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[Assistant] Yep. Uh, you might have like a D&D group that you play with. Eventually that's probably going to end, not guaranteed, but probably. And you should just recognize when you're in the moment, like, this is fun, I like these people, this is good, this is a good thing that I have. I, this is, yeah. I don't know, I'm gonna stop ranting about it.


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[Assistant] I think it just is what it is. And I think honestly an argument to the other side is just an argument asking for a bad experience. Yeah.


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[Assistant] That was pretty bad. I've, I've almost, but never actually done it. I've like, gotten up to right in front of the door and then be like, oh, and then switched. Yeah. But I've never. Yeah.


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[Assistant] I know you won the first one. I think it was, I think you did win the first two and then I came back.


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[Assistant] I think so. Cause the first game was like really close or something and then the second game was, I don't think it was.


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[Assistant] I don't know. If you're, if you're spaced enough, if you, if your head's somewhere else, thinking about somewhere else that you walked into there in the first place, are you going to notice the urinal thing? I don't know. Yeah.


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[Assistant] You might as well have at least like a couple screwdrivers and backpacks.


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[Assistant] That's kind of funny. That's one of my favorite builds in Slay of Spire. All my favorite builds are going to be not all.


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[Assistant] The majority of my favorite builds are on the Silent. The Silent's my favorite one by far. Uhm, I would probably say that honestly I prefer Poison over Shiv, but Shiv is fantastic.


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[Assistant] Uhm, they're both very, very good. Uhm, I find both those very fun.


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[Assistant] Another one that I like is just raging super hard on ironclad and going full strength and just trying to like one to two turn every single combat and if you fail you die.


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[Assistant] The most modern example at the very least is when we used to do remote calls for the WAN show, uhm, we used to, I'm talking like within the last, the most recent one that isn't the current one we're using. We used a system called ping.gg from Theo, which was great, uhm, he said,


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[Assistant] I think afterwards, I don't remember. I know he said it afterwards, I think he might have said it beforehand as well, that it doesn't work on mobile. Uhm, but when I was in that airport in Serbia and I had to call in for the WAN show, I did it entirely through my phone on mobile and it worked flawlessly the whole time. And I remember I told him afterwards and he was like, that shouldn't have worked.


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[Assistant] But yeaah, it was, it was flawless. So, that was kinda fun. It was also really important that it worked at that time, so I'm happy that it did.


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[Assistant] communicating with a large group of very different people is extremely hard. How people take a certain message


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[Assistant] is going to be very different depending on who the person is, when they receive it, all that type of stuff. Also, some people will just not be very interested in reading messages from certain messaging apps. So there might be people that prefer to read messages from something or another thing or


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[Assistant] So like, I don't know man, it's uh, it's a big problem and I think being


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[Assistant] Make sure that you are also not a communication problem or as much as you can. Uhm, and just try to understand that it's going to be an issue. Do what you can to mitigate it.


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[Assistant] Uh, do what you can to improve things. If someone comes to you, I think you mentioned help leading a remote team. If someone comes to you and mentions a communication issue, uh, try to act on it best you can. Um, I, I find layering is helpful. So,


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[Assistant] Uhm, and I don't always do this perfectly. I also have my own communication issues, don't get me wrong. Uhm, stop it. But try to do it multiple times.


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[Assistant] So like if you say something vocally in a meeting, try to have it in text as well.


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[Assistant] If someone received something through an email, uh,


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[Assistant] That, that is important. Yeah, they received it, but they might just not read that email or something. Uhm, copy it out, put it in another chat.


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[Assistant] Um, and if it's good to go, you have to react with the checkmark reaction. And it just means that you have.


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[Assistant] Actual good receipts because red doesn't mean anything because notifications are totally broken. Things get marked as red all the time. Maybe you open your computer and it's on that message, but you're looking for something really quickly. So you just immediately click off of it. Well, it just got marked as red. You're not going to see it again, but


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[Assistant] Someone goes through the effort to do that reaction, you know that they actually saw it. So if it's important enough, you can require reactions, and then you can check the reactions to see who didn't do it, and you can go after them directly to make them read the thing. That was a lot. Nice.


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[Assistant] That's, wow, that really shouldn't be there. You shouldn't smoke around your computer. The amount of, like, cigarette smoke tar that I've had to try to remove from computers over the years, like, just stop. Go smoke outside. It goes right into the intake fan, because that's how fans work.


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[Assistant] If you're telling me I can get that comfy of a couch there for cheap, I'd be happy.


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[Assistant] It doesn't look good. Dude, I don't know! It looks like someone put a lamp head on like a tripod. Like it, it looks like it has the three legs connecting. Nine hundred dollars. Here you go. Like a camera tripod. That doesn't look good.


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[Assistant] Also probably that. That's probably a thing. But here we go, look! This is a cheap lamp. That looks cool.


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[Assistant] That's your, that's your, uh, canary in the coal mine. Is you buying that horse lamp.


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[Assistant] Have you ever considered making your bananas for scale pet friendly?


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[Assistant] And then larger for larger dogs.


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[Assistant] Really? Womp womp for all of us, really, to be completely honest, so. Yep, uh, also Valve cracks down on fan projects.


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[Assistant] Those are what you picked. What else, what else would I pick? I wouldn't have guessed. I was thinking maybe the- Oh, the eBay one's bizarre. What even is that one?


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[Assistant] Like picture, picture quality profile settings, changing dynamically with content? Yea, I know. You're not even close.


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[Assistant] It suggested six different approaches. Something that I think is actually quite interesting is that one of them actually somewhat lines up with what happened.


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[Assistant] Uh, which is public interest. Uh, argue that the development of AI has significant public interest benefits, like advancing technology, education, and research, which might be considered in the context of fair use.


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[Assistant] Wow. Okay, what else has it got? Well, it also says fair use doctrine in general, transformative use, minimal use, public interest, no direct copying.


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[Assistant] And precedent and legal ambiguity. No direct copying says emphasize that AI, that the AI model doesn't store or reproduce verbatim copies of the text but generates new original content based on the patterns learned during training.


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[Assistant] Uhm, let's see here. Okay, it is going good. Uh, tu-tu-tu-tu-tu.


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[Assistant] What other main ones do we have? Do you wanna just jump into CES?


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[Assistant] Stop, not right now. Comments turned off, three day old video, 7.4, 4,000 subscribers, 3.7 million views.


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[Assistant] Riley is a huge part of it for me.


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[Assistant] Teenage engineering was a part of this, therefore, this killed.


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[Assistant] I think that's where a lot of this lands. It looks really cool. It looks super cool. And I think in an era of the most boring rectangles we've ever had, uhm, with as much touchscreen things as possible, having physical stuff


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[Assistant] Push to talk mic. Flip the camera around thingy. Physical device. It's an actual thing that I can have. I think a lot of people are gravitating towards that.


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[Assistant] It's actually very nice not being on your phone all the time, even if you're doing things that you would normally do with your phone. A hundred percent! Cause like, you're taking pictures, you're sitting there but notifications are popping in, whatever else is happening, you're draining your phone's battery, you're doing all this kind of stuff. It's like, ugh.


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[Assistant] That's honestly, that's a big thing with, uhm, I mean it's been a big thing with LLM's this whole time, but with both the rabbit and this, uh, and I mean theoretically the AI pin and the tab or whatever as well, but.


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[Assistant] Like, okay, so I can record actions, uh, what if I start doing my time sheet with Rabbit? Yeah.


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[Assistant] That's some external device accessing company documentation and inputting something that's like a legal process to a certain degree. That affects compensation.


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[Assistant] But on the security side, it's like actually too big of a deal. I would love to do that. But like, I... No.


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[Assistant] No. It's like, there's a lot of different Chrome extensions that can help you with like, email, that can help you with all this other kind of stuff, and then you look through what you have to share with the Chrome extension, it's like, mmmm. It's a little scary, maybe a bit.


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[Assistant] I'm not actually gonna buy one. Man, you getting sold on things at CES that aren't monitors or computers is actually weird. I got sold on this thing hard.


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[Assistant] Kinda important. So that's what I was gonna kinda ask, is, is, I've been wondering how a lot of these devices are gonna beat, beat the hallucinations, and I'm kinda wondering if this one might be beating it by actually limiting how much the Chachi BT side of this is actually even doing. Cause like, if it's, if it's changing how much the motor is helping you based on your heart rate,


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[Assistant] Whatever it is, yeaah, whatever mapping integration they have, uhm, it, it's very likely it's not even using chatgpt to do anything with that. Uhm, so what is it, what is it actually using chatgpt for? For, uh, voice to text.


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[Assistant] First of all, I actually like 1440p as a resolution for a desktop monitor. I don't, I genuinely don't think I even want beyond that. Like I've seen the comparison.


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[Assistant] I don't think I care. I care more about like panel quality, stuff like that. In a TV, sure, yeaah, whatever, but I'm talking monitor. Uhm, and beyond 27 inches I find starts to become like just unreasonable for gaming.


