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[Assistant] Luke, I hear you talking about all these self-made recipes that sound delicious. Would you ever consider making a cookbook full of them? Oh. Also, the stick locks are good fidget toys.


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[Assistant] Oh boy. Hello DLL. If direct storage takes off, do you think this will change GPU architecture, and if so, how?


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[Assistant] Hi DLL, I just finished an internship working on detecting and analyzing defects in transistors at NIST. Question, any thoughts on Microsoft pushing ARM adoption faster to catch up to Apple on battery life?


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[Assistant] Since Luke is getting invites to go to all of these cool places, will we get a new series, Luke Goes Places?


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[Assistant] I have a body bag of stuff for your theater room.


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[Assistant] We are. There's a lot of stuff that has to stuff for that project.


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[Assistant] I think we need to talk about that. I've got another project that I have to finish off for you probably next week, but the rest of it is a bit more complicated. Okay, cool.


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[Assistant] Linus has shared some notoriously bad takes about software, especially on feature development complexity. Luke, how often do you push back on Linus' feature requests because they are unreasonable?


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[Assistant] As an engineering student, I'm always interested in the design process. Can you share some insights into how your team approaches designing and prototyping new products? Does any step surprise you?


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[Assistant] Hey DLL, I work at a startup company with 100 plus employees and no IT department. Nice. I'm working to build it from scratch. Do you plan to make more content on your internal IT struggles or best practices?


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[Assistant] Hello, LLD. Linus, you're only allowed to play one game from SNES for the rest of your life. It can't be Final Fantasy VI.


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[Assistant] Hello, LLD. I work in a weird subfield of IT designing access control and VMS solutions for big companies and entire cities. What are some weird areas of IT you guys want to learn more about?


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[Assistant] From an employer perspective, as a female developer I am feeling discriminated and tempted to apply with a fake male name. Would this be a deal breaker on an interview for you? Any other thoughts about this? I read this and I thought this was very interesting.


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[Assistant] Luke, have you tried the other two systems that use the same Star Wars mechanics, once for playing rebel leaders, and once for force users?


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[Assistant] Hey LLD, wondering if you know any games or companies who do legacy content right? Old Microsoft versions are broken in the stock launcher and we all know how lacking Nintendo's retro selection is.


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[Assistant] Convince the wife that the new office needs matching desk pads. What are some of your favorite small or even peric victories?


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[Assistant] Convince a wife that the new office needs matching desk pads. Heck yea. What are some of your favorite small or maybe even peric victories?


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[Assistant] It shouldn't have been. Yeah, it just is. Maybe we're just tired.


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[Assistant] Hi, LLD. Linus, during the sponsor shopping video, you made a point to call out Anchor, but in a Yvonne's tech upgrade video, she had new Anchor chargers. Is this a Linus versus LMG thing or an oversight?


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[Assistant] Do you know why when two people call each other at the same time, the phones mark as unavailable instead of just connecting the calls to each other?


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[Assistant] What? I think it's a holdover from when they were physical.


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[Assistant] Uh, okay, let's push that button. Oh, I thought of a good answer for this when I'm curating it. Okay, good. Is it gonna push? I don't know.


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[Assistant] Hi, LLD. Good day from Australia. Due to having better margins on your backpack and screwdriver, would you be more open to free shipping deals once or twice a year? Thanks again.


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[Assistant] Hello, LLD. What was the coolest thing you got to sign at LTX? Sorry for helping lose the Halo game.


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[Assistant] Of the various challenges and experiments you've done on the channel, which one stands out as your personal favorite?


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[Assistant] Uh, okay, where are we? Hey, DLL, wild that Baldur's Gate 2 released before I was even born, and now it's this popular, any, now it's this popular. Any games you're fond of that released before you were born, or take you back?


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[Assistant] It's 1989 for Chips Challenge. Tetris. It's a bit of a cop-out.


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[Assistant] Billionaires today buy super cars and yachts. Will the new billionaires of the next generation have super gaming systems? And what would they look like?


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[Assistant] LLD, is there an ETA on the precision screwdriver? Linus mentioned it a while back.


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[Assistant] To the WAN Show, everyone. We've got a fantastic show lined up for you today. Amazon has allegedly retaliated against critical news coverage. Also, Dell Australia was found guilty of deceptive pricing. You know,


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[Assistant] The company that we covered in Secret Shopper, that kept trying to push extended warranties down our throats, and on-site service, would they do that? We should hire people from there.


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[Assistant] Or just like. Yeah, you can both start at the exact same time and see who can make more money. I'll make more money? Yeah, I lost to Jake though, and I'm real salty about it.


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[Assistant] LTT is in PC Building Simulator 2! Yeaah, and it's so cool! This looks so cool! Uh, alright, we did a video about PC Building Simulator a while back, uh, Jake and I 1v1 to see who could make the most money, and I think we gave ourselves an hour or something like that. Basically just playing through the tutorial.


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[Assistant] It's really cool, because the amount of depth that they've built into this game is incredible. Like, it really matters that you pick exactly the right compatible components, and a lot of it is not just building a computer. Like, have you ever played it at all, Luke? No, never. Oh yeah, so you don't just...


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[Assistant] Build a computer for lulz. You run a PC shop.


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[Assistant] And then toward the end, this is our final build that we did. You can renovate your, no I think this is from height. You can renovate your storefront and like start to rebuild it and like, I didn't get any further than that because I rarely find time to play video games. But the point is, pretty cool game.


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[Assistant] We are freakin' in it. Yeah. So here is their teaser trailer showing the LTT logo. There's the pink server rack there. Okay, man.


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[Assistant] Now just a second here, okay, we're going 0.25 speed here. We're going- oooooh. 0.25 is not great. Okay, what- Okay, there's the pink server rack. This is the same flooring that we have in the PC build corner.


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[Assistant] Uh, there's one of our, um, ah, I forget what we call this design, but this is one of our desk pad designs in orange. Ah, what else we got here?


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[Assistant] Man, what is this one from? Obviously, I've seen it a thousand times. Why can't I remember where this is from? Audience, help me.


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[Assistant] Yes, yes, yes it is. And we've got the records on the walls, just like in the living room set. That's the door. This is the door from the living room set. Uuuh. This is so cool.


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[Assistant] Oh man, look at this, the little details! We totally used these little, uh,


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[Assistant] Oh man, oh man! Oh, I got the white, uh, I got the white brick wall thing. We had something like that at some point actually. Even the fake plants look familiar. Oh my goodness, well, yeaah.


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[Assistant] That is incredible. Okay, now hold on a second. Please tell me they have the screwdriver. All I've seen is the tweet so far. Wait, that's our desk.


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[Assistant] Man, they even like modeled the cap correct. Okay. We must have done a lot of work on this too, because this is exactly right. Like that is, that is high fidelity, exactly the graphics that we are using on our water bottles.


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[Assistant] This is so cool. I'm freaking out a little bit here. Apparently donuts in Forza 2? So like, yea donuts in Forza.


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[Assistant] Oh, they have the new polls. Wallity. They have the new polls? Wait.


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[Assistant] No way, they do, they have the fixed, they have the fixed titanium carabiner poles. Okay, we're still working on getting those through mass production and getting them shipped out to people. I am loving this so much.


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[Assistant] Oh, I love this. So it's a whole theme for the back of your shop, I guess then. Yeah. Oh, I love it. Oh my god, they even put a segway in the video description.


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[Assistant] I love it. Okay, hold on a second, what am I looking at here?


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[Assistant] That is so cool. I, uhm... That is wicked. I-I am super into it. That's awesome!


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[Assistant] Uh, the update went live earlier this week, the update is free, and you can try out the game's demo for free at lmg.gg slash pcbuildsim2. Uh, we're gonna have that linked down below, and if we don't have it linked down below, Dan is gonna make sure we have it linked down below. Thanks Dan! Thanks Dan!


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[Assistant] That's so cool. Oh man, there are some things I missed too!


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[Assistant] Yep, these are just decals that you can apply, so those are based on our sticker packs. Hey, they're the WAN Show one, let's go! Oh my god. Ayyyy! Okay, well, that's enough of that.


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[Assistant] Uh, in other big news this week, Amazon, ugh, you know what, do we go straight for the Bezos-Musk cage fight?


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[Assistant] Zuckerberg seems to actually take personal fitness and like, fighting training kinda serious.


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[Assistant] And the thing about, you know, a billionaire is he might have had kind of a potato figure at some point, but I guess he can afford the best consultants and trainers, cause he's like kinda looking pretty good lately. Oh yeah.


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[Assistant] People are saying Bezos kinda jacked too. Actually, yeaah. Yeaah, I've noticed that.


