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[Assistant] If you want to tear down a server, if you want to talk about like the nitty gritty of some...


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[Assistant] You know, custom AI card that you guys designed. Yeah, absolutely. I'm in. I'm down.


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[Assistant] Like, even though I don't travel anymore, I've gotten on a plane for IBM, I've gotten on a plane to see the fab, uh, to see Intel's fab.


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[Assistant] Uh, I was down for the exclusive hands-on, the early hands-on Steam deck, like if it's cool enough and you got my, you got my attention, I'ma do it, but.


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[Assistant] Make it, make it worth my, make it worth my while. Basically is, is what I'm trying to say. Not me.


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[Assistant] Make it worth my while in that you've made it worth the while of a million or two million people turning their eyeballs at it.


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[Assistant] We did our jobs within the constraints of having a human understanding that, you know, there's certain questions. Like, I could have asked questions that I know they can't answer. I could have dug in and yelled at them.


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[Assistant] Knowing they're not gonna answer because they're gonna get fired, like I, like I understand the dynamics at play, so we pushed as hard as we could. It's not like you can even buy the thing right now, so, you know, oh, well we didn't show the edge cases where it's really bad, it's like, yeah, fair enough, but we will.


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[Assistant] We're gonna show it when we review it, so by the time it's actually a-a-a money decision factor, uh, we'll have given you guys the complete story, so no, I-I felt like it was fine.


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[Assistant] Actually, not bad. Uh, we settled into what I think might be our, our somewhat sustainable run rate today. Today's sales, before Wancho even, and you guys have been amazing, a ton of you were like,


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[Assistant] Warranty, let's go! And ordered backpacks. I've been watching them come across the screen here the whole time.


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[Assistant] But, uh, even before that, today was the first day, uh, cause usually you'll start like this, and you'll see a curve like this, right? So we're making our way into that asymptote, uh, portion of our, of our parabolic sales curve here, uhm.


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[Assistant] Today was the first day, sales were up compared to the last day, looking like we're kinda settling in. And based on my numbers, we're actually out ahead of where we would need to be to just regularly stock the backpack. Cause you guys gotta understand, wave one's not even gonna ship out till September 20th, right? Wave two,


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[Assistant] Before we have a single backpack that is actually in stock.


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[Assistant] Now, we're maybe not gonna move through all of wave 3 in that time, although we might, uh, but that, yeah, yeah, what are those numbers? Actually, we might move through wave 3 in that time, meaning that by the time wave 4 arrives, we'll be in the holiday season, when sales are naturally higher, and based on


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[Assistant] If it, if they, but if they settle in a little lower, the math I did was for I think about 50 a day or something like that. Our production time and shipping time is about five months. So in order to just have stock of it.


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[Assistant] We need to have like thousands and thousands in the warehouse once the end of wave four hits. So it's still possible we actually won't have enough and there will be a gap where we don't have stock before we can reorder and get more stock.


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[Assistant] We just felt it was really important. This was a Nick initiative and Luke's, uh, Luke's team executed it. But, uh, Nick really felt, um, that we wanted to make it, we would rather deter people from placing an order by saying, Hey, it's not going to be here for the first day of school. Let's make that abundantly clear.


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[Assistant] Rather than have people disappointed, right? And it'll be the same for, you know, if screwdriver were to launch around the holiday season. We'd rather say, it won't be here for Christmas, than let people think maybe it will.


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[Assistant] And I think we're gonna see another wave of orders, not like a wave, like a shipment wave, but I think we'll see another rush of orders when it's actually in stock, because right now,


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[Assistant] Anyone who is, like, splurging, you know, it's not an impulse buy. You don't get it for a while. You have to wait, I mean, at this point you have to wait, yea, till wave 3, which is like October or something. When, when's wave 3? I'm looking it up right now. I'm on the storp.


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[Assistant] I flipped over to my store tab, I'm like, yeah, trust me bro, warranty shirt, I love it. We actually launched two other shirts today, I was just so excited about the trust me bro one. It's October 30th for wave 3. Uh, components is super nice, I absolutely love this one. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Oh look at that, we've got Yvonne as our, as our model for this one.


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[Assistant] Uh, apparently I'm here too, Dennis. Uh, this, I love this color. Uh, this is our, what color is this? I don't know, it doesn't actually say. Apparently we don't have a description for this, but whatever, it looks neat. And then the other one that launched today is the keyswitch shirt.


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[Assistant] Which has a review, which we will probably have to get rid of, because it's probably spam, because they don't have the shirt yet, because we just launched it.


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[Assistant] I think everyone deals with imposter syndrome a little bit. You know, do I, do I deserve this?


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, I think, I think, uh, oh man, Richard, Richard Smalley.


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[Assistant] No, no, it's someone else. Stuart Smalley. Stuart Smalley, uh, performed by Al Franken.


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[Assistant] Man, man, my memory was clearly way off there. But he basically has this catchphrase where he says, uh, I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and gosh darn it, people like me. Actually, in all seriousness though, comedy aside, the importance of positive self-talk cannot be


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[Assistant] Overstated. It's super, super important. Oh, apparently the Echo's back. Yeah, he's on it. Okay.


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[Assistant] I think that you have to, I think you have to find a balance. I think you have to find a balance that works for your own mental health. I think that telling yourself that you're just like the king and the greatest and everything you do you absolutely deserve and was all 100% skill, I think that's ridiculous, right?


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[Assistant] There's an element, I mean, just being, having the luck of being born in a place where I was able to pursue an entrepreneurial endeavor, right?


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[Assistant] You can't take that, you can't take that for granted.


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[Assistant] And I mean, there's luck things that are sort of luck and sort of, you know, skill in a way. Like I was kind of lucky that I just am really into tech. And that I was motivated to pursue knowledge about it and to help people learn about it.


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[Assistant] Joshua! So, nope, that was the one we just did.


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[Assistant] Ashley says, just wanted to say you guys are awesome. Hey, thanks Ashley, you're awesome too. Uhm, my husband and I love everything we've gotten. We look forward to what you guys will do in the future. Also, has Luke gotten his Steam Deck? Is this gonna be, this is gonna be a question on LAN show every freaking week. Belle has. Really?


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[Assistant] Well, when did he get his order in? Before you, I would guess. It was mine. Oh.


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[Assistant] I have hands on with the IE Neo Air now. There's cool handhelds coming that are not the Steam Deck.


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[Assistant] You're goddamn cheap because you won't even buy new shoes. Has nothing to do with Steam Deck.


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[Assistant] Oh, Ares, I accidentally, uhm, archived this one. Have you checked out Game Stream and Remote Desktop on the Steam Deck?


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's a super cool use case for it. I'm super into remote game streaming. I think we were one of the first ones to really dive into it back in the day when Valve first launched that feature and it was run by, as far as I could tell, one dev.


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[Assistant] And yeaah, it's a super, super smart way to optimize your battery life and the screen is so small that the kinds of compression artifacts that you're dealing with at the bit rates that we can now encode nearly instantaneously to, it's, it's minimal.


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[Assistant] That's freaking awesome. Like if you're trying to run 60 megabit on a giant 4K TV or something like that, you're game streaming like that, you're going to see a lot of compression. But on a tiny little display like that, man, it looks really good. Really good.


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[Assistant] Oh, Anonymous with the Cathar Storm G5?


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[Assistant] I will give you, it's the silver one.


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[Assistant] It's a piece of water cooling history that no one but me probably cares about.


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[Assistant] So there, that's my, that's my offer. Uhm, you can get in touch via the publicly available email on the channel. But that's, that's all I have to say about that. Okay, Dan, hit me.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's, that's the, why do I have this hanging off my ear? I've had this off the whole time. Uh, that's, that's the, that's the reason. I mean, the things that I'm really, I'm kinda simple. The things I'm really passionate about, I...


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[Assistant] We're kind of doing making screwdriver. We have awesome water bottles. These are kind of your own line of motorcycles.


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[Assistant] Uhm, see that's a thing though, is what would I contribute? I'm not a professional writer.


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[Assistant] Like, I like it, you build it for you. Yeaah, but I don't think that, no, no, we should let the, I think that's one of those categories where we should really let the professionals and the engineers work together and come up with something, and I'm just gonna enjoy it. Right? Like, the most I might change is gonna be the aesthetic anyway, so I'll just get a body kit, right?


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[Assistant] I can customize my own if I really want to. I don't think it needs to be a mass market product.


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[Assistant] This will be Linus' answer. I think you and I both know each other's position on that pretty well.


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[Assistant] So, here it is. Don't worry about it, Dan. Oh, nevermind, he wasn't gonna spring into action anyway.


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[Assistant] Laptop pocket, not the main pocket. We've got one of those soft facing things here in the bottom. Okay, right here. So the idea was you could put your Steam Deck in unsheathed.


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[Assistant] You can also put it in in the case, but...


