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[Assistant] Yeah, that's super cool. I mean, yeah, we're down to collab. Uhm, it's, I think you guys...


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[Assistant] Overestimate the simplicity of making a video about sciency stuff like that. It's kind of a challenging thing to make engaging to an average viewer. And we're at a point where LTT can't upload a video that only appeals to a hundred thousand people that is not.


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[Assistant] sustainable for our company. Everything we upload has to at least appeal to a million people.


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[Assistant] So whenever we do something that's like, holy crap, look at this thing!


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[Assistant] There has to be enough that is relatable to our, uhm,


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[Assistant] Yeah, but okay, the problem with that is that you'd have to have complete enough access to it. Oh yeah. That you're able to make a compelling video. Which...


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[Assistant] If they came in and they were just like, here's this room.


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[Assistant] What does that do? That's classified. What does that do? Classified. That's not a video. There's no video. So that's one of the, that's one of the ground rules that we have any time someone brings us in to do a


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[Assistant] Uh, uh, a piece of content about something that's more industrial or more enterprise is we basically go, okay, look, it's going to have to be unfettered. If I ask you to pull up.


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[Assistant] Your uh, you know, your raised cable management floor.


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[Assistant] You say how high, how many tiles do you want removed? If I say I want to crawl around in it, you say, when will that be? Like, it's, we have to be able to come in and do all


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[Assistant] And, uhm, Faustopego over on Twitch chat says, that's right, I agree, but Linus put it in a way that sounded pretty bossy.


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[Assistant] Huh? Well, yeaah, I did. Because if you expect me to come in and do my job, which is to make your thing be interesting, I think it was the how high part that got a little... That's the answer.


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[Assistant] Yeah, thanks. Uh, if your goal is to have me come in and make an interesting video, then you have to facilitate it. It can't, it can't, you can't be blocking me. We're on the same team, is pretty much what I'm trying to say.


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[Assistant] But that's the reason that I specifically said that this is really challenging when it comes to industrial or enterprise applications because


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[Assistant] It's not immediately relatable. Like making a video about, say for example, an enterprise storage appliance. Okay? Making that interesting to a million people or two million people.


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[Assistant] Exactly. So if I show up and I'm like, hey, I wanna see the backplane. And they're like, no, sorry. And I go, okay, I need to open the chassis. And they're like, no.


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[Assistant] And I kinda go, well I need to see the cooling system and they go, sorry we can't show you that. Then you're basically asking me to come and do my job while you put up obstacles that prevent me from doing my job.


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[Assistant] Exactly, exactly. There's nothing that grinds my gears more than someone who expects me to come in and produce an ad for them. Like, no! This is a give and take relationship.


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[Assistant] You want content? Let's work together, is the point that I was trying to make. And so...


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[Assistant] When it comes to creating obstacles for me, no, I don't tolerate it. I just won't go. I'll say, look, these are the terms.


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[Assistant] You have to, you have to be open with us. You have to give us access. We have to be able to climb up on a thing if that's what we need for an interesting shot.


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[Assistant] You gotta accept that and if you don't, then have someone else do your, do your corporate Twitter video and no one will watch it because there's a reason people watch what we do and they don't watch that because that's boring.


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[Assistant] I'm not gonna go in and make not boring content because I can't upload that. That's the way it is.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. Uh, we've got some more merch messages here.


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[Assistant] Jason says, my 11 year old wants to create YouTube videos. Any recommendations on where to start? Gear applications, etc. Your phone. Your phone.


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[Assistant] Your phone and some free or cheap video editing software on your phone. Because the first thing any 11 year old needs to figure out is if they're actually passionate about this or if they're gonna do it one time and forget about it.


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[Assistant] Or something. Or something. You have to give me something. And like you said, be reasonable. It's a visual medium.


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[Assistant] Right? And, uh, Negev says, uhm, oh wait, why was Luke escorted by intel people? Because you just are, when you're in a restricted area, you need an escort, that's normal. Like, it's not, it's not that,


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[Assistant] We don't understand how the world works. It's just that a lot of the time the people working in these jobs don't understand how content works. They don't do it day to day. They don't get it. They watch the video and they go, wow, that's a lot of views. And a lot of the times they just haven't even watched any of our actual content. Like I've shown up.


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[Assistant] And they didn't realize that I was gonna start taking things apart. And I go, well did you even know who I am? Why did you even call me? You know?


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[Assistant] Which is fine, I don't expect everyone to know who I am. It's just that if you went to the trouble to fly me here, I figured you might. That's all.


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[Assistant] Nathaniel, are there any videos you regret making? E.G. ASMR build guide. Well, that's certainly one of them. Uh, I regret that WAN show where I was like, crypto will never be a thing. It's going nowhere. When the guy bought the house. Oh, there's a lot of takes on it.


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[Assistant] Man, that WD sponsorship at Computex that first year was pretty rough.


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[Assistant] So we inked a deal with, it's all people who aren't there anymore, so I feel like I can tell this story, but we inked a deal with our WD Rep Man where we ever, we were scrappy, we were desperate back then.


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[Assistant] The deal was they would be our sponsor for Computex, but on every day of the show, we had to make a separate individual video from the WD booth. And there was like,


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[Assistant] Getting one video out of the WD booth back.


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[Assistant] I made an entire video, this is amazing, I made an entire video about the stupid hard drive inspired car that they had in the booth.


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[Assistant] Oh no. Like it was kinda neat in that it's all like, uh, inspired by actual hard drive components. Like these are, uh, the actuator arms and stuff like that. So it's like neat.


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[Assistant] There were not five videos worth of things in that- oh six, six, hold on. How long were there? Six days. Six days. Holy crap. Yeaah. Uhm.


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[Assistant] There, oh, oh, this, this reminds me of something we, uh, we regretted making so much that we never made it public.


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[Assistant] Better or for worse, I'm using the word better very charitably here. Not better. Not better. Uhm, is... It's a bit of a different...


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[Assistant] Oh for sure, it's still a thing depending on what western show you go to. That's probably fair. Like, I went to a car show not that long ago. I'm sure it's still a thing at car shows. Boof Babes were definitely still a thing to use the icon.


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[Assistant] In my opinion, slightly derogatory term, but I need you guys to understand what I'm talking about, and that's the only word I really know for it.


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[Assistant] We, we were like, oh okay, should we do like a booth compilation that includes like the, the, the


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[Assistant] It doesn't matter if this is a thing that everyone does, we're just not gonna participate in this, was what we ultimately decided, and I'm extremely glad that we never uploaded that.


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[Assistant] Like, extremely glad. I could not be more glad that that did not happen.


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[Assistant] Jason, when you released the Stealth Pins shirt, you did a golden ticket design for something like five shirts. What was the design and what did the prize end up being? Did everyone claim their prize?


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[Assistant] Uh, promotional model, thank you. That is the, that is the PC term.


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[Assistant] What was the design? What did we do? It said something else on it. What was it, sorry?


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[Assistant] Oh, oh, I think we gave away CPUs. It was the CPU Stealth Pins shirt, and I think there were different letters in it, or something. Or the pin? Yea, like, cause it's LTT, it spells out LTT kind of subtly on the normal ones, and it was something else for the special ones.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and I believe everyone claimed them, but that's a question for Nick. I said, here's your budget to do a giveaway and then it was off my desk.


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[Assistant] Anonymous asks, how easy was it to swap out the SSD in the Steam Deck? Actually pretty easy.


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[Assistant] Uh, we haven't upgraded our Steam Deck SSDs yet though, but we will soon. Valve has really good guides for how to do a fresh install on it, so it's no big deal.


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[Assistant] But that could just be a channel upload. I think that the one on the product page should actually be, we're talking about doing maybe for the first time ever pre-orders on a product.


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[Assistant] And, uh, screwdriver and backpack are obvious candidates for it because they've been such cash sinks. And so we're thinking about, uh, doing like special content for the page and, uh, Luke came up with the idea of doing like product tours of the prototypes.


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[Assistant] Uh, kind of like a Kickstarter video, but actually I'm kind of imagining it with like really crappy production values. Just like me in a room. You might even film it. It's like the cameraman. Sweet. Um, we'll just show it off. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so yes, we would consider that. Yeah, absolutely. I don't think what's in my bag is very interesting though. I have a pretty boring bag. I like the little bag.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like I just talked about it in, I think, uh, a stream, uh, the Steam Deck disassembly stream, I think I did it.


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[Assistant] Julian L, uh, just out of curiosity, would you ever be doing, interested in doing an LTT video on the tech behind VTubers and try turning yourself into one? Yeah, I think it'd be really interesting. It is pretty interesting. And I think from a business standpoint, it would actually make a ton of sense to get into it. It's really advanced stuff.


