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[Assistant] Uhm, now Vixavius also says that ProtonMail cannot access your email and you can get around this by simply using a fake IP with a VPN or with


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[Assistant] So, I guess it comes down to that there is no such thing as just


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[Assistant] So bulletproof, but in the same way, proton male is not just a one size fits all.


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[Assistant] Is not enough to maintain your privacy. Uhm, for example, uh, if you will use Tor at your native resolution and you happen to be running a, uh, a Surface Book 2. Let me just double check what the resolution of this thing is.


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[Assistant] Uhm, yeaah, okay, this one's pretty good. Which runs at 3240 by 2160.


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[Assistant] It's a very unusual resolution. One of the things that websites can see is what the resolution of the display that you're browsing from is. So that's the reason that Tor will actually launch at a default small window size.


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[Assistant] And you're not supposed to adjust it, you're supposed to leave it like that because as soon as you start giving a website any bit of information,


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[Assistant] You can start to create, like as you, as you click through and navigate or, uh, visit frequently accessed sites, uhm, they start to look for patterns and they can start to put together a fingerprint for you that can be used to maybe not identify you the individual, you know, Jeremy Smith.


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[Assistant] But to identify you and start to build an advertising profile for you, which is usually what these online services are after, so that they can send you targeted ads.


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[Assistant] Sorry, I should clarify, Tor browser, Tor browser, excuse me, excuse me. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Oh man, jackofgamers asks, what do you think of PIA's new multi-hop option? I have not actually looked into it, but if it's what it sounds like, then it's gonna hurt latency, but improve privacy. So, hey, there you go. So, overall,


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[Assistant] This is not the end of the world. You can absolutely continue to use proton male. You just need to be aware that every time.


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[Assistant] And I mean, every time you log into ProtonMail, you should be using a VPN, and ideally, you should be making sure that you are accessing it from, uh, different VPN endpoints. So you should, you should-


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[Assistant] Mulan is like, deleted from the internet. The actress, I mean. Like just, like their new thing is if you are, if you are not, if you are not waving the flag hard enough, you simply do not exist anymore. It's a whole thing.


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[Assistant] Alright man, I love hopping into YouTube chat every once in a while. It's just, man, it manages to be so off topic. Uh, Fit Tax the Churches says fit for flogging. Jungle Cruise Part 2 is coming says Arcee. What show were you guys watching? I don't even understand.


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[Assistant] Do you want to do sponsors? Yeaah, let's get, uh, let's get those sponsors done.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's, man, we're small enough that, and everyone's kind of, you know, trusted enough that we've never really worried about people just, you know, taking their work devices home or bringing their home devices to work. Uh, we're all also reasonably tech savvy.


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[Assistant] We are getting to the point where we're not far away from needing to use services like this to make sure that all of our, uhm, yeaah, onboarding and offboarding is done in a bulletproof kind of airtight way so that people can't just start poking around at stuff.


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[Assistant] I have no idea exactly how much an asset like the Linus Tech Tips YouTube channel is worth.


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[Assistant] A fair bit, I would imagine. You know? To the point where if I was some kind of...


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[Assistant] If I was a savvy and yet stupid bad actor, you know, I, I might, I might infiltrate the organization, uh, you know, try to social engineer my way into the credentials and then take off with it, not realizing of course that I,


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[Assistant] I literally have a phone number for someone at YouTube who can get my channel back to me in minutes if something like that were to happen. You know, so they'd have to be both smart and dumb, but uhm.


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[Assistant] You know, hey, have you ever, do you guys ever watch those compilations of like, uh, convenience store burglars and stuff?


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[Assistant] Yeah, just like the weirdest, just the weirdest stuff that happens.


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[Assistant] Have you ever seen the one that's intercut with like Metal Gear Solid gameplay where, uh, she like climbs up into the air ducts and is like crawling through them and then comes falling through the ceiling?


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[Assistant] Oh no. Oh, it's the best ever. Anyway, uh, the show is also brought to you by Toxcare, as CentOS 8 End of Life approaches on December 31st.


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[Assistant] Guys, you gotta deal with it. December 31st is soon. Uh, IT teams are faced with migration challenges. That's one way of putting it.


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[Assistant] The TuftsCare team has the experience and track record when it comes to making RHEL based derivatives at an expert level since 2009.


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[Assistant] And the show is brought to you by FreshBooks. Thanks FreshBooks for sponsoring this episode of The WAN Show. FreshBooks is an invoicing and accounting solution that is built for owners and their clients. FreshBooks says that the average user saves 46 hours a month, which I believe because tedious paperwork is tedious.


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[Assistant] These are all huge pluses. Rell, really.


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[Assistant] These are all huge pluses for freelancers and small business owners who don't have time to waste on invoicing, accounting, and payment processing.


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[Assistant] I have not watched the Matrix Resurrections trailer. Oh my goodness, dude. I was saving it. I was saving it for this. So hold on a second. Here we go. Okay. I'm ready. Are you ready?


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[Assistant] Are you showing it on screen? I was going to. I guess I'm gonna, I'm gonna end up getting the, the stupid stream. That's what I'm thinking. You know what? Okay, hold on a second. I'm gonna, this is my, this is my genius, uh, anti copyright strike, uh, strategy. It's the number one on YouTube.


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[Assistant] I got this, I got this, hold on a second, I'm ready, I'm ready. Okay, I'm just gonna put, I'm just gonna take this, and I'm gonna put this right here. Okay, here we go.


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[Assistant] Hold on a second, hold on a second, right out of the gate, can I just say that this looks really fake?


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[Assistant] How does it look this fake? Like, I think Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone had better CGI. And that came out in like 2001.


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[Assistant] It looks like a render. Okay, here we go. Number one on trending. Okay, we got a cat. There's a black cat, black cat. Seems particularly triggered right now.


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[Assistant] And Morpheus is back. And you were there.


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[Assistant] In fairness, uh, you know what, I think I'm done. I think I'm done here. Uh, in fairness, in fairness, I mean, the, the, the, the Matrix sequels kind of had the Superman problem, where as soon as your superhero can do anything and anything-


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[Assistant] I mean, I was almost there anyway, I guess. Okay, so there's a bunch of action sequences, there's cool people with guns, there's big explosions. Yea, none of that matters.


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[Assistant] I mean, okay, right, so back to what I was saying, like, I, I don't, I don't personally really enjoy, uhm, superhero franchises where the super is too super. I find Superman incredibly boring, I find, uh, Captain Marvel incredibly boring for the same reason, because they're basically the same hero, uhm,


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[Assistant] I, I, I think that's a big part of why, uh, why Iron Man sort of kicked off the modern superhero obsession that we have because he was deeply flawed, like really extremely unlikable, uh, for the vast majority of that movie, uhm,


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[Assistant] And that, that's sort of, that's why he's great, cause he's actually just...


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[Assistant] Sort of, uh, like a garbage tier guy with no fighting skills, uh, and he's like a jerk and, um, like he's very, he's actually really weak without his suit of armor, whether it's a metaphorical suit or a literal suit. You can kind of get into that if you really feel like it. Uh, I don't, I don't feel like it. Um, and so Neo was inherently boring as soon as the first film was over because he's like,


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[Assistant] Too powerful. How do you keep raising the stakes? You just, you have to have, you have to have monsters that are, you know, literally the size of planets for him to fight. You know what I mean? Like it just, it's just, it's boring, right? So I guess, you know what? I've talked myself into it.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna see it. I'm gonna see it on, I'm gonna see it right at launch. I'm excited now.


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[Assistant] Reboot. I am, I'm ready. I'm ready for, I'm ready for us to just kind of do this but, but do it better because honestly speaking, 1999 The Matrix, uhm,


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[Assistant] Revolutionary at the time, pun intended, we're not actually, yeaah. Revolutionary at the time, uhm, not a great movie. You go back and rewatch it, like, knowing the twist, now that it's not really a twist anymore, and it's like, eh, it's okay.


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[Assistant] I know, I know. So, so, you know, let's, let's revisit the idea with modern sensibilities, uh, you know, Keanu's back, uh, for whatever reason a video game is canon, uh, you know, let's just, let's just let that, we'll let that happen. I'm going to be open minded. I'm, I'm ready. I'm ready. With that said, oh yeah, go ahead.


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[Assistant] Uhm, do you know about the project where, like, I think it was one guy or something tried to, like, reverse engineer the, the Matrix Online, like, servers and, like, tried to save as much of the game as possible and tried to make, like, uh,


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[Assistant] Is, is that, is that project still, still active?


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[Assistant] Uh, I'd like, I'd love to, yeah, floatplane chat was not super, super into, uh, not super into the matrix online. Okay, fair enough.


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[Assistant] I'm not anywhere near as doom and gloomy, but I think it's gonna be not good. No, the Matrix is not dead to me in the way that Star Wars is, but then again, I never saw the last one. I just didn't. Last Matrix? Yeah.


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[Assistant] I believe you. The second one was bad enough that I had absolutely no need to see the third one whatsoever.


