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[Assistant] Ohhhh, that is a market that if I was like, if I had a bunch of money and I wanted to get into a business, like, wow, the, the storage business, cause there's no shortage of people wanting to acquire more stuff, but there's definitely a shortage of places to put it. Uhm, so I forget where, I forget how I got onto this subject.


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[Assistant] We're gonna have to leave it behind, so we need technology that allows us to just have one thing that you, you know, put on the coffee table and that's it. That's the- that's the- whoops. Oh, sorry, sorry. That's it. That's the family book.


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[Assistant] Be with the times. You're my old lady.


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[Assistant] Well, I think that's pretty much it for the show. We should probably get home, speaking of our kids, and maybe go, uh, go get them. We will, uh, see you guys again next week, same- Oh!


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[Assistant] Yeah, that makes sense. Viewer activity, are these them? Yeah, these are them. There's quite a few. Okay, don't send in anymore, cause I'm not gonna look at them.


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[Assistant] Uh, thanks, SKHS video. Luke looks much shorter and cooler. Oh, right. Cory says, good holiday with your family, excited for new tech? Uh, yea, we did have a good, good holiday. Thanks, Bite Hunter. Uhm, thanks, Ariane.


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[Assistant] Uh, tryout time, is this related to the older Intel GPU prototype? No, that was Larabee, totally unrelated, no way to get that working. Joseph Igarashi says, try pronouncing my last name, I dare you, I guess I already did. Alejandro says, here's me on Twitter, look at the video please. Uhm, dang it. It's probably gonna be spam.


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[Assistant] And I'm not promising I'm doing this kind of stuff in the future. Okay, I cannot-


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[Assistant] What? Why does LTT upload a list of info to Facebook for targeted ads?


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[Assistant] Arjun, uh, Luke's lookin' jacked today.


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[Assistant] Bipolar princess, yay Yvonne, love seeing you in videos, hashtag girl power, any LTX 2020 news?


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[Assistant] Thomas Hurfin says, really cool idea, best boss ever. No idea what you're talking about anymore, unfortunately. Uh, lego lad, play well. I know future proofing is a bit of a meme, but what components would you use to future proof 1080p high ultra at 144hz for the next couple generations?


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[Assistant] I wouldn't. Like are you running at it now? Then run at it now, and then when it doesn't do it anymore, look for an upgrade that runs it. That's the best way to handle it.


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[Assistant] Uh, Levi says, yo bro, just wanted to say, I get, I better get TechLinked. Oh yeah, TechLinked is coming out today, don't worry. Uh, Evocat, Hi Linus, was the video released on floatplane about upgrading your VR running at true 60Hz?


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[Assistant] Threw me off a bit, was wondering. True 60Hz. I have no idea what you're talking about. Uh, my VR, uh, headset runs at 120 or 144Hz.


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[Assistant] Uh, executive, happy holiday to you and yours. Thank you very much. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Charles Martin, thank you! ZaxTube, thank you very much!


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[Assistant] PC, PXC 550 480 CAD, no-brainer? I wouldn't say that's a no-brainer purchase. You can get some really nice headphones on Massdrop, uhm, and then pair it with a microphone, and that might end up being, like, uh, uh, uh,


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[Assistant] I don't want to say better, because an all-in-one is better for some people, because it's convenient, but a higher quality solution. Uhm, Henry Cavill, according, oh I can't read your name, I'm so sorry, thank you for the rubles though. Henry Cavill said on interview that he wishes to build his own gaming PC, uhm,


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[Assistant] But I'm, I'm more than open to it, if you guys wanna hit him up and let him know, uh, I'm super easy to get in touch with, just the email on the YouTube page is, that'll, someone will look at it. Or Twitter. No, no. Not Twitter? No, not Twitter.


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[Assistant] Uhm, Lucas says, I've been following you since the NCX days. Here's some money from Google rewards. Thank you!


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[Assistant] Okay, Mr. Steel, are there any plans to stop streaming on YouTube if problems continue? We don't really have a choice, like we have to...


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[Assistant] Yeah, we have to stream on YouTube. What else are we gonna do?


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[Assistant] Uhm, one API is amazing to compete with CUDA, okay? Thank you, Saba.


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[Assistant] Uh, thanks Tony. Uh, and thank you very much Trap Boy.


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[Assistant] Uh, thanks Windows XP, I'm fine. Uh, thanks Sean. Oh wait, Sean, RG Phone 2 is 630 bucks. Is that USD? Oh man. Like...


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[Assistant] At that price, I'd just get a OnePlus. Ah, but it has a headphone jack. The camera sucks! Like it sucks.


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[Assistant] And like, it's functional, yea, like you could get an image or whatever, but like, it's not competitive. So if you use your camera and you care about it, it's like...


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[Assistant] Precious memories have a lot of value to me and I'll use a crappy phone experience for a better camera for sure.


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[Assistant] Uh, fire in the hole, is the personal VPN video still in the works? Absolutely, yes it is. Uhm, MrDevon says, Janice on TechLinked and when? When? Morivan 2. Has anyone actually asked Janice if she wants to do TechLinked?


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[Assistant] Thanks, Dustin, Pee Pee Poo Poo, Pee Pee Poo Pee. That's uh, that was worth five dollars, evidently. Uh, Robert, LTT Minecraft go live when? Beta's getting tons of players, but clearly we passed the server launch date of December 25th.


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[Assistant] It'll be done when it's done. Jake and team are working on it. Uhm...


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[Assistant] We don't wanna launch something that's not...


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[Assistant] Good. So, or not at least decent. So give us time. Give us time. Gypsy dog says, who's prettier, Luke or Yvonne? Hands down, Luke. Oh wow!


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[Assistant] Uh, Robert says, were you able to get the LG C9 to pass hi-def audio from your PC to your receiver, or did the PC only see the TV as capable of stereo?


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[Assistant] I'm quite sure what you're talking about, uhm, so the issue that I had with the DisplayPort TV is that DisplayPort does carry audio, and multi-channel audio, no problem, but what it doesn't carry is an audio return channel.


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[Assistant] So you can't go straight from your PC to your DisplayPort TV and then have an HDMI connection out to your receiver so that let's say some other device that's connected via HDMI to your receiver


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[Assistant] Also take advantage of hi-def audio. So that's the problem, is that you need this audio return channel so that everything can use it, even devices that are connected directly to the TV or to the receiver.


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[Assistant] Both of them can take advantage of that pass through to the receiver. So, wait, sorry, no, the one connected to the receiver, that's no problem. It's the one that's going through the TV. That's where you run into trouble, because you have to pass it through.


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[Assistant] Uhm, with a TV, I wouldn't think that would be a problem.


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[Assistant] I haven't actually checked and made sure that my center channel is running, but I'm pretty sure that it is. Cause it does have ARC, and you just have to, if you're having trouble with it, you do have to set the audio output on the TV to ARC. Otherwise it'll use its onboard speakers, so I'm not sure if that's what you're asking. Uh, thanks Matt Taylor! Uhm, delivery date for the Beta Squadron shirts?


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[Assistant] But we knew we were gonna be printing them pretty soon, so I believe they are printed now, so it shouldn't be long. But guys, remember, even after the holiday season, the couriers are running a little behind from the backlog, so you can expect things to take a little longer this time of year.


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[Assistant] That's the kind of thing that we would love to do more of, but we really need the expertise in-house in order to make it make sense. Now we did do one that was focused on CAD a little while back.


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[Assistant] Most of those principles are still true and you could build a system around that video today, but we haven't really looked at things like simulation or machine learning.


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[Assistant] Haha! Mr. Lyosy says, Linus, the only nerd who looks attractive with an earring. Ha ha! Ha ha ha ha!


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[Assistant] Uh, thanks Citrus. Uh, Flukas X. I tell people LTT is great, now I send them money. I guess I'm a shill. Time to expose myself. Hashtag Flukas shill for LTT. Alright, can do just a couple more here guys. Uh, thanks Augusto. Appreciate it. Thanks Sergi.


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[Assistant] Alright, uhm, Austin, would love for a shout out for my latest devlog. Alright, well there you go Austin Cameron.


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[Assistant] Alright, that's it. That's it guys. Thank you very much for tuning in. We will see you again next week. Same bat time, same bat channel. You mean next year. Right. Yeah. Happy New Year everybody. Different bat year. Yeah.


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[Assistant] where we do not, in fact, allow political discussion, regardless of which side you personally lean towards.


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[Assistant] And we also said that Blizzard should not have had any consequences for the participants because we didn't feel like anyone had been appropriately warned. Something that I had wanted to discuss.


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[Assistant] If I speed against a highway sign, I know that my ticket is gonna be 157 Canadian dollars with three points against my license. That's really specific.


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[Assistant] I know exactly what the consequences are going to be. Now obviously there's some nuance there. There's some interpretation there. If I was speeding against a highway sign while there was literally


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[Assistant] Well then, I'm also probably gonna get hit with reckless driving, uh, and endangerment, blah blah blah. There's a whole bunch of other stuff. So no, it's not as cut and dried as...