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[Assistant] One. Any chance of products making their way back onto Amazon, or was that a one-off? Yes! They're supposed to.


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[Assistant] In all seriousness though, the Creator Warehouse team is super busy. We have a new, uh, we have a new, like, logistics person and she hopefully is gonna do a way better job of smoothing out our ordering.


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[Assistant] So, really excited about that, but it's gonna take time. And our restocks.


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[Assistant] Uh, Zachary. Hey, thanks for making Night Shift great. Hey, heck yea Zachary. Another water bottle for the collection. Any tips for a small tech content creator? I mean, it's the same thing I tell everyone, right? Like, you gotta find...


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[Assistant] You gotta find your own voice. You gotta find something that you are really passionate about. I think the way The Met is going now is it's less about trying to be a huge, uhm,


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[Assistant] Do everything creator and more about finding niche and absolutely killing it like Vincent from HDTV test for example just gets so far into the weeds on TV and panel technology that


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[Assistant] He puts himself in a position where he can get big enough in that niche that if he decided to branch out, he's got this captive audience. And I think that's the best way to gain a foothold these days versus just trying to be


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[Assistant] Hey Laurence and Luke, now that most online computer parts places are kinda shady, can we trust PC Part Picker and Tiger Direct for our PC Parts ordering? Didn't Tiger Direct like- I didn't know they existed anymore. Go down at some point? Are they still a thing? Holy crap, they're still a thing. Whoa. March, Mayhem, Hot Picks.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't really know what to tell ya about that. Who knows.


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[Assistant] Yeah, PC part picker, I don't think actually sells anything directly. I don't think so.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we haven't seen too many complaints about MicroCenters, so that's always, I mean that's really the only gauge we have because we don't have personal experience sorting from any of these US only sites. Yep.


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[Assistant] And I think that's the end. Thank you guys very much for tuning into the WAN Show. We will see you again next week. Same bad time, same bad channel. Bye!


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[Assistant] Those guys are hilarious. For what? The Great Expansion. Bringing it to the next level. Cool. Yea. Good for them.


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[Assistant] How are y'all doing? It's Friday and welcome to the WAN Show. We've got a great show lined up for you guys today. We're gonna be talking about the cease and desist that Lenovo issued to Framework, the laptop company that I invested in, over their power button.


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[Assistant] We will also be talking about the potential upcoming branding for LTT Labs. Spoiler alert. It is not going to be LTT Labs. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Otherwise, I just spoiled it. So alert, I have not spoiled it.


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[Assistant] Oh no, you're really making that a headline topic? I was gonna try and- I was gonna try and slip it in somewhere when people- Screwdriver pop-up! Okay. Sir. Sweaters! The metaverse is awful! Shill harder, Luke. Shill harder.


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[Assistant] The show is brought to you today by Squarespace, XSplit, and Secret Lab. And no, it's not Secret Lab. They make chairs. Our lab will be a different lab. Let's jump right into our first topic. I admit, I debated you guys a little bit. I actually agree with Lenovo. This was


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[Assistant] This was a thing that had to happen. Well, okay. I guess I didn't, but the implication might be that I'm like mad about it, but there's nothing to


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[Assistant] Yup, uhm, uh, obviously it's not their logo because you can't 3D print their logo without the centerpiece falling through. But the reason that Lenovo came after them, Framework tweeted about it, is that the resemblance of Framework's power button on their first party 3D printed case, uhm,


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[Assistant] It was noted by, uh, forum member Midcore that Lenovo's gaming, uh, O Legion gaming logo used to actually look like this, but- That's the one I can-


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[Assistant] It bore a lot of resemblance to the Mercedes Benz logo.


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[Assistant] So as it turns out, there's just not a whole lot more ways that you can...


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[Assistant] Put some things through or on a circle. Actually, oh am I- I'm wearing it right now. I happen to be wearing our case shirt design that has been pointed out to me. Looks an awful lot like the Renault logo. Like Renault cars.


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[Assistant] No association whatsoever. It just happens to be a, what is it, isometric...


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[Assistant] View of a box. It's, it's a computer case. It wasn't the intention. But that's what, that's what happens. And given the fact that Lenovo and Framework do exist within the same space, they both make laptops, say for example, I can understand why Lenovo, whether they wanted to or not, had to


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[Assistant] Point out that their trademark was kinda being infringed and you guys really need to make a slightly different looking power button.


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[Assistant] So as much as, as much as I don't think anyone wanted this to happen, I actually agree with Lenovo's cease and desist. Clearly Framework isn't too salty about it either.


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[Assistant] So they are figuring this out. Now, our discussion topic here from Adam, from our writing team, is why do companies waste time and money on things like this? And the- They legally sort of have to. The reason is that they actually have to. If they want to keep their trademark, then they have to uphold their trademark.


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[Assistant] And they have to go after anyone who is illegitimately using their trademark. And this isn't one of those things where Lenovo tried to trademark an actual circle.


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[Assistant] Or, you know, putting the letter I in a word. This is very clearly a logo design and very clearly looked pretty much identical to the one that Framework was using for the power button.


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[Assistant] Oh, for sure. But then again, if you're not trying to make an enclosure for a laptop motherboard,


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[Assistant] Then they probably don't have to defend it because you, uh.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm not an expert, but I do know enough to know that they do actually need to go after this.


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[Assistant] In other news, Apple has restricted their ad tracking, or, I'm sorry? Apple restricted ad tracking?


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[Assistant] The thing that drives me crazy about Apple is not that they are any more evil than any other gigantic member of a Monopoly, Duopoly, or Oligopoly, or whatever. Basically any other company that exists within a highly consolidated vertical. No, they're honestly, they're not really any worse.


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[Assistant] But what they are is hypocritical. What they are is arrogant. What they are is smug.


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[Assistant] And so they'll sit here and wax philosophical about all the ways that we could protect the environment and do better and, you know, whatever. And then it comes out that, you know, oh, their big idea here is that we'll stop shipping chargers with our phones. No, that's a cost saving measure.


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[Assistant] That's a cost-saving measure in clever marketing for it. You never cared about the environment even one bit. That had nothing to do with the decision. And it's the same thing here. Apple will talk.


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[Assistant] Endlessly about how much they care about user privacy, and then they will go and put all their Chinese users' data in a data center that is quite literally owned by the CCP.


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[Assistant] I'm sorry. Oh, so you care about your users' data as long as your users aren't that color.


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[Assistant] You care about all this advertising tracking until it's your ad. Good job! Well maybe. So it's...


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[Assistant] So it's fine, I guess. You're not, you're not really doing anything any worse than anyone else, probably. But you just...


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[Assistant] Alright, so Luke is going to set up an iPhone for probably the first time.


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[Assistant] I don't know, you wanna, you wanna tell us, tell us about it? Oh, in the meantime, I should probably tell you guys what's new on the store, because we have like, four topics for the show today. We got like, nothing. So if there's anything you guys wanna hear us discuss, now's a really good time to send in a merch message.


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[Assistant] And, uh, maybe we can, maybe we can go have a look at what it is. Talk about it on the show. I don't know what happened to the doc this week. Do you know this? Uh, eee, ooh. Crap, what's the wifi password? Aw, balls.


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[Assistant] Uh, I will, I will look it up. Okay, you know what? No, I'm gonna, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you look it up. I'm gonna, I'm gonna show off what's new on the, on the store here.


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[Assistant] Holy crap, we have a lot of stuff that's new this week. Oooookay?


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[Assistant] It doesn't show up on camera very well, but it has these fun little color flecks. It's called a multi-nip.


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[Assistant] Where they, uh, they weave in these little colored little bits of, of other colors. I'm not describing it very well. You know what's easier is probably just going onto the product page and showing you guys what it looks like. So there you go. Up close, it kinda looks like that.


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[Assistant] So it adds just a little bit of fun into, uh, an otherwise just comfortable, stretchy, grey hoodie. Uh, another fun thing is that it actually comes with, I think? Ooh, does it not? Okay, I don't know. I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna say anything then. Okay, so that's it!


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[Assistant] Uh, what the? I don't- oh man, come on.


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[Assistant] Okay, apparently I have to look up the wifi. So anyways, if you guys wanna pick up an RGB hoodie, we've got those live on the store.


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[Assistant] Uh, in other news, we finally have it. It finally happened. The Lambo edition of the LTT water bottle is here!


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[Assistant] I don't have any notes on it and I don't even know where to find it on the store.


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[Assistant] Oh, it's grey. Why would it be grey? Okay, well, the Lambo edition bottle is here. Nice. Uhm, k.


