The WAN Show - I’ve Got 99 Problems - WAN Show December 20, 2024

Episode Date: December 21, 2024

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You know what's great about ambition? You can't see it. Some things look ambitious, but looks can be deceiving. For example, a runner could be training for a marathon, or they could be late for the bus. You never know. Ambition is on the inside. So that goal to beat your personal best? Keep chasing it. Drive your ambition. Mitsubishi motors I would like the first words I say to not be cut off this time Oh, I've been told that the last couple streams we've done the first words been cut off So are you too fast? I gave myself a longer millennial pause And it is gonna be a great WAN show worth waiting for

for a couple of seconds We are gonna be doing a video soon on kind of tech gripes and so that's where the title comes from I've got 99 problems and I'll make a video on some So we're gonna be giving you guys some of the gripes that we found will be taking suggestions from you guys getting some Verification from you guys cuz hey if there's an easy workaround, then we don't want to waste anybody's time in our Tech Gripes video. We are looking to have things actually solved here.

In other news, HP is downgrading printer features when you don't buy genuine ink. It's not as bad as it sounds, but given that it sounds so bad, that's a really low bar. What else we got this week, Luke? We have an update on FTC banning hidden fees from hotel and ticket prices. I believe last time we talked about it, it was a possibility, and now there's a date. Okay.

Which is good. That's three topics though that are like not gonna keep people engaged for a whole show. Can you pick one good one? Ahhhhhhh... Oh, terrible. Ahhhhh one? Terrible terrible There's definitely gonna be inappropriate mods for Final Fantasy 7 Okay, I'll keep them here. They'll be alert. They'll be attempted. The show is brought to you today by Ridge, Rocket Money, Pulseway, and the quiet move

we pulled where we doubled our sponsors with LG as our laptop partner,brand has our rap partner and secret lab as our chair partner that was quite the gamer move dude No one called us on it. Yeah, literally no one good stuff the business team over there, man There's just cooking go business team. Just wait till we double it again. You're gonna. You're gonna see All right So we are making a video with complaints about tech not big complaints like the ongoing march towards zero Ownership and liking it the complete disregard for the ecological impact of AI or the insure Fication of absolutely everything we're talking small things like how cookie settings are Specifically designed to be user hostile and intimidating.

So you'll just click invade my primacy, do it now, invade my privacy, or how power saving mode on Windows 11 renders the battery icon useless. You ever notice that? No. Power saving mode comes on, you get the little icon, you can't tell how cool it is.

Oh yeah, because it puts the thing in front of it. Because it puts the thing in the front front We've got other good stuff to do with the notification tray on Windows like how if you have a bunch of them queued up And you're trying to click something behind them while they one after another come up and get in your way It's actually impossible, but search has got to be in here No, no we want this is supposed to be like nitpicks It's supposed to be little specific details major problem Yeah, it can't be major problems so one of the ones one of the ones that bothers me a lot for this one

We're gonna go and so the goal here guys is for you to tell us. Hey. There's a super easy workaround to that All you had to do was this. So we can make sure we don't waste anyone's time. You guys are being our fact checking department here. So we're going to take a little trip to my inbox, going to Linus' laptop. Here we go. Boom, my spam folder. Let's go. Oh, I'm getting some info from Scientology. Here we go. So this is something that drives me absolutely knocking futz. If I find something in here like, oh, oh, this Zoom meeting.

Here, let's find something that's just absolutely like the worst. Sure, Bright HR. I don't even know what Bright HR is, but I don't recommend it because they spam me. Okay, so I'm gonna click on this. Okay, if I say not spam, watch what happens. Watch what happens. What happened, Luke? It went away. It went away. I'm still in my spam folder. I don't do you know where it went

I'm assuming to your unread it went to my inbox. It did not mark unread Oh, it goes in a red state to your So it disappears so it disappears no longer on your screen And it's now marked red which I have been which marked red. Which I have been meaning to deal with, which I've been meaning to talk about for a long time because this is the kind of little thing that drives me absolutely nuts. I haven't replied to this.

I haven't actioned it in any way. All that happened was I saw something that I was like, oh shoot, that's not spam. And the reason this came up was an introduction that Nirav, the CEO of Framework, wanted to make for me. So he emails me, he's like, hey, here's someone who's working on something cool that might interest you. Are you interested in an intro?

I go, yes. And then he says, okay, sure thing, I'll make the intro. And then nothing happens. And then the intro never happened. A week later, I get a ping, I think it was from Nirav, I don't remember, but he's basically like. I thought this was cool. Hey, I thought I was making an intro,

you said you were cool with it, you don't reply to people. Maybe he didn't, maybe I just, maybe I projected all of that onto myself when I found a week old email in my inbox from Buddy who's working on the cool thing that just went to my spam. get this get this it gets even worse Because I did realize that this would happen because I've encountered this before and it annoys me so I so I found it I marked it not spam and remember how Gmail used to have a function to mark a sender safe. Yeah

Well, that's gone. So I've had people multiple times email me and end up in my spam because because there's no obvious way to mark a sender safe. So anyway, so anyway, I go I dig it out of my inbox. I make sure I remember the name of the person who sent it right so I can go search for it in my inbox because I use my inbox like a to-do list. So I have like sometimes a hundred unread items in my inbox and anything That's red is gone. I'd be okay if it doesn't exist basically reload like if it moved it and then reopened it for you Sure, I'd be fine. That would be fine. I'd be fine with that if it had to be that so I went I remembered the name I went I got it and I replied to it

I was like hey Can you have your people schedule a time with my people and I CC'd my people get this buddy replies? He's like here's some good times for me Vance had to go to his spam So he only saw it to set up a time because he happened to check his spam What is what is this person sending from it sounds like their domain is I? Mean I I can I can check now. I can check now. It's probably a relatively new domain. I can tell you that.

No, it's a Gmail account. Amir A in full-plank chat said, read the notification. It does mark the sender safe. So maybe it's just like a combo button now? Except if it didn't. I swear to you. I swear on my mother's grave that I have had it happen. My mother's not dead. that I've had it happen

where I have said this is not spam. And anyway, we work in a Google G Suite domain, I marked it safe. So why is it going to Vance's spam then? That just happened. Like just, just now, just happened. Yeah, I don't know if like, marked safe senders is workspace wide. I mean, should it be an indicator?

Maybe from, I don't know, to be honest. I don't think so. Yeah, cause I mean, okay, I could see, cause while it could be a good indicator for safe senders, assuming everyone is like savvy and does it properly. Yeah, it might not be. But it could also amplify bamboozlement. So that's potentially dangerous, you're right.

Yeah, if you convince someone through social engineering on a completely unrelated team, but within the same organization, that you are a safe sender, and then you send garbage to other people on the team knowing that you're manually flagged as safe Yeah, that's fair from this random person in the company SF 400 says happens to me this week marks Not spam same sender went to spam Also other emails from the same sender still stuck in spam each needing to be manually put in the inbox

So so that's that's mine. That's my contribution to the tech gripes video. We've got a couple of other ones. Here's one, there's still no good way to transfer files from Android to iOS. Android has quick share, iOS has AirDrop, but there is no rock solid way to share files between devices. Furthermore, it can be a challenge

to get files to a PC as well. That should be with Wi-Fi Direct, that should be such a solved problem. And there are ways to do it. Like it's not like you can't pair your Android phone to your Windows PC. It's a whole thing when you're setting up Windows, it prompts you to do it and everything.

But that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about Luke snaps a quick picture on his phone and is like, hey, can I send this to you? And I'm like, yo, I just turned on my sharing, AirDrop style, and it just farts over onto the laptop. That, ugh, that needs to be a thing. Google quick share, that works, I love it. Isn't that more Android Android

not KDE connect I mean I can already tell you just from the name of it that that is not gonna be what like my aunt is gonna use. Sail-ish says share it used to be the app to do it until Apple removed it from the app store oh man I love that it's Android to Android to Windows yeah it doesn't solve the problem I love that I'm gonna put down I'm gonna put down a few of these for us to look into I've got local send here someone's like I just use discord oh that is so sad that should not be the way that is that is largely what I do though that is actually sad

I agree actual ass fully agree that is ass And I don't mean like but I don't mean like attractive like thick ass I mean like like with hair everywhere Oh, yeah, like everywhere like long like like on your head long like like just like a Maggie yeah Shaggy ass What else we got into that Windows settings here's a good one Why is Windows settings limited to a single window? Have you noticed that the modern settings menu you can only have one window open? Yeah, yeah

That's annoying. Yeah, what the heck yeah, It's not like game-breaking, but it's annoying Okay, I think I'm starting to embrace the theme and since we're in the settings menu since since we're talking about it Why exactly is it that? time and language is deserving of space here when display sound power and battery,

these are all things that do not merit the top level of the sidebar. Are you kidding me? That's pretty rough. How often do you change the time on your computer? In the age of, it knows the location and automatically adjust your time zone your time and everything because obviously I do find that to be kind of weird too the amount of times that I have to uncheck and

then recheck automatically set time zone to be like hello and then it wakes up and does it for me it's like okay thanks eternal griever says this is actually something that's been grinding my gears recently right Okay, what else we got? App section is the most random assortment of settings offline maps video playback the windows 11 Context menu right-clicking now has show more options you click it and 80% of the options are the same because it just goes to the old Menu, just show% of the options are the same because it just goes to the old menu Just show me all the options. I actually really really Do that there's that's two clicks now to get to a lot of the right right click context menu stuff

You can do that like God mode thing Okay, so I do think that's solvable. Okay, you can also remove it as well. I think we talked about that earlier in the week Yeah, there are solutions here. They're not default. So it's still annoying. Mm-hmm, but there are solutions here. They're not default, so it's still annoying, but there are solutions. And I think they're registry too. That's a big part of the Tech Gripes video, is we wanna present solutions, and if the solution is, here's a quick registry,

D word that you can reconfigure, then that's great. Or if the solution is, hey, if you could just add like three lines of code, hello, anyone? This is not gonna make it into the video because no one cares, because no one uses Xperia phones. But I saw a post recently asking why none of the big tech YouTubers review Xperia phones? And the answer is because no one cares.

They're super expensive and limited availability outside of Japan and certain regions. But for me, I can tell you the reason that I don't daily one is because even now, after all these years, all these years, Sony still hasn't added like the three lines of code that it would take to swap the back button and the task switcher button or whatever the square one is called.

I prefer the back button on the right. I have homunculus hands, I am right-handed, I cannot reach back, all the way across on the left, I use back a lot. You might say, I like back. I'm a back enthusiast, okay? I like it. I like to be able to reach it,

I like to be able to get my thumb weight. The point is just that I need that button a lot and if it's over on the other side It's really hard for me to reach to reach I Could reach around Sorry, let's just continue That works if anyone from Sony is watching and didn't get totally bothered by all of that I will immediately

So I want the headphone jack. I want the taller form factor. Yeah, I want the gorgeous display I want the camera. I want everything that is really good about the experience just allow me to swap it Just let me move the button. You don't even have to do it by default Just let me move the button. If you get the Hong Kong one we can root it and just switch it over. Panthomas says they're never gonna do it. Yeah, I know I know I know but they're never gonna do it um Oh man, yeah, I think center start menu that's more of just like a design thing So I'm just going through some of the stuff in my doc.

We've got, oh man, this is amazing. Anyone here on Mac OS? Shout out if you're on Mac OS in the chat, okay? Hit me up. Apple finally added window management with snapping. Finally. They didn't have snapping? No, you could get it with a third party app

for like $3 or something. But it'll be a cold day in hell before I Pay three dollars for basic window management functionality. That's been in Linux since I worked at NCIX like no So they added they added windows tapping But it has a border For no apparent reason Jake showed me this and my mind was blown It has a border around it where you can see that your desktop wallpaper wait what? No reason no no bother me so for like no reason

I am I thought you meant it was like framed like a photo, and I was like that's weird But it doesn't bother me that much It's so you see the desktop background would constantly make me think that it's not actually there you can turn it off Okay, you can turn it off, but the fact the fact that that is the default behavior that they show the user is absolutely Mind-blowing to me. That's so this next one. Oh although this is great on the

on on max that have the the the gaping wound in their display the Island sorry Dude, it sounds so much more metal dude the gaping wound. I was sorry wrong phone. Where's my oh, right? I put it away because it was buzzing the mic. For some problems. On my iPhone, I was looking at some meme. Like one of those like four pictures from Lord of the Rings with captions and style memes.

And I literally couldn't read the top one because of the stupid island thing. And then I was watching, I was watching a movie. I was watching a movie on my phone and My my choices were basically because plex is not perfect not a perfect application I either had like giant black bars around everything or I had a hole in the movie And I was like I can't I actually cannot watch a movie with a hole in it. That's Impossible like I'm not gonna be one of these pretentious

Hollywood directors that's like... My movie is mastered for the theater. Well, if it's not watched in the theater, then I'm afraid it simply cannot be enjoyed by your primitive eyes. I'm not like that about it. But you put a hole in the screen, are you kidding me? Like, I have lines. I have standards

Anyway so on on Macs that have the island You can you can like full screen like like Mac full screen like like distraction free mode or whatever But your taskbar goes away at the top only for it to be filled with black pixels goes away at the top, only for it to be filled with black pixels, because they have to have a border for the entire top because of the stupid hole in the screen, because there might be content there. Really funny, I don't know if that's one that'll make it

to our gripes, because nothing could really be done about that other than make better hardware in the first place. This is a good one, this was almost an entire video. And maybe it still could be at some point just like diagnosing computer sleep issues. Like sleep, wake, screen turning off issues. So I was having a problem when we set up the land center in the basement. I had five identical machines with five identical monitors with five identical sets of peripherals

And I couldn't figure out why half of them were going to sleep properly and half of them weren't That's annoying. You know what it was Yes, technically But no, yes, thank you for not ruining my setup for once Luke I appreciate you. Thanks, man. So I almost made a whole video on this so that we could just as a springboard to talk about how to diagnose these issues.

But what it ultimately was, was I got into the administrator level command prompt and power config. It was Steam. But it was specifically, because I had Steam open on all of them. And what I found out was that Steam will not let your computer go to sleep if you are open to the store tab, even if Steam is minimized. So you had, so the ones that were sleeping were on library? Because I read that and I was thinking like I always have Steam on like all my computers. On your library probably. But it's probably on library. It's probably on library. So the reason, it's a good reason. The reason is that it's something to do with video playback on the store page and how if you're

playing back video your computer doesn't go to sleep. So if there's any video playback or a video player that is open, the system won't sleep. It blew my flipping mind. Blew my mind. Or sorry, not sleep, display, display un-waking. Maybe it'll still sleep. Sorry, sorry. But specifically what I was working on

was my displays wouldn't blank. So I was thinking like it's, ah, a to have never been because my computer always goes Asleep yeah this current Iteration of my computer is has no sleep problems. It's very nice. That's nice I'm used to having some weird sleep issue. Yeah, so so if there's anyone here that is like oh My god sometimes my display doesn't turn off. Yeah, that's cool. I bet you it's that. Cause if you think about it, the Steam store page is just a browser.

Yep. And any ad for any game or whatever is just a video. If you have a video open in your browser, even if it's in the background, your screen's not gonna turn off. I wonder how much bandwidth just leaving the Steam store page up on your screen for like a week takes. I have no idea Is it's a pretty solid amount of video actually?

Probably very like low-res, but still yeah I was I was thinking of making that entire video just as an excuse to talk about Like sleep and screen timers and all that kind of stuff But then we just kind of never got around to it it and we didn't have a great title for it. Anywho, Smart TVs. LG lets you go offline and not get ads, but if you want to use an app, it asks you to update. You can use the app, but have to navigate around the prompt.