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[Assistant] This is amazing. They've actually got a fighter stats thing in the dock for us today, and this is kind of incredible. So, Elon's definitely got the height and weight advantage. He's 5'11", 180 plus pounds. The Zuck, meanwhile, is like my height.


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[Assistant] I did not know that. I, I thought he was a normal height person. No, I had heard he was pretty short. Oh, he's short, okay. Only 150 pounds! Like, I have 20 pounds on him!


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[Assistant] And like I'm not, I'm not huge or anything, he's a skinny little chicken. Musk definitely has an age disadvantage at 51 years old instead of 39 for the Zuck. I love the training regime here though.


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[Assistant] You're a potato, right? And then you're up against Murph Challenge Guy.


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[Assistant] No Mark Zuckerberg fan. Neither of us are. Okay? Like...


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[Assistant] Basically, negligibly to our success as an online media business. Like I don't even have, I don't even have any kind of professional indebtedness to the Facebook platform. Like actually, if Facebook had never existed, that would be totally fine for me. And meta too.


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[Assistant] Yeah, because we'd still have like, Oculus. Yeah, it might even be better. Yeah, uhm.


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[Assistant] A meta-spokesperson confirmed that Zuckerberg was entirely serious when he replied via his Instagram story.


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[Assistant] I mean, of course he did. Just a bunch of free money. Oh my god. Floatplane chat is so funny. Musk is friends with Joe Rogan though.


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[Assistant] It's amazing. Uh, Andrew Tate said something about training musk. Yeah, what, from a Romanian prison? Like...


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[Assistant] Okay, we're about to get really personal here. You're 6-1? 6-2?


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[Assistant] No, you round down when you're over six feet. Past a half. Doesn't matter.


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[Assistant] I'm just, like, I'm trying to, I'm trying to kind of, I'm kind of trying to...


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[Assistant] You have quite a few more inches on me than, than Musk has on Zuckerberg. So are we in height or? Yea, in height.


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[Assistant] But I didn't, I didn't go to the, uh, to the nude bath in Japan, so we'll never know for sure. The point is, that you've got at least, like, oh man, so what's Musk, 5'11"?


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[Assistant] So you've got like another three inches on me over what Musk has on Zuckerberg. And I'm trying to think,


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[Assistant] When you were full potato, what did you weigh at that point? I don't even wanna say. It was a lot though.


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[Assistant] Man, so I'm just trying to think, how fast would I have to be? How much do you think I weigh right now?


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[Assistant] Yeah, their weight difference is actually way smaller because I was thinking about it going like...


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[Assistant] Even when you were out of shape, like I wouldn't go out of my way to go into an octagon with you. Like if I got lucky,


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[Assistant] Yeah, because you, you had, what, like, a hundred pounds on me. Yeah. We're talking thirty pounds different.


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[Assistant] Uh, no, we are not speaking in kilos, we are Canadians, um, so we have absolutely no rhyme or reason to the units we use.


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[Assistant] Here it is. How to measure things like a Canadian. What are you measuring? Speed? Metric. Distance? Is it your height? Yes. Imperial. Is it your height? No. Is it a long distance?


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[Assistant] It comes from being neighbors, and one thing that's not included here, uh, what are you measuring? Uhm, is it like an object? Uhm, because we always use imperial for construction, because


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[Assistant] We both use and export a lot of lumber to America. So all of our, all of our lumber, like I was blown away when I heard that you could buy lumber that was a


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[Assistant] I got screwed over because whatever they use for drywall in, uh, in Europe is like a slightly different thickness than here. So the cool, um, acoustically isolating screws that I tried to use in my theater room that were from a European supplier were ever so slightly, I think not long enough or something and couldn't go through the Imperial drywall. Anyway, the point is our construction is also in Imperial.


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[Assistant] Oh no. Cause lots of other trades use feet too. So I would never be able to estimate, uh, like painting a house. I did all of that in Imperial.


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[Assistant] I know cables in both though. I'll use them interchangeably. Yeah, me too.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so this is why a lot of the time in our videos we will give a measurement in metric or we'll give one in imperial and we will completely forget. It'll be inconsistent. Well yea, it'll seem like there's no rhyme or reason to it whatsoever.


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[Assistant] All the way from the writer to the editor to the person who's like QC-ing the video all the way to publication. Nobody will even think to include a conversion because for all of us, how many feet in a meter? I don't know.


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[Assistant] I don't know the exact answer. Yeah. Yeah, so six feet is a little under two meters. Yeah, but you can't like, uh. Okay, how many cups in a liter? I don't know. There's the same reason. What the hell's wrong with you?


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[Assistant] Okay, well I know these things. Four cups to a liter, four liters to a gallon. Is it exactly though? Ish.


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[Assistant] I don't know, you just gotta know this stuff, like 5mls in a teaspoon, 15mls in a tablespoon, like you just, you just, when you grow up with it, I mean think about it.


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[Assistant] What's the difference between memorizing one asinine method of measuring things and another smarter but also, you know, pretty complicated when you're nine and you're learning it or whatever method of measuring. Just memorize both of them.


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[Assistant] 100 degrees, uh, uh, uh, uh, 100 Fahrenheit is like frickin' hot weather.


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[Assistant] Like, like unbearably hot weather, and so I could kinda go, okay, it's probably like 42 or something. But then because the units don't like move similarly,


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[Assistant] Is that right? Okay. Four stone and seven years ago, sorry. Uh, what were we talking about?


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[Assistant] So that's about 12 kilos. See, I don't need to know exactly.


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[Assistant] Amazon allegedly retaliates against critical news coverage. Uh, this was covered on Dexerto. Ah, great. Hey, there you go. Amazon shuts down smart home after delivery driver mishears racism from a doorbell. Wait.


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[Assistant] But for a company to have the ability to shut down your product that you bought because you allegedly- And it has things to do with like home security and stuff? Used it in such a way, yeaah.


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[Assistant] That is mind-blowing. According to the customer, he was locked out of all of his smart devices without notice for a week pending investigation. And this is, uh, after they misheard a generic greeting from his eufy doorbell. Oh good, eufy is back.


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[Assistant] No one was home at the time of the incident, which Rossman confirmed after being provided the customer's security footage. Amazon later acknowledged this incident and said it was looking at ways to prevent a similar situation from happening again. So this wasn't even something that took place over an Amazon owned, like a Ring doorbell. This is something that just an Amazon


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[Assistant] Driver complained about and they basically went, okay, your customer history.


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[Assistant] The week after his reporting, Rossman received an email from Amazon saying that his application to the Amazon Associates program did not qualify and that his temporarily approved account has been rejected. Which he's had for eight years.


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[Assistant] The Amazon email further accused Lewis, and I can tell you guys, look, I have not followed Mr. Rossman around day and night for the last eight years, looking over his shoulder, monitoring his behavior.


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[Assistant] That is categorically false. Uhm, I have never seen anything about Lewis and his conduct that would lead me to believe that that is even remotely a possibility.


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[Assistant] And I'll also say, having had our own Amazon affiliate program scare in the past, that the way that Amazon chooses to enforce the rules and regulations of that program are scattershot at best, and I wouldn't put it past them.


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[Assistant] To target a particular creator with some kind of nonsense made up reason for rejecting them from the program. I don't know if you guys remember the drama that we went through. We only narrowly got our account reinstated and the reason that we were that we were kicked out allegedly was because


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[Assistant] We said that, uhm, using our affiliate code helped support us. That apparently violated their policy because it provided something in kind for using our affiliate program. What, gratitude? And they're like, yeaah. And I'm sitting here going,


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[Assistant] Basically every Twitch streamer has a banner under their channel that's like, support me by buying shit on Amazon using my account. Oh yea.


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[Assistant] So what's with that? And it was only after we showed them our substantial daily subscriber growth that they reconsidered our case. And honestly, it was hard even getting to that point where we could talk to a real human being about the appeal. Uhm, so yeaah, based on my experience, I could see them having very


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[Assistant] A very uneven approach to applying their seemingly completely opaque set of rules. Like, how was I supposed to know that? Based on how everyone else was using it and


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[Assistant] I mean, I wasn't trying to get snitch, right? But I did have to provide evidence that other creators were doing the same thing. None of them got their affiliate programs pulled. Which is good. Which is good, but also, I should never have gotten mine pulled then. Yeah. Ridiculous.


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[Assistant] To be clear, we've had a pretty smooth relationship with Amazon over, I don't know, the last while. I just see the business team say that


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[Assistant] Not as a discount, but as like a marketing exercise. I could absolutely see them being like, this isn't worth it. Forget it. Just cut it off. Provide some BS reason. It doesn't matter. Um, yeah, that's, that's not cool. Um,


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[Assistant] Terrible. Terrible. Maybe we can get Bezos into the cage match.