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[Assistant] It's grey. So good luck finding it if you didn't happen to watch this segment of the show. We'll need to change that. The color looks very different in person than it does in the photos. Hopefully that's just a display calibration thing for me. But it's more of a dark green, less of like a, like a neon green. So hopefully you guys don't end up


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[Assistant] I'm thinking that it's a different green or whatever. Uh, how's that? How's that set up? Oh, you're on data and privacy now. Okay.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but use one that I will know. Use the, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, please. Change. Okay, thanks, cool. Because I would never guess that.


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[Assistant] Doesn't look great. Seems like Apple is basically just doing their, their usual rules for thee and not for me. I haven't even got there yet, really. Nonsense.


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[Assistant] Well, I mean, it was right there. They basically said, yeah, we're not going to collect it except when we need it to personalize your experience. Personalize your experience is just marketing speak.


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[Assistant] Does he just like, have a secret desire to be a Vtuber?


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[Assistant] Apparently this has been updated. It's somehow worse.


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[Assistant] It is not rated very well, but I can't tell if it's just being review bombed because it's Facebook.


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[Assistant] So he's digitally selfying in front of a monument that looks awful, and he looks awful.


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[Assistant] The Beat Saber avatars are like on par.


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[Assistant] Oh, oh, oh, VRMe or something like that? VRMe? I f- oof.


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[Assistant] Ready player, ready player me. Yeah, you can create, you can create an avatar of yourself at this level of quality.


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[Assistant] In like, minutes. Here. Choose your body type. Take a photo.


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[Assistant] We're gonna, we're gonna go through the process. I'm gonna make, yeaah, I'm gonna make a better avatar than Mark Zuckerberg with his billions of dollars in metaverse funding. And I'm gonna do it on this crappy webcam. One moment please.


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[Assistant] Uh, I mean, it's not great. Okay, let's just, we'll give him a beard.


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[Assistant] Okay, it is world's better than the thing on the left. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. World's better. And I would say, ah, this looks more like James than like me.


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[Assistant] But this also doesn't look, uh, yeaah, okay, it's Mark, it's Mark, but he also has a very distinctive gigantic forehead and very short haircut. So, hard to say, hard to say. Either way, the fact that this was


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[Assistant] Just a simple little like, character creator thing.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so, uh, this is what I used to create the model that I use for, uh, full body streaming Beat Saber.


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[Assistant] Okay, uh, why don't we jump into a couple of merge messages just so that people can, uh, instead of, guys remember, don't send super chats or bits on Twitch or whatever else. I'm not-


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[Assistant] Like being like, oh reverse psychology, you should definitely send, no, do not send them. Uh, if you want to, if you want to interact with the show, it's far better to pick something up on LTTstore.com. Whenever we're live, you'll see a field in the checkout that'll prompt you to send a merch message that will go through to our producer.


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[Assistant] But at least, unlike a super chat, you actually...


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[Assistant] Get something cool in the mail after spending your money, even if we don't happen to address your topic. That's why we don't recommend the super.


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[Assistant] Yeah, cause like you get like a hoodie or like a, you know, some hair scrunchies or whatever else it is that you happen to need. Sure.


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[Assistant] Uhm, man, I don't, I don't know. I guess there's like, there's a few things that I am super hardline about. Like one of the things that I will say to my kids constantly is nothing worth doing is easy.


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[Assistant] Whenever they complain that something takes a long time or is hard.


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[Assistant] I'll basically just like, it's like, it's one of my stereotypical dad responses. Like, yeah, well, if it was easy, it wouldn't be worth doing, so.


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[Assistant] Good thing it isn't, because otherwise you're wasting your time. Like that, that's sort of the...


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[Assistant] The, the rationale, if it's easy, anyone can do it. So if it's hard, then...


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[Assistant] Brutal when it comes to that stuff. I will, I will, I will pretend my kids don't exist if I do not here, please.


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, even like men, they'll be like hurt and crying and want me to pick them up. And I'll be like...


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[Assistant] For real though, and the reason for it is that it costs nothing.


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[Assistant] And means everything to other people. So for me, it's less about the actual words and it's more about taking that fraction of a second to be appreciative or be grateful.


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[Assistant] Or acknowledge that you've done something that you shouldn't have, or whatever it is.


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[Assistant] It costs absolutely nothing and makes you a more pleasant human being to interact with.


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[Assistant] So uhm, that's a big one. It's just part of the overall, just be respectful to other people.


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[Assistant] I don't know, I mean there's just, there's not much other than just like, don't be a jackass, I guess?


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, be excellent to each other, right? Like it's, uh, oh, I mean, one that I harp on a lot, I guess, is your siblings for life. Figure it out.


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[Assistant] You know, we don't really, we don't really tolerate them speaking to each other disrespectfully.


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[Assistant] Uhm, like if they, oh, uh, whining's another one.


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[Assistant] So if they, if they whine about anything, you know, one of my big ones is like, what's the purpose of what you just said?


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[Assistant] Will it make this faster? No? Okay. Will it make us all more comfortable? No?


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[Assistant] Okay, well then stop. Uhm, and it's, I don't know, my kids are amazing because that kind of stuff actually works and it definitely wouldn't have worked on me.


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[Assistant] I was awful, like you couldn't go to a restaurant with me, I was like bouncing off the walls, like. That makes sense. Yeah, thanks for that.


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[Assistant] There are so many facets to a service provider that are, uh,


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[Assistant] Device specific, region specific, sorry?


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[Assistant] I've had good experiences, I've had bad experiences with every telco.


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[Assistant] That's a good question. Right now all the IP is held by Linus Media Group Incorporated. Uhm, I think that...


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[Assistant] Yeaah, it's uh, it's, it's honestly a bigger...


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[Assistant] Debate than one that we can really have here on this show. You know, I think you're getting into kind of like a uhm,


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[Assistant] Uh, man, what's the, what's the term I'm looking for?


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[Assistant] Basically, it's like a capitalist versus more communist type of, uh, philosophy, right? So, uh, ownership of the means of production, right?


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[Assistant] Like, what about logistics? Why don't they own some of the channel? So uhm, you know, our approach up until now has been that, you know, no, we pay, we pay well.


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[Assistant] If you were to, I think that if you were to come in with some kind of asset and that was part of the deal of bringing you into the company, like let's say for example, we were to, okay,


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[Assistant] I'll use UFD since he actually did an April Fool's joke that we acquired him. So if we were to, if we were to hire Brett, then as part of that deal, I might say, hey, Brett, we also want to acquire your channel. Uhm, you know, he might come back to me and say, well, I would be comfortable selling a, a portion of the channel.


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[Assistant] But I'd like to retain, let's say, a 25% stake, so in the event that you were to ever sell that asset, I would get part of the payout, right? That might be part of the conversation that we had about it, but because that asset was created from the ground up using Linus Media Group resources,


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[Assistant] No, there is no ownership stake from the channel writer, uh, you know, Jonathan Horst, for example, didn't even...


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[Assistant] Work here, yet, when we conceptualized starting up that channel.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, he didn't work on, say for example, the art assets. So where's, where's Sarah's take, right? So uhm, no, everyone was working as an employee here at the company and the asset is owned by the company. Not even me personally, and I know that that's a distinction that won't matter to a lot of you, but legally it does.


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[Assistant] Phones used to be durable, man. I dropped my Samsung Jive off the back of a cantering horse.


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[Assistant] But it hit the ground, exploded, right?


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[Assistant] Put it back together and, uh, and it fired up. I guess that would maybe be one of my favorite phones. The only thing I liked about it was it had this ringtone that I really liked. I've never had a better ringtone than that one. If I could find it, I would totally put it on my current phone.


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[Assistant] But for me, I'd say I have to pick the Note 9. It's the most complete phone.


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[Assistant] Ever in my opinion. It has a non-picture based face unlock with their iris scanner that I don't believe


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[Assistant] Was, was it present in the Note 7? I'm trying to remember, the one that blew up? I think it might have been. But it went away after the Note 9, so it had an iris scanner, which came in handy for me a lot, while all the, uhm,


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[Assistant] Definitely savvy shoppers with iPhones were pulling their masks off to use Face ID and putting them back on. I was able to use iris scan.


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[Assistant] Uh, also, it has a, uh, like a touch sensor, a fingerprint sensor.


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[Assistant] It didn't have a removable battery, but it's also not a ton of work to swap the battery in that particular device. Wireless charging, no reverse wireless charging, but that's something that even on a device that, I believe this one has it, I don't know, I've never checked, I don't care, I would never use that.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna check the wording here because uhm, it's funny that you would say Dennis caused the damage to my house and not Dennis and Colton. Woah, woah, woah!