You must log in to update. And then our second one is the entirety of Tizen OS. I think that's too broad. I think that's too broad, Adam. I don't think we're gonna do that one They're supposed to be they're supposed to be nitpicks. I feel like I feel like Adam has a TV with tizen os Monitors only bothered why do certain presets lock me out of certain features without any rhyme or reason actually Adam I can probably I can explain some of that at least

There are certainly ones where it's like, no, I don't get that at all. But like filmmaker mode, for instance, will lock you out of a lot of the TV settings because it wouldn't be filmmaker mode if you were allowed to change a bunch of stuff. However, most TVs in filmmaker mode will allow you to set the white point up. Some of them will lock you in warm

because that is like a filmmaker I do not like the warm preset I prefer 6500 Kelvin and don't don't touch my white point but anyway the point is that some of them do make sense some of them absolutely don't if there was one that we were going to if there was one that we were going to rant about when it comes to monitor settings then I would say it's the one where you're not allowed to change any settings if you don't have an active input. Yeah, why not? Old monitors used to let you have them on and play around with all their settings and everything. Yeah.

Whereas now, you can't tell sometimes if your computer is broken and not outputting, or if your monitor's not on and not receiving a signal. It drives me absolutely crazy. I didn't know that was an issue, but I have used that to try to diagnose if my computer is properly sending out display or not. Drives me flipping crazy. Beltrick says, well, the settings are tied to signal type.

There are plenty that aren't. And I just want it to be on so I know it's on. So that I know what input it's on and that it's looking for signal, give me something. Give me something. Okay. We've got a lot of teams. I feel like I'm hesitating. I could add so many more, but I feel like it would just take up

It'd be a whole video so like one of these is notifications steel input focus for some reason teams Notifications have gotten me killed in deadlock. Oh don't ask me why I'm on teams and playing deadlock Teams notification is separate from Windows integrated pop-ups. That's actually super annoying especially because they're in the same place Yeah, come on Microsoft you literally make this software Why can't I schedule a message to a group chat that I haven't messaged before So if you have like a shoot in the morning or something like that And you put together everyone that's on that shoot And you just want to like the schedule so you you just can't because I don't know whatever

And you just want to like schedule so you you just can't because I don't know whatever Must be keep going I can I can send a bunch of stuff later I I mean I've ranted about this on the way and show before and I think people are a little tired of it So I don't want to go through way too many of it But like my the the main two that frustrate me is that I can't schedule a message to a group chat that I haven't sent A message to before yeah, Adam added and this is super annoying, why can't I schedule a reply to a thread? Just like, ugh. And I understand some of the theory of not being able to schedule a reply to a thread,

because I think they're worried that like, other things will be sent before that one. I could see that. My team's general etiquette for this is just put scheduled in brackets. This is super normal, everyone does this. We're not on this brain. Solvable.

This is extremely solvable. Stop like not allowing us to, okay, I'm gonna relax. The other primary annoying thing that I have is the amount of times that I'm in teams calls and people go, is my mic working? Cause they can't see it light up. Yeah. Just.

Whoa, the spider. Oh he was there He might be he's a crafty little guy For people that weren't part of the pre-show there was a spider that climbed up onto the desk and went directly There was a spider that crawled up under the desk went directly into one of my USB ports and hid under the little USB finger and then he took off like I think it was like a minute into the show and Maybe went into Linus's headphones. I would strongly prefer to not put these headphones on if there could be a spider inside them Yeah Definitely small enough to crawl into your ear. Yeah

Okay, no, no, I'm really I'm really creeped out right now. If there's a spider in my headphones. I would be, I would be super, super unhappy. Words could not describe the level of unhappy that I would be if a spider like crawled across my face. Another, I'll add another one too. Dude, I know it's not poisonous. I don't care. I do not like it's not the poison part It's the digging into your ear part anyways I don't need a reason to not like spiders That's fair from an evolutionary standpoint a fear of spiders and snakes and like dead things and all the stuff that I kind of phobia Yeah, is what kept my ancestors alive and damn it

I'm gonna uphold their legacy here and continue to be afraid of those things however irrational it might be. They're all watching down on you not wanting to put your headphones on and cheersing the glass being like yeah. No I'm okay I have thoroughly searched them. Dan was gonna bring me new headphones but it's okay Dan I'm ready. I'm ready. The last thing I'll say about Teams is if I'm in Slack and I attach something to a chat message or even just attach something in general, I can just press send right away

before it finishes attaching. And the message will just send when it's done attaching. You try to do that in Teams, and I don't remember, it like opens it or something? Whatever it does, it's annoying and it doesn't send it. That's all I, so I have to sit there and just wait for it to attach and if it's like a video it might take a little bit dude, I've never I've never really used iMessage because No one that I know uses iMessage. So why would I yeah?

But then the reply function is awful Oh Like you like you when you when you hold on something to like reply to a specific message, you know You don't use whatsapp But you know how it works in any sensible program where it just gives you like a preview of the original message And then just has it indented and like has the reply to it Yeah, it creates this like new pop-up window and then like getting out of it. It's like Like you have to like click somewhere else entirely on the screen and it kind of has like these like reply threads within the thing it's

Ridiculous I was like how How did a trillion dollar company design this I couldn't I couldn't believe it that seems not awesome Yeah, I never used it during my during my time with the iPhone But it was something that I encountered like just the other day because I was chatting with John from Eshtec about some Hex OS thing and I had to reply to something specific because we kind of had two threads going we were like talking about Christmas plans and also talking about like future Hex OS plans and You know how those things could get a little bit confusing, right? Because he could be like, you know, oh I had a close relative die. So this will be our first Christmas without them

Also, we've got this great feature plan and and I could be like wow that's so cool Which one was I replying to who knows yeah reply reply threads are good. Yeah reply threads are good anyway The point is yeah, it's it's off. Yeah. We've got a couple people backing me up in chat here So apparently this isn't just me being crazy I think we could actually Adam who's obviously watching the show right now, I think we could even steal some of the stuff from the iOS time video. Oh, dude, YouTube music.

Don't get me started on YouTube music. Okay, Adam, here's one you probably don't know. If you have your main Google account on your phone, for some reason, as a different account from the one that has a premium subscription and has YouTube music, you will not be able anymore. It used to work. But this is what ultimately made me switch

from my G Suite account as my main account on this device to my personal random Gmail that I don't even really use other than to have YouTube Premium on. With Android Auto, you can't use voice control to play a specific song on YouTube music, unless your Google account, your main one that you're mainly signed into the phone with, is the one that has Premium.

So just having another one, you can't select which account you have. Oh, it's so annoying. I really wish like I think this would be a pretty cool feature is if you could like Claim your like network of Google accounts basically so if like I could have a personal Google account and Then branch under it like okay. This is my personal account. this is my work account, this is my whatever, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then if I buy premium, I want it to give it to all of them. I don't wanna see YouTube ads. I don't wanna open a YouTube video

that I need to watch for work in my work browser thing and then get an ad and go, ugh, and copy the URL and bring it over to my personal browser, watch it, okay, watch it there. So annoying. And it's the same with YouTube Music. That was actually what Adam was talking about. Yeah. How if he's, YouTube Music and YouTube

must be logged into the same account on the browser. You can't be like, yeah, I have music here and I have this there. Oh, so annoying. So he has to open YouTube Music in Edge so he can be logged into two separate accounts. You can also use, I think Brave has really good support for multi Google accounts across Different things or you can use incognito mode. There's other options

But most of them do like even Firefox does Firefox is just clunky compared to Chrome's Chrome has extremely Good and easy to use multi account stuff Like profiles and Firefox has them as well it's just not as clean. People are saying it's great maybe I just wasn't good at it. I don't know. Other people are saying it's clunky. I don't know it is what it is. I wouldn't care about anything to do with YouTube music I would accept everything that's kind of crappy about YouTube music in a heartbeat if they brought back quick, painless casting

to my Sonos stuff. But ever since Google and Sonos got at it, that's gone. It was perfect in Google Play Music. It was literally perfect. On the player page, there was a cast button, like how a cast button works, and then it would just bring up the pop-up for what you want to cast to, and you would go this one, this one, this one, and this one, and press go.

And it would just... Oh my gosh! This is incredibly annoying. And then it would just go, I need to stop using this phone, but it's so tedious switching phones. Mine's below the table. Well, it was happening when it's below the table. Well it was happening when it was above the table too. I'm just gonna put it under my thick juicy thighs. Nice. That should block it.

Thanks, Taylor. It immediately stopped. It's a lot of water. What can I say? Like no joke, the second he put his leg back down it was over Anyway Dude I've been hitting the stair master lately and the machine dude These thighs are getting firm. Yeah, they're getting to be firm thighs. Yeah. Yeah, I actually like go to the gym now He's never gonna get me to lift anything cuz it's just like you look to things. It's not what did I lift your body? I can't what the stair master. Oh, I mean yeah sure oh dude it that's a master's a real I've never been on a stair master

That's a real workout man, dude That's a real workout, man. Dude. I've been meaning to send you pictures of what the machine looks like when I'm done one time. Dude, I'll do half an hour of cardio. And I can't do one thing at the go hard level that I wanna do it for the full 30 minutes that I like to do.

But you know my thing where I like to do 30 minutes of cardio like every day ish I try to do every day, but it doesn't happen every day so the thing that I've been so the thing I did the other day was I hit the The rowing machine for 10 minutes then the is that the smash gym Yeah, then the bike for five they have the cleaning stuff yet Yeah, okay, then the stair master for 10 and then finished off with another five on the bike for five. Do they have the cleaning stuff yet? Yeah, okay Then the stair master for ten and then finished off with another five on the bike So those in 30 minutes the the 40 ounce bottle I had drained two of them to give you some idea Insane

That's nuts. I I'll go to the gym and I tend to go for like a while. Like I, for whatever reason, I'm not really into like the, when I'm doing weights, I'm not really into like the 30 minute workout. I like going for like quite a, quite a bit of time. And there'll be like, there'll be some chick on the Stairmaster when I walk in. She's like not moving that fast, but she's on the Stairmaster. I'm noticing like I'm close to wrapping up my workout like an hour and a half later and I'm walking by and I'm like she's still on there. Like what the hell? Oh my god. Like I would fall over. There's no possible way. It would not happen. I could do it at a low pace for a long time. But I don't know what the settings are.

At that point it's probably like two hours. I don't know what the settings are equivalent to that point it's probably like two hours. I don't know what the settings are equivalent to, but I'm trying to think, like, what's the pace that it's at? I'll have to check sometime, but it's at 16, whatever that is. That's gonna be machine dependent, probably. Yeah, so I forget how many stairs per minute it is,

but it's, oh dude, it's a lot. It's painful, it hurts a lot. Okay, what else we got here? Someone said, I would like to hear more about Luke's fitness habits as a fellow lifter. I'm trying to get a Float Plane exclusive. Oh yeah, that would be cool. Where we get a bunch of, not me,

but a bunch of different of the people, including myself, but a bunch of different people at the company that like to gym often to do like a round table discussion thing, we film it for flow plane. Cool. I think that'd be pretty sweet. Cool. None of us are like.

I'll participate. Trainers or anything, that'd be cool. I don't, oh wait, well does it count if it also includes like badminton stuff? I think so, I don't know. Like can I just be like. To me I think it's just like a fitness discussion, I think. Dude, I had a.

I think it'd be neat. I like did not realize how hard I destroyed myself yesterday Because I wasn't in the gym gym. I was I was playing badminton but what I did was we played a format called box game and I was don't worry. I was playing with my wife My goodness anyway box game makes the in front of the service line is out, and behind the double service line is out.

So it's like a shortened court, and typically you play on a half court. So it's a little bit wider than half of a singles court, because you use the doubles line, and you play directly across from each other, directly across from each other, or diagonally, or diagonally. But I'm playing a format with Yvonne to help even things out cause I'm a bit of a

stronger player than her. Um, where she takes half a court, right? Half a, half a box. And I take a box that is the entire width of the singles court on the other side. So I put on a 20 pound weight vest yesterday and I played that against her. A 20 pound weight vest yesterday, and I played that against her With dude I could barely emerge from my bed this morning. I Destroyed myself. I am in so much. I'm in so much pain today like it's It's actually awful. There's yeah, there's a certain level where it's like okay that might have might have been good, but it might not also be worth it

Well, it's hard because when I'm having fun, I don't yeah, I don't realize I don't notice Yeah, I'll sometimes get in a zone where like I don't Register the level of strain properly and then like the next morning or that night. I'll be like, I'm really tired Yeah, radon man says pain is weakness leaving the body No, sometimes it's just sometimes. It's just overdoing it We've got one here that is why can't I just plug a USB a to a USB a and transfer files between computers There's a lot of security reasons for that. I don't think we'll include that one I There's a lot of security reasons for that. I don't think we'll include that one.

I mean, there are some good points here. You can plug in a phone, which is just a portable computer, and copy files from that. But also, I don't know. I'm sure there's reasons for that. I'm sure there's reasons for that. Google Gemini, just in general. Okay, that's too broad, Adam. I don't know if we'll do that either, but Google Gemini replacing Google Assistant can't do 80% of assistant functions, but can hallucinate Google Sheets. Yeah. And I can't, okay, admittedly I haven't dug too deep into this, but it switched to a default male voice.

And I don't know, I just don't like my phone talking to me in a male voice. I don't like it. I had, I did this whole gamb gambit like years and years ago where I set up a .co.uk Email address to get like a specific voice from just to get like a British. Yeah, like a sexy British It would be like cool. Lady voice. That wasn't really even the goal. I just thought it'd be like neat And then yeah, it changed it. I was like that's annoying. I don't even it doesn't really matter that much

It's just weird. I don't know all right. Let's maybe jump into our second topic No, we have to do a second topic. I'll do a quick one. Okay, Dan My hero My hero yes, my guy Terry will be featured on Canada's $5 bill. This is not really tech related, but we have talked about the actual rightful king of Canada, Terry Fox, before on this show. He's a Canadian hero, and the only reason he's only a Canadian hero is because most of the world doesn't know about him. If you don't know who Terry Fox is, go read

about him. He's actually the most coolest, wholesome-est, awesomest, most inspiring guy like ever. And he is finally, finally going to be in his rightful place on our money, damn it. So he's going to the $5 note. The process of replacing Wilfrid Laurier began almost five years ago, apparently, and the Bank of Canada got more than 600 submissions to their open nominations for the honor. They made the right choice. After losing part of his right leg to cancer, Terry embarked on his Marathon of Hope, an attempt to run across Canada on his prosthetic leg, raising money for cancer research. His run was tragically cut short in 1981,

but he was still able to raise $24.7 million. That was a dollar for every person living in Canada at the time. Since his death, annual Terry Fox runs have been held all over the world and have raised another 800 million dollars for cancer research that's Canadian dollars unfortunately But still it's a lot of money not a ton of amazing news coming out of Canada over the last little while yeah This is cool. This is cool. We're finally doing it properly And putting Terry on the money, so that's good. Yeah, it's finally time Okay, fine. We'll explain Merch messages Dan Dan merch messages are the way to interact with the show you can have your merch message pop up there you can have it go to produce what the

you can have it go to producer Dan who will reply to it he might forward it to someone internal to better address your question or he might curate it and it will go to me and Luke To reply to you live on the show Dan Do you want to show the fine people out there how it wakes sure hey DLL question for Linus primarily? You've mentioned before that you like to see employee candidates personal projects. What are some of the coolest projects you've seen oh Dude, I haven't been a job interviewer in like years and years. Luke's probably seen some cool stuff though. Sean's home lab was sick.

That was cool. Yeah, our IT guy. Yeah. If I remember correctly, Nick Harris had some cool stuff. I remember someone showed me a cool Plex server at some point. Yeah. But they like cobbled together. It was like very janky.

And I was like, nice. I've had a surprising amount of like software dev applicants that, you know, would just at some point, but they cobbled together. It was very janky, and I was like, nice. I've had a surprising amount of software dev applicants that would just have nothing to do with anything to do with hardware here. Show me their computers or servers or whatever. Just because I often get into those types of questions, what kind of stuff are you into,

and then it'll naturally lead to showing you to those things. Had some really cool software projects. and it'll naturally lead to showing you to those things. Had some really cool software projects. The first, this was way too tough of a project. We've significantly toned it down since then. But the first developer hiring wave that we did for Floatplane, do you remember this? The game, make us a game?

