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[Assistant] We're not sure how we feel about this one, but I guess we'll talk about it later. Epic Games by Psionics? I almost said Psionics. Epic Games. Psionics, which is the Rocket League developers.


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[Assistant] Gonna get your books going real good. Yes sir. Heck yea. And here we are.


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[Assistant] We made it. On the WAN Show. It is technically the WAN Show. I, I was explaining that I, I am like half dead right now, but I'm technically here, which is good. You look great. Uhm. Thank you. You're doing great. I feel like I'm dying. I believe in you. But uh. Perseverance.


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[Assistant] Floatplane launched its new transcoding and uploading thing this week, which means pretty much nothing for all of you. Uh, but it means a lot for creators and it means a lot for being able to bring more creators onto the platform. Also maybe talk about that a little bit later on. But now, will we be soft killing game keys?


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[Assistant] I, I haven't personally heard of this method, but apparently you go to an external website, uh, you pick a game key, you pay them, you sign with your Uplay account.


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[Assistant] And you have the game. Yes. Uh, which, which is a little bit funky. There's been external game stores for a long time where you can get a key and just in the, when you're done checking out, you either get email the key or it just shows up right there and you just copy paste it through the thing. Good. This is a new thing.


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[Assistant] So it like does authentication through the website instead of just throwing keys all over the place. Because I know when the throwing keys all over the place thing sort of started pretty early on, people were buying keys in countries where the games were more heavily discounted due to the average income of that country. And then they were selling them to countries where your income was much higher.


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[Assistant] Right. So there was countries that would like, get a discount, cause like, you know what, it's kinda hard to afford these things in certain areas, so we'll let it be cheaper for you, and then people buy tons of keys there and resell them. It's a little shady. Yeah. There's been a lot of, a lot of shadiness around that department.


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[Assistant] It's, it's like how, uh, you can use like Steam to sign into the Line of Sectives forum.


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[Assistant] Right. But you could. I don't either, to be fair.


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[Assistant] But you would still have your own account. You're just using it for authentication.


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[Assistant] That seems valid if you don't have to log in or you don't have to authenticate every time.


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[Assistant] Because as has been proven time and time and time and time again, websites will be vulnerable and things will be stored in terrible plain text very commonly all over the place. Oh yes. Yeaah. I think that happens like once a month.


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[Assistant] I'll stay over here. I don't know if I'd really call it a workflow. It's just like something we fell on top of after doing it for a while. I don't think there's any flow or plan actually put into it. Gotcha. But yeah, it's interesting. I'm not against it. I've always thought those websites were pretty kind of sketch.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uhm, so one random thing I'm gonna say for floatplane viewers, uh, we're, we're testing a new cloudflare thing today, and it sounds like it maybe isn't working that great. So if it's super bad, sorry the test isn't working out. Maybe, uh, temporarily jump over elsewhere. Next up though, we're gonna do Facebook. We're gonna do it. We're gonna do Facebook.


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[Assistant] Wait, didn't that happen like literally weeks ago with Instagram?


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[Assistant] We'll find out. Oh, I see what you mean. Yeah, that would make sense. Let's see. Stored. Past tense.


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[Assistant] Well yeaah, I don't think they would say that when it's still currently.


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[Assistant] And it's never because, like, I want to, and I always begrudgingly come back, and it's usually because, like, I need to contact someone, and the yellow page isn't really a thing anymore.


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[Assistant] I've even got it set up so that I have an extension on, I believe it's Chrome and Firefox, where if I go to Facebook, it deletes the entire feed, and just puts like a random quote there, so that there is no feed in the middle, and there's just your messenger and your groups. That's it. Oh.


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[Assistant] Yeah, there's also a dating thing, I think it's called secret crush, and one of the ways that it works is, well I guess the way that it works is you select a certain amount of people that you want to be your secret crush, and then they get a notification saying that someone, uuuh, added them as a secret crush, uuuh, but they don't know who.


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[Assistant] And then if they happen to add you back, out of nowhere,


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[Assistant] Yeah. But there's no like swiping, it's just your friends on Facebook.


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[Assistant] I didn't know Ashley likes me. But you wouldn't unless you flagged everyone on your list.


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[Assistant] They might be bad for business reasons. They might be good for like...


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[Assistant] I don't necessarily think so, but- Oh yeah, no, cause you could still tell the business who's hiring you to wear their bathing suit that you got X amount of views.


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[Assistant] But I think it would be harder for those businesses that want to advertise that way to shop around.


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[Assistant] If someone likes, I don't know, I don't know. Because I feel like that's gonna have quite a...


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[Assistant] Yeah. All right. Intel ZGPU to support ray tracing.


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[Assistant] Or at least that they're even like thinking about it, which isn't too surprising, but having a confirm is nice.


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[Assistant] But, because no offense, AMD isn't doing that great right now in that space. It's wonderful that AMD is doing fantastic in the CPU side of things. But it would be kind of nice if...


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[Assistant] Like, AMD had to dual-compete for a long time, but didn't have the money or the resources to really do it. Right.


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[Assistant] And Intel kinda does? So if it ends up being Intel that has to dual compete?


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[Assistant] That's morally better. I think that would make more sense.


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[Assistant] I'm really happy that they, they, they've got a winner right now. Their CPs are doing awesome.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's what it looks like anyways. That's really exciting though. I have a little bit of a hard time getting properly, actually excited about like, uhm,


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[Assistant] Non, like things that are definitely not for consumers. There's stuff where it's like, it's enterprise stuff, but you can get your hands on it and it's great. This is like data center hardware. So it's like, okay, that's cool. That's definitely cool. You know, like, hey, technology and another company entering the space and all that kind of stuff kind of way, but it's not super likely that a bunch of people that


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[Assistant] Uh, what would you even call that? Through a console lens? No, sorry. No, but uh, like, like, for not an iteration of a specific type, like not the Xbox One X, not the Xbox One S, but the original Xbox One.


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[Assistant] It's fun though, I actually really enjoy new console launches because even


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[Assistant] It's, I mean, it's cool to, to, it's a little bit harder to judge.


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[Assistant] FreshBooks is the super simple to use invoicing tool that actually does a lot more than just help you make beautiful, slick looking invoices. It helps you track your time with their timesheet function, manage expenses, and keeps track of who owes you what. Uh, it also has a feature that tells you when clients look at your invoice for the first time.


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[Assistant] Uh, so you know if they're not responding to you just because, uh, they're trying to avoid you, or if they've actually seen what you're trying to build for. You can call them out. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I find English is really bad at explaining spice because they have, they have like the, uh, moho.


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[Assistant] Stuff, and it's like lime and cilantro and like, oh, all these other kind of things and like it has spices. Like mojito? I think it's pronounced the same way, but it's just mojo.


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[Assistant] If something happens with the VPN and the VPN disconnects, it will cut out your internet. So there's no like...


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[Assistant] The VPN doesn't stop and then a bunch of packets get through unencrypted and unprotected, they cut everything down, which is actually super cool.


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[Assistant] Sure, yeah, yeah, sure. That's what I'm here for. It's great. The illustrations. Heck yeah. Uhm, they have apps for Windows, Mac OS, Android, iOS. It still says Linus. I don't...


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[Assistant] Uh, and Google Chrome with support for several other platforms coming soon. Uh, they have over 3,000 bare metal servers in 44 locations across 28 countries. You can connect up to 5 devices at the same time, or, you know...


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[Assistant] If your family members happen to be using those devices, I, uh, you know.


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[Assistant] Why would they do that? South Africa, as far as I know, and a few other places. Uh, check it out today at LMG.gg slash Piawan.


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[Assistant] Oh my god, are you excited for the new Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure?


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[Assistant] They're bolded, guys. Oh, I don't know if we talked about this. Okay. Updates, LTX 2019, just in case you didn't know, which would be surprising. Dreamhack and Linus Media Group are coming together and making this awesome convention slash hu-huge LAN party in Vancouver at the Vancouver Convention Center. You should check it out. Uh, website is not?


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[Assistant] Pretty sure if you search LTX 2019, it'll come up. It'll come up. It should. I think the SEO is pretty solid. They're organizing panels for the main stage, so they're wondering what you guys want to see discussed.


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[Assistant] Uh, hit them up with ideas on the forum or on Twitter at LTX Expo. And yes, the Ex and Expo are redundant, but don't worry about that. Uhm. I'm upset! As of this morning...


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[Assistant] So, there's probably less now. There's only 16 BYOC tickets left. B-O-X. B-O-S.


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[Assistant] Actually, cause they're, they're gonna be gone. Uh, Snazzy Q from Snazzy Labs, that's super cool, and Heartwork Nuts are also gonna be at LTX.


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[Assistant] I think Demetri and I, we have each other on Facebook. That's fine. So there's like a, you know. You guys get invited.


