The WAN Show - I want to talk to you about Windows 11 - WAN Show Jun 25, 2021

Episode Date: June 28, 2021

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after a copyright claim. We're going to be talking about that. We've also got, what's our headline topic today? Ah, yes. Windows has turned it up to 11. And I think now that we've had some time to process both luke and i have some thoughts that's right we've got some thoughts on twitch and we're also streaming on youtube and floatplane what else we got today um amd's fidelity fx super resolution is finally here it has it has landed it is in the building and john mcafee uh just got epstein mcafee found dead in prison that is a very controversial way of uh phrasing that uh that's the title that's in the doc yeah i uh so he was he was found dead in a spanish jail

okay let's roll the intro. One moment, please. And the show is brought to you today by cloud linux honey and ridge wallet all right why don't we jump right into the headline topic windows 11 luke are you ready when are you okay you know what do we want to go through the main as soon as possible okay really i'm in i'm in really yeah i am not quite i'm i think there's a joke that i'm not getting here i did i did i don't know i'm feeling good about it really yeah okay let's talk about everything that was i'm gonna do it as soon as possible on like not my main device so i can make sure it's you know stable because i have to work okay sure okay but but i'm i'm highly interested i'll say that much okay so microsoft

windows 11 event took place yesterday making the new operating system official after a leaked build hit the internet a week ago. Some people were a little salty about the event, notably Anthony. I had to desalinate the script as I was going through it with him. I was like, you seem mad, bro. And he's like, well, I am mad.

I had to get up at six in the morning and they spent the vast majority of my precious time alive on this earth talking about stuff that doesn't matter and very little of the time talking about features that engineers actually worked on and so i get it i understand yeah not everyone in the world had to wake up and watch the event live people could have you know i think the general public could have probably watched a VOD. I don't think that's necessarily the most fair criticism ever. Or a really great compact summary on Linus Tech Tips' YouTube channel or

something like that. I think Tech Quickie, right? This time or Tech? Actually, we hit it on, we hit it on Tech Linked. We hit it on Tech Quickie.

We hit it on Linus Tech Tips. It's kind of big news. Nice. Yeah. It's sort of a big deal. Yeah. It makes, honestly, I get it. TechLinked. We hit it on TechQuickie. We hit it on Linus Tech Tips. It's kind of big news. Nice. It's sort of a big deal. Yeah. Honestly, I get it. It makes sense. And there's different ways of writing it.

Yeah, I'm in. I'm down. And let's talk about some of the stuff that was a big deal. Like, run us through everything they talked about during the event here. This, I think, is actually... This is bigger for me than I almost would like to admit but rounded frosted glass aesthetic i have hated so much how windows 8 8.1 and 10 have all looked i i just i don't normally care that much about aesthetic stuff but like you heard it here folks man you heard it here

folks luke doesn't like him flat he likes them round it's just a thing okay come on um it it it does i wouldn't say it looks like windows 7 um but it it resembles some of the older rounder designs a little bit more i like the look of vista sorry sorry yeah yeah i can hear the boos i can hear the boos from here but i liked it i um i liked some parts of it i think if you when you look back at vista now it's kind of like yeah yeah that's fair but at the time i liked vista i really liked windows 7 um this might get some flares but especially at the time yeah not not really anymore but especially at the time i really liked windows xp um i so far i like the general design

aesthetic that they're going for which is very cool uh they have a new touch optimized interface that makes sense it offers larger touch targets and visual indicators okay smart and you know hold on i mean let's let's let's go through these a little more slowly because i want to talk about that i've seen a lot of people kind of actually hating on that and i don't really get it anymore because sure that i mean when did when did windows 8 come out uh was that about 10 years ago i think it's just it 8's release date 2012 august 1st 2012 so that was nine years ago windows 8 came out at that time i understand why people were upset about a touch first approach to a desktop operating system it made no sense to yeah nowadays outside of the desktop, you walk down the laptop aisle at your local Best Buy, I'd say a solid at least 30 to 50% of the Windows devices do have touchscreens on them. And as someone who has gotten very accustomed to touch on my laptop in particular,

I have no problem with Microsoft giving a little bit more thought to how I can use Windows better with a touchscreen. And compared to what they did with Windows 8, so far, I haven't seen anything to indicate that Windows 11 is really giving the middle finger to desktop users in order to make touch better. That's a very important point because when we first got Windows 8 with the Metro UI stuff and it looks like you're playing that game where you have to shift the blocks on the board to make the picture connect, we're not dealing with that.

It's just a little bit more optimized. It makes it a little bit easier, which totally makes sense. But you can see in their videos and stuff, they didn't hack everything up and make it look like Windows 8 again. The Metro stuff can get out of here. Anyways, this one, I didn't actually catch if you could realign it. But I did hear they said default.

So I'm kind of hoping that means you can realign it because I'm not really sold on it so far. But the start menu is center. The taskbar is now center aligned. You can means you can realign it because I'm not really sold on it so far. But the start menu is center. The taskbar is now center aligned. You can. You can realign it. There's a registry value that you can change to move it over to the left. At least that is true in the early build that we saw. Now, one thing that does appear to be true based on what I've seen so far, but I haven't actually tried to force it,

is that it doesn't appear as though you can move the taskbar and the start menu to the side or top of your display. And some people are super mad about that. And you know what? I get it. As much as I personally vomit inside my own mouth a little bit every time I see a taskbar on the left or the right. vomit inside my own mouth a little bit every time i see a taskbar on the left or the right because and maybe part of it is just that i come from the the five by four and at the very worst

16 by 10 days you know like for me it's just it's a sin to put the taskbar on the left or the right because it used to be you actually had most of your space you didn't care about at the bottom of the screen it was a sensible place to put it crts were four by three early lcds were five by four and then 16 by 10 was the like the early widescreen resolution so it always like made sense to have it there and then 16 by 9 it's been the it's been the screen aspect ratio that has bothered me rather than me adapting myself and my habits to put my taskbar somewhere else where the extra space is i would also argue that a lot of modern apps and a lot of websites have kind of normalized this menu on the left side absolutely absolutely and and vertical scrolling

now that everything's designed for mobile is totally more important so So I get it. So as much as it makes me vomit a little bit, I understand why people want to do it and I will defend their right to use their computer the way they want to do it with my last breath. I mean, this is something that we talked about when I was complaining about not having T9 dialing on iOS. The point was not that there is no other way to dial a number. So many people brought up that you can swipe down and use spotlight and type someone's name and then call them that way. You can. Good for you. That's not the point. The point is that it would cost basically nothing for Apple to implement it. And there's also nothing wrong with T9 dialing. to implement it. And there's also nothing wrong with T9 dialing. And why am I allowing Apple to decide how I should use my device? They should just give users choice. Using a device should be

in a way that's comfortable for me, the user. Remember, the customer's always right. Remember, that was a thing a long time ago, once upon a time. Well, I don't really agree with that. Okay. sometimes the customer is a complete idiot and that's fair yeah sorry karen you're just gonna have to leave the store but yeah but in this case i absolutely side pun intended with the people who don't think the task bar and the start menu should be stuck at the bottom. They should be allowed to move it because who freaking cares? And maybe for Microsoft, they were sitting here going,

well, it's a lot of work for us to have this swipe in from the left widget thing and also allow people to have a start menu there. It was going to like mess stuff up and our aesthetic would be bad. You know what? It's not up to you. Just let people use their computers

the way they want to use them. There, that's my whole thing. Make it able to be designated. I want this side to be make it able to be designated i want this side to be the swipe in news thing i want this side to be the start menu exactly how hard is that i mean probably hard yeah i i admit i'm admittedly not a software developer but i think it's worth it i think it's worth it that's all all right what's next okay uh moving on redesign start menu with office 365 sync of course and one drive search of course um search is probably still going to be a complete mess that doesn't work at all um i i'm no i'm gonna i'm gonna believe i choose to believe luke i choose to believe it's not like they've never

built a good search in the start menu they used to have a good one i mean it's been a while i i don't believe yeah you don't believe all right my my issue is that i they're still gonna have it like internet connected it's still going to search the web and it was theoretically incredibly easy to fix this entire time if they just prioritize local over web and they just never did it and like there was some other options but i or there were some other problems but personally i think that was the core one because i believe that caused a lot of the other ones and they just never fixed it so i don't believe they're going to fix it now because they want to be your one-stop shop they want to be your search they want to do that other kind of stuff so

they have this ulterior motive that is going to lead them down the path of still suggesting internet stuff over local stuff which is not good can i play devil's advocate for a second here. Now, Microsoft has a ton of telemetry data from Windows 10 users about how they use the OS. What if, Luke, what if searching for files and programs on your local PC is actually the minority of how that feature is used? Okay, so maybe i haven't personally ever heard of someone complaining about it working that way and when it fails to find things that windows 7 or or windows 8 could have found that's when it gets really awkward um It feels, if it had the same level of functionality

and also gave web results, which it doesn't, to be very clear, but if it did, I don't think you'd have these level of complaints. I don't mind the fact that it searches the web, to be completely honest. I do mind the fact that I can never find really basic things and I end up installing the installer for things repeatedly because the installer for the software

can find that I have it installed, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Super annoying. Because I'm like, oh, I guess I never installed that tool that I thought I used once eight months ago. And then it's like, wait, I did. Search just never found it. Cool.

