The WAN Show - Apple Can Still Screw This Up - WAN Show November 19, 2021

Episode Date: November 22, 2021

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Keep chasing it. Drive your ambition. Mitsubishi motors welcome to the wan show ladies and gentlemen we've got a fantastic show lined up for today of course the big news this week was apple making the very un-apple move of creating a self-service repair program in the most Apple possible way, because there was a gun to their head and their arm twisted behind their back. Gotta freaking love it. In other big controversial news, Streamlabs, which is now Streamlabs, not Streamlabs OBS, has been involved in a public tiff with the makers of OBS or Open Broadcast Software.

And others. Open Broadcaster Software. That's what it's short for, right? I think it's just Broadcast. System? Or is it System? Software, I think. What's the S for?

Uh-oh. Wow, this is embarrassing. Yeah. Oh, Broadcaster. Yeah, you're right. Open Broadcaster Software. There we go. All right.

What else we got this week? NFT Bay. A pirate bay for NFTs. Wait, are you serious? It's a pirated NFT? Okay, we'll talk about that. Wait, you didn't know that? No, I hadn't. You don't know about right-click save as? Oh my goodness. I mean, I know what right-click save as is. Anyway, okay. Anyways, the next thing. NFT Bay. There's like 20 terabytes of it. It's interesting. We'll talk about that later. Also, I'm going to jump to this just because I'm actually very happy this is happening, which might make me sound horrible. But the fall of Activision slash Blizzard, Bobby Kotick is the worst of the bunch. I tried to go out on a bit of a limb a while ago and call it Bobby Kotick on Wancho because

I felt like no one else was. And now it's happening and i feel i feel validated it's good it's good he's finally he's finally taking the sword um yeah he's like a horrible person but we'll talk about that later all right there's a couple of merch messages that are amazing i just need to get to these really quick uh oh wait where'd it go um uh okay this is great how do i open the bicep pocket on the hoodie while wearing it can you demo all right ready there you go that's honestly how i've done it there's actually a lot of feedback about how a lot of the pockets on the wan hoodie v2 are kind of pointless that's fair we know actually but if you find a point for it and someone sees you actually use it it's super sick so every time it's just one of those things where we did it because the original one had a lot of pointless pockets too and we were like

apparently people like that so here we go boys um again. All right, let's go ahead and jump into our first topic today. Of course, it's Apple's self-service repair program, or as we're calling it, ASR program. They announced it on Wednesday. And this is a really big deal because Apple has famously made like not just not just passively not by accident apple has famously intentionally made their devices more difficult to repair in recent years for end users for non-authorized repair shops i mean they even refused to repair our mac pro which there is a lot of confusion over what happened with that saga. The number of people that have read incorrect reports of what happened and assumed that we were

somehow looking for some kind of handout is mind-blowing. They wanted to pay for it. We broke it and we said, hey, mea culpa. We want you to fix it. We will pay you. They refused. They would not do it. That is unacceptable for any company. That's ridiculous. Because you don't want e-waste garbage in the world.

They wanted to pay for it. We were ready to pay for it. So at that time, Apple required a service ticket in order to order a part, penalizing or even blacklisting Apple authorized service providers who don't send the broken parts back to them. So what happened was not only would Apple not repair it for us, we couldn't get anyone else to do it for us because and this was rectified later they did eventually approve a replacement but the cost was ridiculous because to apple a motherboard is apparently the motherboard cpu ram which is stupid uh obviously yeah uh anyway we did eventually get that sorted out we ended up doing it ourselves anyway because it wasn't cost effective but they required a service ticket

because once our serial number was flagged in the system, nobody could order a board for us because they would have to send back our serial number. Like they'd have to send back the board and then Apple would be like, uh, uh, no. Like the amount of control that they exercise over this stuff is just unbelievable. So what this does

is it keeps these broken parts off the gray market for independent repair and allows Apple's own repair service to enjoy an advantage in repair in part access over even their Apple authorized service providers. So the TLDR, Apple has fought independent repair at every turn for at least a decade. But this self-service repair program, or ASR, is going to support the iPhone 12 and 13 to begin with, and will offer, apparently, more than 200 individual parts and tools, including display assemblies, camera modules, batteries, and then, of course, the tools that are required to make the repairs. It will be only available in the united states to start in early 2022 but will expand to additional countries throughout 2022 support for additional repairs

and m1 max will come later in 2022 so your thoughts uh honestly when I read this and I still kind of feel this way. Yeah. I'm just waiting until I see it. Yeah. I think that's fair enough. I think there's a hundred ways that Apple can make this not make any sense. Even just pricing. Yeah.

If the pricing doesn't make any sense because Apple forces you to buy, let's say, let's say not only the screen, but also all of the tools required, even if you already own them. There's also like right now we're in a chip shortage, right? So are they going to prioritize this? Right. So availability, will they even have stock? Is it just going to be permanently out of stock and overpriced? I don't know. Maybe it won't be. I'd love to give them benefit of the doubt i think that's kind of where i'm sitting right now i think this is very cool i'm happy they're stepping in this direction at all because even if it's ineffective maybe it gets some more people

to start embracing this type of stuff but is apple moving in this direction or are they just trying to appease they've been pushed in this direction either way honestly i don't care as long as there's more right to repair stuff going on it's been pointed out that wednesday happened to be this is probably a coincidence though happened to be the deadline for apple to take action on a pro-repair shareholder resolution filed by environmental activists oh apple could have faced sec enforcement had they not complied okay yeah like i i'm sure they didn't want to do this. That's the kind of vibe I've been getting this whole time. The irony, or not irony, the hypocrisy of all of this is that Apple beats this drum.

And I've been criticized. Very recently, I was criticized for not pointing out HP's excellent access to service manuals and parts, which I actually did do in a recent video, but that was not the only thing that particular critic got wrong about things that I have or haven't said. I was criticized for not pointing out HP's excellent moves, and I've also been criticized for not pointing out that there are plenty of other companies that don't do any better of a job than Apple. They might not go as far

to prevent users from repairing their devices, but certainly don't go out of their way to help with it. And the reason for that is that it's Apple's hypocrisy that makes them such a target for me. They keep talking about

green, carbon neutral environment, blah, blah, blah. They have an entire website, like sub site dedicated to how environmentally friendly they are. And they use it as a selling point for moves that are frankly, blatantlyantly obviously just about saving cost like not including chargers with their phones um there happens to be an environmental benefit which is great out a w is a w for sure yes but don't pretend that that's why you did it because whenever it is inconvenient yeah whenever it is not profitable, even in some cases when it would be profitable for them to just make these parts accessible, Apple actively fights against people repairing their own devices and especially small shops repairing Apple devices without Apple's

blessing. And that is environmentally devastating. Throwing away, shredding working devices, even in some cases, working devices that still aren't getting software updates. Like we're not even talking stuff that would be a security risk to be on any network or anything like that. We're talking working, actively supporting devices, supported devices, shredding those. There is absolutely no way to spin that into some kind of environmental positive. And the Apple apologists will say, well, actually, Linus, Apple recycles a lot of stuff. Good for them. That's good.

I'm not going to criticize them for that. What I'm criticizing them for is resorting to the worst R when the first two R's were absolutely accessible in many cases. That's why I'm critical. Reduce reuse. Reduce reuse. But repair should probably be in there too. Isn't that reduce? Isn't repair and reduce kind of? Yeah, sure.

Repairing is a means to reduction. Yes. So that is the first R, the best R. So yeah, I don't know. We'll see in the future. That is the first R, the best R. So like the- So yeah, I don't know. We'll see in the future. I suspect it's kind of a not entirely fully real move, but we'll see.

Yeah, I mean, Apple still has an opportunity here to completely blow us away. Yes, and I would love that. That'd be great. Make a- Very open to it. Even if it wasn't the full, you know, transparency that we might want, that someone like a Rossman might want, right?

Where Apple's providing literal schematics and ordering part numbers for every capacitor on the board, right? Like, even if they don't go that far, I'd say the vast majority of dead iPhones that you just want a quick and easy repair at your local shop in the mall or whatever are gonna be your broken screens, your broken lightning connectors, right? Those like a button that doesn't work. As long as that basic stuff is covered,

battery replacements. These are, batteries are consumables, even rechargeable batteries. They're consumables. As long as you've got all those major bases covered, battery replacements. Batteries are consumables, even rechargeable batteries. They're consumables. As long as you've got all those major bases covered, I would consider this a win for consumers. Obviously, Apple could take it a step farther and they could just... No, I don't think I would even ask for that, so I'm not going to bring it up. I'm not going to bring it up. I want to make sure that I'm being reasonable. Okay.

Now, speaking of Rossman, Lewis Rossman did respond with mild skepticism, especially after Apple's independent repair provider program in 2019 required independent repair shops to agree to replace entire assemblies, even if the faulty component itself should cost significantly less. He's been on this ride before. As little as $60 versus $300. So a keyboard issue, for example, gee, were keyboard issues a problem for Apple in 2019? Was that a common thing? Just a little bit, I think. I don't think anyone... Just almost all of them, I think. I don't think anyone needed their keyboard replaced on a MacBook in 2019. Nah. That doesn't ring a bell. Nah.

So a keyboard issue would actually require the replacement of the entire upper chassis, including the trackpad, battery, speakers, microphones, and of course, the shell itself. I mean, that's ridiculous. But in order to become one of these repair providers, you had to agree to perform the repairs like that. And if you're found in violation, there can be penalties. So that's not really providing options. That's just making the independent repair shop uncompetitive, right?

