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[Assistant] Yeah, I dunno. Or maybe it was just complicated. Or maybe just no one at Valve felt like working on that.


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[Assistant] Like man, when I, when I did the switch over to Mac for, what, what did I do? A month or something like that? Like way, way back, like nine years ago or whatever. Back at the house? Yea, that was a month. I was...


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[Assistant] Blown away by how seamless the operating system update process was, and this is almost 10 years ago, I would come in in the morning,


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[Assistant] Everything that I had been working on was tiled out exactly the way that I had left it, which is to say in a completely garbage fashion because I wasn't gonna spend actual money on a third party application to enable window snapping.


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[Assistant] How is it that in a world where the Steam Deck exists, and the Xbox exists,


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[Assistant] With the excellent save state functionality that the Xbox supports, how is it that Windows can't just put me back exactly where I left off? I actually don't, I'm sure there's a really good explanation for it, I'm sure it's really hard, like getting rid of the three different control panels that you have, or building a functioning search.


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[Assistant] Oh, apparently macOS does have window snapping now. Doesn't it suck though? I know there's still a third party application. I was like reading something recently where someone recommended like a good third party window snapping tool. So okay, don't, don't, don't quote me on that.


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[Assistant] It was all about them just actually wanting to, uhm,


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[Assistant] It was all about them just actually wanting to do it then. Being motivated by the whole Linux is the future.


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[Assistant] Like a crappy version of it, and then, you know, six months later. Huzzah!


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[Assistant] All right. Um, shoot, what was I looking for? Ah, I pulled up something. Oh, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right. That's a lot of rights. Speaking of valve. Okay. I tried reaching out pre I tried reaching out privately. Um, it's time for me to take this public guys. We need to talk about the steam hardware survey.


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[Assistant] I thought you were gonna say you were in a relationship. Uhm, no. Okay, what's up? This is what I sent to Valve, uhm, couple months ago. Could the Steam Hardware Survey please be updated to include the generation and approximate spec of a CPU rather than just the core count and frequency?


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[Assistant] The logic that Valve used to split them out the way that they did made a lot of sense at the time. Core counts of 1, 2, 4, 8, and other helped guide the importance of developers' efforts to multi-thread their games and provided insight into which consumers were buying entry, mainstream, enthusiast, and exotic CPU configurations. 1, 2, 4, 8, and other would have


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[Assistant] Pretty easily fallen into those categories. Frequency at that time was a strong indicator of the per-core performance. Again, providing valuable insight to game developers and other people.


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[Assistant] The issue is that over the last 10 years, core counts have moved to the point where not enough cores is only a problem for thin and light laptops or very entry level machines, and frequency is no longer the performance indicator that it once was. And I sent them an illustration, uhm,


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[Assistant] These processors have only a 10% difference in frequency, but a 30% difference in performance.


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[Assistant] Now I know Valve is, whatever tool you're using can read CPU model names and numbers, uh, and I think it would be worth the relatively


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[Assistant] Uhm, and, and, and, this is my pitch. This is my pitch for why Valve should put actual time into it. The Steam Hardware Survey generates a ton of organic press coverage for Valve.


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[Assistant] And doesn't just help people in the media like me, but also helps game developers and gamers. It used to be a far more useful tool to look at and go, okay, like, what should I buy?


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[Assistant] Because you know that game developers are going to target the lowest common denominator, and so if you just go buy whatever's super popular in the Steam Hardware Survey, then you're probably going to be covered for at least some time period X.


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[Assistant] But there are going to be systems that would meet those requirements, like that frequency and core count. 2.3 GHz. That would be utterly unsuitable. So I think that it's a bit misleading in its current form. And that's pretty much the only category. Particularly around CPUs, which is why that's the only thing I actually brought up.


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[Assistant] I think it's a little bit misleading and I think it has the potential to...


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[Assistant] Not be as useful as it was. And I mean, I don't, Val never asked my permission or told me why they're making the Steam Hardware Survey. So this is all just based on my assumptions.


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[Assistant] Actually is a garbage word that I overuse to an embarrassing degree.


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[Assistant] Okay, I'm gonna actually explain to you guys how merch messages work.


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[Assistant] You can get it replied to by us. You can get it forwarded to someone here who can answer your question. And the way to send one is not via, you know, super chats on YouTube or Twitch bits or whatever else. We don't really support the whole throwing money at the screen. I mean, if you must do it.


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[Assistant] Okay, I got employees to pay, I got miles to feed, sure, fine, go for it. But, the way that I see it, you should get something for your money in case we don't see your message, or just in general, even if we do see your message, you should just get something for your money. So all you gotta do,


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[Assistant] Sorry, I think he was gonna wave. There he is. Uhm, you can send it over to producer Dan, who will curate your messages. He's curated a couple to kind of show you guys how it works, but before we read those, I'm gonna tell you guys about a couple updates on the store. We've got one new product that I think is amazing and super cool and makes a ton of sense. Meet


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[Assistant] College, university-styled, uhm, sweatsuit, so we've actually got a hoodie.


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[Assistant] And matching sweatpants available in a couple of different colors, but for people who...


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[Assistant] Didn't actually graduate from post-secondary or who just, just plain think LTT is kinda cool.


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[Assistant] Every time. I was working on a video earlier this week, okay? And you know Sam from the lab, right? Okay. Audio guy? Yes. Okay.


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[Assistant] He's doing a before and after recording with the, the hats. So if you're not familiar, a hats is a head and torso simulator, which is a deceiving name because unless you pay the extra like $80,000 for the torso, it doesn't actually have a torso. It's just a head. So it's a pass.


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[Assistant] Doesn't matter. The point is, it's a head. And it has microphones in the ears, and we used that to allow you guys to experience a surround sound demo that we were doing in a video.


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[Assistant] So I replaced that wireless soundbar HTA-9 thing that had the, uh, audio issues, the, the wireless interference or like the cutting out problems. I replaced it with a wired surround setup and we wanted to find out, well, how magic is Sony's magic that they did with the HTA-9 where you can place them basically anywhere.


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[Assistant] Because if it has a zipper, you can always undo the zipper.


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[Assistant] But if it doesn't have a zipper, what are you gonna do, sew a zipper on? Come on.


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[Assistant] Sweet. Maybe like 3% of you. Maybe. Maybe. I'd even say less.


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[Assistant] No, we put a lot of work into doing a lot of things differently every time, and probably it's stupid.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it has more of like a college hoodie fit, like that's kind of the goal. It does have the same French terry interior that some of you I know don't like, but I like a lot because I find it more cooling.


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[Assistant] Yeah. But some people don't, they just don't like it at all. They prefer the brushed inside.


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[Assistant] I was asking what this was before the show. Okay. Well, why don't you start by showing them to the people?


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[Assistant] Yeah. Oh, okay. You don't have to. It's on me now. Sorry. Uh, anyway, there's little LTT logos in where, um,


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[Assistant] Uh, a box shaped like a letter that's laid in the alphabet. The circle thing might have been. Uhm, anyway. The point is...


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[Assistant] The original genesis of this, which ironically we don't have one in the shape of, uh, was...


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[Assistant] And someone who had just started on the engineering team, not really...


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[Assistant] Saying, you know what would be cool, is if we had like, like a teething toy, I've seen these like wooden teething toys. Okay. Uhm, and if we have like little kid or like baby stuff, that would be, that would be a cool, you know, thing. I bet it would be really fast and easy, we'll just like get in touch with someone who can, you know, make


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[Assistant] Mm-mm. And instead, it is intended to be, here, hold on, I'm just gonna run the site here. Like ornaments? Uhm, yes. Instead, it is a cool ornament. Okay, we need to work on our word wrapping. Uh, oh, ooh. Control the R ornament. At least that R is a soft one.


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[Assistant] Description, enhance your nostalgic decoration game with our controller ornaments. Made from beechwood and finished with a hard wax oil finish. As well as an LTT logo on one side, they give you the option to rep the brand or keep your decorations sleek and smooth.


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[Assistant] No mounting hardware or other accessories included because full transparency, we didn't want to.


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[Assistant] But yeaah. They're just, I don't know, they're just kind of cool. So when we got them we went, look, I don't think this is a teething toy, especially at the cost, like it just was kind of high, but they're really nice and we were like, oh, that's cool. What are the minimum order quantities? Let's not order that many. And maybe people would just want these as just like,


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[Assistant] Uhm, yeaah, neato. Yeaah, leave it to Twitch chat to bring this up. Do not stick body parts through them. Please?


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[Assistant] Thanks. Yep. Good. Cool. We're all on the same page about that. Someone's gonna try it.


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[Assistant] Oh boy. What's up? Everything is fine.