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[Assistant] That is correct. Sweet. I'm super excited. My whole Floatplane team is coming in locally.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we're doing the like, meetup at that time. So we're gonna hang out after LTX and everyone's gonna meet up for LTX, it's gonna be great.


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[Assistant] But there's also, the Vancouver Convention Center can, technically, receive floatplates.


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[Assistant] So I was, I was running with this like, idea for, the problem is it was, it was just, there's no way the ROI on this would ever work. But I wanted, uh, Linus and I to fly into the convention on a flow plane.


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[Assistant] Uhm, speaking of crazy ideas, Epic Games buys- Ah, here we go. I was waiting for a good segue. This is where it gets intense.


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[Assistant] So they didn't just buy a game, they didn't just buy out the rights to platform a game, they bought a whole studio.


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[Assistant] Like, there is, there is an editor's note at the bottom of the article, which says we want to clarify something for you, which like, isn't, this isn't good enough.


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[Assistant] To be super clear, uh, but it says, we wanted to clarify for you after today's news, Rocket League is and remains available on Steam. Anyone who owns Rocket League through Steam can still play it and can look forward to continued support. That's, I know exactly what you just said. Right. For how long? You know?


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[Assistant] Yeah, and like does, I'm sure it does, but this would be the time to clarify a lot better than a two line thing at the bottom of an article. Does support include feature updates? Which it almost certainly does, but they should spell that out.


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[Assistant] I'm so conflicted. We were talking about this a little bit before the show. I've tried to not think about this since I heard about it because I knew we were going to talk about it on the show. Uh, even that thing that you just mentioned with the revenue share thing, like I've got tons of feelings about that too because Steam is kind of this like old


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[Assistant] Right. Lethargic giant, at this point. Like, everyone in the PC community, as far as I can tell, loves them. But realistically...


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[Assistant] They've just kind of existed forever and like, not done a ton for quite a while.


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[Assistant] And like they do, to be clear, they have way better features than the other game store. Like it's a better situation over there. It's just, they've been around forever, and a lot of these features are pretty old. And some of the newer features that come out are not that substantial.


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[Assistant] Well see, it could be really cool. But it won't be. But then, and if it was Half Life VR, is it actually gonna be any good?


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[Assistant] I'm upset, Luke. It might be good. I'm so upset. I don't know. I didn't get an index.


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[Assistant] I'll pro- I mean I'll probably get it eventually, but like- Yeah, we'll probably- I mean- I suspect Linus Meteor Group will get one. Hopefully. I'll try that out. Hopefully. But anyways, I- like-


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[Assistant] I think it'll keep working for everyone. I love to watch. I only play the ice hockey mode because I'm weird.


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[Assistant] He is, but he's more on the, uh, the competitive side of things. Thomas Kahn's just a beautiful human being. Uhm, but- He's got a smooth voice. He does. Sultry. Rocket League essays, if you can imagine that it's possible. But anyways, I love watching all that kind of stuff, even though I don't play, uh, with the soccer ball, I just play ice hockey.


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[Assistant] At a fairly high level, I might say.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but, this does bother me because I've been playing Rogue League relatively seriously for years. Uhm, and it's scary when something you care about a lot is getting potentially touched. What I'm hoping for


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[Assistant] Is steam side of things, I mean it's gonna leave the steam store, but outside of that I hope it just doesn't get affected. And I hope that it going to the, uh, epic games store and it being in the news because of this buy out and all that kind of stuff is going to boom it's popularity. Right.


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[Assistant] Ambitions, which is good. That would be fantastic. I love-


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[Assistant] Rocket League esports is one of my favorite things to watch esports wise. I used to loooove watching Starcraft. Oh yea? And I'd stay up til weird hours in the morning and watch.


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[Assistant] Uhm, squishy muffins and all those crazy guys. But I don't know. I hope it goes well.


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[Assistant] I wish them the best even though it makes me a little salty. I'm not happy that it's leaving steam.


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[Assistant] Another thing that I want to consider here is, Rocket League, again, made quite a while ago, still doing pretty good, but, and, I mean, there's season passes, hopefully those are doing well. I play the game so freaking much that I buy the season pass, because I'm like,


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[Assistant] Is going to, hopefully, increase long-term support for the game, which we've kinda discussed already. But it's also probably just good for the creators. Right. Uhm, I don't, I haven't heard of Psionics working on necessarily anything else. I could be ignorant here, but I think this is kinda all they got. This is their, this is their thing. One-trick pony. Yeah. So, I mean- One-trick rocket car. If-


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[Assistant] Sometimes, if you want the thing to survive, you gotta do some stuff that's a little uncomfortable.


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[Assistant] Such a weird analogy, but I love it. Uhm, I, yeah, I don't know. Very, very interesting thing.


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[Assistant] Oh my goodness, uhm. I think with that, the show's probably over?


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[Assistant] And CloudFair stops servicing 8chan.


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[Assistant] Right, so what happened was they got another- They went to a competitor, uh, whose name is on here, but I'm not on the right part of the doc. Sure.


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[Assistant] That's the most hype, like most epic type of epic.


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[Assistant] Uhm, Epic in turn though was relying on the services of Voxility, uh, who pulled the plug on Epic after it learned that, that 8chan had moved to Epic because they had the same, uh, philosophy as, as Cloudflare. So, as far as I know, you still can't get onto 8chan.


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[Assistant] I tried earlier and all I got was, like literally if you just type in 8chan, all you get is articles about how it's down, about all the recent news about it.


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[Assistant] Uh, let's see. Like a guy, like a, like a detective guy. Yeaah, these. These were epic. Yeaah, those are cool.


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[Assistant] Well, we'll see, the plot, the plot stickens. Okay, okay. Um, nearly the same thing happened on 8chan before the terror attack in Christchurch, New Zealand. Oh. Yes. So it's, I think there's at least three


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[Assistant] On the bright side is I was researching this story today and I still don't know the dude's name. Perfect. Okay, cool. So that's cool. Good.


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[Assistant] So what happens was Cloudflare steps up and they made a big blog post statement saying why they pulled services from


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[Assistant] This particular website, which is, they stress not something they want to do. We have some quotes here saying, uhm, we reluctantly tolerate content that we find reprehensible. Like we try to host a lot of companies that we think are bad people in the name of free speech and giving platform to as many voices as possible. But there's a line.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Although I think, I don't know, sometimes when you remove a forum like that,


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[Assistant] You just have to find somewhere else to hang out and maybe you de-radicalize a little bit.


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[Assistant] They're internet people. Yeaah, they can probably figure it out. A Prime is here, he must hate something about the show.


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[Assistant] I feel like the fact that I've never really played Minecraft is like a kid never having played Lego. I feel like it's like a, what a shame. What a shame you never played Minecraft.


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[Assistant] And what a, what a tone pivot we just did. Yeah, absolutely. Back to the dark stuff.


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[Assistant] What happened was, after the cloudflare thing, the CEO of 8chan made a video. And it's pretty interesting, it's really free speechy, it's really, like there's a superimposed Benjamin Franklin-like picture in the background, like a wolf t-shirt almost. Okay.


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[Assistant] He basically says, like, look, we abide by the law, uhm, we're always forthright, we work with the police, like, within minutes of these attacks, like, we're not evil people, I'm not an extremist, uh, and this is a blank piece of paper that people can use for whatever purposes they do, and sometimes evil people like this use it in evil ways.


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[Assistant] In their own words, they're struggling to create a policy that can be broad and consistent and applied again and again. Like, how do you word that perfectly so that it aligns perfectly with your values across all these myriad situations that are just getting crazier and crazier every day it seems. Like, how do you make a blanket rule?


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[Assistant] Well their mission statement is something like to create a better internet. And...


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[Assistant] Uhm, wasn't, was not first uploaded to, to Instagram indeed. Uhm, they did find an Instagram account that was tied to the gunman and they disabled it, but it had been inactive for over a year. So, who knows?


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[Assistant] What is this Facebook PR person telling us? Who knows?


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[Assistant] Trying to two become one again. Hug each other a little bit more than they did in the past, you know? They tried it before.


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[Assistant] It's bad. It's bad. Yeah. That plus Facebook stuff. Yeah. All that and more on the Nah Show. On the Nah Show. I'm chomping at the bit here.


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[Assistant] What? And then I was checking it out, I was like, oh, this is amazing. I wanna do this. I think I might set it up.


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[Assistant] So that's why it's distributed. So you can help out and actually chip away at cancer research or Alzheimer's research just by using your spare compute cycles on your piece of crap PC that's in your storage room. Like I plan to do.


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[Assistant] Deflatable, if you deflate a boat, fold it into the shape of a protein.


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[Assistant] So wait a second, these guys, these people on the folding team, you can do this at any point, right? Like you can turn on, but they also do these like, like bursts. They do these weeks where they all try really hard to devote as much of their computing power as they can to do it.


