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[Assistant] Yeah, own their property. Yeah, exactly. So what, do we start like paying people and food and board? No, that's really not how it works.


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[Assistant] I think the law doesn't care whose idea it was. Yea, that's really fair.


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[Assistant] From both sides, but what happened was Nvidia had their GPUs and a bunch of Apple MacBooks.


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[Assistant] That failed because the bumps for the BGA GPUs cracked and loosened over time causing the MacBooks to fail.


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[Assistant] And, Apple blamed Nvidia, Nvidia blamed Apple, and I don't think they ever really settled it to the satisfaction of both of them, and they have never worked again since. Worked together again, since.


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[Assistant] Uhm, well we're not really pulling for advertising partners, it's more we're just getting community feedback to help us avoid any pitfalls that are gonna make us look bad, right? Like we, we do our due diligence, but we can't...


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[Assistant] You know, we can't see everything, like if a particular brand has


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[Assistant] Terrible customer service in Europe, for example. That's not something we can easily evaluate.


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[Assistant] So it's really good for us to get feedback from our community. For those of you who don't know on LinusTechTips.com forum, there's a section where people can talk about our brand partners and where we can pass that feedback along to our brand partners and help make sure that they are supporting our community properly so that our community will keep trusting


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[Assistant] The partners that we continue to work with because it's in everybody's best interest.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I was a little surprised. I thought all black would be more popular than black and orange.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but Black and Orange ended up being the winner, and I guess for, like, higher visibility. Jake called it, like, many, many, many months, probably a year before we actually made it to release.


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[Assistant] I mean, I never have trouble finding my screwdriver in my back pocket. I mean, not the second. Now it's in my LTT backpack. Oh wow.


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[Assistant] Yeah, exactly. That doesn't fit in the backpack. I mean it does, but not in the...


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[Assistant] Thank you for tuning into the WAN Show. We will see you again next week. Oh, right. Same bad time, same bad channel. Bye! Oh, wait. Oh. Oh, that works. That works.


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[Assistant] Oh wow, the rest of the merch messages just kind of go there. That's cool. I think that's queued up. Yup. Oh. Uh, oh.


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[Assistant] Oh, alright, well I've got one more that came in that I should just, yeah, I'll address this, because I was actually going to talk about it. I just heard from, uh, so it's brought to you by Kyoksia, Squarespace and Superlab. Joe N asks,


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[Assistant] Any other collabs coming up? And the answer is yes. I actually just heard from Nico from Corridor Digital while we were live. He says, uh, just watch the final edit of


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[Assistant] Uh, your segment is excellent and an awesome moment in the middle of the video. So you can find me over on Corridor Digital sometime whenever they release that. Cool. I don't know when.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so I can archive that one.


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[Assistant] Oh my goodness. Guys, you gotta stop, you gotta stop sending, you gotta stop sending merch messages in at the last second. I'm sorry, I can't, I can't look at these ones. Yeah, yeah, we're gonna end the show. Bye again!


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[Assistant] Change the, the way that they're gonna release it, so I think they're having one main DLC come out.


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[Assistant] And to be fair, we did make an update to the LTX website recently. Very small one, you can go to it right now.


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[Assistant] I have four incoming on mine. Try to refresh maybe. Yea, maybe refresh it. Oops, oops, oops. I might have put too many in the potential and the curated so you might have to look through.


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[Assistant] Uh, next question from Adam K. Uh, hey Linus, any updates on the wag hoodie? Also trying to apply discount code.


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[Assistant] Uh, a failed one, like if you try honey, have an sxl one, removes the merch message option, at least in firefox. We can probably get that fixed.


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[Assistant] Uh, Noah J says, needed a new water bottle for a while now. This is just what the doctor ordered. We all know that. The doctor told you to drink more water? Companies aren't our friends. Uh, but has there ever been a company brand game that you've been a shameless fanboy or shill for?


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[Assistant] Uh, for Linus, as a lifelong gamer and now toddler dad, I'm curious to know what your proudest gamer dad moment is.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so next question from Joshua B. And I've noticed a few questions about this. Uh, they asked, you've mentioned to make plans for a tech bag, uh, plans to make a tech bag for the backpack.


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[Assistant] Have you thought about making something akin to like camera focus? I think there's just been a few questions on the direction of like another bag.


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[Assistant] Uh, next question from Benjamin asks, uh, does LTT slash labs have any plans to create software? Question moved on me. Create software slash tools, uh, that take a deep dive into the difference in performance between hardware. Um, in my opinion, it would be valuable to see an in-house benchmark, uh, that we can measure performance between different types of tasks.


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[Assistant] Uh, Squid says, hey, oh, hey LTT, uh, please make a 40 hounds with a handle. It might need one.


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[Assistant] Other than that, there's a question for Linus, especially because of all the things he said on LTV before. What's your favorite pony? Really important one here. Oh!


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[Assistant] Okay, I think I kind of noticed that part way through. I think I keep putting incoming into pending and then you keep moving out and I'm like, did I read that one already?


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[Assistant] Yeaah, we should be good. Uh, let's see here, uh, from next one from Brandt B.


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[Assistant] Uh, Linus, as a father of two, three months and one and a half years old, how do you balance work, life, family, time, and your own personal time, projects, and passions? Luke, as a software developer, I struggle with imposter syndrome a lot. Have you dealt with that? If so, how do you combat it?


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[Assistant] Uh, next question from Zach K, and I've seen this a few other places.


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[Assistant] Uh, actual next question now from the second. No, it's my bad, it's my bad. Uhm, so any plans for different screwdriver colors? I think this has been answered on Twitter. I don't know if it was by you or Nick, but they're...


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[Assistant] Alright, next question from Jackson D. Hey Lannis, I'll be a first dad soon. Any advice for raising a tech savvy kid while not making them tech dependent?


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[Assistant] Next question from Jason. What are you guys more excited for, 4000 series or AMD 7000 series? And do you think that it will come, who will come out on top in performance this gen?


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[Assistant] Next question from Matthew S, straw-lead win. I don't know. Okay. Quick one.


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[Assistant] Okay, next question. Waiting for the big chungus, Linus. Uh, waiting for the, waiting for the big chungus. Linus, do you have a timeline for your wire management products? And Luke, what is your favorite product from the LTT store?


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[Assistant] Nice, uhm, next question from anonymous, Linus, uh, what is your prediction on the availability and price of the 4000 series cars at launch? Trying to see if it's, uh, worth waiting or getting one now. Or 3000 series.


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[Assistant] David says, hey Linus, do you know why power suppliers, uhm, or power supply manufacturers don't have a standardization for cables? Uhm, Csonic cables on an EVGA power supply.


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[Assistant] Uh, maybe a video showing, uh, what would happen or explaining why no standard.


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[Assistant] Alright, Kyle J says, happy Friday. Uhm, my brother Joey and I love discussing videos each week. Question for all of you, if time is allowed, is there, uh, any new hobby that you would like to get into?


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[Assistant] I've been painting miniatures while watching Wanshow and was wondering if something has caught your guys eye recently.


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[Assistant] Okay, nevermind. Okay, sorry, carry on. Alright, uh, next super quick question from Joe H. Star Wars, Star Trek, or Stargate.


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[Assistant] No, uh, I moved out and then I moved back. And then I'm moving again at some point, so it's all over the place. Sometimes it do be like that.


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[Assistant] Sorry about that. Uh, next question from Lucas J. Did they talk about why Apple dropped Nvidia?


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[Assistant] Last curated message for the moment. Uh, anonymous says, thanks for all the hard work, LTT team. Uh, how has the model of pulling your user base on the forum for advertisement partners worked out so far?


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[Assistant] Another question from Brian R., uh, all black screwdriver fan here, uh, were you surprised by the breakdown of the screwdriver shaft choices?


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[Assistant] Critical. I hope I'm saying that name correctly, but critical. Um, and yeah, in regards to featured main topics, uh, we're out of them now. So we're diving into the other ones and I'm going to say, uh, GitHub copilot.


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[Assistant] I don't know, I have a few things to say about that. It costs $10 now, or $100 a year.


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[Assistant] There you go. And it's more widely available? Question mark. I thought sort of everyone had access to it before, but maybe not. Uh, but yeah, now it's more generally available and it costs money.


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[Assistant] That was basically the whole topic. No, there's more to it, man. We got to talk about it for like at least 60 seconds.


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[Assistant] Because the market just tanked. Which is great, to be very clear. Yea, great for gamers. It's just not great for Intel, necessarily.


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[Assistant] Okay, so I'm, I'm just looking into this. It's Niqara or Naraka?