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[Assistant] And if you're trying to lounge and like, get immersed, sure, 100%.


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[Assistant] But, I don't know. I think that's one of the reasons why I like 27 inches is because it's kind of on the maximum threshold, I would say, of the competitive side. So you get a little bit of both, I find.


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[Assistant] That's a cool idea, no, no, not even a little. Okay, uhm, does it have anything to do with controlling the monitor itself? No.


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[Assistant] Okay, it's from, it's from MSI's gaming division.


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[Assistant] Can you change RGB profiles?


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[Assistant] Uhm, there's an RGB element. Okay, is it like whatever MSI software thing on your desktop and you can interface with it that way?


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[Assistant] This isn't the only product that I feel like that about to be very clear. Uhm, uh, do you just control what information the light bar is doing through the thing?


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[Assistant] Cause it's drawn on top of the image coming from, yeaah.


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[Assistant] I wonder if anti-cheats are gonna have to use like, uh, hardware detection.


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[Assistant] There are cheating softwares out there that are designed for when your chat asks you to point a camera at the screen.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it has a mode for that. Yea, but what about the hands too? Yea, well they don't, they won't be aim hacking at that point in time. I don't actually think aim hacking is super popular these days because it's easier to detect than a lot of other


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[Assistant] It's, it's an actual cheating monitor. That's amazing. I, um,


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[Assistant] Tarkov, cause I like talking about Tarkov when it comes to cheaters, cause there sure do be a lot of them and it's a really brutal game to have them in.


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[Assistant] Uhm, they just did a bandwave of 11,000 players and people were responding to the tweet of this bandwave with screenshots of like extremely obvious cheating still going on and like,


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[Assistant] There's one where it's like, uh, the flea market in the game, which is like effectively like an auction house or a trading post or whatever. Or a flea market. Or a flea market. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, there's, you can see people's profiles on there. So you can see someone like, oh, this person's like level 12 and they've sold like billions of rubles worth of stuff. Like, yeah, probably not.


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[Assistant] That's sick. How about that? Yeah, cheating monitors, especially because that...


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[Assistant] That's like an insane advantage. Yeah. Uhm, but I don't think those have been as popular. I know, uh, one of the ways, this actually seemed really smart to me, I think this was League of Legends, I don't remember who it was, one of the ways that they helped push against map hacking is the server, oooh, I might say this wrong.


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[Assistant] If you're interested in this, look it up, because I'm probably gonna say some part of how this works wrong, but I-I'm gonna try. Uhm, the-the edge of your fog of war?


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[Assistant] If another player isn't within a certain distance of it, the server will not tell you where they are.


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[Assistant] Then you could get an extra... Another big one for this, for me in my opinion, uh, yeah, Rocket League, cheating in Rocket League, yeah, there are ways to cheat in Rocket League, but I think it's a little bit more blatant.


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[Assistant] So if someone just like, barely comes on screen for a second, and you know, you're playing, so you're not staring at the minimap 100% of the time, you might not have seen it, the monitor notification's gonna be bigger, and could probably persist for more than that, like, one second. So, yeah, I don't know, that's rough.


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[Assistant] Cheating has been around since the beginning, but I strongly believe it's worse now than it ever has been. My reasoning for that


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[Assistant] Uhm, is the barrier of entry is zero right now. The barrier of entry right now is a credit card. That's it. You don't need to know anything. Back in the day, you kinda needed to know what you were doing. You kinda, you had to work to find them. Now there's like ads on YouTube.


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[Assistant] Like it's, it's crazy now. It's blasted in front of your face constantly. Uh, there's no barrier of entry at all. You just have to pay for it. Uhm, it's, it's never been easier to just get another copy of the game.


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[Assistant] And yeaah, I think it's just very rampant right now.


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[Assistant] Which, I mean- It already wasn't really a problem. I didn't see the classic black desktop background, white mouse cursor scenario, but in watching a variety of different movies, uh, it didn't seem like a problem.


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[Assistant] I actively dislike Las Vegas, so I'm happy I don't anymore. But, uhm, back when I frequented CES, half the show would be phone cases.


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[Assistant] Which you'd think like why, like why do all these tech reviewers and, and news people want to cover phone cases? Well they don't, but there is buyers there. Yeah, it's a networking show. Yeah, yeah, so it's, it's a show.


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[Assistant] To any degree of wellness within that amount of time? That I don't know. Probably not. I didn't ask that. Yea, cause you can sear the outside of a steak that fast.


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[Assistant] And not cooking's really expensive. At least here. There's so many variables. I know there's some places, like in Taiwan and stuff, it's actually fairly, if you know where to go and stuff, it's actually quite affordable to eat out for more meals because


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[Assistant] Uh, the restaurants are kind of like built for that almost and, and yadda yadda yadda. But around here it's not structured that way. Eating out for every meal is incredibly expensive.


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[Assistant] Sorry, what? They are micro rapid topics. Okay, alright, alright. Why don't you pick the next main topic? Notable non-AI demos. Uhm, really?


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[Assistant] I feel like you haven't cared about TVs since the one that you just got. Basically.


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[Assistant] Good HDR. I didn't- I'm gonna put this out here before you go into the topic, because I do think it's actually fairly important. I've experienced HDR a few times. I notably, like, didn't really like a lot of the examples that I saw, because the certain bright parts of the screen would be so bright that they were like annoying to look at.


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[Assistant] I did not experience that with the really, really, really bright SDR at your place.


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[Assistant] I think we did and it was also fine. So like, there have been implementations of this that I have not actually liked at all, but more recently, trying that TV, it was very good.


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[Assistant] If you could be, I mean, if you had a rice cooker there. Yeaah. A steak that can cook in 90 seconds. And yeaah, some veggies.


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[Assistant] Cause I mean, if you were gonna buy an oven for this, uh, canteen to cook steaks in anyways, you're gonna be spending a pretty substantial amount of money. A lot of like, uh, what would you call it?


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[Assistant] My brain wants to say enterprise, but I don't think that's what I'm going for. Commercial. Yeah, there you go. Commercial-grade like kitchen hardware is really expensive.


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[Assistant] He's, he's, he wants an out. That's why he started searching for things on the table. He doesn't like the situation that he's in. I just wanna talk about something else. Just say anything else. Ah, well let's not do the union thing then.


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[Assistant] What they called a groundbreaking agreement with AI voiceover company Replica Studios for actors to license digital versions of their voices for interactive media projects for at least the next year.


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[Assistant] According to the union, the agreement will ensure fair negotiation and the ability for performers to retain control over what additional works their voices are used in. Several prominent video game voice actors expressed disapproval and questioned why they hadn't been consulted. In an FAQ, SAG-AFTRA claimed that the deal was approved


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[Assistant] Could be a bad thing for gamers. Do you wanna talk to uh, average white dude with beard AI model in this game? Or do you wanna talk to average white dude with beard AI model in this other game?


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[Assistant] I think it's gonna be fatiguing. Yeah. Yep.


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[Assistant] And like, if you're going to spend the time to really tune one of these models, like Lucien LeChance, uh, an incredibly well written character from Oblivion, um,


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[Assistant] Trying to get ChatGPT to act like him perfectly when you can't just tell it to act like him because he doesn't exist yet. You're trying to craft this character. Uhm, I think it's gonna take so long that you might as well just have a good writer, uhm, and a good voice actor and just get it taken care of that way.


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[Assistant] I think it's good for some things and it's bad for others. It's very divisive.


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[Assistant] I wanna see if, uh, I've had the same headphones for like a million years. Uhm, and the last time I looked, I think Wicked Cushions only supported the PC series of Sennheiser headphones.


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[Assistant] PC38x and stuff like that. Uh, but now when I look at Sennheiser on their site, they have a bunch of options. So maybe I can find something that'll work.


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[Assistant] I kinda doubt they would actually list my model of headphones considering they haven't been making them in a very long time. Uhm, but it would be...


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[Assistant] The PC 2.8x pads fit all the HD 500 series too.


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[Assistant] Ah, well. Yeah, 595, sick! And they're the cooling ones. Okay, I'm getting those. Oh, you gotta- you got- which one though? Which one though? Are they different styles?


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[Assistant] I've had, I've had, yeah, the same headphones for years, and the original ones, the original pads, like, failed and kind of broke, so I got replacement ones, but they're just junky, they're bad. I've wanted new ones forever, so yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, okay, so I... curated this out of, uh, the, the potentials, uhm, I don't really 100% know what's going on, and we're not Google, so we can't really say anything, I've never heard of this, I don't know, BUT!


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[Assistant] I'm going to unfortunately use you as a good opportunity to talk about 321 storage.


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[Assistant] Try not to have one copy of your data, uh, because... Yea, zero is much better. Try not to have one.