That was way too big of a ask. It was also way too open-ended. We were new Did not know quite what we were asking of people at the time, but the developer that did get hired and is still with us From from that wave We basically asked make us a game and then we listed like some things that would be cool for it to have I don't remember the exact details. And they made what was essentially like PVP asteroids, and it had a chat.

I remember that. That was sick. And he like set up some notification things so he would be able to know when I connected to it. So when I jumped into it, it's supposed to be PVP asteroids, he also jumped on and then we like fought against each other and were able to talk in the chat.

And I was like, whoa. Okay, that able to talk in the chat, and I was like Whoa? Okay, that's pretty cool. We have some people who work here who are like probably too good Thanks for sticking with me oh man But yeah, I don't know yeah, so it's like I want to play that now it was genuinely entertaining. Oh, yeah I you showed it to me. I tried it was fun pretty sick super fun Hey Rod piping up in the chat he says some freaking amazing people Hey Rod Rod knows a lot more of the team than most Average float plane viewers would because he's come up and hung out with us a few times.

Rod, you're coming up for softball night this spring, right? I know it's a little early, it's December still, but you're going to come join us for at least one softball night, right? I want a commitment today. I'll make it out. Let's see it. Yeah, you better. He says for sure. Alright, heck yeah, Rod. I still probably can't bat or throw properly, but I'll make it out. For those of you who don't know, Rod was on the BS Mods episode of Scrapyard Wars. He's an incredible PC modder and has been a long time, just sort of awesome supporter of the show.

I didn't remember this. I don't know if it made it into the cut because I haven't finished watching the video yet, but we did, is that me? No, that's you. We did Nick from Creator Warehouse. We did Nick Light's AMD Ultimate Tech upgrade recently, and he reminded me of the time that we had to get 7Gamers1 CPU to CES

for a sponsor, and the only way for us to get it there safely was to drive it down to Bob and Rod BS mods in Seattle and Nick took it down there and then they took it down to CES for us because they were driving to Las Vegas because they had all of their system mods for all of their sponsors so I had totally forgotten about that that was that was the early days when everything was like just like get her done by any means necessary you know it was in the trailer wasn't it or something something I don't remember because I like just like get her done by any means necessary. It was in the trailer wasn't it or something? Something I don't remember.

Because I remember I was telling someone this story recently but I couldn't remember why I went down there but I took a train down there to pick up the old SUV which is probably what Nick dropped it off in. Oh that SUV was a piece of crap. Oh yeah it was a little rough. I still remember when I realized on the highway that it didn't have a bit ABS I still remember my parents telling me what great condition it was in when we bought it from them

anyway Never buy a car from a family member all the other company vehicles of us at a long time Yeah, because like I picked them Anywho, um oh It's not Nick light as opposed to like Nick full fat or whatever. It's Nick l i g h t. It's his last name Yeah, yeah, it's definitely not the opposite of wait. Sorry Oh, what are we supposed to be doing? Oh Yes, good Nick dark

No, not that either just Nick light. Oh, dude, man. I made I made the funniest jokes about about Nick light I was like, I don't need I don't need a filming light cuz I've got two lights. Oh, he's like holding his baby You should have seen the lights. Oh Yeah, okay. Yeah, a lot of light jokes. Yeah, can I get a light you know? Okay, it doesn't matter. If I remember correctly there was no No, I'm not gonna use names, but there was someone else's name that went well with it That's all I'll say all right oh No way

Yeah, it way. Yeah. It's finally here. Yeah. Introducing the chocolate, no wait, sorry. Introducing the backpack rain cover. You should all know it's always best to protect your load, especially when things get really wet outside. Seriously?

That's the marketing spiel? That's why we designed this rain cover for your LTT backpack. This is one of the times that size really does matter. Okay, so it's on purpose. It's on purpose. Since most rain covers are not big enough to accommodate the sheer girth of the LTT backpack. Is this you now?

Is this in the writing or you just doing this? No, it's not in there. Oh, okay. It's an extra layer of protection to keep your stuff dry while also adding visibility to your bag in the dark with a snazzy mountain landscape inspired reflective design. Genuinely looks really sharp. It also packs neatly into a zippable carrying case

that you can attach to your bag's carabiner or accessory loops and is now available at LMG.GG slash rain cover. It's also durable. That was a surprisingly long project to get the costing and the quality and the reflectiveness right and the printing quality and the just oh my god. Anyway, are you looking for a last minute

gift? It's never been a better time to purchase an LTT store gift card for that special LTT enjoyer in your life. Why? Because nothing says I didn't leave this to the last minute better than an excuse that you had to wait for the brand new LTT commuter backpack to launch the day after Christmas, since that's why you got them a gift card and not an actual gift. So cover your ass at lmg.gg slash not a last minute gift. Yeah. Question that you might not know the answer to. I see there's a pull thingy on this.

I don't know if they can see it very well. Would this fit on the commuter? I doubt it, but we can find out. It's probably a little big for the commuter. Probably a little big. It was designed before the commuter was like a sparkle in the eye of our designers. We actually started on the rain fly, or the rain cover,

I think almost immediately after the launch of the backpack. So like. It's been a while. Artie said it would, but it would be loose. That link goes to the forum. Oh, hey. No, no, I got my commuter bag on me. We can check it right now and we can have a look.

Artie, you gonna fix that link? That link brokey. Oh, apparently the link is broken. Artie. The link goes to the forum. Artie, gonna fix that link? That link brokey Oh apparently the link is broken Artie! Artie the link's broken! Okay so um Yeah The link is not broken Okay so now I just gotta find out if there's two layers on the rain cover

Someone get me a knife Pfff The link's working fine Dude I wouldn't recommend this Too loose? Yeah, this is not... This is like clown level. Maybe in a pinch situation?

But don't buy it for that. No, don't buy it for that at all. Not even in a pinch, no pinch. It's not for that. No, I mean if you have both bags and you just need something, then you already have the cover anyways. You could use it, but you shouldn't buy for that reason just take your other backpack. Yeah Oh, yeah, I just I just wouldn't no no I don't like it

So we'll we'll work on a rain cover for the commuter bag Eventually now that we have a good supplier for them and now that we've got like got most of the hard stuff out of the way We've got good printing quality and everything it shouldn't be too much work for us to get on something Okay Also flow plane announcing Yvonne week. We're supposed to watch a video his wife my wife oh Wow What they got her to do this?

Look at the look on her face. You can tell exactly how thrilled she is about being dressed up as Burger King That is the closest resemblance I think. Wow, okay well Sorry Burger Queen excuse me. Sorry. Sorry my bad Oh, I do want to mute that first. Sorry my bad one sec Oh, I do want to mute that first. Sorry my bad one sec but Where I put it wait she's the thumbnails of all of oh That's funny. I didn't put that together. They replaced me in all the thumbnails

It was like she hosted the fair electric ram video. She really didn't This one's the best Okay, here we go. ready? Hey everyone, it's Yvonne week. And to start, we're gonna clean up some of the LMG stuff on here. Let's get rid of some of this controversial stuff. Perfect. Okay, now we're gonna add the best host. Awesome. Okay, now to celebrate, here are some of the Yvonne Clean Exclusives this week. this week. Hallerom says, do you want your husband to grow out his beard again? Yes. So we're actually up to five cats now.

This is Panda over here and this is Missy. I feel inadequate. How do you deal with people with short attention spans? Okay, five minutes per ornament. If we need let's say what, like 20 ornaments? That's a hundred minutes. What did I say it was going to take us? An hour?

An hour. Best relationship tip that you always follow and why? At first, my answer was communication. But then I realized, as I was thinking that through, that it's commitment. You might not want to compromise or affect change. You're just talking to somebody about how you feel. That is his unhappy, I want to get out noise. That'll be fun.

All right, so it's Yvonne week. I like the people weeks. Three special float plane exclusives, a Q and A, decorating a tech tree and meet the cats. Yvonne may also appear on a video or two outside of float plane next week. So keep an eye out as we celebrate one of the ogest of the ogs two fantastic comments under the video Steve J 3d says finally the real owner of LMG getting some screen time

Another one is besaken said an entire week of a vauntent. Yes, please Vauntent I thought those are you know what know what, I actually, I like it. I like it a lot, that's very good, that's cute. Okay, more Float Plane exclusive merch. Oh, we have merch. Yeah. For LTT Float Plane subscribers, our second Float Plane X LTT Store collab drops today.

Second image after the backpack rain cover on LTT Store. Okay, Luke, I'm gonna have you show them that. I haven't seen this Included in this drop are two shirts the content cosmos tea Which was designed by Sarah live on floatplane fueled with ideas from chat Legally distinct Firefox pyro kits uni I don't know what that means but that's on there and the float plane exclusive tea a simple float plane logo on a light blue T-shirt which you all have requested

A simple floatplane logo on a light blue t-shirt, which you all have requested Whoa There you go, oh that's super cute Does it really have a flying Fox? Oh Legally distinct Firefox. Yeah, I wrote I get it now. So it looks like those old comics an Adventure through the content cosmos. This is sick. That is actually very cool good price too nice. Yeah Nice these fly out onto the store on January 1st, 2025. Oh wait they fly off the store

So if you're interested buy yours before then at LMG.gg FP exclusive very cool all right there.gg slash fp exclusive. Very cool. All right, there. That's all the announcements. We are done with announcements. Dan? Sure.

You want to show us how merge messages work? We already did one, but let's do another one. How about that? Sure. Hi LDL. I'm going to be setting up my very first NAS. Yes, I'm considering HexOS. I just want to set up a system to manage my Linux ISOs.

Has there been any update to the issues you've had with Plex? I have found that downloading is a little better. In general, I have found it to be a little improved. They have not addressed all of the issues that I kind of laid out as my requirements for us to work with them in an official capacity again. I still am a Plex user, but I won't do sponsored stuff with them

until they actually fulfill all the stuff that bothers me about the software that was part of what I supposedly have as a lifetime PlexPass owner. Yeah. Cool. It is what it is. It is what it is for now.

Just asks, do you transcode down on download? That's the part that really sucks. Yes, that's exactly the point. I don't wanna copy full-size files onto my phone for like the plane or whatever. I wanna put like 320 kilobit or whatever per second, like just the crappiest possible thing as long as the audio is listenable

because I'm just like, I'm on a plane, I don't care. I don't want it to take up a ton of space on my phone. I'd rather have a bigger library to pick from, especially if it's for kids or whatever so they can start sort of browse and stuff They're not gonna care Yeah, well they'll care about the library. Yeah, they won't care about quality especially video quality everyone cares about audio quality Up to a certain point Oh

It says two more topics Dan doesn't talk to us anymore. He just puts paper on the monitor. I don't blame him, honestly. We're awful. I mean do you want me to yell at you more? I can yell at you more. You can yell at me all you want. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm into it. Yeah. I thought you were still doing the merch message. No, I'm done. That's all I have to say about that. Do we talk about gaming industry stuff, Coffeezilla? Do it. Coffeezilla, known for his investigative videos on scam topics, including crypto-related scams, released a video going after the CSGO gambling scene. I think we all knew it was just an amount of time

until that would happen. In the video, Coffeezilla says that he was paid an embarrassingly low amount of money by CSGO Empire, a CSGO gambling site, to investigate their competitor, CSGO Roll. So you just put CSGO and then anything after it? For scamming users in the CSGO gambling scene. Coffee then decided to flip the script, denying the offer but still making a multi-part series.

I'd like to interject for a second here. What were they thinking? That was really dumb. Drawing attention to their whole grift and their whole deal by involving Coffeezilla in it. Were they high? So many things going on in the crypto world. They could have just stayed under the radar. Like forever, and they could have just done their skins and their gambling and their holographic whatever Damascus Offer not paid? We didn't... wait

Yeah, offer. He was offered to be paid. Sorry, sorry, sorry. Yes He didn't take the offer. Did I not say the denying their offer part? It doesn't matter. Or was that the next line? It doesn't matter. The point is I will clarify They made an offer to pay him to investigate their competitor. He didn't take it. Potentially the next line was Coffee then decided to flip the script denying the offer. So it was just, it shouldn't have said paid in the first part. But still making a multi-part series about the CSGO gambling epidemic that, that for a ton of you watching. Thanks for a ton of you watching.

Elijah did this one. It's okay. He tries. Anyways. We really like him. He's kind. He's a kind person. There's an Elijah note here as well that says, YouTubers have been getting in trouble since

at least 2014. I mean, this is probably since YouTube existed. People just don't care anymore. It has become so accepted in our society. It's crazy. This is a literal multi-billion dollar industry that so few people even know about. But like Coffeezilla highlights in the video, it's really dangerous to try and go after these companies as they will literally hire hitmen and rioters. Okay. Wow, that sounds like a interesting video to watch. Yeah, this is sort of to go along with Elijah's commentary here. This is such a great question. Why was this a slap on the wrist, legally speaking, and why has everyone just kind of like Forgotten about it? Forgotten that these that these two people were pretending to gamble on a site that it turned out that they owned

They claimed to have a sponsorship, but actually they owned it no financial settlements No fines no jail time as they promoted this this gambling site that they owned and were pretending to win big on to miners. What?! Yeah, wacky. The same week, award-winning indie game, Bellatro, which is a roguelike poker game, but with no actual gambling, well... Fine, just read the thing it got an 18 plus rating for including including gambling elements It's got roulette in it yet games that wait what I know Pokemon game has a casino in it. Yeah, Pokemon blue has a casino in it. Yeah calm down

Yet games that have actual gotcha mechanics with actual money tied to them continue to be rated 3+. For example, EA Sports FC is a 3-plus rated game that you can like buy, I'm assuming you can buy some form of like card opening thing for their... What is it called? Loot boxes. Yeah, I know, I I know not loot boxes, but I think you get like player cards

and you use them in their like pro league thing or something. I don't know, who cares? I don't play it, so yeah, whatever. They don't, I don't need to contribute to their billions and billions of dollars in revenue from it. Yeah, you buy FIFA points to open card packs.

Ugh. Just. Have none of these people heard of a rogue-like before? Ultimate team, there we go. Yeah. Discussion question, how do you think the games industry is able to skirt around traditional gambling laws? I don't know. I genuinely have no idea.

We've been talking about this the whole time Wanshow's existed. I don't know. I don't understand it. It doesn't make any sense to me. I mean, that whole thing with Syndicate, I remember talking about it on Wanshow at the time. 100%. Cause like, this was one that like, kind of, I don't know,

it felt closer to me This was huge at the time because I know the guy like I've met him a couple times I think yeah, and I'm just like I've I've actually run into him since then I just like had no idea what to say because I'm just like how are you still here? Well, right yeah Yeah Well, right? Yeah. Well, yeah. Dude, and I hate to like, you know, pull an L is for narcissist and make this about myself. But are you f***ing kidding me? The kind of flack that I took.

Maybe you should have gone harder. Maybe that's your lesson. Maybe I should have run pulled. Maybe that's your lesson. Maybe I should have run-pulled a crypto coin. And instead people have been like, that guy. Maybe that should just be my shtick. Maybe I should do it every six months and then nobody would bat an eye. Linus coin, dude. Should have done it. Should have done it. Next question is, do you think the rating on Bellatro is fair?

It technically has gamble elements, even though there is zero monetary gain. It's a roguelike. No, it's not fair. Dude, like, oh man. I sort of maybe understand. I do, but you gotta have consistency in the enforcement. That's the big problem.

If it was just Bellatru that got hit by this, which it is, that's a problem. If it was like, everything that has gambling by this, which it is, that's a problem. Yes. If it was like everything that has gambling elements gets hit, then it's like, oh, okay, well that's a different thing. Because I could totally see someone getting into... Bellatra was Blackjack based, right? Poker? No, poker based. It's made up. Sort of. Yeah, but it's based on poker. Yeah, basically, yeah.