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[Assistant] Excuse me, Naraka Bladepoint. Naraka looks like a very highly rated game. It looks quite, mmm, no it's not that new.


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[Assistant] I see a Naraka Bladepoint Xbox launch trailer from one day ago.


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[Assistant] But then it also says initial release date, August 11th, 2021. So I have no idea, but I think, uh, this is a net ease game.


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[Assistant] So I wouldn't be too surprised if this is more popular in the market they're launching the GPU in. And I assume that might be the same with Nizan as well. Uh, so that might be what's going on. I am kinda wondering if it's performing well in synthetics, but not in games. I wonder if it does well in like, research applications and stuff?


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[Assistant] And honestly, Nvidia launches with a flagship, but then a little bit later on launches another card that's better than it.


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[Assistant] This is a slightly off topic, but what do you think of the naming scheme?


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[Assistant] Reset randomly and like skip random generations and.


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[Assistant] I like the, yeah, the, the numbers part and I understand what you're saying with like the, leaving the conventions for GPUs and stuff. I think there, you have a point there. I don't personally really care too much to be honest. I actually really like the lettering.


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[Assistant] And I like the names that go along with the lettering. I think it's cool. Uhm, I think a lot of stuff has gotten very serious over the years. Uhm, like if you look at even just like GPU box art.


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[Assistant] I get it, but it's, it's, I think it's kind of nice to just have some fun with it a little bit. Like Alchemist, Battle Mage, like, that's cool. Yeah. I don't know. Sure. Why not? And then I, I like, I like that they're just going along the alphabet because yeah, it's really clear. It's clear within,


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[Assistant] Intel's own stack. I do understand your point of it deviating from the other ones.


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[Assistant] I feel like Intel would have planned it all out. I feel like that would be an Intel move.


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[Assistant] I had, I had this thought like a while ago. It wasn't like, I mean like a couple weeks ago of like, you know, like we dog on companies for like bad naming schemes all the time. I should make sure that like.


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[Assistant] I, I, I say good things about the next one that's actually good, and then, then you bring that up.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Like if these are competing with like 50 series cards.


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[Assistant] Like, these aren't a lot of the cards that people would be buying to really push for gaming anyways, so.


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[Assistant] We'll have to see until they, uh, we'll have to see when they bring their big stuff out. And to be fair, I don't think that I could call this like a disappointment because I don't think anyone thought they were going to come out swinging super hard either.


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[Assistant] PC gaming was legitimately out of reach for a lot of people. I had communications with a bunch of people over the last couple years that were like, yeah, I mean, if my computer dies, I'm just done. Yeah.


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[Assistant] It's like, yeah, that's fair. Yeah, for real. It's just too expensive. Unlike you, they have to pay for hardware, Luke. Yeah, no problem, dude. I still remember that conversation.


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[Assistant] It was a great conversation. Do you even remember that conversation? No. So one time, back when we were still working on NCX, uhm,


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[Assistant] Yep, yep. And you were like, all I can say is, I'll make an agreement. If you keep working with me...


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[Assistant] In whatever capacity, I'll always make sure you have a, like a sick gaming machine. You did clarify that it's gonna be not as good as yours.


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[Assistant] I knew the app was going to come up, which is why I mentioned the remove removal of different functionalities. Here's a joke. This is great. Watch this.


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[Assistant] I'm not sure. We'll see. Whatever he's doing. I have no idea. I didn't know this topic was even going to be a thing of the show, so.


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[Assistant] Alright, sounds good. We've done it before, it's just really rough.


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[Assistant] But, yeaah, so I could, I could pluck people from there. Could happen.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, so everything that you thought was happening is happening, basically.


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[Assistant] No one would have guessed. No one saw this coming. We've been blindsided! Whatever will we do?


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[Assistant] There's, there's massive, substantial, uh, impacts from, from doing this type of stuff. I think it's inevitable at this point, personally. I think it's going to happen. Yeah.


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[Assistant] But I think there's going to be some amount of, uh, effort to start kind of setting up fences. Uh, because...


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[Assistant] I think, I think like if we, if we look at the, the, the war in Ukraine right now, uh, one of the most immediate responses that happened, um, against Russia was this just volley of cyber attacks into Russia. Some coming back out for sure, but like it was definitely mostly going into Russia. Yep.


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[Assistant] And one of the immediate threats that people were concerned about coming out of Russia, uh, was Kaspersky.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I think it's kind of irrelevant. Like, we're seeing this with China and the US right now over TikTok, right? They're not at war.


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[Assistant] But they're not exactly friends, right? And they're getting highly concerned about data and people using each other's applications and stuff like that. And sure, China has the firewall up.


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[Assistant] But uhm, countries that have more open.


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[Assistant] Policies and standards when it comes to the internet don't, uh, but I don't necessarily think that's going to survive. I'm not saying it, it...


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[Assistant] Should die off or it should survive. I'm not saying anything like that. I just, I don't think it's going to survive. That's all.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Kaspersky is currently banned in the US. I think stuff like that is going to continue. I think it's going to keep going.


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[Assistant] Yeah. And I mean, we're seeing like mini versions of it, right? Uhm, like government and education institutions in Canada, uhm, have to work with applications that store data in Canada. Right. Have to.


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[Assistant] Uhm, which is very difficult for small startups. Because, uh, having like data silos in every single country you want to sell your software in can be difficult and expensive.


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[Assistant] Yeah. So like it's, it's very difficult. It's one of the ways that like, uh, during the pandemic, when a lot of things went remote, teams like blew up.


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[Assistant] To have data silos in countries. They had that already because there was already these regulations in place.


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[Assistant] A lot of places didn't really care or use it way too much, but then when, when remote work exploded, Teams was already very well positioned to do that. And certain other companies that didn't have that capability sort of fell off a little bit, or at least didn't have the same gain that companies that did have that capability had.


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[Assistant] Uhm, yeah, it's interesting. It's interesting.


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[Assistant] Cybersecurity is like a huge deal and I think countries are going to start getting more and more concerned about it moving forward.


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[Assistant] Yep, they're your different RGB, like little page savers.


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[Assistant] There's a lot of pages. I find a lot of notebooks don't come with this many pages. How is this like 234 pages or something?


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[Assistant] It's very obvious because it's, uh, it's like, uh, it's a boss. Yeah, yeah, there we go. Uh, but you can clearly see there's even like the power buttons and stuff as if it's


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[Assistant] Yeah, so this one, like the pages on the inside, the, the lines and stuff are, oh no. Okay, so once you get to the pages that you write on, like the standard pages, the lines are black, but on the index they're orange.


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[Assistant] Okay, and this one has the three ribbons as well, but they're like LTT colors.


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[Assistant] That's going to be impossible to show. There we go. It's just that in the corner.


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[Assistant] So is that, is that 1800 minus that? Okay, so there's nowhere close to 1800 left.


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[Assistant] Very creepy. I do not like it. Uh, do you wanna not talk about it? I can fire through it if you want.


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[Assistant] Okay, so, new Alexa voice cloning feature was shown off at a June 22nd conference in Las Vegas.


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[Assistant] I think it sounds like you have to cue it, like you have to ask for the voice in your, in your request. So as an example,


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[Assistant] Uh, there was a child asking, Alexa, can grandma finish reading me The Wizard of Oz?


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[Assistant] Uh, the device confirmed as Alexa, then switched to a different voice. Uh, the Alexa team apparently developed a model that allows its voice assistant to produce a high quality voice with less than one minute of recorded audio.


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[Assistant] I think there's huge issues with like, uhm, not to like go down a dark path, but I think there's huge issues in regards to


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[Assistant] Uh, like obsessions and like stalker mentality stuff.


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[Assistant] I didn't even think of that. Like it doesn't, it's one minute of any audio and then they can reproduce whatever from it, right?


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[Assistant] So if you want to be super creepy with your favourite streamer... Can I have Luke read my fanfiction? You could have them read you, like, think, think about what it could read you, right? This, this says in here...


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[Assistant] Uh, finish reading me the Wizard of Oz. There's probably, um, forms of like erotica books that you could have it read you and you could probably have it read you those books in someone's voice that you don't necessarily have permission to use.


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[Assistant] But either way, like, it doesn't have to be something like that, right? Like, it could be an innocent thing, I was just going as far as I basically could with it. Alexa, have grandma read me my erotica.


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[Assistant] It's creepy. It's weird. We're commercializing deepfakes of voices. That is literally what's happening.


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[Assistant] And like how would, how would consent to this work, what you have to say, yes, you can use my voice. Like that's probably not that hard to get with a different version of the deep fake, right?