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[Assistant] Here's the offense, and here's the exact consequence, but Blizzard doesn't have a Motor Vehicle Act, and so they clearly didn't lay out, okay, well, if you deviate from the talking points, yes, it was a great match, yea, a lot of respect for my opponent, they played hard,


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[Assistant] What critics of China did we treat as? What?


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[Assistant] Alright, so, there you go guys. Uhm, hope that was fun. In summary,


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[Assistant] Blizzard did the wrong thing. Lawful evil, like we said. Lawful evil, like we said. Were they within their rights? Yes. Not their social... Legal rights.


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[Assistant] Did they do the responsible thing? No


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[Assistant] Have they backtracked? Yes. Have they backtracked enough? That was coming. No. Are we pro China?


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[Assistant] What's her name? Hang May, something, I think, uhm. I don't remember her name. Yeah, Huawei's CFO, the daughter of the founder or whatever. I'm sitting here going like,


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[Assistant] China's whole reaction to that was completely disproportionate and inappropriate because within the letter of the law, not just like within the letter of the law, like there were some, there were some pretty clear and obvious reasons for her to be detained, uh, and she clearly knew it because otherwise why would she have


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[Assistant] Gone through Vancouver for connecting flight. Uhm, anywho, ever since then, like, it's, it's been...


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[Assistant] And there's nothing I can really do about that. So then, why don't we move on? Uhm...


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[Assistant] Oh, well, we promised we were gonna talk about it, so here we are. Just a day after Chinese state media criticized Apple for allowing HKMap in its app store, and a week after Apple flip-flopped on its initial decision to delist the app, the crowdsourced map app has been removed, again sparking concerns that Apple is pandering to China's political regime.


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[Assistant] Opponents of the app say that it enables rioters to commit violent acts, while supporters of the app say it helps people avoid police brutality. HKMaps creators say there's no evidence that the app has been used to target police or threaten public safety. They added that apps such as Waze, which use crowdsourced information to help users,


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[Assistant] Find where police are hanging around.


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[Assistant] It is no secret that technology can be used for good or for ill. This case is no different. Apple based its decision on credible information from both Hong Kong police and Apple users in Hong Kong that the app was used maliciously to target individual officers for violence and victimize individuals and property where no police are present.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uh, protects our users, something something, barring personal harm. Yeah. So, you know, it's just...


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[Assistant] So there's a clear double standard here, is basically what's going on. And actually, this is a fair bit more cut and dried than the Blizzard case, quite honestly. Because, with Blizzard, they can make the argument, now, Blizzard did a very poor job. If their actual intent,


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[Assistant] Was to keep political discussion out of their sporting event. Which, okay, I can at least understand and sympathize with. They did an extremely poor job of seeming unbiased about it.


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[Assistant] Really bad. Like, the worst. I can't think of a worse way that they could have handled it. But...


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[Assistant] If that was their intent, and they had done something, say for example, like warning everyone involved, making sure that the entire community knows, look, this isn't gonna be tolerated no matter what side of the fence you stand on. If you are a, if you're a pro China winner of the next Hearthstone tournament, don't you dare say anything responding.


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[Assistant] To what happened here, because you will be banned. If that had been their stance, I just said


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[Assistant] Okay, fair enough. So your platform, uhm, those people can talk about whatever they want to talk about. Well, they're on some other platform. Yeah. Twitter, Twitch, or whatever. No, actually, I don't know. Does Twitch?


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[Assistant] This, I don't necessarily agree with Mr. Cook's terminology here.


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[Assistant] Blizzard banned someone who was idolized and had reach in China. Others in the tournament in the USA had spoken out with no reaction. Uhm, okay, yeaah, alright.


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[Assistant] I'm just checking to me, the stream health says red, so I was just refreshing the page to get things working. I have to take this with me? Wow, the airport is gonna love this.


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[Assistant] Yeah. You know the x-ray those too, right? Yeah, I'm totally getting questioned. It's a camera handle, okay? It's a camera handle. Yeah.


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[Assistant] So, in summary, uh, oh, Google apparently, in just in case you were, you know, hoping that our other benevolent, uh, mobile device overlord was, uhm, standing up for


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[Assistant] Whereas the one on the App Store is clearly designed for people to coordinate their efforts in order to accomplish something. Uhm, yeaah. Alright. Well, way to go, Apple.


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[Assistant] My bad. That's not what this is. This is super cool. This is basically like Cali, but like 2019 edition. This stream, we have to be super careful about that.


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[Assistant] Alright, so the host computer basically renders the game while also shouldering two other burdens. So it has to stream the game to the other participants


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[Assistant] And it has to juggle all the incoming buttons and commands from the other players. So this is gonna be a whole new level of host advantage. Yes, wow. Uhm, the feature will support a 1080p video signal sent to the other players at 60 frames a second, and all players must have at least a 10 megabit per second connection for a successful low latency game.


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[Assistant] Exploration. I don't know if I've announced this yet. Featuring Shroud.


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[Assistant] You're going somewhere. Oh, yeah, yeah, right. That's why I was upset about putting this in my bag. I'm gonna be traveling. So uhm-


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[Assistant] Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, right. So, uh, one of the tests uses an overwatch map that's like a, um, a flick shot test. Okay. Okay, so you've got .45 seconds to hit a target. What's up?


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[Assistant] You can't just, like, load up a custom map, like, le locally, and just le play on a custom map. Like, you're still connected through a server. So, there you go. I thought that was fascinating.


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[Assistant] It's all there is to it, because if you can play on a LAN, then you can get a cracked EXE of an older patched version of the game that doesn't have it fixed yet and you can, you can LAN it up. I mean, that's how we used to do it. No, no, totally not.


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[Assistant] This video and none of the, none of the, none of the things you have heard in it, but whatever, don't worry about it. This video is brought to you by Moss. The Moss Black Pack is the organizer-


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[Assistant] To keep you protected and, well, organized. Uh, wait, what? Moss organizer? What even are these talking points? Don't worry about it. This is a great backpack. I actually use...


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[Assistant] I use one of their older ones, I absolutely love it. Some of the features are sort of irrelevant, like the expanding feature, I don't care about that.


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[Assistant] I don't know what else to tell you guys about it. Other than that, you can use offer code, uh, Linus Tech to get 15% off Moss products at mossorganizer.com. Ooh, and-


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[Assistant] Big news for Canadian shoppers! They just opened up their Amazon store at LMG.GG slash MOS Canada, M-O-S Canada. And the code works there as well, so enjoy guys. Freakin' awesome bag, and they've got a bunch of other cool stuff too. I really like their magnetic cable organizer. So it's just a little, like, sticky magnetic thing.


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[Assistant] That if you have a cable that you only use sometimes, you throw it on there so that it won't-


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[Assistant] Like flying all over the place or fall off your desk and then you can just grab it and use it like something like a phone charging cable or a mouse charging cable.


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[Assistant] When you do a cheap, whoops. When you do a cheap products roundup, like you do, you know, uhm, keyboards for less than $20.


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[Assistant] It's pretty straightforward to find all the keyboards that cost less than $20, but especially as you get up into mid-range, where things cost like $50, $75, there's this gray area.


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[Assistant] Between products that are not discounted right now and cost $50, when normally they're like $30, and products that cost $100 but are on super mega promo down to $69.99 right now. And are sometimes permanently on that promo. Right? So you can end up with a really lopsided comparison. Yea.


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[Assistant] Discounted, or is this artificially inflated right now? And, uh, find a really good mix of products that was, uh, like a fair 50 to 75 dollar keyboard roundup. Yeah. Uhm, so I've said a lot about how great Honey is, it works at tons of stores, and you can get it for free at joinhoney.com slash Linus.


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[Assistant] Thanks for the, uh, thanks for the tip on PIA. Uh, they're the only one that's working for me over there right now. To be clear, PIA doesn't always work over there.


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[Assistant] I've been over there at times, and it was intermittent or didn't work, but right now, they're working, I mean it's always an arms race, right? Trying to get past the Great Firewall of China. Anyway, they've got a lot of other features that are separate from that, but it was just like, one of those, one of those little moments like, hey, thanks for endorsing these guys, cause this is working out great.


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[Assistant] And, uh, you can check it out today at LMG.gg slash PIA WAN. If you're into that sort of thing, they don't block torrenting, so there you go, now you know. Alright.


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[Assistant] Yeah, PIA's gonna be like, oh yeah, well, this show seems fine. I'm glad to, I'm glad that, uh, you know, we're associated with it. I mean, I actually don't know anything about Moss or Honey's standpoints. And you know what? I shouldn't. I think that's the biggest point that Luke was trying to make that really got glossed over in the earlier parts of the show today.


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[Assistant] Alright, I wanna talk about this Stadia thing. Okay. Can we do one more topic? Yes. Stadia thing? Okay. I know, we need to go. Okay.


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[Assistant] What was that stupid thing that was the first one that didn't work? Now I forget. Dang it. The first one. The Nvidia one? No, no, before that.