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[Assistant] Note that that will, if you have a laptop as well, oh, he is springing into action. Okay, if you have a laptop in there as well, which I do, okay, it's, it's pretty tight. So when you close it, like, yeaah, it works fine. But that's pretty, uh, that's pretty tight. So, like it doesn't interfere with the main,


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[Assistant] Pouch of holding or anything like that? Oh my goodness, this is really hard to do.


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[Assistant] But it does bulge a little bit at the bottom. I mean, you can't break the laws of physics. It takes up as much space as it takes up.


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[Assistant] What I would typically do, just because you have to kind of...


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[Assistant] Unzip it, so, well, I dunno. It's also got the little handle on it, it actually comes out pretty easily. Okay, it kinda works.


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[Assistant] It wasn't what we had in mind, but because it's just the right width already, it's fine I guess. What I would probably do with it is throw it in the main compartment.


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[Assistant] And it's got a protective cover on it anyway, so it's not like you have to worry about it banging on things or anything like that.


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[Assistant] Oh no, Matt asks, what's the latest with my home smart switches? Well, half of them are no longer visible. Uhm, I don't know if that's home assistant's fault or their switch's fault.


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[Assistant] Uh, so I can't change any of the parameters. Uhm, ugh.


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[Assistant] I, I, I don't know. Maybe I'll email back the Inavelli CEO and be like, yeah, we need to do the Linus switch. I'll, I'll, I'll promote it. I'll fund it. I don't care. I just want.


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[Assistant] So get rid of these things. But, but it might not be their fault. I have more diagnosis to do and be like, we're not even, we don't even have a lot of boxes unpacked, so.


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[Assistant] Diagnosing smart switch things is just lower on my list of priorities. Although, we did do RGB in the gaming room today. Ooh, there's a lot.


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[Assistant] Messaged me on the OG forums about extending the Silver Tech Tips limited shirt time. You responded back with, I will talk to Nick from then on. I knew I could trust you bro. Thanks for being real. Always. I do my best. Sometimes I screw it up. Sometimes I screw it up.


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[Assistant] Okay, and I'm gonna try to end this show. Thank you for tuning in.


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[Assistant] We'll see you again next week, same bad time, same bad channel, with no controversy! Then you can trust him on that, bro. Bye!


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[Assistant] Oh yea, show brought to you by Seasonic, Vulture, and the other one. Oh crap, this is awkward. Ah, they probably won't watch this.


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[Assistant] Well, that's the one. Uhm, if, uh, SIG stack fault, uh, make sure you send another message, cause like,


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[Assistant] That should never happen on purpose. Worst case scenario, tweet at Nick or me. Alright, kay, bye.


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[Assistant] Preferably Nick because I don't, my mentions don't show up properly. There's like gaps in my, in my timeline of mentions so I just.


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[Assistant] Oh, where's the wide cam? What? Oh, I know why that's happening. Yeah, yeah, yeah, line this cam. Uh, shit. Dennis, is it possible that-


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[Assistant] That's where I thought Luke was going with it. In the lobby, with the couch.


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[Assistant] Oh, no, no, no. I- Black couch. Yeah, what kind of couch is-


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[Assistant] Okay, uh, Dan, Linus, and Luke love the show. What's your take on AMD Alveo MA35D and its implementation of AV1 and the use of AI in its ability to help with decision of bitrate of content?


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[Assistant] Hit us, Dan. Alright, next up, uhm, this one's from Jonathan.


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[Assistant] Do you still use all that janky stuff you have made over the years, like the water-cooled network switch or the red camera? Thanks for the awesome vids.


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[Assistant] Next one. Another one? Alright, here we go. Uhm, let's archive that. This is from John. Linus, any fun anecdotes about the making of the Uncle Linus video?


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[Assistant] Oh, alright. He went so off script, it's not even funny. This is, this is just sponsored. I thought it was pretty funny.


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[Assistant] Isn't Hugging Face more like an online repo of all these AI tunes?


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[Assistant] Yes, I believe so. You wore the large, and I wore the one I think Linus is wearing now.


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[Assistant] Tall sizes when? Okay. Because, uh, yeaah, they didn't quite fit us that perfectly.


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[Assistant] You don't also, you don't list the arm length, uhm, so I'm six foot two or something like that and I have weird gangly long arms, uhm, and for me the medium fit better in the shoulders and the arms as well.


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[Assistant] Yeah, anyways. Here we go. Why did Linus stop calling you slick? Why did he ever start? Have we talked about this before? I don't think so.


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[Assistant] Oh, well that's a shame. Uh, hi Dan, Luke, and Linux. What kind of paint is best for pa- I'm reading that verbatim. Uh, what kind of paint is best for painting a computer case? I'm working on a mod with the kids and they asked if I could ask you guys when I order their bottles. If it's silver, you should spray paint it silver. That's not a kind of paint.


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[Assistant] Do you have to go through and scrub any other non-public videos after the tech-linked takedown?


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[Assistant] Oh, and then schedule message 9.42tuesday. Huh? Scheduled message 9.42tuesday? Yea, there you go.


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[Assistant] That's a problem, isn't it? Because I know you've absolutely talked about that multiple times. Yes. Uh, okay, we need to, uh, I'll have a meeting with Conrad.


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[Assistant] Yeah, if I, if I knew that you weren't gonna look at them, then I'd just delete them or not respond like that. I guess.


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[Assistant] It looks very dark on this screen. I think that'll be fine. Yeah. Yeah, that's good. That's good. That's good. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, this is sick. Alright, hit us. Alright, let me just get to the page here. Okay, we've got quite a few to get through today.


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[Assistant] Alright, there we are, one sec, alright, next one. Hey Luke and Linus, I wanted to know if Labs is going to review products from companies you have issues with and how you would handle if a product is good but the company is problematic. Thanks. We do that already?


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[Assistant] Dan. Sure thing. Hi, Linus, Luke and Dan. I'm a leatherworker based in Victoria and I'm buying a screwdriver to use and to develop a holster for it. What are some features you would want to see in a hand-sewn, high-quality holster?


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[Assistant] Okay, next up, uh, Luke, I recently found a Fallout 4 mod that adds dialog tree options using an AI generated voice overs. Are there any game mechanics you would like to see an AI applied to, such as NPC dialogue or storylines?


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[Assistant] Alright. What do you see as an ideal endgame for LTT? I know in the past you talked about the future in regards to your children in the company. This is geared more towards the lasting legacy of LTT and the lab.


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[Assistant] Do any of your early experiences at NCIX inform your sourcing strategies? Are there any lessons learned that you carry forward with Creator Warehouse and all of the fabulous


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[Assistant] Okay, next up, first time sending a merch message. What was the most surprising feature you've ever seen on a new graphics card? Game stream.


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[Assistant] Alright. I recently picked up the pajama pants and absolutely love them so far. Out of curiosity, what's the rationale behind using a mesh material for the pockets instead of the same as the rest of them?


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[Assistant] Okay, next up. Hi Dan, Luke and Linus. What is something you do when you're physically exhausted and emotionally or mentally fatigued in order to recover?


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[Assistant] Speaking of below, second undepurchase here. Need some for wifey. Luke, Linus, and Dan, what is your SO biggest tech faux pas or taboo? Mine is my wife neglecting to change regularly and repeatedly asking for passwords.


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[Assistant] Oh, there, there it is, yea. I guess people are just gonna have to subscribe to Flowplain.


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[Assistant] Hey, Luke and Linus love the show. Question about LTX office slash labs visits. Will there be a place where people can wait in between the two different tours? Uh, availability made mine one hour apart. Uhm.


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[Assistant] I've got a company and have to make very difficult decisions a lot. Linus, any tips on how to handle stress, ensuring you make the best decision that make customers happy. Thanks for all the content.


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[Assistant] Hello Linus, Luke, and Dan. Linus, in some streams, you've partaken in some floor time. Do you ever end up just working from the floor? Meetings, calls, etc? I'm really hoping this isn't just me. I saw you on the stairs the other day.


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[Assistant] Right, next up. Hey LTT, one day I'd be super curious to see Luke's reaction to the recent Adam Conover AI video. He asserts that AI is basically scam technology, all hype and fraud, a la Tesla's self-driving cars.


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[Assistant] I have a response here from Nick about your beanie. Oh! Apparently it was never made into production. Oh. So, he can follow up with Sarah if you would like.


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[Assistant] Cool, uh. Hello LL and Dee. Thanks for the hoodie. Full on gaming channel when?


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[Assistant] Cool. I might need to finish the logo for that then. Uh, we'll talk about that next. Why are you doing a logo? Yeah, I know, it's a whole thing, it's great. Uh, okay, next step. No, it's not great. Yeah, that's not great, that's very random, Dan. I, I shallowed it, it's, it's fine.


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[Assistant] Okay, just out of pure curiosity, which of the add-on screwdriver bit packs is the most popular?