Like forcing them to charge $300 for a $60 repair is not reasonable. So Lewis called on Apple to sell individual parts and not make this a meme, like the independent repair program and if Apple takes it seriously has said he will swallow everything he said about them and move forward working together no grudges nice I believe that I believe that I think that I think that Lewis absolutely can get very angry about things but I also think that he's a reasonable person who can get unangry as quickly as he gets angry as long as you're doing it the way that he thinks it should be done which by and large he

tends to be right about i would also say that in a lot of cases when he is really angry about something we need someone like him to be angry about it and it's very helpful to have him being angry but maybe not fantastic for like mental health reasons stuff being constantly angry um but like we need someone fighting the fight he will live a shorter life on account of that and i hate that because you know love the guy um but but yeah like it's it's very good to have someone fighting that fight so someone asked um if there could be digital gift cards on the ltd store there are um maybe you need to work on the searchability on ltd store a little bit well there's physical gift cards but are the digital ones oh we mail people those gift cards oh i actually don't know do we i just assumed

they would be digital because it's like no i think they're physical wow sarah did up late graphics for the cards wow yeah okay um maybe we'll make digital ones i'll talk to nick um i love it all right um so the question the reason why they asked that which is actually kind of interesting is they're saying for for like christmas presents yeah conrad said they're digital so they're digital okay i don't know i don't know yes they're digital um so the the reason why they asked that was because they can gift people in uh they're all digital overseas countries okay gift cards for christmas and stuff because a lot of these people like bundling their purchases because of shipment costs sure they are digital sorry i was i was completely mistaken so sarah

just did the graphics are great yeah they're actually super cool and i like that there's individual ones for the the different values of gift card that you can buy and stuff but uh tom arnold made the intro where i come out of a box all right let's move on to our next topic i mean i guess that's all there is to really say oh actually no there is a discussion topic here that anthony put in for us would repairability make you more likely to purchase apple products in the future there's you personally i mean you've even considered going iphone in the last in the last calendar year i had to pause for a second. You've talked about it. Yeah. I don't know if it would make me buy them,

but the question was technically more likely. Would it make you more likely? It would make me more likely to buy it. I still don't know if that would result in me buying it, but it makes the situation a lot better. I'm trying to value repairability quite highly in future purchases right now and there's a few phones on the market that look like they have considerable repairability but the main one that i'm interested in is overseas only europe only i believe right um so that's a

little unfortunate blah blah blah uh but like that's kind of that is a big selling point for me specifically right now so yeah it would make me more likely apple already does a great job on sustainability from a software perspective they support their hardware longer than almost than anyone else there's very old iphone in the mobile phone still kicking it yeah the iphone se is still getting software updates yeah so all they have to do is do the hardware too and then yeah that would make me more likely but it would also have to do is do the hardware too. And then, yeah, that would make me more likely. But it would also have to be part of an overall attitude shift towards not assuming how I want to do things, right? Yeah.

I can quickly find phone apps, by the way, because I have a template for my folders. And I just use muscle memory. I know exactly where everything is. And I've been using exactly the same layout for many years. Apparently one of our viewers, their favorite LAN show is the one from Japan. Man, it has been a long time. That was a heck of a show. That was something else. Oh man, yeah, that was amazing. The camera set up for that will be something that I will never

forget in my whole life. I am going, oh, just the fact that Edsel passed out drunk. We all forgot we were supposed to do WAN. Yeah. So like I, yeah. So he was like not able to really not stay upright, but he got the camera going and like sort of monitored it and everything it was like it was actually pretty impressive considering the degree of inebriation yeah yeah um yeah so that's pretty cool i can keep watching the forum i'm finally traveling again i am going on my first trip in i mean technically i guess i went down went down to Seattle to visit Valve to check out the early Steam Deck. Man, they keep kind of emailing me. I was like, keep me in the loop, keep me in the loop. And they're doing that. And every time I see an email from my Valve rep,

I'm like, is this the one? Is this the one where I'm getting my unit and I can start to make videos about it? Because I have so many questions to answer still i'm so excited uh did you see in their developer event that they um they formalized because i think this was either rumored or expected at some point but they formalized that steam os 3.0 is going to be a standalone linux distro oh so you can just wow yeah okay okay i've actually been wondering about that that's pretty interesting all the benefits genuinely pretty interesting the literal millions of dollars that valve will have put into game compatibility in linux like is that episode six i think we jumped the gun i think we jumped the gun on the linux gaming challenge because steam os 3.0 could potentially just well i still think

it was valuable for us to see where we started before yes yeah but once it happens i mean there's the potential that we could kind of go okay let's linux challenge again i'd try it again i would i'll try it again in a bit my kids were pretty stoked well now that don't necessarily know if we need to like cold turkey it again i for me because i'm so convenience oriented like i talked about this in some of the other parts more free time and other in other parts like when i have 45 minutes to sit in game i need less than two minutes of it to be launching the game we haven't yeah we haven't played Anno or Forged Alliance for like a month and a half.

I actually kind of cheated on you. The night that you messaged me about playing Subcom, I didn't get your message because I was like vibing playing Anno for like three hours. Oh, that's actually pretty chill. Yeah, I was definitely uh i was definitely i was definitely just i couldn't sleep and i was i i was like oh thank goodness i have because honestly that's one of the things that i'll do is when i'm tired but not sleepy i'll sit and i'll play a game that

um anno's not not what i have been going for Anno was a bit of a problem for me for a bit where I'd sit down to play for an hour and I would emerge six hours later. The game even tells you every two hours. It'll be like, hey, you should probably get up and stretch your legs or get a cup of coffee. It's been a while, yeah.

So it wasn't Anno for a bit. So not having Cave Story because that's what I was actually playing late at night. Not having my save game when I started the Linux challenge was really, really frustrating for me. But that's something that I'll do when I'm tired but not sleepy. So I couldn't sleep. So I was just like, okay, I'm just going to let myself get tired.

So I fixed a couple of supply chain issues, and then I was able to go to bed, and I was able to sleep. I forget where I was going with this story. But i cheated on you i'm sorry that's all right it's it's good to be back on windows for a bit i would like to just i'd like to just stay on windows for a little bit like almost exclusively been playing games that don't work on yeah just like okay i'm back um what was i gonna say but yeah i in some capacity i would genuinely really like to try it yeah and like even if we weren't doing an official challenge i would probably format format that drive and give it a shot um it's very interesting i'm stoked so

man once it comes there's there's so many questions for me to answer i'm really excited um speaking of people who are excited nick's been standing here going like this, like wanting to talk to y'all. They won't be able to hear you on these mics because they're super... We don't have physical gift cards. All right, all right. All right, I know about the physical gift cards.

We dealt with it. Okay. Jeez. I don't think we have physical gift cards. Everyone's riding me here. Well, I don't know if physical gift cards... Conrad knew and told us like right away. Okay.

Also, the search is fine for gift cards. Okay. All right. The filters is what I don't know. Physical gift cards. Conrad knew and told us like right away. Also, the search is fine for gift cards. Okay. All right. It's the filters is what I'm talking about. Thanks, Nick. I would recommend machine washing cold and then laying it out to dry for the desk pad cleaning. There you go. All right.

Why don't we move on to our next topic here? The Streamlabs controversy. Yeah. So I have to confess that even as someone who sort of pays attention to the streaming and technology space, I assumed, which I see now I shouldn't have, I assumed that Streamlabs OBS, as it used to be called, was somehow associated with OBS. I knew that Streamlabs OBS is like junk and you shouldn't use it. So I'd never really, I'd never really gotten into it. Or not junk. What I had heard about it was that it's more basic.

Like it's supposed to be streamlined as opposed to fully featured. So for my part, I was like, well, I think I can figure out how to use OBS. So I'm not going to use the Streamlabs OBS, but I could see how there's a value to something like this existing. But I thought that they were just kind of like different streams of somehow associated projects but that's that's not what it was no so what what is the deal here uh i they're they're essentially just trying to own the entire software space for for streaming um as far as my understanding goes i've been trying to do this for a long time uh i have been frustrated with stream labs for a considerable amount of time because they i don't remember because it's been genuinely a very long time yeah but there was a service that

i used to use that disappeared and i don't know if they disappeared because they're like ah not enough people are using us now because of stream labs or if it's because they got like bought out or copied or or what happened But I know they disappeared. And I was frustrated because I didn't like the way that Streamlabs worked. Right. And I wanted to be able to use my old thing still. And there was some issue with that. But it's genuinely been like six years or something.

So I don't remember the details. And I don't want to claim anything because it could be wrong. But yeah. And then there's Streamlabs OBS, which I have exclusively called Slobs because because I don't like Streamlabs and I find slobs to be really funny. Okay, fair enough. And then now this is coming out. And yeah, it's annoying. And a lot of their business practices for a long time have been very frustrating.

