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[Assistant] Produced the units for the Kickstarter backers, which I kinda get, and if I was in their situation, that's a whole lot better than folding the company outright, but it really is a kick in the teeth for the Kickstarter backers who didn't get their, uh, yeaah, who didn't get their cooler, and, and also recently, uhm,


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[Assistant] After raising a record 34 million on Kickstarter, uh, 3.4, excuse me, uh, 3.4 million on Kickstarter,


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[Assistant] Zayno went completely under.


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[Assistant] Will not be shipping, uh, did not show demos during an office tour of the drone flying, is folding, and that's it. Devastating collapse, promised a lot of drones, failed to ship almost all of the promised units, and there you go. It's just, it's one of those things where it's like, okay.


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[Assistant] A retail price for a product is designed to cover the costs of making it, okay, for one thing, and then to cover the profit margin for the company.


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[Assistant] So, what made anyone think, and this is something I've always wondered about, what made anyone think that


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[Assistant] Getting all the funding for your first, I don't know, let's say 5,000 units. Getting all that money to produce them at a reduced rate.


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[Assistant] Compared to what you're pretty sure you need to sell it for in order to be profitable.


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[Assistant] What made anyone think that that was gonna, that was gonna kickstart your company? That that was gonna help you pay for, you know, the office and the employees that you need to, to, to ramp up development and bring the product to market. You're effectively just selling product.


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[Assistant] At a reduced price. So you're selling at an unsustainable price already.


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[Assistant] So, yeaah, I wish, I wish the, uh, I wish the watch luck, the blocks watch luck. Uh, 400 milliamp hour batteries, not dragon 400 processors.


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[Assistant] Wow, the Scarp raised, uh, 430,000 on, uh, on Indiegogo and did get funded.


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[Assistant] So, who knows? Maybe they'll prove us all wrong. But if they do, then just buy it then, man. Yes. Don't buy it now.


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[Assistant] It's like, don't pre-order. Things we shouldn't have to say, but we do. Uhm, speaking of not pre-ordering, I sure wouldn't pre-order one of these, not that it's particularly expensive. LG has partnered with Walmart to make $10 Android phones. We're talking smartphones for $10. Are they great?


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[Assistant] No. But, they are undercutting the previously cheapest, uh, phone, the $35 Firefox OS phone by a significant margin. It runs Android 4.4 KitKat. Uh, you get WiFi, but no 4G. There is no front-facing camera, but you actually do get a microSD slot.


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[Assistant] Uh, I don't know, I mean, I could see, I could see people who just want, like, like if my kid, okay, if my kid, you know, broke a phone,


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[Assistant] And then, needed a phone, and didn't have enough allowance saved up for a new phone, I'd be like, yo.


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[Assistant] That's your phone. They'd be like, uh, really? And I'd be like, uh, really? Don't break your phone.


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[Assistant] That's about how that conversation, I could see it being used for that.


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[Assistant] Alright, so let's, uh, yeaah, I wanted to do the, uh, no, soon, uh, Fnatic!


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[Assistant] Speaking of crowdfunding, although in this case, Fnatic is not crowdfunding to raise funds, they are just crowdfunding for as a publicity stunt, which is what the more successful crowdfunding companies do, like that was what the Pawno player did. They already had all their funding. You think Neil Young needs your, you know, hundred thousand or million dollars or whatever Pawno player raised?


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[Assistant] Uhm, so Fnatic, I-I guess this means the end of their relationship with SteelSeries, but they have their own line of gaming equipment now. It would appear as though they have acquired Funk.


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[Assistant] And, uh, gone ahead and released, well, basically what, I, I can't quite tell, I can't see them that closely, but it looks an awful lot like the existing funk lineup, uhm,


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[Assistant] And yeah, they're basically saying, yep, it's no-nonsense gaming gear, and...


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[Assistant] It's... Are we playing games? And they're peripherals, I guess? So there you have it!


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[Assistant] So what a weird, what a weird move for an esports team to get into actually making hardware. Then again, you look at sort of us, you know, going like, oh, we have a fan now or whatever else. I guess it's like not.


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[Assistant] But uhm, I mean, we also are not, you know, running out and trying to, you know, maintain that, that brand. Yeaah, very, very, very interesting.


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[Assistant] Uhm, AMD is bundling Star Wars Battlefront with select graphics cards, so that is pretty darn big news. Uh, so that's when you purchase an AMD Radeon R9 Fury graphics card, terms and conditions apply, see blah blah blah, AMD.com slash AMD rewards for details.


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[Assistant] So that's pretty huge if you were planning to buy a graphics card and you were planning to buy Battlefront to play with your new graphics card. Cause that's like a what, $70 value or something along those lines. Uhm, and this is pretty freaking unexpected.


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[Assistant] Apple snuck a USB 3.0 compatible lightning port into the iPad Pro.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I absolutely love this article. Uhm, so, for one thing, the iFixit Teardown, I believe, yep, the iFixit Teardown found a USB 3.0 controller, so even though Apple hadn't said anything about it, the hardware's in there, and then they, they, they admitted, yes, it's in there, but,


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[Assistant] And this is great. Uhm, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.


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[Assistant] Oh no, maybe it was, uh, maybe it was a different, maybe it was a different article I was reading about it, but it was like,


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[Assistant] And, and Apple users have been, have been trying their, their USB 3, or their USB 2 lightning connectors to see if they get the extra speed. Heh.


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[Assistant] They would, wouldn't they? Uh, USB 3 requires more pins, so what I'm assuming is that there's going to be a significantly modified lightning connector that...


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[Assistant] Somehow works with it or whatever and uh, that'll, that'll, that'll all become more, more apparent in the future. So the current...


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[Assistant] USB 2.0 models, I don't know if they'll be backwards or forwards compatible or how the whole thing's gonna work, but, uh, yeaah, looks like good stuff. I had really hoped that Apple would just go USB Type-C.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but it looks like either they're not ready or they're gonna continue down the lightning path if they can find a way to make it, uh, make it more interoperable within their own ecosystem. Which I get. Totally get.


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[Assistant] So, speaking of things that I get, I get to end the show now. Yeah.


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[Assistant] But, the after party is happening. I have pre-tested. We are going to be watching UltraWide Festival Honorable Mentions today. See you in the after party.


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[Assistant] Anything is better with portation at the end. Yeah, like, uh, like trans-portation.


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[Assistant] Well, DOS is gone, so people might want it.


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[Assistant] And then usually my thing is, and I'm sure you're probably the same way to at least some degree, if you're not in the video, you just go talk to the person.


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[Assistant] You build up two Linases in your house. They take a fair amount of resources, but they're pretty solid. And then they communicate with each other very quickly. They don't talk really fast.


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[Assistant] Yes, the real one does. Anyways, AMD is dropping prices. Wooo! For Black Friday.


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[Assistant] I don't know much about this field as we noticed last week when I called it a kennel, but like, that can't be a good thing. There's no way that's a good thing. My ears hurt. My head hurts. That's a toddler.


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[Assistant] It's fun to play if you have like people to talk to.


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[Assistant] Like antics. Just crazy crap people have done. They, they come up with these like insanely ludicrous handshakes. They, they like throw food to each other like team to team. Uh, there's one where like two guys opposing team are just like chilling against di- opposing fences playing rock, paper, scissors like across the stadium.


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[Assistant] The cars were like, super close to each other going around really, really tight corners. It was, it was nuts. I usually get really bored watching racing, but that was cool.


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[Assistant] They should just do that. They shouldn't make it the like 1080. They should make it-


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[Assistant] It's just like, in five years, we have to do, or actually closer to four something now, but uhm, we have to do a review of like glasses. Just to troll people. Glasses? In 2020. Oh.


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[Assistant] No, that might be better because this time they can't ship it to us and then actually have not shipped it to us and then ship it to us later.


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[Assistant] The R9 Fury X and the GTX 980 Ti both managed to still be the exact same dollar.


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[Assistant] Third, source, fourth, the explanation graph. And then we can show everyone, it's in the doc. Sure, yeah, I'll get that up for you guys. So it's, it's like, get an exponential graph instead of explanation graph. Oh damn!


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[Assistant] What? Jokes! Someone will get that in the Twitch chat. Someone will get that. Alright. Anyways. There it is. So it's light. It's visible light. So like, you can straight up use LEDs. It's white light.


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[Assistant] Oh, but it could be kinda cool if you need to go like across the ceiling to another AP.


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[Assistant] Yes, that's gonna be really weird. One thing that I brought up before we went on the show was I would be interested in trying it in like a studio setup and turning off and turning on very white lights and seeing if it polluted it or whatever.


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[Assistant] It's not that hard and even my ceiling example like just run it along the ceiling. Uhm. Who cares.


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[Assistant] Cool. Like if you could have, uh, a Li-Fi receiver. Gigabit, gigabit, gigabit. If you could have a Li-Fi receiver on like the base of your monitor or something. And just like prop your phone up and transfer things through it wirelessly. Yep. That'd be pretty cool.


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[Assistant] No, like I said, it would be super cool.