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[Assistant] Sorry, I get two words to describe the damage you guys did to the house.


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[Assistant] They wanged the banister, which is a pretty small fix, a little bit of wood filler, some primer, sand, prime paint.


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[Assistant] Maybe sand again, paint again, like, you could probably, you could smooth that out. But the damage they did to the floor and the main bedroom...


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[Assistant] Like it's, it's basically not fixable. By the time they sanded the entire floor down enough to take out the gash that they put in the middle of my brand new, by the way. This is literally


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[Assistant] Brand new flooring that was installed fresh as part of this renovation. The gash they put in the floor, they would have to take off so much of the top surface of it that you would actually have to pull off the baseboards, move them down, and repaint the walls.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm not gonna lie, like, I don't, I think the, I don't know, how many times have I like yelled at our staff? Like, like CEO yelling at people?


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[Assistant] Okay, well, hit me with one. I have one that I remember that was like really good. I was, I was furious. My favorite one was that one.


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[Assistant] Oh what was that one? I don't even remember this.


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[Assistant] Okay, was that me, was I off camera though, or was I hamming it up for camera? You were off camera. Okay, what did I, what was it then? I don't even remember.


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[Assistant] The time that I remember because I was, I was more furious than almost any other time I can remember running this company was when we lost a shoot.


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[Assistant] Due to utter carelessness. Just like...


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[Assistant] Completely, we're like, dur dur dur dur dur dur dur, lost the SD card that had the entire footage for our shoot on it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that was, uh, that was back at the Langley house.


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[Assistant] So, there's not many times that I have like, yelled at people unironically. Uhm, and I wasn't even yelling at a person in that case because it wasn't an individual that was responsible for it. It was one of those, as a team, we were just


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[Assistant] Being utterly careless with our data and I, you know, I find, I find it's not the size of the transgression, it's the necessity of the transgression and losing that data was


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[Assistant] Utterly unnecessary. It basically was a combination of...


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[Assistant] Utter, utter apathy and incompetence. Like there was just no other way that it could have happened.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uhm, and, and I, and the specific circumstances around it though. Sometimes bad stuff happens.


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[Assistant] And I'm understanding of that. Like we've, we had people, uh, I don't think I even yelled when someone who's no longer here left an entire camera bag full of camera, media, uh, everything just like sitting in front of a lobby in Vegas.


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[Assistant] Just got in the cab without it, just left it there. Like I, like, stuff happens.


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[Assistant] But when it's, when you had every opportunity in the world to, to back up the data and you just didn't, uh, then I get, then I start to get really frustrated.


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[Assistant] So I was not as mad as I was when we lost the data.


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[Assistant] But because of how unnecessary the damage was to the floor,


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[Assistant] I didn't mince words. I think I made it clear that I was extremely unhappy with the result.


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[Assistant] Nope. I don't, I don't think yelling is healthy. I don't think it's constructive. There was a company that I used to work with, um, like back when I was a product manager and I was told that their, their boardroom meetings would often devolve into people yelling and literally screaming at each other. And I was, I, I was, I, I heard this.


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[Assistant] And I just want, what on, what possible reason could you have to be yelling at each other in a business meeting? Aren't you all on the same team?


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[Assistant] Uh, why don't we jump into another topic while Colton digs through some of these incoming merch messages. People are pretty into the new stuff. Oh, uh, you know what?


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[Assistant] One last thing, just cause we do need to queue up all the merch messages, for those of you who were waiting, holding out, holding out for a guarantee, a warranty on the backpack, it's here.


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[Assistant] This is the Trust Me Bro Guarantee Limited Lifetime Warranty.


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[Assistant] We offer a limited lifetime warranty that the LTD backpack is free from manufacturing and material defects. The limited lifetime warranty is valid for the usual and customary life of the LTD backpack. The manner in which the LTD backpack is used directly impacts the usual and customary life of the product as materials will deteriorate and fade over time and moving parts such as zippers will also wear.


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[Assistant] The limited lifetime warranty does not cover damages caused by misuse, abuse, or by accident or negligence, damage caused by rips, cuts or tears, normal wear and tear, including the breakdown of materials over time, product purchase from unauthorized dealers, cosmetic damage, or unauthorized modification or alteration.


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[Assistant] In order to make a warranty claim you must be the original purchaser of the LTT backpack from LTTstore.com or provide a copy of the original proof of purchase. So we do actually cover, uhm,


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[Assistant] We do actually cover secondary owners or tertiary owners. We don't care. The reason that we have that in there like that and that we require the original proof of purchase is so that we can validate that it's not a counterfeit backpack.


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[Assistant] So there it is. Before you ask, yes, we had a look at what was standard in the, in the sort of wearable on your back.


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[Assistant] Textiles, or over your shoulders, textiles industry, and this is pretty much right in there with everyone who has, uh, what was, what we were told was a really, really good warranty policy, uhm,


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[Assistant] With the one difference being that, from my point of view, the whole original purchaser thing has never made any sense. Either you did a good job of making it, or you didn't. And it shouldn't really matter whose back it's on, so...


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[Assistant] We don't care about that, we just do need to make sure that they're not counterfeit bags, so we have to validate that you have an original proof of purchase.


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[Assistant] It is. Yeah, that's the reason for it. But, um, I mean, yeah, I really think that it shouldn't be that hard if you're- Just contact support. Yeah, we should be able to figure it out. There you go! Woo!


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[Assistant] As far as the public can tell, it was asked for by a fan on Twitter. Is that true? Yes. It was actually requested. I thought it was hilarious and so I did it.


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[Assistant] If you're building your brand online in 2022, you should absolutely have a website. Like for real, if you don't think it's necessary, then you, you need to get, get on, get on board here.


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[Assistant] If you need a tool to help build your brand and build your website, look no further than Squarespace. Squarespace is the all-in-one platform to help you expand your brand online. You can make a beautiful website, engage with your audience and sell anything and everything from products to content.


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[Assistant] We love Squarespace so much, we use it here at LMG. Their custom templates make it easy to stand out with a gorgeous website, say for example, LTXExpo.com, we got that up there. And you can maximize your visibility thanks to their suite of integrated SEO features.


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[Assistant] And their analytic insights help you optimize your performance so you can see what's going well and what needs a little work. Don't wait. Get started today by going to squarespace.com forward slash when to get 10% off your first purchase.


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[Assistant] The show is also brought to you by Xsplit. Xsplit is an all-in-one streaming and recording application for content creators. Whether that's streaming games, business presentations, or any live events you may have coming up in your busy life, Xsplit's got you covered.


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[Assistant] They offer features like Broadcaster for streaming and recording with a full suite of customization options. XSplit Connect Webcam turns your smartphone into a webcam. And VCan is a virtual background tool for blurring out messy bedrooms so the attention can stay on you. No need for any green screen.


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[Assistant] Finally, the show is brought to you by Secret Lab. Comfy chairs. Sometimes we have to sit in them for two, three hours at a time on WAN Show, and I'm very grateful that Secret Lab sponsors the show.


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[Assistant] Their Titan Evo 2022 series chair offers 4-way lumbar support, comes with a magnetic,


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[Assistant] Let's talk about John Deere. I want to get into that. This is really exciting because you know what? John Deere.


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[Assistant] Because otherwise they won't fix it, and someone somewhere knows about the vulnerability, so...


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[Assistant] I would say that you could easily find other companies that are very anti-consumer, but what makes it particularly offensive when it comes to John Deere is that this is essential, this is food.


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[Assistant] Like Apple pulls a lot of extreme dickhead moves for sure, but realistically you don't need an iPhone. Uhm, so you know, I would say in terms of the destructive


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[Assistant] The destructive nature of what John Deere is doing, uhm, they, they're, they're much closer to, you know, the, the mega.


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[Assistant] The mega corporations that are buying up residential properties, for example, and pushing home ownership out of reach of an entire generation of people right now.


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[Assistant] People are users, users are people. I mean, what's the difference from my point of view? I would say the user of a rental property is a user. Fair enough.


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[Assistant] Like I just, I just mean like it's, it's just extremely, when, when we talk about how horrible what someone is doing is, uh, you know, we can talk about, uh, we can talk about, like, uh,


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[Assistant] Okay, the pop bottling companies that are taking all the water while Mexico is facing an enormous, like, life-threatening drought.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so, so, you know, when, when we, yeaah, so it's not necessarily how egregious what they're doing is, but the fact that it affects our ability to eat.


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[Assistant] Uh, eat, get shelter, that's where it becomes just morally reprehensible.


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[Assistant] Well the reason you do it is because of this perception. You want to sell your service stuff, right? Well not just that, right? But there's this perception that...