Now, here's another crazy sort of out there thought. Mass Gulking says i've had so many issues doing tech support with people not understanding that some of the window search results are web results totally so what if through the feature being so bad all the users who wanted to use it for local search just outright stopped using it and all the people who liked using it for web results continued to use it and it became sort of this positive feedback loop so that they continue to double down on it being a web search feature it's one of the problems with telemetry data is you don't necessarily know when something is is frustrating you just know that people are using it um right i yeah there's there's a lot of issues

with there's a lot of issues with that um in a lot of different ways right you gotta take it for what it is and i yeah i think there could be worries about um them using it the wrong way all right what else we got all right next up new on-screen keyboard it has emojis it has tenor gifs it has gestures it has a thumb typing board gifs yeah go ahead gifs he's so mad he's so mad that's uncomfortable um yeah i mean that's cool that kind of goes in line with the new touch optimized interface stuff like that that is going to be helpful oh for sure i'm i'm excited i'm excited i use a two-in-one daily so that i'm really excited for that i don't so it's not like a major personal thing for me but i think it's a very good thing for the operating system to have as a whole you know what it's going to be great for okay do your next thing i'll be right back yeah uh new widgets panel slides in

a pane of not gadgets of not gadgets and news from anywhere sure it's they're trying to modernize they're trying to feel more like mobile they they're going to have it so you can slide in the thing from the side or you can get news if you have a android phone i'm sure apple has something similar if you have an android phone if you swipe to the right on your home page you can get news. If you have an Android phone, I'm sure Apple has something similar. If you have an Android phone, if you swipe to the right on your homepage, you should get a lot of news and stuff on the side. Pen input is getting better with haptic feedback support.

That's fantastic. It's a good thing. It's definitely only a good thing. Auto HDR is coming to Windows to expand dynamic range for non-HDR games. Pretty neat. Direct storage supported out of the box on windows 11 for games that support it also good they talked about games a lot at this event um xbox game pass is now part of the xbox app included in windows cool i sort of thought that was already a thing actually he's back we'll talk in a moment

i'm here i'm listening i was just talking about how it says xbox game pass is now part of the xbox app included in windows was that not a thing already uh oh man one sec I think the integration is just better. It's kind of like the multiple desktop thing. A lot of people were really confused when I was talking about that in the initial video. They're like, actually, Linus, Windows has had support for multi-desktop views for a long time.

You just use this button. No, no, I know. They made it better. So now you can have different backgrounds for your different monitors. views for a long time you just use this button like no no i know uh they made it better so now you can have uh different backgrounds for your different monitors if you have a multi-monitor setup and stuff like that i had just meant that they improved it i didn't mean that they didn't have a feature like that at all it also does a better job of remembering where your windows are supposed to be when you unplug or plug in a new monitor so um that was what i was talking about sometimes i

think people make assumptions when i say something they kind of um make assumptions based on words come out of my mouth the way this is written leaves it kind of it's not too open to that it says xbox game pass is now part of the xbox app included in windows um which i sort of thought it already was but maybe i am wrong um moving on though direct teams integration of course um it also says here probably because microsoft couldn't buy discord oof um and android app support in like a way that I'm not a huge fan of, which is it's relying on the Amazon app store, which is kind of.

However, this is pretty cool. So check this out, ladies and gentlemen. John Joe asks, Hey, regardless of the Amazon Google app store stuff, surely you'll also just be able to load APKs from windows,

right? The answer is yes. with an exclamation mark. No beating around the bush, nothing like that. So sideloading apps appears like it will just be a thing. Boom, there you go. I dig it. Yeah, as long as you can sideload apps. Remember when the ability to sideload apps

was not a special feature you know what i'm saying by default yeah yeah remember when we could take that for granted just being able to install an app from an unknown unknown source if we feel like it anyway okay also windows store hooray our favorite thing ever uh it now gives apps that use third-party payment 100 of their revenue actually pretty cool that's actually pretty cool unless it's a game but their cut is pretty low it's 12 as of august 12 12 12 um that's still that is pretty low comparatively etc etc um but et cetera. But yeah. Apparently it says here,

but they neglected to tell us about some other things. I'm sure this is still Anthony. So I've actually had some requests in the float plane chat for the non, for the fully salinated Anthony cut. Oh, interesting. Okay. I've never done anything like this before but i think they want the pre the pre-edited version of the script yeah you should do a script read um do you do you guys do you guys want to hear want to hear what the video would

have been if i had not changed anything that anth wrote. Cause we don't really, we don't really talk about this a lot. Like people know, I think that as the host, I, um, I, I, I, I do input some of my thoughts into the script and I do make adjustments to what the writers initially bring to me, but I think they might not realize how much at times I might change. So yeah, okay. People want the full salt mode. Everyone's super into it. Okay, so I will be curious to know.

Okay, the problem is I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to straw poll it. Okay, I'm going to straw poll it. Okay, I'm going to straw poll it. I want to know which cut you guys like better. But I think I already know the answer because I know that as the hardcores who watch the WAN show, you guys love Anthony and anything he does is automatically magic.

And that's cool because I love Anthony and I think everything he does is automatically magic. So I already know that Anthony's version is going to win. The other reason I know Anthony's version is going to win is because you guys are the hardcores who I think would like us to take a more adversarial stance on things Microsoft and Windows. But what I was doing, I just want to get this out there. What I was doing was I was trying to take some of the personal cynicism out of it and try and make it more about the news. That was the goal. So, okay, which cut is going to be the question? And we're going to have Linus cut, Anthony cut, I don't know, Snyder cut. There you go. We're a voter. Yeah,

create poll. Okay, so I'm gonna I'm gonna drop this. I'm gonna drop this into the first the float plane chat. We're gonna have you guys go first and I'm gonna start I'm gonna start the read. You guys ready? I'm not doing it in ASMR. That was not that was not a big success for us. The whole ASMR video thing. No. It was the worst performing video in a very long time. All right. So the first frame was going to be Linus holding up a laptop,

simulating a Windows update with the camera tight on it. And then it's going to say, when the line reads, it only seems that way, we're going to quickly lower the laptop to reveal Linus's face. So we ended up doing a slightly different version of that. It's not every day Windows gets an update. It only seems that way. But this is no ordinary update. For the first time in six years, we're finally getting an official look at a new operating system from Microsoft.

But wait, wasn't Windows 10 supposed to be the last version of Windows? What about Windows 10X? And were we wrong about Windows 11 in our preview of the leaked ISO a week ago? Microsoft doesn't seem to know. But I know about sponsors like blank talking points here, animated intro here. All right. When we first saw Windows 11, it looked like little more than a major interface redesign for Windows 10. But on closer inspection, there was more going on under the hood than we gave it credit for, with reports coming out that Microsoft had enhanced support for hybrid architecture designs like Intel's Lakefield and ARM's Big Little, which is about to come

very relevant very soon. And that's why it's so frustrating that Microsoft didn't seem to care one bit about what their own engineers were doing under the hood, and instead spent like 90% of the whole runtime just patting themselves on the back and waxing philosophical about how much work gets done on Windows. It's a given that people use Windows, guys. People get work done on Windows. We use Windows for most of our workstations. I don't care that we use Windows.

I care what Windows is doing to make that experience better. And there are only a few major items that Microsoft touched on. The first and most obvious is the new visual design. They kept talking about how it should feel familiar, how it should feel like home, blah, blah, blah. TLDR, we've seen it already, save for a few details. It's a frosted glass aesthetic with multiple theme styles, rounded corners on Windows, and a center-aligned taskbar, an optimization that Microsoft made clear was for touch users. The new start menu, clearly lifted from Windows 10X, is supposedly powered by the cloud, which is shorthand for, we included Bing search as usual, and it's

probably why it was so bloody slow when we tried it out for ourselves last week. So this is part of the editing process as I corrected him that it only did that when we were using like software based GPU acceleration, it was fine when we were running on a real GPU. But hey, now your recent documents will sync across devices if you're using Office 365. So there's that. There are more useful changes, of course. Snap layouts let you quickly and easily tile windows in different orientations, similar to how the fancy Zones power toy works today, except significantly more user-friendly and significantly less configurable.