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[Assistant] Should I know? No, no, yeah, no, everything is fine. Oh, uh, alright. What's that? We don't have to if you don't know. No, let's talk about it, let's talk about it. What is that? Then we'll do a couple of merge messages. Oh, you can throw them. Underhand! He's not even...


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[Assistant] Ohhhh. Okay. Wait, isn't that one already announced? No. This is not, well, okay, it depends who gets their way. As far as Nick or I are concerned, this is not a product.


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[Assistant] But, if the engineering team gets their way, it is a product. So, do you wanna go ahead and show the people? I love it.


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[Assistant] Could produce relatively quickly, and if paired...


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[Assistant] Is that, these do exist by the way, uh, but the reason we would need to do a different one is because they, A, don't really work very well with our bits, and B, our engineering team didn't find any that they were happy with. My issue with this is that,


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[Assistant] They don't really stay in as well as I would like. Okay. And I'm worried that they'll loosen over time. And our general product philosophy is that- What if you put magnets in the back?


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[Assistant] Well, then it's not cost effective anymore. And it's also not simple to develop anymore. So my issue is that it sort of violates our product development philosophy, which is to build things that don't have a foreseeable failure point. While this is weird.


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[Assistant] Well, okay, no, well, we're taking community feedback. And like, this is the danger, right? Cause I know what you people are gonna say. No, I'm just gonna want it. You're gonna say, yeah, do it.


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[Assistant] Uhm. Them falling out too easily is a, a problem. But I don't wanna, like, I don't wanna trust me bro guarantee this. Cause I know it's not gonna last forever, and I, I hate manufacturing. Oh, so it's just gonna get weaker over time, that's the problem? Yeah, anyth- everything does, right? But at least, you know, with something like,


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[Assistant] With something like clothing, you know, we can, we can test for that. We can say, okay, well, here's what we think is sort of a reasonable lifespan for our garment. Whereas something that holds your tools and just sits and holds them and is like kind of stretched out eventually. Yeah. I don't want it to wear. I don't want to be buying a new one all the time. Um, and I feel like these would be relatively disposable.


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[Assistant] Is my concern. And no, there would not be a way for us to, to alter this paradigm.


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[Assistant] In volumes of one, they'd probably be like ten bucks for this and the lanyard.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but if you bought five of them, I don't see why it would cost that much more. Like maybe that would be like, I don't know, like 15 bucks or something like that. Like I don't know. The actual injection molding cost or the actual cost per injection molded part is almost nothing. Most of the cost would be in the development and in the handling.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and then the lanyard itself, uhm, it's, this is a funny one. Even with the higher quality box, box stitch on here, like you know how every lanyard just has like a super cheap, like single, uhm,


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[Assistant] What it would seem, no, not a seam, whatever. Just the one line across. Yeah, sewing, single sewing line. Sure. Sure.


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[Assistant] The, the cost of this with, with the box stitch, with the metal hardware, uh, with the nice clasp that doesn't wear out, is still like a couple bucks or something like that. Uhm, so anytime that you encounter a lanyard that is


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[Assistant] So, that's all I have to say about that. Let's not pull it, let's just kind of...


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[Assistant] We probably wouldn't be able to do a ton of different colors though, unless we did a uhm, oh man, I can't remember the different kinds of injection molding that we explored for stick logs. Uh, there's, there's one kind where it's really, really easy to run different colors and there's basically no setup. And then there's another one where there's a ton of setup.


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[Assistant] Uhm, Top Gear says don't make it. Spend the money and time on fast tracking the real bit holder. There is no fast tracking that though. This wouldn't actually delay that much. This is, this is our design. Like this is already designed. Uh, it's just a matter of sending it over to the same injection molder that did these stick locks for us, probably.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, this is another one. People are talking about the carabiners. When we finally get them all manufactured and ship them out, uh, ship out the replacements, uhm, Tynan was asking me, should we just sell these things?


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[Assistant] The same carabiners that we have for the backpack, uhm, slightly larger are like $30 or something like that on some seller we found for a similar carabiner, like each. Do you remember this conversation, Dan?


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[Assistant] What if you sold them? Oh guys, no, they're not climbing rated. Okay, now I remember why I didn't want to do it. I don't want people doing anything stupid with them. They're decorative. No.


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[Assistant] You actually have the worst wandshow deal out of everyone at this table.


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[Assistant] Password. See, both of those are tech though.


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[Assistant] Take longer. Okay, okay, uhm.


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[Assistant] I generally hate printing anything.


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[Assistant] It's the least interesting, but actually I attended a, like a sales training thing back when I was at NCIX once. It was basically just propaganda from HP. I think it was HP. Don't quote me on that, but I think it was HP for why nobody should use anything but authentic ink.


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[Assistant] Like I remember, like, okay, we, we, we, we, we just kind of dish terms like 7200 RPM. Yeah, we just talk about these things. It was real casual, right? Like, yeah. But think about it.


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[Assistant] On a three inch platter or whatever the actual, uhm, uh,


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[Assistant] That would be the diameter, would be the three inch, I don't know, whatever. The point is, on a three inch platter, however big those stupid things are,


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[Assistant] Uh, the circumference of that, of the outer tracks, at 72, 7200 RPM. I remember someone from WD explaining this to me. It's basically like a, like a, like the, the arm.


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[Assistant] Trying to accurately move over this spinning disc is, is like a, is like a, a bug trying to fly in a hurricane, like three inches above the ground or something like that. Like the, the amount of precision is mind.


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[Assistant] It's not that different. Like, in order to blend these pigments with the kind of accuracy, to achieve the level of vibrancy and the level of detail that they do, how fine these drops are and how the methods that they use to control them, particularly in higher end printers, it's just, it's,


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[Assistant] It's so advanced, it's indiscernible from magic to me, like it's really incredible.


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[Assistant] Man, do I ever hate them. And man, are they ever boring. I think- I think printers are a great example of something that just genuinely makes things take longer for me than- I could literally just write it out and hand it to someone sometimes. For how long it takes me to print a document.


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[Assistant] Yeah, someone with that. How did we get on this topic? Is this a merch message? Yeah, yeah, it was. Oh yeah, you were gonna, something that technology has made slower and less convenient.


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[Assistant] Oh man, wifi calling is so unreliable. I swear, I had fewer dropped calls back in like 2005 than I do now. How about this, phones? Ah, but they make so many things so much faster.


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[Assistant] Yea, but calling. Oh yea, I mean calling is definitely slower on a modern phone. No doubt.


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[Assistant] Yes. More? What do you think is more popular? Controller ornament or the dropout? Controller ornament. By a long shot.


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[Assistant] I don't understand it. This is a really nice sweater. Like we put real work into real products that are really good. This is a real product. And you guys buy memes. People buy ornaments. I know, I just, I've never understood it.


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[Assistant] Honestly, it's, we probably underpriced these. Like I went to, I went to some store that had ornaments. And I, by underpriced, I don't mean compared to what they cost us or whatever.


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[Assistant] No, no, I know, well, yeah, but look, the point is, I went to a store and I was blown away by how much things cost. It was like, that's a ball.


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[Assistant] Like it's a ball. What does it do? It goes on a table. What do you mean it just goes on a table? That's all it does? Yeah. No, what? I, what? I'm gonna, it's like $80.


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[Assistant] We're gonna try to go platinum, new Christmas album.


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[Assistant] The problem is that the development cycle of making one


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[Assistant] Is just as complicated sometimes as the cycle of making...


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[Assistant] More than one. So almost anything that is worth us developing is worth putting for sale unless we can't hit the MOQs, in which case we'd probably know that pretty early in the process and then we just shouldn't spend time developing it. Right. So I see where you're coming from, but I think that's pretty tough.


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[Assistant] So. Technology that scares us. Technologies with unforeseen consequences, I mean good gravy, I mean everything, right? This is not unforeseen.


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[Assistant] Buddy, some guy, I forget his name, but released a book about how humans have no free will because we are basically just a, you know, a


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[Assistant] A pot of chemicals and uh, you know, impulses and all that kind of stuff. Um, and you talking about, you know, how, how easily we can be sort of predicted, I guess, in this way. Oh, that's a little bit of a.


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[Assistant] But you'll only take those steps now if you are sufficiently motivated to take those steps now.


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[Assistant] Anyways. That's an interesting take. Thank you for sharing it. Yeah, moving on. Two more topics Dan asks for. Twitter. Yeah. Will be charging new users. Sick.


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[Assistant] A one dollar per year subscription in New Zealand and the Philippines in what they are calling the Not a Bot program. Let's go.


