The WAN Show - NVIDIA Shortage due to CRYPTO MINERS?? - WAN Show November 27 , 2020

Episode Date: November 30, 2020

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Ew. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, September 6th. Stupid. And welcome to the WAN Show, ladies and gentlemen. We've got a fantastic show for you guys today. Lots of big tech news. NVIDIA reportedly sold $175 worth of rtx 30 series gpus to crypto miners okay directly yeah not even crypto adults like crypto miners and not like

oh they they happen to like scrape them from stores fast enough like no this was this was direct sales oops nvidia oh nvidia intel sorry i got the i got the the scary you know basically wrong bad guy yeah monopoly companies uh confused intel has apparently been flooding on ryzen 4000 performance on battery and we'll talk a little bit more about what we mean by that in a few minutes here what else we got today luke one reseller group has snagged roughly 3500 playstation 5 consoles i believe they've like ouch sold them all or a lot of them or something as well pretty crazy um also amazon alexa or it's amazon turning alexa devices into opt out also known as opt-in by default uh public wi-fi mesh networks heck yeah like super everyone wanted that everyone thought that was really cool that's what i that's what i signed up for when i got a ring doorbell i was

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youtube chat uh you guys are probably mostly too smart okay twitch chat twitch chat here comes always going after twitch chat with their bits with their bits all right why don't you xml says grito shot first yeah well they're just they're just they're just trolling me at this point all right let's jump right into our first topic here oh man we've got another headline topic today too i hope we get through all this stuff windows has already been run on Apple Silicon. What? Oh my goodness. All right. This was reported by, or it was posted by Tom Picks on the forum and was reported by Bitcoin.com and Tweaktown.

NVIDIA's financial reports seem to suggest that they sold a huge chunk of their Ampere GPUs to miners, possibly explaining part of the shortage. I don't think this accounts for the entire thing, but it is possibly part of the shortage. It's about a quarter million 3080s, like 250,000-ish 3080s. That's a lot of 3080s. If that was all 3080s, to be clear. I don't think we know like exactly what it is but if you if you break down 175 million that works uh it's very likely a mix of 3080s and 3070s so we don't necessarily know even more gpus so like yeah not better

like this is the most generous possible take is that it's $250,038. It's about $175 million worth of inventory here. And supposedly these new generation GPUs are helping out performance for Ethereum miners. According to a note from RBC Capital Markets analyst Mitch Steeves, the analyst had guided sales to miners to come in at $150 million for the quarter. So they overshot their target. They overshot their target. I mean, to be clear, I don't think NVIDIA or AMD, for that matter, ever stopped selling GPUs to miners. Just nobody cared for a long time because there was plenty enough for retail customers as well. for retail customers as well.

The only info we have on the total supply of 30 series GPUs is from this quote from Nvidia. We have great supply, just not for this level of demand. It is typical for initial demand to exceed supply for our new GPUs. Our global network of partners is ramping as hard as they can to get the new gpus to the more than 100 million geforce gamers around the world nice little plug there um okay yeah so that's that's yeah i know right by the way did we mention we have 100 million customers um

there's a note in here from uh alex who says Linus, any insight on if this is a consequential number of GPUs? Yeah, I think it's pretty fair to say this is a consequential number of GPUs. I mean, let's say let's say I live in an Amerocentric, America centric world where I pretend the rest of the globe doesn't exist at all because America. Sure, that happens a lot. OK, so let's say I live there. all because america that happens a lot um okay so let's say i lived there um that is like 0.1 of americans literally the entire 0.1 could have run out and bought one of these gpus okay so let's let's expand that a little bit right okay so let's include australia uh the uk and canada hey uh whatever that was terrible canadian accent that was terrible yeah

i wonder i wonder how many cards were ceded to like australia at all so by then we've got what i think the uk is like 50 60 million 60 70 something like that but whatever between those three countries we've got about another 100 150 million people uh so that's still like you know 0.7 percent of people in this and this is just these gpus never mind the ones they actually did ship to gamers um and so you know let's expand it not necessarily because this was sold directly to crypto miners and what that would mean probably i'm assuming is like pallets of graphics cards to one purchaser that doesn't mean that zero people

intending to use them for mining bought them from stores as well. So a lot of smaller operation individuals or small groups of people that don't have the buying power to buy like a pallet of graphics cards would have been buying them from stores. There's also scalpers.

