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[Assistant] Their advanced networking features are optimized for multi-cloud deployments thanks to VPC peering and Direct Connect. And with 24 server locations worldwide, like their new Honolulu location, you can spin up a low-latency infrastructure solution for your users no matter where they are.


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[Assistant] Vulture's Marketplace offers one-click installation of more than 50 applications and OS's, including instant Minecraft and game servers, VoIP and VPN platforms, content management systems, and cPanel. And right now, listeners of the WAN show, what do you guys, Vulture, do you guys think this is a podcast or something?


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[Assistant] Viewers of the WAN Show, and listeners, it actually does also go up as a podcast, can receive an exclusive.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I know. We actually just like do use it and it actually is really easy to use and that site is horrible.


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[Assistant] It's a reference to the pre-show. Sarah and I ended up in an argument over whether Frogger was available on Game Gear and whether her assuming that it was, was her trolling me.


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[Assistant] Which, it turned out it wasn't. It turned out that the system does NOT have Frogger. But it turns out that all the engineering was actually done, it was just never released. You can get it as a ROM. So her assuming that was not her trolling me. That's where we ended up. I was kind of right, but I was also mostly wrong.


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[Assistant] Also, like, lots of behind the scenes, like, if you're not on flow...


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[Assistant] Oh yea, Artie is doing an amazing job of the behind the scenes, like meet the team, uh, cutting room floor stuff, there's some great exclusives. We actually took a day off this week, so as a surprise to everyone but me, Yvonne, and Chase.


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[Assistant] I think, oh no, the executives knew. Yeah. Yeah, you knew. Okay, so, uh, so the C-suite, the executive managers, and then Chase, who's our event coordinator, knew. But everyone else showed up for work on Tuesday morning, thinking they were showing up for work.


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[Assistant] At 9.45, a school bus drove into the parking lot. We all got on it, went bowling, went to Boston Pizza for lunch, and then we went to see Uncharted in our own private theater and then came back to the office and everyone went home.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it was, it was pretty fun. Anyway, the point is, uhm, wait, what were we talking about? Dang it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, Artie, even though I told him not to work, I explicit- Did I explicitly tell everyone no work? You did. I did.


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[Assistant] He just, I don't know, maybe actually enjoys his job I guess, but decided to like vlog it. And so there's an exclusive vlog on Float Plane with some of our bowling antics and stuff like that. Yeah, it was cool. Yeah, it was really fun. It was really fun. Uhm, anyway, the point is,


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[Assistant] It's a game gear. Right, okay, thank you. Okay. Finally answering the question. Sorry. Okay.


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[Assistant] Uhm, is there anything, is there anything about this particular? Hold on, let me just get it kinda dialed in for you a little bit here.


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[Assistant] You can never have a surprise with this guy. Okay, so is there anything about this that kinda stands out to you playing it?


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[Assistant] This was like my childhood console. I had, I had a SNES and I had a Game Gear and then I moved to my mom's house and then I had neither of them and I had no consoles ever again.


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[Assistant] Okay, so you're, uh, well, we had, I think, back in the 90s, uhm, you know, it doesn't matter what happened in the 90s. 90s was a bad time.


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[Assistant] The screen is definitely pretty original. So this is the reason that the show was late. I wish I'd taken a picture of what it entailed to turn it into this.


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[Assistant] This is completely original. A little rough. This is an A5 Game Gear.


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[Assistant] This is a brand new IPS display, man. We are gonna have to get heavy into like retro console modding and stuff. Honestly man, when I was working on this with Dan,


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[Assistant] Completely yellow from the top and completely white from the bottom. There's like this narrow, like maybe 10 degrees where you can actually make out an image on the screen. You know what I mean? And like legitimately almost just as bad as it's really dim. Hold up that one.


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[Assistant] It is completely a night and day difference. There's nothing I can do to make it look anything like that. Is that cool or what? So while we were working on this video, I'm sitting here going like, oh man, there are so many businesses that


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[Assistant] That our umbrella organization could get into with just a little bit of startup capital, some space, and like a handful of employees that we could just like.


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[Assistant] You know, you start, you create some jobs for people with like, uh, like micro-soldering skills.


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[Assistant] Well, the problem a lot of the time with the kits is that


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[Assistant] All the engineering work has been done, like the guys that make this replacement screen, uh, the name is on the tip of my tongue, sorry. It escapes me right now, but there's a full video coming about this, don't miss it. Uhm, they do all the engineering work, but the problem is that they're doing extremely small production runs, cause these in many cases are really, really small organizations.


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[Assistant] So if you have someone that steps in and goes, yeah, look, I'll, I'll pay for you to do 5,000 or 10,000 units.


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[Assistant] Let's actually make some of these things. Instead of people waiting, in some cases, three months, for them to produce and then ship them from overseas, all of a sudden you've got easy availability of this stuff in North America.


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[Assistant] It just needs a little bit of capital, and it needs a little bit of like, trustworthiness, like that consolidation.


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[Assistant] And you know what the crazy thing is? A lot of this retro console hardware is either open source or like semi open. The only reason that no one can get it is because no one is willing to put the capital into actually doing reasonable sized production runs of these darn things.


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[Assistant] So, you know, I'm just sitting here going like, yeah, why, why, why, why don't we just, why don't we just hire, you know, four or five?


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[Assistant] People, we just talk about it once in a while on the show. You're gonna end up hiring Shane. Build a brand around it. I know, right?


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[Assistant] Uh, oh, what just happened? I thought I just curated one and it disappeared. Uh, oh yeah, no, no, nevermind, it's here. Uh, we should do a couple more curated merch messages. Bell, hit me!


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[Assistant] Uh, I have only used the original Vive controllers, and oh, actually that's a lie. No, I've used the Oculus controllers. Uhm, the Oculus controllers, you're objectively wrong about them being better, because if you were any good at the game, you would have the problem with the battery covers coming off, if you're like actually at speed, like playing.


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[Assistant] Uhm, as for the Knuckles controllers, I wish they were lighter, but I guess they're my preferred because the only ones that I've used...


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[Assistant] With like a proper VR headset plugged into a computer.


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[Assistant] Are the original Vive controllers and the Knuckles controllers. And for everyone who is not catching it.


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[Assistant] I'm taking the piss right now. I'm just teasing. The Oculus Quest is a fantastic value, the controllers are fine, but I personally have difficulty.


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[Assistant] Going at full speed, keeping the battery covers on. I just, I just can't do it.


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[Assistant] Interesting. So that it's, so that you're just, you're able to rotate the controller more easily. I did, I just, I'm, I'm, I'm not. This is probably an


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[Assistant] I mean, obviously, new gen graphics cards. I think, yea, okay, you know what, yea, I'm gonna pick one. The LTT screwdriver! AMD's leaked Zen 4 RDNA 3 APU. Looks like it could be an absolute


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[Assistant] Utter game changer for entry level gaming PCs.


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[Assistant] Like, if you can get your CPU and graphics sorted out, remember we're gonna have DDR5 memory, so dramatically more memory bandwidth compared to previous gen platforms, which ironically doesn't matter as much, uh, for higher end chips that do not need to use their system memory for VRAM.


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[Assistant] So we're gonna have this high speed memory, and I think you're gonna be able to build a legitimate gaming computer for like, 400, 500, 600 bucks.


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[Assistant] And with great upgradability because these CPU cores are gonna be so fast that instead of, there's gonna be no reason to buy some like Optiplex thing. You should just get, you should just get this and it'll be everything you need today while you're like a, you know, in high school playing, playing, you know,


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[Assistant] Boom. You have actually created no e-waste whatsoever with this machine through two full upgrade cycles worth of, of use. Like I'm, I'm super excited for it.


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[Assistant] I'd love to see someone like Framework do it or something. Did you see they released Disclosure? I'm Investor in Framework. Did you see that they released their main board as a standalone part? And then there's like, it's either a 3D printed like schematic they released or there's like a basic case that you can get for it to just, and then it's a computer now. It's like, oh, okay, cool. That's sweet. That's awesome.


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[Assistant] So, now they're out there keeping promises, which is good, that means I don't have to put them on blast publicly, which is nice. Yeaah, yeaah, that's good. Yeaah, cause I, you know, it's not like I want to go out and be like, yeaah, that thing I invested in, it sucks and you should hate it.


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[Assistant] Well, I mean, okay, not all of them are knuck-knucks. They're like, they're AMD knuck-a-likes is what I think we call them. Nook-a-likes is what we like to call them internally. Because I think Intel actually pronounces it nook. So calling them nook-a-likes is really funny. Yeah, it doesn't matter. Anyway.


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[Assistant] I didn't. Hold on, I need to be really careful the way that I answer this question. Oh. Let me just see.


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[Assistant] Aya Neo Air is a thin and light. I'm just gonna read what is in this article.


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[Assistant] The Makers! Thank you Brad Linder of lillputing.com.


