The WAN Show - Android Phones are for Bad Guys CONFIRMED - WAN Show Feb 28, 2020

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No, not as per usual. We've actually got a lot of great topics tonight. Well, no, but the show's always awesome, that's the point. Oh, is it? Yeah. Okay. Even when it's bad, it's like not that bad. See how that works?

Yeah. Anyways, uh, iPhones are apparently not for bad guys. So only evil people use Androids is what I'm deferring from that. That doesn't need to make sense. Don't worry about it. Microsoft drops Xbox Series X tech specs, and they're actually pretty exciting. Slick Wraps apologizes to customers after comically bad data breach. Essentially just everything. Wow, that's

great. Yeah, let's just stick with that. That's the perfect... This is the Lance show now. Wait, what's going on? Look at me. I am your captain now. Oh, I'm sorry. You guys saw that? Yeah, that was what the stream

saw. And the US Senate is going to give small ISPs $1 billion to remove Huawei and ZTE network hardware. Exciting. Intro screen. Bye. It was just my face. I Didn't know those cameras show that on the outside All right, so I have an exciting announcement to make. Okay.

A fourth one? I'm kidding. A fourth one? Okay. So, do you remember the very first piece of LTT merch we ever did? Do you still have yours? I still have it, yeah. You still have yours. Of course.

I also have the mod version. Yeah, so this is the classic Brofist. And this, the shirt I'm wearing, is actually the first ever LTT merch shirt. It was super weird. I think it's still on CafePress actually hold on CafePress.com CafePress still exists, right? Apparently. All right. I haven't heard of them in a long time, but Linus tech tips. Let's see Uh-huh. No match. Okay

Linus. Oh, stop. Sites that take over your freaking cursor are bad. Wait, why is it gifts? This is a bad site. It's a bad site for bad people. It just automatically puts in gifts. Oh, man.

Linus Unbox, maybe? Oh, it's that shirt. Yeah, okay, well whatever. It used to be on Cafe Press. So that was LTT merch, but not LMG merch, right? Yes, so this was the first ever LMG shirt. We are finally updating it. Not really updating it, it's completely different, but there's a new WAN shirt on lttstore.com.

Oh my, this is a cool way of doing it. Oh, oh, oh, oh! See, that's what I had forgotten to do. That's why I was putting on a bunch of shirts over there. Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun! Oh! That's pretty sick. Yeah. And so for people who don't know what it stands for,

Weekly Analysis and News. There's some of that. And also Wide Area Network, because I love double entendres. So it was... That's the actual reason why it of that. And also Wide Area Network because I love double entendres. So it was... That's the actual reason why it has that name. That's the actual reason it has that name. I was just trying to come up with something that sounded more professional than the Wide Area Network show. So it was just supposed to be like the internet show.

Yeah. Like the show on the internet. Yeah. Like the WAN show. Hey, get it? Because it's streaming on the internet. Did we even tell people right away? I feel like we told people later on what it stood for. I'm not sure. on the internet yeah like the land show hey get it because it's streaming on the internet tell people right away i feel like we told people later on what it stood for i'm not i'm not sure we might

not have told people right away either way what it stands for not important so yeah new shirt ltdstore.com let's jump right into our first topic of the day according to director ryan johnson one quick thing just for nick there There's relatively new shipping rates. Oh, that's right. Yeah, shipping is a lot cheaper now, especially outside of Canada. Yeah, so if it's been a while since you've checked it, maybe check again.

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it means we're not out of stock yet but that's really bad news because it means we're not tracking our inventory properly so we need to crack the whip on that a little bit. Yeah. So you can pick up the new man shirt, stealth hoodie, all that good stuff. All right. So posted by Phil104 on the forum, the original source is from bbc.co.uk, according to director Ryan Johnson. And you didn't even get as far as letting me say his name without jumping in when we were chatting about this pre-show.

What is your deal? I... You're just gonna sulk there. You're not... Use your words. You need to use your words. He hurt... He hurt me. Where did he touch you? In my Star Wars.

In your Star Wars. I personally... I know there's different opinions on this and I don't want to start a war. I personally do not appreciate. A Star War? I had to. Oh, that's brutal. I personally do not appreciate the things.

I was going to say contribution, but I was like, I don't think that's a worthy word. The things that he did to Star Wars and the Star Wars universe. You're just upset because Mark Hamill. That's part of it. You're not wrong. Yeah.

You're not wrong. You're not wrong. I don't know. I don't want to get way too far into that. Basically, I find this part of something that he had to do with kind of hilarious. Yeah. For his latest film, which is a crime mystery. Wow, surprising.

There's one character who couldn't have an iPhone because they're like a bad guy. Yeah. So I actually watched this movie like a couple days ago. It's called Knives Out. Knives Out. So this would be assumedly whatever Knives Out is gonna be I'm assuming oh, I guess so he was talking about like No, no this seems to be past tense. Yeah, seems to be really okay, so here's the funny thing I remember running into this quite a little while ago So in apples T's and Cs for their products,

you actually agree by opening it and by clicking I agree, you actually agree that you will not show their logo, is one of the things you agree to, and you agree that you will not use it for video production purposes or something like that. I remember reading through it, and it's like, you're not allowed to show the Apple logo on a thing you bought.

But they individually waive that for good guys? But they, well, it's in their terms of service that they can come after you for it, but they, for the most part, don't enforce it. Yeah, okay. Because I was looking at that going, I only ran into it back when we were trying to do a review of like the iPhone SE or something like that. That was when I became aware of it, because I just, like, I saw it there, and I was like, what? How am I supposed to, yeah, how am I supposed to do this?

Yeah, without, what do I have to tape over the stupid thing, like, and I'm filming a commercial? Put a pear on it? Yeah, exactly, exactly. That went pear-shaped fast. Hey. So I ended up looking into how someone can possibly enforce what you can or cannot do with an object that you buy. Yeah. Because it's a really gray area.