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[Assistant] In a capitalist society, unless you are growing, you are failing.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and, and I mean, you'll, like, I, I remember, especially when I was younger, and I didn't really understand the dynamics of the stock market, right? I would, I would see a company post that they earned 3.2 billion dollars this quarter, and boy, that was way off what analysts were expecting, so their shares plummeted today, and I'm looking at it going


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[Assistant] 3.4 billion seems like a lot of money to me. I consider that a win. Uhm, and so there's this pressure on a company like John Deere to continue ramping up their revenues. But you can only sell so many tractors.


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[Assistant] So they start turning to increasingly evil schemes to


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[Assistant] Extract more revenue from this finite number of customers, right? So it's a systemic problem.


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[Assistant] But that doesn't absolve John Deere of any of the responsibility that they have to take for participating in it. They could just say, nope.


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[Assistant] Our, our tractors are, are, are user serviceable because that just matters a lot. And we're going to, we're going to build out, uh, uh, like a servicing branch. Uh, we'll have a revenue stream from that, but we're not going to hold a gun to our users heads and tell them they absolutely have to use it. They absolutely had that option and their shareholders might not have liked it.


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[Assistant] Uh, there's an argument to be made that you don't really, that Apple doesn't need to borrow money. Uhm, they have a ton of cash. And if they do borrow money, it's only because they are doing so strategically.


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[Assistant] They, it's, it's, it's cheaper to borrow that money than to, to use their own money. It all, it's, it's all a...


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[Assistant] A whole, way above my pay grade game that we don't really play here. Uhm, but if there, there are prof, oh I forget where I was going with this.


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[Assistant] Right? So when executives are paid in shares...


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[Assistant] And the share goes up, then they make a lot more money. So it basically just comes down to executive greed.


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[Assistant] It's more if the company misleads their shareholders and it turns out they weren't doing what they were doing or if that publicly traded company does not act in the interest.


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[Assistant] Positivity, positive sentiment around their brand that they not engage in these anti-consumer, anti-right to repair practices.


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[Assistant] And it'd be very unlike, even if they could have made an extra 10 million dollars or 100 million dollars this quarter, they could have made a strong argument for that. It'd be very difficult to sue them over not screwing their users.


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[Assistant] Pretty much settled at this point. I think that given the, we, as much as we would have loved to use LTT Labs, uhm,


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[Assistant] We had some internal concerns about the close association with LTT. We want, we want the lab to, I mean, obviously it's going to be associated. We're going to talk about it all the time. We're going to use their numbers. We're going to.


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[Assistant] We're going to build products and services there that will delight us as much as our users, but we didn't want them to just be tied at the hip.


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, LTT and LTT labs, they're just one and the same, because we're still gonna do stuff on LTT that has nothing to do with the lab, and we're gonna do stuff with labs that has nothing to do with LTT. We also


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[Assistant] As we move away from branding things with my name,


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[Assistant] It's a matter of time before we change the meaning, just retcon the meaning of Linus Tech Tips, change it to like something else Tech Tips or something, and just change the branding to LTT, maybe rebrand entirely, I don't know, we'll figure that out later. But we felt it didn't really make


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[Assistant] Much sense to, uh, to go with lttlabs.com. Another concern that we had was that LTT Lab


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[Assistant] We do own lttlabs.com, so it's very likely we will redirect that, so anytime we talk about the lttlabs or whatever, uhm, it'll end up in the right place. But lttlabs.com, which would be a very easy typo, is a Chinese laboratory equipment supplier.


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[Assistant] So I think we would have, and because their page is so slow outside the Great Firewall, I think we could easily end up with a significant amount of abandonment from people thinking it's LTT Lab and just the page loading really slowly and going through this.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, that doesn't help at all. This page is still not loaded.


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[Assistant] So, so it won't be, it won't be LTT Lab or LTT Labs, uhm, which meant that we had to try to come up with a name that was gonna, that was going to communicate, you know, what the, the spirit of the lab was, uhm, while also being, you know, easy to type and,


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[Assistant] Uh, and, and not conflicting with, you know, any of our, any of our bitter rivals. So...


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[Assistant] You know, we kicked around some ideas, but what we ultimately settled on is it's going to be gamerscommandcenter.com.


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[Assistant] Did we, did we buy that one? Hold on, hold on, I'm trying to bring up the dock here.


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[Assistant] Uh, did we actually even acquire the domain yet? Am I supposed to be talking about this Colton? Did we get the domain yet? No, shut up. That's not, that's not real. I know we had-


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[Assistant] We had linuslab.com, I don't think we had tech tech tech tech lab.


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[Assistant] Thought we were supposed to grab all of these just in case. What about level 1 labs?


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[Assistant] Okay, Labby McLabface, I don't even know what this list is. Am I even looking at the right list?


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[Assistant] So the, the current frontrunner is actually Lab32.com.


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[Assistant] And, uh, the, the reason for it is that it's a super short URL. It's easy to remember. It's really easy and fast to type. The branding is very easy. Uh, yeah, the branding looks really good. Sarah's actually done some, some draft branding around it already that looks flippin'.


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[Assistant] Cool, so the, the merch, which I'm, I will obviously go to supporting the work that we're doing at the lab is...


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[Assistant] Uhm, gonna look really cool, which is awesome. Uh, 32, people are asking why 32, and the reason is that it's, it was actually inspired by a conversation around the, like, executive


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[Assistant] Table, uh, where Colton was saying something about like system 32. Was it you Colton? Who mentioned like system 32?


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[Assistant] Yeah, and uh, so the significance of the number 32 is just that it's a number that comes up often in computing, right?


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[Assistant] But Lab32 just, I don't know, rolls off the tongue. I think Lab32 is better, in my opinion. I like it.


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[Assistant] I think it's pretty sick. And then when we checked to make sure that there was nothing conflicting with it, right?


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[Assistant] You know, no one else is using this name or anything like that. The only real reference that we could find to it was actually one of the areas in Chrono Trigger.


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[Assistant] There's a, there's a Lab 32 in Chrono Trigger, and this happens to be one of my favorite all-time games. And I, yeah, I just kind of, I kind of, kind of fell in love with it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, everything else was just a joke that we brainstormed right before we started the show to troll you guys.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we've looked at making a camera insert. Uhm, as for a camera bag variant, I'd say that that is...


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[Assistant] Not impossible, but it's pretty far off. The thing about that is that as not a camera daily carrier, I just have less to contribute, I guess? I also feel that it's a more niche


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[Assistant] Thought about and talked about when we decided on a laptop bag rather than a camera bag. I think that based on community feedback, you're more likely to see like a downsized version of the existing laptop bag before you'd see a camera bag from us.


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[Assistant] But that is nowhere near even beginning development right now, so don't hold your breath for it.


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[Assistant] Oh hey, we just fired up a poll for our floatplane chat. Do you guys like the name Lab32? We wanna know what you guys think.


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[Assistant] Wow, 90% of the community agrees Lab32 is-


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[Assistant] I mean, we did have some people internally point out that it doesn't-


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[Assistant] Really describe what you do. You know, like it was compared to something like PC part picker which has a very clear identity right in the URL of the site. That one's a good example.


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[Assistant] Hold on a second, I mean, you could make an argument for Xbox in the longer term.


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[Assistant] They're certainly building, if they ever actually did successfully acquire Discord, for example, and they started to integrate, uh, more community in Xbox, if they, I mean, Game Pass is already a way to just ensure you always have hundreds of millions of users.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'd love to. I actually don't think I have the login for our domain registrar.


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[Assistant] Uhm, we would definitely have to prepare for that ahead of time.


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[Assistant] Cause I don't think that particular, uh, 2FA is even on...


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[Assistant] Like our, our, our accessible 2FA device. I think it's on like an air gapped 2FA device. You don't, you do not walk around with your domain registrar account. So.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's something we'd have to prep ahead of the show. I think Yvonne might be the only one who has access to everything.


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[Assistant] Is that a problem? Okay, well we'll have to have a conversation about that later. Not really.


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[Assistant] Okay, okay. I can, I own boringmathlessons.com.


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[Assistant] That one's pretty good. Adequate Video Service. We own adequatevideoservice.com. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Some of this stuff I might not have anymore, but I definitely owned, uhm,


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[Assistant] Jistofit.com, and the idea was that it was like instant news updates, with like camera phone, it was like basically, uh, like YouTube stories, essentially, uhm, or like shorts, uh, How the F?


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[Assistant] Uh, Makeup for Bros was a dot com that I owned at one point. I don't think I have it anymore because I was like, I'm never gonna do anything with this.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but these were just, uh, you know, the makeup for bros one was just identifying that makeup for men was becoming much more of a thing. This was like 10 years ago. And, you know, kind of figuring out what verticals other than tech we could start to establish a presence in. But yea, we just never, never, never got on it.