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[Assistant] Lilliputing.com. Oh, like Lilliputians. That's very cute. Actually, I've been on this site before. The makers of the Ioneo and Ioneo Next. Badla. Ioneo Nair. Less than, uuuh. Very light. Just about the size of a Nintendo Switch Lite, but it's a full-fledged Windows computer with Next. I'm worried about power envelope in such a small size. I don't know what kind of performance we're gonna get.


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[Assistant] They haven't revealed which processor it'll use. Yea, see, that's gonna be pretty important. But the fact that they're not revealing it means it's probably embargoed, which means that uhm, it could be really good, because it's something we haven't seen yet.


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[Assistant] 12 rot resin 5000, that's 5.5 or 6 inch display, the price will be competitive. Interesting! Yeaah, uhm, okay.


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[Assistant] I was like, man, I wanna ex- I wanna enjoy this, but I can't with this screen. We should like, make kits to upgrade the screen of the Game Gear, thankfully someone else did it for me.


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[Assistant] Massive shout out because you did it as well or better than we would have. And now I don't have to like build a business around that, which is cool. Um, yay.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, no, I don't know if I'd say that. Man, what? A dream?


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[Assistant] Now the Warcraft 3 remastered, or reforged, or whatever they called it, and everyone just like universally panned it.


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[Assistant] Uh, answer number one, I think we should finally deliver that product that we joked about like six, seven years ago.


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[Assistant] Could be bound to some kind of control scheme, right? So you're just like, you're sitting there and you're like, okay, it's a tense moment. You would just automatically...


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[Assistant] You crouch, every time your flashlight turned on or something, like, man, you know all of those streamers, right? You'd bind something and then chat would absolutely explode every time they like did that thing because you know they'd just want to know about that or something because Twitch culture. Twitch you're awful.


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[Assistant] Oh man, yep, yeaah. It would absolutely, absolutely be a success. Absolutely.


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[Assistant] Of course it would have to have happy feedback. Yeah, I mean, come on. And it'd have to be like wireless. You don't want to have like, you know, uh,


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[Assistant] Like, you know those pajamas with the little, like, buttons in the back? Like, you don't wanna be dealing with that. Okay, cable management? Come on.


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[Assistant] Uh, people are like, he's not wrong, boys. Shut up and take my money over on Twitch chat. Yeah. That's funny. I think we could legitimately build it. Uhm, there's some other, there's some other stuff I have in my, like, document of dreams. Uhm, I would love to build, like, a bathtub scale RC boat.


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[Assistant] Like I think that would just be so much fun. You guys should make a firetruck. A RC firetruck. Oh my god. Okay, that I don't want to do. The amount of like plastic molding you'd have to do to create a product like that. It'd be terrible.


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[Assistant] Okay, what are some other, what are some other like cool product ideas that I wanted to do? Oh, I wanted to do like a USB cable that stays exactly where you put it, like kind of like a GorillaPod.


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[Assistant] Like it's, like it's bendable so that it's like always in the same place when you need to reach for it. I think it'd be super niche.


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[Assistant] Oh, one of the ideas I had like way back in the day, now that like cash is barely a thing anymore, thanks COVID, was like the world's coolest piggy bank.


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[Assistant] I thought that would be really cool, just like a, like a super fun, cool product.


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[Assistant] There's like so many weird things in here. Okay, here's one. Here's a product idea. A PCIe.


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[Assistant] Half height adapter board from a 1x slot to a 16x slot. I probably came up with these before mining. I came up with this one before GPU mining took off. Cause this probably like exists now. But the idea is to be able to install a 16x card in a 1x slot without sawing the back out of the slot like I've had to do a number of times in the past. Uhm, I think Yvonne should write a book. So uhm, like, uh, Yvonne's book. The Youtuber's Wife.


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[Assistant] Growing an internet famous person without


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[Assistant] You know, being the one that's in the front because it's actually a huge burden. Like I remember she had, uhm,


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[Assistant] She, she ended up having like a commiseration session with another YouTuber wife where they kind of talk, and it turned out they had a lot of the same challenges and a lot of the same struggles, uh, just, you know,


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[Assistant] And they kind of compared coping mechanisms and it was just a really interesting conversation and I think it's something people would have found.


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[Assistant] I only overheard a little bit of it because I was busy YouTubing with the guy.


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[Assistant] But it ended up being a super interesting conversation.


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[Assistant] Uhm, oh, here's something, okay. I get so triggered when automatic dispensers, whether it's for like soap or hand sanitizer or whatever, I get so triggered when they, uh, when they dispense like three times the amount you need.


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[Assistant] Like one of the things, people have actually noticed that there's a mod on my, on my soap dispenser in the kids bathroom.


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[Assistant] Sort of a mod, I don't know. Two, uh, zip ties around the thing.


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[Assistant] So that it shortens the throw so that they, unless they pump it multiple times, they actually can't dispense more than they need to wash their little kitty-boo hands. And so if I see them pumping it multiple times, I'm like, hey! No.


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[Assistant] One time, because that is the exact correct amount I checked.


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[Assistant] You don't need more. And so I would love to just have dispensers that just always cleanly dispense the exact right amount of stuff and you could just like adjust it. I know that some of that stuff exists, but like,


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[Assistant] I like- But selling that as a product doesn't work. Yeah, that's tough. Cause it already comes in a container, so.


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[Assistant] Uh, are they, are they talking about soap? Sorry, I just zoned out. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we are actually.


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[Assistant] Uh, is it a text station that ended up getting done by someone else?


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[Assistant] I don't know, I guess that's- Oh, I had the idea of doing like a kiosk that prints greeting cards on demand instead of requiring a huge inventory and like a whole aisle.


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[Assistant] Uh, probably someone's done that at this point. That was like 10 years ago or something like that. I wrote that down. I came up with the idea of curated gift shopping like a thousand years ago. So you just like fill out a survey about the person you're shopping for and it just like spits out a gift recommendation or like orders it for you.


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[Assistant] Also, this one is one that I wish that Yvonne had like, had the bandwidth to pursue because I think she could have built like a bigger business than LMG. Just like, doing her thing. Uhm, but a kids clothing service that just gives you the next size up.


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[Assistant] Like, when you're ready. And then you can just credit your old stuff by sending it back. So effectively, like, cause kids clothes, man. A lot of it will wear out.


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[Assistant] Sure, fine, but a lot of it they are gonna use for such a short period of time and so lightly that it's like kind of a hassle.


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[Assistant] To have to, to have to deal with like, getting rid of it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and so just reducing waste by creating a service where


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[Assistant] It will just automatically send you the next size or you can just like press one button and like all the sizing is done in like a standardized way


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[Assistant] Across, like instead of having to deal with all the different brands and all the different sizing, like ordering clothes online is a nightmare and for kids it's even more of a nightmare because obviously they're, you know, they're all different, right?


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[Assistant] So being able to just go, okay, yeaah, here's their new size and everything shows up, everything fits. Uhm, I, I think it's super valuable and I think there's a company that's already doing that but we came up with that idea a long time ago and it could have been absolutely killer.


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[Assistant] Absolutely killer! Yeah, send the ripped stuff back for recycling in a small credit. I think it could've-


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[Assistant] They just get so much more intake than they can possibly sell.


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[Assistant] So, yeaah. Uh, people are saying some of the places that do that? Yeaah, exactly.


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[Assistant] Oh shoot, there was something else, uh, shoot I just came up with something and I guess I, I forgot about it. I was gonna say I would love to have, uh, something, and I forget. I guess it doesn't really matter.


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[Assistant] Why don't we just move on to the next, uh, next thing?


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[Assistant] Uhm, I, I did end up getting FOMO'd into getting the latest Gen 3. They offered it to Gen 1 or Gen 2 owners.


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[Assistant] Uh, with a lifetime subscription if you upgrade like now. So I was like.


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[Assistant] I actually like this thing enough to buy another one and flip my old one, but I do not like it enough to pay for it forever, so I guess I'll go for it. Fair enough. It does give me some useful insights. I had the lowest readiness score since I got it, uh, while I had COVID, so it seems accurate.


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[Assistant] Oh, okay, well there you go. I came up with the exact same thing, uhm, or maybe, maybe Parks and Rec was on, in a room somewhere while I was present and I like subliminally absorbed it, I don't know.


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[Assistant] Aw man, there was, man, there was something. Ahhhh. Ah, it doesn't matter, I guess I, I guess I'm over it. Crap.


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[Assistant] I think we've done this one before, I think we basically said uhm, uh, oh man, it's on zoom.


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[Assistant] I mean, obviously COVID affects everyone who gets it. Um, fortunately we haven't had any, you know, severe, severe cases where anyone's, I guess I can't really speak about medical things. Fortunately, everyone's good.


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[Assistant] How about that? Uh, we're really pleased that we haven't had to announce any COVID fatalities out of our staff. Uhm, as far as me, I mean it only really affected me


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[Assistant] Making my brain pretty foggy for a while and being really sick for a shorter while.


