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[Assistant] Hi, love your content. Thanks to you, I'm a CS engineer and now currently doing a PhD in computer architecture. Any predictions about the future of CPUs? 100 plus cores, accelerators, better IPC or EPC, etc.


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[Assistant] What's your favorite retro tech outside of gaming?


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[Assistant] So this isn't even the first one because you're also, there's a Kanye cover or someone used an AI of your voice to cover a Kanye West song.


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[Assistant] Would you ever consider using a game engine like Unity or Unreal as a part of your benchmarking? I'm an indie dev and thought it might be useful. That's from Noah.


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[Assistant] Mason asks, who's the most talented gamer you've ever gamed with? This is interesting because we've done videos with a lot of Twitch streamers.


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[Assistant] James asks, do you think Valve might incentivize developers to make more games proton compatible if they offered a less, uh, percentage cut of the game and Steam, if they support it for an X amount of time after launch?


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[Assistant] Armin asks, uh, about the iPad vs Tab S8, but to be more general, how do you feel about the current Android vs iPad tablet space?


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[Assistant] I want to make my home smart, and I'm having trouble determining the correct ecosystem. We use iOS phones, but everything else is Windows. I also have plans to install cameras on a NAS. Do you have a recommended ecosystem? I know a lot of you don't like having to rely on a certain ecosystem, but do you have a preference if you did?


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[Assistant] Yeah, it seems like there's not really an easy one to choose nowadays. Uh, I use Google, but I mean, do you trust big tech? Probably not. There you go.


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[Assistant] Dustin asks, do you guys ever think about showing how to network boot systems from a single image like in all of your land center PCs?


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[Assistant] And final question here from Cody. My professor finally played a video from TechQuickie in class discussing heat assisted magnetic recording. Any other cool storage tech you can recommend looking up?


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[Assistant] Dedicated sound cards gradually became less and less popular because the onboard audio is good enough for most things. Do you think something similar could happen to GPUs in the future?


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[Assistant] Yeah, the M1 is a great machine. I use it for editing LMG clips instead of my RTX 2080 Super. Because it is faster for my rendering. Uh, and it's just, just a laptop. That's hilarious. That's crazy.


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[Assistant] Uh, Facebook loses two hundred and fifty-two billion. Well, sort of. In value shares, whatever. Yeah, in valuation. Yeah, yeah, magic money. Uh, and, uh, yeah, you stole my other topic, so I'm looking for another one. Oh yeah, there's some- I stole your topic, I think you mean I pressed-


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[Assistant] You pirated my topic. Also, New York Times, uh, purchased Wordle, because everyone has to buy every game. Every company has to buy a game. We should buy a game.


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[Assistant] I have things to say, but I can't.


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[Assistant] When, uh, are you allowed to say when you can say things?


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[Assistant] I mean, you literally just did the Linux challenge so I think you can answer that question. Why not? Because of the problems in the Linux challenge.


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[Assistant] You probably can't comment on this, but they said the entire Steam library.


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[Assistant] Right out of the gate, right? Yeah. That's actually insane. Oh yeah, it's impossible. There's, there's, unless, and I know they're working on it, and they've actually made huge grounds, and there's still that website, you can look at it, it has been getting slightly better, etc., etc., etc., but the anti-cheat problem is like a thing.


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[Assistant] And that's just, I don't know. They'd have to convince a lot of old games to do updates to be compatible with this, which is a very hard thing to convince developers to do. Yes.


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[Assistant] Let me go back to this old game that we haven't made any money from in a long time and like spend dev time on it. Hmm.


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[Assistant] Is that potentially an exposure problem? Cause like I remember when I worked at Geek Squad, uhm, I used to think


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[Assistant] And, I mean, they weren't exactly doing great. But I used to think that HP laptops were just the worst thing ever.


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[Assistant] Cause it was like the only thing that we would ever get coming in with problems was HP laptops. And then I was talking to one of my mentors in Geek Squad, uh, and he was like, well, have you looked at like the sales numbers that we're pushing to the store for laptops?


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[Assistant] Like, well, no. And then he pointed out that it's like 80-something percent HP laptops at that time. So he's like, what do you think's gonna come back? He's like, okay.


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[Assistant] I mean, you see this across the board, right? You see this with cheaters, video games, you see this with everything, so.


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[Assistant] Okay, cause I, something I've been thinking of this whole time is, wouldn't they, wouldn't it, they said they didn't open it, wouldn't it just be shrink-wrapped? But yea. No. So, that's something that I...


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[Assistant] Really? This is a $500 board though. A lot of high end boards, don't they have a sticker over the...


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[Assistant] Uh, GeoMaster337 on FlowplaneChat said, but Gamers Nexus didn't open the box, it was shipped in.


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[Assistant] So not like a concerted scam of like, hey, hey, uh, RMA specialist people, just, just refuse all of them, tell them all they have socket damage. But like, hmm, maybe weighing really heavily on employee reviews or something on like, oh, you accepted too many motherboards with, with sketchy pins and being really, really, really hard on them.


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[Assistant] I know, I know a lot of motherboards get individually validated. I don't know if that's true about everything. $500 board might.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but I wonder, I wonder how expensive documenting that validation would be.


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[Assistant] Cause if you could have like photo evidence of your socket as it's leaving, and you can, and if someone's like, oh, this was screwed up at the manufacturer and they can be like, nope, picture.


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[Assistant] That would, that would kind of exclude one of those. And then if, I think especially for open box products, if Newegg would, would, would document the status of the product as it's being repackaged, that would probably help their stance as well.


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[Assistant] I did a, I did a sponsored event where, I'm not gonna say who, but a company flew me out to go do a thing, uh, and we were building computers, and the parts showed up late, and we were unboxing all the parts, or not unboxing, but taking all the parts out, and then we realized that there was a component missing,


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[Assistant] And we had to go to a Micro Center to go pick up said component. Yeah. It's a cool place. Yeah.


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[Assistant] It's a really, really big store. Like, I, I, and I know that's like, just some Canadian dude in, in America going like, whoa. But it was huge.


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[Assistant] It was crazy. And I heard that Fry's Electronics was significantly bigger.


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[Assistant] Which is, which is cool. I'm used to like, the, I mean, going to NCX when I was growing up, it's this little like, tiny little sliver hole in the wall, where you basically go up to an order desk and just get your stuff. Like there's, there's extremely limited browsing, if basically any. Like the Langley location had like, two shelf things.


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[Assistant] That was like it. But it was usually filled with just like cases that I assumed they couldn't fit in the back because it covered most of the floor. Uhm, so yeaah, it was a, I don't know, it was kind of a cool experience.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Is, is like a face painting thing, where once you are done, like creating your person, there would be like a, if you buy this shopping list of products, you can achieve this look. And it just add to cart. Yeah. That would actually probably be here.


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[Assistant] Oh, awesome. They were doomed to fail. That was awesome.


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[Assistant] I said mentor at Geek Squad or whatever. He had that tattooed on his arm. Just the acronym. There's no such thing as a free lunch. It's very true.


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[Assistant] Other people saw you going there, so other people saw that this place is being attended, so they're like, ah, it's probably not that bad, so that they might go there, etc.


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[Assistant] Fans cases, peripherals, have always kind of survived with better margins?


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[Assistant] Oh I know. Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Canada, yep. Where's the US?


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[Assistant] Yeah, like I didn't even really want to say it because like I don't want to give them ideas, but yeah. Like I would. If I worked there, like, why would you not? I would.


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[Assistant] Oh crap, I probably won't. Now you have to tell the customer support people that.


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[Assistant] Oh man. This is how companies usually treat you, so it's probably fine.


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[Assistant] Like, maybe, I don't know how he worded it, I'm not reading the article in front of me, but it's something along the lines of like, we didn't necessarily deserve them at the time. Like, we weren't doing the right things, we weren't facilitating them properly, all this kind of stuff. But I think we would now, we are now, all that kind of stuff.


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[Assistant] I would not be surprised if there was conversation going on there.


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[Assistant] Crazy. Also, 3.6 billion, when like, I'm pretty sure it's just Destiny right now. They do say like, uh, Bungie of course is studio behind the original Halo, which is still owned by Microsoft, and the following franchise is Marathon, pre-Halo FPS, that's like, I really don't see them


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[Assistant] Doing anything with Marathon. Yeah. Myth, Oni, and Destiny.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uhm, it's like you look at Oculus and they just fired them.


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[Assistant] They just fired like everybody from the original team. Oni is, uh, is not what I thought. It's not Oni in the Dark Forest. It's just called Oni. And it was released in 2001. So as far as I can tell, all these, uh, all these things are just done. Except for Destiny. Destiny is big.


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[Assistant] Destiny's a big game. It's been very successful. Every time they release an expansion, whatever, it sells really well. People in that community seem pretty happy, for the most part. Yep. So like, it's a big thing for Sony to get, but 3.6 billion? Dang!