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[Assistant] Oh, I thought you were gonna say, like, get screwed by GPP. You might still get screwed by GPP. Okay, so just to catch up, the people who don't know what the Nvidia GeForce partner program was, it was basically like,


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[Assistant] Hahaha. Let's say you are Asus, and you're, you sign up for the Nvidia, uh, GPP.


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[Assistant] If, if you wanted to sell an Nvidia graphics card, uhm,


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[Assistant] Yeah. I don't think that the, it stipulates that like, hey, your existing branding, ROG, you've got to use that for Nvidia. I think it's up to ASUS to decide what branding they use. In theory, they could have been like, you know what, Nvidia?


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[Assistant] And this mind share really matters, right? Because what they're forcing and what did actually occur when this program rolled out was that you've got to make new product lines, new, uh, you've got to fork your branding basically. And so they made Aries. Uh, this comes at a considerable expense, by the way. Oh yeah. They've got a branding marketing. They've got to design it. They've got a.


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[Assistant] That brand means nothing to anybody yet. So it's better to lean on your existing brand. What we don't know is if NVIDIA has remunerated these companies, like let's say you just sunk billions or millions on rebranding, or at least hundreds of thousands, is NVIDIA, like did the lawyers set up anything for this particular case where NVIDIA's gonna be like, okay,


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[Assistant] Another interesting thing was how they framed their cancellation. So we learned about it through a blog post that Nvidia uploaded. And they did not, they didn't like Facebook it. They didn't go on an apology tour, they didn't own what they did. Instead, they framed it thusly. You know?


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[Assistant] There's all these rumors and conjecture and myths, mistruths around about the Nvidia GPP. So, rather than spending our energy, battling, battling misinformation,


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[Assistant] We're just gonna cancel the program so we can focus on what's important, like building the new technology, like as if the GPP and all the backlash was like draining their resources.


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[Assistant] Transparency for the consumer. So the consumer knows what they're buying. They know that they're getting an Nvidia card and that's the best thing you can get and they want to make sure and it's very obvious and transparent on the packaging that that's what they're getting.


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[Assistant] If that's what it's about, then why even rely on these other brands like ROG? Why don't you just stipulate that they have a big fat green banner that says Nvidia on it? If it's really just about obvious branding, then...


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[Assistant] Yeah, exactly. They know that their market position is such that they're gonna be the ones awarded the ROG, the incumbent existing branding, and that...


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[Assistant] AMD is going to be the one suffering under the new branding. So nice try Nvidia.


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[Assistant] No, he's definitely talking about the visuals of this, of this video feed.


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[Assistant] It's intentional, dude. This is the new style. Yeah. Low or high contrast or whatever. The opposite of whatever you're complaining about. That's what we want.


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[Assistant] Them canceling the program doesn't really amount to much because the damage is already done.


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[Assistant] There's some, there's some costs. There's these new brands.


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[Assistant] There could be back, like back alley, or what do you call them? Back end. Back end? These deals could continue to exist right now, just not publicly.


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[Assistant] Cause a lot of these big players, they sign these agreements so, they might just carry forward with them.


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[Assistant] By the way, that in no way makes it more clear for everybody. That makes it way, way, way harder to buy a graphics card. If I rock up and there's like, okay, there's gaming, there's Aorus, there's ROG, there's all that times two for each different one, that's way harder. That's way harder. To figure out the tier of the graphics card, I guess?


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[Assistant] It'd be way better if they, if, I think it'd be better, a better business case for them just to say, hey, a giant banner that says Nvidia, GTX 1070.


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[Assistant] Well that's another point as, as to why this GPP didn't even need to exist because it's already, it's already in the name. I don't buy this whole transparency angle. Yeaah. I don't buy it.


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[Assistant] I wish they would just own it. Hey, we tried to make a lot of money, we tried to make more money, we got caught, it wasn't-


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[Assistant] Yes, that's correct. So that would have been under the Obama administration and they thought, okay, there's the market in the US could support four major cellular provider services or companies. So they thought more is better. It's more competition.


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[Assistant] So, we're not gonna let you guys merge. That was then. Things have changed. Not only is it just a change of administration, and they think that the Trump administration will be more favorable to this merger, a lot of it has to do with 5G, actually. And the US and the administration is very serious about 5G. Yeah, remember that Trump, like, uh,


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[Assistant] Walcom is instrumental in advancing 5G.


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[Assistant] And there's a big global race to be the country that pioneers 5G the most right now. And China and South Korea are winning and the US wants to win because you get lots of benefits from pioneering the technology and the standards, lots of job creation, IP. It was really good for the US to have developed 4G and they want to keep that going. And there, I think that with this.


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[Assistant] The new merge company will have a greater ability to pioneer 5G.


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[Assistant] It's, it's, I think there's an opportunity for T-Mobile and Sprint to make a really cool name when they merge.


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[Assistant] Mobile, sprint, that's like a little motion here, but they're just gonna be called T-Mobile still. Missed opportunity. Oh, okay. Missed opportunity.


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[Assistant] I don't think the name, like, I don't necessarily think just because the name is still T-Mobile that indicates that they're the big winners, but I don't know. Maybe.


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[Assistant] Well, it's, they're not, they just said that they're committed to merging. They plan to merge, but it's not up to them. They still have to, the courts still need to approve this. And that's going to take a couple months, I think.


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[Assistant] Every good capitalist likes competition, right? Yeah. My question is, does more players mean more competition? Not necessarily. Because right now you've got four.


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[Assistant] T-Mobile and Sprint are numbers three and four. They're way smaller than AT&T and Verizon. Should they merge, they'll be about the same size. So do you, do you think they actually have more of an ability? Is there more competition when there's three equally sized players than... I kind of think probably. Maybe?


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[Assistant] I wish that was one person's full name. There's a lot of people with two first names, but not enough with two last names. So according to the firm's investigation,


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[Assistant] The three DRAM manufacturers conspired to limit the supply of DRAM chips between 2016 and 2017 with the purpose, of course, of inflating their prices. And we've all seen that happen. DRAM saw a 47% price increase during 2017, the largest jump ever in the last 30 years. And probably ever because before 30 years ago, did they even have DRAM?


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[Assistant] So the complaint has been put forward on behalf of anyone who, in the US...


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[Assistant] Purchased something containing DRAM from one of these three companies from July 1st, 2016 through February 1st, 2018.


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[Assistant] The suit claims that after a global decline in the price of RAM chips, the three companies began in June of 2016 to deliberately limit their output of DRAM storage chips.


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[Assistant] But did they have to, if they're, okay, if they're colluding and they want the prices to go up instead of down, did they have to do it so hard?


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[Assistant] They're obviously gonna try to get away with it, and maybe what it takes to get away with it is to be like, we literally don't have the capacity to make more, so then they had to...


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[Assistant] They own it. It's an oligopoly. Uh, I wouldn't be surprised if these guys were caught, like, actually guilty because from 1998 to 2002, Hynix, Samsung, and Micron were among a group of vendors who would ultimately end up paying a settlement to end complaints that they conspired to rig the price of DRAM chips. So it's not even the first time this happened.


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[Assistant] That's, I put it that way actually because I have a zit. Uhm, thanks Luke.


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[Assistant] Followed your advice right then, went to Squarespace, and the free domain they got was luke'sdad.com, and then they made all of this tonight!


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[Assistant] Linus Tech Exploration Explorers, come explore us, it's gonna be lit this year. I got some things up my sleeve. Oh my.


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[Assistant] I didn't call my video that, what is that? Well that, okay, history of the computer keyboard. Is that a tech quickie? Who works here?


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[Assistant] So okay, per U.S. law, no warranty or product sold for over five bucks can put any restrictions on repairs. Who does the repairing? You can't have a sticker on your product that says, if you break this sticker or your voy- your- your voyante is ward, that happened last time we-


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[Assistant] You use a third party repair service. At least that's what they say. But that's actually illegal in the US. And what we learned last time when the news broke is that


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[Assistant] Is it the FTC? They issued, yes it is, they issued letters to six big companies. We didn't know who the companies were, but they, they were like, look guys, you know this has been illegal since the 70s, we're about to crack the whip, crack down on it. Yep. And guess what? Now we know who those companies were. Hit me with them Luke. Sony, Microsoft.


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[Assistant] It's probably a bundle, like this one sentence that we're, or clause that we're focused on in the context of this article is a part of a larger bundle and to attribute that whole bundle to items that are cheaper than five bucks would just be too much work and it would probably like inhibit people from starting cheapy little businesses.


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[Assistant] These stickers on them, and it's not just about repairs, it also says something about third party, uhm, like accessories as well.


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[Assistant] You got your software, your bloatware, your wetware, your earthenware, uh, your who knows where. Alright, that's where the show is going.


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[Assistant] Are you fan of this person? Do you want to talk about that?


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[Assistant] Okay, how about this? You know what, we're gonna go, let's cruise right into Facebook. There's two Facebook-ish things today.


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[Assistant] Number one, at F8, which is their developer conference, which is happening right around now, they announced that they plan to create a clear history tool. So.


