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[Assistant] But yes, there was some super toxic stuff. Like here's someone replying to a doubter, it's not only boot time, the entire system is faster. That was a big perception. A huge one. Was that SSDs only improved boot time.


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[Assistant] No, that was actually not the benefit. That was one of the big points of that video was that this is not really


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[Assistant] The benefit. I mean, the Windows operating system itself is actually not


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[Assistant] When you're, when you're booting it up, especially back then, like Windows XP, Windows Vista, they weren't huge. They didn't actually take a long time to boot, and Windows, or Microsoft rather, is really good at taking all of the OS files, putting them in one place, so that when you boot up, you are reading it all sequentially. Now it shouldn't matter anymore.


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[Assistant] And once Microsoft can design an operating system around that not mattering,


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[Assistant] Maybe they would take a different approach. Maybe they might not write it all sequentially. Not that you can write sequentially to an SSD anyway. The controller will just...


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[Assistant] Alright, what do we want to talk about next? Should I, should I, should I address the controversy?


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[Assistant] I don't know what it is, okay? Is it bad luck? Is it my complete inability to do any kind of due diligence? But I have managed


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[Assistant] To go, what, what am I, like 4 for 4? Choosing extremely polarizing figures to do collab builds for? We got 2mad, we got PewDiePie, we got Hasanabi,


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[Assistant] And then we got Dream. Am I, am I missing any controversial figures?


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[Assistant] Someone adjusted this chair so it doesn't go back because they're a monster.


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[Assistant] No, if you have to check if it goes back, then it's clearly not a problem for it to go back.


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[Assistant] It totally can. You're very smart.


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[Assistant] Of one particular dream controversy before we agreed to do a build, I knew there was- I think the whole internet was aware of it. A Minecraft speedrun record.


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[Assistant] The, uhm, the mod status, I guess, it was like a mod that changes the...


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[Assistant] Uh, the random, the RNG so that, okay, okay, I thought there were two things was what I thought. I don't actually know what it ultimately was because I don't really care about Minecraft speedrunning. Uhm, but my understanding was that there was like a perfect seed for the, there's like an ideal seed for the world that makes it easier.


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[Assistant] And then there was also some kind of mod that increased the likelihood of certain resources coming up and both of which would obviously be


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[Assistant] Fairly beneficial for a speedrun.


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[Assistant] Sure, then my understanding is he denied it and people were super mad.


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[Assistant] And then ultimately he came clean at some point. That was all I knew.


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[Assistant] As soon as we started teasing the dream build, by which time we had already like, acquired hardware. We were not gonna...


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[Assistant] We were not gonna not build it at that point. Uh, people, people pointed out their, their personal issues with us collaborating with Dream and took, uh, and felt that he was not a


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[Assistant] Uh, a figure that we would want to be associated with. So we can, we can find some of these MUCH


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[Assistant] Larger threads on Reddit than I would have anticipated. This is actually not the biggest one, I don't think.


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[Assistant] Why is this thread locked? Okay, I gotta talk to, I gotta talk to the moderators over on the subreddit. We don't actually run the subreddit. Uhm, one of our, one of our principles is that we don't, uhm,


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[Assistant] Like we don't lock criticism of me or of LTT. Like if it turns into, into personal attacks or anything like that, then... Is the criticism on there about Dream though?


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[Assistant] Pretty like, uh, objective? Oh, okay, nevermind, there's a reason given. Locking because y'all can't behave. Okay, alright, fair enough.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, that's fair enough. Okay, so this was what ultimately spurred me to talk about it on the WAN show because-


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[Assistant] Got it, okay. Cause I didn't, uh, I actually wasn't intending to address this on the WAN show at all, because from my point of view, yeaah, it had more dislikes than a typical LTT video.


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[Assistant] But it actually wasn't that far off of, in fact, I think it had a, I think it has a better like dislike ratio than the 2 mad collab.


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[Assistant] Like it wasn't even, it wasn't even that, that crazy brutal or anything like that in terms of the like dislike ratio. Here, let's go find the 2mad1. I'll show you guys my, I'll show you guys my dashboard here. Let's check out my dashboard.


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[Assistant] Uhm, like this ultimately generated net new subscribers, uh, which is, which is, which is good.


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[Assistant] In terms of engagement, it generate- oh, wow. WHOA!


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[Assistant] This one started out so bad in terms of like-dislike ratio.


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[Assistant] And then became almost channel average. That is crazy.


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[Assistant] Okay, this is so annoying. It used to be that you could just take a little bar down here and you could just drag a thing and you could select a new time period so you could go look back at like the first week of it really easily.


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[Assistant] Now, YouTube in their infinite wisdom has you key in values instead because that's definitely faster. Thank you for this new, much better dashboard YouTube that I love so much. This is really fast. Cool. Appreciate you. Okay, wow. Really wasn't as bad as I remembered. Maybe I'm just looking at the wrong date range. Man.


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[Assistant] Either that or my memory is just absolute trash and everything that I- Oh my, okay.


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[Assistant] This drives me crazy. You guys saw what I did there. I typed a 1 when I had my cursor in the middle of the thing. Okay? What did I do? I can't remember what I did. The point is, that was, that was stupid.


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[Assistant] 2020k. I hate this interface so much. It makes me not want to look at my stats. It's such a pain in the butt. You click on it and you gotta go, okay, 09, uh, and then,


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[Assistant] That was only 90, that was 95%. That's actually, that's actually not that bad. Okay, so that apparently was not nearly as bad as the dream machine. Let's bring up the dream machine.


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[Assistant] Okay, so here it is guys, uh, net 500 subscribers.


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[Assistant] It's, it's a, it's an interesting thing to see people speculate about.


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[Assistant] How many people are gonna unsubscribe because they did this or whatever else? Subscriptions are not really a measure of almost anything anymore.


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[Assistant] Far and away, the most important way that you get views on the platform. So having subscribers, yeaah, it's not a bad thing. It's good to have positive signals where people demonstrate that they want to interact with your channel.


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[Assistant] But it is, it is not, not what it used to be. But either ways, clearly there wasn't a mass exodus of, of people, uhm, due to this video.


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[Assistant] And then in terms of like dislike ratio, it's at about 90%, which is far from our worst.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so about seven more people out of a hundred clicked dislike instead of, instead of like on this video.


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[Assistant] And then, what was really interesting to me was the, the reason that


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[Assistant] Most people who were upvoting this thought that uhm, you know, I had done the video was for the money.


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[Assistant] His response will basically be dancing around the idea of, we did it for the money. But like...


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[Assistant] That's actually not the reason at all. We, we, it was sponsored by Kyoksia, but we could have sold them anything. We just were already doing


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[Assistant] Yeah, so we've collabed with Austin, iJustine, uh, Marquez, and then... Smarter Every Day. Uh, Smarter Every Day. Yeah, we've done a fair number of these. And the funny thing about it is, I think as soon as we went outside of pure tech collaborations,


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[Assistant] I started to get messages from people who objected to us. Like I feel like, I feel like maybe there's more, more of an emotional element to things outside of tech.


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[Assistant] So I, I, yeah, I, I don't know. I don't know what to say about it other than, you know, Hey, thank you for, thank you for letting us know.


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[Assistant] How we, how you guys feel about it, uhm, I'm not gonna give a take on it other than to just tell you guys the simple truth is that


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[Assistant] Uh, needed a server setup that I knew we were qualified to help with in a way that I...


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[Assistant] Thought they were probably gonna get pretty screwed if they went with a standard, like, networking contractor.


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[Assistant] I got, uh, not just, not just for, well, okay, yes, for sure. For real, for sure.


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[Assistant] Dream definitely overpaid for aspects of this build out that we weren't involved in.


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[Assistant] But it was one of those things that I like, I looked at and went like, I, we can't do everything. So the parts that we're doing, I know he's getting a really great deal on because we got a lot of it provided and even what wasn't provided was


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[Assistant] So that was ultimately why we did it. We did it because they reached out and we thought we could do a really great job of us sick.


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[Assistant] Content creation setup because we, we know our stuff.


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[Assistant] We've actually settled on a build very similar to what he has for ourselves. That was it.


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[Assistant] Riley and Anthony though, both put in takes on this.


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[Assistant] When we do something where the community by and large, uh, when we do something where it's a funny thing.


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[Assistant] The really dialed in viewers, who I feel have more of an emotional connection to our brand and to our personalities and to our content.


