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[Assistant] Yes. So, I guess there's a, the reasoning for this is that uhm, I mean, what's the problem with game keys?


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[Assistant] Okay, so Ubisoft is trying to prevent illegal resales of its games with a new method of selling digital PC game keys called Silent Key Activation, or SKA. SKA. Not to be confused with the music. The music, yeah. Which is not...


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[Assistant] And I guess there's been sort of legal issues with that where, you know, uh, some resellers can manage to get their hands on game keys through perhaps illicit means, and so this is a way to prevent that and kind of make it make sure everything is kosher and, you know, buy the book.


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[Assistant] So instead of like getting an actual key and getting that through a website, you go to a site and then you have to sign into your account and then, uh, it doesn't work.


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[Assistant] So this method is supposed to make it harder for illegal game key redistributors to operate, and the problem that I saw with it when I was reading about it was that


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[Assistant] This now requires you to sign in to whatever site that you are getting the key from with your, like, Ubisoft account. So then they have


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[Assistant] Through the Linus Tech Tips Forum, which I know you would do if you had the chance.


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[Assistant] Gamersgate is a, is a, is a, I've never heard of it, but apparently it's a game distributor.


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[Assistant] Uhm, while Green Man Gaming have their own equivalent tech in place. That's what that says, I don't know exactly what that means. Okay, they probably had a similar setup already done. But, uh, yeah, I mean, I guess I'm okay with it.


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[Assistant] Let me jump back to us. Oh! You guys don't wanna see, they don't wanna see? I feel like that's important information.


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[Assistant] You know what? I don't- I'm not- I'm a Techland guy, okay? I'm not the Wanshoe guy. You- I respect your workflow here, okay?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, I bought some, some games, uh, keys from resellers, but every time I do it, I'm kind of like, I feel a little dirty, you know? Am I doing something bad? It's like, this is discounted a ridiculous amount. There's gotta be a reason for it. But also,


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[Assistant] It's cheap. It's also discounted a ridiculous amount, so here we go. Yeah. So if there's a way for me to like, be assured that this is like, more legit, I think that's a good thing.


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[Assistant] Because like, the big thing is like, uh, making sure that...


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[Assistant] You know, a morally ambiguous sort of situation is kind of streamlined. Less morally ambiguous. Okay.


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[Assistant] Well, should we move on? I mean, I don't know, I don't really have any other thoughts about that. Do you guys have thoughts? I can...


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm not used to being able to look at the chat. I can't do it. I can't multitask. Can you multitask? Yeah. I can't at all.


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[Assistant] Yep, we're going to Luke's screen. Boom. The future is private. So Mark Zuckerberg wrote a blog post a couple of weeks ago or a month ago or something like that, uh, talking about like, alright guys, you know what? Facebook has had a lot of these privacy gaffs up till now, but you know what? Now we're committed to privacy. It's real. We're doing it this time. The future is private. And uhm, I mean, there hasn't really been


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[Assistant] A horrible major privacy gaffe since he did that.


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[Assistant] It's more like, it's more like some news still kinda trickles out every once in a while that's like, oh yea, back in 2016 they were doing this when they said they weren't. You know, like storing people's passwords in a plain text file.


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[Assistant] See, I don't remember because I deal with this news all the time, but I don't remember whether that was like, Oh, we were just storing them like last week. Go back to the main thing. Go back to the main thing.


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[Assistant] That's true, that's true. You can't really trust them saying that we're not doing it now. That's a fair point. They don't seem to specify it for how long.


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[Assistant] Look, I'm as anti-Facebook as the next guy, okay? I'm not trying to defend. Do you use it all anymore? I have not used Facebook for years. I mean, other than to like, for specific functions, like if I have to Facebook messenger somebody.


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[Assistant] Right. I, see I was, I think I, I was in a group and then we kinda like, I kinda like stopped going to the, like I didn't really have a reason to be in the Facebook group anymore and so I'm out of that group and that was like my last,


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[Assistant] Well, actually, that segues really, uh, well into what we're talking about here. So at the F8 Developer Conference, one of the things that they focused on was, uh, they said we're redesigning Facebook around groups, events, and like, kind of,


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[Assistant] Uh, features meant to help people meet up in real life. So there's like a meet people function and stuff.


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[Assistant] Yep, there's dating, so maybe we should just like go through the notes and see if there's something here.


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[Assistant] So at Facebook's F8 conference, Mark Zuckerberg pledged to transform the company's approach to privacy while revealing major changes to Instagram and WhatsApp. He acknowledged that the social media behemoth had much work to do to rebuild trust with the global community. I know we don't exactly have the strongest reputation. Very true.


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[Assistant] So they're gonna roll out a redesigned site that's simpler, faster, more immersive, and puts communities at the center, like I said.


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[Assistant] So app users will notice immediate changes with a new desktop site expected in the next few months. And they're going to make it easier to switch between public spaces and private groups where users can engage with groups of people who share your interests.


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[Assistant] So, yea, I, I, I totally track with that because I don't go on there for like social media use. Yea, no. I don't go on there to like see what are my friends posting. I go on there if I like have a specific function to do.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I actually saw, uhm, an interesting take on it, which was that because they're focusing more around groups and events, it might like, make the whole kind of, what do you call it?


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[Assistant] Bubble, like the... Okay, yeaah, yeaah, yeaah. What do you call that? Uh, I can't, my brain can't think of the word. I think bubble works.


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[Assistant] But like, yea, like- Social bubble. So, only interact with the people that you want to interact with, you know? Which is fine, I guess, but like, yea. It's an interesting take on it. So then you were saying the dating thing.


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[Assistant] Right, but that, I mean, I feel like it's even more interesting because it's like someone you already know and you're like, I wouldn't mind like dating that person. So we all know that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, every single one. And then if one of them, uh, secret crushes him back,


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[Assistant] I mean, I th- I'm married, but if I was- It's an interesting concept. If I was single, this would be like, pretty interesting. I'd be like- Oh.


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[Assistant] Well if I, yea, I'd have to, I'd have to, I'd have to flag them. Ashley. Yea.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and okay, one more, one more interesting thing from the Facebook thing, uh, the hiding likes. So Instagram, they're doing this, in Canada actually, first.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so I actually saw, uh, some people posted, uhm, about this, uh, as well, like they, they, some people are already experiencing it. It's being rolled out.


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[Assistant] So like if you are a regular user, you can't see, you won't be able to see the number of likes that someone else's post has. But you will be able to see


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[Assistant] Why? Like, is this a mental health move? Yeah, I think so. Okay. I think that, and I think it's a good move, uh, to be honest, because I think that...


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[Assistant] Well, do, as a business, do you need the public to see how many likes you got on one of your, like...


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[Assistant] Yeah, you'd have to like, if you wanted to do business with an influencer, you'd have to ask them for their analytics or something.


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[Assistant] The whole man. Okay. Should we?


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[Assistant] Intel announced at, uh, do you know what FMX is? I've never heard of that before. Uh, I don't remember what it stands for.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so Intel announced that their Z GPU architecture will support hardware acceleration of ray tracing.


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[Assistant] Now this is for data center GPUs primarily. They haven't made any announcements about like their gaming graphics cards that they have coming out eventually. They haven't said anything about that. But we know, I mean it is, I guess it's encouraging to know that at the architectural level it supports that.


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[Assistant] Now, that's cool. James wrote that this puts the architecture on par with cheering as far as DXR goes and makes it superior to solutions that rely on software or GPGPU acceleration. So it's just basically saying it's hardware acceleration that's better than software acceleration.


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[Assistant] Uhm, ray tracing for big budget movies like Pixar films is done traditionally on CPUs because they are 100% accurate. Unfortunately, they are also orders of magnitude slower.


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[Assistant] So, I mean, this is yet another one of these entries in the saga of Intel GPUs that I think that we're all trying to get excited about it.


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[Assistant] Ryzen 3000 generation coming soon. Good stuff. We got a Navi GPU. Ooh. Supposed to come out by the end of 2019. Not... 7 nanometers. Super confident.


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[Assistant] Well, uh, the rumors and leaks and stuff that I saw indicate that it's going to be like a replacement for Polaris instead of Vega, so it's going to be like their lower power.


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[Assistant] I'm like, nope, it's gonna be low power stuff again. Nada.


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[Assistant] Well, you're talking about ray tracing on Intel GPUs. Yeah.


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[Assistant] See, this is what we know. Dedicated hardware, I mean. Well, we don't, okay, we don't know this, but the PlayStation 5 is supposed to have ray tracing.


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[Assistant] That's what the, the system architect said. He's like, it's based on an AMD GPU and it's gonna support ray tracing. So I'm like...