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[Assistant] It is unclear from the announcement why the rollout is only for these two specific countries, but I am going to say something that sounds like it's going to be very unpopular and say this seems like...


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[Assistant] Even if it has the potential for unintended consequences. Idea.


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[Assistant] Extremesystems.org is an old school overclocking, extreme cooling


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[Assistant] The site admin. What a name. Yeah. I don't know. Whatever. Basically old school legend in the extreme cooling and overclocking scene.


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[Assistant] Just couldn't keep up with the amount of spam and crap on the forum and eventually, for all new signups, so it wasn't for existing accounts, for all new signups implemented a $1, I think it might have even been one time, I don't think that it was a subscription, don't quote me on that, but implemented a signup fee and said that it


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[Assistant] Immediately and forever eliminated spam from the site.


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[Assistant] The only problem with that is that as far as I can tell, basically none of you know what Extreme Systems is, because...


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[Assistant] It's pretty much a ghost town over there. They do still have a small community from, from what I can tell. I haven't signed on in quite some time. I just, I almost never see anything linked there or anything like that. Uhm, I mean, maybe, yeah, yeah, they're, look at this. Hey, they're, uh.


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[Assistant] Still kickin'. Extremesystems.org. Yea, here it is. Nice.


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[Assistant] You have to register before you can post. Click the register link. About registration is one dollar to post on this forum. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Let's see, virtual and augmented reality, last posted August 24th, 2020. Okay, but here's something more recent from a couple weeks ago.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I'm trying to think, what were some of the more active, uh, ooh. Okay.


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[Assistant] Uh, some of them are not visible if you're not signed in. So that's something to watch out for. Like I think there's some just chit chat ones, but you can just tell there's things that generally have not been kind of looked at in a while. I don't think anyone is looking for information about a bit motherboard support in the last.


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[Assistant] To be clear, I don't know what path would have worked better for them. I loved that community. I learned so much of what I know there. Uh, super, super knowledgeable people. Uh, really, uh, really, really, really passionate community in its prime. Uhm, shout out, shout out Martin's Liquid Lab. Uhm, but,


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[Assistant] With spam and bots, I mean, we run into a lot of the same things on the LTT forum and maybe it was just kind of, it was, it was too niche for them to have a large enough moderator team to, to handle that stuff without closing down, battening down the hatches, uh, batting, batting something, something down the hatches. I, I just, um.


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[Assistant] I think that Twitter is probably going to run into a similar situation if they roll something like this out more broadly.


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[Assistant] I doubt that those particular countries are, you know, an especially large source of scammers and spammers on the platform. What I suspect is that they're just small markets where they can run this test and see if it's effective in any way for some period of time.


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[Assistant] I suspect that we already know what the conclusion is and that is that this will be so damaging to


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[Assistant] Twitter is better at than anything else, like the, uh, the sniper wolf controversy that happened over the last week. Have you heard about this?


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[Assistant] Yeah, she literally went to Jacksfilms' house and posted a video in front of it, asking her... Did she, like, criticize them or something?


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[Assistant] Other way around, sorry. Yeah, yeah. Cause he called her out for just being a reaction streamer, which has become very controversial over.


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[Assistant] Like, Dark Phypher was already talking about it before that, but I feel like a lot of momentum has picked up in that time, which is sort of funny.


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[Assistant] Be clear! I am not saying that it's because of us.


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[Assistant] I am just saying that the timing is very interesting. By the way, I found a fatal flaw in this product. I managed to rip through the little loop already. So we would probably have to embed some kind of reinforced, uh, material in the loop part of it, which is going to complicate the shooting the molds and see this is.


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[Assistant] This is how every product we develop ends up taking a year or two. Cause you break it.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Which is good, because it's better for me to break it than for you to break it. Yeah. That's fair enough. That just means everything takes forever. Try not to break the table again.


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[Assistant] So anyway, yeaah, I feel like I talked a lot about this. Any thoughts?


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[Assistant] Oh my god. Sebastian nautlinus in floatplane chat.


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[Assistant] One of our, uh, one of our people who works in the engineering department, I don't know if he's technically an engineer, cause that's a protected term in Canada, and if you like, use it wrong, engineers get mad. Uhm, yeaah, he might be an engineer, I don't know. Uh, doesn't matter, he does engineering things. Uh, he says, that prototype is full of bubbles, and made in 30 minutes.


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[Assistant] Okay, Sebastian, I get it, I get it, I get it. He's, he is a strong proponent of this particular product.


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[Assistant] I think it's- I don't think it's gonna work. I think it's wild how Mark Zuckerberg has, in my opinion, been probably the biggest beneficiary of Twitter turning into even more of a flaming dumpster fire. And I'm not even talking about threads. I'm just talking about how broadly hated he was.


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[Assistant] Okay, this is something that I asked for to be in the doc this week. Did it not end up in here?


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[Assistant] Speaking of bots, I had a really interesting experience. I'm sorry, I'm changing the topic here a little bit.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I was, I was for some reason trying to find information on the, that, that Huawei Mate 60 with their, the new Kirin 9000S processor. So this is that, that all China, all the time chip that allowed Huawei to launch a, you know, purportedly flagship tier or at least.


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[Assistant] It's a premium-ish tier, uhm, smartphone. So it's, uhm, apparently, according to some experts, according to Hot Hardware, uhm, 14 nanometer grade in terms of the technology, even though they are claiming that it's a 7 nanometer node, uhm,


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[Assistant] It seems more in line in terms of performance with, you know, 14 nanometer-ish, uh, or, I mean, maybe not. Maybe it's just kind of, uh, kind of a not as good, um,


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[Assistant] Seven nanometer design? I don't know. Doesn't matter. The point is...


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[Assistant] I was reading about it, and I wanted to see, okay, what do people think?


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[Assistant] Uh, is kinda, you know, what's going on? What do people on hot hardware think? And this was one of the most brazen, blatant,


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[Assistant] Examples I think I had ever seen of bot activity just...


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[Assistant] The Chinese, uhm, propaganda machine works and how broadly it is trying to influence opinion outside of the obvious targets, I guess. Because I don't, I don't generally delve into the comment section that often.


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[Assistant] But like, look at these comments! Bill asks, is there any phone that can make satellite call? No. Is US afraid to Huawei development? Yes. Then Above article is not believable. 28 thumbs up.


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[Assistant] Life as Josh! HotHardware.com is not a scientific journal. None of their results should be considered true. They do not post their methods or variables for testing, nor do they have the resulting values peer-reviewed. HotHardware.com is an entertainment publisher. They make money like any other website through ads.


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[Assistant] True. Performance is not just numbers. It is about functionalities. If you need to crunch number, there are more supercomputer on the market.


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[Assistant] This is incredible. Because as far as I can tell, these are not bots. These appear to be human written comments based on talking points interacting with each other.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, oh, like content farms. The table above clearly has an agenda to disrepute Huawei Mate 60. It should be viewed with suspicion.


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[Assistant] This seems to be an actual person getting downvoted by bots. Uh, anyway, it was, this article just stood out to me because almost the entire comment section


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[Assistant] Just creating this, this wave of spam about an article that isn't even, it's not even trashing on it. Like if you look at the article itself, this is, this is what's really kind of mind-blowing to me. If you look at the article itself, it's pretty objective. Here's what it is. It has some semi-custom armcores.


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[Assistant] Here's the benchmarks relative to some other phones. It's...


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[Assistant] They're not trashing on it, but they are calling out things that are not true. Huawei talks a lot about AI and machine learning, but we found little to no optimization for machine learning. Uhm, the GPU doesn't do particularly well.


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[Assistant] Uhm, the performance, uh, it can't compete with the latest mobile SoCs or even many that are years old. Still, we are impressed that the Kyron 9000S exists at all. In a few years, their domestic chip manufacturing is ramped up despite lacking access to western technology. Uh, like it's, it's a pretty balanced...


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[Assistant] And like, okay, I just wanna be, I just wanna make, make it clear, like this, guys, I'm not, it wasn't just like four or five messages, like this is, it goes on for quite a while.


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[Assistant] Like this is not, this is a pretty, uhm, poorly written comment, but it's probably not from a, from a content farm.


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[Assistant] Yeah, pretty much. Uhm, okay, some of these are newer.


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[Assistant] No mention of Satellite Link in the article. That distinguishes Huawei from the rest.


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[Assistant] Every time he, every time I bring this up, he's like, do you want it? And I'm like, how long will it take? How much will it cost? A lot, a lot. And I'm like, okay, forget it. Yep. Sounds good. Yeah. That's kind of how it goes.


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[Assistant] Sponsors, the sponsor of my balls. Really expensive table balls is what he's talking about. Table balls dot com. Okay, please tell me that.