It's not just OBS. It's a slew of other companies light stream had a really really interesting comparison that they showed where one of light streams like front page where they show off um their features and stuff is is practically you probably have to click on the image for people to be able to see it but it's practically identical to the page that stream labs put up including the reviews right which is just like what a stream lab said that apparently that was uh a test page for internal use that was not meant to be published which is still like dude you shouldn't just copy paste things including reviews for like an internal test site just make your own thing

just use laura mipsom like everybody else yeah like come on layers on your overlays automatically whenever you go live layers on your overlay wow it's like word for word there's a few things you can find like there's a few ways that they say something that is exactly different every time throughout the whole web page and stuff like but it's it's quite egregious it's it's gross i don't know bad not cool business practices um copying stealing overriding stuff like that so with streamlabs obs one of the problems that i don't think ended up showing up in here yeah is by having obs in their name and then buying advertising space for the keyword of obsBS for searching in Google. When people would search for OBS,

let's see if it happens now after the controversy. No, it doesn't. But for a long time or in the past or however you want to say it, if you search OBS, it would come up with Streamlabs OBS. Right. Which is kind of bleh. So, I mean, apparently I'm not the only one that was confused and thought there was some kind of

association between the projects but that was like kind of the whole problem yeah yeah and i mean stream OBS is open source yeah like so technically someone else can utilize that code they can utilize the code base the name is a little the name is pretty freaking. Yeah. So the controversy led OBS developers to share their own woes. When Streamlabs was developing, they were approached by Streamlabs about the use of OBS in their name. OBS declined, but Streamlabs went ahead and not only used the name, but filed a trademark too. Very cool. Which is a super dick move as it's as it's called in the industry uh prominent streamers like hasanabi and pokemain spoke out saying that

they would no longer use or be affiliated with stream labs if they didn't resolve the issue why why do they use stream labs aren't they like professional streamers no stream labs like is like a lot of people use it they do yeah why i don't i i believe the alerts and stuff the integrations of those things are like easier or something i hate it i don't know i hate it because i'm not used to it to be fair right okay can i mean floatplane chat like is there a reason to use stream labs if you're a new streamer ever like no okay not everyone i bet you epos is watching and he's like i don't and i'm the i'm the streaming technician guy um but there's a lot of people online that will recommend you just go to stream

labs because i believe it's kind of a one-stop shop it gets everything going blah blah blah right okay yeah it's convenience i mean i guess from for my part like a lot of the time i will just i mean i went manjaro right like a lot of the time I will just, I mean, I went Manjaro, right? Like a lot of the time I'll just be like, well. We already used this and we don't use a lot of the alerts that normal streamers use. Oh, I guess that's fair. Like we made our own merch thing. Right.

Which like wouldn't work with it anyways. Right. Okay. So, I mean, no, it works with slolobs i just don't think it would work with the stream labs alerts i just mean my general philosophy is if i'm gonna have to learn the hard one eventually anyway you just go i might as well just do it now like it's kind of you know how you know it's like learning physics right where every year you find out that everything you learned that last year was wrong yeah you like yeah yeah yeah i could go into a few stories about

that but yes that's absolutely true like what's the point right i might as well just go hard mode now yeah yeah because you're you're learning how to learn but yeah yeah yeah exactly um so so okay yeah fine i guess uh professional streamers use stream labs obs uh now the discussion point here is i wonder how ncix felt when you stole the tech tips i stole nothing i stole nothing calling it linus tech tips was actually the ceo of ncix's idea and i bought the linus tech tips channel and trademark and domain okay i paid a fair price of one dollar canadian it's a canadian canadian dollar it's extremely expensive channel um now this is interesting this is an interesting talking point stream labs obs has been out for almost three years now is obs in the right for airing their dirty laundry now well apparently behind

the scenes they've been doing so for quite a long time uh they they did say no to to using the name initially um and and this happens a lot in in modern society actually where there will be grievances kind of with quite a few people and then one group or one person will stand up very loudly and then all the other voices will join them. Right. So I mean, it's fairly standard at this point. So apparently it's been ongoing. EposVox has a good video on the subject. So you guys can go check that out. Check out. I'm stunned that EposVox has a video on a streaming subject. Really? I'm absolutely stunned absolutely stunned yeah i can't believe it thank you for that luke in other news we've got some sponsors which is also pretty stunning

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is actually their own product and i was naturally very curious to know what could possibly what could possibly justify fifteen hundred dollars for wireless earphones wow what could possibly justify it they don't even look good well that's subjective that's fair i mean they might look good to people who care more about the logo than the actual industrial design yeah yeah so guys uh i'm really looking forward to reviewing these i'm actually planning to work on my review i'm going to be stuck on a plane for 20 hours. So I'll have plenty of time to run through the battery and make sure that it's actually, you know,

as long as they say it is and listen to them. Is that unopened? Yeah. Dang. Do you want me to open it? Kind of. Are you going to do a short circuit?

Should we open it? No, I'm not going to do a short circuit. I'm planning a full LTT review. Yeah, then let's do it. Okay. All right. Do you guys want a live unboxing of the i'm sure yeah your football i mean first we're gonna have to we're gonna have to experience other aspects of the of like the paper falling out

yeah hold on a second there's uh i thought there was a little uh-oh i might have actually misplaced part of the part of the experience drama Drama. Tension. Yeah, there's a little envelope that it came with, and I honestly have no idea what was in it. No, no, it's not this. It's not this. It was a little sealed envelope. I'm going to have to run over to 105 and see if I can find that.

So thank you for shopping with Louis Vuitton. Your product has been crafted by experienced artisans with exclusive materials. Oh, my. Then packed with the utmost care, following strict sanitary guidelines. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Nouveau remerciant d'avoir choisi Louis Vuitton. Okay, so there's that in French.

AJ is judging you so hard right now. Whatever, AJ. Every word. What is this? Oh, this is my packing slip. Oh, no no it's a gift receipt okay all right live unboxing louis vuitton earphones i actually don't know if that's exactly the model that we got they apparently have a bunch of them what is this there's a thing here oh hold on there's a thing in here i think this is not what is this is this? But there's nothing in here.

It looked like there was something in there. Okay, here we go. Actually, it's fun. Oh, it opens like that. Okay, oh, look at that. The presentation. Presentation though. Starts pretty strong.

Okay, eco-friendly packaging for the most part. Cloth is actually terrible from an eco perspective uh especially if it's single use but my my kids will get plenty of use out of these cute little baggies yeah uh we've got some replacement ear tips so i have extra small this the presentation falls apart a little bit here this is just standard plastic printed bags with little ear tips in them extra small large small for whatever has a different color of printing on it maybe they sourced those from a different factory or something oh that's weird i have wait what i have two smalls wait what is sm maybe sm is not

small why are they both labeled sm okay i'm definitely going to talk about that in the video. They didn't look the same size to me. One of them, no, it's a completely different thing. Yeah. One of them seems to be like a wrap for it to help hold it in your ear or something. Okay, so I got that. And then what's in the other one? I have no idea if people are even interested in this.

You know, what's the... They seem like they might be. What's the unboxing experience like of a $1,500 pair of earbuds? From really far away. Okay. In the other bag, the extra large ear tips are in there for some reason. I don't know why that would be. There's a USB A to C adapter and then a C to C charging cable that actually has a leather.

Wow. Okay. I don't know if it's real leather. Hard to say. Is it attached to the cable or does it uh hard to say is it attached to the cable or does it just fall away it is attached to the cable oh so you've got a nice little leather i i personally love it when my cable ties are bulkier than they have to be um that's i'm a big fan of that and obviously we're going to test the lv cable with our cable ah nice okay obviously so we got our charging cable

all right this feels reassuring hold it whoa it's heavy right how much of that is this container though oh almost all of it i would hope i mean is this a charging does this charge i have no idea hold on there's more there's more stuff in here the battery it it has some like you guys aren't gonna be able to hear it or anything but it has some weight in it for sure uh there's a little it's got some weight to it does anyone understand that envelope with a cleaning cloth oh i can't open it cleaning cloth i mean that's like a that's like a hundred and whatever dollar value how much does apple charge for their cleaning cloth is it it $15? I don't remember. Hold on.

How much is Apple's cleaning cloth? I thought it was like ludicrously expensive or something. Oh, no. It's like $25 Canadian. Okay. $19 US. Sorry. I must have added a zero to the stupid price tag. Okay.

Then we've got a manual. All right. Cool. And this is it. This is the moment price tag. Okay, then we've got a manual. All right, cool. And this is it. This is the moment, Luke. I can't believe how freaking heavy this thing is. It's heavy. I feel like there's battery in there.

I think that's a charging case, which is actually kind of cool. Nice quality zipper. Okay, oh, no, this is just a case for the case. Oh, wow. Okay. Oh. Packaging made in China.

Of course it is. So what am I going to do with this? I mean, again, my girls would love this. Can you remove the lid of that case while it's in the blue one? That's a good question. So, oh, okay. So it's like a case for your case so that you can case while you case. They didn't really apparently think of that.

No, it kind of lifts it out a bit. Yeah, that's a bad experience. That's not the greatest. So this is like honestly sort of almost a... Completely pointless. Yeah. And then they have a window on their charging case, which is pretty bulky. Unless you also own a purse,

which I'm sure they'd be happy to sell you at a pretty good profit margin. Oh, yeah. Definitely. You're not going to be carrying this around with you easily. It's pretty bulky. Here are the earphones themselves. The window looks kind of nice.

Yeah, the window's kind of classy, actually. It appears to be glass, not like plastic. All right. The magnet or the hinge or something on that movement seems pretty intense. Yeah, yeah. Feels pretty good. Feels pretty good. And then this is the first time I have ever paid for a Louis Vuitton anything.

I promise you that. So this is my first. Okay. I'm a Louis Vuitton virgin. Here we go. How do I look? Yeah. I don't think that looks cool or good at all. I don't know. I'm not exactly a, uh, you know, fashionista or anything, but wow, not into it. All right. Well, it does look different. All it cost me was $1,500. It would make you stand out, which I believe is a big part of the point. I believe is a big part of the point.

Hearing me and Luke talk about the point of luxury goods is probably not an experience anyone was hoping for or needed on the land show today. There's going to be a full video of it. I'm going to be evaluating them from a performance perspective. And you guys know how much I care about the additional little leather blue pouch

that it comes with or whatever. I expect them to sound 10 times better than airpods pros they have to or eight times or whatever the math works out to be seven times i don't know unless that really weird red box on your head is uh is worth the additional cost but you know what maybe it is i don't know't know. Not for me. All right. So I have not looked into these very much. Some people are sort of really concerned about the amount of money I spent on them. Okay. So guys, first of all, I'm going to make a video about it. So this is an investment. Second of all, I'm going to sell these and hopefully i can find someone almost as stupid as me to pay almost as much as i did

and then it's all good yeah right yeah should be no problem there's like probably better ear tips you can get anyways jian jian says so no lv sponsor for? Yeah, I don't think that that was ever a possibility. I mean, when it comes to luxury brands, they want nothing to do with tech bros like me because we do not give two hoots about the like cool font that you use to print your name on stuff. Yeah.