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[Assistant] People are pointing out that if it is


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[Assistant] Verbal consent that you have to give to it. I just gave everyone a recording of me giving verbal consent. Uh, so there you go.


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[Assistant] That's a meme. Yeah, yeah. Oh, I didn't even realize we had to address that, but that probably makes sense. Some people might not have known. Yeah, totally. That's a good idea.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's terrifying. That's terrifying. Because you can, you can queue up commands, right? Like you can tell...


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[Assistant] You'd be like, uh, so and so, say the thing, and then they would like, say a specific queue of words, pro- most likely.


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[Assistant] Iceberg in Philippine Chat says the social engineering potential is also scary. That's what we're saying. That's literally what we're saying.


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[Assistant] And to be clear, all of that is possible.


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[Assistant] Without this. This just takes the, the like level of access to everyone. Instead of like...


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[Assistant] Our authentication systems are not even remotely close to ready for this type of stuff.


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[Assistant] Anthony's, Anthony's typing in here. Uh, I don't know if I want to say some of it just cause, you know, security stuff. Um, but he, he points out some things and like, yeah, like even, even if, even if something requires video, uh, it, it's, it says here specifically, um,


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[Assistant] It's voice assistant can produce a high quality voice with less than one minute of recorded audio. So it's, it's, you can get a high quality voice, even if it requires a video, you can maybe try to pair that with a video. Uh, or you can try to deep fake a video and you just have the voice or whatever else.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's not a recording. It's a generation of something new.


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[Assistant] I mean, it could be named after any Linus. Just because it has your exact voice doesn't mean anything.


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[Assistant] Is that, is that what I'm seeing? I think maybe. I'm not really sure. Like I don't know if this is-


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[Assistant] Well, you don't buy the company, right? They're, they're auctioning off.


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[Assistant] Also, there's some other potential implications. Yeah, we can sell super expensive tickets. Yeah, which is awesome. Whaleland. I love that. That's great. We gotta do that. I mean, if Blizzard and all these other companies are dipping into the whale pot, we might as well. Yeah. Okay. Whaleland.


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[Assistant] Uh, one little comment on the artesian builds thing. As far as my understanding goes, uh, they are selling builds that have been paid for by other people.


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[Assistant] Just gotta, just gotta find the worst way to do everything. Uhm, I, I have not watched it, but, uh, Christopher Yee made a video about, uhm,


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[Assistant] This whole thing, it's probably good. I would check that out. Um, but yeah, I just, that's like actually the worst. As far as my understanding goes, like all the systems they're selling that are built were paid for by people and then not delivered and are now being sold again.


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[Assistant] Not great, uhm. No. But, yeaah. The reason why they are getting auctioned off versus shipped is how bankruptcy law works. Yeaah, that's what I was gonna kinda say is like, you often have to...


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[Assistant] When bankruptcy, I don't know enough about this, but as far as my understanding goes, it usually goes to the big creditors first.


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[Assistant] Yeah, the buyers of the bills are at the bottom of the creditor list. Exactly. Yeah. So those people will probably never see that, that, uh, money. It's just, it sucks. Yeah, it really sucks.


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[Assistant] This sounds like more than just running steam, but, but okay.


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[Assistant] There's probably some way to do it without a restart.


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[Assistant] Okay. It's probably way more convenient to just restart it. So.


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[Assistant] I'd be, I'd be interested in seeing what actually happened.


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[Assistant] By being near it. You watched that Batman movie when you were a kid and it just like really resonated with you?


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[Assistant] I mean, it's not exclusive, I just, yeah.


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[Assistant] I never had- The only Final Fantasy I had growing up was on PC, it was Final Fantasy 8.


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[Assistant] I liked it. I enjoyed it. But I didn't play the other ones, so I don't know.


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[Assistant] Yeah, sure, the graphics are so bad because they're like sprites or whatever.


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[Assistant] But your imagination runs, because you've seen stuff like this, so you start imagining what other things look like, and, you know, I don't know. It was more akin to reading, I'd say.


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[Assistant] Very on the side of like, you should, you should use the thing.


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[Assistant] You know, uh, I know a lot of people are like, no, leave it in the box forever. Never look at it. Never do anything with it. Like, what's the point of it then? Um, there's, there's one that is in not, I would say not as good condition with the same amount of completeness with eight offers on it right now on eBay for 500 Canadian. So yeah.


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[Assistant] There's certain parts of the box, like the corners on this one are more worn, but then the other one has like dents that aren't on the corners. Sure. Uhm, this is one that I'm looking at. This is in, the C stands for CAD. This is in Canadian.


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[Assistant] But yea, see like along, along the flat parts, this one has a little bit more damage as far as I can tell. That one just has slightly more warden corners. I don't know what is worth more or less.


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[Assistant] Was this a saved game game?


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[Assistant] Oh, so like healing, I'm assuming? Yeah. So you could heal between combats? Okay.


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[Assistant] Whoops. Should we do some of these, these merchant messages?


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[Assistant] I don't even know what's gonna be in the Steam Summer Sale, but honestly, I have not been exc- I don't- I don't think I've bought anything in Steam Sales... in quite some time, to be completely honest.


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[Assistant] Ungodly amount of time into that game. Uhm, FTL if it goes up for sale, I would highly recommend. Great game.


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[Assistant] We're, we're playing, uh, Divinity Original Sin 2. That's a fantastic game.


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[Assistant] I had, uh, effectively bailed out of school and no longer had a job either. Uhm, and I think Ed was in a similar spot.


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[Assistant] I've actually reflected on this multiple times and tried to figure out like what the hell I was thinking, uh, because I was, I was doing really well in school and then basically tanked it all.


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[Assistant] I saw the trajectory while we were working there and something that I had kind of assumed was like, yeah, it's going to be super rough and maybe there isn't money from Yvonne to pay for paychecks, but we'll probably figure it out. If we don't get the YouTube channel, we could start another one. Right. And like, it would have been slower, but I was like, I've gone this far, right? Like,


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[Assistant] Uh, and then the four to eight hours that we had discussed initially became significantly more than that. Yeah, per week was the plan. That was the original plan and then became more than 40 hours. Uhm, but I wanted to do it and then I started noticing my grades were slipping and I was like, okay, but this is a potential maybe career path. I'll try to juggle it better.


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[Assistant] But yea, no, seriously, it was like, you could see the path, right? Like, it was pretty clear. The growth of not just our channel, but the whole platform.


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[Assistant] Justin TV was around, like, everything was really cranking up, and that's what everyone tells you, like, that's when you wanna be on the ground floor. Yes. So it was like, yeah, this is uncomfortable, but this is also the time in my life to do uncomfortable things. So...


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[Assistant] Yeah, you guys probably didn't have to go quite to 50%. You know.


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[Assistant] I remember talking about this, yea, forever ago. I've always been very interested by the fields of biohacking, but have never dove into it. I've heard stories of people putting like magnets in their fingertips so that they can like basically gain a magnetic sense. Like they can detect magnetic fields because it will pull on their fingertips.


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[Assistant] It's kind of spooky at the same time, but really interesting.


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[Assistant] I think they're like really weak on purpose, but, um, cause for obvious reasons. Um, but yeah, I mean, there's a bunch of really cool stuff in that field just have never actually committed.


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[Assistant] I was just gonna say, having tweezers that you can like, that aren't super, eh, and like kind of annoying to handle would be sweet.


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[Assistant] And like one of the things too is like by the time we might need it, say we go like far enough out in the future and something crazy requires that type of stuff, uh, there's probably going to be gen whatever the heck way beyond what we're currently at. So yeah, I suspect the consumer space will skip quite a few.


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[Assistant] Someone brought up that we have not addressed the responding to critical topic. Oh! Right!


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[Assistant] Is, is there, so something from, from my side would be like labs is trying to be as hardcore and objective as it can be. Is there value to the.


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[Assistant] Not everyone's gonna understand this, but like the, the like science, local science museum, I was gonna say science worlds, but we can apply it to whatever one you have. Uhm, you know how you can like walk up and press a button and it like will give you like a, a kid's level understanding of something?


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[Assistant] Is there value to that? Like, could we give people audio samples and just have like very blatant warnings and be like, this is not objective?


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[Assistant] It's just the recording of wearing it properly won't sound proper if they're not wearing it properly.


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[Assistant] There has to be a very, very clear line between the two. Uhm, as well. It's gonna be interesting. Uhm, communicating...


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[Assistant] Results and things like that is, is very difficult.


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[Assistant] And again, we, we can do a lot in regards to segmenting it, making it very, very clear, like, okay, this section is for entertainment purposes only, like you said.


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[Assistant] Um, this is the actual like proper data dividing it all up.