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[Assistant] With Rossman. No, I don't think Rossman needs to fight Bezos. He's pretty short.


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[Assistant] You missed the, uh, like you missed the, uh, the arcade day.


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[Assistant] He was sick. Uhm, but they had like one of those punching bags that like measures how hard it hits the thing. And I was like very close to people who weigh like 20-30% more than me because so much of it is technique.


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[Assistant] And so just because you're strong or heavy doesn't actually mean you can hit hard.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I think I'd still take Suckerbird.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I have some martial arts background already, I wouldn't be coming from ground zero. I would really want to improve my flexibility, and I'd really want to improve my stamina. And I'd really need to work on, like, ground.


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[Assistant] It's been a long time though. It's been a very long time since I've done like any kind of grappling stuff. No, I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna fight Mark Zuckerberg. That's just, that's just not worth it. That's probably good. Uh, moving on though.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we've gotta explain merch messages. Yes. You guys are probably seeing these down here. The way to interact with the show is not super chats, it's not twitch bits. It's a merch messages. Oh, and we have some exciting new stuff for you guys to check out. So in the cart,


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[Assistant] Oh damn it. Anyway, the point is, it'll go to producer Dan, and it'll either end up down here. Hey look, howdy Dan. Hi meet me. Yeah, indeed. It'll go down here, or


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[Assistant] It might get curated for us to respond to later. And the best thing about Merch messages is that if we don't get to your message, hey, at least you get your order in the mail with...


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[Assistant] Potentially, our new waffle hoodie. It's just like the waffle long sleeve. But now...


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[Assistant] This one's really nice. Uh, we also have- why is this here?


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[Assistant] Uh, there's a JerryRigEverything knife, am I just supposed to talk about the restock? I don't know. There was a restock. Also, oh this is fun, if you don't care what color water bottle you get, you can now get a mystery water bottle in 21 or 40 ounces.


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[Assistant] They're ten dollars cheaper, I think? Yeah, they're ten dollars cheaper. Wow, that's a really good deal.


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[Assistant] Uhm, other recent product launches, we've got our stick logs, joystick covers, we've got our capacitor, uh, style, insulated water bottles, uh, oooh. Okay, if you want to get your hands on one of the upcoming Noctua edition, hello? Luke, bug.


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[Assistant] Oh, it's here. If you want to get your hands on one of the Noctua Edition LTT screwdrivers at launch and you don't want to wait a long time, you are going to want to sign up. Sign up for a notification so you'll get an email right when it's available and hopefully you won't have to wait around through the, like, waves of delivery and whatever else. Uhm, so get on, get, get, get, get, get on that.


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[Assistant] Love it. Uh, oh, also, uh, we have a hiring announcement. We are still in need of an engineering-focused writer. If you've got a solid grasp on both engineering and English, please apply. Uh, that's at linusmediagroup.com slash jobs, I think it is?


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[Assistant] Since we're doing all the internal news, uhm, Dan's gonna collect a couple of merch messages for us to do real quick here, but first, we have an LTX 2023 layout and booth info dump.


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[Assistant] Super exciting. Uh, LTX 2023 brought to you by Asus ROG and Whaleland powered by Ubiquiti.


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[Assistant] Canada Learns to Code is doing a coding workshop. Canadian Red Cross is doing Mario Kart tournaments.


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[Assistant] Sure. Corsair is doing their IQ demo, gaming setups and giveaways. There will be a CPU deleting and GPU repasting booth.


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[Assistant] E.K. Water Blocks is doing, they're showing off the E.K. Sim Racer, so that's a super cool racing sim thing, along with some fluid gaming setups. Epic Games is going to have a water cooling workshop featuring E.K. Water Blocks. Oh, okay, so they're collaborating. And they're gonna have PC Building Simulator 2 Stations.


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[Assistant] Oh my goodness, we are only a quarter of the way through. Okay, I'm not gonna be able to read all of these.


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[Assistant] Inwin is doing doobly case building. Hite is doing a space cadet pinball tournament of some sort or some kind of space cadet tournament thing. London Drugs will be there. Sure.


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[Assistant] Ah, what else we got? Man, there's so much stuff here. NZXT is sponsoring the Triple Lane Case Toss. We're gonna have three lanes of case tossage this year. It's gonna be frickin' awesome!


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[Assistant] See, Sonic is gonna have every version of Windows, so you can just like, try all the different Windowses in their booth. That's a lot, actually. Yeah, the idea is that I think one out of every five people in the entire building can be engaged in an activity at any moment at any time. Whoa! That's the goal.


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[Assistant] We wanna, we wanna minimize lines, we wanna maximize engagements. So everyone who wants to have a booth here has to have an activation that's fun. That's awesome. Uh, Starforge will be there. Including a very special PC for Linus to react to.


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[Assistant] Interesting. The hammer's gotta be huge. Uhm, VRRC cars v2 is coming, four cars, first person view racing, let's gooooo! Awesome. Uhm, yeaah, there's, there's a frickin' lot, and they said there's a layout, but I don't see it. Maybe it's on the site.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's a problem with that. We do have a couple of good ones. Oh, this could be a way for me to win the debate. I just leak all the ones that I don't like.


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[Assistant] I actually can't remember any of them off the top of my head right now and a quick search of my inbox did not bring up the one that I want, which I thought might be also in an email chain with the ones that I don't want. So, unfortunately, I'm not going to be able to do that. Honestly, I think, I think Austin's company name is really good.


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[Assistant] It's overclocked media. I'm like, yeah, okay. It's sort of meaningless to anyone who doesn't know what it is, but it's super geeky and fun for people who do know what it is. I think something like that would be way better. Underclocked media. Yeah. I mean, if I was to do it again today, it would be Yvonne Umbrella Corporation. Yuck.


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[Assistant] It's not so much the things that are on the horizon right now as the things that we've allowed to creep up on us. I think that that previous topic we just talked about where we don't own our devices and the companies that sold them to us can just turn them off at a whim.


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[Assistant] You bought this for the multiplayer experience? Well, we turned off the servers and I guess you just don't get to play that multiplayer experience anymore. Oh, you thought maybe you would share it with your kids? Nope, they don't get to play it either. Nobody gets to play it. Haha, see you later. By the way, we've got a remastered one that is bundled with the sequel that you can buy for full price.


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[Assistant] Worse yet, we don't have anything and there's absolutely no way to, to, to relive that joy.


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[Assistant] Which is bad. And China needs to not do that. Bad China.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean even a residential internet connection. I think about how often my internet goes down at home. Like almost never. Compared to when I was a teenager. Oh yeah. It was constantly down. It was a, it was a, it was a die roll whether it would connect or not.


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[Assistant] I stopped carrying the like baller fancy key for the office for a long time. Cause I was just like, I will always get in with my, oh, the power's out. Yup. And then I just like, I didn't have it and I had to drive all the way back home, dig it out of whatever stupid. That's why my key chain weighs like four pounds. Um, cause I just, I've gone through it and I'm like, no,


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[Assistant] No, I actually do need physical keys for physical locks. But no, I get it.


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[Assistant] Not to doom and gloom it, but there we go. I just bought a mystery water bottle, wondering if you would discuss Taiwan. I mean, we're not exactly discussing it. Really? That's on your wancho bingo? Not Luke's mom calls?


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[Assistant] Alright, why don't we jump into Dell Australia being found guilty of deceptive pricing, not


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[Assistant] First of all, I want to say shout out Australia for actually enforcing this stuff. Yea, that's awesome. Because Canada, for example, has laws that prevent you from just perpetually having something on sale. And, fun story, do you know why NCIX had a weekly sale?


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[Assistant] The sale would end Tuesday night, then Wednesday day, we'd sell basically nothing because everything was at rando stupid prices because they were just set by the system at some safe we definitely won't lose money level. Okay? And then...


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[Assistant] Wednesday night at 6pm, ideally, sometimes it was late, we would launch the sale, send out the email newsletter, and then rinse and repeat and rinse and repeat and rinse and repeat.


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[Assistant] And you only buy the things that are in the weekly sale because everything else is not priced properly.


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[Assistant] Because people only buy what's in the sale, you just put everything that people want in the sale. Like, man, it got to the point where there were like 800 items in the week in sale or something stupid like that. You couldn't actually scroll through it. Like, you'd have everything. You'd have like packs of 25 blank CDs in the sale because


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[Assistant] We needed to, we needed to move them and having them at regular price, you know, wasn't effective because the site was unnavigable.


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[Assistant] So uhm, yeaah, that, that was why. It was in case anyone ever got mad at us, but as far as I can tell, nobody ever gets mad at anybody for it. Like, think, man, the number of furniture stores in Surrey that literally have like


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[Assistant] Yeah, from just sitting in the sun for literally the better part of a decade. Yeah. Uhm, I don't know man, I just...