So on the one hand, they own that logo. Like that's their trademark and copyright and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But on the other hand, it's not my fault they put it on the thing I bought. Like I'm not gonna be like, oh, oh wait, no, sorry. Hold on, hold on, yeah, we can take the family picture. Let me just put my phone away so the logo's not showing

because I promised Apple I wouldn't show it to anybody like and it's not even an apple's best interest to have people hiding their apple logos like specifically yeah why would they even want that unless they're hiding the apple logos for bad guys so in knives out um i think i'm not really spoiling anything because it's a murder mystery someone's got to be the bad guy apparently Apple has a policy so they did not allow the bad person to use an iPhone because they have a policy where you're allowed to use iPhones and movies oh thank you thank you gracious Apple we can promote your product for free oh Oh, yes. Thank you. Please bestow upon me more thy blessings.

But only if it's a good guy. So it seems like if I were to watch another murder mystery sometime in the future, I could now have the movie spoiled for me by Apple's inane policy. So there's like a bunch of people with iPhones and then one person with not an iPhone. You're like, oh, well, okay. I just, this is one of those things that I don't go as far as some of our viewers do on this, where there's people out there that don't understand why brands don't want their product running as like a YouTube pre-roll on a very controversial video, for example. You know, like why, I'm not, I don't know that this is their policy, I'm just gonna

pick a name, you know, wallstore.com or whatever, okay? It's not a real company, unless it is. Okay, hold on a second real fake walls calm Okay wall store calm is this the thing it's just camp domain has I actually kind of expected that to be a thing wall store Calm hold on a second. Please tell me please tell me is available. I want wall store calm Can be there was a domain purchased on a friday and the accounting department came to me asking if if we bought it on wanshow because they couldn't forget who bought it we do that sometimes it's like okay well i bet they would come to you if we bought this one

wallstore.com 50 grand no problem uh i mean it's only canadian rubles that's like 40 grand yeah um so sorry what were we talking about again no yes right so i get it i get why a brand wouldn't want their their name and their logo right before you know some very graphic or disturbing video especially Especially Wall Store. They spent so much money on their domain. Yeah, or one that expresses views that some people might associate with their brand and that they consider doesn't represent their brand values.

I understand that. Sort of. Like on the one hand, I see the... Okay, oh man, I see both sides of this one. Because on the one hand, I can see why, oh man, I see both sides of this one. Cause on the one hand I can see why a brand doesn't want their logo right next to, you know, what if the first frame of this video is like someone screeching F words about,

you know, some ethnic minority or something. Like you don't need that. It's kind of like when people take out of context, well I'm not saying that that guy whose name starts with an H was right, I'm just saying, where people just take that clip. Like it's, it's just not helpful.

You know what I mean? For their image. Um, but I also see the argument where people say, look, who is stupid enough to think that some ad running on YouTube somehow means that, that,

that brand endorses, you know, baby slavery or whatever. There is some stuff that's a little funky with that, though. There is. Because you can buy ads and target them. So, like, when you said something that could be stereotypically related to a brand, but they don't want it to be there because they don't agree with that association,

if they just spread their video out randomly, it could land there, and then people could think that it was targeted for that, and then that reinforces that idea. Because there is manipulation behind the scenes, it makes it a little bit worse. And people could assume that it was on purpose, I guess is what you mean. Yeah, so that's a fair point.

But I also think that some of it gets to the point of being kind of irrational so we had a recent episode of tech linked where we discussed the ongoing health sure problem that thing in the world yep and we got a we got a yellow dollar sign instead of a green one which meant limited advertising and that's ridiculous well yes and no see again i see it from both sides because oh don't touch your eyes by the way that's bad i was touching my eyes don't do that i scratch my nose oh no um oh boy okay so yeah on the one hand um that seems ridiculous just because someone is talking about let's say i have a video coming out tomorrow on the Linus Tech Tips channel

where I'm gonna be discussing what I think are gonna be the effects on pricing and availability of computer hardware due to the manufacturing shutdowns. And I end up tiptoeing around naming the issue that's going on because if I talk about it directly, I'm afraid that my video is gonna get demonetized.

That seems absurd. It feels like a monetization version of like speech control to a certain degree. But the flip side is I can see how if I'm an advertiser or if I'm the YouTube platform, I don't want everybody and their dog jumping onto the latest viral spread or the latest mass shooting or the latest, you know, genocide or whatever it is, making, you know, that video. This thing was so bad and just talking about nothing for 10 minutes so they can cash in on a hot keyword. nothing for 10 minutes so they can cash in on a hot keyword. I also have a pretty strong objection to that behavior. Just making sure that you're the first to make a video about and the first to tweet about how bad something is. We know it's bad. Thank you very much for that. We have brains. We can think. Yeah. So I guess it's hard to automatically differentiate between the content

that has that subject in it that is quality and the content that has that subject in it that is just a waste of space and time. So let's try to come up with the right answer to this one. If you're Apple, do you allow bad guys to use iPhones, knowing that it is within your right to control how your trademarked and or copyrighted imagery is displayed in a commercial production like a Hollywood film. If it was me, without the context of you potentially countering, I would. Now, I am considering that like... What does that bad guy do? iPhones are for douche whatevers. Bags is not a bad word.

Whatever. Is like a thing. And if your bad guy is that, you're reinforcing that stereotype. So I'm not saying it is. I'm just saying it's a stereotype. Hold on. Careful. So, like, I could see if that starts becoming a problem for their marketing department.

Right. Their marketing department might want to counter that. But there's also good guys that are douchebags. So, like, I don't think you're... I don't necessarily know that it accomplishes anything. I don't know what the right answer is, because, honestly, if it was me, I would probably care a little bit.

Like, when we distributed, you know, LTT water bottles and underwear and all that kind of stuff to influencers... That's yours. yours cool when we distributed a bunch of water bottles and and stuff to influencers it's not like i went out and found people that i think are buttheads and like had them wrapping the merch but this isn't apple distributing the phones for the movies that's true this is this would be like you telling an influencer that you'll sue them if they use your water bottle.