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[Assistant] Okay, uhm. Oh wait, no, that's a different one. I thought I had found it already.


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[Assistant] Implement a refer program or owner marketplace. I don't think it's necessary. It's called eBay.


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[Assistant] Pro move though, by the way, buying a $10 gift card to send a merch message. If there isn't something that you're necessarily, you know, eyeing this week, but there might be something coming soon and you want to send a merch message, that is a way to do it. And it doesn't cost anything for shipping, because we don't actually ship them, they're digital.


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[Assistant] I think you should just wait for Project Farm to cover it because, I mean, look, I'm not gonna put words in their mouth, you know, if they don't want to cover it, then fine, you know, you don't have to, right?


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[Assistant] But I think that it would, I think that that piece of content would perform well and we'd be.


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[Assistant] More than happy to send one over, I think Project Farm buys the tools though.


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[Assistant] I don't think they accept samples so we'd be more than happy to make one available for purchase.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but yeaah, there's no need for us to make a project farm video when project farm can make a project farm video. That's my take on that.


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[Assistant] Project Farm is a YouTube channel, for those of you who haven't heard of Project Farm.


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[Assistant] Oh, do it. Yeah, we should. Right, we're gonna do a pop-up.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it'll be August 27th. It's going to be at the lab from 10am to 2pm.


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[Assistant] So that's August 27th, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Pacific time. We are gonna have around 2,500 screwdrivers, so we are giving you guys a little bit more notice this time. Uhm, I'm not going to lie to you again. I will be there.


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[Assistant] Uh, but the point of being there, I'm not gonna be wandering around outside. The point of coming is to buy a screwdriver. So don't just come and hang around. There isn't enough parking for that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so we're gonna have a stream where people are gonna be able to try the screwdriver. These are all actually final. Everything in here is final hardware.


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[Assistant] If you want to check them out, that's it. That's the- well you can just take one if you want. Greedy.


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[Assistant] These are final hardware though, so these will be there at the pop-up shop. They will be available for purchase. We'll have 2,500 of them. Uh, we are going to have competing drivers there in person. Uh, we're gonna have some scrap parts from FreeGeek if you wanna like,


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[Assistant] You know, screw a motherboard into a case or whatever. We're going to have some wood.


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[Assistant] And screws, you know, if you just wanna screw things in, unscrew things, yeaah, try out the ratchet, make sure it doesn't slip, make sure it's to your satisfaction, uhm.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we're- we're rea- oh yeah, we'll have comparison- did I already say we'll have comparison drivers?


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[Assistant] I'm not sure. So Vera, Klein, Snapon, uh, we're gonna have comparison drivers from all the major, major tool manufacturers for, for ratcheting drivers. And I'm...


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's just because I'm extremely confident. And then like Luke mentioned, we're going to have a live stream. So people are going to be able to compare the drivers, talk about it to the live stream. I think we're going to stream on short circuit.


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[Assistant] I believe it will be silver version only at the pop-up. Don't quote me on that though. Uh, some people are asking if you can get backpacks or potentially other things. I don't think we'll have any backpacks.


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[Assistant] Uhm, we just wanted to know if people are going to be able to buy backpacks at the screwdriver pop-up.


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[Assistant] Well there you have it guys, from the man himself. There will be stuff. There will be stooves. Things will be had. Things will be there.


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[Assistant] Nice. So yea, August 27th, be there or be square.


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[Assistant] Or, like, or don't be there, like, we don't, we don't want, like, 5,000 people to show up. The last thing we want is to, to turn people away. Uh, also, if you, for whatever reason, guys, we're, we're gonna do LTX next year, so don't, like, get on a plane for this. Uhm, but if for whatever reason you insist on doing that,


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[Assistant] Uhm, there's nothing I can do to stop you, but I will say don't book your flight now. Because we're pretty sure we're gonna do it on that day, but it's not a hundred percent sure. We got the first thousand ratchets today, and we've gone through two hundred and fifty of them I think now, to make sure that it's actually, they're good, and they are.


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[Assistant] But the other ratchets, who knows, they might get stuck in customs and we might delay it so that we're not, we don't only have a thousand so that we actually have the full 2500 or.


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[Assistant] You know, whatever, right? Like, things can still happen, but that's what we are planning on, and it is pretty solid at this point, that it'll be on August 27th, just not a guarantee.


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[Assistant] So, next mercs message. Alright, so alright, basically.


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[Assistant] There will be more home automation stuff in the future because I am almost certainly going to replace my light switches at this point. Not because Jasco is like a consumer unfriendly company, but because I bought a six year old platform and I am not that pleased with the features and performance.


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[Assistant] So uhm, while we did have that little miscommunication with Inovelli where they kind of went ahead and called their Switch Project Linus and slapped my logo on it without consulting me.


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[Assistant] Uh, overall, I do like their jam. I think they seem like pretty cool folks and they are already making progress on their motion sensor integrated switch using millimeter wave technology.


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[Assistant] I'm pretty excited about it, so what I would like is to work with them on that and swap out my Jasco switches for those, but nothing is set in stone at this time.


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[Assistant] Uhm, other than that, I definitely need to figure out the audio setup. We've got all the speakers installed, but nothing actually powering them yet.


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[Assistant] I have, what else is going on? Oh, someone else here, David S mentioned the sofa baton X1. I have not opened the box yet. I definitely do need to do that. Um, checking, I want to check it out as a replacement for the Logitech Harmony. So there's lots and lots and lots more stuff, lots more stuff to talk about.


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[Assistant] Other than wiring in the walls, nothing, right? Like you wouldn't leave, uhm, would you leave the server rack? I don't think so.


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[Assistant] I'm a thousand years away from thinking about moving out of that house though, so it's, it's pretty tough. They're talking about your old one. Oh, the old one.


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[Assistant] Oh! Well, there wasn't really much there.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like anything that's fixed to the house, you wouldn't really remove, so everything, everything I did is still there.


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[Assistant] Absolutely. I mean, everything I learned about eTail, I learned at NCIX both what to do and what not to do. Uhm, that was my first real job actually out of school. And I had some really good mentors there. I also had some less stellar mentorship.


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[Assistant] Like I said, I learned what to do and what not to do.


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[Assistant] But there's, there's a ton of, there's a ton of principles that we follow that are absolutely based on, on what I learned there. I mean, one of the big ones is take care of your customers because angry customers.


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[Assistant] Man, the number, the number of people that I feel like thought that we would be willing to tarnish our reputation over like 250 bucks over


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[Assistant] A replacement backpack was just kind of baffling to me. I don't want to sound out of touch, but in the context of the scale of this operation.


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[Assistant] But in the context of the scale of this operation, in the context of the damage that it could do to our brand, $250 is nothing. Right. That's not why people are mad though.


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[Assistant] I think people were mad for a variety of reasons, some valid and some less so.


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[Assistant] So we can leave it at that. But uhm.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I saw time and time again, NCIX just shoot themselves in the foot over very, very small sums of money. They would, you know, they would...


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[Assistant] In a situation where it just totally doesn't make sense and is just detrimental to the customer. They would, they would enforce policies that just.


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[Assistant] You know, didn't matter, right? Like you'd have someone bring in a motherboard that they clearly opened, right? Like a $150 motherboard, let's say. And they opened it.


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[Assistant] And, you know, it's totally still working. It's like brand new. They just opened it and it was an ATX motherboard and they had an MATX case. Right?


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[Assistant] So they bring it back because it doesn't work for them and NCIX, you know, rep be like, sorry, 15% restocking fee.


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[Assistant] And it's like, hey, uhm, particularly at that time, motherboard packaging didn't even seal.


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[Assistant] You're- I know that you're going to just resell it as new anyway, so we're talking about-


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[Assistant] Oh, that and NCIX opened them up in the first place anyway to put their own label on them so they would break the seals on the products in the first place. So we're talking about $22 on a product that you're going to resell at full price anyway.


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[Assistant] And a totally innocent mistake. The guy's not trying to rip you off.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's just, it was, it was just frustrating. Like it's just common sense to me. Don't do that. It's not worth it. You know?


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[Assistant] And then, as expected, that person would post on the forum. And then, and then, we'd have to give them the full refund and a gift card to make them shut up. It's like, wow, good job! You just cost, you just played yourself!


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[Assistant] Yep. And it's been great because I don't have to micromanage him.


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[Assistant] Like he'll just go and do stuff and then I'll have a meeting with them like once every week or a couple of weeks.