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[Assistant] I mean, if you don't have any, then you're not gonna feel bad when it's gone. So that is a form of strategy. That sucks. I don't know what's going on.


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[Assistant] I don't really know what's happening.


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[Assistant] I, I did never take part in that. I heard it was like a thing though.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that makes sense. In my opinion, the format matters less than all the others. Yeah, I don't think that's a huge deal. Three copies, two locations. I feel pretty good at that point. That's what matters the most. Oh, it's one ring to rule them all.


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[Assistant] Two types of media. Ah, yeaah, yeaah, yeaah. Two different types of media.


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[Assistant] And one of them being offside. Okay, yeah, thanks guys. But basically...


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[Assistant] That's really dangerous, to be clear. Not just for like, burning yourself, but for burning your house.


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[Assistant] There's actually, uh, fun rabbit hole to go down, uh, incredibly bright LEDs and how to deal with how much heat they generate.


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[Assistant] Wow, see that's super cool. I love stuff like that.


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[Assistant] I can think of very few things that those two sentences go together with.


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[Assistant] Mark put on the forehead of those who worship. I don't know, dude. I'm totally lost.


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[Assistant] Yeah. The real, like, sop, I did it. Unless it's under, like, some form of duress or whatever, but I'm assuming that's not the case.


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[Assistant] This isn't the gulags, they probably were well-minded.


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[Assistant] Very cool. Speaking of very cool, should we do our announcement?


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[Assistant] And my, my girlfriend takes the onesie. I don't, I'm not a huge fan of wearing onesies, but I find the material on that, and this, and the underwear, to be very comfortable. But I don't like, yea, I don't like being in a onesie. So, having this for lounging at home.


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[Assistant] We have what I believe is actually a legitimate question, uh, from Angelus000, uhm, how much do these stealth sweatpants, uh, or new lounge pants show off package? They're very soft material, so probably a decent amount.


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[Assistant] They're a soft pant, if you would- If she swings. If you would show in a soft pant, you'll probably show in these. Yeah. Yeah. Which-


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[Assistant] This one, uh, this one I think is gonna make some people sad. Let's go into it. Uhm, You know. It's not quite as bad as it sounds, I think.


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[Assistant] Okay, Wizards of the Coast first denied then admitted that AI was used in the creation of a recent promotional image for Magic of the Gathering.


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[Assistant] Who likely used AI features in an industry standard tool like Photoshop.


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[Assistant] Leading to AI artifacts in an image that was primarily created by a human being. Wizards of the Coast promised not to use AI in their art back in December, following similar backlash to an image in a Dungeons and Dragons source book, which used some amount of AI generation. The company now says they will apply similar standards to art for marketing materials.


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[Assistant] The company has since apologized and stated that the art was purchased from a third party and evaded its AI detection tools during the vetting process. According to The Verge, the image likely came from a vendor who posted the art to Adobe stock without tagging it as AI.


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[Assistant] Yeah, where's this tail coming from exactly? Yeah, that's a- how did that- how did that dodge the-


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[Assistant] This one's only pointing out a few, uhm, but, uh, honestly, if we tried to point all of them out, we'd be here for an hour, and we'd probably miss some, because probably more have happened since this was written, so it's probably fine. I said probably a lot. Uh, Twitch has announced the layoffs of around 35% of their staff.


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[Assistant] Considering the 400 employees laid off from Twitch in March, this means the company has fired nearly half of its


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[Assistant] Okay. So I don't, I don't, I don't disagree with you, and I understand that this might be unpopular, but, uh, the fact that I think it's like over 99% of streamers on Twitch are getting effectively no viewers, like 3 to 0.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it costs a lot for them to do all that, which is the reason why they haven't had access to transcoders this whole time. So creating a method for them to get it is actually cool. I understand people are upset about this.


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[Assistant] But, the fact of the matter is, Twitch is not profitable hasn't been for a long time. Uhm...


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[Assistant] They gotta do some stuff, you know? And like just expecting, expecting more money all the time with them carrying more weight all the time doesn't work when they never made money in the first place.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so that's, that's Twitch. Google laid off about a thousand people. Discord laid off a hundred and seventy people, also about seventeen percent of its staff. And the laundry list of companies just goes on and on and on and on and on and on and on. Tech and gaming just got ravaged. You mentioned, uhm... They haven't stopped.


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[Assistant] Uh, I think I clicked on it as like a middle click mouse wheel into another tab at home, but never actually ended up looking at it. You can filter, so click the drop down to 2024. Yea. 5,686 employees from 37 companies laid off this year. It's been 12 days. We're 12 days in, we're not even two weeks in.


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[Assistant] Being on the top is actually pretty important in regards to, you know, gaining eyeballs, interest, affordance, all that type of stuff. Affordance?


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[Assistant] The quality or property of an object that defines its possible uses or makes clear how it can or should be used.


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[Assistant] I suspect it's similar or even higher. However, video game content grew far faster at 10% compared to 2022. Oh, driven primarily by streaming.


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[Assistant] NACONS, whatever that is, uh, head of publishing, recently theorized that part of gaming's recent struggles is due to a boom in the sheer volume of new titles as a result of overinvestment during the 2020 pandemic.


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[Assistant] Thousand game releases in 2023, though that was in part pushed by amateur game devs. It is every year though. Uhm, it's also partially in part of like, uh, just AI dialogue games that were just crapped out. Uhm, yeah, kind of, kind of a rough one.


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[Assistant] Everything else we've done, we're taking this idea forward at the labs website.


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[Assistant] We try to take and retain as little of your stuff as possible while still being able to do the things that we need to do, which does involve taking some of your stuff when it comes to information. Uh, we need to be able to, you know, um,


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[Assistant] Yep, we've got that as well. Uhm, like we, we capture that type of data. Uhm, but.


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[Assistant] Not only is it possible that this type of thing could happen to us, it did. Quite a while ago, uh, some of the forum information, we don't know how much, we think a very small amount, but we don't actually know, so we just told everybody, uhm, but some of the forum information was, was broken into, was hackzored, uhm,


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[Assistant] And yeaah. Also on the forum, we tried to...


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[Assistant] Like when you look at, uh, we just looked at a website that was, um, people that have been laid off, but there's have I been pwned. That's a classic. Yeah. Have I been pwned is still around. I'm jumping it up right now. Uh, 740 pwned websites with a hundred thousand, what is that? 12 billion pwned accounts. This stuff happens all the time. Um,


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[Assistant] I'm not saying, it's definitely not a good thing, but like, at this point in time, if you're putting information at any point in time really, but if you're putting information on the internet, uhm, you should know that there is a chance that that information can get


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[Assistant] They're gonna have the same password across different platforms. So if the password is leaked, which it doesn't sound like it was in this case, but if a password is leaked, they need to be able to respond very quickly and change that. If other sensitive information is leaked,


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[Assistant] But just in general, you don't necessarily know why it might be important to your users, so don't mess around with it. Tell them as soon as you can. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Flammable, you know. Jeez. Yeah, so, I think that's all there is to say on that. Uhm, are we done? Should we do more of these, or should we just jump into After Dark? We can do more of these, there's some more.


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[Assistant] Someone found that it matched, uh, I think it was like Yvonne Lines Uptime or something. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Which like, I mean, I can't look through the Twitter thread because I'm not signed in and the site basically doesn't work anymore if you're not signed in. Uhm, but yea, people were trying to like,


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[Assistant] Kind of theorize what it was doing, with obviously basically no information, and it was very funny that it basically followed Yvonne Line's uptime, but like, I seriously doubt that means anything. Uhm, but yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, just having a ton of junk in your house on the internet is not great.


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[Assistant] If they get the haptics of that, is haptics the right term? The, no, it's not, but I understand what you mean. Ergonomics? The feel. Yeah. Yeah. But I feel like there's a better word. Probably. But I don't know. If they get that right, that could feel amazing.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's wicked. Cause like, that, that level of pixels per inch, like, I'm not gonna care in most scenarios, but when it's strapped right in front of my face, yeah, for sure.


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[Assistant] With how close it is, I feel like we would just do when here in the drive over.


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[Assistant] And less stress for me. In my opinion, in the, uh, in the sake of saving an enormous amount of time, and honestly, for the people that aren't there, probably making the show better, we would just do it here, and then drive over after. It could put it off on opportunities.


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[Assistant] I mean, maybe, but, people are probably also just gonna want a game and, uh, yeaah. I don't know. You're out of land. You should be gaming.


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[Assistant] Oh man. I thought this one might be interesting. One issue is we're not Americans, so. Yes. We don't really...


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[Assistant] Not that them going after Microsoft was necessarily bad or wrong, but if you were going to do that, you should have treated the other companies the same way.


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[Assistant] I think, I think, so like basically does having Mac address get you more access to Apple products? No.


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[Assistant] Kinda depends on timing. I find, personally.