That's true. But I guess what I'm saying is if I have the ability to have my merchandise be in the hands and on the rumps of people that I think are coup versus if it's on someone that I think is not Coup, I would definitely choose that. Sure. Not that I actually think any of our viewers are stupid enough to think because some butthead, actually, oh, okay. Maybe this matters more than I thought. Like think about Supreme.

You see someone wearing a Supreme hat, first thought, go. Rich, really bad with money, douche. Okay, so maybe this matters. I wonder if this is a policy that came about because Apple had problems with it. Because you think about it. That's what I was saying though,

is like if they recognize that perception. Like nowadays, Android phones cost as much or more than an iPhone. But in the early days of the iPhone, it was very, very expensive. And a status symbol that could have potentially been utilized as a way to portray someone as snobby in a film. So maybe... I think that era is where that stereotype came from. I don't really think it applies very well anymore. I mean, that would be when.

That would be like the early, like 3GS, 4, 5 era kind of thing. But that's when those types of things get established. Right. Interesting. You know what? One that I would bring up is in terms of association that you don't ask for, and it goes really poorly, is, um... I'm gonna use words that sound like I'm not serious about it, but it's just because I don't want the video to get in trouble.

Um, that pew-pew thing that was really bad that happened in New Zealand. Yes. He named PewDiePie. Yes. New Zealand. Yes. He named PewDiePie. Yes. And for some reason, even though Felix had nothing to do with it, all of a sudden, there's this association.

So I'm not going to say our audience is dumb enough to do that, but people as a whole clearly have trouble differentiating between... And like, I wouldn't really... I don't... To be very clear, I don't care what they do, because who cares what person uses a phone in a multi-million dollar movie production like yeah, whatever give

Whatever I don't know it just does it just it's so like I can't imagine Someone stance on this where they're like infuriated in my movie everyone would use rotary phones nice I actually watched that would actually be hilarious. I watched Honey, I Shrunk the Kids with my kids the other night. Oh, man. He's coming back for another one. No. Yeah, no, no, seriously, seriously.

Rick Moranis is coming back? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, I wouldn't have picked the Shrunk the Kids franchise if I was to... I'm pretty sure it's that. Hey, Ricky, come on back. Do a movie, please. I'm pretty like hey Ricky come on back. Let's do a movie place Rick Moranis to make honey. I shrunk the kids reboot after 23

year break Wow Canadian actor and oh my god. This website is horrible look at this viewport What is this? Privacy is very important actually you know what it's okay when you click that it goes away But but but look at this look at this viewport. I know just click click you're okay with that. It's okay. it's okay when you click that it goes away but but but look at this look at this viewport i know just click click you're okay with that it's okay it's okay no why would he come back with a reboot though does it like he did so much original stuff go away officially returning i'm actually i'm kind of jazzed though i'm gonna i'm gonna go see that yeah well i just think that's really cool you know what that movie is extraordinarily poorly rated on like Rotten Tomatoes and stuff. Really?

Yeah. It's funny reading critics' reviews of kids' movies that you watched when you were a kid. Right. Because you've got that nostalgia filter for it where you appreciated it for what it was a movie for kids whereas They're going in and talking about how the narrative flow wasn't this or the the acting of the kids Was not that or whatever and I'm looking at it going dude. I was like six it was awesome What are you talking about? okay my kids loved it which is surprising given how out of date a lot of things inherently are about it like the idea that you would need an intercom in your house to talk to someone on another floor you know yeah just

and that that was like a cookie oh high tech idea you know okay business idea yes spoiled candy Oh, high-tech idea. You know? Okay. Business idea. Yes. Spoiled candy. Review rating website just for kids' movies and stuff. Not based on professional critics. Based on kids. Based on kids that just press the button as they leave the theater. Did you just call it a theater?

Yeah. Cinema? Theater? Yeah. Theater? Cover up, you Canadian show. I don't know, whatever. But you just press the button.

I like it. And you could maybe even have, like, the attendant guy that's bored anyways at the theater. Yeah, just whatever whatever just make sure that they don't like. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But like just press the button and that's all the input. But are you allowed to collect data from kids? Would you even be allowed to collect that? So this is why this is why kids don't know what to watch in the cinema. Cinema.

Yeah, I like that one. I'm going to call out that in the future. But maybe you have the parent present. But, like, I feel like that would be cool. Yeah, that would be bad, wouldn't it? Because that would be collecting data from kids. That sucks. I thought that would be cool is that yeah that would be bad wouldn't it because that would be collecting data from kids that sucks

I thought that was a cool idea alright well I'm excited to see Rick Moranis come back he's a Canadian treasure he stepped back to take after take after

to look after his family after his wife unexpectedly passed away if I recall correctly yeah and I really respected that decision but it has also been 23 years, so I respect this decision. Yeah.

I think that's cool. I think his kids are probably slightly, you know, 7 out of 10 grown up at this point. Yeah. Or not, in which case I guess he wasn't doing a great job anyway. Well, that's not a nice thing to say, but I know nothing about his family life. And that's been kind of the point,

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with a single account. And we are going to move on to the rest of the show. Microsoft drops the Xbox Series X tech specs, and they're actually looking pretty good, but nothing really that unexpected. Yeah. So they're confirming that the console's APU is using... AMD really, really wants APU to take off, don't they?

They do. They're still trying. They're still trying i you know what love it that was a that was a misshapen heart let me see if i can do any better than that might have been more accurate though yeah it's like yeah perfect so the apu is using amd's rdna2 architecture for the integrated graphics amd previously disclosed that rdNA 2 would include hardware ray tracing functionality.

The GPU alone will have 12 teraflops of computing power, twice as much as the current Xbox One X. Okay. I mean, that's not that fast. That new horsepower will be used to drive frame rates up to 120 FPS! Whoa! The new console

will support HDMI 2.1, something that no consumer graphics card does. Yeah, now. I mean, the console's not coming out for another eight months or whatever. By that time, I'm pretty sure NVIDIA's 3000 series is gonna be out. Okay.