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[Assistant] Tend to be far, tend to take it far more personally when we do something that disappoints them. And honestly,


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[Assistant] Part of the North Star that I think keeps us on the right course. And just because we weren't gonna change the plan for this one after the initial tweet, like, where the server was built.


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[Assistant] Uhm, on this one, doesn't mean that we're not taking that feedback really seriously and we're not gonna try to do better.


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[Assistant] That's, that's ultimately really, really, really important to us and will continue to be important to us as we build out labs and as we build out additional channels and as we continue to grow because we're getting to the point where


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[Assistant] Man, like our corporate culture, what even, what even is it? It's not just me and


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[Assistant] People I think are cool hanging out and making tech videos anymore. Like, we're up to...


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[Assistant] We're up to almost 80 people now, including floatplanes. A lot. I don't even interact with some of them on a weekly basis. I don't even interact with some of the people who work here on a monthly.


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[Assistant] basis. And it's not cause I'm just like hiding in my ivory tower, hiding in my corner office.


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[Assistant] A few years at this point. Calculator. Here we go. Okay, so 80 people.


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[Assistant] If I talked to them for just 5 minutes each, that would be 400 minutes. Divide that by 60, I would spend an entire day a week.


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[Assistant] Just interacting with people for five minutes. And it's like...


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[Assistant] Yes, that has a value, but it's also probably not the most important thing I could be doing when I could be shooting videos. That's what, that's what we try to do is we try to optimize how much time I'm in front of a camera shooting videos or working in pre-production shaping what videos will look like, whether ultimately I host them or not.


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[Assistant] Right, so do you want to read Riley or Anthony's take? I'll go with...


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[Assistant] So I count awareness as a win, to be honest. We didn't glorify anything about him in the video, though we did make reference to the cheating. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, I was gonna mention that is something that we did and that had nothing to do with the community's reaction to it. We were just, we were memin'. Like, what, what, what, what do you want?


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[Assistant] I mean with the, particularly the leftist PC, we were just having fun with it. I just went, man, let's make, let's build the reddest computer.


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[Assistant] I guess that's a bit of a cop-out, because really the question people should ask and would ask, I think, is would you do it again?


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[Assistant] But, what I think we should do is, at the very least, let the community know earlier in the process.


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[Assistant] I don't think that we have ever collaborated with anyone who is just far and away just horrible and toxic. And we have turned down opportunities.


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[Assistant] We have turned down large content creators where we just went.


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[Assistant] We actually do not want there to be any perceived public alliance here.


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[Assistant] But I, I'm never going to, I'm never gonna take someone who made mistakes.


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[Assistant] And crucify them for that, if that makes sense.


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[Assistant] Cool. Semhide Collab officially confirmed.


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[Assistant] To be, to be frank though, one thing that I haven't done a ton of research into is the allegations that Dream has weaponized his fanbase. Because that's something that is not cool.


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[Assistant] But as someone who has been accused of doing that before, I know that it's not always black and white.


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[Assistant] I mean, Snizzard over on floatplane says tweeting about how much he likes when people delete their twitter accounts after he goes after them makes his apologies kinda hollow. I'd say that's pretty toxic.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it's not that scary. Most of our sponsorships are outside of tech hardware these days and that's been something that we have very intentionally transitioned away from over the last really five years or so.


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[Assistant] In fact, I would say, okay, sponsors for the WAN show today. How many of them are, how many of them are tech hardware? We got Squarespace, we got Vulture, which is like a server hosting. Yep.


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[Assistant] No, no conflict there. Completely fine.


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[Assistant] Everything is totally fine. If tomorrow we made every single tech hardware manufacturer mad, this WAN show would generate exactly the same amount of revenue for the company. Literally, exactly the same amount. Maybe more, because you guys would probably, you know, get in here and start


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[Assistant] Buying some stuff on LTT store, send some merch messages. Actually, I think we have an LTT store promo that I should talk about. We do.


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[Assistant] Oh, okay, first I have something controversial. Ah, the first one of the show.


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[Assistant] It was, uh, it was a shiny, it was a dark nickel black coating.


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[Assistant] Yeah, the shaft was black. Oh, I thought it was still silver. No, it was black.


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[Assistant] With an orange ring here, and an orange cap. Okay. There's nothing else that I'm talking about.


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[Assistant] I like it. So the reason that this was, so the reason that there was so much discussion around this was that one of our goals for the screwdriver had been like, you know, matte black.


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[Assistant] Top to bottom, right? Just something really sexy looking.


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[Assistant] We wanted to try to find a material that would allow us to go- I mean, we even did these like-


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[Assistant] What we found, and a lot of this is based on community feedback as well, is that


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[Assistant] We basically had to make a call. Do we want to build a product that looks amazing on day one and then looks beat up six months in? Or do we want to build a product that looks


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[Assistant] In my personal opinion, not as good on day one.


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[Assistant] Oh crap, a lot of floatplane chat is like, I want the wear one. Uuuh.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah. If you guys aren't subscribed to The Leak, which is the, uh, lttstore.com newsletter, you guys should definitely get on there. Uh, we don't send them out very often. But this one is good.


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[Assistant] Here are, here are some of the prototypes showing kinda what they look like. It's not a really nice wear. I can tell you guys this one is mine. This has been the one I've been using for about the last three or four months.


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[Assistant] Sure. Do you want to do a normal one? Yea, do a poll anyway. Uh, basically...


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[Assistant] Okay, according to the newsletter, we've settled on silver, but now you guys are all going, I want it to be, I want it to be black.


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[Assistant] Guys, it really- oh man, it really does not look- it really does not look-


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[Assistant] That good, once it's worn out, it's not that great.


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[Assistant] So this is the plan for the final driver. It's just a different style, man. Yeah. It's just a different style.


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[Assistant] And at the end it says, oh, by the way, buy a party shirt. They're fricking awesome. It's exactly the right season for the party shirt, by the way.


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[Assistant] Okay, well get that poll going I guess and why don't I, why don't I do a topic or something while we wait.


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[Assistant] Can we propagate the, the poll? I'm gonna post it in flip lane chat. Okay.


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[Assistant] One of our other big topics for the day is, of course, oh my goodness, Bill C-11. Yeah, we missed that last week.


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[Assistant] Uuuh, Digital First Canada has a pretty good summary of it. For those of you who are not in Canada, this could still have an impact on you. Because essentially,


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[Assistant] The govern- the Canadian government wants to step in and regulate online platforms like YouTube in the same way that they regulate traditional media.


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[Assistant] So that could include things like forcing a platform like YouTube to serve a certain percentage of


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[Assistant] Types of content that the Canadian government deems Canadian or deems that Canadians must be exposed to.


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[Assistant] And, uh, part of the whole push, and I haven't actually looked into C-11 as much, I did a ton of reading about C-10, which was the predecessor to C-11, that didn't end up going through, including talking to the, like, deputy whatever who was, who was working on the legislation.


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[Assistant] And I gotta tell you guys, essentially, as far as I could tell, it was a government cash grab.


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[Assistant] So that they could take money from digital platforms and spend it funding content that no one wants to watch and then jamming that content down your throat in order to justify the money that they took.


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[Assistant] To produce that content. And it's such a, it's such a last decades


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[Assistant] Not even last decade, it's last century's solution today. Because it used to be that yes, there were voices that couldn't be heard because of the structure of traditional media, because of the cost of creating traditional media.


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[Assistant] But YouTube already fixed that. Literally.


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[Assistant] Anyone with a $40 phone off of eBay can be a content creator now. That's it. The barrier to entry is basically zero.


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[Assistant] I should get back to the, I should get back to why this matters to you if you don't happen to be Canadian.


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[Assistant] It is my personal belief that if the Canadian government manages to extract this funding from, you know, platforms like YouTube,


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[Assistant] Or Netflix. Actually, I think Netflix does have Canadian content obligations already. But platforms like YouTube or Twitch, for example, if the Canadian government manages to extract this money,


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[Assistant] If they manage to push their agenda forward, whatever it happens to be, whether it's a French language agenda or some other kind of agenda, I think it will embolden other world governments to pull similar moves. That's why I think this matters to everyone.


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[Assistant] Uh, man, and boy, and there's just all kinds of, man, there's so many problems with this.