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[Assistant] The show is also brought to you by Seasonic. These are much shorter talking points, cause Seasonic, man...


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[Assistant] Yeah, now question for you. And I'm to be clear, I'm not talking to US military right now. Given the prevalence of drug use in militaries around the world, what are the odds of an AI hallucinating versus a soldier?


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[Assistant] Yeah, defense, but actually defense. Yeah. Not the kind of defense where it's like the best defense is a good offense defense.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I think we are hoping to get it out in the first half of next year. As for the information, right now we're still waiting on molding for the bit holder that goes inside the handle. I think there are some stretch target functionalities that we would have liked to have that we're still kind of torn on, so if we were to try for some new functions that might delay it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I think that'll pretty much come down to whether or not we decide to launch alongside bits. Uh, to be clear, again, I want to reiterate, our goal is not to go up against everyone else who sells a precision screwdriver kit. I think ours is going to be not cheap.


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[Assistant] But it will have some functionality that I think is going to set it apart in the market if people are looking for something very premium and our intention is to make the driver available by itself so you could just


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[Assistant] Alter your foam a little bit in your existing kit. Continue to use your probably perfectly good bits and just chuck our driver in as a more, as a more premium or even just an extra, uhm, as an extra driver.


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[Assistant] Uhm, what I suspect is that we should have no problem hitting that target, but, you know, if you're hoping to have something to, you know, have under the Christmas tree, that's not happening.


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[Assistant] I mean, yeaah, that's the most obvious one to me. Uhm, I think, you know, on the subject of things that AI could potentially be really good at, I don't necessarily need my vehicle to operate itself for me, but if it could provide helpful advice, uhm, particularly with respect to defensive driving, I think that that's something that


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[Assistant] We could all benefit from, if everyone was driving more defensively, if you're not familiar with the term, defensive driving refers to a driving technique that minimizes the risk of


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[Assistant] Uh, of a, of a, of a collision or a mishap by taking proactive steps.


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[Assistant] So rather than reacting to something bad that happens, trying to keep yourself perpetually in a position where it would be more difficult for something bad to happen. It's not always possible, but an example of a defensive driving technique that I use on my motorcycle is that I will almost always avoid being next to a car.


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[Assistant] If I can not be next to a car, especially at speed, and at speed is


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[Assistant] The time when it is easiest to avoid it. Because you're not, you shouldn't be bumper to bumper ripping down the highway at, you know, 60 miles an hour, 100 kilometers an hour, right? Uhm.


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[Assistant] So I will, I will make sure if I'm passing someone, if I have to be next to them, I'm going to give them a wide berth. I'm gonna go as far around them in my lane. So I have the buffer of the space beside them in their lane, plus the space that would be beside a car in my lane, plus the width of a car.


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[Assistant] I have all that buffer if they decide to suddenly change lanes because they don't see me. Uhm, they shouldn't hit me in time. I tend to...


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[Assistant] Okay, and this might just be me being like an ****hole, uhm, motorcyclist, but I tend to pass quickly. So I will check, make sure you're not signaling, make sure you're not doing anything. I don't hang around beside someone any longer than I have to. And then I will put myself in a position where there's absolutely nobody next to me on either side.


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[Assistant] There's a ton of examples of that, and I think that even people who want to operate their own car or don't have a car that operates itself, whether it's due to lack of cameras or whatever the case may be, I think that having real-time


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[Assistant] Coaching for how people could drive more defensively would be enormously beneficial. Maybe actually.


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[Assistant] Man, yeah, why didn't I ever, why haven't, how have we never talked about this before? What a great middle step that would be.


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[Assistant] So instead of just going straight to trying to build autonomous vehicles.


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[Assistant] If we built vehicles that advised you on how to better drive your car, cause we are still years away.


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[Assistant] Years away from vehicles, even the ones that have the hardware, like all the cameras and onboard processing, that might theoretically someday have them capable of fully autonomous driving, no user intervention, uhm,


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[Assistant] We are years away from them actually needing no user intervention. I think that'd be a super cool way to use it in the meantime.


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[Assistant] Yeah, or, I, I noticed the car in front of you is swerving all over the lane. Uh, the, the operator may be impaired in some way. Give them a little bit of space. Yeah.


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[Assistant] This actually looks like it's from 15 years ago.


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[Assistant] Discussion, to green light, to development milestones, to release. How is that even possible?


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[Assistant] Okay, so all the positive ones just trolls then? Yeah, oh, oh, yeah, no, I don't think anyone legitimately liked the game.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I uhm, I feel like people really do take these kinds of things for granted. Did I, did I send you that user comment that someone posted on the secret shopper video that was basically like, cringe imagine charging for shipping in 2023. And I was like,


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[Assistant] It's just a matter of whether it's baked into the product cost or whether they are transparently telling you how much of it is product cost and how much of it is shipping. That's literally the only difference. There is no free shipping. Shipping is expen- who?


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[Assistant] Who do you think pays the person who walks to your door with the thing? What about all the other touch points from when that was shipped? It could have been a European. I did notice a lot of Europeans were outraged by the cost of shipping. Okay, not everywhere has everybody like,


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[Assistant] Gas! Have you been to a gas station and noticed that it's expensive? Uhm.


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[Assistant] Guess what? When it goes on in a jet, jet gas is even more expensive. I, I don't, I just don't even know what to say to stuff like that.


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[Assistant] So you have no way, if it's not occurring in the store, then yeaah, all bets are off basically.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Vithagar in floatplane chat says, I worked in support for several years and exactly zero times out of however many, uh, was anyone paying attention to what data I accessed? Oh no.


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[Assistant] Alright, we've got a couple more topics that I do want to hit today. Uhm, let me see if I can find them. Oh. What is that noise, Dan? Do you have any idea what that is?


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[Assistant] Kinda chillin'. I'm good. Uh, Mountain Dew LTT Screwdriver.


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[Assistant] Has made a screwdriver, based on the shape of the LTT one, out- oh. I see. I am now holding it. That was quick.


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[Assistant] Okay, well I guess I don't need to, I guess I don't need to show the picture anymore. Uh, this is pretty cool. Uh, offered us an LTT styled screwdriver made out of Mountain Dew bottles using a DIY filament maker in return for an official version.


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[Assistant] We have accepted this offer and our discussion question is, what do you think of the Dew Driver? I didn't know you could make DIY filament.


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[Assistant] So cool. Uh, okay, well hey, enjoy your screwdriver, and I'll also be enjoying mine. Thank you very, very much.


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[Assistant] Speaking of... Dude, can I feel it?


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[Assistant] Okay, the next AMD Ultimate Tech upgrade might be the best one yet.


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[Assistant] Not because it's, you know, uh, you know, a popular personality over here that you guys know very well or anything like that. Do you know who it is?


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[Assistant] We went out of our way to make sure that I was not written up throughout the entire process.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's, uh, it's, it's gonna be a good one. It's gonna be a good one. It's gonna be, uh, it's gonna be worth the wait. Actually, I think it's not the next one coming to the channel. The next one coming to the channel is the, uhm,


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[Assistant] The customer care supervisor for LTDStore.com, Adam. So that one's on float lane. Is that one on float lane? Okay. So yea, no, the next one is going to be weeks away because it's shot, we shot it on


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[Assistant] Yeah, so they get earlier access to videos and they tell us if they notice anything that's wrong with it. We talked about this after the, um, after the production break. Yeah, no, ECC squad's not secret at all. ECC is error correction and checking.


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[Assistant] Alright, uh, I think there's like one more, yea, Valve.


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[Assistant] It gives a peek into its recommendation algorithm. They released a video presentation last week explaining Steam's recommendation system, which is a mix of algorithmic visibility and curated featuring, with the former being personalized.


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[Assistant] So, uh, featured, recommended, discovery queue, curator recommendations, and the latter shown to everyone, like special offers. These special offers are primarily decided on the basis of revenue.


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[Assistant] According to the presentation, Steam's algorithm does not favor recent over old titles. Coulda guessed that.


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[Assistant] Doesn't highly waste store page traffic and only down weighs negatively reviewed games if they are below 40% positive.


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[Assistant] That's interesting. So you have to have a really bad game for it to affect its algorithmic positioning.


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[Assistant] Wish lists do affect the popular upcoming section prior to a game's release, but early access releases don't drive visibility on an algorithmic level. According to Valve's business team, Steam doesn't sell ad space on its storefront because they don't think the platform should be pay-to-win.


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[Assistant] Sure, but I, okay, okay, okay, I think you're, I think you're kinda being like that about it. A little bit. Yeah, okay, good. Uhm.