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[Assistant] It being white light, uh, makes me wonder a little bit. Cause like, if you think about school, like grand halls, essentially. A lot of times in schools, the ceilings are really high.


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[Assistant] And then eventually let go. Doesn't matter. I can't even get close to touching Shadow Play. If I try to open GeForce Experience at all, the whole thing will like lag out and crash, Explorer will die, Explorer will come back, and then GeForce Experience will load.


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[Assistant] I know what's kinda crazy is when I was shopping for, when I got the Scrapyard Wars 90, uh, 290, I looked online, that was $420, new. Now you can get 390s


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[Assistant] Oh, you're gonna get soundbited on that real bad. Yeah, probably.


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[Assistant] Uh, yeah, I think it's totally inappropriate. I can't-


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[Assistant] I'm amazed at the amount of things that that must have gone through and was approved the whole time. Cause there's no way you can get an ad on the subway without someone checking it out first. Yep, someone from New York City definitely


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[Assistant] Yeah, someone from something, some form of management of New York City was like, yeah cool, alright. Yep.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's totally the point of the movie is like how bad it would have been.


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[Assistant] We are talking about a show on Amazon's thing right now. There's no way we would have done that.


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[Assistant] And this blew up. So now everyone knows about it. And with, with, uh, the Top Gear guys going there, and now this massive thing, Amazon's video streaming service is getting more news right now, I think, than Netflix.


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[Assistant] It was a little bit probably too aggressive. They could have done a very similar but probably okay angle where they just ask the question all over the place.


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[Assistant] What like, what if this bench had a Nazi flag on it? And like have that in text and then high point or whatever, high seat or whatever it's called.


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[Assistant] I still don't know if that's necessarily even okay, but I think it's more okay than what was done.


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[Assistant] Wasn't it slightly different anyways for the religious symbol? Wasn't it like going the other way or something?


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[Assistant] So now instead of like me going through banning hordes of people for saying horrible horrible things in chat, they're all talking about you saying JIF instead of


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[Assistant] Someone said that's why the drone should have foam bumpers. Doesn't always stop something like this, but probably would have helped.


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[Assistant] I like how much it costs. It's, it's in the picture.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like it's five bucks for like an honestly, relatively capable computer.


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[Assistant] I think it can be unintelligent for a website or a service to aggressively go after people that use adblock, but I think it is entirely up to them. Uhm, I think this is a-


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[Assistant] I think this is a very unclassy way to do it because people's emails are extremely important.


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[Assistant] And to just not allow them to access them until they do a thing that they might not know how to do if their kid installed adblock for them or something is very aggressive and not really okay. But if you gave them like, a warning that you were gonna do it in the future or something, that would at least be nicer and they didn't do that and that's


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[Assistant] Pretty bad. Maps for some reason, and I find browsers in general seem to be getting worse.


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[Assistant] Yeah, what's that? Like in the last like two months, I swear my browser's gotten worse.


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[Assistant] Never, never, I know. I know. I don't know why everyone thinks it's gonna be the savior. It'll be cool if it is, but like, I... I know.


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[Assistant] I'm not expecting much, but then if it's awesome then I'll be even happier so that's good.


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[Assistant] So is it any worse than it actually currently is? No, I don't believe so.


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[Assistant] Virtual reality needs tweaks. Also, by the way, it's not out yet. They're working on it.


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[Assistant] And when it comes out, that'll be version one, which everyone knows is like not really the one you're really that excited for.


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[Assistant] I've been really good in that department. I don't do amazing on boats. Okay, like. Actually, I'm okay on boats. Maybe I'll be fine. I'm pretty solid on boats, but I'm not, like, there are people that are better than me. I have felt bad on a boat once, but I've been on boats many times, so I don't know. But like, I can do roller coasters standing up, and like, yeah, I have no problem with VR at all. I think part of it is I'm pretty good. When did you ever stand on a roller coaster? No, like VR roller coaster.


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[Assistant] I'm not, feels like a monitor that's strapped to my face. It's a very cool effect, but I think for me to get really immersed, there's gonna have to be a lot more other things. So like, even when you're upside down on a roller coaster, there's people that have, like, I've seen videos of people that'll like throw up the second they go upside down because their internal balance goes off and stuff. My mind is like, nope, we're standing.


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[Assistant] I think part of it is just the sheer amount of video games that I've played.


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[Assistant] Yeah, boats a lot, tons of sports, lots of video games. That was my childhood.


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[Assistant] But I'm so stoked for the day that we just like, happened to get some writer dude, and we have original articles from Linus Tech Tips.


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[Assistant] These things are cool, I want them to make it so I can just play these games on my computer. Yep, that'd be better.


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[Assistant] Or you can do my scary but kind of cool idea, the uh, proprietary drive thing. Remember that? Yep. Yep. Yep. For the, for the viewers.


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[Assistant] Did I ever even say this on the show? I think so. Yeah, okay, for the viewers you could get like


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[Assistant] A hard drive. Or optical drive. Or optical drive. Hard drive or whatever. Yep. And then like put the discs in that you have to buy from the store so that they know they have their copy protection crap. Or the hard drive that's controlled by them and you can't format or something.


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[Assistant] I agree, but yea, it's not happening. Exactly like you just said. And I know a lot of people that buy entire consoles for game launches like Halo 5. Yup. So I wouldn't be that surprised if it did happen. I don't know if I would do it, but I do know quite a few people that would.


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[Assistant] Yep. I don't like other people using my tools. That's why I got John all of his own stuff.


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[Assistant] I'm just trolling you. So, uh, welcome to the WAN Show, guys. Gonna be a great show today, I hope. Uhm, we're definitely dressed for a great show today. I got my, uh, got my wiener head thing going on here.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Luke's got his mustard cap. Does it have a thing on the end? I think there isn't. It's open! Yeah, there is a hole. Yeah. Yeah, you have a mustard hole. I do. In your costume. I do. Anything sounds dirty when you add a hole to it. It's like mustard hole. Hot dog hole. Dog hole.


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[Assistant] So, uh, lots of great stuff today. The FBI's advice on ransomware? Just... pay the ransom.


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[Assistant] Woo! The E-jaculator, now on Indiegogo. Now we don't generally cover Indiegogo and Kickstarter topics anymore because most of it is a steaming pile of fail. But this one is gonna be a different kind of steamy.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I was being a little more subtle than that. You missed that joke. I didn't miss it. Is that what my mustard cap does? I never miss. Wow. Uhm, what else we got here? Uh, Arkham Knight.


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[Assistant] I was reading the article about this and I was like, what do you mean Arkham Knight's launching?


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[Assistant] Wasn't that like a billion years ago? I'd actually forgotten about all the controversy because


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[Assistant] I, I, I think I played it like a little bit and I was like...


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[Assistant] Uhm, so anyway, we already rolled the intro, so I guess I'm kind of doing the intro things now, but I would normally roll the intro now.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think I was doing callouts. I sort of got, I got, the ball got rolling and then...


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[Assistant] It got awkward. Well they, they could have, uh, they could have, uh, cottage cheese balls. Wow.


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[Assistant] Uh, okay, so let's uh, let's get into our first topic here. Let's do the Surface Book Issues. So everyone and their dog in the tech world was like, FREAKING OUT!


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[Assistant] Over the surface book, I certainly was. I've got one on order, or at least I thought I had one on order. No, I actually do have one on order. Those of you who follow on Twitter will have maybe seen the epic saga that is my order of the surface book.


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[Assistant] So, I, look he's Vivi, uh, so I cancelled my Surface Pro 4 order because a Microsoft, a local Microsoft rep dropped a Surface Pro 4 off with me the next day after I had placed it and I was like, oh great, I don't have to buy one now, that's fantastic. Uhm, then,


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[Assistant] So I cancelled that, then I got an email like two weeks later saying, your order for the surface book has been cancelled. And I was like, yo, ring ring, no.


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[Assistant] I never cancelled that. I definitely still want it. Please get your act together because I actually need that. Thank you. And they were like, oh yeah, yeah, no, it's just a bug.


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[Assistant] A bunch of orders were, a bunch of emails were accidentally sent out, it's all fine, it's all good. I was like, okay, great. So then I happened to be digging around in my Microsoft account, because uhm, some credit card issue, something something, I had to double check some previous transactions, and I was like, this order is cancelled. It says cancelled.


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[Assistant] So, I finally get in touch with someone. It's like, the live chat is the hardest thing to find on their site when you're looking for it.


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[Assistant] Like, and it's the weirdest thing, cause I'm sure half of you are gonna be like, uh, yeah, the live chat is like, right here. That's fine, but if you go to the contact us page, it's not.


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[Assistant] So anyway, I finally get in touch with someone and it takes forever. Because like, can I get your name? Can I get these security questions? Can I do this? Can I, you know, stroke your child's hair gently while you watch? Like, no!


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[Assistant] Can I give you an order number? Can I just give you an order number you look at? He's like, no, I can't look up your order number unless I do all this crap. I'm like, why?