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[Assistant] You also don't have to go through the entertainment only section. You can just read the hard facts section.


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[Assistant] Anyways, I think, uh, I haven't watched the video, but from, from looking at the, the back and forth, it sounds like both sides are super level headed and there's some really cool feedback and that's awesome. Yeah. It's actually really exciting to have like,


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[Assistant] Pinnacle figures of, of various industries stepping up and being excited about us doing this and, and giving advice as well because like,


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[Assistant] Yeah, we don't know everything. And we want to make sure that we are taking the right steps.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like that's what I'm talking, it might be that far ahead. Like, I don't know. I don't know. Yeah, it's a little weird, but we'll see.


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[Assistant] And like if you do it properly, like if you get actual ducting and stuff, it won't even look like that bad. It'll look pretty bad. It's gonna look bad. If I do it, it'll look bad. But, you can also do it with cardboard.


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[Assistant] For basically nothing. That will look bad. Yeaah. But it'll work.


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[Assistant] It depends on how their NAS is set up. Uhm, it depends on how they want to access it. Like there's, there's, there's a lot more that you would need, I would need to know.


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[Assistant] Uh, but yeaah, probably not the ports. But yeaah. Like, it's-


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[Assistant] I don't know. Anytime you open it up at all, there's going to be security problems, which is why I don't really want to say something. Uhm, but like, remoting in is a solution. Uh, having a private VPN is a solution. That's how a lot of companies do that type of stuff. Uhm, if you're comfortable with setting that up, then sure. I just.


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[Assistant] My hesitation there was if you didn't already know that it might be hard. Uh, but there are guides on how to do that stuff. I think you guys even have one. Uh, so maybe watch the LTT one.


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[Assistant] Uh, last I looked at it, it actually looked like it was still fairly up to date, so maybe check that out. Uhm, but yeaah, most companies do VPNs.


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[Assistant] But yea, it depends on, it depends on what you wanna do with it, I would argue. Like if you're, if you're trying to play music on your phone anywhere in the world, it might need to be a little bit more open.


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[Assistant] Tony B in Flowplain Chat said, if you do use a VPN, still secure the service as if it was exposed to the internet. The VPN is an addition.


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[Assistant] To that security, not in place of it. So that's what I'm kinda saying. Like the second you start accessing it remotely, you open yourself to security concerns. That's just...


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[Assistant] I'm not saying you necessarily shouldn't do it, uhm, but, yeaah.


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[Assistant] I remember hearing very early on in this device's life that people didn't realize


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[Assistant] That it was actually like a part of the screen and they peeled it off and it broke things. I thought that was the second gen one. Maybe. I don't know. Actually can't remember.


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[Assistant] If you do do it on stream, all right, forget it. I mean that for sure on that one.


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[Assistant] I don't know what happened to it but it was asking me if I would ever consider building a mineral oil machine again.


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[Assistant] Um, and I wanted to address that because I'm still thinking of ideas, but if my name ever gets drawn in the Intel Xtreme thing, uh, I was thinking of making Linus build another manual machine as, as a joke. I've been actually considering it just cause I think it would be so funny.


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[Assistant] Like it could actually be pretty sick. Uhm, so I've been considering it, but like...


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[Assistant] I'm far from dedicating to it, and I mean, my name would have to be drawn, and there's kind of a few people that work here now, so it, I mean, my name might just never be drawn, so it might also just not happen. Uhm, yeaah.


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[Assistant] One of the really nice things about fish tanks is you usually try to find ones that are, that are solid piece on the bottom.


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[Assistant] So that there isn't like a seal point, uhm, that's often a, a, a very notable benefit. Use 3M Novac.


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[Assistant] Probably not, not in that, but it's so expensive. Crazy expensive. There are some other alternative stuff these days, uhm, that, that isn't as expensive as Novac. I would, I would dive into it more if we were actually doing it.


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[Assistant] Is it dual screen? I'm not seeing very good pictures.


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[Assistant] I think they should start doing it on their own site so they can stop paying Indiegogo for doing almost nothing, but that's just...


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[Assistant] Machined out. I was, I've had a lot of funky ideas. I was, I was thinking potentially even custom glass. Can you get a solid block of acrylic? Probably. I don't know.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I actually have been tempted by Aya products for some like thing, reasons that honestly shouldn't necessarily matter too much, but I think aesthetically they just look awesome. Uhm, like that retro one you showed off was so cool. Like I, it was just sweet.


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[Assistant] You can tell. It's awesome. Uhm, I have not cancelled it. At this point, I'm not feeling super motivated to buy, but I've had a bunch of friends say like, hey, like I would, like,


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[Assistant] Pay the purchase cost if you could get it for me. And I'm like, okay, well I'll hold my reservation.


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[Assistant] Scalper? We got a little specific there at the end. Uhm, no, but I might like, you know. I don't think you're ugly. Thank you. Appreciate it. Uhm, but yeaah, it's very likely I'll hand it off to someone else in my life that was unable to get a reservation, so.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna also cop out slightly, but I will give two books. Uhm, these were, uh,


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[Assistant] Back in the day, uhm, and these were my two favourite ones that he ever suggested to me. One of them is Uprooted by, uh, Naomi Novik, and the other one is Barsk, the Elephant's Graveyard, by Lawrence M. Schoen.


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[Assistant] Those were, those were some of the first books that he ever recommended to me and they are both fantastic. I would highly recommend them.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it feels like, uh, smoother, almost. I don't know why. Maybe there's some adhesive on the screen or something?


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[Assistant] Something I'd throw in there is, cause we're just, cause we're talking about like- Not a doctor. Hearing loss and stuff like that. Something that I've been concerned about, uh, is the buddies.


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[Assistant] They can sometimes be really loud. And they sit like right next to me all the time. So I've started to be concerned about that. I might be looking into, I don't want to because I love my headphones, but I might be looking into like closed back headphones or something to try to like isolate from.


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[Assistant] From the frickin' burbs. The budgies. Uh, they're often fine.


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[Assistant] But when they're like real amped up for whatever reason on some day and they're just like


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, so when they're in like that mood, uhm, it, it, yeah, I, I get a little concerned because I think they can go up to like 70 decibels.


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[Assistant] I get that love out there, you know? I think, I think the luck with the budgie is it's literally too small to produce any more noise. It's like physically incapable. They weigh 30 grams, like there's only so much they can accomplish. Uh, yea. Wow, alright.


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[Assistant] Like, wow, really nice. One of the, one of my pro-arts died.


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[Assistant] One of my like, super old school ProArts. Oh really? Yeaah. So, one of them is still working, and then my like, main gaming monitor is obviously fine. One of the ProArts is out, and I don't like being down to two monitors. So, I've been trying to figure out like,


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[Assistant] Do I like splurge and get a new gaming monitor? Do you go big? Do I go big? Do you go multiple? Do I get a third again? If I get a third, if like I could cheap out and just buy like another 24 inch 1080p monitor for like nothing and just get a third monitor up again, that's probably fine. That's probably what it'll do. That's probably what I'll do.


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[Assistant] I was thinking about upgrading the gaming monitor, but I honestly, like, it has all the features that I really want right now. I like 1440p gaming.


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[Assistant] Yeah, exactly. So like I, I, I think I still feel like my monitor is still at kind of a sweet spot. I have really liked 1440p and really high refresh rate.


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[Assistant] So it's fine. So yea, I'll probably just buy a cheap extra monitor, but.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. But then like, those aren't really a thing, you know? Yeaah, there's only one. Yeaah. So, like, I think now is not the time.


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[Assistant] And, and like the, the, the way that Google has dealt with their chat systems, like part, part of this question is what do you consider switching back? It's like, no. I just can't trust them. Yeah, exactly. Um, because like moving an entire company to a new chat system is like,


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[Assistant] Really frustrating and genuinely has a cost to it. Uhm, so like no, you don't really want to do that. Uhm, would I have suggested teams? No.


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[Assistant] So I don't know what to tell you. We've also had a lot of notifications problems with Slack. I would say that recently it's been a lot better. Uhm, but yeaah, we had notification problems a lot in the past as well.


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[Assistant] Does anyone use anything else? Yeah, yeah. It's the same kind of thing with like MSN Messenger. Like Microsoft had Discord.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, they had everything. They could have owned everything.


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[Assistant] What is up ladies and gentlemen? We've got a fantastic man show for you guys today. First and foremost, we are going to be finally revealing the head of LTT Labs. Yeah. Yes, we have actually done a test call. It went really smoothly. Luke did such a good job of getting it done in an extremely expedient and timely manner. In other news,


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[Assistant] We are gonna get into those topics, but first, Sarah waited until well after work hours. Remember to lock your hours.


