's establishing that you actually have ownership of the things that you have bought and that they are no, not in fact, still the property of the company that produced them. Uhm, if you do not, if you do not sort of, hm.


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[Assistant] If right to repair is not a priority for you, or you don't think that it's important, you do not understand it.


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[Assistant] It's, it really is very black and white. This is, there's not any room for negotiation or nuance on this. The solutions for how we, uh, how we


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[Assistant] Enforce the consumer's right to repair. Well, that's where there's room for discussion.


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[Assistant] But the actual right to repair, to own devices that you pay for, uhm, that's not negotiable. And if you disagree, then you're just wrong, unfortunately. And you need to educate yourself, uhm, because the people who do disagree will put up all kinds of just


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[Assistant] Frankly, ridiculous arguments like, well what if I don't want to? What if I want Apple to repair? Then by all means go do it!


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[Assistant] The right for someone else to repair a device themselves does not infringe upon your right to pay someone too much money for them to do it. Or even a reasonable amount of money for them to do it. I mean, everyone has different priorities. Not everybody wants to tinker with their stupid phone. I get it.


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[Assistant] But just because you don't means you need to sit down, shut your mouth, and let everyone else do their thing. That's all. Very simple.


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[Assistant] I'm really tired of phones. Just like turning into complete suck. I mean, I'm pretty sure that my dad when I was growing up had had his rotary phone for like 20 years.


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[Assistant] I mean, it was like yellowed enough, like the plastics were, but it still worked. But yeah, but everything still worked. I mean, yeah, it's uhm, I hate the disposability of these things.


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[Assistant] Audio devices are something that for decades we've been able to count on to be pretty decent ten years after you bought them as long as you invested in a good one, like a good quality one. Whereas now you buy a pair of earphones with the expectation that in three to five years it will be actual e-waste.


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[Assistant] So loud and proud is all that, but uhm, I mean.


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[Assistant] I don't know, sometimes I can't tell the difference between 4d chess and just, uhm,


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[Assistant] Design first. Like, I just, I, I, I don't know. I, I don't know, but I, I don't know.


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[Assistant] If you could just dab a little bit of magic blue smoke on the wrist, man, just, ah.


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[Assistant] It's a lot of work developing a product that's actually good. I don't like manufacturing garbage. Like I don't like manufactured waste. So I have tended away from anything that's just LOL. Uhm, that's what, that's, that's what I will say about that.


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[Assistant] Okay, we don't hit anyone with chicken. Okay? That's not okay, Dan. I get salmonella.


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[Assistant] No, chickenella. I said chicken, not salmon. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] You could do the explodey boxes. Yeah, we could. Those are a lot of work. We're trying to figure out things that are relatively scalable because unless you're actually repurposing


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[Assistant] You know, many pounds of electronics, uh, are you doing anything? I don't know. And I mean, it's all just delaying the inevitable, and I understand that. But we're looking for things that are reasonably scalable. So one of the ideas we had is, uhm, like acrylic, uh, co- or like resin coasters with CPUs embedded in them.


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[Assistant] Uh, so that's something we've been trying to perfect for over a year.


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[Assistant] Not full time, obviously. Just been on the table. It's a project that's been kind of handed off first from, I think,


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[Assistant] Who was the first person to touch it? I think Kyle might have done something with it. And then Tynan was on it. And then I think one of the new engineers who might still be on probation was on it. Uhm, Jacob might have looked at it at some point when he was here. The point is a lot of people have kind of


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[Assistant] Chipped away at it, but we haven't figured out exactly how to make sure the bottom doesn't end up


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[Assistant] Like it seems easy. Yeah, I just put a CPU in resin, but what if the CPU goes too deep into the resin and it pokes through the top? Well that doesn't look very nice.


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[Assistant] Well, okay, you could put a thing in there to keep it from going into deep.


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[Assistant] Okay, I can do potentials. Samuel says,