Microsoft says that nobody else lets you do that with this many windows, and I don't know if you noticed, but Linux has had that kind of tiling for a long time. They do bring something new to the table here, though. Windows grouped this way will group together in the taskbar and be treated like a single item, so you can switch to and from a window layout on the fly, and virtual desktops can now be customized with different wallpapers, just like you can customize your water bottle with the stickers you get for free from lttstore.com.

What's more, they finally fixed the issue where Windows rearranged themselves semi-randomly when monitors are disconnected, instead minimizing Windows that were on the removed display and putting it all back when you reconnect. That'll make docking a laptop way less frustrating, although I'm not sure what happens if you disconnect the display,

then start working with Windows that were on it before. Do they get moved back when you reconnect? There's more for all-in-ones and touch displays in general too. Touch targets are bigger now with more visual feedback and there's a new on-screen keyboard we didn't get to try out in our test drive that looks a lot like the iOS keyboard, right down to the ability to move the cursor around by holding the spacebar. It's unclear right now whether the keyboard shows up automatically when you touch a text box or if there will be a dedicated button for it at least for the example they showed of a microsoft office comment it dismissed the keyboard once the comment was finished so there must be some mechanism that tells it to raise or lower

so anthony doesn't use a touch and ape sorry this is me again anthony doesn't use a touch enabled windows device on the daily so i i told him that there's already a mechanism for that so i would expect they wouldn't remove it so So we cut that part out. But that's all boring productivity stuff. What about gaming? Well, Auto HDR is coming to Windows after debuting on the Windows Xbox Series X, excuse me, and direct storage support is baked into Windows 11

at the OS and driver level. That brings Windows more in line with traditionally Xbox features. This was something I really took exception to. I was like, Anthony, you're clearly mad, bro, because you gave you gave auto HDR and direct storage support two lines out of hundreds. Anyway, that brings Windows more in line with traditionally Xbox features. And that's really about it. Yeah, Xbox Game Pass is now integrated into the Xbox app that comes

with Windows, but it wasn't exactly difficult to find before. So that's why you were confused, Luke. We did get more promises... Okay, but I still don't get it. Sorry, we'll try that again. Hold on, hold on. Let me get through it. We did get more promises of cross-platform play, as is the tradition by now, but we have no idea how many titles will support it, or if it's a system-wide thing or what.

For an operating system that's supposedly considered every detail, we got practically none for how long that segment lasted. Oh snap! At least additions to pen input look pretty sweet, with the addition of haptic feedback to simulate the feel of different tools as you're using them. Not really a whole lot else to say about that, though, because they only showed it briefly, just like they did for screen rotation, which is much more streamlined now, with windows rotating smoothly with the display, and tiled windows in landscape mode stacking onto each other rather than arranging unpredictably as in the past.

Speaking of unpredictable, Teams is now integrated into Windows directly? When did everyone start using Teams? Am I out of touch? There's now a dedicated icon that gives you what looks like a searchable jump list of recent contacts and buttons for interacting with them. I'm not sure this is what anyone was asking for, but at least they have something akin to iMessage and FaceTime built in. So that's cool, I guess. There was a brief mention about dictation and voice commands, like they've been doing for decades now.

So presumably that's also received an upgrade to compete with Siri on macOS. macOS. They made a big deal about how this all works on any platform, like that was a dig at Apple or something. In fact, they made a lot of digs at Apple throughout the event, from lines like, I don't want to buy a tablet and a laptop, to saying, what's Intel doing right now with their 11th gen, or what Intel is doing right now with their 11th gen processor is just awesome, after calling out AMD and Qualcomm as equal partners. It's more than a little obvious, and they made a lot of these not-so-subtle jabs throughout

the presentation. Even the Windows 11 page on their website has this kind of thing in place of genuinely useful information in the FAQ section. I thought he was pretty mad there. Another thing they spent a long time talking about. The Windows Store, now with the ability to order hardware, show movies, TV shows, and other content regardless of the streaming service, and integration with the Amazon App Store. You can run Android apps directly in Windows, no word on whether sideloading is possible or if you're stuck with the Amazon Store, but presumably

the hope is that if enough people run Android apps on Windows, they'll eventually demand UWP versions be available in the Windows Store, similar to Blackberry's hopes before their platform died. Windows isn't in any of danger of dying right now, but Microsoft's App Store is sorely underutilized and they blew a lot of wind about how it's super easy with industry-leading rev share and support for outside payment processors so they don't get a cut. It really felt like they came just short of getting on their knees and begging. They also practically begged us to care about their new widgets panel, which they described as a beautiful sheet of glass powered by AI. In effect, this is the same thing as the news and interest panel Microsoft added to Windows 10 in another update, but with additional features. As the name

suggests, it does support widgets for the first time since Windows 7, even if they were called gadgets back then, and it can be brought up or dismissed quickly by swiping in from the left edge of the screen on a touchscreen or clicking the icon for it in the taskbar. When will Windows 11 be available? Microsoft didn't tell us, instead saying on the FAQ that it should be available on new PCs starting late this year, while the update for Windows 10 users will start rolling out in early 2022. Also, no word on pricing. According to the FAQ, it's a free update for Windows 10 users with no set expiry date, but we have no idea what, if anything, it will cost at retail for PC builders.

Speaking of PC builders, get subscribed because we're working on an epic length video that will be the last build guide you'll ever need. Another thing Microsoft didn't tell us and buried in the FAQ, system requirements. As we've already seen, Windows 11 requires Secure Boot and TPM 2.0 to function as a security measure, and this may chafe some users. It also needs two or more cores, 4 gigs of RAM, 64 gigs of storage, and a DirectX 12 compatible GPU. Significantly more all around than Windows 10. There's a health check tool you can download to check compatibility, but apparently our workstations aren't compatible? Why not? I don't know. Go buy a new PC. Microsoft, please, at least tell me. Is it the TPM thing? It's probably the TPM thing.

What's more troubling, however, is this note that Windows 11 Home Edition requires an internet connection and a Microsoft account to complete first-time setup, and you get fewer features for using one. Desktop wallpaper is no longer synced with your Microsoft account between devices, and the timeline feature has been removed. There's more. The taskbar is now locked to the bottom of the screen, the start menu no longer has support for folders or groups, live tiles are gone, and the menu itself can't be resized. Tablet mode is gone and replaced with the new touch inputs, and Cortana mercifully won't bug you during the first time setup, nor take up unnecessary space on the taskbar by default. It is so frustrating digging this kind of thing up because these changes normally would have been touched on in past Windows reveals. It's unclear whether Microsoft intentionally leaked Windows 11

before the big reveal today. It was obviously from an earlier point in production than we were shown, but it did get a lot of eyes looking their way. In fact, the first thing that tipped anyone off was that Windows 10 now has an end-of-life date, which is October 14th, 2025, putting Windows 10's service life at just over 10 years, a few months short of Windows 7's. Was it a good operating system? Well, I don't think it'll be remembered as fondly as Windows 7 was,

but it was better than the mess that was Windows 8. Here's hoping Windows 11 continues in a positive direction when it finally reaches our PCs. So there you go. That's what ultimately changed compared to the video that we uploaded. That was the Anthony Cut. Do you think that build guide's going to be

the Windows 10 of build guides? It could very well be. It could very well be. There will be new CPU... This is the last one you're ever going to need there will be new cpu sockets okay there will be new interfaces but this will be the last one you will need we're expecting it to be over an hour long like this is going to be everything you need to know that's kind of the idea behind it So I'm going to open up the voting First we're going to have a look at the results from Floatplane Here we go

We have 79% of people preferring the salty Anthony cut With 11% of people preferring the desalinated Linus cut And 9% of people wishing that Zack Snyder had stepped in. That never actually happened, so I don't know why you guys are voting for that. I do wish Snyder did cut in. Yeah, I'm in that

group. Yep. So we're going to go ahead and we're going to let Twitch vote and I'm going to go ahead and drop this in the YouTube chat as well. So let's let the masses have their say now. vote and i'm gonna go ahead and drop this in the youtube chat as well so let's let the uh let's let the masses have their say now i think the problem here is that i think the anger is coming from the event and not as much the operating system that was yes which and that's that's an issue in my opinion um and that's that's like yeah okay

so the events at a weird time i i think probably a disproportion about it disproportionate amount of the unhappiness and saltiness is probably coming from that um and then also it wasn't very informative yes for sure now to be clear anthony has no problem attending events and no problem getting up early. He's the one who gets up early to launch every embargo GPU review we do, for example. He's a good sport. He's a great guy in general. No complaints there.