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[Assistant] Dang. It's uhm, yea, consolidation bad. I don't think we need to go over that way too much more.


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[Assistant] Which they're, honestly, their, their multi-platform live game service is, has been just killing it for a long time, so that's very legit. Uh, people in chat are also saying new IP is coming, so yep, that probably makes sense as well.


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[Assistant] It's, I would, I also think, and I'm sure everyone is aware of this, that buying Bungie is a bit of a blow to Microsoft.


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[Assistant] You are, uh, you are buying Bungie away from Microsoft even if they don't own it. Uhm, cause they were kind of dangling out there on their own for a little while, right? And, uh, being attached to something that is not Microsoft now is, is a statement even though they weren't owned by Microsoft.


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[Assistant] Uh, apparently over a billion of the money for Bungie was to keep it up.


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[Assistant] My grandma bought my brother and I Gameboy Pockets when we were really young.


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[Assistant] I like how they're like, labeled out and everything too, because like, you probably know if it's your thing, but if you're hanging this on the wall, you're very likely gonna get a question about it, because it's a very interesting piece to have hanging on the wall. Yeah, that's so cool. And it's, I, I, yeah, I don't know. That's pretty sweet.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's super cool. So you can kinda see what it would do. And it's in black and white, which makes sense. I love it. That's sweet. That's awesome.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Anyways, yeah, Facebook, 252 billion dollars gone. Uh, as far as Wikipedia is concerned, the GDP of Finland. Amazing.


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[Assistant] Yeah, brutal. Apparently average usage of Facebook dipped for the first time ever, leading to concerns that Instagram may not be far behind. Uh, Meta's CFO, Dave Werner, blames


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[Assistant] Uh, Blame's part of the decrease on fewer COVID-19 lockdowns. Darn, you should really crank on that a little more. Uh, which historically generated a boom in online activity. I mean, he's not wrong, but like,


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[Assistant] Also blamed the rising internet costs in India and rising interest in TikTok, which analysts say is hurting Instagram's growth. To combat TikTok, Instagram has been investing billions of dollars and lots of development time into the development of more video related features, which they say is their like fastest growing thing on Instagram.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like a lot of the speculated value of that company is based on projected eventual growth. Yes. So if, if they stop growing, then everyone goes, whoa, whoa, whoa.


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[Assistant] Facebook that we're talking about right now is, is the greater Facebook services or whatever you want to call them that includes Instagram. Yes, yes. Uhm, I think Facebook, the website. So meta, fine, let's call them meta. Sure. Meta-book, I like meta-book better. Mine is, yeah, meta-book because that maybe doesn't include VR stuff, I don't know. No, it does.


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[Assistant] Why do people think it's gonna be one thing? This has been the most confusing thing for me the entire time. Why does anyone think it's gonna be one thing and why does every company individually think they are going to have sole ownership of the one thing that exists? It has made no sense to me the entire time.


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[Assistant] Help me out here. There's also, like, if we want to move past this a little bit as well, there is, uh, Second Life. Here we go! Here we go!


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[Assistant] Oh, I'm not saying there's a bunch that were before this, but there was a lot of different like chat room things where you could get different avatars and whatnot. Uhm, and then Second Life is like legitimately...


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[Assistant] Right, like there was, you could set up businesses there, you could build buildings, you could do all the normal things you'd do in normal life land. Uhm, and it was mostly filled with weird people by the end, but that's okay.


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[Assistant] Anytime you have an anonymized internet chatroom thing, it's just going to happen.


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[Assistant] Uh, no, I mean not particularly. All I was saying is I know people personally that made the mistake of meeting up with people in real life that they only knew online, especially back then. Because these days, it's a little bit easier. You can see...


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[Assistant] With stuff like Facebook and webcam conversations you can see people more directly. But back then you had no idea, usually.


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[Assistant] Uhm, even now it's very dangerous and you should be very careful. But anyways, uhm, yeaah, Second Life is like legitimately it and is still totally around. VRChat, a lot of people have positioned, people have mentioned this in chat, and I've seen it previously as well. VRChat has been positioned as what this thing is.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think right now, it's extremely buzzwordy. Oh yeah. And I think there's some- Internet of-


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[Assistant] I think there's some savvy business people and tech people that are gonna get themselves in positions in companies based around work on the metaverse in order to make very large amounts of money, produce probably nothing, and then move on to the next thing. That's, yea, sorry. Story of when you made a mistake or something?


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[Assistant] A lot of times too you need the experience to not make a similar or related mistake in the future. You kind of have to screw up.


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[Assistant] Speaking of getting wisdom, uh, I just realized we should probably tell people what's happening, which MerchMessage is right now. Uhm, because we didn't tell them about the replies thing. Oh yeaah. That had been going on this whole show.


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[Assistant] It looks very similar to a merch message though. So anytime you see the LTT with RGB lights behind it, that's a reply to the very


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[Assistant] Uh, they have the ability to respond to you because sometimes we've gotten feedback that a lot of times we're answering the same question that we've been answering for the last month. Over and over and over again. Uhm, so we're trying to address some of those questions with text now so that it doesn't eat into the showtime.


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[Assistant] Because remember, Linus would get a small portion of it.


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[Assistant] Which realistically, you, you probably got a fee for trying to cash a, a false check.


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[Assistant] Every time you condemn someone for falling for that, you're making sure the scammers win again some other time.


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[Assistant] We are working on that. I mean it probably would have been there. Conrad wanted to push it, and I was like no. Oh crap.


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[Assistant] There is probably a lot of, uh, non 1% or 2%ers that have ownership there as well.


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[Assistant] But this is, this is Facebook ownership, so you'd have to include Americans.


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[Assistant] Neurosurgeon person who has to pay off their immense student debt?


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[Assistant] I'm 100% certain that there are people that are invested in Facebook that are grinding super hard in very, very low paid jobs that have been saving everything they possibly can to try to get into the stock market because that's what a lot of people tell you to do.


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[Assistant] And they're trying to dig themselves out of whatever they can by doing that type of stuff and they might be invested in Facebook and they might have just lost a lot of potential money and that could be very damaging, very unfortunate. I think that is probably few and far between.


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[Assistant] If they're, if they're buying more art, if they're using more services, if they're, if they're going out and it's, it's spending a lot of money.


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[Assistant] You don't have enough money if it's Vancouver Real Estate. Yeah, fair enough. You need more. Come on, pump it up. That's your down payment, boys. Yeah. Uhm, yeah, no, I, I, I, my brain doesn't really go there, but I'm sure Mr. Beast could find a way. Well, but that's it.


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[Assistant] I'm like really getting close to finalizing some of my positions. And even though the rest are not, I think I'm just going to have to pull triggers on some of them because like I don't want to drive people along for, for so long. Uh, and yep.


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[Assistant] That's all I have to say. Developers are expensive. We're hiring more people in that realm. We're hiring more engineers. We're hiring more stuff like that. That's all very expensive roles. Very expensive roles.


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[Assistant] I asked you to try to spend it personally. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, you could go to a movie everyday and you wouldn't even get close.


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[Assistant] Uhm, they should have just come up with, they should have just made a movie of some guy who shoots paintballs constantly. Golden-plated paintballs.


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[Assistant] You personally are in a monogamous relationship. Yes.


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[Assistant] That, you know, no problems there. But spending that much money that fast would be, would be...


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[Assistant] Some people try, I think, don't they? Wasn't that like a, wasn't, isn't like socialite culture basically that?


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[Assistant] Hope you like floating in the river. Oh man. Yeaah. Invest in meta. It's an investment.


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[Assistant] They're usually like basically small hotels. Like they're, they're insane. Yeah. I don't know. But then you, you hear about these like, uh, and I know this isn't necessarily the scenario we're talking about, but we're so off topic right now. It's not even funny. So who cares? Uh, but you, you constantly hear about sports stars.


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[Assistant] That just make huge money. Many million dollar a year contracts, like just big, big, big money. And then they're out, they're retired for like two, three years and they're broke. Yep. So like.


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[Assistant] I don't know, I think one of the things is, when you start making that type of money, people will try to float into your life. That will, you know, find ways for you to spend it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, luckily we don't technically live in Vancouver. That's always a nice little thing.


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[Assistant] Obviously we feel it out here, brutally, but it's not quite as bad as it is in Vancouver proper.


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[Assistant] My uncle has done some just absolutely incredible builds.


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[Assistant] And like they, they pride themselves on really high quality and all this kind of stuff. And like I can appreciate the craftsmanship, but some of the costs of the houses and stuff that they build, they're just like, what the even, who, how did they even possibly make this much money? Like I just, oh man, I don't know.


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[Assistant] That's, that's, woah, I just lost my headphones. That's home automation stuff? Yes. Yeah, that's the direction I was going to go.