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[Assistant] This is, in order to qualify as a Canadian content creator, this is a really funny one. Creators have to submit a huge pile of forms to prove the nationalities of everyone involved in a project. They have to provide a detailed budget and an explanation of the project's theme and subject matter.


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[Assistant] Is your content Canadian enough to qualify for consideration by the CRTC? See, we've already dealt with the Canadian government.


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[Assistant] Because we've had to, uh, dig through all of this paperwork in order to qualify for production services tax credits. And it is, they have...


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[Assistant] So many other more important things to deal with. Basically, these tax credits are supposed to be to make, uh, to subsidize, uh, like new media, essentially, right? That's why they were created in the first place.


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[Assistant] But it is so onerous to actually go through the process of applying for and getting approved for them and actually receiving them.


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[Assistant] Do we even have 2018 fully processed yet? I don't think so. I think 2017 was the first year and then everything else is like still sitting in this.


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[Assistant] Local community-focused content has clearly taken a hit in the internet age. That's fair. I mean, one of our writers, uh, Jonathan Horst, for MAC Address, actually used to host for, uh, for Shaw. I think you can, you can still find these old videos. It was like a community...


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[Assistant] Uh, like a community channel that Shaw produced. Uh, Shaw, Jonathan...


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[Assistant] Uh, when he was working at Shaw, uh, this is Shaw's Shaw Spotlight channel. My understanding is that this is part of Shaw's obligation. They have to produce this, like,


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[Assistant] Small, small time, small towny content. Uuh, Shock Community Link. Here are some mental health services that are available in Manitoba. Uh, this kind of, this kind of stuff.


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[Assistant] Uh, three-year-old admission is battling a disease, like, like local, local, local news, local content.


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[Assistant] There's been a big hit to what really matters in your own community and having access to that information right in front of you compared to just


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[Assistant] More easily making your way to the lowest friction, most bombastic content on the internet.


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[Assistant] YouTube's algorithm, as far as we can tell, I mean it's a black box, so I don't know, but doesn't appear to be designed to consider locally-nated content over any other kind of content. He says maybe that's something that should be changed.


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[Assistant] I can tell you, as a Canadian content creator, I don't want my content.


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[Assistant] I think it's a content difference. From a border. From an arbitrary line that some, some people with, you know, presumably big wigs or whatever drew on a map 200 and however many years ago. Like, how arbitrary is that in the global era?


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[Assistant] That's not YouTube. Well yea, who cares? People will surface stuff and you can go find it there.


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[Assistant] Like it's crowdsourced. That's not really how that works. What do you mean that's not how that works? That's literally how r slash Vancouver works. You're not allowed to self promote on r slash Vancouver. No, no. If it's good, someone else will find it and put it there.


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[Assistant] Then you don't have to look at anything that's garbage. I mean, you don't have to hang out


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[Assistant] I mean, that's something I've asked YouTube for many times. The problem is that as soon as they provide tools like you're asking for to creators, they game them.


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[Assistant] That's why keywords, that's why tags don't do anything anymore. That's fair enough. Because everyone just loaded up with whatever the highest performing tags were.


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[Assistant] So it's just, and like I've told, I've told YouTube things too, like, hey, I think this one is gonna really appeal to, like, could I have a tool where I say, hey, I think this is really gonna appeal to


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[Assistant] Like these groups or, or this or whatever else. Like can I, can I give, can I give the algorithm some hints?


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[Assistant] And they're like, no, because as soon as we let you do that,


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[Assistant] So the problem, in a nutshell, is that C11 is...


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[Assistant] Not great. I mean, I can tell you guys from my conversation,


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[Assistant] Basically, it started out as, no, no, this is really about empowering smaller creators and ended with, well, what about


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[Assistant] What, basically it ended with, well, what about funding content that nobody's gonna watch? In a nutshell.


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[Assistant] And I was like, okay, but why, why, if no one's going to watch it, why did we make it? If it's going to get literally 30 views, why did you even do it? Why not just, why not just


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[Assistant] Make an ad for whatever it is that you wanted to say, and just run it on YouTube then. Like it would have been way more efficient.


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[Assistant] I think we're being trolled, uhm, right now.


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[Assistant] Okay, should we open this up to the broader community?


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[Assistant] Well, alright then, I guess we're gonna have to, I guess we're gonna have to figure out what to do about that. Guys, I really, ugh, I think this is gonna be one of those white mouse pad things.


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[Assistant] Where we've had so many requests for it and I've basically said no.


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[Assistant] Oh, by the way. I would throw that in the ring. Speaking of heartaches, my heartaches are over. This is the final ratchet. So are we pretty?


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[Assistant] One of the most remarkable things about it is the very small amount of force required for the ratchet to activate.


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[Assistant] And what I did today to test it, I shot an Intel Extreme Tech upgrade for Ploof today, was I put a thumb screw on the tip of the screwdriver, taking advantage of that strong magnet. I put it into the case, in a GPU, and then without using the knurling to start it. Started it. Oh.


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[Assistant] Someone asked about, like, uh, like, uh, powder coating. Definitely not.


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[Assistant] Okay, one of the problems with doing any kinds of different finishes on here is that this shaft has extremely tight tolerances.


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[Assistant] Because it has to be fitted into the zinc housing. We literally have to redesign the, uhm, the zinc housing a little bit to accommodate the, or no, we have to change the size of the shaft because the like, I think it's like three or four thousandths of an inch that the plating added. Oh.


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[Assistant] Mean that the fit is not quite right. Oh wow. But that's done?


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[Assistant] Oh yeah, that's easy. That is easy. What was hard was the issue we were having with the selector ring. So the ratchet worked great, except if you accidentally bumped the selector ring, which is here, then what it would do is it would slip.


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[Assistant] It would slip, uh, either out of a lock.


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[Assistant] Into ratcheting, or it would slip into a locked position.


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[Assistant] If you accidentally bumped it. Now you can obviously hit it hard enough to, to, to move it as it is.


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[Assistant] But it was incidental contact, and there was a reason for it that is...


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[Assistant] It was an absolute nightmare to get it fixed and it is now completely fixed. It's final. It's done. It stays in place and I am.


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[Assistant] So excited, because guys, we have ordered


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[Assistant] Every screwdriver you guys have posted comments about in our videos saying that they're better. They're not.


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[Assistant] We've ordered every single one. Are you still doing that, like, uh, that event?


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[Assistant] Okay, I guess we are not going to do the thing I said we were going to do because we are going to talk about the pop-up shop. Oh, okay. It's happening. It looks like it's going to be at Lab 2. The reason for that is Lab 2, like I said, is not nearly as moving ready as I thought it was going to be.


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[Assistant] So, what better thing to do with it than host a pop-up shop where people can come and try the screwdrivers?


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[Assistant] We're also trying to get a handful of top of production backpacks there as well. That'd be cool. That's a good idea. The backpack is also in mass production now.


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[Assistant] Finally good news, and what's cool is if we can manage to get even a few hundred backpacks there, then I will guilt free open up back orders for it.


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[Assistant] So we can address some of the challenge, cashflow challenges that we are having right now.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm definitely gonna, I'm gonna send this Cerakote idea to Kyle right now, but I, I can tell you guys now.


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[Assistant] If there's any amount of complexity involved in making that happen, we are not looking for new, uhm, we're not looking for new solutions.


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[Assistant] Okay, I will tentatively say yeah, we should do that. We should have fast internet there by then. Uh, because...


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[Assistant] Uhm, chase figures, we can get 200 seats in there, while still having space for other activities.


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[Assistant] We could do more than 200, but he wants to add projectors with party games. I don't know about the renting arcade machines thing. We should definitely do food trucks in the parking lot though. Maybe some sponsors. I mean, maybe we could like make some money on that empty fricking building. He had the idea of bringing in portable mini golf, but not in the warehouse.


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[Assistant] In the office area. So you're literally playing mini golf in what will


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[Assistant] Cool. So that's 200 seats. How are you guys gonna do parking? VIP. Uh, basically I think we're just gonna say it's public transit only. There is no parking. Do not park here. And it's bringing your own computer? Public transit only? Ooh, that's gonna be pretty tough. I guess people will have to be dedicated. I mean, I've done it. Or get dropped off.


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[Assistant] I'm sorry. Get her done. And the reality of it is, is we'll say there's no parking, and


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[Assistant] People will find parking. They'll find grassy gnolls. They'll find parking five blocks away and they'll, they'll, you know, drop off their stuff and then they'll go park and then they'll go walk back. Like, we're just going to say there's no parking.