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[Assistant] So, so maybe that saved me. Maybe that makes it so that I can, I can go into Matrix 4, like ready for it to not be bad.


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[Assistant] He like actually really can act for someone who didn't do a ton of acting work and mostly did voice acting work. He's awesome. I love Mark Hamill.


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[Assistant] Hold on a second. So you say you're a big Keanu fan. Did you actually watch the New Bill and Ted movie?


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[Assistant] Alright, I'm ready. I'm ready for the Matrix resurrections. Uhm, did you watch the Sony PlayStation showcase?


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[Assistant] I dunno, you never know though. It's possible that Rockstar is working on something behind the scenes that is gonna blow all of our minds away.


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[Assistant] You can't have it both ways, Luke. We always say, release it when it's done. So, you know what I say? You release GTA V when it's done, which by my watch is 10 years ago, so. 10 years ago.


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[Assistant] So 2013, excuse me, sorry, 8 years ago. My bad, my bad. No, I'm just teasing. I'm just teasing, Rockstar. I'm sure you guys are working on something that's amazing. Something better than, uh, this.


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[Assistant] Oh boy. So check out this press release from Facebook. That's right. Smart glasses are here that basically look the same. Oh no, there's music. Oh, awful. See you later. Smart glasses are here that basically look


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[Assistant] Like regular old fashionable frames, which is really cool if you're into wearing smart glasses and kinda terrifying if you're into not wearing smart glasses but being anywhere near someone who happens to be wearing smart glasses like


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[Assistant] Oh, say for example, a bathroom. So they start at $2.99, which is kind of crazy to me because Esler, Luxottica, and Facebook


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[Assistant] This must be, this must be that Facebook, uhm, subsidy money. You know how the Oculus Quest 2 is like, by hundreds of dollars, the best value VR headset on the market? By a country mile. Like, not even close.


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[Assistant] Well, that's the Facebook subsidy money that is making it so affordable. And Esler Luxotica is not exactly known for, uhm,


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[Assistant] Pretty much. Uhm, so if this is coming in at $299 with dual 5 megapixel cameras that can record video and photos from this first person perspective, you can bet that Facebook is subsidizing the crap out of it because they are expecting some kind of real


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[Assistant] Awesome data. Now video recording is capped at 30 seconds to


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[Assistant] Address privacy concerns, uh, but the quality is a square 1184, uh, at 30 frames per second. So that's 1184 by 1184. They have 4 gigs of storage, meaning that you could restore, you could record


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[Assistant] But mostly videos and photos are managed and stored in a separate Facebook View app. The sunglasses include a triple microphone system for audio recording, phone calls, and Facebook Assistant, which I actually did not even know they had. And there are speakers in the arms for audio playback. These are not headphones or bone conduction. They are speakers.


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[Assistant] The selling point is they're comfortable, fashionable, and lightweight, just like normal sunglasses, and make basically every other smart glasses we've seen so far look kinda bulky and stupid.


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[Assistant] That also makes it hard to tell that they are video and audio recording devices, and you might think, oh well, whatever, it's in the news, everyone's just gonna know that


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[Assistant] Facebook sunglasses are a thing and you know, if you're wearing sunglasses inside, they'll just be like, oh yeah, those are Facebook glasses. I can, I can see the lens through the thing, but you gotta understand not everybody


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[Assistant] So, what if they're not wearing them? Right? What if they throw them in a, in an upper pocket and just, you know, part of it is sticking up out of the pocket or they throw the arm over in the pocket kind of thing and it's hanging on the front of them. You, you wouldn't necessarily look that closely at that. You might not realize that you are being recorded.


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[Assistant] Uhm, they worked with a list of advocacy groups that they consulted when they were developing the glasses. Uhm, but New York Times reporter Ryan Mack noted that Facebook has actually funded at least four out of these five groups that they said they consulted. At least.


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[Assistant] The prospect of being able to record truly first person view footage is really exciting to me as a content creator. One of the times that I did it was the POV PC build. This video right here.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so right, so what's so cool about this video is that instead of having the webcam on top of my head like people would normally mount them if they had any sense,


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[Assistant] Uh, it was actually, the webcam, excuse me, GoPro, it was actually mounted to a headband and then upside down, so the camera was right in front of my eyes.


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[Assistant] And that's why compared to when people wear like a helmet mounted GoPro, it looks and feels


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[Assistant] Way more natural. Just that few inches, just that few inches, having the lens closer to where your eyes would actually be makes an enormous difference to, uhm,


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[Assistant] The consumption of, of this type of content. So, man, I could, I could see all, I could see all kinds of things being, uhm,


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[Assistant] Way more shareable, uhm, like experiences, uh, with this technology, I just...


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[Assistant] I have, I have deep concerns. Honestly, not even the video so much. Like the audio too. Just being able to, if it's got a three microphone array, I am willing to bet.


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[Assistant] Especially based on what Facebook, like the kind of R&D that they've been doing around, uh, audio for VR for example. I am willing to bet this microphone is pretty darn good for something that can be concealed on your body in a way that most average people would never notice.


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[Assistant] Glass is not a bad word, and holes is not a bad word, therefore a compound word made up of those two words, glass holes, cannot be a bad word. Fair.


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[Assistant] Float plane chat is just going on about porn. Uh, John Wick says it could be useful as a dash cam for riding a bike. Unfortunately not because it is limited to 30 second clips at a time.


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[Assistant] John says I'd be way more okay with this if literally anyone else made it besides Facebook. But should you be?


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[Assistant] Uhm, oh yeaah man, there's, there's so much.


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[Assistant] Uh, Cordy Sam says the arguments against these glasses are no different than phones. You know, you could already secretly record anyone you want with your phone. That's not true. It's, it is more difficult. Uh, and someone, someone brought this up, uh, Punit said, I've seen some disgusting stuff here.


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[Assistant] In city, I'm not gonna name a particular city, but I've seen a guy filming a girl from behind on a flight of stairs in public. Like, if people could do it without pulling out their phone...


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't, I don't like it. I don't like it.


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[Assistant] Uh, uh, good point. Uh, the mad maker says hackers can already make them. Yeah, that's fair, but they wouldn't be as, no offense, stylish and innocuous.


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[Assistant] Alright, our last big topic for the day is Riot will be enforcing TPM and Secure Boot in Valorant on Windows 11 PCs. Now you picked this as a headline topic. Tell me why you think this is that important.


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[Assistant] Interesting. So rather than consoles PC-ifying, or I mean it's been happening, but they'll reach PC-ification, and PCs will get console-ified.


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[Assistant] You know, full bore gaming on Linux, where...


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[Assistant] I would imagine it would be more difficult to enforce. I mean, I don't know, I guess, I guess Riot could technically enforce, uhm,


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[Assistant] TPM. You know what? I'm gonna be honest with you. I have never even thought about whether TPM does anything on Linux or works on Linux. TPM on Linux.


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[Assistant] Uh, in Unix and Linux, the global temperate- oh no, no.


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[Assistant] So they're saying they're good with people cheating as long as it's on Windows 10, and as long as it's only for the next four years or so, at which point maybe they can consider dropping support for Windows 10. This is clearly a-


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[Assistant] Okay, how do you, how do you detect that?


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[Assistant] Yeah, not if they're not streaming.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that has to be fixed at a design level, but outside of that, uhm,


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[Assistant] Hey, you're getting accused. You're getting accused here. Twitch Plays Dion says, Luke sure do know a lot about hacks and cheating. Sus.


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[Assistant] Wow. I'm getting wrecked down in the float plane chat. True Scott says, from Linus's last game of Supreme Commander, I'm pretty sure he isn't cheating. Okay, I was trying to host a video at the same time. Oh wait, no, that wasn't my last one. Okay. Alright, I wasn't in the right headspace. I wasn't in the right headspace. I-I-I screwed that game up pretty bad. It was pretty bad.


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[Assistant] It's more complicated than an average game, but I would make the argument that a game like Team Fortress 2 is as complicated as Supreme Commander.


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[Assistant] Balanced gaming experience because it was extremely well balanced.


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[Assistant] I wouldn't say, okay, blue sky says CSGO is really complicated. I wouldn't make the, I would say that it's a different kind of, of complicated. It's deep in the way that chess is deep. But, you know, fundamentally chess only has, you know,


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[Assistant] Whatever it works out to, six different pieces or seven different pieces and they only move in a few ways. What makes it deep is all the different ways based on what your opponent is doing that you can configure those moves. It's, it's...


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[Assistant] It's functionally infinite, right? Uhm, csgo is like that. But there's only...


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[Assistant] You don't have to sit and like, kind of memorize the rule book. Like it's a fundamentally simple game, but with unlimited depth. So I'd say it's more like, like a, like a chess.


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[Assistant] Whereas I would compare something like TF2 with all the different weapons and all the different hats and all the different maps and all the different game modes. It's closer to something like a D&D where you have to, you basically have to study for two weeks to have any hope of


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[Assistant] Now hold on a second. Hold on a second. Did tech ingredients just make a thermal paste?


