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[Assistant] Uh, while playing other games and not joining the like native voice chat for games, if they're playing multiplayer games. So that might reduce the usage of voice chat in games, which might be a positive in regards to the whole rating thing you were just talking about, uh, but might be a negative in regards to engagement and stuff like that.


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[Assistant] A lot of these like tempered glass everywhere cases are gonna have some troubles. Uh, we actually need like more old school style cases.


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[Assistant] If you go back to those cases with the huge, like, 300 mil- Here, here, here, I got one. I got one for ya. Side pace fans?


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[Assistant] Yeah, cause there was a while there in like, case design where it was very fashionable to just have as many fan slots as you could possibly have. This was like pre-tempered glass. This was actually kind of, in my opinion, a dark age of case design.


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[Assistant] Get that Graftus card out of there. Move with it separately.


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[Assistant] He's not even off probation yet and it's already functioning.


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[Assistant] It's also, it's also, it also works in like a pretty specific way, uhm, where it's designed to like output things into a specific database that works with Grafana and like all this other type of stuff, like that's probably not what someone would want, uh, for like a


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[Assistant] An interesting comment in Flowplane, uh, from Kenevex. Are there things in the lab's sphere of influence that you have decided to leave alone or to not bother with due to availability of data elsewhere? And I will add onto this or other potential complications.


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[Assistant] I also threw in there the other potential reasons thing. Cause like one of them that we talked about was security.


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[Assistant] Really good and really promising and was interested in security stuff, but it was just like.


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[Assistant] Unfortunately, yeaah. I find it very interesting.


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[Assistant] Like the entire audience just goes to sleep. You can tell the effort level that goes into it for the amount of return that they get from it is like pretty rough. Uhm, and I'm, I'm very happy that the people that do make content in that space make it. Uhm, and that there's some really good people, but yeah.


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[Assistant] Uh, because engineers protect the term in Canada. Oh, software developer? Developer. Software developer.


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[Assistant] In Canada, the designation professional engineer and engineer can only be used by licensed engineers and the practice of engineering is protected in law and strictly enforced in all provinces.


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[Assistant] I didn't know what we were saying, we weren't gonna be there, until Wanshow, when you said it. So I was like, uhhhh.


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[Assistant] I had a bit of a feeling cause I talked to a few people like, Oh, what do you think about it while they were holding it? And I had a bit of a feeling that they were trying to flatter me a little bit, even though I didn't work on it at all.


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[Assistant] So like, I wasn't 100% sure, but they seemed, everyone seemed pretty happy with it. So I'm, I'm happy that the text reviews are coming in also positive.


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[Assistant] What is technically a different store, uh, for, for the purchases of the backpack, because we had a physical location in Canada, so we had to do transactions in CAD, Canadian dollars. Uhm, so then...


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[Assistant] We, we have them coming over here. Some of them are getting their verified tag properly because it's like seeing the accounts are crossing and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. The people that don't have a verified tag, uhm, we're going to have to reach out to, cause we don't actually control this.


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[Assistant] We have to reach out to the company that runs the review app.


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[Assistant] That we have and send them proof that it's the same person and then they can add the verify tag for us.


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[Assistant] But we're not, we're not like spoofing verified tags or anything so it's gonna, it's gonna take a sec because we're waiting for a few more of the reviews to come in and then the people that don't have the verified tag, uh, we're gonna send that information over to judge.me which is the thing that we use and then they'll approve it and we'll be good.


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[Assistant] I don't know how much other people are into this, but I really like games that people don't really play, being the competition games. Cause I'm, I'm not all that interested in like, oh, okay, it's a two, what, 250 person LAN. Um, I'm not all that interested in like, what are the,


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[Assistant] Yeah, so there's five people here that play all together on a Counter-Strike team, four days a week, and we're just gonna watch them crap on everyone else in the entire arena. Like, that's not super interesting to me, even if I'm one of those people. Cause it's just like, oh what, so my like, professional team just gets a pub stomp at some land, like, okay. Maybe it's like, kind of fun, but it's not that engaging.


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[Assistant] So I like having games that just nobody plays, which means I don't really want to tell you.


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[Assistant] You want the, you want the land environment to be jovial, not like sweaty competitive, unless you're at specifically a sweaty competitive land. Yeah.


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[Assistant] It's a tough one, because I, Linus probably remembers this, but I, back in the day, and even now to a certain degree, but back in the day I always had like a million different things going on, because I really liked having fallback plans. That was like, part of my whole thing.


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[Assistant] And servers and stuff for my, my, it was a lot of like little, little law firms and notaries and stuff like that because they, by the way, if you want to get into it, it's pretty good customer to have because they're, they're like security is extremely important. And if they lose all their data, they're just like done.


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[Assistant] So, they need to have really good security, they need to have really good backups. A lot of that comes into, like, yeaah, so it's a good customer to have because you can set up a recurring contract with them. And they have money. And they have money. Uhm, one of- Yeah, customers with money.


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[Assistant] Customers with money and people that will come back. Cause like if you're trying to start like a little tech company thing.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't know. I have no idea. Cause I had a bunch of other stuff going on. Uh, I was very much in a discovery phase at that time. I was trying to figure out what I wanted to do. And I had school going on as like a kind of guaranteed fallback. There was also potential. I didn't.


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[Assistant] Want to. He's really good at it. I'm not necessarily, but there was also potentially could have followed my, my dad's path and gotten into plumbing. I would have had a fantastic teacher considering he is currently a fantastic teacher. Yeah, there we go.


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[Assistant] Dude, it's sooo douchey. Like, if you- I have this like, white undershirt on, if I remember correctly, and you can see it.


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[Assistant] That's deep! What was I doing? My mom's filming this too?


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[Assistant] Do you remember, do you remember flip HDs? No. Oh, flip HD, oh yea.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I didn't buy one, just to be clear, but I borrowed one from a friend and that was filmed on a flip HD in the kitchen, um, and was, was not a winner. Katara Luna.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no, it's a, it's a large vase. That's gonna be a hard...


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[Assistant] That question is common though, there was a bunch of that question under that video or whatever. Yea, for sure. But yea, no it's not. Nope. Answers no. Alright. Such a go up, I guess you could call it that.


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[Assistant] There's a lot of things you could do with it. You could also make it look like there was like a thing where you could pour out tea and it looked like it was coming from the water cooling but it was actually not or whatever.


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[Assistant] It hasn't been forgotten, it has been brought up a few times kinda here and there, but... Other than that.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna throw Corsair up. There we go. Thanks to Corsair for sponsoring this video. If you're looking for a new headset, check out Corsair's HS65 Surround Wired Gaming Headset. Featuring high quality, custom tuned, 50mm neodymium


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[Assistant] Neodymium or neodymium? Neodymium. Neodymium. Audio drivers to deliver excellent sound with the range you need to hear everything on the battlefield. Because I work from home now, I don't hear words anymore. I just read them.


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[Assistant] Metal construction and details for a quality look and feel while weighing in at only 282 grams.


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[Assistant] Learn more about the Corsair HS65 Surround in the link below.


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[Assistant] I, topics that stand out to me, I remember the, the Oculus one. Was it? I don't think it was when, no, yeah, when Facebook bought Oculus.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you were not impressed. No. And I wrote like a huge thing for it.


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[Assistant] That was, that was very memorable. And then I think, uh, this is, I'm not going to do, uh, ones that like bothered me. I don't remember the exact word that they used, but, uh, the other one that I remember talking about a lot was like, we had this, I feel like it was recurring topic.


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[Assistant] But it was this idea of like, having like, robot wars on a football field.


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[Assistant] There's some allegations in the comments on here, which are interesting to me. There's a note that says,


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[Assistant] In communication with customers, Hive claims to be a brand in the middle of a climate crisis that needs to change their focus by bricking discontinued cameras. Are they actually doing that?


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[Assistant] That's such a weird move, like did it, did it literally a single person take that the way they had hoped?


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[Assistant] I wanted to defend it until I went to the homepage and I saw that there's like effectively no padding between the words and anything. Oh, are you on it right now? Yeah, yeah. It's just like the text just goes like right into the- Gorgeous.


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[Assistant] I don't know. I could look into it, but I honestly don't really care too much. Yeah, if it's legit, it's legit. That's it. Whatever. Sounds good. It's just an info page, like, I don't know. Who cares?


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[Assistant] I saw some posts about that, but maybe it was about a different video. I don't know. We'll talk about it. But, whale land tickets first? Oh no, we're doing this. Okay, yeah, uh, a robot dog similar to Boston Dynamics' Spot was demoed with an assault rifle just kinda...