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[Assistant] Yes. We're gonna make the parking lot will be food trucks and staff only.


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[Assistant] Because I'd like as many of our staff as we can to be able to come and hang out with people there. Uh, but the idea is projectors here, maybe some sponsor booths, maybe try and make some money. Uh, Chase has got porta potties in here, but frankly, I think at that point you might as well just use the regular bathrooms.


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[Assistant] And then hire a cleaning crew for the cost of porta potties, right? Hire a cleaning crew to just come in and clean them after. Yeah, cause you're going to want to do that.


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[Assistant] I would like to think that we could do it as an overnight event without too much hassle and, uh, have some fun!


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[Assistant] So one of the things we do want to do is just because any, any event this large, you should just have a paramedic and a couple of cops on site just in case anything stupid happens. So we would do that. And at that point, I'm not.


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[Assistant] I'm not super worried about liability. We're talking a bunch of sweaty nerds sitting and playing video games. I don't think it's... Someone could have a heart attack. Okay, we had a paramedic on site. Like, what do you want?


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, we'll probably say that. Yeah. And people will. And someone's gonna fall asleep in their chair. And, you know.


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[Assistant] Worst case scenario, we go be like, yeah, you can't sleep here, you're gonna have to go sleep somewhere else and come back. I, I, well, we'll figure it out. We'll figure it out.


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[Assistant] But I'm, I'm super excited. I'm super excited. I, I wanna, yeah, I wanna...


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[Assistant] Yeah, we've come up with the idea of doing a pop-up shop there, and we've come up with the idea of doing, uhm, a LAN party there. So at least we're gonna try and get some use out of it. I mean, it's got 300,000 watts of power. So I looked at that and went, Well, let's do something with it!


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[Assistant] I can tell you right now, some of Chase's ideas are things that uhm, I'm not that into.


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[Assistant] Uh, some of them though are things I am super into. We definitely want to have, like, local servers there for games that still support local servers. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, we definitely want to have a Steam cache there so people can get all the games they need. I think that'd be good content.


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[Assistant] Just like an updated steam cache. How fast can we download from steam? Would be a super cool video. Like we could just say, like, hey,


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[Assistant] Okay, everyone. Okay, everyone ready? Let's go. Let's all download the same game. And like see how hard we could hit a SteamCache server. Be frickin' awesome.


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[Assistant] Uhm, cause it's the kind of thing that when it comes to real world testing of, of, uh, of these solutions.


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[Assistant] It's really, it's difficult. It's a hassle. It's like impossible for us to do it on our own. We can't build 200 machines to test our SteamCache server when we do a video about it. We can maybe hook a few of them up to it and go, yeah, and theoretically it could go as high as this, but if we want to actually show this thing serving games at 10 gigabytes a second, well, we gotta, like, we gotta get a few hundred people together and like download some freaking games. Yeah, be sick.


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[Assistant] Uhm, scheduled games and small tournaments throughout the LAN, absolutely gonna be a thing. I mean, I might just have a section that's just like, yeah, we're only playing the game I wanna play, and if you don't like it, you can leave.


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[Assistant] But we should at least have, I think we should at least have a section.


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[Assistant] That's like, the no. We are gaming. We are gaming with the people here. And if you don't like it, go find other people here. Go find ones you like, because that's the whole point.


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[Assistant] Yeah, wait. What if we made the tables?


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[Assistant] Like, like, every, all the power and all the networking per table, like, just goes into one place in the middle of the table. And then, like, just the connections to the table locations are just one.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like a single 10 gig and a single big power connection. And then you could actually like relocate.


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[Assistant] You get like six people around the outside of the table. You move, you literally plonk down next to the team you're playing.


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[Assistant] What's up guys? I love that. That was so sick. You go, okay, everyone find a team for Worms Armageddon Tournament. Go. By the way, you will actually move and sit with your team.


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[Assistant] We definitely, people like, sounds like a waste of time for moving. Okay, you're at a LAN party.


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[Assistant] You are literally paying to waste your time. Yeah. And that type of stuff's fun. That's what it is. That's what it is.


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[Assistant] Don't worry guys, we're gonna, we're gonna figure it out. I think that actually like relocating for everything is probably, probably not the smartest thing ever, but we could definitely have some extra tables set up, like you said, for, you know, main stage, main stage matches.


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[Assistant] Man, I am, I'm like so stoked. That's exciting. I almost feel like we should do like a small one as a warmup, just with like staff and staff and friends or something like that. Just kind of work out some of the kinks, figure out what we want to do in terms of like programming. Not like, like.


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[Assistant] We're hacking mainframe programming, but like, like, event programming, if you know what I mean.


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[Assistant] Barnaut over in Floatplane Chat says, okay, but what about 200 gamers, one CPU?


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[Assistant] People are like, is this a mini LTX or something? No, it's not LTX. It's just a LAN party. It is not going to be branded LTX.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's actually a pretty good point. We should probably just try to make sure that like Memex is a sponsor or something.


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[Assistant] Make sure they have keys to the store so they can like go get stuff. You know, you have a GPU die, you know, three hours into a land.


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[Assistant] That sucks! And the odds are greater than you might think because it's just been transported, right? Which adds wear to it, wear to the connectors, like all kinds of things. You don't think about what vibration does to things, right? Carting stuff around can be really hard on it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you're, you're definitely using it. Maybe the power's not as clean as you would normally have, cause you've got


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[Assistant] 200 people, uh, connected to, you know, like one freaking transformer. Like there's, there's a lot of variables here, right? And stuff can die. And when you've got these kinds of numbers of people, right, 200 people, if only


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[Assistant] One percent of people's computers had some kind of a problem. Well, that's two people that just have no computer now. That sucks. You don't want that to happen. I mean, what we could also do is make sure that we've got a couple of, just a couple of completed machines.


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[Assistant] Bob says, uh, over on Flowplain Chat, I once attended a LAN party in a horse shed. The power was probably not great.


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[Assistant] By the handful of HVAC contractors in our area because, traditionally, we haven't really needed it.


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[Assistant] And so there aren't, it's not a really well established industry here in the way that it might be somewhere like


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[Assistant] Austin, Texas. To be clear, I'm not saying we don't have HVAC companies. We do. We have air conditioning. It's just that


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[Assistant] Our capacity for it is a little lower. It's kinda like how, remember, uh, remember how, uh, maybe like starting 3, 4, 5 years ago, we started getting like regularly these giant dumps of snow, and it had been like 10 years. We ran out of salt. Because...


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[Assistant] We have salt trucks and like, salt repositories.


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[Assistant] But we just weren't prepared for that amount of snow for that extended period of time. We didn't have the infrastructure for it. So it's the same way where all of a sudden everyone and their dog is going, oh wow, it gets really hot here now. I guess I'll install AC. So, supply and demand, baby. Yep.


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[Assistant] So we didn't, I don't even think we went back to that contract for a second quote.


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[Assistant] Because if they weren't complete idiots, or trying to take advantage of me, not knowing better, they would have quoted mini splits.


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[Assistant] They're tiny areas, they're only a thousand square feet each.


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[Assistant] We got a new quote with mini splits and I think it was like a quarter.


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[Assistant] Which is too much. But the mini splits is the nice solution. I'm not gonna do it myself. Well mini splits are a cheap solution. Because instead of, instead of making space for giant air ducts,


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[Assistant] You just have to make space for refrigerant lines up to the roof. You put your outside unit up there and then you just mount the thing to the wall and BOOM! Your air conditioned.


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[Assistant] Ladi says, a ground source heat pump could be very interesting too as a content piece if you could get details on them doing it.


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[Assistant] I had a cool idea. We were at, uh, were we at Brandon's house when I was talking to him about him? I don't know. Anyway, yes we were. We were. We were doing Brandon's Intel Extreme Tech upgrade. And he was upset because


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[Assistant] His Strata Council, which is a homeowner's association for our American friends.


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[Assistant] Won't allow window-mounted AC units in his complex.


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[Assistant] Well that sucks because they're way more efficient than the floor standing ones. Also, they don't take up space on your freaking floor!


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[Assistant] But uh, they don't look nice, right? If you have a window to put it in.


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[Assistant] And so I was telling Brandon, I was like, hey, uhm, with the way that your unit is situated, could we conceivably just stealth an outdoor unit?


