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[Assistant] Yeah, I think it's an extremely big deal. I think it's a big deal for a bunch of reasons. OpenAI is clearly a market leader. Uhm, and Greg Brockman, the, uh, co-founder and president of OpenAI, stepped down as well. Uh, so Sam was fired.


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[Assistant] Greg Brockman stepped down, uhm, just hours after Sam was fired.


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[Assistant] Immediately quitting, and I think this is going to spell probably a lot.


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[Assistant] Major blow. Uhm, if, if, if Silicon Valley has a golden boy right now, it is Sam Altman for sure. Uhm, so to have him...


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[Assistant] I'm saying some right now, because I suspect by the time the majority of people watch this, some will be true. Right now, as far as I know, it's only one. But having the CEO and the co-founder slash president both disappear


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[Assistant] This all happened like right now. I just got a shared from Handyman in full plane chat, a post from Axios.com, uhm, which I don't know if I can share with Linus for screen sharing reasons right now very easily, but I'm going to try. I'm just going to post it, uh, right here.


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[Assistant] Oh, it's suggestion based. I had this removed before.


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[Assistant] And then I guess my rights were taken from me. But there's a suggestion in the doc. Uhm, maybe I'm being ousted. Uh, but, uh, yeaah, apparently Microsoft didn't even know this was happening. Uhm, because it happened from the board.


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[Assistant] And the board, as far as my understanding goes, again, we don't have a ton of notes on this because this like just happened. But the board is comprised of people that actually don't have stock in the company.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so Microsoft invested billions of dollars in OpenAI, as Axios said, uhm, and didn't know that this video was being ousted.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I, I, I think that, so we, we talked about this on WAN Show a long time ago. I don't remember all the details, but they, they were solidly nonprofit for a long time. I think the nonprofit still owns.


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[Assistant] The company, but I think the nonprofit and the company that most people know about are actually different.


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[Assistant] And the company under the non-profit is effectively for-profit at this point. Uhm, but still owned by this non-profit, which would have the ability to do things like, I was the CEO, I guess. Uhm, wow. Wild. Absolutely wild.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I, I, I know one thing that I would say is that it, in regards to being a CEO for a like Silicon Valley style company, I think he's done a rather legendarily good job of like


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[Assistant] Pretty much. I think that's effectively what that role is for a lot of those type of companies.


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[Assistant] So I, I'm sure this is not the end of Mr. Altman, uhm, as far as hearing from and about him. Uhm, I'm sure there will be something next. I wouldn't be surprised.


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[Assistant] Yeah, someone, uh, King Hippo in full play chat said exactly how Firefox and Mozilla work. Uhm, that's cool.


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[Assistant] But I think the finances running through OpenAI are a little bit more intense.


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[Assistant] It's so juicy. Yesterday, Fortnite players found that skins in their locker had a new warning symbol on them alongside a notice that those items could be used, could only be used in areas rated 12 plus for teens only. 12? Does that count as a teen? I don't think so.


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[Assistant] The change was made without warning, but Epic Games has since confirmed that only around 7% of their skin library are now age restricted.


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[Assistant] The consensus among players is that skins featuring specific weaponry like pistols or knives are the ones that are going to be restricted from islands with a lower age rating. Oddly, skins like Michael Myers, the fictional serial killer,


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[Assistant] His, his glutes, uh, his glutes are rather flat in the epic avatar.


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[Assistant] I don't know how this has anything to do with the previous part of this, but, uh, there's a question saying, should Epic return Omni-Man's cake? Uh, and I think, yea, why not?


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[Assistant] I just thought this was like funny because the discussion question was these skins have significant monetary value to the kids who bought them should they be offered a refund on their value.


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[Assistant] It's not restricted for the whole game though. It's, it's restricted specifically for islands that have a, uh, I don't know anything about Fortnite, but I think islands are like custom games. I don't think they're, um, like standard matches. And it's for islands that have a, a low age range.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's not, it's not like they took the skins from them. You can still play the main game. You can still play probably the vast majority of the game. Uhm, just not islands that are age restricted to 12. Okay.


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[Assistant] I have a strong feeling there are probably VR chat avatars that probably shouldn't be available.


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[Assistant] No clue. One of the things that confuses me the most about this, uhm, as someone who doesn't know anything about Fortnite, uhm, is even the box art has guns on it, doesn't it?


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[Assistant] If they can play, like, is there actually an account for Fortnite where you can't actually play the Battle Royale? Yea, like they have, there's a, there's a shotgun right next to the logo.


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[Assistant] Like, like, part of me is like, yeah sure, I don't know, maybe they should be able to have age restricted skins for like, kid lobbies. But why, why is, why is anyone...


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[Assistant] But like, you have to click on the thing to launch the game. Like, you'd have to go into the Epic Games Store, which uses tiles for, for their game launching, if I remember correctly. It's been a while since I've used it. Uhm, but, like,


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[Assistant] Well, I just, I don't know, I feel like once you even, like the loading screen to launch the game, I feel like probably has firearms on it. Uhm, it's, I don't know, I understand the idea of trying to...


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[Assistant] And he's really good at that hockey game that we play.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah. I don't know how he got that good that fast, but he's very good at it.


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[Assistant] Yeah. But you can, you can use skins in the main game.


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[Assistant] Probably fine enough, I'll say. Not, not fine entirely, but fine enough.


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[Assistant] Okay, okay, that's not... Not a suggestion. Yeah, really. Not legal advice.


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[Assistant] Could that mean, it says iPhone RCS messages might route through Google service. Could that mean that some, if not all iPhone bubbles could be green?


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[Assistant] Uhm, no. Because if, if, are you sure? Because if, if they're getting around it by sending them through Apple servers to make them blue, this is literally just the inverse.


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[Assistant] Well, I felt like an idiot for a while after I first got it, because I didn't really like the phone. Uhm, and now, honestly, every single time I pick up my 4A 5G, I'm like, wow, yep, I wish it was this still. Uhm, so I, I don't know how I feel about my phone right now, even, but uhm,


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[Assistant] Honestly, the thing that kept me from going iPhone was more...


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[Assistant] There was cost and just the annoyance of learning a new thing. Because like, I need my phone to do so little these days that I just don't really care.


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[Assistant] But I'm not, I'm not completely against switching. I, it was fairly close. I was looking into iPhones and I could see myself on an iPhone in the future. There's really very little keeping me on, on Android these days.


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[Assistant] So yeaah, I don't know, maybe. We'll see, we'll see how many more buttons the EU pushes.


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[Assistant] Oh, what? I ordered one. Is it, is this in the dock or are you just chatting?


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[Assistant] And I believe it would go flying, uh, because I think it's just magnetically held on, right? The battery goes on the inside, I think. Nice.


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[Assistant] The battery would then like fall down inside of your shirt and the front of it would go flying.


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[Assistant] You gotta, you gotta, you gotta hold off until you actually have it. You gotta hold off a little bit.


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[Assistant] He's just, he's just frustrated because now he's actually spent money on it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, I could, I can tell. It's, it's a little bit harder with delay and not being able to, you know, judge body language all that much, but this is, this is financial pain. Uhm, because now he's frustrated with the purchase.


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[Assistant] That's actually really funny. Uhm. Okay, so, yeaah. There's two paths forward. Either it's somehow amazing, and then people buy it because it's amazing.


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[Assistant] Or, sure, maybe more likely, whatever. It's trash, and then you would, you would help to stop-


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[Assistant] Yeah, but you had to use that. You moved your sim over, didn't you?


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[Assistant] Next topic, are we doing merge messages yet? I feel like we're overdue.


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[Assistant] It says adult owned in the listing for that top one.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and like the, the OLED immediately sold out, right? So like, I don't think you're going to be able to get it easily for a long time anyways.


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[Assistant] My friend must be confused then. He's like, I can't believe I missed it. I tried to buy it. I couldn't get it.


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[Assistant] Uh, that's definitely what they're talking about. Yeaah, cause those. I thought the 1 terabyte OLED and that were the same.


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[Assistant] How limited edition is that? Like is it completely gone?


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[Assistant] At all, because I'm in Japan right now. Uhm, I even tried to buy it like through my desktop application of Steam, but it redirects me to, I understand the desktop application is just loading webpages. Uhm, but it redirects me to like a browser, external browser webpage if I wanted to try to get that one.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and I, I can't, it, it like forgets that I'm, uh,


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[Assistant] I was, I was seeing what would happen on this end. But no, I didn't try to buy one.


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[Assistant] And really dumb, but yeah, Tesla has added a clause to its motor vehicle order agreements that prohibits Cybertruck buyers from selling the vehicle within a year of its delivery date.


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[Assistant] Tesla may otherwise seek uh, injunctive relief to prevent the transfer of title of the vehicle or demand liquidated damages from the end user in the amount of $50,000 or the value received as consideration for the sale or transfer, whichever is greater.