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[Assistant] Throne on top of it. Uhm, there, there, the video went.


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[Assistant] Uh, pretty viral, I think. Got a lot of views. It was, it was kind of everywhere for a while. You can see it, it's, it's very spot-like. It's, it's running through some type of patrol script there. You can see it does have some issues with recoil. Uh, that could be.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it looks like the technology dog that was used in the video is sold on AliExpress for about 3 grand. Uhm, yeaah.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it looks like it's very likely of, of, uh, there's some suggestions that it might be of Russian origin because


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[Assistant] Every single thing that links it to that origin could be done and put there by basically anyone. So it means basically nothing.


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[Assistant] But yeah, I don't know. Just throwing it like on top with duct tape is not the most elegant solution and I guarantee you that there are people making more elegant solutions that are better at recoil control.


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[Assistant] And probably don't just use, uh, a firearm that was made for a human, taped on top of a dog. They use a firearm that was made for the dog, properly attached to the dog. So, uh, Jayden's saying, hey, not this please. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's spooky. It's just, uh, I don't think that necessarily the one in the video is the one that you should be.


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[Assistant] Drone strikes are spooky. We're getting outside of our realm here pretty quickly, but like, yeah, it's a, it's a thing. Just if, if that video was, was spooky, just understand that that's pretty base level.


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[Assistant] It's kind of like an after the fact roll in and seize territory type of situation where you've already kind of ruined that territory through the other means. Um, also, yeah, yeah, I don't know. I don't want to give people ideas. So I'm not going to talk about other things related to this.


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[Assistant] You gotta ask yourself like what would you do in this situation if you had a company of people that are reading this and then looking at you and if you had a community of people that are watching your videos and potentially gonna hear about it because the email blast went out to a wide range of people. Uhm, you wanna get out ahead of it.


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[Assistant] Packing cubes? Sorry, packing cubes. Loss organizer nest, you said? Yea. I think we've, I've seen these before, right?


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[Assistant] Hmm. I don't think the new equipment necessarily makes collabing easier. There aren't a ton of tech creators like.


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[Assistant] In BC, so a lot of people would have to like ffff.


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[Assistant] Like change countries to come check out the lab. The lab stuff is not very portable.


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[Assistant] That's something that you could, you could maybe send it to other people to test.


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[Assistant] Depends so much what you're into. Yeah, it's not for everyone. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Also franchise is like kind of specific because a lot of my favorite games are not a part of a franchise.


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[Assistant] I can't think of a franchise that isn't like, super generic and you've probably already played it. Uhm, so, I don't really have an answer, sorry.


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[Assistant] Divinity? Yeaah. But then like, I wouldn't necessarily recommend super high playing the old ones, you should just play the new ones. You should check out Baller's Gate, which is coming out, it looks amazing. You should play Divinity Original Sin 2. There you go.


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[Assistant] Welcome to the WAN Show! Hey! We've got a great show for you guys today, ladies and gentlemen. That's right! This is an episode of a podcast that will not get pulled down by big tech.


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[Assistant] Uh, artesian builds who generated significant controversy last week has formally completely pooped all over itself and the bed and the floor. So we're gonna get through that. What else we got today? We got windows on a steam deck.


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[Assistant] Windows on a Steam Deck? Yeah. Well where, where, what do you look through to see?


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[Assistant] The show is brought to you by JumpCloud, Valter, and DreamHost. Now, this is not fair, The Ryan? The Ryan asks in floatplane chat, Is it a great show if every show is a great show? Yes. Yes! Yeah. Because it's relative to... I don't know what it's relative to.


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[Assistant] Right? So that was way back, like, over a month ago, I was expecting Windows drivers, and Valve kept saying, oh, we, we have them, but we can't send them something, something, legal review, something, something, something. Sorry, we...


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[Assistant] We can't give them to you, but apparently there were working drivers, which makes sense because while there was obviously a lot of work to be done by AMD and Valve software teams, particularly I would think AMD for something like a closed source Windows driver,


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[Assistant] I mean, these were, these were mostly known quantities, right? They're, they're Zen 3 cores, and they're bolted to an RDNA 2 onboard graphics chip rather than, uhm, a Vega-based graphics chip, but fundamentally that architecture exists already, so they're not


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[Assistant] Starting from scratch, right? There's a starting point that they have to work from. Uhm, so I was expecting it to be pretty...


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[Assistant] Transparency and allowing us to really fully test it even though we were limited in terms of game selection.


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[Assistant] Because the software really wasn't ready yet and they knew that and that was fine.


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[Assistant] But they told us that the Windows drivers were gonna come. Like I didn't, I didn't just pull that out of thin air. Oh well. I am expecting Windows drivers because I am a Windows user. It wasn't like that. They told us they were gonna come. Give me what I want.


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[Assistant] Then, in between the hardware review, so, so we had the lead up to the hardware review, so then we published the hardware review, and then in between the publishing of the hardware review,


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[Assistant] And the release of our software review, I was expecting Windows drivers again. And when I, when I shot the software review, it was actually the morning of my family's ski trip.


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[Assistant] To uhm, I don't know what it's called anymore, but it used to be called Hemlock Mountain. And we were going there.


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[Assistant] And basically, I had to shoot it then because I kept putting off, and putting off, and putting off, starting the software review, because Valve kept sending, just, they kept inundating me with software updates, and I was still expecting a Windows driver.


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[Assistant] And I wrote down a lot of thoughts, I threw a lot of things at the page, but I couldn't write the video, because I couldn't tell the whole story, because I hadn't, like, if they were gonna drop a Windows driver on me two days before publication,


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[Assistant] I was gonna have to have like a big section comparing Linux to Windows Performance for example.


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[Assistant] Like if I'm supposed to say this is the software review, it changes the angle of the video, right? What I'm gonna cover in it. So I ended up staying up until 7.30 in the morning.


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[Assistant] And then I only slept for about two hours, and then I went, I met a camera crew at, like, the new house, cause that's where they were set up doing some sponsored thing for TELUS already anyway.


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[Assistant] Shot the A-roll and then drove to the mountain afterward because I had to leave it to the very last second. So again, there was a period of time when I was expecting Windows drivers. Well, they finally arrived this week.


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[Assistant] And I gotta tell you, you guys are gonna wanna watch the full video because the exact numbers matter and I don't remember everything off the top of my head, but Anthony and I had a really good meeting about


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[Assistant] Investigating the performance differences between the in- between the Nvidia, the Nvidia, between the Linux and the Windows drivers. Oh my, okay.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so, uh, we had a really good chat about what we want the scope of the video to be, and man, did we ever find a ton of interesting stuff going on almost immediately.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and then also we had a really, we sat down, we did a full script review, we were like, I almost never get to like sit down and talk to Anthony about stuff anymore because he hosts so many of the videos that he writes now. Instead of me editing and me hosting them. So it was actually really nice to sit because we often will just chat.


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[Assistant] About stuff, and I feel like we end up with...


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[Assistant] Regardless of whether it's me who reviews it, I think we end up with a better script, a better video if a second pair of eyes looks at it and starts to, you know, ask those questions, right? That someone, sometimes you just, you got your nose buried in it.


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[Assistant] Or you take something for granted. One of our new writers came in, uh, talking to me about a video that we were doing about whether it matters if your GPU is still getting drivers. So we took drivers that have been unsupported for in some cases years.


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[Assistant] Just how far does DirectX get you? You know, can you just limp along and probably have compatibility or do you need a game ready driver, right? And really interesting findings, but we went into this whole explanation without


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[Assistant] You know, uh, some young kid just getting into PC gaming watches and we need to give them at least


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[Assistant] Okay, it might be a little jargony, but we need to give them at least a basic explanation of what purpose this serves before we can move past it. So anyway, I sat down with Anthony and we talked through it and


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[Assistant] They could have just as easily not done it. In fact, it would have been a lot less work for them and AMD because you gotta remember, even though these are Zen 3 CPU cores and RDNA 2 based GPU cores, they are...


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[Assistant] This is a custom chip, so there is absolutely extra work that needed to be done. Compounding matters is that aside from being a custom chip,


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[Assistant] It has, at least in the PC space, from my experience, a pretty unique, uhm, system architecture. It doesn't have main system memory and GPU memory, which is normal for an integrated GPU, but


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[Assistant] With an integrated GPU at this kind of performance level? Were there unique challenges?


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[Assistant] Presumably these are challenges AMD is probably going to have to face as they move into, uh, their upcoming, uh, RDNA2-based IG, uh, like APUs. Yes, but...