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[Assistant] They have resisted, uh, they have definitely participated in some of these, some of this, you know, getting past your customer first mindset into a profits first mindset.


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[Assistant] This philosophy, I hope it survives.


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[Assistant] Because Amazon is such a great example of this. Used to be great to shop on. It's atrocious. It is...


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[Assistant] I don't browse at all anymore. At all. Even when I want to shop on Amazon.


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[Assistant] It's not worth it. Like, we've done streams in the past on Prime Day, for example, where we are actively looking for deals, and they are there in a lot of cases, but they're so hard to find. That's why you need someone doing a Prime Day stream to show you where anything good is.


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[Assistant] Yeah, DrGizmo and Twitch Chat says they don't need ads, they get revenue from game sales. Yeah, Amazon gets revenue from selling the product. Yeah, obviously. But they charge for ads anyway because they're at this point where all they care about is shareholder returns now.


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[Assistant] Lays out in really easy to understand terms.


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[Assistant] How this life cycle, why this life cycle, what this life cycle is of, of especially internet brands and maybe part of the reason it's so focused on internet brands is because we see this evolution happening so fast from a focus on the customer to, I forget what the three stages are. It's like customer, employees, and then shareholders or something. I, I can't, I can't remember, but it's,


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[Assistant] Oh yea, customers, then partners, then shareholders. Uh, so first,


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[Assistant] Amazon was all about customers and it was all about just the best possible experience to the customers. Screw you partners and shareholders.


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[Assistant] You make no money and, you know, whatever. And then it was all about partnerships. Grow, grow, grow, grow, grow, grow, grow. We've got a customer base that you want to access. Let's get huge. And then you're huge and you go, okay, time to make money now. Turn on all the money spigots. It's a really good article.


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[Assistant] Is it time for Wancho After Dark? I think it's time. There's new Threadrippers coming next month, which is really inconvenient for me. We already shot Compensator 4, and they weren't out yet. I guess as long as we release the video before they launch them, we should be okay. That could be part of it.


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[Assistant] Well, no, cause I specifically talk about Threadripper and how AMD and Intel have both abandoned the HEDT market, so we're gonna have to shoot a pickup or something.


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[Assistant] 995WX, that can't be the right, uh, model number, it's gotta be something else. Uh, oh, 7995WX. Okay, I think there's a missing seven. Remote access, that's weird. This generation is a serious upgrade. Over the 5000 series, it's Zen 4, has a TDP of 350 watts, and is PCIe Gen 5.


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[Assistant] Oh, this is Threadripper Pro that's available with 96 core. AMD is also resurrecting consumer Threadripper, which has up to 64 cores and starts at $1,500. Okay, that's barely consumer. Man, AMD has completely abandoned any semblance of


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[Assistant] Wanting to be like a scrappy, you know, take care of actual gamers, we're affordable kind of player in the market. Starting at $1500, what did first gen Threadripper start at? Uh, Threadripper, what is it, 1900X I believe was the entry level one?


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[Assistant] I wanna say 12 cores, 10 cores, 10 cores. I think it was 10 cores. Crap, I don't remember. I think it's 10 cores. Uhm... No! 12 cores! Okay. Alt back.


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[Assistant] Was 800 bucks. Like, come on, you guys. This sucks. Yeah, there, that's all I have to say about that.


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[Assistant] Wow. It's not black black. It's like, uh, like a, like a wash.


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[Assistant] Like it would actually be a problem if every company just talked about like everything that's going on. That'd be sweet. Because people- Bring the chaos.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no, I think people would misunderstand it a lot. I think it would actually be bad. Yeah, but if everybody was doing it?


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[Assistant] What's your point here, sir? My point is that, okay, okay, let's say Valve was totally transparent about everything that they're working on. Sure. I think it would actually lead to a lot of negativity towards Valve when projects don't pan out. So I completely agree, this is my Star Citizen argument.


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[Assistant] Right, yeah. Yeah, okay, okay, so we're in agreement then.


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[Assistant] Have we talked about that on the show before? I don't know. I've just been noticing this pattern. It's a very real pattern. If I say something is expensive because


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[Assistant] Yeah, and if I say something is a good value. It's only cheap to you. Okay.


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[Assistant] So we've gotten to the point now where in writing in script reviews, I will, I'll tell the writers like, look, we can't, I can't, I can't have an opinion on a price.


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[Assistant] I can speak objectively, uh, relative to, uhm, the non-slim PlayStation 5, the new one is the same price.


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[Assistant] And it's clear that Sony is increasing the price of the all digital version without increasing it by having it be more. And then also it costs more to upgrade that one to the disk one with the new modular thing. If you get it after the factor, whatever it was that we kind of discussed last week, I don't remember the exact details, but if I were to just say, um, yeah, that drive upgrade is cheap. Cause you know what?


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[Assistant] I think for a first party accessory for a console that has the kind of utility


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[Assistant] That a blu ray drive does and giving the kind of flexibility that it does to buyers to get something at a lower price today, but also be able to add that functionality later. I think it's, I think it's very reasonable, but there's always going to be a way to twist that around. Or if I say, Hey, Facebook marketplace is full of cheap GPUs right now.


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[Assistant] It doesn't matter what the context is for that statement, right? Uhm, it doesn't matter that I'm talking about it in terms of you know, relative to what you can get.


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[Assistant] Money now. I don't worry about buying a GPU. That is not, uh, that's not a concern in my life. Uhm, and I know that for a lot of people it is. So hearing me even comment on it, it makes people angry. Like actually angry. That's the thing that you guys gotta understand is these are not just, uhm,


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[Assistant] You know, well-articulated, uh, thoughtful comments about how, uhm, you know, it could be that over the course of a successful career, you inherently reach a point where your relatability is reduced, uh, because of your life situation not being the same as the people you're talking to anymore. Like, that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking people are.


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[Assistant] Like furious about it. I'm taken aback by it because as, as much as, as much as my life situation has changed a lot, actually a lot of my attitudes towards money and spending it particularly personally haven't.


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[Assistant] I've definitely allowed myself to loosen up a bit. Obviously the car was a huge example of that, but I still wouldn't even begin to consider spending $7 on a beverage. Uhm, and that's, you know what? I can.


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[Assistant] Seven dollars, this is gonna get turned around on me, I'm sure, but seven dollars means nothing to me. Absolutely nothing. I could spend seven dollars on a beverage every day for the rest of my life, I wouldn't notice it. But that's not...


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[Assistant] That's not my habit. That's not, uh, that's not how I feel about it. That's not how I was raised. Uhm, that's not how I lived most of my adult life even. Uhm, and I just, I don't foresee it changing anytime soon. Like to me when I see anyone who isn't


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[Assistant] A high net worth individual spending that kind of money on a drink. I am floored. Uhm.


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[Assistant] And you know what, I get it. People, people get enjoyment in different ways. That just is, I couldn't poss- I just couldn't possibly enjoy it. Every sip is like, nickel.


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[Assistant] Nickel. Like I can't lose it. I can't lose that. And so, there's like, there's, yeah, and sometimes I think I'm contradictory, right? Because I don't, I'm not acting that. I feel that. I have a heart, I drink water.


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[Assistant] Especially here, it's plentiful, it's free basically. And it's good, yeaah. Some places in the world it's not so good. Yeaah, totally different situation, right? But then on the other hand I have this stupid midlife crisis mobile car.


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[Assistant] In ways that are visible to you probably. That's fair enough. I was super immature when we started this dealie. Yeah. In ways that probably weren't obvious to you at the time because you were younger.


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[Assistant] The more compounded savings you can realize.


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[Assistant] Well, there have been all kinds of ones. Like, there was a period a few years ago, I think it was now, where there was just this kind of momentum in the community complaining about, like, the immature, like, dick jokes and stuff like that. And, uh, you know- This has existed forever.


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[Assistant] Just, just for fun, I replied to a handful of them, linking them to videos from the first month that the channel existed, that were full of, like, there were complaints about the campy humor and the immature jokes, and so I just, like, I just sent them, I was like, look,


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[Assistant] This has always been this. Maybe you don't like them anymore. And you know what? Maybe you grow up. And you know what? That's fine. But, you know, understand a couple of things. One is you obviously did at some point. And two...


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[Assistant] It's cringe. It's, it's awful. It's like the, that's what she said, constant refrain from Michael Scott on The Office.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we are, we are leaning into it, going...


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[Assistant] Haha number, like it's, there's nothing, it's, there's nothing funny about it, and it's just, we're just memin', we're just memin', it's okay. Or no, or it's not, or it's not, and you like, don't have to watch, but I promise you, it was always there.


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[Assistant] I wanted people, I wanted people to understand that like this wasn't something that I was just doing overnight.