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[Assistant] Uhm, when do we get the Luke Talks AI Hour? Maybe it's own show, new channel.


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[Assistant] Hello, LLND. Can we get the story about the hard drives that got carried in a shopping cart through a parking lot? Maybe even a technical explanation of the damage.


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[Assistant] Elanel, you have a ton of employees from many different backgrounds that work at LMG. Have you ever collected employee family or favorite recipes and turned it into an LMG company cookbook? Nope.


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[Assistant] Is it possible that we get more accent colors for the screwdriver or do we have to go DIY if we want to have one in the future? Should I leak it?


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[Assistant] Now he has to do it. Now there is a deadline.


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[Assistant] Will there be an autograph signing session during LTX Expo?


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[Assistant] How do y'all feel about the availability of DIY military tech thanks to Chinese suppliers, or 3D printers, LML, LLMs? I don't know what that is. What's an LLM? Large Language Model.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Stick it on your robot dog that you can buy off the... Let's stop talking. Uh, great show as always. Any update on the Acoustic Panels line is talked about in a tour video a while back. The Acoustic Panel.


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[Assistant] Have you ever had a computer issue that annoyed you for months or years before you fixed it?


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[Assistant] Hi DLL, any chance of an LTT store water-cooled chair? I know it wouldn't be cheap, but definitely worth it for us hot boys.


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[Assistant] I have run out of curated messages.


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[Assistant] Hi Linus and Slick. Any thoughts on making content for floatplane development? Hey! I tried to answer this one in text!


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[Assistant] Yeah, that happens to me with Linus. Sorry, keep going, keep going. Interested in behind the scenes content for day to day work and challenges faced being one of few companies to handle streaming.


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[Assistant] Uhm, yea, five seconds and there'll be another one. Oh, okay. It spreads it out depending on how many there are in the queue. Oh, hilarious. So you should see another one right now.


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[Assistant] Uhm, next up, ShortCircuit is partly responsible for the mechanical keyboard rabbit hole I went down this week. What are all of your keyboard preferences?


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[Assistant] Oh, let's not get into this again. They're $800 each.


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[Assistant] I think they're a good deal though. They're really nice.


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[Assistant] And even just having the pick of whatever keyboard that you want, if you don't have the key cards, and different mice and all that sort of stuff, I think that's really important.


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[Assistant] You've stated that you're really not into the idea of bridging multiple internet connections to boost speed with a person with gigabit plus internet. Would you say that the same thing for under 5 megabits per second connections?


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[Assistant] Okay, last one I have here in the curated. In the past you've encouraged the preservation of data on the internet. With that in mind, how do you feel with those that saved slash downloaded the private videos that were released by the hackers?


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[Assistant] Uh, hey Linus, what ever happened with the one dollar PC giveaway? What was the craziest thing you have given away? Uh, was that the stream one? The random PC? I think so. Yeah, we gave it away.


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[Assistant] Who's that, who's that old guy who does the interviews? I can never remember his name.


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[Assistant] Any thoughts on making a dog toy? Maybe a puzzle type toy? It baffles me that no matter how much money I spend, I can find a puzzle toy my dog can't solve in five minutes.


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[Assistant] Up next, hi Luke and Linus. My friend and I would like to know how ethically the clothes are sourced because there is nothing on the website about the ethics of the clothes.


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[Assistant] Do you have any more, oh, there's uh, there's no more curated ones. Okay. Do you want to just start reading some


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[Assistant] Interesting. I mean, do you ever ride them between the buildings?


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[Assistant] Uh, which show-uh, broadcasted all of the most boring things you could possibly imagine. Oh, come on! But we will make it interesting! Oh, come on! Just like we always do! Hit it, Chewie! I'm Chewie!


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[Assistant] A lot of this all came at a pretty similar time. It felt like there was almost a, uh, video technology kick that YouTube was on. Around when they launched, they launched 8K, they launched 360 video, they launched...


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[Assistant] Really we're, we're, we're, we're very certain that something wouldn't work and then someone finally was like, no, we have to test it. They tested it and it worked really well.


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[Assistant] Or they, like, just differing from the expected result, right? And then the person who was right was like, no, now we have to test everything!


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[Assistant] Corrupted like if you wanted to I've never actually done this, but I know people do if you wanted to watch like a concert


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[Assistant] Sure. Having that get interrupted by an ad break would be really weird.


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[Assistant] It's interesting, you block Origin, I think, but I don't remember, uh, said that they, they believe strongly that they're gonna be able to make it work, um, but, I'm kind of- I mean, they have to say that. What else would they say?


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[Assistant] We have no idea. Nope. We're gonna toss on the towel. I'm hoping that it's a bit of a resurgence for Firefox. That's my hope.


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[Assistant] I try to, I often end up not really being able to use it, because, uh, I- Because it hasn't been very good in a long time. And I have a pretty strong stance of, if I'm using this thing for work, it has to be the best thing, even if I don't like it.


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[Assistant] Having interruptions in my work because my browser is having issues when I could just use Chrome.


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[Assistant] But I know you're not happy about it. But I'm not happy about it, and I'm, I'm going to try- Like, he's a knightly boy, you know? Yeah, I used to love that. I know, I know. And I'd deal with the problems when it was personal stuff. Yup.


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[Assistant] So, I'm going to try again, probably in January, uhm, Firefox. See how it goes. Safari.


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[Assistant] Hold on, the five to ten dollar jump is your pricing.


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[Assistant] You're just talking about the platform. Oh, sorry. Yes, yes. So the way that it ends up working on the Linus Tech Tips page that is on the platform is a 5 to 10, 10 dollar jump. Yes. Uhm, it's different.


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[Assistant] And like, bandwidth is hyper expensive and also very difficult.


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[Assistant] Okay, so Google doesn't own all of the, uh, you know, cables that go around the entire internet, although also all that stuff takes maintenance and whatnot. So like if Google wants to send you


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[Assistant] Uh, one of the problems that we have right now, I'm gonna call out a, a country specifically that we're actually having problems with, so sorry if you're having this problem, but in Germany, uh, there's multiple ISPs, right? Sure. And the, the pathways that we're using work great for some users in Germany, and it works really poorly for other users in Germany. We have really good service in Germany.


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[Assistant] We also have not really good service in Germany. It's not a...


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[Assistant] In ISPs like data centers and in ISPs nodes and stuff, because such a huge percentage of internet usage in these areas was all Netflix and they were actually helping the ISPs by doing this. Like the ISPs wanted these things installed.


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[Assistant] At that point pretty much. And like really advanced caching systems are great and stuff like that, but like it's all highly complicated, highly difficult and very highly expensive.


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[Assistant] Absolutely. Yeah. There's tons of costs to it. Um, and something that you go over in the video as well, but like there's, I'm seeing comments about it. I'm seeing notes about all this kind of stuff like, oh, we shouldn't feel bad for billion dollar companies. I'm the first person to jump on that train.


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[Assistant] And I don't feel bad for them. None of this is feeling bad for them. A lot of this is understanding. Uhm, and not understanding me like, oh it's okay, it's okay. No, it's, it's the classic thing of a web company that is valued purely on scale.


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[Assistant] And then when scaling becomes difficult or your costs start ramping to a certain degree, you need to start making money. And often how they start doing that is ugly.


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[Assistant] So yeaah, they're gonna make it make more money. Uhm, and 4k is really expensive, like we've already talked about.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and they have done actually a lot of research figuring out that almost no one actually cares.


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[Assistant] Uh, which is potentially an uncomfortable thing to hear. Uh, it's something that floatplane ran into.


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[Assistant] We had a bunch of conversations with users and with creators.


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[Assistant] Uhm, one of the original ideas of Floatplane was like, hey, we're going to offer better quality everything. And that's going to be a huge selling point to the platform. People are going to want to join because their content will have never looked or sounded as good online. Uhm, and users are going to want to subscribe because they can see their creator's content and


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[Assistant] In higher quality and they can hear it in higher quality.


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[Assistant] We have actually- That's not true. We have one person who cares. Garbage time. Garbage time. Garbage time cares that it sounds good. And that's great.


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[Assistant] That's awesome. I love and appreciate that because boy howdy did we put some work into it and it really didn't pay off.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we've stuck to our guns, it still looks and sounds good. Uhm, and there's people each other like, oh I care! And you know what? You might. You might be, if I remember correctly from the video, uh, that I am probably going to misquote, so I'm sorry. You might be the, what was it, 1.5% of people.


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[Assistant] Who actually care? It's such a tiny percentage of people. YouTube ran some experiments where they started just changing people's settings. And they would set them to way lower. Like 480 I think?


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[Assistant] People that were running at 4k, they changed it to 480, and it was like, I'm gonna misquote the percentage, I'm sorry, I don't remember. I think it was like 1.5% of people actually changed it back.


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[Assistant] I'm actually, I'm actually pretty proud, proud of that whole stat because I'm rather certain it happened to me and I noticed.