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[Assistant] I need to order this. Alright, we're gonna have to, we're gonna have to do this. I'm messaging Alex right now.


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[Assistant] Okay, we're gonna review tech ingredients, thermal paste, man. We're gonna have to make sure we do it upright.


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[Assistant] I don't know. Oh! Oh shoot! Oh no, wait, there's a really important news item. Uh, where is it? Where's the link?


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[Assistant] Okay, there's a new product. Apparently the page is not up yet. I will provide the link soon. It is going to be the one and only, or rather there will be 69 of them.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but we are doing a limited edition lanyard. Okay? It is, I believe it's the one that I'm using. You guys might not have noticed, but I don't just have the regular pink lanyard.


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[Assistant] The text is actually in green thread. So it's a Lambo edition. Only 70 of them were made. The one in my pocket and 69 more. It's going up on the store. It's going to come with a limited edition, uh, sparkly Lambo sticker.


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[Assistant] The link works now. There you go. Here's where it is. Uh, sparkly Lambo sticker and a certificate of authenticity.


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[Assistant] Okay, these will be hand signed by yours truly. Uh, this is number 1 of 69. I have a whole box of them here that maybe I'll do an after party stream or something like that. I will sign them on stream so you guys will know it was actually by my hand.


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[Assistant] Uh, they are 69, 69, and you guys are probably gonna wanna move pretty fast if you wanna get one, cause that's kinda how these things roll. Should we, should we do this live, Luke? Yes.


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[Assistant] Alright. Okay. Wait. Oh, it's not under the regular lanyard skew, so I don't even have the right page open. Hold on a second. Hold on a second. Ctrl-F, Lambo. Alright, well one of them's gone already. Someone managed to get through the cart already.


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[Assistant] Uh, actually let's do some super chats, let's do some super chats. Uh, Aryan says, my budget is about 100,000.


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[Assistant] Uh, Aryan says, my budget is 100,000 INR or 1360 USD. Any laptop, 1,000 USD in the US would cost 1,300. Okay, my usage, After Effects with 300 timelines at the same time in Warzone. Uh, your best bet is gonna be like a budget gaming laptop, something like a, uh, how much is a Helios?


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[Assistant] Man, what's there, uhm, do you have any idea what Acer's budget gaming laptop is?


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[Assistant] Uh, Alex would know. You know what you really need to do is you need to... Nitro? Oh, could be the Nitro 5. Yep. Uh, it's probably the Nitro 5.


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[Assistant] Here we go. I'm gonna get you, I'm gonna get you that recommendation, bruh. Okay, I'm gonna get you that recommendation. Uh, Core i5-9300H, GTX 1650. That's quite a bit less than a thousand dollars, though. You could probably step up.


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[Assistant] Man, Lenovo Legion has some really, uh, really performant stuff in that price range.


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[Assistant] How much is the Wi-Fi 40? You're getting hand selected tech tips, okay? Man, that one starts at 1200, but it really is a lot better.


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[Assistant] Okay, well, see you later lanyards. And it's gone. And it's gone. Hey, thanks for playing everyone.


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[Assistant] Okay, our Kaiubis says, any advice for a long run HDMI 2.1 cable? Uh, okay, right, so the Wi-Fi 40 if you can afford it, something like a Nitro 5 if you don't want to go that ham. Uhm, I'd say those are, those are good starting points, and then you could find other ones kind of similar to that as well.


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[Assistant] Alright, uh, Kayubis. Long HDMI 2.0 run from a PC to a TV across the room. I'm worried that directional fiber optic cables might lose features. Uh, or something gamer specific. That is a good question.


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[Assistant] Do active optical cables support things like variable refresh rate? I would think so.


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[Assistant] All you can really do is try it. Wow, what an excellent, wonderful question that now I kind of want to find the answer to. Maybe we should do like a short or something like that.


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[Assistant] Man, I don't remember the last time I got such an, such an outstanding tech question from the audience that was just like, holy crap, that is something not only have we never made a video about, I never even thought about. Optical, cable, directional, VRR support?


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[Assistant] Cause the thing with active cables is that it's not like a passive cable where you could have an HDMI 1.4 certified cable and if it's just a short run it'll work fine at HDMI 2.0 or 2.1 speeds. This is a totally different game.


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[Assistant] Uh, Mal says, Hey Linus, there's gonna be a full review of the Odyssey Neo G9. Just got mine, it turns out HDR is totally broken. Hub have updated their review to do not buy. Really?


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[Assistant] It was working for ours, did they update something and break it?


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[Assistant] So we had some trouble, uh, with HDR when we did the sponsored video, but it was only because we had a second non-HDR display connected, and that caused some problems that as far as we can tell were the fault of Windows, not the fault of the monitor.


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[Assistant] So, I'm gonna have to definitely have a look and we'll see if that's maybe something that got broken by, uh, an update.


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[Assistant] Uh, RedWolf says, Hey, I took your advice and took my 3080 back to Micro Center. They took it back after hearing about gigabytes in difference, even though it was past the return date. Got a 3080TI FTW3 Ultra instead. Hey, thank you. Hey, no problem, RedWolf.


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[Assistant] Florian says, would you consider reviewing a VR haptic suit, like the BH haptics vest and add-ons? There's that too niche. I would love to know if and which parts are worth it.


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[Assistant] Man, it's not really our, it's not really our jam, but, uh, I mean you asked so nicely and you did send me 20 euros. I'll, I'll at least consider it. I'm putting this in the, in the list.


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[Assistant] Also known as an email to myself. VR haptic suit review.


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[Assistant] Alright, okay, wow, looks like half the super chats are just kind of questions and stuff like that. Uh, Spaceman says, Hey, thanks for telling me to switch from AT Jank to Rackmount. As a thank you, we have named our 20-bay monster Anthony, decided by Paul. Hey, nice.


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[Assistant] Uh, Pierce says wanna buy a Ferrari wheel and build a PC in it.


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[Assistant] Also, do you know anyone who needs, who just, who needs just one Ferrari wheel? Like, like, like a wheel? Like, from a car? Not like a racing wheel, like a, an actual wheel? Uhm, I don't think so, I think I'm good.


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[Assistant] Angelus000 asks, when will the LTT screwdriver be released? We are hoping we will hit this calendar year. Uh, we've solved most of the problems and we are almost ready to go...


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[Assistant] Uh, into mass production. I'm really excited. Also, how did you get connected to Hassan Piker for his, uh, build? Uh, just saw how he was building and messaged, uh, seems like a cool dude. So yeah, we're, we're gonna get working on that. I should have a writer assigned to it next week.


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[Assistant] That would solve the problem, but it would also create new problems. So you let me know if that's what you're into, administrator.


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[Assistant] Oh, well that's great. Uh, Lewis's endorsement means a lot to me. And actually-


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[Assistant] He's made three videos. So there's another one a month ago, and another one streamed yesterday with actual hands on with it.


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[Assistant] That is awesome. And iFixit gave it a 10 out of 10, uhm, for their teardown. So guys, I shot today.


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[Assistant] The video announcing that I did go ahead with my investment in framework and, uh, I'm not gonna spoil everything. It's actually a really good video. You guys should definitely watch it.


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[Assistant] Uh, but I will tell you guys one thing that comes right at the end of the video and that's really, uh, important to me and was a pivotal, pivotal part of making this decision. Uh, let me see if I can find it. Here it is.


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[Assistant] So this is from, this is from the founder, uh, and he says, and this is the exact words,


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[Assistant] So what I have committed at the end of that video is that, among other things, really, it's a great video, go watch it, uhm, what I've committed is that if they fall off this pro-consumer, pro-environment path,


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[Assistant] Uh, my mess up with them, my, my mess up, my breakup with them will be public, messy, and absolute. So...


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[Assistant] Uhm, that's my commitment to you guys, uh, so far they seem to be taking their mission extremely seriously and I'm really excited to, to have a front seat, uh, on this crazy ride.


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[Assistant] Uh, Juan Chong says, would you consider revisiting the used graphics card testing to include real industry standard lifetime conditioning? Yes.


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[Assistant] Who should I reach out to with more info? Uh, you should reach out to the publicly available email on the YouTube channel. We do, we do monitor that. I don't, but someone does.


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[Assistant] Like, getting big crowds of people together in person hasn't really been a thing for the last 18 months, so.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, we've considered it, but it's not something that is on the roadmap right now.


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[Assistant] Uh, Josh says Lewis is super stoked about the framework. You should check his new community posts. I would expect that he would be. They seem to be taking it extremely seriously.


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[Assistant] And I think that's it for the show today. Thank you so much for tuning in, guys. Uh, thank you to everyone who, uh, got themselves a Lambo edition lanyard along with the sticker and certificate of authenticity.


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[Assistant] Uhm, 69 of you placed orders and will presumably proudly rock your Lambo edition lanyard.


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[Assistant] Uh, for many years, cause these things never break, I finally, in order to switch to the pink one, I ditched my black one, but not because it was anywhere near showing any signs of giving up whatsoever. Uh, I love these lanyards, they're awesome.