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[Assistant] The first gaming stream, game streaming thing, it was that like, uhm, arm based one. Yeah, uuuh. Dang it. Cloud gaming.


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[Assistant] You know what? Ctrl F first. Is it in here? There you go. Boom. First. Don't worry about it. Okay, one didn't help me that much.


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[Assistant] This lightweight, inexpensive box, and then you've got a server somewhere that actually renders the game, and your commands are sent over the internet, and then the actual game, rendered game frames are sent over the internet to that box that decodes them, it's an H.264, or ideally H.265, or something more sophisticated, video stream that goes on your screen.


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[Assistant] So you don't actually have to buy a console or gaming PC in order to have a high-fidelity gaming experience, and what you give up for that is that you don't actually own your hardware or your games, and you have to pay a monthly subscription. So it's gaming as a service.


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[Assistant] In a nutshell, Google Stadia is Google's entrant into what is becoming rapidly a very crowded field, and...


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[Assistant] In order to make their platform lower latency because the hardcore gamers have said


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[Assistant] Look, this can never be as good as local because laws of physics, uhm, no matter, even if we're communicating at the speed of light, which we literally are if you have fiber optic internet, and it goes all the way to the server over fiber optics, literally speed of light, we're still talking like 50 milliseconds, ideally.


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[Assistant] Ultimately, we think that in a year or two, we'll have games that are running faster and feel more responsive in the cloud than they do locally, regardless of how powerful the local machine is.


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[Assistant] So basically it's like a buffer of predicted latency inherent to Stadia player setup or connection in which the Stadia system will run lag mitigation. Like, could they maybe?


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[Assistant] So maybe it's not just one. Cause if it sent you, like,


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[Assistant] Okay, now hold on, this would be like a new codec even. This would be nuts. What if it sent you, like,


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[Assistant] 10 or 20 or 50 different outcomes and then like assuming that your shot was either on target or like slightly...


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[Assistant] Anywhere around it. If it could then, like, shift certain elements of the image more. Use AI to fill in the gaps. Okay, maybe it's cool.


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[Assistant] I-I don't desire to continue streaming today. No, I think we're not.


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[Assistant] So far, so far today I've been pro-genocide, pro-China, pro-fascism, uhm...


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[Assistant] Yeah, so all I can say is, you know what? You do you, buddy. Thanks for watching, guys. See you again next week. Save that time, save that channel. Bye!


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[Assistant] Oh crap. Super chats! I should probably do some super chats. Kay. Kay. 32bites says your stream was down for 8 minutes, what happened? We actually have no idea. We don't know. Uh, that'll be some post-mortem diagnosis there. Yup.


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[Assistant] You know what? Fine. Albie says, where do y'all stand on ProChina Free Hong Kong? We stand...


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[Assistant] Hanta says, no one wants you to be political, just ethical. Uhm.


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[Assistant] It's kind of amazing. And that was where the whole lawful evil discussion came in. That was again on part one.


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[Assistant] Gap2franny says, uh, I ordered the LTT edition Noctua heat sink. One of the decals will go on the 2.5 inch quad box that you signed at LTX 2019, which I appreciate. Gold looks great on blue. Oh, I'm so glad. Uhm.


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[Assistant] I'm actually not sure what your position is here, and you know what? I'm okay with that.


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[Assistant] Blink your eyes, 1400. I'm putting together a gaming PC. Wanna know what's the best Wi-Fi card for it?


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[Assistant] Alexis says, Alexis sends $5, long time listener, first time chatter, love the podcast, here's $2.75 of my money. Alexis gets it. Uh, Ilya says, have you seen Der Bauer's video series where he examines 9900K under the electron microscope to a single transistor visible? No I haven't, sounds cool.


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[Assistant] Oh my god. I don't think we, I don't think we have the clout to do it. No. But like. We could try. It would be amazing. I mean. Join me. Our audience might. There's ten, there's ten thousand people watching right now. Yea. Like. I will be at BlizzCon. If every one of you tells ten people, that would be a hundred thousand people who are at least aware of this.


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[Assistant] Of the idea of showing up at BlizzCon wearing a red shirt. It would be hilarious.


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[Assistant] Okay, if you're gonna threaten that, if you're gonna threaten that, you have to, you have to hold true to it. Okay, but what do we do for the people that are like- You carry one extra red shirt in like, quadruple XL.


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[Assistant] Exactly how much damage does the depth of discharge do to a phone battery compared to the height of charge? The video you made wasn't clear. They're both bad. Depth of discharge is gonna like instantly kill it if you go too deep, but most phones should prevent you from doing that. Uhm, whereas height of charge is more like a slow burn.


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[Assistant] Uhm, Legolad play well. It's notable that an American team did a very similar thing as Blitzchung soon after and faced no repercussions at all.


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[Assistant] Uh, no. Are you talking about the NBA? Because that's been a huge controversy. I forget which team it was. I don't follow NBA.


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[Assistant] Oh, an American Hearthstone team faced no repercussions at all. Yeaah, that doesn't sound that surprising to me.


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[Assistant] Blizzard handled it wrong. Very, very bad. D minus minus. Uhm.


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[Assistant] It says, is floatplane okay? Had a minor heart attack when the stream went down? We'll figure it out. Floatplane overall is fine, but the streaming-


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[Assistant] They used to make the donuts fresh in store. Tim Horton's donuts are inedible now. They're disgusting. They used to be good.


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[Assistant] Ah man, oh my goodness, ever since we started reading Super Chats, people have been hitting it pretty hard. You can't.


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[Assistant] Okay, fair enough. Uhm, so I did like a 10 year anniversary stream with Yvonne as kind of a... You and Yvonne have been together 10 years? No, no, we have, well, we've been together longer than 10 years. That's really ambiguous. Yeah, so it was the 10 year Linus Tech Tips anniversary.


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[Assistant] 25th, 26th, whatever it was. 25th or 26th of November, 2008.


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[Assistant] Ten years ago, this whole enterprise began. And uh, so I thought it might be a cool idea to do like kind of a behind the scenes slash like Q&A. Uh, like a get to know ya for Yvonne because a lot of people think that like I brought my wife to work.


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[Assistant] Like, there's been a lot of comments about like, what's his wife doing at work?


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[Assistant] Because I worked at a place where the boss brought his wife to work.


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[Assistant] For some reason, the owner of the company's wife is there every day and...


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[Assistant] Barking orders at people, even though she clearly has no idea what's going on.


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[Assistant] So a lot of people seem to think that that's...


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[Assistant] No, cause I don't see any reason why I would have involved her if she hadn't been. Like, and it's not just that, like, she drove me.


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[Assistant] To make almost every major career decision that I have made.


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[Assistant] In the last, like, we've actually been together like 13 years or something like that. It's been quite a long time. Only married for 8 of it though. Uhm, so she was the one actually driving me. She drove me to drop out of school. Which to be clear, was actually the correct decision for me.


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[Assistant] She only drove me to do that, not because she doesn't believe in school. She finished her degree.


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[Assistant] She figured if I didn't get educated, then I'd be stuck with her.


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[Assistant] Uhm, yea, a lot of people don't know this. Actually, that's another thing. Uh, there's a lot of speculation that she's a gold digger. Actually!


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[Assistant] She had much better prospects when we met than I did. She's a pharmacist. Uh, yes. I don't know why she works here. Uhm, so she was, so she was in, uh, she was in pharmacy school when I met her. So she had just, she wasn't in the pharmacy program yet when we started dating, but she got in shortly after we started dating. So she was on a very clear trajectory.


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[Assistant] Why were you on probation? Sexual harassment? Smoking in the boys room? Academic probation for getting poor grades. Academic probation.


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[Assistant] If I ever did. No, I would have gotten kicked out. The only reason I didn't get kicked out was because I left.


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[Assistant] You can't kick me out, cause I quit. I'm outta here. I'm outta here. Like they would, I don't think they would ever let me back in that school. So uhm.


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[Assistant] What were you taking? I was taking general science, and I couldn't pass calculus for the life of me.


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[Assistant] Uh, she was my tutor, but that was only because there was an interest. That was not because I was like, out looking for a tutor. I just wouldn't have found a tutor and I would have probably gotten an even worse grade if not for her.


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[Assistant] And that would have been impressive actually because I got 19% the first time around.


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[Assistant] In calc 101 or 100 or whatever it is. Uhm.


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[Assistant] So, so anyway, what were we talking about? Right, so anyway, I remember making this joke at the time because I was, around the time that I was dropping out to work as a sales rep at a computer store.


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[Assistant] And uhm, I, so I, I forget what someone said to me, but something like, you know, you know, your wife's gonna be the breadwinner in the future, like, this is speculation, we weren't even close to getting married at that point. And I kinda went, yeah! You know what? We live in enlightened times, you know?


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[Assistant] There's, men can go to university for their MRS these days. There's nothing wrong with that. It's because there's this old sexist joke that men go to school, men go to college, or men go to university for their BAs, their MAs, and their PhDs.