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[Assistant] Anyway, that's cool. Shout out Australia for actually doing anything about this because it's stupid. Everything must go car dealerships. Yeah. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I, I like it. None of this, none of this surprises me from Del and I...


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[Assistant] And I'm happy to see someone actually paying the price. I love that they have to compensate the customers directly.


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[Assistant] Normal price. They just thought they were getting it. Okay, I have no idea how they would-


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[Assistant] Cause it's a thousand dollar delta luke and there's five thousand add-on monitors that were sold with overstated discounts. Get owned. Don't do it again. Yeaah. I mean, I...


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[Assistant] I think that probably doesn't make a ton of sense, given that it's not like these people bought it at the inflated price. They bought it at regular price.


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[Assistant] I have no idea. I don't know the answer, but I know that I'm happy they're doing something, and that Dell's getting, and I'm happy that the compensation is going to the individuals personally, rather than just being a fine that goes to the government, the lawyers, that like, yeaah.


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[Assistant] But I'm the one who got screwed! Like, where's my check? Oh, three dollars for my class act. Oh, thank you. Thank you. How much did the lawyers get? Oh, millions. Oh, cool. This is perfect. The system works.


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[Assistant] Yep. Basically, I just don't think Intel is interested in the low margin business of being an AIB in the longer term. Uh, it was pretty obvious from the name, limited edition, that they intended to eventually EOL this particular 16 gig version of the A770.


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[Assistant] Honestly, I'm surprised it lasted this long. That's either an indication that it took a little bit longer for them to build up AIB like add in board partner relationships or that they


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[Assistant] I'm not sure, I'm not sure which way this went, but it probably wasn't Intel was selling too many A770LEs and just couldn't keep- It's too profitable, we can't shut it down.


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[Assistant] Yeah, probably not so much. Uhm. What are we supposed to do? Oh, we should do sponsors!


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[Assistant] Uh, no I didn't. You missed a line. I did not. Does it not in there? No.


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[Assistant] Wait, we have to do merch messages now, but there's so many topics, Dan! There is. When we didn't respond to the doc, they just prepped all of the topics. I see.


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[Assistant] This is Doubtfire, but with more crust and not just, uh, the cream.


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[Assistant] There was a lot of chunkies. I smelled a lot like pie. My whole face smelled like pie. All the beard and everything. When was this?


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[Assistant] And then the slow burn, and now it seems like they don't really get much of a push out of the gate, and they're just a slow burn, so.


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[Assistant] Over the next six months, you'll probably see it recommended to you in YouTube and then I guess click it then or whatever. Uhm, but yeaah, it doesn't have a lot of views yet, but it's been, it was quite well received and a lot of people have said it's like one of our best streams ever.


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[Assistant] Basically, I had to build a computer, but the catch is that I have to guess the price of every component, and if I'm off by more than 10%, I get a, I spin a punishment wheel.


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[Assistant] And if I'm off by more than 20%, I spin a worse punishment wheel. And if I'm off by more than 30%, I spin a really bad punishment wheel. Let's just put it this way. I spun the 30% a lot of times.


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[Assistant] Oh wait, was it a core i5? I can't remember. It was something. The point was, it wasn't what I thought it was, and I forgot that we have a core i9 tier. I just completely spaced because I was hosting a stream and trying to guess a thing, and it had been a long day, week, month, ten years, uhm, and I just completely spaced on it.


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[Assistant] And that was supposed to be the easy one. So I was off by more than 30% right out of the gate. I got a dollop of hot sauce to bomb.


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[Assistant] So then right out of the gate I did terrible, and then most of the items they picked were designed to be difficult to guess. So for the motherboard for example, it was like a Sonic the Hedgehog themed board from Azeroth.


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[Assistant] How much would that cost? I've no idea. No idea? Four hundred.


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[Assistant] Also, the number of people that were like, Linus don't drink water, it makes it worse. I don't know. Maybe for you, water definitely helps for me. It's just like,


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, I find it helps. Even just like the cooling, like the soothing. People are like, but it spreads the capsaicin! Like, that doesn't bother me. Spreading it out is more better.


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[Assistant] Just like, the number of people who are like, hm, why this doesn't even know. Yes, I know!


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[Assistant] Uh, no milk at the office, WTF? Why would there be milk at the office? Like creamers maybe, but milk? Why? Yeah.


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[Assistant] Like, what are you guys even talking about? Milk is good. So what? So buy it at home. And drink it there.


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[Assistant] Probably about the last six months? I don't know. I'd have to double check to be sure, but over an extended period of time, we've seen an uptick in channel views,


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[Assistant] Without the traditional corresponding uptick in subscribers.


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[Assistant] Yeah, the numbers, the numbers just don't really seem to have much to do with the kinds of ratios that they used to have like that. I don't know, I just, I can't really find a pattern to it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, we don't actively call out subscriptions as much anymore, but then when we stopped doing that, it made effectively zero difference whatsoever.


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[Assistant] Some channels see a big uptick in subscribers from shorts. We've had some shorts go pretty successful-ish.


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[Assistant] Negligible, absolutely nothing, like no impact, uh, I-I don't know, I just, I just don't know what, I don't know what to tell you guys, other than that clearly you don't care about subscribers, or like being subscribed to channels, and, uh, you're depending more and more on YouTube recommendations, uhm, YouTube, you know, for you and all that kind of stuff.


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[Assistant] And that's a double edged sword, right? Like on the one hand, it's allowed us to reach a much larger audience than we otherwise would have been able to. I mean, even


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[Assistant] When subscriptions were more important, they still weren't that effective. People just get fatigued, right? They don't want that many notifications. If you're subscribed to more than like half a dozen, maybe a dozen YouTube channels, you're gonna be like, eh, screw this, like forget it, it's too much.


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[Assistant] Right? So you can't get a notification anytime a channel that you follow does anything. And so it allows you to reach these people who are either not subscribed or are subscription fatigued, right? But then the flip side of it is that if you are not performing in a way that is favored by the, uh, the way that YouTube serves,


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[Assistant] That's my way of saying the algorithm. Uhm, because YouTube will say it's the audience, and I will say...


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[Assistant] Right, but can you explain to me why a live stream VOD follows a very different curve from a regular video upload? Surely that could not purely be audience preference, right?


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[Assistant] So, there's definitely an algorithmic component to it, but...


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[Assistant] What I'm trying to say is if you no longer appeal to the way that YouTube recommends content to the audience, then...


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[Assistant] You're not gonna perform. We are on our way into a very deep trough. And honestly, a big part of it feels like kind of a hangover. I've started to notice this for many years. Our growth was slow and steady. We just built the back catalog.


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[Assistant] Built evergreen content that would, I don't know, maybe it's only 200 views a day. Maybe it's only 100 views a day.


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[Assistant] But, more than zero views a day, just built up and built up and built up, so our daily viewership went do do do do do do, grow grow grow grow grow, and then,


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[Assistant] It's gotten more turbulent. It's down, it's up, it's down, it's up, it's down, it's up, it's down, it's up. And I think part of that is just being kind of saturated. Like I can't talk to a tech savvy person who has never heard of any of our channels. Uhm, they exist.


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[Assistant] But it's pretty unusual these days. So I think part of it is like a saturation and part of it is just like a natural interest cycle. You know, we'll go through a period where the channel is everywhere and it's probably all over your recommended and you're probably watching a ton of the videos and then


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[Assistant] I don't know, it's like, I love zero punctuation. When's the last time I watched one?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I just, I leave it alone for a bit, and then like I'll go back and binge it, or like a, I'm that way with TV shows and stuff as well, like I just...


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[Assistant] We dipped today to a level that I don't think we've seen in like a couple of years, but then we're coming off of some highs that we hadn't seen in a couple of years. And I think it's just, uh,


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's a natural thing. I think part of it is that yesterday's video sucked.


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[Assistant] Uh, just that did, wow, did that ever not perform. But part of it is also just that interest waxing and waning because we've uploaded some really good content in the last little bit.


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[Assistant] That was extremely, like, that was one of the worst performing videos out of the last couple of weeks. Uh, which is, yeaah, like, remarkable to me. Uh, the Framework Factory Tour is awesome. That'll do well in the long term, but it was a below average performer. So, there's just no, uhm,


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[Assistant] Uhm, then we had the, the Apple event, which was, honestly speaking, a video we threw together.


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[Assistant] I wasn't even in office that day. I had to review the script in like 20 minutes. Um, and it's got like 3 million views. It's a top, it's a top performer. So I do have to wonder if there's a little bit of like that video was everywhere. And then people are just like, ah, you know, uh, oh yeah, that guy again. Okay. I'll get, I'll catch up later. I don't know. It's always like that, right? Um,


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[Assistant] So we'll see, see how it goes. Got some pretty good ideas for some stuff coming up and we'll, we'll, we'll get back to it. But it's a, it's a wild, it's a wild ocean that we are, that we're swimming in. I forget what the point of all of this was. Where did we start?