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[Assistant] So she was sitting around, hanging around, getting paid overtime, so it's not that bad, I guess. But she's here so that she and I can painstakingly handcraft, that's right-


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[Assistant] That is actually silkscreened on, so that is never coming off. And then Sarah, uhm, there's some little cue cards here. Can you explain what it is that we're doing with these? Because legitimately I actually forget. So I think I just need to do it while you explain to me what I'm doing.


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[Assistant] Okay, so Sarah, you're up, you're first. Luke, do you want to get us started with a topic while Sarah and I work on this?


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[Assistant] Oh yea, and we're also gonna add some, some hand added little bits of actual painter's tape. It's gonna be great, it's gonna be great.


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[Assistant] Which is great, because if an app works perfectly fine, but you're just like, not putting in the work to, you know, uh, smooth the lines.


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[Assistant] Okay, hold on. Sabin1001 says, Seinfeld doesn't have abandoned library dependencies in it.


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[Assistant] Sarah did the sharpie and I added the pen. Okay. So I will, I will let you, these are the little cards that are gonna come with the random satin versions of the eggshell shirt. One in each size. Uhm, ready and go!


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[Assistant] I added horns, and, uh, I just put Satan paint.


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[Assistant] Oh, the, yeaah, the uhm, uh, the something sarapod is, is doing some satin paint. Let's call it a diplo- diplo-


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[Assistant] Thank you for sticking around and doing this with us, Sarah. This was a lot of fun. Uhm, it is entirely up to you which one goes to who. Those are one-of-a-kind masterpieces. Do you want to sign them so that whoever gets them gets an original butt?


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's perfect. And not in the actual script you use to sign things. Okay, she knows, she knows. Alright, let's get it framed. Thank you very much, Sarah, for coming on the show with us and participating in that. And thank you for throwing together this t-shirt design in literally an hour and a half.


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[Assistant] Now every time it takes longer than an hour and a half, I'm gonna be like, well, Sarah did it an hour and a half. So, that's the standard around here now. Alright, why don't we jump into the big topic for the day, which is of course, the official announcement of the head of LTT Labs, can I get a drum roll please? I'm the only one drum rolling. Okay, all of you at home,


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[Assistant] You guys are doing it. I'm sure you're doing it. Okay, here we go. Are we ready to welcome to the show? Is this actually gonna work?


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[Assistant] Theoretically. The one. The only. There he is!


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[Assistant] It's Gary Key! Alright, hey Gary, you wanna hit me with some voice noises?


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[Assistant] I don't know if you're gonna be able to hear him. I don't think I can hear him. We can't hear him.


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[Assistant] Okay, so I'll tell you what, why don't I give you guys a brief rundown of exactly who this guy is while we get his voice working. Gary is one of the people who taught me pretty much everything that I, uhm, ever learned.


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[Assistant] About technology, okay? He's one of the, if I recall correctly, one of the original half a dozen or so writers at Anand Tech. Yeah, a lot for me too, just to throw that in there. Yup, so between, between Gary, uh, Dr. Ian Cutress, Anand, um, uh, I wanna say, I don't remember his full name, but Raja Gill,


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[Assistant] Those guys were really, in my opinion, the team that


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[Assistant] So, uh, Gary has been on the manufacturer side, I'll let him give you guys the full details there, but he's been on the manufacturer side for probably about, goodness gracious, I guess it's been almost 10 years now.


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[Assistant] Uhm, once we get his voice working so that I can actually hear him, that'll be, that'll be, that'll be great. But, it should be working. Gary, hit me.


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[Assistant] Trying to think of what categories Gary handled back in the day.


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[Assistant] I know that he handled motherboards, uh, I don't know what else, but, uh, in his time at ASUS, I can tell you guys that he's made his way up to, if I recall correct, you know what, I'm not gonna say what his title was before, uh, he left, cause if I get it wrong, then it's gonna be really, really awkward and embarrassing when he pops on.


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[Assistant] I am great, so we finally get to announce it. Alright, did I do okay? Did I kinda cover what the heck it is that you did at some point? Oh, they still can't hear him.


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[Assistant] Oh, fantastic. Well then, we'll just get a recap, but they can't- they still can't hear you! Oh no! Why does this stream not have him, Dan?


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[Assistant] Okay. Alright, let's hope that they can hear you. So why don't you start with giving us a little rundown of what did you used to do at Anontek?


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[Assistant] How is that even possible? I am watching the levels right now.


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[Assistant] It's good? Oh, thank goodness. Okay, Gary, run us through. What'd you used to do at an on-tech, and when did you leave? I don't even remember all the details.


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[Assistant] Now, tell me something. You went over to the manufacturing side, and what were the, what were the factors that caused that to happen? Cause, I mean, one of the things I talked about when we first announced the lab was that we were trying to, we were trying to stop a perceived trend in my eyes.


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[Assistant] Disappeared or tainted. I mean, yeah, Anand has disappeared. And then I don't want to name any names, but I think there are some that have gone over to the other side that honestly you just kind of can't take everything they're saying seriously anymore. Uhm, so what were the factors that pushed you over to the manufacturer side?


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[Assistant] Do you feel like you ended up actually making, so wait, so your first gig at, uh, did you go straight to Asus? I thought so.


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[Assistant] Okay, so then your first date with them was not marketing then?


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[Assistant] Got it, got it, got it, got it, got it. Yeah, that makes sense that you were in technical marketing at the beginning because I was looking at it going, yeah, you've been in more of like a strategic, like a PR sort of marketing role as opposed to, you know, actually being the contact that I get on the phone with when some voltage won't adjust in the BIOS or whatever. It's been a lot of years since then.


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[Assistant] So, I gotta tell you something, uhm, when, when I made that video, talking about the lab, there was actually only one name that I really had in mind to run it, and it was you, which, actually no, now that I think of it, I think I did tell you that, which really didn't help my negotiating, uh, position when I was, when we were trying to figure this out.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but I want you to talk to the people, like how exciting is it to come back to the media side and start covering things other than just one brand?


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[Assistant] Now, you know that uhm, there's gonna be a lot of pressure to execute here, right? I mean, one of the things with labs is that it's


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[Assistant] You know, I think we've done a great job over the last 12 years, uh, here at Linus Media Group of...


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[Assistant] We run around, we light fires, and then we kinda like run away. If people wanna go deeper, a lot of the time our answer is, well we can point you to more technical resources for that. But we gotta make more videos. But the reality of it is, with the breadth of products that we cover,


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[Assistant] We can't go that deep in any particular category and your job is essentially to fix that. Uhm, and there's something that I kind of.


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[Assistant] I-I kinda popped this on Gary, uh, about, I guess, two, three hours ago? Uhm, he didn't know this, but remember Lab 1, that I showed all of you guys? And, including Gary, cause obviously you saw the video. Man, this guy took so long to apply.


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[Assistant] Any who, any who. So Lab 1 is officially dead.


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[Assistant] So what I think we're gonna do with that is we're gonna turn it into like, uh, linked media or something like that. So tech linked.


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[Assistant] Starts doing more talk links, more talk, uh, more tech longer. So we expand the programming for tech links. Maybe we add like game linked on Tuesdays and Thursdays or something like that. So we're publishing five days a week. We build some awesome sets in there for whether it's tech longer or whether it's


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[Assistant] Uh, we have a new space lined up that is going to be approximately ten times the size. And that...


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[Assistant] Should give you some idea of what my expectations are in terms of building up the lab. So the way that I framed this for Gary a couple of hours ago is that I never want to hear, well Linus, we could test this if only we had amount of space X or facility Y. Because every time I hear that, I'm gonna say, then why haven't you built it yet?


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[Assistant] You'll get used to it. You'll get used to it. This is going to be so much fun.


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[Assistant] So we've actually got one of your new charges. Uh, Gary's been helping us out with the hiring process for some of our labs candidates as we've made our way, even though we didn't have an official, even employment agreement signed with them because he took forever on that too. Uh, Gary's been helping us with hiring, making sure that we're going through people's credentials and


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[Assistant] I forget if it's Monday or Tuesday. And then what's your first day, Gary? Uh, it's in a couple of weeks.


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[Assistant] Freakin' awesome. Now I gotta know, now, now, we're past the stuff that Gary and I have talked about already. What are you gonna do on your first day?


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[Assistant] That didn't even surprise me. So, okay, is it a secret, the other media vertical that you have participated in in the past? Cause my understanding is you kinda have done some ghost writing, but I don't know if you've actually disclosed for what and about what. And don't feel pressured to disclose it if you don't want to, that's fine.