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[Assistant] Because I was like getting really annoyed that YouTube kept on looking like junk.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and I'm used to watching on full plane, so I could tell. Uhm, so I kept changing it back up, and I was like, what is going on? And I remembered that there used to be the default settings, so I was like hunting for it, and I couldn't find it. I was like, something's wrong! Uhm, I'm pretty sure, I don't know at all, but I'm pretty sure you can teach it. I think you can teach it.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, yeaah. I've noticed that behaviour, so.


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[Assistant] What annoys the crap out of me is I use the different like, uh, uh, Google profile things for my browser. Yes. So I have like a work one, I have a personal one, I have other various work ones.


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[Assistant] And you're not gonna be able to watch 4k. Yeah, so like I have premium on my personal one.


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[Assistant] But in the relatively rare occasion that I open YouTube on my work one, it splashes me with an ad right away, and then I have to throw the video that I wanted to watch for work into my personal YouTube, which means that it gets lost from the history, and when I need to find it later, it's annoying. I'm just like, man, if I'm actively signed into one premium account on this computer,


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[Assistant] It's not like I'm sharing it with other devices. It would be nice if it made it so that it wouldn't serve ads on all of them. Riddle me this. Whatever.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I still think that's in a premium tier of resolutions though, if I could say that. But, YouTube's 1080p looks like dog crap. It does. So, 1440p- But it's also a free platform.


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[Assistant] There's an interesting comment in flowplane. A lot of people are saying 1080p is their line. Uhm, and I see one person who said 1080p should be free because competition said so. So here's where I'm going to throw a bit of a monkey wrench in things. What competition? Exactly.


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[Assistant] So this is where my line is actually a lot lower because ultimately I'm going to end up keeping.


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[Assistant] Continuing to use it because there's content on YouTube that I cannot access elsewhere, including, I've seen an example from you about like fixing a washing machine.


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[Assistant] I, fairly recently, had to fix my dryer. My clothes dryer. How was I going to do that without YouTube? To be completely honest, I wasn't.


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[Assistant] The manual that you could read, and I was like, wow, I'm gonna break this for sure. Or there's the YouTube video of the dude just being like, alright, so I-


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[Assistant] Unscroll these things, toss it over there. Watch out for this. Do whatever, yeaah. It's like, okay, five to ten minutes later, I kinda know what to do and I can replay this a million times and it's fine. And I would have watched that in very low resolution with ads on it.


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[Assistant] You meant lint collector or coin collector? It's called a coin collector on mine. Oh, okay. I don't know if it has like an actual name, uh, on mine. It's called a coin collector. I don't know. Um, cool.


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[Assistant] Oh, I see what people are saying for Coino. No, it's like, when it's in the wash, like, like, uh, little bits of things would get like, uh, ejected, but it doesn't want to go down the water pipe.


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[Assistant] Did you say it was your dryer? Why does it have water in it? Maybe it was the washer? It's been a while since I did it.


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[Assistant] See, this is where it gets complicated because even if it was 480, there are use cases where I would still use it.


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[Assistant] But not everything that I would do is watching a software tutorial. I'm also trying to devil's advocate a little bit, but not too much, because with the dryer example, I could've, or whatever it was. The thing. Turns out it was a waffle iron.


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[Assistant] If it's a free thing, if when it starts playing an ad, I can just put my phone down and start grabbing my tools or whatever. And when it's done playing an ad, I can start trying to follow the tutorial. I'm going to still use the service because there's nothing else out there like it.


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[Assistant] What is it even called? Daily Motion? That's not a realistic competitor. Yea, I get real. Yea.


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[Assistant] Yeah, cause it makes sense cause it's really expensive to serve video. So like, I would love to be like, meh, 1080p is my line. Because below that it kind of sucks. But no, I'm gonna keep using the platform if it's lower than that. Ultimately, I've already subscribed to premium, so this problem doesn't really affect me. But I think that's true for a lot of people.


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[Assistant] Spend your hot takes! We're playing, we're doing some role reversal. And I know it's like, not okay, to be completely clear. I think the only solution is government rent.


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[Assistant] Which is so not okay for a totally different giant ball of wax. Okay. So.


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[Assistant] Public libraries are changing. Let me talk about that in a second. I need to defend my thing. There's once people were like, that's a horrible idea. I know. That's why I prefaced it by saying it's a horrible idea. My reason for saying that is because a lot of non-economically viable things basically have to go to


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[Assistant] So that, that's why I say that. Not because I want that. I think it's a horrible idea. There's tons of massive problems with it. It is not cool. Uhm, but okay, public libraries, I wanna talk about that. Public libraries have changed a bunch.


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[Assistant] Uhm, there are local public libraries that have tools. Have you heard about this?


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[Assistant] That is so cool. You can go sign out a tool.


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[Assistant] So that you can like, do maintenance. Public libraries are becoming...


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[Assistant] They're continuing to be in the spirit of what they always were.


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[Assistant] But there's, there's certain libraries, I know of this in the States. I don't know of this in Canada. There are certain libraries in the States that have just straight up pirated games and you can go sign them out, take them home.


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[Assistant] And play the pirated game completely legally, as long as you like-


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[Assistant] So like, even if they did do it, they're just gonna die. Uhm, a bunch of people in chat talking about cool things that their libraries have. Yea, temporary books on kindles and stuff. Someone talking about, uh, uh,


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[Assistant] And someone brought up a very major issue that libraries in low income areas can sometimes just suck.


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[Assistant] I don't know. That's probably fairly legit. Uhm, but all I'm saying is that libraries are changing. They're not necessarily just books now. They're trying to evolve from beyond that.


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[Assistant] If you, if you wanna see about, uh, people copying those types of, uh, platforms and filming styles, look into the evolution of cameras and also look into the evolution of online video existing at all. Because you owe a lot of it to that. A lot more than you probably know. Yeah.


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[Assistant] You gotta, I wonder. Classic. You gotta make number 69 out of 69 special.


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[Assistant] Definitely. Cause taking artifacts from elsewhere and bringing them back to your home country is very purifying.


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[Assistant] Anyways, Intel Arc A770 and A750 reviewed. And streamed. I thought that was cool. That was a good idea. Yeaah. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] Uhm, after years of exciting announcements and then months of radio silence, Intel has finally released their ARC GPUs. Their pricing, the A750 8GB is $289, the A778GB is $329, and the same card but in the 16GB variant is $349. But, there's complications.


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[Assistant] I, a Rocket League moron. I was just gonna say you don't play and he probably does, right? He plays hard. Yeah.


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[Assistant] I think this is a sidebar thing, but if you remember correctly, the first time in many years that I actually felt my computer performance not being where I wanted it to be.


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[Assistant] Was with Beat Saber, because I started getting into difficulties where it was too fast and I was starting to lag. Yes. I was just like, this sucks. Yeah.


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[Assistant] If these Arc GPUs did not have the, you know, DX12 and Vulkan or bust issues, how well do you think they would have done?


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[Assistant] Yeah, but like, is this something you strongly recommend? At that price point? It's tough. If it, again, if it doesn't have that problem.


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[Assistant] Right, because... If you enjoy messing around with things...


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[Assistant] I saw that comment, but I was happy that you guys did that because it's just so interesting.


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[Assistant] Like it's very cool for that fact, but if you want something that's like rock solid, reliable, and you can play games all the time.


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[Assistant] Yeah, because I really want to see Battlemage. I really want to see Beyond That.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I was gonna say with the, with the whole uhm, I can't think of the name for it right now, but like, stitched together course.


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[Assistant] Yeah, with chiplets, there we go. I didn't know you were going with machine learning. But before you were going with machine learning, I was thinking, the chiplets might change everything up.


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[Assistant] Uhm, yeaah, it totally is though, actually. Uhm, so, yeaah, I dunno, we'll see.


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[Assistant] If, I think I've said it before and I would still say it now.


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[Assistant] If I was still buying hardware, I would seriously consider it.


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[Assistant] Because it's just so interesting. And I would find playing different games and testing them and stuff, I would find that interesting.


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[Assistant] But, that's not gonna be for most people for sure. Uhm.


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[Assistant] And, and there are the, you brought up last time, you brought up the social issues, like if you can't play some game with your friends, it sucks. Yeah, okay, so, are you ready? Yeah. We've been challenged.


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[Assistant] The 30 day arc challenge? 30 day arc challenge. I'm down.


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[Assistant] We did know that was likely to happen, to be fair.


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[Assistant] Hopefully she likes diagnosing why games are hard to play, uh, or hopefully you know that the game in then in brackets S that she plays, uh, works well on it, I guess. Okay. Loser shaves their beard.


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[Assistant] Wow. I saw that, I didn't want to say it because I really don't want to do that. How do you lose though? You game on anything.


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[Assistant] Neither, we're both way too stubborn, so it like doesn't really matter what the stakes are, neither of us are gonna give up before 30 days.