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[Assistant] I genuinely don't know. A merch message about- Oh yea, do people watch channels they don't subscribe to? Right, right, right, right, right. Yea, that's a funny thing too. I see that often. Is there'll be like a wave of comments. People will be tweeting at me or commenting or whatever like, man, I didn't get this video in my subscription feed.


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[Assistant] I feel like I haven't been getting your videos lately and then they'll come seeking us out again and then the channel momentum will swing up and I'm like, okay, well I didn't do anything different.


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[Assistant] I mean, I think that this 10 to 20 years is a lot, but in the next five years, we are almost certainly headed to some form of metaverse style communication. I mean, you look at the way that Apple's moving FaceTime onto the TV.


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[Assistant] Uh, you look at the way that, uh, Meta and Apple are trying to get us interacting with a, with a headset, something that sits right in front of our eyes. Uh, if it's not augmented reality,


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[Assistant] Which is a funny thing, do you notice Apple refuses to use the term AR? Grow up.


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[Assistant] Anywho, what I can't, I can't tell you what it'll be for sure, but what I can tell you is it won't be the wee head. Have you seen this thing, Luke?


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[Assistant] Oh my goodness, no, we've got Jake DeLavance. Yeah, this is amazing. Like it just, it looks so...


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's not the Wii head. I think it's gonna, it's gotta be displays bolted to your face. And...


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[Assistant] Whether that gets broadly accepted or not.


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[Assistant] I wanna go in the direction of another topic. What do you wanna talk about, Luke?


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[Assistant] Oh, what, how did I know this then? I don't know, but this is amazing. DP Review! The digital photography review website was supposed to cease publishing in April as part of mass layoffs at Amazon. However, the site continued publishing over the intervening months, and apparently it's been bought by Gear Patrol, an independent tech review site. Uh, they officially acquired them as of this week.


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[Assistant] dpreviews editor-in-chief released a statement saying that the site will continue to operate as it did before, with all editorial coverage and site features remaining the same and all historical content accessible. This is...


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[Assistant] Amazing. For photography nerds and gearheads and, well those are synonyms, whatever. The point is, DP Review's current staff will keep working, though it does not appear that employees that left due to the announced closure have been invited to resume their positions.


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[Assistant] Former site editor Ganon Burgett responded to the news by saying he was happy for his former colleagues and for the preservation of the site, me too, but was also critical of Amazon's handling of the situation.


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[Assistant] Uh, you should figure this sort of stuff out before shutting down an entire division of the company, not in hindsight after weeks of backlash and leaving freelancers to scramble for new gigs. Agree 100%. This was just meant to be a small update, but I'm super happy to see this.


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[Assistant] Uh, people are saying, I thought you were gonna buy them. No, I, I have to confess. I just saw the way that Amazon unceremoniously announced that it would be shut down and I assumed they weren't interested in an acquisition and I didn't even reach out.


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[Assistant] It's something I could have potentially been interested in, but...


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[Assistant] The opportunity never presented itself because I didn't think to pursue it. I just was like, no, well, it's dead. Uhm. That sucks.


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[Assistant] Meanwhile, the FTC sues Amazon for tricking customers into prime subscriptions. Can you get tricked into a prime subscription?


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[Assistant] I will say this, I know a surprising number of older relatives that have more than one email address.


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[Assistant] Because they use their ISP provided one, which I would say is a dark pattern in and of itself, sort of. In that it's a way to lock you into using this particular ISP forever. Lock in practice, for sure.


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[Assistant] Has no benefit whatsoever as far as I can tell. Uhm, anyway, so they will often have an ISP email address because I don't know, they think they're supposed to use it or something. And then they will also have a not stupid one.


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[Assistant] So maybe that's part of how they end up with multiple Prime accounts is they just like have these random email accounts.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I just don't think there's a benefit to Prime if you are Canadian anyway, because they're not gonna ship for free to Canada, so... From the American one, you're saying?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I had a hard time remembering which email I had signed up for, um, Kindle Unlimited. Which, good service, I like it, but...


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[Assistant] It took me like four times logging in to figure out which one, and if I didn't remember that I definitely freaking had one...


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[Assistant] I could have accidentally signed up for another one. Yeaah. Yeaah, I could see that.


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[Assistant] Anyway, did we actually talk about the FTC thing yet? No. Okay, cool. Wait, what FTC thing?


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[Assistant] If they sued Amazon on Wednesday for making it easy to accidentally subscribe to their Prime service with a labyrinthian


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[Assistant] The FTC said Amazon prompted customers to subscribe to Prime repeatedly and made it hard to find the button to proceed without subscription during checkout.


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[Assistant] That's how people could end up with a bunch of these, because if they just happen to be browsing the site, and they just happen to enter a different email this time. Oh, I don't have it? Aww.


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[Assistant] Likewise, Amazon purposefully made Prime's cancellation page difficult to find. The cancellation process would then bombard customers with offers that are intended to change their mind over the course of several unnecessary cancellation steps.


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[Assistant] According to the lawsuit, this lengthy cancellation process was known internally as the Iliad after the 15 hour epic poem that recounts the events of the Trojan War.


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[Assistant] According to the commission, the primary purpose of the prime cancellation process was not to enable subscribers to cancel, but rather to thwart them.


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[Assistant] Amazon has said these claims are false on the facts and the law and that by design we make it clear and simple for customers to both sign up for and cancel their prime app. It is better now. It was really bad for a bit. I remember this.


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[Assistant] Okay, well maybe I remember wrong. This was a while ago. This was a while ago. Well, it wasn't that long ago. I was thinking a while-er ago. Oh, okay. Yeah, like, so I haven't tried that recently now that I think about it. I just-


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[Assistant] It might be a hard conversation, but your grandpa was pretty with it. He was. Like when I met him, which wasn't...


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[Assistant] Is this like a, is this like a cultural thing almost? Like when he was young, was it just simple to cancel a service? And so he's just like not useful.


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[Assistant] They didn't have computers. Did you just say listicle? You mean the switchboard?


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[Assistant] I'm pretty sure it's zine. I think it's zine. Like short for magazine, like a short, small magazine. You are correct.


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[Assistant] Maybe they were also wrong. Maybe they couldn't figure out how to cancel an Amazon subscription.


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[Assistant] Here's what I want to know. Where does the line fall? And I'm not saying what Amazon's doing is okay, it's like definitely not okay. If I want to unsubscribe from a mailing list, if I want to cancel a subscription, it should be one button, at most two. And are you sure is fine. Anything more than that, unacceptable.


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[Assistant] But where is the line? Like, should a cable company be allowed to even have a retention department?


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[Assistant] You know, like, is it okay to give me an offer? Is the offer okay? Hey, uh, keep it and we'll give you the next two months for free. Like, is that okay? And like, how far? What is okay? Yeah. It's like, open negotiation is no longer allowed. How many times should I be allowed to say, how many times should I have to say, no, I'm not interested, I want to cancel?


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[Assistant] Is, is, is once enough and they shouldn't be allowed to say or do anything? Twice? I mean, twice is probably fine, you know, uh, are you sure? Yes. What if I offer you this? Well, now it's three times. Is that too many? What's the line, you guys?


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[Assistant] Yeah, and I guess the difference is that in the car scenario,


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[Assistant] You're the one, they need something from you, not the other way around. With the cancellation, I need something from them, so I can't simply disengage from this interaction. I have to see it through. So what would be a more fair... I can't think of another...


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[Assistant] Oh man, just don't get as cancelled as Under the Sea might get you.


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[Assistant] AMD appears to restrict DLSS support in sponsored AAA titles. This is a weird one. I don't think it's confirmed. Right now it's more just scuttlebutt. Uh, but since the release of both Nvidia's DLSS and AMD's FSR,


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[Assistant] First, that DLSS has been adopted at a far faster pace, in part due to the friendlier tools and ease of use. And second, that AAA titles sponsored by AMD are far less likely to get DLSS support than the other way around.


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[Assistant] AMD gave a broad statement pointing out that there are some games with DLSS support but no FSR support.


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[Assistant] And saying that they are committed to doing what is best for game developers and gamers, and that they give developers the flexibility to implement FSR into whatever games they choose. But Nvidia was quite a bit more specific, saying Nvidia does not and will not block, restrict, discourage, or hinder developers from implementing competitor technologies in any way.