Variable rate shading will also be a feature. It's still a feature, okay. On the new console. It is, it's a good feature. It is. I'm happy good feature. It is. I'm happy to see that that feature will be supported, especially because even if this GPU is not going to run next generation games at like 8K, 60 FPS or whatever,

HDMI 2.1 means, and it'll have enough power to decode video, for example. HDMI 2.1 means that this will be F word, future-proof, or your 60 hertz 8K TV that you upgrade to down the line as content eventually rolls out. And it's nice that they're forward-thinking enough to be pushing something that's gonna be like very, very new at that time because people use these Xboxes for very long periods.

Quick resume sounds pretty cool. Quick resume is sweet. So this feature saves the state of multiple games so that players can jump around in apps like they do on their phones. Very, very, very cool if you are like a kid or something in a family and you all share the Xbox and it's like not your turn. Or if you're an adult in a family. And you share the console and it's not your turn.

That's right. That's right. You know it. Pretty much, yeah. I mean, save states, it's not quite turn. That's right. That's right. You know it. Pretty much, yeah. I mean, save states, it's not quite the same as save states where you could save it and come back to it later. Mind you, so many games have autosave now

that save states aren't really a major concern. But I could see this being great for just like the kind of person who just kind of jumps around from one thing to another. Like if you're into single player games and you're just like, you know what? That's enough Tomb Raider for now. Like I'm bored. I'm gonna switch over to You know I wanted to say uncharted look wrong console

But yeah, I can see that being an absolutely fantastic feature another thing is audio ray tracing, okay, okay, okay? Can everybody just chillax a little bit on the whole audio ray tracing thing? audio ray tracing thing? Audio ray tracing, the feature, okay. But the feature is described as rays that would broadcast from the character's ears and then be traced as they bounce off and interact with the environment. Okay, this is called, what was it? EAX, I think?

Environmental Audio Extension. Hold on a second. EAX5. Let's see. Voices Processable. Pure Path. Ah, shoot. Hold on.

Oh, you know what? I might be wrong. I've heard it called this before. Creative might have never had a ray-traced style of audio bouncing. I thought they did. I've heard it called this not within the last bit. I've heard it called this like a year or two ago. Well, I think that when AMD launched their Hawaii series of GPUs,

they were talking about this. Hawaii GPU, audio. Well, I think VR works audio. I'm trying to look it up right now. I think VR works audio also works kind of the same way. True audio is what AMD called this thing. True audio AMD. Just trying to think. GPU open, true audio. Ded AMD called this thing. True audio AMD. GPU open, true audio, dedicated co-processor.

Oh yeah, how'd that work out for you? Noise. Expensive advanced audio signal processing like convolution reverberation effects and 3D audio effects. So NVIDIA was calling it path traced audio like a couple years ago or a few years ago, somewhere on there. Okay. traced audio like a couple years ago a few years ago somewhere on there okay sorry we're like doing research for the show on the show but you guys knew what you were tuning into this happens uh creative path traced audio okay i was sure they did something with their like hardware audio processors like way tracing way back in the day.

Oh, well. I could be wrong. I could be wrong. Yeah, there was a Reddit thread there that said Ray traced sound, and it was a post from 2018. So it's been, yeah. I don't know if there's been a super established term, but people seem to be sticking with Ray.

Mr. Ray. Yeah, no one seems to, no one's, How does Linus still look straight out of 2008, but he's still Fly AF 100? Hey, I'm not 100, okay? Jeez. Anyway, that sounds super cool, I guess. Sure. PlayStation 5 has been hinted at having this as well.

I wonder if it actually uses the same, like some successor to True Audio. Yeah. I guess. Sure. PlayStation 5 has been hinted at having this as well. I wonder if it actually uses the same, like some successor to True Audio. Yeah. Although I thought they killed the True Audio processor on a subsequent GPU. Maybe they're bringing it back or something. Or maybe they're just doing it in compute. Slick Wraps. This was... Epic.

Unbelievable. Did you follow this whole thing? Did you read the whole article on Medium? I did not read the whole article. Oh, man. It was taken down. It was probably mirrored somewhere, but I didn't follow it. I found a mirror. Oh, okay. Yeah, it was... Did it ever get put back up on Medium? Not as far as I know.

Oh, interesting. I haven't been following this way too closely. I looked into it a little bit, kind of laughed, and then moved on. Leaks are so common these days. Like, Have I Been Pwned has so much stuff on it. Yeah, this is hilarious. So Slick Wraps is a maker of vinyl skins for phones, tablets, and other electronics. And they announced last week that they suffered a data breach. The announcement came after many customers received

an email from Slick Wraps that appeared to be sent by a hacker who was inside their system claiming to have stolen customer data. The person who sent this email said they learned how to access Slick Wraps data by reading a now deleted medium post by an individual that goes by the alias links 0x00. Links claimed that the Slick Wraps phone case customization page had a

vulnerability that allowed someone to upload any file to any location in the highest directory on their server. They said they used the vulnerability to access resumes of current and past Slickwraps employees, nine gigs of customer photos uploaded to the case customization tool, all Slickwraps admin admin account details including password hashes all current and historical customer billing addresses shipping addresses email addresses phone numbers and their customer transaction history they even had total revenue numbers for the company they had everything they

even got access to the company's content management system um Epic. The best part is the Twitter DMs. So this penetration tester attempted to reach out to Slick Wraps and get them to fix the issue. Starting with, of course, looking for a bounty, which would be great. And then eventually settling on, you guys just need to like actually fix this. Slick Wra reps was as spectacularly

unhelpful as they could have possibly been Happy to help. What's your order number? Are you looking for a bounty unblock me done? Then they say hello. We're not looking for a bounty. We're not looking for you to actively We're looking for you to notify your customers of the data breach blah blah blah, etc. Etc. Etc. And They claim the account was run by a third party. Why are you doing this? Are you able to help? We're just a social team. Okay. And then they just like blocked him. So he said, so, oh yeah, after this, this is great. Found the CEO's email by looking through the company records, access through the vulnerabilities. After sending the email, he was blocked again by at slick raps within three minutes like just the amount of trying oh sorry i wasn't screen sharing with you guys the amount of butt

covering that was going on here was just amazing so did he did he um inform them before this yes post yes so that's that's really the crazy thing to me so if you run anything on the web you will very likely at some point in time be contacted by someone and they're gonna go oh hey uh i noticed you should probably update these things they're not great you should probably do that like immediately yeah or at least like look into it and make sure they're not baiting you into a zero day or something like that like like just do a little bit of research make sure it's not nefarious but like there's a lot of people out there that are really really good at stuff and they will often try to help you and it's very very nice when they do so don't don't just like block them and treat them badly because they probably already know how to screw you over.