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[Assistant] Okay, I think we're just gonna roll that outro and buh-bye guys! Bye!


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[Assistant] Okay, okay, okay. Uh, tons of stuff, trust me, don't worry, everything's totally, there's lots of things in the dock.


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[Assistant] No, I didn't. There's just really not a lot here. Uhm, SpaceX's Inspiration 4 puts civilians in space. Hooray!


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[Assistant] I did it. Uhm, Google's Pixel 6 tensor chip CPU layout details leak. Hopefully it results in a phone that isn't completely buggy and horrible on launch. That would be a nice change for modern pixels.


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[Assistant] Did you even mention your headphones? No. Chat is very focused on your headphones.


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[Assistant] It's battering the sliding glass doors to my right. I'm actually like stoked it's not coming through the mic.


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[Assistant] There's also like the vast majority of applications that consumers use it for are satisfied. That's another thing that happened with PCs as well. Uhm, like as much as gamers want faster computers, as much as scientists and industry want faster computers, the average consumer


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[Assistant] But he'd probably think that's cool. So we gotta make sure we stay away from that. Uhm, let's hamstring that low version. Let's make people buy the expensive one. This is good. This makes sense. Okay, well thank you very much for that. Because this will create differentiation for people.


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[Assistant] Because they'll be able to go like, oh yeah, you have an iPhone? Can you record in ProRes? No? Uuuh.


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[Assistant] I, yeah, I don't know. I could maybe understand some amount of frustration because in, in as far as the port and the jack goes, I have said this for a long time, USB-C feels like a downgrade from lightning.


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[Assistant] That's fair. That's fair. USB? Lightning? That's fair. I can understand buying all these like premium lightning compatible devices and then needing to


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[Assistant] Buy new stuff for USB-C with the experience, maybe not the performance in certain ways, but the experience is like worse, it's just like eugh.


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[Assistant] I was super stoked and very surprised when they used some of the same power cables for two generations of consoles. I was like, oh wow, thanks Nintendo, you didn't do what you used to do. Now them using standardized connectors is fantastic.


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[Assistant] Thing though, like we're comparing, uh, like especially with that comparison where they're talking about the quality of the screen, we're comparing an iPad mini to a very specified device used for reading books. Like these are not...


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[Assistant] I would just buy both as most people would. No. Wait, what? No.


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[Assistant] There's a whole story about that.


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[Assistant] Uh, which is, I'm assuming what Linus is going to address right now, so I'm gonna go keep moving forward. Uh, charging is faster, 33% faster, uh, with a new USB-C charging cable. No new processors, sensors, or enclosure.


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[Assistant] Uh, as was apparently rumored ahead of time. Uh, the price is also the same as the Series 6 at $399.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and that is across the lineup. The series 3 starts at $199. It is delayed until sometime this fall.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so, still coming. There's apparently a new swipe capable keyboard that's led to a lawsuit by an app developer whose app they just ripped off. Yikes. Yeah, this is pretty, this is pretty brutal.


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[Assistant] Apparently Apple blocked the app from the app store just before implementing this new feature.


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[Assistant] This is known as Sherlocking. Yeah, we, we had some concerns, uh, with a partner that we were.


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[Assistant] Looking into working with Floatplane about Sherlocking very, very recently, but uhm, this is known as Sherlocking, a reference to Apple's Sherlock 3 search tool in early Mac OS X, which integrated all the features of a competing app, Watson.


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[Assistant] Uh, it's worth noting that in both cases the functionality was claimed to be a natural development, uh, and this lawsuit in particular begs to differ.


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[Assistant] There's also something to be said for like, when, when, when companies bring up concerns about Sherlocking,


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[Assistant] It's especially when they're, they're talking about something that they might develop and they're talking to the platform about it. Um, a big concern comes into the.


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[Assistant] Potential very deep overall investment, especially to the point of being able to crush the company that would go into developing this app.


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[Assistant] I hate to dig on flashlight app developers from 15 years ago, but it's not exactly sophisticated. You turn the camera light on when the button's pressed, and then you turn the camera light off when the button is pressed again.


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[Assistant] A lot of Sherlocking concerns go into like really deep and heavy investment into things and then just having it be copied or stolen. Uhm, and, and.


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[Assistant] This Sherlocking term is, is used very specifically in software, but we've seen a very similar type of activity from, from, to throw another company under the bus, Amazon, with Amazon Basics.


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[Assistant] Where they'll find, they'll find very publicly, they advertise this information like, wow, this is the top selling product in this category. Isn't that fantastic? What if Amazon sold something that's almost identical and probably cheaper and gets free shipping naturally and all this kind of stuff? Ha ha ha. And then they take that top selling spot over.


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[Assistant] It's, it's very similar activity. It's the platform using its own platform to make sure that its feature wins.


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[Assistant] And it can be very predatory, but I don't think it always necessarily is. There's some basic features like flashlight that I think they were just destined to do themselves. Um, and it's better this way anyways, because I'm very happy that turning on my flashlight doesn't serve me an ad anymore. No kidding. I was stupid.


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[Assistant] I was gonna say doubt it, but okay, there's a contender. Sounds good. I don't know. I don't know. That's one of the issues with the iPad. It's like the main thing that you brought up as a competition is an e-reader. And it's like, oof.


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[Assistant] Speaking of something else to, to thank someone for, Dan, I had a way better segue earlier, but it's been too long. Sponsors?


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[Assistant] Apparently, uh, some people mentioned that your taskbar isn't hiding because of notifications.


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[Assistant] Yes. Oh wait, you're just doing it? Like this isn't even a...


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[Assistant] That's my favorite part of the picture. I know, I know the like horrible photoshopping is, is hilarious, but all these scenes that are just,


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[Assistant] Especially the hockey one. Being so unrealistic is just so funny. Where's the hockey one?


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[Assistant] By the way, did you say it was IP20? I did. So I looked up IP20. IP20 rating means the product is touch-proof and will be resistant to dust or other objects that are over 12mm in size. It's not water-resistant. Oh my god.


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[Assistant] It has no protection whatsoever against liquids and will be susceptible to damage if it comes in contact with sprays or water.


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[Assistant] Everything I can try to Google, like I have SKUs for every single one of them, uhm, but I can't find pricing based off the SKUs.


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[Assistant] Also, on-site training prior to installation with an LG field engineer.


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[Assistant] Imagine- People on Swirlplane Chat are saying that the chip on board ones are like, huge and super spaced apart.


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[Assistant] Uh, gotta be a major pricing difference, but I can't find pricing for almost any of this.


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[Assistant] It comes with three years of LG total care health checks, which means twice per year, uhm, someone will show up for on-site display health checks. Wow. That's pretty good.


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[Assistant] And you will also get priority on any RMA services. I think that's technically unrelated to the health checks, but if they noticed any problems during the health check, I'm sure it would apply.


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[Assistant] Whenever, like, okay, so there's a bit of a dichotomy, right? Because we wanted to see failure rate when we were looking at manufacturing on those tours we went on. Cool, cool, cool, whatever.


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[Assistant] But when there's brands that are like, yup, we'll send a person out twice a year and you get priority RMA as an advertising thing, mainstay in the very middle of the page, that's a concern.


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[Assistant] That, like, that seems consistent about all of these, like, module TVs. They sound like they fail like crazy, the pixels are spaced really far apart, brightness seems to be a bit of an issue, even though it's direct view, uhm, and


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[Assistant] Um, and this, this isn't a good, this isn't a good solution because there's travel involved unfortunately. But I was thinking at some of the costs, like, like Barrington just posted in the flow plane chat. Let me scroll up and see if I can find it. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Uh, yeah, uh, CNET says the third, 325 inches, $1.7 million. At that point, just anytime you want to watch something, just rent out a theater.


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[Assistant] What's my solution? You nailed it. Just a super premium, like, one theater, theater. A one theater?


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[Assistant] Like you call the building a theater, but then there's like a million theaters inside the theater. You are actually a genius. Instead of like 40 screens, you just have one.


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[Assistant] And you just make it like, amazing. And then like on the launch of the new Avengers, we're fighting all the gods this time version, the tickets are just like, baller.


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[Assistant] Like a thousand dollars. Like a thousand dollars.


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[Assistant] If you, especially if you had like kind of almost, I feel like a still sort of a form of lobby, but like a place that has tables, maybe tall tables that you stand at or something. I think it would be used for a lot of, um, like, like film pre-screenings and showings and stuff like that too.


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[Assistant] We've talked about it in the past. I do think we're capable of doing it. Uh, I don't think it's going to like shoot to the front of the queue, but it would be something we would like to do.


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[Assistant] An investment has genuinely nothing to do with altruism. An actual investment has nothing to do with altruism. What it does have to do with is belief in a product or an idea. I mean, I bought the product.


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[Assistant] I genuinely believe that this is something that the entire tech industry should strongly get behind if you want a brighter future for technology.