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[Assistant] I just wanna know if my order is cancelled. So finally, they have this phone verification SMS thing, like, here's my number. It's like, oh, sorry, can we do that again?


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[Assistant] Yes, fine, this is the slowest support call that I have ever been on to verify that an order is in your system, but fine.


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[Assistant] He's like, no, it's cancelled. I'm like, okay, so I really need this. He's like, okay, I'll put in a new order. I'm like, so that means my order date will be the 27th, not like the 8th when I actually ordered it. He's like, yep. I'm like, so this is backordered. There is a waitlist. I want one now.


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[Assistant] He's like, there's nothing I can do. I'm like, so I finally did it. I finally played the reviewer card. I was like, look.


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[Assistant] I really need this. I have a YouTube channel with 2 million subscribers. It is in your best interest to get me a laptop sooner, so I can make my video.


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[Assistant] It's like, there is nothing I can do. Bullshit. There is always something you can do. It's called get off your ass, get up, go talk to someone, and get the problem solved. Because I never cancelled my order. Anyway, so I'm mad, but I'm not-


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[Assistant] So, I was like, that's a nice gesture. I'm still pissed, but at least I saved ten dollars. Ten dollars. Ten dollars, thank you. You can buy McDonald's. I- Which is kinda gross. You know, does McDonald's have mustard?


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[Assistant] They don't have hot dogs. This is like the anti-McDonald's axis of evil right now.


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[Assistant] Like, they might have like a mustard-y relish. But I don't know if they have straight up mustard.


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[Assistant] Anyway. They have relish? You can get mustard in packets there. Can you? Yea. I don't know. Wait, is there relish? The burger would probably have mustard. I don't know, the Big Mac doesn't for sure, it's just covered in mayo.


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[Assistant] I think. Okay, it's been a while. Alright, anyway, so, so, surface book issues- They have honey mustard. So, yes, thank you. Honey mustard. You are my honey mustard. Awww.


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[Assistant] Okay, let's actually do a topic now. So the surface book issue. So I and everyone and their dog was excited before I went off on that tangent.


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[Assistant] No ambient light sensor controlling the brightness of backlit keys. That really seems like a very first world problem to me. No quad core CPU options. Yeaah, that's kinda to be expected. Like some of these reported issues really don't seem like that big of a deal.


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[Assistant] The Dell 34 inch ultra-wide cannot be used with the dock. That kinda sucks. Uhm, so it looks like maybe there's some bandwidth loss or like a switching issue or whatever with the display port adapter for the dock. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Technically, 3440x1440 should be perfectly doable on DisplayPort 1.2. In fact,


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[Assistant] Uhm, Acer's, Acer's ultra-wide, the Predator X34, our sample does 100Hz, most people are reporting anywhere from the 95 to 100Hz range, so the actual interface is plenty fast, so it looks like there's some other kind of issue.


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[Assistant] Uhm, this is really bad. This is where things start to get pretty brutal. Uh, not being able to boot with the dock, having to unplug and plug it back in. Uhm...


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[Assistant] Uh, cannot, not being able to detach the dock. Uhm, I've seen people having issues with, uh, driver crashes when they detach the dock. Uh, that's not actually in our dock, but that is something that I've seen reported.


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[Assistant] I didn't order the dock. Or unable to decode error? Because I'm planning to use it just as a laptop slash tablet, not also as a desktop. So I actually won't be able to comment on a lot of these issues.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but what this has demonstrated to me is that I definitely, instead of doing like a normal review, I need to do more of like a long term impressions review. Like, more like an I switched. So you can ex- So how is it actually like? Yeah.


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[Assistant] So I'll get it all set up and I'll use it for like a couple weeks and then I'll let you guys know how it goes but uh, that'll only happen when it arrives.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so Steam Controllers. A lot of people were like, noticing that, oh hey, so you posted on Instagram your Steam Controllers, and then you posted on Instagram your Xbox Elite Controllers, and then the Xbox Elite video is out already. Where's the, hold on, where's that Steam Controller video, dawg?


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[Assistant] Uhm, so you want to explain what the methodology is with the steam controller?


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[Assistant] And the hope is that uhm, because Luke plays video games, he will play video games with them. Uhm, but we actually, we actually purchased two of them for a couple of reasons. So here's actually the coverage we did back at PAX East.


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[Assistant] 2015, so not a whole ton of a lot has changed since then. Uhm, but basically the rationale behind the two controllers was that Luke will always use one.


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[Assistant] He has to use a Steam Controller for his gaming until he's done this video.


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[Assistant] And then he's got an extra for any guests that come over, so at least one guest has to use the Steam Controller and he can get impressions both from himself over the longer term and from people who just have to kind of pick it up and run with it.


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[Assistant] So, it should make for, it should make for a pretty interesting, uhm, sorry, it should make for a pretty interesting video. Uhm, I actually am going to cover it more as like a side note.


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[Assistant] Uh, because I've actually got two steam machines. I don't know if you know this. I've got two steam machines either here already or on route. So I have the Zotac one and then I have the Alienware one.


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[Assistant] I think the Windows version is called the Alpha. But I think it's just called the Steam Machine. Alienware Steam Machine. If it's not the Alpha. I'm not sure. Don't worry Al.


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[Assistant] I'll sort out all these details before I do the video. Uhm, but I'll be sorta talking about using it. I can already tell you guys though, that if you don't have big hands, Steam Controller is probably not a thing for you. Oh.


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[Assistant] I noticed it immediately when picking it up, actually. Yeaah. So, but, but, we'll see. My impressions could change. I mean, it's really funny because uhm,


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[Assistant] Yeah, this reminds me of something that I've been asking for, for so long, that I feel like...


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[Assistant] My request for it has become irrelevant. So, back when I first saw the Xperia Z3 Compact, uh, I was like, oh yeah, that's great. Like an iPhone sized Android phone that, uhm, you know, is the right size for my hands. Cause I was like, yeah, all the high-end Android phones are so big.


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[Assistant] It's gotten to the point where I've gotten so used to larger phones, that this thing just feels so small to me now.


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[Assistant] So the Z5, on that subject, the Xperia Z5 Compact just arrived today, and I'm gonna be working on my review of that next. I also have a Z5 Premium on route, the one with the 4K display, and then after that is probably gonna be the Droid Turbo 2, so I have a full plate.


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[Assistant] Uhm, on the phone side of things. Look, it's updating. Uhm, anyway, we'll see how that goes, because this will be the first high-end small Android phone that I have.


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[Assistant] No. No, I never actually touched one outside of like, with a huge like security device on the back of it in a store, like not enough to get a good impression.


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[Assistant] So far, this is looking really promising. It looks really nice. Okay, the difference between this one and I think it was the Z3 compact where the spec was very similar to the full size, is that this one is significantly downgraded in terms of spec. Do you game? No.


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[Assistant] But it's got a Snapdragon 810, which is an older processor. It's got a 720p screen, which I have made the argument and continue to make the argument is just fine for a 4.7 inch display. Uhm.


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[Assistant] But I'm, I just, I need to, I need to spend some time with it and find out if that, if that...


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[Assistant] Downgrade of the spec matters to me. Someone's asking, what about the Nexus? Uhm, I don't really have any plans to do the 6P or the 5X. Uhm, they both look like P-H-O-N-E phones to me. I, I, yeah, I don't really have anything to say because, okay.


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[Assistant] Here's something that people have been giving me crap about a little bit lately, and that is that every time I do a monitor video, I'm like, wow, it's the best thing ever.


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[Assistant] There's a reason for that. And the reason is not all the hundred dollar bills that the manufacturer is slipping in my back pocket.


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[Assistant] There's a lot of innovation in monitors. It is moving so fast.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and, and, and the other thing is that I am pretty selective about the monitors that I, every, okay, every once in a while I screw up.


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[Assistant] Like that ViewSonic, uh, VP, whatever, the 4K one. Really nice monitor.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but the reason that I requested that sample, like three months before I ended up doing the video, was it was the first HDMI 2.0 display that I had seen.


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[Assistant] And so that was gonna be part of my focus, is I really wanted to talk about HDMI 2.0. But by the time I got to that video, because we got wrapped up in moving, I had already done another HDMI 2.0 display that was like, way more relevant, and I was like, aw crap, now I don't really have much to say, other than, hey, this is a really nice monitor, which it is. Uh, but what I generally do,


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[Assistant] Is I don't even accept a review unit of something that doesn't bring a new experience to the table aside from just being a monitor. So when people are like, oh yea, you know, Linus, can you review X?


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[Assistant] The answer, if it's very similar to something I've already done, is a lot of the time, no. Because, I'm not really, I am not a non-tech. I am never going to be a non-tech. That's just, that's what it is. I am not TFT Central.


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[Assistant] So if you guys are looking for the really nitty-gritty details down to the, you know, the oscilloscope-like...


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[Assistant] So, why am I doing this? Because it's the first time I've used a high-end compact Android phone. Also, it intrigues me because the lower spec is lower in a way that I don't believe is gonna bother me, uh, but it still has a 2700 mAh battery. And with the way that, yeah, with the way that Sony's implementation of Android handles battery life,


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[Assistant] Plus Marshmallow, I think it's running Marshmallow, I'll have to double check. I could be looking at a phone that legitimately gets me through two days. So I'm super stoked on that.