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[Assistant] I know people now that have pre-orders on the Cybertruck that are entirely planning on reselling it and we're planning on reselling it from the beginning.


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[Assistant] So that will be interesting. Uh, buyers who run into unforeseen circumstances and must sell the vehicle have the option of selling it back to Tesla discounted by 25 cents for every mile driven.


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[Assistant] If Tesla agrees that the reason is valid, Tesla may also decline to buy the vehicle and provide the buyer written permission to sell it to a third party.


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[Assistant] Handyman's posting that they might have already removed the clause. Uhm, I, I don't know. I, I like the idea of hurting the scalping market. Scalping in modern years has been


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[Assistant] It's actually ridiculous, uhm, like scalping combined with user level extreme sales on the internet, uhm, has been a very, very negative reality for


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[Assistant] Yeah. What, what, do you know what was done? Cause some people in chat are saying it was one piece of masking tape. No, I don't remember.


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[Assistant] Oh no, okay. Okay, I did that on purpose.


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[Assistant] I don't think so, because there's been other buy a car over the internet services before. So like, I'm sure Amazon can do it. Uhm, yeaah.


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[Assistant] I thought I heard it went bad. Maybe their stock just crashed super hard. Maybe that was it.


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[Assistant] Oh, I've just seen stuff online that looks rough. I haven't actually used it.


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[Assistant] Cool, so as I say this, I've heard genuinely nothing from Linus or anyone else at Linus Media Group. All I've seen is just some random stuff on the internet from other users. And what I've gathered is that...


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[Assistant] Pretty much, to be honest. Uhm, haha. Uhm, but yeaah, I, what I've seen so far is laggy mess, basically.


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[Assistant] That's it. Just clips of like people trying to play Horizon and having it just chug over and over again, uhm, other various games where it's very, very laggy and it, it doesn't seem like they're using it in super wild scenarios like most of these things is someone sitting on a couch, uhm.


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[Assistant] So like it doesn't feel like they're putting it in a disadvantageous position or anything. So yeah, my takeaway was just rough.


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[Assistant] I don't know. Maybe, maybe PlayStation needs to try to poach somebody from Valve so they can figure out, uhm, pre-making enough stock of things before they launch it. I'm not sure.


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[Assistant] Okay, well results are 4% of people said yes, 35% of people said meh, and 61% of people said no.


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[Assistant] But you're talking to a PC audience. Yeah, that's true.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I uhm, I think just off the top of my head, like USD, I think a PlayStation DualSense controller is like 60 bucks. Yup. So there's like a huge portion of your cost right there.


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[Assistant] No, I don't think it's stupid necessarily. If it works well, like if the lagging problem is not a thing.


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[Assistant] I would, yeaah, I would, I would swing at them for the no Bluetooth audio as well, but having a 3.5mm jack and having good speakers is like...


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[Assistant] I don't know, I would just plug in headphones. Wouldn't bother me that much personally.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I wonder, I wonder how specific they're gonna be about uhm,


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[Assistant] Like detecting if you're on a VPN and, and like undoing stuff if you fall off of it or something like that.


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[Assistant] Uh, but yeah, like I, I, that would be interesting because if, if you can just like set your location or VPN out or something like that, um, oh yeah, I would absolutely do that. Oh my goodness.


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[Assistant] Jaden brings up a really good point of like where, where does this stop company wise? Like this just hit Microsoft, uh, but Jaden specifically said, will this apply to Samsung phones too?


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[Assistant] Uhm, my goodness. This being able to work on phones would be amazing. I might actually end up going back to Samsung. I really liked Samsung back in like the S3 days. Uhm, but then a lot of the Samsung specific software that you can't get rid of, I hate it so much that I like won't go back. But if they made it so you could actually get rid of it,


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[Assistant] And you could get it back more towards a stock Android experience. There's some Samsung phones that are really nice.


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[Assistant] They ripped apart AT&T, slashed Microsoft, and then just lost all their teeth. I don't get it.


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[Assistant] Honestly, I don't really look into them, but I do get IBM ads.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I, what I've noticed with Twitter, whatever, uhm, is I haven't really used it for like public communication for a long time, but I have used it for direct messages to like other creators for quite a while. Uhm, and something that I'm noticing is,


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[Assistant] They're wanting to communicate over Discord or Instagram or something else or even just text messages or people that I already communicate to through Twitter DMs are asking to move to one of those other services.


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[Assistant] And the amount of times that I'm using Twitter DMs is slowly decreasing. Uhm, which is like,


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[Assistant] Cool, because I don't like Twitter, but also kind of annoying because it was centralized on Twitter.


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[Assistant] Instagram I think it still works on, but I think not as well.


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[Assistant] My favorite part about Portal 2 was that you could co-op.


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[Assistant] All mine I think are just, like I want another game in this line, but not made by the company that currently has the rights to make it. Like I want a Halo game not made by 343.


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[Assistant] I want a Fallout game, or a Sky-, or a, uh, uh, Elder Scrolls game, or a Starfield-based game, at this point, not made by Bethesda. I want, like, I-, I-, tha-, tha-, that's most of my desire, is the, the company that currently owns it is, is not in good graces with me, at least. Uhm, but games I would throw out for would be probably like Slay the Spire and FTL.


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[Assistant] I think both of those, both of the companies behind those games are trying to move on creatively to other types of things. Um, and I would really like if they just made another version of what they already made, but I understand why they probably just want to move on because they're very small teams. Um, they're indie teams and they're probably more driven by the creativity.


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[Assistant] Of making games than just the money so they don't want to just cash in on sequels, but I would definitely buy them if they did.


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[Assistant] What if we, what if we, what if we bring back Afterparty? And we do a three player co-op Anno.


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[Assistant] Hasn't played in a long time, uhm, so I don't know if I'm the right voice for this, but I'm gonna do it anyways. Uhm, I think Eve is fine.


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[Assistant] I don't remember what ones, but multiple Paper Mario games I played and enjoyed. They were fun.


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[Assistant] I can pretty much guarantee you there will at least be processed changes as a result of this. Uhm, time will tell if there are improvements or not, but somebody's gonna want things to change just


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[Assistant] To say they've changed something. Yeah, exactly. Like something's gonna happen. Uhm, and I honestly, I've heard stories from a huge range of developers, uh, out there of just horrifying things that have happened at companies that you would never guess. Uhm, you don't always...


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[Assistant] Ah, okay, I didn't hear the intro. That's the brainwag.


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[Assistant] I get to buy more expensive stuff because the things that go in the lab, oh, they're so cool.


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[Assistant] It's been awesome, actually. I went drifting yesterday, had some fun, was able to do a linkage where I was drifting in one direction and then I pulled it in tight and was able to switch and start drifting in the other direction. It was rough, but it technically happened.


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[Assistant] And that wasn't actually technically Matsuri. Matsuri technically started today and I haven't been at it because I have been, uh, gracing the land show with my president.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but I'll go when we're done, it's fine. Uhm, but yeaah, I'll be going up there. Everybody else is already up there, so I'm probably gonna have to get a taxi, which is incredibly expensive here.


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[Assistant] So far, I've actually been surprised at how inexpensive many things are.


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[Assistant] But holy, try to not take taxis when you're here. Do anything you can to avoid that.


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[Assistant] But yeaah, I'll be heading up there and then Matsuri goes like overnight, as far as my understanding goes. So I'll be up there for quite a while, uhm, and I'm sure it'll be very fun. I've done a bunch of ride-alongs, uhm, with, with Samet, who is very good at drifting and doing what he does. And, uh, I think it was yesterday.


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[Assistant] We were within a foot of someone else's door, like our, my door was within a foot of someone else's door while we were going like...


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[Assistant] I think it was like 60 or 70 miles an hour sideways, uhm, which was wild. And then when they corrected out, so they were sliding beside each other, when they corrected out, the front bumper of our car just barely touched the front, the rear bumper of the other car. Uh, but this happens so often.


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[Assistant] I see. Uhm, but they know this is gonna happen. So the bumper's only held on by like four zap straps.


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[Assistant] So it just like pinged off. We didn't even like feel any impact whatsoever in the car. Uh, when we were able to retrieve the bumper and, and get it back on afterwards and everything was totally fine. Uh, but yeah, it's, it's been, it's been very, very fun. Um, hanging out with Samet and, and the rest of the people here and I'll be excited to go back up.


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[Assistant] All the examples of usage that I've seen for that, uh, that deal with online video have not worked out.


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[Assistant] I think something like file downloads.


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[Assistant] Which I understand, yeaah, related. Uhm, but I, I think something like file downloads where, where inconsistency in service is not an issue. Uhm, I think it's fine.


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[Assistant] But expecting that next chunk to be there on time every single time, because if it's not, there are interruptions in playback of video. Uh, I think controlling more of that pipeline is more better or not worse. Um, and that's just going to.


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[Assistant] Be what it is for a while. Could I see that changing eventually? Yeaah, maybe. Uhm, but not right now.