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[Assistant] We provide support and tools for all game developers to easily integrate DLSS if they choose, and even created Nvidia Streamline to make it easier for game developers to add competitive technology to their games. And, you know, that's all a lot of, like, sort of corporate bull speak, but the games list kind of, uhm,


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[Assistant] Speaks for itself. It really does, actually. So we've got Bundle Partner Nvidia, we've got almost across the-


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[Assistant] Yeah, and there are, there's one from Nvidia that does not support FSR. Uhm, but the vast majority of the AMD Bundle Partner games do not support DLSS in spite of some of them being like Unreal Engine games that


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[Assistant] Probably could support it pretty easily. How does World of Warcraft not support either of these things?


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[Assistant] Other than, hmm, I don't like it. We should have, we should have the option to choose what upscaling technology we want to use. Uhm. Is there some pattern in like,


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[Assistant] The reddit thing is continuing, in other news, uh, a bunch of subreddits set themselves to not safe for work friendly and loosened their not safe for work


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[Assistant] Uh, guidelines around sexual content. Uh, this was to...


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[Assistant] Supposedly, like, reduce Reddit's ability to target ads at the users in these subreddits and monetize those users. In an apparent crackdown, a number of monitors from subreddits that recently set to not safe for work were removed and locked out of their accounts. Several forums with over a million members are now completely unmoderated.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't know. The last topic we absolutely must do before we get into Wanshow After Dark. Yes. Yvonne Wine. Ah, yes. Now has native support for Microsoft Excel. Tell me about- tell me how this makes you feel. It's actually awesome.


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[Assistant] You don't even have to pay for it. It's a free


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[Assistant] I think we have to because we're running out of time. I'm into it. Oh, Dan's on it.


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[Assistant] I mean- Why not both? Yeah, well, no, no, seriously though, like, being a special- Okay, we talked about this a while back. Uh, man.


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[Assistant] It was like super, super old. Someone asked, they, they were only familiar with like this like really old programming language or something. Yeah, something like that. And they were like, hey, what can I do to modernize my credentials? And I think Luke gave really good advice there because being a specialist in a niche is absolutely valuable. In fact,


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[Assistant] It's, it's gonna be like a bathtub shaped curve here, right? So the more, the more generalized you are, the more valuable you become because all of a sudden you have insight and you have context.


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[Assistant] To pull together, well I'm thinking from like a management standpoint even though, like to pull together disparate teams and turn all the things that they're working on into a single cohesive product, like that is super valuable. That's how you succeed in business, right? But then over on the, and then you've got people that are like,


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[Assistant] Pretty good at a few things. And it's like, okay, right, but your experience is too narrow and you're not really a subject matter expert. And then you've got people who are like super uber specialists at like


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[Assistant] Animal recognition machine vision stuff or something. I don't know. I'm picking something completely out of thin air here because my point is just that to the right customer, if you are the freaking best at that,


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[Assistant] Basically, you write your own check, right? You just tell them how much it costs, and if they want the best implementation,


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[Assistant] Well then they have to hire you. That's all, that's kind of all there is to it. I would say, I would say both are good. Uhm, but, pick one. Don't land in the middle. If you can


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[Assistant] Run on systems developed using Cobol. Rainmaker in Twitch chat says if you're a Cobol master, apply it places like Micron. They still use it and you make silly money.


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[Assistant] A data recovery company that we worked with a while back were saying like, you would be surprised.


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[Assistant] The kinds of hard drives that we're expected to not just recover data from sometimes, but also maintain a working stock of replacements for because of the kind of organizations and the kind of money they have to keep this ancient machinery running. Yeah, you'd be amazed.


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[Assistant] Hmm. Obscure innovations that might have succeeded if they'd been more open and less proprietary. I don't, I, hmm.


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[Assistant] I mean, okay, memory stick kind of comes to mind. If Sony hadn't built such a closed ecosystem around their flash memory standard, maybe it could have been more broadly successful.


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[Assistant] I feel like the spirit of your question was almost like a product category.


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[Assistant] Man, I think we could have seen a lot more innovation in, and this is just speaking from my personal experience, I think we could have seen a lot more innovation in production equipment a lot faster if the standards were more open and inter-compatible.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, everything from red proprietary media to the proprietary controller boxes for studio lighting equipment.


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[Assistant] Uh, like DMX comes to mind for controlling, uh, for controlling lighting. That's like more baller, uhm, to have that kind of interoperability as opposed to more affordable using, you know, commodity hardware. Kind of like what we would, what we would imagine the more open standard to be, right? Uhm, can you think of anything?


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[Assistant] I've been responding. It was locked in P-P-P-Proprietaryville and would have been more successful if it had been more open.


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[Assistant] Man, the fact that a game developer would look at the industry and the history of gaming and go


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[Assistant] Players enhancing the experience is what has kept games alive and relevant for years past their best before date.


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[Assistant] And a lot of the, a lot of the innovative game modes that you play in modern shooters, like gun game. Gun game was just CS mod.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Kataz is saying I miss StarCraft 1 and 2 custom games, 100%.


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[Assistant] Original CS was a Half-Life mod? Yeaah. That's a good point. Yeaah, well, don't forget, original Dota 2 was a Warcraft 3 mod, like a lot of the gaming experiences that we have today are because of modded custom games. Uhm, Oni, HiKid, Jover, and FloatPlane says, you don't understand, Linus. If you're still enjoying the old game, you're not gonna buy the new one. With all the horse armor. I added the last part. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] Then uhm, here's what we have to do. And while we understand that the particular API API call load of these, these, these custom apps is uhm,


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[Assistant] Not actually costing this amount exactly.


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[Assistant] There's a huge opportunity cost to them that we have to make up in order for us to


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[Assistant] Funny thing, right? Because it's not like, okay, I could see the Reddit community behaving kind of like a, like a hydra, you know? You chop off one head and it just like, they're shockingly coordinated, but a big part of how they coordinate is through Reddit. So,


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[Assistant] I could see the evolution just kinda of their, of their rebellion happening so fast that Reddit would have no way to respond. But it's not.


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[Assistant] Hot take. The fact that you have a lot of money does not necessarily mean you are very smart.


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[Assistant] That's a better way. My, my, my personal, you know, mantra is, the show must go on, the show must go on, the show must go on. So, the number of, oh my god, like, here, tell you what. That's probably what we're actually best at, out of like, everything. Uhm, yeah, if I had a superpower, it would be to take


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[Assistant] Absolute garbage. And turn it into something that people might consider watching. I don't always succeed. Uh, this Tech Toys one did not end up performing well. Okay, this.


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[Assistant] This video I completely pulled out of my butt because we had no video for that week and I was like, I'm gonna go on Facebook Marketplace. Oh, 3080s are cheap. Okay, sure. Uhm, man.


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[Assistant] Uh, that is sort of an unflattering description of the factory tour. The point is, we were supposed to go do something else and it bailed and we just did this instead. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Oh man, this is great. Ahhhh, I'm trying to think, let me see if I can find something that, oh man, this was a hundred percent, just forget it, we'll do it. I had no idea what I was walking into on this one.


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[Assistant] I-I'm making it sound like we don't plan at all. We-we-we do. We actually plan a lot. This took a lot of planning. Hey wait, where's the part two of this video?


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[Assistant] How the hell have we not released that yet? There's one where we actually like build the thing.


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[Assistant] That was awesome. Yeah. Oh yeah, it did quite well. It was really good. Yeah. Yeah, that was, that was a fun one. I actually really enjoyed that.


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[Assistant] Yeah. That was pretty stupid.


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[Assistant] Yeah. I mean, like, no, yeah, no, obviously I'm in on paper. It ended up working out, but like I could have easily never been promoted at NCIX, been working as like a sales guy and lost my job when they went under.


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[Assistant] And then I'm in my what, so I'm in my mid thirties and my entire work experience is working as a computer salesman. So basically what I apply at Canada computers and I hope that they pay. Okay.


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[Assistant] Yep, that's unfortunate. That could have easily been the plan. And like, no disrespect to people who work as a computer salesperson, but it's uhm, I think my career trajectory has been more favorable than that since then, so uhm, like I am,


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[Assistant] Uh, you're gonna see an expansion of sort of individual vertical focused channels, like


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[Assistant] Focused on power supplies or headphones as the lab spins up their testing. I think at some point in the future, you will see like a more, a hyper deep dive labs video channel.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I had completely forgotten about the react channel, so there you go. I guess that's where that's at. Game linked is coming soon. That'll be the one that is soonest. And oh man, there was something else that I was going to talk about.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's everything that comes to mind right now. I think we're going to be quite focused on more like vertical specific channels so that we can really focus on products that don't necessarily need to get 2 million views. I think that sometime in the next 6 months to 18 months you're going to see the LTT upload cadence change and that'll be for the first time in


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[Assistant] Almost 15 years. That's really funny to me. Every time I see people talk about how we're emphasizing quantity over quality these days, uploading too many videos, the fuck are you talking about? The upload cadence actually hasn't changed in a decade and a half.