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[Assistant] We're gonna keep that secret. Okay. Well, I'll say this much. Gary, tech is not Gary's only passion.


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[Assistant] Okay, and that could actually be a really good thing for, uh, Linus Media Group moving forward as well. So man, you're gonna have a lot of stuff to do. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] Okay, my expectation is somewhere in the neighborhood of like 14 to 18. So we're sort of talking the same language.


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[Assistant] But the thing is that, man, as we get deeper and deeper into all these, all these different verticals, I'm realizing that, you know, even something like, okay,


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[Assistant] Here's what we were working on. Here's the reason that the show was late today. Uh, I wanted to mod my old game gear to put a better screen on it. And it turns out that this is a king rabbit hole.


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[Assistant] There are so many different revisions of the Game Gear hardware over the years. There are so many different board layouts for the different revisions. There are so many interesting little quirks that you might discover. So even though we found out that we had, what, what, what's this one? This is a single, uh, a single SOC, whatever.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, so we have a, yeaah, so this is a, this is a VA5, I thought.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it doesn't matter. Okay, so this is a VA5, okay, it's got a single ASIC, which means that you can't replace the screen unless, oh wait, there was a new screen kit that was released six days ago or something like that. Oh, but even if you get a new screen, it actually only supports like 500 colors, so what you really want


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[Assistant] Is an A1 or A2 or something like that, so this is a dual ASIC, but then we found out based on our serial number we think that this may actually be one of the first like several hundred off the line of


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[Assistant] Uhm, there's different audio boards you can put in, different charging boards you can put in to convert it to lithium ion, and I'm sitting here going like, if we don't have, if we don't have a couple of dedicated electronics modding people,


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[Assistant] And someone, a person who's just dedicated to retro console content, we're not gonna be able to keep up.


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[Assistant] Because that's the vision for the labs at the end of the day. Is that the tide has been, the tide's been turning.


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[Assistant] For quite some time now on YouTube, you're no longer able to just be a generalist. A jack of all trades, a master of none, because there's going to be someone or someone's


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[Assistant] Looks at pretty much nothing but streaming, optimization, encoding, capture, all that kinds of microphones, really focused on streaming. And so unless we have people who just are completely immersed in these categories or in these spaces,


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[Assistant] I just think we're gonna fade into irrelevance and that's what the lab is for. So essentially the way that I see the lab is that it's going to be kind of like


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[Assistant] Tripling to quadrupling our writing staff without making necessarily more content. Yeah. But also we'll probably do more content.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Vincent from HDTVtest is another great example. Chat's pointing out some other just outstanding examples of people who are super focused on a particular vertical. And to be clear, the idea is not to compete these people out of business because the way that I see it,


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[Assistant] The, the, the rising water is gonna lift all ships, however that, however that saying goes. Because the more we educate people about technology, the more appetite there's gonna be for deeper content.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so uhm, so I'm excited. I mean, one of the great things that I like so much about bringing Gary in is he doesn't only have the technical expertise and really the hunger to learn more and get deeper into this stuff, but he has the people management expertise because


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[Assistant] The reality of it is that I need to be focused on making the content entertaining. On keeping Linus Media Group running like a well-oiled machine. So uhm,


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[Assistant] He wasn't cheap. Gary, you weren't cheap. Uhm, so he wasn't cheap, but the idea is that Gary's gonna come in and basically, I don't have to think about it. When I get numbers, or when I get a report from labs, or if Alex is sitting on set, uh, for short circuit, working on an unboxing of some laptop, whatever is on that page is bulletproof. Can we do it?


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[Assistant] Alright, well, hey, you know what? Thank you very much for joining us on the show. I'm, I'm s-


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[Assistant] I'm super glad that we were able to bring you on, sorry guys, there's a really long delay on the call with Gary, so maybe, maybe we'll have him come in person once he's here and we'll have a chat, maybe after the first month or so, we can talk about what's going well, what's going not as well, what positions we want to hire, what we can do to make it, uhm,


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[Assistant] To make this whole thing go better, I mean, really the reality of it is, it shouldn't come down to budget, uhm, as long as we're finding the right people, we want to make sure that we are attracting the right talent. So guys,


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[Assistant] For those out there who know, I know a lot of you, no offense Gary, are gonna have no idea who Gary is because he has spent the last 10 years behind the scenes.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uhm, you know, he's not a limelight seeker, and...


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[Assistant] You know what, that's cool. But for the people in the know...


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[Assistant] I think that this sends a message that we are serious about this, and if you weren't sure if we were serious about this and you've held off on applying, then it's time to get your resume over here. Because whether it's displays, whether it's GPUs, CPUs, uh, whether it's consumer electronics, we have-


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[Assistant] Yeah, are we supposed to do any LTT store stuff? Oh, woah! No way!


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[Assistant] Okay, yeaah, this is big news for LTT Store. Oh? Uh, yeaah, let's get my, let's get my screen up here. It's finally back. For over a year.


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[Assistant] We have not been able to get, we have not been able to get Heather Aqua blanks from American Apparel in the volumes that we need across all sizing that we need for the Constellations t-shirt. Remember the Constellations shirt? Well guess what ladies and gentlemen, it is


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[Assistant] Finally, freaking back, and not only is it back, but it is back in our own


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[Assistant] Blanks. So these are the new LTT store, creator warehouse, whatever you wanna call them. These are our blanks, these are the same ones that went out on the privateer shirt.


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[Assistant] I don't actually know if they went out on the eggshell one, I'm not sure. There's still a little bit of overlap on black shirts in terms of, uh, what's American Apparel and what's the new ones, but Constellations will absolutely be new and check this out, there's a lot!


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[Assistant] We are working on a Constellations V2, but because Constellations V1 has been in such demand, and we've had people message us so many times, hey, that shirt, I love that shirt, why can't I buy that shirt, uh, we are doing one more run of Constellations 1, uh, they're gonna take about 2-3 weeks to print,


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[Assistant] All of these are going to be print to order and your entire order will be shipped together. So if you order more items than just the shirt, it's all going to ship at once once the shirt is ready. We never offered constellations in a long sleeve and the long sleeve is also our own long sleeve. This is going to be the first availability of our blank long sleeves.


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[Assistant] And guys, they're freaking awesome. So here's the, here's the old American Apparel version. So you can see how it looks actually printed.


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[Assistant] I doubt the logo on the back will be orange, we don't really do that anymore. I suspect the logo will be some other color, maybe white or something like that, but don't quote me on that, don't quote me on that.


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[Assistant] So Constellations is this design. If you guys, uh, if you guys wanna get your hands on an LTT long sleeve, this is gonna be the first possible availability of it. Alright!


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[Assistant] Oh, what the, hold on. Okay, let's get that number out of here. Let's, uh, we're not gonna, okay.


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[Assistant] Or, you're lying about the existence of a list at all. And you would think, given that last time you guys called me, and I complained about it, so many people shared my frustration and were so scared.


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[Assistant] That the video got a million freaking views. You would think after that experience, you guys would go,


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[Assistant] Well listen, I know the guy sounds like that cause he works at TeamViewer, but you should listen to him anyway, because that's really smart. You guys need to actually stop emailing me, stop calling me. I spent, I forget how much it was, so if the number's not right, I don't care, but I spent


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[Assistant] Thousands of dollars, like five thousand dollars on a perpetual license of Team Bureau 12. And for those of you saying I should switch to some other software, I don't want to. I paid for this software. It actually works perfectly for what I need to do.


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[Assistant] All I need to happen is for TeamViewer to never call me again. Not even once.


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[Assistant] I just, I bought your product and I just want you to leave me alone. Yeah. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Man, Anthony's discussion question is, this isn't really a question, but I literally am dealing with this with TELUS right now. They keep messaging me every Wednesday without fail to try to get me to install Norton. I said stop multiple times. I got the tenth one this week. I am angry. By the way, I use Arch.


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[Assistant] Where now that they have pure fiber, I love the service.


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[Assistant] Absolutely love the product. Their uptime is genuinely extremely strong as well. But. Like to give them credit. Over the years, my experiences dealing with TELUS from like an administrative standpoint.


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[Assistant] Going all the way back to high school. Like we are talking, how old am I now? Yeaah, we're talking 20 years. To be fair.


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[Assistant] Blocks that functionality so it doesn't work, so you must call them. Or at least they did the last time I used them. I haven't touched a Shaw internet product since Telus PureFibre came to my neighborhood.


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[Assistant] Oh, I, I would believe that. Well hold on a second, don't you have some first hand experience with that? Yes.


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[Assistant] Which is nuts! Which was actually a deciding factor for Luke when he was shopping for his place.