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[Assistant] This feature will enable you to see the websites and apps that send Facebook information when you use them.


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[Assistant] It'll enable you to delete this information from your account and turn off Facebook's ability to store that information associated with your account going forward.


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[Assistant] They will still provide apps and websites with aggregated analytics. That's anonymized. Anonymized.


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[Assistant] And this tool won't be launching for a few months. They gotta build it and test it.


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[Assistant] They're sitting down having town hall meetings with security experts around the US and all that kind of stuff. Do you think this would be a cool tool that you would use? Do you even use Wazebook?


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's cool. Uh, one problem with, uh, the way particularly Tinder works is like,


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[Assistant] You know, the first stage of Tinder is like, Hey, you think I'm hot? I think you're hot. So we got that. So like, boom, that mystery solved. But then now you're just in an empty chat and like, what do we talk about? Where do you, where do you start?


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[Assistant] Related to that, uh, because of the privacy things, Facebook is revisiting


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[Assistant] The possibility of having a subscription model, not, it would be an option. It's an option, okay?


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[Assistant] Just wanna say this loud and clear, Facebook's not gonna be like, hey, wanna keep your Facebook account? Five bucks a month. 50 bucks a month. Oh, ad-free, okay. It would be an ad-free subscription model, and I think it means you're gonna be giving up a lot less data too. So they looked into this in the past, and then internally basically everyone was like, I don't think that's gonna work.


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[Assistant] One of the questions here is like, would the spur more people to join? Uh, hell no. In my opinion, no, not a chance. I don't think, all it would do is retain existing customers. I don't think there's going to be anyone who's like, woah, wit, it's subscription model now, I'm in.


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[Assistant] It'll be the same number of people who like, want to pay with gold doubloons instead of US dollars. Yeah, like it's gonna be really small. They're out there.


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[Assistant] I'll join you in a moment. I think this began, yea, in the fall of 2016, HP sold a bunch of printers or updated a bunch of existing printers in Australia, uh, without telling consumers that there's software in these, in these printers or in the firmware that is gonna limit you from using third party ink cartridges. And that's illegal in Australia.


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[Assistant] So now they're in trouble and get this.


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[Assistant] HP is offering consumers who are prevented from using a non-HP cartridge compensation of $50. If you, more than 2,000 customers suffered under this, under this software, and if they each get their $50, that's gonna cost HP, hold on to your tits, $100,000!


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[Assistant] Wait, how much? Oh, okay, great. It's like that scene in Awesome Powers where he's like, a million dollars and they all start laughing and I'm like, oh, fine. Here you go. I was worth a shot.


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[Assistant] They probably got way more sales of ink than that $100,000.


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[Assistant] How much is a new, like, proprietary HP ink cartridge? 100 bucks?


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[Assistant] Well, all I'm gonna say is, even if like half the people affected just bought ink, then they've already paid for the whole scandal. So in Australia, about 60 bucks a cartridge, apparently. 60 Australian. Yeah. That'll be like...


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[Assistant] So what this means is that it's so much more efficient to use this, what they call an ASIC, an Application Specific Integrated Circuit, a specialized computer, it's so much more efficient to use that than it is to use a regular off-the-shelf GPU that


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[Assistant] It brings a concern about how decentralized and free


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[Assistant] The cryptocurrency is now, because in the utopian world that-


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[Assistant] We enthusiasts dream about, anyone can support the network. Anyone can be a node in the network because you can just use an off-the-shelf GPU that you probably have on your computer anyway.


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[Assistant] Once there's a specialized machine that's sold by one company, then there's... then it's centralized, basically. It's not...


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[Assistant] For the whole industry, in the future won't there be competition? There could be two or three people producing these things.


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[Assistant] I'm into the ether price. That's what I look at every day. Here we go.


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[Assistant] Damn, it's almost at 800 US again. Yes, it's almost at half of what it was.


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[Assistant] The thing is though, like this algorithm, Equihash, was meant to, it was like designed to prevent centralization of the mining process.


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[Assistant] There's been other cryptocurrencies that this happened to and then after these ASICs come out they just like alter the algorithm so that it kind of nullifies the lead that those ASICs give themselves. So maybe right now people don't know if Equihash will do the same thing and then GPUs will still be relevant.


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[Assistant] Well, probably not even the minus one hour. We were on time today.


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[Assistant] Those machines are potentially a tough one, Mary, but yeaah, 600 days of uptime.


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[Assistant] Yeah. I like running Windows in a virtual machine because then it's, it's like, oh look, Windows Update broke itself. I can just hit a button and it's like, oh look, it's the way that it was yesterday.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and Attack ran into that with their, um, their Zen Plus coverage. Yeah. Uhm, the, like Rise of the Tomb Raider and a whole bunch of games who are running it.


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[Assistant] So depending on what you're doing, you could have a significant reduction in performance.


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[Assistant] It was exciting! Yeah, I spent, I spent Monday and Tuesday with Anthony doing Linux stuff, and it's Linux on gaming, gaming on Linux. And so we look at native Linux on gaming, which is pretty cool, it basically works.


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[Assistant] And then gaming through rappers like Wine and...


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[Assistant] And then finally virtualization and the horizon for doing everything through a virtual machine and not really sacrificing anything in terms of performance. I'm really looking forward to that. That'll be really good. We'll have companion guides and stuff on the forum for like really nitty gritty step by step. If you want to do Fedora or Ubuntu or Arch or whatever.


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[Assistant] Cause removable battery, upgradable storage, and it still had a plastic back.


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[Assistant] And there were cases for it that you could replace the back, like you could take the back off and have like a leather back if you wanted.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah. Well the, with the G5 where it's got the replaceable battery and still kind of modern, I've replaced the battery in it twice. I mean it's, it was basically a launch day phone and it's, you just slide it out and slide a new battery in. It's 8 bucks from China.


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[Assistant] I heard a lot of people really liked it. Yeah, it ran Java, which is like, you would think it would be a pile of garbage because Java, especially in those days because that was before Android, but.


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[Assistant] The sidekick was kind of like, it looked like a toy, but it had a good keyboard and the screen was decent, but it also had a color LCD that was reflective. So, you're not gonna get like, photorealistic color, but you could get color.


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[Assistant] And so the battery life would last forever, like days.


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[Assistant] I've never had a phone that I liked for more than 6 months. Like, it's okay for 6 months and then with the software updates and whatever I'm doing to it, it starts to run really bad.


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[Assistant] Probably the T-Mobile sidekick, like the very last generation one because you could really quickly switch between a bunch of tasks, the web browsing wasn't terrible, instant messaging wasn't terrible, email was pretty good.


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[Assistant] It was like a Motorola pager thing. It was not a phone. That thing was awesome.


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[Assistant] Taking your customizations and your settings and stuff. And that has always been like, if you spend a lot of time customizing your phone or customizing whatever it is to make it exactly just so, you'll be punished. Because every time there's an update or every time you switch phones, it is super difficult to get all those customizations from one device to another. And it shouldn't be.


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[Assistant] The copy protection. They bury things somewhere in the system.


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[Assistant] I've never tried to migrate from machine. Mostly it's okay. So like I have uhm, I have a file that customizes the command line and provides some aliases and shortcuts and stuff like that. And I've been working on that for 20 years and I've never lost it and it's great and it's just like the best thing ever. So it's like literally 20 years of preferences in that file.


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[Assistant] One of the things Ubuntu has done recently is they have this thing called snaps. And so, because you have this version of this library that this program needs, and you need a slightly different version of that library for some older program, that can be problematic to run those combinations of things.


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[Assistant] One of the things that Snaps does for you is that it packages all of your dependencies inside this file, which uses more space, but


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[Assistant] Makes it aware that you have to worry about being able to run those things less. So in terms of like, I want to migrate all my programs and just be able to run it. With those kinds of technologies, generally you're a lot more successful.


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[Assistant] But like a lot of the things with like CadenLive, CadenLive is a great example because we get lots of support requests for CadenLive on our forum. CadenLive is a great program.


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[Assistant] But 90% of the problems with KdenLive, not actually KdenLive, it's the libraries. There are bugs in the libraries. And so you can have audio sync issues and things like that. And that is just the libraries on the system. And so Snaps can help with stuff like that on Ubuntu.


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[Assistant] The other thing is, uh, on the commercial side, so like, a lot of commercial internet is often much worse than residential internet at the lower tier.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I was super in the middle. The first event really that led to that was


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[Assistant] Uh, there was this old guy and, well, I was sort of bored in school and they were trying to figure out how to deal with that because it was like kindergarten or first grade or something.


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[Assistant] No. Turns out recycling garbage in like the poor part of the thing, that's also a really good way to get technology. That's how I got most of my first computers. It's like let's Frankenstein stuff together.