So be nice. Like I don't understand how that's difficult logic to comprehend. I just, ugh. I don't know. They're doing you a really big favor. Here's the archived Medium article. Payment gateway logs in the CMS. at this point i could have deleted their

entire company um so they sent them a couple tweets uh the the first one was less um obtuse than that like it was a little bit more specific yeah looks like your customers aren't happy so they posted this as like a screenshot they took from the internal system. And then Slickwraps tried to reach out being like, oh, what's the problem with your case? It's like, not that. Like the whole thing is just so much fail. And they went back and they went in and they were trying to fix things internally, but they just fixed it all wrong. They didn't fix the actual exploit that was allowing this

penetration tester to do whatever they wanted. Yikes. Okay. Well, rip. Slick wraps, I suppose. Once again, I have dodged a bullet to my... Yeah, I don't think we ever worked with slick wraps. Oh, I see. Yeah, I think we were a dbrand

shop from day zero. Yay! Good job. But I just want to call attention to the sheer amount of data breaches and remind people to just try to... This is haveibeenpwned.com. This website's actually pretty awesome. Yeah, Troy Hahn's amazing.

Yeah. He runs it. Really cool setup. Like, I mean, and you can see Slickwraps accounts right here. But there's also lots of other breaches. This is recently added and it has one for like 2016, but I'm assuming this is- Hey, Adult Friend Finder!

Pretty epic. 100 and, okay, those can't all be real. There's no way Adult Friend Finder had 170 million users. Get real. I do love how it's 169. Does adult Friend Finder still exist? I used to see banner ads for it all the time, back before banner ads intelligently targeted people.

I have no idea i do my favorite one was that was that uh cheating on your partner website actually madison yes yeah that was hilarious when they got breached and like people had to have some real awkward conversations i wonder how many relationships ended because of that breach i don't know i would say probably a significant like surprisingly quiet right afterwards, which I found interesting. But yeah, there's tons of breaches all the time. Update your passwords all over the place

because you don't want your, I don't know, your Reddit account to get breached and then allow that to make it so that people can get into your bank or something like that. So just try to separate your accounts, get a password manager, split everything up, use 2FA. I have a big announcement.

Okay. Tickets for LTX 2020 are going live next Friday, March the 6th at noon Pacific Standard Time. Wow. So there's a news post with ticket pricing. We're going to go ahead and pull that up for you guys. Sunday pass, $35. Sunday pass, $35.

Two-day pass, $60. Deal. DreamHack BYOC pass, $95, which also includes a two-day pass. DreamHack BYOC plus pass. Wait, no also includes a two-day pass. Dream hack, BYOC plus pass. Wait, no, I lied. Hold on. Huh? BYOC plus pass.

Plus pass, plus two-day. Wait, what? What? I don't understand that. Okay, we're going to have to work on that. Don't worry about it. Fortunately, the ticket sales are not live, so. Are they letting you buy a one-day? Oh, BYOC plus.

I don't know what BYOC plus is plus okay we should use the word plus oh my goodness yeah okay okay i will let i will let chase know um that we should use the word plus actually he'll probably hear it through the grapevine at this point um yeah that's really uh unfortunately misleading But yay, no sales yet. So plus, DreamHack BYOC plus, this year we are expanding the BYOC to feature a BYOC plus option with an improved one gig uplink, increased connection speeds,

and an exclusive DreamHack XLTX merch item. Cool. So faster internet and merch. Sweet. sick uh the office tour is 50 bucks and limited availability the vip pass is 500 and limited availability and the merch pack is 30 bucks i don't know what's included in the merch pack i guess we'll find out i like that shirt oh yeah it looks really sharp in person that's really cool yeah um so one thing i will i'm just going to throw a note in there because some people might be like whoa the byc plus pass is like real expensive getting faster internet in one of these situations is real freaking expensive and very important yes if

you forget to download some like you know let's say for example call of duty modern warfare download that before you come i actually uh, I didn't get into that game, so the first time that I installed it was yesterday. Okay. And I was like, it says, pardon? 160 gigs for a game? I'm telling you, we shouldn't have abandoned the discs.

I know, right? Well, what disc would you put that on? How many Blu-rays would that be we'd be going back to remember when far cry came on five blue uh five cds that'd still be easier to manage we'd be back to that they have they have uh multi-layer blu-ray discs is there one big enough they could hold that no i think you go up to a hundred right i can't remember you have to get two hasn't been relevant for a while i'll have day zero patches anyway what can i do for you sir did you figure out the list?

Of? That you were confused by the... Oh, yeah, we did. We're just saying... We did. It's just really dumb. Yeah, I didn't see it before it went up. And VIP pass shouldn't look different than all the other ones. Why is it in the middle of the thing and just looking different than all the others?

I thought that was a category. No. I didn't even like... I didn't see it before it went up. Yeah, so let's get... I need to change it. Let's get those... This looks great. Yeah, that looks's get those. This looks great.

Yeah, that looks awesome. Yep. That whole thing. The shirt looks great and the whole picture looks great. Yep, the merch pack looks great. Well laid out. Good job, Nick. Good job.

Yeah, I know, you didn't do it. Good job overseeing that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hey. Yeah, management. Yeah.