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[Assistant] If the PS5 does ray tracing, Intel better frickin' do it.


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[Assistant] This is gonna be a really interesting console generation launch, because I feel like- GPUs are also really expensive right now. So is RAM. GPUs are expensive, but also the, like, gaming ecosystem and the environment is kind of like, streaming is becoming a big thing, and like,


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[Assistant] The Xbox One X and the PS4 Pro are like some of the most PC-like consoles we've ever seen.


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[Assistant] So like, I keep, every time they make an announcement like this, I'm like, oh, do they actually care? Like, are they actually gonna try to kind of unify these like Xbox and PC gaming ecosystems? Like, unify as in like, you buy an Xbox and it basically acts as a PC, like a pre-built gaming PC or something, you know?


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[Assistant] Uhm, it would be cool if you could do that.


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[Assistant] Oh yea, they're making it. They're making another one. I need to like rewatch the first one. Oh. There's two. There's two. See it's been, I think I watched the first one when I was like a little kid. Yea. But I haven't like seen it since. So all I know is like, Bill, Ted, or Excellent! Yea. I, people are gonna hate me. I'm sorry guys, look. I have a cursory knowledge of Bill and Ted, alright?


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[Assistant] Should we talk about LTX now, or should we talk about the thing you really love?


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[Assistant] Well, there's some updates. I don't know if we talked about the updates last time. What updates are there? See those updates? They're bolded.


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[Assistant] I haven't seen those guys, well I've never met Quinn, but I sort of know Demetri and Eber. That's exciting. Have you met them?


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[Assistant] You sort of, you said you sort of know. I sort of know, like I've met them. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. They're super cool. I mean, I wouldn't say that we talk all the time.


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[Assistant] Stay in the computer, you live in there. You don't get to sleep. Uhm. But yeaah, come to LTX guys. It's gonna be great. July 27th and 28th, is that right?


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[Assistant] You know what would be really cool is if we had an actual flow plane. And I don't know why I'm suggesting that because I know it's not going to happen.


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[Assistant] This, I've been wanting to talk about this too for a while. Yeah. Cause I have feelings. Me too. I don't know what they are. I caught, I caught feelings over this. Yeah. You wanna hit me up? Oh, I'll hit you up dude. Cause I know all about the streaming setup. And this is how you do it. Boom. Boom. Done. Psionics is joining the Epic family. Oh, that's so


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[Assistant] I'll temper the initial, like, kind of outrage.


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[Assistant] Like, by the fact that apparently, the people who made Psyonix, this is what I read in a think. The people who, uh, started Psyonix, uh, kind of already know a lot of the people at Epic Games and they, like,


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[Assistant] Right. Although, it might be that, I don't know, but that's some evidence to the contrary. Yeah.


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[Assistant] So the big problem for me about this was that the initial announcement was kinda like vague. They're like, we're buying Psionics, Rocket League is coming to the store.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and in the mean time, they said, Rocket League will be supported on Steam.


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[Assistant] And thereafter, uh, Steam users can look forward to continued support. But there's nothing like concrete that says like,


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[Assistant] This is one of the big problems that a lot of people, you know, caught up in this Steam vs Epic Game Store fight have with Epic Game Store, is that they've kind of been...


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[Assistant] Like, kinda wishy-washy about people's concerns regarding, oh, there's not many features on Epic Games Store. And, you know, how long are these timed exclusives? Are they always exclusives? Are you gonna keep doing this and like stealing games from other stores? Are you gonna kinda stop eventually? Like, what's going on, guys? One thing that I thought was interesting was that Tim Sweeney, the CEO of Epic Games,


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[Assistant] Uh, tweeted recently, I don't have the tweet here, but, He tweeted recently that if, if Steam, I don't know if you saw this, if Steam committed to, uh, matching their developer revenue share, so Valve takes a 30% cut? I believe? It's something pretty beefy.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and, uhm, every game only takes a 12% cut. Okay. I wasn't sure.


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[Assistant] It might be 18, but you're probably right. Uhm, it might be 18, I forget. I think, I'm pretty sure, I'm pretty sure it's 88% to the developers. Uhm. 12, yea yea, you're right. Right. So if they're like, if Steam matches our revenue sharing model, we will stop with the exclusives. We'll stop it immediately and back off. That's what Tim Sweeney said on Twitter. And...


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[Assistant] I think, I think he could say that because he knows the valve isn't gonna do that? Cause like, to me I see that and I'm kinda like, oh!


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[Assistant] Alright, well then all Valve has to do is just kind of match their revenue share. Yeah. But, I think Valve has like too many things going on now. You, I've been talking a lot. What are your feelings?


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[Assistant] Come at Steam, they're just like, hey, our games are on our platform. And a lot of times, our games are also on Steam. You know, Ubisoft sometimes still releases Ubisoft games on Steam. But Epic Games Store is coming out here and being like,


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[Assistant] It feels like Valve does the minimum viable thing that they need to do in order to not make people horribly mad at them. You know?


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[Assistant] And I think this is really well illustrated by the fact that we don't have Half-Life 3 yet.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we don't need to. Let's not worry about it. They're like, let's make another Dota card game. Add some hats.


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[Assistant] Ahh, I wanna get over it, I wanna get over Half-Life 3, but here's the thing! Oh! This leads well into another thing! Did you see that Valve Index?


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[Assistant] Because they have a flagship VR game apparently coming out with the index.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think in 15 or 20 minutes it's all out. Yeah. I was busy. I mean...


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[Assistant] That's one of the strong, that's one of the strong points of this acquisition. One of the few rays of, see this is the thing, it looks so depressing until you kinda look into it and you're kinda like, it could be good! Yeah, it's okay, there's that and then it'll probably be fine.


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[Assistant] Yea, like Epic Games has this like, obscene amount of money. Yea. Somehow.


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[Assistant] I guess they just have like buckets of money to pay off people to be exclusive, but that money is going to help psionics kind of like, uh, inject some more life into their esports.


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[Assistant] Cionic has already, Cionics has already done the work to get that cross-platform friends list working. So, like, if they're like, oh, I wanna buy Rocket League, and then, you know, they just go to the Rocket League site, and the way they do that is by downloading the launcher, and they do that. And then they just come in and they tell you their username, and then you add them within the game.


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[Assistant] If that still works, and all the cross-platform stuff works fine, it's like, okay, sweet, but like, Epic Games needs to make sure that they do this for every game that they do this to, you know? And that's the fear, I think. Bit of a kicker.


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[Assistant] It, it, it, it doesn't have like mechanics, it has mechanics that you don't see in any other game. Like it's not like it's a MOBA, you know, where there are 18 different MOBAs that all are the same.


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[Assistant] Rocket League is Rocket League, there is no other game like it. So if we can, if that, like, ecosystem can survive, through an influx of cash from


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[Assistant] Probably. Or like a Left 4 Dead 3 thing or whatever. Like Left 4 Dead VR. But uhm, I think that the, honestly I think that for Valve the Half-Life ship has sailed. I don't think we'll ever get it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, how can you top that? I don't, I don't think I can. Yeah. Sorry, I got carried away.


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[Assistant] We are 21 minutes late and Linus isn't even here. Well Linus, that's why we're late. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] I was here on time, James was here many hours before on time. Trying to figure out whether we should start it without him.


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[Assistant] You said do it. Not our fault. Welcome to the WAN Show. We got great topics. User benchmark controversy. They change the weights of how things are scored and it moves some processes around in the ranking system in some funky ways and some people, especially the AMD crowd, are very upset about.


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[Assistant] That's what I heard. Whoa. Sportage. Interesting. Speaking of Sportage, CloudFlare terminates, they did this, right? They terminated the, okay, so CloudFlare terminates 8chan. That's, I believe,


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[Assistant] I mean, Cloudflare isn't, uh, like a server host, so they probably terminated like DNS setup and all this other kind of stuff so you wouldn't be able to get there, but they didn't like delete


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[Assistant] What do your elf eyes see? Seizure of mega upload.


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[Assistant] It's like the purest form of justice porn, I think.


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[Assistant] We did it, guys. Let's put our stamps and stuff all over it. It's eyes. We took it.


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[Assistant] That's, he's, that guy is online. 25 minutes before. Like.


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[Assistant] Websites are really hard to squash. There's a lot of places you can go to stick around. And yeah, I mean, the people that were on here are still gonna be on the internet, so.


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[Assistant] You're not allowed to say certain things, like free speech to a certain degree.


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[Assistant] Cause like, okay, so something to talk about, uh, in Cloudflare, I say this every time something like this happens on Wensha, which is fairly often, is Cloudflare is completely within their right to do this. Of course. Not the American government, they're a private company, they can do whatever the hell they want. Uhm, we work with Cloudflare, they could...