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[Assistant] By, instead of having condenser, like a big condenser and a fan, right?


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[Assistant] Just burying, like, a geothermal loop in your lawn.


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[Assistant] And then having some like very small stealthed compressor and like whatever and expansion, I think the expansion chamber and the compressor still have to sit in an outdoor unit. Like,


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[Assistant] Yeah, so anyway, we called BC OneCall, and it turns out that you can't just like get information about EXACTLY, UNT EXACTLY, where everything is in the ground. I thought that was the whole point.


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[Assistant] So I think, well, the point is for contractors who have experience digging properly and know how to avoid things for them to get a general idea. But for just some idiot wanting to...


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[Assistant] I don't think any uhm, I don't think any smart contractor would risk.


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[Assistant] I think the, I think the strata probably wouldn't approve that either, like.


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[Assistant] If they won't even let you have an AC in your window, I don't think they're gonna let you just turn your lawn into a dirt pile.


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[Assistant] Because you gotta remember, part of the strata's role is landscaping and maintenance for the complex, so they're gonna notice that.


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[Assistant] So the idea was- There's a big hole now. Yeah, the idea was we like get in, rip it out, put in the stuff, cover it up, and do it all in like a day. So we have to- So we'd have to move fast. Or overnight. Yeah. Yeah, or that. Yeah. Oh, there's Echo. Apparently. Suddenly Linus Echo.


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[Assistant] Alright, cool. Apparently Luke is fine. Alright, Nate, uh, why don't we do some merch messages?


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[Assistant] Who send merch messages instead of YouTube super chats.


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[Assistant] Got two different colorways and two different sizes.


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[Assistant] Oh, that's just hacking telling them, telling them the secrets.


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[Assistant] So it's the 1 meter by 700 millimeters size, I believe. So if you add one of those to cart and a tote bag, it is...


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[Assistant] Ahh, man, you're gonna make me talk about inflation again? I don't need any more hot takes here, man. Alright.


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[Assistant] Is inflation impacting Creator Warehouse? Inflation is, in a nutshell, yes.


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[Assistant] I keep saying it in a nutshell today. I'm like hooked on nutshells. Bottom line, yes. But.


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[Assistant] Yes, inflation is affecting us. We have had costs rise. Logistics costs have gone up significantly in the last couple of years.


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[Assistant] Labor costs are an interesting one because theoretically as inflation spins out of control,


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[Assistant] Uh, labor costs are supposed to go up, but my understanding is that real salary growth has actually not been that much. With that said, our salaries do grow, so that's not any different for us.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I think that Luke can attest to that he doesn't get paid the same as he did nine years ago. Uhm, which is probably good. Yeah, that's pretty cool. Definitely a good thing. Uhm, I don't think Belle gets paid the same as he did. When did you start Belle two years ago?


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[Assistant] About a year and a half ago, I'm pretty sure you don't get paid the same as you did when you started. So, yes, uhm, you know.


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[Assistant] Labor costs are going up, uhm, but the thing is that


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think inflation is getting used as a boogeyman. As someone to blame for costs going up because, you know. Look that way while I shove all the money in my bag. Yeah, like say, you know, like an apple for example. The cost of an apple. Sorry, how does this go up? Okay, so the farm laborers might get paid more.


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[Assistant] But, and the truckers might get paid more fuel costs are going up, but the fuel costs are only going up because.


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[Assistant] Actually, I don't even know. Okay, I mean, I'd love to hear from you guys. Has there been significant movement?


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[Assistant] In the trucking industry in terms of like real world actual salaries.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, farmhands, are you guys, are you guys getting paid a ton more?


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[Assistant] In the grand scheme of things, the actual cost of that apple on the shelf, like how much of that was actual labor in the first place? And if it wasn't labor, how is it inflating? What does that even mean?


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[Assistant] Did, did, did, did the land, does the land cost more now to like sit there? Land prices are going up.


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[Assistant] But a lot of that is just exploitative speculative investment. That's not inflation. So,


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[Assistant] And yes, our, yes, our costs are going up just like anyone's costs are going up right now.


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[Assistant] But not enough that we have actually had to significantly adjust our pricing up until this point.


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[Assistant] But it won't be because we just decided to take more profit. Actually, our margins are very...


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[Assistant] Have been very consistent pretty much since we started. We take about a hundred points.


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[Assistant] So you can assume that our costs are somewhere in the neighborhood of...


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[Assistant] 30 to 65% and the more expensive the item, typically the less actual percentage.


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[Assistant] Uh, profit we tend to take on it, so that's why, that's why that doesn't just center on 50%.


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[Assistant] Uhm, that's why it could be lower, like we rely on high margin.


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[Assistant] Uh, low ASP, low average sell price items, like,


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[Assistant] Uh, water bottles are cable ties to help subsidize how much more difficult it is for us as a small company to do bigger ticket items like


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[Assistant] The people who designed it, that does not include customer service, that does not include transactional overhead.


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[Assistant] That doesn't include R&D for future products. Like, Creator Warehouse isn't a crazy money printing machine. Uhm, and that is pretty...


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[Assistant] Reasonable for gross margins, for like clothing items, uhm, consumer goods, that sort of thing. So there you go.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't think that you could make more electric vehicles today if you wanted to.


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[Assistant] So, we're just gonna see more price gouging, more profiteering on electric vehicles.


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[Assistant] I have 90,000 kilometers on it, and they offered me brand new sticker price for a five-year-old car. And I'm sitting here going, well, you must have done that for a reason.


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[Assistant] Yeah, mine's gone up in value. I have driven it around, it has saved me a ton of money because it's plug-in hybrid, and it's apparently worth more than I paid for it.


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[Assistant] I think, I think, uh, on Brandon's Model X, he got offered near what he paid recently. Yeah, that's crazy.


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[Assistant] No, it wouldn't have existed, it was based on Yvonne's, I owe her everything, and I mean that in not like a cheesy way, in like a literal way. Uhm, I was, I was very depressed, uhm, around the time that I met her, I was doing a job that was


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[Assistant] First of all, I exist today, thanks Yvonne. Number two, I mean I'm not saying I would have killed myself, but it was a thought. And maybe something else would have pushed me over the edge, I don't know.


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[Assistant] So, she got me out of school. She got me out of a job I hated into an industry that I loved. Then...


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[Assistant] When it was time to make the decision to leave NCIX and set out on my own,


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[Assistant] I use the word on my own extremely loosely here because it was, it was on my own but with like serious backup. You know what I mean? You know those uhm, uhm,


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[Assistant] You know what, it doesn't come to mind in a way that's eloquent, but the point is that the only reason I was able to start Linus Media Group


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[Assistant] Was that Yvonne with her job at the pharmacy was taking her pharmacy paychecks.


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[Assistant] And writing them out to Luke and Ed and our operating costs.


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[Assistant] That was it. We were literally just paying Luke and Ed out of Yvonne's pharmacist salary. I also had the confidence to set out on my own.


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[Assistant] Because I knew that no matter what happened, we wouldn't be unable to pay the mortgage, right? We wouldn't lose our home. Which was really important because we had a small child, right? We had our infant son. So, loud boy.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so Yvonne in the early days in particular was working to generate the capital we needed to run the business day to day.


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[Assistant] Raising our child, because I was raising our other child, minus media group incorporated. And...


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[Assistant] Doing all of our finances and accounting and like negotiations with, uhm,


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[Assistant] Oh, all of our business administration stuff, like getting business licenses and insurance and all that kind of stuff. So she was literally working three jobs, uh, while she was...


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[Assistant] While she was also taking care of, you know, the man-child that she married for some reason. That was a very motivating house.


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[Assistant] So if I had somehow managed to start LMG, like if I had lucked my way into working at NCIX, starting the YouTube channel, and, and setting out on my actual own,


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[Assistant] Would it have been as successful? The answer is no. Yvonne has pushed me at every stage to be more organized to take a more structured approach to build the business properly and do it responsibly.


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[Assistant] Sorry. That's just the way it is. I mean, we'd love to, uh, you know, we'd love to, like, what would it even look like, right? I remember reaching out to, uhm, a relatively small creator at the time.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, there was an early creator, there was a creator, uh, in our earlier days that I just loved, who was super small on the platform, and I was like, hey, you know, we have this sponsor selling infrastructure, we have admin, we have


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[Assistant] A lot of knowledge about how to succeed on the platform


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[Assistant] Uh, this guy's hilarious and amazing and...