So I could see someone getting interested in real poker based on, and then probably getting really bored. But Tynan brings up an excellent point in the chat. Tynan from Creator Warehouse, who if he's still at work, before you leave, do you mind bringing us an update for Mayor McCheese here on the bit holder? Just if you could bring over the finished one. He's not. He's being super, oh, always he not here anymore, okay? I'll go get it later than okay McCheese Chill stop being cheesed

Tynan brings up a good point By that logic is rolling a die to see the damage you hit not gambling then I think no My reason for this lots of dice games boys my reason for this is that oh? My reason for this lots of dice games boys my reason for this is that oh? Is there any dice game that's specifically based on that though that isn't just D&D because like Balashra was specifically based on poker I don't know I don't know every dice game But I do know that just like rolling dice and seeing if you win said craps is a hundred percent gambling It's a it's like a gambling game. You just dice. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Either way, quite literal actual gambling being rated as three plus while Bellatro's 18 plus is just bad. Yeah. That's not good. I haven't tried Bellatro. Apparently it's phenomenal. It's like one of the best roguelikes ever made. I like it. And it doesn't matter that it's poker hands. I don't like it as much as a lot of other people world likes ever made I Like it and it doesn't matter that it's poker hands other people like hmm, but I like it, okay Finally getting my kids into cards Yeah, we just we just never did it. We just like never played cards

We've we've sat around and we've had like family hearts night twice this week Have you ever played hearts? I like hearts. Yeah, oh, I love hearts. Hearts is fun. It integrates a lot of the cool things about like card games in person, I think. It's a nice mix of luck and strategy.

Cause the rounds are not the rounds, but the game is long enough that if you're a good player, you can give yourself a much better chance to win, but obviously, a little bit of an element of luck is fun. I also like the card passing. Yeah. The card passing element and the strategy involved in that. If it didn't have card passing, honestly,

it just wouldn't be anywhere near as good of a game. No. That's a hugely important part. Yeah. No, and it's been really interesting to see how super like hyper engaged the kids have been with it. Like they, it's like, Hey, do you guys want to do hearts night after the first night? It's like, Hey, do you want guys want to do like hearts night? And they were like immediately at the table.

Nice. Clean up the table. We got some really nice cards. We went to Hidden Wonders again. Local magic show. Absolutely phenomenal if you live in the Vancouver area or if you're visiting soon and you haven't been to Hidden Wonders. It's pretty great. Take your hand. Okay. Just bring it.

Watch this. Just put it right here and then... That's pretty good. Like that. Okay? Because you're doing yourself a disservice. Go to Hidden Wonders. The point is I bought some of his cards because he claimed

Sure, and I would never trust a magician, but he claimed that they were the best playing cards in the world I love them, so I was looking for an excuse to play with them sure so we went last weekend So anyway, so anyway afterwards. I was like hey Do you guys want to play you want to have like hearts night again? They were like cleaning up the table so that we could keep our nice cards nice and clean and everything, getting ready, absolutely stoked on it. And yeah, it was a blast. I used to, when I was considerably younger,

my best friend's family would bring me out fishing for two weeks in the summer, which was awesome. We'd camp and fish and it was great. And one of the things that the boys would do at night was play hearts. And it was awesome, it was very fun. Nooch says get them into crib. It's great for math and counting skills.

It is, I find cribbage to be a little bit luck based for me to enjoy it as much as I enjoy hearts. I played, my grandfather loves cribbage and so I would play that with him when I was a kid and it was it was pretty cool getting to see my my eldest and learn to play it with him like we went over and we kind of like learned to play with my grandfather and it got to the point where I could be like kind of helping in the kitchen and they could play a game. So that was pretty cool. But I can't say that I enjoy Crib as much as I enjoy Hearts.

My main issue with Hearts, I also love Presidents and A**holes. That one's a lot of fun with the big group. My main issue with Hearts is you gotta have four players. Can't have five, can't have three. Yeah. Oh yeah, Binky Draws says, bluff is a great game to play if you have a bunch of incomplete decks.

Yeah, we call it cheat. That's what I always knew it as if you played cheat, cheat or bluff or bullsh**t is it's also called. I don't think so. It's not as much fun with a small group, but with a big group, like probably five to eight, I would say would be your optimal group size, and then you play with a couple of decks. Basically-

Oh, you claim how many of a card you have? Is it that game? And you put them down face down. Yeah, I've never played it, but I've heard of it. It's a lot of fun if you've got a good vibe and people are kind of in a high energy state, because it gets really ridiculous, because there are wild cards.

Plus if you got two decks, you'll get people making just utterly wild claims, like 11 kings. And you'll be like, cheat. You pick it up, holy shit. It's like six kings and five wild cards. Oh, okay. And then when you call it and you're wrong, you pick up the entire discard pile and bring it into your hand.

So when you've got like two decks and someone gets a couple bad calls wrong, they've got like 48 cards in their hand. So they can have anything at that point. Yeah, I think that's called a bunch of different things. And you can play it with like dice or, or I think people do it with like serial numbers on bills and like all this other type of stuff. Yeah, Cheats Cheats a lot of fun.

Sop Cannon says Uno is fun. I've only played Uno once. What? I unironically agree. Uno is actually a super fun game. And it's like, I think maybe it gets a bad rap for being kind of like for kids or whatever. It's basically Crazy Eights.

We just never had it. Yeah, it's Crazy Eights, but there's more cards and the cards are tailored for the game rather than just being a standard playing card deck. Yeah, Uno is actually unironically a great game. Buy giant Uno decks. One of my biggest problems, actually, with Uno is buying the first party cards, they suck.

The quality is so low. It's low enough that it impedes my enjoyment of the game. It's hard to deal with them. They're sticky, and I'll take a brand new deck out of the box and they're like they kind of get stuck on each other and like They just suck. I don't remember them being like that when I was a kid uno cards didn't suck and so Yeah, yellow jackets access. I have vintage ones that are probably older than me, and you know what, they're probably way better quality. Because when I was a kid, I don't remember them

having costed them down so much. Like it sucks to see stuff that used to be good. Steph Dutt says, phase 10 is the same issue where the cards suck now. I've never heard of phase 10, I don't know what that is. But yeah, just come on, man. I just, I want quality stuff that lasts. How much is that to ask?

Apparently a lot Apparently a lot yeah Yeah, Crystal says they didn't used to suck, but they changed distributors or something. It's like well, then they shouldn't they should find a good one And just ah yeah anyway. We used to play the the main board game that we used to play was called Malarkey. Oh yeah? Have you heard of Malarkey before? Can't say I have. I don't know if it's like still a game that's sold, but this is like the exact box that

it was on its Wikipedia, so I doubt it. Oh, thank you. Malarkey is a trivia game that incorporates bluffing into the gameplay. And it was super cool because you would, so everyone, that's Canadian AF, is it a Canadian game? I don't know. You would get handed out cards, and one person would get a thing that just is like,

figure it out, you're gonna have to make up a lie, and everyone else will get facts. And then it's like about a thing. Oh, that sounds similar to Balderdash, where you are given a word that people are unlikely to know what it means. Oh, you have to say the definition? And you have to make up a plausible definition.

So it sounds super similar to that, yeah. And then you have to like sell your thing and why it's correct. And man, it was like, it was pretty fun. Yeah, those types of games are a ton of fun. Do you remember this I Don't know if anyone else remembers nightmare the board the video board game I feel like I've heard of this

It was so I know this frame for sure oh Apparently it was called atmosphere somewhere else well It was called nightmare in North America, and it had this like these it had these creepy like video VHS tapes that would go along with that would go along with it. Yeah, here's the what 350 doll are you kidding me? No no no here's one for 60 bucks nightmare the video board game dude I would I would totally play this I would totally I would totally play this thing hold on nightmare I bet it sucks but I played this with my family like a bunch of times when I was a kid. Why have I on, why have I on,

Caphras dot, oh, Canadian, French, well whatever, I'll deal with this another time, but yeah, Nightmare. Is it any good? You're going for it tonight. Is what, any good, Nightmare? Yeah, I don't know, I don't remember, I was probably like nine or whatever when I played it, so who knows.

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Yeah, really. Yeah, no kidding. Well, we'll see what the FTC keeps doing now that Lena cons out. Yeah Rip Lena con because this is a Lena con era thing come to Canada Lena. Yes, please We we'd love to have you here as the I don't know We just we just got a bunch of new ministers like that would have been a perfect opportunity Minister of everything not being shit whatever title you want. Yeah, whatever you want. Lena, just come on up. We're in Surrey, so if you just head up to Surrey,

just knock on the door, just tell them Lena Khan's here, and we'll get it worked out. I'll take care of everything. I'll call up my friend JT, Mr. Trudeau, and I don't know Justin Trudeau. No. But I'll do everything I can. I'll do everything in my power to get you in touch with,

you know, whoever you need to be like in charge of something important because... Might not be him for much longer. Yeah, might? You know what? I think this is one of those things where the right thing for him to do is just resign and the problem is that for better or for worse, the Liberal Party of Canada has absolutely no one, no one waiting in the wings with any kind of charisma. So, yeah, good luck everybody. Okay, so here's an update for Burger McCheese or whatever, I forget what your username was. Yes, we are working your username was. Nice.

Yes. We are working on our bit holder thing. You do not have to use a third party bit holder for much longer, I promise. It has a keyhole thing on the back so that you can put on our magnetic cable management thing and you can just click it onto things. It has a soft silicone style thing that's Feels really nice and is really like oh yeah quality. It probably won't degrade the sorry the the oh okay, this one's dirt because it's pre-production, but it's

Supposed to it's supposed to come apart so you can pop the thing off. I think anyway the point is Tynan says soon. He says soon, TM. There it is. All right? All right. We good? We good.

No, and no, it's not gonna take like another two years. This is almost final, and I think we do have like final tooling for this thing. So it's actually, actually very soon. No, just the one size for now. I'm still over here waiting for the Scribe driver pencil. Then things take time. Do you have any idea how many people

work at Creator Warehouse? It's only a team of a couple dozen people, of which. At least two. I think only about a half are actually in product design, because you have to have administration and customer service and all those other things So you look at the number of products that that team creates. It's a crazy amount. They're actually incredible

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They should know that you read off the prom they should know you San Diego oh no wait sorry Both way go fuck yourself San Diego we have Topic we were gonna do a while back which was like your favorite wandshow moments, and I still I still have bookmarked When Adams under guard wrote that thing in the script and I was just like whatever and just read right through it They're like you fee smart camera thing do you remember that there's a with your what was it your taint and balls or whatever oh so good for those of you in San Diego who are upset it's an anchorman reference it's not I don't actually I don't actually care enough about the city of San Diego to have feelings about it

I mean, which maybe is worse. I don't know who knows oh No, it was good. I don't have the link anymore I had the link when we were doing the topic, but we didn't end up getting into it for whatever reason But it's it's it's a very funny clip Okay, okay Dan hit us Hi, Linus. I was had to hear that the tall Wan V3 hoodie was off the table. What's the minimum order for it to make sense? I have a Silicon Valley money.

Uh, how many do you need me to buy? Oh, man. Investors? Uh... okay. I like you. You're cool. I mean, ugh. Here's the thing.

Minimum order on something like a full custom design hoodie can be a little bit all over the place because it depends on how many embellishments you're getting that are like custom sourced. So let's say you're getting a custom draw cord or you're getting that are custom sourced. So let's say you're getting a custom draw cord, or you're getting a custom zipper pull, or you're getting a custom this, custom that, depending on whether it needs to be injection molded, or depending on whether it's machined, or depending on who the supplier is

and what your negotiated terms with them are, it can be all over the place. But if I was to give you a rough number of how many we would need to produce of a hoodie, like a quite custom hoodie like the WAN hoodie, I'd say somewhere in the neighborhood of 2,000 to 3,000 units. That's for all the sizes combined?

Well, it's complicated, right? Because depending on whether your limitation is a custom dyed roll of fabric, or whether your limitation is a custom dyed roll of fabric or whether your limitation is how many you have to buy of some weird carabiner zipper pole or whatever it is, that can impact it. So if the limitation is fabric, well, you can get around it. That's one of the ways that we're able to do

so many different prints of the underwear because we can make onesies out of them and we can go through a bunch of the fabric by doing onesies. And that's the reason why I'm trying to think of something that was quite limited by a custom thing instead. I can't think of anything off the top of my head, but there's areas where you can kind of account for that in your product mix by using it here

so that you can just do a few, you know, of that kind of fun underwear pack or whatever. So what I'm trying to say is it's all over the place, but in general, for a custom hoodie, I'd say somewhere between, let's say, two and 3,000 units to get a run done. All right, so across, oh yeah, right, so I was gonna say, another thing is sizing.

So if you think that it's a design that's gonna skew Quadruple XL, then you don't have to produce that many of them to use up like a custom dye lot, a fabric for instance. So back to Wanhoodie. Wanhoodie tends to skew pretty standard for our size mix. So we'll probably go from I think small to triple XL on that one.

Don't quote me on that because I don't remember exactly. Here's the issue. We don't have our tall hoodie grading done yet. And grading refers to the process of taking your reference sample, which is often created as a medium because I'm deeply involved in the development process and I like to be able to try it on in order to give feedback. And also because medium is the best selling size, obviously, because that's why it's medium.

So we have other mediums try them as well to make sure that it's not just made for me, but we start with a medium, and then grading is the process of taking that medium and building it up and building it down to accommodate different sizes. The issue is that we don't have our grading done for a tall hoodie.

It also means that we would need to figure out ahead of time what our mix would be when we order these thousands of hoodies. So across our sizes, let's say we go small, medium, large, XL, double XL, triple XL, that's six. If we add tall sizes, right, we just doubled our skew count. Which is brutal.

Which is brutal, okay? Then we have to make sure that we get the mix across all those different sizes in the regular and the tall variant. We have to make all of that fit into some reasonable order quantity, let's say, you know, let's say 2,500 units or something like that. Then we have to also balance that with that if we absolutely completely flub one of them,

it's going to be out of stock for like six to eight months while we wait for a restock of all the little bits and bobs that go on it and production and shipping. It is a lot to manage from a logistic standpoint. And I think that often people do not consider or they don't have experience with how difficult inventory management can be. The number of times that we've had people say, why don't you just have an EU distribution center?

So I don't have to pay as much on shipping. When I'm kind of sitting here going, yeah, did you think we didn't think of that? We thought of that. But now I get to take that, let's say a 3,000 unit order because I can sell more because I have tall sizes and I have better shipping to the EU. I now take that 3,000 unit order

and I have to get the seismics right. And then I have to nail I have to nail So I might be different to you course it will and so I then I have to nail how many of them I sent to our EU distribution center or to our NA distribution center or you're gonna end up paying more for shipping anyway because we're gonna be out of smalls in Europe where people Walk everywhere and we're gonna be out of triple XL's in the US and it's like crap and we're gonna be out of triple XLs in the US. And it's like, crap. So now all we have is an inventory management nightmare

because you gotta understand, we're a small company still in the grand scheme of things. We are not Uniqlo. We're not Lululemon. We aren't producing a style on the order of 50,000 units in one shot. We're not doing that. We're making maybe 2,000 units.

So splitting that across all these distribution centers is just, it's not feasible for us right now. Not at our current operating scale. And I know it's easy to say, well, your operating scale would probably be better if you guys accommodated larger sizes and if you had multiple distributions. It's like, yeah, but how much investment do I wanna take? I will say, I will say.

Do I wanna take VC money? Do I want that to impact our product development and the way we run our business? We don't want to do that. But I will say, the tall blank shirt is sold out in long and short sleeve in every single possible size that we have. It's very, very, very strongly rated five stars. The top review on it. And I'm going to cut Luke off.

I actually muted his mic I've muted your mic. Oh, I'm I'm gonna cut Luke off right now. Oh because I have good news for you. Oh When we bring in our new colors of t-shirts, which are coming soon. I think we've got five new colors of t-shirts. I want to say They will be available in tall sizes. Oh, that's cool. So not just black. But you gotta give us time. No, that's awesome, that's awesome. I understand it all takes time. I'm just saying the most recent review says please bring back more to the store, I need 20 of them.