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[Assistant] As far as being involved in the creative process, I would like to think I am fairly involved in the creative process still, and that's something that I want to continue to be involved in. The team is amazing. They come up with ideas that I never would have. I still do like to think that I contribute pretty significantly to making ideas better.


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[Assistant] I am still where the buck stops in terms of what videos get made. We have weekly meetings that James and I run with the rest of the writing team. Uhm, a lot of the time,


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[Assistant] I will end up just kind of rewriting things on the fly, you know, if we've got sort of a particular idea for how something goes and I'm like, oh, actually, did we think of this angle? And it's like, oh, um, no, that's a little bit different and we'll just kind of run with it from there.


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[Assistant] Uh, one of the things that I do that I am still really good at is thinking on my feet. If something goes wrong in the middle of a shoot, that's, that's where my creativity will definitely come into play.


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[Assistant] Uhm, there are things that, you know, I have, to be clear, I'm not always right, like I've been wrong many times. Uh, Jake is one of the ones that has really pushed me to, like, take the low-hanging fruit once in a while, my dude.


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[Assistant] You know, stuff like Linus responds to mean comments, those were Jake and James initiatives getting me to do more stuff like that.


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[Assistant] Uhm, Jake has been chasing me to do way more house updates for you guys, but what it took to do it was for me to get sick and literally not be able to make any other video. So uhm, I think so.


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[Assistant] Oh, I remember what I was gonna say! Right, uh, one of the other things that I had really wanted to do was a handheld gaming PC, but, um, Valve and Aya and 1xPlayer saved me the trouble because they- they're like really good. So I no longer feel compelled.


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[Assistant] I'm excited, I think that's the next big form factor. And honestly, you know, if I'm someone like Nintendo who has just sat completely unopposed as


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[Assistant] King, queen, god, emperor of the handheld gaming space. I am shaking in my boots right now.


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[Assistant] Absolutely shaking in my boots because I was sitting here thinking, oh well I can just charge 20, 30, 40, 50 dollars for like ancient software and because I have a monopoly people will pay it. Oh boy, now I gotta compete with like...


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[Assistant] Steam, like cheap games on steam and like, the E word.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you might actually have to like make new games and faster, better consoles. Impossible.


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[Assistant] I just bought my son a copy of Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild. You wanna know how much I paid for it? Probably full price? $79 Canadian dollars. Yeah, oh my goodness! And you know what I'm really mad about? It was on sale at Christmas time, and I was like, I'm gonna order this. And then I was just like, lazy. And I missed the sale. Goes back up the floor. And he asked for it for his birthday.


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[Assistant] Ah, okay, I shouldn't say I paid for it. Uh, it was more complicated than that, actually. You know what, I'm... Oh, man.


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[Assistant] A relative paid for it, but we compensated a relative through like,


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[Assistant] Yep, and it sucked. It sucks, cause it's like a four and a half year old game or whatever.


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[Assistant] Uhm, Joshua also asked, how are things going with backpack and screwdriver notification numbers? The backpack is sitting at 42,798.


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[Assistant] We have, so that new bigger lab, uhm, we hopefully have secured favorable financing terms, so we only need, uh, I think 10% down, which is good.


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[Assistant] Because that allowed us to buy 10,000 more backpacks. Oh, okay. Yeah, so we bought more backpacks. We have 40,000 coming, which means most of you will be able to get a backpack.


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[Assistant] We are hoping for somewhere in the neighborhood of 30 to 40%. That would be on the high side compared to what we get for out of stock notifications, but because these are items that have been so in demand for so long and we've received so many inquiries, uhm, and they've never been available before. So it's not like a back in stock notification. This is like,


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[Assistant] Hey, if you don't get it now, there's actually more people signed up to get notifications to get this than like we can make with our current cash flow. Uhm, I am hoping for higher than typical, typical somewhere in the neighborhood of like 20 to 25%.


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[Assistant] With a product like this, I suspect a lot of people just are not bothering to sign up for notifications.


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[Assistant] And it is entirely possible that when the first, you know, 10,000 screwdrivers of the first 10,000 backpacks arrive, they will literally be


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[Assistant] Immediately gone. I'm sure that's true. Sooo, yeaah, could be interesting. You know what I think we might do?


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[Assistant] I don't want to take pre-orders, but I think for the first time I might be willing to take back-orders.


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[Assistant] And it's more because both the backpack and the screwdriver are going to be in production because the volumes are so high.


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[Assistant] It's not like we haven't placed the order. It's not like the factory isn't working on it, but the deliveries are gonna be spaced out. A back order is very different.


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[Assistant] So, backpacks for example, our 10,000 unit orders are gonna arrive somewhere in the neighbourhood of one to three weeks apart.


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[Assistant] Sorry, keep going. So it's not like we are taking your money and maybe in six months you will get a product? No, these are ordered.


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[Assistant] By the time we sell out of the first shipment, uhm,


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[Assistant] Uhm, for sending email notifications when an item comes back in stock is not very good. All 40,000 of those people are gonna get an email at once.


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[Assistant] So if we don't give them an opportunity to kind of grab something from the second wave,


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[Assistant] So I think that's going to be my compromise. And you know what? Honestly, I don't want to say never as far as pre-orders go once it's items that we have a little bit more expertise in. We might take pre-orders for a follow-up screwdriver.


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[Assistant] There's some variants that we're looking at right now, based on the, based on the reception to the release, to the impending release of this one, and based on how good we know the product is, there's gonna be more tools.


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[Assistant] Ah, did we get, sorry, did we get 18 more all-black notifications while I was talking about it? We're at 42, 8, 10 for backpack. Hold on, I'm gonna refresh again. Okay. Y'all need to chill out. Yeah, less than a minute, okay, this is all less than a minute ago. Uh, people signing up.


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[Assistant] Uh, speaking of when, why don't we do, like, another topic or something? Sure. Apple Launches Self-Repair? Actually, are we in pretty good shape as far as topics? Oh! Twitter accepts Elon Musk's offer to buy Twitter. But! You know what? I think that's all I have to say.


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[Assistant] You know what? Let's put it in context for a second. Amazon bought Twitch for one billion dollars. Okay, okay. Listen to this. And we thought that was crazy.


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[Assistant] And it probably was, because, oh wait, is it even in the doc this week? Talking about Twitch, the rumored 50-50, uh, revenue split and the, like, forcing streamers to, uh, like, play more ads and stuff? I have some hot takes on that, so we'll definitely talk about it.


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[Assistant] So they have software developers. Yep. Okay, software developers are very expensive. Yes. So if their team is more than like five, six people, you know, their total expenses and, and remember your expenses includes more than just salaries, right? These people have to have a place to work. They need equipment. And salaries are more expensive. They need giddles.


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[Assistant] Oh, which I, oh, no, not Smarties, that's more of like a different candy in the states, okay, uhm, uhm, it doesn't matter. The point is they need candy. Uh, they're developers, okay? So...


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[Assistant] Uh, so if you have even like a handful of developers, you're already spending a million dollars a year.


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[Assistant] So I'm gonna say they have more than just a handful of developers. I'm gonna say they spend...


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[Assistant] $1.2 billion is just R&D or actually includes operating expenses of running the platform.


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[Assistant] I said 20 million, I figured they might have a team of like 50-60 devs, like what do they even do all day?


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[Assistant] Apple spent 19 billion dollars on R&D.


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[Assistant] Well yeaah, and the thing you gotta realize about Apple is that, that's one, honestly that's one thing that pisses me off the most about Apple, is that they are often at the forefront of product development.


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[Assistant] Whether it's micro led display, uhm, you know, exploration for wrist devices or VR or like cars or whatever it is. They are often on the cutting freaking edge. Oh yeaah. We just like don't get to see a lot of it.


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[Assistant] Or it's ludicrously priced. Uh, but like, Apple only spent


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[Assistant] Like, one point, one and a half times that, probably by the time we're looking at the same year. Sorry, sorry.


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[Assistant] 10, 10 times, 15 times? What does this work out to? I'm sorry, math is still got COVID bringing. About 15 times, the amount.


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[Assistant] Apple definitely has, and Apple is also a company that I often look at and go,


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[Assistant] Wow, they spend an awful lot on R&D for how many products they actually pay.


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[Assistant] I mean when Apple is making you look like a complete idiot when it comes to R&D spin


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[Assistant] That's a big problem is like, Twitter? How on earth are you gonna turn a profit?


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[Assistant] I can't tell if binary C here is being verbally ironic or not, but they said an unprofitable dumpster fire with a large intangible value is an ideal company to take private. I would actually think it's the opposite of that.


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[Assistant] Go public. And take a bunch of people's money and then...


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[Assistant] Cause it's not like Elon's the first billionaire to buy a media organization as a way to swing, an unprofitable media organization as a way to swing their, their thing around. Uh, Bezos bought the Washington Post.