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[Assistant] Uh, I wanted people to understand that this wasn't a me first thing. Um, that came right on the heels of us doing an enormous bonus payout, uh, for the Christmas party. Um, and, and, and, and, and that was kind of the way that


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[Assistant] If I can afford to buy myself something nice like this, then I should be able to afford to buy everyone else something nice. And if I can't, then...


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[Assistant] Should I really have the status symbol anyway? Does it mean anything? It's like is a status symbol really a status symbol unless you can afford to like give a bunch of it to someone else too. If you get what I mean.


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[Assistant] That I have been willing to invest in a consumable ecosystem.


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[Assistant] Do you buy any consumables?


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[Assistant] Okay, sorry. I don't mean in terms of personal care. When I, when I say consumables, I'm talking about discretionary purchases. So, something like a, uhm, ugh.


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[Assistant] Uhm, temperature sensor for the Ecobee Smart Thermostat into a wall-powered one so that I would never have to buy another battery for it.


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[Assistant] Food and that sort of thing. Yeah, okay. That makes sense. Discretionary. Uhm, honestly, a big part of my personal rationalization for the car is at least I'm not buying gas anymore.


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[Assistant] I'm using good old, subsidized by my solar panels, cheap as nothing in BC hydroelectricity. Let's gooooo. So I step on that pedal with


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[Assistant] Yeah, kids are expensive, but I have no problem spending money on other people. That's never really been an issue. It's not really a question. Uh, Tynan brings up, uh, shuttles for badminton. Yes, okay.


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[Assistant] Badminton is something I spend on consumables. I do have a counter argument for this though. I also think that for the personal health, personal care. Exactly.


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[Assistant] Uh, badminton is a primary personal care, uhm, method for me. It's how I stay in shape.


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[Assistant] Anything else health related, it's, it's pretty, it's pretty reasonable. And most of my badminton costs are the free badminton nights that we run for work and for some badminton community members. Money spent on other people. Which is money spent on other people anyway.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm not trying to say- I know, I know, I know you're not after me about it, Tynan. Tynan often comes to baddie night. It's, uh, actually, he and some of the other team members have made incredible progress. It's been a really cool, uh, really cool event.


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[Assistant] Uh, Sebastian asks, runescape. Did you spend money on runescape? Does runescape cost money? I don't know anything about runescape. I didn't spend money on runescape.


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[Assistant] Exactly, in exactly the same way, I will replace a car tire if it's dangerous or worn out, but while the recommendation is always to do them in pairs, I've always been the guy to be like, no, only one of them is broken.


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[Assistant] Yeah, for the air circulation in the thing. It helps keep it not stanky. I mean, not in my fridge.


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[Assistant] Uh, I can, I can promise you guys right now that that video will not perform like it would've if we had simply left it up.


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[Assistant] Um, the far better option that can be available to under certain circumstances. So this is all part of our error handling SOP standard operating procedure that we've posted on the forum.


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[Assistant] Uhm, the, the better option is one that we outlined there, which is if you can edit the video in a way that the runtime is exactly the same and there's like a bunch of other rules, uhm, in some cases you can, uh, submit a request to YouTube to have it replaced, uh, but if that's not possible,


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[Assistant] Our only options are to post retractions or comments or to


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[Assistant] Nobody does that. Nobody clicks that notification. I've actually been thinking of making a video for a long time called You Won't Click This Notification.


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[Assistant] Uh, and just talking about how inconsequential subscriptions and notifications are on YouTube now compared to recommendations.


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[Assistant] I haven't really gotten around to it. It's the kind of thing that only I can realistically write instead of someone else on the team. And I'm just so busy reviewing other people's work. I rarely get to write. Uh, I have one coming soon though. I wrote the big screen beyond video. It's that cool VR headset, that super high fidelity one that you tried at my place. Yeah.


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[Assistant] So I, I got, I got to write a video for a change, but that's coming soon. Uh, what am I talking about right now? I forget. Oh right!


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[Assistant] So taking it down and then republishing it again has the exact same problem because even though most people won't click that notification, YouTube still uses that as an extremely strong signal.


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[Assistant] That's less of a problem today. We had a video that we published, uhm, where we accidentally clicked an option that doesn't send a notification. It was, uhm, here, I think it was like...


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[Assistant] Uhm, this one. Yes, okay. This top one right here. What were they thinking? Weird 90s controllers. It's got one and a half million views.


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[Assistant] Do I think it could have done a little bit better with a shove in the butt out of the gate rather than not having anything go out to notificat- to people who subscribed? Uhm, yeaah, yeaah, probably. But overall, it's done okay. And that wouldn't have been the case, you know, five years prior to that, ten years prior to that, when subscriptions and notifications


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[Assistant] We're basically just kind of indicative of the long-term performance of a video. Now you can have videos that...


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[Assistant] I think the best advice that I could possibly give you is... Just don't make a difference. Yeah, well, don't change anything. And you know, engagement with tech should be, should be meaningful. It should be, uhm...


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[Assistant] Educational to the degree that you can make it. It should be uhm, not a crutch. I think that's probably the most important.


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[Assistant] Advice as someone who's been doing the parenting thing for actually a while now, uhm, is, is don't treat tech like a babysitter. Experience it with them. Be part of, be part of that voyage of discovery.


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[Assistant] I mean, I wasn't that curious about it until you brought it up just now, but I think the path of converting to like a, uhm, like an ad agency slash production company could have been really interesting.


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[Assistant] I, I, there's no way that I had that in me. I, I don't think we could, it's a cutthroat world and, and I, I don't have the, the background there. Oh, oh!


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[Assistant] Okay, note here, uh, well, okay, again, I'm not sure if I'm, I'm trying to think of things to be curious about. Uh, it's not something that occupies my mind. I'm more look forward than look back in general, but remember that, um, that small Vancouver based tech media company that wanted to acquire us very early on. And I'm still so.


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[Assistant] The reason that I didn't do it was not actually because I wasn't interested. They had a lot of experience in traditional media, a lot of advertising relationships that could have poured rocket fuel on what we were doing. The reason I didn't do it was because


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[Assistant] Of ego. Speaking of things that haven't changed. Uhm.


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[Assistant] And you gotta understand, like, ego is not necessarily inherently a terrible thing. It doesn't make you a bad person, but it does make you behave in certain ways sometimes. And in this case, my, my, my ego did


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[Assistant] And it didn't even matter whether the company's share structure was 50-50.


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[Assistant] That was not even, that was not even a factor for me. It was that they clearly were of the mindset that


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[Assistant] I was a kid who would essentially work for the company and have shares in it, sure, or whatever because I built something really valuable to them, clearly, but that they were


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[Assistant] You know, the, the acquiring party. Uhm, I was like, no man, I will, uh, I'll see you on the other side. Or not. Let's see how it goes.


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[Assistant] But that's, I mean, that can be hugely motivating, right? Uhm. Yea, I think it was. Oh, it was very motivating. Yea. I... I...


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[Assistant] I disclosed the sorry state of our accounts payable at NCIX to a partner.


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[Assistant] I remember that, but yeaah, that's a good one. Uhm, that was, that was pretty bad. Like, I'm all about, you know, honesty or whatever, but that was probably not, that was probably above my pay grade. Uhm...


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[Assistant] Oh man, shoot, I was actually gonna, I was actually gonna say something else too. Man, I don't know, this could be an endless list of things I have done professionally that I would never do again.


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[Assistant] I don't regret that though. No, that was cool. Like, honestly, maybe, maybe that forever would have been great.


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[Assistant] It's kind of wild how you can go from a job interview with a stranger to just like- Getting driven home. Instabros, uhm. But it like actually-


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[Assistant] I don't think you can be who you are today and be even remotely happy with who you are and not go back and make the same decisions. This is something we've talked about in a lot of detail on the WAN show before, but I, I just, I couldn't change a thing like butterfly effect, man. What if I, what if I changed something and what if I didn't hire Luke?


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[Assistant] What if I hired someone else and I turned out to be more easily influenced than I think I am and they got me into hookers and blow and it blew up my marriage?


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[Assistant] No, not technically. This happens. This is one of the things that we're starting to talk to our kids about a lot is so much of who you become is influenced by who's around you.


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[Assistant] We're recognizing that we are not going to be in that inner circle for our kids for much longer and so the best way that we can influence them into the future is to try to influence who will be influencing them. We recognize it's not going to be us and so.


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[Assistant] I think we, I think we like to think that we're, you know, we have our own mind and we have our own, uh, we set our own course or whatever else.


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[Assistant] If we're being 100% honest with ourselves, I think that...


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[Assistant] We are in a position where we are privileged to be able.