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[Assistant] That's, that's meaningless, yeaah. The only times I usually look towards upgrading my hardware is if there's a...


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't expect everything to run at like, uh, uh, at maximum like 144hz, refreshing ultra settings all the time. And like, as, as I keep the same computer, as, as new games come out, maybe I'll lower my like, average settings per game for a little while, but then eventually it'll become at a level where it's unsatisfactory.


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[Assistant] You can, yea, you can find it, but you have to be real with yourself about whether or not it even matters at all. And a lot of times it doesn't really. I really, really like games where when you're changing settings, there's a little example.


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[Assistant] Yup. It's gonna be chicken breast, rice, and broccoli. That was the, that was the meal. Yeah. Uhm. What do you got? I know you really like pickles. That was the first thing that came to mind. I don't know.


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[Assistant] That chicken rice and broccoli things. Someone said, I remember Luke, from a really old China Superfund video, really just ate an entire head of broccoli. Yea, I don't know. Uhm, don't take diet advice from random tech people on the internet. Yea, that would be not best. So, don't, uh, don't take any of that as a suggestion please. Let's keep going.


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[Assistant] There's a lot of potential issues, but I think, I think the tech is super, super cool. And I think a lot of construction is going to go in that direction eventually. I think there's still a lot of hurdles to solve because right now, uhm, like, okay, use it for fin- foundation or whatever. I've seen examples where they essentially print the whole darn house.


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[Assistant] Right. Interesting. Uhm, and they, they like, pre-lay things for windows and all this kind of stuff. But it's, there are unique complications with that construction style. I'm sure there's people that know significantly more about it than me. Uhm, but maybe look into it, and I'm sure there's a lot more, like, R&D that needs to happen with it. Uhm, but automation is...


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[Assistant] Is a big deal. And it's gonna come to every industry, including that one. Uhm, and I think that's one of the ways that it's gonna come to construction.


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[Assistant] Well, to be fair, this isn't a suggestion box, it's a voting thing. Yeah. So you would come up with the topics.


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[Assistant] Massively went in on how, how cheap it was actually. Yes. And I, I still back that up very much so.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, I instantly bought the Steam Deck.


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[Assistant] And VR. I had, I had basically, I had, I think literally every single Oculus prototype you could acquire.


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[Assistant] Yeah, a lot of my stuff, like, back when I used to have to buy it, my computer was always good. It was never like crazy. I never went way too nuts, but it was always good. I almost always bought second hand, even when I did splurge.


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[Assistant] I would, I would do things like the Intel Retail Edge stuff. I would, I would do things like, hey, I'll build your computer for you.


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[Assistant] Buuuut, I mean, we're gonna throw in like a couple extra fans and I'm gonna take those. Uhm, or whatever. Thanks for the fans. Yeah. I would like build people's computers or whatever in order to gain some extra part or if they had something cool in their previous one or something I would take that or whatever. Uhm, obviously they knew every time.


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[Assistant] Uhm, outside of that, uhm, experiences, I guess, is my other thing. That's not technology. No, but they didn't ask for that. Yeah, they did. Is there any other kind of technology? Or whatever. Oh, oh, sure, sure, sure, okay. Yeah, experiences is definitely a thing.


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[Assistant] Like something I really enjoyed doing in Taiwan was this like,


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[Assistant] It's called river tracing. And I had to essentially hire a guide for the whole day to go with me. And I hiked up a river, up a mountain, essentially. In the river. It was super cool.


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[Assistant] When we were, when we went on the company trip to Mexico, I like did some of my own excursion things in addition to the company ones. Uhm, I love that type of stuff. I'm super into that.


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[Assistant] Uuuh, I don't know about that one moving forward.


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[Assistant] I'll, I'll address it anyways. Have you guys heard of Zam-Zeluf?


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[Assistant] I actually think I have, but I think it's not pronounced that way, and I think I've heard it.


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[Assistant] He's a 22 year old dude who manufactures actual semiconductor chips in his jaw, in his garage, uh, using now vintage equipment. His last chip has 1000 plus transistors. Whoa, that's crazy. Possibly cool video. He seems like a pretty interesting guy. I love the show. That's cool. That's sweet. Uh, do do do do.


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[Assistant] You have featured products that would be a great benefit to people who are blind. Uh, the webcam with AI, for example, could the lab please test the accessibility of the apps and product, uh, you have to own before you find out they aren't.


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[Assistant] That could be, and it's the, what the lab is going to do and how it's going to do it and all that kind of stuff is still so nebulous and up in the air.


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[Assistant] I would make sure that you bring that up again, uh, I'm not telling you to make another merch message if there isn't something that you want to buy, uh, but you could tweet us or if there is something you want to buy, yeaah, do another merch message. Uh, I would bring that up again once the lab has people that have been hired for it, um, cause at this time,


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[Assistant] No one has been hired for the lab. There is nothing actually happening yet. Uhm, people are going to be hired. A lot of the hiring for the lab is in its final stages or getting close to it, but it's not there yet. So, make sure you bring it up again later.


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[Assistant] Uh, will there ever be something on product pages that names the designer or designers, uh, main planner or planners of a product? I would love to see who has, who has had their hand in doing which products.


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[Assistant] Well, I haven't been there. Well, not lately, but you still improved a little before you stopped coming. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] I wanna go back, my shoulder's just been messed up for people that don't have contacts there. Uh, da-da-da-da-da-da. Are we gonna test the Steam Deck running Windows? Uh, uh, oh, of course. Okay, yep. Yeah, of course. I just, yep. Wasn't 100% sure.


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[Assistant] Okay, that's a general one. I'm checking the incoming by the way, if you want to keep going through curated.


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[Assistant] That's not the first time we've had that request. I think I forgot to ask you about that.


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[Assistant] And you'd probably see that type of stuff in the newsletter and what not. So like it might not be in the exact same way that other products are.


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[Assistant] Uh, there's a question here asking if we think we will ever sell our own mice or


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[Assistant] In regards to privacy stuff too, there's maybe some stuff that the, the software engineer that works in the lab department could do to, uh, try to monitor things like home, uh, like various,


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[Assistant] Internet of things devices that are around your house. Yeah. What type of calls they're making out to the internet. For sure. Uhm, it could be something interesting to check for.


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[Assistant] Hiring out for verification is a very good idea. It can also be extremely expensive. Uhm, it's not something that I would recommend against, but you do have to consider your company's size and the type of money that you can spend on that type of stuff.


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[Assistant] If you're, uh, a law firm website that actually deals with important documents through the platform for some reason, like yeaah. You should have internal and external, uh, looking at, looking at your service, making sure it's really secure.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but yeaah, we, we just do internal at this time. I'm not saying it'll be that way forever, uhm, and actually, luckily, we have a very good and positive community, uhm, that has poked around and sent us stuff to our, like, support channels and be like, hey, this thing's maybe not great for whatever reason, and we, we look into that, so.


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[Assistant] We don't pay for external, uhm, but. But thanks bros. But thanks bros. Bros and gals.


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[Assistant] Uh, Jazz Coffee Shops is a pretty standard one, uhm, that I've used for a long time. Uh, what, uh, you mentioned Warcraft 2, Kelithan?


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's been one that I've used since I was like 14.


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[Assistant] Outside of that, I would strongly agree, as per usual.


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[Assistant] I mean, it didn't change anything. Oh no. What's the no? Uhm, bleh.


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[Assistant] You've heard of the Vive Pro, but have you heard about the Vive Flow? Probably. Yes, cause it all leaked.


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[Assistant] What is up guys? Welcome to the WAN Show. We've got a great show lined up for you guys today with the big headline topic obviously being that Jensen's Kitchen, Jensen's Kitchen was a lie. NVIDIA reveals that the GTC 2021 keynote was fake. It was fake, it was a rendering, it was a simulation.


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[Assistant] So we're gonna, I actually haven't seen the footage. Uh, Luke has looked through it and he is gonna play a little game with me where I'm gonna try and find the fake Jensen. I'm actually really excited about this.


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[Assistant] In other news, New Egg has allegedly been bundling bad power supplies, like not faulty, but just terrible.


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[Assistant] This was unearthed by Steve from Gamers Nexus, and so you know that it's gonna be good. Let me just say, the Sparks, the Sparks have flown.


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[Assistant] Oh, there's tons of Samsung stuff, and some of it's pretty awesome. Alright, let's roll this intro!


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[Assistant] And the show is brought to you today by Ridge Wallet, Honey, and Build Redux. Why don't we jump right into the headline topic. NVIDIA Revealed. Uh, wait, where is the, uh...


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[Assistant] Where, where's the actual original article from this thing? Hold on, I can bring this up. TechRadar, here we go.


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[Assistant] So TechRadar posted this article, I actually read it earlier this week, Jensen's Kitchen!