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[Assistant] Definitely they could have saved themselves some work, and they could have kicked some work down the road, but absolutely. Also, as soon as Valve provides a driver, they will start receiving support tickets, and even if, even if every message they get,


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[Assistant] About running windows on the Steam Deck. They just send back a canned response that says


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[Assistant] We don't support Windows on the Steam Deck, which is their formal stance. They have provided these drivers.


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[Assistant] But it is not a supported use case. It is still creating extra busy work for Valve Corporation.


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[Assistant] It could create more support tickets than less.


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[Assistant] So there's a few things to keep in mind. One is that not all drivers are available. First and foremost, the Wi-Fi drivers are not baked into Windows.


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[Assistant] Actually, no. First and foremost, you will not be running the latest version of Windows. Support for the FTPM, so the trusted platform module that is required for Windows 11, is not baked into the firmware yet.


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[Assistant] So you cannot, well, remember this is a touch screen device.


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[Assistant] Windows 11 has a lot of improvements for touchscreen devices. That's fair. Yeaah. So, you might want Windows 11. Whether you are correct or not, uhm, that's a whole separate conversation that we're not gonna get into today. But, so first and foremost, you can't install the latest version of Windows. So you are stuck with Windows 10. For better or for worse.


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[Assistant] Second of all, when you install Windows, you're gonna have to go get some kind of network.


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[Assistant] I don't know if you've had this experience, but Windows installers recently have stopped allowing you to


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[Assistant] Go to proceed past the setup phase unless you have an internet connection and unless you sign into a Microsoft account. There are workarounds to be clear.


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[Assistant] But for most people, like for the, is a console. That's the way we have it.


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[Assistant] Unless there's a game they like, really wanna play, and they find a super basic tutorial to get them through it, they might. If it's a super basic tutorial,


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[Assistant] It would probably include this portion though. It might include it, but you might have to go out and buy one.


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[Assistant] Unless you already have a Type-C to Ethernet adapter for your Switch, for example, or something like that. So you may have to go out and get some other network adapter because the onboard Wi-Fi module does not have support baked into Windows.


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[Assistant] So you'll need a network connection in order to get a network connection.


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[Assistant] Okay, once you're in Windows, you can install Wi-Fi drivers, Bluetooth works, which is great.


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[Assistant] Valve does not have an audio driver yet for the onboard speakers, or for the 3.5mm jack. They are working on that.


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[Assistant] That's coming. And then there were also some other devices in Device Manager that just...


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[Assistant] We're still yellow exclamation marks, we don't know exactly what they were. Did you try all the different input types and everything? Okay.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We tried Bluetooth and USB-C and they were both fine. Sorry.


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[Assistant] Windows Navigation on the Steam Deck? Oh boy. Not great. Okay.


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[Assistant] Because the default behavior for the Steam Deck is A is enter, B is escape,


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[Assistant] And the ability for applications. Okay, so first of all, Valve did, uh, Valve does allow a Steam Controller to be used as like a joystick to mouse device. Okay. So you can actually use it to move the mouse around. And, remember, trackpads.


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[Assistant] So you can actually move the mouse around with the track pad.


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[Assistant] Except when it stops. Okay. Right? Yikes. Alright. And if you close Steam, then...


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[Assistant] In the background, so that you can use the joystick or whatever. And you go to open software like RetroArch, which has controller support.


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[Assistant] RetroArch will not grab the controller properly. It's being used. So what happens is even trying to do something as simple as navigating the menu in RetroArch, you try to go back, you try to just like go back a couple menus, escape, escape, RetroArch is closed. Oh no.


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[Assistant] So it's pretty freakin' rough. It's pretty rough right now. And I haven't even gotten to game performance.


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[Assistant] My expectation was that compatibility, we didn't test a really broad set of games because quite frankly, I don't feel there was a ton to be learned from that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, game compatibility is gonna be more Windows-y. So if there's anti-cheat software that doesn't run in Linux or that the developer suggests


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[Assistant] Yes. So, uh, you know, whether it's an anti-cheat or whether it's just games that proton, or what's it called? Steam play now?


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[Assistant] I think so. Yeah, Steam Play hasn't caught up to, uhm, game compatibility is going to be better. But, performance?


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[Assistant] Well, I was expecting it to be, I was expecting it to trade blows. Cause we've looked at this before. We've run into situations where Linux underperforms Windows because translation can have a cost. We've run into situations where


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[Assistant] Uh, the translation has a cost, but Linux is also just, like, lighter, and you end up with them canceling each other out, you get performance parity, and we've even seen situations where the drivers on Linux are better.


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[Assistant] Then the proprietary drivers that exist on Windows and Linux actually manages to squeeze more out of the hardware than Windows. But there tends to be like that back and forth. On the Steam Deck, it was just annihilation in all the titles we tested.


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[Assistant] Like Linux just ran away from Windows. And some of this we expected, like Elden Ring for example. Valve has put work specifically into fixing, uh, I think it's some kind of, um, uh,


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[Assistant] Oh man, like texture optimization thing that they've done. Uh, what is it? Compiling shaders!


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[Assistant] Huge issue on Windows, uhm, and so, so what Valve has actually done, it's kind of insane, is they've taken a feature that, uhm, the Elden Ring developers should have implemented in DirectX, and they've hacked it in as part of the DirectX to Vulkan translation.


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[Assistant] So what's crazy about it, Elden Ring is so bad that it's not as simple as just seeing a new asset and waiting for it to compile.


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[Assistant] You could even stand in one room and spin around and it'll stutter constantly.


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[Assistant] Cause it's just not caching them. So right, yea, now I, now I remember. To be clear, Elden Ring itself is not bad.


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[Assistant] I haven't played it yet. I actually, I started Horizon Zero Dawn on my recent trip, and so I've been making my way through that. I have new thoughts on that by the way, I can talk about that more later on the show. But I'm done now, so I think-


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[Assistant] I keep on wanting to ask you to play Halo, but I'm like, you can't. I can't play Halo. I'm playing, I'm Steam Deck only right now, man. I, I honestly, I have used it almost zero as a desktop though.


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[Assistant] Because I have, I said it's not for work and almost all of my desktop computer usage has been work. So I'm just happily gaming on my Steam Deck. Sort of. I'm gonna talk about that later. So it was, it was a bloodbath.


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[Assistant] Which really surprised me because on paper the RDNA2 graphics on the Steam Deck were terrifying for competitors who are stuck with Vega graphics.


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[Assistant] But the thing is that, if you were able to, if the Steam Deck was performing up to its expectations though, it should be better.


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[Assistant] Then those Windows first handhelds running last generation GPU tech.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and Valve has said that when the full SteamOS 3.0 installer launches, they will have support for dual booting, so maybe that's just a price they're willing to pay.


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[Assistant] There will be a performance hit, but you can have compatibility, but we took the safest possible path for everything, rather than pushing the performance to the bleeding edge, because we expect you to do the vast majority of your gaming in SteamLS.


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[Assistant] I have, uh, we get into this in a bit more detail on, in the video, so you'll, you'll still have to watch it. Haha, got em. But.


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[Assistant] I wanna talk about doing the majority of your gaming on SteamOS a little bit.


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[Assistant] Actually no, first I'm gonna talk about how there are other interface issues with the Steam Deck, like the fact that it doesn't have a task manager.


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[Assistant] Plug it in and press control alt delete. Like you're stuck. A lot of the windows handhelds will have a show desktop button or some, or, uh, like Aya has a software interface that you can bring up to slide over top of full screen apps and you can assign. Exactly. Exactly. Like it's.


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[Assistant] It's made to compensate for Windows, right? So the one not built for Windows doesn't have that system. Yeah, exactly. You're gonna have these problems, so we're ready for ya.


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[Assistant] Alright, which isn't to say that running SteamOS on a Steam Deck is necessarily a flawless, victory, you know, perfect experience. Yeah. Horizon Zero Dawn is a verified title on the Steam Deck, and man.


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[Assistant] I was blown away. I think I'm running at medium 800p, like some 1280x800, uh, getting like solid 30 FPS, uh, playable, you know, playable. I ran into a weird issue where like, aim assist is enabled, but I swear it's not working.


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[Assistant] I think I talked last week about how tedious a lot of the encounters were. Okay, if you don't hit the exact weak points on these fast moving enemies, it can be like a controller snapper.


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[Assistant] It's probably because something about the Steam Deck or the Steam Controller


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[Assistant] I'll tell you what, you go play it, you go fight a thunder whatever, a thunder jaw, with a controller with no aim assist. I'll wait.