But like anyone who has to do, he doesn't like his time wasted. Right. And the event wasn't great. Like Anthony doesn't mind like his time wasted, right? Yeah, and the event wasn't great. Like, Anthony doesn't mind spending his time. He doesn't like to spend it for nothing. And I don't blame him. In fact, that's something that I feel has contributed to me feeling more jaded and cynical over the years. Because it's become this pattern where you get pulled in,

It's become this pattern where you get pulled in, you get an inordinate amount of your time taken up by just useless fluff when all you really want to do is work on the tech and make videos, do your job. For sure. And I totally get it. And I would probably have felt the exact same way. And if I was in Anthony's shoes, I probably would have written a super salty document and been all mad and i would have changed it yes and i and i think one of one of the problems with this whole thing is the reality of it is i didn't watch the event yep so it's almost an inside joke at a certain point yeah why would i watch the event you guys watch the event yeah i'm gonna watch you guys i did watch you guys like i don't i don't care about the event i don't want to watch the event i don't want them to try to sell me something that you guys can then figure out all the actual important bits of and then tell me which sounds far more productive to me because i also don't want to waste my time for the exact reason that you guys are upset so you guys did a great job because the video seemed good i didn't feel like i was wasting my time

and that's why i'm actually somewhat excited about it yeah because i mean it's an it's another operating step in the 20 operating system step in the 2020s right like it's not blowing my socks off yes but i think it looks pretty good i think some of the improvements are really sensible i think a lot of the improvements to the touch stuff even though that's not something that i that's not a way that i engage as windows very opposite often i think those are very smart and in the right direction i like yeah things seem pretty all right um samurai warrior over on floatplane says i feel like reveals for many of these big companies have simply become fluff slash hype pieces to only interest us and not let us know what's Warrior over on float plane says, I feel like reveals for many of these big companies have simply become fluff slash hype pieces to only interest us and not let us know what's really

going on. So that's a fair criticism. And that's a big part of the reason that I think, like Luke was saying, people don't feel like watching them and they want to wait for someone like us to go through, watch it for them, just take out all the complete garbage add in the stuff that wasn't in there and put it together for them in 10 minutes instead of 90 minutes i used to get so hyped about watching stuff like e3 as well yeah i don't watch it anymore for the exact same reason and a big part of the reason is that i think that as part of this trend towards companies taking control of the narrative around their own products and services is that they have lost track of what was good about launch and hype events like remember how furious you were back i think it was the 980 launch i want to say

when nvidia dragged you out to timbuktu nowhere somewhere is this when is this when i oh yeah so that we were far away from our thing yes yeah they dragged you out to the middle of nowhere didn't give you the information that you needed so you were basically just a chair warmer in the in the audience so that they could do their live stream and reveal all the information. And you were kind of sitting there going, why am I even here? Why didn't I just watch this, summarize it from the comfort of my Cheetos stained chair at home

and then tell the peeps about it and get a good night's sleep instead of sitting on a plane because I'm six foot two or however tall you are. Three, yeah. So just for some context there they brought us they had us they put us up in a hotel and it was all nice and stuff but i don't care about any of that and then the event was really far away from the hotel which is where all our stuff is and we have like some laptops and cameras like we bought we brought what we could to the event. They have a pre-meeting below the stage, like downstairs below the stage at the event.

So everything's going upstairs. We can hear people sitting down in their seats while we're having our pre-meeting, which is where they tell us like 80% of what they say on the stage, but they don't give the actual important information. And then when they're on the stage, they give all the important information and then they immediately close down the event and are like

okay it's after party time we're closing the basement the upstairs is for this party thing and you can't go back to the hotel yet so there's nowhere for us to work i can't film this thing i i made like a handshake agreement with the workers that were tearing down all the stuff that was in the basement to let us stand in the corner and film our video and brandon and i just filmed our video there and then if i remember correctly brandon just like edited it on like a pile like the laptop was just sitting on like a pile of uh a pile of folded tables and he was sitting on like his backpack or something and that's where he had to edit the video and then i don't remember how we uploaded it but it was it was just it was such a nightmare um and it sucked and that yeah that made me salty but you have to yeah yeah you gotta you guys don't care you're just you weren't there

so yeah and in a way it's kind of better for me to not because i didn't sit through the event so i was able to come at it with totally fresh eyes seeing the condensed version that's a big part of what works so well about our current workflow for doing these events is uh one or usually two or three people from the writing team are watching they're live tweeting they're making notes for the various uh various channels i mean apple events these days we have to have at least three people watching them because Riley has to know what's going on for TechLinked. He's going to have his own spin on it. Usually, Anthony is going to be covering it on the LTT side of things.

He's going to have his own spin on it. And then now Jonathan Horst from MacAddress is going to have to watch it for his more Apple you know, Apple oriented spin on it. There's really no way around it. So it's like, it's amazing how much it costs me in like labor hours every time Apple hosts an event. Anyway, that's not the point. The point is during the script review process, which is me for LTT, and then actually there isn't one for TechLinked or for Mac address. Actually, I think James works with Horst on Mac address. I shouldn't have said there was no script review. But for me, I will not have watched it. And I'll be going in kind of wide eyed and excited with this super condensed like from concentrate Apple event. And it really gives a kind of a fun dynamic to the way that we kind of go through and edit the

script and kind of have this uh this back and forth between someone that kind of had to sit there hearing apple go on and on about what color their stupid keyboard is this year and then someone who gets to gloss over that and focus on the really cool stuff like um you know the the the neat you, mag safe connector for the iMac or whatever. Yeah. All right. We've got the final numbers. We've got the final numbers for the poll.

Here it is. You guys are, you've come at me. 55% prefer the Anthony cut and I got only 35%. But like I told you guys, that's exactly what I expected to happen. But I'm sure Anthony is going to feel validated in his saltiness for

sure. Why don't we, if there's anything we missed here, let's see if there's anything. Ah, yes. So this is interesting. TPM, so Trusted Platform Module, has come out as being a little bit more nuanced than we initially said in our preview and then in our event coverage. So technically, TPM 1.2 will work for DIY systems. So that's good because that means we'll be able to go quite a bit farther back than we thought. But OEM systems must have 2.0. TPM 2.0 tpm 2.0 modules have apparently already begun being scalped online the prices are skyrocketing this is from shen yi price history of this thing is going from around to know though if if you do the health check on your computer and it's like oh you don't have this in a lot of cases you just have to go turn it on in your uh in your ufi bios yes so intel

skylake amd zen and newer have it built in via intel's ptt and amd's ftpm but it's disabled by default so you just have to make sure that you enable it however there are some other things to consider here it's unclear what windows is doing with the tpm so if you swap your motherboard or cpu does that equal broken windows install you don't know yeah that's uh that's a that's definitely an uncomfortable part of this whole thing for sure early reports also say that you can force install without a tpm so maybe it's not that big of a deal i did see some people saying you can just take a Windows 10 installer and just copy all the Windows 11 different files onto it and then just install it and it'll install Windows 11. I'm not sure if that

gets around the TPM requirement, but it's pretty clear that Microsoft feels that a TPM is going to be necessary going forward and that this is going to be a big pain in the butt for everyone from DIYers at home all the way up to professional sysadmins that are managing fleets of devices I mean that's going to be a massive nightmare like one really horrible thing already is just like if you're using legacy boot mode for whatever reason maybe your system just was like being a butthead at some point about ufi mode um guess what full reinstall time no ifs ands or buts because you cannot use legacy boot mode with tpm enabled period that's pretty brutal yeah yeah do not like it do not like it yeah the the wallpaper sync with microsoft account not uh being cut is just like weird

i don't really care it's just like why yeah i don't know honestly i don't even like it i kind of hate that feature in fact right now my desktop has a wallpaper that just it got because i got a new laptop and it has this asus rog whatever wallpaper on it and then my desktop doesn't have windows activated so i can't change it well i can change it i'm just lazy you just right click a thing and set a desktop background but you can't use the personalization menu so i didn't i uh have my windows activated across the board. So I have different backgrounds for all my systems. So I agree. I just don't really understand why they cut it. I don't know.