Yeah, management. Business. Business time. Really? You guys are such douches. Yeah! Hey! Yeah, management! Management! Yeah! Yeah, management! Business! Yeah! Business time! Really? You guys are such douches. But yes, we need to update our traffic. You know if you can buy a VORC ticket and a VIP ticket without having to pay the extra

$60 for a two-day ticket, do you know how they're setting that up? Okay, we should probably figure that out before Friday. Do you know how they're setting that up? Okay, we should probably figure that out before Friday. If you can afford a VIP ticket, it probably doesn't matter. Wow. Well, I'm just saying. Some people save up because they like you, Linus. I don't think they like me. I don't think they like me.

They just want an excuse to ask them in person. Can't be right. Can't be right. Also, I think we talked through the confirmed guests last year but we do have some attractions uh let's see uh yeah here we go minus the screen pc build workshop beginner's guide to water cooling my first 3d print soldering 101 don't worry i won't be teaching it vintage computers courtesy of tech tangangents. Hey. Previously known as Akbukuku.

Oh, that's probably a better name. Find your favorite mechanical switches. So we're going to have 36 keyboards that appear identical, but feature a range of tactile clicky and linear switches under the hood. Very cool. You guys, so one thing about this is I actually really liked one of the keyboards in that test. And then I tried to look up buying one afterwards because my keyboard still doesn't work and I have no idea how to fix it.

And I couldn't find any. So you guys should have like, if you want one, here's an affiliate link. Yeah, we should do that. We're getting rid of Minesweeper. No more Minesweeper challenge. It's gonna be Space Cadet Table this time. Oh, that's super cool.

Yeah. That's really cool. There will be there will be prizes that's awesome uh we've got a thumbnail editing challenge hate our thumbnails let's see how you could do it better uh we're gonna have swag mountain get bouldering we are partnering with project climbing to bring a 25 foot portable climbing wall to ltx this year because why not single player vr escape vr is gonna, they're going to be back. Oh, heck yeah. Up to six players simultaneously. Bring a friend.

Cool. Old school 1v1. Oh, just like... So this was at LTX 2018. Remember that just like stupid random... Wasn't it versus Ed? I played Quake 3 and someone won the Gucci sandals off me. Oh.

So yeah, we'll do like prizes and stuff. It'll be great. We're going to have a free play zone. There's going to be a lounge with arcade games, retro consoles, a console LAN party, just, like, a rest area, and just, like, lots of... There's going to be so much stuff. BS mods again.

BS mods. Oh, heck yeah. Of course, but, like, I'm just still excited. There's going to be lots of special guests. I mean, we talked through it last week, but we might as well have a look at it again. LowSpecGamer, TechTangents, AntVenom, Austin Evans, Jays2Cents,

is GamersNexus on here? Yeah, GamersNexus, David Amell, Bitwit, StrangeParts, Greg Salazar from, oh, no, not Science Studio anymore. Sorry, sorry. Not Science Studio. Greg Salazar, EposVox, DeWeedDoesTechStuff, I'm sorry, anyone that I didn't name. You're all

cool, too. David Amell. It's going to be great. And there's more that are not'm sorry. Anyone that I didn't name, you're all cool too. It's going to be great. Um, and there's more that are not on there yet. That actually hasn't been updated in a little bit. I plan to blow as much money as I can on bringing creators to LTX. So anyone who is willing to come, um, assuming that like they have enough of a following that people will like recognize them there. That's sort of my bar. Hey, it doesn't cost anything to reach out and we can see what we can do for you. There is a finite amount of money, but I wanna make sure that this is the gathering

for the tech creator community. Do you know David and I went scuba diving together? Oh, Hardware Canucks just confirmed. Oh, that's cool. I just heard from them, so they're gonna be there. You and David Amell? Yeah. Oh, really? Cool, he's a nice guy. Yeah, we's cool. I just heard from them, so they're gonna be there. You and David and Mel? Yeah. Oh really? Cool, he's a nice guy. Yeah, we were hanging out at Computex and we were discussing like what we're doing afterwards And I talked about how like I was going south in Taiwan. I was gonna go scuba diving and he was like

Sure! And it was actually really fun. He's a pretty chill dude. Yeah, it was dope. That was a very fun little vacation thing I've actually got one more announcement as well okay carpool critics is getting a youtube channel not getting carpool critics has a youtube channel yeah so we just just launched it so we're hoping to have a hundred thousand subscribers within the first couple of hours. Just like how we do, you know. This can be the first button that you use for the case. That's probably a bad idea. You probably want to keep that one.

So the last four episodes were betting on the Oscars, featuring Brandon, Sonic the Hedgehog, The Matrix. So it's going to be a mixture of new stuff, old stuff. So they did Spirited Away, The Matrix, Sonic the Hedgehog, and Brandon. I don't know if all of them are here. And Brandon. Oh, sorry, Brandon.

The Oscar thing with Brandon. Ah, yes. So the first one, it only goes back to episodes from about two months ago. But Knives Out, which is the movie we were actually talking about earlier in the show, is one of them in here. That one was pretty good. I haven't. It says surprise best movie of the year, and then that's the thumbnail.

I haven't seen Knives Out yet. I hope it's great. I hope it's so great that he never returns to anything related to Star Wars. That's what I hope. Ouch. Ouch. I wish him the best of luck with anything unrelated to Star Wars. That's what I hope. Ouch. I wish him the best of luck with anything unrelated to Star Wars. Sick burn.

All right. Last big topic of the day. This was posted originally on Engadget. This car. This car apparently can be driven without a license and costs just $22 a month. So does it get classified as like a scooter? I think that has to be what's going on here. Tiny two seater.

As long as you are 14 years old in France or 16 in other European countries, it's called the Ami and you do not need a license. Five and a half kilowatt hour battery under the floor, 44 miles on a single charge. You can plug into any standard 220-volt outlet. It only goes up to 28 miles an hour. So, yes, you can only really... This is basically like a glorified Power Wheels.