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[Assistant] Uhm, yeaah, so, so, okay, you're a billionaire, okay? Which would you rather have?


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[Assistant] They're like, yeah, you actually do need to regulate hate speech on the platform, or you will either be fined to this degree, or you will just be outright banned in the EU, which would actually be pretty bad.


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[Assistant] Uhm, for Twitter. Oh, I mean, they just lose money anyways, so. I guess, yeaah, I guess the fewer users, the more profitable?


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[Assistant] I'll be very interested to see what happens when and if there is some kind of non-free speech move that takes place on Twitter.


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[Assistant] Whether it is, uhm, you know what? Whatever the perception of it is. I'll be interested to see how that goes. Alright, why don't we move on to some more merch messages?


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[Assistant] Final Fantasy 6 is a funny one because the original translation has a lot of character in it that is not true to the original text, so it's, it's bad, it's flawed in that sense, but because I grew up with it without classic lines like, son of a submariner, I, I just, I find it hard to enjoy it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I, I really liked the way that the characters were developed by, what's his name, Bill, Bill something, uhm, let's see, uh, SYNX Translator.


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[Assistant] Uh, Ted Woolsey. Sorry, not Bill anything. Ted Woolsey was the translator for various Square games, including a couple of my favorites, Final Fantasy VI and Chrono Trigger.


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[Assistant] And I, I honestly, yea, maybe he was a bad translator in the sense that he added some of his own


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[Assistant] character to the text, but I actually really enjoyed his style and so playing it again


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[Assistant] With any kind of fixed translation is a little, I dunno, it's a little...


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[Assistant] Weird for me. With that said, trying to share some of my favorite games from my childhood with my kids, it's very clear that there are creature comforts that they take for granted in modern games that make old games just not as enjoyable for them. So if I was going to recommend a version, then I would probably recommend the Pixel Remaster.


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[Assistant] There's, there's also the, uh, oh man, what's it called? There's a Final Fantasy 6 sort of, uh, fan, let's see, 6 fan version.


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[Assistant] Relocalization, uncensored edition, blah blah blah blah blah, sprites more like their Japanese originals, I don't know. There's one, there's one cool one that's like kind of altered in ways that make the combat more interesting and there's like a bunch of changes to it. I really, oh Brave New World, Brave New World, that's the one, thank you Twitch chat.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I tried it, I made it like halfway through the game and it was like pretty good, honestly, it was pretty cool.


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[Assistant] You know, when I go back and play an old game, honestly, I'd rather just play the version I remember, even if it's super broken, like I played back through Final Fantasy Tactics recently and just...


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[Assistant] Yeah, there are things that are super stupid and frustrating about it, but that's why I, that's why I enjoy it. So I like playing the original version. I do still like some creature comfort, things like save states, that's why I'll...


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[Assistant] Like the ergonomics are different. There's no controller on earth that feels like that in your hand. Yeaah, yeaah, yeaah. Like that is just clearly meant to be played on here. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] Little from column A, little from column B. I think that as a business owner, it is, uhm, it would be extremely irresponsible of me to just do stuff that is gonna put the financial security of myself, my family, and my team in jeopardy.


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[Assistant] I didn't believe that we can make money on labs. It's not something that I would be able to justify the multi-million dollar investment that we're going to be making into it before we can have any hope of turning a profit.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but with that said, there are absolutely things that we could pursue in the mid-, in the short mid and long term that would be more profitable than labs. So on the one hand, yes, uhm, my intention is to make money.


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[Assistant] I have never, I have never claimed


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[Assistant] To be anything other than running a business. And honestly, I think that's the reason you guys should trust me.


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[Assistant] Because if I was doing something other than running a business, I might try to get away with stuff.


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[Assistant] Like I, you know, way back in the day, you know, I, we'd have people who are sort of questioning, you know, are we going to be honest with you guys? And the answer was always, well, yeah, because the internet never forgets. And if we screw with you guys, you will know, you will find out and you will know forever.


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[Assistant] So transparency has always been the best way for us to retain that trust and


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[Assistant] That trust is the most valuable thing to us, so because this is a, this is a business that we're running and our main value as an organization is viewer trust,


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[Assistant] Then the relationship is very clear. I never like to enter an arrangement or a business agreement where I don't understand the value to both sides.


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[Assistant] The value to my side is making money, the value to your side is getting...


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[Assistant] Entertainment and information. So if I can't keep doing those things, I'm not going to make money. So that would be bad for my business.


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[Assistant] With that said, there are other businesses that I absolutely could have gotten into. I do this one because I love it, because since I was a teenager,


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[Assistant] What I would do in my spare time is sit and answer people's tech questions and help them make the best purchase that they can.


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[Assistant] So yeah, it's a business, but it's also something that I do because I just like to do it.


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[Assistant] Does that, I think that probably answers it pretty clearly. It's not the most eloquent way of putting it, but like, I honestly, I still have a little bit of COVID brain. I'm not, like last one in particular.


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[Assistant] It was laggy. Uhm, if you guys wanna get some idea of how I intend to make money on the labs, there's a post on the forum where, again, back to transparency, uhm, I lay out the plan.


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[Assistant] Okay, one of the ideas? Wellspring of content for LTT. Uhm, that also includes ShortCircuit, includes any future channels. Uhm, I, I think that as we start testing products by the dozens or the hundreds, interesting patterns and stories will emerge. Hey, maybe someone is seeding golden laptop samples with liquid metal instead of standard thermal paste or...


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[Assistant] You know, maybe a power supply from a brand no one heard of is the Undisputed King under $70. Uh, video is still immensely profitable, so...


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[Assistant] We have the funding to go and create this, this testing apparatus to make our videos better. Why don't we just do it? Two is affiliate revenue. Uhm, if LTT Labs achieves my goal of creating an alternate spec sheet where pretty much it's the only site you need to make


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[Assistant] We could get into certification programs and third party validation. This one creates, has the potential to create muddy waters, but I think there's ways that we could silo it to make it so that it doesn't have to, and the certification team, uhm,


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[Assistant] Doesn't have to affect the editorial team. Maybe they just don't even talk to each other. They're in completely separate offices. Like, I don't know. I think we could figure it out. I think that's also probably one that's like furthest down the line.


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[Assistant] That's a fair, yes, that's a fair ways down the line. Well, I would have said that, but then we had a large global brand reach out to us earlier this week, asking us to take a look at a product that is in the very early stages of development to provide feedback on it. Uhm, I decided that where I'm at today, I'm going to accept that, but not paid. So, like, I,


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[Assistant] I just am really interested in this product and I'm really passionate about it.


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[Assistant] And, uh, but I'm not in a position where a, I have the time to like provide proper feedback.


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[Assistant] And B, to have the facilities to provide


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[Assistant] Yeah, I could, I could use 1.2 billion dollars. I think I could do a lot with 1.2 billion dollars. Yeah, probably a little bit more than Twitter. Yeah, uhm, so, so what I, the way that I did this, I don't think it creates any kind of conflict of interest.


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[Assistant] And I know that I will have some ideas if I play around with it. So that was my compromise for now, but I think in the longer term it would be better for me to just recuse myself from that sort of thing. Like I could talk to the team about


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[Assistant] You know, here are ways that we want to guide the industry towards being better. We should really be focused on things like repairability as we provide this feedback. We should be focused on things like not saving


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[Assistant] Like, how much the transactions are, either way, I think I should just not be involved in.


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[Assistant] Uh, turning our testing knowledge into product development processes. This one is gonna happen.


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[Assistant] I promise you this will happen. If we figure out how to make the best keyboard, why don't we just make the best keyboard? Yeah, there's conflicts of interest there too, but...


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[Assistant] I don't know, we'll figure it out. I, I'd like to think that if I had a mouse pad, I could still say another mouse pad is really good. I mean, we even said that in our launch video for the mouse pad. We were like, yeah, hey, we weren't quite at the spec of this other mouse pad.


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[Assistant] We think it's okay because you actually have to travel like this many meters for it to drift this amount. We think that's accurate enough for your caveman hands. Uhm, but we, you know, we know that this one actually did a better job. Shout out to them. Uh, like I'd like to think that we could be trusted that way, but I guess we'll have to see how that turns out.


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[Assistant] Uhm, there's the possibility of putting certain content behind paywalls, like having professional level content versus consumer level content, and that seems unlikely to me, but it's possible.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and then there's direct sales of products through the site. Why don't we go full circle and become a retailer? Like, why do we take affiliate revenue when we can just put up a warehouse and just sell it to you directly? There's more conflicts of interest there, potentially.


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[Assistant] I don't know, we're just gonna have to navigate this the best way we can and you guys will tell us if you think we've done it wrong and we'll tell you guys if sorry that's the way it's gonna be because we actually can't sustain the labs without it or whatever, whatever that ends up looking like. Yeah.