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[Assistant] You might also be able to look around and find another company whose like mission statement or drive or whatever better aligns with things that make your soul happy or whatever. Absolutely.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so like if you're working at a company that's like, yeah, we don't care, it's just money, we just want money, which there's a bunch of those, uh, and you might like that, but if you're working at a company like that-


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[Assistant] Anyways, uhm, but you might be able to look around, you might have to take a little bit less money, because companies doing that are very likely, uhm,


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[Assistant] But yea, anyways, you're gonna be somewhere that cares about profit, or you're gonna be working at a non-profit.


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[Assistant] Profit-focused, just in a different way. So, yeah, uhm, maybe start shopping for another job. It might be more based at, uh, based around the place that you're currently working, instead of the career.


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[Assistant] There might be some reason why this is bad or something, but because you have to log into the stupid thing, I am logged into whatever the Xbox account, I'm logged into all the various Windows gaming junk on my computer because I was trying to somehow get Forza multiplayer to function without


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[Assistant] Uh, falling apart completely, uh, which I wasn't successful at.


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[Assistant] This was like, probably five years ago. So it's been quite a while. Uh, but I knew a team at Microsoft that used Slack. This was a long time ago. No idea if that's still a thing.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't know. The EOD being removed from Tarkov thing, I-I don't know if I care. Uhm.


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[Assistant] What is the EOD thing? End of day? It's, uh, edge of darkness, I think it stands for, uh, and it was just like a fancy, expensive version of the game that you could buy that like you had more storage space in the game and things like that.


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[Assistant] As far as my understanding goes, a lot of the cheaters just bought non-EOD accounts anyways, and that's the only thing I really care about with the game.


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[Assistant] Uhm, in regards to that, I guess would be anything they can do to reduce cheaters, uhm, and they're not doing enough. So, I don't really care if they turned off EOD or not, if they still haven't, you know, done a lot for cheaters. Uhm, it also gave you access to all future DLC like Arena.


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[Assistant] Okay, uh, they've released one thing since they launched EOD. They launched EOD, what, like eight years ago or something? And there's been one thing for, for $20?


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[Assistant] So I'm gonna save $20 eight years from now? Like, I don't know. Personally, them turning off EOD, I don't think it matters for the community at all. Maybe someone disagrees and maybe there's some reason, whatever.


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[Assistant] The current wipe, I am actually playing it, uh, there are a bunch of cheaters still, uh, they're very easy to find. They added a thing where you can view the profile of the person that, that, uh, killed you.


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[Assistant] Uhm, which is very interesting except it combines, this is not going to make sense to either of these guys, but it combines your PMC and your scav stats together in that view. Uhm, so cheaters can, uh, tank their KDs by just going and dying on a scav because you can't view their PMC specific stats, which is just like,


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[Assistant] I don't know, these things that are just annoying, there's still very easy ways to detect them, like viewing their account on flea and stuff like that. There is a lot of really great things.


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[Assistant] In the current patch, this has been a very fun wipe to play. I don't know if I'm going to end up playing the whole thing or not.


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[Assistant] There's some things that are already feeling pretty painful, like the armor changes. They have actual plates in the game now that you can take in and out of, uhm, like our armor carriers and whatever else. That is cool, uh, except it's like super bugged in a bunch of different ways, cause of course it is.


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[Assistant] You can see PMC specific stats. Yeah, I think that's for yourself. I don't think that's for the other people.


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[Assistant] Maybe I'm wrong about that. I know you can see that for yourself. You can see Scav, PMC, and overall combined. But I think for other people you can only see their overall.


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[Assistant] Uh, vaulting is a great addition to the game. They did some changes to recoil, which feel fantastic. They did some changes to, uh, ammo that's found in raid and, and what ammo you can put on the flea and that all actually seems to be an improvement to me. Different changes to the hideout, including hall of fame and the weapon rack both seem fantastic. Uhm, bunch of different things that feel better. The game's still riddled with cheaters.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I, I can't, I, I wish I could, I wish I could fully, permanently quit Tarkov, uhm, because...


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[Assistant] Yeaah. Boy is it a frustrating game to enjoy. But. I hate those. I keep, I keep coming back.


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[Assistant] Oh, uhm, I'm not so much of a photo taker, and my feelings on phones are gonna be very boring to you if you want reviews out of them. Uhm, I mostly just wanted to get out of my way, and it has successfully done that, to be honest.


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[Assistant] Uhm, my main complaints would be about the form factor. I kind of wish I bought the smaller one, but that's also becoming less of an issue over time because I just don't really care that much. Uhm, I have had no issues with bugs, which is nice.


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[Assistant] It seems like a very good phone. I don't know, seems like a great phone. I just, my amount of cares for phones these days is not super high.


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[Assistant] Seems like we're in kind of like a lock-in for the first time of the internet. There's certain sites that just seem like they will like never go away. Oh, with my pixel? No, I've had no issues with, people are, people are saying uhm, any wifi slash data slash connection issues. No, not at all.


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[Assistant] Um, and I've actually been, I've been playing a ton of Pokemon Go so I can get out for walks. Um, I think it was last weekend, I walked, I think it was 16 kilometers on Saturday alone. Um, and have had zero issues whatsoever. So.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I know. No problems there. It's been, it's been honestly, in regards to bugs and issues like that, it has been flawless. Zero problems in that regard at all.


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[Assistant] Even me. Oh, that's hard. And I've been out of it for years. I still see stuff and go like, oh, video idea. Like it's, it's just, it's drilled into my brain hole.


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[Assistant] Kind of, yeah. And then I'll literally like sit there and try to break down like...


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[Assistant] Okay, am I just excited about this because I like this thing, or does this fit like the audience that we have? Blub blub blub blub blub blub blub blub blub blub. Start analyzing it.


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[Assistant] That's a proud face. And sometimes they either end up becoming a video however long later or they don't. I don't know.


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[Assistant] Calendar management's huge for me, uh, and Teams and Slack both support a feature where you can send yourself personal messages. I used to do the thing that I got from Linus, which was I would email myself all the time.


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[Assistant] Sometimes in certain scenarios, the ideas would be flowing quick. I'd be kind of spamming myself with emails and it would bury other stuff. So I prefer PMing myself on chat applications that support it, which are the work ones luckily and both of them. So I do that now. I don't send myself emails anymore.


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[Assistant] I do sometimes technically, and I don't know how I would define the difference there, but sometimes it makes more sense to me to send an email to myself than to send a chat message.


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[Assistant] I can't communicate the difference, but I do understand it internally, so I dunno, whatever.


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[Assistant] Really? I got a little run with it with CES content sometimes. Oh yeah? Yeah, that might be true. I'm pretty sure I did that one year though.


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[Assistant] I was out of tech skill that I have. No idea. Uhm, skill that I wish I had. I have always kind of felt this way. I wish I had faster reaction time.


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[Assistant] Cause you beat me at like everything. You also beat me at a bunch of stuff.


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[Assistant] I don't know, I think, I think they apply to, I think far more games are really just who has better reflexes than people actually realize.


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[Assistant] I think you might be underestimating how much reflexes play a role in a game like Superchecks.


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[Assistant] That's because, as we've talked about, Superchex has a significant amount more of strategy and skill component than a lot of those types of games. Sure, but like what games? Name a game.


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[Assistant] Connor, I was trying to say badminton, uuuh, yeaah, no, I don't think so to be honest. I think badminton probably takes, this might be a really hot take that you might disagree with, I think badminton might take less reflexes than most people think when they watch it. I think it takes more strategy and planning and prepositioning and stuff like that.


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[Assistant] Raging Ozaru said, so bad drivers are more likely to have bad reflexes. Hmm, I don't know about that. I think I'm getting hamburger hot-dogged right now pretty hard. Just, just putting that out there.


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[Assistant] I can't really necessarily say yes or no, I don't think it would hurt, but I also think there, there, there might be better ways of doing so.


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[Assistant] It's, it's not a bad thing, it's a good thing, uhm, could you just get into that workforce now and be gaining experience, which might be even better, and maybe you could get that certification while you were on the job? Maybe. If that's not possible, maybe go get the cert. It ranges.


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[Assistant] And I was like, wow. Yeah, he does know his Minecraft nonsense pretty good.


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[Assistant] Uh, hi, DLL. I have a problem with Google Workspace. They set a hard deadline after which I lost access to my data with no further support. Data destroyed by Google is real. Little guy versus Google vibes.


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[Assistant] LL and Big D, can you talk a bit about displays? Why is ABL necessary? Is power draw and heat really that big of a deal? I dream of a greater than 1,000 nits sustained, regardless of window percentage. Mini or micro LED, OLED, I don't care.


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[Assistant] I know that's very popular on YouTube and stuff like that too.


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[Assistant] Uh, negligence, you know? They had a spreadsheet that was, I guess had lists of names.