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[Assistant] It was under every, actually every single video. Like, a lot of comments. It was, it was brutal. It was stupid.


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[Assistant] My computer has a hand repaired CPU, uh, and a GPU that rests on top of the case and it seems to work more than yours.


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[Assistant] No, I came and I'm pretty sure I was there when we found it, right? Cause we were trying to move your stuff properly and then it was discovered.


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[Assistant] Uh, well, I have a hard time wearing, like, anything because I just lose it all the time. Uhm, I actually really like that watch despite maybe not being so into the game anymore. Uhm, and will likely continue to wear it if I am, like, trying to, uh, I don't know.


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[Assistant] I was gonna say dress up, but I was like, I don't think that's fair.


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[Assistant] Cause, cause yeaah, I actually, actually do quite like that watch. Uhm, I think that's actually probably my favorite special edition ever. That watch is like, really cool. Actually works like pretty well. Build quality seems really good. Uhm, it's made by, cause I wanna give credit to...


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[Assistant] People that actually made it. It's made by the wand company. I think the name is called the wand company makers of the world's finest website is loading very slowly.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's these, these people. Yes, the wand company. Uhm, they, they made the watch and they did a fantastic job and I hope that they keep working with companies making special editions in the future, uh, because that was awesome.


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[Assistant] Very, very cool. Very happy that I got it. Not only is the uh, the watch


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[Assistant] Great. Uh, but even the box that it came in is awesome. So yeah, pretty cool.


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[Assistant] Which watch was it? It's the, it's the, what is it? Chrono Master watch or something like Chrono Mark watch from the Starfield Special Edition.


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[Assistant] Speaking of which, uh, nine minutes ago there was a post from Greg Brockman, uh,


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[Assistant] Sam, as in Sam Altman, Sam and I are shocked and saddened by what the board did today. Let us first thank, uh, say thank you to the incredible people who have worked with OpenAI, our customers, our investors, and all of those who've reached out. We, we too are still trying to figure out exactly what happened.


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[Assistant] Here is what we know. Last night, Sam got a text from Ilya asking to talk at noon Friday.


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[Assistant] Sam joined a Google Meet, uh, and the whole board, except Greg, who I think he's talking about himself in third person, because I believe Greg Brockman was on the board. Uhm, so the whole board, except Greg, uh, was told that he was being, uhm, he was being removed.


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[Assistant] Sorry, hold on. I moved my thing and got lost. The whole board except for Greg was there. Ilya told Sam he was being fired and that the news was going out very soon.


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[Assistant] At 1219 PM, Greg got a text from Ilya asking for a quick call. At 1223 PM, Ilya sent a Google Meet link. Greg was told he was being removed from the board, but that he was vital to the company and would retain his role and that Sam had been fired. Around this time, OpenAI published a blog post.


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[Assistant] As far as we know, the management team was made aware of this shortly after, other than Mira, who found out the night prior.


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[Assistant] And then Greg immediately quit.


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[Assistant] So yeaah, removed from the board, told he should stay and then immediately left.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they are literally currently trying to figure out what's going on. Terrifying.


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[Assistant] I know there's been some OpenAI people tweeting about how it feels like a coup, stuff like that.


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[Assistant] I don't know if you can buy a shirt that cheap like almost anywhere these days.


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[Assistant] You probably should have done like a buy something else and get this shirt for $10.


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[Assistant] Shopify is pretty specific about what you can do.


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[Assistant] Uh, so I heard GTA V. What else was listed there?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I was much, Halo 3 was a great game. I was much more of a Halo 2 fan than a Halo 3 fan.


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[Assistant] I don't know, I feel like because GTA 5 was listed, I feel like that was actually pretty close to the beginning of LTT.


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[Assistant] So I actually wasn't gaming as much as like almost any other time in my life. And most of what I was doing at that time, I'm going to curveball the heck out of you, but I was playing Mario Kart on Wii U. So what up?


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[Assistant] Myself and the other four people that had Wii U's had a great time.


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[Assistant] Are we lagging super hard? Can you guys hear me? Yes. WebAssembly? Yea, what about WebAssembly?


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[Assistant] I haven't used it personally, uh, I've, I've heard good things. It's pretty far away from, uh, what we're gonna do, so.


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[Assistant] Okay, sorry, my site's having some troubles right now, but I misspoke. Apparently we do use some WebAssembly. That's my bad.


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[Assistant] I have a video on channel superfund of screen melter. That was my favorite thing I ever did.


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[Assistant] It's not that evil. It's coded in that you can press escape. Now, I have a version where that's not the case, but I didn't get anyone with that.


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[Assistant] All right, thanks Luke. I don't think that's going to be a thing pretty much at all because, uh, as for better or worse, we're in like a very corporate stage of the internet and corporations want control. So.


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[Assistant] Wow, that's a far-fetched one. Yeah, no, no, no, no, no, no. I think you're, uh, massively over, over-extending, um,


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[Assistant] Both, not, not just my interest, but my knowledge, uh, and ability in that realm pretty extensively. I think drifting is real cool and I had an opportunity to do something real cool in Japan.


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[Assistant] And cars are neat. I think, I think there's a very surprising amount of crossover between people that are into cars and people that are into computers.


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[Assistant] I think it's something people don't think about all that often, but like, I've been recognized like a ton at this random drifting event.


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[Assistant] Because I think just curious people that like tinkering with things and messing with things and giving them to work in the way that they like. Uhm, I think there's a ton of crossover with that type of people.


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[Assistant] Um, when it comes to again, both cars and computers. So I think cars are interesting for the same reasons that I generally think computers are interesting, but they're not my main thing and it would never be my main thing. So yeah, there you go.


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[Assistant] You should, you should take, so like officially, no not really, uhm, but you should, you should


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[Assistant] Um, and you, you put it in a situation where updating it is going to be very difficult. Um, failures are going to be extremely critical. Uh, and there's going to be a very extreme environment that it has to run in regarding like radiation and stuff. So there's going to be a lot of failures that are going to happen.


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[Assistant] Now, uh, you, you take the extremely hypercritical nature of software development for NASA and you compare it against, um, website that plays video on the internet. Um, and they're, they're very different things. So like we, we consider.


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[Assistant] Stuff. Uhm, but I, I wouldn't say that we like follow anything like that.


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[Assistant] Uh, well, we're still doing that. Uhm, one of the things that we've been doing is going through and just finding all of the stuff that really should not exist in the way that it currently does. Uhm, I, I think saying


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[Assistant] Enterprising is a little far from where we're currently at.


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[Assistant] Um, so there's, there's a lot to be done, but, um, like adding remote monitoring systems to things, um, adding monitoring in general, monitoring and notification stuff in general.


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[Assistant] The, the IT budget for the company has been if we can get it for a video, that's awesome. Uhm, so in, in a lot of places we'll have one of something where at this scale you would really want two so they can fail over. So if that thing goes down or if that thing even needs to be updated, uhm,


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[Assistant] Everything is going to go down. Uhm, so, so adding redundancies to those situations, adding, uh, monitoring and notification support so we can tell when things go down more easily, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, has been good. Things have been improving, uh, but it's slow and it's going to continue to be slow.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't know, almost as good might be an exaggeration as well. I liked it a lot. Uhm, the absolute peak of the game is the time shifting for sure. But I guess especially on like the hardest difficulty, the ending portion where you get the auto pistol.


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[Assistant] Yeah, when you get the auto aiming, the smart, oh, not auto pistol, the smart pistol. When you get the smart pistol, you can, you can like wall run the whole rest of the game, basically.


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[Assistant] I can see how that would be fun. And it's, it's very fun. Uhm, because you get to focus really hard on the wall running, because the pistol's just gonna shoot for you.


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[Assistant] So what, what I got from that was like your, it's a race, basically. You, you are, you are equipped with the, what was it called? The serve kit or whatever? The seer kit?


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[Assistant] You're equipped with the Seer kit, and you have to...


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[Assistant] Go. And this is all you've got. And you just go, go, go, go, go. Uhm.


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[Assistant] And yeaah, I found that part very fun. But yeaah, I'm happy you liked it. That's cool. What are you doing next?


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[Assistant] Whoa, I don't know if saying mainly a C dev would be fair because I don't know if calling me a dev would be fair. Uhm, it's been a long time not actually done like actual development work.


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[Assistant] I really liked C and back when I was doing actual development, which at this point was a decade ago, uhm, I think I was actually decently good, but it was a very, very long time ago. And honestly, okay, by the time I was really rooted in C, it would probably be closer to


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[Assistant] 12 to like 13 years ago, uhm, because I was, I was moving on to other stuff before I started working with Linus.


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[Assistant] For a new C Dev, I don't know at this point, things have moved. Things have moved on.


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[Assistant] From when I did it, I'm sure things are very different, but, uh, there's some people already saying this in chat, and I've always said this for any type of development, just start doing stuff.