It better have a performance story. I mean, that's one of the things that I talk to the merch team for us about a lot is like what is what is the point what is the point of anything we're doing and sometimes the point can be memes lol banana no problem yeah but there has to be some kind of point absolutely rod rod rosenberg's in chat oh sup rod and rod said i thought this was pretty funny luke is a hard time spending money on stuff at princess auto yeah it sounds about right to be clear i have no problem spending money but i don't like wasting it yeah so yeah you know i

actually posted on twitter recently i decided to i decided to influencer flex for a change because it's not really something that i do that often like usually anytime we're doing anything even the gold xbox controller had to have an roi pitch internally like we don't just do stuff for the lulz and while we didn't end up being able to sell it, the absolute worst case scenario for it is we melt it down and we still own a gigantic chunk of gold, which last I checked is still doing pretty okay. Not bad. So like, it's fine.

It's fine. But I decided to influence her flex and post that I bought a gym. There have been some super chats asking about the gym. So the deal with the gym is that real estate in Vancouver has been a pretty good investment. It's happening. Particularly industrial. It's something that I have not only wanted

for a really long time, but it's something that I have had. I mean, I'm not going to use the n-word uh i have don't need it um but i have had a really difficult time getting my girls started on badminton because there hasn't been anywhere to play due to all the restrictions on gym spaces particularly municipally managed ones that have made it pretty much impossible to just go in and occupy space and not be using court time efficiently. Um, I really want to get them started. They're already, you know, two years behind when I started my son. And the last thing I want is for my daughters to be like, Hey, we couldn't help noticing that, you know, when it

comes to trying to do this particular father kid activity, you really gave our brother all the attention. That is not the goal. So I want to get them started on that. It's also, I think, it has the potential to be a really cool employee benefit. So it's something that we bought as a thing that everyone who works at linus media group float plane and creator warehouse can use it's only about six minutes from our office which is pretty cool i think and we're not going to just have a badminton court in there so the idea is to have uh badminton we'll have badminton lines on the floor and we'll have a net that can kind of be

shoved over to the side and i want to have all kinds of stuff there so there's a little bit of space kind of at the front of the unit out of the way of the court where we could have you know i don't know rowing machine bicycles and weights stuff like that um i'd love to have just like you know some balls like play some place have some nets play some indoor soccer yeah you know uh slap around some some some ball hockey balls what's a ball hockey ball called hockey ball i don't think you call it a hockey ball it's just a ball sure but it's a hockey ball the orange one you know what i'm talking about yeah yeah yeah you know slap around some hockey balls put some basketball net slap like people want to just go chill yeah i think people just got i'm trying to remember now i

think people just call it ball i don't think it has like i think it's a ball hockey ball yeah i don't know i don't know that's probably more specifically like what it is but i don't think it has like... I think it's a ball hockey ball. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. That's probably more specifically like what it is, but I don't think I ever heard anyone call it anything else. If you went to like sports check to buy one, yeah, it's probably called ball hockey. So AJ is apparently salty that he can't use the gym. AJ, I have offered to pay your moving expenses many times. For a lot of years.

So I don't even want to hear about it. Yeah, AJ. AJ, you have... At one point in time, there was almost a ice cream delivery robot in the mix i don't even remember if no if you remember that um what yeah we were it was mostly a meme but we were trying to we were trying to get aj to move over and he wanted like incentives and i was asking him like what do you actually want uh you couldn't come up with anything so he ended up coming up with like a robot that would deliver him ice cream while he was working and i was like okay but i was

joking yes because i'm not doing that yeah um all right cool uh moving on nft bay sure let's talk nft bay yeah um kind of funny it's an art project it's. I believe it does actually work, but I don't necessarily expect it to stay around forever or anything. There's over 20 terabytes of NFTs that have been right-click saved from the Ethereum and Solana blockchains. The website gives you free access to as many CryptoPunks and LazyLions as you could ever want. And everything else. I believe he says somewhere that it's like trying to bring to light what NFTs actually are. And how a lot of the images associated with NFTs are hosted on web 2 style storage spaces. Without guaranteed longevity of storage so the actual reference might 404 eventually and and some other weird stuff like that um but that's that's honestly about it it's

interesting in an artistic sense and in a tech sense and in a few other different ways but there isn't really a ton to say about it and we probably can't put it up on screen because there are some lewd nfts and we don't know necessarily what's going to show up if we load the page and do know that before you go to the website if you are planning on going there as well um someone said only about 10 gigabytes well rip the notes uh but there's there's a an amount i don't know you know what i'm feeling lucky you're going for it there's an i'm feeling lucky sir oh okay pirate nft search i mean i don't know picture if i just search for picture i'm feeling lucky what's the first picture i'm gonna get okay i didn't get anything too incriminating. So here's some pirate NFTs.

We've got a pirate Pikachu, whatever this is. It's a picture. Yep. The whole point of the stuff isn't, isn't the actual picture. An argument that is brought up often is you can go to the Louvre and take a picture of Mona Lisa

it doesn't mean you own the Mona Lisa blah blah blah that is unfortunate okay see you later was there something bad? I don't know if I would describe it as bad it was pretty tasteful you can have a look at it if you want

it's on my screen I'll see you later oh my it's on my screen i'll see you later all right it's uh oh my i mean it's it's unique yeah so there's that it yeah because it's uh yeah all right cool see nice uh but yeah um it's interesting it's if you're if you're into if you've been paying attention to you know nft kind of stuff it's It's an interesting development. I find it interesting that the dude's name is very notably attached to it. Yeah.

Like he has an FAQ on his GitHub and he's like, he's a person who's been around. Like it's, this is not his first rodeo. So yeah, that I find very surprising and we'll see where where that goes but that's about it okay cool in other fun exciting amazing news um i don't know which one to go with halo infinite halo infinite it's back yes halo's back baby have you played so cool yeah not a huge amount but i have played and it's fun the my the main two things that i'm excited about aren't out yet but what's really exciting right now is the foundation is absolutely there the game feels great it looks great one thing that was just deeply refreshing for me personally um i don't know why i care so much about this and this hasn't

been a thing for a long time i think I've just been so frustrated by modern, very, very modern last few years UIs that the UI, you load up the game and it's just immediately beautiful. Right. Like there's been so many games where like... You start out in some basement and like... I don't even mean that.

I mean, you launch the game, you haven't clicked anything yet and it's stunning right like the backdrop is is absolutely fantastic all the ui elements the gui beautiful i know jayden had some feedback about not being able to find things super well i didn't really care i just immediately went into a match because i don't really care about customizing my spartan too much sorry if Sorry for the 343 people that worked on that. I'm just, whatever. I'm sure it's great.

But yeah, it feels really good. The gunplay and stuff is really good. I found some feedback from certain people online that I think haven't played Halo in a long time. Yeah. To be kind of funny. They're like, wow, the time to kill is really long. And I'm like, Halo.

Halo, yeah. That's the thing um that you better put a full magazine of needlers needles inside their opponent yeah the whole idea is supposed to be that it's kind of hard to take a spartan down you're fighting other spartans so it's pretty hard to take a spartan down um i think a lot of other people have also forgotten that in halo the the shields and the health are actually two very different things yeah and like if you remember i think i played a lot of halo 2 personally that was my main halo game um and i know in halo 2 especially the plasma pistol battle rifle combo was like kingly because if you had a fully charged plasma pistol and you could hit someone with it their shields are gone yeah and then you could triple shot br to the head and it's just over

and there isn't exactly it doesn't really feel like there's exactly that combination right now um but you do need to mix up the weapons if you use like covenant weapons they're better at taking down the shields and you use human weapons that are better at taking down the hp whatever i don't know it feels really really good there's been some complaints out there that the battle pass progression is like not great or something again this is something i really don't care about right because it's cosmetic items and i'm i just i'm just trying to shoot some stuff um but microsoft has already responded they've already been working on it um they've they've given like apology rewards they did a really really quick stopgap

solution of making it so that there was a challenge of just play a game yeah you just do repeatedly over and over and over again for points right okay um so that there was like you could progress a little bit easier right away and then they're working on a more long-term solution and they've they've given some reward for people for dealing with it which is great it's free to play which has its positives and negatives sure any every positive is that it's free the negatives are everything else yeah pretty much every modern game even like forza like a racing game has like rampant cheating in it like cheating in the modern era is insane and it's it's worst in the fps space um so having it free to play makes that even easier but it also

massively increases the player base which is very good for a multiplayer game so yeah i don't know but yeah the two features that i am most excited for are both not in the game which is co-op and forge a lot of my favorite experiences in halo are not playing the game in just like a quick match format yeah so i'm really excited about forge yeah and then uh another massive amount of what i like halo for his co-op campaign that's also not in the game yet yeah i'll i'll i'll load it up i'll download it once co-ops available because realistically i'm not going to play a competitive shooter these days i'm not i've i was never very good and i'm especially not very good the older i get so i just don't get a lot of enjoyment out of walking around on the map for four seconds getting headshot from someone i can't even see by some dude who's memorized all the locations of all

the sniper spawns and whatever else yeah i'm definitely more excited for the other modes like i don't have like as long as it's not shroud or something which i've literally tried to do you know i am i am pretty comfortable just you know trying to shoot a guy who's trying to shoot me at the same time but for me i don't have the time at this stage in my life to like you said memorize all the routes that someone might take and do all that research right like watching youtube videos where people are doing this kind of hardcore analysis okay at the moment of spawn you need to basically start counting four and a half seconds and if you can get to this point before that they can't hit you so you can get set up so you can just slide down this thing and get in position and if they've gone this way

you'll probably be able to get like three free kills it's like i i don't i can't i can't yeah i'm sorry i can't yeah that's like all all my favorite stuff in halo is just playing with friends not online matchmaking personally like like blood gulch with some buddies and you're even good at video games so that's like a very different video games to get over it um what was i what was i trying to say there's oh yeah this is an interesting topic y'all have been watching me for years yeah you did and okay you can't even say that because you did that challenge what for people to come play you in video games and you just trashed yeah but those everyone. Yeah, but those were like nobodies. No offense.