I know, I'm aware, I'm aware. Frostblade says, yes, a lot of people underestimate how small LTT is. Yes, it's bigger than the two person coffee shop in my town, but even a company like Critical Role is maybe 10X LTT and even then they're small compared to something like a Mr. Beast. We are, any creator company is insignificant,

compared to the multinationals. And honestly, even then I see comments all the time they're like how can they not do this they have a hundred employees it's like okay but you have any idea how much stuff we do we do we do some of those people are incredibly busy it's not I actually don't

know critical role is ten times our size I don't know how critical role is but I'd be pretty surprised I would be very surprised I was reading the comment verbatim. I mean how many people? How many people work at critical role? Honestly LLC. I assume they're smaller, but yeah, I have no idea. I mean they have like eight founding members So they definitely Have some stuff going on or something

so they definitely have some stuff going on or something. Yeah, does anyone know how many people work there? I legitimately have absolutely no idea. I'm over it. Okay. What do you wanna talk about next? How about another Merch message? Oh yeah, right, Merch messages. Celebrating getting a new job at an AWS data center,

coming from IT at a K to 12 school district. What are the biggest mindset shifts or skills I should focus on for success in a data center? We don't work in a data center. Critical rules about our size. LinkedIn LinkedIn says 50 to 200 people. So they're somewhere in the same kind of neighborhood as us. I don't care. Cool. Nice. What exactly was it?

They went from teaching, and now they're working in a data center? IT from elementary high school to working in AWS data center. OK, so IT at a school to. Yeah. IT for a school district, I should say. Man, security. Yeah, probably.

I mean, there's a lot of privacy and security concerns in something like a school, but man, compared to the stories you hear people telling about, like, like, man, seriously, going to Equinix and like hearing that there's cages that literally if anybody even Touches the outside of them that they have touch sensors on them Like the head of the head of security gets a call like immediately. It's like that's like that's wild Yeah, I feel like the stakes are gonna shift

Yeah, if the TVs in the hallways of the school aren't receiving the thing that you're trying to send over them I'm sure somebody's going to be upset about it. But now you're working at a data center that is serving data for any number of different types of businesses. And it's likely going to be a more intense environment, I suspect. I don't know though. Like again, neither of us have worked in a data center Dania Dan Danny says I had to get an FBI background check to get a tour of the switch data center here in Vegas

Yeah, like that doesn't surprise me at all I've heard Now you're working in the data center not the software development side I've heard the software development side of AWS is quite the the meat grinder when it comes to employees So I I've heard the software development side of AWS is quite the meat grinder when it comes to employees So, I don't know keep your head down Dan one more. Yeah last one. Hey DLL I've had my backpack for one and a half years to which my kid and significant other both wanted one Which are already under our tree would you ever sell LTT colored carabiners

to help a family differentiate bags? That is so funny. Do either of you have your LTT backpack on you? I do. Can I borrow yours for a second Dan? Do you still have your thing on it? Yeah, the thing. The name thing?

Yeah. So here's our solution. We gave them away at our Christmas party one year and here, hold on Linus cam there we go We put there we go We put little tags on them with little laser engraved tags with people's names Because we did foresee that it was going to be a huge problem that Literally everyone in the entire company had the same backpack all of a sudden overnight. Yep hasn't really helped

Really not really so my new look at him I guess company had the same backpack all of a sudden overnight. Yep. Hasn't really helped. Really? Not really. So my new solution. People just don't look at him, I guess? Is to find some little. That's heavy, he's got some stuff in it. I know, I always do. Find some little embellishments or something.

A kutrimon. To hang off of, yeah, to hang off of your poles and help to differentiate your bag. That's really, that's really all you can do. I've got my dopamine beaker and I've lost my little whale from LTX. Nooooo! I still have the little gold chain but the whale has gone and I'm sad. I've got a couple of things on there. The float plane team went on a float plane.

So I have the like luggage tag from when we did that still on my bag. And I've got the like, morphologists, the like, architect, Star Citizen guy, he gave me a pin for his like, Star Citizen clan or whatever it is. And I have that on my bag, because I think it looks cool. Mine is a Mighty Car Mods lanyard.

Nice. From our recent collab. And then I also have my little Linus Sebastian thing I stole that from my full-size backpack Yeah, my still in my full size, and this is a snake Yes that my daughter made for me I'm I mean yeah, it's kind of a snake Hold on she actually gave me a new thing that I might have lost oh bad dad oh Shoot I might have lost a Uh oh, bad dad. Uh oh. Oh shoot. I might have lost the little

lizard she gave me. Well, neat. Whoops. Is there anything important in there? Because you really flop it around. Oh, it's all my screwdrivers. Oh. Yeah, I have like five screwdrivers in there. Because I put all my different bit sets in my different screwdrivers. They're all color coded. Oh, can I do a business pitch to you? Live on the show? Business pitch, aka a bitch. Yeah, can I do one of those? Sure, yeah, you can bitch at me. Cool, nice. So, open sauce was amazing, and some of us are gonna go again just like regardless.

But I was thinking, it's a maker event what if we had a make your own screwdriver booth don't pitch it to me no no pitch it to pitch it to someone else because that is gonna be a bitch is it so what is it is it do the machines become a problem or like what are what are the downsides here Tyne and is saying yeah I alreadyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Kind of somewhat so there's a number of issues issue number one is getting the dyed plastics there's minimum order quantities often for getting dyes so we cheated on a lot of the ones that we had for the make your own screwdriver booth at LTX where we were able to piggyback on top of the mega pro red that they already are buying in bulk. We were going to get a little bit of it from them and some other colors. They had a blue already that we borrowed. There were a couple where we had to buy too much dye. It goes bad.

It's great. Plastic dye goes bad. Okay, sure. That sucks. Oh, Tynan says it's an excited E. I am not committing to anything. You've got to make sure it makes sense. Then there's getting the production time for it

because you're basically, you don't know what you're gonna make. So you have to make extra of everything. You're gonna have a huge bin of garbage at the end of it essentially. Well we made lemonade out of garbage because we made the mystery screwdriver, the random color screwdriver, so that's fine.

We got rid of it all. That's okay, we could solve that. But the other issue is transportation. We have to carry, we have no idea what we're gonna make. Everyone at Open Sauce might make an all orange screwdriver. We don't know. And obviously you can kind of run out of something, but if you run out of like half of it, that sucks.

That's taking a W and turning it into two else. You know like that's not That's not good. Did you go with that on spot? I know I've used it before but it is a me thing It's pretty good. Yeah, take taking taking a W and turn it into L's or take like that two L's and turning them into a W I love it. It's pretty good. Um, so you gotta keep so you gotta carry a bunch of stuff down So that's that's a real pain in the butt. And otherwise, you know, you have people show up at the booth and it's like, oh yeah, I mean, this would be kind of cool. You don't want to create negative experiences.

I waited in line now and there's none of this left. And then there's also the fact that that would mean that instead of our cool team of cool people hanging out with other cool teams and cool people, they're like manning a booth. Which, I don't know, maybe you guys are super into it and you just wanna work at a booth at Open Sauce, but like, are you sure?

Just, all I'm asking is that you just think about it. Are you sure? Because it's not something that I would assign to people. I wouldn't be like, oh yeah, that show that you really like attending, how about you work at it? They want us going again anyways, so that's cool. So we're gonna have some kind of presence there regardless when it happens whenever the date is. I don't remember. Diego San says, that's why you have employees, duh. I'm talking about the employees the shit doesn't just

what roll down a hill indefinitely at some point somebody has to work what did you say? Luke can do it I'm I honestly somewhat agree with him I don't want to man the booth I don't want to do that part maybe for like a little bit I don't want to do it for the whole time. Get volunteers to help. Now you guys don't understand. What's so cool about the screwdriver booth is you get to talk to the people who designed it. What's cool about the screwdriver booth

is that they like know it inside out. And what's safe about the screwdriver booth is we have people who are really familiar with the Arbor presses and that can make sure that nobody squashes a finger and all that important stuff. Yeah, so I don't know. What I would rather do, what I'd rather do in the longer term or the medium term

is figure out how to do like an Xbox controller configurator but for the screwdriver where you can just configure your own custom one online. Yeah. That's where I'd like to get to, but we are- We can build a configurator, no problem. We even have a 3D version of it that's like semi-made already. Have you seen that?

I think so, actually. The 3D hovering screwdriver in any background environment you want. The logistics of it are tough. Yeah, that part's way harder. For sure. Because one of the big challenges is that we have to stock the entire ratchet assembly with the selector ring on it already. If that were not the case, it would significantly simplify the lead times

of that part because we have to have the injection molding done here, then we have to have it assembled onto the ratchet assembly in China, then we have to have that assembly sent back over here for final assembly of the driver. And handling that across like six or eight different colors or whatever is just like, but it's going to mean that for extended periods of time, you're going to have certain colors out of stock. It's just, it's a lot of logistics to manage when we're already having trouble keeping t-shirts in stock.

So and that doesn't mean that the team isn't smart and doesn't work hard or whatever. It just means that the logistics of managing a store with like over a thousand skews is is really tough It's also like if you if you look at Customized versions of products on stores. Yeah, I can think of a couple where like I don't know you can get your name Etched onto it or whatever. It's usually surprisingly not that cheap. Oh, oh, yeah on to it or whatever, it's usually surprisingly not that cheap. Oh, oh yeah. Oh, it's a lot. Oh dude, we've got, we were looking at what the pricing would probably have to be if we ever did the resin infused wooden screwdriver or the, sorry, yeah, the resin infused wood screwdriver. And those screwdrivers, instead of being like buying a resin infused wooden screwdriver,

you would probably buy that one. And it would probably be listed on the site for like seven, eight hundred, nine hundred dollars because realistically, it would have to be like hand monitored. Like we would take that piece of wood, like that one, and then we would probably do it here, and it would have to be like hand assembled by someone on our engineering team as opposed to just some random or whatever because of- It still has to meet specs, et cetera.

Yeah, and the cost of those things, like it's, like when you look at like knives and stuff that have this resin infused wood in the handle and stuff like that, they're like $1 there because the getting it is is really expensive on top of all the other complications And you like making the thing you can't get them at volume, right? Citizen 53 91 says bespoke screwdrivers would go crazy for the whales. I know I know you could sell like Five of basically anything. Oh, yeah. Oh, oh probably it's just a question of like It's it's balancing whether that would even be worth spending our time on like the opportunity cost of it

we also have this the whole thing with the store where we're trying to Make something new and better and while it might be expensive it's really good. And it's somewhat reasonable. It also has to be somewhat within reason. Expensive but reasonable. Yeah we had a $600 backpack but everyone who bought it was thrilled with the Luxe backpack because the materials are great, it has all the functionality of the regular backpack and it's a head turner. Like when I was daily driving the Luxe backpack, dude. I saw you get questions about it. People were like, wow, what is that? Because not everyone's into it, and that's totally fine.

But the people who like it, like it. Like one of my friends in Taiwan, like badminton buddy, tried to buy it off of me. And I was like, dude, this is the only sample. Like I have to wear test it, you can't. He's like, what's the retail price? I'll buy it for full retail price. I'm like, dude, look, I would give it to you if I could.

It's not about the money, you just can't have it. It's the only one that exists. Top Gear asks, have you guys surpassed a million screwdrivers yet, stubby and full size combined? No. I think we're close to 300,000 or so. Which is a ton.

Which is unbelievable. And I think our Shopify order number is over a million now But I don't think we actually have a million orders because there can be like cancellations and stuff. Oh, that makes sense Yeah, so we're getting we're getting super close to a million orders through Shopify We we apparently are actually like a very sizable like store for the Shopify platform, which is something I never would have thought. I never would have thought would happen. Citizen 5391 asked, how's the gold controller doing?

It's doing great. Appreciating. Actually, yes. If anyone wants to buy it. You could buy an appreciating asset. I would be very open to selling it I don't actually have any kind of emotional attachment to it. It's actually kind of annoying to use Yeah, it's not great to use ways so much it is it's cool And you'll look cool in front of all your cool friends. Yeah, if you wanted to Cool friends. Yeah, if you wanted to

Yeah, if you wanted to I don't even know I have a big and tall label on it I'll engrave a little way. Okay, Duke. I'll engrave away Okay How crazy would it be like to celebrate a million screwdrivers to do, like, a golden screwdriver? Or something like that. Actually, I don't even know if we'd have to wait that long. I think that doing a golden screwdriver for, like, the metal screwdriver launch or something like that would be kind of cool.

Wait, what? Oh, you mean to sell it? No one's gonna buy it. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Metal screwdriver launch? I don't know what you're talking about. Anyway, what are we supposed to be doing, Dan? Topics.

HP downgrades printer features when you don't buy genuine ink. According to a post on rslash, asshole design, an HP printer owner named Mitch had multiple features of his DeskJet 2700 removed or revoked because he lost his HP plus benefits when he installed non HP replacement ink in his printer. Some HP plus benefits include cloud-based printing,

automatic updates and fixes, improved print quality, advanced scanning features, extended warranty and enhanced security features. Now HP's version of this is that HP plus is a free upgrade available on many HP printers when you set up an HP account, use genuine HP ink cartridges and keep your printer connected to the internet. Additional benefits include the optional HP Instant Ink. Oh, so you pick a plan based on how often you print, not how much ink you use, starting

at $189 a month for 10 pages. That whole thing. Is that still a thing? I guess. See, you don't get to just spin you know you can't just spin you can't say hey It's an upgrade if you do all this stuff No, it's not it's a downgrade if you don't do all this stuff. You have a gun to my head This is a stick not a carrot oh

to my head this is a stick not a carrot oh oh oh brutal one dollar eighty nine cents a month cue you not a hundred eighty nine dollars oh you just Luke's on it in the chat

just a hundred percent believable I don't know what to say about that other than I was just like that sounds about right for HP brutal let's move on to our next one somebody found our geocache I don't know what to say about that other than. I was just like, that sounds about right for HP. Brutal. Let's move on to our next one. Somebody found our Geocache. Yeah. At the end of Tuesday's video, oh, our original,

here, we might as well, we might as well show the, ay, they found it, and they look exactly. Some genuine smiles. Exactly as wet as I would expect them to look. So that has a $500 LTT store gift card on it or something like that, I think. So this was really cool. At the end of Tuesday's video, the most expensive USB drive on earth per gig, we revealed that we had hidden that ferroelectric USB drive in

a geocache somewhere in the Vancouver, BC area with $500 of coupon codes on it. And we left clues throughout the video. A flurry of activity in the comments, our forums and Reddit followed, and the device was found about six hours later near a geocache in Port Coquitlam. Here is the solution. If you don't want spoilers and you wanna try to solve it for yourself by watching the video, you can totally do that.

I'll put both hands up when you're good to tune in again. There you go. First, the video had four quarters of a QR code hidden in it. Connor was responsible for hiding the QR codes and he determined the spots. The timestamps are 502, 543, 643-ish, it's a single frame, and 1012 in the outro.

Once you assembled the pieces of the QR code, it led you to a picture of a broken fence. The fence was a rail fence, which references the cipher used to encode the text surrounding the QR code. Since the fence in the image had three rails, so did the rail fence cipher. I added space and line breaks to the encoded message, which makes things a bit more difficult. I did not include an offset. So here's an example of a rail fence cipher. Was this Connors idea? Because this was sick. No, I believe this would have been Adam working on this. Good job. I had intended

to have an extra step using another ciphered message within the rail fence cipher. The next hint would have been liberty, freedom, tyranny is dead, a line from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar to indicate that the next code was using a simple Caesar cipher, A to B, B to C, C to D, etc. Even when only a portion of the message had two layers of encryption, it made it very hard to know if you were on the right path. Also, I ran out of time to make it more complex, so we didn't do that. Instead, I just included the name of a geocache that could be found near where I stashed the drive. To avoid too much disruption to the geocache, I didn't actually hide the drive inside of it, just nearby. To get the exact coordinates, you just had to solve the geocache puzzle, which I will not spoil here. Adam says,

I did my best to be hands off, but did end up providing hints by reacting to comments on the forums when it seemed like people were getting really far off, like thinking that we hit an enderbee, or started calling phone numbers. Adam. Oh boy, yeah, OK, that makes sense. Congrats to Redditor Betty Bratt and her husband! It was great to see the teamwork of the community. Many viewers outside the Vancouver area were helping out those who were close enough to have a chance at the prize.