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[Assistant] That was a lot of fun. There, we had a, I was accused, by the time I made it to high school, I was accused of black magic because the local repair place would always replace the motherboard whenever a PS2, whenever a kid would something, the PS2 ports were really bad. It was like, if you pulled the keyboard the wrong way, it would blow the fuse on the motherboard.


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[Assistant] And so, it was not surface mount, it was through hole. It was really easy to replace. And I would be like, well let's just crack it open, take the motherboard out and replace the, the, the through hole fuse. And the local computer repair company was like, Black Magic Witchcraft, burn him, burn him at the stake, he's breathing. We gotta replace the motherboard, we can't just repair them, that's like three cents, we can't do it. So yea, that was...


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[Assistant] Not fun in a poor high school where they can't afford a thousand bucks a machine to replace stuff.


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[Assistant] Do you use one? I do. Okay. I've got a black model M. I actually have a fairly impressive collection of the SSK model M's as well, the numpad-less ones. I should be able to make it until I'm about 80 if I only use the SSK's.


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[Assistant] Uhm, the earlier ones are better, the later ones, they've gotten a lot of money from like the healthcare industry and stuff, so Unicomp is making higher quality products than they were even a couple of years ago. And, uh, it's almost as good, but man, those essence, like,


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's fun. That'd be cool. I can even give you a new inbox, I've got like four of those. Of like the original? Yeah. Holy cow, that would be pretty cool. We'll uh, we'll talk later on.


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[Assistant] Uhm, the very first video that I made was actually even before the thing, like I used to, well, it's a long story, but even before all of that, there is a video that I'm surprised that no one found and it was when


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[Assistant] Uh, Windows Vista came out. I was so angry.


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[Assistant] into a 64-bit wrapper. I was so mad, I could not see straight. I was seething with anger because it was like,


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[Assistant] You know, right up to the beta launch in video was like, we're gonna come out with a driver. And then after Vista went into production, they were like, okay cool, here's our real driver. And it was still the same garbage that had been for like the last six months before that. And so there's a video on YouTube of me


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[Assistant] So that was another thing that was, made me almost as mad, but not quite as mad as the Nvidia driver thing. That's why I brought it up. And it was like, alright, I can do something about this. This is a thing that I can fix, because the world of KVMs for like 4K and like DisplayPort 60Hz, it's terrible. It's really terrible.


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[Assistant] Or if you've got, like the Corsair keyboards, once the driver loads, they're just not even really a keyboard anymore. And so good luck getting that to work with a KVM.


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[Assistant] And so I just, I found, I found somebody in Taiwan that had basically the hardware that I needed, but I got them to tweak the hardware for me and, uh, I got to do software that solves the problems for people like us that would be trying to do things with a KVM that has, you know, a 4K display port, 1.2, whatever.


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[Assistant] I basically already had a customer lined up for them, so I was just sort of selling the seconds, but they sold so well that we did two other runs, and it is shocking the people that have come out of the woodwork to buy the KVMs, and generally it's done really well. Interestingly, Macs are the things that have the biggest problem. The trashcan Mac Pros don't actually follow the DisplayPort spec at all.


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[Assistant] Well the, one of the design choices on the KVM is that it does not have a repeater. And so,


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[Assistant] It's a D300 but it goes through, I think it goes through the board in the bottom and then back out the connector in the back and so they have a repeater or something in the board in the bottom and that's the problem.


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[Assistant] Because if I like just solder a little dongle directly on the D300, it's fine. So you'd have to tell your customers to solder it directly to the Mac Pro.


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[Assistant] That this was at least partially my fault. And I'm not, like, I'm not victim blaming, you know?


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[Assistant] So I'm not saying that at all. I'm saying that it was actually a coordinated effort to capture a shot that


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[Assistant] Well the soundbar was supposed to fall into my hands.


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[Assistant] So the idea was, because it was difficult with the framing of the shot for James to just


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[Assistant] Like, I mean, so imagine this, I'm sitting here hosting a video to you right now, and I want a soundbar to fall on my head. He can't just stand right there, cause then his butt's taking up the whole frame. So he's, he's standing like kinda behind me, and like off to the side, and it's kinda hard to hold this thing, and it's also hard for him to eyeball.


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[Assistant] Where exactly is down? Now, I think it was a team fail.


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[Assistant] Overkillington says, your nose is really big, huh? Yeah! So it's funny, you know, I'm gonna tell a different story now, because I remember having this conversation, uh, with my mother at one point, when I was in high school. And, uhm, I said, something, something, something, yeah, I, uh,


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[Assistant] I took the picture this way, like from the front, because from the side you can tell I have a really big nose. And she goes, you don't have a big nose. And I go, yeah I do. And she goes, no, no that's not true. And I go, alright, watch.


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[Assistant] I told you I have a big nose. I don't need you to inform me I have a big nose. I'm well aware of the situation. That's amazing. Anyway, so back to the, back to the soundbar fail. So James is holding this soundbar above me. And it's kinda hard for him to line it up in his defense. He also didn't do an amazing job.


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[Assistant] Okay, so the idea was I'm leaning forward, I'm talking about this other soundbar, and then I'm supposed to kind of lean back, and another soundbar is supposed to fall into my hands.


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[Assistant] Now I also didn't lean back as far as I could have because I was a little bit concerned about leaning out of the focus of the, of the camera and it, and like when you're trying to pull off like a, like a coordinated shot, like you know when you do the like, here, uhm,


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[Assistant] Uh, uh, uh, here, here, here. Madrinas is one of our sponsors today. So here, like, take a Madrinas and then like, you know, like, hit me with it.


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[Assistant] Boom. Like, when you're trying to pull off the, like, the no look, like, uh. Yeah, we got that. We didn't even look. Uh, well sometimes you don't look.


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[Assistant] So yeaah, so it came down like this. So it was really close. So yeah, so I did, well it wasn't that close because uhm, as I outlined before, and I had a conversation with my mother once about this, something could hit me in the nose and really not be that close to my face.


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[Assistant] Okay, I remember having a conversation with my wife about this once, where uhm, I was saying like, oh yea, like, my face is gross right now, I've got like these breakouts, and she's got far worse breakouts than I do, like as a general rule.


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[Assistant] You know what, it's good to have- okay, Linus relationship tips for a moment here.


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[Assistant] So anyway, so I was complaining about it and she's basically like, you know,


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[Assistant] My nose takes up a significant portion of my field of view. Really? Yeah, like I can, like I can, I can, so, okay, so I can see,


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[Assistant] Let's go with my right eye. Okay, with my right eye, I can see all the way to the very edge of that light. Okay?


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[Assistant] So where my nose sticks out, I can see about to the mic stand.


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[Assistant] No, but if there's a red mark, like right


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[Assistant] It's like really noticeable. People are like racist. No. No. Physiology is not racist. It just...


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[Assistant] Is what it is. I don't, I don't make the rules. Uhm, alright, speaking of making the rules, let's go through, uh, some topics. What do we got today?


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[Assistant] I don't know if it's more delays on Ice Lake necessarily, but Intel has definitely delayed some stuff over the last couple of years.


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[Assistant] Which to be clear, when your best quarterly profit, like,


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[Assistant] Really only has to be like, profitable. You know, it's, it's good though. It's good news. It's good news. Uh, there's a rumor. Uh, Nvidia next-gen card details apparently leaking. So Jensen did go up on stage saying there's no new gaming graphics cards coming, but uh,


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[Assistant] Usually, when the leaks start coming this hard and this heavy,


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[Assistant] That's an indication that what he said might have been a big, fat,


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[Assistant] Uhm, what's the word? That is not- No, no, I don't want to be disparaging.


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[Assistant] Uh, a big fat statement that wasn't entirely based on facts given that he's the CEO and he knows what's going on presumably. Yea. And have I, allegedly.


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[Assistant] As long as we throw in an allegedly- I actually didn't realize that Stephen Colbert has been doing the allegedly thing like years before I started doing it. Oh really? I thought that was our joke.


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[Assistant] Which is fine. I'm actually okay with coming up with the same joke as Colbert and his writing staff, because they're sort of professionals.


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[Assistant] Uhm, actually, it's new plus linux, or as I've been calling it, whatever.


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[Assistant] We actually like scripted in a well actually, and he like explains the whole GNU plus Linux, blah blah blah thing. It's, it's pretty great. And the funny thing is like, there's gonna be Linux fanboys out there that are like, yeah, you tell them Wendell.


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[Assistant] But, those are the same kinds of people that proudly refer to themselves as PC Master Race, not realizing that that whole thing was a uhm,


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[Assistant] Was supposed to be a jab at the people who feel that, but like that's the whole origin of it, was that it was like a, uh,


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[Assistant] Oh man, the word's failing me. Escape, escape. No, no, no, not sarcastic, not, not, uh...