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[Assistant] It was terrible. Like the number of times, this was my ex-girlfriend in high school, like my high school sweetheart girlfriend, the number of times I had to bring TELUS to her house, cause Shaw wasn't available there, cause we were out.


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[Assistant] And so they had no access to Shaw, and I had to bring them up, I swear to you, like half a dozen times, and every single time they diagnosed a completely separate issue, their ADSL service went down all the time. So frustrating. And man, their customer service was so bad back then.


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[Assistant] Man, TELUS has managed to screw up almost every single interaction I've ever had with them. Even when we had our ITEL fiber network put in here when we first upgraded to, I guess it was Gigabit when we first did it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so, uh, so they, they do their own stuff. Like they do actual engineering and stuff. They're not just like some cheapo reseller. And they like put down dark fiber stuff too, right? But they are, but they are not.


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[Assistant] Their, their CTO and I spent literally, like, it was either an hour or two hours on the phone trying to diagnose why our upload speed was like a tenth of what it was supposed to be. And it turns out that some, some butterfingers, numb nuts at TELUS just entered, missed a zero.


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[Assistant] Like okay, like literally everything I've ever done with TELUS has kind of been a cluster.


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[Assistant] But the product these days is very good. So that's, that, you gotta give credit where credit is due. Alright? You gotta give credit where credit is due.


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[Assistant] Sure, but there's other ways to test speed. Like, I've got a 2.5 gigabit connection at home, and I was downloading games off Steam at 280 megabytes a second.


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[Assistant] American Apple customers can now take advantage of Apple's self-service repair program to fix their mobile devices by going to this completely generic looking website. That's right my friends, you too can go to selfservicerepair.com. What? This is actually Apple? I don't, right? Apparently it's run by a third party company. Wait, are you sure?


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[Assistant] It's run by a third party company. But yes, these are genuine apple parts and genuine apple tools.


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[Assistant] So, the site has all the parts, tools, and manuals available to perform repairs on iPhones, going back to the 12th. Uhm, uh, Jonathan Horse editorializes, not handy, as 11 and older are the models that will be needing repair right now. That's a very fair criticism.


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[Assistant] And so far, one can repair- man, are we converting Horst to like-


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[Assistant] Love you, Jonathan, you do a great job over at MAC Address. I try not- honestly, I- I try to have nothing to do with the editorial direction over there. I think just being around here, I'll just- I'll pop by his desk a- It's stupid.


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[Assistant] Uh, anyway, so far, one can repair the battery, bottom speaker, rear camera, display, taptic engine, and sim tray. Uh, okay.


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[Assistant] It's thorough, but not easy looking. Users are to play Apple, are to play Apple Repair Genius for a day. Oh, okay, uhm.


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[Assistant] For example, repairing anything requires using the heated display removal fixture and the display press. Oh, I see. So they give you guides and tools and everything, but only to do it the like, official way, not necessarily the cheap and or efficient way.


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[Assistant] Well, that's the problem is these, uh, these tools are available for purchase for 256 and 216 dollars respectively. So this is the heated display removal fixture and the display press. Uh, but repairers can rent the entire kit for a week for 49 dollars.


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[Assistant] The issue is that the economics are sort of difficult to justify. So on an iPhone 12 display, a screw kit costs $268, while going to the Apple store costs $279. So you literally save $10.


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[Assistant] When, honestly, for OEM grade parts, like, you, you, you could definitely do this for a lot cheaper than that. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Our discussion questions are, what are you most happy to see with this program? I'm most happy that the program exists at all.


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[Assistant] Because now, now, the first, the first, you know, okay, let's say we're trying to move a really big rock. You know? I'm not. That's my mistake. You're not. Well, can I, can I, can I? Nope.


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[Assistant] I think the bigger picture is we know that right to repair has a long way to go.


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[Assistant] I believe it will improve over time just by merit of...


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[Assistant] It's clear that Apple could have made this official, but decided not to.


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[Assistant] Now, now that's not to say that working through a third party is necessarily bad. We praised Valve for working through third parties like iFixit on the Steam Deck, uhm, like Right to Repair.


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[Assistant] Uh, initiative, so making parts available to, to end users. But the reason we did that is, well, they partnered with someone reputable. Uh, they partnered with more than one partner.


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[Assistant] And, I mean, okay, do we need to give reasons other than that?


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[Assistant] Apple would have made it look more apple. And an apple customer I think is gonna want it to look a little more apple. But! Can I come back to my point? Back to my point.


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[Assistant] Where, if Apple is doing this, okay, maybe, maybe it becomes the industry norm to do at least this. Or maybe, maybe,


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[Assistant] Now that it's a conversation, now that an Apple customer even becomes aware of the concept of being able to get replacement parts for your hardware and perform repairs yourself or do them for your friends. Like if I was a high school student or something like that,


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[Assistant] Then how cool would it be if I could repair all of my friends iPhones? I mean, I'm not gonna buy them. I guess I would just- Getting the word out is good, so maybe we see one-upmanship start to happen in the space.


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[Assistant] That's one of the first things that I do when I go to a website is check about us and find out where they're located and then cross-reference that with like...


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[Assistant] Well, I can't argue that, but I just would like to, I would like to feel better about this.


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[Assistant] We're off to the dashboard for the, uh, Merch messages again. I just realized I don't have it up.


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[Assistant] Okay, I think. Ugh, really? It's not gonna auto-fill for me?


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[Assistant] Like this? This thing? Okay, you know what? I'll check my history, I'll see if I can bring it up.


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[Assistant] Okay, yeaah, that would help. Anyway, uhm.


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[Assistant] Yeah, fine. Uh, oh, uh, the, the, the, the AuraMaths journal in FloatPlaneChat says,


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[Assistant] I've been thinking about the availability of parts. Wouldn't it be worse for the environment to continue producing iPhone 12 parts six or seven years after it released? Wouldn't having a ton of batteries and other parts lying around for years be bad too? So no, they would keep them in production. There's so many iPhone 12s out there.


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[Assistant] And there will be so many iPhone 12s out there, even six, seven years from now, because, to Apple's credit, they do do an excellent job of providing software updates for their devices, that, yea, you would be able to justify doing small production runs. And no, they wouldn't be lying around for years at a time.


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[Assistant] And, you might say, okay, well, you know, all these parts are effectively, you know, manufactured e-waste because you're putting them into old devices that are not gonna last. But that's the thing, as long as those parts are available, you can actually...


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[Assistant] Keep running those devices on Life Support. That's good, because when you make a new device...


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[Assistant] Well, you're making the WHOLE device, not just...


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[Assistant] As long as it still works. It's like, buying a new car does not turn your old car into an environmental disaster immediately.


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[Assistant] Someone will drive that car and they will drive, they will go buy that car instead of a brand new one.


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[Assistant] I'm honestly getting a little bit tired of my folding phone. I picked up my Note 9 the other night cause like my battery was low on this and I just needed something. I heard you mention it. And I was like, ugh, it still feels so good.


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[Assistant] Yeah. I might put a new battery in it and just like rock the note nine for another couple of years. I don't know, man. Nice. Uh, but yeah, it's, it's, it's like, uh,


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[Assistant] We need to do a couple of merch messages for those of you who haven't noticed already or you're new to the show. Merch messages are down there. If you buy something on LTTstore.com during the show while we are live, you can enter a merch message.


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[Assistant] Uh, some of them will just end up showing on the show, so if you wanna do shoutouts for your friends or family, that's an awesome place to put it. Uh, some of them will be curated by our producer, Bell, who is gonna actually read us a couple of those.


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[Assistant] Do you want to start at the top? Cause I've already got an answer in my mind for that one.


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[Assistant] Hilarious. Like, did you ever hear the one about how the coal-


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[Assistant] Did you ever hear about the co-founders of one of the fang companies? I just don't feel like naming them because it could be not accurate.


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[Assistant] One of the co-founders of one of the fangs, uh, apparently had a soundproof room for conducting meetings. Completely soundproof. Oh yea. But like, apparently it was like in their home.


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[Assistant] Bloodsail Admiral over in Float Plane Chat, can I just shout you out for this being hilarious? Uh, hearsay! And I'm assuming this is a Johnny Depp Amber Heard trial reference here. Objection, hearsay. You see the one where Amber Heard's lawyer literally asks a question and then objects to it.


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[Assistant] Look, I don't normally, I don't normally wade into like celebrity drama because it's not really my cup of tea because it's just kind of a bottomless pit.


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[Assistant] I gotta say, based on how things are going so far, I'm putting Team Johnny on this one.


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[Assistant] Yes, Zetharion, he objected to his own question. The judge was extra confused.