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[Assistant] Start trying to make stuff with C especially, um, if your brain works this way, which is why you might be interested in C, um, start trying to get some like, uh, embedded circuit systems so that you can start developing stuff that will do things in real life. That's what I really liked about it. Um, C and basic I found very useful for that type of stuff. Um, learn your pointers.


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[Assistant] And just start making things. I would start making things before studying too much.


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[Assistant] Because then you'll find the stuff that you like want to learn. And then you can study that so that you can get better at making things and you can keep making things.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I'm trying to, I'm assuming the show is ending soon, so I'm trying to figure out how I'm gonna get up to the circuit.


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[Assistant] That's not going to be an option if I want to get there even remotely on time.


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[Assistant] He just stole that from Lord of the Rings. I think it's gotta be better Linus quotes than that.


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[Assistant] I don't remember anymore, so I can't, I don't know. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Oh, Joseph L. A really, really old land show.


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[Assistant] Well, the chat told me I had to- Okay. Now it's over the box! Hold on, now I gotta- Y'all have a con-cer- I don't actually know what's in here.


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[Assistant] Yeah, absolutely. Hey LDL, any idea what's happening with the new Intel Workstation CPUs?


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[Assistant] Okay, nice. Next up, after Computex, the techuber tech tuber community has had some of the most interesting conversations I have heard in years. Do you have thoughts on Jim Keller's risk five project or open pleb?


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[Assistant] Uhm, hello LLD and future me. Linus, with the new software coming to Mac to maybe enable gaming, do you think they could compete with Valve and Proton since Mac OS is more adopted than Linux?


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[Assistant] No, I think it's more like, uh, you know, as a, as a platform for, for gaming, uh, just through adoption, like, uh, removing Linux, right?


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[Assistant] Let's see. Hey, DLL, I am curious as to what is going on behind the scenes for a new labs website. Can you give us any spoilers on the tech behind it or how many people are working on it?


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[Assistant] No, it doesn't ring a bell. I think it's time to get a new CEO.


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[Assistant] Hey DLL, love the show. I'm curious if when you were creating the backpack, did y'all do any crazy things to test it out? And if not, have y'all done anything crazy to test your products?


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[Assistant] There's a plethora of optical cables on the market. USB 1, 2, 3, DisplayPort, and certified HDMI 2.1. Any insights into why USB 20 gigabits per second or DisplayPort 2 are missing?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think I got time for one more. Sure. Let's see here.


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[Assistant] Hey-o, DLL. Any more news to share on Virtual LTX for floatplane subscribers? I'm stoked that we can still participate. PS, thanks for cotton elastane-only clothing options like the polos. Poly equals sweaty.


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[Assistant] Let's see what Luke comes up with. I'm legitimately very curious. I can make him look, uh, ridiculous as well.


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[Assistant] Let's see here. Hey DLL, love your content. You mentioned that you mainly produce things you personally are interested or invested in. Will this change with the new CEO? Kudos to all the screen, all off the screen making this work. Cheers.


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[Assistant] Is that the memory leak thing? I don't know. I've been dealing with that the last few days, actually.


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[Assistant] I think to be fair to everybody it's in the logistics and warehouse tag, not LMG. Right.


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[Assistant] Hey Linus, you've mentioned you're still using a Galaxy Fold 3, which I also have. What would get you to upgrade your phone? S Pen integrated, even bigger, unfoldable screen, or the return of the SD slot, etc?


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[Assistant] Continuing. What piece of merch from other people made you want to start LTT store? Seems like the drive for quality merch had to come from some bad guy.


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[Assistant] Just pre-ordered the ROG Ally. Should the LDT stick locks be able to fit the joysticks?


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[Assistant] By this time next week, I'll be a dad to twins. Nice. Luke is AI. Oh. Luke is AI far enough along to help me with raising them. How long until I can get my own Rosie like the Jetsons? I think I'm going to need one.


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[Assistant] Has there been another time in graphics cards when a completely new entrant to the market had great tech and a great deal, but the drivers left a lot to be desired? Uh, for example, the Intel A750 and 770.


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[Assistant] Hi, LLND. My day job is, hey, we don't know what blank is and we want you to find out and replace it. I am constantly a newbie in complex systems and programs. Is info gatekeeping a problem at your scale too?


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[Assistant] Hi Luke! Also, LinusDan and FutureMe. I'm 22 and finding myself struggling with growing up. Time keeps moving forward, but I still feel like I'm 16. I'd love some advice.


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[Assistant] Well, yeah. What was your first experience hacking? Editing configs, pulling pranks, et cetera?


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[Assistant] Hello, LLD. Michael, one of the LTX whales here. Super excited for the event. Anything you guys can share that you are excited about that hasn't been talked about yet? He wants leaks.


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[Assistant] Would you lose money if everyone got the largest size desk pad?


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[Assistant] Hey Luke and Linus, I was very excited to see the anechoic chamber in use. Which upcoming lab's tests are you guys most excited to see? I think we kinda answered this one already. Okay.


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[Assistant] Uh, good evening DLL. Luke, as a fellow bearded individual, I would like to know what, if any, beard facial care you do. Conditioner.


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[Assistant] We knew you were gonna say that, and you had to say it.


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[Assistant] Smaller creators like Fran Blanche have said their communities have ceased growing and YouTube is pushing them to buy ads in order to grow. How does this reconcile with your prediction that niche channels are unable to grow? I don't know, the question cut off.


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[Assistant] Apparently, YouTube is pushing smaller creators to buy advertisements in order to grow.


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[Assistant] Could there be a table and LTX to swap the backpack zipper pulls? Might be nice to save on shipping and making those tools.


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[Assistant] Hey, LLD, long time viewer first, merch message. How do you all keep yourself grounded? I know that if I made it like you, I would have to find a way to keep myself in check, especially ethics-wise.


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[Assistant] Hey LDL, with the clear prioritization- oh.


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[Assistant] Sorry, uh, with the clear prioritization of profits over everything, like AI safety, should job seekers start to question the morality of working for big tech or just build the basilisk for money? Stop talking about the basilisk.


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[Assistant] Hey, LLD, Linus, have you thought about having a conversation with Framework to put the Frore Systems AirJet in the laptop?


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[Assistant] This is one from Joseph. It doesn't seem to be a question. Dan, if you curate this, I will buy more stuff.


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[Assistant] I curated that. Go ahead and buy more stuff, please. That's what I thought.


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[Assistant] Uh, Hey LLD is floatplane profitable enough for us to get an exclusive series, not behind the scenes, with LTT or MAC address style of editing of content that usually wouldn't work on YouTube.


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[Assistant] Hey Dan and the talent. Love you guys and the content. For someone who's hoping to get a job with LMG or Labs in a year or two, what's your advice for building a portfolio and skill set? Thanks a ton.


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[Assistant] Dear DLL, are there any news on a yearly payment option for the grandfather tier on Flowplain? Without discount, of course. I really would like to pay yearly. Thanks for all you do.


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[Assistant] In aerospace we use V slash AR for human design studies to check install and repair methods of equipment. Uh, once the head of the lab flexed on me by pulling out a 4090. What's the best tex, tech flex you've ever had?


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[Assistant] Is there anyone on the staff that completely changed your attitude or mindset about your job after interacting with them? What was the change?


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[Assistant] Hey DLL, greetings from Germany. We're having a seven day LAN party in August. How can we get everyone to play together and stop subgroups from forming? Love the show.


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[Assistant] That's all I got for curated, so we're going to dive into potentials if you guys are okay with that.


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[Assistant] I see you're doing the top, I'll start at the bottom if you want. Or you just curate them.


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[Assistant] MKBHD just had his second appearance on Hot Ones by First We Feast. Has Linus ever been invited and should we be trying to make it happen? Uh, would he go if he was invited?


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[Assistant] If you have been invited and missed it, I will be very upset.


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[Assistant] Hi, LLD. Are there any plans on releasing short length versions of the premium joggers, pajama pants, or other future releases?


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[Assistant] Oh uh, Joseph has purchased more stuff.


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[Assistant] Hi, GLL. Always curious. If someone at LMG had a side channel, streams, or TikTok blow up, go viral, would you support them as a partner under LMG? Rather, they split off like Tarzan and others in the past.


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[Assistant] Hey, Linus and Luke, I recently watched the video explaining the problem with your Sony HTA9 surround speakers. Have Sony responded to your video? Has any company reacted negatively towards a video?


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[Assistant] What is your favorite movie or TV show to watch after a new media center set up?


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[Assistant] Okay, last couple here. Longtime fan since LG34UM95 days. Linus, do you plan on doing a short circuit on the ROG Ally showing SSD upgrade paths? M.2 extender for full size SSD and a pre-release with updated firmware.


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[Assistant] Good morning L&L from Germany. I pre-ordered the ally but could not find a cool travel case. Are you still working on the Steam Deck case or will it be too chunky for the ally?