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[Assistant] Anyone holding one. I haven't watched a video or seen a picture of anyone holding one. I have heard anecdotes of how big they are.


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[Assistant] Someone tagged me and was like, that's not chicken. That's fair. That's good.


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[Assistant] It's been a while. It tastes like, I mean mine didn't have a name change, and it tastes about the same as it used to. Does yours taste different?


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[Assistant] The public has received their first glimpse of the 4090s. I'm intentionally not looking up right now. And they are BIG news. Literally. They're huge.


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[Assistant] While the founder's edition is shorter in length than the 3090 Ti, it is thicker.


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[Assistant] And wider. And some add in board cards are comedically large apparently.


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[Assistant] The Asus ROG makes the already massive Founder Edition card feel downright reasonable? JaceTwoSense did a size comparison video? I'm sure he did. Uhm, where he compared it to the PlayStation 5? What?


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[Assistant] I'm still not looking up, that's crazy. Uh, he also tried installing the ASUS card in the Leon Lee Land Cool. Uh, Jay again? What?


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[Assistant] Okay, and it looks like, uh, it won't fit in any smaller mid-time cases. In many. With many. Luke's tired.


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[Assistant] Pallet is recommending a 1200 watt minimum.


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[Assistant] Let's begin with a 39. I have also never held or actually seen in person one of these. And that is absurd.


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[Assistant] So I've, I've been saying for a long time a little joke about how GPUs are just little computers inside your computer.


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[Assistant] Uhm, cause they like totally are, if you look at them in an architectural way.


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[Assistant] This weighs about the same weight as a little computer.


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[Assistant] Uh, I think we just send it. Go with Asus.


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[Assistant] It is, it is, I will say it is a little shocking. Like I've seen...


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[Assistant] A lot of people holding 3090s, I knew they were, they were huge, uh, but.


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[Assistant] My poor old, like, GTX 260 I bought back in the day would just be embarrassed.


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[Assistant] How many slots thick is that, Luke? Is that three? Or four? Three and a half?


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[Assistant] Here, I'll give you the next one. What do you want next? What do you want next? Uhh, just, uh, hit me. With anything. Doesn't matter.


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[Assistant] Okay. Big box, big box, big boy. These are, these are crazy. These are crazy. Just the cost in like, metal. That'd be quite a bit.


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[Assistant] That's okay. I don't feel bad for being confused by that now.


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[Assistant] Card looks sick though. It does look cool. It's also literally the size of a computer. Uhm.


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[Assistant] He's back. Yeah, and like that wasn't a small card. No, no, not even a little.


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[Assistant] Yeah. On this thing. Like this end, I don't think you can see it quite as well. I'm gonna angle it there. I'm gonna angle it like that. It looks like a spaceship. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I'm rather certain just the heat fins on here are, just the heat fins are bigger than the entire 1080.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's shorter, but I think it's thicker. Yeah. Here, let's go like this. Hold it like this.


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[Assistant] Yeah, did they- did they ship with them? I don't know. I hope so.


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[Assistant] So uhm, no, not now that I'm not holding it in a weird way.


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[Assistant] What about, uh, you know, LTT store GPU support braces?


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[Assistant] I think that's the first time that I've ever felt a personal computer component that wasn't a case. And been like, wow, this is genuinely heavy. Yeah. Like it's never been a thing before. That's crazy. Yeah, I can see that.


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[Assistant] It feels like it. It like genuinely does.


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[Assistant] Seriously though. Have dedicated power to the graphics card. Stop calling it a card. The graphics unit. Crazy.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I know, I know. But, but it's not card, is what I'm saying. That's wild. I don't know, uhm, I didn't necessarily know how that would make me feel, and now that I've held them, I still don't know. But they're absurd.


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[Assistant] I don't want one. Which is a weird reaction, I think. But like, that thing's ridiculous. I don't like...


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[Assistant] I don't think I've ever held a computer component and immediately been like, this is unnecessary. As hardcore as I just did.


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[Assistant] There's no reason this thing needs to exist in its current form. At least for me, I'm sure there's some people that'll do some crazy things with them that need every little tiny bit of power they can possibly get. I know there's applications like that.


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[Assistant] Sure, yeaah. Or like machine learning applications or some type of whatever. Uhm, but like, wow. How much does one of those weigh?


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[Assistant] Like, do you have, do you have that stat? I actually don't know, but a lot. Yeaah. Let's see, ASUS. 40, 90, wait.


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[Assistant] Might not be, because why would you bother include that with a graphics card, but it matters now. Oh yeah, okay, so it's, yeah, 3.65 slot.


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[Assistant] Might as well just call it four. But yeaah, it's not quite four, technically. Right, uhm. Not quite four. Mhm. Yeaah, they don't list weight here as far as I can see. Maybe they do, I just- Yeaah, maybe they should start.


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[Assistant] It's getting kinda necessary. It might actually matter. Yeah. Five pounds, someone said. That's a lot for a graphics card. Yeah. Yeah, crazy.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I mean it got zero plays and zero lakes.


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[Assistant] People are gonna get annoyed, uhm, I think you remember like way back in the day when somebody sent me a death threat because I reviewed something negatively, uhm, not that I ever thought it was like real, uhm, I'm not saying that, but like,


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[Assistant] People are gonna get really defensive about stuff. And if this individual person is hyper used to it, so due to their familiarity disagrees, uhm, they might find a different way to try to explain that where they seem


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[Assistant] I don't know, they might be using that feeling to justify this approach, uhm, but your reviewer


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[Assistant] I think you have to do that type of stuff. Uhm, and you're gonna lose some people because of it.


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[Assistant] But that's fine. They can just go find a reviewer that feels more similarly to how they feel.


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[Assistant] When did they add it? If that's true, you just made him a happy man.


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[Assistant] I think an option, even if quite buried, would be great. I think the average user is not going to change defaults on practically anything, especially if you don't


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[Assistant] Prompt them or let them know that it's there. So if you have some menu that's like, uh, like navigation options or something.


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[Assistant] Right. And you, you throw like, uh, swiping from the side will always go back. Or whatever. Right. As an option in there, I think that's a easy solution that hurts no one, so why not do it?


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[Assistant] Maybe, but I still don't necessarily think you should change that.


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[Assistant] So I don't think you should concern yourself with people that interpreted everything you just said as watching your feet.


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[Assistant] That's, I think that's my argument. Uh, I think there's always gonna be people that hear incorrectly. I think there's always gonna be people that take a, um, countering stance for whatever reason. I think you just gotta ignore it and keep pushing forward.


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[Assistant] It doesn't keep gassing while he's breaking.


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[Assistant] We both come to that conclusion at the same time. But yea, maybe that's the problem. It's not, it's not gonna, the car isn't gonna keep trying to go at the same speed if he brakes. It's gonna let him stop. It's not gonna keep going.


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[Assistant] Entered the lexicon of internet speech because...


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[Assistant] It's such a scapegoat for such trash behavior by so many people. The amount of people that I am 100% certain were totally serious and then figured out that they were just...


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[Assistant] TOTALLY RIDICULOUSLY WRONG, and then went, AH HA HA! IB the trolling is very high. It gets used to that. Yes, there is legitimate trolling. I have engaged in it. He engages in it. Daily, I am 100% certain. Uhm.


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[Assistant] And it can be very funny, and like, entertaining, whatever, when used in the right way, but like,


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[Assistant] So someone said, and I don't know how true this is or anything, but Ladi says, psychologically, breaking a little is perceived as more significant than lifting off the gas a little.


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[Assistant] What does that even mean? I think they're saying that you are less, if you see something happening, you're less likely to break than to slow down. If you're unsure if the thing that is happening is, uh, dangerous for you to be going your current speed at towards. Like if you see something moving behind a car. Uh huh.


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[Assistant] I think they're saying that you're less and you're like, oh, they could dart out to the streak or it could be a kid or whatever. You're, I think that they're saying.


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[Assistant] So... I've come to a complete stop because some kid was playing behind a car and I just didn't trust it. Yeah.


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[Assistant] It feels like the searching in Windows problem, where when you search in Windows, if it's not 100% certain, it immediately just bings it.


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[Assistant] And it's like, maybe you should have looked at local files. Yeah.


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[Assistant] It's one that's real close. Someone in chat said, yeah, it should prioritize your local contacts. Yeah. Yeah, of course it should. Like I said, it's the same thing as the Windows search problem. It's the exact same issue.


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[Assistant] I think there's always gonna be a certain minimum amount of alienation, uh, cause people are going to...


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[Assistant] Uh, misinterpret or disagree and disagree is completely fine. Like someone might.


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[Assistant] Someone might think that not prioritizing looking at local files on Windows and not prioritizing local contacts when trying to voice call someone is the right way.