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[Assistant] What do women go to university for? Their MRS. And so I was like, so it's kind of like a play on that very terrible joke. It means Mrs.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it means they're gonna, it means like marrying someone who's gonna have a BA and an A or a PhD, that's the thing. So anyway, that was all that I got out of school, was my MRS.


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[Assistant] Yeah, career and personal planning should probably focus on sales skills. And, hold on, give me one second, I want to finish that thought from before. The point is, we tried to do that stream, I managed to fail three times over the course of like four days. We finally got it done last night, go check it out. Like calculus.


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[Assistant] Yeah, actually my grade in streaming is slightly higher than calculus, 25%.


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[Assistant] Forget it, I give up. I can't think about this right now. I'm just gonna go play Counter-Strike.


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[Assistant] It was less that, it was more that I was sinking worse and worse into depression and clearly what I was doing with the painting business and school, uhm, where nothing was a success was not helping. And this actually segues so perfectly into our talk about how important sales is.


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[Assistant] Uhm, because all of a sudden I had this opportunity to take this job at the computer store that was not a ton of money. But...


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[Assistant] Because there was a commission, there was the potential to kinda scale it, and I was really passionate about it. Like, I got a job at NCIX because I was that kid on their forum that was constantly already a salesman.


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[Assistant] Hanging out on their forum, because the NCIX forum was quite frankly the shiz back in like the mid 2000s. It was awesome. It was super active. Great community there. Fantastic people. Can't say enough.


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[Assistant] Uhm, Cam, you know who you are. You're awesome. Anyway. You're Cam. You're Cam. Uhm.


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[Assistant] But, uh, but anyway, so I was already this kid hanging out on their forum, basically doing the sales job, which is advising people of what the right thing to buy is, and helping them pick it, and making them, making that relationship to NCIX.


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[Assistant] And it was, it's amazing how much of life is sales and how applicable the sales skills that I kind of gained just by being an enthusiast and getting a job where my whole job was just to talk about my passion all day. It's amazing how that


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[Assistant] It's actually a big part of how I was able to end up where I am today.


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[Assistant] And I, I'll preach, I'll preach sales training and, and sales skills all day to anyone who'll listen, because if you think about it, what in life is not sales?


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[Assistant] Yes, but I would make the argument that without sales, the engineers are probably in trouble. You gotta make your pitch.


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[Assistant] You gotta make your pitch. To get the funding to build the thing? Sure. Get the project approved. Sure. There's sales and engineering.


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[Assistant] Finding a, finding a partner in life. Sales.


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[Assistant] You've gotta, you've gotta sell them on what's- Have I got a deal for you. What's good about you, you know? Why, why they should care? Why they should go on that first date? That's sales! Sales is all about


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[Assistant] Persuasive communication. And calling it sales, I think, is sort of unfair. It's just that that's usually the word at the end of whatever job title it is, or associate, or whatever. It's like the whole secretary receptionist thing, you know, uh, uh, garbageman, waste management, you know, technician, whatever.


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[Assistant] If we're being honest with ourselves, it's sales. But I think that also isn't really fair to the complexity of that position because it's all about building relationships and getting to know people. And if you are genuinely good at it,


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[Assistant] Actually caring. Actually building real relationships that still exist beyond...


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[Assistant] Mathematics research, Linus. Even then, like, you probably have to apply for, like, research grants and stuff. You have to, you have to get a job and, like, get tenure at a university or something before anyone's gonna actually pay you to do mathematics research. I dunno.


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[Assistant] Are we gonna do news today? Are we gonna roll the intro? Sure, let's roll the intro. No promises on the news though.


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[Assistant] Alright, alright, alright, alright, alright, alright. I don't want James to be upset. So we will do...


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[Assistant] One tech news topic today. The one that upsets me the most. The one that upsets, not just you, both of us the most. Oh crap, that, well, that's my docu- I mean, I guess I kinda spoiled it without actually going to the bizjournals.com- Jibo is dead! Nooo!


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[Assistant] Anyway. This is why I never apologize for anything, because I know you guys are too smart for that kind of crap. Actually, I apologize.


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[Assistant] I think our audience is genu- Okay, tell you what. I have an exercise for you.


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[Assistant] Set aside 20 minutes, okay? Spend 10 minutes clicking on random LTT videos and reading, like, the top 10 comments and just kind of going through. Then, log out of YouTube.


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[Assistant] And like, fire up a VPN or something, so that it doesn't know who you are. And just start clicking on like, top videos on YouTube.


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[Assistant] These are, these are, these are, these are evidence. These are flags. These are flags. These are red flags. The blog.


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[Assistant] Okay, is it really? Okay, I'm gonna fire that up now. Go ahead, carry on.


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[Assistant] But we have more revenue than Jeebo. BOOM. I actually, I actually don't know that. They actually seem to have sold a fair number of these stupid things. So, uh, and they're like $700 of these. Okay, I don't actually know that.


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[Assistant] We, we didn't, we didn't know that like Amazon was gonna win, or anything like that, but we knew that inexpensive digital assistants were coming because they already existed. Siri already existed. What were the odds that this...


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[Assistant] Weird robot that doesn't move. Like, like the demos made no sense. Like, oh, Jibo will take a picture for you. Right, I'm gonna go get this thing, plug it in,


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[Assistant] And position it. Why don't I just go get a camera at that point?


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[Assistant] Why? There's just no reason for anything that it- that it was in the del- it just made no sense. I backed Jibo because I knew that if it was ever delivered it was gonna be a dumpster fire and I wanted to be the first one in on the action. That's why I backed Jibo.


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[Assistant] In front of you, it's super awesome. That's true, and the way they did that with just the three, four sections? Four segments of the body?


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[Assistant] It would have had to be a decent music speaker at $3.99 with like, oh man, what else would it have had to do?


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[Assistant] Well it's a good thing they didn't push for that, that minimum order quantity because they would have had a lot more jibos that they wouldn't know what to do with at that point. I uh,


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[Assistant] I tell you man, the amount of venture capital money that just gets thrown at stuff that obviously isn't going to work.


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[Assistant] It's just mind-blowing to me because that money is just gone. It's just gone.


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[Assistant] Okay, it's not gone, but like, if you wanted to just contribute to putting money back in the economy, why don't you just like, donate to a homeless shelter or two? Like, obviously there are better ways to just


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[Assistant] Put money back into the economy than creating a weird plastic AI-like landfill filler.


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[Assistant] Yup, like ET for Atari or whatever, just like literally bury them.


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[Assistant] That's an interesting, uh, that's an interesting take on it. You know, it's funny. I don't normally think of myself as having a, uhm,


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[Assistant] This is weird. Like playing a role? Yeah, as sort of playing a role in people not having a job anymore, but that is an interesting take on it. I just...


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[Assistant] I guess I, maybe I should feel bad because I'm sure there were very smart people, very intelligent people who worked at Jibo. No question. No question. But like, I look at it and I go, this was so obvious to me that this wasn't going anywhere, uhm, like,


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[Assistant] Why didn't you get out? Like I feel bad, because yes, I guess we contributed to the downfall, though to be clear. In this case, I don't feel that bad, because I don't think we played that large of a role. But like, couldn't you tell? You know?


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[Assistant] Here's the thing, like, I quit my job when it was clear to me that the direction of the trajectory of the company was not competitive. And the thing is, is that


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[Assistant] It's easy, a lot of the time people say, well it's easy for you to say, you know, you had an opportunity to go and do something else. And it's like, right.


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[Assistant] But if the trajectory is bad and the foundational aspects of the business are


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[Assistant] No, but here's the thing, like, you had a pretty long runway here, you could kinda wrap up your current project, get the resumes out there, you know, like,


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[Assistant] See, okay, that's something I didn't really consider. Like, when I think about employee retention, you know, I really think about making sure that I maintain and making sure that everybody who works here knows that we are maintaining very strong


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[Assistant] Anyway, I just, I feel bad, but I also feel bad in the same way that like I feel bad for some of my colleagues who were left over at NCIX. Like I feel bad this sucks, but like...


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[Assistant] Some of them, and this is the funniest thing about it, sort of, some of them I had conversations with. Like, hey, it's been another year, you're still there. What gives?


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[Assistant] I'm like, yeah, you know, it's good for me. I'm like, right, but like, this clearly isn't sustainable. Why are you still there?


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[Assistant] You know, like it's, I'd rather, I'd rather be the rat that abandoned the ship.


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[Assistant] Sound more like you were the rat that was like,


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[Assistant] I am proud to say I have not watched that movie since its theatrical release. I do not remember.


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[Assistant] Okay, so that's easy, I know because that was


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[Assistant] No, that was like, that was one of the most surreal moments of my life. So living on the west coast, uhm,


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[Assistant] Like, everything that went down was very much in progress, uhm, when my, my radio alarm clock. Like when you woke up. When, so my alarm clock was tuned into news radio because I found that that woke me up better than music.


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[Assistant] Someone like talking at me. And the way they were talking at me that morning, I thought I was still dreaming. I was sure I was still dreaming. I was like, this is the weirdest dream. Holy shit.