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[Assistant] Truly believe that. Like it's, I think this is extremely important. I think this company is extremely important. I hope it sends a trend. And I think if I, this is the point where like I keep on bringing up like I won't buy one because I'm too cheap and I'm not going to get past that line. I'm sorry. I just won't.


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[Assistant] But if I bought something that wasn't this at this point in time, I would be very disappointed in myself. And that's like a weird thing to even say, because I'm talking about buying a product. But in regards to, like Linus was saying, putting my money where my mouth is.


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[Assistant] I've been talking about wanting this type of stuff literally since the very beginning of me being into technology, and it has not really truly existed in this form. And now it does, and that's fantastic.


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[Assistant] I don't, what I was gonna say is I don't think most people are in that category. It's gonna happen. There's gonna be some out there. But I, I don't like, yeah, I don't think most people are there. That's all.


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[Assistant] Am I supposed to be that low? Oh, we're framed kinda wide. Oh, balls. I don't think it's too late for us to fix it.


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[Assistant] Man, there's a lot of hazardous tech going around. Alexa apparently tried to electrocute a child by advising them to do something spectacularly dangerous. Also,


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[Assistant] Asus has apparently recalled the Z690 Hero motherboard due to it being a fire hazard. What else we got? Is there any good news this week, Luke? Please!


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[Assistant] Yeaah. Good ol' Ryan Shroud from PC Perspective. Intel. From Intel. Alright, let's roll that intro.


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[Assistant] Yeah, hey, welcome back Anthony. I'm glad you were able to get back. Anthony was like, stuck. Cause I don't know if you guys saw that like, flights were cancelled cause like, airlines don't have enough staff. And stuff.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no, the whole, the whole travel industry has been completely screwed. Apparently Hong Kong's like crazy draconian, uhm,


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[Assistant] Quarantine rules, make it so that any pilot that like lands there like has to quarantine immediately. So like some pilots for, I think it's Cathay Pacific, are just spending basically their whole life.


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[Assistant] In quarantine, they're like bleeding pilots like crazy. Is it Cathay? I can't remember. It's one of the, uh, it's one of the like trans-pacific Asian airlines. Anyway, let's jump right into the big topic today. Hey, thanks Alexa.


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[Assistant] Uh, Amazon's voice assistant was asked for a challenge to do by a 10 year old girl. Alexa responded with


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[Assistant] Every possible, every possible personal and legal entity involved in this show does absolutely not recommend doing that.


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[Assistant] That is a very, very bad idea. At worst.


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[Assistant] You could, well no, at best, let's start with at best. At best, you could create an extremely loud noise.


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[Assistant] And, uh, an arc, well it's not even an arc, that's just conduction. So at best you could create an extremely loud noise and blow your circuit breaker. At worst you could start a house fire and you know, everyone could die in the building.


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[Assistant] I guess so. So you could burn your fingers. That would be pretty bad too. So this is currently known as the Penny Challenge. It started on TikTok and other social media. The most viewed website. Thank you, Luke. That's very helpful. No problem. Uh, roughly a year ago, Inside Edition did a report on it in January.


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[Assistant] And crazily enough, it's not even the stupidest thing that's ever been a social media trend. Uhm, I mean, have you seen- Tide pods?


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[Assistant] Anyway, uhm, Amazon quickly responded after being made aware of the issue. Customer trust is at the center of everything we do. Is it? Is it though? Is it really? And Alexa is designed to provide accurate, relevant, and helpful information to customers, said Amazon in a statement. It must not be designed very well.


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[Assistant] As soon as we became aware of this error, we took swift action to fix it. So, I mean here's the question though.


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[Assistant] Realistically, how do you, how do you thread that needle between providing, you know, up-to-date trendy information to your users and making sure that you don't advise them to do something that hasn't been vetted by some kind of like safety panel? Well, you could, yea, you could hire people.


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[Assistant] Sorry, you mean hire people to develop an AI? To make sure that it's not stupid?


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[Assistant] Now, here's something I want to know. What are the odds that, you know, left to her own devices, this kid wouldn't have come up with something worse on her own? I mean, I did some stupid stuff, like playing with fire when I was a kid.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I had a slow eater sibling and we had a rule, not only could you not watch TV until everyone was done their dinner, you actually could not leave the dinner table.


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[Assistant] Until everyone was done their dinner. So you know how I eat. I think the only person in this building who eats faster than me has gotta be David Gauthier. Have you seen that man consume food?


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[Assistant] Like he inhales food, anyway. The point is, like, I'm an efficient eater. For me, eating is not about, like,


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[Assistant] It's not about this. It's not about an experience. This is about how many calories and of the correct vitamin nutrient mix I am ingesting and depositing into my stomach. Move on to other tasks. So I can go do something else.


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[Assistant] I wish that had happened for me for years. For years I had to wait for my sister to finish her food. And I was just like, this is ridiculous. I should be able to leave.


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[Assistant] Like, I know the idea is that as a family you sit down and enjoy a meal together. I'm not enjoying this. I'm not talking to any of you because I'm sitting here stewing, I'm festering, I'm furious. I want to leave now. Anyway, uhm, yea, you don't have that rule.


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[Assistant] Okay, okay, four shrug IDK. That's not tattletaling. Okay, so, so we actually have ta-


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[Assistant] No, no, there's a line, okay? So tattling is telling on someone just to be mean. If something is legitimately dangerous, then it's not tattling, it's alerting the appropriate authorities, which is not the same thing. And if someone is actually inhaling, like, burnt duct tape fumes,


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[Assistant] Oh no, Jayden, kids in my grade 8 class crushed up rocket candies and snorted them. Okay, so for the Americans out there, those are what you know as Smarties. Yeah, so they're those little like, powdery, uh, circular candies that come in a little wrapper like this. They're called Rockets here.


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[Assistant] Uh, snot rockets apparently from, uh, at Jayden's school. Oh, yeah, yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, yeaah, I uhm, sooo, it's just a twitch chat, so like yeaah, who didn't snort smarties?


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[Assistant] Yeah, the only things you should be snorting are good old fashioned oxygen-nitrogen carbon dioxide mixtures, alright? Nice.


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[Assistant] Love it. Alright, let's, uh, jump into our next topic here. More dangerous technology! Asus has apparently recalled their ROG Z690 Hero motherboard. We actually


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[Assistant] Bad timing. Uploaded a video featuring this motherboard right around the time the recall was sort of happening. Obviously we recorded the video way before, but there are at least six reports of these motherboards allegedly, I mean it's not really allegedly at this point, Asus has actually initiated a recall, catching on fire. Six reports now. Oof.


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[Assistant] Like, how are you supposed to, how are you supposed to get the error code?


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[Assistant] It just adds a number. Oh man, I heard the best joke the other day. But I'm gonna tell it to you later. Oh. So just remind me to tell you a joke.


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[Assistant] Okay. On show or? On show, on show. So Reddit user, the maxxhd posted 13 days ago about how they had a board fail. They bought a new one, rebuilt the system with a new power supply as well, only for that board to fail too. So users either get code 53 indicating a memory issue


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[Assistant] Or the unlucky ones, uh, the board melts or catches on fire. Buildzoid from Actually Hardware Overclocking thinks it's a capacitor being installed backwards.


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[Assistant] So this could be due to bad quality control at the factory, or using multiple sources for capacitors, so they look slightly different. But, if you bought an RG Maximus Z690 here, you can check the serial number at ASUS's support page.


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[Assistant] Uhm, our discussion question for this one, from Nicolas Plouffe is, I actually don't even know if this past year or two was even so bad, I'd say.


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[Assistant] I'd say we've seen like a ton of, of motherboard failures over the years. The problem for us though is that we never have a significant enough sample size to say, okay, uh, actually I shouldn't say that.


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[Assistant] There have been some dud motherboards over the years, and actually the worst one that I'm aware of that ever existed was another one from Asus.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well that's uh, we've got a video coming about that quite soon actually, where we, we try to figure out what is the best used CPU to buy. And, you know-


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[Assistant] Exactly, because that's, that's enormous, right? Because you, you might be tempted to go buy the $20 overclockable Xeon on eBay.


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[Assistant] But you might not realize, oh shoot, I'm gonna need $60 ram to get this going, and an $80 motherboard, and meanwhile I could have just spent


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[Assistant] And then I could buy a brand new board that doesn't have, you know, a ton of years on it already. I could buy DDR4 memory instead of like old DDR3 memory that for whatever reason is as expensive, if not more so. And I'm getting way better performance. And so it ends up having a ton of really cool lessons in it. So one is how to bargain shop, right? So not just looking at components in isolation.


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[Assistant] And then the other cool lesson that we accidentally drove home was that Alex, uh, overclocked all the platforms because by his logic, if you're trying to squeeze the absolute most out of an aging platform, you should absolutely be overclocking it. So he ended up with, I think it was like three or four different CPUs that all happened to cap out around four gigahertz.


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[Assistant] We did a video recently talking about how gigahertz doesn't matter, and in the video, this is so, uh, so, it's so hard to have these conversations, in the video, I'm, at one point I say, so gigahertz does matter, and I go on to explain how assuming identical architectures


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[Assistant] That is still a useful way that you can differentiate between one chip and another one. And the comment section is full of people being like, yeah, she even admits it. Gigahertz does matter. I'm gonna continue to shop with gigahertz.