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[Assistant] We're just gonna do our best to keep the guiding principles of why are you doing this? Well, one, to make money, but two, as we are making money, we absolutely are setting out to create better information for consumers to, to, to stop the bleeding.


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[Assistant] Of all the knowledgeable people going to the manufacturing side where they literally have no choice but to shill for the brand that pays their paycheck. Tired of it.


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[Assistant] Anyway, if you guys want to check out that post on the forum, it's on the thread called LTT is about to change and it's on page six. And I just, I laid the whole thing out. I'm like, yep, here's the plan.


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[Assistant] Because why bother? Oh, look at this! I've got a, I've got a mission statement that I wrote.


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[Assistant] LTT Labs is the answer to manipulation of on-site reviews and the degradation of the quality of online tech media over the last 10 years. There. That's our goal. Cool.


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[Assistant] Uh, neighbor Steve is probably too busy. Uh, you know neighbor Steve is still here, right? Yeah, he just moved down or something. Yeah, like down at the end. Uh, neighbor Steve is probably too busy to airbrush me a case. Uhm, Yvonne I think does want to keep her owl, so she may keep her original case, but...


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[Assistant] We are in the very early stages of designing a new case for me. If that goes really, really well.


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[Assistant] Then I don't think it's impossible that we would find a case manufacturer to partner with to build a rackmount gaming case. Yeah, I know, I know there's a lot of people who are super into it.


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[Assistant] Hit me with a couple. Okay, can I guess? Can I guess a couple? I'm gonna write them down. Sure. I'm gonna write them down. Yeah. Uh, and then I wanna know if I get the same ones as you. Uhm, okay.


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[Assistant] Uh, let me think. Things that would be, things that would be really special to Luke.


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[Assistant] There's some stuff that I'm really unhappy that I didn't put in too, so we'll see if your list overlaps with mine a little bit.


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[Assistant] Okay, hold on, hold on, hold on, okay, I gotta, I gotta, hold on, I gotta, I'm gonna turn this text white. I swear, I swear to you, that's all I'm doing.


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[Assistant] He's not even typing. There you go. That's the first one I wrote down.


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[Assistant] Am I gonna go three for three? Well I guess I got three. Cause I had the Pegwell and the Wands show set as kind of like one. But, okay, so I'm three for three so far. What's the next thing you're gonna say?


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[Assistant] Yeah, honestly, I thought of all of them afterward and I regretted not having them in.


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[Assistant] I promise. Nope. I know because I hurt myself.


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[Assistant] Oh, that fence jump! I mean, we've done a few fence jumps. It was the one where I flipped for the be quiet thing.


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[Assistant] Stuff. We shot in that house. Yep. Back in the day. Yep. We didn't have sets, guys, like. Just used his whole house.


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[Assistant] Oh, we need to do a scene where like, you know, the person wakes up in the morning. Okay, well, I'm gonna go get into my bed.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, so. And we cut so much from that that I did end up talking about.


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[Assistant] Oh, uhm, my wife got me into it. And no, LTT could not lose me to professional badminton. I'm not that good.


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[Assistant] There's only one major tech tuber who is a professional athlete, and it is not this one.


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[Assistant] Man, I hope it's not dead. Cause like, honestly, thinking about it from a developer standpoint, or like a prosumer standpoint,


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[Assistant] I'm jazzed. In a nutshell. I do think that HEDT is more niche than it used to be.


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[Assistant] But there's still a value to it. I mean, we're, we're sort of frustrated right now because we standardized on, uh, TRX 40 or whatever the TRX 40 or whatever AMD's, uhm,


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[Assistant] Threadripper 3000 series platform was we standardized on it for editing stations thinking that we were going to get at least one more generation of CPUs. We actually ended up getting nothing.


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[Assistant] And now we, uh, is it the boards or the chips that we standardize on that are EOL? The point is that it's, it's hard to find.


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[Assistant] More hardware for our workstations at a reasonable price, and there also is not a clear replacement for it with all the PCIe that we need. Like we've got 25 gigabit NICs in there, high-end GPUs that are actually being used for, not for gaming, like for, for, for data use. So the PCIe bandwidth actually starts to matter a little bit more.


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[Assistant] They're the only authorized vendor of like, the new Threadripper Pro because you can't get normal, like,


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[Assistant] Regular prosumer threadripper. It has to be professional threadripper now. Like it sucks!


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[Assistant] I want Intel to come in and, like, light a fire under AMD's butt, which sounds like a very backwards thing to say. Sounds so weird, but you're totally right. But, I mean, I warned you guys about this. I said, look, the second AMD has the upper hand, they'll behave exactly like Intel, and they did. They're not your friend.


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[Assistant] There's no good guy and bad guy when it comes to CPUs. What we want is competition.


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[Assistant] No, I'm not gonna say almost definitely, okay? Marques, 10 grand.


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[Assistant] Yeah? I'd be super down, we should totally stream it, turn it into an event. You know what, I could make money on it.


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[Assistant] Oh man, I don't know, I don't- I think- Nerdsports was too traumatic for me, I don't wanna talk about it.


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[Assistant] That's a tough one, I think I can speak for both of us when I say we've definitely had funks.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, I think for me sometimes it's a matter of just reframing the problem. Like when I did the 10 million subscriber stream, one of the big things that helped me for the next couple of years was


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[Assistant] You know, uh, saying, okay, well, no, I'm not going to do this because I have to, I'm going to do it because I want to and finding, finding things that I enjoyed and wanted to do and focusing on those.


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[Assistant] Um, a big thing that pulls me out of bed in the morning is just the sheer sense of responsibility. Like if I don't show up for work, like obviously one day is fine if I'm just like, yeah, I'm taking a flex day. Uh, but if I don't show up for work for like a year.


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[Assistant] There's a lot of mouths that literally don't eat, which can actually make it worse sometimes, but usually makes it more manageable.


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[Assistant] Sure, I mean he can always donate it, I don't care. Yea, that's fair. I mean we've done it, we've done things that way in the past where we just say here's a prize, you do whatever you want with it.


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[Assistant] Man, I'm going into hot take territory here. I think that a lot of charitable and philanthropic actions


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[Assistant] Uhm, are about posturing, are about image whitewashing, are about uhm, brand building, and are not necessarily about


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[Assistant] Actually giving up anything personally or making a huge impact. Uhm, we do charitable stuff here, but for the most part we keep it fairly


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[Assistant] I just don't, I don't want to be accountable for what I care about and what, like, I've seen, I've seen creators get backlash for donating, for example, to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, like, why would you donate for animals when humans are still starving? Oh jeez. You know what?


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[Assistant] Why don't you go do something for the humans that are starving? People have different causes that are important to them for a variety of reasons. And that's, that's their personal business. So I just don't feel like having that conversation. This is a stupid conversation and I'm not going to burden my life with it. Um, I, I also just.


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[Assistant] I don't know, I just, it just feels, it just feels like, it just feels icky, like I don't like being bothered at the cash register about it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I, I don't like, yeaah, I just, I don't like, I don't like there being that pressure. And so I-


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[Assistant] Yeah, and there shouldn't be. You know what, there's nothing wrong with a major content creator doing some kind of, doing some kind of event, doing some kind of appearance and making money from it. 100%. Yeah. Like, and I've been very clean with you guys from day one. I'm running a business.


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[Assistant] I can't pay Luke in your goodwill for my charitable donation to something.


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[Assistant] So, at the end of the day, for me, maybe this is a selfish take, but it's me and mine first.


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[Assistant] I am far more concerned with making sure that everyone working under this roof has a place to live than I am with the people who are not under this roof and are not contributing to the success of this organization. And that's not to say that it's, you know, just us all the time, it's just


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[Assistant] This team first. First. Yeah, and I, and like you, yeah. Sorry.


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[Assistant] Is locked up in assets, just because, okay, let's use Elon, just because Elon Musk has a net worth, what is it, like 250 billion or something like that? He still had to get financing to buy Twitter for 44 billion, that's not just cash.


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[Assistant] My net worth, I can tell you right now, is a hell of a lot more than I have in my bank account. That's just how it works. In fact,


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[Assistant] The vast majority of it, which I know for a fact, maybe I'll talk about it someday, but the vast majority of my net worth is tied up in a thing that I actually can neither sell nor borrow against. I know that it's worth that.


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[Assistant] Hold on, Kelton's being a tool over on Twitch. Let's not talk about the locked up in assets thing, please. You can take a loan against your investments, at which point you can borrow against that money.


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[Assistant] But your investments might not be the kind of investments you're thinking of.


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[Assistant] Yes, there are certain kinds of investments that you can borrow against. There's a really, uh, really crafty, uh, wealth management strategy where you take out


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[Assistant] Ugh, I forget how it works exactly. Someone explained it to me at some point. But there's this kind of life insurance that you can get where


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[Assistant] You're basically like putting the, you're basically putting the cash in a big pile that is like a life insurance policy and then that cash because it's basically just cash allows you to borrow against it tax free and then when you die


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[Assistant] In the first couple of years of LMG because this business that was generating


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[Assistant] Plenty enough money to be eligible for a mortgage if I was buying a house personally. Was just like too new. Was just like, no.