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[Assistant] Nah, you said a swear word. I've never said a swear word in my life. Uhm, look, in the- It was 2018.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so, so the, so the, so it was like going off next to me and I was just like, I just kind of lied in bed.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I'm awake. Uhm, and like, school all-school all that day. So like, I remember my grade 9 science teacher was just- he didn't really even say-


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[Assistant] Uhm, yeaah. He, he didn't, because the science class always had their own TV, right? So he, uh, so he didn't really say we weren't gonna do class that day. But he had the TV on.


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[Assistant] And loud, so that like, he could hear. And...


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[Assistant] So you are an Nvidia show. The first one we've got is, uh, Moss.


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[Assistant] Wow. When I was riding my bike, uh, this summer to work, I just got so sick of carrying so much stuff on my back because it's really uncomfortable in a sport bike posture.


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[Assistant] I work hard, I'm gonna treat myself to a second one of all the stupid tools that I keep in my backpack. One for work and one for home, so that's why I bought myself


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[Assistant] I don't even think this is the same model. Is it the same model? Yeah, I think it is the same model. Okay, well whatever. So this is my bag. So the only things I have in it are my blade, my mouse pad for my blade, blade stealth,


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[Assistant] Uhm, oh, these phones that I've been meaning to return to work. Ha!


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[Assistant] Tyler? Uh, in the tablet, that's in the tablet pouch. I've got my power bank.


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[Assistant] I've got my sunglasses and the handy dandy, uhm, sunglass, like.


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[Assistant] And then here, I've got my power adapter, which is not supposed to be there. I've got some, there's a zipper here. Sorry, you guys aren't really able to see this, but I've got some USBs, some chapstick, my uh, angel bird, portable SSD, uh, some business cards.


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[Assistant] This was, uh, this was actually a nice, like, uh, best man, groomsman gift. It's like, uh, got my name on it. Yeah. They got divorced, but...


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[Assistant] The new one has improved strap materials for greater comfort, a stronger ripstop nylon lining, improved power adapter mounting and cable management, and you can use offer code minus tech25 to save 10% over at mossorganizer, lol, didn't have that up the whole time, .com, until Christmas. Organization. It's truly a great gift for the OCD nerds in your life.


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[Assistant] Alright, so we've also got SeaSonic as a sponsor today. Wow, since when does SeaSonic sponsor the WAN show? And they are featuring the, uhm, where'd it go?


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[Assistant] No, that's not it. Okay, well, I guess I can't really, I guess I can't really show it. Uhm...


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[Assistant] So the Seasonic Prime Ultra Ti- Oh, I know what we're supposed to do. I'm supposed to click this.


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[Assistant] Yes, you can have all the cookies. The Prime Ultra Titanium. It's 80 plus titanium. It has a 12 year warranty, which is ridiculous. It's fully modular.


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[Assistant] It's super quiet. How many builds would you use over 12 years? Is that two, three PCs? That's like three to four for me anyway. Like every three years I'd say is pretty reasonable to refresh your computer. Maybe not the whole thing.


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[Assistant] Well exactly, you're keeping the power supply. Like, graphics, yeah, for sure. There would be no reason to upgrade this power supply that I can think of for...


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[Assistant] At least, like, I'm just trying to think, like 10 years ago, what was a top of the line power supply?


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[Assistant] Like, it would still be usable today, even if it's not still top of the line. Like, I see no reason why this couldn't be the same thing. So it's got a fluid dynamic fan, uh, fluid dynamic bearing fan.


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[Assistant] It's got premium hybrid fan control, so you can keep your fan noise minimal. It's got micro-tolerance load regulation, whatever that means, basically it means good regulation. And lambda noise level A++, so that means the noise output stays below 20 decibels during operation.


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[Assistant] Pretty cool. So check it out at Seasonic's website or at Amazon at the link below, leading us to our final sponsor of the day,


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[Assistant] Freshbooks! Freshbooks is the super simple to use invoicing tool that actually does a lot more than help you create and send slick looking invoices. It helps you track your time with their time sheet function, manage your expenses, and keep track of who owes you what. It even has a feature that tells you when your client looks at your invoice for the first time.


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[Assistant] The mobile app has all the functionality of the desktop version so you can take fresh books with you wherever you go. And if you have any questions, you can feel free to reach out to their support staff.


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[Assistant] Where they will laugh at you for not knowing how to use their simple to use, I'm just kidding, they won't do that. They will help you. No phone trees, no escalations, no return calls, just straightforward answers from a real human. So visit freshbooks.com slash man and claim your free trial today.


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[Assistant] Alright, a Chinese scientist claims to have created the first designer babies. Uhm, basically, this was posted by Captain To Fire on the forum and, uhm, it's like,


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[Assistant] Kinda hard to cover this because the actual information is a little bit spotty, so he claims that he's created two twin girls that are resistant to HIV virus.


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[Assistant] Pretty much everyone is mad. Uh, the university that he was currently on unpaid leave from, uh, the scientific community at large, the tech community at large, uhm, and like the university was unaware of the project and its nature.


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[Assistant] So it's gonna be an interesting, uh, it's gonna be an interesting couple of decades going forward.


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[Assistant] Pretty big question, isn't it? Uhm, I think it's- I am far more comfortable with cybernetic


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[Assistant] So you're gaining resistance to one disease, but you're actually losing some of your resistance to another. And of course they're not consenting to that.


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[Assistant] And of course they are not consenting to that. That's, that's a whole, that's a whole separate issue. I'm sort of talking 10,000 foot view right now. What does it mean to humanity? Now, as long as it takes place on a relatively limited scale,


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[Assistant] I, I, I doubt that we're opening ourselves up to mass extinction through having, you know, edited all of our own genes. Like, of an entire, if we edited an entire generation's genes and then all of a sudden something came along, we made ourselves weak against it and


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[Assistant] I feel like that kind of thing is very, very unlikely. Uhm, most of my discomfort, like, so, right, so in small doses, I actually don't see it necessarily being a huge problem.


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[Assistant] There is nothing that I have seen in my life that would lead me to believe that people as a whole will take some kind of technology and use it only or even primarily for good.


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[Assistant] It sure does. That's the thing about a slippery slope is it starts really high up and you actually don't know that it was a problem until you're face down in the mud at the bottom. So uhm, yeaah, right. So like I said, I am far more comfortable with cybernetic upgrades than I am with actually making changes at a genetic level.


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[Assistant] We already have that. It's called a cochlear implant. You can use it to restore hearing to an infant that was born profoundly deaf. So we have that. Uhm, now, the funny thing about that is you might think,


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[Assistant] As a hearing person, as someone who was born without


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[Assistant] At least some people would describe as a disability. You might think, well this is so obvious. If they couldn't hear, and now they can hear, then that's great. Cochlear implants for all.


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[Assistant] But there are actually people out there who feel like they've kind of had their identity robbed from them because a cochlear implant does not make you hear as well as a hearing person.


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[Assistant] In the installation of a cochlear implant they have to remove, and this might be outdated knowledge, but as far as I know, they have to remove everything that was left of any


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[Assistant] Uh, hearing capability that you had before they performed the operation, making you sort of not whole.


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[Assistant] As a person, depending on how you kind of define that. And so they can end up feeling kind of robbed of a community, because if they hadn't had it, they would have been part of the deaf community, versus if they just hadn't been born deaf, then they would have been part of the hearing community, but they're kind of in this weird limbo.


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[Assistant] You could make objective arguments all day for why their position is wrong, but it doesn't ultimately matter because if we remove the emotional component of being human, then why even bother?


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[Assistant] Hey, thanks for the everything during my job. I hope you remember me. Shoe125, probably not, lol, still never got floatplane working. Ah, thanks for the everything.


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[Assistant] Uh, Maykel says, make a computer that is made from chip-to-chip transistor and resistors from scratch that equals something from 9095. I think Alex is actually working on a DIY CPU at the moment. By the way, hi Scott. No, it's like, there's like a guide you can follow, like he doesn't have to invent it or anything.


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[Assistant] Alright, one more topic, the most important one of this week. That's what you're picking? Starbucks.


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[Assistant] Starbucks says it's gonna block porn on its public wifi next year, so if you wanna, if you wanna jerk it in Starbucks, you're gonna have to do it sometime between now and December 31st. Hey, you don't have to- I vote for Christmas Day, because it'll probably be pretty empty.


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[Assistant] Actually, there is one more topic. YouTube is bringing down the paywall on their YouTube originals. Apparently, uhm...


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[Assistant] They have determined that the ad-supported model that has sustained YouTube basically since its acquisition by Google anyway.


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[Assistant] Uh, is the way to go, so YouTube originals are still getting funded, but they will become free and ad-supported rather than only being available to YouTube premium members. Personally, I think this is a good move, uhm.


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[Assistant] I mean, for my part anyway, YouTube Premium is already a compelling enough value add.


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[Assistant] Alright, compelling enough value just based on that I don't have to watch ads.


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[Assistant] And I don't even watch much YouTube, like half the time I'm blocking the ad on my own video, with my premium, stupid premium membership. Uh, the fact that like YouTube, or Google Play Music is included, like it's already a great value, I don't really understand why we need these originals, uh, like original series. Uhm.