We did manage to generate some mild controversy in the geocache community. Geocaches are created by community members and are meant to be done for the fun of it, rather than for any sort of prize and introducing a bunch of normies to any hobby is usually met with a bit of resistance as new folks might not understand the culture or best practices. Some people did point out that plugging in random USB sticks is a bad idea, you don't know what's on it. In this case, I really doubt that someone was able to find it, flash the firmware, program something malicious to put on the USB drive, then put it back where it was supposed to be. It is possible, however very unlikely. I'd also be surprised if someone decided to purchase similar

looking USB keys with malicious stuff on them and littered them around geocaches in the lower mainland. It's like needles and candy apples. It's not really a thing that actually happens except when it does happen. So yes, that is a really good point, but it was also a very distinctive looking USB drive with very distinctive functionality like you... Yes, good point. It would have been tough. Very, very unlikely. The level of gatekeeping that was going on with a couple of members of the

Geocache community was actually comical. And y'all need to calm down. But yeah, it was fun. It was fun. We had a lot of fun with it and the team has a lot of fun creating content like that. I saw a lot of fun with it and the team has a lot of fun creating content like that.

I saw a lot of people that were angry about the sort of detective interrogation and like the lawyer conversational skit that took place in the video and anyone who said it wasn't their cup of tea, I kind of noted that and anyone who got super angry about it is now officially shadow banned from the channel forever because guys we got it We got to do stuff. Don't don't get mad. Just express your thoughts. It's so exhausting sometimes dude our comment section is legit It's getting better Like way better I don't know whether it's the threat of shadow banning or the or that it was just a very because I haven't actually

Or whether it was just a very small number that we're creating. As far as the vast majority of the nonsense. A lot of these are actually very small numbers. Like, oh yeah, it's a lot of communities are often ruined by a very small group of people. Cause it doesn't take much to taint the bunch. Nope. It really doesn't. And you know what? I, um, I had an interesting conversation at the, uh, the the Smash champs the badminton club at the smash Champs Christmas party. I now have to attend multiple Christmas parties running too many companies. It's a very relatable problem

I know so we had a really interesting conversation because they finally dug up a data point that I'd been asking for and You know how I can never turn off work. So we're at a Christmas party. We're talking about work. Anyway, the point is that Because we've been offering it for free, we've had free drop in for our soft opening, there have been people who have been signing up and then not showing up because there's no consequences for not showing up. And what we discovered that there was a group of repeat offenders who had done it over 30 times in

a span of just a couple months that we've been soft open. And so we were having a conversation about, you know, what, what our reaction should be to something like that. And the team, I want to get out ahead of this, The team already made their case and I gave in. I gave in. They said they wanted to give a warning to these people before issuing any kind of suspension or anything like that. But what I told them I wanted to do was just

just permanently ban them forever. Because doing something like, missing a book session once in a while that happens It's gonna happen that happens. Yep doing it dozens of times over a span of 30 times over a span of a couple of months Yeah, knowing that by booking the session somebody else can't sign up for it because it's a limited number of slots That just means you're a fucking asshole if they're gonna do that what else are you gonna do what else I just don't want them around really want them on your and here's the numbers 2.5% it was two and a half percent of the total people who have come to play that were engaging in this sort of egregious level of abuse of our online booking system.

And- Or do you let people appeal? Why? Yeah. Why? Yeah. No, why? Give me a good reason.

That many times, yeah, that many times is tough because that means you spent a month in the, how long, two months? How long has it been open? It's been like two, two and a half months. So you spent half of the time since it's been open booking and not showing up. So like, you know, maybe you have a slew of unfortunate events and you end up not making like a few in a row even. And it like looks kind of bad. And you're like, ah, like I just, I wasn't trying to be a jerk

and I thought I could go and then, you know, just life has messed up right now and it just kept not working. But spending a month out of two to two and a half months doing that is too much. Yeah, Chris429 says, honestly, it's crazy that 2% of the time you've been open, you couldn't rent that space, that's crazy. That's not how that math works. The way the math works is that if you have 2.5%

of the people that have come and played doing this 30 plus times, we would have sessions that are fully booked and have like a third of the people there because two thirds of them weren't there. That's what this kind of egregious repeat offending does to a community, it destroys it. Yeah, it actually makes it less interesting. And when there's less people there, it's less interesting.

Yep. Because in my limited experience with badminton people, you'll kind of jump the courts a little bit sometimes. Yeah, absolutely. Go play with other people, do whatever. Especially during drop in. Yeah, it's very much a community thing. So having such a reduction in the amount of people that are there can be bad. Hazafia says there has to be some advanced payment for booking.

Yes, yes. And once we once we're taking payment, absolutely there will be,. Hasafia says there has to be some advanced payment for booking. Yes, yes. And once we're taking payment, absolutely there will be, but we're soft open. And we wanted people to be able to come and try the courts and enjoy some free badminton. I mean, this is why we can't have nice things. We actually were trying to do a solid. Obviously, there's an advantage for our business, right? We're giving people that first hit, you know?

Smash. Yeah, the first smash, right? But like, yeah, like, I don't know. So obviously we're gonna figure it out, but no, it was free. So people were taking a free thing. And so it was like the 2% of people were showing up at the door where the bowl of candy is out,

please take just one and just taking all of them. Ruining it for everybody. Brutal. So yeah, I don't know. I just, my state of mind, Yvonne disagreed. She supported the Smash team and they ultimately have decided to issue a warning to all these people. And even that, it's like a manual process that's creating unnecessary work for us to go and tell them to not be a f***ing a**hole. Right? Like, why?

So they're gonna do it, they're gonna do it, we're gonna give them a warning or whatever, but honestly, I'm not, I don't support that. I think we should just not bother with that. I don't need them. I'll take the other ninety seven and a half percent of good eggs Yeah, because most of the tenants from most people are pretty awesome Most people are pretty chill It just takes it so that that was what I thought was interesting It was that number two and a half percent was the number of people who were just egregiously just jackasses. I bet you it's really not that far off for like most things. Yeah. Yeah. Genuinely. Yeah. Like looking at communities that I've modded before and stuff it's like-

Or like- It's really a small- Sitting in a theater watching a movie. It's only like two people that won't shut up or have their phone on or whatever. Yeah, apparently I was reading an article about this. Is this true? Apparently disruptions in movie theaters are becoming like way more of a thing Yeah, because people aren't used to not being on their phone. So they'll just be on their phone the whole time What yeah? That's crazy

Yeah, and they don't do anything. They don't just like kick these people out I guess not. Like that's the thing that really blows me away because as the proprietor of the business, I feel like it's my job to ensure that my customers have a good time. And I don't care about one person if they are impacting the other 99 that are not able to enjoy my facility. I am wondering a little bit like I've heard this as well You've heard this I've heard this neither of us really go to movies that often anymore

So we haven't experienced it is this we're all hearing about it or have people in the chat actually Genuinely experience this because like Elijah said Yeah, people cheering. It's so true people cheering sometimes also is this from Elijah going to the theater or you hearing this there's no way Elijah ever went to a theater No way and Elijah says it's hard to kick people out. It's a bigger disturbance to do that than to let them be annoying. No, no No, that's the thing because you only have to kick them out one time. They will be a disturbance forever

Your theater once a month. Wow. Oh, really? Well then why haven't you ever seen any movies? What are you even doing there? Modern bad ones? I don't know, man. Maybe just theaters, the staff is just pushing for popcorn, yeah. Dude, I don't know.

As a moviegoer, and I used to manage one in the 2010s, there's way more talking during the movie and phone usage than there used to be. Yeah, okay. Avid moviegoer. Okay, yeah. Yeah, apparently it's more of a thing. Huh. Okay. I don't know, dude. Um, okay. I think that's because it's the new Lord of the Rings movie, Conrad. I don't know dude Okay, I think that's because it's the new Lord of the Rings movie Conrad That's my take on it. What is he said nobody goes anymore? We went to go see the new Lord of the Rings movie, and there's only five people there. What new Lord of the Rings movie? Is there a new Lord of the Rings movie? I don't know which is the whole what are you talking about?

Oh part of the problem. There's no new Lord of the Rings movie No, you're drunk Hold on what no? Oh Animated movie the war within oh I don't know if it's not not the war within the war of the Rohirrim is Is this cut off is this like actually based on anything Tolkien wrote or is this just like gonna have final season of Game of Thrones syndrome Plot

183 years before the events it's animated and not promoted well Yeah, this doesn't seem like a fair comparison necessarily oof oof eleven and a half million box office on a budget of 30 million Oh, that's not that high of a budget though animated movie That's that's a high budget for unlike not Pixar animated movie. Yeah Like I don't know. I don't know who the heck this is. Oh Peter Jackson's involved though interesting Don't I mean animated movies don't do well You can't really say that because like inside out 2 was low-key like huge

It's not it. It was good. Yeah, also Mario movie. I'd like there There are yeah, there are big there. They're big animated movies. Yeah, the big ones do really well All right. Yeah, I honestly had no idea there was this Final Fantasy 7 rebirth directors have asked fans not to make inappropriate mods. Again. They told the Epic Games Store, while the team has no plans for official in-game mod support, we respect the creativity of the modding community and welcome their creators, though we ask modders not to create or install anything offensive or inappropriate.

Community-developed mods can provide everything from bug fixes and quality of life features to entire expansion for games, but can also add less wholesome content. Some PCR, some PCMR members question if this is a genuine request or a clever way to market the game based on potential mod content. And Luke- That's 100% what it is. Luke seems to be, Luke seems to be on that side,

but I'll say this. I bet the bank on it. I'll say this. If, if this was Ubisoft, I would agree with you. But it's not. They've done this before. This exact person, I think, has done this before. Okay. And the results were exactly what you would expect. Sure. And they're doing it again, probably because last time it got a ton of press and a ton of people talking about how the game was moddable and like, oh my god

of course there's gonna be an appropriate mods, teehee hooray, and I'm sure they know the same thing's gonna happen again. What if, what if there are potentially cultural differences and this may genuinely be a case where they are just respectfully asking again, knowing that nobody listened last time and hoping that someone will actually listen. Do you think that is possible? I think it's possible. Yeah, I, I, I do agree that that's possible. I think at the same time that if, if, if that is possible? I think it's possible, yeah. I do agree that that's possible. I think at the same time that if that is the case, I hope that they realize that it is doing completely the opposite thing.

Maybe they do, maybe they don't. But either way, there are currently over 1,400 mods to FF7 remake on Nexus mods, and at least a couple hundred of them are not safe for when. Yeah. Tynan asks, could it be both? Yeah, it could be both. It could be a little bit of both. This particular individual or there could be members of the team that really are actually

offended by like... I'm sure at least someone there doesn't like that those are happening. Yep. By the desecration of their beloved characters and art and you know, whatever else. And I'm sure that at least someone else there is seeing dollar signs and is like, wow, this works really well last time. I bet you we could do the exact same thing and the news media will do the exact same thing and it will be great. And then that's exactly what happened. Reviver's digital license plates hacked to dodge tolls and tickets. I had no idea that these were a thing until I saw

this in the Wandox. Stop it, stop it. Okay, okay, okay, okay. So, digital license plates with screens... How is that legal? Who could have possibly foreseen that somebody would hack them and change what's on the screen? Nobody. Who could have foreseen it? So, the topic here is all about what's happening with Reviver's digital license plates. The the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the of plastic film over top of your license plate here because it makes it more difficult for the traffic cameras to photograph them.

Yeah, people do it anyway, but technically you're like not supposed to. Who the fuck thought this was a good- why? What is even the point of it? It doesn't even look that much different and it like would take some amount of energy. It seems very weird to me. Like they're super cool. Like you can change the like outer, you know, a border of it. The border, sure. Like a vanity thing or whatever. Like yeah, they're super cool. You can do that anyways. I can understand why somebody would want one.

Oh, that unquestionably. No doubt. All the license plate flipping motorcycle people? Yeah, definitely. But how anyone in any kind of position of authority could look at this and go that's fine Gee, I don't think anything could go wrong with this Yeah I was stunned here's what's going on Somehow I don't I don't know how this happened

Here's what's going on. Somehow, I don't know how this happened. Attackers can replace the firmware on Reviver brand digital license plates, which are currently installed on 65,000 vehicles. Attackers. The new firmware allows an attacker to change the number on the plate at will via a phone app, potentially sticking other drivers with their tickets and tolls. The hack may also enable users to access other plate features without paying Reviver's monthly subscription fees, which are apparently $35 a year.

Why? Why would I want to pay $35 a year to somebody else for my license? So Reviver says the hack voids the warranty and requires fancy tools and rare expertise. But researcher Josep Rodriguez counters that now that the hack has been discovered, a bad actor only needs to plug in a cable and upload a new firmware. Yeah, sounds about right. Reviver plates will send a notification to the owner if they are detached from a vehicle, so attackers may need to jam or overcome that feature in some way.

There's apparently no way for Reviver to update the software to prevent the jailbreak. It is apparently in hardware. And this is not the first time their system has been compromised. In 2022, vulnerabilities in Reviver's web infrastructure allowed attackers to gain administrative privileges on their backend database, allowing the ability to track and change plates at will. Digital plates are currently legal to buy and register in California, Arizona, and Michigan. Wow. Our discussion question is...

I didn't know automated speeding tickets didn't exist there anymore. What problems are being solved with a digital license plate? Nothing, I don't understand its point at all Okay, other than getting away with speeding tickets and tolls that I completely understand vanity themes But like is that even? What are you really allowed to do because like in the picture that we have it's just a super normal license plate. No, you can you can put like cute things on it. Anyway, there's a- Is that any different than just like putting a sticker on your normal license plate?

Dude, I don't know. Custom banner messages. Oh my god. At $75 a year they limit how many custom banner messages you can put on it. Why are you allowed to put custom banner messages? Like that's, is that not like distracted, distracted driving? Dude. How is that okay? Well, no, you would do that while you're not driving. It can pay your tolls, display amber alerts and track your location.

I think you can also use it for, you can use it for like anti-theft. I don't think it can track your location. They have a statement specifically saying, Reviver reached out with us with a statement saying that the license plates do not have GPS capabilities. Okay, maybe this is a different startup then. So I don't know what this is. Anyway, okay, yeah, I don't know. Oh, yeah, Reviver's plates, though, don't come cheap.

Oh, yeah, did I mention the plate's $500? If you want to give it a cool border, buy a plastic one that have existed for a trillion years, and if you want the little cool banner things, just put stickers on it. Sure thing, grandpa. Sheesh. Sheesh. I'm okay with being old if that's the line. Reboot Rewind has started their crowdfunding campaign. It's over on GoFundMe. Just wanted to promote this real quick because it's a super cool mission. The show Reboot was like kind of part of our childhood, especially here in Canada. And the original tapes have been found, but it's a lot of work to

get them fixed. So I think we could probably throw a thousand bucks at it. If you guys want to throw a little bit of money at it, that'd be super cool. I'm just going to forward this to accounting. If there's anything else for you to say about that topic, go ahead, but I need to do this. So yeah. YouTube announces changes this week. Clickbait slash voice reply slash third party AI training. YouTube announced starting in India, it will be removing egregious clickbait defined as videos where the title slash thumbnail don't match the content.

Wow. Interesting. Some examples they use are in quotes, the president of the USA steps down, where obviously that didn't happen. What if it's a skit though? I have heard, and I haven't experienced it personally, but I have heard that misinformation is a particular problem, like especially in India,

in like WhatsApp groups groups and apparently I don't know this I have not experienced this but apparently it is it is it just spreads like absolute wildfire and it's caused some serious problems that's all I really have to say about that. That's all I've heard. Interesting. YouTube also allows creators to opt in to third-party AI training? What are they training? Who knows? But at least creators have the option to opt in. It's not on by default. This is just YouTube announcements this week. This is completely separate from the other thing. No, yeah, for sure. That's just so weird.

YouTube is also testing a new voice reply feature in comments. This can only be done by the creator of the video. That's actually really cool. It has to be a reply to someone else's comment, and only on iOS? What? For select channels?