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[Assistant] The reason I'm doing the Z5 Premium is that it'll be the first 4K display that I've seen on a phone. So I can really talk about how that changes or doesn't change, which is what I suspect is gonna happen, the experience. And then the reason I'm doing the Droid Turbo 2 is because of the shatterproof screen and because the Droid Turbo has for an entire year


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[Assistant] Very inferior camera compared to the LG G4, the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge, uh, compared to the iPhone 6, the S, uh, iPhone 6S. So, so that is whatever I was talking about. I don't remember what it was anymore.


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[Assistant] Show today, uh, but they had suggested an alternate layout for when we're viewing articles for where it's like bigger on the one side and then Luke and I are kind of stacked on the side that I really liked. We're gonna do that in the future. Thank you for that suggestion. But for now we're, uh, for now we're sticking with this.


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[Assistant] So this is kind of like the suckiest thing ever, and there's a lot of really ignorant comments about this, unfortunately. There's a lot of people saying like, oh that's like terrible advice, just like paying the money to, to the like jack bums who are like, yeah, we got some ransomware installed on your computer, we encrypted all your data, you gotta pay us to unlock it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, they should just like, they should just like be able to fix it. You know what? That's the double edged sort of encryption. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] So basically, for those of you who don't know what ransomware is, what it is, is it's a type of malware that gets onto your computer, encrypts your data, and then sends the encryption key back to the ransomware.


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[Assistant] They get in touch with you, and they basically go, nyanyanyanyanya, ha ha ha ha ha. We have all your data. Uhm.


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[Assistant] We may or may not do anything with it, like they may not even care about doing something with the data, but basically if you wanna- no actually, hold on, okay sorry, to be clear.


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[Assistant] They don't necessarily have your data. They can just have encrypted your device that still has your data. Sorry, sorry, sorry. I sort of started rolling and misspoke there. So basically they go, you can't have access to your data unless you pay us the sum of money and we will send you the encryption keys and then you can unencrypt your data and go about your merry day and hopefully you learned a valuable lesson.


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[Assistant] Basically, the biggest issue here, like the biggest targets for this are businesses, not individual users. Because individual users, what, they're gonna pay 100 bucks? 150 bucks? 200 bucks? You like... Because...


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[Assistant] The cyber criminals here, they don't want to demand $5,000 and get nothing. They want to, this is a volume game.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they wanna hit a thousand people for a hundred bucks each, and they made a hundred grand. That's the point.


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[Assistant] So they basically said, yup, the reason that a lot of, uh, a lot of folks are getting into ransomware is that it's extremely effective. Uhm.


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[Assistant] And that the only way to avoid it is to back up your data regularly to...


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[Assistant] Just restore the infected system to a prior state to avoid paying a ransom.


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[Assistant] That's pretty much all there is to it. And all of the usual, hey, please, you know, put on your common sense glasses when you're browsing the internet stuff applies, but, you know, the cold hard truth of it is that a lot of people don't know and don't care because the internet plays such a small role in their life aside from like needing to use their computer for like Excel.


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[Assistant] That and I mean, you know, the fact that a file is .exe is bad.


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[Assistant] Like, not to my mom, or my aunt, like why would she know that?


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[Assistant] Yeah, it could be called cutecats.exe and the email could say, hey, it's a picture of cute cats. And I'm like, no.


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[Assistant] So, uh, here we go, this is fun. So this is an Indiegogo project that, uh, in the age of the internet was, uh, was definitely destined for success.


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[Assistant] I actually don't know why they pixelated this. I mean, it's just a piece of plastic.


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[Assistant] Sort of looking at the, uh, looking at the product here, it should be fairly self-explanatory what it does.


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[Assistant] So you download the app, you connect the app to the ejaculator, you put on the headset, you navigate using the wireless remote, choose your fantasy and prepare for, you know... There you go. Really?


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[Assistant] What's higher, PG or PG-13? Let's go with, I think PG is the like, worst one. So yea, we're trying to stay PG here. Uhm.


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[Assistant] But yeaah, it's gonna cost you 130 bucks to, uh, to get the VR set as an early adopter. So it includes the device, one VR headset, one remote, one battery, one silicone sleeve, and shipping to the US and Canada is 16 dollars, with the rest of the world being 24 dollars.


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[Assistant] So uhm, you know what? I think we have to do it.


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[Assistant] I think we don't really have a choice here. Strawpull!


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[Assistant] Maybe we should try and make our show not rated one day. Alright, here comes the straw poll. It's coming.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but they've got their own, uh, they've got their own like ghetto headset. Yeah, it comes with a headset. I think you just drop your phone in it. I haven't, I haven't checked out phone compatibility or anything like that. Like I actually haven't looked that, I haven't looked that closely.


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[Assistant] Blah blah blah, this is just the beginning. We want you to be along for the ride. Wow, their campaign is just so cringe. Just way beyond cringe. I love this. Here's some of the prototypes.


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[Assistant] There is no way that I would put anything of mine anywhere near any of those prototypes. And that was when they were new. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] Uh, gear factory, manually producing gears, like they've really, they've really put some, some thought into this puppy here. Hey there you go, that one's not censored. Oh. Yeah. I dunno. 12 inches tall, 4 inches wide.


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[Assistant] Well I guess I couldn't really do the review anyway. Ooh. It's oversized. Too big. Too big.


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[Assistant] Alright, so let's have, okay, we won't do another topic in the meantime. Let's just go ahead and, uh, have a look at those, uh, those results there. So, will you buy one?


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[Assistant] We've got a whopping 28% of our audience that is planning to buy the Ejaculator. Now just to be clear guys, we are not suggesting that you buy it while it is an Indiegogo campaign. I would definitely wait for it to actually roll off a real production line. I would wait for independent party reviews.


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[Assistant] Alright, this is interesting. Microsoft has, uh, this is such a sensational, oh I was, I have a screen sharing that whole time. Uh, this is such a sensationalist headline. Has Microsoft admitted defeat in the console sales war over on TechRadar? Okay, that, very sensationalist, but,


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[Assistant] It, uh, is related to a legitimate piece of news, so, uhm, Microsoft announced their quarterly results, and it lacked


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[Assistant] So when they were questioned as to why those were absent, Microsoft's source responded saying it was no longer using such figures as its measurement of success.


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[Assistant] So they're actually gonna focus on Xbox Live figures as the leading stat. Uhm, and it should be noted that Xbox Live users rose sharply last quarter, growing by 28% to 39 million users. So...


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[Assistant] Would you argue that that is a legitimate thing for them to- Okay, so first of all, would you say that that move has anything to do with Microsoft admitting defeat in the console race?


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[Assistant] Yeah, which is not necessarily meaningful. Now with that said, the Xbox One, uhm, didn't have as much adoption even early on. Yes, it was a little rough out of the gate compared to the PlayStation 4, but,


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[Assistant] Indicative of prob- more indicative of the profitability of that customer, because it's already fairly well established that in terms of hardware alone, the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One were not particularly profitable, especially when you compare it to, well, really not anything. I mean, console hardware.


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[Assistant] Yes. But nothing compared to something like the Wii, where it was basically powered by like peanut butter and, you know, elastic bands. Yeah, exactly.


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[Assistant] So, so, I mean, that's never really been an indication of, of, of the success of the business unit because it doesn't really indicate profitability. What it does indicate is the installed user base.


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[Assistant] So if Microsoft's gonna switch metrics and go, okay, we are less interested in how many physical Xbox units there are out there, and we are more interested in what the installed user base


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[Assistant] How many people are, are sitting there paying a subscription to use their Xbox and if we're, and if we're gonna look at that as more indicative of the profitability of that transaction


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[Assistant] Someone who bought an Xbox and it literally sits on a shelf in their warehouse?


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[Assistant] Is not a good customer. Someone who bought an Xbox and uses it for five years paying sixty bucks a year just gave you another three hundred dollars of money that is not necessarily pure profit because a lot of that goes into, uh, development of things like their cloud assisted rendering or, uh,


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[Assistant] Building out- Which apparently isn't helping them that much. Which, no it isn't. But, that doesn't mean they weren't working on it! And that doesn't mean that wasn't expensive! I'm just saying that-


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[Assistant] The hardware is just a transaction. Here's a piece of hardware, here's how much it costs us to build it, here you go. And if that person buys a bunch of games, then great.


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[Assistant] Games and live memberships are still being looked at as indicators of success. So I totally disagree with that headline, and I actually agree quite strongly with Microsoft changing the way that they're measuring the success of a console to look more at software sales and membership sales, because that's-


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[Assistant] And if, you know, if Sony sells, let's, let's say in the lifetime of the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One, you know, if Sony sells 100 million and Microsoft sells 60 million.


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[Assistant] And Microsoft made a bunch of money on a bunch of people buying Xbox Live memberships and bought a bunch of games. Uhm, I was looking into it, apparently the Xbox One is beating the PlayStation 4 in terms of game sales, so...