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[Assistant] Was a lie. Nvidia reveals that their GTC 2021 keynote was nearly 100% fake. And, okay, Luke, is it worth us taking a second and having a look at Nvidia's video here? Showing the behind the scenes? Can I do that?


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[Assistant] Can I just, can I just show them the teaser then? Just show them the teaser. Okay, I'm gonna show them the teaser. Alright, here we go. Okay, I'm just gonna mute this. So check this out, check this out.


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[Assistant] They had this goal, they had this goal where they wanted to create Jensen's kitchen and Jensen himself


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[Assistant] Okay, hold on. Blah, blah, blah, blah. Here we go, here we go, here we go. So we are gonna make Virtual Jensen Kitchen. Real time materials, real time textures. Okay, digital twin of the thing. Wait, this, this is the wrong one. Where is the bloody, this one? Here we go.


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[Assistant] There we go, okay. So they show us how they constructed Jensen's kitchen using this omniverse thing. Okay, bionic vision lab, blah blah, etc. Hold on, where's the bloody footage?


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[Assistant] Okay, I just wanna find- oh, here it is, here it is. So here's where they're creating the fake Jensen. This is super cool.


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[Assistant] So here we got the, there we go. So they put him in this like huge camera rig. This is amazing. They take all these pictures of him and then boom.


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[Assistant] We get fake Jensen, leather jacket and everything. They worked on like how the materials stretch. Okay, so we got him.


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[Assistant] Okay, we got, look, look at this. Look at this, they're removing, they're removing like the hair and everything. Crazy town.


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[Assistant] Okay, alright. Hemi, what's the next one? 5415. Okay.


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[Assistant] 54, 15. Okay, four more seconds here.


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[Assistant] Okay. So you're still not sure, right? Uh, I mean, honestly, they both looked kind of fake. I don't think he was breathing in the first one. Interesting. And in the second one, I'm just gonna watch the second one one more time here. It looks like the way his hair is moving around his neck.


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[Assistant] Is a little kind of unnatural, but he also might just have a lot of hairspray in it.


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[Assistant] Alright, I'm doing it. Yeah. Here I go, boys.


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[Assistant] Okay, well I said that one looked very fake before he disappeared. But then that also could've just been a VFX thing. It could've.


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[Assistant] Uhm, okay, but I'm at a different timestamp now earlier, so,


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[Assistant] Okay, hold on a second, I'm, I'm blowing it up, I'm blowing it up, I'm looking at stuff here. I, I gotta confess, it's...


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[Assistant] Very challenging, because apparently part of the process, I do know this already, apparently part of the process was they actually recorded his mannerisms as well. So like if he has a particular way of fidgeting, uhm, it's supposed to fidget in the same way that he does.


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[Assistant] Uhm, okay, so do I have, so I have to pick one? And this is not one of those misleading challenges where I, by picking one, I, I screw myself over? Like it's one of them?


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[Assistant] Okay, uh, can I have the timestamps one more time? I'm sorry. You guys can play along. You guys can play along. Here, I'll link the video.


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[Assistant] Uh, alright, here we go. I'm gonna link the video in the chat without reading the chat. I'm defocusing my eyes so that I will not read the chat. It is now linked. Wow, fortunately YouTube is moving so fast I don't even have to worry about it.


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[Assistant] Okay, 3722, that's kind of cheating because he doesn't say anything. Oh, I wonder if that's my hint.


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[Assistant] Alright. That would certainly be the easiest one to do it with. Okay, what's the next one again?


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[Assistant] Okay, I'm gonna say that because that last one looks so much like a green screen, I'm calling first one.


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[Assistant] I think it's the first one where he's in the corner and doesn't say anything. Because I'm pretty sure I saw him reading the prompter in the second one. So I know, I know it's not that one. And then the third one, I feel like you put in just to throw me for a loop, so I'm not doing it. I'm taking the first one. Okay. Okay. Are we gonna show the straw poll results first? Let them vote. Uh, we can, yeaah. Alright, let's do it. Let's do it.


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[Assistant] Okay, let's show these results, ladies and gentlemen. Let's see what you guys thought. Oh wow.


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[Assistant] I'm actually stunned. I mean, this gives us some idea, if the goal for Nvidia was to be validated that it's very hard to tell the difference, I mean, I think that pretty much says it all.


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[Assistant] And, I mean, I'm looking for things that I wouldn't even expect an average person to look for, like the fact that I'm watching for if the host is reading a teleprompter, because that's something that I would recognize very easily. Uhm, not everyone would think about that.


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[Assistant] They, I, okay, I guess that's true, but I, I doubt they would be able to get that exactly right. Unless they basically recorded his rehearsal and played it back, which,


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[Assistant] That's kind of a hack. I consider that kind of a cheat. That's not a simulated person. That's a recording of a person. That's mocap. That's, we have that already. That's not new. So that's my, that's my defense of...


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[Assistant] Really? So it was the last one. It was the last one.


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[Assistant] Oh, interesting. I mean, I did say the first time around, I jumped out and I was like, that looks really unnatural. But I...


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you can see it. So everything changes, right?


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[Assistant] Oh no. Live show. 26.30. 26.30. Okay. All right. So here, let's have a look at this guys.


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[Assistant] Oh, this is a completely different video. Alright then. Oh wow, yeaah, that does not look, uh, very real. Doesn't look real at all, right?


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[Assistant] So basically instead of, uh, using an actor for a deep fake, they're using kind of a decent 3D animation as the source for their, what is essentially then a deep fake. And then they used a mocap actor.


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[Assistant] The problem is just that I have, uh, I'm having a really hard time, uh, seeing the top of my display because of my lights. I actually can't, like, see the tabs up there, it's blinding. Uh, anyway, the point is, yep, here we go, I'm at it.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, yeaah, yeaah, they did a really darn good job of it. That headline from TechRadar is extremely, uhm, misleading.


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[Assistant] Okay, Jared's tech says they need to remake Shrek with this. So you basically use the original Shrek as your source, right, for your deepfake. And then you create like new higher resolution, like photorealistic Shrek and Donkey and Fiona and Farquad.


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[Assistant] So you, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're basically like, uh, doing a remaster of Shrek, but with like, machine learning. Like deep fake technology.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah. Or you could just like remaster it.


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[Assistant] I told you, I told you that I didn't, uh, I told you I didn't take that one because I thought you were trying to throw me for a loop by giving me something so obvious, but uhm, you know, that doesn't change, that doesn't change the result. I still picked the wrong thing and I'm not gonna make any excuses for that.


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[Assistant] PYR says Linus, all Pixar renders in animation are extremely high resolution. You don't need to deep fake it. Okay, two things. Number one, Shrek is DreamWorks animation, not Pixar.


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[Assistant] Um, and number two is that it's, I'm not talking about resolution. I would be talking about like photo realism, like the, the actual, the textures of it, just cause it's high resolution doesn't mean that it is photo realistic. That just means it has a lot of pixels. Um, a black wallpaper, like just.


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[Assistant] It's not photorealistic, it's just, it just has a lot of pixels. Uhm.


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[Assistant] I don't think this tech would be used for that. No, it wouldn't. Absolutely not. Absolutely not. But it's the kind of thing that might not be impossible. Like looking at what they did with Jensen, right? Where they had kind of like a cheapo most of the way there model.


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[Assistant] That does the, you know, the acting or whatever that is animated and then being able to take a photorealistic capture of him and skin it on top of it.


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[Assistant] Conceivably that could be done. Now you would never actually do it for an animated film because the hard part of the animation is making the things move naturally, right? Like that's, that's the hard part. So you would never...


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[Assistant] Real people doing a thing, turn it into animation and then use that animation as a source for a higher resolution, better version of them doing the thing. You would just...


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[Assistant] You would just do it properly in the first place. You wouldn't do it twice. But what I was talking about was if you were to like try to remaster it, like a cheap and dirty way to replace Shrek with something else or whatever.


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[Assistant] I think it could conceivably be done once machine learning gets advanced enough. That's all I'm trying to say.


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[Assistant] Oh, hey, uh, thanks Steve, uhm, and thanks for reminding me to click the viewer activity tab where your super chat is not there even though it's clearly here at the top of the chat here.


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[Assistant] Uhm, super awesome feature, YouTube. Thank you for, it's been many weeks and this is still broken. Oh, that's hilarious. The other super chat I have...


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[Assistant] Anand lived in a pretty nice house and, uh,


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[Assistant] When he sold the company, I think that he probably got like a super awesome, another nice house, as opposed to giving any of it to anyone else. Not that I know anything about that, that's just my guess, that's my guess.


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[Assistant] Yes, that's what I'm guessing based on that DrKutra sent $5 and Steve from GamersNexus sent $50.