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[Assistant] I'd be very interested in hearing that argument, but considering they both work that way, that argument's gotta exist somewhere. I have no idea how it makes any sense, but it's gotta exist somewhere. So maybe they disagree.


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[Assistant] They prioritize local storage, or in this case local contacts. The second you say call as your prime first word, it should immediately prioritize local contacts.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I feel like I've said the same thing like a billion times, but same as the Windows problem. It just... it... The Windows one is almost worse, because even if you have a perfect match...


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[Assistant] It will first look online and then look local. So if you type it and then press enter quickly, it'll just Bing search it. Which is so annoying.


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[Assistant] But yea, I don't know, I think you just gotta keep doing it, and I think you would just keep doing it anyways. So I don't think it matters.


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[Assistant] People might not appreciate my stance on all that, but I just, I dunno, I think sometimes you lose people and I think sometimes it's worth it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like if I email someone, and they email me back, I don't actually know at what point in that chain this happens, but if there's email exchanges with someone, they're added to my contacts, and just, it happens.


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[Assistant] Sometimes, uh, someone who works with developers on a platform, sometimes,


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[Assistant] It is very technically expensive, um, to incorporate those things, but we are currently talking about a platform that is at a scale where their technical powerhouse behind it is immense and they could absolutely do these things and it wouldn't be a big deal. Right.


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[Assistant] If we bring it up, we're immediately losing monetization. It's Nintendo.


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[Assistant] They did. Did they? The Mario Brothers, it's like horrible. It's live action.


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[Assistant] Oh, I didn't know it was a TV show. Maybe it's just a TV show. I don't know.


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[Assistant] Who is this? This isn't the... Oh. Hm, penguins. Let's go.


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[Assistant] Okay, so it's going to be predictable, but that makes sense, that's okay. Oh, I liked the little fur. Cute.


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[Assistant] They don't have realistic, uh, penguin teeth, but that's probably good. Cause that's terrifying. Bowser kinda looks like an old man.


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[Assistant] Or there is a movie. I don't know. Maybe there's also a TV show.


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[Assistant] Like showing the like, kind of like, the mushrooms look like they're plush. What the heck? They look like they're fabric.


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[Assistant] Bowser could breathe streams of fire in the OG Mario games and in 64. That doesn't sound right. In the OG Mario games I thought it was fireballs.


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[Assistant] Yeah, he's still alive. This has been weird the entire time.


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[Assistant] And I think it's probably really weird for him as well, because again, he's still alive. Like it's not like they couldn't get him to do it.


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[Assistant] Very not surprising given that it's Blizzard and this is how every single game that they launch goes. Uhm.


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[Assistant] But yea, Overwatch 2 launched October 4th, sort of. Players were stuck queuing with tens of thousands of other players. Blizzard president Mike Yabara initially tweeted that they were experiencing server issues. He later tweeted that they were experiencing a massive DDoS attack. There are known bugs. Many of them.


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[Assistant] Some are very bad. There's a known bugs list. Uhm, there was a beta. I don't know why they bother sometimes if they're not going to do anything about the things that were found in the beta.


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[Assistant] There was four hours of downtime Thursday evening during prime time. That is specifically when I tried to play.


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[Assistant] Hooray! Very cool. Queues are apparently still really bad. Uh, even without the issues, some critics are still upset at Overwatch 2, just in general. This has nothing to do with the launch problems.


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[Assistant] They're saying that it's basically Overwatch 1 with a couple very minor feature updates, to be fair.


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[Assistant] They literally told you that. Uhm, like the ability- Doesn't it not cost extra?


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[Assistant] No it doesn't. Yeah. And they said that the like, the multiplayer is gonna merge in and like, you wouldn't have to-


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[Assistant] Pay for it, uh, in order to play. Like, I think you gain, like, single player stuff if you pay for it. It's one of those types of things.


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[Assistant] Which people were praising at the time when they got it and it wasn't different and now they're upset. I don't know. Uhm.


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[Assistant] There's not much of a graphical update. Uh, as far as I've heard, it's basically like it's six hours later. Like every map that is like sort of night timey is like kind of morning and every map that was night timey is like, or you know what I mean? It's just, every map seems like it was pushed slightly further in the day. Uhm.


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[Assistant] The battle, it's a battle pass instead of loot boxes, which...


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[Assistant] Maybe that's better. Pick your poison, I guess. Maybe it's not. Uhm, the PvE mode got delayed.


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[Assistant] The only true new feature of Overwatch 2. As far as my understanding was back in the day, that's why they did it.


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[Assistant] Uh, that they were mentioning, and now it's delayed, like, Halo's campaign co-op.


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[Assistant] Ridiculous priced things for people that are going to buy it. But yeaah, I wish people would default skin more often.


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[Assistant] And I think it's like ridiculous and stupid and should be frowned upon.


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[Assistant] When anyone criticizes anyone else for not having skins in video games, cause like, wow, that's the...


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[Assistant] Probably the least valuable purchase you could make in your day.


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[Assistant] Other than, okay, actually that's very not true. There's a lot of other things that could be worse, but anyways, it's not great. Uh, there's a discussion question. Windows 11 was a free upgrade from Windows 10. Is Blizzard doing the same with Overwatch, but worse? Seeing as Overwatch 1's servers are shutting down, so you're required to upgrade if you want to keep playing the game.


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[Assistant] I don't think it's necessarily that much worse because I don't think it's that different.


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[Assistant] The whole, the whole argument of the game has barely changed means that I don't think you can really complain too much that Overwatch servers ended. Overwatch 1 servers ended. I do know that player teams went from 6 to 5, so if you had a friend group of 6 people that all played Overwatch, that sucks a lot.


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[Assistant] Um, I didn't see like that too particularly in any part of the notes, but.


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[Assistant] I think that's gonna be quite brutal. I think they win to five because basically every other game is five, so it'll make it easier for friend groups of five to transfer over to Overwatch. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. I, I find the launch issues to be funny, just because it's such a blizzard thing. Uhm, every launch they're like, what? We got DDoS'd? Like, every other time? No wayyyy! I mean, in fairness?


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[Assistant] Okay. Yeah, playing games on launch, as fun as it sounds, uh, if you're not ready for this type of issue in the modern day, it's gonna happen with like basically everybody. It's pretty crazy. I do find it interesting.


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[Assistant] That old school game launches went a lot better in a lot of cases because it was a lot more common for old school games to have dedicated servers.


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[Assistant] They're like, yeah, yeah, either your individual server gets DDoSed or if there's too many players, I mean, well, your server just filled up.


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[Assistant] And you as an individual, if you're the server host, you probably have reserved slots, so you don't care. No big deal.


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[Assistant] I think that makes it fun though. It is. And, and what he's trying to do is make an engaging stream, right? Sure. So like, so if, if you, if you say something positive, he's gonna try to cut you off before you potentially make it negative, celebrate, and then if you trash on something, it, it, you know, it makes the story more interesting.


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[Assistant] And it was obviously done with intention, but I do find the trying to play it off as if it wasn't entertaining, which is I am certain the whole point, but yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's just, you know, it's like Thor's hammer, so the, the handle's kinda, you know, proportionate to the size of the hand, and you've got the block down there, and it's called Star Forge, so there's a star in the middle of the flat side of the hammer.


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[Assistant] I kind of just want to leave it at that to be completely honest. We have a bit of a plan for fixing some of those types of things, but I haven't actually really started working on it yet, so I don't want to talk about it too much because the second you talk about those types of things, people expect it's coming out next week. And that's definitely not how anything works. So yeaah. Is there a chance? Yes. Soon? Probably not.


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[Assistant] But, people don't want that.


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[Assistant] There's a lot of reasons why when a lot of those types of, yeah, quality of service with that is hard. Yeah. There's, there's a lot of very significant hurdles. Doesn't make a lot of sense bandwidth wise. Sure. Absolutely.


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[Assistant] It's been thought about for a very long time. And I think if it was genuinely the right thing to do, it would have been done.


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[Assistant] I, I had some guidance from some people that used to work at Twitch, that's as far in as I'll go with that, uhm, about some things that we might run into and, uh, yeaah, sure, we definitely ran into them, uhm, and they, they suggested at the time that we don't


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[Assistant] Set up CDN that would at least technically work so that we would always have a fallback. Was it the best? No. Was it even the most cost effective? No. No.


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[Assistant] But it worked, and if we really have to, we can go back to it. Uhm, right now it's not, so we don't use it so much. Uh, we use it for some things.


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[Assistant] But not for everything. But honestly, the entire Flowplain project as a whole, uhm, could have a giant question mark on it of how did you ever think you could do this with a team, uhm, that isn't 10 to 100 times bigger. 10 would honestly be relatively small. Uhm, and it's...


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[Assistant] Uh, the team's really, really good. Uh, I strongly believe in each person on the team. Uh, I think they do a fantastic job. I think they are...


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[Assistant] Personal care and investment from the members of the team is really high.