Why only on iOS? I don't know, man. This is kind of based on something that I had asked them to do a while back. I definitely didn't ask it for it to be only on iOS? I don't know man. This is kind of based on something that I had asked them to do a while back I definitely didn't ask it for to be only on iOS But you got to understand iOS is probably if I had to guess I'd say it's like 90% of top YouTube creators Yeah, but it's not their own thing. I know Doesn't matter

They at the end of the day look look I could make this argument the other way too Should they serve their customers or should they serve their own platform? Do both. Well, sure, but if- Just release on Android and iOS. That's not the question I was asking. Yeah, and when you're trialing a new feature that might not ever even go full release,

like, do you do the 50% of the work that reaches 90% of your users or do you do the 100% of the work that reaches 90% of your users or do you do the 100% of the work that reaches 100% of your users? I understand it. I don't have to like it, but I do understand it. Yeah. Discussion question.

Yeah. Team Green, Act and Sus. A user posted this week on X that they were experiencing up to a 15% penalty in performance while having the NVIDIA app installed on their computer. Several other users and publications also tested this claim with a variety of games, and while some may reach up to a 15% penalty, it seems that across the board, every game that was tested stopped between 2 and 12% on average. I think there was some solution here. I think you just had to turn a particular setting off. Yes, and N and Nvidia is working on fixing it

So we just wanted to make sure people know to go ahead and we know what the setting is though. I don't remember Yeah, it's definitely Googleable. It's a very easy and quick fix Like it sucks, but it's not difficult to solve citizen 53 91 asks How much flexibility do you have with accounting you gave away $500 and now a thousand dollar donation? I Mean, how do I how do I how do I put this? It's all his dollars. Well, it's not sort of it's all yours and a Vaughn's dollars It's it's mine if I decide to give it to me, which means it's yours But it isn't yet right until such time you have full control of it as I decide to give it to myself means It's yours, but it isn't yet, but you Until such time. But you have full control of it. As I decide to give it to myself. Means it's yours.

But it isn't yet. But you own it, which means it's yours. I don't though. You do though, because you own the company which holds it. I own the company that is a separate and distinct legal entity. But you own that. That owns it.

And it owns that. I do. But that entity, with its board of directors. Through inheritance, you own the money. You own the company that owns the money. You're being very literal right now, Luke. You're being very literal. Luke, I could stab you, I just haven't yet.

Yeah. Yeah, same thing. That's not, no. I have a knife. That's not, it's not the same thing at all. No, it's not. It is the same thing. No, it isn't. It is the same thing. The government has to get involved after I do it. It's not the same thing. The government has to get involved after I do it. It's not the same thing. Elijah, enough. Anyway, the point is that at the end of the day, if it's just down

to money, as long as I'm not doing something that's gonna get Yvonne mad at me, or that is going to affect someone on the team's goals, or their KPIs, or their quarterly bonus, or whatever else, if it's just out of the profits of the company, then I have basically, to Luke's point, full discretion to do whatever the f*** I want with it. No, you could technically do all those things anyways. That's self-control. Oh, well, no, no, no, I just mean in terms of like what my rules are. Yeah, that's what I mean though. It's self-control because you own it.

So, I know that Yvonne's not going to be upset about us donating that amount of money to a cause that we think is cool. And I don't think accounting is going to be bothered. It's another check. Whereas if I was doing something like, in the middle of WAN show, I took a brand new product that we launched and I marked it down to 90%. The Creator Warehouse team now has to scramble to get a new order in. They now have to figure out what the heck they're going to do about all the sales that were cannibalized by this new product that is now priced way under it. They have goals around profitability for the store and inventory management that I've now just completely screwed up.

Self-sabotaging your own company. And the people within it. And the people within it. If we're creating a bunch of work for people that's not okay But if we're contributing some cash that isn't mine because I haven't decided to give it to myself yet Then Towards a like a project that's kind of cool and is aligned with our corporate values and with mine and Yvonne's personal values Then that's not a problem. Yeah. That's fine.

Citizens. Just wait till, just wait till, I'm not saying he's gonna do this, but this is pretty normal. Just wait till he sets up a charity. Then you just, yep. It's, I, it's more of a thing in the US yes, it's not as applicable. Yeah, it's it's it's less of a just like Infinite money isn't it weird how when especially American but business people in general get really really rich they suddenly become philanthropists Wow, I

wonder why It's a whole thing. It's a whole rabbit hole, and it's not all conspiracy theory nonsense. There is a lot mixed in with it, which is kind of annoying and frustrating, but Yeah, it basically... Yeah, like, okay, Mackenzie Scott seems to be actually doing it. Which one's that? That's the one that used to be Bezos. Yeah, but it turns out he prefers like 400 pound lips.

I have genuinely no idea what you're talking about. I didn't follow that at all. I was like, wow, this has no relevance at all to my life. Jeff Bezos' ex-wife seems to be like actually giving away a ton of money in a way that's legitimately actually helpful nice okay not buying all the farm land in the States yeah well we can be fun oh they want me to fix my sleeve sorry about that all right uh Wancho after dark merch massages let's do it sure oh we all we also gotta go purple there we go nice nice nice didn's do it. Sure. We also gotta go purple. There we go. Nice. Nice. Nice. Didn't do it within three seconds. No, I was just trying to help.

Yeah, why do you get to ride people like that? He's gonna stab me now. I don't blame him. I might. As of yet. I'll do it for reboot. Luke! for reboot. Luke, I just got Oblivion on sale from Steam. Do you have any suggestions for greatest enjoyment? Should I wait for Skyblivion before I start? I was going to say, you might want to wait. I don't know, Skyblivion's different, right? There's new voice actors, there's been changes to some of the items. There's all the stuff going on It's also not out yet. It is it is theoretically releasing in the year that's gonna start in a couple weeks, but We we don't technically know how good it's gonna be and it will technically be a different experience now

If you just got it and you're gonna play all of oblivion and then play all the oblivion again when skyblivion comes out that sounds like too much That sounds like a lot of oblivion. Yeah, I played oblivion Approaching on two decades ago It's probably been enough time for me But yeah, I might wait if I were you, but I don't know. Make your own decision. Go watch the Skyblivion videos and then figure it out. Yeah. And whatever you do, don't mod Skyblivion with not safe for work character models. Yeah.

Zero hot coffee. There's none of those. Those don't exist for sure. Will there be a luxe version of the commuter backpack? I doubt it. People would, uh, yeah, people would probably like it. Super limited run. So, our relationship with our previous backpack supplier got a little strained. We haven't been a perfect partner either. There have been some projects that we started with them that they did work on, you know, sampling and stuff like that, that ultimately did not make it to mass production with them.

with them. But we did move forward with and and create as products. You know, they're not understandably thrilled about that. There however were some things on our side that we were not thrilled about either, like the fact that we bought 40,000 backpacks that were supposed to have a double layered bottom and instead did not. We weren't thrilled about the design flaw with the carabiner things. Yeah, could we have caught them earlier? Yeah, sure, that would have been nice, but we like didn't design them or validate them. That was supposed to be, you know, the backpack making experts that we were partnered with. So, so, so, so, so the Lux products were made in cooperation with our previous backpack supplier.

So you have to like redo. It is possible that we could do another Lux something. Maybe with an Apple leather, maybe with apparently banana fibers are like super cool. There's some really cool stuff from there. This came up actually during our last merch meeting, we were having a conversation about this. The problem is that the volumes are really small and the opportunity cost of working on a Lux product

is very high. There's a lot of other stuff that we could do instead of faffing about making a couple hundred backpacks. So will we ever do it? I'd like to. I'd like to have a Lux commuter backpack. And the people who bought the original Lux backpack are extremely happy with it.

Like look at this thing. 19 reviews, this is a $600 bag and like the nice-looking best functioning backpack. I've ever owned Okay, someone hasn't got it Okay, well, we'll have to get that sorted out I mean customer service should be looking into any tickets or any reviews that are that are particularly problematic. Oh they got a refund. Oh. Oh they got a refund. Exchange rates. Oh. Oh I mean. The accounting of that is very complicated and I'm not going to get into it here but I'm sorry that it worked out that way basically. My daily six days a week bag. Five stars. The point is

the people who have it flipping love this thing. Five stars, five stars. The point is the people who have it flipping love this thing. Five stars, five stars, easily the nicest backpack of our best looking bag I own. People talk about just getting comments on it and people asking where it's from. It really is, it really is an attention grabber. But we just didn't sell that many of them. And yeah, I don't know, I don't know if it's gonna happen.

I'd like to, I'd like to, it's a cool product, but we gotta work on stuff that somewhat, you know, has an opportunity to scale. What technology would you like to see become more widespread than it is now? Hmm, I don't know, technology's like- Pretty widespread. Oh man.

I'm trying to think like, I mean, one of them I'm currently investing in, I want to see NAS become more widespread. Yeah. Like I think the vision behind, I think the vision behind some of the storage coins and stuff Was actually pretty cool. I jumped on that man Um, I really wanted that to be a thing for those of you who don't know the idea was that you would contribute like you would Mine the coin that like whatever the storage coin was. I forget what it was called, but some kind of storage coin by providing space

to like a a decentralized cloud essentially. And then people could pay, they could buy coins in order to back up their data to this decentralized cloud. I'd love to see a future like that where NAS is just mainstream and like kind of everyone has one and you just kind of, you don't have to just surrender your data to cloud providers.

HexOS hopefully is gonna be a step towards it being easier to easier for, I wouldn't say necessarily normies normies yet but kind of tech savvy people like content creators and gamers to bring their storage on-prem. Yeah, I'm gonna go with that. I'm gonna go with NAS. Hi, Mr. Tips. It recently came to my attention that most of the data USB cables I have are...

What is the status of your USB-C launch? I need like a 10 gigabit per second cable. Is he gonna do it? I think he's gonna do it. I had a quick chat with Tynan before the show today. So we were talking about spec versus real-world observed results and talking about where the line's going to be for, um, for our C to C's, where we switch over. It says don't talk too much. Oh, don't talk too much to be specific.

He says it's a bit more complicated than I thought. Oh, okay. Well anyway, I was chatting with Tynan, and this is a cable. It's a nice cable. It feels great. I really love that the speeds and feeds are printed on the plug. That is so good. Not really printed. It's like stamped, I guess, on the plug. Embossed sure thanks It's it's so cool because a ton of different USB cables They don't even tell you when you're buying it what the specs are at all And then if they do tell you when you're buying it's just in the box you take the cable to the box and it's gone You'll never know again. Yep

So it's just permanently on there. We just have the watts and the speed embossed onto both ends. Awesome. So you can never mistake what the capabilities of the cable are. This one, which I'm not going to show you the full length of, because I don't know if we'll be able to deliver this length at this speed.

This is a 20 gigabit per second 240 watt cable. As you can see, she is thick. I've got this cable, she is thick, boys. So I've got this USB-C width-wise and length-wise here. So you can see it is as thick as the entire housing is going in there. she's so thick We don't even need a strain relief necessarily like we've got a little bit of one kind of built into the the molding for the housing But she's just she's just only got so much turn radius, but it still does that fairly nicely

Well, the reason for that is that we're using so in in spite of the fact that they are coaxial conductors inside here rather than twisted pair, because only the finest for our loyal customers. Where was I going with that again? Right, we have coax in there, something, something. Shoot. I was talking about how it moves around nicely. Right, so the way that we managed to make them supple anyway there, something, something, shoot. I was talking about how it, it, it Right. Looks around nicely.

Right, so the way that we managed to make them supple anyway, and like, like flopsy doodly, is that we're using a very similar, like, silicone style sleeving to what you would find on like hobbyist grade wiring. So they're, they're just gonna have like, like that really nice kind of soft touch feel and they should be extremely resilient against UV as well as just the ravages of time. As for some of the very, very detailed questions, I am gonna leave that to Tynan.

Yeah, he's in Float Plane Chat. Yeah, I just unplugged my headphone. And maybe we can talk more publicly about stuff later when things are a little bit more locked in, but not right now. So anything, yeah, anything Tynan is willing to kind of talk about in the Float Plane Chat, I'm willing to let him talk about

because realistically he's probably gonna be a little more conservative in terms of what he'll say. And he also is the most knowledgeable one on the team about this project. All I'll say for now is I'm really excited because. They're nice. I think there's room in the market for this product. I think that from what I've seen,

there are premium cables, but I don't think the pricing is reasonable. There are a lot of cheap cables that I think are being marked up extremely high, and the build quality of them is extremely low. I think that there is room for an extremely premium cable. It's not the last thing you'll ever buy. To a degree, cables are consumable.

The connectors are rated for insertions and strain and all that stuff. Nothing is going to last forever, but I think there's room for a very premium manufactured cable, very high quality materials, good shielding, good design choices cable that is not ridiculously expensive due to an extremely high markup. We're going to mark them up in such a way that this will be a sustainable business for

us, but I think that much like our magnetic cable management, which seems like an obvious product for someone to clone. Why wouldn't you just clone it? It's just a plastic arch with a magnet in it. It's really hard to clone it because the cost is in the neodymium. So unless you just make a worse product, you're not gonna be able to clone it

and outcompete us on price. So in much the same way, yeah, you can build a cable that's cheaper, or you can whatever, but these are, there's just a lot of copper in them. There's just a lot of shielding in them. Yeah. So I think this is gonna be something

that's gonna be really appealing to The folks who are willing to sort of buy once cry once with their cables and everyone else kind of need not apply Yeah You might not need super fancy cables is what it is top gear says order double your initial predicted quantity You will blow them out in the first week. That's what I think but I have I have not Had a lot of success communicating my confidence to some of the other members of the team and this is where this is where like, you know consensus is important and it's not as simple as me just like Whipping it out

whipping it out and being like just buy it, right? Because other people's KPIs are tied to managing stock on the store and running a reasonable business. It just is because of personal rules, which is good. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I did kind of pull it a little bit with this one. Cause they wanted to order fewer skews Instead of having more granularity in the links and I was like

What's the dollar value on this? Just fucking order them like I don't want to talk about this anymore every once in a while I will pull that card just because time efficiency to me part of the value of this product Is that we're going to have different lengths and I want it to be a really good companion product for our cable management products. So I want, when we're doing stuff like Setup Doctor, I want us to have the right length cable.

Right, so there are business reasons for it aside from just like, sorry, how many dollars is this? Just put it on, just put it on the corporate card, we'll deal with it later. You know, it's not entirely that, like I did have reasons for it, but Yes, yes cancelled Netflix for this we're gonna have we're gonna try to have lots of different lengths so that you can have a nice tightly Managed that's their username canceled Netflix for this. Yeah, love it I thought for a second was like did they cancel Netflix to save money for the cables like what are they talking about?

I was like, did they cancel Netflix to save money for the cables? Like, what are they talking about? Anyways. Couldn't you just do a pre-order thing? Pre-orders are tough, because it means we're taking your money now. You're not gonna get it until Lord knows how long. Like, what if we run into an issue?

Like, what if our supplier completely screws us over, like we had with the ratchet on the screwdriver, or not the ratchet, the shafts. What if there's no shielding? Yeah, yeah, what if we get the initial order in, and it's like, oh my God, they produced the whole thing wrong or something like that. Like it's just, it's so much, my life is so much better

if I just don't have your money, honestly. I don't need it yet. I only need it once I have something of value to exchange for it. I don't need it now, I just need it later. Yeah, yeah. Next one, oh, nevermind. I'm so excited for this though.

They're very nice. I just, people are gonna see the price, and they're gonna be like, that's insane. Who'd be insane enough to buy a cable from LTT? LTT's overpriced, they're garbage, they're YouTuber taxed, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then the people who get it are gonna order it and they're gonna touch This thing and they're gonna be like holy crap

Are you kidding me right now? Have you ever held a USB cable like this no That's because no one is insane enough I'm so curious to make this to know how much they're gonna cost I have no idea today's today This is not right now, but yeah today is the first day that I've seen these. People are going to hold these and they're just gonna be like this is beyond compare. It might seem stupid, but the embossed thing on the plug is like worth money. There's lots of brands that do it. We're not the only ones,

we're one of the only ones, but we aren't the only ones who do that I haven't personally seen it, but there's there's there's more to it than just that Oh, of course Yeah, just like that part a lot because I find it super frustrating digging through cables and be like I have no idea What almost any of these really are it's just that the cable industry expects like ridiculous margins Yeah, and so we're coming in it. We're coming in and we're kind of going okay well, like we have a model where our margin is sustainable and we think that there is there's room for us to take our margin model and Bring it to a category where no one's really building a product that meets our quality expectations and Yeah, see what happens see what happens cool

See what happens. See what happens. Cool. See what happens. Tynan says, we aren't looking into lightning even though I have an iPhone that uses it. That is true. Lightning is the past and I think that probably we would have other priorities like HDMI and DisplayPort beyond USB that would come before lightning. Yeah. I know USB cables are cool, but you get some like really sick HDMI display port cables.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. Don't worry. We'll sell some of those. Even though did they just say what they are on them? Oh.