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[Assistant] Uh, Gamers Nexus, Linus, we have an idea and need to 3D scan you while you T-pose. It's completely safe. Don't worry. It reassembles your atoms on the other side. Hey, thanks, Steve. You know what? I'd be happy to send you a T-pose 3D scan. I just gotta get me, gotta get me a 3D scanner.


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[Assistant] Alright, let's go ahead and jump into our next topic for the day.


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[Assistant] New Egg, you know, oh, it's great timing because we were about to talk about- This is a Steve thing. Yeah, something that, uh, this is a news item that broke when Steve from Gamers Next has published this video showing gigabyte power supplies quite literally catching on fire. Not one, not two,


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[Assistant] But three, I love that. I love the security camera footage mixed in there, that's absolutely beautiful. So, what's happening here, and now the problem for me is that as someone who doesn't know exactly how the new egg shuffle works, I was not able to independently validate this.


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[Assistant] So I'm gonna say allegedly, allegedly Newegg has been bundling these power supplies, the P750GM and P850GM with in-demand graphics cards as a way to dump them onto unsuspecting


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[Assistant] Based on Steve's analysis of these power supplies, they are extremely dangerous and unsuitable for consumer consumption.


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[Assistant] But they are allegedly selling them anyway and trying to kinda


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[Assistant] You know, shift them out to people who might not be savvy and or might be desperate to get their hands on a graphics card.


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[Assistant] That stuff that you saw in the video, let's just go back and let's watch that again. This is not supposed to happen on a correctly functioning power supply.


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[Assistant] This should be impossible. Power supplies are supposed to have a ton of safety measures built into them. Everything from overcurrent protection to overvoltage protection to undervoltage protection, short circuit protection. It is not supposed to be possible for a power supply to literally


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[Assistant] Spew out sparks and light on fire in that manner, and it's dangerous for obvious reasons. It's supposed to be inside an enclosed metal case, but the reality of it is that there are plenty of people who put non...


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[Assistant] So whenever one of those things doesn't trip, that's what happens. You end up with


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[Assistant] Your motherboard, you could lose your CPU. These are, I mean, the power supply is directly connected to


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[Assistant] Uh, they were wise to be attentive when they were running a power supply test. So that last one that's on their security footage, you can actually see they have the unit hooked up to a load tester. Um, so they were very wise to be sitting there monitoring it while it was running. But you might not be so lucky. Now, here's the thing.


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[Assistant] It is unlikely that in the course of regular use, most gaming machines would trip any one of those protections.


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[Assistant] I mean, most gaming rigs pull only a couple hundred or a few hundred watts under full load. Except for one small problem.


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[Assistant] Those power supplies are being actively bundled with some of the only GPUs on the planet that could potentially trip those kinds of protection circuits.


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[Assistant] Which is epic. That's the problem! I mean, aside from, you know, trying to move out, uh, a bad moving product. Now to be clear, this type of strategy is not a new thing. I remember having a really irate conversation with, uh, with an Nvidia rep a long time ago, where I basically went like,


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, I was talking about, I was like, yeah, we had a great quarter. We moved X number of these. And they're like, I don't want to hear about how many. And I forget exactly what graphics card it was at the time, but it was, it was when Nvidia was really struggling. I think it was.


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[Assistant] Man, was it, uh, Fermi? I mean, it must have been. Nvidia was really struggling during the Fermi generation.


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[Assistant] Or was it, uh, man, was it 280? Was it, was it pre-Fermi? Can't remember. The point was, uh, we were talking about, like, NCIX, one of the anomalies, one of the weird things about it is they moved


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[Assistant] Pound for pound, a ridiculously disproportionate number of high-end graphics cards. You know, 600, 700 dollar graphics cards. Remember when that qualified as top of the line?


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[Assistant] Uh, they moved a ridiculously disproportionate number of them in the country for how many people live here, for one thing, and for the size of the business that they did overall. Like they were kind of like a boutique PC integrator in that way. And I remember getting this like irate answer back that's like, well how many


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[Assistant] Whatever the equivalent back then of like a GT, a GT 1030 was. Well how many of those have you moved? Unless you guys can get your numbers up for those, I'm not gonna be able to get you any allocation of the good stuff.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so what, the point I'm trying to make is that it is extremely common


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[Assistant] Hopefully not whether it's dangerous, uhm,


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[Assistant] So yea, usually overpriced or otherwise undesirable. Oh yea, and the last reason that you might try to bundle things is because you're trying to hit some kind of quota.


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[Assistant] So the way the MDF programs work for companies like, uh, NVIDIA's, if I recall correctly, didn't work this way, at least for us. But I know for a fact that Intel's did. Uh, the way it worked was you had certain quotas that you were supposed to hit.


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[Assistant] Yay, we made six dollars. But if we told, sold at 2600k, all of a sudden...


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[Assistant] Before the chat blows up, no, it's not exclusive to Intel. AMD has basically the exact same program. Don't kid yourself. Uh, Microsoft's program was excellent as well. Uhm, so that was, that's how you actually make money. I mean if you're ever wondering why you go into the mom and pop computer store,


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[Assistant] On, you know, Main Street or whatever and their prices suck and they have no stock and no selection. Well, that's why, because if you don't hit a certain type of volume,


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[Assistant] You're just, you're not a player and you're not gonna make any money because all you get is the upfront profit. You don't get the backend.


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[Assistant] Actually drives profitability in this business


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[Assistant] So this practice is not uncommon, but to do it with an item that is unsafe would demonstrate either


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[Assistant] Uhm, abominable ignorance on the part of Newegg and Gigabyte or at worst malice because selling a product bundled with a product that is the most likely thing I can think of to make it fail in the way that would be very bad is terrible. Uhm, with that said,


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[Assistant] There are certain manners in which a power supply can be loaded that are extremely unlikely to occur in the real world.


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[Assistant] So, the odds are, if you have one of these power supplies, it's not gonna blow up immediately, but the question becomes, do you really wanna roll that die?


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[Assistant] And for me the answer is no, and the pun was definitely intended. Get it? Roll that die? Because it could light a fire and you could die?


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[Assistant] What the heck? That would indicate that, uhm,


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[Assistant] That sounds like fraud. That they're very well aware of what was going on, which is...


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[Assistant] It was a policy at NCIX, but only if you were returning the item. Not if the item was actually faulty and you were RMAing it for a replacement. That was never the policy that you had to return both items.


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[Assistant] Can I just, can I, can I hit you with a hot take? Can I hit you with a hot take Luke?


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[Assistant] Okay, here's my hot take. Okay? Why is the penalty for attempted murder any less than the penalty for murder?


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[Assistant] Because of the way, and this is, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, as far as I know, because of the way the law works, until someone's house actually blows down, uh, blows down, until someone's house actually burns down and they suffer any kind of actual material harm,


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[Assistant] There's no real practical way to go after them for it.


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[Assistant] So you've, you've been refunded for it. You've been, you've been compensated. But to me, I look at it and I go, well, well, well, well, hold on a second. What about the, what about the risk?


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[Assistant] What about the risk that I never would have signed up for if I had known about this in the first place? What about that?


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[Assistant] Nothing, nothing about that. It's attempted murder, therefore it's no big deal. Why is that? Help me understand this.


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[Assistant] Now I did say that there are ways that you can test a power supply. So for example, uh, one of the, one of the ways that we used to be able to separate the, the men from the boys back in the, in the early days of high powered graphics cards was,


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[Assistant] A purely 12 volts test. So you would, you would run the power supply.


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[Assistant] Up to its basically entire rated, um, uh, current delivery.


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[Assistant] Alright, it's up to its entire rated power delivery wattage. You would run the entire thing over the 12 volt rail. And lots of power supplies struggled with it because they were designed and validated by the manufacturers.


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[Assistant] Uhm, with some kind of load on 5 volt and 3.3 volt because there was other equipment in your power supply that would draw from these rails. And so,


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[Assistant] A mark of a well-designed power supply was that it could deliver basically all of its power on 12V without actually drawing from those other rails. So you would hook it up in this, in this artificial sort of way to power supply testing equipment instead of using a computer to test it.


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[Assistant] And yeah, reviewers at the time would kind of disclaim these results. They'd say, okay, look,


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[Assistant] A good result here is the mark of a well-designed power supply, but it's not representative of the real world, and if a power supply fails this test,


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[Assistant] That's fine because your computer will use 5 volt and 3.3 volt power anyway. Uhm, but the reason that they tested it in that way is that they were trying to look forward to a time when the 12 volt rail was going to become more and more and more and more important.


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[Assistant] So just because the methodology might be uhm, what's causing the power supply to blow up,


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[Assistant] Also, there's a lot of anecdotal evidence of these things just blowing up in regular use. But just because the methodology might be what causes it to blow up doesn't mean that there isn't a good reason for that methodology and that it wouldn't point to a deficiency in the design or build quality of the power supply. So Gigabyte is also offering exchanges for these units.