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[Assistant] But what this will probably mean is that YouTube is gonna be cutting back the kind of funding that they had put aside for YouTube originals. Like it seems to me that they've just done some re-conjuring of the map on the backend for how this YouTube premium money is getting distributed and they've gone, well,


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[Assistant] We're spending a lot on these originals, but they don't seem to be actually driving subscriptions, so what if we just kind of-


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[Assistant] And no offense to ourselves and other YouTubers, but like quite frankly, I would, I would pick, you know, the actual experienced Hollywood production people that Netflix works with over like YouTubers for these kinds of things.


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[Assistant] The WAN Show, you're, you're fixed next week because we are done for the day! It's, ah, wow, it is twenty after six. We are super done for the day. We will see you again next week, same bat time, same bat channel. Bye!


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[Assistant] Someone in chat is like, hey, it's VsauceMichael here.


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[Assistant] Anyway, tell me, tell me about, tell me about Jibo. What, what happened to Jibo?


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[Assistant] It was so bad! It was just so useless! Sorry.


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[Assistant] Uhm, Jules asked how was the cake. I actually didn't get any.


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[Assistant] And we're live, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the WAN Show. Luke is cavorting about in Asia. So he couldn't join us, but that's okay. We have budget Luke. Sorry, is it discount? It's discount Luke.


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[Assistant] Oh, I'm pretty sure he's cavorting. He loves hanging out over there. I'm pretty sure that's the only reason that he wanted to go to Computex. Luke, if you're watching, I'm on to you.


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[Assistant] Yeah, he really does stand out there. Get back, I'm cavorting! In a very real way.


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[Assistant] So, uh, yeaah, we've got a really great show for you guys today, and I'd love to tell you about it, except my, uh, laptop is updating. So maybe James can tell us what some of the great topics we have are.


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[Assistant] This is great. I just like the timing. Uh, someone messages, how rich is Linus in the chat? And someone super chats 99 cents.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I actually don't know. Super chats, uhm, while we definitely appreciate people's generosity, uhm, are not really a needle mover for us. Uhm, and part of it is that YouTube does take a significant portion of it. So, super chat.


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[Assistant] Uh, YouTube portion, sorry I have to look this up because I actually don't know.


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[Assistant] How much money does YouTube take from Super Chats? This is an article on Stream Geeks and I should probably be looking it up on my laptop now that it's, uhm, not updating anymore and then I could actually share this with you. How much?


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[Assistant] No, no, that was just that one time. Hey Brandon, you got your free lunch, right? Okay, good, just checking.


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[Assistant] Alright, how much money does YouTube take from Super Chats? Wow, this is a really long article for just like...


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[Assistant] Uh, okay, when I clicked the estimated revenue in YouTube's analytics, it was roughly 30% less than the total Super Chat amount. Uhm, so they take a 30% cut of Super Chats through YouTube. That's exorbitant. Well, yes and no.


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[Assistant] Hold on a second, yes and no. It's not quite that simple because for one thing, Google, while they do use their own payment processor, which saves them a lot, uhm, if they were using a third party payment processor, you could be looking at as much as 30 cents or more.


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[Assistant] Per transaction, plus a percentage of the transaction. So even if I was just...


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[Assistant] Uh, using Stripe or Braintree to take a dollar from you over the internet, thank you very much. I would still be giving 30% of that, over 30% of that to my payment processor. This is something that we've learned the hard way.


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[Assistant] Uhm, as we've, uh, developed Float Plane. Uh, Luke's not here, so we're not gonna talk about Float Plane Attend today, but, uh, my apologies to the Float Plane fans out there.


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[Assistant] Save us blockchain. Yea, but the transactions aren't even free with crypto.


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[Assistant] Like some cryptocurrencies have very high transaction fees, especially if you want the transaction to go through in a reasonable amount of time. Yes, I know it depends, but some of the more commonly used ones have extraordinarily high transaction fees. Whatever, man. It's the future. Alright.


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[Assistant] It's, it's hard to have a real conversation. But then, I mean, you don't cost as much as Luke, so.


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[Assistant] You guys enjoy your crypto thing. Call me when it's actually manageable to integrate as a payment system. Call me when, you know, the Canadian banks and the Canadian government have all decided on a way to


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[Assistant] Uh, deposit and withdraw this stuff and, uh, not have everything disappear mysteriously in a weird town in India where people are known for going to fake their own deaths.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so, uh, what's the, uh, what's the crypto exchange that went down? Uh, the one that was like based out of here.


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[Assistant] Quadriga. Yeah, quadriga. Uhm, so, it's a 30 year old CEO and co-founder died of complications arising from Crohn's disease while traveling in India, supposedly, except the circumstances of his death, uhm,


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[Assistant] Yeah, so, I don't know, like there's a place, there's a place there, I forget what the town is called, or like the area is called, but they're really well known for document forgeries, including things like


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[Assistant] Birth certificates and death certificates. And that happened to be, and this could be a tinfoil hat conspiracy theory. In fact, YouTube chat is probably blowing up being like, I personally, oh wow, it is blowing up.


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[Assistant] Someone says, not illegal, you have the right to disappear. Yeah, you can disappear, but you can't, uhm, you can't forge a death certificate because that is a legal document.


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[Assistant] So that would be about, like, forging a, uhm, a-a-a-a land deed. Like, y-you can't do that. And because there are such large incentives for some people for faking their own death, uhm,


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[Assistant] How about it? How about it? Alright, well why don't we, why don't we bring up the WWDC news and kinda, kinda talk through some of our favorite things. Go to the Wandoch. The Wandoch? Why would I go to the Wandoch? Because there's links therein. I know, but the people who work on that, they just don't do a very good job.


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[Assistant] It's funny cause he's the one who works on the Wanda. Uh, alright, alright, alright, alright. So... There's like nothing in here!


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[Assistant] Now I've kind of said everything that I want to say about the Mac Pro. Uhm, I, they're all actually, I do have a couple small corrections from the video that I made earlier this week. So I had speculated that the, the very low end system configurations that only have four sticks of memory might not support six channel memory. Right.


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[Assistant] Right after the Mac Pro announcement, uh, we missed it, Intel announced their 3000 series Xeon W lineup, that was going to be the processors in the Mac Pro, and it does go all the way down to 8 cores, and Apple apparently confirmed that no, there will only be one motherboard, so they're just shipping a 6 channel,


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[Assistant] Motherboard, 6-channel CPU, and they're just putting 4 sticks of memory in it because...


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[Assistant] Six grand for an eight core processor makes a ton of sense, so.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it means that you're getting effectively 66% of the memory bandwidth that you otherwise would. Now with that said, you've only got a piddly 8 core processor, so...


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[Assistant] Who cares, I guess, because it's not like, uh, it's not like a 28 core where you could legitimately have a workload you're running on it that needs all of that memory bandwidth, like you just don't have the compute to justify it anyway, but,


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[Assistant] I also just don't think that an eight core configuration of this machine should exist.


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[Assistant] I think there's people already defending it, but I don't, I don't understand these people because on the low end, you should just be buying a latest-gen iMac. It has an 8-core processor!


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[Assistant] ECC memory, it's a really, it's a really interesting feature because I even went as far. So we published a very negative review of Intel's previous Xeon W lineup, the one that was based on their LGA 2066 platform.


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[Assistant] And what Anthony and I concluded, and I ultimately said in the video, was, these things are a rip.


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[Assistant] So if you absolutely must have that, there might be an AMD option for you, go check that out. And you lose overclocking support, which...


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[Assistant] Depending on your workload might actually make sense because you're using their C620 whatever chipset instead of their X299 chipset which has overclocking support built into it. So we ultimately concluded that you were paying anywhere from 500 and over dollars


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[Assistant] For a trade-off in features that may or may not have any value to you. And, uhm, Intel was upset about my conclusion because they said, well actually, you know, Xeon W is...


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[Assistant] Good for workstations. And I went, why is it good? And they said, well, because it's made for workstations. And I said, well, what makes it made for workstations exactly?


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[Assistant] What does that do for me? Because here's the thing. The perception for a lot of years was that Intel Xeon processors were somehow better than their consumer equivalents. And there have been times when they actually were.


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[Assistant] But, over time, the R&D cost to make a new CPU design has become such-


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[Assistant] And a feature that you would turn off would never be stability.


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[Assistant] Like, it is not, think about it. It is not an Intel's interest for their core series processors to crash once every 422 hours.


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[Assistant] Intel can talk about how Xeon W is really stable.


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[Assistant] But if you ask, well, is Core i9 not stable? They just kind of...


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[Assistant] I wanna do a video where you guys take me to like, uh, you know, Sandia National Lab or something and, and we, we, we simulate a solar, a solar event. We, we flip a bit.


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[Assistant] We actually flip a bit on a memory chip and show that this system recovered from it and this one didn't. And they were like, we can't do that.