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[Assistant] And those kind of topics create a lot of work. And they're all volunteers. That is actually the reason. It's because we have a bunch of volunteer moderators and when you do that,


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, so like I, I can sort of understand the response to a certain degree because they've positioned themselves as that entity that will defend kind of whatever. Uhm, but then I just want, I want to keep in mind that it is a private company. It's not the US government. That law doesn't really apply.


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[Assistant] It's kind of interesting how it's turning into like a, know the crazy guy posted something on your site first kind of battle. That's a little funky.


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[Assistant] I don't think it was Twitch. I'm not sure. Oh, right, yeah, good call. Uhm, I'm actually not sure, but I think it was a Facebook-owned entity. I thought it was Facebook itself, like Facebook.com.


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[Assistant] But I'm not, I'm really not sure. But that, that one had weird ties to...


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[Assistant] Like he called out, subscribed to PewDiePie, and he did all this stuff, which was like really stupid and didn't make any sense at all. And there was a bunch of other stuff that...


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[Assistant] It's really interesting how it's, it's kind of the reverse of the like, NASCAR idea. Where like, when one of these crazy things happen, everyone tries to figure out anything that they had any interest in, and then applies evil to that. You know what I mean? Speaking of evil, haha, that was awesome timing. So out of focus.


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[Assistant] Yeah, perfect. Cause I didn't really want to talk about it anymore.


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[Assistant] Okay, throw your input. Uhm, cause I feel like a broken record on these types of topics. Oh.


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[Assistant] I think it should tell you and be like, yo, you should like really do this.


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[Assistant] Just the 8chan thing. That's it? I think we should do the user benchmark thing because it's in the title.


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[Assistant] So anyway. Apparently they get millions of website traffic every month.


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[Assistant] So you can see on their scoring things, they have percentage values, user rating percentage values, single core, multi core. I don't actually see the quad core thing, which is the highest weighted one. So not sure, but don't worry about it. But they have everything like set on the top here.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no, I, like, one of the things that I like about that concept is just, you could even chick, pick the future one, knowing that you have some use cases now that could use multi-core more.


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[Assistant] Due to a whole bunch of reasons and other various things.


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[Assistant] I mean, it's interesting. I do agree with multi-core being downed. I, again, but I don't know about the 2%. I don't know about the 2%, that seems pretty low.


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[Assistant] Benchmarking, not that this news matters enough to necessarily do this, but having a video where you benchmark the i9 9980XE versus the i3 8100.


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[Assistant] Okay, so close, but we're talking 120 versus 2 grand, but similar.


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[Assistant] I am so sorry, Google. I apologize. I will take whatever punishment you seem proper.


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[Assistant] I put some cards in there that aren't a problem to be on camera.


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[Assistant] We could win this fight. Also, one thing, little bit of hot fire, he's a B plus rated, you're A minus, so...


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[Assistant] You should pull a Mr. Beast and buy out all the billboards in an area, but just to troll really hard, buy them all out in his area. Okay, so hold on a second.


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[Assistant] If he responds with anything anywhere near that amazing, this is gonna be absolutely fantastic.


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[Assistant] Seven thousand two. Can you show your doc for a sec? I can. Who wrote this? Uh, James. Why?


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[Assistant] That's compute performance cost, not like chip for chip. Yeah. So that's actually like more important. That's savage. It's savage.


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[Assistant] Just for like a Bill and Ted level overview of this, it's just boring. Stay at AMD. It's more fun.


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[Assistant] Didn't they? 14th cousin, 32nd time removed. Nick and I are related.


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[Assistant] One thing that I have as a completely outside person, this is very trendy right now.


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[Assistant] I'm that guy. But this is trendier. This is what people want as far as I know.


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[Assistant] I would basically, yeaah, I would basically want something that isn't I'm sick today pants, but isn't jeans. Like, okay, I don't know fashion. But yeaah, something you could wear out, but we're not trying to compete with jeans.


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[Assistant] But the fancy new jacket takes the brunt of the blow and it wicks right off.


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[Assistant] Okay, kind of like an athletic sweater.


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[Assistant] So you can still get soaked while only getting a little bit soaked.


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[Assistant] And I will also say, it hit the sweater part of the sweater jacket combo and still wicked off. So my joke about getting soaked is not accurate.


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[Assistant] I'm just gonna throw in there really quick, the material on the stealth hoodie is actually like, particularly nice. Uhm, we've had a complaint that I don't think is gonna get solved, but Brad from UFD Tech was like, dude I'm left handed.


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[Assistant] My biggest thing is, you have to like it and want to wear it, like, a lot.


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[Assistant] They run the cold water right next to the hot water and it heats up the other pipe.


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[Assistant] So we've, when I've been washing my clothes, they've all been shrinking. So all my shirts are effectively larges now and they're supposed to be extra larges.


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[Assistant] So I've like lost weight but look heavier, which is sweet. It's really cool.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no, because I think this is the like second or third pair since I've known you. Uh, no, it's probably like number four.


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[Assistant] I like the top left one, yea. I like a little bit of color in my socks, personally.


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[Assistant] Cause I was talking to Jono about this before the show, and if you guys are vetting, as well as you've vetted for everything else that's on the story so far, I'm probably just gonna throw all my socks away and get these. And I'm not exaggerating.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so. But that's, but that is why I'm probably gonna do that. So, you know, the minimum quantity thing.


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[Assistant] Maybe? I'm gonna make you start buying merch at some point. I- Well, I know.


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[Assistant] No, I know, I know, I know. You actually don't work here anymore. I was fully expecting to buy all of that. I'm being very clear about this. I'm probably gonna do an underwear swap at one point in time. I've kind of decided that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's gotten to the point where I get a little bit annoyed when my LTT underwear are not clean. Cause then I'm like, now I have to wear some other junk. I'm just like, that sucks.


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[Assistant] Yeah. If anyone can figure it out and if it would be even remotely worth it to swap the microcontroller.


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[Assistant] That would be very nice. I'm very conflicted on Apple right now because...


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[Assistant] I kind of really want an iPhone as my daily driver, because...


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[Assistant] So there's like, there's the like, I really like privacy things, and I really like right to repair.


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[Assistant] And right now they're not going together at all. Yeaah. And that's pretty frustrating. That being said, how many times have you had a battery swap in a phone that you actually, well, you're a bad person to ask for this. Uuuuh. No, go ahead, ask me.


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[Assistant] How many times have you had a battery swap on a phone that is your personal daily driver?


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[Assistant] Sure. I wanna use the new polling service but it's not ready yet. Sure.


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[Assistant] Hit me with that straw pole. What do you want to know, Luke? What do you want to know?


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[Assistant] Can we assume that getting a battery swapped one time in a phone is not that big of a deal?


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[Assistant] Sure. Is that fair? Yeah. So have you had your battery swapped in your phone more than once, yes or no?


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[Assistant] These types of polls have a tendency for people to only answer if they're in the upset category. So I want you to answer this.


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[Assistant] We do. We have had people that have contacted us asking to pay the higher tier.


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[Assistant] Interesting. We're currently trying to like fix some things. Now that we've onboarded some craters, some more problems have surfaced because we haven't onboarded craters in forever, so we're trying to like smooth those over and then keep moving forward.


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[Assistant] Or any like specific crowd. We need, we need like a wider net. That's interesting. That might actually be very true. I don't know because I, I know.


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[Assistant] I think the only person in my personal life that isn't me or you that's gotten their phone serviced or has worked on their phone to the point of taking it apart and swapping things that wasn't like the hot swap removable batteries from back in the day.


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[Assistant] Uhm, is like one of my parents and that's it.


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[Assistant] So like, I don't know of that many people that do it, but that's also an extremely narrow scope, so that doesn't help either. I don't know.


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[Assistant] Yeah, cuz you're not on vacation. I don't know who's gonna be there with me, but someone. Someone will. Probably not physically. Bye! Bye!


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[Assistant] Hey, and uh, welcome to the show. This is the land show. The land show that is. Or the, the nah? The nah show. Nah. Nah. News and Analysis Weekly. News Analysis Weekly, baby. It actually totally works. Nah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, alright. WAN Show! Welcome to it! We're doing some new stuff. There's the GPP is no longer a thing news, which I'm sure every single person in the tech community is gonna be talking about a lot. Because there's not a ton else going on, so you know, we'll take whatever we can.


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[Assistant] Also, DRAM price fixing. We've all kinda known. It's been kinda ridiculous for a while. It's weird how expensive this stuff is. So when you're pricing on a computer and then you're like, WOAH! That was unexpected. Anyways.