Yeah. It's like Power Wheels for big kids. Yeah. And that seems pretty cool because, I mean, if you were already able to rip around on your electric bicycle, which fundamentally is a motorcycle, if we're being honest, what difference does it make if you're ripping around on your electric thing with four wheels? And like you're more protected from rain. Yeah, I don't see the difference here. I think it's pretty cool.

It's like crazy like i'm i'm amazed that regulators allowed this because for some reason we've just we've always had this this this line how many wheels does it have hold on a second here yeah yeah that's bad yeah no no more of that so uh 20 euro per month for a long-term rental of two years with an initial down payment of 2900 us dollars or 2644 euro that's a bit of a down payment you can also buy it outright for six euros six thousand six thousand euros that is pretty cheap depending on the kind of town that you live in yeah so, so if you're never going to go on a highway because you can't, that's probably fine. And that might actually be a really good,

I don't know if kids in Europe want me to encourage this, but that might be a really good solution for some parents. Here's your car. You can't go on the highway. And you can't go very far. You can't go on the highway. And you can't go very far. You can't go very far. So have fun driving around very locally. I will always know where you are.

You know what? It's funny. Like, I would have hated it when I was a teenager, but, like, some of Tesla's features, for example, that allow parents to put it in kid mode and, like, limit the speed and know where they are and stuff like that, I am super into that for when my kids are teens like

I had a sports car convertible my parents probably I think calling that a sports car it's technically a sports car it is technically a sports car just like the PT Cruiser is technically a truck okay so guys this was his car look that up if you want it's funny

okay wait no oh wait no you didn't have a sun tire what was it Okay, so guys this was his car. Look that up if you want, it's funny. Okay. Wait, no. Oh wait, no, you didn't have a sunfire. What was it? Bird? Was it sunbird? Okay, whatever.

Yeah. I think that was it. Yeah. That's pretty close. I don't think that's exactly it, but it's pretty close it's not I don't think that's exactly it but it's pretty close what this is so useless Hey, do you remember when you give me the old Google images? Yeah, do you remember when you could just click on the picture and end up looking at the action? So mine was that mine was three years older than this This is actually newer This is the one I rescued him from the bridge.

Because it like blew up. In the middle of the bridge. If you want to go watch amazing content on my YouTube channel that I haven't uploaded anything to in four years. Oh, that's right. It is there. It got the first dislike it ever had by us sharing it on this show. Oh really? Yeah, I still haven't uploaded it anymore so.

Here it is, here it is. So this is the video. You know what? Don't copyright strike me, please. Oh! That's a brilliant idea! No, I won't do that. So this is Luke having people drive around him on the bridge into Richmond. Oh, man. Dude, this worked, though. And I had the radio on, and they even talked about how it was actually working. Because I was at just before the crest of the bridge.

So you could see me way down the road. So you can see traffic like way down the road so there was actually like you can see traffic is actually flowing pretty good and there's a huge gap behind me because people are splitting way ahead of time and it was actually yeah it was it was going okay yeah um why did i how did i get there so fast motorbike oh that's oh yeah that's right never mind mind. Okay. I mean, I got there in a perfectly reasonable amount of time. That was back when, you know. Why did I need to be there? You're a little quick.

BCAA. Oh, that's right. I have a BCAA membership and you don't. And, like, as long as you were physically there, it was fine. Then they would tow it for nothing. Yeah. That's right. Why do you get to piggyback on all my stuff?

You're on my Google Play Music. That's great, by the way. I'm sure you're on at least something else. Probably. There's got to be at least something else. You're probably, like, on my PIA account, and I don't even realize, because I only use it on, like, one device. For a long time, but I'm not anymore.

But I still... Probably because you got it for free. Yes. Because you work here, sort of. Yeah. Oh, man. You are the biggest cheapskate of all time. Hey, man.

All right. Don't hate the something, whatever. Don't hate the player? I don't know if you can call me a player in that situation. I think I can hate the player. You are a player. You're playing. You're straight playing.

Hey, you get three or something, right? And you probably didn't use the other ones. Yeah, you get five. You get five. There's no way you used all those. No, I didn't, actually. Alright. Wow, you guys are doing a pretty good job. Like, quadrupled the subs. Yeah, we've got over

a thousand subscribers on Carpool Critics. Go check it out. Anyway, let's go through some super chats ladies and gentlemen yeah oh yeah good there's not that much um okay jacob that would that billy eilish one's actually pretty funny uh poor billy eilish banned from iphones She's got a song called Bad Guy. Oh. I'm officially old. So the only reason that I have any idea who Billie Eilish is, the only reason is that I saw the memes from the Oscars.

Okay. That's it. Or was it the Oscars. Okay. That's it. Or was it the Oscars? Grammys? Something. Doesn't matter. My girlfriend is a ridiculously huge fan of The Office. Yeah. And apparently she is.

And the guy that plays Dwight did like an interview thing with her. And it was all over my YouTube suggested, probably because of my girlfriend. Okay. So, anyway, I'm officially old. Yeah. I had no idea who she was. I have never heard one of her songs. I know this for a fact because, like, apparently she's amazing,

so I guess I'd remember it. I watched it. I know this is, like, super cliche, modern YouTube content, whatever, but I watched a pastor watching her music videos, and it was actually hilarious. Oh, really? Yeah.

Why? Are they super edgy or something? They're pretty, like, they're very dramatized. They're very, like, how do I say this? Reaction-provoking YouTube videos. Like, one of them, she has, like, black, like, ink stuff, like, pouring from her eyes and stuff. Like, they're relatively intense, I would say. I don't know.

Oh, okay. There are some pretty, yeah, that one. Okay. Gets a little weird. Neat. You'll definitely get claimed if you play this. No, no. Oh, wow. Shoot.

There you go. Fixed it. Okay. But, yeah, I don't know. And his reactions were just funny. He was cool with it. It was actually a very wholesome video in the end. Yeah, it's later on.

I think it's right about there. Okay. That's some cool effects. Yeah. I actually thought it's later on. I think it's right about... Yeah. Okay, that's some cool effects. Yeah, but I actually thought it looked pretty sweet. They ran tubes down and then, like, makeuped over them and stuff. Wow, that's really cool. I don't know. It's kind of...