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[Assistant] They were just like, we can't do that. And so I said, well then, my conclusion about your processor, given that there is no meaningful demo, I also, before we got as far as like going to a laboratory and like doing this, uhm, I asked, well, give me a demo.


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[Assistant] Give me something I could do on these two machines that shows that this one is more stable than this one. And they were like, we don't have any workload like that. I kinda went, okay.


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[Assistant] Thanks, guys. Uhm, like the thing you gotta understand is that ECC does do something in the event of an accidental bit flip, it is supposed to recover from it. The thing is that each subsequent generation of DDR technology has also added more resiliency against accidental errors. So,


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[Assistant] I'm not saying it doesn't have a value today, I'm just saying that it's not a value that even Intel was able to design a test for me to be able to demonstrate. Uhm, at least the people I talked to there. If anyone from Intel's watching and knows a way that we can do this, yo, HMU as the kids say, right?


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[Assistant] I'm almost as old as you now, man. Yeah, well, fair enough. Yeah, and you're gonna be, uh, wait, is that public knowledge or no? Yes. Oh, okay, and he's gonna be a dad, too. Yeah. He's gonna be the second dad at Linus Media Group. I was gonna say second parent, but my wife works here. She's also a parent.


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[Assistant] Anyway, uhm, I forget where I was going with this. Right, you should just buy an iMac. Because it's a faster 8 core, even thermal throttling, I think it's still faster than this, uh, this Xeon W, because, eh, whatever, or something. Uhm, and then, that even ignores the iMac Pro, which starts at five grand.


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[Assistant] And, uh, I think, what does, what does its core account start at? I feel like we need to go, like, look at that now.


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[Assistant] iMac Pro, Apple, USA. I don't think this is gonna take me to the US site. No, it's not. Well, whatever, we'll just do it manually. Thank you very much for that.


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[Assistant] But from a performance standpoint, I don't believe Intel has changed anything. Like, uh, clock speed for clock speed, core for core, they should be quite similar.


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[Assistant] So let's go ahead and have a peekaboo at what we get for this. So we get a 3.2 gigahertz Xeon W that turbos to 4.2.


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[Assistant] And what do we got with the Mac Pro? We got a 3.5 that turbos to 4.0. So let's configure it. We've got a grand to spend because they both come with 32 gigs of RAM in the base configuration and, uh, two, no, this one has a one terabyte SSD out of the box. Of course it does. Right, so we can add another two freaking cores.


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[Assistant] And I'm not saying the iMac Pro is a perfect machine, I'm just saying it also happens to include a display. Uhm.


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[Assistant] And it'll outperform the base model Mac Pro on paper. We will have to actually test that. We might have to crack open our iMac Pro again.


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[Assistant] And just, oh man, I think the graphics card is the most embarrassing thing about this stock configuration.


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[Assistant] Really? A 580X? Let's fire up LeNewEgg.com. Now I know it's a Radeon Pro or whatever, but you guys gotta understand, that is a- Is that just been better? That is a- that- no.


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[Assistant] That is just a driver switch that AMD flips. It is the same bloody card. Uhm, 580X, hold on a second. You're not typing.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm, I'm working on it, I'm working on it. So what does a 580X cost these days?


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[Assistant] Here's an MSI armor, whatever, two hundred dollars. Like we're talking a two hundred dollar graphics card in a system that costs six grand. So basically the message that Apple is sending with this base configuration is buy this if you're the kind of, like,


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[Assistant] Ego images everything moron that wants to have a Mac Pro as a status symbol, but actually doesn't care at all about what's under the hood of it. At all.


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[Assistant] So as long as- It still grates trees. Ladies who aren't into cars.


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[Assistant] Uhm, what, what else did I, did I wanna say about the Mac Pro? Right, okay, so we know it's all the same socket, so uhm, no, you don't get a different motherboard, it's just stupid. Now, I've had people say, well, what if you wanna upgrade in the future?


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[Assistant] Then you should use your current machine for now, and you should upgrade


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[Assistant] When you order. Because upgrading computers is very rarely a good idea. Now I'm not saying you should get the, you know, most loaded out memory configuration. In fact, there's a good chance that companies like OWC or iFixit are gonna have kits that you can use to upgrade that stuff for much cheaper. Uhm, I'm just saying that


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[Assistant] It's an imbalanced machine, that's my point. It's six grand, it's got a throwaway processor, a throwaway graphics card, and memory that...


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[Assistant] Honestly, let's see, it's 32 gigs, so what is that? Is that 8 gig sticks? So that limits your total upgradability as well, because it's only got 12 memory slots.


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[Assistant] So 32 times 3 is what, like 96? 96 gigs of RAM. Like that's probably lots, but you're better off getting 16 gig sticks because that doubles the overall expansion. Like if upgradeability is what you've got in mind, don't buy parts that you have to throw away and that no one will ultimately want.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so, so they want to hit the lowest price point they can while still making what they would have expected to make regardless of which skew they sell on the core components that they're selling, which are ultimately the case.


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[Assistant] A license for Mac OS, which is ultimately tied to the main board, sorry, the logic board.


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[Assistant] I doubt it works that way. I think Apple's a little bit smarter and a little bit more organized than that. I suspect that the only reason they wouldn't care about this cannibalizing their other products is that it's more profitable or as profitable. So ultimately it doesn't matter what you buy.


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[Assistant] And I would suspect, based on the loadout of something like an iMac Pro, I suspect that this is a higher margin product.


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[Assistant] Amount of GP dollars that they need to make in order to make this product make sense for their shareholders and, well, screw you. You get to buy a config that doesn't make any sense. Because remember too, imagine this. Imagine if it didn't start at 6,000.


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[Assistant] Okay. Imagine if it started at- A 12. 13,000. Okay. People would be outraged about that too! And, instead of it just being nerds like me that are gonna break down the spec, and go, well, this is imbalanced, this doesn't make sense, uhm, you know, you've effectively, you've effectively bought, you know, uh, uhm,


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[Assistant] Put an entry level CPU and graphics card in it like you're an idiot. You know, the people who are mad right now are the giant nerds.


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[Assistant] Essentially, stuff to throw away and upgrade later if you are intending to do any serious work with it. Okay.


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[Assistant] Oh, the monitor I'm pretty excited about, actually. Now, Brandon was actually telling me about a really interesting post that someone created, where their main problem with the monitor was not necessarily its hardware capabilities, but whether or not Apple was going to adhere to any of the existing standards for HDR.


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[Assistant] Because if Apple comes in and says, okay, we're competing with the Flanders of the world, you know, we're talking 30,000 plus dollar displays, uhm,


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[Assistant] So, so this person's problem with it at that point was it doesn't have enough local dimming zones. It's gonna have bloom. It's just, it's simply not suitable. Uhm...


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[Assistant] Versus if Apple was coming in and they wanted to compete with sort of the, the more...


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[Assistant] The more average creation monitors, uhm, they were saying that, well,


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[Assistant] Uhm, now I, I think that with, like Apple isn't perfect, but they tend to be good at designing an end-to-end workflow.


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[Assistant] What I suspect is that right around the time this Mac Pro launches, they're gonna have some new workflow tools within Final Cut, within macOS, that are going to make working with HDR content easier, and I think that they're going to have to acknowledge that there are standards like HLG, uhm,


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[Assistant] How this goes, and how long this display is even that interesting for. OLED only has to get a little bit brighter to make more sense. Cause remember, it's high dynamic range, not necessarily how many nits you can pump through a display.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so all that only has to get a little bit brighter before, for my, for myself, I'd rather be editing, I'd rather be creating on something that has no bloom.


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[Assistant] And 570, is it 576 zones? 532? I can't remember how many it was, but uhm.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's a lot of zones on a 32 inch, but it's sure as heck not an emissive display technology. We actually, we checked out


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[Assistant] To 600 class display on a 32 inch is going to be sufficient for like real color accurate, contrast accurate color work.


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[Assistant] It's big, yeaah, and apples is gonna be smaller, but not that much.


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[Assistant] Cause remember too, we're talking about a 35 inch display, but it's a 35 inch 21 by 9 display. That is not, in terms of actual display surface area, that's not as much bigger as it sounds compared to a 32 inch. Uhm, is it 16 by 9? 9 or 10. I actually don't remember.


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[Assistant] That's true. That's true. You do see some bloom on OLEDs, but like you said, I think part of it is just...


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[Assistant] Uhm, and that's actually another thing, that's another reason why I do question how much brighter OLED really has to get for the HDR experience to be really, really good on it because we're already at the point now where the brightest white's on an OLED, right next to the blackest blacks, like my eye has a hard time seeing that line.


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[Assistant] So if we want something like a, like a candle burning in the middle of a dark room, if we want it to bleed out,


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[Assistant] If that's the filmmaker's desired effect, I mean, are we that far off?


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[Assistant] I was, and pardon my ignorance, every once in a while I get something completely wrong. So I was under the impression that when we talk about micro-led technology, you know what, we really need to do our sponsor spots because


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[Assistant] Sponsors are Honey, join Honey.com and start saving on your internet shopping today. It's free, and those of you who downloaded Honey from our link have already saved over a hundred thousand dollars in the past few months. I forget what it was.