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[Assistant] Did it have their credit card information on the spreadsheet? No. Balance owed. It's just personal information, right? Uh, I mean, we've seen lots of other hacks and things like that where they get a hell of a lot more information. Plane text passwords. Plane text passwords, emails, addresses. This is just names and money, I think? Yeah. Yeah. And it was a proper phishing attack again, like,


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[Assistant] Alright Dan, hit me. Alright, let's see what we got. Hey Dil, it was awesome being able to chat with Matt from Procurement on your CES, on the CES show floor. Obviously there was a ton of AI products this year, but what stood out to you that didn't lean on AI?


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[Assistant] Hi, wanfam.dll Linus spoke a few weeks ago of a badminton racket gift that happened to land based on preferences. What are your racket specs and how do you get high end rackets in Canada?


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[Assistant] Hey, Dynas, Duke and Lan. I am running for US House of Representatives in 2026. We need more tech literate people in government. See, TikTok hearings. If you could make or repeal any laws, what would you guys do?


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[Assistant] I-L-L-D, question for Linus. I'm a new dad, the son is four months old. That's not really a question.


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[Assistant] Hey LLD, as a recent purchaser of a Chevy Volt, I feel like the car is way ahead of its time. What's your favorite piece of tech that felt ahead of its time and held that feeling long after release? The Chevy Volt.


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[Assistant] How does MAC address do in terms of value to LMG and the ability to cover Apple products given your relationship with them?


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[Assistant] Get that one out of the way. I have been an electrical engineer for over a year now, but I'm not sure I actually enjoy engineering, particularly for a company that's just trying to drive profits. Any advice?


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[Assistant] I mean, one of my family members is a fully qualified lawyer passing the bar and everything. He realized, I don't like being a lawyer, and now he plays billiards professionally, poker, and he sells jet skis. So like...


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[Assistant] Has any megacorp, like Microsoft, with the recent login issue, ever responded to you chastising them on camera for annoying long term? Yeah?


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[Assistant] Hey, LLD, I saw Linus review of the Pixel 8 on ShortCircuit and has made me consider swapping back to Android. I saw that the photos look great in the video. How much has Luke's experience reflected this?


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[Assistant] Linus was buying the TCL 115 inch TV the only time he felt buyer's remorse.


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[Assistant] Hey DLL, how do you guys stay organized to do lists, uh, efficiency, calendar management, zero inbox?


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[Assistant] You beat me two weeks ago. Yeah. It's not purely reflex based though, is it? No. No, it's not.


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[Assistant] Cause how could they charge you if you didn't get it through the app store?


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[Assistant] People compare it to Steam, and I'm not here to defend Steam's 30% take either, but- No, not even a little. But, on a computer, you could use things that aren't Steam. Well, yeah, that and Steam actually-


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[Assistant] Yeah, and like, uh, people are bringing up like, oh, you can buy an Android, and it's like, okay, so there's the whole duopoly thing. Also, we're talking about platforms in general. We don't think Android is necessarily better off here. The, the Play Store is also terrible. Uhm, just, you can technically,


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[Assistant] It's not a very clean process, but you can sideload on, on Android. Uhm, and the, the Steam example, this would be like if,


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[Assistant] The only way that you could get any apps on Windows was the Microsoft Store.


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[Assistant] I know I just gave everyone nightmares, I apologize for that. Uhm, but it would be as if that was the only way. And for Steam or something else to exist, Microsoft is gonna take a cut of it.


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[Assistant] Would that have made the PC what it is today? Someone said you mean like on Windows RT. I know practically nothing about Windows RT, but if that's how it would work, that's not something I would defend.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Yeah, so like what are you talking about? Yeah. If I can, if I can voluntarily make my phone only allow apps to be installed from the app store, that's fine. Like this is, I don't know man, this


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[Assistant] That way, that way they don't have to like, update, they're never gonna like, run out of blues, you know? Cause it'll just get worse.


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[Assistant] You gotta have, dude, the new generation of phone comes out, your bubbles are gonna be less blue.


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[Assistant] Alex Waro from Tom's Guide called it, the laptop I'd buy for myself.


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[Assistant] Some of the positive points are extreme modularity and repairability. Framework says that the graphics card can be swapped in just a few minutes.


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[Assistant] Great future-proofing potential and customizability compared to other laptops. Of note, the fully customizable keyboard deck and six expansion card slots to the Framework 13's 4. Good screen quality, easily out-performed similar laptops running the same graphics card in terms of cooling.


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[Assistant] Ooh, the verge has some interesting points here. I'm gonna jump to my screen real fast.


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[Assistant] What is that? He's trying to lift the screen with one finger. Oh. Which I could do with like this one, and it's not going to do that. Uh, I mean this one does. That much? Yea, look.


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[Assistant] That doesn't look like as much as in that photo. Is it because the angle has taken it?


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[Assistant] That is a lot of screen bend. You're gonna have a little bit, you know, if you try to lift a screen by the corner, you're gonna have a little bit, but that in the photo is quite a lot.


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[Assistant] They said the good is fully user repairable, unprecedented customization, competent mid-range gaming performance, and excellent 16 by 10 screen. They said the bad was regularly froze during testing, additional strange glitches, often runs hot and loud, and some of the panels feel fluid.


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[Assistant] I'm not gonna have, uh, oh yeaah, I guess I can watch it there. Okay, sure.


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[Assistant] Oh, apparently the Verge didn't have a full production unit. Did we have a full production unit? Yea. The Verge posted an update that they are getting a full production unit to redo the review. Oh. Where is that?


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[Assistant] Okay. Oh yeaah, okay. Post from Sean Hollister. Framework will send us another lap, uh, another framework 16 and here's


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[Assistant] I don't know if they said that they're redoing their review.


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[Assistant] Hold on one sec, I just wanna, I just wanna fix the, the quote from earlier. People said like, oh, they're gonna redo their review and stuff. I don't think, I don't see them actually saying that. Uhm, and this looks like it's... Luke laptop? Yeah. Uhm, so this is a post from Sean Hollister saying these things.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but then it says, it's linking a Reddit thread.


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[Assistant] Some people are asking that we do 1.5 instead of 1.75. Your call.


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[Assistant] Uhm, okay. All screen. Switch to my screen. Slightly ahead of where you were. Okay, cool. Ready? Yeah.


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[Assistant] No. Here, one sec. Okay, hold on, hold on, hold on. Dan's getting me to do all the things. Okay. It is now maximum.


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[Assistant] That's actually maybe more frustrating? Yeaah. Seems like the fix was easy.


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[Assistant] Was this a cold day? No, I don't think so. Two out of three hosts are wearing toques.


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[Assistant] When you hit like late twenties, early thirties, you just start caring about thermostats a lot. I think that's just a thing.


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[Assistant] That's a great result. I will yet again, you already said it, I will yet again say it sounds like most if not all of the review units were pre-production. Maybe not wise. Yeaah. Continuing on.


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[Assistant] There's an official post from Framework on Framework's community page. Oh, can I go to your laptop? Sure. It's reeeeally long. Oh, wow. But they address a bunch of stuff.


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[Assistant] High frequency noise from the main board, uh, buzzing noise from graphics module, CPU thermal module performance, uh, liquid metal barrier adjustments, cold GPU performance, uh, DPC watchdog violation blue screen, speech are attenuated on the left or right channel.


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[Assistant] If he screws up doing a backflip on work, on work property and hits his head again, what happens?


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[Assistant] What if you go to a trampoline place, like a, uh, a gymnastics place with a foam pit, and he backflips into a foam pit?


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[Assistant] It was my plan all along, actually. I came in today and I was like, you know what, we need to get 90 minutes into the show before we do emergency services. I wanted to get home at a reasonable time today. Way to go. No.


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[Assistant] Your feet are like right at the rim of that net. Oh, I know. Yep. I caught that on the security camera. People are saying scroll down, but I'm not signing on Twitter, so there's nothing there. Nice. There's nothing to scroll down to.


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[Assistant] About how we shouldn't water cool the editing machines with whole room water cooling. Or wait, were you on my side and we were talking to Sean and Sean didn't want to do it?


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[Assistant] How about we just do CPUs? Okay, but we can quick disconnect all the GPUs? I think we could, yeah. Yeah. How about that?


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[Assistant] You would have had to come in. Oh. To get the mic to bring it home. Oh, okay.


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[Assistant] I think it's, there's gotta be some amount of rule of cool. And it's pretty cool. And it's a bunch of content. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Hainan's saying, I think we were saying, I think we were more saying, uh, the short bits make bit wrenches super nice.


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[Assistant] Or I do it really late at night.


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[Assistant] I can focus waaaay better late at night. I like turn on at probably around 9pm.


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[Assistant] And, and it doesn't really like turn off until like 3am, 4am. And I can be laser focused and get stuff done. Gamer timing. Also yeah, it's close to it, uh, except that you can re-extract, which I think is maybe the issue where it fails, but there you go.