Maybe just no one cared or maybe people just didn't like it. And that's the thing. If you're all sad that it's gone, just email yourself the picture and then set it as background again. It's really not a big deal. It's not exactly difficult to work around. There's actually a couple of super chats here that are sort of Windows 11 related. Nightmaster85 says, do you think in the future, Microsoft will want to make Windows fully cloud-based? So instead of buying a powerful machine, consumers just buy extremely cheap hardware that uses 100%

cloud. So it's like Chromebook on steroids. Microsoft is definitely headed that direction, or they're definitely headed closer, but I don't know if they will actually go there. So I'm going to defend that statement and point out that x cloud right x cloud for xbox is pretty much microsoft moving in that direction okay yeah it's only the xbox right now but like an xbox is just a computer and okay the xbox and microsoft is pretty over their whole like don't cannibalize each other thing so yeah so we actually had this discussion internally where we kind of went you know at what point does microsoft just admit that the xbox is a computer and just let you install chrome browser on it and Adobe Premiere and whatever. At what point does Microsoft just become overnight

a tier one system integrator with an enormous install base and this huge ecosystem advantage over anybody else in the space? I don't know. Nothing really prevents it. I mean, one of the things that is different architecturally about an Xbox compared to a typical PC is that the Xbox uses the same memory pool for both the CPU and the GPU because the CPU and GPU are integrated. But it's been demonstrated already in that Chinese console. I'm afraid the name escapes me right now,

been demonstrated already in that chinese console i'm afraid the name escapes me right now but there's a chinese console that was using a very similar architecture with gddr something whatever that was connected directly to an apu like cpu and windows was running on it so clearly it's capable of it um i don't know man guess we'll see guess we'll see. Guess we'll see. Yeah, either way, it's interesting. I'm happy something's happening. Yeah. And I'm happy to tell you about our sponsors. Hey!

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And if you use offer code WAN, you can save 10% at ridge.com slash WAN. All right. Are we going to talk about John mcafee found dead or or we can talk about the golden eye remake or the summer sale shopping spree okay let's talk about the golden eye remake this is super sad um the golden eye maps painstaking created painstakingly created by Far Cry 5 player Crawlywood have been pulled offline after a copyright claim. There's no one else it really could have come from other than Bond license owner MGM. And MGM already has had a bit of a history with not playing nicely with game developers who want to work with the bond franchise i remember i forget who it was from nintendo that basically said yeah

the reason that we never saw a golden eye remaster or any continuation of that was due to not being able to figure it out with the relevant rights holders. Crawlywood said on Twitter, Ubisoft sent me a mail because they got one from MGM. And also, I don't know if there's a legal way to upload them again because I'm on their radar now, I think. If you guys hadn't seen this project, it is so cool. Hold on a second. I'm on IGN.com and there's... Okay, you know what?

Here, let's just show this. This is absolutely amazing. Wow. Like how fun would it be to go back and play GoldenEye like this instead of like this and with a keyboard and mouse instead of the janky controls? I saw this and I was super excited for it and I really wanted to play it. I didn't even own GoldenEye as a kid, but I would always go over to, um, I'm just trying to think. Taylor had perfect dark matt had golden eye i'm pretty sure it was matt's house that we played no taylor might have had golden eye and perfect dark the point is

i had to go to friends houses to play it but i loved playing it they always let me play as odd job because they were the ones who played the game all the time and i was so i was fundamentally allowed to cheat and i was really really excited to play it through again um i mean other than just being upset about it i don't really i don't really have much else to say other than that this sucks i mean especially given that crawlywood didn't recreated the levels from scratch i'm having a hard time seeing how they can justify forcing him to pull these down didn't you say it might have had something to do with like uh audio files or or soundtracks or something like that yeah uh my understanding is there was some reuse of

the soundtrack that i could see being more problematic. But here's the thing. There's a big difference between what you have the right to prosecute or what you have the right to enforce with respect to copyright law and what you probably should enforce. I mean, youtubers in particular all the time will use things like clips from south park we did it i actually had completely forgotten because it's a habit we have done away with over the last few years using any kind of copyrighted content just because we don't want to deal with that that mess but in our video about this like child gps tracker dongle from like five six years ago we used a clip from South Park where the kids are wearing these child tracker 4000 helmet things. And you know what,

that's that's absolutely the kind of thing that if Comedy Central or if Trey Parker and Matt Stone wanted to go after us about, they potentially could. And we could make the argument that it's fair use. But until we fight that out in court, they're in the right. You're basically guilty until proven innocent when it comes to that type of potential copyright infraction. So what that means is that a lot of the time, the bets that we make, whenever we do include any kind of copyrighted content, which actually we do include in things like TV reviews, we'll just have a movie, like an actual Hollywood movie running on the TV, and we'll talk about what the experience of watching it is like on this particular display. while they could technically go after us about this, they probably won't because it's not in their best interest.

We're just using their content to demonstrate how a product that their content can be enjoyed on performs. What's in it for them? In fact, we're even a lot of the times talking about how much we love this movie. And when it comes to fair use... Someone could use it poorly. Someone could say, oh, I'm going to do a review of a TV. I'm going to sit much we love this movie and when it comes to fair use it someone someone could use it poorly someone could say oh i'm gonna do a review of a tv i'm gonna sit here

and watch this movie and they just watch the whole freaking movie absolutely clearly not what's happening in this scenario because there's four pillars for fair use there's the purpose and character of the work including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for non-profit educational purposes now linus media group is a commercial endeavor is is for non-profit educational purposes. Now, Linus Media Group is a commercial endeavor, is a for-profit enterprise. So we're potentially in a little bit of trouble there. But also the character of the use is editorial. So that's where pillar two comes in, the nature. Oh, sorry, excuse me. So editorial. So you could make the argument that, okay, yes, this is a for-profit enterprise, but they're utilizing it in an editorial fashion as

opposed to entertain the audience when the original use was to entertain the audience. And that's where pillar two, the nature of the copyrighted work comes in. There's also the amount and substantiality of the portion that's used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole. So I think that MGM probably has some ground to stand on there, given that fundamentally they recreated the game. But then there's number four, the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work. So, okay, what that basically means is how much is this infringement damaging the original value of the copyrighted work or the rights holder's ability to monetize it? it and given that this is a game that's been out of print for many many many many many years with no plans for a re-release that i've heard any word of it's really not affecting it at all if anything it's creating additional uh interest in the franchise in the original work and potentially

increasing the value of it so it would be not an open and shut case but i do think that outside of the use of the music which you know you could say okay yeah what about soundtracks you're really in you're really affecting the ability to monetize the soundtrack for goldmine for n64 i mean you can make that argument um i don't i don't agree with it i'm just saying like i feel like that might be one of the major grounds for yeah what the why they jumped up uh i would not be surprised if the files for this surface in some way somewhere oh for sure um i haven't found one yet but oh send it over please no like actually oh all right but i'm definitely not trying and definitely won't send it to you if i do find it hey thanks bro yeah you know what's funny is i actually um oh no i i didn't yet i was just

looking at finally buying far cry 5 in order to play these maps because i haven't really had any interest in a far cry game since far cry 2 burned me with a an unrecoverable save state uh but it's in the it's in the summer sale for 11.99 canadian which for those of you who are not familiar with the canadian dollar is not a lot of US dollars. It's like $9 US. Actually, we had talked about this in the pre-show. I was on a bit of a shopping spree before the show started because the Steam Summer Sale is on.

I bought Rick and Morty Virtual Reality, or Rickality, excuse me. I've been meaning to play that, but I was like, eh, I'm not spending $30 or whatever the regular price is. Is it good? I know someone who played it and I was going to just borrow it from them.

Alex, Alex played it. And he said it was like, fine. It was good. If you like Rick and Morty, you'll like it. So I was like, okay, yeah, sure. I'll play it. I also bought Titanfall 2. That's based on your recommendation, Luke.

I got it for eight Canadian dollars. And believe it or not, I have not played The Witcher 3. So I've been spending a bunch of time playing Bravely Default 2 on the Switch. I have like 55 hours in it. And honestly, I shouldn't have put that many hours into it.

It's just not that good of a game. That's a lot. Yeah. So I'm kind of sitting here going, I can do better. I can do better than this. I'm going to find some better games to play. So that's what I so i'm kind of sitting here going i i can do better i can do better than this i'm gonna find some better games to play so that's what i've got so far uh but maybe you guys can hit me up with some of your recommendations what should i get from the summer sale i'm already gonna grab i'm already gonna grab far cry here let's have a look at what we got you guys gonna

help me out with this you know maybe we'll do it at the end of the show i might i might do it at the end of the show we'll do it at the end of the show we've got a couple more topics to get through here uh i want to talk about i want to talk about uh i don't know amd's fidelity fx super resolution we could talk about that uh i feel like i feel like you could just watch anthony's video he did a really great job of going through it um yeah mcafee just got epstein'd so the man who hates or hated his own self-titled antivirus software has been found dead in a spanish jail mcafee was arrested in october at barcelona's international airport and earlier that month charges were laid against him in tennessee for evading taxes related to income gained through cryptocurrency promotion, allegedly. He owed $4.2 million in taxes for income between 2014 and 2018, and the death occurred hours after a Spanish court approved extradition to the United States to face tax charges.