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[Assistant] So, that is good, but you're getting a tweaked one with an overpower protection trigger point that is, uh, lower.


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[Assistant] Uh, which basically just means that it's not gonna deliver as much peak power, I guess? Which to me doesn't really address the problem, which is that these power supplies are failing.


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[Assistant] Uh, we also have a super chat from Steve. He says, regarding the testing, Gigabyte misrepresented us and is twisting it. They claimed we ran it for extended periods, but the failures were actually within two minutes almost every single time.


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[Assistant] They either didn't understand or pretended they didn't. We're going to be replying on Monday. Also, like, quiet.


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[Assistant] Actually, these EVGA's kinda seem to have some, uhm, some issues. I don't think they're ex-


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[Assistant] These are angry customers. This is not a good look.


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[Assistant] You know, the funny thing about it is we preach. Don't cheap out on your power supply, right? Like, don't we preach that?


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[Assistant] You know what I've noticed in the Intel Extreme Tech upgrades?


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[Assistant] Is almost, I wouldn't say almost everyone, but a disproportionate number of the people who have gotten Intel Extreme Tech upgrades where they're operating within a fixed budget trying to get as much tech as they can for the money have skimped on the power supply.


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[Assistant] Chase skimped on the power supply and is now, he actually had just a-


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[Assistant] System power down event, cause he has a 3080 on like a 750 watt power supply. And so he's like, yeah, I'm gonna have to buy a new power supply.


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[Assistant] James skimped on the power supply, uh, he tried to get away with, I forget exactly what card it was, but it was with like a little SFX power supply, and those tend to be more sensitive than a full-sized power supply.


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[Assistant] Uhm, to momentary spikes in, uh, in power draw.


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[Assistant] Uh, and I'm trying to remember who else, but oh, Colton. Uh, Colton, I think, cheaped out on the power supply. Like, almost everyone, in spite of the fact that we preach this.


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[Assistant] When push came to shove, they chose FPS instead of smooth, reliable, unsexy power delivery.


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[Assistant] Uh, you can start your build today at buildrex.com slash Linus, and if you were wondering whether to trust them, I, I heard, excuse me, I heard they're, uh, they're, they're pretty much, it's run by Digital Storm. So, there you go.


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[Assistant] Alright. What, uh, what are we coming back to here, Luke? Hit me.


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[Assistant] Alex has, I believe he reused his- no, no, Alex went for a good quality power supply. In fact, he-


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[Assistant] He used the Seasonic, uh, X-Connect, whatever, that, that case that has the, the breakout, like, 12 volt only power thing. It was pretty sick.


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[Assistant] Is it in here? Oh, even I'm talking processor.


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[Assistant] Rmx 650 watt. So he went pretty... That's a decent power supply, but no, even Anthony, even Anthony wanted to squeeze as much, like he didn't go overkill for sure.


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[Assistant] Problem though, the big problem is that your power supply can take out other components. And when that happens, I mean...


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[Assistant] You will get the runaround. There, I'll say it. You are going to get the runaround because the power supply manufacturer is not going to want to buy you a new graphics card, and the graphics card manufacturer, that is not their fault that you bought a crappy power supply.


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[Assistant] Alright, let's go ahead and move into our next topic here. If you remember the backplate gigabyte, I remember the backplate gigabyte. Anthony says, I stand by my choice. Uh, the 2080 Super is not a big power sucker. And that's fair. I did say, I did say it was an adequate choice. I just said that you clearly didn't


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[Assistant] You didn't buffer, you know? You didn't just go ham on the power supply. Which is fine.


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[Assistant] He had an i5 as well. He's highlighted i5 in the doc for me here. Highlighted i5, thank you Anthony. Alright, let's move into our next topic. Have you been injured by a faulty product? Amazon says, don't call a lawyer.


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[Assistant] Uh, Amazon has been taking some flack for safety concerns from third party sellers following last month's Consumer Product Safety Commission complaint.


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[Assistant] The CPSC wants Amazon to take responsibility for dangerous products offered by third parties under the Fulfilled by Amazon program, since Amazon is the one who is actually shipping out that product. That's what Fulfilled by Amazon means. It's in Amazon's warehouse, comes with an Amazon sticker on it, so from a consumer standpoint, they're buying something from Amazon.


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[Assistant] Fail to alarm, bit of an issue on an alarm. Numerous children's sleepwear products that are in violation of flammable fabric safety standards equals potentially kids on fire. Probably not. In case you guys were wondering, this is actually why we have never done children's clothes on LTT store.


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[Assistant] Because I'm sure there are plenty of you that would have loved to get a kid-sized, like, WAN hoodie or something.


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[Assistant] I want one, not one, I want three. I want them for my kids. And for the upcoming, uh, WAN V2 hoodie, I have actually custom ordered. We measured my kids and we are custom ordering one-offs for each of them.


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[Assistant] But that's the reason that we've never sold them because kids clothing standards are a whole ball of wax.


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[Assistant] So the CPSC seeks to force Amazon as the distributor to stop selling those products, work with the CPSC on recalls, and direct notice for affected customers.


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[Assistant] Amazon's initial response was to independently do what the CPSC asked them to, but without collaborating with the CPSC. They just wanted to kind of do it quietly. They're now going a step further though. Any product that is purchased on Amazon is covered by a change to the A to Z guarantee as of September 1st.


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[Assistant] The changes offer a thousand dollars in starting compensation for injuries caused by faulty third party items with a theoretical cap of a million limited to the purchase price of the product plus medical expenses, lost wages, and property damage caused by the defective product. Wait a second, this isn't good.


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[Assistant] This is, this is just, these payments will come at no cost to sellers and will usually be resolved within 90 days. This sounds closer to hush money. So they're trying to just sell with everyone.


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[Assistant] So prior to this, Amazon was the only party customers could sue with any expectation of success, uh, because many of these sellers are from foreign countries, often China, and simply


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[Assistant] Do not respond to lawsuits with no recourse available to the plaintiffs.


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[Assistant] Uh, this is an important detail because the CPSC's case against Amazon uses lawsuits like these as evidence. So, if there are fewer lawsuits, because Amazon is able to quiet them down, there will be less evidence and therefore less likelihood that they will be chased.


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[Assistant] Uhm, yeaah, basically Amazon's money is buying them kind of like a liability waiver here. Fascinating.


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[Assistant] Oh, speaking of work has been done, the LTT store team has been hard at work getting you guys what you demand. We now have, da da da da da da da, spout lids for the LTT water bottle! Woo!


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[Assistant] Alright, uh, what else we got for topics today? There's some pretty good stuff.


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[Assistant] Oh man, I don't know, this is more of a quick one. Facebook is shutting down researchers that are looking into...


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[Assistant] Looking at it from the viewer's side, the user's side, is how they're being served, so...


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[Assistant] Uh, this was from, uh, I think it was some researchers at New York University. Yep, New York University. Uh, basically they created a browser extension, um, that around 16,000 people voluntarily installed.


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[Assistant] Because they really do not want third party independent researchers looking at this stuff. Because they might not like what they find.


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[Assistant] Allegedly, probably. Uhm, we don't have confirmation of that because Facebook doesn't allow third parties to, uh, audit how they're serving political ads. So that's pretty cool. Thanks, Facebook. You're awesome.


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[Assistant] Uh, this I mentioned briefly earlier. There's a house build that takes aim at iOS and Android App Store competition. The Open App Markets app basically validates what Epic's been saying, what I've been saying, what Apple fanboys...


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[Assistant] Uh, seem to be pushing back against because they have some kind of weird Stockholm syndrome that I really don't understand.


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[Assistant] Monopoly, basically. Uhm, it's ca- it's like a...


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[Assistant] It's not quite a monopoly, yes, because the Google Play Store also exists, but thank you, thank you Luke, that's just called a duopoly. And there are certain things that, you know, are fair points. You know, Apple and Google, these are their stores and they're allowed to run them the way that they want. The problem is that when they run a foul of antitrust law,


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[Assistant] There are consequences for running them the way that they want. And so it looks like those consequences might finally be coming.


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[Assistant] So what this ultimately ends up looking like for consumers outside of America, probably nothing for the time being because there's no way Apple and Google are going to voluntarily roll out changes to, uh, things like, uh, the cut that they take from developers or forcing developers to use their payment processor, which


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[Assistant] The hope is that this would lead to third party app stores, which would lead to competition for your app buying and VBuck buying dollars or whatever it is that you buy, which would in turn lead to Apple and Google slashing their rates and or


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[Assistant] Being more competitive with respect to, uh, allowing multiple payment processors and all those kinds of things.


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[Assistant] In more cool, exciting news, uhm, the ECC listing of a graphics processors of the ASUS


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[Assistant] I expected to perform awesome. I mean, Noctua is still king when it comes to, when it comes to fan performance. Uh, they were recently dethroned by, ooh, who was it? Uh, dethroned Noctua fan. Oh, who is it?