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[Assistant] A lot of the problems behind CDNs, we talked about this earlier in the show, is ISPs. So...


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[Assistant] If you plonk, and we ran into this like immediately, if you just plonk a server in Europe, and you're like, we have a server in Europe, that's enough, right?


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[Assistant] All the Europeans can connect to that server. Yeah, it's close. That's great. It has a big fat pipe. It's not that far. Yeah. It's the internet, it's fast, it's fiber, you know, whatever. Yeah, well, except, what if...


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[Assistant] One of the people that is trying to access data off that server, also known as watch a video, is on an ISP and the route between that person all the way through their ISP onto whatever lines eventually lead them to your server. What if that route is junk?


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[Assistant] What if somewhere in there is a problem and...


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[Assistant] Uh, okay, so we're trying to set up our own CDN, but we don't have our own data centers, because we're nowhere near that big, and we have nowhere near that amount of money. So we're gonna plunk into other people's. Well, what if that data center isn't super interested in fixing the problem? What if that ISP isn't super interested in fixing that problem? AJ just mentioned congestion. There's tons of issues along the way, and a lot of them are fairly out of our hands.


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[Assistant] Uhm, without doing immense amount of further investment. In some situations, even with immense amount of further, uh, investment, without partnerships with these different ISPs, without, uh, partnerships on a lot of different levels, it's really hard. Uhm, and basically only works at immense scale.


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[Assistant] There's a big problem. Yeah. So one of the, one of the early projects that we made, um,


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[Assistant] Was like a multi CDN system so that we can switch which one we use. Uh, because one of the...


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[Assistant] Very important parts from the beginning was that we wanted to be able to


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[Assistant] You know, maybe we have some downtime if this has to happen, but there's a path every time. If, if someone cuts us off for whatever reason, there's a path. We know what we have to do. If our CDN cuts us off, we know what we have to do to get going again. If our server host cuts us off, we know what we have to do to get going again. There might be complications there.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but I think that's fairly reasonable, and it's never actually been a problem, which is great. It's very cool. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I think there's a lot of issues with that actually. Also, I think they would move more?


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[Assistant] They'd have a higher, higher potential to slide around and move more.


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[Assistant] I know there's this whole thing where like, oh, the older generations always look down at the younger generations and think they're weak or whatever. I'm looking down and being like, you guys are gonna have a hard time. Like, yikes. Yeah. Yeah. It feels like we're trending in the other direction, so.


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[Assistant] Don't try to, whatever it is that you're doing, don't try to make the final thing first. And then after having done all of that investment, see if it's viable. That's a really good point.


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[Assistant] Even though there might be some waste involved, it is worth putting your toe in the water first instead of just diving it. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Dungeons in video games are a classic version of this. Yeah, like, oh, they made four models for stone bricks. Like every, every Skyrim, er, not every Skyrim dungeon, but like a huge portion of Skyrim dungeons are the same path, but different like textures and stuff, yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeah. People keep on saying no man's sky. I don't think it's quite.


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[Assistant] Uh, I feel like especially these days, to be completely honest, um, unless it's like a Mario platformer, it's, you know, usually they're a little bit more specific. One of the ones that I enjoy throwing out there is Golf Story. I've done it a bunch of times though. It's very fun. Uh, if you are not interested in golf games, it will still be fun.


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[Assistant] I think there being other things that exist will limit it from being able to go to the same level of mainstream.


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[Assistant] I think the scale for things has changed a lot. Like you can even see that with movies. Like an explosion.


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[Assistant] That was like huge and crazy back in the days, like nothing compared to what they're throwing in.


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[Assistant] Modern Marvel stuff. Uhm, I don't know, I feel like I've been pretty realistic with things. Like even with Morrowind. I was gonna say Morrowind!


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[Assistant] Even with Morrowind, I've told people to not go back and play it. Yeah. Because like,


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[Assistant] So you always knew it sucked? I did go back, yeah. I would go back to it and be like, yup, these are all the reasons why this game aged really poorly. Uhm, and it's just like, I still love it because I played it back then, but I think it's really hard for people to get into now because it has a lot of these, uh, these, uh, rough points.


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[Assistant] This could be it. This could be the death spiral. I feel like, I feel like pretty much any business leader is going to feel that way.


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[Assistant] Because that type of thinking is probably what got you to where you are. Uhm, but there, there, I, there is objectively very significantly more stability these days than there was at the beginning. I dunno.


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[Assistant] Like AR realistically, but I do agree that it's a bit, it's a bit easy for us cause we both, yeah, for the same reason.


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[Assistant] I wonder if that's one of the like oldest still consistently used Google docs. I think so. Yeah. Of like anyone.


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[Assistant] Cause that's like very, very early Google Docs and it's still being used.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. But it was not a guarantee at that point in time. Yeaah, at least now you're not naming drive killers, but uhm.


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[Assistant] I still remember when, and we're still using it, I, I'm not gonna name the service, but there's a service that I bought a bunch of credit for because it was on like some crazy like word, word.


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[Assistant] Our company exists now and I was confident they were going to exist due to the people that were behind it. And I bought a bunch of credit in it for floatplane.


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[Assistant] And we're still riding on that credit because it was such a ridiculous discount.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and I was so confident that we were gonna like exist for a long time. And I remember thinking that and being like, this is different.


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[Assistant] I've told you about this, like, way in the past. Yeah. I just don't want to go into specifics. Okay. Oh, this is cool.


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[Assistant] That's interesting. Yeah, that makes sense. Um, I'm trying to think. There's been a lot of, like, like, cool things, like, people would bring in, like, apart from their computer. I've always thought the GPU backplate was pretty sweet.


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[Assistant] People would just bring in the backplate and they'd collect some signatures on it, I thought that was pretty cool. Uhm, the, the word 97, like I, I, literally the second I read, I've still got my word 97, I knew exactly who it was when it was from everything, cause that was pretty cool. Uhm, I like stuff like that, but.


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[Assistant] Look up uh, xkcd's standards comic.


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[Assistant] Seems like a really good time to start getting into the idea of partitions for gaming.


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[Assistant] Vms create a lot of issues, uh, especially with things like cheat detection, uh, so yea, partitions for gaming. Get that boot speed down and start switching.


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[Assistant] There's a lot of confusion about my partitions comment. Uh, I did not foresee this, but there is. I don't mean, like, installing your games on another partition. Uh, I mean, booting into, like, another operating system. Uh, like, have, if you, if you just use Windows, have another one installed. Uhm, is what I'm saying.


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[Assistant] To be clear, I mean additional windows. So you could have, if you're a Windows 11 person, you could have two Windows 11s. One installed on another drive or partition is another way that I should have said it. So you could have two boot drives or you could have two boot partitions and you separate things. You separate


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[Assistant] Uh, all your personal stuff, all your important things, et cetera, and then games. Uh, we do seem to be trending in that direction, and I actually do genuinely think that's gonna be a, uh, decently good way to do it.


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[Assistant] Then they would go into the queue, so they would show, yeaah. They would show.


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[Assistant] I think it's supposed to automatically show if that happens. That doesn't seem good because then stuff could slip through.


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[Assistant] Um, in BC, I think it's a decent idea to have those like strap on cleat things for your shoes. Um, they're, they're not very expensive and you can just throw them in your trunk and forget about them until you need them and they'll be fine. Um, some amount of, of, uh, stable food and water, it might not be for you.


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[Assistant] Like that's something to think about with all of this stuff is it might not be for you.


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[Assistant] Tons of this stuff is you don't, you don't, even if you're like, oh, I just like drive to work and back, like this is never going to be applicable. Again, it might not be for you. Maybe, uh, you need to help someone find their dog. So having a flashlight so you can look around would be cool. I don't know. It's just things that would be, uh, nice and helpful to have.


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[Assistant] We now have incontrovertible evidence of what I have been saying for quite some time.


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[Assistant] The Ethereum merger and moved proof of stake was successful. We'll be talking about that. What else we got?


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[Assistant] This could actually be a problem. Let's go ahead and roll that intro.


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[Assistant] The show is brought to you today by Kyoksia, Squarespace, and Secret Lab. Alright, why don't we jump right into the first topic here. Uh, the big one is obviously, uh, you know, I gotta say,


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[Assistant] Jay was texting with me last night, uh, because we were


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[Assistant] How do I say this without uh, insulting some of the members of our community? Laughing over the fire?


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[Assistant] We were, no, no, no, no, we were, well what we were doing was we were, uhm,


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[Assistant] Chuckling to ourselves and each other about the number of people that legitimately thought that there was some kind of beef between us when I uploaded a short yesterday.