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[Assistant] Yeah, thunder jaws aren't that hard actually. I know, it's no problem if you can start knocking off components, and if I was on a mouse and keyboard, it would be a non-issue. The problem is that I'm on a controller, and any controller's gonna have subtle dead zones, so when you're like, leaping for bullet time,


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[Assistant] Trying to like make that really small adjustment for that you like jumped.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it can be, it can be, it can be very frustrating. Uh, anyway, where, where was I, where was I going with this? Right, the first five hours of the game though. Solid 30 FPS, great experience. You know, the noise bothers me more than it did in the review.


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[Assistant] With earphones in, but I've actually been using speakers with it now more just because circumstances have dictated that that's been, that's been sensible.


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[Assistant] And I'm, I'm finding the, I'm finding the fan kind of annoying. Basically, under half volume, it's pretty overpowering.


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[Assistant] After about five hours in, I started getting all manner of weird issues, and I didn't think to whip out a camera and record any of it unfortunately, so Anthony's asked me to replicate it, and the- the-


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[Assistant] The good and bad news is that it's gonna be real easy.


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[Assistant] Because at first, I started running into these issues, like, after two continuous hours of gameplay, where I would get stuttering down to, like, one FPS.


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[Assistant] For ten, thirty seconds at a time. And then it would like, like catch up.


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[Assistant] A little bit, not quite. Okay. Yeah, especially if it was a cutscene. It'd be like... but like...


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[Assistant] I saw, I saw game crashes, just hard crash, hard crash back to, back to Steam interface. I even saw black screen.


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[Assistant] Device unresponsive. Steam button does nothing. Quick access menu does nothing. Long press power button. Full reboot is the only way to solve it.


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[Assistant] And the problem for me is that those as I got into the late game started to come up every 20 minutes or so. Which is pretty bad.


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[Assistant] Issues. Those are the worst. Was happening so frequently that, I mean, I told Anthony because he hadn't had that experience. He only has benchmarked Steam Deck so far.


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[Assistant] So I was, I was contributing that to our video today, and I told Anthony, like, it's, I have gotten more game crashes in my playthrough of Horizon Zero Dawn than I've probably had with every game all combined in the last five years.


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[Assistant] Someone said 25 hours is not late game LMAO. For the first five to eight, I was doing a lot of the side quests, but honestly, I figured out what was bothering me about the game so much. They've built this incredible world. They've done all this world building, and it's populated with all of these muppets.


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[Assistant] Like almost everyone you talk to, like if you turn off the quest indicator that just takes you straight to the person you're supposed to talk to, you've got all these unique looking people that just repeat the same


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[Assistant] So after that first like five to eight hours, I just got really bored of samey side quests and realized that you don't need to grind at all.


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[Assistant] So, I have experienced a ton of instability and it really raises questions for me about


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[Assistant] The QC that's going into verified games.


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[Assistant] Because I have no doubt that if I was Sony, right?


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[Assistant] I would be not that happy to have...


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[Assistant] You know, my name flash up as a splash screen.


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[Assistant] On this verified title, on some verified console, like you think about how defensive companies are of their image.


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[Assistant] That's fair, but they fixed it, apparently. Maybe, yeah. Yeah, people in the chat are saying, yeah, it was a joke at launch, but it's been, it's been good. I played it recently and it was fine.


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[Assistant] So I, so there's definitely sensitivity around your product being badged as


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[Assistant] Works perfectly by someone else, and then it doesn't, and then you're kinda going, okay,


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[Assistant] Because it's absolutely, they will get messages about it. Oh for sure. Hey, why is your game such a crashy buggy mess on Steam Deck? It's verified. What did you guys do?


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[Assistant] And I just, I feel like, I feel like with how many titles Valve is verifying, they might be going a little yolo and a little rubber stampy because my experience with Horizon Zero Dawn was that I went five hours in with not a single hiccup.


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[Assistant] And then after that, it basically got worse and worse and worse and worse and worse. They probably didn't.


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[Assistant] Tested all that much. So they probably didn't, like, Nevermind playtesting it. They probably didn't play the whole game.


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[Assistant] And you can't, you can't expect- It's a fair amount to ask. Yea, you can't expect, you know, 20 hours in every game, or even 10 hours in every game, uh, for Valve to just, you know, be a charity and contribute that time.


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[Assistant] Oh, I'm, I'm 100% sure that they contribute to QA. Sure.


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[Assistant] You CAN put Windows on the Steam Deck.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it could be. I mean, uh, actually, I haven't checked.


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[Assistant] Uh, I and you next, I haven't checked in on their Indiegogo. Uhm, and I haven't heard from the...


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[Assistant] I haven't heard from the CEO lately. They've, uh, they've got 382 backers and they raised three quarters, uh, 700,000 Canadians. So that's about 550 US, just over a half a million dollars US. So yeah, not bad.


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[Assistant] Not bad, I mean, I guarantee you it's not Steam Deck numbers, but it's not bad. Uh, Chino Chibi says, Nintendo Seal of Quality is worthless. I think it is now, but when they- It used to be primo. When they first introduced it, it was a big deal. It was one of the things that Nintendo did to set themselves apart from-


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[Assistant] Just the gaming crash that took place before the NES took hold, uh, which was to keep low quality, repetitive crappy games off of their platform. They even, uh, they even enforced a limit to how many games a publisher was allowed to submit per year.


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[Assistant] Just to ensure that they wouldn't just shard out more games. Yeah, try to make it up in volume, you know, and they would even, it wasn't even just technical validation. They would even offer gameplay suggestions, say like, Hey, you should do this and you should do that.


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[Assistant] We should probably bring up Merge Messages as well as the new feature that we are launching on LTT Store!


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[Assistant] So we don't have any new products this week, so still the cable ties that we talked about last week, lots of different colors, these are actually selling really really well, they're a way better deal than they used to be, and there's a ton more variety, also eco-friendly packaging, but... Love the packaging. What we're doing...


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[Assistant] This week is announcing, actually, you know what, Luke, you should announce it. Cause your team worked on this.


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[Assistant] Yeah, maybe check out the bonus pin. I can tell you they don't cost much, so anyone who's charging you a ton of money for a pin is, uh...


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[Assistant] I mean I'll happily charge $15 for them. Do you guys want them in the bonus bin or should I charge $15 for them? Cause I'm down.


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[Assistant] I would strongly encourage you guys to do the GPU Wasteland postcard and then send it to us.


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[Assistant] Our address is on Google Maps, and the idea is that if people get these, color them, or otherwise decorate them, and then send them back to us, uh, we want to decorate a wall in the new creator warehouse space with these GPU wasteland postcards, so we can all remember the glory days of 2020 to 2022.


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[Assistant] But yea, should be good. Fifteen dollars, let's go for fifty! Indeed! Indubitably!


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[Assistant] Hi, Linus. I have to get all new network gear for my house. Long story. And we'll soon get 10 gig internet. Really? That's uh, that's intense.


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[Assistant] We've been pretty happy with UnifiGear at the office here, and that includes everything from their access points to their switches.


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[Assistant] We have definitely run into some speed bumps, but it should be noted that


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[Assistant] Apparently the square APs that I got way back in the day were just notoriously awful. They were like the worst product Ubiquiti ever made. And so the fact that I, that was my first Unifi experience was I picked up three of those and tried to, you know, do up my house.


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[Assistant] And it was just, it was, it was terrible. And I ended up going ruckus after the fact.


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[Assistant] So I've had some bad experiences, but a lot of it has been caused by us often using early access Unifi gear, where the hardware is baked, but the software is not done yet. So yes, we've run into issues, but man, when you want bang for the buck prosumer network gear,


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[Assistant] What would you, I mean, what would you compare it to? You pretty much come down to ubiquity. Yeah, microtech is pretty sick if you're, if you want to get down and dirty and you want to, you want to get nerdy.


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[Assistant] Other than that, like what? Like most of the big guys these days want subscription fees for everything. And Ubiquiti is still providing a lot of the same software and monitoring and tools


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[Assistant] But there's no subscription, you just buy the hardware and you get access to that. So...


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I would say, I would say ubiquity is a, is a...


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[Assistant] We actually just rolled some new Ubiquiti gear between here and one of the new satellite offices. Right. We were up on the roof. Okay.


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[Assistant] But, we are getting, uh, greater than gigabit speeds. Between the two. And sub one millisecond latency.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm really excited. That's awesome. Super cool.