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[Assistant] To have our own path and make our own decisions and feel that way. If we'd had a very, very different start, we might not be in that position today, which is just another way of saying that we could have been easily influenced. We got a little lucky and maybe we worked hard.


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[Assistant] Okay, not gonna get too personal here, but uhm, there are, I think, situations where being completely oblivious to the needs and wants of the people around you is also not helpful.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and sometimes, sometimes doing something that isn't what you want to be doing right now, but isn't dangerous and just because someone else wants to do it is okay. And if they do peer pressure you, maybe they shouldn't have done that, but these are,


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[Assistant] These are social mechanisms that have evolved over tens or hundreds of thousands of years, right? Like, let's not pretend that all of a sudden we're gonna go, oh, peer pressure, bad. That's not gonna happen anymore. Uhm, and, and there's something to be said for,


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[Assistant] But you got a little lucky probably. Probably. The fact that you even just sort of had that attitude of wanting to


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[Assistant] You know, do your own thing. Uh, you can't take that for granted. No, yeah. Yep.


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[Assistant] I mean, I think the entire open source software movement was just gonna say is what you're talking about. And there's a ton of momentum there. I mean, uh, oh, one of the topics that we didn't get to this week. This is a great segue into it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, Qualcomm is working on their first RISC-5 processor design. It's not gonna be a full-on smartphone chip out of the gate, but in collaboration with Google, they are building RISC-5 Snapdragon for wearable devices.


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[Assistant] That's incredible. And you know what? Arm, from my understanding of it, has a relatively, uhm, amenable licensing situation.


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[Assistant] But nobody likes paying forever for something when they can spend money on it once and own it forever. And I think that's where, that's where, that's where risk five is gonna come in and in the medium to long term.


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[Assistant] Close the gap with x86 and arm. Alright, well, sorry, with arm and even to a degree, I think x86 in the very, very long term.


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[Assistant] So my understanding, uh, tech, technology connections did a video on this like super advanced microwave from the 90s. Uhm, my understanding is what you're talking about does exist and did exist and only doesn't exist now because it's just way more profitable to crap out


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think people would use them, but as it is, no, I don't use them. And actually, back to popcorn, it explicitly says on at least the ones that I have not to use that setting because it doesn't work properly.


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[Assistant] So with that in mind, I would use whatever uses high quality flash, and the most likely of those products to use quality NAND flash would be an SSD. They tend to use better controllers, they tend to use better flash.


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[Assistant] USB sticks and micro SD just use whatever the cheapest possible garbage is because unless you are


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[Assistant] It's still not like actually done, done. They're awful. They're, they're, they're just, they're awful.


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[Assistant] They don't show up when they say they will, they show up without telling you they will, so they, they'll like, come in.


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[Assistant] Quickly fix a couple of things, not everything that is outstanding, and they'll like take off, and you're like, woah, hey, uh, yeah, they're, they're awful.


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[Assistant] I thought they had like a different, like, entry level. It was like a, like a Cisco sub-brand or something like that. Yeah, I thought that was Meraki. Yeah, that's their sub-brand, but that's their like really high-end stuff.


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[Assistant] Anyway, yea, anything, anything that has a dashboard, this is actually what turned me off of the, uh,


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[Assistant] Yeah, the uhm, the like, cost as much as a car automated cleaning robot that I had looked at for the badminton center. I was like, hey, so how does, how does the configuration work? Can it be done locally in the event that you guys don't exist anymore? And their response was, don't worry, it will exist. And I went, yeah, I'm not going to spend tens of thousands of dollars on a robot that


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[Assistant] All of a sudden doesn't work anymore. If you guys don't support it anymore, that's absolutely ridiculous.


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[Assistant] I mean, we've seen it happen to lots of products. I have tried not to invest in many that I foresee that being a possibility with. I've been really lucky. I've been really lucky so far. Uh, Sonos got real close for a little bit there with the S1, S2 app split.


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[Assistant] So far, they have continued to support their legacy S1 products, uhm, well enough that I'm happy with it.


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[Assistant] Sure, I don't have a good answer for this one, but it's such a good question that I wanna say it. Anonymous asks,


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[Assistant] A proverbial hill that you would die on, that few people know about.


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[Assistant] Buying high-end computers is stupid. Yeah.


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[Assistant] But I think everyone kinda knows that. Like, we do it anyway because it gives us satisfaction or whatever. It's fun. But like- Number go up.


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[Assistant] You're so much better off buying a mid-range PC every three years than a high-end one every, you know, six years or whatever the math works out, what it works out to. But then you're never having the high-end experience, you know?


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[Assistant] I feel like as a media personality, I think that's the problem. I spend four hours a week, basically. Is that how long Wanshow is now?


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[Assistant] I think it's like three or four hours. Talking about everything that could possibly come to my mind to the point where I don't even, after Wancho, I don't even really like talking.


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[Assistant] And like even sometimes the next day, I'm just like, yeah, I'm just like kind of done talking for now. That's, that's it. That's all I got. Um, so I just, I don't have that much to share. I just, I feel like I want to-


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[Assistant] I wanna, I wanna highlight that question so you guys can, you know, use it to start a conversation with someone in your life. Cool.


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[Assistant] Digital Storm. But Digital Storm's not in it either. Oh. I don't remember why we do or don't include Digital Storm. A lot of the placements in Secret Shopper are as much because we've shopped them already. Like I don't know how Main Gear's business is going. I don't know how relevant or not relevant they are today compared to when we did the first one four or five years ago or whatever it was.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but then we added Starforge because they are highly relevant and then Cyberpower, uhm,


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[Assistant] Was added because we had attempted to secret shop them in the past, but they hadn't ended up participating because they didn't provide recommendations and our whole thing is we buy whatever you recommend to us.


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[Assistant] Maybe we'll expand it in the future, but this was already a lot of systems to do.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. Seems like it would be pretty good. A good hoodie. I mean, I wouldn't personally wear a hoodie to workout.


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[Assistant] I don't know how to describe this. It was like, it was, it was obviously, I didn't know this before, but it was obviously a multi-piece soul because I went through the soul. It was not dripping around. It was like a spot in the soul where clearly some pieces of rubber were like fitted together or like separated to some degree. Yeah. And I would step.


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[Assistant] And it would squish, and some sweat would come through. It was very hot that day. Wild. Absolutely wild.


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[Assistant] Absolutely. There's a video coming where we're gonna deploy all the systems. There's another video coming. Man, we've got a lot of videos shot but not released right now. There's another video coming where we make some changes to the cooling system to help cool the room more because I realized there's a fatal flaw in the entire setup.


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[Assistant] I added the five systems, right, with pool cooling, so that I could cool the room, but all the heat that I'm removing is net new heat. So if the room's too hot now, it's still gonna be too hot, so we had to


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[Assistant] Oh, the, uh, 2900 whatever. Hawaii.


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[Assistant] One of my best ones, I don't know if I would remember my best one, I used to do a lot of wheeling and dealing, uh, one of my best ones was definitely the dual


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[Assistant] 7800 GTX's that I picked up. Yeah, Buddy was upgrading.


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[Assistant] 1900 XTXs in Crossfire. That I think would have been the generational equivalent. 1800 ATXs? It doesn't matter. I think it was 1900 ATXs. Uh, or XTXs. And it was, he was one of those people that just bought shit to play with it and


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[Assistant] I don't think he cared about money at all. And he just wanted to get rid of them quickly. I saw it. I was like, I'll take both. I ran those for like,


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[Assistant] Oh yeah man, I got, I got so many colleagues to give me their account credentials so I could go and do surveys for them so I could pick up more, more SSDs, uh, cause I wanted an SSD raid array like very early on.


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[Assistant] So I had, um, I had four Intel X25-M80 gigs and so that was, yeah, like 300 gigs. That's, that's, that's enough. Um, and I paid like a fraction of what they were worth at retail. That was pretty sick setup. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Alex Clark is boned. Do you know he's a huge Cities Skylines guy? Oh no.


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[Assistant] And I love telling you goodnight. Thank you guys for tuning in. We'll see you again next week. Same bad time, same bad channel.


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[Assistant] How's the incoming doing over there? You doing okay? Doing really good. It's been, uh, it's been super rock solid today. Okay, good. Any progress on a case for all the screwdriver bits and will it include a place for the new shaft extension?


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[Assistant] Uhm, hey guys, so excited for the Noctua edition to finally be out. Been wanting to add this thing to my growing Noctua collection. Can you tell us a bit about what brought about the collab?


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[Assistant] Alright, uh, yeah, I'll, oh, uh, no, hit us with one more merch message. Sure, sure, absolutely, uh, let's see. Uhm, as the warthog driver on Linus's team at Whale Man.