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[Assistant] Maybe if he didn't have to, like, support himself in other ways, he could focus more on YouTube, and, and we could make this make sense. Uhm, Killian Experience. Still love his content.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and we basically like chatted a little bit and came to the conclusion, you know, I-


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[Assistant] I basically approached saying I have no idea what this would even look like, and I think we came to the conclusion that it just didn't really make any sense.


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[Assistant] There are advantages to working within an organization like ours. If I didn't, we wouldn't have people working here, obviously. But if you are, have you have gotten to the point where you're already crushing it as an indie content creator, there has to be a really special


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[Assistant] Synergy. I hate to use that frickin' business lingo. There has to be a really special synergy.


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[Assistant] To make it make sense for both parties because either


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[Assistant] There's nothing in it for you because I'm sapping all your profits. Or there's nothing in it for me.


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[Assistant] Because you're basically just an indie content creator eating my food, sleeping in my bed, and using my toilet. Like, why are you here?


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[Assistant] There has to be some kind of symbiotic relationship that makes sense.


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[Assistant] Like, probably there are more efficient ways to do it for now, but maybe someday it'll be cool.


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[Assistant] Plex and like having a home server and stuff. I, I just...


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[Assistant] Apple would need to seriously change its approach and attitude to even begin to court me as a customer.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like if, if, if Apple took a run at framework in terms of


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[Assistant] Disclosure, I'm invested in framework. In terms of, you know, uh, repairability of their devices. You got my attention.


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[Assistant] But they're not. They just keep pulling the same crap over and over and over again.


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[Assistant] And we just keep lying down and taking it over and over and over and over again. So there's no one to blame but ourselves. Like consumers, I mean.


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[Assistant] Gaming's not coming to Mac. Gaming has always been on the Mac. They just forgot.


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[Assistant] Back in the 90s, gaming on Mac was frickin' huge, and Apple just crapped on it. They just got too cool for games, and the irony of it, the irony is they spent so much of their marketing


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[Assistant] Baffling, man. Like there's old keynotes where you see Steve Jobs talking about how amazing gaming is on the Mac.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they could, but the problem was that with the Mac, if they clawed back the ability to just install .dmgs from anywhere.


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[Assistant] The user would revolt. It's just that we accept it on iOS because, well it's for our security, it's for our own well-being. Apple's taking care of us.


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[Assistant] Sorry, there's a whole thing poor Jonathan Horst wrote in here about the WWDC 2022 announcements. Why don't we talk a little bit about M2 is better and more efficient, has a more powerful GPU, still Thunderbolt 3 slash USB 4.


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[Assistant] Same graphs as ever. I feel like he's gotten so much more cynical about apples since he started working here. I really think so.


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[Assistant] Like it's just, you gotta imagine it, you gotta imagine the meeting where every once in a while someone brings this up like, hey, should we like finally do that? And it's like, no, there must be some stupid, just asinine philosophical reason for not doing it.


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[Assistant] Uh, but yeaah, uh, Metal, Metal 3 has like, um, DLSS, Fidelity FX style, like upscaling now, which is, which is cool.


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[Assistant] Cross-platform features and services. You can mark as unread in iMessage. iMessage didn't support mark as unread.


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[Assistant] Well, I don't even mean that. I mean, I mean, I mean, uh, uhm.


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[Assistant] Screening for drug interactions. What if they get it wrong? Oh yeaah. Being like responsible for that? Yeaah. Spooky. Very spooky. Drug interactions are a big deal.


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[Assistant] Mac OS 13 lets virtual machines run apps via Rosetta.


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[Assistant] And non-Apple SoCs can officially, can unofficially run Rosetta 2, which is pretty cool because it means


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[Assistant] That you could use Apple's Rosetta on like a Snapdragon machine.


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[Assistant] And run x86 applications, yeaah.


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[Assistant] That wasn't talked about during WWDC, but it's pretty freaking cool.


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[Assistant] Uh, Anthony put this in. There's, there's a whole bunch of super technical stuff here that I'm sure we'll get into in more detail when we actually make a video about it. But, uh, that is, it is not this day!


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[Assistant] I had a falling tree ask on YouTube. Why are we doing shorts? Here's the message. I enjoyed the original video, but I'm not a fan of you guys advocating for this short video format that YouTube has been so desperately trying to push. Don't treat your fan base like idiots. There are so many super talented people in this community. Okay, I was with you up until the beginning. Yes, YouTube is pushing it super hard, and you don't have to be a fan of it, but...


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[Assistant] Uploading short form content is not treating our audience like idiots, and there are lots of perfectly talented people, I don't understand what that had to do with anything, that do enjoy short form content.


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[Assistant] This is honestly feeling like for part of our community a bit like an old man yells at cloud moment here because I don't personally prefer them either.


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[Assistant] But you can't ignore that there is an enormous appetite for this content and that it doesn't have to be bad. Just because something has really punchy editing and a lot of text on the screen does not mean that it does not contain good information and


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[Assistant] I gotta show you guys, like, we would be insane at this point to not take advantage of the way that YouTube pushes shorts. Also, if you need evidence that you are in the minority in terms of hating it,


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[Assistant] The numbers are right here. YouTube doesn't show you these ratios anymore, but particularly, excuse me, particularly the ones that are successful are hovering right around that average like dislike ratio for the channel, which is somewhere in the neighborhood of 97 high percent. Also, like these view counts are crazy.


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[Assistant] We, we, we literally squeezed another 3 million views out of turning our 12900ks IHS to copper.


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[Assistant] Like, it's content we were already making anyway. Look, we got another 4 million views of exposure for that super cool VR glove project. Like,


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[Assistant] At the end of the day, our job is to light fires, right? Light fires of technology passion. And if this is what it takes, putting some silly text on the screen in order to reach a new audience, in order to reach 3 million more people,


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[Assistant] So yeaah, it, it is, it is what it is, and I do not make the rules. This is a, this is a don't hate the player hate the game moment guys here because


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[Assistant] The second you start to slip on YouTube. Oh yeah. You are just one more small stumble from the valley of irrelevance. And it's happened.


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[Assistant] Over and over and over and you know what's funny is one of my favorite examples to point to of people who used to be huge on the platform and just faded away into absolutely nothing.


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[Assistant] Ray William Johnson has actually experienced a huge resurgence, courtesy of da-da-da-da-da-da! Shorts? Shorts!


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[Assistant] He's frickin' like kinda big again. Look at this, he's getting, he's uploading like daily, getting anywhere from a million to two, three million views a video. Woah, no way! Where Ray William frickin' Johnson is back. No way! That's crazy. I know, right?


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[Assistant] So I thought that was pretty funny.


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[Assistant] Ah, what else do we have? So why are we doing shorts? Because shorts are a thing. Yep. They're here to stay. Man, what else we got here?


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[Assistant] Wow, there's frickin' a lot of stuff that we actually like didn't- Oh, we really gotta talk about this!


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[Assistant] Ivan's Ukraine charity GPU auction. Yes. Whatever the Titan XP raises will go towards this.


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[Assistant] Oh, okay, so for people who wanted more detail about the exact


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[Assistant] Uh, project that uhm, that we're funding. Apparently the amount was so much that they were able to, like,


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[Assistant] Top down estimate for this project is 20,000 euro, including running costs for six months. So massive shout out our community, by the way, for helping out with that.


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[Assistant] Do not know. That's a good question. Belle, do you know anything about that?


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[Assistant] Anyway, it's all going to SOS Children's Villages Ukraine. Uhm, and it's, they're dedicated to helping war orphans and vulnerable children in general. They operate in 136 countries. We've still got a few auctions you guys can check out.


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[Assistant] So we've got the, uh, Star Wars Special Edition Titan XP. This is a very rare GPU. Super cool. Super cool piece of Ivan's collection.


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[Assistant] And then there's a handful of other ones. Are those in the description for the video already, Bill?


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[Assistant] They sure are. Alright, fantastic. So you guys can check those out down there. So far we've raised 8,000 US dollars. And I already announced before, but LMG is matching the community's bids on these GPUs. So thank you very much for that, you guys. I'm really excited to be able to help out in the ways that we can from so far away. Money, pretty much. Uh, do we have any more, uh, merch messages?