You're lovely people. That's the audience, man. I know. And they're wonderful. And I love them. And you beat them. Well, yeah. But they weren't.

I'm not saying you're shroud. No, you're not. But I don't think you're bad. Nobody is. Yeah. Well, it's not that I'm good it's that conrad says i would destroy linus 1v1 in any game i don't know if that's true i think it might be a lot of games because conrad's one one heck of a yeah any game i think is probably a bit of a stretch conrad you wanna you wanna put lunch on that because i'm pretty sure I can find a game that I can absolutely shit wreck you at.

Epic. He's probably going to take that. He's going to buy me lunch is what he's going to do. Man, I had some... Oh, right. This is an interesting topic and one that I've been somewhat bottling, but with the release of Halo Infinite, I just can't do it anymore

because I didn't want people to jump on this negatively because of the Linux challenge. Yeah. But this has been a bit of an interesting year with gaming. There's been a lot, there's been some good releases. There has been. There's been a lot of really subpar releases.

A lot of people have been pointing and saying like, this is kind of the releases that are coming from COVID. It makes sense. There's a lot of disruption in studios, et cetera, et cetera. It's like, okay, okay, okay. There's been quite a few not what we were hoping for games. Microsoft, out of freaking nowhere, drops three bangers at the end of the year. Age of Empires 4.

Yep. Forza Horizon 5. Halo Infinite. Each one of them, the communities are very happy with it that's the thing that matters the most to me i believe they're all like selling well as well but the communities are happy with all of those and like the chance that you were gonna piss off the age of empires community with a bad release was really extremely high it's really so long and the games are so beloved. And that's also true for Halo. Yep.

That's less true with Horizon. I think the expectations were lower for Halo. That's probably fair. I mean, Age of Empires 3 was a solid entry in that series. The quality of AOE had not really plummeted, you know? Yeah that i think no i think age of empires and forza were much higher risk than halo but halo is obviously going to be

the bigger mover in terms of it being a more popular gaming genre in general yeah so the fact that they got them all right is extremely impressive maybe just buying every game studio as a strategy i know bethesda had nothing to do with any of them yeah yeah and i think like something else that i want to give them praise for as well which i don't think it was in the notes here but it was in my my tweet feed was the stability of that launch right it was like a uh what do you call it a surprise launch as far as my understanding goes they just kind of dropped it out of nowhere but i also believe there was like a mass i think peak concurrence for like 250 300k on the first day or something um it's peak concurrence not total amount of players to be clear and as far as my understanding goes their multiplayer was completely

fine the whole time you contrast that with the owners of aws launching new world and just completely yeah how embarrassing everywhere it's i don't know it's it's really it's quite impressive to see microsoft game studios kind of come out of nowhere because i don't someone might be able to correct me here maybe i'm wrong maybe i haven't been paying enough attention. But for the last while, I don't think there's been strong Microsoft game releases. Microsoft Game Studios releases. I mean, Forza Horizon 4 was pretty successful. That's true. But like that long ago,

I believe almost every Forza Horizon, which is borderline just a copy paste of the previous game, has also always done well. That's fair. It's kind of hard to go wrong when you're just selling people essentially nfts of cars okay they're not nfts because they're not even unique so get wrecked no they're very easy to get it's a fun game it's fun game i'm not trash on it i'm just saying it's a it's a bit

of an easy win yeah that's fair that's fair the game looks beautiful and you race cars that are really fast and they give you lots of dopamine hits by giving you lots of spins and free cars and money and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So, yeah. I don't know. Flight Simulator. Yeah. That's fair. Yeah.

Yeah. Flight Simulator was a big, big W. Anyways, either way. I just found that pretty interesting. Windows, on the other hand. I noticed that Conrad has not responded to my challenge yet so conrad let me know if you accept and i will choose a game and you will be embarrassed i promise uh why don't we talk about the fall of activision blizzard shall we okay yeah this is

another really fun one for me it's at the point now where microsoft had to issue a statement saying that they're gonna have to evaluate their relationship with activision moving forward like this is finally getting the momentum that it deserves and that's not just blizzard right because bobby kodak is the the ceo of activision blizzard so that's that's includes cod is essentially what i'm trying to get at because when this first when i first read that i was like oh why does that matter microsoft doesn't do much with like hearthstone or wow or whatever else but that yeah that includes cod that's a big deal when you're talking about consoles playstation has also had some murmurs about similar things as well um so this is this is a big pressure for a massive moving game which is call of duty um More than 800, I believe it's

significantly more than that at this point. Activision Blizzard employees and contractors have signed a petition calling for CEO Bobby Kotick to be removed. Good. Apparently he knew about all the alleged rapes and other sexual misconducts for years, if not the entire time. He allegedly told an employee that he would have her killed i don't remember all the details behind that i did read that i just don't remember this moment i believe he might have done something to her directly i don't remember don't quote me on that um i i i know the the quote of saying that he was going to have her killed was a thing i just don't remember the context around why i don't know if she knew things or things were done to her or what

there's kind of no good reason no i'm just trying to yeah yeah yeah yeah that's totally very clear yes uh it has also been reported that he's likely the one who penned the original email to employees claiming uh all of these recent articles were false or only partially true. Good guy. The petition also calls for a new CEO to be chosen without Kotick's influence. He has a substantial portion of the voting rights of the shareholders. He owns a lot of the company. The board of directors made a statement on Tuesday.

The goals we have set for ourselves are both critical and ambitious. The board remains confident in Bobby Kotick's leadership, commitment, and ability to achieve these goals. This contrasts very strongly the no tolerance policy that Blizzard recently pushed out, which is not applying to Bobby Kotick, the rat. It's horrible. Get him out. He's's terrible i've been trying to push this for i think like two months now or more more than that i think yeah like you know this dude knew what was going on it should have been so clear from the start i'm very happy this came out he has a history of this type of stuff i found it it's not hard to find it's on wikipedia uh with citations yes yes which is key yeah um like i just just stop just stop i don't even know what else to say this is just horrible get them out of there clean it all up blizzard needs like blizzard needs to fall back and regroup in a like really intense way um yeah

yeah all right um hey we sent out a new ltt store newsletter if you're not subscribed to it already i will take a look at it for you look we're gonna have a new sticker pack for next year i actually love love these um this is this is going to be a pin soon sarah designed a pin based on this graphic uh what else we got in here hey look look there's a classic got the linus and luke uh couch thing it actually was going to be a fist bump but i had concerns about the sticker ripping where the fists meet oh and i didn't want to just have like a big ugly border around it. Those are cool.

It's gotten to the point where I get involved in like a lot of like very random little things. Sort of running the company. Fortunately, none of those things involve me needing to be ousted, which is good. Yay. Not Bobby Kotick. Yeah. Very nice nice i've set a very low bar for myself be better than bobby kodak yeah um so that's neat apparently yeah someone actually brought up in floatplane chat and i remember reading about this as well yeah one of the problems that they're having right now is that buying him out,

um, would be so costly and difficult. Um, and that there's potential, I don't know if this was true or not. Right. There's a few things in here that like this news hasn't marinated enough to really know all what,

what out of all of it is like super legit. Uh, but I think there's a clause in his contract that like makes him additionally very difficult to get rid of great outside of just needing to buy out his extremely substantial amount of shares um so i i suspect there's something going on there i suspect that's why the zero tolerance policy found a very quick found out very quickly that it's not exactly zero um yeah all right we should probably do some merch messages because there are some really good questions here some of

them are not really good questions are just ones that i had meant to uh pop up on the thing but i didn't catch it in time because the uh the delay is not long enough. Conrad. Jersey Statham says, the subliminal messaging finally activated in my brain. Love it. You were a little slow. Slow on the uptake, but that's good. Eventually we got through to you.

That's the goal. James M says, celebrating getting my daily driver to number 25 25 in times by extreme on hardware bot pretty freaking awesome looking forward to the uh air conditioned daily driver that you guys teased last week yeah that's gonna be a heck of a video lots of lots of fun me and alex um oh my goodness okay guys when i announced that we're talking about them is not the time to place orders. It's the time for you to have already placed an order. All right. Because we can't do all of them. Michael V says, in terms of environmental impact, I love what Microsoft did with the ocean plastic mouse, but if they cared, wouldn't it be in more

flagship devices that anyone actually wants um yeah i think that's a very good point however one of the challenges around sustainable materials can actually be getting enough of it because yeah you can only make what happens to exist right so you don't necessarily want your flagship product that you're going to make the most of to be made out of a material that you can only get if other people like waste and throw away other stuff. So that's tough. Yeah.

Jonathan A says, you said before a big issue with some distros is you can brick them just by updating. Well, I mean, I wasn't generalizing about that. I just happened to have that problem. Garuda actually creates a restore point at each update um that's fair although my issue oh it apparently gives an option to restore it before the os boots okay that's super cool uh also says i'm visually impaired can you make merch messages visible at cart um i'm not sure if i quite understand the question i don't can you make them visible at cart i'm sorry i'm not yeah maybe

someone in floatplane chat chat can or fire uh this is not oh you can send a message to support i guess yeah but you should send it to floatplane support yeah support at floatplane.com yeah i know that's like kind of odd but yeah send it send it there. Matthew asks, what are my thoughts on the channel super fun house video? Matthew says best channel super fun video ever. IMO better than nerd sports. I have not watched it. So Dennis and Ethan asked me if I could not watch it so that I could do a reaction video. And so we haven't had a chance this week.