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[Assistant] Oh, what am I looking at here? Oh, click to view more. Oh, oh, there's a new interface here. Uh, oh, Landon!


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[Assistant] Everything including gaming hardware is getting more expensive fast. With things like Steam Deck and laptops getting more and more powerful, what does an entry-level setup look like in five to ten years? Will gaming desktops eventually die out? I mean, that was part of the idea behind me daily driving the Steam Deck for a month, was to find out.


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[Assistant] Is this handheld, which realistically has hardware in it that would have been gaming laptop grade only a few short years ago, good enough to daily drive?


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[Assistant] I just mean, I'll just extend the video, I'll extend the challenge another 30 days and I'll like force myself to do it if I feel like it.


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[Assistant] You've seen how stuck on Horizon Zero Dawn I've been lately. Yeah. I'm like constantly in there. Yeah. And I feel left out because every time I'm on Steam, I'm like, the bottom right hand, Kaltain is playing Elden Ring.


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[Assistant] BurtBanana is playing Eldenraids. Everyone's just- I haven't played it yet. Everyone's just playing Eldenraids. Everyone's playing Eldenraids! And I'm like, I picked- I picked completely the not trendy open world game to play. Bro! Wha- I have no idea what I'm doing!


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[Assistant] I'd say go for it! Absolutely. Especially cause you can't even get a desktop computer with a GPU in it for $400. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Hey Linus, asks Joshua, how did the Twitch chat is awful thing start? And why be so mean to Twitch viewers?


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[Assistant] Well, that's actually a really interesting story, and to answer it, we kind of have to go way back to before it was Twitch TV. We have to go all the way back to when it was Justin.tv. And rather than being a game-focused site, it was actually more focused on like, uh, bootleg live shows and, uh, sporting events.


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[Assistant] And uhm, pretty much everyone was toxic and awful. And I made the astute observation that as a community, they are toxic and awful. And uhm, they never changed. Nice. Yea. Yea. Twitch chat, I love you. You're awful.


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[Assistant] No idea how to pronounce that. Been watching for years, loved your hot takes. Oh, thanks.


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[Assistant] Wouldn't that be a really cool way to do a VPN where basically everyone


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[Assistant] Is, uhm, it's kind of like how, yeaah, everyone's a node, and it's kind of like how Windows is, uh, Windows, it's kind of like how Microsoft is rolling Windows updates now, where you contribute


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[Assistant] To the network to make sure that, you know, okay, say Luke and I live in the same apartment building rather than him downloading off of a Microsoft server in Redmond.


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[Assistant] Obviously that's not typically how it would be, that Microsoft would have the files cached on a data center closer to Luke, but rather than pulling the files out of a data center, he would just grab them


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[Assistant] In as few hops as possible from a newer node, like me, in order to accelerate download speeds, as well as reduce latency, and overall internet congestion. It's actually like a win-win-win.


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[Assistant] So, the product that Lew was taking a look at was pretty much the idea that I had talked about before, where instead of being for file distribution, these nodes were for, uhm,


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[Assistant] Internet access from that location.


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[Assistant] What's really cool about this approach is that by contributing a little bit of your bandwidth, and many people have unlimited data plans these days, by contributing some of your bandwidth and some of your both download and upload speed, right, because the traffic has to come all the way through, you are gaining access to other users in other regions


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[Assistant] Who are contributing their bandwidth to you so that you can access services and websites as though you are from that region, just like a VPN would. But what gives it a big advantage over a traditional VPN is that


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[Assistant] Service providers are constantly trying to block.


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[Assistant] VPNs from accessing their services. And there's a hundred reasons.


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[Assistant] Uhm, there are lots of reasons why they will aggressively pursue these users who are accessing their content from another region, uh, because in some cases it can open them up to serious legal liability if they are found to be not doing their due diligence to enforce the terms of their license.


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[Assistant] And so there's this constant game of whack-a-mole where VPN providers are trying to find ways to use safe, non-blocked IPs that are registered to that region.


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[Assistant] And service providers are trying to find ways to play whack-a-mole and ban IP blocks that are associated with these VPN services. And it's at the point now where a company like ShadowTech, you remember ShadowTech?


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[Assistant] They had like gaming servers in data centers, I don't know if they're still doing it, but they were for a while anyway, and then they had a whole like insolvency thing, but.


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[Assistant] Shadowtech, uhm, had the challenge of trying to find a way to get their, like they actually had to work through services like Netflix to get their IP blocks unbanned.


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[Assistant] Because it got to the point where service providers just basically said, okay, we're just going to


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[Assistant] Just blocklist every IP that's associated with a data center.


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[Assistant] Because any commercial VPN service that is running out of a data center is gonna be on these IP blocks and really there's no reason that


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[Assistant] And where was I going with this? Right, right, right. So the advantage is that by having all of these nodes, it becomes extremely difficult to play that game of Whack-a-Mole efficiently.


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[Assistant] Right? To just mass ban anything that could possibly be associated with a commercial service and move on to the next thing. And because theoretically, if the network gets large enough,


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[Assistant] That traffic could be spread out so much.


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[Assistant] It would be, it would be really hard for them to even detect it through like a brute force method, like looking at how much use is coming through it and blocking that IP. Now they could get aggressive and start trying to block everything that they suspect.


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[Assistant] ...is a multiple user, but they'd end up irking a lot of customers, and now that Netflix charges so much.


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[Assistant] You don't wanna, you don't wanna create friction with your legitimate paying customer, right? So any overly aggressive attempt to curb


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[Assistant] Undesirable behaviors, like hosting a VPN that other users are tunneling through.


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[Assistant] It runs the risk of causing people to cancel your service, which doesn't look great on your, you know, quarterly revenue reports because you're a public company, right?


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[Assistant] But I meant for Netflix, people could cancel that service. And that's not a good look.


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[Assistant] Winter says just use a PIA static IP and generate a new one each month. That service that PIA offers, does it cost more? I can't remember. But that service that PIA offers is...


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[Assistant] Difficult to maintain. Finding new, especially IPv4 IPs these days?


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[Assistant] It's not, well it's easy, but it's not cheap. Is what I will, is what I will say about that. I don't know, there's, there's... So the downside. Yeah.


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[Assistant] You are encrypting it before it goes through.


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[Assistant] But my understanding is that there's no way to encrypt what comes back to you.


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[Assistant] Yeah. I mean, almost everything is HTTPS now. Like it's, there's still some that


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[Assistant] I'm gonna maybe invite a surprise guest to the show. Let's see if he picks up.


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[Assistant] Uh, hey Dan, you're, uhm, wait I forget, is it Dan or Danny?


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[Assistant] Great, uhm, you're on the WAN show, so you're live right now. I was talking about how IPv4 addresses are getting


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[Assistant] I won't say difficult to obtain, but certainly expensive to obtain. And we've had some people in the chat kind of saying, well, they can't be that expensive. Uh, you know, surely, you know, you could afford them easily Linus, but I remember the last time I talked to you about this being just utterly


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[Assistant] Blown away by how expensive it was for a block of IPv4 addresses and I was wondering if you'd be willing to kinda give us the latest on that.


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[Assistant] So you're saying that if I wanted to invest, instead of Vancouver real estate, I should actually buy IPv4 addresses.


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[Assistant] Okay, alright, alright, cool. Uh, thanks Dan, good chat. I guess we haven't talked in a long time, but that means the service is working well, so that's a good thing.


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[Assistant] Alright, talk to you later, man. Yeah, have a good one. Okay, bye. Uhm, that's iTel. Our ISP is amazing. Uhm, I don't know if everyone gets the same kind of service, but I can literally call up their CTO.


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[Assistant] Uh, and I'm not sure how much sense it's gonna make forever, hopefully he doesn't watch this, because TELUS now has two and a half gig residential connections, just like, bond a couple of those.


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[Assistant] Do you, oh, do you know how much we pay through float playing? Cause we're buying at much lower volumes than them.


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[Assistant] Have we talked about this on the show? How painful is it for you? Someone who participated in WoW Classic. Like WoW Vanilla. I shouldn't say Classic, I should say WoW Vanilla.


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[Assistant] I mean, you could, it wouldn't- And then go IPO, be like, yeah, we're working on- we're working on educational content for the metaverse.


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[Assistant] We should totally do it. So we, we do, we do like, we do uhm, uh, uh, what are, what are they called? Uh...


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[Assistant] VTuber, we do VTuber Linus. Okay, yes. And we do like, uh, cause, cause you can totally do this with animation software, you record the voiceover, and it just automatically syncs the gum flapping. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Uhm, I honestly, I, I've talked, I've talked about this before. If I was smart, I would be VTuber transition.