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[Assistant] Honey works on over 30,000 stores including Amazon, eBay, Newegg, Razer, Best Buy, Walmart, and more. You might have heard of some of those stores. I mean, they're pretty small. Small, obscure stores.


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[Assistant] Like, Newegg, and Amazon, Best Buy. Uhm, Honey gets a small commission from sites when they save you money, so you never pay for it. It's free to use and installs in just two clicks. Uh, so go check it out at joinhoney.com. Oh wow. Did we just lose power?


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[Assistant] Can, uh, are we still streaming? I think we're still streaming. Uh, uh.


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[Assistant] Pulseway is the real-time remote monitoring and management tool that lets you fix problems on the go by sending commands from any mobile device. It's compatible with Mac,


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[Assistant] Remote desktop functionality as well. You can get access to real time status, system resources, logged in users, network performance, windows updates, and more. And you can create and deploy custom scripts to automate your IT tasks.


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[Assistant] It allows you to scan, install and update all your systems on the go and you can try it for free at Pulseway.com or at the link in the video description. I love those guys, they have the best ads. Finally we've got Rover, finally we've got Rover.com.


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[Assistant] It's backed with the rover guarantee and 24-7 support from rover.com if anything goes wrong. Just book through our affiliate link at lmg.gg slash wanrover to get $10 off for first time users.


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[Assistant] Alright, so let's go- what was I talking about? Dang it, I always do this.


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[Assistant] I don't know if they take ten minutes. We'd see them glowing by now. I don't think they're on.


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[Assistant] Okay, so the Cletus display is really trippy because the way that it's like a modular display and we've seen technologies like this before but it's a unique one because it's got these panels that are about this big and then you just assemble them together into whatever size and resolution display you want.


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[Assistant] Now that's not unique. What's unique is that the Cletus display uses an emissive display technology, like OLED, except it's not OLEDs, it's microLEDs. Okay, so they've got these tiny, tiny microLEDs, red, green, and blue, and they


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[Assistant] Emit directly from the display, so there's no backlight or anything like that, but the way that they achieve near perfect blacks on a Cletus display is that I forget what the exact number is, but uh, it's over- It's like made of black dots.


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[Assistant] Uh, it's a little bit different than that. So they actually allowed me to go up to it. Uh, here, I'm just gonna... Yea, I remember. Everyone was...


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[Assistant] Okay, ultimate picture, blah blah blah, where is it? Okay, uhm.


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[Assistant] Ah, where's the- here we go. Okay, right. So the reason they can get nearly perfect blacks out of it is that 99% of the Cletus display doesn't emit light.


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[Assistant] It's just, it's actually black. So you're looking at this giant display made that, that emits light, they're micro LEDs, they're super bright, but they're actually tiny. They're micro LEDs. And all of the area around them is just...


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[Assistant] Because of the way that light spreads from a source, you actually have to get about 18 inches from the screen in order for, and it's weird, your eyes like, go weird as you move through the threshold. Oh, I kinda click in.


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[Assistant] And then all of a sudden you go from seeing the entire image, which has no perceivable gaps in it, to seeing just these dots, and they don't look like anything. They just look- That's so trippy. It's so weird! Okay.


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[Assistant] So, I thought that micro-led displays were specifically this technology. Okay. I didn't ever stop and think about that a micro-LED is just a small LED and you could do anything you wanted with it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I, I didn't think about that there were other ways that people were planning to use my Curly D's. Okay. So I was talking to Nvidia, because they were talking about these displays that they've, that they've created with over 500, uhm, local dimming zones.


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[Assistant] And they were talking about like, yeah, you know, we see a clear path forward. Cause I'd love to see- Wait, wait, wait.


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[Assistant] So uhm, okay, that's actually an important point to clarify. So they were talking about how uhm, you know, going from 384 zones to over 500 zones to using mini-LEDs to micro-LEDs, they see this very clear technology progression.


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[Assistant] Whereas like, I love an OLED G-Sync display. And I was like, hey, you guys working on that?


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[Assistant] And they're kinda like, you know, they're vague, right? They're evasive. We're working on everything!


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[Assistant] You know, what are we, we're a technology company, what are we not working? Like they basically, it was a total non-answer. And when I drilled down, uhm, where I ultimately, like they wouldn't answer any questions about it, but what I ultimately realized is that because OLED is an emissive display with completely different characteristics in terms of


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[Assistant] Color mixing at different brightnesses, uhm, you know, making them color accurate, uhm.


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[Assistant] The way that the pixels switch, or rather they don't take a long time to switch, like Nvidia would have to completely reinvent the G-Sync module. I see. To run an OLED display. So when they were talking about this clear path forward,


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[Assistant] To Mini LED and Micro LED, I totally misunderstood that they were talking about something like a Cletus display, an emissive display using Micro LEDs.


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[Assistant] What they were actually talking about was using micro LEDs to have a much greater degree of granularity in a full array backlit.


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[Assistant] Full array backlighting on LCD displays.


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[Assistant] Is not going anywhere, and where we're probably headed is many, many, many more zones.


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[Assistant] Maybe where we get to the point where each zone is a mini LED or a micro LED so that the blooming becomes much less. I don't remember what my point was in all of this anymore. I think we were just talking about


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[Assistant] Right, yes, so micro-led coming out eventually. Yes.


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[Assistant] But maybe not in the form that you might think, because a micro led display could be an emissive display,


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[Assistant] Or it could just be really really small LEDs. Micro LEDs.


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[Assistant] Because you've invested the last 25 years in LCD.


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[Assistant] That, but that's it, because you know how they work, because a lot of the time you can build, even using an inferior technology, you can build a better display when you understand the technology at play better. And so yes, get disrupted, but the flip side of that is,


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[Assistant] Apple's display is already sort of groundbreaking in terms of its contrast and peak brightness and all that. The thing is, the thing is $6,000! So- But so is a BFGD. What's the emissive one gonna be?


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[Assistant] No one wants to be caught flat-footed. I think LG is still pretty heavily invested in OLED, only time will tell.


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[Assistant] So, we promised in the video thumbnail that we were gonna talk about not just the monitor, but also the monitor stand. What monitor stand?


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[Assistant] Okay, so, can I play Devil's Advocate for a moment here?


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[Assistant] You got something for me? Okay, yeah, that, yeah, what else you got? How much is this?


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[Assistant] This is $12.95 for two? Okay, wonderful. Uh, how much is this?


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[Assistant] Is that still how much it costs? U.S. or Canadian? U.S. Okay. Three grand U.S. Alright, uhm. That's just three grand. Okay, so we got a couple things here. Okay. So, when I buy a product,


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[Assistant] My understanding is that it should come with pretty much everything that it needs to function. Right?


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[Assistant] Okay. Okay. That's a very consumer-centric point of view.


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[Assistant] I would say that if I were to ch- if I were to graph out


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[Assistant] The, now that, now that I have experience in the professional world, if I were to graph out my expectation of like a cost versus included accessories curve, okay? I would say as the cost approaches zero, your included accessories go down. You expect a more bare-bones experience.


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[Assistant] As the cost of my original purchase approaches zero. So if I buy the cheapest phone on the market, I'm not that surprised it doesn't come with some headphones.


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[Assistant] Then, as I, as I step up in cost, I expect my experience to be more and more complete. And when you buy something like a Galaxy S10, uhm, you know, it's got your...


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[Assistant] But the camera's dead. Can you, can you guys, can you guys make sure the camera's gonna turn back on? Oh yea, camera's on. Okay, we just, I'm sorry guys, we just had, we just had a short blackout.


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[Assistant] When I get into professional grade rather than consumer grade gear, the manufacturer's expectation is that if you only have a little bit to spend, you expect very little.


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[Assistant] If you have a moderate amount of money to spend, you expect a lot, and if you have a lot of money to spend, you probably don't care about the crap we were gonna include anyway, and you're willing to pay more for a premium, perfect option.


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[Assistant] Yes. Okay, so let's talk about then, so again, playing, playing a little bit of Devil's Advocate here, I don't think that Apple has missed the mark with their audience at all. We are talking about a six-


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[Assistant] I think they're gonna outrage people, but I don't think those were the customer for this product at all.


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[Assistant] We're talking about a $6,000 monitor once you get the anti-glare special edged glass coating. We're talking about a $6,000 machine that it hooks up to. At that point,


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[Assistant] Or just, or, or what percentage is that? Or, or we're talking, like, a 1.75% difference in cost to get a vase amount.


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[Assistant] Maybe they don't pee it, but maybe they can make that $200 back because this is a tool that they use for actual work. So I paid. How much did I pay for this?


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[Assistant] A pair is $1200. Okay. So I paid $600 for this. Let's break it down a little bit. Uh, here's a piece of machined aluminum. Here's a screw. Here's a little aluminum...


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[Assistant] Doohickey that you can twist. Uh, here's a button. Another aluminum doohickey. Uhm, here's a little adjusty doohickey with another little doodad on it. Uhm,