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[Assistant] Hey, there's lots of different ways to be successful. If you sell 60 million units, is that a failure? Well, I would probably say no.


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[Assistant] For me, the other big one on the Elite controller, and as much as this is a stupid thing, where you can kinda go, well actually Linus, the solution to that is just to go buy an Xbox 360 controller, is I really, really don't like the A, B, X, Y buttons on the Xbox One controller. They're too... I wanna say ticky.


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[Assistant] I know that's not a word, like the tactile feel is too-


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[Assistant] Yeah, like, I actually like the kind of mushier feel of the Xbox 360 controller and the Xbox Elite feels very similar.


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[Assistant] Oh, I used the saber tooth for about four seconds and then I handed it to you to do the review. If you recall how that went down. So that's why you handed that off.


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[Assistant] Well, I was super stoked on it. I was like, super excited. I was like, yea, high end controller, man. Let's do this.


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[Assistant] Because, I mean, okay, to be clear, I could have done it. I could have done it, but it would have been needlessly negative, because a lot of people like that. And so handing it to someone who's willing to look at it a bit more objectively, I think is being more fair to the product. Like if I see a product that I look at and I go,


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[Assistant] I cannot review this objectively. Like I, you did the, uh, the note two? Or three? I think so, yea. Note three or something like that. Something a long time ago. Because, I looked at it and I went, this is way too big, I cannot hold it. My entire review is gonna be about how I dropped it and broke it.


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[Assistant] Why am I gonna bother to, to subject you guys to this? So. People saying stop rambling. Stop watching this show! This whole show is rambling!


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[Assistant] Okay, to be clear, I don't actually want you to stop- Oh, he's gone. Oh.


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[Assistant] I-I want everyone to watch. But I also want to ramble. Uh, okay, let's move on to our next thing. Uhm, Sennheiser, good guys, Sennheiser, opens up their corporate building to refugees. Yeah, I mean, there's not a whole lot to really say about this, and the news source is in German, so yes, I will be translating that. Thank you.


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[Assistant] Uh, so given the acute situation, Sennheiser has the Hanover region offered to accommodate refugees for free in their corporate building. Commitment of the company is exemplary and deserves the highest recognition, et cetera, et cetera. That is the sub-headline.


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[Assistant] So, uh, there you go, the, uh, they've got up to 300 refugees that are housed there. And I can tell you, having been to Sennheiser's facility there,


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[Assistant] Well, a lot of load on the staff, like it's not what are they gonna double their staff overnight, right?


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[Assistant] But yeaah, so in March 2016, uh, the building can be converted into a dormitory for about 150 people. Uh, it will also be used as a reception center and a place for social gatherings for refugees.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so anyway. Yeah, the point is, good guys, Sennheiser. We like those guys, we've worked with them a fair bit. Alright.


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[Assistant] Single player games with dead authentication servers ruled DMCA exempt. So it is officially, it appears, I'm gonna go through the notes, cause whenever Luke and I haven't gone through something, we do usually have pretty good notes on it.


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[Assistant] That's very interesting stuff. So the games must have been shut down slash abandoned for at least six months. I mean this is such-


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[Assistant] Good news, because, and the timing is actually not too bad, because right now, it's not a huge issue. There aren't too many games. But it's going to be that way. But it's going to be massive. It is going to be a massive problem, five years from now.


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[Assistant] Like you mean just unnecessary multiplayer modules that contribute nothing? Well, hold on a second, because allowing only if they have single player components, which require online authentication to check. So yea, so if you, if you have online authentication, uh, authentification?


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[Assistant] If you have online education, and you have single player that requires it, then get wrecked. Uh, basically, it is legal to copy your game. Uhm, epic.


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[Assistant] So, the US copyright will permit preservationists to modify console firmware in order to make games playable only if used for non-commercial purposes in institutions that are open to the public and or unaffiliated researchers. So, I would, I would expect that someone like a private collector slash enthusiast could consider themselves a researcher. Like, I mean, I think this is gonna be


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[Assistant] The thing, okay, the thing about moving the line to make it grey is that it actually just kinda opens up more grey area, cause in the past it was very black and white.


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[Assistant] It still does not allow for video game owners to modify games for local or multiplayer play. So it's very specific what is allowed and what is not. If it has a single player component that requires online authentication, then you can unlock that functionality


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[Assistant] And copy it. So that people can use it. And not for commercial use and all that kind of stuff. That is basically fantastic news and I absolutely love it.


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[Assistant] Because for commercial use is pretty broad. But donate usage.


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[Assistant] Yeah, if you're making a certain amount of money, I think it's commercial regardless of whether it's a donation or not. Like if the Linus Tech Tips Forum is run purely off of donations, which it is, sort of, I mean...


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[Assistant] No, there's ads on it. Okay, no, but if it was run purely off of donations- Ads don't make a ton.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm pretty sure that is still a commercial endeavor. Even if it's donated. Okay, yeah.


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[Assistant] I caught a lot of people that are, uhm...


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[Assistant] Audio ads. A few have slipped through the cracks, I can assure you that was 100% unintentional, neither Luke nor I intended for those to be there, and that's a whole other long story.


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[Assistant] Yes, my friends, you can have a virus get in your body, and it can attack cancer. Now, to be clear, this is not like...


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[Assistant] You know, I don't wanna, I don't wanna oversell this. This is not the answer to cancer. Uhm, it's basically specific to skin cancer. It is a specific drug. It's called...


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[Assistant] Okay, and it shrunk tumors for at least 6 months in 16% of patients. So it is doing things, but it's not like


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[Assistant] This is the magic silver bullet. But we've got something. That's cool. But it's the first


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[Assistant] It's the first in like a new class of ways to attack cancer. It's something that's been highly experimental. Yup, nothing's ever, thank you. Nothing's ever been FDA approved up until now and that's what's exciting about it is that now a lot of the experiments that have been going on behind the scenes could


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[Assistant] Be closer to being available to people, uhm, it's not cheap, this is always the case with new drugs. I mean, I was actually, I was talking to my wife about it, most of you probably don't know this, but my wife's a pharmacist, so she, uhm,


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[Assistant] ...knows a few things about drugs and stuff, and she was saying, because I was, like, I was talking about, like, how it's, you know, such a...


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[Assistant] Don't wanna pay this much, this is absurd. Uhm, it's like tens of thousands of dollars for a dose or something stupid like that, like it's ridiculous. Uhm, but she was saying like the reason for that is that the cost of developing a drug is A, super high.


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[Assistant] And the cost of developing all the drugs that never get approved and never go anywhere is also super high.


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[Assistant] So when you make that one drug that makes it, you have to make up for all of that. And I'm like, yeah, okay, I get that.


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[Assistant] It's also super corrupt, so that is also a factor.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but anyway, so there you go. At least we're making progress. Hopefully cancer is not a thing at some point in the near future. And that would be good for everyone.


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[Assistant] So, basically, what can we say about iFixit that hasn't already been said before? They have great guides on their website. If you've ever searched- That's been said before. Well, okay, well- Thank you. If you've ever-


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[Assistant] If you've ever searched for how to repair or tear down a laptop or a tablet or a cell phone or even some all-in-one computers and like all kinds of other stuff actually.


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[Assistant] Probably come across iFixit. You'll know it's iFixit because it's the site with the great pictures and the instructions that are actually easy for normal people to follow.


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[Assistant] And what you probably don't know, or maybe don't know, unless you watch this show, because we talk about it all the time, is that aside from their guides, they also have their tools.


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[Assistant] So this is their, oh, I forget what this one is actually called. This is the Repair Business Toolkit, and it's got a whole whack-ton of their tools, pretty much everything you would, like, normally need.


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[Assistant] Okay, so anti-static gear, multimeter, these plastic cards that are good for like, prying things and, and flattening things and holding stuff apart.


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[Assistant] I've actually, I've taken this kit apart and put it back together improperly enough times that I'm really not sure where everything is inside of it.


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[Assistant] All the time. I think we're up to like five of them here, but I don't think we can ever have enough of them, cause it's gotten to the point where instead of assigning them to people and then us having to remember where they are, we just leave them in all the places where we might have to do anything, and then we're covered.


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[Assistant] Someone derped and put one of our other ProTech toolkits in here. Uh, cleaning solution, work mat.


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[Assistant] For taking off, uh, taking off screens and stuff like that.


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[Assistant] Uh, prying tools that look like they fell out of one of the ProTech toolkits. Way to go!


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[Assistant] Whoever did that. Ah, yes. There we go. The heating pad for, uh, loosening glue. That's like my favorite thing in the whole kit. Yep. So you microwave it if I recall correctly. Yep, microwave. Only one eye opener at a time for 30 seconds. Uh, anyway, there you go.


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[Assistant] If you wanna fix anything, use professional tools, because it actually really does help a lot. And if you have a purchase of $50 or more that you wanna make over on ifixit.com, you can save $10 by using offer code LINUS.