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[Assistant] And Metaverse Linus sits and like talks to you about, and then, and then we build a software team, like an AI, machine learning software team, so that you can ask for tech tips, and Metaverse Linus will give you tech tips, and it's basically bonsai buddy. And you can, you can.


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[Assistant] Because you just raise VC money from people who have so much money that making more of it is just a game.


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[Assistant] Like it's, it's, like I remember when we reached a point in our business, and I still don't behave like this personally, but when it comes to the business, we reached a point where our budgeting changed.


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[Assistant] When we started out, our budgeting was based on how many dollars and cents, uh, we have in our bank account.


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[Assistant] And at some point, it changed. And it changed to case.


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[Assistant] We just, we stopped talking in terms of dollars, and we started talking in terms of K's. Okay, this new salary is gonna be this many K's, and the expected ROI-


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[Assistant] We're not going to M's. I can tell you that.


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[Assistant] Some people do. Actually, uh, we do have some M-level projects. Yeah.


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[Assistant] We're not gonna, we're not gonna get there though. We're, we're, we're, we're a K's driven company. Yeah. So we reached a point where it started to become, okay, uh, this is the outlay in K's, and this is the expected return in K's over some period of time X, and that started to be how we thought about things. And for your VCs, where it's just,


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[Assistant] You're just thinking about it in terms of M's and percentage uplift year over year. It's just like growing the dragon horde, right? Uh, there's just so much money flying around.


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[Assistant] And it's just, it's bizarre to me. It's like the, it's like the, no one remembers the dot com bubble ever happened. You see the winners, right?


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[Assistant] The number that just completely disappeared with all trace of any money put into them.


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[Assistant] Vanished in a flurry of Herman Miller chairs on Craigslist, like...


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[Assistant] Thank you. Oh, I don't want the whole thing. Oh, there's not that many. Okay. Yeah, that's fine. I accept it then. You want a licorice? I'll take a single licorice. Alright, heck yeah. I haven't eaten on Wancho in forever!


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[Assistant] I will defend one aspect of the metaverse to you. Okay. You have to try not to bite my head off about it. Sure. IF


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[Assistant] Facebook's metaverse, where you are, you are, Sure, where there's a cafe in the, in the McDonald's, in the Walmart.


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[Assistant] And you can pull up your VR. Sorry. Metaverse phone.


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[Assistant] And call one of your Facebook contacts, probably your aunt.


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[Assistant] Okay, and then they appear and you could...


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[Assistant] You and your metaverse avatars could leave there, okay? You leave there, you go into the Walmart and you help her pick out a TV.


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[Assistant] Between like these islands of experiences, then it will be compelling. But, and you can mark my words.


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[Assistant] Uh, this is, uh, this, this XKCD comic, uhm,


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[Assistant] Is basically it in a nutshell. Some of you guys go, go, go buy the book, go buy their book or something because technically this is their copyrighted comic and we're being bad right now. Uhm, but, but help, help us make sure that they get some money. I don't see a donate.


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[Assistant] I wanted to donate, but I don't see a donate link on the thing. So you guys can also throw in the chat. But this is amazing.


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[Assistant] This is it. In a nutshell. How standards proliferate. Yes. AC chargers, character encodings, instant messaging, etc. Situation. There are 14 competing standards. 14!


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[Assistant] Ridiculous! We need to develop one universal standard that covers everyone's use cases. Yeah!


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[Assistant] Soon. Situation. There are 15 competing standards. And that is why the metaverse will never happen.


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[Assistant] Oh, apparently it's Creative Commons, uh, attribution, so I'm good. Heck yeaah. Thank you xkcd.


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[Assistant] Yeah, do it anyway. People gotta eat, alright? There's not even any ads on this page.


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[Assistant] Because there will be lots more bees where they came from. Yeah. I mean, you're talking, you're talking to someone who literally is building a volcanic island fortress. Okay.


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[Assistant] You're talking someone who is literally going to space in a giant penis rocket. That would be such a fun, like, Saturday Night Live sketch. Like, guess that billionaire.


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[Assistant] Well that's an, that's a duplicate one now. There's more than one? Oh, the yacht? No, no, no, I mean, uh, I mean, I was already, uh, I already had a Bezos one. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.


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[Assistant] On that note- Oh, yeah! Oh. Sponsors? No, no, uh, uh, CrossCode! CrossCode is part of the Ukraine support bundle. Where is it? Oh, that's cool. It's one of my favorite games. You guys should go buy it.


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[Assistant] Okay, Rock Paper Shotgun has an article about it. Where is it?


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[Assistant] It's itch.io. Is it still available? It's itch.io, yeah. Yeah, here it is. Okay, so we're gonna throw this in the chat. Guys, uh, there's a ton of games in here, just... It's awesome. One of my all-time favorites is CrossCode. It's a retro-style action RPG.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we're gonna have to, wait, can you, can you change your contribution amount? There's gotta be a way to change your contribution amount.


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[Assistant] Oh yea yea yea, so I'll make sure that I buy it, another copy of that game won't hurt.


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[Assistant] And, uh, also, support for Ukraine can't hurt. They've raised over 4.2 million dollars. Yes, I know they have a new game in the works, Rui Senpai.


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[Assistant] I'm very excited because honestly, the best way for me to describe CrossCode is it's the game that I would have made if I stopped doing everything I was doing and started a game development studio and was good at it.


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[Assistant] Towerfall is great, just lots of fun with the bros and broettes.


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[Assistant] Uh, what else we got in here? Let's pick some, let's have some Linus and Luke's picks here as we, as we go through here.


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[Assistant] But you guys are gonna wanna come check this out for sure. There's a lot of stuff I've never heard of, which is fine.


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[Assistant] Superhot also, I think that one's worth the price of admission alone.


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[Assistant] Might be terrible. I haven't actually seen almost anything else that I recognize, but I don't even care.


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[Assistant] That seems like it might be a bit of a stretch to call that a game, but I don't, again, I don't know.


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[Assistant] Alright, uh, we should definitely do sponsor spots though, you're right.


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[Assistant] BC just removed the mask mandate last night at midnight. So we are, uh, we officially removed ours here in the office today. We're, especially beard people, are very excited about that.


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[Assistant] So you too can get a $4,000 computer with one terabyte of storage and I think it's a 20 core CPU?


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[Assistant] And 64 gigs of ram. So that's pretty cool.


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[Assistant] With the same performance as a much larger GPU.


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[Assistant] Yeah, basically forever. I mean, you could even go back all the way to 3dfx, who Nvidia acquired along with their SLI technology.


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[Assistant] And the M1 Ultra does this by using a silicon interposer that connects across 10,000 plus signals providing two and a half terabytes per second of bandwidth. That allows...


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[Assistant] That is so fast that software will recognize these two discrete chips as one. Very cool.


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[Assistant] It's, it's crazy. If you guys haven't already, uh, Ryan Smith from AnonTech did, uh, did a good write-up on why this is so mind-blowing. It didn't include any, uhm, one thing that I feel like was missing from it. Hey Ryan, if you're...


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[Assistant] Uh, so I would have liked to see him talk about how traditional SLI was actually very low bandwidth. It was basically just for them to synchronize their workload and most of the rendering was actually done


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[Assistant] Or most of the workload sharing was done by having each GPU render an alternate frame.


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[Assistant] Which added stutter because they wouldn't deliver at an even cadence and it also added


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[Assistant] I mean, it mostly added stutter. It also added inefficiency because you had to kind of...


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[Assistant] Stepping it up a tier, you've got interfaces like NVLink, which are, oh yea, right, so because they were both working on essentially their own frames, they both had to store all data in their own frame buffer. You couldn't combine memory.


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[Assistant] Then, you could step it up a bit, and you could go to NVLink, which is high speed enough that the two GPUs can actually pool their video memory, which is pretty sick.


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[Assistant] They still can't just be treated as a single GPU, that you can only use them together for highly parallel workloads, like, you know, whether it's uhm,


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[Assistant] But not applicable to gamers. And then you've got Apple creating this, this on-chip


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[Assistant] Die to die interposer thing that is so freaking fast.


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[Assistant] That you can basically treat every functional unit of this GPU as though, or of these GPUs as though they are just one. Which is absolutely the coolest thing that came out of the entire Apple event. Because, from my point of view, the Mac Studio itself is not particularly exciting. It's, it's...


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[Assistant] For Thunderbolt 4 ports is definitely not as good from a professional user standpoint as...