It's been super busy gearing up for my trip. I haven't traveled in a while. So all the kind of the workflows are a little rusty. Okay. It's been a couple of years actually. And we just haven't gotten it together. So I'm going to sit down. I'm going to watch it.

And you guys will get to hear all of my thoughts as I go through it. I will say I was straight up stunned that it took so long. For me to find them? Yeah. I was like gaming and stuff. Yeah, I had to put myself in your shoes a few times because I'd be like, oh, that was the mistake. He's got them. And then you wouldn't get them.

But I had to kind of think like, okay, you've got kids in the house. You're probably used to these like random noises all the time. Like, yeah. Stuff moves around in my house. My wallet was missing for three months because my daughter put it in her school backpack. So at the end of the school year, it was just in there.

I had no reason to open that. We didn't find it till September. Oh my goodness. And I was sure that it hadn't left the house because I hadn't left the house. So I was like, well, it's here somewhere. Like unless it was stolen by the insulation guys that are working on the insulation in the roof,

which I don't think it was. They seem like good blokes. Then it's in here somewhere. So I didn't replace any of my cards, thankfully. Cause I knew I had it. it was just a matter of where i searched the house high and low so many times i was driving around with no license for like almost three months why well that's not good i mean i have a license i just the air tag wasn't on me i thought it was pretty interesting so so i i i've read some of the comments on it. So, I do know some stuff.

I legitimately blanked. It looked like an air tag to me, but it didn't compute. Have you ever seen someone that you know well, but in a context where you wouldn't as easily recognize them and it taken a while? Yeah. So I tend to be- Because your brain's like, that can't be.

I tend to be a very associative, I tend to have a very associative memory. So if I had seen that thing on Jonathan Horst's desk, I'd have gone- Okay, yeah. Boom. Oh, you're working on an AirTag video. Yeah.

I don't own an AirTag. I've seen AirTags twice. Once, dbrand sent them as like a sponsor spot and I looked at it. And one other time when I looked at Apple's event, that's it. I don't use them. I don't own any.

So when I pulled that thing out of my pocket, I was like, oh, this looks like an AirTag, but there's no reason that an AirTag should be in my pocket. I'll put this down and I'll figure it out later. I'll deal with it later. And because it had the dbrand sticker on it, none of the Apple branding was visible. So I thought conceivably, it could be some weird little thing that my daughters have that has like a picture of it's like a little like toy or like a tiddly wink like i didn't know what it was i was just like oh yeah there's like this thing in my pocket i'll deal with this later so i hacked it on my nightstand because i was like there's no reason for this to be in my pocket. If I had thought, even if I thought this is an air tank.

What do you think from that? Yeah. I honestly wouldn't have thought anything of it. I'd have thought, oh, this made its way home. You must have seen it somewhere weird and picked it up to do it later. Maybe one of the camera guys put one in one of the camera bags so that we wouldn't lose our camera bag for some reason and then left it in there and it fell out when they were at the house people come in and out

of my house all the time with tech crap maybe it fell out and maybe one of my kids was playing with it and it ended up in my pants that is a perfectly that is a perfectly conceivable way that an air tag could have gone from jonathan horst's desk to my pants pocket entirely innocently and I just it's it's my I got my weekend brain on like yeah yeah there's people that on account of that and I think some other things are sure that it is staged and I'm like yeah I'm sure it wasn't yeah I yeah not only did I know that it wasn't and i'm like yeah i'm sure it wasn't yeah i i yeah not only did i know that it wasn't because i was actually supposed to be a part of it yeah i don't know if you even knew that part uh no they told me that they told me yeah yeah they didn't make it that far i'm not

surprised guys could have done a better job they were trying to make it interesting which is i mean the job i get it i mean it worked it's the first banger channel super fun that we've had in a very long time it's a fun watch and it's a fun they they did a fantastic job like i'm looking at the analytics and it's uh it's gone from kind of like leveling off to schwamp algorithm do like yeah so it's it's going now great job ethan and dennis um i did see one comment that they were surprised at my reaction to finding people in my house like my first my honestly what i was thinking when i walked up to them and i was like did i ruin the video was this was the wrong move.

Because I knew it was Dennis 100%. Because he was smiling the way that he does. Yeah, yeah. And so I was like, the A move now would have been to pretend I didn't see them. Pretend you didn't notice them. And then start messing with them. Flip the script. That would have been the A move. Oh, my goodness. that actually could have been so

funny figure out what they're doing because i have access to the security cameras i could have easily tracked their movements so i could have figured out what they're doing i could have started messing started messing with their stuff which would have been amazing put like the body pillow like man the kind of stuff i could have done like i could have put like i could have put a bunch of you know those uh those anchor speakers that we did the hundred speaker oh my god i could have put a bunch of them like stashed kind of around the bed and then just like triggered them in the middle of the night and stuff like man there was so much potential and i totally wasted it but i don't know how else you react to that though because like when when when you spotted him at first it was such a genuine like what so how do you not do that you know like

that's yeah i yeah oh man oh well if ethan had hid better i might not have like caught them but ethan was just like standing there yeah that was and as soon as i saw ethan i was like channel super fun dennis it could have been anything if dennis had just played it cool and been like oh yeah did yvonne not tell you we're going we're going running today i'd have been like oh yeah no she didn't tell me why were you in the backyard okay whatever you know what forget it it's just dennis things like if if if ethan had hidden and dennis had like played it cool yeah they could have gotten away with it yeah yeah for sure and dennis could have done whatever it is that you know arts and crafts night with yvonne or whatever like they see each

other outside of work um they could have done whatever dennis could have left, could have snuck back into the house and I would have been none the wiser, 100%. One thing that this has definitely brought to light for me is that my wife could absolutely be having an affair. Like my observation level, you know. A little low. Clearly, clearly extremely low. So, you know, if anyone was thinking, man, I'd love to make a move on that. But, you know, Linus would, you know, use his YouTuber influence to make my life miserable or whatever.

Clearly, I'd never notice. What else we got for merch messages here uh max asks what is the float plane release schedule for the remaining linux challenge videos they're coming yes part two is edited i believe the plan is for it to go up this weekend oh that is the goal if i just delete these are they deleted deleted or like what is it what happens can i can i delete them to just manage ones that i i'm not going to do anything with you can they'll just be like gone though i think there's a deleted well that's fine it's the deleted thing's a little weird yeah maybe it could just be archive and then it could just go down to the very bottom yeah because there's a deleted section so yeah archive would probably make yeah so if i could

just yeah i'll just delete the ones that I've already dealt with here. Yeah. Mikhail says, could you please make an LTT about the current state of optical media technology? Things like triple layer disks, M disk, and so on. I believe we covered M disk at some point. That may have been on NCIX Tech Tips.

Yeah, you and I did an MISC episode like 10 years ago. So yeah, so the current state. Yes, we did do that. The current state of optical media appears to be not that different from nine years ago. So I guess no update is needed. Look at this guy. Look at his hair. It's ridiculous.

He looks like an idiot. Why is the TV behind him instead of screen capture look at this why doesn't he care about his appearance it's awful it's awful whatever premium as if it would have looked any better if you shot it wait you did shoot i did shoot it yeah okay so there you go. I was probably asleep. Probably. He used to legitimately fall asleep in the chair. Um,

Min says, got some chicken nuggies. Very nice. Um, all right. Hey, thanks, Michael M.

Love it. And, uh, Merry Christmas. Alex is the message there. Dara, uh, found out this week I'm having a daughter. Heck yeah. Getting the ABCs of gaming for the daughter and a friend of mine who's also having a baby. Freaking A. Fantastic. Love it.

All right. Delete now. Okay. I already responded to this one. John G. When are you going to start selling LTT pants and socks? I want to wear LTT from head to toe so that if I'm going to be a walking advertisement, I can at least do it properly. So fun fact, you ready? I am actually wearing prototype LTT socks. Yes, finally. They are merino wool. They have extra padding in the toes and the heel.

They have extra venting on the top. So whether you have an open shoe or a closed shoe, uh, you can expect to get a little bit more airflow on the top. Um, they right now are extremely close in terms of the density of the weave that I wanted, like in terms of the density of the weave that I wanted, like in terms of durability.

I still need to wash this pair to find out if we've solved the pilling problem. And I would still like to see if we can reduce the slipperiness of the sock. I like a little bit more grip. But overall, this is my first day with this demo pair. I am pretty darn happy. And if you guys want, can uh i can go get some pants right now so why don't you do a couple more merch messages and then i'll be uh i'll be right back is that good all right um ajg says when's female clothing coming to ltd store as far as

my understanding goes they are working on it in addition to other kind of more like sizing options things like like tall wide etc um but but it takes time it's difficult to do that kind of stuff uh allocation right now is difficult etc etc etc um but yeah it's it it is a it is something that they want to do also female underwear as well as far as my understanding goes that is also included in the previous statement that i said but i could be wrong maybe hit up nick on twitter um and then says also sup other aj watching on flowplane nice heck yeah brandon r says thanks for being half my closet and keeping my love of tech alive going Going to school for networking now.

Keep up the great work. Go Flowplane. Heck yes. Thank you very much. Bought a bunch of bananas. Anonymous said, just got HDMI 2.1 2x2 switch and was wondering if that cable tester you have can test anything with HDMI splitters, switches, and capture cards. No idea. Sorry. test anything with hdmi splitters splitters switches and capture cards no idea sorry uh christopher h thoughts on what is this

tltr lab open source slash ltd license community contributions yeah i doubt it um maybe there's certain ways that we can like validate that stuff we can maybe look into that um i'll maybe check that thread out later but there's a lot of potential issues there that's a that's quite the minefield so yeah ps luke hope that 5950x is still slinging bits after the pair. It absolutely is. So, heck yeah. Cool. Nice.