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[Assistant] By the way, I love this. Not to be confused with Jesus Freak, which is a Jesus enthusiast.


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[Assistant] Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Now I fully understand.


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[Assistant] Alright, here's some, uh, merch messages. DLL, I enjoy the watching the pre-WAN show chit chat and the interesting topics of that day. When you're not planning a WAN show like on other weeknights, uh, do you always have late night making videos?


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[Assistant] I.e. LLD. Linus, how do you deal with being tech cursed? As a fellow cursed one, watching I'm staying on AMD got me quite baffled. You had never experienced such blue screens up to that point.


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[Assistant] Alright, sorry Dan, one more. Yea, I've actually got a LAN related one here. Oh wow. Couple weeks ago you talked about doing an internal LAN party. Would you ever do a retro LAN with 98 era Windows machines? Because I have over 30 LAN party ready IBM T42 laptops with Windows 98 from 2001. Laptops? I'm gonna go with probably no.


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[Assistant] They have a whole wing specifically for architectural visualization that is obscenely good. There's a demo that is like a French house villa thing they've been using for ages.


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[Assistant] It's more like, yeaah, it's, it's, I don't have to be doing main task time. Okay, so you're saying that if I want Dan to do something for me, I should come at 2pm on a Thursday? No, you can, you can literally ask me anytime.


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[Assistant] It's getting better. Alright, okay, good. Uh, okay, Dan, hit me. Sure. Just landed a job as a data engineer at an IT consulting firm, fresh out of college. What's your take on hiring fresh grads and touting them as industry experts? Can't help but feel imposter syndrome.


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[Assistant] Hey Luke, I generally agree with your takes, and I'm a huge Bethesda fan. Besides Fallout 76. But. But. But.


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[Assistant] You've seen the store page, right? Go, go and read the description of the bread.


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[Assistant] Hi, LLD treating myself for my birthday. I'm interested in your thoughts on the Kaleidoscape. Kaleidoscape system? The picture quality is amazing, but the hardware is very expensive for what it is.


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[Assistant] Have you seen this, uh, system before? Kaleidoscape? Kaleidoscape. It's like- What the devil is a kaleidoscape? It's like a super high-end Netflix plex thing.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I've seen these systems as well, but I don't know of what they're called. They're so expensive and ridiculous.


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[Assistant] What were we doing with them? Nothing? I got yelled at for putting them in the WANSO server.


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[Assistant] I don't know if that's allowed. Uhm. He bought the snacks? He bought the drives? Yea, I bought the snacks.


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[Assistant] Uh, I still collect Pokemon cards and get weird looks from other quote unquote adults.


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[Assistant] I would love to see a piece on how your cameras evolved from NCIX to now and why you chose those cameras. Oh, I can just do that now. I'm planning my own indie video slash podcast company and would like to avoid the obvious pit-holes. Brad.


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[Assistant] For Linus. Yes, go ahead. Since he's an index user still, like me, are you a backer for the Nofeo, which is getting near the finish line? I'm looking forward to it and hoping it will get patches for the big screen.


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[Assistant] I just watched all the CNET review videos for my past cell phones, and some were 15 years old. What would happen if YouTube decided to delete the old stuff? Will Google host the LG Chocolate 3 review forever? We've talked


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[Assistant] I just moved and my ISP tried to make me pay the $500 worth of debt from the previous tenant before they would turn on my service. What's the most a company tried to make you pay for something dumb?


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[Assistant] Hey, LLD, first purchase from the store. Normally don't live in Canada? I'm organizing a LAN at my hometown university for the second time next year. Any tips and tricks? We were around 40 last time, hoping for more than 60.


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[Assistant] Hi, LLD, I am upgrading my theater room, trying to copy yours. Last WAN show mentioned the TCL screen, but Samsung just launched the new


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[Assistant] A new The Wall this week. Stupid name for a product. The Wall. Yep. I still use The Facebook. I think it looks good. Would you get it?


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[Assistant] Yes. Okay. Hey guys, Linus. Who were the first ten hires at LMG and how many are still with the company? Oof.


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[Assistant] Coffee shop? Kitchen? Where would the customers sit? That counter on the left looks way too short.


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[Assistant] This is what, this is, okay, we're back on track! This is good! Alright, excellent. Linus, you sounded excited to get into Cities Skylines 2. Have you seen how they rolled back pre-orders for consoles after they delayed the console launch? Is that an acceptable way to do that?


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[Assistant] Hey Linus, I'm an 8th grade science teacher and I am launching a YouTube channel for educational content. What tech tips do you have to make educational content entertaining for the youths of today?


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[Assistant] Hey DLL, happy to have another long sleeve back. Is there any reason you don't do them more or for your other shirts?


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[Assistant] Many hairs together strong. Thanks Dan, that was really helpful.


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[Assistant] Uh, last one of my curated here. Hi Linus, I'm a sous chef and work for a contract company. Uh, it's Sous Chef.


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[Assistant] Uh, hi Linus, I'm a sous chef and work for a contract company that sets up kitchens in other companies and feeds the employees 50 to 800 people per account. Uh, have you ever thought of doing something similar?


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[Assistant] There you go. Uhm, anyway. Up next. How to avoid getting scammed. With you having multiple great products, how is the initiation process working with suppliers on Alibaba? I want to craft my own weight clothes using tungsten. 60kg, about 3000?


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[Assistant] Hey Luke, how would you rate the 3D down jacket for winter? I'm in New York, right on the border with Canada. Is this the winter jacket for me?


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[Assistant] Hi Linus, Luke and Dan. I love the show and the channel. I have been trying to understand how to run dual GPUs. Do they need to be the same model? And what would the benefit be of running two GPUs?


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[Assistant] Hey, Linus, I've recently bought a PCI to fiber. Have you ever used this technology and would you consider using it yourself? Sounds super cool. Haven't done it.


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[Assistant] AMD released a Threadripper. I'm killing AMD.


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[Assistant] I'm setting it up here, I can deal with that if you fancy. Okay cool, Dan's gonna do it. I'm gonna try.


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[Assistant] I don't think they can hear you over the music, Dan. Oh. I don't know why I bother then.


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[Assistant] Okay, I guess we need two kinds of cables. Okay, fine. You know?


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[Assistant] The building simulator features Linus tech tips in an update.


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[Assistant] I honestly never did it, cause I was like, I've built enough computers, I don't need to simulate building computers. But, I might just like, check this.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah. Oh yeaah. Alright, good enough. Uhm, also, what else should we talk about? I don't know, Elon Musk and Zuckerberg might actually fight each other in a cage match? That is not happening. Yeaah, I said the same thing. But either way, intro time!


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[Assistant] If you wanted to live Linus's alternative reality life where he didn't start a YouTube channel, you could play PC Billing Simulator.


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[Assistant] I think that's also it in, in black. It's hard to see, but I think the pattern is there. I'm not sure. You might be right.


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[Assistant] What are those called? I don't remember. Leafs? Nano-leafs or something? Okay. To the right of the desk? That's not ours, obviously. Oh, the, the-


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[Assistant] Speaking of accurate renders. That is...


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[Assistant] Oh yeah, apparently he recently did the Murph challenge. I had heard about a lot of his like jujitsu stuff and stuff like that. I had not heard about this. Apparently he completed the Murph challenge, which is running a mile followed up by 100 pull-ups. It says 200 press-ups. Okay. Are they just saying push-up? Press-up. One sec. I don't know what a press-up is.


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[Assistant] It might be like a specific hand position or something, but yea, 200 press ups, 300 squats, and then running another mile, all while wearing a 20 pound weighted backpack.


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[Assistant] I'm certain these things aren't like- I'm certain he didn't do 100 pull-ups without having a break. Okay. But like-


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[Assistant] Yeah, like it doesn't matter. Honestly, yes, there are absolutely big advantages to being a lot heavier and a lot taller.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but like- But, these are not similar people. Physically. Like, it doesn't matter. Mark will destroy him. And to be clear, I am-


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[Assistant] Oh yea, he's gone to like jujitsu tournaments and stuff. Zuckerberg would have no issue doing this.


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[Assistant] I don't know. I can't- I don't think he realizes like- I can't tell with him. A lot of people that have never been in an I don't know, maybe he has, someone's gonna bring up some weird thing from his past, I don't care.


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[Assistant] Bullies and stuff. You sure? This is gonna be a different reality.


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[Assistant] We get zoom. That is a thing, some people do, uh, yeaah. It's not as good, but uhm, I think you- yeaah, I don't know. I don't know. A bunch of people are bringing up the send me location meme, that's pretty great. Send me location.


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[Assistant] If you round up, I'm 6'3". I'm like 6'2", and like, something. You're over 6 feet, you don't get to round up. Sure.


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[Assistant] I haven't been under 200 since I was like 17. Okay, well, okay over 250? Yeah. Oh.