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[Assistant] Which one's you there? Fresh books! Fresh books! The one in the blue sweater. Because I used to always wear that same sweater. The shorter one looks... yeaah.


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[Assistant] Thank you PIA. PIA! I appreciate your stuff.


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[Assistant] And Squarespace! Thank you very much. Uh, my hair changes depending on the season.


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[Assistant] Ginger Luke. Ugh, that would be great. Ginger be eeuh. Uh, we're gonna start off the show with a folding and boint community shoutout. We have one of those things on the forum. How cool is that?


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[Assistant] Yeah, so we have a community on the forum dedicated to folding and boink. Folding and boink is more like, boink can be a lot of things.


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[Assistant] Folding at home is a distributed computing project for disease research that simulates protein folding, which is why it's called folding at home, because you're folding...


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[Assistant] Let's get it! Let's get it! Speaking of getting something, no longer are you going to get Nvidia GPP.


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[Assistant] Anyways, he doesn't get to talk about it, we do, so continue.


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[Assistant] That would, so, from a company's perspective though, that would generally be bad, uh, because the majority of the market is Nvidia purchasers. Exactly. So you want to use your stronger brand for that because you'll make more money.


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[Assistant] Anyways, sorry, we're gonna continue here, but yeaah, it's unclear this time whether brands are gonna survive, uh, not as in like whether Asus will survive, but it's unclear whether or not Aries will survive, whether or not Nvidia will be compensating these brands for the work that they did related to GPP, uhm, I, I


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[Assistant] In the, like, who knows how accurate it was leaks that we got? I didn't see any provisions for that because I don't think Nvidia was expecting to have to pull back out. Uhm, but I guess we didn't see the other side of the agreement either.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that part is so brutal because a lot of the reason why this has all come to light was because of people, I don't remember his name right now, but from the guy from HardOCP uhm, that like pushed all this kind of stuff and the rest of the media, not just us at all, we probably had a...


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[Assistant] That's awesome. Each, each, each week we have half an hour for when, half an hour for now. Sorry. Uhm, yeaah, so, it's just, all this stuff was brought to light. There was basically nothing from Nvidia.


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[Assistant] Explaining what was going on. They're complaining of getting all the rumors, conjecture, mistruths.


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[Assistant] Go far beyond its intent. Well, maybe better explain its intent. I know there was one post talking about it, but it was so whimsical and didn't properly go through what's actually happening.


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[Assistant] I've helped a lot of people get into building their computers, and one of my big things when I would help friends or family or whoever build a computer was always that I'll be there as like the guiding hand, but I want them to do it. I want them to pick the parts, I would want them to build the computer, but I could help them with anything and answer whatever questions, etc, etc.


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[Assistant] I've never had a single person be like, I don't understand.


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[Assistant] I'm buying ROG. Why is it a AMD thing or whatever? Like I've never had that confusion. Everyone seems to get it. Uh, so all this hubbub over that seems unlikely.


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[Assistant] It feels like they just wanted to muscle them out of the good brands.


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[Assistant] Evan33 is spamming contrast in the chat so much that I'm super surprised that he's not.


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[Assistant] And I know that a lot of people at Nvidia, and I'm sure they're paying attention to a lot of the press stuff around this, so they might see this section of the show at some point in time. Guys, you gotta figure out your public communication. You make great graphics cards, you have the market share. The giant market share. I know you're very happy about that.


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[Assistant] But people are kind of pissed off and I know it's very easy for the community. I know you guys know this. It's very easy for the community to go after the company that has the lion's market share.


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[Assistant] The lion's share of the market. It's very easy for that to happen and that's definitely a non-insignificant amount of what's going on. But especially around GPP, the communication was bad.


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[Assistant] You have to understand that communication was bad and this didn't help.


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[Assistant] With everyone needing to dive in and dig and-


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[Assistant] Clean and fight for every little tiny bit of information that they could and for you to come back at it by saying, oh yeah, there's so many rumors, conjecture, mistruths are going around everywhere. Clarify better. That's on you, man.


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[Assistant] And I know like it got leaked or whatever and that sucks as a company. I completely understand that. That's super frustrating. But at that point in time,


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[Assistant] Throwing at other people for that is not gonna help you.


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[Assistant] To try to win everyone else onto your side, you need to be open to the community and try to explain what was going on in a not so whimsical and were just fairies on the breeze kind of way. Cause that's obviously not what's going on.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we'll have to, we'll have to see how it goes.


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[Assistant] We'll have to pay close attention to Ares, I guess, specifically. See what Asus does with that. Maybe see how Asus communicates around it. I just... Yeah.


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[Assistant] This line of communication was very, in my opinion, sassy.


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[Assistant] But I think even more than that, at the core, I think people wanted to know what the heck was going on.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and I don't think anyone got that because now it's just gone and we still don't even really know what it like actually was, what the actual rules were. We're being told that everything that we knew was rumors, conjecture, mistruths.


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[Assistant] So, we didn't know anything then? So what's the truth? We still don't know.


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[Assistant] They're saying like, oh, it was just to like, make things more clear. Okay, but we need more like, we have a, someone showing us like, basically a contract in very clear terms, and then you're being like, everyone's just supposed to be happy. Okay, and- Doesn't work.


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[Assistant] Let's, uh, I'm gonna get to the page first, but let's go to Amazon.com. No. Let's go to Newegg. Ooh.


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[Assistant] And like, everything has GeForce in it. GeForce GTX. The branding is there. So that's like, the text equivalent of the like, put the banner. Cause that's right at the beginning of all of them.


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[Assistant] You could even be like, we thought this was a good idea. Clearly everyone didn't. We're gonna bet.


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[Assistant] Uuuh. Man, okay. Anyways, I think we've, uh, beat this topic down and, uh, left it in a ditch. So, we can move on.


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[Assistant] So they're merging, but essentially T-Mobile is taking over sprint. Is that kind of the deal? Cause if they're just being called T-Mobile.


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[Assistant] I think public eye might come across that way, even if it's not actually that way. Because everyone's calling it T-Mobile now.


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[Assistant] Well. I don't know enough about it. I can't really claim anything either way.


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[Assistant] Even though I'm not from the states, I generally like T-Mobile.


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[Assistant] Please no less than three. Because we have enough of that problem in our own space with AMD and Intel and AMD and Nvidia.


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[Assistant] But, so please know less than three, but I like the idea of taking three and four and making them an actual proper competitor. Like a real, yea, exactly. Against the other two big guys. That seems like a good idea to me. And even if you can make a fourth, as long as all four are the same kind of size, when you have four and you have two kind of smaller ones and two kind of bigger ones,


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[Assistant] There is good competition there because there is competition for the smaller markets and competition for the bigger markets. But I don't feel like T-Mobile and Sprint are going to abandon their place.


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[Assistant] Because they're not scaling how they should and they're like publicly saying to each other that they're not going to go for scale. They're going to go for price per item and whatnot.


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[Assistant] It'd be kind of fun if you, if you could charge someone guilty for like, your jerks at running a company. Oh yeah.


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[Assistant] Be like, you clearly have the money to build another factory. There's clearly the market to build another factory. You're not doing it just because you want to be whatever and charge an insane amount of money per chip. So you guys suck. Here's a fine.


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[Assistant] Also yeah, thank you Twitch chat for pointing out the resolution problem. I don't know what was going on there. I had it set to default resolution and it must have been on like 64 by 64, not actually, but it was pretty freaking bad. So I changed it and we seem to be good now.


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[Assistant] Yeah, get owned. Now it is there for the world to see. No, it was the resolution of this screen.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah. It's okay. There for the world to see. Speaking of for the world to see, let's do sponsor spots. Sponsors, sponsors, sponsors. Get money. For the world not to see.


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[Assistant] Anyways, you can connect up to five devices onto your PIA account at a time. Uh, they, they have apps for, for Android and iOS if you need it. Uh, there's apps for Windows, Mac OS, literally the notes on here say Linus.


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[Assistant] But I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be Linux, but that's, that's wonderful. Uhm, and Google Chrome, so you can have a plugin specifically for it so you don't have to have the app installed on the computer if you want. It's kind of easy to do it that way.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it has an internet kill switch that will block all traffic if the VPN becomes disconnected unexpectedly. That's quite cool. Not all VPNs have that. So if your VPN disconnects for whatever reason, it then starts flowing everything through. Look at me! Yeah, yeah. Not VPN, and that's not super great. That's such a fail.


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[Assistant] Uh, check it out today at the link that's like below here.


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[Assistant] If you're on Twitch, I guess just type that out. It's not that complicated. Or if you are on YouTube or Soundcloud, I guess, does anyone listen? Some people do. Uh, in the description of this thing.