I'm not trying to defend myself. I don't listen to her music. I don't know why I know all this stuff, but I do. Wow, that has half a billion views. That's probably why I know. Wow, neat. Cool. I think we should go through the rest of it

before you get in trouble. Yep, yep. And it wouldn't be wrong. Imre says, my first super chat. Does a small partition with a lot of writes on an SSD wear out faster than a neighboring big partition with less rights? No, because the SSD dynamically moves around which flash cells it's using. Addressable locations instead of moving data.

Thomas says, hey, Linus and Luke, what's your favorite tech? Xbox. Sponsored by Microsoft. LTTstore.com. I don't know. All of it, right? Like, that's the whole idea. Thomas says, I like this show,

and the flaws with a smile is what gives it character. That's pretty good. Flaws with a smile. Thanks, Kybear. Nicholas says, is there somewhere we can buy that gold on black water bottle? I'm glad you asked. LZTstore.com! I think we're out of stock right now.

Oh. Yeah, we're waiting for more stock. I was saying, Nick, we should have ones that you can read the name and stuff. Because on the WAN show from far away, it just looks like a black water bottle. Okay. And I purposefully drink from them every show. Vitor says could you elaborate about what happened on that T-Mobile video it felt really out of place for LTT 5G is cool and all but the video was awkward well what

happened was we shot a video and the whole idea was like it was going to be like timely and around the Super Bowl and then it wasn't. And so by the time the video was actually going to be released, some of the things that were said in the video were like kind of weird and random.

Like the original recording of the video included me alluding to the potential merger between Sprint and T-Mobile, which like four days after we shot, so before we could have finished editing it, was confirmed. And then the most hilarious part is that we weren't even able to include that part in the video because of concerns that if we were speculating about it in a sponsored by T-Mobile piece of content that maybe that would be bad in some way, but then by the time it went through, it wouldn't have mattered. I could have just said,

using Sprint's mid-band, this strategy is going to make it so that there's kind of a best-of-all-worlds approach to 5G on T-Mobile's network. It's really cool. It's going to take some time to roll out. It's more about the future. The thing about that video is people are super mad.

But most of what people are mad about, as far as I can tell, is not actually anything that was in the video. The video is full of factual information about 5G and T-Mobile's network and their competitor's network because I would never upload something that wasn't, to the best of my knowledge, even if it is sponsored, words that I believe.

I didn't watch it, but everything you just said makes sense. There's a lot of energy around anything that says 5G on it these days. And anything sponsored, and there's a lot of negative energy around both of those things in some cases. But a lot of what people were mad about was like,

you're not even addressing the fact that 5G's a weapon. Of course not. Because that's stupid. Like, all I can do is talk about what it is. I can't address everything that it's not. It's not going to turn your skin blue. Like, do you need me to say that? It's technically not proven.

Yeah, technically not proven. Thank you for that, Luke. That's perfect. I'm thankful that you're here as my co-host today in this trying moment. Got him. Let's get to it. perfect i'm thankful that you're here as my co-host today in this trying moment got him so yeah i mean the thing is people are people are super mad a lot of people are misunderstanding it's hilarious because and yvonne even told me she was like i don't think that your intro to the video where you start out by saying i want to address some of the questions or misunderstandings people had last time she was like i think that was a bad foot to lead off on.

But that was the video, like that's what I was trying to do. And in spite of me going straight at that, like directly, hey guys, this misunderstanding that low band 5G is the same as low band 4G, that's not correct. And yet people are like, you didn't even address that it's using the same bands and it's the same thing. Yes, yes, I did. And no, they are not the same thing. And no, there is not going to be an immediate benefit where you should run out and throw away your 4G phone, which I literally said in the video. But it's more about what's coming down the pipe. I also didn't say go and buy, you know, these 5G phones that don't have full support for all the different bands. I

specifically didn't say that because that would be bad advice. Unfortunately, in the video, I say, wait for the upcoming Samsung devices that support all the bands. Unfortunately, by the time the video came out, those devices were already announced so it just made no sense so i have a extremely off-topic question yes slow plane chat they want a ups update oh um von do you want to give us the ups update um well we had to get the mics over here oh man i'm supposed to come it can hear it can you can just stand near yeah um just project get a little closer you're nowhere near the frame Am I supposed to come to show? It can hear you. You can just stand near. Yeah.

Just project. But, like, get a little closer. You're nowhere near the frame. Oh, I can't tell. Okay. So we have to cut a hole into that wall. But it's a load-bearing wall, so we need an engineer to look at it. And we need to get apartments. And even then, the new UPS is longer than the old one.

So we actually have to cut two holes into that room so we got to figure that out oh it's a work in progress that sucks so we're gonna make a video about it including um so with Eaton the manufacturer of the one that blew up and the manufacturer of the one that we are replacing it with showing sort of what we did right what we did wrong and uh how to make sure that your ups doesn't also blow up um so thanks for tuning in guys uh that's it for the land show today we'll see you again next week same bad time same bad channel we actually considered doing same bad time same bad channel on the uh on the street but that's not what i've been saying i well i could i could lie and say that's what I've been saying all this time.

That would be funny. All right, see you guys. Bye. Okay, I need to make sure I end the YouTube event this time. Because in much the same way that the YouTube stream doesn't start. That's what happened. Yes. So you have to end it in.

So you have to end the YouTube stream in the YouTube dashboard. Then end OBS. That would make my snowboard teams a lot easier. Yes. Because a big problem with them is when I go on the back side of the mountain, I lose signal. When I'm on the near side of the mountain, I actually have really good signal. All right.

And then it just tanks. We lose signal. Mainstream turn off. Bye. Oh, wait. Hold on. Thanks, Dax. Hold on. Thanks, Dax. Thanks, Mike.

There's just a couple of really big super chats that I realized. Thanks, Kyber, that I did not reply to. My bad, you guys. I suck at super chats.