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[Assistant] Like Darkside Dan or something. I'm like, I'm scared of Remote Dan's power.


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[Assistant] What wouldn't be silly is picking the next topic. Oh, yeah, sure.


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[Assistant] Okay, Luke, do you wanna pick a topic? I will try to do so. Uh, teenager criminally charged for Snapchat joke. British citizen, uh, Aditya Verma?


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[Assistant] I hope I'm saying that right. Sure, probably didn't. Uh, is currently being tried in Spain for causing public disorder over a 2022 airport security incident.


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[Assistant] He was boarding a plane to the Spanish island of Menorca. Uh, 18 year old Verma jokingly messaged the friends he was traveling with over Snapchat, quote,


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[Assistant] Uh, quote, on my way to blow up the plane, and then in brackets, I'm a member of the Taliban. Which I have now said, uh, into a microphone on the internet. Uh. Look, I'm not saying Hitler was right. Oh my god.


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[Assistant] Oh, interesting. Verma says that he was not using Gatwick's WiFi, but it's unclear whether or not the messages' recipients were.


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[Assistant] U.K. security services then alerted Spanish authorities who scrambled to


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[Assistant] Let me get that for you. Oh, thank you. Oh, thank you. There's more on the keyword. Nice.


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[Assistant] Wow. Note, there are frequent claims on the internet that Snapchat encrypts pictures and videos but not plain text messages. However, Snapchat's own website makes no such claim and only says that the messages sent via its service are private.


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[Assistant] He's gonna ding, he's gonna ding, he's gonna ding. There it is! Very nice. Without Dan's mic, are they able to hear that very well? I don't know. Doesn't matter, it's the principle of the thing. Yeah, yeah, fair enough. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Nice, perfect. Jessica said it seems likely that if it were end-to-end encrypted, uh, that they would say so, which I completely agree with. Um, if found guilty, Verma could be fined around 24,000 US dollars and made to pay over a hundred grand.


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[Assistant] Uh, yeah. Wow. Very interesting. Discussion question. Is scanning messages sent over on public wifi a reasonable security precaution? Is the average person using public wifi or snapchat aware that this is even a possibility? Is this a proportionate response on the part of Spanish authorities?


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[Assistant] That's interesting too, type of crime in age distribution.


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[Assistant] Yeah, physical crimes probably skew younger financial crimes.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Old fisticuffs. The difference between smuggling and terrorist threats?


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[Assistant] Yeaah, uh, it's pretty obviously a joke to me, but it's not gonna be obviously a joke to everyone. Uhm, but I mean, fining him $124,000 when he's 18, uhm. Like, he's gonna have to declare bankruptcy. That's, that's life-changing stuff.


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[Assistant] I know you can't for student loans cause you hear that on the internets. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. No, that's, that's like a,


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[Assistant] Depends if they're targeted, like if this person's mom works in a medical field or something like that, and they were trying to target them for patient data or something, then absolutely it would be cost effective.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I can't imagine just randomly shipping out a thousand USB cables.


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[Assistant] I would probably need to be targeted though, cause like, you're still paying shipping, all this other kind of stuff, and what do you, what do you, hm?


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[Assistant] You could totally do that with, with shipping too. So yea, I mean, it could, it could be like, I would call that...


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[Assistant] And at least it didn't like, her whole thing with the car was very funny. I'm gonna screw up that story if I try to sell it, so I'm just not. Uhm, but, yeah. And at least it didn't like, change.


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[Assistant] Like, we had to incur, I'm assuming, a relatively significant expense to like, reprint a bunch of money. Well no, they don't reprint it, they just print what they like, print. Oh, okay. So just change design and continue forward? Yeah. That's not too bad.


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[Assistant] He finished the marathon, what was the goal for Charles?


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[Assistant] Remember having Terry Fox Day and sports events at school? Yeah, it was great. I love that they did that.


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[Assistant] I feel like that's a thing that would actually get Canadians like really riled up. If people tried to like go in on Terry Fox.


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[Assistant] And probably vice versa, but yes, in a negative way for sure.


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[Assistant] There have been times where I didn't want to go home, because by working I was very focused.


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[Assistant] Wow, I don't know how to say your name, but someone, someone in full playing chat said, 19 is too young to be mature enough to keep mentally separate. He will get there. That's another thing that honestly I would back up a little bit. It, I find it gets a little easier.


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[Assistant] To kinda split things when you need to and to emotionally moderate as you get older. I have found that personally.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it worked. But yeah, I mean, you're going to go through some stuff. Um, I think as people start getting into their twenties and thirties, like grandparents start to kind of pass away at a fairly high rate.


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[Assistant] Everybody take the posture check. Uhm, but yea, you start kinda going through some stuff. Uhm, relatives passing away. Uhm, Yea, relationship is a big one. It's like- Relationship, maybe you'll break up with your significant other.


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[Assistant] Or maybe you won't. And that'll be worse. Yes.


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[Assistant] To be completely honest, yep, seen that before. And, and what if you're significant others going through something really, really hard and the support of that person is very draining and you're just gassed out emotionally when you get to work. Uh, like there's, there's, there's just so many different things that can come up that can make emotional regulation difficult and that will affect your work. So just try your best.


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[Assistant] Oh. I think that gives you an unfair advantage, sir.


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[Assistant] I suspect it's a regional requirement. Could be. Some country requires you to be able to cancel it through whatever something.


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[Assistant] Uh, gaming is still bleeding jobs. So far in 2024, the gaming industry has lost a total of around 5,670 jobs.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I know this isn't just gaming industry, but if you go to layoffs.fyi, which is a pretty cool website, uhm, it shows that in 2024 so far, 91 tech companies with layoffs have, uh, accumulated 24,564 employees laid off. Uhm, that isn't just gaming though. That's, that's like,


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[Assistant] Total around 5,670 jobs, more than half the job losses seen over the course of last year.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so I just keep inserting tech, even though that's not what the topic is talking about at all, which is, which is very cool of me. Uhm, however, about confusion and a lack of communication, meaning they didn't know whether or not they still have a job.


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[Assistant] Riot Games has announced they're laying off around 11% of their global staff, 530 employees, while CEO Dylan, uh,


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[Assistant] Judea. They put in the pronunciation. That's sick. Wow. Shout out Jessica and Riley. Yeah. Judea claimed, uh, quote, as CEO, I'm accountable for the changes we're making and where we're headed heading in the future.


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[Assistant] He likewise described these layoffs as the result of several risky management decisions, including the company doubling its headcount over the course of only a few years and taking big bets in 2019 that didn't pay off. It is unclear from the memo whether Riot leadership will be undergoing any changes or sustaining any pay cuts.


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[Assistant] Notably, Judea was president of the company for six years before becoming CEO in 2023. Riot says they will be offering departing staff at least six months of severance pay.


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[Assistant] Uh, with a top-up to cover their health benefits, six months of access to job placement services, and a laptop for job search purposes.


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[Assistant] Dude, 530 employees, 6 months salaries?


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[Assistant] That was, that was like, I was laughing during the, I did read this ahead of time. I was laughing during the first paragraph and I was enraged during the second one. Just, what a joke. What a joke.


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[Assistant] Gross. We need to sell you armor, because our car randomly tries to stab you in the chest. Yeah. It's like, w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w


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[Assistant] I think that's what HP does when they sell you printers. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We've all seen the bit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Uhm, was there anything else? I think you did everything else.


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[Assistant] Speaking of which, yea. I don't even have it memorized. You should watch that video too, cause you're talking about GPU testing. But the CPU testing video was sick.


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[Assistant] Got it, yeah. If it has that much of a delta, then all your results are screwed. Yes. So you need similar platforms. Yes.


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[Assistant] That'd be nice. There could still be issues with, anyways, whatever. Nothing.


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[Assistant] And with the site at least, even if there are still issues...


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[Assistant] No? Oh. It's actually a surprisingly unrealistic thing in current year.


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[Assistant] I still like Chief Eyeball Officer, but anyways, uh, Disney's Holodeck. Disney has unveiled a working model of what they're calling the world's first multi-person, omnidirectional, modular, expandable treadmill floor.


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[Assistant] So this is, this is not actually a this week thing. I've already seen this. This is from last week. But it's sick. Uh, okay.


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[Assistant] And you can tell even just by how he stands and in an earlier portion of the video, you see him walk into the room and some of, uh, his natural gait actually makes it look, I think like it's not working as well as it is.


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[Assistant] A little bit of a shuffler, yeaah. Which makes you think that it's maybe not doing as well, but you see him walking on normal floor beforehand and you can kinda see that.


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[Assistant] So that's at like 4 minutes and 30. Yeah. Go check out the video. They also showed not even a person, which I think is...


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[Assistant] Which is also interesting. Uhm, at one point in time, they just put an apple box with-


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[Assistant] They did say it has applications in other things, so I suspect they might try to patent it, but I also suspect they might try to like license it out to other people. Because they talked about how it has applications in a wide variety of things, not just their parks.