I like the zipper pockets, too. Oh, I guess you guys probably won't be able to hear me very well. I'm just going to change real quick. Oh, okay. Is this allowed on Twitch? I don't think so. Okay, well... But if you're legitimately behind the chair... Yeah, I'm behind going to change real quick. Oh, okay. Is this allowed on Twitch? I don't think so. Okay, well. But if you're legitimately behind the chair.

Yeah, I'm behind the chair. Yeah, he's behind the chair. Should be no problem. It's fine. It's okay. Okay. All right. There we go.

Wan joggers, ladies and gentlemen. That matches the hoodie pretty well. Of course it does. It's made out of exactly the same material. Oh, they're wan joggers. They're wan joggers. Oh my goodness. Yeah, because they have the logo on the other pocket too. Yeah. So there's the... It's like a stealth logo. Yep. Wow, that's super cool. Extra pockets on the inside. Dude, once you have those and socks. When? That's cool. I don't have to own any other clothes.

Yep. Another zipper pocket on the back, just in case. Condom pocket. That's actually our internal name for all pockets that have no obvious purpose. With the joke being that our audience definitely needs lots of condoms when they buy this merch they do oh nice yeah um so we've got the orange drawstrings um another zipper pocket uh kind of like cool, just like accents, stitching,

stuff like that. Yeah. I think the fit's awesome, obviously. Sorry, I know you guys can't really hear me very well, but I'm back now. It looks good.

So that's them. Landjoggers are on a ship and they're coming. Man, we've got, there's so much stuff coming. We've got some nice, like stretchy shorts coming. Oh, so those are, those are done and they're just on Man, we've got, there's so much stuff coming. We've got some nice, like, stretchy shorts coming. Oh, so those are done, and they're just on the way.

Yeah. Yeah. Nice. I pulled this out of the size run. Sweet. This is final. Final spec. Awesome.

Yeah, I'm extremely excited. These are, I mean, the only problem is that they are, we just won't have enough of them. Conrad asks, aren't those just American apparel sweatpants? Absolutely not. These are our own custom. They're using exactly the same material as the WAN hoodie. Someone asked if the zippers are YKK. If they're not, my merch team is fired because I told them we only use YKK zippers. Actually, I think some of the little hidden ones might not be. So the only time we don't use YKK is when there is, for whatever reason, not a YKK one available. Yeah, it is on the sample. Sometimes we don't have YKK zippers on our samples because they're just a fit sample. But when it comes to actual merch that we ship, I'm just like, it's one of the few blind brand loyalties that I have

is that whenever a factory tries to sell us on anything other than a YKK zipper, I'm just like, no. And it's a big problem because they've had supply issues like everyone and costs have gone on zippers, which really sucks. Because it's not just, we talk about it as a silicon shortage or whatever but it's it's like materials

like kind of almost in general captain observant asks why is the zipper backwards on the stealth hoodie because most people wouldn't notice but you're captain observant uh it's we just didn't think about it to be perfectly honest with you. The zippers backwards. Uh, it's, it's on the opposite side. Usually it's like one side for female clothes or one side for male,

but it's different rules in Commonwealth countries and the U S I don't know. Bridget explained it to me once and I glazed over. I was just like, whatever. I don't care for me. I don't have a muscle memory for that. I just figure it out and zip up my jacket. Like I don't, I don't, I, I, I, it doesn't cost me a lot of extra brain cycles. So, uh, anyway, so hopefully that answers your question. It's coming. It's

coming. Uh, I heard you answer a few more. Are you deleting the ones that you're done with or? Uh, no, I'm getting a little lost in how this organization is. Okay. So the curated ones i moved them ones down there that were not ones that i wanted to show up there but were ones that i wanted to okay then everything in incoming is done okay i'll delete them up you can keep going perfect all right uh julian says love your videos hey thanks julian have you guys considered making a video comparing different search engines for example example, I use DuckDuckGo not for its privacy, but for the convenience of BangSearch. No, I have not considered making a video about comparing different search engines.

Yes. No, I have not. I don't know that we would do that. I think that's probably going to be a tough sell i don't i don't think that would perform particularly well um paul says undies hi i'm paul i don't know why i moved that into curated oh probably because i just missed the notification because conrad didn't give me enough time speaking of which we have an update on the conrad challenge. Conrad says I can pick any game, give him two weeks to learn it,

and he will beat me. Conrad, I'm sorry to do this to you, but I really just, I'm kind of feeling hungry and I really want someone to buy me lunch. So I choose Beat Saber. I'd give you two months to play Beat Saber. But I've been known to make- I don't think you should have any training time.

I've been known to make concessions. I think he should just play you like right away He said any game boom I'm fine with two weeks David still owes me And I beat you at Beat Saber Challenge He says the end of the month by the way

For the people who keep asking about that So Conrad you've got two weeks To get better than me at Beat Saber Good luck. Okay. Epic. Good luck. I could have gone a couple different directions.

But yeah, I could have gone with Forged Alliance. That's a game that is not easy to pick up in two weeks, even if you're a very experienced gamer. Like Luke is a better gamer than me. Pretty much any genre. We sit down and play a conventional uh rts like starcraft or something like that and he will absolutely destroy me not forged alliance forged alliance is just it hits a little different not even close um it's like a full-time job keeping up with the meta even though

it's like a 12 year old game or whatever okay what else we got here in the merch messages uh any plans for heavier winter wear, asks Eric W. Yes, we do. So remember, if you are subscribed to the LTT Store newsletter, you'll have seen that we did a post about this like 3D printed down style like material. We have a jacket that would be meant

to kind of go on top of a hoodie. Like it's not a super insulated one, but it's like a layering up kind of shell, uh, waterproof. Uh, we're working on that. We also have a windbreaker that's even lighter than that. It's just a pure shell. Uh, we're working on that. Um, I don't know if either of those is going to make it for this winter, but the thing

about LTT store is that we're not really constrained in the same way that a lot of more traditional clothing businesses are. If we miss a season, we're like, F it, we'll launch it anyway. That sucks. Oh, well. Yeah, people in Australia can buy it.

Right. What do we care? I mean, we care, obviously. It'd be nice to, you know, we have literally millions of dollars deployed right now in merch that we have purchased but have not received and cannot sell

and therefore cannot make back our investment on. Obviously, we definitely want to sell stuff. Yeah. But it's not like we're under the same kind of pressure where if we miss it by a month you know now it's on fire sale and we're selling it at a loss following whatever various

current fashion trends whatever and we literally can't reuse it next year like it's not like that so it makes life a little bit easier for us but that uh man i really like that uh that that shell jacket with the the printed down type material inside it it's it's super warm it's super comfy it's got like a really nice hand feel to it i really like it uh that's a garment where sometimes you start with what your goal is in terms of the finished product so with hoodie V2, we started with the goal of making WAN hoodie, but like better. And then we went and we found, we sourced materials

and we sourced construction methods. Like we figured it out. With the jacket, we found a material we really liked. And we were like, let's make a garment now. So it can kind of go both ways. I was asking Bridget about it.

And apparently that's actually more common than you might think to find a really cool material and then be like okay we have to do something what can we do with this what is its best application yeah um thoughts between valve index or htc vive money is not an issue well if money is not an I mean, the index is obviously the way to go, Jose. But I also just got a review unit of the Pimax 8K or Pixmax or whatever they're called. I think Pimax. And also their 5K one, which I believe supports an even higher refresh rate

than the index. So I'm going to have a video coming on those once I get a chance to really try and daily drive them. Also, like, is he talking about the Vive vive flow or i'm not sure which it almost doesn't matter because if you're going for the highest possible performance the index is is better it's it's there christian asks what's your favorite color i feel like i've answered this question on wanshow before i'm not six i don't have a favorite color um do you have a favorite color not really okay i used to like answer that with red but now at this point it's like well no not really i don't

know so i don't know um just kind of yeah whatever good album good album re-released recently oh um uh this is a cool suggestion from Anonymous. I think it was last WAN show. Someone asked about fashionable anti-static wrist straps. But I was wondering if it would be possible to make an anti-static watch strap. So you just get a watch strap that's like just a broadly compatible watch strap. Then you just have like an anti-static doohickey on there.

And then you can just clip on and clip off and you never have to take on, put on and take off your strap ever again. A like standard G-Shock with a little. Yeah. Would be awesome. That's actually a brilliant idea. Yeah.

That'd be sweet. I like it. I'm going to email it to Nick. Nice. Do you want to do another one while I do that? Sure. This is from Anonymous. Very qualified for LTT lab position.

Has published four academic papers and one patent. Damn, Daniel. But can't start for at least six months. PhD, thesis, defense. And don't have Canadian work visa. That's a bit of an issue. That's tough. But if you have those kinds of credentials,

it's a lot easier to get you in here, which is one of the reasons that I didn't bring that up to the same degree as I have in the past in the hiring video. So you have to have like mean credentials like that though. He says, should I bother applying? Absolutely. I would.

Yeah. Yep. Luke, what led you to using... Oh, that jumped around. Oh, yeah. Yep. Luke, what led you to using, oh, that jumped around. Oh, goodness. Angular. Angular over React, Vue, or others. Love the channel and love what LTT is doing for tech.

My developers were like, hey, we want to use this. And I was like, sweet. Okay. Yeah, no, there was, it was a. Good management, Luke. It was a conversation over a decently extended period of time. Okay. Yeah, no, there was... Good management, Luke. It was a conversation over a decently extended period of time, but two of the main developers that do most of the work that would be that part of the project wanted to use Angular.