He was potentially looking at decades in prison, which at his advanced age would have meant the rest of his life. It would have been a sentence of up to 30 years. McAfee previously stated in a tweet, and this is kind of creepy. I am content in here. I have friends. The food is good. All is well.

Know that if I hang myself a la Epstein, it will be no fault of mine. There's also a tweet from him saying getting subtle messages from us this is john mccaffey was um very interesting you want to go down like an interesting rabbit hole um just look him up if you don't know a lot about him so i'm not this stuff is do not take this with like, yeah, as I think I've said in the past, an industrial bag of salt.

But getting subtle messages from US officials saying, in effect, we're coming for you, McAfee. We're going to kill, we are going to kill yourself. I got a tattoo today just in case if I suicide myself. I didn't, I was whacked. Check my right arm. if i suicide myself i didn't i was whacked check my right arm seems very i don't i don't even want to speculate i don't want to speculate but he um it i very interesting dude very very interesting character um and uh we know him for his AV software,

but he hasn't been involved in years and actively denounced it in a bizarre video in 2013. It truly is bizarre. There are also lots of other bizarre videos involving or about him. There's Booth Babes or something. There's, I don't know. It's really weird. Anyway.

Yeah, sold his stake in 1994 for a reported $100 million. Intel has since bought McAfee back in 2010 for $7.6 billion. I don't know who actually owns it now. I don't think Intel owns it anymore. Not sure. Yeah, I'm not sure.

Purchased by Intel in February. On September, something, something, strategic, something, something, something. A predecessor industry type public. Maybe they spun off. I don't know. It doesn't matter. I kind of don't care.

I don't use it. Yeah. A strategic deal with TPG Capital to convert Intel security into a joint venture between both companies called McAfee. Okay. There you go. So apparently they still own some of it. Intel maintains a 49% stake. Okay, then.

China bans Bitcoin mining in Sichuan. They did warn of this. They said quite a while ago that they were going to effectively do this. The crash has happened. And the good news is we're already starting to see hints that GPU pricing might begin to make its way back down to a reasonable level. I'm super excited about that. to make its way back down to a reasonable level. I'm super excited about that.

Bitcoin is now down to, I think it's at about half of its high of about $65,000. Yeah, it's at about $32,000 now. Just to be clear, I'm not a bull or a bear. I'm out of the game. I do not own any Bitcoin whatsoever other than... Actually, no, I don't think I own any bitcoin whatsoever oh yeah right we had the lounge pcs mining for pizza money for uh work lounge nights so once we have our next stage of reopening which is going to be july 1st we can start doing lounge nights again i'm super excited this is interesting james says part of what could be causing, he wrote in his notes,

part of what could be causing the crypto crash would be miners selling their coin in order to finance moving their operations to other countries. Yeah, I could see that. Enough large-scale mining operations need to move enough large-scale business operations. For sure, I could see that. In the end, this is a good thing for Bitcoin and decentralized currency in general, because having so much of it concentrated in one authoritarian country, um, was not a good thing for a decentralized currency that wasn't supposed to be dependent on, uh, government overreach, right? The Boston Dynamics dog is now a Hyundai. So, uh, Hyundai announced that it would be buying a controlling stake The Boston Dynamics dog is now a Hyundai. So Hyundai announced that it would be

buying a controlling stake in Boston Dynamics back in December. The deal has now gone through. They apparently spent, wow, only $1.1 billion. Isn't that amazing? You know, how much a discord of the world is worth compared to how much someone that, you know, actually, no offense to Discord, but actually develops like a groundbreaking world-changing product. The company plans to leverage Boston Dynamics to create a robotics value chain where they'll focus on manufacturing, construction, and automation. They also have made some surreal concepts, which they might get some help from Boston Dynamics with for like their 2019 walking car concept. So yeah, a car that could drop you off right on your doorstep. That seems like something everyone needs, which is neat.

I find it pretty interesting that that changed hands. I find it very interesting that it was allowed to not be american i don't know yeah go figure right i have a big announcement for lttstore.com yes you guys knew it had to happen a follow-up to the sad linus pillow we officially have linus selfie sequin pillow so you can you can adjust him to have whatever face you want it's the tackiest it'll be the tackiest thing in your house by far guys it's for the memes okay it's for the memes um hi Linus bye Linus you know what I'm saying uh check it out now lttstore.com we've got all the pictures that you might want to see.

Obviously, people are memeing it up. So there's a couple different styles now of the meme pillow. There you go, guys. The launch is official. It's been up for a couple of days, actually, but the launch is official now. Oh, do you remember when I ran to get something before? Because I was talking about how important the keyboard is to me on Windows. Yes, yep.

This right here. This is such an amazing little emulation box. The Aya Neo has become my favorite of the little portable Windows gaming machines that we've checked out recently. That Tencent-funded one was just kind of too big. windows gaming machines that we've checked out recently the uh that that ten cent funded one was just kind of too big uh the gpd win uh which one was the latest one whatever then the last gpd win that we reviewed it was it's kind of too small now now that i've played on this one this thing is freaking awesome and i'm really looking forward to having a better keyboard because while i use a two-in-one for my my bigger portable device and i don't i can always unfold it and use the keyboard with this thing i actually have to

use the built-in keyboard so having one that's better with more features is absolutely a plus for me and i'm super excited for it it's also just man it's so it's so natural to use the split keyboard on here so just having more features more themes i'm super into it it's such a great little emulation box um my my son is playing uh super mario rpg really enjoying it so far and he's doing it on here it's like the perfect experience for that i actually ran out and bought a copy of it did i tell you about that luke you did anthony was that video i didn't know that both you and anthony were willow video uh fans but uh he apparently goes there just you know to go there and just check it out because it's just a cool place to be and he saw a copy of super mar RPG complete in box, actually in great condition.

And he was like, hey, this is a little more than I want to spend, but it looks like it's less than what they're going for on eBay for complete in box. And it seems like the kind of thing you'd love to have. I love the Super Nintendo. I mean, that was my childhood, right? And even though I didn't play Super Mario RPG as a kid, I played it as a young teenager, emulated, of course. And it was really exciting for me to have an opportunity to own it. And of course, there's a physical copy of it,

which got my son really interested in it. So he wanted to play it. So I got RetroArch fired up on here. And now he can play it absolutely guilt-free in RetroArch because we own a copy of the game so that was there's some games that don't hold up i feel like a lot of games from back then actually hold up somewhat okay like super nintendo games in particular if they weren't trying to come across as like bleeding edge modern then they hold up okay because like the art styles and everything

are just like it's more of an art style instead of a limitation like no offense but starfox on super nintendo it's it's rough it's pretty bad warwind is atrocious yeah like i like one of my favorite games ever you go back to play it unmodded it's just like but um some of the ones that leaned into the art style rock and roll racing is a game that is still outstanding all these years later it's so good yeah so good yeah it's i i i played it for the first time ever because i i actually i've emulated quite a few things but i never emulated that and i never owned it when i was a kid um but i i played it way after the fact and it was still still great super rpg is fantastic you know what's another game that i need to make sure i get this sweet community modded version of before it disappears

did you see that the super mario world widescreen mod is now available for download no they man i love the retro gaming community so much because that's yet another excuse for me to get yet more hours of entertainment out of that game they actually modded the game to run completely like the actual original game it's not a recreation mario jumps exactly the way he jumps in widescreen so the level you just actually see more of it. I am so excited. I feel like that's kind of OP. That's amazing. Like it's overpower. Like you can see some of it is like, if you can see stuff earlier,

you can react to it. That's fair. That's fair. It changes the gameplay. It would still be fun to go through and play for sure. I'm definitely going to go through. I'm going'm gonna play it i'm really excited for it um oh man nasty and on says i've got a copy of final fantasy 3 complete in box from when i was a kid the only thing i have left from mine i actually lost my cartridge when i moved from uh my dad's

house to my mom's house i left left everything behind, including my Super Nintendo. So I was really choked about that. But the one thing that I do still have is my original manual. It is completely destroyed, but not destroyed in like a it-got-destroyed way. Destroyed in a my parents won't let me play Nintendo right now, so I'm just going to sit and read the manual over and over and over again it doesn't

have the front or back cover i just i just loved looking at the artwork and reading the little character bios and memorizing you know blitz combos and all that kind of stuff i was a kid right so i loved it loved it um is there anything else that we oh right so well you know what i'll do my shopping spree a little bit later. Yeah, I think that's about it for kind of main topics I wanted to talk about. Why don't we do, uh, why don't we do some super chats? Let's do super chats first. So those people who don't care about my steam shopping spree can just leave.