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[Assistant] And anyway, uhm, as part of, as part of working on this video, we ended up sort of accidentally proving once again that gigahertz is not a particularly meaningful measure of a CPU's performance, it is only an indicator that we can look at alongside many other indicators. That is, that is the only


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[Assistant] That is the only way that it is, is as useful. That's cool.


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[Assistant] That sounds like a good video. Uhm. Mike says, LTT profit hat. Like the new era sports ones I wants. Also for cyber security show, idea from last week, Linus sec tips.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we're just getting some, getting some merch messages incoming. I unfortunately do not have a, I do not have any products to launch this week. We have


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[Assistant] Actually, I'm gonna let you guess. I'm gonna let you guess. How many containers of products do you think we have sitting in the port waiting to be unloaded? Three. Higher.


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[Assistant] Frustrated. There are many products that we are supposed to be launching or restocking that we are not launching and not restocking. I'm going to check my email from Nick that has my weekly sadness report. Because the stuff never comes. So here's everything that is just sitting in a container. WAN pants.


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[Assistant] Nice. Blank pants, so we're gonna start doing some like, printed design pants. Okay. Uhm, blank t-shirts, Extreme Edition pillows, AMD Edition pillows, including Threadripper pillows. Cool. Our Swack-It restock, our Wann hoodie restock, and our cable ties.


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[Assistant] All of that is supposed to be coming, like, like imminently. So, you know, January is gonna be a busy month. It's gonna be a busy month. It's gonna be good stuff.


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[Assistant] Look guys, I know. Oh, oh shoot. I was supposed to talk to Kyle about the screwdriver. Okay. Luke can handle this next topic on his own. I was reminded by true serang. Uh, I'm, I'm supposed to look at the ratchet. Maybe I'll bring it down. I'll bring it down. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. All right. If Kyle's still here, I'll bring it down. We'll talk about it.


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[Assistant] I saw this TikTok, it was like how, how girls pick up clothes, and she was all like, okay, here's how, here's how sexy girls do it, and she's like that, that.


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[Assistant] It entertained me for about nine seconds, that was good. I have to admit I haven't really looked at it since then though.


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[Assistant] So I had no idea that she was a TikToker at all, because I don't know TikTok, but she's local. Her name's called me Chris. Well her name's Chris, but her handle is called me Chris. And so as part of like,


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[Assistant] I, I, I think I should vet people that we collab with from now on. Uhm, so I was like, hey, what's she like? She's hilarious. Uh, she's like,


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[Assistant] Local, we're gonna do a video with her probably sometime January, February. She's had a lot of the same problems as me.


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[Assistant] Uhm, that's what's delayed the collab, cause just construction and permit nightmare.


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[Assistant] Uhm, she's like moving into a new place or something, so.


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[Assistant] Yeah, where we want to set up her new place with like this ultimate gamer space. Nice. So you can get more into streaming and stuff like that. Cool. And so we, we like announced it two or three months ago and people were like, hey.


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[Assistant] Are you guys ever going to do that collab? Yes. Yes. So we've, we've, yeah, we've only like had one call talking about it and then, um, some of the guys on my team have kind of worked on sort of laying out the space and


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[Assistant] And, uh, you know, what it's going to look like, but because it's not finished, we can't, can't do it. So we're definitely still working with her. She's amazing.


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[Assistant] So, so there you go. That's one worthwhile thing to watch on TikTok, or you can do what I did and just go on her YouTube channel and just watch the compilations. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Microsoft? Sorry, wait, what? Does that include, like, Microsoft Live Services? Like, like Xbox? Like, Microsoft? I mean, is Hotmail still a thing? Yes. I mean, I know.


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[Assistant] Then YouTube. Why do people- Okay, so here's something that confuses me a little bit. Why do people need to go to Apple's website? Yeah, I don't know.


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[Assistant] Like the kind of interaction you're going to do on Facebook should not count the same as visiting the app store and like downloading an app. That's not...


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[Assistant] So basically, it's really not that meaningful then. No. Alright.


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[Assistant] John asks, when will the next Scrapyard Wars happen? Honestly, I think Scrapyard Wars is retired. I think it's old yellard, I think it's, I think, I think it has not only, uh, stayed its full welcome, I think it overstayed its welcome, I think the last series was...


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[Assistant] I think the last couple were honestly not up to the standard. And there's so many problems with continuing to do it. I mean, problem number one is that we're kinda scraping the bottom of the barrel for ideas to continue to put a new spin on it. Problem number two is that the used market is just ruined. It's destroyed.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that actually makes sense. What card was that? It was a 290. How much is a 2- holy crap. I'm doing it. How much is an R9 290 on eBay? I'm afraid. Holy crap.


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[Assistant] Hold on, hold on, hold on, we gotta check if they've actually sold. We gotta check if they actually sold, Luke, because the first, the first Scrapyard Wars, we had a $300 Canadian, Canadian budget.


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[Assistant] We built an entire gaming machine. Each of us.


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[Assistant] For $300. And you had a better GPU, right? You had the R9 290 and I had something lesser, but I had like a better CPU, right?


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[Assistant] It was terrible. Yea, right, right. I remember you saying, like, mine was, like, you wouldn't even consider daily driving yours, whereas mine was, like, probably actually reliable. It was a solid computer, yea. But yours just, like, absolutely creamed mine in terms of performance. Holy crap. This is a parts card for $93. For parts, Luke.


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[Assistant] That's insane. That is frickin' insane. The first episode of Scrapyard Wars was in 20- what year was it? 2015?


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[Assistant] So that's problem number two with Scrapyard Wars. Uhm, we basically can't get a better deal today than we could get-


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[Assistant] Because everyone, everyone is so, like, attuned to the value of used hardware now that there's no such thing as getting a deal. No. Right? Yeah, that's the other thing.


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[Assistant] And then problem number three is that both Luke and I are so recognizable anywhere where computer hardware is involved that going incognito is basically impossible. I remember during the one with, uh, with Jay.


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[Assistant] And, uh, oh, who else participated in that one? Dimitri. And Dimitri, that's right. The one with Jay and Dimitri, uhm,


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[Assistant] I was just, I was walking down the street in like a hat and sunglasses and wearing uncharacteristic clothing. I was wearing shorts, like I was trying to kind of go incognito. And someone just barely even looking, just out of the corner of the ride like, hey, stop lying to us. I'm sitting here going, why do I even bother?


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[Assistant] What is even the point of anything? Cause I can't, I can't maintain a low profile anymore. And this isn't just like, oh, humblebrag line is, oh, too famous. Cause it's not even like that. If I go to a Home Depot, the odds of anyone knowing who I am is pretty low.


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[Assistant] Whereas if I show up at, you know, a Best Buy, the odds of someone knowing who I am is pretty high. It's just a matter of like...


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[Assistant] Uhm, it's become basically impossible for me to not do it because even if I don't ask people, even people who know scrapyard wars, they'll be like, hey, no, you're not allowed to do this.


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[Assistant] We only had to do the tower that, that time. We didn't have to do peripherals. But like, case, power supply, CPU, memory, mother, like.


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[Assistant] Nowadays, people are desperate for anything they can game on. Intel has to be the savior.


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[Assistant] That's what we need because we need volume. We don't need more like RTX 3090s. What we need is a whole bunch of like 3050 class cards. We need an absolute flood of them so people have something.


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[Assistant] Unfortunately, it's also running an ultra-wide that's 3840x1600.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I figured out that problem after. Cause I was, I mean, we'd already been waiting around for game patches and everyone getting into Discord. So I just wanted to get, get going.


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[Assistant] So I just kind of cranked down the details, I was like, I'll look at this later, but I didn't realize her panel was so high resolution, she's only running an RTX 2080. And I know, I know, I know, whoa, whoa, whoa, okay, hold on everyone, I know, only RTX 2080 in a pretty privileged position here, but that game is flippin' demanding.


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[Assistant] Uh, we've got a couple, a couple other merch messages here. Ooh, where'd the curated ones go? Whoopsie daisies. Uh, Matt M, long time listener, first time caller, finishing up his and hers gaming setups. Uh, any plan on doing a review on your setups video soon? I like your funny words, Magic Man.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know what's really funny is I've been extremely resistant to doing those videos. Jake has basically grabbed my arm, wrenched it behind my back both times to convince me to do that. I just, it feels like cheap unnecessary filler content, but people love it.


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[Assistant] It doesn't have to be high brow, but I like to do something new. Sure. I don't like to retread old territory, but it gets hard when you've done like 4,000 videos. Or more. I think it's more than that, yea.


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[Assistant] In a video? On NCIX Tech Tips. I mean, I'm basically a walking, breathing Simpsons today.


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[Assistant] I mean, even when we try to like, do it better, okay? So here's, here's a classic example of do the same thing, but do it better, okay? Check this out. Triple projector.