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[Assistant] Whether it's an audio thing or a video thing, we'll have a link to PIA. Check it out, it's awesome, it's great, it does good things. And speaking of things that are awesome, great, and do good things, FRESH BOOKS! If you're trying to run a company and you need to invoice people for whatever reason, you can do that.


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[Assistant] And solve your problem. There isn't even a phone tree. You're just like, hey, what's up? I need help. And they're like, yeah, I got you. No problem. It's pretty simple. I'm sure that's exactly how they do it. And next up we have Squarespace.


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[Assistant] Squarespace is, uh, a website that you use to make other websites. It's, it's like website-ception. It's wonderful. Uh, it has- It's the replicator.


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[Assistant] It's 12 bucks a month. If you subscribe for a year, you get a domain with it because that kind of makes sense. So you can.


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[Assistant] That might be semi problematic. You could use a voice to text. And you might be able to do a clicking thing some other way.


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[Assistant] Well okay, there is most control with your mouth. Woah. Yeah. For if you're like partially disabled in some way. You can scroll through the tongue.


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[Assistant] I'm not sure how it works. There was a kid in my school and he showed me how his worked and it was actually really cool. Uh, but that was a long time ago and I'm sure it's advanced since then, so.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Anyways, you can use offer code, go to squarespace.com forward slash LTT and use offer code LTT to get 10% off your first purchase. So you can have a website and domain and all that fun stuff.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and then I don't have a lower banner for this, but also, uh, check out, uh, LTX 2018 at LTXExpo.com. And I realized that the X in LTX stands for Expo, and then we also say Expo, uhm, so.


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[Assistant] Just don't worry about that too much. LTXExpo.com, check it out. No, it means exploration, like space.


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[Assistant] It's gonna be there, I guess. It's gonna be Bonanza. Not too crazy.


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[Assistant] Check out Floatplane. That's like what I do and stuff. It's pretty cool. I like it. It's like neato and stuff. Floatplane. I'm gonna get us logged in so we can see what's going on. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do. Hold on.


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[Assistant] There we go. We have like, creators, oh, wrong one. We have creators on the platform and stuff, so you can check out, uh, Linus Tech Tips, who's apparently uploaded a whole bunch of videos, including keyboard history. Good job by the way. What? Who did that one?


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[Assistant] That might be a tech wiki. Maybe. We'll see. Uh, not now though. There's also other stuff from Linus Tech Tips. There's stuff from Bitwit Ultra if you subscribe to him. There's stuff from Tech Deals if you subscribe to them. It's cool. It's a platform that has different people that you can subscribe to see their videos. That's a twi- It's a tech wiki.


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[Assistant] Ah, nice. We have, we have a confirmation. Thank you, Dennis. Uhm, and you can watch their videos in glorious, uh, really high bitrate and really nice sound quality and a private nice little comment section so you don't have to deal with the dribble that's on YouTube. Yeah, and it has a thumbs down button. It does.


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[Assistant] We've been thinking about using it for like our backend or something, but yea. It's just a funny, it's just a funny little joke. Don't worry about it too much. We could use that for April Fools maybe. That would be funny. Like redirecting the whole thing.


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[Assistant] What competition? It's like all the console people. It's interesting. Um, also I don't understand the $5 thing.


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[Assistant] Why are you allowed to put restrictions on repairs for things under $5? That's so weird.


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[Assistant] Why not? It's just such a weird, like, what's even under $5 that you would take to a repair shop?


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[Assistant] Oh interesting. Yes. It's, it's, Microsoft's actually in a pretty good spot for that because while their Surface notebooks have like notorious leap in


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[Assistant] Terrifying to try to work on. Because like the terracotta and like all this other kind of stuff. Uh, the Xbox One X?


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[Assistant] Ah, yes. So that's where I played too much Civ, apparently.


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[Assistant] Anyways, where am I going with this? The Xbox One X is actually kind of wonderfully easy to, uh, take apart and put back together. Terracotta, yea.


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[Assistant] So yeaah, this, this is good. I'm very happy about this. We'll have to see what actually comes of it. Hopefully it means that my Switch is still good to go, even though I have turned it into a purple thing instead of a black thing. So that's cool. Uhm, moving on. Is this your thing?


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[Assistant] Oh man, this is, ah, this is long, and I can't share it on my screen because I'm logged into the thing.


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[Assistant] Before installation, be like, hey guys, I'm getting on Facebook.


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[Assistant] I just disappeared into the ether without telling anybody every single time. Uh, I didn't even create my original Facebook account. Uh, one of my friends, apparently, I guess, thank you, thank you Jessie, by the way, real name, um, uh, created a Facebook account under my name and then gave me the login and was like, start using this. And I was like, okay.


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[Assistant] Goodbye! Uh, yeaah. So, I've never been a huge fan of it. Uh, now I use it for the Messenger portion, because basically everyone's on there, so if you need to contact someone, it's usually... What do an Android thing have to do? Yeah, basically. Yeah, I do the same. Uhm, and then I use groups a little bit. I've got two groups on there that I'm fairly active in.


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[Assistant] One for sharing music, and one for talking about nerdy things with my high school friends. You care about music?


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[Assistant] Oh, we're all plebs. He's above us. He can't, yeaah, he can't join the music sharing group. Uh, so yeaah, I don't know. That's cool. There's been other stuff that's come out of, uh, W8? F8? F8 makes way more sense. Um, it's... Fate. Wow. That's fantastic.


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[Assistant] Uh, but apparently they're gonna do a dating app. I don't know if, I don't think we talked about that last week. Oh, I haven't heard that. Facebook dating app, yea. Let me, let me just Google this live on the show. Uh, hmm. Dating app. Interesting. First met? No.


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[Assistant] Facebook dating looks a lot like Hinge. Facebook is taking on Tinder with new dating features.


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[Assistant] So yea, new dating app. Amid all of the crazy privacy stuff, they are directly planning on making a dating app. And it's interesting because they've straight up called out that it will not be designed around hookups at all.


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[Assistant] Uh, that's not for you to decide. Yeah, I know, but they're pushing it to not be that way. It will not ever connect you with a friend. A Facebook friend? Yes.


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[Assistant] Okay. So part of the idea is that it pushes you to new people. That's cool. And it will like, keep even the idea that you're on it away from your friends.


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[Assistant] Oh interesting. So it's supposed to be private away from your friends that you're on this thing.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah. And a big part of it is this section. They're talking about conversation starters. So they'll, they'll try to have like events that are happening around you and they'll try to use groups and things that you're both interested in to try to come up with something for you guys to do. Uh, that is hopefully interesting.


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[Assistant] So that actually might, this actually might help with that a lot. I haven't been on the dating scene in a long time, but I just, having something that's like, hey, we're both interested in this thing, but without having to go through the monotony of like reading through a basically resume. Yeah, giant profile. We need something in the middle here. Yeah, that's a, that's an interesting idea. It's just kind of,


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[Assistant] Funny that they're bringing this up at the time while they're having all these privacy issues. But at the same time, despite all the privacy issues, basically no one's leaving Facebook. Sooooo it's probably fun.


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[Assistant] I think technically there will technically be some of those people, but I think it will be such an insignificant amount that it just won't matter.


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[Assistant] They're out there. It's a really small amount of people, but I think it will definitely increase, again, a very small percentage of people, but probably a bigger one than what we were just talking about. People like me to use it a little bit more. Uhm, I don't like ads, but I also don't like running ad blocker because it's kind of, you know, we do a thing on the internet and when you do things on the internet,


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[Assistant] Adblocker has the potential of taking away all of your money. It doesn't for us, obviously. Uhm, but I do feel...


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[Assistant] Like, I don't know. I don't want to get into the adblocker thing because the entire internet just gets super pissed if you ever talk about it. But anyways, I don't run an adblocker, so I prefer- Yea, neither do I. I prefer to- you can do whatever you want, I'm not- You can do whatever you want unless you want to be cool. Uh, but-


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[Assistant] Uh, but yeaah, I would rather pay a website and not have to see ads. I liked that about Twitch. You could get Twitch Turbo. Now just everyone's Amazon Prime. I would've called it Twerbo. Twerbo. Then you could have a little like mascot for it. It's Twerbo.


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[Assistant] Why not both? 12 minutes. They're both kind of ehh.


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[Assistant] Uh, HP printer firmware breaches Australian consumer laws. I have no idea what's going on. Take it away.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's, that's really not a lot. Uhm, especially because...


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[Assistant] Yeah, and most people wouldn't. So the discount actually becomes, when you do the math on your end, it's not $10 off every single item that you sell. It's $10 off like actually a pretty small portion, but you will probably sell more because you can


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[Assistant] That's the thing, it really depends on what printer it is, because like this HP61 thing, and like this one.