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[Assistant] 10 gigs great, HDMI 2.0, whatever that even means anymore.


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[Assistant] It's 2.0, not 2.1. So I'm glad whoever did up these specs for us. Uh, looks like this was Jonathan Horst, our resident Apple.


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[Assistant] Uh, Apple user. Uhm, so it would be the 2.0 level bandwidth. It's the Big Mac. I love that. Thank you for that, Tato.


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[Assistant] SD card reader, USB-C ports, USB-A ports. Nice that it's got a couple USB-A ports at least. But the M1 Ultra processor is just... man.


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[Assistant] Apple is just flexing on the rest of the industry at this point. The chip is so big.


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[Assistant] The performance per watt, if they're to be believed, which so far they haven't been.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it depends. Nvidia and Intel both have periods of extreme transparency and honesty.


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[Assistant] Like when Nvidia released Frameview, basically giving the entire industry access to the same tools that they use to evaluate the products.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, that's fair. Well, with Apple, it's perpetual state. Okay.


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[Assistant] So can we just recognize the glimmers of goodness? Sure.


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[Assistant] Anyway, on the GPU side of things, they said the M1 Ultra is comparable to an RTX 3090 while consuming 200 watts less power in industry standard benchmarks, which is, yeah, just, but man. But then we saw what AMD's


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[Assistant] Uh, chipler approach to Ryzen did to CPU performance.


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[Assistant] Back when they launched it, all of a sudden, I mean, obviously the first iteration was not perfect, but...


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[Assistant] Boy, especially if you want to talk power consumption, that approach looks so good compared to what Intel's doing right now with Alder Lake. Alder Lake has the performance, absolutely, it packs. But it packs heat.


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[Assistant] Yep. Get it. It's packing heat. Yeah. Okay.


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[Assistant] Uhm, at the end of the event, Senior VP of Hardware Engineering John Turnis mentioned that the Mac Pro is still yet to be replaced. So this is a mid-tier, which means that even though Apple Silicon has been, in some cases, kind of a bargain, if pricing on this bad boy is anything to go by, the, uh,


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[Assistant] Sorry, sorry, I misspoke. Uh, prices start at $2,000. That's for a relatively entry level unit with 512 gigs of SSD, and the ultra model starts at $4,000 with a 1TB SSD.


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[Assistant] In other news, Apple finally has a 27 inch standalone monitor after many years of not kinda doing their own monitors. So now they've got the Pro Display XDR and the Apple Studio Display. It's $1600. I was gonna say, but you'd think it was a whole computer. Yes. Boom! Roasted!


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[Assistant] Uh, three stand options available. One can choose a simple tilt stand or vase mount. Uhm, for $400 you can get tilt and height adjustment.


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[Assistant] Yeah, pretty much. And the nanotexture glass is available for $300, so that's cool.


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[Assistant] Man, that's, iPhone SE is just like kind of a killer value.


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[Assistant] 430 bucks, not bad. And the iPad Air now has an M1 chip like the iPad Pro, raising more questions about whether the iPad Pro has any reason to exist unless you absolutely need the much larger screen.


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[Assistant] Pricing is now $600, and other miscellaneous. You can now get a green iPhone.


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[Assistant] I think Marques said it probably best. He devoted exactly 59 seconds to the new colors of iPhones and did it as a YouTube short.


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[Assistant] Uh, Apple TV Plus has movies and exclusive MLB games. Man, there are so many baseball games.


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[Assistant] Well they, well they do. Like a lot of the time they won't even pitch nine innings.


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[Assistant] In other exciting news, Artesian builds! Uh, exciting news, okay.


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[Assistant] Has completely soiled all over itself. Yep. They became infamous in the PC building community when their CEO, Noah Katz, that's right, Noah Katz only dogs.


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[Assistant] So the story is, ah, well, whatever, under 5,000 on all socials, meh, if you know what, forget it, let's just reroll, let's reroll. Uhm. That's the reroll.


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[Assistant] And although cat's actions sucked, it is the kind of thing where you'd expect them to just put their tail between their legs for a bit and keep cats off camera.


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[Assistant] So this week, the company's bank accounts were frozen, with the people in purchasing no longer being able to purchase things.


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[Assistant] After this, things are bad. Katz essentially ghosted the company for a couple days. This is all allegedly, okay? I don't even care.


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[Assistant] The company was allegedly investigated for tax fraud. Their Twitter password was allegedly changed so employees couldn't post.


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[Assistant] Refunds were allegedly stopped for customers after several days of nearly no communication. The employees were hit with an email saying that all the financial assets are frozen while an outside council performs a reorganization and all employees are suspended until further notice.


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[Assistant] If you have recently bought an Artesian Builds PC and you do not have it yet in your hands, you need to call your credit card company and get a charge back now.


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[Assistant] So yeaah, if viewers of the WAN show are currently hiring people with PC building experience, uhm, maybe, maybe kind of reach out, there might be some...


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[Assistant] There might be some PC system integrator experienced people out there who are looking for work.


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[Assistant] Uh, Steve's, we got a quote from Steven Burke, uh, from Gamers Nexus. Steven Burke.


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[Assistant] The thing, the thing that's really troubling about this one is just how absolutely idiotic the collapse of this company was.


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[Assistant] Uh, and this is in the comments of the video. An employee allegedly said, uh, working for this company was so rewarding when you weren't talking to Noah or working with Noah. So sad that so many staff lost their jobs. I hope my colleagues can find comfort elsewhere. Uh, A. Bradshaw.


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[Assistant] Thank you for your feedback. We have taken it seriously. Just give me the computer. Yeah. Like.


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[Assistant] Immediately when this started gaining any momentum, you needed to be like,


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[Assistant] That was super stupid. Here's a computer. I am so sorry. That was super dumb. Our bad. You can revise your giveaway rules going forward. Fine. Right? Like I, from a business standpoint, I, I also personally do not see the value of, you know, having someone like,


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[Assistant] Yeah, giving away thousand dollar computers or multi-thousand dollar computers to people who are not gonna generate.


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[Assistant] Thousands or multiple thousands of dollars in profit, because right like at the end of the day.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but they tried, okay, they tried to, they tried to offer it to her. The problem is that they should have done it right away.


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[Assistant] Like right away. Problem is, Jay was on it. By the time I even knew about this...


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[Assistant] At least Jay's computer or something like that. You'd be like, hey Jay, or, you know, thanks for, thanks for that.


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[Assistant] Give this away to your viewers. Sure. Yeah, something like that. You try and turn on L into a W. Yeah. You know, you could just you take two L's and you just


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[Assistant] Honestly, you know, I'm looking at this going, wow, you can make a system builder with that kind of momentum just by having a few people watch you build computers on Twitch? I should make a computer company!


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[Assistant] Alright, well that's uh, that's very, it's not even unfortunate. Cause it's not fortune that caused this.


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[Assistant] This will be the first chip out of AMD with their 3D vCache, okay? So it's got way, way more cache than we've seen on AMD CPUs in the past.


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[Assistant] But it seems like it comes with a bit of a catch. Compared to the regular 5800X, it has lower bass and boost clocks, the same price tag at launch,


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[Assistant] And, currently, no overclocking. So techpowerup verified the rumor posted on video cards, and AMD is refusing to explain why the chip can't overclock.


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[Assistant] And I don't believe that they have given any indication as to whether or not it will be unlocked by the time consumers can actually get their hands on these things.


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[Assistant] To my knowledge, even motherboard manufacturers haven't been given any explanation as to why overclocking is blocked but it seems like


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[Assistant] This massive 96 megabytes of level 3 cache probably has something to do with it. There has to be, there has to be something that AMD is trying to protect in this chip by not allowing users to overclock because they've actually been


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[Assistant] Pretty cool about overclocking for the most part. Every Ryzen's chip has


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[Assistant] Not, not bad. They're just, they're in it to win it. And win it is your money. Not your feelings.


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[Assistant] Our discussion question written by Nicholas Plouffe is, why does music need NFTs?


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[Assistant] Because music evokes emotion, which evokes opening your wallet. Hey! Hey! There it is!


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[Assistant] I wanna hear from you guys, flowplain chat, are there any Gen Zers in there that have any nostalgia whatsoever for LimeWire?


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[Assistant] I'm trying to remember what the, what the order was of like the main...


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[Assistant] Then you had Kazaa, I believe came after Napster. Sort of at the same time, but after.


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[Assistant] Sharieza was like a fork of Kazaa or something like that, if I recall. This is all completely from- It's been a minute. Like-


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[Assistant] Teenager me's memory. Uhm, and then I thought LimeWire was in there somewhere.