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[Assistant] I mean, we actually talked about this while he was down here, just like, the biggest problem with Linux in a lot of ways is-


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[Assistant] When you love something so much, and that's what a lot of the Linux community does, they love Linux so much, and to be clear, Linux is a good thing. But when you love it so much that you can't see the flaws, then that's where you start to make it hard for other people to share your love. Like, he was installing something, and I was like,


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[Assistant] So, no one's gonna put me in charge of Linux, because no one is, strictly speaking, in charge of Linux. Uhm, no one's gonna put me in charge, but if I was in charge, this whole nonsense, where you go on, like, a GitHub page, copy a string of text, and then paste that into, like, a terminal prompt to install software? That's gotta go! That's super gotta go!


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[Assistant] I mean even the whole thing with there being so many different distros. So if you're trying to, I mean this is something that I was talking to one of the writers about in my office. We were reviewing a script and we were just chatting about how frustrating it is


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[Assistant] To have to deal with product names that are all either very similar or the same.


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[Assistant] So when you're trying to find information on a, on like the Macbook, like the 20, I guess it was a 2015. So if you don't know to search for 2015 Macbook non-air, or like whatever, or like as a search provider.


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[Assistant] They do a pretty good job, but if they're trying to find like a fix for a weird bug or if they're trying to find something like a teardown or an upgrade guide or, or a replacement part or something stupid like that, how difficult that makes life, I mean,


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[Assistant] To the average person, and I feel like that's another thing that a lot of the very techie community loses track of, to the average person,


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[Assistant] There is no awareness whatsoever that Linux is anything other than Linux. They don't know Arch, Debian, Cento, they don't know any of that stuff. It's just Linux. So if you were to try to search how to install program in Linux, we should try it. Let's do it right now. How to install program in Linux.


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[Assistant] Let's give it a shot, beginner geek, how to install software on Linux. Works differently. Instead of visiting a website, you'll usually need to grab the software from your Linux distribution software repository with its package manager. I'm already dead. If I am, no, if I'm an average user, I'm already like, okay, I'm done.


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[Assistant] From, install software from your distribution's repositories.


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[Assistant] I mean, the reality of it is, is like, we, we, we live in this sort of this bubble where we just kind of go, well people should just, people should just learn the lingo.


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[Assistant] But it's funny because whenever you try it, try stepping outside of your usual comfort zone, which might be tech, and go to a hardware store and shop for a tool.


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[Assistant] Or go to a makeup store and shop for makeup.


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[Assistant] Right, but my point was to pick something that you don't know. You know, walk into a textiles store.


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[Assistant] Like, uh, I don't know, fabricana or something.


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[Assistant] And that kind of stuff is actually not that simple or necessarily good use of your time to learn when all you need that piece of fabric for is to make a makeshift tablecloth.


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[Assistant] So if, if all you really care about doing on your computer is reading your email, you actually will never care what a distribution repository is, and you will never care that you don't care, and you know what? That's actually fine.


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[Assistant] Because everybody has different interests. You know, there are, actually I'm not gonna get into like, you know, all the different words to describe wine because I could, that would probably become a different conversation, but.


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[Assistant] Have you heard about this whole story? I think you've told me about it. In fact, I think you've told me on WAN Show, but we can, we can, we can let people, we can let people tell us whether they wanna hear it again or not.


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[Assistant] Oh, someone wants to know where to get my water bottle.


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[Assistant] Amazon. It's actually not that big, but it's one of the vacuum ones. So it's insulated.


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[Assistant] We totally should, except that by the time we marked these up, even like enough to cover,


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[Assistant] Stainless, uhm, yeaah. I actually am very satisfied with this water bottle. Would happily endorse 10 out of 10.


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[Assistant] Oh, we're working on some stuff. Have you seen the new concept for a new hoodie?


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[Assistant] Like, it's not necessarily a tech hoodie. That's fine. But, it's way more modern in terms of, like, the design. What?!


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[Assistant] Who cares if it's not final? Oh wow. Okay, so A,


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[Assistant] Why are you whining about this, Nick? I'm talking to Nick up there. He can hear me because he's streaming. And B, why are you watching the WAN show at work? Okay? Do we watch podcasts while we're supposed to be working, Nick? Yeah, that's what I thought.


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[Assistant] Uhm, alright, so let's, I will, I will respect his wishes at least until such time as he has provided me with a very compelling reason why, uh, why I should, why I should listen to him.


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[Assistant] Cause like, if you start calling your app store, the app store, Apple is gonna be down your throat and up your butt at the same time with their entire legal team.


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[Assistant] And it actually takes a lot of, uh, it takes a lot of branding. It takes a lot of actual marketing to get people to, to get comfortable with something. Like the number of times that people have to hear


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[Assistant] Like when Google changed to Play Store.


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[Assistant] And, and the stupid thing about it, the stupid thing about it is here I am giving the tech community a hard time about not being accepting of friendlier ways of naming things and doing things, but I had the exact same reaction when Google called it the Play Store. I was like, mad.


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[Assistant] I was like, what was wrong with the way they did it before? I don't, I don't play an app if it's not a game. That was seriously, I felt pretty almost word for word. That was what I thought.


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[Assistant] Right, so it had, but it had apps at the time. The things that they didn't have yet was the deep collection of movie and music and TV show content that now, in hindsight,


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[Assistant] Almost makes it look like Google knew what they were doing with a branding thing.


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[Assistant] But I'm afraid to, I'm afraid to be too sure. I'm afraid. Cause I don't know.


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[Assistant] Oh, people are giving us suggestions. The app store with a zero.


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[Assistant] Okay, this is the problem with letting, like, when you let software engineers name things.


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[Assistant] Well, it would be sudo, so okay, actually, okay, you're more, you're more in tune with the Linux community than me. It's superuserdo, but is it sudo or sudo? Do you pronounce it the way it's said?


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[Assistant] Okay, so this is, this is similar to the GIF argument.


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[Assistant] Uh, oh, I'm out of me, I can't read that. It's pronounced hef. Hef. Sure. Yeah, let's go ahead.


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[Assistant] We should just go with if, it's got a silent G. I mean we'll follow the same rules that like modern parents


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[Assistant] Modern parents, right? Because it's just like, no, my son's name is Steve and it's spelled, it's got like a silent J in it or whatever and you're just like...


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[Assistant] It's like, Steve already had a perfectly good spelling that everyone fully understood.


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[Assistant] And was familiar with, like you did not have to reinvent the wheel. It's not one of those names like, uh, like Linus where no one knows how to spell it in spite of the fact that it is 100% perfect phonetically. What? People spell that wrong? I have literally had my name spelled.


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[Assistant] I've had L-I-N-I-S, which could somewhat be justified. I've had L-I-N-A-S, line ass. Line ass, okay. Line ass, wow.


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[Assistant] Because your last name is French, I might guess how you see it.


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[Assistant] Line ass tech tips. It's like the dirty tech tips. Alright, so yeah tech, should we do a topic?


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[Assistant] You know what? Should we just go full C zero copyright KT's here and, uh,


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[Assistant] Way of doing that, uhm, yeaah, you know what, yeaah, let's just go full tease and, uh, and not do a topic yet. So we've got a lot of sponsors for you guys today, great sponsors, the greatest sponsors. Ah, first up,


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[Assistant] We got Madrina's coffee. Okay, these guys always have crazy deals.


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[Assistant] During WAN Show, so, so, so wait, so wait, but be ready.


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[Assistant] You can get 50% off, yes my friends. You can pay for only three of these six cans.


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[Assistant] 50% off your Madrinas coffee order with discount code LINUS.


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[Assistant] And the first 50 people to use code minus will get a free six pack of cold brew if you're in the US.


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[Assistant] Or a free bag of micro roast. Uh, go for the six pack of cold brew.


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[Assistant] Oh cool. Oh so that's for the US and that's for international. Awesome. So go to madrinascoffee.com slash Linus for the full details. By the way,


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[Assistant] Uh, PSA for, uh, for, uh, what are they called? Sorry, I was reading Savage Jerky while I was thinking. Like that's not coffee. No, that's not coffee. PSA, their shipping rates have been dramatically reduced to most countries, including Germany, Canada, the UK, and most of the EU.


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[Assistant] Somehow, in this terrible world, they have managed to reduce their rates internationally.


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[Assistant] Oh, oh no, I didn't have a, I didn't have an intent. I thought that was actually like quite good, but you know. Unintentional. Whatever works, yeaah. Ah, savage jerky! Where's my maple


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[Assistant] Colton and I are gonna have to have a- Someone's in trouble. Colton and I are gonna have to have a chat after the uh, after the WAN show today.


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[Assistant] Because, oh crap, I didn't have the Madrinas thing up. There you go! 50% off Madrinas Coffee, you get the point. Savage Jerky. Okay, so we have a problem here.


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[Assistant] Uhm, my maple buffalo bacon is not here. There's nothing with maple or bacon. So, that's fine. You know what? I'm actually gonna do the sweet s- I don't think I've tried the sweet sriracha- Oh, there is bacon! Okay.