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[Assistant] Uh, triple projector, Linus, something, okay. So ten years ago, I did this on Linus Tech Tips. We had, we had,


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[Assistant] GTX 590. Triple 3D vision projectors. We actually did a whole event. People could come in and they could try the setup. And what was crazy about it was it was only about 2 megapixels because they were 720p, but because


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[Assistant] Uhm, you, you would sit so far back from it. It was actually, and because it was more about the, the 3D depth.


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[Assistant] It didn't look that bad. It was, it was pretty cool. Uh, so it was like a super ultra surround wide vision, uh, you know, 3D vision stereoscopic gaming setup. So I go and I try to kind of recreate that magic.


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[Assistant] 12k, we do, we do it bigger and better than ever. This is, this is like many times the resolution. We put it on the side of a building, okay? We're gaming on the side of a building, Luke. No one cared about that.


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[Assistant] Is it a title problem? Ah, could be. It's also a format problem. We ended up, so we talk about the original one here a little bit. We also kind of, we dork around for too much talking about quadros and stitching together the image. Uh, this is something that we, this is a mistake we wouldn't make today. We would jump right into the- Yea, you gotta put the juice in there.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's gotta go right there. But I always had this kind of, uhm,


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[Assistant] I've always had this kind of storytelling snobbery about me, where I like to...


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[Assistant] I like to assume I have a captive audience. I like to assume that the viewer that starts the video is going to finish the video, and that I can kind of...


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[Assistant] And what I, what I've realized, you know, talking to super smart people like, uh, like Jimmy, MrBeast, uhm, some of the other folks in this Discord that I'm in, uhm,


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[Assistant] Is you just gotta, you just gotta leave that at, check that attitude at the door. You can't do it. That's just not the way that modern content works. You gotta get right into it. So our current video Bible, uhm, stipulates that


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[Assistant] Unless you are addressing the title and thumbnail within the first 10 to 20 seconds of the video, you do not have a video. And you need to go back and you need to retool your intro so that you are addressing the title and thumbnail within 10 seconds.


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[Assistant] Uh, I got a couple more merge messages here. Uh, Mason asks, what does LTT have in store for 2022? I'm a long time viewer, excited to see what you guys have in store. LTX 2022. We want to do LTX 2022. Honestly Omicron is making it look...


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[Assistant] Less likely than we thought it was even a month ago. We were basically gearing up. I mean, I've seen chase working on floor plans. Like we've got, we have a title sponsor. Like we want to do it, but if we can't do it safely, I mean, look at what happened to CES literally days.


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[Assistant] Days from CES, you've got Intel pulling out, you've got major car brands pulling out, everyone's pulling out.


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[Assistant] In, with the world and the state that it's in. And it's not even just like, I mean, maybe you, maybe you subscribe to the theory that it's basically a cold and you're not worried about catching it. Sure, fine, but then you've got all those regu- all the regulations to deal with, like you can.


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[Assistant] You can't go attend a show or an event and then have to quarantine for two weeks. And there's places that are down to just five days now if you're fully vaxxed. But there's also parts of the world where you are still having to quarantine for multiple weeks.


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[Assistant] And sometimes at your cost. Actually, I think it's often at your cost. So, it's...


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[Assistant] I don't know what to tell you guys. As for what we have in store, I think the biggest change that you're gonna see in 2022 is that, man, do we ever have some primo applications for the labs.


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[Assistant] When I came out, threw down the gauntlet and was like, think I can't afford you, try me.


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[Assistant] We got some people trying me. We got some literal frickin' like chip scientists and frickin' like, like rocket scientists and stuff applying. And to be clear, I'm super into it.


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[Assistant] We've got some like old school traditional written tech media guys that made their way over to the manufacturing side and won out because I know they do. I bet most of them do. But it's just, there was no money in written. And if you didn't figure out how to transition to video, it was really challenging.


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[Assistant] Probably one of the smartest guys in the industry is Steve from Gamers Nexus because there is almost


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[Assistant] There is no one else. There is nobody else who manages to do both written and video content the way that he does. No one. We have not managed to make any inroads into written though. That is something that we will be targeting and no one from the written side.


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[Assistant] Managed to really hit it big in video. No one.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so yeaah, Matt, just like massive, massive, massive respect for, for what he's done. So the lab is really gonna drive a ton of the content in 2022, if all goes according to plan. It's gonna take a long time to set up, but we are definitely making progress on that already.


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[Assistant] Uhm, Zachary in a merch message asks, have you considered doing a video where you guys see what happens when you order PCs and other tech as LMG versus as a random person?


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[Assistant] Oh, I think it's not what you're thinking. Okay. Cause I haven't really, I haven't really hinted at it yet. Okay. Uhm, but I'm planning a video. You can expect this in 2022 as well. I'm planning a video where we are going to secret shop our sponsors.


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[Assistant] And if they fail, this like rubric that we're going to create, we are going to yeet them in public.


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[Assistant] So some of the, some of the metrics are gonna be things that we've dropped sponsors for in the past. Things like it being difficult to cancel the service or, uh, like whatever else. Like we're basically gonna create this, uh, this, this sponsor standard sheet and if they don't manage to


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[Assistant] If they don't manage to meet it, then we're just gonna be like, okay, and so this might be a multi-, a multi-video series because we can't.


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[Assistant] We have so many sponsors now, again with the humblebrags. But we have so many sponsors we couldn't like feasibly test all of them in a single video. So I think we're gonna do, we're gonna do probably like three to five.


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[Assistant] Hold up to our standards for what the customer experience should be, or you're gone.


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[Assistant] 100%. So that's something I'm, I'm really excited, I'm really excited for.


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[Assistant] We've had some sponsors that we've worked with that we've seen some, some bad reports, but then we've also seen a lot of good reports. So it's just, it's just gonna come down to what our experience is. And I think that it could be one of those things where we don't have to drop them forever.


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[Assistant] Uh, we should probably do our speaking of sponsors. We should pro-probably talk about our sponsors for the show. The show is brought to you by, ba ba ba ba ba ba, Squarespace.


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[Assistant] Man, they are, I think they're our longest running active sponsor, no, no, probably Intel.


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[Assistant] Uh, Squarespace! If you need a website and you don't have the know-how, Squarespace makes it flippin' easy. They've got a wide selection of award-winning templates. They're all optimized for mobile, so they'll look great on any device.


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[Assistant] You can create members-only content for extra revenue using Squarespace's member areas. And you can grow and engage your audience with their powerful and easy-to-use email campaign system.


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[Assistant] If you ever need additional help, Squarespace offers webinars, a full series of help guides, or you can contact their 24-7 customer support via live chat and email. So get started and head to squarespace.com forward slash LTT to get 10% off your first purchase.


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[Assistant] The show is also brought to you by Build Redux. Build Redux creates PCs for gamers.


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[Assistant] No way. That's right, PC's for gamers who want to win and want high framerates without breaking the bank.


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[Assistant] Through Build Redux's website, you can easily configure your PC and see


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[Assistant] How well optimized it is for gaming performance. They want to create the best gaming PC for any budget without cutting corners on quality and it's backed by a two year parts and labor warranty so you're covered there. So start your build today at buildredux.com slash Linus or at the link down below.


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[Assistant] It's also brought to you by Ridge Wallet. Thank you Ridge Wallet for sponsoring today's WAN Show. You can stop carrying around pointless items like


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[Assistant] It uses two metal plates that are bound by a strong elastic band to keep your card tightly together, but still accessible card. I mean cards, it does hold more than one card. And it's RFID blocking with a lifetime guarantee. They're available in aluminum, carbon fiber, and titanium, and they don't just sell wallets, it's got lots of other stuff.


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[Assistant] Uh, battery bank, smartphone covers, and more. And you can use offer code WAN to save 10% on everything at ridge.com slash WAN.


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[Assistant] Alright, do we have any other topics that we wanted to hit today?


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[Assistant] That makes no sense because it costs more. The solution costs more than the problem. Like if you just flipped your DDR4 memory on, well okay, DDR5 is sort of being scalped right now, but under normal circumstances.


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[Assistant] If you just flipped your DDR4 on eBay and turned around and bought some DDR5, you're probably gonna be out less than what you would spend on this over-engineered monstrosity. Which just looks like it's gonna break. But I, I think it's, I think it's, you gotta admire Asus's ingenuity. Oh yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, why worry about whether you, whether you should, when you can just focus on whether you can.


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[Assistant] They had to create a special BIOS that allows the ROG Apex to run in DDR4 mode, then the carrier card addresses the differences in architecture.


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[Assistant] Oh my gosh. Yeah, this is really, really brutal. Okay, what else we got here? Uh, ooh, this is fun.


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[Assistant] We got the one, the only Mr. Shroud over on Twitter.


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[Assistant] Perks of the job was gonna save this demo for CES. LOL! See ya later CES! Why not share it with everyone right now? 12th Gen Core i9-12900K with a Samsung PM1743 PCIe Gen 5 SSD. Over 13GB a second ladies and gentlemen.