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[Assistant] Sign me up. There is no competing VOD platform. But. So if there was a competing VOD platform that would be good for everyone. I am. I am on extensively on record very much disliking Twitter. Oh yea.


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[Assistant] It doesn't actually. I just always hated Twitter. But if there was a competing VOD platform that was viable, yes, that would be good for everyone. But it would have to actually be competing, which has been the problem every time. So like, eh, good lucks. Alright, good luck everybody. Netflix, that's not... Yeah, that's...


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[Assistant] There are comments, there are comments about how the HDR video from NVIDIA is not an HDR. I'm gonna have to beat you especially badly at Superchecks tonight. You said you wanted to get home early. Oh no, I'm still playing Superchecks. You just wanted to play Superchecks earlier. I mean...


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[Assistant] But I was trying to figure out if your, if your device doesn't have HDR, can you not select HDR? Uhm.


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[Assistant] So, so when this person said that they uploaded it without HDR, I was like, are they actually right? I dunno. I can't tell though. But it is what it is.


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[Assistant] Best video you've ever seen in SDR. If you turn this feature on.


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[Assistant] I think the comments are probably right. I don't think they uploaded this video in HDR, which is hilarious. There's a lot of comments about it. Uhm, Kingfish Watch on YouTube said showcasing an AI HDR tone mapping by converting both SDR and HDR samples to SDR is a truly big brain move.


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[Assistant] I thought it'd be a little bit more, and it is a little bit more, but it's not as much more as I expected. It's 10 bucks. Yeah, there you go. For, for a deep one.


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[Assistant] Uh, yeaah, to be honest. Uh, not, not as good as they were. As, as Dan knows, because I've been complaining to Dan about it. Uhm, I got sick for like a really long time. A very long time. I was very, very sick for like two weeks.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and I was already upset about the impact from just that. And then I had this,


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[Assistant] Weird. You might've even noticed it on WAN show where sometimes.


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[Assistant] Something in my throat would just get caught and I couldn't breathe anymore and I'd have to clear it.


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[Assistant] There was literally, I think like a month or two of that, uh, just on Wancho. Cause I would start talking emphatically and then, and then I'd have to.


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[Assistant] Uh, and that was scary because a lot of things that I liked doing while I was working out might be a bit of a problem if you very suddenly, unexpectedly couldn't breathe. Uhm, so I decided to take time off from that. Uhm, I started going again.


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[Assistant] I think it was two or three weeks ago and then had to take a break for a curling tournament, some other things. And now I'll be, I'll be going again on Tuesday. So I lost some progress, but, um, it's been going pretty well. My, my goals for the end of the year are not really fixed though, to be honest. I do usually like monthly or quarterly style, style stuff. Okay.


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[Assistant] I thought the first one was Razor until you showed me the second box, and then I looked for too long at the second box. Okay.


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[Assistant] Wow, that's a little, that's a little scummy.


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[Assistant] Everything about it is scummy. Laser's very close to razor. The dart frog is very similar to the snake combination. Sure is. Uhm. Yeaah. It's, it's, it'll be a good video. Honestly, if I hadn't seen them yet, looking at this angle, like, here, I wouldn't be able to tell.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I know. It's like, I can't make out the logo and being able to make out the logo is honestly the only way you can tell.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's fair. I think it's gonna get worse sooner than it gets better. I was, uh, a friend of mine linked me a Twitter thread recently, which was a very long Twitter thread that it took me a while of reading into, cause I was like, he wouldn't have sent this to me with no reason, but he didn't explain why. He was like, just read this, continue reading through these,


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[Assistant] And then eventually I realized it was a back and forth conversation between a very large amount of fake AI accounts. But they were not promoting anything.


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[Assistant] What the heck. Because it seems, y-you know how a lot of AI output text is like, too clean?


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[Assistant] For like non-large infrastructure company users, their pricing is insane. Uhm, to the point where like not using them for a lot of things is just kind of like weird and ill-advised. Uhm, we use them fairly heavily for VOD delivery on floatplane. Uhm, I could complain about that a lot.


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[Assistant] Considering their kind of like inaction on fixing VOD delivery to, uh, most notably Australia and Germany, but other places as well. Uhm, we need to do more to fix that on our end, but what we need to do to fix that on our end is to use more places than just CloudFlare more actively. Uhm, which is unfortunate because you would hope that they would just


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[Assistant] Do better at that. Uhm, their core product is insanely good. Uhm, and, and it's, it's,


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't even really know what else to say. Their, their core product is just insanely good. It works.


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[Assistant] The fact that they don't have more outages is like wild. Uhm, what a crazy company. Sometimes they can be frustrating to deal with.


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[Assistant] I'm not a fan as I've talked on Wensha before of calls where you just rotate your person that


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[Assistant] Wildly good. Uhm, and their side products are, are,


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[Assistant] And for the most part, pretty solid as well. Uh, but yea, I don't know.


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[Assistant] It's never really great when one company has so much market share in an area, but, um, I will say while that goes poorly in a lot of realms, Cloudflare has seemingly kept the quality of their core product up, uh, quite well. So I'll give them that.


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[Assistant] Well not really, but that's how most kickstarters work.


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[Assistant] You get it for however much off now, but our actual real price is coming later. Apparently Disney plus did it in October.


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[Assistant] I decided to run memtest overnight, because at least some of the errors I've been getting are reporting something that sounds like probably memory. And, it defaults to my far left monitor, I have three monitors. It defaults to my far left monitor, whatever, run the test, go to bed, wake up in the morning, all my monitors are black. Okay...


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[Assistant] Shake mouse, keyboard stuff, so you like, did it boot into Windows somehow, and go to sleep, or does memtest like, screen off at a certain point? Nothing is responding, I'm like,


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[Assistant] So it crashed. Okay. Power off computer, power computer back on. Uh, okay crap, it booted into memtest again, whatever. Uh, or no, it, it, nothing happens.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no it booted into memtest again, okay turn it off, unplug the USB, whatever. Get back into Windows. Oh, my left screen didn't turn on. What's happening? Oh.


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[Assistant] Emma tried to very nicely save my screen from burning, and turned the monitor off. Oh nice. So I just turned it off, so I have no idea what happened to the test. Cool. So...


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[Assistant] There's plenty of companies that change warranty or, uh, claim warranty violations for whatever BS reason.


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[Assistant] I wasn't sure on this one. I think Windows is a pretty good example. I'm sure there's gotta be other examples.


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[Assistant] Eventually you're going to stop making a product, right? So like, why is this uhm, completely killing the NR200 air cooler compatibility? That I don't, what are they talking about? I don't know. Not sure.


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[Assistant] It also looks very similar to what they were doing before, like fully ramblimatic, which is some punctuation.


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[Assistant] This just is what it is. We reacted to our own video, which I would be really interested to see the metrics on. Maybe we should do that more. Contentception.


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[Assistant] This was Harrison's computer. No way. 100%. No way. Why did you put in two 560Ti's in SLI? It was dumb.


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[Assistant] Okay, is it this button? And... I know it's a redundant question for Linus, but if Linus had a million dollars, what would he hang on? And you can't do investment stuff.


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[Assistant] Not investing. Yeah, cause every time I asked this, it was investment, investment answer. That's boring.


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[Assistant] Are you confident you're gonna get the same thing, Linus? No. Alright, let's see what it is. In 3, 2, 1. A several? A serval? A serval.


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[Assistant] Completely home-grown fabbed processor that's reasonably modern and yeah, it's a little on the slower side compared to what you can get from the likes of Qualcomm or Apple right now, but it's not that bad.


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[Assistant] Like it's, you know, if you think about that they could clearly build guided missiles ten years ago, and you look at this processor on this phone and go, well it's a lot faster than phones from ten years ago. Yeah.


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[Assistant] It's like, if the U.S.'s goal is that they're not gonna be able to build weaponry or whatever, then I think that that's...


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[Assistant] Put pressure on China and keep them, uh, keep them behind the US in terms of technological advancement, which I think is, I think that horse is kinda out of the paddock. Is it horses that come out of the paddock? It's something. Something. A horse is bolted.


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[Assistant] The US is increasing export restrictions on advanced AI chips to China, which will also limit exports to countries like Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Vietnam, though China is the primary target of the policy. Companies will now require a special export license to ship Nvidia A800 and H800 GPUs to China.


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[Assistant] Uh, the old rules left consumer graphics cards untouched, but the new rules also restrict sales of Nvidia's RTX 4090.


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[Assistant] Vendors can apply for a special license to sell these GPUs, but it's not clear how likely the government is to grant them. Companies will also be required to inform the US government before selling chips below the restriction threshold.


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[Assistant] In August, 2022, this is a big hit for Nvidia. Nvidia disclosed that it anticipated $400 million in quarterly sales.


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[Assistant] So, there's a couple main discussion points here, you know, one of them is...