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[Assistant] Let's move on to, ah yes, Logitech. So they've got their new gaming headsets out there. I am in progress on my review, so stay tuned for that. But in short, uh, this is the G633 and G933, which are, uh, USB or analog.


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[Assistant] Wired or wireless versions of pretty much the same thing. They've completely re-engineered this from scratch, acknowledging everything that was not that fantastic about the G230 and the G430, and they've got a truly, truly high-end option that they're really, really proud of. So it's got support for 7.1 Dolby Surround Sound,


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[Assistant] They've got 40mm Pro-G audio drivers. They've got adjustable RGB lighting that actually looks surprisingly good.


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[Assistant] Uh, like the lighting effect is very even. I was surprised. Um, I hadn't actually really used them. Luke had the first hands on because he went down to, uh, down to Logitech's place to check it out. Uh, it's got a cardioid boom mic that, uh, oh this is another thing I discovered. It's got like a cool little noise it makes when you mute it.


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[Assistant] I was like, oh, that's handy. I was using it for a conference call the other day. Oh, okay. And I was like, oh crap.


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[Assistant] I'm on this call. I uh, I super need to be able to work on stuff because this is a super dumb call.


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[Assistant] And everything they're saying is pointless, but I really need to be here in case there's like some little nugget of useful information. So I threw on the wireless headphones and I was working on some server crap. Cool.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I got a link for you guys to check it out. Boom! Right there, just like that. And finally...


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[Assistant] Fresh books! Actually, this is cool. So I'll do a really brief rundown. Yes, new feature. Yes, really cool new feature. So fresh books.


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[Assistant] Online accounting, great for small businesses, computer repair, plumbing, whatever else it is. You got an online tool that lets you track your hours, uh, submit invoices to clients, get paid through the app, and here it is my friends, just launched their deposits feature.


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[Assistant] So let's say, for example, you were me, like, eight years ago, painting houses in the summer.


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[Assistant] You take deposits from people because otherwise, oh man, let me tell you, doing something like a house painting job and not taking a deposit, you would show up on the day that you were supposed to be there and like,


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[Assistant] The house would already be painted, they would forget who you were, like, seriously, there's a lot of benefits to taking a mere 10% refundable deposit.


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[Assistant] Um, so they just launched their deposits feature, so when you create a new invoice, you'll see the option to request a deposit at the bottom of that invoice, and all the usual things that you would normally do, so submitting that online, having them be able to pay through their credit card, through FreshBooks, all that, still bueno, but now you can do deposits. Super helpful. Super awesome stuff.


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[Assistant] Love it, absolutely love it. FreshBooks is one of those sponsors we've been using for a long time.


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[Assistant] Uhm, or rather, we've been like, we've been doing for a long time.


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[Assistant] And we never got an STD once. Oh. She went there. Sorry. Cause it was fresh. Yeah, FreshBooks has been one of our sponsors for a long time. I have yet to receive a complaint about FreshBooks. And I have said that before about FreshBooks, and didn't receive a complaint. Usually when I say that, like, one person.


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[Assistant] Uhm, actually I had one issue. Uhm, So anyway, head over to freshbooks.com slash when and claim your free trial today.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm liking that. That's awesome. That would have been great for me when I was doing the whole house painting thing.


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[Assistant] Show up with supplies? Yep. Oh, you can get screwed by not taking a deposit. Even if you take a deposit, you can get screwed. Yeah. If they're just like, yep, we're not doing it. Just not as hard. Okay, well I guess I've got this van full of like metal.


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[Assistant] Thanks for that. Yeah, yeah. I'm sure that these custom cut pieces will be returnable to the place I got them. Jerk. Oh, this is great. Steam Community Discussions is our source for this particular topic here.


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[Assistant] Batman Arkham Knight is back! Okay. Just in time for Halloween! Which by the way is why we're dressed up for this.


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[Assistant] In fact, it is October 31st, like, over the pond. So, this is, this is so funny. This is so funny. Uhm, people are like, yeah, it's still broken! They're apologizing by giving games that most people own!


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[Assistant] Oh, people are saying yes, it's real, they changed it. But then Twitch chat is full of trolls.


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[Assistant] Love you guys dearly, all eight freaking thousand of you that are watching the show right now. You guys are all awesome, but you're a bunch of trolls.


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[Assistant] I love you, you're a bunch of trolls. Uhm, so, so I, yeaah, I straight up can't believe anything they say. But, uh, basically they're still working on GPU support for SLI and Crossfire.


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[Assistant] Especially given their close relationship with Nvidia. It's like, I'm sure Nvidia would be more than happy to straight up send software engineers to go fix it for them.


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[Assistant] They actually do do that. It's the way it's meant to be played title.


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[Assistant] It has Gameworks. Nvidia's involvement is real. If they're not supporting SLI, it is straight up negligent. Sorry.


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[Assistant] Uhm, Windows 10 users, this is a quote, we found that having at least 12 gigabytes of system RAM on a PC allows the game to operate without paging, because there's still a hard drive paging issue with some GPUs. That may occur after extended gameplay sessions, and they suggest relaunching the game to resolve issues.


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[Assistant] These are still some pretty game-breaking bugs.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, like I, like I said, I, I honestly, like I even, I saw this on the doc, but I didn't dig too far into it, because it's one of those things where there's like, there's an article.


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[Assistant] And then there's like, the 18 pages of Reddit discussion that has most of the meat of the issue. And that I'm sure Twitch is- Oh, apparently sound's cutting out.


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[Assistant] No, I don't think that's the issue. I think they might just be trolling me. Cause no one else is talking about it. I did, I called them trolls.


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[Assistant] You got me. You got me again. Uhm, so anyway, so my, my issue with the, uh, so my issue with the game is just that it's kind of a turd anyway, so...


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[Assistant] Yeaah, oh yeaah, that, that, that is- I don't think this is in the doc, I don't think this was-


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[Assistant] No, I heard it was the worst yet. Yeah. Assassin's Creed Syndicate worst episode ever. Let's see if that brings up, uh,


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[Assistant] No, that just brings up some Let's Plays. Top 7 Assassin's Creed games ranked worst to best. Uhm, woah, what is this list? Where is Unity on this?


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[Assistant] That is pretty funny. Uhm, okay, well, that, that, that was it. So Assassin's Creed 7 to get worst sales. Let's see, let's see if we can pull that up. Oh, apparently they are second worst. Second worst in series as fatigue sets in. I don't think it has anything to do with fatigue setting in.


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[Assistant] Alright, what else we got here? Uhm, oh, the cancer killing virus is in here twice.


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[Assistant] Oh, oh, right! Uhm, you know what? You'll have to do some kind of topic while I compile all the things for that.


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[Assistant] You shouldn't want to talk about VR? That would be, that would be even less your thing.


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[Assistant] Why don't you just talk about Oculus? Well, let's, you know what, let's just, you know what, let's not call it the Wancho anymore. Let's call it the Luke LaFreniere Oculus Tesla Hour.


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[Assistant] Bear in mind, a lot of the things you liked about that may not necessarily be applicable to the ASUS version. Cause it is different hardware.


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[Assistant] It is different hardware, so you should talk probably more about the OnHub experience.


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[Assistant] Okay, so I'm actually going to hide us, so I've had a lot of people asking, are the Linus Tech Tips edition fans that you showed off available for purchase? And the answer before was no, because we were still waiting to get orders from all the, uhm, the retail partners, uhm, but,


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[Assistant] Everybody has their orders in. The fans are either shipped or shipping very, very soon across the board. So, the fans are officially available. So I'm actually gonna, you know what, I'm gonna pick on performance PCs because check this out. They, for nothing,


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[Assistant] Our performance PCs in the US. And you can, actually I can, hey, this is a good opportunity for me to audit everyone's, uh, audit everyone's sites and make sure that they've got all the, all the pictures up. Look at that!


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[Assistant] Very nice. So you've got front and back view of the fan. Brandon did a great job of the product photos, didn't he? He did. Yea, he did. They like actually look like professional product photos. It took forever. Of course he did. But he did a really good job. Of course he did.


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[Assistant] So you can see the, uh, yeaah, there you go, you can see the, the, the orange grommets. This is cool, so this is a neat feature, sort of a feature, I don't know. So it comes with a replacement for the orange fan hub cover, uh, like the fan hub sticker, that's just monochrome, so it just, yeaah.


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[Assistant] Just a black special edition fan. So the small one right there is an aluminum-backed case badge. And then the big one is an aluminum-backed, uh, fan hub sticker that you would use to cover this one. Yep.


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[Assistant] Aluminum stickers, man. So you would cover up this one and then you can actually pull the rubber...


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[Assistant] Uh, the rubber noise isolators off, and it'll be completely black slash silver if you, if you go ahead and, uh, and do that.


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[Assistant] So here you go, that's what the complete breakfast looks like. That's everything it comes with. The fan, the extension, the noise reduction adapter, the uh, the noise reducing orange grommets, screws, the case badge, and the replacement fan hub sticker. So it's available, and I had a lot of people asking, is it available in 140mm? Yes!