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[Assistant] Probably nothing I can talk about. That's what, yeaah. There's new products.


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[Assistant] Jacob B says the cap broke on a single drop in leaks water even before the break.


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[Assistant] Uh, you can contact customer service about that. You don't need to buy a new lib.


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[Assistant] We, we like, stand behind our products. You should contact customer service if you have a problem. Just want to say that. Ah, Jacob.


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[Assistant] There's still time to cancel your order, contact customer service, they'll get you taken care of. Uh, any new products coming that I can talk about? We have shorts? Like shorts. We have shorts coming. Uh, we have a bathing suit coming that looks super cool.


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[Assistant] Hopefully it will be in time for summer. Otherwise we'll be totally off season. Otherwise you'll be able to have it for next summer. Yea, otherwise it'll be another like, Swack it, Wan hoodie situation where we're finally flushed with stock and it's like, oh, it's really hot. Cool. Hoodies. That's okay, we'll sell them in the fall.


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[Assistant] Oh man, what else is, uh, what else is coming down the pipe? Oh, uh, paper notebooks?


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[Assistant] I think we're announcing those next week, so that's super cool. I still like notebooks. I've always liked notebooks. Yea dog. Uh, ours are super cute.


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[Assistant] I don't know. I don't know what else. I don't know what else is coming. Socks are not coming anytime soon. I just have not found. Do the shorts have zipper pockets?


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[Assistant] I would have to check for you. We have multiple shorts. We have sweat shorts coming, we have other more different shorts coming, we have swim shorts coming, so I don't know. We'll get back to you on that.


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[Assistant] Uhm, ooh, Donald asks, have you considered a black oxide coating on the screwdriver shaft? That would not look that great.


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[Assistant] Uhm, that's what we use on the bits and as you can see it, it comes off.


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[Assistant] It's a good point that it's a super resilient coding, but...


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[Assistant] Uhm, that should go to show you that doing a coding on it is just not gonna work. That's why we've gone with a raw metal look.


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[Assistant] Uh, any plans on pool tech? Yes. Uhm, Belle, feel free to be a little bit more liberal in terms of pushing things through, as long as it's something we haven't addressed before. Then feel free to curate it, cause there's a couple here I could've talked about, I think.


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[Assistant] Uh, the pool tech one I had a really interesting conversation this morning about. Is this the thing? Big brain.


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[Assistant] My brain went from this big to this big and then this big. Like the Grinch, but with brains. Yeah, okay. So the idea was we dumped the heat from the pool, from the server room and from the solar panels into the pool.


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[Assistant] So we were trying to figure out, okay, how do we deal with that? Because you're going to have like pool water circulating, which has chlorine in it. So we were like, okay, we could get a titanium heat exchanger, stick that on the side of the house. Then you have a loop going back to the server room or up to the solar panels or whatever. So the hot side.


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[Assistant] And then you have a cold side going into this heat exchanger, and that runs to the pool. So you heat the cold side, and you heat the pool with that, and then you got those independent loops, right? Then...


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[Assistant] I was looking through our video ideas, our video tracker, and I had an idea in there that was cool a PC with a lake.


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[Assistant] Like if you have lakefront property or like oceanfront property or whatever, just like, huck a giant heat sink into the water.


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[Assistant] Trench some tubes into your house and cool your PC with that. And I went, the pool.


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[Assistant] I should just submerge the heat exchanger so we don't have to deal with pumping pool water because I was all worried about like, hair getting stuck in the...


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[Assistant] And leaves getting pulled into the heat exchanger and stuff like filtering it, like blah, now it has to be tied into the whole pool system itself instead of just being a simple loop. So I was like, oh, we could do a little alcove.


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[Assistant] Put some little bars in front of it. Just have like a radiator freaking in the wall of the pool. Then...


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[Assistant] Then, my brain grew three sizes that day. Oh my. And I thought, wait, in-floor radiant heating? But the opposite.


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[Assistant] You do like a geothermal loop style thing.


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[Assistant] Right? Or an in-floor radiant loop, which is usually more like this style, in the walls of the pool. They haven't shot the concrete yet. It's still possible. So on


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[Assistant] Monday, we are gonna shoot a video about the plan to use, like, in-floor, in-floor tubing in the, like, woven into the rebar of the pool frame.


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[Assistant] And running that back to the server room to heat the pool.


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[Assistant] My problem with this is I haven't had time to really look into it. This is what I'm saying. I don't fully understand the situation. Me neither. So I didn't want to come in guns blazing because that's how I get myself in trouble.


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[Assistant] But on the surface it looks pretty bad. Yeaah. I'll say that.


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[Assistant] Uhm, L Willow asks, kind of have a feeling this wouldn't be as efficient as a heat exchanger, any HVAC specialist. So, we don't need a HVAC, there's no HVAC. It's just...


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[Assistant] Water being pumped up to solar panels where they're heated by the sun and then


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[Assistant] Warmed and carried in an insulated tube under the ground into the pool. And then the, or sorry, excuse me, into the walls, where the heat has to go somewhere, right? It can't go up.


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[Assistant] It can't go down because these are thin walls, right? Heat is gonna take the quickest path, path of least resistance, right? Uhm, the outside of the concrete is insulated.


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[Assistant] So we should lose less heat that way. So it has to go somewhere. Energy can neither be created nor destroyed. So it will go into the water. Where it will be


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[Assistant] Lost to the surrounding area. The heat has to go into the water ultimately. Most of it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and there's no, there's no HVAC involved. There's no, uh, there's no compressed gases or anything like that. So it's, it's pretty simple actually. By the way, people are asking for a Jasco update.


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[Assistant] Oh, we shot the video, we shot the updates to the video today, I believe that video is coming out like, imminently.


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[Assistant] So uhm, we're already two plus hours into the show, we'll just wait for the video for that. Cool.


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[Assistant] Is concrete thermally conductive enough for that to be effective? I mean, think about it this way.


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[Assistant] Is concrete thermally conductive enough to be effective for in-floor heating?


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[Assistant] Apparently, because people do it all over the world. So I'm not, to be clear, I'm not, I haven't done the math, but I'm also not inventing a new wheel here. Like this is a wheel that...


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[Assistant] Completely exists. All I'm doing is I'm taking a principle that already exists, which is


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[Assistant] Putting plastic tubing coils or lines into concrete and then running hot water through it and radiating it out. There you go.


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[Assistant] L Willow says HVAC stands for heat ventilation and AC, uh, which as a whole cover what you want to do. You're technically correct, but uhm, I think the way most people tend to use it is talking like ACs, heat pumps, furnaces, not just like running a water loop, uhm, in the ground. I mean,


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[Assistant] Yeah, you know what? From like an engineering standpoint, you're right. We should probably have an HVAC contractor involved. But it's pretty simple. I have heat over here, and then I need to carry it over there.


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[Assistant] No? Alright. The best kind of correct, indeed.


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[Assistant] I'm just, I'm just checking, checking floatplane comments, see if there's anything. I mean, by this point in the video, people haven't tuned out already, they're gonna sit here and watch me read floatplane comments, right?


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[Assistant] Thanks for tuning in, we'll see you again next week, same bad time, same bad channel. Bye!


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[Assistant] If you check your laptops, you should have the newest newsletter, which goes through the actual changes, the colors and everything like that.


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[Assistant] Perfect. First quick message from Nick, cause there was a lot of excitement around the backpack when we said it was in mass production. Uh, that still means it's a couple months away. Oh, yeaah.


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[Assistant] Uh, I'm curious if inflation is impacting Creator Warehouse and if you have any ideas of how to deal with it, will you have to increase prices to cover costs?


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[Assistant] With gas prices rising the way they are, do you expect the market will accelerate towards electric vehicles? If so, do you think that that could lead to another shortage of components?


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[Assistant] Speaking of, this question is from a Brandon. Hey Linus, have you never met Yvonne? Do you think LMG would still exist or have been successful?


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[Assistant] Given the infrastructure and facilities you've built, do you see a future for LMG as a production company that could bring in small or newer creators into the LMG family to benefit from your editor's equipment or expertise?


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[Assistant] This is a good segue. Uh, Hi Linus and Luke, are there any new potential float plane creators that you're excited about? Also, does float plane contact specific creators or do they always approach you?


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[Assistant] Alright, uh, uhm, composure. I have no segway for this question unfortunately, but from Cody, what do you think of 3D printed homes?