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[Assistant] Well, uh, you get original. Sure. So there's a sweet sriracha barbecue and a sriracha bacon. I don't think I've tried this one. So, uh, Savage Jerky is made with the best ingredients without nitrates or preservatives. Their goal was to create a snack that's both full of flavor and not bad for you. They've got 13 different flavors of jerky.


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[Assistant] Oh, my mouth's watering. Including the sriracha bacon, maple buffalo bacon, oh, the maple buffalo bacon.


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[Assistant] Not everyone likes the maple buffalo bacon. Like, I shouldn't endorse it too hard. Like, order flavors that sound good to you because I've given it to other people. They weren't that into it, but they've liked other stuff. But I love it. Uhm, and traditional. They make barbecue sauce, hot swass, hot swass, hot sauce, and a spice rub. They're a Carolina Reaper hot sauce. This is one of the hottest peppers in the world. The Carolina Reaper pepper.


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[Assistant] I need to use offer code LTT to save 10% on all of their products. Yea, my favorite one is the moho jalapeno. Well, it's actually not bad.


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[Assistant] It's not, yea, it's not like super sweet, it's not like honey sweet, like the, uhm, like the maple buffalo, or not honey, I guess it's maple blue. Uhm, like the maple bacon, but. Okay, yea. That one's not bad actually. And!


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[Assistant] Corsair! You can check out Corsair's Strafe MK2 mechanical keyboard, which was an update from their previous fan favorite. Comes in either- Oh, Mark II. Ah, I get it.


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[Assistant] Comes in either Cherry MX Red or Cherry MX Silent Editions, with Red offering smooth and linear actuation, while the Silent dampens sound by 30%. Perfect for users who are streaming, or who work in an office, or who game late at night.


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[Assistant] Like next to someone who is sleeping. They've both got 100% anti-ghosting with 104 key rollover to ensure that


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[Assistant] No matter how many limbs you use to mash on your keyboard, all of your keystrokes will be fully registered, and eight megs of built-in storage to allow you to take all of your macro and, more importantly, RGB configurations with you on the go.


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[Assistant] The top of the keyboard is a built-in USB pass-through that allows an available port from your PC to be passed through to your mouse, smartphone, flash drive, or whatever. And you can check it out at the link below to learn more. Which I don't know what the link is. Oh boy, it's genie.us, slash, small i, small h, big j, small a, big b.


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[Assistant] There we go, fantastic. Alright, do you want to do another topic?


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[Assistant] Floatplane? Alright, we haven't done one yet. No, no, let's do it, let's do a topic. Oh wait, no, Scrapyard Wars is on Floatplane. Yeah. Uhm, so if you're a fan of Scrapyard Wars.


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[Assistant] You're gonna wanna go over to floatplane.com, sign up for a subscription. Uh, it's got, it's got episode 2 already. And then it's gonna get episode 3 on Saturday.


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[Assistant] So that's gonna be good stuff. You're gonna wanna check that out. Uhm. Have you been watching? I actually-


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[Assistant] So I've been traveling, and the waifu and I, like, wanna get the popcorn and watch it together, so. Between, between...


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[Assistant] I mean, you could probably pull it off. Like, technically, a lot of people go off to do a photo shoot. That photo shoot could be very naked. It could. It could. It definitely could. Yep. It's just not genuine.


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[Assistant] Got it. Thank you for that. That was, uh, both disturbing and enlightening. I appreciate it. Alright.


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[Assistant] So let's do a tech topic then. Uh, CJ09bira posted this on the forum.


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[Assistant] The original article is from overclock3d.net, but it looks like Intel may have delayed. Womp womp. 10 nanometer ice lake until, uh, what, 2020. Wow, dang, I think it's 2020 for server.


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[Assistant] And I thought it was 2019 for consumer?


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[Assistant] Something along those lines here, yea, we can have, we can have a look at this here, so. Someone in the chat said swords are heavy, Luke.


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[Assistant] In 2020, I guess is the point, so.


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[Assistant] Intel has already acknowledged, oops, Intel has already acknowledged that they're going to lose some server market share to AMD and their epic architecture, their epic processors based on their Zen architecture.


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[Assistant] But this is looking pretty, pretty bad. This gives AMD like a full, looks like over two years to steal market share from Intel and in the server space, if AMD had a performance or a cost advantage or even


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[Assistant] A significant technological advantage for let's say 6 months or even 18 months. Intel probably wouldn't


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[Assistant] Because what a lot of consumers don't realize is that the lead times on this kind of technology, these kinds of products, and the development process is very long.


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[Assistant] So if Intel had a product that they were shipping, let's say, today, right now, mid 2018, that was serving the needs of their customers reasonably well, and AMD launched some kind of disruptive technology today,


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[Assistant] Intel is already working on, like they wouldn't have a roadmap for these processors if they weren't doing work on them. So they're already working on the tech that they're planning to launch in 2020.


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[Assistant] Now, with AMD's compelling performance advantage,


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[Assistant] Uhm, got, you know, IT departments, or sys admins, or, uh, supercomputer architects, got them looking at it, and Intel could say,


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[Assistant] Hold on, you know, we're, we're working on something. By 2020, we'll be ready. Uhm, here, we'll get you some stuff early, so that you can make sure that, you know, you're not delaying your project too much.


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[Assistant] Yep, so you can build out all that other stuff, buy the CPUs at the last minute, we'll have volume ramped up by that time.


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[Assistant] Something like 18 months for a project like that wouldn't be an unreasonable amount of time to ask someone to wait.


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[Assistant] Problem is that AMD launched Zen, what, a year ago?


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[Assistant] It's been a while. AMD launches and I think it was about a year ago. So now, AMD is in a position where they have a compelling offering, not just for a short period of time, but for a long enough period of time that


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[Assistant] And start to build out a new large project around it. And then now that Intel's announcing, remember we're a year into this, that there are going to be delays, well now they're starting to look


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[Assistant] Does have some issues, virtualization on AMD Zen architecture was a big problem, especially right at the beginning, but...


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[Assistant] Intel has its issues too, and those are the kinds of things that on a project by project basis, depending on what you're doing with the systems, might make you lean towards one or the other.


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[Assistant] The big thing here is that AMD looks like a legitimate option.


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[Assistant] And looks like they've got enough of a roadmap that...


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[Assistant] from businesses for large orders of many Xeons shipped on pallets.


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[Assistant] Uhm, in other news, this was posted by SC2Mitch on the forum, and the original article here is actually from AMD themselves. BAM! Intel news release!


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[Assistant] AMD report second quarter 2018 financial results. Revenue increased 53% year over year and gross margin expanded to 37%. That means AMD is actually selling products profitably. Uh, we, we actually, I don't know if we know how much of this, uhm,


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[Assistant] Was buoyed up by the, the mining craze, uh, that has really slowed down significantly now.


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[Assistant] So Dr. Sue released a statement, uhm, we had an outstanding second quarter, strong revenue growth, margin expansion, and our highest quarterly net income in seven years. That's uh, that's like CEO speak for...


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[Assistant] We made something people wanted to buy! Oh, yes, we didn't have to slash pricing to get people to buy it. This is great!


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[Assistant] Uhm, most importantly, we believe our long-term technology bets position us very well in the future. We are confident that with the continued execution of our product roadmaps, we are on an excellent trajectory to drive market share gains and profitable growth. So, if AMD manages to make their fabless strategy successful, uhm, Intel,


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[Assistant] Samsung? I'm trying to think of who else will actually be left who does both chip intellectual property and actual manufacturing.


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[Assistant] No, versus focusing on fabs like a global foundries or a tsmc or focusing entirely on ip like someone like arm arm doesn't build their own processors but of course they are doing


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[Assistant] Super duper well in the mobile age of low power devices, uh, thanks to licensing their designs to other brands like, uh, Qualcomm for example.


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[Assistant] Does Micron still make SSDs? Uhm, so Micron is in a partnership with Intel, and they do NAND Flash, but I don't believe Micron would actually produce the CPUs, so that's...


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[Assistant] Sort of different, I would say DRAM and NAND flash manufacturing are kind of separate from IC manufacturing. Yeah. Uhm, just cause, and I'm just basing that on that I don't think there's anyone other than Intel that actually does both.


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[Assistant] No, Samsung. Samsung as well. So Intel and Samsung are in both games, but as far as I know they're the only ones that are left in both. Crazy. It's actually quite different compared to like 10 years ago.


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[Assistant] NVIDIA's next-gen card details. So this was posted by Atlas Wraith on the forum and the sources, of course. WCCF tax, so yes, it's a rumor. But they're saying it's an exclusive!


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[Assistant] Oh man. They've got one of the Star Wars Edition cards, that looks like? Is that the, yea, yea, one of the Star Wars Edition cards. They're just using that as a placeholder, that is not probably what the card will look like.