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[Assistant] But then like the laser jet ones more, but they said ink cartridge, so it's not that. Okay. I don't know. It really depends on what cartridge it is.


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[Assistant] That's cool, but not particularly helpful at the moment.


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[Assistant] One more topic. Yeah, okay, let's move on. Uh, mining. It was hard. And uh, now it's gonna be harder. New Bitmain ASIC miners. Or easier, depending on how you...


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[Assistant] Uh, and it's, it smashes GPU performance. We've got crypto mining hardware, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. For $2,000, it can perform as well as 15 1080 Ti GPUs at a mere 300 watts.


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[Assistant] Equihash is the algorithm used by Zcash, Zencash, Bitcoin Gold, Bitcoin Z, Bitcoin Private, Komodo, Zclassic, and I believe potentially even more.


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[Assistant] And the thing is with these- It's like you've got a Fed then. Like Bitmain, ASIC miners and stuff, it's like you're not gonna get one.


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[Assistant] Uhm, they sell out so fast and their supply is not high enough that a huge percentage of it is people reselling it or kind of more like back-end deals. But is that temp- is that temporary?


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[Assistant] By the time it becomes easy enough for you to buy one, they'll be close enough to the next one that you probably shouldn't.


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[Assistant] That's, that's sort of been the pattern for a long time.


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[Assistant] We'll see. I think a lot of companies are kind of scared about jumping in because it's such an incredibly volatile market. That's why it's far future.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. Cause I have to stabilize first. We'll see. Yeaah. It'll be interesting.


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[Assistant] And, but there's a lot of like, what he's saying is, by the time these things hit market, even Bitmain has been mining on them themselves for a long time. So like, I dunno, the mining space is so, it's, it's very, it's very messy. You have to be like really into it, uhm, to, to probably stay on top of things.


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[Assistant] So if you want to see either one of those, come back here in seven days minus one hour, and you'll be good to go.


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[Assistant] Well, I've had two systems completely fail on update. Yeah. To the point to where it was, the system was completely unstable.


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[Assistant] Nice try Microsoft, you failed. One of the things we're actually working on back in my studio right now is uhm,


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[Assistant] Do some rollbacks and force updates. We're going to do comparative benchmarks to see how much it actually impacts your system of high end and low end. Cause there's times we're doing benchmarks and we're like, what the heck? Suddenly something's weird. Like we start going, you know, really super stuttery or something. We realize like, oh, look.


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[Assistant] Background process updates happening and its eating 25% of our resources.


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[Assistant] I used to be an annual upgrader, but not anymore. I'll go two years plus, and usually the only thing that will make me upgrade is if I start seeing battery degradation. That's only because I've been on iPhone for the longest time now, it's because it's super simple, and that's only because it's not easy to service battery swaps, you know, for an average end user.


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[Assistant] Well, when I was still working in IT, we had an entire fleet of S3s out there and you could do the extended battery with the extended back cover. You know, we were sending those out into the field.


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[Assistant] It's such a high percentage that like. We've seen it though. We've seen these early polls. You let them go for five minutes or five days. It tends to whatever like the first few minutes ratio. It won't change a ton. Yeah. It'll generally stay there.


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[Assistant] I just feel like we've progressed so far in the mobile computing, uh, technologies and how fast things are. Like the early days of smartphones, back when I had my Blackberry Storm and the Droid One was out and the iPhone 3 and 3G or 3GS, you know, it's like


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[Assistant] Back then it was a big deal, like this one scrolls smoother, where the Android with choppy and stuff, where obviously there was big variance between the devices, but now everything's so damn close. Yeaah. It's really hard to differentiate a winner, it really comes down to the interface.


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[Assistant] I think the interface battle is the thing that keeps Android, iPhone, and then I think like, I'm surprised BlackBerry's even still around.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and then I carried both iPhone and Samsung at work for quite a while. So I've got a very unique perspective of at least back in 2013, what it was like to be a dual wielder, you know.


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[Assistant] That was one of the reasons why I had the BlackBerry to begin with, because when I was working in software at the time in our IT department, uhm, we had, you know, all of our own mail servers and stuff that wasn't through standard pop or any of that stuff, so it was the phone that could connect to it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but I'll be the first to admit that one of the reasons why I got iPhone back when it first came to Verizon was simply because it was something I couldn't get before and suddenly I could and everyone had it and I wanted it because of that.


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[Assistant] And I literally have just stayed with it ever since because I got used to it and I'm comfortable. I'm not really a mobile power user and I don't need anything.


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[Assistant] I really liked the S3 just because it was a good size improvement, but I don't want to copy your answer, so probably my original droid, because I actually played around back then with a lot of rooting, different roms, I actually wrote my own soundboard app back then for like playing my daughter's first words, and I wrote that for my wife so she could have it on her phone, and so it was a lot of fun.


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[Assistant] Well, there's smartphone mp2, right? If you have a crappy phone, the guy next to you pulls out the latest version, you're kinda like, oh, right? And the same thing, if you got the latest one, you kinda wanna be like, everyone look at my phone, you know what I mean? It's sad, but it really is like an accessory.


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[Assistant] It's really one of the reasons why I stayed on, excuse me, iOS for so long was simply because new phone, copy from previous backup, you know.


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[Assistant] I noticed that when, when you upgraded to a new phone, new device, right?


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[Assistant] The hotel I'm staying at in Richmond right now gives me .6 down, .1 up.


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[Assistant] A little bit like 30 minutes south of where I live and there were big old billboards as they were like, you know, getting the land ready that it's gonna be, uhm, it was a fiber community or gigabit community. And it's like, it was like 59 bucks a month.


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[Assistant] So is there special edition, or limited edition graphics being given out, or being sold to LTX?


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[Assistant] My dad. My dad, uh, after the military, he was a project manager and he was one of the- he was one of the first-


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[Assistant] I don't wanna say pioneers, but he was a VP, a senior VP for a company that was...


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[Assistant] Building mainframes and, and doing, you know, crazy old school tape drive backups and stuff. And he basically talked to the company and was like, guys, we need to get off the mainframe and we need to get into computer, uh, project management, computer based stuff, PC stuff. And this was back in like 79, 80 and, uh,


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[Assistant] They didn't listen to him. And of course that company went belly up because they were one of the leaders in the mainframe and everyone was getting off the mainframe and-


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[Assistant] But he, uh, so when that happened, he ended up going into business for himself writing project management software.


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[Assistant] And from my earliest memories, I was always on his lap while he was on the computer doing his thing. And he had no, he said the best thing he ever did for me was when I would try and touch the computer, he never was like, no, no, no, don't touch, don't touch. He was always like, he would save his work and just be like, have fun, just type away and mash on the keyboard. So he never once told me I couldn't touch anything.


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[Assistant] So I've always done that with my kids and it's kind of gone, you know, three generations or two generations at this point. Now my youngest daughter now is she's three and a half and showing interest in the computer, which is, I think it's fantastic. Um, so yeah, it was, it was just my dad and that was just life was computers and as long as I can remember. So that's simple.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I had several hats in that company. Uhm, but I worked very close, well I started actually doing energy audits and stuff within the company and we also wrote our own software to run on various devices, either iPads or the Samsung device as I mentioned.


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[Assistant] And we also had our in-house, you know, software development team. And then the more they realized that I was the guy that was actually going around.


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[Assistant] Uhm, three countrywide, six major cities, VPN, that kept all of our offices in communication. So, if they were doing that, or they were out at a data center or something, we were just like...


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[Assistant] I don't know, we'll see. So, because they knew I had all the end user experience, as well as the technical know-how to keep it all working.


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[Assistant] Uhm, which really burned me out, to be honest. Because I did that for almost 10 years. And then that was when I started doing the YouTube thing and just kind of moved out of there. But it was fun, I learned a lot. Uhm, obviously it was unique to have this kind of a...


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[Assistant] Ven diagram of experience of all three of those aspects, you know, development, support, and then end user, which really gave me a unique understanding of what it's like from top to bottom when it comes to product testing and use. So I try and take everything from a very practical perspective of how I approach tech.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but I do have a, a very high level knowledge too on where a lot of it starts. And I, but I try not to really go into any of that in my content, because I leave stuff for that, like Wendel and Gamers Nexus. Yeaah. The guys who can actually communicate that in a manner which people can understand, because I'm very good at practical use, but I'm very bad at technical explanation.


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[Assistant] Call of Duty 3 closed quarters when it launched. Because Nick, CoconutMucky, and I were good friends and we played that all the time.