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[Assistant] Um, critiquing Jay's dropping skills and showing that I could drop our screwdriver from higher and have it not break. Uh, there, there seemed to be some legitimately concerned members of the community to which I'm really sorry. I, I guess I should have put a slash S.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, it isn't not, it's not untrue. Anyway, so we were, we were texting and he basically goes, yo, okay, I can't tell you anything, but,


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[Assistant] Stay tuned, you're gonna want- I think that the video going up on my channel tomorrow at noon is gonna be Wandshow worthy. Oh. To which I will say, Mr. Two Cents,


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[Assistant] You appear to have been correct. Let's talk about it. EVGA has ended their partnership with Nvidia and will be leaving the GPU business outright. Now this is where things get really interesting. Uh, they have cited a lack of risk


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[Assistant] But as someone who has dealt with the partner, who I think has caused a lot of EVGA strife for a long time, this doesn't surprise me even a little bit.


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[Assistant] And clearly there was at least some financial factoring into the decision. Uhm, what we see from the numbers that have been reported here are that EVGA's revenue was about 78% graphics cards.


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[Assistant] About 20% power supplies, and it's worth noting here that that was at 300% higher margin than graphics cards.


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[Assistant] And 2% everything else, which is, again, that's something that doesn't surprise me knowing what I know from being in the retail side that


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[Assistant] Like I couldn't figure out what, why EVGA even bothered to continue to make motherboards for years and years. I couldn't really post 780i, 790i. I couldn't figure out why they bothered to keep making motherboards because as far as I could tell, nobody was buying them. And I appear to have been correct. Um, they have committed.


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[Assistant] And uhm, they haven't telegraphed any, uh, near-term expansion into new categories.


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[Assistant] Well, let's just run through, let's just run through some more of the, no, no, I do wanna, yes, here we go. EVGA apparently has no plans to work with AMD or Intel, and this is, this is interesting.


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[Assistant] Because of the partnership, I don't want to betray them and they, they're referring to, uh, Nvidia. And I've got notes in my doc here saying that this is kind of a confusing response, but actually I am not that confused by that. And I can give you a little bit more detail about that. Let's get through some of the, some of the facts.


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[Assistant] Really, this was, this was clearly an at least partially emotional slash, uh, principled decision.


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[Assistant] And here are some of the ways that EVGA has expressed frustration with Nvidia's way of doing business. They've complained that they withhold pricing information until their public announcements, including the actual cost of the part. So as a partner, you would be expected to build boards, provide forecasts for your ordering,


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[Assistant] Allocate- I mean, really, Nvidia does all the allocation now, so.


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[Assistant] Uhm, Nvidia would withhold drivers until product launch, so we actually, EVGA actually ran into a pretty bad situation, was it with the 3000 series launch or 2000 series launch, where they had those boards that had, uhm,


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[Assistant] That had some kind of, they had some kind of defect and they were, they were popping under heavy load. I can't remember whether it was 2000 or 3000 series.


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[Assistant] Uhm, Nvidia also strictly enforces, uh, price ceilings on some of their cards, especially flagships, removing the ability of board partners to control their margins, making high-end boards very difficult.


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[Assistant] And Jay said that NVIDIA shut down cool experiments like dual GPUs and more creative designs and


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[Assistant] All of these claims, all of these claims have been corroborated over the years many times by other board partners. I've known of dual GPU boards that have existed well past when Nvidia officially supported them.


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[Assistant] We're as far as working samples but that we're never able to see the light of day.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I've known of laptop, exotic laptop designs that never got to see the light of day, that were as far as all the engineering was done and only Nvidia's blessing was needed to release this product. Uhm, but Nvidia is, uhm,


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[Assistant] I don't think there's really any other way to put it. NVIDIA takes a very control freak approach to their partnerships. Well yea, to everything.


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[Assistant] Let's just see if there's a few other things that I wanna kinda get through in terms of just the facts and then we can get into some of my own thoughts on this. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Oh, this is good. Uh, what happens to the employees who work on EVGA's video cards? This is a really important question to answer. Their CEO claims that no employees will be laid off, uh, but restructuring will occur. Uhm, hey.


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[Assistant] If there's anyone super technical over at EVGA who wants to maybe join the media side,


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, you wouldn't be the first refugee who ended up over here and we'd love to, we'd love to...


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[Assistant] Uh, have you share your expertise with, with the community? Kinda keep, keep, keep working? Keep the other GPU makers honest, right? Uh, so yeaah.


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[Assistant] My inbox is open, I think you guys, uh, you guys know how to get in touch with me. Uh, you will have to come to Canada. It's not that bad.


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[Assistant] Uh, so some staff may leave now that their projects have been killed. Definitely a thing. That's almost certainly going to happen.


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[Assistant] Uh, let's, so let's, let's break down, let's break down some of these things. The withholding pricing thing, yeaah. So I experienced this on the other side of the, of the equation. So you got your Nvidia, you got your board partners, you got your retailers, right? So I saw it on the retail side. I, they'd go, what's your forecast for,


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, GTX 580, and I'd go, well, what's the pricing? And they'd go...


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[Assistant] It's Nvidia, it'll sell and I'm sitting here going, what do I need that for? Well, because I'm trying to, cause I'm trying to run a business here because I have to manage my cashflow because I need to know is this a hot launch? Is this an 8,800 GT or is this a fricking, you know,


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[Assistant] Okay, I'll try to think of something like super crappy, GTX 285. Like which one is it? Is it good or does it suck? I don't know how many I need unless I know what the performance is supposed to be like and I know what the pricing is, you numpties. And so,


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[Assistant] I have absolutely had that same experience. And then over the years,


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[Assistant] After we started Linus Media Group, I think Luke and I both experienced first hand the frustration of NVIDIA just


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[Assistant] Keeping partners in the dark so that they could take all of the fanfare, keep all of the excitement for themselves. I think, really, I forget, I always forget what board it was. But there was, there was a GPU launch. Do you remember which one? Was it 1080?


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[Assistant] They basically flew in press from all around the world to come sit in the audience while they announced everything, gave us absolutely no time to produce content that could go up at least simultaneously with their announcement.


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[Assistant] NVIDIA's utter disdain for their partners, uhm, is basically universal, uh, whether you are, uh, an OEM, like an engineering firm, whether you're media, whether you're a retailer, SI.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I, I think that I'm not the only one who has felt many times like a necessary evil and I think we s- it's, it's the exact same attitude. I was so-


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[Assistant] I felt like I needed to be so careful calling out Nvidia during that hardware unboxed scandal where Nvidia


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[Assistant] Not just threatened, well not threatened, not just cut off hardware unboxed from receiving review samples, because it wasn't that simple. What they did was they put pressure on an independent media outlet to change the, uh, to change their narrative


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[Assistant] Uh, tune to change their narrative angle in order to be more favorable to Nvidia's marketing goals. And it was this complete and utter misunderstanding and lack of respect for the role of media that I think was one of the most


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[Assistant] Insightful windows into Nvidia's attitude towards the rest of the industry.


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[Assistant] Uh, that we had gotten almost ever up until that point and, uh, maybe ever up until now. I think finally, finally seeing one of their partners just drop them and then come out and talk about this is unprecedented.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and I, I want to talk in a little bit more detail. You know how on previous, uh, previous WAN show I had said that I had actually gone as far as to skeleton out a video


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[Assistant] Where I, where I basically would, I went around, I actually, I already did the, like, the investigative work, uh, calling up Nvidia partners, uhm, talking to them about their experiences dealing with Nvidia, where I, I kinda just, I wanted to do sort of like a, like a, like a,


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[Assistant] Like an appeal, you know, to maybe the softer side of the leadership there, to just...


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[Assistant] You know, treat people with respect. Be a, be a better partner. Share, share a little bit of the success. Not, well, not just a little bit. Share.


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[Assistant] Share the bi- big success, you know? Like, uhm, so why don't we all support each other instead of being so focused on trying to take the most for yourself? And I don't know if you remember this, but I wasn't able to find that. Cause I thought it was a Google Doc, so I did track it down today.


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[Assistant] And, uh, I'm gonna, I'm gonna bring this up. This is, this is completely unaltered from...


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[Assistant] Uh, from when I, from when I wrote it up, uh, and so you guys can, you guys are gonna get a little bit more insight into my personal thoughts maybe than I would have necessarily left in the...


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[Assistant] In the script, uhm, and you'll get a little bit of insight into my writing process, but...


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[Assistant] This is it. So these are the titles I had.


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[Assistant] I had here, Nvidia, why are you scared? Why is Nvidia a bully? Was kinda what I had in mind. The slogan was, did your parents not praise you enough? That probably would have gotten revised. Oh boy.


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[Assistant] I mean, for real though, the way they act, it's classic bully syndrome though. It really is. So here's what, here's what I had kind of, oh, I haven't talked about this publicly. Uh, one moment please.


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[Assistant] Mhm. Let's, uh, let's go through some of the other stuff. Uhm.


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[Assistant] One of EVGA's frustrations is that Nvidia has been undercutting their ability to move their product by offering founders edition cards at a lower price, and we've talked about this a fair bit.


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[Assistant] They have extra margin because they don't have to worry about