I know, right? It's gonna be good. I'm excited. VGA cables win. As someone who's going to start hosting game servers and other IAS, what would you like to see out of cloud providers? I don't know. Stability and price?

Sure. That's a fairly solved game, I think. All right. Archived. Sorry. Come on. Hello Hello my parasocial friends Linus. How is your bike painting project going? Oh? Finish it up, dude. We want the beard. What's going on? I haven't touched it in ages. I didn't touch it How could you be that rude to have on? What? She wants the beard back.

Yeah. She said in her video. Oh, you forgot that. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. I thought you meant like, I thought you were going like a, like an I haven't like, jacked it in ages. So that's like disrespectful to her or something. I was like, what are you talking about? No! Okay, that makes sense.

In the Yvonne Week thing we watched today. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. Okay. Yeah, yeah makes sense. In the Yvonne Week thing we watched today... Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um... Yeah, I'm... I'm in a lot of pain right now. Ah. I have tennis elbow, I still have residual sprained ankle, I pulled my back in that tournament.

Um... I need to go easy on my body for a little bit. Yeah. And I'm kind of thinking maybe instead of hitting the gym and badminton so much, do some bike painting. I might do some bike painting for a bit. Cool. Yeah. Nice. Hey DLL, are you guys excited for any of the booths that will be at CES? I always enjoy watching the videos of the new monitor technology. Love the show. I can't tell you anything I'm excited to see because I'm

excited for probably embargoed multiple things that I can't tell you about. But yes. Oh, I'm going. For the first time in a while. Quite a while. Yeah. Not super excited. But that part. Let's go Las Vegas. Don't like Vegas. Viva. Viva Las Vegas. Yep. I'm going to Dan Dan's going? I'm going for a vacation. Oh, what? I've never been before. I'm super excited. Okay, all right. Yeah, sure. Quote unquote. He asked. I assume Luke was like, don't bother. Do you like shows though? Like, do you like

theater and shows? I want to go to CES. I'm into technology. I work here. I want to see the Super Micros branding material Shut up both of you. The show floor is like so disappointing if you really want to see one of those shows you should have gone to I don't know. I did NAB which was super dry It's cool. You know what I have never actually attended CES as just like an attendee. So maybe that's part of the problem for me. There is cool stuff there. Like if you're just going around and just like,

ho ho ho, and because he gets to wear a Linus Media Group badge. Nope, nope, I'm not going further company. He has a different invite. What? Because I'm not going on your behalf. Oh, I just assumed you would just badge up with Linus Media Group so people will talk to you. I don't want to get talked to.

Oh, I mean- I just want to hang out. It's also Vegas. Good luck. You guys don't like Vegas. Good luck. Do you have any idea what percentage of the people watching this show are going to be at CES, Dan?

Like, you are not going anywhere. I- You're not walking anywhere. I need to buy a mask. Oh crap. I keep forgetting I work here. I think I'm realizing I don't think I've ever traversed the CES show floor when not like either speed walking or tactically maneuvering through a crowd. Like I haven't really... When I see things, it's because I'm glancing at them when I'm walking by, but when I see things it's foam cases. Dan?

That sounds cool. Oh, why? There's been a lot of development in that sector. You're lying. It's also Vegas. I don't know. You like Vegas? It's okay. It used to be better. Now it's- What does that mean? Eh, I don't know. It's not as adult anymore. Oh. Oh. Yeah. They tried to family-friendly it up, because, uh, like, post-COVID, uh, they lost a lot of money, right? It used to be more like bars and, like, gambling, and now it's, like, things to do with your kids, because please come to Vegas and spend money! You know what I mean? That seems weird, because a lot of other places go in the opposite direction.

Like, people are talking about how Disneyland is like for adults now and stuff Yeah, apparently child free spaces in like South Korea are like huge. It's weird. Yeah I mean that makes sense looking at their population. Yeah stats Okay, cool Why does my company only allow us to use a Wi-Fi with VPN and not ethernet for quote-unquote security. I have no idea That does not make any sense to me other than that. Maybe your network administrator is just like Stupid I don't want to deal with The cable runs or something you have to do that. They won't let them use the VPN when they're connected with a wire

But they can use it when they're on Wi-Fi when they're connected with a wire. But they can use it when they're on the wifi. Like maybe just like whatever their infrastructure is, they've taken some kind of shortcut that's built into their like wireless management thing instead of doing it at like a router level or something. Like that's the only thing I can think of is if it's only, if they've only implemented something

at the like Wi-Fi controller level or something. I don't know. I understand you're just trying to figure it out, but that would be so weird I have a blog. No, I got a guy. That's the only reason I could think sure. Yeah I know I why it all hotels rip the Ethernet jacks out of the rooms. They were already fucking there Yeah, why did they take them out? They rooms. They were already fucking there. Why did they take them out? They just copper. Just leave it there so I can have a reliable connection. I don't know.

I don't know. I don't understand it. Hey, EDLL, is there a type of video you would have made 10 years ago that you wish you could make today, but it wouldn't perform well on YouTube. Oh yeah for sure. I mean just like the low key like hey check out this like random thing I'm working on. Okay here's an example.

Coolit Boreas. Like check this out. Oh man I can't even I can't even find this. Like check this out Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Like I was just like, oh yeah, here's like two tech coolers and I like Hooked them up to like a weird thing. No, this would totally work now No, it's what 100% work now You just need to do it with alex and it would need to be like yeah But this is just me holding it and like just like showing what i'm like Yeah, but this is the this is the like filming quality and the production quality not the concept This concept would do just fine though. Yeah I don't know. It would do fine.

Eh. You and Alice could do it. Eh. Hybrid technology zip ties. Yeah we've never really changed have we? 14 years ago. Yeah. Any tech tips on cleaning the bearings in the precision screwdriver? Mine has a 60 plus second spin and quickly went to 30. After adding a tad bit of oil as recommended to a hybrid bearing, it's now...

I don't know if it's better or worse. It just... Cut off? Just stops there. It's now... It's now what? Oh, that's hilarious. It's now... Character capping.

Okay. No? I don't know That's a good question for Time and said it's a struggle or tis a struggle to be exact Yeah, I mean bearings are That's there's a reason we don't guarantee a particular spin length And we do definitely know that there is some variance and yes lubrication can be helpful. Timon said cleaning that bearing is a struggle the amount of inertia for the end cap means that anything in there will slow it down. Yeah like we don't

have our like we want to do like heavy like more fidget spinnery end caps at some point but we haven't done that yet and those ones are pretty light. Yeah even dust I guess. ILLD, Linus is the ROG ally still your main portable gaming console. Current games on it? Checked out ROG ally when? Um it's my main in the sense that it's still the one that sits on my nightstand but I haven't really been using it much lately. So What did I fire up the other day it was this weird game where you're like on a boat and you like manage stuff And you like fight stuff or something I don't know But I got a bunch of stuff in the steam still that I've been meaning to pick up but I just haven't had time like I haven't even had time to paint my bike. How can I justify playing video games?

By Wando T. Lowe, what is the most, oh, hold on. And just to clear something up, yeah, I think it is called dredge. I was just gonna say, a ton of people just said dredge. Yeah, just to clear things up, it's not because necessarily the ally is the best. Like if I was picking the thing that I liked the most, Steam Deck OLED is sick,

or if I wanted more performance, I like the Ally X right now. There's also might be some new stuff coming soon. But it just the Ally like has my stuff on it. And so I haven't bothered changing it. Okay. What is the most dangerous moment you've had showing off a piece of tech like hoverboard that shot out from under you or something going haywire?

Oh, I mean, I probably don't even remember them at this point. Like there's definitely been some dangerous stuff. I've never had something just like almost, you know, hit me in the head or something like that. I had a Dremel saw blade get stuck in the face mask that I was using. Or strike it or something. It broke and it did something with the face mask. It was so long ago I don't remember the exact details I think I probably could have killed myself working on this though Self-balancing unicycle v3 get a little balance in your life. I used to try to put like a fun tagline after the title

You know I Felt a lot less stable than I look here And I don't look that stable on it and like you can tell I'm moving Nine years. I don't remember this at all. That's because you didn't work on it. I did This was when I would do a lot of the Like basically this video was entirely me other than somebody like setting up a camera like I wrote it This is oh my goodness that's baby my boy wow I know right that's kind of weird now yep so that was Yvonne filming that for me so I

I basically did most of the like b-roll and stuff for this and then we just had uh we set up a quick uh shot in the kitchen I scripted the video. But yeah, so I learned how to use this and you know, it's not the hardest thing in the world, but there's a little bit of distracted operation going on when you're trying to film yourself using something that you're not necessarily a total expert at. Yeah.

I don't know, I really liked the whole like, e-vehicle thing, but it just doesn't get views. Can't really justify the time spent on it. And I understand why, like, they're niche, they're inherently niche. There's all these like, different types, there's skateboards and scooters and bikes and unicycles and... When I was in France, a very surprising amount of people in Paris used them. A variety of different e-vehicle things, usually scooters. And I don't just mean the like rental ones, they had their own. Remember when you could just like fly drones wherever you want?

Yeah, that was pretty cool. That was pretty cool. Remember when we sucked at operating drones? Yeah. That was pretty cool too. Is the backpack rain cover motorcycle wind speed approved? Motorcycle wind speed, okay got it.

Uh, I'm gonna say no. You wanna save to say no? Yeah. It has a little... I know. But we're not... I know. But I'm just... But we're not... I'm just gonna say no.

Yeah. Good way to go. I saw somebody mounted a metal box with MCM on the back of their bike and like all the comments were like, don't do that. Oh my God, what? Oh, I didn't... I thought that they had a metal box that they attached to MCM to Now that's very dangerous

If you attach it with the MCM Yeah, yeah It like it looked cool And then you think about the ramifications of it like being on a road and bumps and wind and stuff and it was like oh boy Magnetic cable management not mighty car mods by the way ah yes okay Linus and Luke how do you fair making friends at work while being in a position of quote-unquote power it's gotten harder yeah like it's some people I find that it comes down to a lot of the same things as anyone else, like the amount

of time you spend working in proximity, the kind of enjoying successes together, experiencing failures together, you know, a lot of the things that people just sort of bond over in general. But I find that for me, like I can kind of be friendly with anyone, but I only I don't like anybody. I only have room in my my social battery, you know, for a handful of closer relationships for you know, and, and that that room is, you know, somewhere between zero and, and, you know, our total number of people on our team, which is like 100 plus, and it's probably closer to zero than it is to 100. So, a lot of it is just that proximity,

and a lot of it is people's willingness to be a friend with me, because I can't dictate that. I'm me, I'm just kind of me, and I'm kind of a lot sometimes, as you guys can probably imagine. Yeah. He's a handful.

Yeah, that's regardless of being in a position of power or not a position of power. And for some people, that's an impediment. For other people, just my position in the company is a problem. For some people, just, you know, me being a 1% or a bitch, you know, right? Could be a problem. Well, no, I'm serious.

I know, it's just funny hearing you say it. Well, I try to be a realist, right? And some people, like I have experienced, I'm not going to name any names, obviously, but there's people who work here now that, you know, obviously treat me extremely differently that, you know, I don't think I would be able to be friends with just because of the amount of like, kissing that takes place. Like I personally don't like that. I don't like to be treated that way but for some people it just it's just something that they you know that they do naturally or that they feel is important for you know advancement in work or like whatever perception they might have like

everybody is so different and you know, so there's people that that you know, I Wouldn't be able to be close to because they don't treat me like a friend. There's people that wouldn't be able to be close to me because they just couldn't see me as a friend. And then there's people that just don't give a fuck and hang out and bro out and kind of talk about anything

and just be a normal human being with me. And I very much like hanging with those folks and that's great. And I don't have any, I wouldn't say I have more difficulty with that today than I ever did, but I will say that the percentage of people who are able to just treat me like a normal human these days is lower as a function of how many people work here. What about you? Cause it used to be, you used to very much just be like an employee, a rank and filer,

and now you like run like three departments and I think can be a little bit intimidating and you're naturally more intimidating than me. You're just like bigger and have a deeper voice and taller and stuff. I get that. I literally get that as feedback, because I'm unapproachable. Usually people on my own teams don't give me that feedback. Yeah. But I get that feedback externally sometimes. Not as much as I used to, but still sometimes.

I don't know. I've questioned, I don't think I've talked to you or anyone else about this to be completely honest, but I've questioned Like is this a problem with me Because I find that to be an issue But then you and I became friends When I was employee to you boss and now it's like I Don't know But then some of it's like, I don't know.

But then some of it's like the company's also just sort of changed. Things are different now. We're, we're a real company now. Kind of. Yeah. And that does create barriers. To be honest, because like when you, when you work closely with everyone at the company, you kind of know where people's boundaries are and stuff whereas like if I act like myself in a group setting now, I could easily say something that is offensive to somebody like Maybe we have very different positions on say for example Religion or politics or whatever else when you have six people you could say for example, religion or politics or whatever else.

When you have six people, you could say something like, you know, F some politician and know with a pretty high degree of confidence that everyone's kind of on the same page. Whereas when you have a hundred people, I guarantee you there is no single issue that every single one of them could agree on. There's also politicking and there's people that like might, you don't necessarily know them well enough and it might make sense for them to hold a certain position publicly but they don't actually feel that way internally and if you really knew that person you might kind of know but now you might only know them on a certain level that you're unsure about and yada yada yada and I don't know.

Willing Spies says lies. I bet they all like tech. Actually not in this... no. Actually I like definitely no. I hate it with a burning passion. Well not even just... That's not what we're talking about. I know what you mean. There are people that work here that like genuinely have no interest at all. Yeah. They got hired to do the job that they do. They like the job that they do. They do that job well.

Or maybe they don't even like the job that they do, but they're good at it. But they do it well. Good enough, to be honest. That's technically all that's needed. I mean, we're like any other company. Think about your company. Think about where you work. Is everyone passionate about

Refrigerators or like whatever whatever the crap it is that your company did not necessarily Yeah, you know and we like to have passionate people that's something that we care about and that's something that we try to foster but It's not reality, right? More yeah, sure moving on reality, right? More? Yeah. Sure. Moving on. Would I see much of a performance hit on a GPU, for example, the RTX 50 series PCIe Gen 5 on a PCIe Gen 4 motherboard at 4K resolution? Probably not, but we won't know for sure until we have a PCIe gen 5 graphics card to put in a slot and I assume that your question is based on both the slot and the card being by 16 That can change once we're looking at cards that are by 8 or even by 4 because if you put those in an older gen

You can run into some performance Differences. Yeah, this is all something we've already talked about diving into. Yeah. Cool. And last one I've got for you today, HelloDLLI run un-RAID so I can upgrade one drive at a time. Just heard about RAID-ZV-DEV expansion. Can you talk about this? Does this give TrueNAS the same upgrade ability? All I can say about that for now is that there's a lot of exciting things probably maybe that have been thought of for ZFS,

some of which are kind of being actively worked on, some of which are not being actively worked on, many of which are good, cool ideas, and I'm very excited to see what the future holds. worked on, some of which are not being actively worked on, many of which are good, cool ideas, and I'm very excited to see what the future holds. That's all I got? Okay. And I'm very excited to talk about the future WAN show you might watch, because you sure

as heck won't be watching anymore of this one. See you next time, same bad time same bad channel. Bye! Oh, I'm so excited for our cables. I have very little support for these internally, but I don't care.