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[Assistant] And it's like, yeah, what are you working on? It's like, oh yeah, that's all stuff that makes sense. That's what I.


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[Assistant] Would have told you to do if I sat and thought really hard and came up with a really great plan. That's what I would have told you to do, so.


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[Assistant] See you later. You know, love having people like that, but.


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[Assistant] How many experienced YouTuber sales representatives were there?


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[Assistant] Many IT brands have restocking fees. So in the event that NCIX, especially back then, were to return that product to their supplier,


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[Assistant] They're basically just passing the savings on to you, but in reverse.


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[Assistant] Oh, we should jump into another news topic. The California DMV accuses Tesla of making misleading claims about autopilot. What?


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[Assistant] This is hilarious. How many times have I called this? Like how many times, honestly?


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[Assistant] Sonderfeier from the California DMV for untrue or misleading claims about autopilot and full self-driving. The main things the DMV has a problem with are the terms and wording that Tesla uses, saying, autopilot and full self-driving are terms that do not represent the capabilities of the systems. Noooo! Noooo! There's no way that happened.


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[Assistant] The use of the words full self-driving capabilities on their website, particularly the words, the system is designed to be able to conduct short and long distance trips with no action required by the person in the driver's seat. Uhm, yeaah, yeaah, that's pretty misrepresentative. According to the DMV, the way Tesla advertises their systems, oh, okay, this is sort of redundant, but that's fine.


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[Assistant] Uhm, although Tesla does have disclaimers on their website, the DMV says that these only contradict the advertising instead of curing the violation. Yeaah, that makes sense.


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[Assistant] DMV seeks to require Tesla to provide more accurate terms and descriptions and more and better consumer education of the product capabilities and limitations.


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[Assistant] Is what the DMV said in a statement to MarketWatch.


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[Assistant] Yeah, this should have happened many, many years ago. Back when Tesla's autopilot and full self-driving, whatever, was even less capable than it is now.


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[Assistant] The number of, I mean, I don't have to tell you guys, the number of times we've seen people asleep at the wheel in their Teslas is utterly unacceptable.


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[Assistant] Alex's contribution here, he wrote up this topic, is on the one hand, Tesla has the best self-driving in existence. Yep.


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[Assistant] But in practice, it feels like handing your keys over to a teenager that's texting and driving. In my opinion, they shouldn't call it self-driving until it actually is. Right now, it's just really good driving assistance.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I find Tesla in particular kind of terrifying given that they push out beta self-driving features to be tested on public roads. Uhm, there's no hecking way I'm trusting a car to drive me until it has been proven reliable and much better than the average driver for years, and that's fair enough.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Float Plane Chat's talking about when Red Bull got sued for it not actually giving you wings. Yeah. I mean, if that went through, there's no way Tesla should be calling their cars full self-driving or autopilot.


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[Assistant] Funny hat says, any pilot will tell you autopilot will get you killed really quickly in an airplane with thousands of feet of space around you clear.


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[Assistant] Okay, so maybe, maybe autopilot is, is somewhat defensible, but the full self-driving nonsense needs to go, obviously. And,


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[Assistant] The average user, the average Joe Public interpretation of the word autopilot is more inspired by science fiction films than it's inspired by actual airplane autopilot.


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[Assistant] Uh, under-promise, over-deliver. I mean, oh man, I don't know, it's-


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[Assistant] Yep, uhm, other than that, their lenses just are not as good as Oculus's, it's not even close.


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[Assistant] And, uh, man, the fact that they are still using LCD displays in high-end VR headsets drives me berserk.


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[Assistant] Give me OLED. Give me OLED. I need that fast pixel, uh, switching time.


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[Assistant] How did these? Okay, I know I said be a little more liberal. Okay, so you know what? No, no. Good merch message. Good merch message. Alright. Uhm.


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[Assistant] I wouldn't say I eat super healthy, but I do try to like eat vegetables and stuff. I also try not to overeat. I mean, that's a, that's a big one. Uhm, I often end up not eating too much just because the nature of what I do during the day means that a lot of the time I don't take time for food.


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[Assistant] Nighttime Astronaut says time sheets are the enemy of motivated employees in a workplace that doesn't actively support a work-life balance.


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[Assistant] What are you talking about? Timesheets are how you accurately pay people.


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[Assistant] How on earth are you supposed to accurately pay people if you don't have time sheets?


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[Assistant] Look, I'm not trying to be a hater or whatever, like, hey, thanks for the subscription on Floatplane, like, for real, love you, but uhm, you do need timesheets, it's just...


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[Assistant] Wow, I could drag on, I could drag the wandshow out for as long as I want.


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[Assistant] How much does it cost? Is it 2 grand?


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[Assistant] Jailbreaking? Very unlikely, I think that's beyond the scope of...


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[Assistant] How they're going to, they're going to evaluate products as they're intended to be used, but I could absolutely see them, you, uh, you archived that one already. I was going to look back at the wording, uh. Repairability?


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[Assistant] Yeah, but absolutely, repairability would be a major consideration for us when evaluating a product. With that said, we're not looking to replace iFixit. They already do a great job of providing repairability scores for


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[Assistant] Key, key new devices. Uh, it's just something that we would consider as we go through and evaluate it as it's intended to be used, not as it's intended to be rebuilt and used.


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[Assistant] Mics and interfaces will come. They're a relatively low priority category because they're a relatively low volume category compared to something like CPUs or GPUs. Uh, I don't believe it tests XLR or TRS cables, but that is something that we will be building out the capability to test in the future because we are planning to develop our own line of cables and we won't settle for anything other than the best.


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[Assistant] This is ridiculous. What do you mean flex time is just to keep you from actually taking time off? People use their flex time all the time here. If that was the point of it, it is not working.


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[Assistant] Oh. Ours is paid. So it's basically vacation time.


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[Assistant] Oh no, flex time is just a policy that we introduced, uh, back when the COVID lockdowns were starting to become more of a thing. Uh, where on top of the legally mandated vacation time, we added two weeks of paid time that is not, strictly speaking, vacation. Is it two weeks? It's two weeks.


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[Assistant] Okay, cool. Yeah, two weeks. Is that right? Yeah, it's two weeks. I feel like I'm saying it wrong. Okay, yeah. Yeah, so everyone has two weeks of additional paid time off on top of their vacation time, and we call it flex time because you don't have to.


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[Assistant] So you don't have to book it ahead of time.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but, but like, to be clear, we care about people having a good work-life balance. Um, it's just from a, from a scheduling standpoint, it does have downsides.


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[Assistant] Uh, it's, it's mostly that I just get anxiety when I look at a long run time on something, and I'm just like, uuuh.


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[Assistant] I'll go do something else. So that's one of the main reasons I'll like never start a new TV show.


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[Assistant] Because it's like a, you know, 15, 25 hour commitment in a lot of cases, especially if it's an established show that's been running for a long time or already concluded.


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[Assistant] And it's just a huge time commitment. No, no, it's not that I don't connect to the format.


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[Assistant] It's just that A. Time and B. Attention span. Like I would never sit and watch an entire TED Talk. I just...


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[Assistant] There's no way I could, unless it, unless it was...


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[Assistant] Very relevant to my interests. Like it was stuff I must know. I could think of a couple, but like it's, I've sat through long presentations. I'm fully capable of it, but it better be relevant.


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[Assistant] Uh, sure, yeaah, some of these are not very good, Colton. But that's okay, you did great. Uhm, okay, so...


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[Assistant] Hey, uh, CM says thanks for getting me through some tough times, to Luke.


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[Assistant] And that, would you start doing more content about cool projects involving computer vision?


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[Assistant] Now that you have a CV dev in the lab, I think you're gonna see us using our dev as opposed to just making content about computer vision, but in the long term, who knows. Jackson.


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[Assistant] Okay, people are sending a bunch of them now. And it has been tough navigating the business part. Did you have help with the business part? Sure did. Ivan helped me a lot. I have an uncle who gave me some pretty good advice at the beginning.


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[Assistant] Yes, I did, I did get help, but I also spent, you know, the previous six years or whatever it was in a fast paced business environment at NCIX where I learned a lot. Scrap metal.


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[Assistant] Love the show. I was curious if you guys would be open to making a video about a budget server slash networking rack setup. Get the Lack Rack. It's all about the Lack Rack. The IKEA Lack.


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[Assistant] Oh, yeah, I've heard of this, yeah. Yeah, you can just convert it to the standard spacing for rack mount equipment. It's super cheap. That's what, like, as far as I can tell, it's what basically everyone does. Yeah. Step on! Step on!


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[Assistant] I believe firmly in the benefits of video games. My sister does not.