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[Assistant] And I started livestreaming it because when, when it dropped for, uhm, premium access, early access, he was like with a family on vacation, he couldn't play it, so he was all butthurt, so I basically was like, okay, I'll find out how to stream it so you can watch and see the early access.


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[Assistant] Uhm, another gentleman by the name of HollidayDoc came in and just randomly found my stream and he was a pretty well known, like, Call of Duty Codcaster for like MLG.


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[Assistant] And he just thought that I was funny and entertaining and then we became friends and after a couple of months he's like, you should do YouTube. People would find like this tech stuff interesting because I became like the guy he asked PC questions to because he didn't know anything about PC.


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[Assistant] And then he was like, you should do stuff like this on YouTube. I said, and I, and at the time I didn't know Linus Tech Tips. I didn't know people made livings on YouTube. I was, this is 2012. I was super ignorant to what was going on. I was like, who the heck would watch a channel about computers? That sounds like the most boring thing anyone would ever spend their time doing. He's like, well, let's just try it.


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[Assistant] So he, I basically told him, I'll try it, but when it fails, will you leave me alone? He kept bugging me about doing it. And so I was like, fine, I'll try it. And then of course it just sort of steadily took off. And I've since like built him a computer and sent him parts. But yeah, it's, it's one of those things where I only did it to show that it would not


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[Assistant] And fast forward six years, it's now my, it's now incorporated and it's now helping other people pay their bills because now I have employees. So it's crazy.


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[Assistant] My first was a Razor Black Widow.


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[Assistant] I remember. I mean, nothing super special, but it was a blue switch without that was super cool. Until I started streaming. I still stream with it.


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[Assistant] You haven't even mentioned the opportunity cost of Anthony not being here, Anthony being in an airport instead of being at his desk, being productive.


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[Assistant] Audio issues persists? Is that why you're laughing? Slash dying?


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[Assistant] If you think the audio is bad, read my lips.


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[Assistant] This is your problem man, turn it up. And when the ad comes on, it blasts you.


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[Assistant] And you get a noise complaint and a strata bill slash condo fee bill.


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[Assistant] When I first saw that system, I was like, I didn't even know such things were possible. Like in Gladiator, when he sees the Coliseum. I didn't know men could build such things. They weren't PC in Gladiator times.


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[Assistant] There you go. The branding isn't just different. It's just way, way, way more basic.


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[Assistant] That's a descriptive word. Isn't it MSI that gaming is actually their line of gaming?


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[Assistant] So, it's still a work in progress though, because if you look at some of the Amazon links to these products that have been otherwise de-branded in physical form, the Amazon titles still have those monikers in there. Like I'm assuming they're going to be taken away eventually, so maybe it's still, it's like a roll out here that we're witnessing.


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[Assistant] How could you possibly retroactively, like, hey Best Buy, hey Walmart, update your product names on your websites?


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[Assistant] And there's multiple marketplaces, like Amazon isn't even in Australia, presumably Australia has some other e-tailer that's big that they'd have to communicate with.


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[Assistant] Did he used to be Australian but isn't anymore? No, no, no, still Australian. Oh, still super Australian. That can happen.


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[Assistant] I saw some fear, uhm, you talked about


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[Assistant] The, the supply that Nvidia has on the market being a bit of a stranglehold, uhm, do you think that applies to people like us, influencers and media who don't want to speak out or disparage, uh, this move by Nvidia because they're afraid that they're not going to be sourced, uh, the GPUs that they rely on to make reviews and editorial content?


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[Assistant] Oh, okay. If you're talking about server stuff, then does this really apply? Cause this is, isn't this about consumer grade?


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[Assistant] And you really think that when they were deciding whether or not to, to make this move and how to spin it and whether or not it would give them bad press, they thought, you know what, right now, nobody can buy anything because of crypto. They really considered the cryptomania and the availability of GPUs and they're like, ah, we can probably get away with this.


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[Assistant] So they still have that power and they don't really care. It doesn't matter. The sentiment is a drop in the bucket compared to the power of their market position, so it doesn't matter.


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[Assistant] Yeah, let's remember that it was AMD who originally kind of leaked this or let it be known.


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[Assistant] Because you spent half of the WAN show eating in people's ears in 7.1.


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[Assistant] That legitimately looks like a piece of bacon. It is a piece of bacon. What do you think it was? Oh. Well, what's the- oh, bacon jerky? It's bacon jerky. Oh. I didn't know that was a thing.


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[Assistant] That's really cool, it like bridges the gap between the super simple AIO to the more


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[Assistant] That actually leads kind of nicely into another topic we have here, which is that the Nvidia G-Sync 4K 144Hz monitors that you may have seen at CES last year in 2017, uh, but were, which were subsequently delayed,


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[Assistant] Are supposed to. Finally, being released in April.


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[Assistant] But the question, why I think there was a good segue there is like...


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[Assistant] What the heck, what card are you going to use to run something in 4K at 144Hz?


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[Assistant] It seems to me like it's just the first product that has this suite of features that they're all gonna have eventually. They're just first.


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[Assistant] I don't know if you know anything about why these monitors were delayed, but could it have been to do with the HDMI 2.1 spec? Like is this thing gonna use two cables or one?


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[Assistant] Okay, you know what, I think a giveaway was 144Hz. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think even HDMI 2.1 is maxed out at 120.


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[Assistant] Well naturally, the thing partially driving because of the cameras. This is really sad. So 49 year old Elaine Herzberg was struck by a self-driving Uber last Sunday night at 10pm. It was dark out.


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[Assistant] Uh, she was crossing the street with her bike in Tempe, Arizona. Naturally, a lot of these self-driving car testing projects are in Arizona. They made some attractive terms to attract companies and they have pretty nice weather. It's kind of easier.


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[Assistant] Uhm, the car was going 40 miles per hour, which is 65 kilometers, and this is an SUV. It's a Volvo XC90 SUV. So there was a backup safety net kind of driver, a human driver in the vehicle.


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[Assistant] When the story broke, we didn't have the footage of what the camera saw.


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[Assistant] The original details were just like irrelevant things like it was dark out and she wasn't at a crosswalk. Neither of those had any impact on whether or not the car should stop.


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[Assistant] If the dashcam footage looks like what it really looked like that night, there's no way a human could have reacted. She basically...


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[Assistant] What we're wondering now is like, obviously this is a big setback for the self-driving car community.


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[Assistant] Well, this is exactly why I said her name and age in this story here, because when I posted this on my Twitter when it first broke, it was like, I expected a lot more varied comments than I got. The only comments were like, you know, in the future it'll be good. But this is like a real person.


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[Assistant] So regardless, uh, needless to say, say the, uh, tests that occur without a driver present in the car, which are, I believe legally allowed in Arizona. Yeah. But we're on the cusp of being allowed in California are going to be delayed.


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[Assistant] Which demonstrates right there that the community is interpreting this as too heavy of a touch to, to wanna risk.


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[Assistant] Well, what else is on that internal terms of service? Great question. What a tremendous question. So glad you asked. What a great audience.


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[Assistant] Here's another non-answer, or non-way to go. This is kind of related. Have you seen this? This is state legislation pending in Rhode Island, uh, which would force internet service providers to block sexual content by default until the internet user does the following.


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[Assistant] Request in writing that the capability be disabled. Presents identification to verify that that particular user is 18 years old or older. Acknowledges receiving, like you've gotta wait for something to mail.


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[Assistant] Receive a written warning regarding the potential danger of deactivating the digital blocking capability of this sexual content and pays 20 bucks as a digital access fee.


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[Assistant] Well, this is the deep context source. This is like, if you don't know why Facebook's in trouble to begin with, we're going here. So what happened was,


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[Assistant] Facebook sees itself as a platform instead of just an ad company. So they don't care about giving away tons of personal data, which would be very valuable to an ad company like Google. They don't mind giving that away to developers who are going to develop Facebook apps because they want to be a platform like Microsoft.


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[Assistant] So what they did starting around 2010 was if you were building an app for Facebook, you could get access to a ton of profile data and not just


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[Assistant] I paid a couple hundred thousand people to take a survey, which is what the app was for.


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[Assistant] Thereby getting access to all those users' data on Facebook, and all their friends, which amounted to about 50 million different profiles worth of personal data.


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[Assistant] That data then was against Facebook Terms of Service given to Cambridge Analytica, a company. It's against the Terms of Service because once you get this data, you're not allowed to use it for any advertising purpose, which is what Cambridge Analytica ended up doing. They use it to make highly targeted ads.