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[Assistant] For a fact that even if I got an offer that was, that was millions of dollars, uhm, right now I am not at a stage in my career


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[Assistant] And I, I think I speak for myself, uh, I speak for my wife, who as most of you I think probably know, you guys are WAN Show regulars.


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[Assistant] Uh, my wife, who is my business partner, so we are pretty much 50-50 owners, is a little complicated. Have I ever told the story about how I went full ego trip and I was like, can I have 51%?


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[Assistant] Back when we were setting up the company. That's incredibly lame. I legitimately, okay, so hold on a second. My justification for it is actually not completely ridiculous.


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[Assistant] Would you like to hear my justification or would you like to sit there judging me? Uh, I'm gonna do both. You're gonna do both? Okay. My justification for it is that


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[Assistant] I, I liked being like the majority shareholder, founder, whatever. But at the end of the day, because we're married, with no prenuptial agreement whatsoever, if we were to split up,


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[Assistant] My 51% goes half to me and half to her, and her 49% goes half to me and half to-


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[Assistant] It actually doesn't matter. So I was like, look, this doesn't matter. I just want to be like, lens media group, I, I, I, I have the controlling, you know, interest or whatever. And it was like, it was totally stupid and I totally get it, but it also totally doesn't matter. And she and I both knew it at the time.


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[Assistant] So that's my justification for it. It actually doesn't make a difference.


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[Assistant] I like, look, I like controlling the direction of the company.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I've clearly done a very bad job. So, so anyway, I, I was just like, and I asked. If she had said no, it would have been 50-50.


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[Assistant] I kinda wanna change it. You know what? And in fairness to me, in fairness to me.


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[Assistant] I recently offered to do another nine years the other way around. I was like, tell you what, how about we do the paperwork? You know, if I want us to, I want, I want you to feel like we were having a conversation where like she felt like I was overriding something and I was like, look, no, I don't want you to feel like that. Yes.


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[Assistant] I have my convictions, and I have my opinions, and there's a way that I feel we should do it, but I don't- it's not that I- it's not that I'm not listening, or it's not that we can't do it your way. It's- I have to be a very passionate arguer.


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[Assistant] Yvonne has, oh boy she's gonna watch this, Yvonne has made her own bed to an extent when it comes to how public facing she is.


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[Assistant] Oh, oh, well, here's an accusation, but I'm afraid... OBJECTION! Piercé.


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[Assistant] It never makes it to this stage. And then without her ongoing financial guidance, it never, it never hits that hockey stick moment where it takes off.


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[Assistant] And all of that is stuff that takes place inherently kind of behind the scenes, especially when you're so busy working on that stuff that you don't have time to go say, I don't know.


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[Assistant] Start a cupcake decorating channel as an offshoot that we promote to try to build our female audience or all the legitimate business cases that we could make for Yvonne taking a more front and center role.


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[Assistant] It's also not something that she's always been the most comfortable with. I mean, sometimes, and, you know,


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[Assistant] No, and, and sometimes, you know, if I had to, if I had to pick my wife's biggest flaw,


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[Assistant] It's insecurity. Literally, her biggest flaw is not realizing how awesome she is, which I think is not gonna land me on the couch, but that's not why I chose it. That's actually true. And it's something that I've been chasing her about pretty much since the day we met, because especially when we met, boy was I ever punching up.


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[Assistant] But in all seriousness, I was, I was, in my opinion, clearly punching up, and...


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[Assistant] Over the years, it's still, it's been something that she's struggled with, that she hasn't realized, like, how, one of my favorite songs, okay, one of the songs that reminds me of her most is One Direction's You Don't Know You're Beautiful.


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[Assistant] Because she just like has no idea. I'll be like, yeah, you did great. And she'll be like, oh, I could have fixed this hundred things. I'm like, yeah, you could have, but you did great.


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[Assistant] I mean, to be clear guys, uh, you know, this is something that I have talked to Yvonne about extensively over the years. This is not something that's going to be some kind of a surprise for her. We have an extremely


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[Assistant] And there are times when honestly, she will just tell me, yeah, this is something that I could take more of a front-facing role on, but honestly, I just, I just don't feel like talking to people right now. Why don't, why don't you announce it? Or why don't you say it? Or, you know, I like the way you say it.


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[Assistant] Oh, well thank you. Yeah, Luke has probably overheard far more than really I realized at the time and I'm comfortable with.


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[Assistant] Uhm, yeaah, but you know, we really do live by principles like never go to bed angry.


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[Assistant] You just can't. Anyway, the point is not to get into like, relationship tips or whatever. The point is that- How did we even get to this topic? Yes, I have, I have not given enough credit to her over the years. It has always been my, it's been my, my instinct. I mean, I think it's, okay. Oh boy, here we go, more hot takes.


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[Assistant] You have to be an attention seeker to a degree. There are exceptions, but you have to at least enjoy whatever type of spotlight it is that you end up


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[Assistant] Yeah, but you have to at least be able to tolerate it. You have to have a certain amount of, of charisma, right? And...


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[Assistant] That's not something that comes naturally to everyone. I forget why I started this sentence. So it doesn't really matter.


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[Assistant] Oh right, yeaah, how much money it would take.


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[Assistant] Honestly, what I would like to do over the next three to five years is remove the Linus branding from everything that we do. I would like Linus Tech Tips to become LTT.


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[Assistant] And I slip up sometimes, but I'm, I'm trying to get in the habit of only referring to it as LTT. Like sometimes in a video, uh, it'll be like, are we going to do this halfway? No!


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[Assistant] This is Linus Tech Chips, baby! You know, and so I wanna be like, no, this is LTT! Like, I wanna, I wanna shift that branding. Uhm, I mean, we've already been doing it on the merch for years now. We almost never print Linus on anything.


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[Assistant] Uhm, because it's just, it's just time to move away from it. I, there's so many more people here. It's all, it's, it's group. It's not Linus anymore, right? When the Linus media group thing. Oh, call it group group. I'm not calling it group group. Sounds like fish, like grouper group. Anyway, the point is, uhm, no, we're not calling it Umbrella Corp. That's very funny though.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so I wanna move Linus Tech Chips away. I want Linus Media Group to become a brand that we sort of phase out.


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[Assistant] And then I want to create a brand for that umbrella organization that contains LTT productions or whatever. Okay. That contains creator warehouse, that contains float plane. And I would like to, I'd like to do all the branding around that because it's becoming clear to me as we go that


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[Assistant] And this is coming back around to the question. It's becoming clear to me as we go that we are eventually going to have to raise capital in some way.


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[Assistant] We cannot, Yvonne and I cannot keep reinvesting personally and doubling down every single time that we need to grow, whether it's labs, whether it's backpacks and screwdrivers, whatever it is, whatever it is, new facility, at some point the not stupid


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[Assistant] Excuse me. The not stupid thing to do is take some kind of outside capital in some way. And I think that if we were to raise some kind of funds, we would want to do it as that umbrella organization rather than as one of the individual silos within it.


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[Assistant] Arvaray says, please don't go public. So there's lots of different ways to raise funds. Um, going public is obviously one of them, but it's far from the only way to do it. I don't know. I don't know.


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[Assistant] I don't know what it, I don't know what it looks like. Uhm, yeaah. New Wannock Incorporated. Nice.


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[Assistant] Uh, alright, so it was, with Elon buying Twitter, how much money would someone have to offer you to sell it to LTT? So,


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[Assistant] Coming back to the question. I have spoken with the executive team here. I have spoken with Yvonne. We are not at a place where we are ready to sell.


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[Assistant] And so the offer kind of doesn't matter. And the reason for that is that whatever the offer is, is going to be based on business fundamentals like your, uh, what is it, earnings before...


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[Assistant] Uh, whatever. You're EBITDA, okay? So it could be based on that. It could be based on some kind of multiple of revenue. But there are formulas for valuing a business.


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[Assistant] And we are in a position right now where we believe we have such a period of explosive growth ahead of us with Creator Warehouse, uh, with new channels, with The Lab, that we would be stupid to take any kind of offer today.


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[Assistant] Rather than what would come a year or two or three years from now.


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[Assistant] That's really exciting, so I just don't want, and I don't think that we would be able to


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[Assistant] Guide this organization toward the success that we think we're headed towards if we didn't have full control.


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[Assistant] Am I a control freak? Yes. That was a rhetorical question, asshole. Yes.


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[Assistant] Alright, I am archiving that, we're not gonna talk about that anymore. And we should probably talk about sponsor spots before we do a couple more topics, do some more, some more merch messages here. The show is brought to you by... Wait, how do I do sponsor frames now?


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