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[Assistant] Was it uhm, not deep cool, be quiet maybe? Really? Hopefully it's not a


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[Assistant] Here it is, but, oh, Phanteks, Phanteks, here we go. Uh, this fan, but, but, but, but, but they kinda hacked. Because it's five millimeters thicker.


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[Assistant] Being 5mm thicker on a 25mm fan is actually more than just being 20% thicker in terms of the actual spinning part. It's like probably closer to like 25% thicker. So it does beat, uhm,


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[Assistant] The NF, uh, the NF A12 X24, but if I'm, if I'm knocked to it, I'm probably gonna be pretty pissy about this and I'm gonna do a 30mm fan of my own. And then all of a sudden, 25mm fans as the standard are gonna be dead and all your cases are gonna be obsolete because they won't fit modern fans and the cases are gonna get bigger and worse.


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[Assistant] I mean these things happen. These things happen. Uhm.


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[Assistant] You know what? I changed my mind. I don't feel like talking about Samsung Unpacked. I already said everything I have to say about the Z Fold 3, which is super exciting.


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[Assistant] Absolutely love it. Uh, I just need the YouTube app to work properly and then I will happily daily drive it. It's, it's amazing. Uhm, the Z Flip 3 is still what I think it is. It's, it's a phone that I don't understand why it exists. It's a novelty item. Uhm,


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[Assistant] If you want a screen that shape, then you should just use a candy bar phone. I'm sorry. I don't get it. Maybe I'm wrong. Feel free. I'm sure Austin Evans is probably like online too, trying to argue with me about this. Uhm, if I recall correctly, he's one of the people who thinks that the Z Flip series is really cool.


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[Assistant] I don't get it, but it's also water resistant, like the Fold is now.


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[Assistant] Uhm, that's a big improvement over the last generation. Uh, the new Galaxy Watch 4 and Galaxy Watch 4 Classic are here. I'm kinda tempted to give them another try. I mean, I've been wearing this Apple Watch for so long that the name is kind of dead.


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[Assistant] Uh, it's not, it's not connected to anything, guys. I, it's just a watch. And also I broke the screen on it with my badminton racket. I followed through on a swing and whacked it and it cracked all the way across. So it's, it's seen better days. Maybe it's time to send it to, send it into the shop for repairs and then put it in the LMG store. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Which is not to be confused with the LTT store, not LTTstore.com. I mean, when we have like, uh, dead or repaired items, or like half working items, people at work will often buy them for a steep discount. And there's Galaxy Buds 2 for $149, available August 27th, so that I wouldn't mind.


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[Assistant] Taking a crack at as well. These are an upgraded Galaxy Buds Live with better active noise cancellation apparently.


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[Assistant] Alright, let's do some super chats then, shall we? I only have the ones after I clicked that tab because YouTube is broken, thanks YouTube.


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[Assistant] Uh, GeoBear says, really enjoying your home automation videos. You mentioned that even for you as a techie person it can be overwhelming. Will LTT cover communication protocols and recommended devices and why you chose Z-Wave for your house?


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[Assistant] I chose Z-Wave, uhm, partly because it's got better range without requiring hops, so 900MHz does have better punch-through ability when you've got lots of walls or lots of floors in your house.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and mostly I chose it because the light switch that I like happened to be Z-Wave and everything else I've been looking at has a good option available that's Z-Wave and also I don't care about Z-Wave versus Zigbee because I'm using Home Assistant and with Home Assistant you can actually have two separate sticks and you can use them both and you can integrate them and have them


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[Assistant] Trigger each other in various ways. So there you go.


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[Assistant] Absolutely, absolutely destroyed by words.


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[Assistant] I've looked at women's pants, I was like, well why don't they just have bigger pockets? And they just don't.


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[Assistant] Do you remember that horrible trend in like 2001, 2002? Those awful pants that had no back pockets?


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[Assistant] Women's pants. They were like the ugliest thing ever. They looked so stupid. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Man, how am I gonna, man, how do I find this? Okay, that's a lot of pictures of butts on my screen. You know what, I really, I don't need this very much. Uhm, alright.


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[Assistant] Yeah, exactly. I don't need that either. Okay, what else we got here?


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[Assistant] Uh, Zach says, love the water bottle, but the gold print on the top, so faded after two-ish years about to get another. Okay, it has been a couple of years. Uhm, and what we have found is that some users have that issue, others do not.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and it seems like it might have to do with, uhm, the pH of your, like, finger oils. So, just something to consider. Uh, we don't have the same print fading issues with any of the other ones, and the print fading issue is not that widespread. Just reach out to...


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[Assistant] I said buy a different color and if you have issues with it you can contact customer support and they'll help you out.


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[Assistant] Zovastria says, can confirm, back in November 2020, I snagged a 3090 bundle with a P850GM. Luckily, I sold the power supply to someone else. Not luckily for them. Nick also says, we updated to a new gold ink about 18 months ago that is less prone to fading. So there you go. Nice.


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[Assistant] Okay, but, but, but, Dennis says, keep in mind that the power supply fan is often facing down and sparks could literally fly out of the computer onto your carpet if you have your computer down on the floor. That is an excellent, excellent point.


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[Assistant] Uhm, Gamers Easy Price. Here to outbid Gamers Nexus with a Super Chat of $69.69. Have you guys tried Flight Sim on the Series X yet? I have not.


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[Assistant] Uhm, as for why, because I have a PC. So I just wasn't, there wasn't any reason for me to do it at this time.


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[Assistant] Jason Schreiner says, Attempted is less than the actual crime. Crime and government, the two places that routinely reward failure.


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[Assistant] Josh says, I got of course their HX1000i even though I maxed it 500 because I don't want to bomb in my expensive system. Fair enough. Uhm, Sam Laird says, what is your opinion on Microsoft and Intel dropping support for S3 sleep?


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[Assistant] I actually had not looked into this issue at all. Thank you for putting it on my radar though.


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[Assistant] Joshua says, this is stupid, but I have recommended at least a few times to change out the cable to a few power supplies because the cable provided heated up. This should not happen. Yeah, it's an excellent point. Uhm, that was another really funny thing. Back in the days of, uh, when 80 plus was first kind of, uhm,


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[Assistant] Hitting the market, so 80 plus certified power supplies. There were some assumptions that just because something was 80 plus certified, it meant it was quality. You can build a high efficiency power supply that is not actually very good quality in other ways. It could have very high ripple, uhm, it could have, you know, like we, like we say, uhm,


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[Assistant] Uh, it could, right, it could be lacking or have incorrectly configured over power protection. There's lots of other things that could be wrong with it. And one of the big scams back in the early days of 80 plus was manufacturers certifying their power supplies with cables that were different than what the consumer would actually receive. So like higher gauge cables. Uhm.


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[Assistant] So that was, uh, that was, that was a pretty funny one back in the day. Gotta keep a, gotta keep an eye on those manufacturers.


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[Assistant] Okay, I was kind of dancing around, uhm, the situation when Anon sold Athantech, because I wasn't sure if I was- what, if anything, I was supposed to know about it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so there you go. You've got it direct from Ian himself. Anand took the money, I got a job. I'm not cheap, I'm just only on 50,000 subs. As a proportion, my super chats are awesome. Plus plus.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you know what, Ian? Thank you very much. Thank you for the Super Chat. Next time you're live and I catch it, I'mma be sure to send you Super Chat back. Also, I miss you. Yeah, I know, right? We gotta get together, dude.


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[Assistant] What am I looking at here? Oh my gosh. Why do we have so many super chats today? It's because we acknowledged them early in the show. Crap. This is too many. Okay guys, I'm only gonna do a handful more. We don't do super chats on this show.


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[Assistant] Well, we have that stupid, uh, motherboard recently that, uh, claims to have USB ports that, like, pulled faster or something.


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[Assistant] Also, there's going to be a change for Flipplane supporters. We are formally going to be doing away with early access. We're going to focus instead on behind the scenes and, uhm,


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[Assistant] Yeah, mostly on behind the scenes and exclusive content because the reality of it is we haven't been able to keep up with it for the better part of six months now.


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[Assistant] And we feel like it's hurting our competitiveness to be so far behind certain hot news topics. I do think you can expect to see posts early on floatplane still, very often, but we're not gonna have a commitment to have it be early anymore.


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[Assistant] Yes. So that's gonna be a key part of Madison's role is making sure that we're keeping up on things like behind the scenes and exclusive content.


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[Assistant] Asasoft says, has Luke ever talked about the tech stack behind floatplane? I would absolutely love to hear about it. Yes, but not for a long time.


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[Assistant] And they also do other things, like working on lttstore.com, they're working on internal, uh, like they're working on customizing an open source inventory management tool for us right now. So they're kind of, uh, they're this thing, but then they're also the only people we know that know how to program anything, so.