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[Assistant] Yeah. It's literally perfect, yeah. We weren't expecting the AC to take so long to go. Alex and I hugged.


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[Assistant] I don't think so, cause you did it and I refreshed and then it's fine. Okay.


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[Assistant] Not at work, right? No, that was at home. I have one here that's the normal one that doesn't cause massive eye damage. I consulted your laser safety officer. Oh, nice. Before I started working with it.


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[Assistant] Do-do-do-do-do. NASA news please. I've been waiting so long. Nope, none. Okay. Well, I don't know.


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[Assistant] That's the joke. It's the kind of comments I make.


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[Assistant] You forget about it, right? Right there at the start, you forget about it, like, oh, this thing, you know, the guy bought a pizza with like a few thousand bitcoins, right? But I was like, eh, you know, go back in, what, in 2016, when it was like 60 grand per bitcoin.


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[Assistant] Uh, go through like 40 hard drives back all the way through for a decade and it just...


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[Assistant] Mine was stolen, if that makes sense. That is so much worse than what happened to me. Like, mine was just- I don't know, mine was a lot more, but- Yeah, but I mean, it's just, it's things that-


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[Assistant] Oh yea, absolutely. And back then, that was worth like, less than a hundredth of a cent. Yeaah. Right? And so, why would I care? Anyway, that's my story, goodbye.


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[Assistant] Thank you. I thought you were gonna say you already have 5,000. Mmm, oh no. That was not quite scary. But there's a lot.


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[Assistant] Your evidence is going to have a time stamp. That was post hour.


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[Assistant] I got, I got one more merch message. I think this one's for Luke to read. Number 97 in curated. Oh, you actually want me to read it, read it. Okay. I mean, I want you to parse it before I'm going to read it out. Uh, curated if you just click on potential there and it'll close that. Oh, I'm on the wrong one. It'll close it for you. No, I never close anything. Second one down.


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[Assistant] No way. I don't know if it's actual or not.


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[Assistant] Got some near field in there. Oh my god. For Luke, a haiku on our anniversary. Nine years together, you spend tonight with Linus. Goo to the wands streak.


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[Assistant] 100% of the time, yea. Here's a conversation. Congratulations, Luke. Thank you.


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[Assistant] Long time listener, first time caller. Linus, you've said in the past that you buy physical media and keep it in your attic. Is that still true? If so, how big is your collection?


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[Assistant] Oh, yea, sure. Uhm, Your approach to bad merchandise is outstanding. Be that as it may, will the backpack manufacturer help defer some of these warranty costs at all?


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[Assistant] I don't love 11. I can't believe you've used 11. You don't? It's disgusting.


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[Assistant] There we go. Uh, dang it, second cart. Consolidate much. So the second question. For example, full tear down of the final product, including cutting it apart.


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[Assistant] Hey DLL, what are your thoughts on the recently announced Ram Ram Charger, an EV truck with a gasoline range extender? Would you review or buy one if you could?


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[Assistant] Oh, and Linus, I got another message from Nick here. Talking about the backpack stuff.


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[Assistant] Uhm, for future, we've also already added experts in materials design, which will help with situations like this.


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[Assistant] Has Linus seen fanboys yet? I can't tell if it's a good movie, but I love it. I haven't, my sister recommended it to me.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, absolutely. The, the horrific Chinese one that you couldn't get out of China because of a whole bunch of...


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[Assistant] Another fun fact about your screwdrivers is that they are able to be decontaminated from radioactive material if exposed. It happened to mine again.


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[Assistant] Need a sharp thing for my job at TSMC Arizona. My question is, why hasn't LIDAR ca- What? Oh, that's sick. That's awesome.


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[Assistant] Linus saying okay, uh, boomer, triggered my Google Assistant.


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[Assistant] Linus, would you ever do a TED talk about leadership and ADHD? No.


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[Assistant] I don't think I've gone through it with them yet. I'm sorry. I wish I had something to add to that.


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[Assistant] Hi Linus and Luke, how's your experience with the 7900 XTX recently? I've been having many driver crashes and the FSR disadvantages versus DLSS, like in Alan Wake 2, really made me second guess my choice. Cheers.


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[Assistant] Hi, LLD. Looking forward to your shaft. Linus, I use the darn tough running socks daily. What are your go-to styles of DT socks? Cushion or no?


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[Assistant] Hey DLL, I was curious if you remember the first LTT merch sold and how the initial run was misprinted. I still wear my red and black first tank top to mow the lawn. Thanks for always being solid bro. Was that a question?


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[Assistant] Then we're done, boys. Linus, you used to be at the center of the hiring process. Has it not been too hard to delegate such tasks? Any tips for new bosses such as me? Thanks.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Uh, what is the point of HDR when you have some light control? Color management and eyes adapt to light, luminance, and color. Anyway, I notice CSRs don't use HDR, so do y'all actually also think it's dumb?


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[Assistant] If I have a folder called music, then it should... I mean, sure, I guess so. Oh my goodness.


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[Assistant] It also says it did it for you, and then I click yes, and it doesn't do it.


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[Assistant] If the truck is your method of transportation though, how did you get to it? I don't know.


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[Assistant] All that heat is not getting dumped into the water and so all the systems that are dumping heat into the water are being added to the room.


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[Assistant] Wife Approval Factor, 10 out of 10. Cause it's the theater room.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I've got a couple real ones if you want. Hi there DLL, I remember hearing about a progress on a car focused channel. What's the progress on this channel and what would the style of video be like? For example, Marquez or Doug Demiro?


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[Assistant] Not exactly. I do remember that there was a floor polishing step and some shmoo removal step and a whole bunch of ceiling steps and stuff like that.


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[Assistant] Like, the railroads or boardwalk? No, no, just railroads. They're good. What do you think of railroads?


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[Assistant] No, I mean, I was thinking, I don't know, Counter-Strike? Okay, cool.


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[Assistant] I thought it was it goes to auction if you can't afford to buy it immediately.


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[Assistant] Oh yea, cause you're a business and you have to compete with other towns, like you're the mayor of some town.


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[Assistant] It is- Dude, it has- Way beyond my, uh, understanding to play a fish- A lot of death? Like, effectively. It's very deep. And there's like, boat routes, and trains, and like, buses, and all sorts of weird- It's Anno! Resource management. It's basically, uh, better Anno. But for different reasons. That's a- Those are big words.


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[Assistant] Right. Yeah, you can't just kind of have a system and let it live.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I think Anno is kind of a different beast. I know if Linus likes Anno, he may enjoy this, but maybe wouldn't get the same from it that he does Anno.


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[Assistant] Are we just gonna, oh. HTMX? Yea. Yea, we already have another one. React is like old. What are you doing, Luke?


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[Assistant] Retain a bit holder. Buy a stubby and a normal one and transplant.


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[Assistant] I gotta, you gotta be careful with that right now, cause if somebody joins your campaign- Yea, you can't, you can't remove the character. I came unstuck, somebody on Reddit posted a really good post about how to fix that. So you can actually delete it at the moment. So you can undo that, cause I ruined my whole campaign.


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[Assistant] Hit me, Dan. Okay, let's see. Yeah, we got a few here.


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[Assistant] Hi, Dan Show! Hope you guys and team are staying strong. Have you ever had any experiences where you thought to yourselves, if I do this or cross this line, there is no going back?


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[Assistant] Uh, Linus, I am buying this screwdriver specifically for working and fixing equipment for Krispy Kreme. Do you? Did you ever think the screwdriver would be as widely used as it is?


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[Assistant] Yo, welcome back folks. Love this capacitor design. Racquet sports question for you. Have you ever played racquetball or squash? Any thoughts on how the feel strategy or flow of badminton compares? Have you ever played racquetball or squash?


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[Assistant] Hi DLL, started playing Baldur's Gate with my wife in Splitscreen. Unfortunately, not too many games have Splitscreen couch co-op these days. What are your favorites, either recent or old?


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[Assistant] Last one I've got for you curated here. Hey DLL, love that you're back. And the D bread. When will the, I don't know, uh, when will the stubby screwdriver come to the LTT store? I really, really want it in every color I can get it. Maybe twice.


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[Assistant] So I, I... Oh, looks like I've got another curated here.


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[Assistant] Uh, DLSS has been a net positive for gaming in general in my honest opinion, but I have seen a couple videos recently suggesting it's becoming a requirement for games to be playable. Thoughts on DLSS being a necessity.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they're just so unoptimized, or graphics require so much stuff. Oh, I see, I see.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't know. What, but, well, you took the good ones! You take the good ones every time! What do you, what do you want? What about the-