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[Assistant] I don't know how much bone weighs. But just like, fire out a number. Uuuh, right now.


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[Assistant] But like, not that close. It's definitely more than that.


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[Assistant] Now one thing to consider is I've put on a lot of muscle since then. Right. And that weighs a lot more. But I was more, for sure.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, and there's no- like this is flat, like I'm doing okay.


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[Assistant] Before you kill me. Rather certain I still would have won. Yes. But that, but that is, that is, the, the drasticness of that situation is significantly higher.


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[Assistant] Yeah, which is a lot when it comes to these types of things, but the gap in training between these people. Right, well the other thing too is Zuckerberg.


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[Assistant] Yeah, there's like every- all the Canadians talk about things with the same metrics, but I don't know.


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[Assistant] I know like mentally about how much it is, I don't know if it's off the top of my head, cause everything I do that actually matters for it, I do it in feet. Okay.


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[Assistant] Is it exactly? Yeah, see? He doesn't know either! Come off it! I knew it was three something, but I don't know the exact answer.


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[Assistant] It does if you're giving it to them. The fans that are gonna like things about the lab are gonna want exact conversions.


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[Assistant] Oh, I know the rough stuff, yea, sure.


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[Assistant] He'll give you the actual exact thing. Oh my god, that doesn't matter.


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[Assistant] If I remember correctly, the Google weather app could not display 69 degrees Fahrenheit. And people thought they were like trying to avoid the funny number.


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[Assistant] But it actually turned out that when you convert from Celsius, due to like, uh, how things round and whatnot,


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[Assistant] Yeah, so Lewis Rossman talked about this a while ago. I don't think we have a lot of notes about the actual thing that happened, but basically a doorbell, the person wasn't even home. The doorbell has a standard greeting and it is not racist.


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[Assistant] Are you sure? Well, no actually. The delivery driver had headphones in or on or whatever, and they thought it was racist, so they reported it, and Amazon just like shut down their home devices. Wow. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Just make it like, you know, they'd fare a lot better if it was like an Elon and Bezos tag team versus Mark.


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[Assistant] And I really need to work on, like, ground. I was going to say, as far as my understanding goes, what you might want to work on is just intensely avoiding going to the ground, because it takes a very long time to learn jujitsu, and I think he's been doing it for quite a while. Okay, so basically I just want to get focused on... And you have no, like, sorry, what is it, what is the thing that you do again? I don't remember.


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[Assistant] No, we do some grappling. You do some grappling? Some, not much. Okay. Very little. At least you have some though, cause a lot of people will come with like, no wrestling, no jiu-jitsu, and think they're just gonna like, bear hug people and win, and just get wrecked.


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[Assistant] Yeah, also sometime next week, there will be a posting for a front end developer going up. All right, two positions.


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[Assistant] It's pretty close. Uhm. Hmm, it's pretty close. I'm sorry, Luke.


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[Assistant] You know, that sucks. We don't want you playing that type of game right now because we need our new type of monetization to be the only thing that you can access.


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[Assistant] Uh, yeaah. There's stuff like, uhm, there's cyber attacks going on from China right now on US infrastructure. And it's like, not actual shutting things down. It's just getting themselves in the system and then sitting there.


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[Assistant] What is this? Sorry, I'm not familiar with this. Can you explain it a little better than that? I was reading some articles recently on how, there's constantly cyber warfare from all of the countries to all of the other countries. So this is not like weird, and I'm sure America is doing very similar things back. I'm not trying to be like, oh, China bad.


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[Assistant] What I have heard recently is that there was recently a fairly significant amount of Chinese cyber attacks towards American infrastructure. Think like power stations, stuff like that.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and they weren't trying to actively take anything down.


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[Assistant] I think in very Stuxnet type of ways, if there was a, a large future, uh, world scale war that was to happen, that involved these big countries very directly, those types of things would start happening in ways that I don't think anyone's ready for, literally.


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[Assistant] Right. Like all of the power and all of the internet just being incredibly unstable in all of the places is something that we're not ready for. We're very used to stability and all these other types of things.


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[Assistant] Yeah, the telephone line was the only thing back then that was like, reliable. Uhm.


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[Assistant] So things being super stable is something that I think we take for granted. And what could throw that stability off I think is very wide ranging.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, yeah. They got to react to it. Yeah, I don't know. I think that is an interesting thing though, is that so many things are network connected at this point. People have network connected locks.


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[Assistant] Right? Like, and one of the things is when you have something like a network connected door lock to your house, if all you use for a very very long time is like your phone or something to get into your house, you might start becoming


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[Assistant] Less concerned about making sure that you have your backup key on you or whatever else. So like, there's, there's things that just get a little weird when those systems stop working in the way that they have forever.


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[Assistant] It's been a while for that one. I like throw my phone away these days, so that might be a little bit more difficult.


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[Assistant] How could they do this to us? An Australian court has found Dell's Australian subsidiary guilty of falsely marking computer prices as on sale. According to documents published by the court, customers buying a pre-built computer online were given the option of an add-on monitor listed as 60% off.


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[Assistant] However, the discounted price was simply the full price of the product.


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[Assistant] The monitor had never been listed for the striked out price. Some customers were even misled into purchasing the monitors at a higher rate than they would have paid had they purchased the monitor by itself. The court claims that more than 5,300 add-on monitors were sold with overstated discounts.


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[Assistant] Dell has admitted to misleading customers and has been ordered to hire an independent compliance professional.


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[Assistant] They don't say how much and they are seeking further information though, so how do you think they should do it? Do you have any opinions on that? I've been trying to figure that out.


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[Assistant] Because they say compensate them, but they don't say compensate them by how much.


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[Assistant] This would wreck them looking at the prices that I see on the screen, but it would be really great if they had to pay them the difference.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't know, I just, I hope it's not nothing, uh, because, like,


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[Assistant] Yeah. Whatever amount that is, sounds good. I hope they figure it out.


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[Assistant] Not true. Intel has officially discontinued their ARC A770 limited edition graphics cards, meaning like the ones that like they're making and stuff, but board partner cards are still available. This is super normal. And people should stop freaking out.


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[Assistant] People are just so obsessed with trying to call the skies falling on, on Intel Arc. Uhm, but it's not, so.


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[Assistant] Wow, I was actually going to say I'm assuming you did pretty good.


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[Assistant] I think a lot of people just don't care anymore. They know it like, barely does anything and they just don't even bother to interact with it.


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[Assistant] Because there's like, the noise there is pretty intense too. You get call-ups for subscriptions in every single video. So you just start ignoring it. It reminds you of the like, oh yea, I should click on something else now.


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[Assistant] People clipped you yelling at yourself. That happens like pretty early on. I had at least, uh, like, I don't know, 8 plus people send that to me.


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[Assistant] I'll find that sometimes. Like I feel like I click on a creator every time I ever see one of their videos. I really enjoy their stuff. Uh, and then I'll, I'll go like, wait, I haven't seen a video from this group in a while or whatever. Let me go look what they're doing. It's like, oh, they've been doing.


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[Assistant] Uh, I have not watched this video, but I've had a bunch of people message me about it. I saw someone, uh, they sent me a photo of me on this thing in this seat. They like photo edited it and they're like, this is how you have to like telecommute into WAN show moving forward. And I was like, what the heck are you talking about?


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[Assistant] It's like someone like wanted to go into the uncanny valley and just make something that's uncomfortable to look at. Like intentionally. Hold on.


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[Assistant] I'm responding to a merch message, but I will pause that and jump over. Uhm, we kinda talked about DPR review living on last week. Did we? Uh, you mentioned it. I don't think we really talked about it, but you mentioned it.


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[Assistant] He wants to get it himself, Dan. Okay, so a dark pattern is a confusing or misleading user experience that leads you to do a thing that the company wants you to do and not a thing that you want to do.


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[Assistant] Prime subscriptions are, oh wow, we're doing this. Hey, how's it going? This feels a lot more intimate for some reason. Uh, Prime subscriptions are known for this because of how persistent they are in trying to get you to sign up for it and by offering free sign up, uh, at the beginning. But, the worst part, in my opinion,


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[Assistant] Is that it is ridiculously hard to cancel. Um, and that I don't know why this is a thing.


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[Assistant] But I know a surprising amount of, uh, old people, uh, who end up with multiple of them? Right. Like a lot of people, I don't know why.


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[Assistant] Interesting. It's been a thing. I have, I genuinely no idea why. That one I genuinely don't understand.


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[Assistant] I know some of them too, uhm, and this is more of a thing for Canadians, cause like 80% of us live within, what is it, 50 kilometers of the border or something like that. Uhm, but a fair amount of it is the confusing way that Amazon deals with different countries. Cause you can like have the same login.


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[Assistant] But also not, so it ends up creating multiple accounts, and you can have a prime for both countries, but it's not necessary.