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[Assistant] That's apparently called universal life policy. Or index for universal life insurance. There you go.


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[Assistant] That's according to Twitch. Yeah, not financial advice, I'm not a financial advisor. Okay, sorry, what were you gonna say?


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[Assistant] What's nice about riding on a motorcycle is that if you're, if you're in like a, like a busy mind state,


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[Assistant] You cannot stay in that state of mind when you're riding on a motorbike. You must.


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[Assistant] I still ride an SV650S. Uhm, and Armchair Yiddish asks, if I had someone who wanted to give you money for a significant but non-majority portion of LTT, would you take it? It would depend on the terms. Every investor wants something. That's literally the definition.


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[Assistant] You put something in, you expect something back. And I'd need to know what that is, because if I, A, don't agree with it, or B, don't understand it, then I'm not gonna be comfortable taking it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I saw a really terrible take from a Twitch creator that was like, Twitch should just have ads that are totally non intrusive.


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[Assistant] Like to the viewer, like their ads should just like not be intrusive. And I was looking at it going, you know, this feels like that whole thing. Remember when there was the big controversy on YouTube?


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[Assistant] Where they, uh, basically started enforcing like ad-advertiser friendly guidelines on videos and it was affecting the rate at which you could get monetization.


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[Assistant] And you had this, this whole outrage from especially certain corners of YouTube that created very non-advertiser friendly content. And my take at the time, I felt like was very controversial and not received very well, where I basically said, well yea-


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[Assistant] What did you expect was gonna happen? At some point there was gonna be a reckoning


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[Assistant] Where advertisers were not gonna want, you guys don't understand, you don't work with like national and international brands.


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[Assistant] They are extremely conservative when it comes to, and obviously not all their exceptions, but they are extremely conservative when it comes to the associations between their brand and other things. You know, you look at the way


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[Assistant] They will, you'll watch like a Nike commercial and it's just like...


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[Assistant] Someone persevering and at the end there's just like a Nike logo and there aren't even like any words or anything.


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[Assistant] And so I feel like this is another one of those situations where I'm gonna come in and I'm gonna say, well, yeah, what did you think was gonna happen? Do you have any idea how much Twitch costs to run?


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[Assistant] And do you, do you think that banner, like static banner ads on a website are gonna pay for it? I promise you, I give you my personal Linus Tech Tips guarantee that un-intrusive ads


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[Assistant] Because, because no advertiser is gonna pay for an unintrusive ad because they don't work, because they don't call your attention away. Obviously!


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[Assistant] No offense, no offense, whoever does not understand how web advertising works even though it's like how they actually make a living.


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[Assistant] Well, I hadn't even talked about the revenue split yet. So I was talking about the, that Twitch creator yet. That's terrible.


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[Assistant] They're just gonna push everyone over onto YouTube, obviously. Man, we should maybe- Twitch is done.


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[Assistant] If they go through with this move, Twitch is done. I'm calling it.


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[Assistant] Uh, Jiren Theer over on Twitch says, ads don't really work anyway. That's the kind of smooth brain take that I would expect from Twitch chat. Ads don't work? Do you have any idea how big the advertising industry is? Yea, ads don't work.


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[Assistant] Come on. And like, to be clear, I'm not saying that they work on you. Maybe they don't. Maybe you're magic. Honestly, I don't really see them either.


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[Assistant] They have entire free services like YouTube and Gmail that are sustained based on targeting ads more effectively at you so that they will work even better.


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[Assistant] Uh, anyway. Uhm, Jordan asks, oh sorry, I'm doing your job though.


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[Assistant] I mean, it doesn't matter if they're losing money on a 50-50 rev split, if everyone else is still doing 70-30, then they're completely screwed. As for having creators push more ads, uhm, yeaah, I mean that's uhm,


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[Assistant] That, that's just normal. That just needs to happen because banner ads, no, are not gonna do it. Sorry.


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[Assistant] Ayy, let's go. I don't know if we're ready to be like a Twitch competitor, but what? We have a live streaming only creator and he's killing it. Actually, that's true. I was looking at the payouts. Uh, Yvonne just had it up on her monitor and I walked in. I was like, oh, well that's good.


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[Assistant] But a more, a more likely product might be, I mean it's a little, the UI's not great right now. A little early.


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[Assistant] But our multi-streaming works great. I don't know if you noticed, but we are live right now on Floatplane Twitch and YouTube, and we could be live on Facebook if we really felt like it, couldn't we? We could. We should just do it. Sure. Like, why not? I think I mentioned that like a long time ago. Yeah, well I was wrong if I said no. I don't know who said no. Yeah, maybe we both said yes and then just forgot. With these guys?


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[Assistant] And like the thing is, honestly, kudos to garbage time for getting it.


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[Assistant] For understanding that the reason, whether it's Patreon screwing over creators or Twitch screwing over creators, the reason is that these are unsustainable business models. We know because we're like running one.


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[Assistant] Oh right, that's right, our audio quality is so much better than like, I don't think there's another video- People like-


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[Assistant] Considering the fact that we have like, seven deaths.


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[Assistant] Twitter is 1.2 billion. Sorry. Oh, okay, sorry, not everyone who works at Flowplain is a dev. Sorry. Uhm.


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[Assistant] And then Twitter has 1.2 billion dollars and manages to create that steaming pile of garbage. Float Plane's like, amazing. But yea, our multi-streaming thing allows us to simul-stream on really any platform that we want. Yea, like we could spin up Facebook like, now. But with just one


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[Assistant] I don't know if it's available and stuff, I'm sure the infrastructure guys are gonna


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[Assistant] We have merch messages. We have merch messages, which anyone could theoretically use if they also have a Shopify based, like, merch thing. I mean, there'd be some dev to...


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[Assistant] Uhm, for our wedding bands, the story is that they were cheap. And...


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[Assistant] Fine, I guess. I didn't even want a band, I wanted to do tattoos.


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[Assistant] Because at the time, like, I'm totally used to it now, but at the time I didn't like wearing hand jewelry and I just didn't want something on my hand all the time. Now I feel naked without it, but...


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[Assistant] I just, yeaah, I just wanted a tattoo and I was like, come on, this should be better, like it's more permanent. I'm, I'm like, I'm in it to win it baby, let's, let's, let's go! Let's tattoo!


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[Assistant] However many years ago, it's been a bit. Yeah, uhm, so she just wears her engagement ring. And the story there is that I actually like went and learned like a ton about diamonds. Cause my whole thing was, okay,


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[Assistant] If I have to blow a bunch of money on a scam, then I might as well, I might as well get the best scam possible.


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[Assistant] Uh, there would be, it would be, it would look kind of out of place and could even, she worked with her hands a lot, she was a pharmacist at the time, could even get in the way.


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[Assistant] If it was too big, I also really preferred a more low profile setting and that was for the same reason. I liked a simple setting because she's practical, so it's just a simple four prong setting on


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[Assistant] Uhm, I'm just trying to think of like what else, what else mattered to me. I bought the diamond and the, and the setting independently.


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[Assistant] I forget why I did that. Right, I just, there was a setting I really liked and there was a diamond I really liked and there was no point getting them in one place. And compared to buying them both together at a jewelry store, compared to buying the diamond online, it was significantly less expensive.


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[Assistant] Uhm, pure drifter says borderline going for the GS art. Of course it has a GS art. Like no, it's like a proper diamond.


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[Assistant] Uh, like you can get ones for less that are like gigantic.


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[Assistant] But they, they don't sparkle the way that an IF does. So if I like, if I'm gonna get scammed, then I'm gonna get scammed properly. Uh, I also didn't want something that was obviously very valuable. I wanted it to seem like a poor person diamond to someone who doesn't know anything about rocks.


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[Assistant] Uh, because the last thing I want is her getting like held up somewhere or something and her


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[Assistant] It wasn't crazy expensive no matter what it was going to be at my budget.


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[Assistant] You can get big diamonds that are just trash tier stones, especially back then when the lab created ones hadn't really taken off yet.


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[Assistant] Like, nowadays, it's kinda hard to tell if a diamond's like, worth something or not, cause it's all arbitrary anyway, but, but back then, like, yeaah, you could get giant trash tier stones that might look to someone who has no eye, like, you know, not looking at them through a frickin' thing.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and they might think it's worth taking a life over, but actually it's not worth anything. And so I would rather her actually have a smaller stone.


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[Assistant] So that was, that was my rationale behind the ring.