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[Assistant] Is this going to do anything? And I, I think I've made my feelings on it pretty clear. In the very, very, very short term, it might slow down some of China's AI progress. I have a potential counter argument to that. But, really.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's, that's probably fair. Also, I am not convinced that we necessarily need


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[Assistant] Elijah, from our, uhm, who's our junior writer in the writing department, and clearly has some research to do, uh, asks,


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[Assistant] The restrictions are from the US government on Nvidia, a US company headquartered in the US, that prevent Nvidia from shipping advanced processors to China. Those processors are actually manufactured in Taiwan, which depending who you ask, is or isn't


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[Assistant] Governments are stepping in and, especially the US government, uh, governments are stepping in and restricting companies' abilities to operate over borders internationally. Uh, I'm honestly not the right person to talk about that.


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[Assistant] In other news, Jon Stewart's Apple TV Plus show, The Problem, has reportedly been cancelled prior to its third season following creative differences between Stewart and leadership at Apple over how Stewart wanted to cover artificial intelligence in China. Things are getting complicated, uhm.


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[Assistant] Hey, John Stewart, if you want a home on Float Plane, we're- Yeah. We're- we're ready. We're ready for you. I love John Stewart.


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[Assistant] Guy, guy's real. The guy's real. What he did for the firefighters was super cool. Yea, guy, the guy's real. Alright, why don't we do, uh, another big topic. Men. Should we court controversy or should we go with something safe?


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[Assistant] I'm not taking this to an absurd level just to demonstrate that this is a slippery slope or anything. This is actually ridiculous. If you want to make stuff, you can make stuff.


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[Assistant] All this talk about 3D printing guns, I'm not saying that it's gonna change anything. Eventually, 3D printed guns will proliferate. They will be absolutely everywhere. You will be able to 3D print a sophisticated weapon with commodity hardware.


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[Assistant] I have no doubt whatsoever of that. You're always going to have problems with certain things. But trying to slow it down in this way is doing absolutely nothing other than sparking a conversation. I wouldn't be talking about this right now.


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[Assistant] If New York wasn't deciding to do background checks?


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[Assistant] They released a list of weapons that moved from not banned to banned. This was what, a year ago? Two years ago? I don't remember the exact timeline, but yea. I can't remember when it happened, but...


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[Assistant] Basically, as far as either of us could tell, and Luke is far more knowledgeable about it than me, so take whatever I'm saying as just the vague recollections of something someone who actually knows anything told to them a long time ago, uhm, but as far as either of us could tell,


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[Assistant] Holy crap! The fact that we're, ugh, man, yeah, anyway.


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[Assistant] Let's not forget, like, if refire rate's not a concern, people literally fabricated their own firearms in, you know, like the 1800s or whatever. Like, if all you need to do is propel a ball bearing at high enough speed to penetrate a human body, that is not difficult to make on your own. Without 3D printers.


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[Assistant] I don't know. Someone in floatplane chat asked, would you let your kids 3D print a gun? Uhm, no.


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[Assistant] It's almost like when we're looking at, you know, laws around right to repair, or net neutrality, or I mean the internet in general.


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[Assistant] I'm trying to figure out who's lobbying for this. Is this just kind of like a special interest group maybe or something? Like who's?


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[Assistant] What, are they gonna make you like hand them in? That and can I just bring up for a moment that New York is a really small state?


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[Assistant] Here, I'm gonna, I'm just gonna help people out here a little bit. Uhm, okay.


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[Assistant] Five hours out, basically. Okay, this is BC where we live.


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[Assistant] I think a lot of Americans are actually mad because yes, yes, the distortion of looking at a globe on a flat, whatever, does make BC look bigger than it is. Also, yes, it's mostly mountainous garbage.


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[Assistant] Ninety percent, uh, and somewhere between, depending on whether you take your source, uh, depending on whether you source from Quora or InterestingFacts.com, somewhere between 85 and 90% of Canadians apparently live within 100 miles of the US border. So could literally get there within an hour or two. And yet we don't go there.


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[Assistant] I love where it gets cut off. Yeah, it's kind of true though. I'm fit for human. Yep. Human what? Just human. You just gotta live


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[Assistant] Apple is planning a system to update sealed iPhones inside their retail stores without ever taking them out of the box.


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[Assistant] Allegedly, these sealed boxes, this is so cool, will be placed on a proprietary pad-like device that will turn on the iPhone, install the latest updates, and turn it back off.


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[Assistant] We were lower than California for a long time. We have no idea how many people actually live in California though. That's true. That is true.


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[Assistant] While it's way more effective in very, very close proximity, you, you can transmit wireless power over a short distance. I mean, maybe they don't need to. Maybe they could just have an RFID chip in there that says, hey, I've got X amount of battery or whatever. And as long as they can read that, then they wouldn't accidentally update something that would then get, get bricked because it loses power mid


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[Assistant] I mean, it's funny to me not only that this doesn't exist, just everywhere, but how


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[Assistant] We secret shop companies sometimes. We secret shopped some PC companies very recently. We're not gonna cover this until part four. So part one is shopping. Part two is arrival, evaluation of the packing materials, first impressions. Part three is... What is part three? Ah, yes, support.


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[Assistant] Part three is support, and then part four is performance and the actual


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[Assistant] Kind of a micro review of every system where we look, okay, how much bloat is on it? Uhm, how out of date are the drivers out of the box? We update everything before we run any benchmarks because from our point of view, we're evaluating the hardware and we are certainly gonna dock points for the bad experience of having to update your own software when it should have just been updated in the first place, but we're not gonna...


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[Assistant] Uh, an RTX 4070 with launch drivers, when a 6800 XT or whatever the equivalent would be, uh, 6800 or something like that, when a 6800 gets to run the latest drivers, and we're gonna say, oh yeah, well this is a bad computer, GeForce Experience would have prompted you for an automatic update, it would have become a better computer, so we're not gonna do anything like that.


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[Assistant] The one that really blows my mind is when I download a piece of software off of the developer's website.


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[Assistant] Hold on. Trying to think if there's a reason. No.


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[Assistant] Hold on, no, no, there could be a reason. Okay, what if? Wrong.


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[Assistant] Somebody managed to replace the Steam installer executable on steampowered.com with a piece of malware.


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[Assistant] Neen old in floatplane chat says, okay, okay, the most secure way. You download a downloader that downloads the installer that downloads the updates. And then installs them.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but okay, so bad example, but there are certainly things like this. Uh, hardware info is one. Love hardware info, it's a great tool.


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[Assistant] You download it from the official mirror and then are immediately prompted to update it every single time. Why? What, what is the, what is the point of any of this? I don't, I don't understand. Um, let's see if anyone, yeah, it's


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[Assistant] And like overall, by the way, I'm like super supportive of developers updating their software. Like yeah, you know, issue an update whenever you got, you know, new cool stuff to add or whatever. I'm not complaining about that. I just thought it'd be really cool if I went directly to your website rather than a third party and I download the latest version of your software, which was actually the latest version of your software.


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[Assistant] That's fair. That's probably it. That lines up.


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[Assistant] So you're downloading major version. You wouldn't have anyone who's authorized to push code, but is not authorized to update the website. Like if there was some kind of disconnect there, where the web team, uh, you know, had a single bottleneck, someone who's allowed to, you know, update the files or whatever, and...


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[Assistant] No, I, yeah, I think that that's probably, that's probably the most likely thing.


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[Assistant] I'm frustrated when you, when you check for updates and it's like, here's everything and you install it all and then it's like, you're all up to date and then you reboot or something or look at it sideways or sneeze or something and then you like click it again and it's like, here's 42 more updates.


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[Assistant] Eventually accuse it. Does it? Yeah!


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[Assistant] So it might be that they're managing the load on their side, but especially with the way that they are able to share bandwidth between Steam users, though I don't think that's been enabled over the internet yet. Not yet, right? Windows updates, I think, are definitely on a local network for both of them.


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[Assistant] But I don't know if either of them are actually- actually support sharing bandwidth over the internet. Uh, honestly, I don't know why not. I would be down if it made Steam downloads way faster.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and do it at this time so that when I go to use my computer, you're not bothering me about anything. Also, don't bother me about anything.


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[Assistant] I do not wanna change my browser preferences or whatever it is that you're trying to shove down my throat right now. I use Windows because I have to. Pretty much.


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[Assistant] Next stop, Twitter charging users.


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[Assistant] Windows Update apparently does support sharing bandwidth over the internet. Yeah, okay, so that must be where I got that idea. But no, Steam does not, yet. That feature of Steam is super cool, though. I was pulling a file, like, over two gigabits from some other computer on my network. Yep.


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[Assistant] Maybe it's just not that common, people having more than one gaming PC in a single house, but they like have roommates and stuff, right? I would think it's pretty common. Roommates are more common these days. Yeah, I guess that's fair enough.