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[Assistant] Oh, I just, uh, no, I was looking at, uhm, I was looking at this here, and I couldn't remember if that was what it looked like, but then I saw the, is the, it kinda looks like Rebel Alliance, but technically it's the whatever, the Jedi Order or something. That was so stupid, that whole thing. Galactic Empire, and then Jedi Order.


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[Assistant] Even though they never- I- I did like a whole- I did like a whole thing. I pulled people into the boardroom, and I got like a slide up, and I was- I was yelling about it. It was- It was kind of a bit for a video.


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[Assistant] And I went off into a tangent about this, and they're like, this is hilarious, we should just work this into the video.


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[Assistant] So, a month ago, uh, the writer here, Usman Prasada, and, oh, there's another co-writer, co-writer, Hassan Mujtaba, I did my best.


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[Assistant] Uh, talked about how AIBs would be seated with Nvidia's next generation graphics cards, probably based on the touring architecture sometime in late August. Uhm, blah blah blah, blah blah blah, blah blah blah. Let's not try and read the article, let's look at our notes provided by James instead.


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[Assistant] We talked about it last week and I said on the show, I was like, Luke's gonna be so disappointed that he's not here. And so disappointed that they're just like, wrapping it up as a fanservice thing.


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[Assistant] And Disney came to me and was like, yeah, so we want to like close it out, but like, here's how we're doing it.


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[Assistant] What are the odds that, assuming that you have found work elsewhere because it's been a while now,


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[Assistant] It's been a couple years now. So assuming you've found work elsewhere, what are the odds that you just drop what you're doing? And you come back-


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[Assistant] Yes, Disney. I will come in and I will do it your way. Like, I gotta imagine that it's gonna be a slightly different team working on this.


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[Assistant] Alright, so here's what's going on with Nvidia's new lineup. Wow.


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[Assistant] This could actually be very bad news. So they are apparently, they haven't decided on the naming. Which might not seem like it matters that much, because ultimately who cares, it's about FPS. But as a general rule, it's not a terrible idea.


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[Assistant] When you create a product, to have the name kind of make sense.


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[Assistant] And with a graphics card, really the main thing that we expect a name to tell us is where does its performance fall in relation to other cards.


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[Assistant] Or GTX 2070 or 2075. Now, that alone doesn't sound like that big of a deal unless the kinds of suffixes they're considering are like 10 something 5.


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[Assistant] Where it's possible that we might get GPUs that don't actually perform that dramatically different from this gen. Now I don't think they would do that.


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[Assistant] But that was similar architecturally, I don't see them launching a new architecture without giving it a clear new series. But if they used numbers that kind of seemed like it positioned them between older cards, I don't know if it would, uh,


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[Assistant] I don't know if it would surprise me that much either because you gotta remember, if Nvidia holds true to the pattern that has been true since the GTX 680, we are not getting big Turing.


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[Assistant] At the initial launch. We are getting mid-sized Turing. So, a GTX, uh,


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[Assistant] 1080ti is a very different card from a 1080. They are, they are, they are more different than a 1080 and a 1070 are. That's the way it works now. 1080ti is a big chip, and 1080 and 1070 are both stepped down mid-sized chips. So we are getting the new generation mid-chip, which


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[Assistant] I don't know, may or may not actually perform any better than last gen big chip.


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[Assistant] 120 watt, 150 watt, and 180 watt. What's interesting about that is Nvidia has, over the last several years anyway, gone with a staggered rollout for their new lineup.


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[Assistant] Oh, that piece was a little spicier. But, I'm fine.


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[Assistant] Runtime. The sweet sriracha? Yea, that piece was a little bit on the spicier side. It's good though, actually.


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[Assistant] Um, so they've gone with a very staggered rollout. So they've gone like, okay, here's the high end. Then they're like, wait a couple of months. Okay, here's the next one. Wait a couple of months. Here's the next one. Uh, that allows them to kind of stretch out their PR coverage. Um, yeah. Keeps people from kind of getting bored of like this wave of GPU news.


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[Assistant] But what this sounds like is that at 120, 150, 180 watt, they might be doing a broader refresh. And the reason for doing that might be that AMD is actually relatively competitive at the 120 watt TDP range. So they might want to just go, you know what, forget it, let's just go bwomp.


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[Assistant] And make life very, very difficult for our one competitor in the space all in one go. Very interesting.


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[Assistant] It is rumored that 1080 Ti MSRP will drop by $100 and 1080 MSRP will drop by $50. This is also a solid indication that the upcoming


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[Assistant] 1180 and 1170, I'm just using those as placeholders, uhm, don't really perform that amazingly differently than the ones that they are replacing.


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[Assistant] We actually filmed our MacBook Pro 2018 video today, uhm, so there's gonna be more detail about this and that, but...


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[Assistant] Uhm, it looks like the throttling for the MacBook Pro has been fixed in macOS, so it came as an update to High Sierra 10.13.6, and they have issued an apology to consumers who experience less than optimal performance on their new 2018 machines.


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[Assistant] Now they said that this was a firmware patch.


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[Assistant] Facebook stock crashed harder than any stock has ever crashed before. This was posted by SC2 Mitch on the forum.


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[Assistant] So it's like a live stream of the high roller, you know, uh, roulette table. Pretty much.


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[Assistant] Here's a rumor. This was posted by Aluminium Tech on the forum and the original source is 9to5google. Fortnite is coming to Android, but it is rumored that it will be a Samsung Galaxy Note 9 exclusive at first.


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[Assistant] So apparently it's going to be, uh, so the, uh, Note 9, which is set to be announced on the 9th of August, with pre-orders on August 14th and public availability on August 24th,


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[Assistant] Looks like it's gonna have Fortnite exclusively for a month, and there was a thread about this on the forum, where people were like,


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[Assistant] Oh, what are they, you know, are they stupid? They think people are gonna buy a phone just over a game? Uh, yeah. Oh yeah.


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[Assistant] It's like, people are criticizing Samsung, okay you can criticize Samsung all you want, but they're saying that Samsung is stupid for doing this, and depending how much they paid, which I don't know, depending how much they paid, this might be actually brilliant.


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[Assistant] Like if they paid way too much money, maybe it's stupid.


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[Assistant] But, and remember, this is a company that buys Super Bowl ads. So, you know, if they paid a hundred million dollars, this is a far better promotion than a Super Bowl ad, if you want my honest opinion.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and the thing, the other thing you gotta remember is that Fortnite has an enormous fan base. So, you've got friends that work at like mobile gaming companies, right? Yes. Do you remember talking, I know you've talked to them about it, but do you remember what they said was the percentage of the users that are your whales? Oh, I don't remember the exact number, but it is...


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[Assistant] And you've got these whales that might spend hundreds of dollars a month on the game.


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[Assistant] To imagine that they might run out and buy a phone so that they can play the game that month.


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[Assistant] I mean, usually when they spend a couple hundred bucks on this game, they don't even get a phone! Hey! Yo, I got a phone! Cool!


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[Assistant] Like that is a no-brainer for the kind of people that are spending


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[Assistant] Lots and lots of money on digital content for games like Fortnite. So, oh yeaah. They're gonna sell some phones. Don't kid yourself.


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[Assistant] Uh, okay, last topic for today. Apple will fix devices damaged by Japanese floods for free. Apple is buying themselves some free, positive publicity, and uh, hey, that's a good thing.


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[Assistant] I'm surprised he didn't manage to lose his job, given how much time he was clearly spending playing game of war.


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[Assistant] The flooding has caused hundreds of deaths and the support goes against Apple's standard repair policies which strictly exclude water damage. Uhm, so almost all of Apple's main product lines are eligible but accessories are not included and proof of ownership may be required. That's fantastic, way to go Apple. That's very cool, that's probably gonna cost them a lot of money. Yea, love to hear that though. Speaking of things I love to hear, I love to hear that, uh, that's it for this week. I'm gonna go home. Gonna enjoy my weekend. We got a place in badminton.


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[Assistant] You were still using that horrible, like... I don't like spending money. You told me you were gonna order a new chair!


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[Assistant] It has been ordered now. Literally- Shut up. You told me you were going to order a new chair. Literally before Floatplane was founded.


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[Assistant] I mean, I'm a firm believer in buying one nice thing once.


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[Assistant] So the number of times that I have not upgraded my wireless router, since I spent a thousand dollars on a ruckus access point, has probably gotten me about a third of the way there so far.


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[Assistant] And I plan to continue to use that ruckus access point for many years because even though there are new wireless standards coming, that will be faster.


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[Assistant] Uhm, the devices that I'll be able to afford will, if I were to buy something enterprise tier, uh, will be consumer grade and they're gonna have


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[Assistant] Other issues, and quite frankly, I get, so on my blade stealth, I was transferring files to my NAS at 46 megabytes a second, on my access point at home, uh, two nights ago.


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[Assistant] That is good enough for me on wifi. If I need faster than that, I will plug into a network connection and I will get 10 gig because, you know, YOLO or whatever.