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[Assistant] I come from a broken home, uhm, and one of the things that I, one of the goals that I set out for myself, it's not a goal, it's a requirement. In my adult life, I will not


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[Assistant] Break my family. It's that simple. I will not accept my family becoming broken, so uhm,


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[Assistant] Yvonne and I were together for, I think, six years before we got married and we lived together for a full year before formally tying the knot. And the reason that we did so was because I needed to be darn good and sure because there was, there was no taking it back for me. Um, yeah.


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[Assistant] So no, it is not something to, uhm, dive into 200 miles an hour, that would be bad. Or maybe not bad, maybe great. But, it's not for me.


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[Assistant] Let's go. What the heck are jorts? Jean shorts. Oh, jean shorts? Not right now. Same, there's a chance, boys.


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[Assistant] We are working on more colors of the uh, flannel plaid or plaid flannel or whatever order that goes in.


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[Assistant] Oh, electronics for sure. I wish I was like, I wish I like really understood PCB, like design.


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[Assistant] Man, I'd be super into that. I wish I was better at flying RC aircraft. Those are probably the big ones.


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[Assistant] It's amazing the kind of stuff you can make with like, a hunk of iron and a hammer.


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[Assistant] Daniel asks, oh sorry, union grievance.


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[Assistant] Hardest part, honestly, uhm, I think is the, every year since our kids were born. We don't have a ton of family traditions, but we do have this one. We mark the doorframes with their height.


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[Assistant] And we're gonna, I don't know, it's not gonna feel authentic to, you know.


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[Assistant] Measure them all and like go mark them on the new doors or something.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so I'm gonna miss that, you know, decade old...


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[Assistant] Writing, when we go and we look at their growth charts, and uhm, I have considered ripping the door frames off and putting them in the new house, we're not going to do that. But yes, I did think about it.


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[Assistant] You need to take the doorframe with you, like, no, no, no, no, we're not doing that. Uh, yes, we're still live, Foster.


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[Assistant] Also, by the way guys, thank you very much for your support. I knew that there was a lot of pent up demand for constellations. I didn't think it was this much. I hope we have that many blue aqua blanks. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Well, no, you won't. We're not printing V1 again. Oh. That's the whole thing. Is like, this is the last...


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[Assistant] Maybe I, maybe I created too much FOMO because if we sell, if we sell all of the-


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[Assistant] Uhm, blanks, we're not gonna be able to do any other blue aqua stuff. So guys, last chance. Uh, actually, hold on a second, just gimme.


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[Assistant] Are you sure? We can, but then I would be a big liar, so...


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[Assistant] That's pretty tough. Actually, we are gonna bring back one shirt that I said we'd never reprint. So we can do that to this one too. I really want a long sleeve. Hey, Nick, sorry to bug you. Uhm, do we have enough blanks for the Constellation print? Have you looked at how many have been ordered during the show?


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[Assistant] Oh, there's limits. Oh, good. Okay, alright, yeah, yeah, okay, we're not, yeah. Yeah, we're still live. What time is it? What year is it?


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[Assistant] It's Jumanji! It's Jumanji! Okay, yea, I gotta go then. Okay, bye. Okay.


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[Assistant] So as long as the particular skew, the particular size and sleeve style that you want,


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[Assistant] Is still up on the site and doesn't, it doesn't say out of stock as long as you can add it to cart, then we do have stock of that particular one. So you guys can go ahead and get your orders in. But yeah, we're going to leave this up for, I don't know, a few days or something like that, maybe for a week. So go check it out. Uhm, oh, the one that we are going to bring back is the one from PC or NoPC.


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[Assistant] Yep, that would be, that would be good. But no, I don't, I don't know that we will actually...


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[Assistant] I don't know that we will actually do another reprint of Constellations. I want to get a Lone Sleeve though.


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[Assistant] We haven't had, other than the short circuit one, which I was-


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[Assistant] I was not entirely happy with, like to be clear, it's still like a brand name blank that we printed on, like it was like, fine.


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[Assistant] Uh, but we've never had like a really great long sleeve. This one we do.


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[Assistant] Tech linked? No, short circuit. We didn't have a long sleeve for tech linked, I don't think.


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[Assistant] Okay, don't worry, bigger water bottles are coming, Jace Lucas. I think it's time for us to leave though.


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[Assistant] Well, it's whatever it legally is. I don't decide what it is. Did you make it to double time though? When did you start today?


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[Assistant] Oh, okay, alright, okay. Nice. Okay, I think we're done.


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[Assistant] Oh, I can't reach the thing to turn it off. It's far away. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Alright, this first one comes from Tommy and is probably for Linus. Uh, watched for almost 10 years and you've taught me the principles that shaped who I am today. Aww. That's so sweet. What are some important lessons you teach your kids? Oh. Run with scissors.


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[Assistant] I've been around Linus' kids, they're very well behaved. They are. So, kudos. Alright, next one comes from McGregor, uhm, and they say, he says,


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[Assistant] They say, hi Linus, I work for a T-Mobile dealer and was wondering if you've ever thought about doing a video like Secret Shopper but for self-service providers instead of PC retailers.


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[Assistant] Hey Linus, do the writers have any kind of partial ownership of the channel they focus on? For example, does Jonathan have partial ownership in MAC address, Riley, Techlinked, etc.? If not, is that something you'd ever consider?


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[Assistant] What phone is your favorite of all phones you've used as your daily driver?


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[Assistant] All right. This next one, I'm going to apologize to you Linus. This one comes from Andrew. Hey everyone. I was so excited for the channel super fun on flow plane. It was so hilarious. Linus in two words, how much damage did Dennis cause to your house? I think you could use one word.


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[Assistant] Don't involve me. Uhm. Definitely does say just Dennis, but.


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[Assistant] It was really bad. It was a pretty deep gouge and we tried moving the bed at least.


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[Assistant] Were we filming Channel Super Fun 2 at the same time? Yes, at the field. Yes, with the bumper balls or whatever it was. Yea, that was an interesting day. That was a stressful day. I think I've only seen you yell twice maybe. And I don't remember the exact situations.


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[Assistant] He sent a message and I was, I read the message and I immediately understood the severity of said message.


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[Assistant] I interviewed somebody a few weeks ago for one of the business job postings we have open, and when we're talking about, you know, why, what's wrong with your current position, they were saying like, hey, uhm, the work conditions here aren't good, and kind of dug into that a little bit, and basically it was like,


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[Assistant] Yeah, the way that we deal with any issue, large or small, is just screaming at each other. And I was like, oh, that doesn't seem very constructive. Nice. So, yeah.


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[Assistant] Do you guys want some more merch messages?


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[Assistant] Alright, I got another really important question. This one comes from Thomas. Question for Luke and Linus. If you could install any game on a John Deere tractor, what would it be?


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[Assistant] Alright, next merch message comes from Radioactive Twinkie.


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[Assistant] Hey Linus and Luke, with the massive size, utility, and popularity of Steam, do either of you feel that there are any other compelling alternatives, or do you think Steam is basically in a league of its own at this point?


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[Assistant] Alright, I got another one that kinda plays into what you guys are working on right now. This one comes from Zachary.


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[Assistant] How about doing the all the domains I own segment.


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[Assistant] You had the idea for a few months back. It would be cool to hear the stories behind all the random domains you have bought.


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[Assistant] Alright, this one comes from John. Linus, do you think framework might implement a refurbished program or owner marketplace? Would you advocate for it? It'd be cool to offer my used hardware to other framework owners.


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[Assistant] We need a project farm style screwdriver comparison vid. At the very least, tell me if it's worth a worthy upgrade over the Klein tools driver.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna stop. Alright, alright, alright. Linus, with all the upgrades you made to your old house, brackets, tech and otherwise, what are you planning on leaving behind for the new owners?


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[Assistant] Perfect. Next one comes from Nathan. Hey Linus, did your time as a product manager affect the way that you look at your own store and or what are some of your biggest takeaways from that time?


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[Assistant] Alright, next one comes from Harrison. Hey Linus and Luke, when hiring new employees do you look for people with a lot of experience or would you consider hiring employees who may not have as much experience but want to learn a lot while at LTT or whatever company?


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[Assistant] Yeah, hiring for a lot of the sales roles for the Linus Media Group side has been interesting because it's not just like we're...


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[Assistant] Alright. Some more merch messages. Uhm, also, okay, uhm, alright.


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[Assistant] I keep saying it, I can't help myself. I'm just gonna say the question.


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[Assistant] Hi Linus, I know you drive the Valve Index for VR at home. Does it ever feel outdated or lacking in features to you? If Valve were to release an Index 2, what features would you like to see added? Wireless.


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[Assistant] Big time. Next question. Billy B.


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[Assistant] Yo, what's up Linus, Luke and Colton? Have anything to share about your health. What do you eat? Uh, like do you eat healthy? Have a great one. Love everything you guys do.


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[Assistant] Did you answer the question, Linus? I don't remember. What was the question? Coolest case. Play button. No, I'm taking it. Alright, let's go with the play button. Fine. I'm taking it. Fine. Next merch message. Abraham. Hey guys, loving the new merch. What's your take on the new Samsung Fold 4? Especially since Linus has used the Fold 3 as a daily driver.