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[Assistant] JkeysDesign says, I was repairing an HP G7 250 and I was surprised by the repairability of the laptop. There was a video made by HP outlining the process of replacing nearly all the parts, including the screen and battery. I was interested that HP had this much support. That's really cool. Thank you for, thank you for drawing our attention to that.


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[Assistant] Uhm, here's the specifications thing. I don't actually see any of these resources here, but, uh, presumably it's not that difficult to find. So yeah, that's super cool.


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[Assistant] What else we got? We got a couple more. Is the beard permanent? Uh, it's, yeah, it's here until it's not here, I think, at this point. Thanks, Luca!


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[Assistant] Uh, PrinceAlbertz asks, why not LTT women's pants with pockets? Okay.


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[Assistant] We would love to do, at the very least, you know, unisex pants, but pants are really difficult because, you know, you can kind of get away with not having tall sizes for shirts, like just wear a size up and it like kind of hangs a little bag here. You cannot get away with that for pants.


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[Assistant] Uh, Andrew Wada says, should I get an S21 Ultra or a Z Fold 3? The master screen on the Fold would be nice with my bad eyes, but the lack of dust resistance worries me. I wouldn't have the lack of dust resistance be what


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[Assistant] Uhm, be what holds me back from a fold three. I mean, the price could hold you back. But I wouldn't, I wouldn't say dust. I mean, it should be in your pocket most of the time. You shouldn't have a whole lot of dust settle on your, on your phone. Uh, SJ Hockey asks, I notice your videos mention unread and proxmox a lot. Which do you recommend? Courses for courses. Uhm,


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[Assistant] I run some NAS VMs on HP DL380P server for a small business and was wondering if Unraid offers anything over Proxmox feature set wise for NAS. Well, what they offer is Unraid.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so you should do a little bit more digging if you're experienced enough to do what it looks like you're doing. Uhm, you should be able to understand it pretty easily, but what you want to look into is what differentiates Unraid


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[Assistant] Yeah, they're both great, is what I'm trying to say. It just depends on the situation.


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[Assistant] Alright, I think that pretty much wraps it up for the WAN Show. Nick did message me to say we are apparently working on some women's sweats. Uhm, so there you go. That's something that is in the works.


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[Assistant] Thank you guys very much for tuning in. We will see you again next week. Same bad time, same bad channel.


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[Assistant] Bye! Oh, that's a really good idea. Linus, use an iPhone 12 Pro LiDAR scanner. We need the T-pose. Says not interested in YouTube chat. That's a really good idea. I should totally send that over. I've got one right here. Send that over to Steve.


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[Assistant] IT'S GONNA GET NOTHING BUT THUMBS UP! Cause it's impossible to see anything else, sort of. And the RTX 2060 12 gig has launched, and uhm, you know, massive shock to everyone. It is not in stock anywhere. What else we got this week? The Game Awards awards, awards to games, and announces announcements. Hooray! Wow!


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[Assistant] Okay, we're gonna have to talk about that it takes two, one game of the year. Uhm, we'll talk about that.


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[Assistant] I mean, it can't happen automatically, but, but how, how could it get so many dislikes and how could anybody know? Well, we're going to talk about that too, aren't we? Yeah. But first we're going to roll the intro.


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[Assistant] And the show was brought to you by FreshBooks with Redux and Anchor. We talked about it on Wenshow last week.


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[Assistant] Let's jump right into our first topic of the day. Uh, wait, is there even, is this even, like, in the doc or? What one? Uh, the one about YouTube Rewind coming back. No, it's not.


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[Assistant] Uh, let's do our second topic of the day. First topic is going to be that, uh, the RTX 2060 12 gig has launched. And as you guys might have noticed, we did a video about it.


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[Assistant] Talking about, you know, what a new RTX 2060 might be like.


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[Assistant] How this might affect the overall supply of graphics cards for gamers, why Nvidia might have made the seemingly somewhat controversial move of increasing it to 12 gigs of GDDR6 memory, especially when you consider that some


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[Assistant] You know, GDDR6 shortages have occurred over the last year and a half. And basically as far as we can tell,


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[Assistant] And this whole thing was super sketchy because this was basically barely even a rumor until all of a sudden it went from barely a rumor to


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[Assistant] Confirmed and launched over a span of days. As far as we're aware, no press were seeded units for review, so there was no real way to evaluate it in spite of the fact that it is a different card. It's somewhere in between.


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[Assistant] The 2060 and the 2060 Super, and obviously it's got a larger frame buffer, which we would have loved to investigate. But the official availability is supposed to be somewhere in the neighborhood of around three to three and a half weeks.


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[Assistant] After the actual launch, which occurred on December the 7th, or in early 2022. So this is actually


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[Assistant] About the most paper launch launch that we've seen in a very, very long time. Uh, in fact, it's, it's to the point now where when we did our video, we did hear back from a board partner, um, Asus got back to us and we were like, hey,


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[Assistant] Uhm, early European listings suggest a price of roughly 660 to 700 US dollars, although it's often not as simple as just doing a currency conversion from European pounds


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[Assistant] Uhm, previous leaked listings from French e-tailer PC-21 started at 500 US, but they've been bumped up to around 609, and Anthony jumps in to say that this is pre-VAT, so that could be pretty rough, uh, especially when you consider the launch price of the RTX 3060, which was, Luke?


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[Assistant] Where did it go? I just saw it. $329. $329. That's right!


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[Assistant] The RTX 2060 and 2060 Super both launched at $349, three...


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[Assistant] GPUs are behaving like real estate to the point where, like, okay, honestly though, Vancouver, especially commercial real estate, has gotten to the point where developers


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[Assistant] We'll just not sell things because it's actually more profitable to just build it and sit on it than it is to build it, take a profit margin and sell it to someone to occupy, especially when you can lease it while you sit on it and your profits go stonks.


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[Assistant] Uh, like, really, really, GPUs, they're now, it's free, they're free real estate, except they cost money. Um, putting this in even more context, the RTX 3080, okay, the 3080 had a 699 US dollar MSRP when it first launched.


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[Assistant] Now, there is one bit of extra information we have now that we didn't have before. Apparently the reason for it to have 12 gigs of GDDR6 is that the 16 gigabit chips are more widely available.


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[Assistant] Although that sort of rings a little hollow when all of this stuff is basically unobtainium.


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[Assistant] Uhm, yeaah, also those chips are the same ones used for the RTX 3060 and could have possibly been used for the RTX 3050. Though, as we mentioned in our video, it is quite possible that Nvidia is utilizing chip-like CPU-Fab capacity that would not have been possible to use for an RTX 30 series card.


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[Assistant] Oh man. So if you can get one...


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[Assistant] Performance will be a lot worse than an RTX 3060, uhm, but it'll have a lot more memory.


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[Assistant] And early reports indicate that the cards perform quite well for crypto, uh, right now. Because they're not late hashrate. And get this. Conveniently, whenever Ethereum eventually moves to proof of stake, these'll be ready.


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[Assistant] I forget, I'm a little rusty on the details. Whatever, there's supposed to be an Ethereum change at some point that made it require way more VRAM and this will be ready for it. Which kind of makes you wonder if Nvidia just launched this to meet mining demand or if this has anything to do with meeting demand for gamers. I seriously doubt the latter.


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[Assistant] Okay, I did not watch the game awards. It's so funny. I uhm...


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[Assistant] I'm far enough removed from it now that I think it's probably fine to talk about this, but you know how I was in an ad at the Game Awards? I think it was either last year or the year before, I can't remember.


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[Assistant] I have a vague memory of this. I was in a Samsung TV, like, ad spot during the Game Awards. Okay. And like, it was super cool to be part of that. It was really cool the way we were able to throw it together in our studio and like, shoot effectively an ad that aired during the Game Awards, which is like... My initial response was... Game Awards? Sorry, is that like a big deal? Or... I have...


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[Assistant] Literally, never in my life watched the game awards. Because, like my understanding is it's only been going on for like 10 years or so, something like that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but see, that's the thing is I basically took 10 years off gaming while I founded a company and had kids and didn't play any video games. So established in 2014. Yeah. So it's only been around for seven years. So I was just like,


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[Assistant] Yeah, game award. Yeah, I mean, that sounds super cool, and uhm, it sounds good, that's awesome.


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[Assistant] But I, yeaah, I have, I have, I'm so sorry everyone, I have literally never watched the Game Awards. Yeaah, J-Horse says it's almost bigger than E3 at this point. Okay, I know that E3 is irrelevant now, but I didn't have time for E3 either. We, I think we attended E3 as a company once, and I didn't go. Yeaah, and I determined.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that was, that was pretty funny. You were, cause I think you were the one that pitched it to me.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, if we went the year before, it would have been awesome. Cause there were like a console launch, or there were like two console launches the year before you went or something, right?