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[Assistant] Both the NF-F12 and the NF-A14 version are available, and so, performance PCs in the U.S.


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[Assistant] And, this is cool, so the way that we handled MSRP's is the sanity way, where it's just a straight currency conversion.


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[Assistant] Yay, we didn't screw over the UK! Or like, other places. Yep. So straight currency conversion. Uhm, in Australia, it is PLE computers, and the Aussies are probably looking at that going, well we got screwed, it's like, I'm sorry your dollar sucks, but that actually doesn't change my cost on the fan.


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[Assistant] And to be clear you guys, the reason they're so expensive is that Noctua fans aren't cheap in the first place.


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[Assistant] So, yeaah. And then, in a move that surprised absolutely no one, the Canadian carrier for these will be NCIX.


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[Assistant] So, so my bros over at NCIX also have the NFF12 and the NFA14 listed. So, regardless of who you order from, they should be getting them around the same time, give or take a couple of days. But, uh, if you guys are down for some LTT Edition fans, then check it out.


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[Assistant] Yes, we know they're expensive. No, we don't expect people to buy a bunch and get out their whole case. Uh, we only made 4,000 of them, so it's more like if someone wanted to have like one 140mm special edition fan for the back of their case. That's kinda what we're expecting people to do.


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[Assistant] I already know from talking to performance PCs, who by the way has already sold through almost a fifth of his allocation of 120 mils.


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[Assistant] So from talking to Hank over at Performance PCs, uhm, the feedback is that lots of people are buying more than one.


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[Assistant] But, uhm, we just, we're doing it as a limited edition thing. If they sell it really fast, we might do more, but it is not clear if we will do any more. And if we do do more, it's quite possible we would just rerun the 120, cause right now the 140s for obvious reasons are selling quite a bit slower.


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[Assistant] I believe at least a couple of the retailers do ship internationally. NCIX does for sure. I believe Performance PCs does, because they've shipped stuff to me, and I'm in Canada, so they're in the US.


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[Assistant] And overclockers.co.uk is affiliated with Caseking, so it is unclear to me at this time if you will be able to order off of Caseking.


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[Assistant] But, I am fairly sure that overclockers.co.uk ships within Europe. So,


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[Assistant] So I would expect Europeans to order from overclockers.co.uk. I would expect Americans to order from Performance PCs, Canadians to order from NCIX. Uhm, if for whatever reason someone else doesn't ship to, uh, your area, NCIX would be a good bet because I know they ship.


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[Assistant] Pretty much worldwide and then PLE is there to cover our Australian and


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[Assistant] I would assume shipping to New Zealand would be cheaper from PLE than from like NCIX over the Pacific Ocean, so that was kind of my thought there as well.


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[Assistant] There is not a lot I can do about that because we weren't, like I'm not looking to get into the retail computer hardware business. That is actually not my business model.


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[Assistant] You know what, maybe I'll talk about the story of this fan.


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[Assistant] Been a long time coming, so sure, go ahead. This fan has been a very long time coming. The first time we teased this fan, we were doing the WAN show in Luke's old office at the old place still.


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[Assistant] We hadn't actually moved into the room where we ended up doing the LAN show for the rest of the time that we were in the old office. And all we teased was that like,


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[Assistant] I think we said something along the lines of like, we drive so much, we knocked out Noctua's site, by linking to it, uh, because everyone on the WAN show rushed over there, and we were like, we drive so much traffic for Noctua, and they don't do any advertising with us, but we just love the product, so, they should do a custom fan for us.


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[Assistant] And that was sort of where the seed was planted. And so ever since then, I've been pushing them, I've been like, look,


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[Assistant] I advocate your product because I love it, because I trust it, because I've seen the return numbers, like I was the product manager for Noctua and a number of other fanlines, and I had access to information from all of them. I was the category manager for fans at NCIX, so I was like, I trust the product, I know it's reliable, I know it performs great, I've got all these reasons that I love it.


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[Assistant] But you guys don't believe in advertising in these ways that we do advertising, so I want a custom fan.


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[Assistant] And I had a lot of people when we teased the idea that we wanted to do a custom fan, uhm,


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[Assistant] It just looked cool. We had a lot of people saying, oh, are you gonna do it with this or are you gonna do it with that or are you gonna do it with that?


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[Assistant] I basically dug in my heels and I said, no, we are doing it with the NFF12, and if we can't do it with the NFF12, I'm not doing it with anything. Because I know it's expensive. We could have done a 999 LTT Edition fan. 100%. I could have done that, no problem.


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[Assistant] But the reason that we're doing this is because this is our fir- the first time that we're putting our name on an actual computer product that you put in your computer, so I didn't want anything that I wasn't a hundred percent certain of. So I was like, nope, we're doing it with that, or we're doing it with nothing. Uhm, so I have waited, this must be about two years now, until they finally agreed a number of months ago,


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[Assistant] To actually do it, we reached an agreement about what we would be able to customize, what we wouldn't. We didn't customize much because


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[Assistant] I'm not an engineer. In fact, it comes with a little note from me inside the package where I explain I'm not an engineer, I did not design your fan, and that is a good thing. We didn't change much because it made the importing of the product simpler. It didn't have to go through any recertification processes or anything like that.


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[Assistant] Because we meant for it to just be, hey, here's a cool product that is good, that has our name on it, that we're okay with that, and that...


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[Assistant] And that if you want to contribute to Linus Tech Tips, but you don't want a shirt, or you don't want a badge next to your name on the forum, but hey, you do need a new fan, and you don't mind spending a couple bucks for a high quality fan, go for it. LTT fan.


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[Assistant] So, actually, if you buy the LTT Edition fan, which is, I believe, about the same price as the industrial ones, although not waterproof or dustproof, it's just the standard fan, but it is about as expensive as the industrials, uhm, it runs at a lower RPM by default.


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[Assistant] Exactly. So even when you control them, you can't control them as low as you can a regular NFF12. So if you just want a black NFF12,


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[Assistant] And you wanna swap out the, uh, the colours of the corner pieces, which Noctua has kits coming, or you just want a black fan, it's actually a great option.


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[Assistant] If you were gonna buy Noctua's anyway, and you just want a black fair.


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[Assistant] So, there you go. People are saying restock them to the US. Uh, these are pre-orders. They are actually not shipped yet. There will be plenty for all. Uh, everyone, every retailer that I listed, those are all pre-orders. Uh, but don't worry, the product is good. I have held it in my hands. It is awesome. And, uh, yeaah.


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[Assistant] Can you put them on a radiator? It's an NFF-12, it is about as good as it gets for a radiator.


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[Assistant] Or it's an NFA 14 which is also very good for a radiator. Uh, great for radiators, great for heat sinks.


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[Assistant] Pretty good for just case airflow, but like, overkill for case airflow. You don't need that kind of static pressure. Uh, very good for things like hard drive cages. It's got very directed airflow, very high static pressure.


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[Assistant] So anywhere where you've got a tight grill, you've got any obstructions like hard drive cages, heatsink fins, radiator fins, this is a fantastic fan. Why not LED fans? Because LED fans are... Just put LEDs in your system.


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[Assistant] Alright, let's go ahead and, uh, you know what, we're, uh, where should we put links to all that stuff? Like, should I just put links to...


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[Assistant] Like, you know what, why don't I just do links in the chat of each one. So, there you go. For the Canadians, there's NCIX and I'm sure you guys are super smart and you can find the other version of the fan if you really want.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so there's, there's PLE. If you guys haven't heard of any of these stores, then, uh, then great. And, uhm, we actually, oh, this is more, more like, I'm sorry, I don't, I don't wanna, like, waste your guys' time, so if you're bored of this, then just let me know, but we've also got some pretty exciting other merch news.


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[Assistant] Uhm, our sample arrived, yes. Is he here? Uh, I doubt it. You can go check, do you wanna see if he's here? But I have a picture, like I have a picture that we posted on Twitter.


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[Assistant] So we got our sample of the Linus Tech Tips WAN hoodie.


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[Assistant] Uh, from G8. So if you guys have ever seen, like, the Nvidia LAN hoodie that they did, that was freaking awesome. Basically, I got one of those. This is also an incredibly long story. So I got one of those two years ago at Nvidia's G-Sync launch event.


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[Assistant] That's when the seed was planted for this. And it has taken this long to go through all the iterations of designing this, all the waiting, all the just, ugh, it took...


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[Assistant] Oh, it took forever, we just didn't have time to work on it, and it was also time consuming. But we got our sample of the LTT LAN hoodie, and uh, that will be available in like, I don't know, 16 weeks or something like that. Like, it's a ways out, but uhm,


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[Assistant] What I'm kind of thinking, because we can't just sell these through Teespring because it's a G8 product, like it's not just, like it's completely customized, like custom color of the strings, you know, uhm, like,


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[Assistant] Custom tag on it, like all this stuff. Oh, oh, awesome, awesome, Ed's got it. So Ed, you can be my, you can be my model, you go here.