I'm sorry. I'm not going to butcher your name. So I'm going to go with Ivy, your initials. Hey, from Brazilzil any chance of an ios job position opening um we have one dev that actually does both android and ios for us and he is that's probably the word that i would use so we don't need another one right now because he is too overpowered um pretty much yeah you heard it here first but uh there's probably going to be a raise in his future when we talk about that pretty soon heck yeah yeah i think that guy's name was

isaac um oh is that i think it's just i think it's just an interesting spell oh like a more like south american kind of spelling yeah got it uh joe says i started watching your videos back in 2014 they helped me much in my career in IT. We don't only use Angular, just to be clear. Sorry. Building my first PC. I started mining this year. You helped me get ahead, so time to pay it back a little.

Mining, not exactly a popular thing with the PC community at the moment. Although, can I kind of go off script a little bit here? I think there's a lot of closet miners in the gaming community. Yeah. here? I think there's a lot of closet minors in the gaming community. Oh, yeah. Like, I think there's a lot of hate, but I think there's a lot of closet mining going on. When there's so much hate around a subject like that, a huge amount of the population that is receiving the hate

is just going to not talk about it. So you don't know they're there. Yeah, 100%. Yeah. I think that's a bit of a thing. So there's that. Hey, thanks, Joe. Anonymous, you should make more all black stuff.

Really nice for work. Also an all black desk pad would be cool. We have an all black desk pad coming. It's going to have like a circuit design, kind of like the wall in the lounge, but it's going to be black on black. So like stealth circuit desk pad. We've actually had a lot of feedback that um people in in different like working situations

are able to wear the all black stuff um like last show when i was just doing these we had feedback from multiple different people that they worked in environments where they were not allowed to wear things with branding and logos but they were able to get away with the stealth which i found pretty interesting people in in like filming departments that can't wear anything other than all black stuff uh there was another one that i i don't remember the context but he could only wear all black stuff yeah it was kind of cool yeah i mean honestly the where that came from was wanting the product to be good enough that people would want to buy it even if it wasn't merch. Yeah. That's the idea.

That's where the whole stealth name came from. Like repping a brand without wanting everyone around you to be like Linus, who's Linus? You know, that kind of thing. Or without having to defend it for one thing. And then the other part is because I feel like it puts more pressure on us to do better than just,

well, we took this cafe press thing and we silkscreened our logo onto it. We didn't always have the time and resources to do that, but it's definitely something that we're trying to do now. Pratush says, love the show. Given Apple's repair programs, how do you see right to repair factor in with integrated SOCs considering their performance

and efficiency improvements? So you're never going to be able to repair an SOC like yourself, but that doesn't mean that right to repair can't still make devices with SOCs more repairable. So whether it's making schematics available so that you could swap the SOC or whether it's at least not going out of your way to put encryption keys on the SOC

where all your data is gone immediately when you lose access to it. There's no way to even all your data is gone immediately when you lose access to it there's no way to even enter the the shared uh or not the shared whatever the there's there's no way to decrypt it even if you knew the password right if the if all the encryption data is stored on the soc even though the storage is somewhere else like there's ways that you can make a device more repair friendly, even if it's tightly integrated, which does have clear performance benefits. So it's just an attitude problem at the end of the day.

Cody says, I play Warhammer Vermintide 2. Vermintide. Vermintide. Oh, is it just spelled wrong? Maybe, but it's Vermintide. Is that a new game? No.

But it allows you to select the number of CPU threads threads the game can use would you consider trying that game for cpu performance tests probably not uh when we are looking at games that um can stress a cpu it's not necessarily that we're looking for that i mean if we wanted to restrict how many threads it was using we could do that um manually we could either disable cores on the BIOS. We could, I think, I don't know how well it works, but you could pin the process to certain cores using Windows. And really what we're looking for is games that are not very graphically demanding so that they're just, so that the CPU becomes the bottleneck.

That's really what we're bottleneck. That's, that's really what we're looking for. There's the organic chemist one. Wait, Oh no. The organic chemist one was a different one. Oh boy. I deleted it.

Now it's gone. I feel terrible. The point is deleted section. I don't think we do have an organic chemist position. No, but then there was a, there was a wife and the wife had credentials. Control organic chemist position. No. But then there was a wife, and the wife had credentials. Control F, chemist.

No, it's gone. Oh, shoot. Okay, I'm sorry. I feel bad, but there is really nothing that I can do about it now. Ihor says, have you considered constraining the width of LTT store to some centered container that doesn't span across the whole width of your screen? width of LTT store to some centered container that doesn't span across the whole width of your screen they include in that comment it looks a little weird on ultra wides and they are correct it does look a little weird on ultra wides um because it it spans really wide but if you're looking at me like you're waiting for me to answer this question no I'm giving you feedback because I don't I don't

know if you've tried it or not but it spans really wide but i believe it only shows four products wide or something so it is pretty funky uh and we are looking into doing more that one of the things that's holding us back a little bit from doing a lot of theming changes to the store right now is that there's this new hydrogen thing coming out um it hit more of an open beta recently but we were in more of like a closed beta program with it um and we want to use that but that is going to involve like a whole redo to the store so i don't necessarily want to do a ton of little stuff like that right now um because i'd rather put that work into the whole remake of the store got it it. But yes, I hear you. And it's not great. Henry, could you consider a supplement to the Linux challenge, maybe episode seven,

where Anthony or someone goes over what to look for in a Linux distro for gaming and some that are particularly good for game compatibility for a new user? I think what we already learned through the Linux challenge is that Linux people are not going to have that much difficulty in any distro. Obviously some will be easier than others and non-Linux people, it is a barrier that is not reasonably overcomable if your only goal is to play games. If your goal is to play games and to learn Linux as a hobby, that's a completely separate question, in which case go do your research on that or go distro hop for a bit. Because that's sort of the whole point.

Because that's what you're doing. Yeah. Right? Yeah. Joshua, VMware Workstation Pro 16 added support for DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.1

for virtual machines and games. It would be interesting to see a deep dive into what can be done with this feature. Yeah, maybe. Maybe. We haven't tooled around with VMware too much. And it seems like there'd be a bit of a learning curve for us to figure out what to do with something like that. But it's definitely cool. Zachary says, my father-in-law is the

director of an amazing international nonprofit called Curious Learning. It's apps and content to increase literacy in developing countries. Would it be worth suggesting they reach out for a potential collab? We don't do a ton of collabs just for the sake of collab. And we tend to try to keep things pretty on topic. And by on topic, I mean like hardware on topic. Software is not really something that we've got a lot of audience overlap with believe it or not yeah there's certain categories that you would think um intuitively would perform really well for us but i was actually having a conversation

with um our tech wiki writer john about how you know gaming topics are not performing particularly well on that channel and he's like what are they, are they just not gamers? And it's like, well, it's not that they're not gamers. It's just that that might not be what they consume on YouTube, right? Yeah. Michael asks, thoughts on some chip manufacturing being moved to the US and how slash when it will affect this shortage slash the market?

Well, not for a few years, but yes, it should help. But it also won't affect certain things. Like for example one of the issues with the automotive industry is they're still just using a bunch of outdated crap that nobody wants to build more fab capacity for so if they don't change that then it's not going to help and and this is part of your question but fab capacity takes a long time to bring online uh and even when it is online as far as my understanding goes it takes a bit to get it efficient as well uh chris e uh yes more wan themed products like the pants that i'm wearing right now uh would love to get your thoughts on diy perks custom ps5 chassis i haven't actually seen it uh sounds cool everything diy perks does is amazing yeah chris b uh this topic reminded me

that i could use a new water bottles so i went with the stormtrooper look one in hopes it won't hit anything and will stay dent free for longer that's very funny very funny chris get it it won't hit anything we've actually had that joke a couple times on the way have we already all right well that's a shame uh my or mal asks any word on the new kids book i haven't started it yet i I'm sorry. You are making one though. I want to do a counting book. I want to do a colors book, shapes book. I just...

Also, is LTX 2022 happening? So far, that is the tentative plan. We're going to try. We're going to give it a shot. Hunter, been watching since Langley House. Love the way your channel is going. Would you say Secret Lab chairs are comfy? So they sponsored this show, full disclosure.

They were a sponsor of the WAN show. But before Secret Lab had sponsored us, we talked about them in Alex's Intel Extreme Tech Upgrade. And as far as I can tell, they're using exactly the same materials as Maxnomic, who I've been an advocate for through sponsorship and not sponsorship for many years now. I think they're good quality chairs.

They don't have a lot of the same issues as the other gaming chairs. They are still, they have that look, right? But the material quality is significantly better than a lot of the really bad gaming chairs out there. Final two, last two, Eduardo. Oh, wait, this is more asking about ltd socks carrie answered that sup eduardo uh and matthew can floatplane get merch discount codes like the youtube join channel

uh yes i don't see why not but i don't know if we have a mechanism for it yet uh we we can we can get it working though okay do you want to like throw that in the dock or whatever it's there and do you want to throw this show to being over yeah thanks for watching bye anthony says short answer re good distro for gaming there isn't a best distro for gaming distros are little more than package management and defaults yeah that's fair there are some that are set up to get going more easily but as we've seen easy isn't necessarily universal depending on package stability and hardware configuration also the the easiness in my opinion is almost nothing like you pre-install the graphics driver which takes literally seconds in a lot of operating systems and in some distros distros sorry uh and and like in in the case of mint it was this big pop-up in the corner

that was like do you want to do the thing and i was like yup and it was like cool i did it for you and that was the only gap cool like it's not the hard part um pick the distro that has the most comfortable defaults and go from there. Linux challenge part seven is now over. Fair enough, Anthony. Mic drop. Mic drop, Anthony. All right. And we're done.