Uh, guys do a full review of Microsoft power toys. I've been meaning to do it for so long. It's been on the list guys. I want to do it. I've been meaning to do it for so long. It's been on the list. Guys, I want to do it. I've even got a great title for the video. What did I want to call it? Where is it? Shoot, I can't find it anymore.

Power Toys. Thank goodness I don't have to switch to Mac. It was going to be my clicky title for the video, and it was going to go through just a bunch of really great stuff in Windows Power Toys now that they're finally back. Love it. Girlfriend just ordered an LTT water bottle to go to PNG for her dad who works in a mine.

Ready for a tropical stress test. We'll report back on results. Hey, fantastic. Love it. It'll do great. Stardock Start 10 has pretty much solved my complaints, says Zovastria about Windows 10. Search, et cetera.

Hopefully it will work for Windows 11. Love the channel, by the way. Hey, thanks so much. Kevin C says, hey, just wanted to say thanks. Your vids helped keep me sane and motivated while finishing my PhD dissertation and I successfully defended it this past week. Hey, that's awesome.

I also used the info I learned from you all to build my first PC funded by my graduation gifts. Fantastic, Kevin. Fantastic. Awesome. Mark C. Fenn says, love the show. Watch every episode. Luke's mom should guest host again sometime.

Aaron Larian says, as someone who struggled with alcohol i appreciate having someone to look up to who doesn't drink thanks for being you linus hey i mean honestly for me it's not about that it's just uh you know i just i just don't feel like i need it and if that helps you then that's freaking awesome yeah that's awesome uh and to be clear, I'm not down on anyone who doesn't enjoy the bottle from time to time. That's, you know what? Anything in moderation, but it's just not for me. That's all. Turth says, do you think Intel and AMD and OEMs

are encouraging Microsoft to increase minimum requirements so people buy newer devices and hardware? You know, I don't think Microsoft would need any encouragement because you got to remember, now that they just allow you to upgrade your old Windows to new Windows, it's actually in their best interest that you buy a new Windows PC. I think that there could be a little bit of conspiracy, tinfoil hat truth there.

I also think that Microsoft could be a little bit of conspiracy tinfoil hat truth there i also think that microsoft sees the future as um microsoft store xbox marketplace and uh generating revenue based on ips like buying bethesda as opposed to clearly trying to keep you in windows more the news app thing is a thing they're trying to make the xbox thing more a thing they're trying to keep you in Windows more. Absolutely. The news app thing is a thing. They're trying to make the Xbox thing more a thing. They're trying to make the store more a thing, etc. Spaceman says, question. I have a network of rigs for flight sims. That's not really a question.

Okay, but there's a question after. The DCS program is heavily single-threaded, so we use 5900s overclocked. These rigs are ATX systems rigged to AT cases and thermals are an issue. Should I bite the bullet and build a rack mount config? Absolutely. Rack mount is amazing. Not just from a cooling perspective, but also from a maintenance perspective.

Especially if you don't put the racks up super high. If you don't need a ton of them, I don't know how many you have, but pulling them out, being able to work on them, slide them back in. Boy, is it a back saver, man. Like, it's great. Most of the problems, this is John saying most of the problems can be fixed just by putting more settings. Like a setting for where the search function can search local or local and the web the user can turn on and off. Yeah, they could do that, but they want people searching the web right like that's what they want

marksyfen says would be interested to hear your thoughts on the sony x85j a 4k 120 hertz tv that comes in 43 inches so it would be great to use as a monitor it has sony's color thing which i think is quantum dot and variable refresh rate coming in the future until sony actually delivers three inches. So it would be great to use as a monitor. It has Sony's color thing, which I think is quantum dot and variable refresh rate coming in the future until Sony actually delivers variable refresh rate on their, on their displays. I can't recommend it. I can't recommend things based on what will come. And we talked about this in our review of their new OLED. Um, so until that happens as for using quantum dot with full array array local dimming on the desktop, honestly, I don't know.

Sitting that close to it with a mouse cursor moving around, I personally find it distracting. It's fine for enjoying content, but it's not, in my opinion, it's not great for desktop use. Here's something. Oh, Cryptix says, did you see the interview DMS did with Sanova and Sennheiser? It seems like Sennheiser will continue doing what they've always been doing. Yeah, I did see that. Actually, DMS sent it to me. And I'm extremely hopeful, but I also don't know if it's a guarantee. Legit Smith says,

Linus, you mentioned you wear earbuds to sleep every night. Would you consider making a video ranking them as to what you found is best for wearing to bed? So far, I love the AirPods Pros just because their active noise cancellation is great. They're so comfortable. I've been using the Sony, whatever their stupid model number is, WF-1000XM4s.

And unfortunately, I found that the touch controls on the side get activated quite a bit when I'm moving around in my sleep. And when the voice comes on saying, active noise cancellation, ambient, or whatever the message is, it's quite distracting. And it starts and stops sometimes which is really annoying i'm also having issues with the start and stop working in plex which is what i'm often using when i'm listening to content while i sleep so unfortunately i'm gonna have to lose them for for sleeping but other than that i really like them sound quality is great if i was just a daytime user i'd be keeping them but i am going back to my airpods pros which is unfortunate because i just accidentally left them in the parking lot and they got run over.

Yeah, the earphones themselves, not the case. So I only, one of them actually still works. It's just a little cracked, so it's not going to be very water resistant anymore, but I did have to order a new right side one. Right. Should we go over your shopping spree? Yeah, sure. Actually, people keep sending super chats. They're sending a lot Yeah, sure. People keep sending super chats.

They're sending a lot of them. Guys, stop sending super chats. That's going to keep happening if you keep staring at it. James Ryan says, speaking of Anthony earlier in the show, I'd love to see more Linux content. He wants to do more Linux content. We've actually got a really good one planned

that's kind of like a beginner's guide to setting your PC up with Linux. And it's going to be more tutorial-y than a lot of the things we've done in the past, less about entertainment. But I greenlit this a little while ago with Anthony, where it's going to be like, okay, you know absolutely nothing about Linux. Here you are, absolutely everything you need to do in order to install Linux and try it out for realsies, including getting Proton running so that you can game in Linux, get your GPU drivers installed, all that kind of good stuff.

Thanks, Theo. All right, that's it, guys. I'm cutting it off. I'm cutting it off. No more. I'm sorry. That's all the super chats I can do. I don't know why you guys send super chats. We can't do that stuff all the time it's uh it i don't know it's one of those things where philosophically i believe that content creators who lose track of being content creators and shift their focus shoot i might have accidentally ditched there we go who shift their focus to um just talking about being a content creator lose themselves i think they lose uh they they lose what makes them a great content creator so rather than making the show about q a i would rather you know you guys ask me questions when i'm game streaming or whatever

and make the show about being a show anyway yeah time for time for my shopping time for my shopping spree here so the show's over i'm just shopping in the steam summer sale now so i've got floatplane chat up and luke's gonna luke's gonna help me out here display capture so i'm gonna start with so do i need standard edition or gold edition here for what uh this is far cry 5 standard edition for 12 instead of spending double for gold seems fine right what even does what is i probably but what does gold even give you i don't know that's really frustrating that's something that steam actually does not do an amazing job of spelling out like why doesn't it just say exactly what the heck gold edition is

sometimes if you scroll down it's i don't see anything useful here check out the entire uh five far cry new dawn blah blah blah no it just doesn't say apparently the dlc is meh it's the dlc just get the standard okay there it is uh it's going in the cart is this which one is this uh yeah i got kind of bored of this one part way through not gonna lie it's the one where i can play the golden eye levels i hope ah right got it so for 12 bucks i'm just gonna go for it just winging it hopefully they get released at some point. Yeah, okay. So what else should I be looking at, guys? Help me out here.

Something that I'm not convinced on yet, but I'm kind of interested in is Outer Worlds. Outer Worlds? A lot of people have told me that it's supposed to be really good. The Outer Worlds? The Outer Worlds, yeah. yeah oh that's still 32 dollars even on sale it is it's an obsidian game they made fallout new vegas fallout new vegas is freaking amazing um yeah i don't know low plane chat says it's pretty darn good yeah i'm on the fence for the exact same reason you are right it's not it's not quite there

to the like that's an obvious buy price range yet but it's a lot of people have told me that it's a fantastic game and it is it is like over half off so i got a really strong a recommendation for outer wilds like get outer wilds forget about both games both games they they they got released at like a pretty similar time it was very annoying um and i've heard that they're both very good so i don't know huh what even is this it's like a it's a space adventure games rpg adventure game sure yeah all right okay all right thanks for the recommendation okay what else are what else are we checking out here uh man everyone's got command alt escape says a quarter million on pillow stuffing, but won't buy a $30 game. Okay.