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[Assistant] Uh, so yeaah, I think that LTT may end up collapsing under its own weight and our future may be many smaller channels that only need to get 100,000 or 150,000 views average instead of needing to get a million and a half, three million views on everybody.


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[Assistant] Android Auto. That was a big one for me. I, I liked the car. I can afford the car. Uhm, it felt a little bit excessive at the time, in particular. Uhm,


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's utterly unacceptable. Uhm, also, I was extremely disappointed, not just with Porsche's refusal to add Android Auto to their frickin' cars.


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[Assistant] Okay, well that's my favorite electric car. Uhm, it looks cool. It's fast and stuff. Uhm, I haven't seen too many complaints about it. I like it. I, I test drive a lot. Uhm, I was like, okay, sure.


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[Assistant] And then how I ended up with the Turbo S was basically just down to, uhm, like a, like a favorable deal on a secondhand one that was barely driven.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like, I saved so much that even though it has a bunch of equipment that I wouldn't have otherwise shelled out for, I effectively didn't pay for it, so.


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[Assistant] Uh, other than it just being annoying, not being able to see the sentiment on a video that I'm looking at, no? I mean, I didn't expect that it would affect the Joe Average viewer. It's just annoying for me, the user. Or rather, I didn't expect that it would affect me as a creator, uh, in terms of interacting with my viewers. But yeah, it does, it does affect me as a user. Question for Luke.


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[Assistant] Honestly, this isn't the kind of thing that I get to personally experience that much. Uhm, but what I have seen is a lot of articles talking about how


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[Assistant] Baby boomers tend to be less tech savvy than Gen X millennial, who tend to be more tech savvy than Gen Z zoomer. Uhm, so baby boomers didn't really have technology as they were growing up.


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[Assistant] Zoomers have really good technology that works really well, and Gen X and Millennials had crappy technology that they really needed to work, so they learned a lot of troubleshooting skills. If there's a generalization that you can make, I'd say that's pretty fair.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I mean, my, my kids are finally getting to the age where they should start to, you know, learn some basic troubleshooting and yeah, no, they don't, they don't really have to.


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[Assistant] Or I'm saying like they should, in that I would have had to be learning it. Uh, like I had to know how to use the computer better than my parents by the time I was my son's age, but he doesn't need to. And I guess part of it too is just having more tech savvy parents. Not that I think about it. That might not be true for everyone.


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[Assistant] Well, he's good at certain things that I don't know, actually, which is a really good point.


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[Assistant] Like, he can, he can frickin' command, blah, blah, his Minecraft way around things, and I don't know how the crap Minecraft works. But, you know, if I needed, if I needed, you know, to block a domain, for example, because I don't want my kids on TikTok, then obviously, he's not gonna have a way around that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but that would be, that wouldn't be a South Park episode that has no, like, deeper sort of point. Right, it needs, yeah.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I'd say if there was an existing episode, I would love it to be the one where they travel all the way to San Francisco to like unplug and replug the giant Linksys router.


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[Assistant] I think I've told this story on WAN Show before. Stop me if you've heard it. But I was at Aberdeen Center Mall.


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[Assistant] Luke knows where this is going. Uhm, and the car in front of me was turning out of the parking lot. Oh, I do know this story, but keep going. Okay, so there's a pillar here.


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[Assistant] They take the corner too tight, and about, I don't know, man, maybe like halfway up the car, maybe not even halfway, they like hit, they scrape the pillar. Okay? Now, you would think, they're in like, I don't want to generalize,


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[Assistant] They scrape, they take what would have been one panel that needed to be restored, repainted.


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[Assistant] They, they, they go out to the light, they turn away, I never see them again. I watch, I'm, I'm sitting, I'm behind them watching this whole thing play out. I'm like, my, my jaw is on, in my lap.


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[Assistant] You know, it's, it's not like they, it was like they hit and run someone else's something or anything. No, there was no victim. Utterly victimless crime.


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[Assistant] I don't know, do they not care about the money or the extra time, even the time the car is going to be in the shop? Don't you want your car?


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[Assistant] The reason for that is that if we were...


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[Assistant] Our main goal is to make them available in a wide variety of different handle configurations and shaft thicknesses and shaft lengths. And so we are going to have them be sort of semi-modular so we can stock


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[Assistant] We wouldn't be able to customize them to that degree, uhm, unfortunately.


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[Assistant] Honestly, I would kind of rather my engineers go look, if that kind of makes sense, because I'm not the one who's involved in developing these test procedures these days anymore, right? Like I, it's, it's above my pay grade, so...


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[Assistant] Yeah, I, I, I, I would rather ask the engineers what, what they want to see. I think that it would be really cool. Oh, you know what? We actually had uhm. I'll go too.


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[Assistant] We had DXOMark reach out to us and want to collaborate on like a tour of their place and like collaborate on sharing methodologies with each other and stuff like that. I thought that was super cool. That's awesome. Yea, and we'd totally be open to reciprocating as well if anyone wanted to check out what we're doing. Maybe it was for a little bit better set up. We're still...


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[Assistant] Just based, even just based on nevermind hiring. Hiring takes forever, but like lead time of frickin' equipment.


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[Assistant] It takes forever. We would've, we would've, we would've never gotten to video cards if we had waited to start video cards until after we had mastered power supplies and CPUs and GPUs and headphones and blah blah blah blah blah. Like it just, it just would've never happened.


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[Assistant] So now we're just gonna go parallel, go wide. Yep.


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[Assistant] So it all depends on, you know, how much you expect to run games at the maximum settings. I mean, there are cases where an 8 gig GPU is substantially cheaper than one with more VRAM.


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[Assistant] Sort of. Except that there are also cases where you can get a GPU with more VRAM


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[Assistant] Uhm, for the same price or in some cases even less. So, if you must buy something brand new current generation, yeaah, you kind of have no choice. I guess get an 8 gig card or something and don't expect to, you know, run at maximum texture quality.


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[Assistant] But if you're willing to explore other options, there's last gen cards from AMD that are a particularly good value right now, and we did that video recently where I found that, uh, 10 gig,


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[Assistant] RTX 3080s are just killer value right now. Like I paid about the same as you'd pay for a 4060 Ti for a card that is way faster, has 20% more VRAM and still had like 10 months of warranty on it. No brainer.


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[Assistant] Let's try and finish in five and we'll play one game of hockey before I go. Nice. Nice.


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[Assistant] Let's talk about how meaningful a written warranty is. Let's do it. Let's do it now. I do think you eye-opened a bunch. There's also a lot of people that are like,


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[Assistant] Or I'll say no we can't right now and I'll provide a reason. But you have to, you have to reach, you have to reach consensus.


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[Assistant] The problem from my point of view is that they need buy-in from the PC hardware industry. That's tough. And uhm, you know.


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[Assistant] We don't even have standard connectors for like power buttons and power LEDs. Like we don't even have a standard header for that.


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[Assistant] Oh, that makes sense. I just like it, so we made it good. Uhm, I don't know what else to tell you. Oh, wait!


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[Assistant] Okay, no, no, this is, I'm so sorry, this is totally unrelated to your question. I actually cannot think of anything, but someone else asked about updates on the wooden screwdriver and I didn't respond to that part. Oh.


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[Assistant] It looks like it might be possible. It's not gonna be cheap. We have to, we have to do like a metal collar for the selector ring and then like machine out a wooden like cover for it because it has to be metal on the inside. It can't be made of wood.


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[Assistant] This part, I think we can machine. Uh, yeaah, I think we can do it. But it's gonna be really expensive. Like, this is gonna be a premium tool. And uhm, you'll feel dumb for buying it. I'll say that.


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[Assistant] It's kind of amazing. That's probably not going to happen. The amount of machine time for that thing is ridiculous and the difficulty compared to


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[Assistant] And this is the huge end of the show. Thank you guys so much for tuning in. We will see you again next week. Same bad time, same bad channel.


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[Assistant] And do you want to hit us with a couple of merch messages and then we'll move on to our next topic? I do, I've got a couple good ones here for ya. First up is from Adrian. If LMG didn't exist and you could choose to do whatever you wanted, where would you work and in what position?


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[Assistant] Sorry. That's the rules. Alright. I don't make the rules. You do? We're working through it together. Okay, next up is from Gary.


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[Assistant] Okay, up next. Uh, hey DLL, as calibration tech, uh, as a calibration tech, I often see settings hidden behind proprietary information. Do you feel this is okay? Or should it fall under right to repair? And will the lab's equipment be calibrated?


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[Assistant] Because I've been doing something a little bit different this week, is I've been leaving a lot of them for you guys to maybe respond to via text. Uh, because yeaah, I haven't been able to give, uh, like a reasonable response to a lot of them.