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[Assistant] Hold on, that's seven gigabytes a second, that can't be right. Where's the...


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[Assistant] That's crazy. I mean, not that for consumer workloads, this matters at all. Check the second tweet. Check the second tweet. It's pretty cool though. Hey, hey, Shroud. It always happens. Hey, Shroud, you want to lend us one? By any chance? Or two? Yeah. Yeah!


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[Assistant] Oh, hold on a second, why don't we show both of the gen 5 drives running at the same time? That's why I said or two, man.


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[Assistant] That's crazy. Yep. This is on a consumer CPU. This shouldn't be possible. This is like a third. That's a third of what we were able to do on the stupid badger den. That's insane.


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[Assistant] Well yeaah, I mean, if you're Ryan Schrout, you would just have good stuff in your bench, wouldn't you? That's probably true. I mean, guy's an actual gamer, so like, you know. He's a pretty cool dude. Holy schnikes! Alright, well, uhm, cool, yeaah, I definitely want one.


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[Assistant] Wait, what is this? Okay. This has gotta be a meme format that I'm not familiar with. One of our new writers.


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[Assistant] Okay, well this is, I'm at the gaming mouse, I'm at the SSD, I'm at the combination gaming mouse and SSD.


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[Assistant] Wow. It's actually genius. Because if you're on your gaming library, in the palm of your hand.


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[Assistant] If you don't mind running a wired mouse.


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[Assistant] Then basically your laptop, so I ran into this recently, so uhm, my, my daily driver is my framework.


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[Assistant] But what I use for travel more recently, I mean I guess I'm not traveling anymore anywhere, but what I like to use for travel is the Asus ROG Flow X13 because it's way more gaming capable. It's got like a 1650, whatever it is.


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[Assistant] Integrated. Oh man, I probably put like 30 hours into Anno on the trip to Tel Aviv.


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[Assistant] That makes sense. Yeah, I played a freaking ton of Anno. Yeah, so anyway, uhm.


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[Assistant] I switched over to the ROG Flow X13 because it's gaming capable without even the external GPU, and I have the external GPU, so I got like frickin'.


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[Assistant] That's cool. It's awesome. But what sucks is the Flow X13 only accepts a 40mm or 30mm, whatever the shortest one is, uh, SSD.


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[Assistant] So, while I would love to put a decent sized game library in the thing, on like, you know, one of those 8 terabyte sabrent drives or something like that, I actually can't install it. And I, I tried. I tried to get like a ribbon, and


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[Assistant] Yeah, if someone, and if someone needs a file off your thing, like sure, whatever, you just plug in your mouse, and then you like, got your mouse, and you're like, hey, okay, copy, okay, map, see you later.


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[Assistant] It's a mouse USB drive! I think it's sweet. I love it! That's a combination that I can get behind.


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[Assistant] Yea dog. Alright, in other news, goodbye note, hello Galaxy S22 Ultra. Looks like there's been some pretty big leaks, and it's got a pen, so we won't need notes anymore. It's got some big camera bumpage. Alright.


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[Assistant] The S22 Ultra is supposed to have a 5,000 mAh battery that is powering a smaller screen.


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[Assistant] It is going to have notably better battery life. Also, uh, in terms of performance, I would expect to get better out of the S22 Ultra. That upcoming Exynos with RDNA2 graphics, looking pretty interesting.


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[Assistant] It's been out for a bit. Sure, sure, yeah. It's not full of the Z fold 4 or whatever. Sure. Uhm, I do miss my pen.


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[Assistant] I miss my pen sometimes. I was, I was trying to, what was I trying to do recently? I was taking pictures. I took pictures of a room at the new place and what I wanted to do, what I would, what I used to do on my note is I would take a picture of the room and then I would grab the pen and I would draw all the dimensions on it.


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[Assistant] Once a freaking year, I might do something like that. Doesn't come up that often.


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[Assistant] But boy, when I wanna do that, is it ever nice to have the pen? Uhm, and so, so yeaah, I, I do miss, I miss the notes sometimes, and I talked about this in my video on the Oppo, uhm, the Oppo Find N.


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[Assistant] I probably, 80 plus percent of my time, I'm using the front display on this thing. So I was, I was using my note, my old note 9, which I still have kicking around, to put on some music for the girls to listen to while they were trying to fall asleep.


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[Assistant] Uh, they have their little bluetooth speakers they put in their bed and they'll listen to music or whatever. And I was, I was holding it and I was like, oh.


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[Assistant] So, I don't know, I might, I might go back to a candy bar, but for now, for now I'm foldin', I'm a foldin' boy. Would you get a giant phone?


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[Assistant] The Xperia Compact, yea. They still have some really nice stuff that's actually quite handleable. I know, I know, the camera's pretty decent.


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[Assistant] They still don't let you switch your, uh, your multitasking and back button though. Honestly, that's one of the biggest deal breakers for me. It's just, it's so arbitrary. Just allow me to do it. It's like, it's like Apple level arbitrary. It's like, oh, you want to rearrange your icons where you want to? Well, no.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm, I'm the same as you. For me, a notification is not urgent, and a phone call is urgent. Because everyone who has my phone number knows that if it's urgent, you call, and if it's not urgent, you do not call. Because I'm probably on set.


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[Assistant] That's actually the answer. Either that or I need the GS number so that I can reach you.


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[Assistant] Bloody hell, I need to get her plenty times number. And then I just, I get in touch with you, and usually I'm trying to get in touch with you because it's either something fun or something urgent, so I get distracted by the fun or urgent thing, and then I completely forget to get her number, and I'm like, ah, stop! Until the next time, like,


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[Assistant] Yeah, because nobody has landlines anymore, so just something that like...


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[Assistant] Flashes, when your phone is ringing or something like that, would be amazing. People are like, it's basically a pager. Yea, yea, pretty much. Yea. But like, an internet connected pager, like it's...


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[Assistant] Cause I wouldn't want to actually have a separate sim for it. Like I wouldn't want it to have a phone service. I would just want there to be a companion app.


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[Assistant] That basically just monitors for incoming notifications and then pushes to this, this thing so that I can, and if you just throw Bluetooth on it so that it also acts as a Bluetooth speaker, like that was a thing for a bit where people would get like Bluetooth.


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[Assistant] I've got a lot of people saying like, hey, it's a smartwatch, or it's an Echo, or it's this, or it's that. It's like, no, no, no, no. It's simple. It doesn't do all that other stuff. That's like, kind of the point of it.


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[Assistant] Yep. And it just, it just tells me when I'm being summoned. Yeah. Uhm, we should do a few more merch messages here.


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[Assistant] Alright, uh, Joshua says, uh, happy new years, how's Lucky doing? Lucky's doing good, Lucky's in the warehouse.


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[Assistant] Are we gonna talk about color e-ink, or is that too niche? Honestly, it's niche until a mainstream device gets it.


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[Assistant] Like that's what I'm really waiting for. Like when Amazon finally does a color your kindle or something like that, and you can like really enjoy manga or full color comic strips and stuff like that, uh, that's when I think it's gonna really take off.


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[Assistant] But right now, the quality is not great the last time I looked into it, and the cost is still high and there's nothing really mainstream, so.


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[Assistant] Christian says, when is Anthony getting his Linux channel? Uhm, I don't know. I don't know if a Linux channel is a priority for 2022. It's a matter of time before we do something more Linux or FOS focused, but I don't think 2022 is the year.


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[Assistant] Thomas B says, there should be a way to pay for a merch message without buying something. I don't need more LTT gear. Maybe a way to donate to charity and get the message so we get something. Well, okay, the point is that you just shouldn't send one if you don't need anything. Thomas picked up a banana for scale. Thanks anyways, Thomas. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Uh, Paras says, is this how you do merch messages? Yes.


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[Assistant] Paras also said other stuff. If so, are you hiring engineers? I'd love to be part of making epic products, uhm, made like the old school good quality kind. I had a really great conversation with one of, uh, one of our guys, uh, just about like how cool it is to be given the time to research like magnets, like how much time he's had to spend on researching magnets. He's like, yeah.


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[Assistant] We are gonna have, for this upcoming product that I'm really excited about, we are gonna have a pretty good price advantage because instead of just brute forcing the neodymium content, instead of just like adding more in order to get the attraction force we want,


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[Assistant] We've spent like weeks simulating and then doing real world measurements to validate our simulations and like finding the exact optimal like.


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[Assistant] Um, Paras, uh, we always have our job listings up on LinusMediaGroup.com. A Squarespace site, by the way. Hey, thanks again, Squarespace, for sponsoring the show. Matthew S. says, any thoughts on Web 3.0? I'm gonna confess, I have no idea what Web 3.0 is, and frankly, I don't care.


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[Assistant] Web 2.0 was a complete nothing burger and Web 3.0 will probably be a nothing burger. It's just, it's branding, it's marketing. It's not, there is no clear transition between Web 1.0 and 2.0 and 3.0. It's all, it's all evolving over time.


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[Assistant] I, I disagree. I disagree. I will not refer to it as Web 3.0.