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[Assistant] Really? Okay, I didn't even know that. I don't think it is. I don't know, I don't actually use Amazon. Well, you're prime for... It's definitely not necessary if you are an American, because everything that's on the Canadian one is gonna be on the American one. So you should just use the American one.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't know, but like, I, I, I don't know. I don't get it, I don't use Amazon, but I do know a lot of people that end up getting really screwed over and have a bunch of Prime accounts and can't figure out how to cancel them.


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[Assistant] I remember this. I remember when I had to cancel my, my grandfather's after he passed away, I remember being legitimately like,


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[Assistant] Needing to actually focus. Cause I was like, it's really, really trying to get me to press the wrong button here. And I had to press the right button many times. And they would switch which side it was on, and they would change which one was highlighted, and they would do all these little things. So you had to like really make sure, and they would change it would be like, no, I do want to cancel.


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[Assistant] I don't know guys. It's like, if you're someone who's expecting these things, it's fine, you can get through it. But the main thing that was standing out to me was like, no wonder my grandpa couldn't cancel this.


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[Assistant] There's like, there's no way. It would have been such a mess. The, uh, yeaah, I don't know.


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[Assistant] No, because they made like, uh, newsletters and also zines and also magazines. You mean zines? Magazines? Zines? What the hell?


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[Assistant] What I'm saying is like, if you don't want to buy that car, you can actually just physically remove yourself. You can. If, if you call in- But they're trying to keep you from doing it. For sure. If you call in to something, and you say, I want to cancel,


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[Assistant] This is my details I want to cancel. And they're like, oh, I'm gonna counter offer you. You should be able to say, no, I don't care. I want to cancel. Goodbye. And it should be done. Uhm, but I mean, it likely won't be.


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[Assistant] I like the idea of having a third button. Uhm, I don't know if this is enforceable or not, but having a third button that's just like, I genuinely do not care, you could offer me the moon, cancel it.


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[Assistant] No, I'm pretty sure I'm still not interested. Or like, definitely no.


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[Assistant] It's even on here if it doesn't support, oh, cause it's AMD build partnered?


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[Assistant] Even, yeah, it's just great. I don't know. If you don't know anything about Eve, it might not make a lot of sense. You can absolutely play Eve without ever touching a spreadsheet. Uh, but many people that do play Eve do a lot of things in the game, especially if you're an economy player, which is a lot of the people that play Eve. Uhm, that are, I mean, you're gonna do better if you use your spreadsheets. So.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like I specifically mentioned COBOL. I don't know if this is the one that the person was skilled in. Uhm, but I just googled it because I was wondering. Uhm, and there's a statement here that's, it's difficult to make it through a day without using a system that depends on COBOL. And you're like, what? Most people have never even heard of this. And it's like, yeah, a lot of banks.


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[Assistant] You make ridiculous money because no one coming out of school is like, oh, I'm gonna go learn COBOL. So the amount of people that are still in the workforce that know it is only going down. And dropping.


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[Assistant] I don't know how old this article is. Um, oh, 2019. It was revealed in the event that if the US President ordered the launch of a nuclear warhead, the command would rely on an 8 inch floppy disk. Or a series of them at least.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't know. Not saying that modernizing is a bad thing either. I'm just saying you don't have to. You can try to find a niche where you're at.


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[Assistant] And no, I am not necessarily recommending that you person in university right now learning programming languages should just drop everything and learn COBOL. That is not the answer. That wasn't the point. That was not the point.


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[Assistant] There's a lot of things that are vampirically successful due to not being open, uh, which is unfortunate. Well, things would be more successful due to being open.


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[Assistant] There's a lot of games that I feel like you could talk about, about this, like I think they- Oh, by being more modding friendly.


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[Assistant] Think about it, like, I, I would argue, I don't know if I would be right, I'm not that in tune with things, but I would argue that we're not exactly in a...


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[Assistant] Ah, Valorant's doing pretty well, actually. Just before Valorant, I would say. I would argue that we were not exactly in a golden age of shooters.


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[Assistant] Sure. Valorant's kinda poppin' off though. But Valorant's really just like modern Counter-Strike. Like I still don't really think we are. And one of my arguments I think would be the departure of dedicated servers.


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[Assistant] Because if you think back when like Counter-Strike was really poppin', you could play like Warcraft versions of Counter-Strike where you would like level up and all this weird, like it was so weird.


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[Assistant] So like, uh, yeah, I feel like that's a big part of the reason why, is a lot of the modding right now is in like the RPG space, or the single player space. But dedicated servers used to have very, very interesting versions of first person shooter games, and first person shooter games don't have dedicated servers anymore. So we lost this modding support in an indirect way, but it still happened. And I think-


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[Assistant] Uhm, so I curated this one because I think it's interesting because there's kinda two ways to read it.


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[Assistant] It's like, what would you do if you were Reddit CEO? Or...


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[Assistant] What would you do better if you were actually him?


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[Assistant] We talked last week about this, right? It's very likely that they had to do something like this, but I think they didn't know their audience very well. They should have used their audience a little bit better.


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[Assistant] The Reddit CEO has done an extremely bad job of being an adversary.


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[Assistant] Why is he losing so hard? This is what I don't get. Yea, he has the biggest megaphone and on the tallest podium. And just doesn't do it like all these subreddits going not safe for work and stuff. Why are you even letting them do that? If you're trying to be big adversary guy, you're just-


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[Assistant] Like, it feels like he's motivated to look the worst he could possibly look and just sit in that space for as long as possible.


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[Assistant] It's pretty slow, actually. It's happening so slowly because his reactions are so junk and slow. It's, it's so, it's just weird. I don't know, like, I don't want people to think I'm, I'm on Spez's side because I'm absolutely not, but it's been just hilarious to watch because I'm like, oh,


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[Assistant] So the Reddit moderators or people or whatever are doing this now. I wonder what Spez is gonna do about it. And then just...


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[Assistant] Certain subreddits, and force not safe for work certain subreddits, but doesn't do it with all of them, and there's no real like logical pattern to how he's approaching any of this. It's just like, what?


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[Assistant] What are you doing? I- oh man, I don't know. The whole thing is just so weird.


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[Assistant] Glad that I didn't go down with that ship. I did have better backup plans, but mine was still pretty yolo.


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[Assistant] You guys spend more time on individual videos than like ever.


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[Assistant] I don't want a new car, but I don't think I would buy one without Android Auto at this point. No.


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[Assistant] Uh, it's, it's, the, the problem is routing. So there, there is an ISP, I don't remember which one, I don't know. Uh, there is an ISP in Australia that we have no problems with, like at all.


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[Assistant] There are other ISPs in Australia that we have tons of problems with. Tons of problems with. We do delivery for Australia through CloudFlare. Uhm, so we are working with CloudFlare right now. We have an open ticket with them where there's been some back and forth. We're working with CloudFlare right now to figure that out. Uhm, because we're not doing delivery to


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[Assistant] Australian viewers of Floatplane through Floatplane servers in Australia. Uhm, we are doing delivery to Australians through Cloudflare. Uhm, so it is pretty wild to me because delivery everywhere else in the world is pretty good. That, uh, there are Australian ISPs


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[Assistant] That can have bad routing to a company that like, runs half the world's internet. Uhm, if you know what I mean by that, because that's not, that's obviously not true, but like, I think you get it. Uh, so yeah, I don't know. We're working on it, if what we end up having to do is have more than one, uhm,


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[Assistant] Delivery partner that is like, if we, if we find, uh, uh, a way to serve better to the other range of Australian ISPs and whatnot, we will do it. We're not going to just leave you stuck in this bad situation forever, but right now we're trying to just work with Cloudflow to figure it out because yeah, it's annoying.


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[Assistant] Uh, database, the main one we're using, we use more than one, but the main one we're using is Postgres. Uh, the front end is, uh, the front end is React through Next, and the back end is TypeScript. Hopefully that answers all the things you're looking for.


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[Assistant] I suspect some other employees of LMG might not want to be involved. I would obviously love to be included. They can make fun of me however they want, that would be hilarious.


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[Assistant] Literally just an episode about some crazy Canadian YouTuber opening a badminton center would probably be...


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[Assistant] Mine, uh, this isn't my most ridiculous story, but it's my most recent one. Literally last night I almost got ran over.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I was driving, uh, I'll actually be pretty specific. I was driving up the hill on 200th, by like the Best Buy and stuff, and there was this big truck in the lane beside me, and just decided to, all of a sudden over into my lane, and I had to crank the wheel to dodge over to the side.


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[Assistant] And then just, you see him like, realize that I'm there, and that I just dodged him, and go back into his own lane. Actually, I have no idea if it was a he or a she or whatever, I don't know, I'm just generalizing. Uhm, go back into their own lane.


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[Assistant] And you know how it's like a lot of lanes there? Foot on the floor, whips past me, goes all the way waaay wide right to get around everybody, blows past people, goes, the, the light is green, gets way up in the front, goes all the way, way over to the left, no, it's a, no, just a big, like, lifted truck. Got it, oooooh. Yeah, yeah, yeah.