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[Assistant] So, now this has all come to light. Facebook's in trouble. A famous hashtag, delete Facebook, has been started by, uh, one of the people who benefited tremendously from, uh, Facebook. The founder, one of the co-founders of WhatsApp, Brian Acton, uhm, he started delete Facebook hashtag, he, and then Elon Musk got called out about


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[Assistant] The delete Facebook hashtag, and he said, oh, that exists? Okay.


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[Assistant] Let's just take down our SpaceX and Tesla Facebook pages, which they've done. And we don't know if Musk is trolling because he kind of does that, or if he believes in the cause or what.


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[Assistant] No comments on the Facebook thing, eh? That was quite a segue you just handed me.


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[Assistant] No, I'm a nice person. Actually, instead I was talking about how exciting it is that this is the last WAN show that will be exclusive to Twitch TV.


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[Assistant] Watching me talk about IOMMU groups and virtualization.


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[Assistant] Imagine if we were doing something that people cared about. Imagine.


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[Assistant] Four years. In the last four years, Linus Media Group has like, tripled in terms of its YouTube viewership. In terms of just every aspect of the business pretty much. It's probably tripled in the last four years. Except Twitch viewership, which is half of what it was then.


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[Assistant] And it's like, either, and remember too, I'm talking Wanshow Archive as well.


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[Assistant] So either it's us, which it doesn't seem to be because literally every other platform streaming or VOD is going in the complete opposite direction.


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[Assistant] Or it's something about Twitch and the type of content. I mean, we used to be the only non-gaming content on the site. Which might have made us stand out more. Like there weren't any podcasts and IRL didn't exist.


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[Assistant] There was something else too, now I know it's not ready yet, don't freak out, but because we're gonna be simulcast streaming,


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[Assistant] And, wait, hold on, I have a cool idea. I have no issue with that. I'm gonna have to check with my, my FP peeps in the chat here. Okay. But what if we absolutely cranked? Like went absolutely bat crap crazy on the bitrate.


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[Assistant] That's right. But hold on a second, because even if our real-time transcode isn't working yet, because we'll be simultaneously streaming, floatplane pilots, so I was thinking the chat that we focus on is the floatplane chat.


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[Assistant] So if people wanna chat on Wanshow, basically, you can think of it kinda like Twitch Prime, except you just actually pay Linus Media Group instead of paying Twitch a bunch of money. Also, Float Plane Media is gonna take some of it too, but that's fine, they're cool guys.


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[Assistant] But get this, if people can't handle like a 30 megabit stream, like something absolutely nuts, like we go crazy on it,


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[Assistant] If they can't handle it, they just watch the video on Twitch or YouTube, whatever, and they just use their floatplane chat.


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[Assistant] Then they still get the benefit of the floatplane membership and we can experiment with different kinds of streaming qualities and stuff like that. I don't know.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, that's fine. I think we get like a couple hundred dollars a month or something like that. Yeah, it's not gonna matter. It's not gonna make or break. Part our Twitch subscribers, of course.


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[Assistant] Compared to if you support us on floatplane, it's really not that helpful.


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[Assistant] Okay, get this. So uhm, you know how a float plane needs like ball air network connections and stuff for some of the things it does? I might be able to give float plane access to, uh, you know, Vanix?


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[Assistant] Vancouver Internet Exchange? Yes, yeaah, yeaah, yeaah. So uhm, Linus Media Group might be upgrading its connection. What? To a dedicated wavelength. Woah. Direct to Vanix.


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[Assistant] So we're, we're working with, it's a small time, our ISP, although they've grown a lot since we first started working with them.


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[Assistant] Freakin' awesome, uhm, so I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna like, yeaah, I'm not gonna, not gonna say too much, but like, our ISP,


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[Assistant] Dope guys, uh, local guys, uhm, ITAL, I don't, you've probably never heard of them. No. But uhm. They're great.


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[Assistant] They're cool guys. And anyway, so, so it's gonna be a dedicated 10 gigabit per second wavelength.


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[Assistant] Straight to Vanix, no switches. And then we're actually, I couldn't afford the entire 10 gigabit per second of like internet access. Okay. So it's gonna be 5.5. Slummin' it.


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[Assistant] But, but, but what's cool is that we're going to have, because they're bros,


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[Assistant] And because it doesn't cost them more because they're already in Vanix.


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[Assistant] So it's 5 gig, 5.5 off Vanix, but then it's 10 gig to AWS, uh, Google, uhm, uh, Akamai, uh, like basically 10 gig to anyone that matters.


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[Assistant] So anyway, uh, you guys could definitely have some rack space. And, uh, I'm sure we could find a way to make that, that extra, you know, 5 gigabit or whatever somewhat beneficial. OVH is on Phanteks. So, so we could- That's pretty great.


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[Assistant] So we could, we could try and, we could try and offset your, you know, extra streaming cost or whatever. Try and help, try and help a brother out there. Yeah. So anyway, anyway, so that's, that's my cool news. Okay. So it's, it's costing, um, 30% more than our one gig switched fiber connection.


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[Assistant] And, uh, and honestly, they would have probably gotten, uh, hopefully they're not watching, uh, they probably would have gotten one anyway.


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[Assistant] Because the whole bonded internet thing that we did that was like a commercial product that they had before, uhm, they have, they, they acquired the company that did the software for the bonding, uhm, rewrote it, so it's multi-threaded now, so you don't need such an expensive appliance to do it, and they wanna, oh, I wonder if this is confidential, well whatever, they're gonna have,


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[Assistant] Uh, well whatever, they're cool guys. Uh, why don't we just say that, and with cool stuff, so we probably already made a video anyway. Uhm, we got a lot of great topics for you guys today.


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[Assistant] But I don't- I don't think he's like actually trained for fighting though. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] That would be a pretty distinct advantage.


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[Assistant] Like I actually, at our weight class, I really don't think him being more fit is gonna be very helpful.


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[Assistant] That, that, well, that is not a thing we're doing. Uh, although if he was down, like, not like, not like, fuckin' MMA, no, whoops, we don't swear on the last show. Not like MMA, like, freakin' bare-knuckle or anything like that. But like, boxing could be interesting, especially because I've never boxed before.


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[Assistant] I know how to punch, I know how to dodge, I know how to block, like I could probably put two and two together, especially against another amateur. But, uh, tell you what, tell you what, if Austin's down, I'll box Austin. There you go.


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[Assistant] You know, I've actually, I've actually, uh, I shouldn't say it's complicated, but I don't really, I don't really count the only time that I've ever fought with someone. Like I've never really been in a fight.


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[Assistant] I'm, I'm a pretty, I'm a pretty passive, like turn the other cheek kind of person in general.


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[Assistant] You know what's really crazy? Uhm, the, the guy, so we have a video coming soon. Uh, once again, I hope I'm not revealing too much about my hair. It's just like spectacularly bad. Good.


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[Assistant] You know what? We're just, we're gonna embrace it. I'm just gonna have like, gamer hair today. So we have a sponsored video coming up on DeepSpar. Have you ever heard of DeepSpar?


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[Assistant] So, DeepSpar is a data recovery company that is not, like, you send your hard drive there and they recover your data. They actually build tools for data recovery companies. Uhm, anyway, so they sponsored a video, we're gonna have that coming out pretty soon, it's on floatplane already, and uhm,


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[Assistant] The guy, the, the son of the CEO who also acts as like kind of an operations manager, like he's an executive there.


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[Assistant] We're, we're going to lunch and I'm like, so like, what are your hobbies? And he's like, oh, like, uh, bare-knuckle MMA fighting. And I'm like.


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[Assistant] Really? And he's like, oh yeaah, love it. And I'm like, so basically you're in Fight Club. And he's like, pretty much. And he starts to like, pull back some of his clothes, and he starts showing me like, some of the bruises that are on him, like right now. Meanwhile the guy is like, dressed in business casual, cause he's like at work.


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[Assistant] And I'm just, I'm looking at this going like, I don't think I'm gonna put a toe out of line and I think we better deliver a really good video for these guys. He's like explaining to me how he has no feeling left in his shins.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so, so that, that's a thing. That's not me. I, I don't have that killer instinct, unfortunately.


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[Assistant] So if I ever actually did have to fight you for some reason, go for the right.


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[Assistant] There was a pretty, like, there was a pretty good rugby program at my high school, actually.


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[Assistant] Uhm, alright, so why don't we jump right into Intel 9th gen chips on pre-order, for pre-order on a Dutch site. So this was originally posted by tweakers.net, it was posted, uh, our original article is from tweakers.net and it was posted by Robbie on the forum.


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[Assistant] Uhm, also, there's not a whole lot of useful information here. I mean, the top, the top chip, the 9900K is listed at 833 euros. I really don't think that's very likely.


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[Assistant] I wouldn't be surprised if we saw a slight price hike over the $8,700k, but I don't see it going to.