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[Assistant] It's funny, uh, Jayden's like, I'm on the edge of millennial, don't remember it after elementary school, which is so funny to me because


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[Assistant] Using your parent's computer wasn't really as much of a thing when I was in elementary school. Oh yeah. Right? Like... For sure.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like I wasn't, why, why, I'm sitting here going, oh well why would an elementary school kid be like allowed on the internet, oh okay.


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[Assistant] Millennial, you haven't heard Three Doors Down kryptonite without hearing all the screeching beeps. Remember when they used to seed corrupted files into the, into the file sharing efforts? That was so awesome. Boom, boom, boom.


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[Assistant] There was Nutella, I never used Nutella. I don't remember that one at all.


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[Assistant] Codependent says, holy shnikees, supposedly Emule still works? Oh no.


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[Assistant] We should do some, uh, we should do some, I almost said super chats, we don't do those here. Uh, we should do some merch messages. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Gianna says, Hey Linus and Luke, you said you'd like LTT Store to be sort of a lifestyle brand. Besides more plain slash stealth items, what are some lifestyle products you envision for LTT Store? Well, I mean, screwdriver, backpack?


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[Assistant] So that's cool. Like, basically we just don't want to be constrained.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so we just, we just wanna make things we wanna make that we think are cool.


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[Assistant] By now I'm sure you've seen the suggestions for Anthony to have a channel focused on Linux. Do you have any plans for that? Uhm, the problem with, so we're getting into like business talk now. The problem is that if I have one Anthony,


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[Assistant] And that is the number of Anthony's that we have here at Linus Media Group.


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[Assistant] So, I've got one Anthony. You've got this chessboard, right? Anthony's like the queen or the king. You've got one of them, okay? And so, they can only do one thing at a time. And...


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[Assistant] I could take that Anthony and I could assign him to work on things that...


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[Assistant] A million or two million or five million people will watch and learn from him. Or I could assign him to things where


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[Assistant] 30,000. 30,000 or 50,000 people might watch and learn from him. And Anthony might really enjoy what he's working on, but


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[Assistant] In the interest of the greater good, both to us and to the tech community, should I put the Anthony in front of as many people as possible, working on high profile projects? Or should I sideline Anthony?


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[Assistant] So what you're saying is we need to get more writers to the end of the board.


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[Assistant] I don't know if that's what I was saying, but I guess it's chill.


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[Assistant] That's where, that's where I'm at on it. That's where, that's where I'm at on it. It's, uh, Anthony is great, but I think that, uh, a channel focused on Linux has a ceiling, and I think that it's also a community that's pretty well served. Like, why are we, why are we going in and trying to, to take over someone else's deal?


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[Assistant] With Mac, for example, we saw a unique opportunity for ourselves as sort of the, the not butt kissy Apple coverage. Right?


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[Assistant] And, but, but that still, you know, we, we want hosts and we want writers that do love the products and love the ecosystem.


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[Assistant] Are not constrained in any way by having to have a relationship with Apple. We will just buy Horst anything that he needs. So he never has to worry about that. So we're untethered in that way, which is cool. And I saw that as a differentiating factor, but for the Linux one, I just, I just don't see what it would be.


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[Assistant] I feel like Anthony could work on a Linux video once or twice a month. Do you have any idea how long it takes to make a video? Once or twice a month would be like 40% of his output.


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[Assistant] Especially if it's twice. In a month. Like, no! No-ho-ho-ho! Not no! No, no.


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[Assistant] Uh, Kushal. Been watching since USB sticks killed servers and that guy was called Slick. If you could bring back one failed product or company but make it successful, what would it be? Oh man.


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[Assistant] I wish Nintendo had had a competitor in the mobile gaming space all these years. Case labs. Case labs would be pretty cool, no they're not that cool.


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[Assistant] Someone bought the name, but I think it's like not back yet. And I don't know if it will be what it was.


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[Assistant] La Saga says Vida. Yea, Vida would be, would be very legit. Man, what a missed opportunity that was. For them to just make Zoom the primo streaming platform.


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[Assistant] People would have, people would have installed the crap out of that software. Oh, for sure. Man, Microsoft, for a company that is so big and so successful. Drops so many balls. Like, man. Yeah.


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[Assistant] If you ever wanted to sell out on NFTs, you could always NFT the early badges on the forum. That's really funny. I didn't really think about that. We kind of did an NFT sale.


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[Assistant] Well, it's like people just buying the rights to use an image that anyone could copy as like, uhm, a badge on their user account. No.


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[Assistant] Well no, I know it's not an NFT, I just mean you're just buying digital art. But that's not how it works though, no. Oh that's true, it's because it's a function on the site, so you actually cannot just put it there. Yes.


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[Assistant] Hold on. NFTs, if you set them as your profile picture on Twitter, do actually integrate with the platform.


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[Assistant] I think it's got a pretty similar vibe. You're buying digital artwork.


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[Assistant] You're not though. Well, you kind of are. No, you're not. Well, you're, okay, you're buying rep. Like you're buying, you're flexing. Yes. By buying an image. 100%.


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[Assistant] Some of it was artwork, Olenic. I mean, some artists created it. And also, uh, I did some hand-drawn ones that were very expensive and they were intentionally awful. Uhm. And it's just one of them.


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[Assistant] That's true. Ryan Carson points out that it can't be resold. So it's worse than an NFT.


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[Assistant] I think they are certainly precursors. That's why I keep bringing up horse armor everytime we talk about it. Because it's paying actual real actual money for intangible pixels.


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[Assistant] Right, but in the same, so game skins, whether we're talking game skins or whether we're talking a badge on the forum, the scarcity is determined by the provider.


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[Assistant] Is an NFT, I'm saying it's a very like one.


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[Assistant] Okay, we're gonna let the community decide. I think Luke and I have both had an opportunity to make our cases here. Is drophole actually gonna work this time? I don't know, it's been pretty broken lately. So I've dropped it in the Floatplane chat, I've dropped it in the Twitch chat against my better judgement because those are all the talks of the day.


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[Assistant] I got a wonder, you know? YouTube chat. Sup. We don't talk much, but uhm.


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[Assistant] The reason is that it moves so fast that there can't possibly be any meaningful interaction in it.


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[Assistant] Well, three quarters of the community agrees with you, but I realize I actually kind of phrased the question.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I kind of asked the question wrong. Are you gonna take this W anyways?


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[Assistant] Back to merch messages. I should just, I should just sell out and sell NFTs. No. I should just sell out and then buy a Hawaiian island.


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[Assistant] We decided, I think we talked about this before, and we decided no. It doesn't make it any better because you are still cynically taking advantage of someone else's belief that it will appreciate in value. Someone will end up holding that bag. And that bag is full of turds.


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[Assistant] So when you buy it, you get a picture of what kind of turds were inside it?


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[Assistant] Braden, if you liked the MX Vertical,


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[Assistant] Uhm, I don't know what to recommend you because I definitely did not jive with the MX Vertical. It's a weird mouse. It's a weird mouse.


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[Assistant] Thanks for, thanks for writing into the show though, but I just don't even know where to begin. You're showing yours now. Oh, whoops, wrong screen. Uh, Robert, why do screens have a minimum brightness?


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[Assistant] I get the max, but why can't I turn it all the way down to 0%? That is a wonderful question, and it has to do with the way that screen brightness is modulated.


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[Assistant] Uh, whether it's PWM modulation, which used to be more common on earlier LCDs and was good because it allowed you to effectively go down to zero brightness just by pulsing the, uhm, the power to the backlight more or less often, uhm, but had the drawback of flickering.


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[Assistant] Uh, and st- or strobing, like it was, it was annoying and could give people, uh,


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[Assistant] Mild side effects like headaches or whatever the case may be. So now we use DC modulation.


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[Assistant] And the reason that you can't just keep taking the voltage down to zero is that electronics have a minimum voltage that is required for them to run. Now, I would love to see some innovation, uhm, around something like, uhm,


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[Assistant] Uh, ND filters, for example. Like, so we have lenses, for example, in the studio where there's, there's two ND filters that you can counter rotate to allow more or less light to pass through and they are mostly


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[Assistant] Transparent in terms of not coloring the light that passes through them. I think something like that would be an amazing way to achieve lower light output.


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[Assistant] But maybe that's just something that could be an accessory for a product like a portable handheld gaming system or something along those lines. But the reality of it is you just can't.


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[Assistant] Turn the voltage lower and lower and lower because eventually you just won't be able to drive the screen off.