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[Assistant] Flies all over the place, all this kind of stuff. We get to the next light past that one, and I mean, as per usual, they're just right there, because they didn't get away. So I like, laid into the horn a little bit when it first happened, because I wasn't even sure if they saw me at all. And then when we got up there, I gave them a little like, I still see you.


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[Assistant] But that was, uh, that was fun, yeaah. Like, would've completely totaled my car, because their front tire would've gone over my front left fender. And just like, dropped right into my engine bay. So that would've sucked. Uhm.


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[Assistant] But, yeaah, made it. Dodged em.


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[Assistant] Almost had a reason to get a new car, but now I still don't have a reason to get a new car. So I'm okay with that.


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[Assistant] Is a lab you would love to visit. Whoever you are, you should reach out and invite us to check out your wind tunnel at NASA.


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[Assistant] We got to, uh, there isn't that many left, but we do have to crank it out because you got, you got 12 minutes. Oh yeaah, okay.


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[Assistant] There's a lot of ways I could say this that would like misrepresent how it actually goes. I don't think it's actually.


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[Assistant] Difficult. Like you, you see, you watch, if you watch a movie and there's like some boss who's like a jerk and refuses to listen,


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[Assistant] I have to bring a good enough argument why we can't or won't or shouldn't do something, but if I do so Linus will listen to it. So like, I don't know, bring a good enough argument or find a better plot.


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[Assistant] So be open yourself to changing your stance on things based on, on whatever. This is a two-way street. And then also make sure that you're working with someone who will do that or try to find gainful employment elsewhere.


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[Assistant] I hope it doesn't go the, uh, xkcd. Is that it? xkcd way? I've referenced that so many times.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Hey, let's make a new sta- er, there's too many standards. Let's make a standard that unifies them all. There are now one more standards.


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[Assistant] And that is super BS that any doctor or anyone else should be able to. And hopefully they get crushed legally.


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[Assistant] I'm wondering if it's because it's the lack of the back force? That's right.


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[Assistant] I witnessed a certain version of a screwdriver that Nick showed me today.


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[Assistant] To the WAN show. We have got a great show for you guys this week. Breaking news! Breaking news! Like, what is this, like two hours ago? Three hours ago or something like that?


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[Assistant] Yeah, uh, SVB, the Silicon Valley Bank, goes under? What? What? Bank?


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[Assistant] Just gone? In Silicon Valley? This is wild! Uh, less wild is that, uhm, YouTube has apparently relaxed their stupid...


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[Assistant] The show is brought to you by FreshBooks. Goliath Technologies. I heard they're online. Uh, Squarespace.


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[Assistant] Really? Okay, Tarkov, why not that for the fourth topic?


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[Assistant] Luke's got some Tarkov updates. It's spicy. First, we need to get into the big news this week. Uh, sources for this, I don't know, everywhere, CTV, the BBC, BlockWorks, doesn't matter. The point is, earlier today, the 16th largest bank in America, which


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[Assistant] Yeah, so it wouldn't be a huge deal here. In America, 16th largest bank, uh, what?


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[Assistant] Okay, so they suffered a good old-fashioned 1930s-style bank run, and the tense of its Wikipedia page went from is to was.


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[Assistant] There was some indication earlier this week that the bank might not have sufficient liquid assets, uh, the stock price of its parent company dropped suddenly, venture capitalists advised their clients to withdraw funds, and those clients rushed to get out what they could until regulators stepped in.


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[Assistant] This is the largest American bank collapse since the 2008 financial crisis.


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[Assistant] Now, here's the thing. Under normal circumstances, we wouldn't really be reporting on a bank failure in the U.S., because it's kind of a big deal, but it's not really tech. Except that SVB stands for Silicon Valley Bank. So let's, uhm,


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[Assistant] Let's talk about that. The liquidity issues that they suffered were heavily exacerbated by inflation, interest hikes, and the overall weakness of, here it comes, the tech markets. As SVB specialized in lending to tech startups,


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[Assistant] And most depositors were tech workers and VC backed companies.


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[Assistant] Much of the bank's deposits, and this is wild, were uninsured. Now, this is not in our notes, so you guys will have to forgive me if I've got the exact details wrong, but my understanding is that deposits were insured up to a maximum of $250,000. I believe so. Now, this is something that is, you know, from a...


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[Assistant] I would say from an individual standpoint, very much a first world problem. Uhm, but most banks that I'm aware of


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[Assistant] Do in fact have a limit to how much your balance can be before it just goes beyond what their insurance will cover. And in the event of a bank run or insolvency or other kind of, hey, poof, the money's gone event, it is simply not covered.


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[Assistant] From an individual standpoint, right? Oh, I'm sorry, your $251,000 is not fully covered in your bank account? Boo hoo hoo, cry me a river.


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[Assistant] That's tons of money. That's a lot of money to have in the bank. But let me tell you something. From a business standpoint, look around you, okay? Right? Do the math. How many people work here?


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[Assistant] I think we're over a hundred now, close to it. Does anyone know what like minimum wage is here?


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[Assistant] So let's assume that we paid minimum wage, which we don't. Okay, so that would be, uh, $1,565 per hour.


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[Assistant] Uh, what does that work out to in a work week? Let's say everyone was working 40 hours. We have, we have full-time employees. We're just doing this math live here. That would be $62,600 per work week, which is only half of a pay period, so times two. Assuming...


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[Assistant] Assuming that we paid minimum wage, which again, we do not.


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[Assistant] That would be $125,000 per pay period. Not including all other expenses. Not including all other expenses. Not including the fact that we know, in fact do not pay anyone here minimum wage. Not including the fact that you should have more than


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[Assistant] So in the event that our company say were to experience an event like this, where right now, anyone with their deposits in SVB, if they didn't get them out already, and even if they did get them out, if they sent, if they, if they withdrew money via a wire, like they sent out a wire,


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[Assistant] There is no guarantee, now that the bank has, my understanding is it's simply been seized.


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[Assistant] By the federal government or something like that. I don't know. Uh, yeaah, so.


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[Assistant] Sorry for any little details here, but effectively its assets are under control by a third party now. If that money simply does not come out, it's gone. Uhm.


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[Assistant] We would just be out, whatever was in that float account, and given-


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[Assistant] Exactly, because if you factor in that this is a bank that specializes in startups where they are


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[Assistant] Theoretically putting their VC raised money that they are running off of.


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[Assistant] Yeah, this is wild. This could be, this could be even if, even a profitable company, okay? We are a profitable company. But if you took our operating capital and just, even if you didn't eliminate it, if you froze it indefinitely, how do we run?


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[Assistant] Uhm, and you know what, it's one of those things where it's something that Yvonne and I have actually talked about. In Canada, the banking industry is fairly well regulated, pretty solid.


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[Assistant] But I can tell you guys from my own research that the limit, so we used to bank with a credit union specifically because there was no government imposed limit on how much they could insure. That was the reason we did it.


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[Assistant] A million dollars, or two million dollars, or three million dollars sitting in the bank as our operating funds or to cover our upcoming deposits or expenses for merch or whatever else it is. We could have that sitting there knowing that in the event that something went catastrophically wrong, it would be covered by insurance and we would get it back.


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[Assistant] But that actually changed, I think about a year ago. It was in the last year or two, I know that for sure. Uhm, and so,


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[Assistant] I gotta be honest with you, you, uhm.


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[Assistant] We are pretty much in the same situation.


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[Assistant] I would, I would basically roll into the office and just like,


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[Assistant] I just sit there. What can I do? How do you run a business with no capital?


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[Assistant] And now, it is possible that a sale of SVB and its assets and its liabilities, presumably, uhm, could be negotiated, but I pretty much promise you that whatever those, uhm, whatever cash it owes,


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[Assistant] If you get anything back from it, it's gonna be less than 100%. Like they're gonna negotiate


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[Assistant] Yeah, well that was the whole thing that happened, uh, we saw with the NCIX bankruptcy, where depending on where you were in the chain of creditors, even if they extracted any money from the shareholders who turned tail and ran away, it was never gonna make it to you.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Top Gear, uh, 1224 says, 100% honest, this is why companies use stocks as bank accounts. Not just stocks. So I was recently made aware of something called a land bank. A land bank, yeah. Yeah. Uh, so here in Vancouver, where real estate generally does one thing,


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[Assistant] It goes like this, though not necessarily the case lately, as uhm, some of the folks here who have been, who have been on the market can attest to, and also I can attest to, as someone who bought at the peak, uh, the lab, I get reports from our commercial realtor every once in a while, prices are going down, it's exciting, I'm sitting here going, yeah, that doesn't help my mortgage, brah. Anyway.


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[Assistant] Uh, where was I going? Right. Uh, the concept of a land bank is that you just buy land because cash. Like, okay.