Look, I don't, I don't mind spending money. I don't like wasting money. Okay. Like that's the whole, that's the whole thing for me. It's the same conversation that you had about the,

the Microsoft event, right? A hundred percent. You don't mind spending time. You do mind wasting time. exactly all right get gta5 and skyrim you know what those are two games that also came out during that era of gaming that i didn't get to participate in because i was busy having children and like starting a company and stuff i don't think i'm gonna go back to them though i just don't see it happening those are both games that would require such an enormous time investment

that I just don't know if I can do it. Titanfall, I already grabbed Thorlum based on Luke's recommendation for the single player. That one's short. That one is quite short. The single player is super short. And there's one thing that's kind of nice. The multiplayer is really fun, but it's pretty sweaty. There's a lot of tryhards um right but there is co-op versus ai multiplayer that's also actually quite fun

right which is cool so you can like play multiplayer with your buddies um yeah yeah it's cool epsilon seven says both of those games are on game pass i do not have game pass um i don't play games on a consistent on like a regular enough basis to justify game pass i actually spend less picking up the few games that i will play on sale compared to what i would spend on game pass i know it'd be really burstyy. And I'll play a game for a bit. And really enjoy it. But then just not have the time or whatever. To play for quite a while.

And then want to go back to it. And for me honestly. I've looked at the costing. And I think I've saved money. By not having these subscription services. So far. So yeah. Better with Connect asks. Hey when is background play coming to ios on floatplane no yeah apple has i don't know if jayden is is in the chat but he'd

probably be able to tell you better he's he's jayden has been wanting to do more things for the app lately um and i've been kind of holding him off a little bit just because he is working on some really big things for the website in general um which should also make app development stuff better yada yada yada he's he's working on some really big stuff then we'll get back to the rapid updates for the apps later. Yeah. Okay. I've got someone. It's my fault, not his. Someone apparently super chatted me this and then subscribed to Floatplane to send this recommendation.

They want me to get Space Engineers. It's a sandbox game about engineering, construction, exploration, and survival in space and on planets. Players build spaceships, space stations, planetary outposts lordy okay this looks very involved really cool and also like an enormous time commitment like to put it in context i didn't pick up apex legends because i was like, ah, this is too much to learn. Ooh. I don't know. It's an MMO, but Final Fantasy XIV has an amazing story while also being a great MMO.

I don't know if I want to get into an MMO either, guys. By the way, I do already own GTA V. Is it an MMO? I just haven't. No, no, no, no, no. Final Fantasy XIV. Oh, don't... Yeah.

Did you see Final Fantasy IX is getting an animated series? That's cool. No, I had no idea. I'm actually kind of interested. Did you ever play IX? I don't think so, but maybe. I might have dabbled with it. Oh, yeah.

I really enjoyed it i'm actually uh i'm actually kind of interested in any marvel or star wars content these days yes yeah i'll give it that for sure i really like the old final fantasy movie um i don't know what it's called but yeah final fantasy movie that's cool What about Dragon Age Inquisition? What does the chat think about that? It's on for $11. Dragon Age. I remember not being a fan when it first came out. Which one is Inquisition?

Inquisition was after 2, I believe. I loved Dragon Age Origins. I put so many hours into that game. Dragon Age Origins was incredible. I feel like the entire series just took a a free dive after that um but i am wondering about dragon age inquisition oh wow i still have my save games from dragon age origins my character lira hold on a second what What's this? Oh, wow. I got my character. I got my character. Here we go.

Here we go. Here we go. There she is. What a badass. I can't. I don't have it up. Oh, sorry, Luke. You missed out.

It's going to be like a while until I see it. You missed out. You missed out. Origins is best by far, people are saying. Yeah, I don't know that's another game that's a huge commitment and if it's not if it's not as good as Origins I'm just

I don't know honestly at that point I'd rather just replay Origins play Origins again yeah yeah Borderlands 3 lots of Zeons come on i'm not playing fps diablo i'm sorry i played a fair bit of the first borderlands and eventually i sort of realized and someday you'll realize it too that it's diablo i uh i i have a weird idea i wouldn't necessarily say it's Diablo. I have a weird idea. I wouldn't necessarily say it's a recommendation,

but a weird idea. I have been told, I have heard through the grapevine, that Assassin's Creed Unity has aged like fine wine. Apparently they fixed it. You're a little bit biased when it comes to Assassin's creed luke i don't know i i think three is an atrocity i think uh i i thought unity when it came out with it was an atrocity um i have heard this and i'm seeing it for less than five dollars and i don't think

i want to buy it um because i think it's probably still garbage but uh yeah the the all reviews are mostly positive but the recent reviews are very positive i have heard that it runs far far better on newer computers and i've heard that they fixed it but i have no idea does ubisoft have a sale going on right now as well is that where this is coming from nope that's steam steam sale oh it's on you play as well for four dollars and fifty cents assassin's creed unity you said yeah yeah it's on it's on steam for four dollars and 49 uh well i'll save the uh oh 449 you know what i'm i'm just gonna get it in you play i because of ano i mean it's gonna launch and you play anyways yeah so so it doesn't make

it oh so i should save the penny is what you're saying oh well uh i mean i might as well but then but then it's in steam i can't remember how that works exactly no i'm just gonna i'm just gonna grab it on you play yeah yeah it's four four dollars and fifty cents audio surf is great audio surf so good man there's so many games on sale oh yeah okay you know i picked up doom eternal recently and i was having some some fun with that it's not it's not a game that i like couldn't put down or anything. It's got a great flow to it though. Yeah. You've played it? 100%. I actually just bought it

as part of my shopping spree, but I've played it in benchmarking it and it's one of those games that when I'm benchmarking it it's kind of hard to put down. I end up just kind of not focused on making a video and focused on just

playing a game it's been fun to just like every once in a while I just want to like mindlessly dunk on some monsters it's like okay I'll let up Dune of Eternal I haven't beat it or anything but I enjoy it apparently I need RimWorld this is $35 guys

a sci-fi colony sim. Oh lordy. You're getting suggested a lot of like really big like sim and engineering games. Okay so let's remember I don't have babies and I'm not starting a company but I still have children and I'm still

running a company. More than one. Okay I'm getting a lot of recommendations for dishonored dishonored is cool i like dishonored it's five bucks should i just get it off and stealth and uh tactical assassination game not necessarily assassination you can as far as my understanding goes you can beat the entire game um as a pacifist but but it's like, it's, it's very much like a stealth and tactics and decision-making type of game

approach scenarios and in different creative ways. And you get rewarded for it. Yeah. Yeah. All right. It's, it's very dark. It's a very dark game.

Um, a lot of recommendations for Hades. Is this a dungeon? Hades is a, Hades is's is a um roguelike yeah okay i don't know if that's my style i don't know if you're into roguelikes um it's from supergiant which are the people that made like bastion and stuff the art's fantastic music is fantastic the voice acting is fantastic i could not get into bastion it's it's nothing like bastion oh all right super giant every game that they've

made has been very different from every previous game that they've made nick nick is piping in hades is insanely fun i highly recommend nick is a big fan of hades i like hades a lot i don't know if it's your style um it's a great game i don't know if you would necessarily individually get a ton out of it okay if i don't get valheim um alex is going to crap bricks it's only 10 off but i will try it i'll try valheim okay alheim is also a very large investment of time i'll try it i'll try it people are saying you can beat it in a week you can beat it in a week of probably pretty heavy play i see okay all right okay if you just like google everything um oh i don't like doing that if you if you don't google everything it will probably take you a little while oh

anthony's texting me games too okay why Okay, why is everyone sending me games to buy? Okay, I've got some Anthony recommendations. He wants me to get Bloodstained Ritual of the Night. Pricey, but a solid Metroidvania by the guy who made Castlevania. Also, I don't think it's your jam, but Ace Combat 7 is 75% off and Project Wingman's a similar price. Both are excellent games for the genre. And I should get Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes. think it's your jam but ace combat 7 is 75 off and project wingman's a similar price both are excellent games for the genre and i should get keep talking and nobody explodes actually i should

really get keep talking nobody explodes nobody explodes it's amazing all right i got some really good recommendations from from anthony there that was kind of cool yeah all right all right i think that's pretty much it for the show today. Thank you guys so much for tuning in. Really, really enjoyed it. Had a great time. We will see you again next week. Same bad time, same bad channel. Bye.

For everyone recommending Kerbal Space Program, I already own it. Thank you. I haven't actually played it yet, but do own it I gotta try it at some point and stream ended