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[Assistant] You still have 15 minutes before I'm gonna turn out the lights on you, so.


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[Assistant] Let me sit down first, man. Uh, okay.


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[Assistant] Yes, uh, any idea how you would explain A.R.E. to children or young teens?


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[Assistant] Uh, hey Linus, which one of your cats would you say is your absolute favorite? Oof.


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[Assistant] Okay, this one, uh, might be for Luke as well. It's from Chris. Luke and Linus with companies now getting their own LLMs. Uh, it's hard to say. What are your thoughts on companies or governments being able to create an actually effective AI-powered lie detector?


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[Assistant] Next up, when show with guests as the olden days. When.


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[Assistant] What's the progress update on the stubby screwdriver? Is something different compared to the full size screwdriver in development? I would really love to hear more about it since we saw it last.


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[Assistant] Uh, to Linus and Luke, but mostly Luke, another AI question. What are your thoughts on chat GPT-4 being used for sports betting, stock trading, and crypto trading or prediction? Love the show. Uh, shout out from South Louisienne. I think the A got cut off.


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[Assistant] Uh, Linus, YouTube suggested a WAN show from 2013, where you wore a seemingly authentic Cadpat parka, issued in the Canadian Armed Forces. Wondering how you got one, and if you kept it, allegedly. Isn't it gone? Uhm, yeaah, I don't know what happened to it.


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[Assistant] Okay, uh, last one I've got here are curated. Uh, why hasn't AMD released any new GPUs since the 7900 series in December? Why hold off releasing the midrange cards? Leaks seem to say next launch is June when Nvidia's 4070 is out now, 4060 is coming in May.


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[Assistant] Well, they're all just like questions. We have a thing that can display them at the end of the show if we don't get to them or play the rest of the queue. Uhm, you know, new thing that we're trying, give it a go.


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[Assistant] I managed to get one in that time. Uh, this is from Justin, long time vaude watcher and first time buyer. I work as a network engineer for a large US telecom company. If you could change one thing about the telecom industry, what would it be?


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[Assistant] Okay, another one for you here. This is from Lilith. Talking, uh, to, talking of the stream deck and portables, do you think the future of them will be framework-like experience with modular parts so the product doesn't function like a console, ie. get outdated fast?


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[Assistant] Okay, next up, uh, Linus and Luke, any suggestions on courses or resources to take my tech troubleshooting skills from? Have you tried turning it on on back on again to something more refined?


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[Assistant] No, I didn't unmute myself. Uhm, alright, last one I've got here is Salah from AndroidBasha channel. My question to Linus is, what do you think about tech channels releasing videos a couple minutes ahead of the official NDA timeline? It's happened multiple times.


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[Assistant] Okay, got another one here for you. Linus and Luke, Thoughts on Nebula's $250 lifetime membership. Isn't video streaming expensive? Did we talk about this already? Or did you and I just talk about that?


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[Assistant] Alright. What are the odds of LTT partnering with IFIXIT for an orange and black precision driver kit?


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[Assistant] Love your work and would love to work for you. Do you guys still offer relocation assistance? I don't know, why don't you get a job and find out?


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[Assistant] What is your favorite small form factor case right now?


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[Assistant] I built one in a previous Dan case and it was just incredible.


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[Assistant] I've been replaced. Uh, okay, uh, as someone who's watched since the kitchen set days, is there any videos you look back on from the early days of LTT and want to recreate for old times sake?


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[Assistant] And Linus, any timeline on the luxury backpack?


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[Assistant] Uh, I, I didn't actually catch that. I don't know. Uhm, non-tech products.


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[Assistant] Alright, I replied to a couple text ones. Are they still coming in?


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, you gotta do one every 25 seconds. Come on, guys. Is that the rate?


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[Assistant] Well, not today, but most of the day, yeaah. Uhm, yeaah, you guys were just basically treading water with these, and I'm sorry to dump that on you. That's okay, we just gotta keep pumping. We'll figure it out. The current rise of AI technology, what do you think about students pursuing careers as web developers? Oh, I was currently- I replied to that when I said-


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[Assistant] Speaking of that, uhm, I think you already replied to that one too, yeaah. Oh, it's gone.


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[Assistant] The recent examples of AMD and Intel GPU's performance gaining over time with driver updates. The lab's gonna test to make sure that the driver updates are keeping up with the performance.


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[Assistant] And Linus, how do you handle determining trustability in your employees?


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[Assistant] Are you going to be doing latency timing for different controllers?


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[Assistant] Do you have any plans on labs testing screen protectors?


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[Assistant] Are you guys going to be looking at the new Acer 3D screen? They're using AI magic to turn 2D content into 3D.


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[Assistant] Have you traveled with your Steam Deck? If so, do you have a go-to mobile charging solution or other accessories that he can stuff in his backpack?


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[Assistant] What is up everyone? Welcome to the WAN Show! The big news this week is-


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[Assistant] I can never remember. Susan! I just call her Susan. We first name.


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[Assistant] And there's other big news this week that we're gonna talk about. Intel has returned to the high-end workstation market as well as enthusiast like overclocking gaming market. Pretty, pretty excited about that actually. What else we got? Yes, yes, bing, bing, bing, bing.


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[Assistant] How about we talk about the acquisition offer that our company received?


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[Assistant] Zoho1, Grammarly, and someone-a kudos were our sponsors for today is the stream live on YouTube. Help me out. Yes it is. What are people talking about? Don't freak me out like that. Alright.


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[Assistant] The big news this week, okay, it's not big news, sort of, it's in our rapid fire topics, but I decided it's big news.


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[Assistant] Susan, YouTube's CEO since 2014, will be stepping down. In her retirement message to YouTubers, which is confusing because YouTubers are people who make videos on YouTube, not people who work for YouTube.


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[Assistant] Uhm, she states that her reason is to focus more on her family, health, and personal projects. She will apparently continue to work with YouTube in some capacity through the transition, as well as she will continue to advise Google CEO Sundar Pichai in the long term.


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[Assistant] Her successor is her longtime second-in-command, Neil Mohan, who I have met. I have never actually met Susan, I was joking about, uh, being on a first-name basis with her, but I have met Neil.


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[Assistant] Uh, whose background in advertising and close working relationship with Susan since 2015 likely indicates a decision on the part of YouTube to continue her policies and management style.


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[Assistant] In her role as CEO, Susan is primarily known for making YouTube more accessible to advertisers and trying to manage both outside demands for moderation of potentially offensive content and increased regulation. So our discussion questions are, I'd say, pretty bite-sized.


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[Assistant] It's complicated. TikTok, I think is actually outpacing YouTube for watch time.


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[Assistant] But, as far as I can tell, we're counting on bite dances numbers in order to determine that. Yeah.


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[Assistant] I don't know about you guys, but I don't believe a word bite dance says, uhm, I'm not gonna take anything they say at face value, whereas Google is a very analytics driven company, have they ever bent the truth? Uh huh.


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[Assistant] So, yeaah, I would say that, you know, if we, if we, if we look at her tenure, which is, man, that goes back to...


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[Assistant] Uhm, I mean, yeaah, I think that without getting too deep into some of the things that have gone wrong, YouTube has overall been a success.


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[Assistant] I hate it, you know, it used to be that you went onto a channel page and you could actually, you know, DM another follower of the channel, okay, from a privacy standpoint or like a spam standpoint, you know, obviously there are problems with this, but like,


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[Assistant] Um, you know, I don't see any reason why we had to, for example, um, you know, cut off social blades access to the API. If they store data past two years, like being able to see the entire history of the channel's growth and fall or whatever else is really useful for the creator community. And why?


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[Assistant] Why? Like, if I had the foresight to just track it myself, I could've. This was just a convenient way of getting access to it, but you're just basically saying, nooo, convenience. Uhm, ah, no, no, trust us. The removal of dislikes is not to avoid corporate channel problems. It's, it's...


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[Assistant] I get it. Like, that sucks, but I get it, but no, it actually is what they said. It's actually that dumb. Yeaah, sorry. Uhm, alright. What would you have done differently though?


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[Assistant] Is, is our next question. What would you do differently or what would you like to see change moving forward? I, I think more transparency would be a good thing. Maybe it's not good from like a, like a, like a shareholder relation standpoint or whatever. Like you know how YouTube announced that they were no longer going to be, uh, announcing.


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[Assistant] Uhm, growth in like users, like monthly users or anything like that, just because it wasn't impressive. But even if it's not impressive for your, for your stockholders,


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[Assistant] Uhm, am I growing, or is just the platform growing overall, or?


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[Assistant] You know, what's going on? More transparency, I think, is never a bad thing. That's something that I would have liked to see.