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[Assistant] So Ed actually designed it, uhm, pretty much from scratch. Other than like taking sort of the ideas for, yea, that logo was painstakingly crafted by Ed Yago. Uhm, so like things like the zipper layouts are not done by him, but the design on the inside of the hood which says, ah, it's actually got a typo, this is thankfully- Oh no, no, no.


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[Assistant] So it's Inus Tech Tips, it's got two eyes, so we're gonna fix that in the real one.


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[Assistant] But it says that on the inside, the back has got kind of like, uh, like kind of a grungy, like, WAN logo inspired thing.


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[Assistant] Yep, I'm outside, minus Tech Tips logo. So uhm, so what I'm kinda thinking is I'm gonna, if the fan thing goes well, I'm gonna try and talk our reseller network into selling these as well, even though they're not really computer products.


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[Assistant] And like, who knows, maybe that'll be like a really unique and cool way that uhm, LMG can do, can do merch moving forward. They can hear you by the way, you can talk too. Headphones.


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[Assistant] Headphone uh, wire management things on the inside and the outside.


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[Assistant] So, to be clear guy, oh, it's a G8 brand hoodie. And it's like really nice. Like it's a light material, but like a quality material. Like that was why I wanted it. Again, it was one of those things where I was like, nope.


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[Assistant] I want this one, and if we can't do this one, then I'm not going to.


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[Assistant] So we figured it out. G8's been great. They put together just, I, we were gonna order 300.


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[Assistant] Now that I've seen it, I think we're gonna order like 600.


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[Assistant] Okay, like, not gonna be cheap. So G8, our cost from G8 is not cheap. We will need resellers to sell this for us because


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[Assistant] I can't pull, you know, Luke and Nick and Ed off of their regular duties to pack boxes and ship things out the door. Not to mention that our shipping rates would be atrocious because we don't ship in high enough volume. So the resellers are gonna need their margin and we're gonna need our margin. So I'm expecting them to cost somewhere in the neighborhood of about a hundred bucks. So they are not gonna be cheap.


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[Assistant] Yeah, for like a generic cotton hoodie, uhm, I think they're like 60 bucks? I don't know.


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[Assistant] So I kinda figure for that, like, yea, but it would be like a, it would be like a hundred bucks US. So, yea. It's gonna be pretty ouch. But, there you go.


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[Assistant] So anyway, people are saying like $30, I'm like, no. There's no way. It's way below the cost. Way below cost. Sometimes things cost money, especially when they're custom, so this will be very custom.


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[Assistant] So, there you go guys, sometimes things just are what they are, and that's how it is.


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[Assistant] Uhm, alright, so what else we got here? I mean, there's not much time left, but I guess we don't have a whole lot of, uh... Do you have time for after party? Uhm...


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[Assistant] I think I have to shoot fast as possible again today. Oh! Oh, you mean the ultra wide festival after party?


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[Assistant] And, okay, why don't we do a couple like, like super rapid fire topics. So, Apple's profits break all records for all companies ever. Uhm, so they're a staggering almost 10 billion ahead of the previous record set by ExxonMobil in 2008.


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[Assistant] So uhm, there you go, most profitable year ever, ever, ever, ever.


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[Assistant] Selling lots and lots of iPhones. Uhm...


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[Assistant] Uh, this is interesting. This is actually, I wish we had talked about this earlier on in the show. AT&T Data Perks offers little bits of data, snippets of data on your plan, uh, for completing various tasks.


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[Assistant] Complete surveys to earn cash, cash, cash, cash for surveys. Except it's like-


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[Assistant] So, it's an iOS and Android app, it's called DataPerk, so you can take surveys, you can shop and sign up for subscriptions in exchange for data.


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[Assistant] Uhm, AT&T says subscribers are allowed to transfer up to a gig to their wireless account each month within a billing period. And I believe they actually expire outside of that billing period. Don't quote me on that one. Basically, it's like super lame. And Android Police pointed out that most offers net 25 to 50 megs.


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[Assistant] Wow. And it's possible to earn more, but a lot of the time that involves purchasing or subscribing to something.


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[Assistant] Uhm, this is, this is interesting. So, more details on YouTube Red. So, uhm, I actually have a call that I need to get on with my YouTube contact on, I think, Monday. I told him I wasn't able to do it today. He wanted to talk today. Uhm...


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[Assistant] Uhm, this headline says, will pay video makers during free trial after concerns. Uhm, through email, I haven't got all the details, something something, Google Play Music subscribers are being transferred to YouTube Red, and you're gonna get some of that, but,


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[Assistant] So, we'll see. We'll see how all this goes because as much as, you know, wow, I'm gonna totally pull a Taylor Swift here.


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[Assistant] As much as that income will not make or break Linus Media Group, this is not about Linus Media Group, because AdSense makes up a small portion of what we do, because... And some people are much more heavily reliant on AdSense. Yep. We diversified, we saw, I mean I'm not gonna call us geniuses or anything, but...


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[Assistant] We saw this coming. No, we didn't see YouTube Red coming specifically, but we saw YouTube basically changing the rules and going, sign up or GTFO.


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[Assistant] Uh, we saw that coming a million miles away, and so we are also on Vessel, which does a lot to support our business, and a huge thanks to our viewers who watch on Vessel. Uh, we also have merch, we also have subscribers on our forum that contribute to us, like we have a lot of different ways, we do a lot of our own ad integrations, as you guys know.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so, so we are far less reliant on AdSense than many other creators, so this is not about us, it's just wrong.


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[Assistant] It's wrong to offer a free trial and then take that out of someone else's pocket. Google, this is your service. You eat it.


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[Assistant] So, yeaah. There you go. Uh, so anyway, I will clarify, hopefully next week, once I actually get a, a, a, a better understanding of what exactly is going on, because right now it's not, it's not 100% clear to me.


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[Assistant] Uh, I think that's pretty much it. So thank you for watching the WAN Show today, guys. I hope you enjoyed it. We certainly did. I forgot to, I forgot to set up the intro properly, so it'll show an ad spot for a second here.


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[Assistant] Uh, we are, we are going to do a very short after, you know what? No, I will find out if we are going to do a very short after party. I'll be right back.


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[Assistant] Chipgate will be a thing that we're being talked, well that we'll talk about. Also, Tesla cars are able to auto drive as of yesterday. The Scarpe laser razor got pulled off Kickstarter and Bell is being fined huge amounts of money for faking app reviews on the App Store. We should probably roll the intro.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, yeah, so my Z3 was held under a waterfall screen up recording with the camera for like 5 minutes. Why? I wanted to test it.


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[Assistant] And it worked fine, so like that rating means it can probably take even more than that.


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[Assistant] Very clickbaity. That's probably one of our, like, most clickbaity videos ever. And it's not even- Isn't it not even the final answer? Or don't even- The final answer is... It depends. Isn't that what you do?


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[Assistant] How old are those videos? We should just redo that. There's a lot of fanboy hate going around right now.


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[Assistant] Or just a classy woman who wants man with a straight up job.


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[Assistant] Uh, for this topic. Yeah. Uh, Google and OEMs have committed to, like he said, the monthly security update program, but it's for less than two years old or for Nexus three years old. Oh, there you go.


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[Assistant] Right, but still security updates. So, a lot of people's devices, is it everywhere now that your contract is only allowed to last for two years?


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[Assistant] Okay, so in Canada, your contract with your phone company can only last for two years. Uhm, but another thing is, is this agreement two years since the device launched?


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[Assistant] So not two years since your contract started, and a lot of people are going to start a contract and then only want to pay like,


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[Assistant] But there's, there's things around that too in the Microsoft article. Yes, uhm, and I would rather security personally. In the Microsoft article though, it says when asked about carrier updates, uh, Microsoft stated that Microsoft will be working closely with mobile operators to leverage their, their testing and our,


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[Assistant] So think about it, they could talk to those carriers and be like, hey, we're gonna launch this in X amount of time, here's all the code, update your crap.


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[Assistant] And if they don't do it, that's their fault, in my opinion. But instead, it's going the other way around. They're being too careful about it. Being like, here's your stuff, you send it out whenever you're ready. That's putting no pressure on them. And they're just gonna be like, ehhh, we'll update it when our small team has enough time to do it.


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[Assistant] Not much, basically Microsoft is just being relatively aggressive when it comes to updating their stuff, and they're saying that their main input on when to update things will be from, uh, Windows insiders and mobile operators, but they will just be pushing it directly


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[Assistant] So if services, if things need to be updated, they just will be.


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[Assistant] Security, for a while, has been kinda pushing me away from Android a bit, to be completely honest.


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[Assistant] And we've talked about this repeatedly in the past.


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[Assistant] Over and over and over again about how there's huge security problems. And like, uh, people are going to slam on me, but I don't care. Um, when iPhones coming out with like the little encrypted core and all that kind of stuff. And when there's the huge case in the States where they were trying to see if wasn't it government could see what's on that part of your phone. And they said, no, you can't. That's awesome.


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[Assistant] That's super cool. It's annoying because there's no way I want to give up this phone. Yep. I love this phone. Yep. Like I actually do. Yeah, there's, there's stuff that I hate about