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[Assistant] Alright, next, next merch message. I can't say merch. Next merch message comes from Anonymous. Okay, I'm just gonna do that.


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[Assistant] Alright, this one comes from Amanda. Good Eve, gentlemen.


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[Assistant] Does the lab plan to test mics or interfaces that streamers slash content


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[Assistant] This is after your first year, I believe.


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[Assistant] This merch message comes from Dor. Linus, you always mention not consuming long form content. Is it just time constraint or you don't really connect to the format?


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[Assistant] I don't think that was the point. I can't believe we're getting back on this topic. We're not.


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[Assistant] What is up L's and G's? It's Wen Showtime again. We've got a lot of great topics for you today, starting with that. That's right, it took me 12 long years to finally be right about this. The hard drive is officially


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[Assistant] Dead. Dead, dead, and buried. Sort of. Completely dead. Allegedly. Also...


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[Assistant] So we're gonna talk about today. Oh yes! We've got a big update for you guys on the community controversy that was caused by tech YouTuber Linus Tech Tip Sebastian doing a computer, well, a server build for One Dream, a game streamer who appears to have, uhm,


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[Assistant] Legions, legions of whatever the opposite of a fan is. Right, what? NAFs.


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[Assistant] The show is brought to you by Squarespace, Vulture, and Xsplit. Alright, let's jump right into our first topic of the day, Microsoft!


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[Assistant] Is flexing its industry wide power muscles and trying to kill hard drives as boot devices by 2023. Apparently they had already tried to pull this move in 2022 with the idea being that, come on guys,


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[Assistant] At some point, we are going to have to design windows to assume a solid state drive rather than a hard drive, you know?


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[Assistant] And you think about how messy that transition was. You think about how messy that transition was. I mean for a long time it was actually detrimental to the health of your computer to run a defragmentation operation.


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[Assistant] Windows was hard drive first, hard drive only, really, and then SSDs came along, and the compatibility with SSDs was, in a sense, really kind of...


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[Assistant] Bolted on, I mean, uh, when, especially in the early days of SATA, when we were using, you know, AHCI, we were plugging into these, like, SATA 3 gigabit per second interfaces, we were not really getting the full capability out of that flash storage, not even, not even close, right? And then over time, it's become


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[Assistant] It's kind of a pretty good bet that you're gonna be running an SSD, but the problem is that many, many computer manufacturers are still out there trying to, it's not even a matter of saving a bunch.


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[Assistant] That's the thing that drives me most crazy is that you can get an SSD, a basic SSD,


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[Assistant] They've stuck with hard drives so that they can advertise a greater capacity of boot drive.


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[Assistant] Honestly, you can go back so far and find this behavior. Apple, credit to Apple. Apple moved the industry forward by offering the MacBook Air with only an SSD.


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[Assistant] Yes, the early MacBook Airs, which had 128 gigs, I believe was the base capacity of the original MacBook Air. They didn't have enough storage on them.


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[Assistant] And that aspect of it kind of sucked, but I remember as an enthusiast, as an enthusiast and not really a Mac user, alright, I remember having one of the most frustrating interactions that I had ever had in my life.


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[Assistant] I had, this was my uncle's business partner and they, they owned, uh, like a ski lodge thing together that I got to visit sometimes. Okay. And basically he was going on and on about how amazing


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[Assistant] The Mac was, and how, and, and his proof, his proof that Mac was superior to PC was, he opened it up, he's like, look how fast it is.


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[Assistant] Look at this, it resumes like instantly and like you open up the finder and it just pops up and I'm sitting here going


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[Assistant] That's just an SSD. Just the PC manufacturers don't have the stones. They don't have the, they don't have the foresight.


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[Assistant] Go and put something good in the machine and then say hey this machine is really good. They would rather just install the cheapest possible components and get absolutely smoked in terms of real world usage, in terms of the user experience of sitting in front of this machine.


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[Assistant] You could pick up a decent Windows machine for $800, $900, $1200, $1300. Really nice machine for that much money.


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[Assistant] You know, but the problem is that they, like I said, the root cause, the root cause of the issue is that PC manufacturers weren't willing to do the work. They were afraid that if their machine, apparently I got it wrong, it was actually 64 gigs on the base tier MacBook Air.


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[Assistant] And this was a thousand dollar plus machine, to be very clear.


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[Assistant] But they weren't willing to put the work in, they weren't willing to message it, they were afraid that if they built something fast, something tuned for performance, something that truly


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[Assistant] Well Linus, obviously it's a little more complicated than that because everyone knows that a solid state drive is way better than a hard drive. Not back then.


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[Assistant] You gotta understand, this was over 10 years ago, right? So let's go ahead. What's really cool about the internet is that on sites that just archive everything like YouTube, we can go back in time and see what it was like back then.


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[Assistant] If I was smart, I would probably delete all the old WAN shows anyway, because people have been cancelled for less.


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[Assistant] I, that I can't explain. It's a pretty funny thing how many people have like ancient WAN shows sitting in their recommended.


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[Assistant] I dunno, it's probably just video by video, I'm not gonna stress too much about it. I do not know what is happening right now, but it doesn't matter. Alright, here we go, check this out. Sooo, see this?


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[Assistant] Okay, so this is a response to, remember when we could see like-dislike ratios? This is a response to people disliking this video. It was nothing but a helpful comparison video, right? Because this came five years later when everyone kind of had clued in. Okay, so here's a comment talking about the future.


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[Assistant] Uh, great demo. I switched my tablet to an SSD. But this is exactly it. I was putting in the work to educate about it. I was like, look, yeaah, it's a lot smaller. Okay, I get it. But, trust me, there's a benefit.


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[Assistant] But there was a lot of fear. There was a lot of fear around SSDs. Thing is, I have hard drives that have been spinning non-stop for over 10 years and have never failed. SSDs don't seem to last.


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[Assistant] And people just like they didn't understand what the benefits were or weren't. Here's someone asking, does an SSD improve actual gameplay or just load times?


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[Assistant] No, it would have no way of improving gameplay except in edge cases like open world games like World of Warcraft. As you walked over a threshold, man, the difference between having a hard drive and loading in those fresh assets off of an SSD, night and day.


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[Assistant] Tarati says, for the price of an SSD, you can get a two terabyte hard drive. I think I'll deal with it being slower for the extra space. And that's fair enough.


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[Assistant] But there were also a lot of comments, there were a lot of comments like this that were far more aggressive. Basically saying, you know, it's, it's stupid. And I'm having a hard time finding them right now because I guess YouTube does a better job of, of surfacing stuff that's not toxic.


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[Assistant] These days, they're definitely here somewhere. Uhm, okay, blah, blah, blah, blah. Okay, I'm aware of that.


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[Assistant] Okay, one of the big ones was that the way people used to compare the speeds of these devices was in sequential read and write speeds. And yeaah, compared to a hard drive, an SSD was


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[Assistant] But, it was all about the responsiveness.


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[Assistant] And as soon as you actually sit down in front of a machine with an SSD, even back then, it was a night and day difference. I'm gonna have to see what I can find here.


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[Assistant] Alright, Luke, do you want to do another topic while I see if I can validate that my 12 year old memory is actually, is actually right? Cause apparently I just have no idea what I'm talking about. Sure.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but, uh, come on, a cinematic, you can't judge a game based on a cinematic.


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[Assistant] Command and Conquer called, says that cinematics have everything to do with being an RTS.


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[Assistant] I can find replies to people who are being super toxic about it.


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[Assistant] But I can't find any of the original comments because this is I believe pre-YouTube having nested comments.


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[Assistant] So it's impossible to track back a conversation thread?


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[Assistant] But I can find people replying. You can see, like, you can see the evidence. Yeah, yeah, but it seems like it's basically gone, so I don't think I've gaslit myself here.


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[Assistant] Uhm, okay, here's, here's one, like, uh, a doubter. Can you prove the temps on the two PCs were the same though? I noticed in the beginning of the video, the tower had its side panel on, which would give good airflow. Like, basically saying, oh, this speed difference is impossible. It must be, it must be a disadvantage for... You're overheating. ...the hard drive. Uhm, here's another one. Okay, so here's someone replying to, uh, uhm,


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[Assistant] Compared to the... Okay, it's only 13 more seconds to wait for the hard drive to open MSN Messenger. That's not a long time to wait.


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[Assistant] Well, yeaah, 13 seconds every single time you do anything is actually a long time. And then this one is a reply to...


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[Assistant] Peter the Eater says, guess we have to agree to disagree. I cut my loading time from 53 to 32 seconds, switching from hard drives and RAID to a Micron SSD. I'd say that's a big difference. So this is clearly a reply to someone who's like, it's not a difference.


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[Assistant] So it's, I can't, I can't find any of the original comments here really.