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[Assistant] What kind of system or games could I use to convince her to let me buy my Nisa console next year when she is old enough?


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[Assistant] Um, respect the wishes of the parents. Yeah. Do not blindside your, your sister, sister. Yeah. Do not blindside your sister with the gift. It sounds like you're already, you already understand that. Uh, and what you'd like to do is convince your sister.


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[Assistant] I'd say the, I'd say the, uhm, the, the creative and learning benefits of something like a Minecraft, uh, vastly outweigh the drawbacks of the screen time boogeyman. Uhm, but you might not convince her.


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[Assistant] Floatplane is missing some quality of life features compared to something like YouTube.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Flowplain also has a development budget literally like multiple orders of magnitude smaller than YouTube, but yes. My question is, what is your motivation to add these features as it will increase usage and raise operating costs instead of having supporters still use YouTube?


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[Assistant] Uh, Floatplane is less about the features and more about supporting us and the content. Content is king. Floatplane has really, really good exclusives right now.


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[Assistant] Uh, behind the scenes, uhm, like meet the team.


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[Assistant] Uh, cutting room floor stuff. There's a, there's a lot of really good stuff on floatplane right now, more than ever before. You noticed we're pushing it really hard in the videos lately. That's not because, you know, Luke's team finally got their butts in gear and made a decent platform. They had already done that.


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[Assistant] Uh, the hard work, uhm, it's that we finally got around to building out a team that is dedicated to uploading creative, fun content over there. Really good stuff up. To make it worthwhile.


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[Assistant] Mike D says, thanks for the tip on the gift card Linus. Quick question, why do you always joke about firing Colton? He seems like a hardworking and valuable employee. Colton, uh, you know that I can tell when you send your own merch messages, right?


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[Assistant] I told you, I told you if you do that again, it's the end.


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[Assistant] Uh, wha- how did it get- oh yeah, we started joking about firing- Okay, so first of all, I used to fire Luke all the time. I don't remember how that started.


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[Assistant] Just a silly thing. I know we did it all the time on Wandshow.


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[Assistant] So, firing Luke all the time turned into joking about firing Colton when he copyright-striked our own channel.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, so that's where the fire Colton memes started. And then they kind of morphed into just like internally, just like Colton, right? Like that guy, um, just in general and then.


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[Assistant] Uhm, he never actually gets fired, because as you observed, he's a hard-working and valuable employee. So the memes live on, and so does his employment, for the time being.


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[Assistant] Uhm, okay. I love that you curated that message though.


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[Assistant] I think the internal policy is, uhm, merch is free, but use your common sense within reason.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's gotten to the point where it's kind of unmanageable because if we were to give a backpack to everyone, that's like literally


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[Assistant] Five figures of money. It's like a, uh,


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[Assistant] Yeah. So, so we, we do have to figure out, um, yeah, I guess we've got to figure out a better way to handle that.


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[Assistant] Uh, Steph Stephen asks, any plan on building DOS gaming PCs in the future?


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[Assistant] I think it'd be cool to do that. Anthony's been bugging me to do something like that for ages. I just keep not getting around to it. It's a matter of time, eventually, but it's not happening anytime soon.


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[Assistant] Lev says, when if ever are we going to get RGB LTT merch? Ayyyy! Okay, it's not like, you know, lit or anything, but yeah, we- we love- Okay.


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[Assistant] We'd love to do some kind of RGB lighting thing or something like that, but it is absolutely not on the roadmap for now.


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[Assistant] Jose asks, any plans to do a Linux-like challenge, but with Apple, like the full ensemble, iMac, MacBook, watch? I have tried to do this multiple times. I did the iMac ages ago.


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[Assistant] But I've tried multiple times since then. I'm like, yeah, all right, I'm going to put on a good, good use. And then I just immediately lose interest.


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[Assistant] Just, I don't know, I just, it just doesn't, it doesn't do anything for me and it's, it just negatively impacts my quality of life, for what?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I just can't. Uh, Nathaniel, how long did it take for you to get Expert Plus and Beat Saber?


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[Assistant] Uhm, any tips for someone stuck in hard? Don't do this. Do this.


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[Assistant] Kevin asks, I've seen ads for selling old YouTube videos lately. Have you seen or heard about this?


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[Assistant] You can sell an old YouTube video for a one-time payment and the buyer gets all


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[Assistant] They take the recurring revenue from that, uh, that evergreen content that will continue to get views. Uh, they've put a bunch of work into ensuring that their, their investors or, you know, their, their company is making, is kind of, you know, beating what they would get just putting the cash into a GIC.


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[Assistant] While also making sure that the creator is getting an amount of money that could be potentially business changing for them. For us uhm,


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[Assistant] You know, we, we kinda, we thank them for the offer. We actually went through the process a couple of times when we...


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[Assistant] We're in situations where we thought we might need the money and both times we kinda went, well,


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[Assistant] Unless we are going to do something with this cache that makes more than the internal rate of return calculation that they've done for themselves,


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[Assistant] Uhm, it doesn't make sense and every time we didn't have a plan for the cash that was going to generate a better return for us, so we figured well we're better off just holding the asset and getting the additional payout even if it takes longer.


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[Assistant] We've never run out of cash since the first six months of the company starting up. So uhm, yeaah, if something had come up where we like really, really needed a million dollars, like now, I think that something like, uh, like a spotter deal or something like that could make sense.


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[Assistant] But, I, we're not, uh, we're not planning anything like that right now, especially not after the initial success we've seen with backpack sales. That Shopify check is going to be wild. I wanna take a selfie with it.


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[Assistant] That's like more money than I've ever seen in one place in my life by a long shot. To be clear, guys, I just wanna, this is not me just YouTuber flexing. Uh, we, we also have a lot of expenses.


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[Assistant] Getting the backpacks made. Like, do, do, well, yeah, yeah, okay. Where's that? I, I just, I just meant like, do the math. We have over 80 people working here now. Even at minimum wage, like our, our annual salaries are like in the millions.


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[Assistant] Lawrence says, love the enterprise hardware software content. Any recommendations for a good for you case other than Roseville or iStarUSA? Honestly, I haven't looked at it in too long. I do know that uhm, I always forget what they're called, but they make that case called the Cerberus, Cerberus case.


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[Assistant] Uh, Sliger. Sliger has some cool like rack mount gaming stuff, but I have no idea what you're trying to do with it. Finally, last one. Travis. You gotta say it.


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[Assistant] How are you liking your Epson projector? I have the previous generation. I love it. I love it. I'm trying to get another one, but they are sold out for months everywhere. I told Epson, look, I don't even want a sample. I want, I want to buy it. Can I buy it? They're like, sorry, bruh. No. Come on.


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[Assistant] Come on! I thought I'm an influencer! Can I not influence you right now? No. Fine then.


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[Assistant] So I'm waiting, cause I want a second one so that we can do a video on setting up a 3D projection theatre in 2022. You can still do it, but it's kinda wild, so I wanna do it. That's cool. Yep, that's the plan for that. And that's it for the WAN show!


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[Assistant] We will see you again next week. Same bad time, same bad channel. Bye!


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[Assistant] Yeah, I started there in 2005, uh, and left in 2009, uh, and was a senior editor, uh, primarily on motherboards, uh,


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[Assistant] But then dabbled in SSDs at the beginning of that.


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[Assistant] Uh, video cards and, uh, mice and yeaah, whatever else anon had.


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[Assistant] I had actually spent so much time working with the various manufacturers.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I decided, uh, if that was the majority of my job, you know, why not do it at the manufacturer?


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[Assistant] Uh, no, I've been in marketing the entire time.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and then product marketing and channeling.


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[Assistant] Uhm, yeaah, for the last three years, I've been in charge of, uh, marketing for North America.


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[Assistant] Yes, there's been a lot of years. Still a lot of phone calls though.


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[Assistant] It's really hard for me to explain. Uhm, it's, it's very exciting.


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[Assistant] Uhm, on, on the manufacturer side, but back on the media side.


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[Assistant] There are so many different products that I've wanted to get into as far as testing.


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[Assistant] Uh, also, uh, testing competing products, right?


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[Assistant] That was part of our job in technical marketing.


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[Assistant] But yeaah, I'm really looking forward to this. Being able to truly take a deep dive into what makes the product tick and why and then why that's important for the consumer. So.


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[Assistant] I know. Well, I kinda suck on video, so.


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[Assistant] No, I'll probably do donuts in the parking lot.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I thought that's what you asked.


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[Assistant] Our goal is not to be questioned. Simple as that.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna ban the word alright next.


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[Assistant] Why are this? I hate the chord, the chord SOCK!


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[Assistant] So, we actually do need millions of dollars just to operate.