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[Assistant] Uh, from Alex, what do you think of iPadOS's floating windows or anything that was announced at WWDC?


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[Assistant] I believe I can get a link and put it in the descriptions.


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[Assistant] From Robert, any new products you can talk about coming to the LTT store.


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[Assistant] Hey, welcome to the Wancho, ladies and gentlemen. It's gonna be a good one today. The verdict was finally...


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[Assistant] Finally rendered! There's a ruling in the Apple vs Epic case, and they both won!


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[Assistant] Which is another way of saying they both lost. So we're gonna be talking through what exactly that means as our headline topic of the show today. In other maybe less headline but certainly concerning news,


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[Assistant] How about the Sony PlayStation games showcase? Yeaah? Yeaah, do you care about that? Uh, no. You know a single one of them ahead of time?


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[Assistant] Okay, alright, so that really was all we had. Okay, fine. Uhm, the show is brought to you today by JumpCloud, Taxcare, and of course, a fresh books. They're fresh.


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[Assistant] Alright, so let's jump right into Apple v. Epic. Three months after the trial concluded, Judge Ivan Gonzalez-Rogers ruled in favor of Apple on most counts. That Epic failed to show that Apple was a monopolist


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[Assistant] That Epic breached developer contract, so the Fortnite ban was therefore justified.


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[Assistant] And that Epic must pay Apple 30% of the revenue from Epic Direct payments that were taken through Fortnite on iOS. Uh, so that's approximately 12 million total revenue, so I guess 30% of that, from August to October 2020, and then an unknown amount from November to the present. But!


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[Assistant] Epic did win on one important count. Third party payment systems.


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[Assistant] Uh, the ruling stated that Apple is not breaking anti-trust laws, but that they are guilty of anti-competitive behavior, which, in my opinion, is just another way of saying that the anti-trust laws need to be updated, uh, for the digital age. But that's a whole, that's a separate conversation.


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[Assistant] Uhm, or that they need to make a new law that anti-competitive behavior is bad. I mean, what does it... Oh, okay, it doesn't matter. Uhm, the point is...


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[Assistant] So this has to be in addition, uh, in addition to in-app purchasing and


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[Assistant] The way that it worked before for iOS apps was that unless you had, uh, so Netflix, for example, just had a sign in, the app did absolutely nothing until you signed in and you just had to


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[Assistant] Somehow know already with your giant space brain that you had to go on Netflix's website, whether it's on a PC or on your mobile browser.


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[Assistant] Oh, hold on, I was gonna jump in with something real quick here. Now, something that I don't know is, uh,


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[Assistant] But that doesn't necessarily mean that Apple has to allow third party payment services within the app itself. So it might only be a link leading outside of the app, like in Japan. So South Korea, meanwhile, has made it so that Apple has to allow in


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[Assistant] And, uh, Mr. Sweeney, Mr. Sweeney overall is not super happy. I actually read through everything he's tweeted since the, uh, the judge issued this ruling, and he's overall, overall not impressed.


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[Assistant] Even though Epic kind of won in terms of now they can just have a button in the Fortnite app that could link you to a website where you could buy V-Bucks, uhm,


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[Assistant] Getting customers from the, from the awareness end of the sales funnel to the transaction end of the sales funnel.


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[Assistant] Oh, what's the word I'm looking for? Those stupid little ca- yeah, a tedious captcha that you have to do in order to get to the cart. Yeah, you know what, I just didn't really need that thing that badly anyway. Or, you know, your autofill for your payment information not working. Ah, you know what, maybe I'll buy this later. And then you never do. Uh, things like that, like Amazon- It's also the other end, just to talk about-


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[Assistant] So, Tim Sweeney is not happy with the ruling, and there's other reasons for him to not be happy. Uhm, Apple recently rejected Epic's request to reinstate its developer account so that they could relaunch Fortnite in South Korea.


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[Assistant] And that's obviously the thing that got Fortnite banned in the first place. But here's the thing.


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[Assistant] Is not legally under any kind of obligation to reinstate Epic's dev account until they fall in line.


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[Assistant] Outside of South Korea, where that is not the law, at least not yet. So if Apple decides that they want to be vindictive about this, which I could.


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[Assistant] I could absolutely see this being real personal here at this point. Uh, Fortnite might not ever return to iOS devices. Uhm, Apple says that they're happy with the ruling. I-I really doubt it, but I think for Apple this third-party payment systems battle is clearly...


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[Assistant] It's clearly over now that we've seen rulings in Japan, South Korea, and the US. It's a matter of time before this, uh, this flood just cannot be held back.


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[Assistant] So what else are they supposed to say about it? But it's also possible that both companies will appeal at some point, so it could be that none of this is final. So overall, here's our, here's really our discussion around this.


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[Assistant] Luke, is this a win for consumers? That's question number one.


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[Assistant] And for developers. Developers and consumers. And you can speak to both of those from your own personal experience.


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[Assistant] Now, here's kind of the big question at this point. I think when this whole thing went down, uhm, you and I were, I think, pretty close to being on the same page that


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[Assistant] Epic was doing the right thing. I mean, fundamentally, I agree with them that Apple is, and you could call it, you could call it monopolistic, you could call it, you could say it's, it's an antitrust violation, you could say it's anti-competitive. It doesn't matter because they're all just kind of, uhm,


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[Assistant] Heads, different heads of the same monster, uhm, it's all a company abusing a position of power that, uhm,


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[Assistant] Makes it impossible for other entities to compete with them.


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[Assistant] Uh, and abusing a position of power that in a way that they wouldn't be able to if other entities were able to compete with them in a completely fair and open market. And the word fair, I used that intentionally because it can mean a lot of different


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[Assistant] You could make the argument that the competition that we have now is, is fair because someone else could just make a really great product and make lots of money and lobby lawmakers.


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[Assistant] That's fair. Well, yeaah, that's like a kind of fair, but not everyone actually has those kinds of resources and that shouldn't be. Might should not make right. Right should just be right. So, uh, I think you and I were kind of on the same page that Epic was absolutely


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[Assistant] Fighting, uh, a just and noble battle, but for not necessarily the most


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[Assistant] Just or noble reasons, you know, obviously they had their eye on that.


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[Assistant] You know, 30% of the money that they were just giving to Apple for-


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[Assistant] Let's say this is as far as it gets, did they effectively just throw themselves upon their own sword for nothing but the benefit of everyone else? Because if they don't get their-


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[Assistant] They are not going to be getting any V-Bucks anywhere, even where in-app payments are mandated or third party in-app payments are allowed by law.


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[Assistant] Uh, so they will get literally nothing and will have burned all of that sweet, sweet 70% of VBOX money that they could have taken.


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[Assistant] Uh, for, I mean years, years of potentially being off the App Store. I mean, Apple as a, an organization, uhm, to, to,


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[Assistant] To imagine that they would be anything other than vindictive about this crusade that


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[Assistant] Epic has made very personal. I wouldn't actually say that it's Apple that made this personal. Epic has made it, has made it, they've taken it public, they've appealed to their individual users to try to sort of wage a war of consumer pressure against Apple.


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[Assistant] They've fought tooth and nail and you could even make the argument they've fought pretty dirty here. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Alright, now let's talk about, this is, this is kinda one of the big topics of this week, uhm, proton males.


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[Assistant] Protonmail has had a reputation for a long time, actually. I mean, this goes, man, how long has Protonmail just kind of been the de facto, you know, private email service? Cause it's, it's free.


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[Assistant] Unlike a lot of, a lot of sort of private, uh, like, like, uh, private mail services, uhm, they had a really bulletproof looking privacy policy, and when I say had, I really do mean had.


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[Assistant] Uh, this is kind of a big deal. Protonmail has removed a statement from their privacy policy that said that they do not keep any IP logs. So, uh, Luke, why would it be important that your email provider not retain IP logs?


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[Assistant] So, the account that they went after was operated by a Parisian chapter of Youth for Climate. Uhm, their cause is fighting against gentrification, high-end establishments, and real estate speculation, among other things.


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[Assistant] Um, ProtonMail points out that the email contents were not handed over, just logging info, uh, because the email body itself is encrypted with keys that are unavailable to the servers that are processing them. So, is ProtonMail still chill then?


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[Assistant] And if people understood, at least thought that ProtonMail was this completely secure method of communication, uh, that was the reputation that it had.