We saw a lot of that. Like this strongly decreases the chance of gamers getting it because it's not only gamers that are buying from stores but i'm talking just about what nvidia is selling directly here i'm saying if nvidia sold these directly 0.7 of the entire population 0.7 of the entire population of like austral UK, Canada, and the United States, which if I'm to go based on our YouTube viewership numbers is like 70% of the English speaking enthusiasts, something along those lines, would have been able to buy an RTX 3080. Now, when you consider that even among computer enthusiasts, an RTX 3080 is like a 1% product, right? I think it's pretty

fair to say that if Nvidia had shipped these to gamers instead of directly to crypto miners, pretty much anyone in those territories who wanted one could have had one by now. I could be wrong. I could have the numbers a little off maybe nvidia shipped oh i don't know uh 10 times this much to to the actual computer channel like the resale channel but i doubt it because i it's not in these notes here but it wasn't tech linked i think this works out to something like six percent of their geforce revenue for the quarter. And when you consider that they're still shipping a lot of Turing, and this is, it's not too much. Okay. Don't quote me on this. I could be wrong on this. I don't think it's 6% of Ampere. I think it's 6% of the GPUs they've shipped, like the

total revenue. So given they're still shipping a ton of Turing, I would think this is a lot of what nvidia actually shipped for ampere in that quarter um the weird thing about this to me is why like why luke why would they do this yeah i don't know i especially because you know they're going to immediately like you've talked about this on one show before um making one of these gpus is basically like printing money like there's no question about whether or not it's going to sell yeah if there's a question about whether or not it was going to sell and you could sell a palette for sure i could kind of understand that yes when you know it's going to fly off shelves i don't know maybe you're trying to own the mind share of miners so when you release a new card they're more on your side but i don't think that's really going to be a thing yeah i don't think that matters because i don't think miners make decisions based

on that i'm pretty sure it comes down to power consumption hash rate like it's very transactional these are very commodity products for the mining community i i yeah i don't buy that i don't buy that and they would have had to know that there was going to be backlash from the gaming community who they rely on for you know oh i don't know let's say the other 94 percent of their geforce revenue um so i guess this is just nvidia being being Nvidia and kind of going, okay, well, yeah, it's arrogant behavior, but what the fuck are you going to do about it, right? We're Nvidia. What are you going to do?

Take your business elsewhere? Like get bent pretty much. I mean, people would probably like to, but they can't because there's no cards on the other side either. I wonder if partially for the same reason. Yeah, it wouldn't surprise me. Wouldn't surprise me at all that happened last time didn't it um am i am i totally wrong here that could be yeah no rx

was like the the big the big cheese and amd sold tons of gpus directly to crypto miners at the height of the of the mining craze and what was was it, 2018, I think? Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's... Yep. Jonathan. XFX China allegedly sells almost all available Radeon RX stock to mining farms. I mean, if you were... Just random article I brought up.

If you were XFX, how else would you have survived for the last 10 years? Like, honestly, when they went AMD only, I was like, wow, could you guys have picked any worse timing for this? Like, they went right into a decade of AMD getting absolutelyped by nvidia and it being pretty much impossible for them to sell cards to actual gamers pretty sweet payday once mining came around though yeah i guess jonathan paz says could they have sold them for a premium knowing what the usage was going to be i mean yeah i guess that's possible um yeah you know what i guess that is possible because if i'm a

mining outfit and i like need supply of gpus right now so that i can mine ethereum 2 or whatever then yeah i guess i would pay this is a like contract side deal so they don't have to like sell it their their rate that they sell to whoever yeah that's fair and they also don't have to cut anyone else in on the margin so no board partner margin they're basically just using one of their board partners probably because like who else is going to be able to make a graphics card so they'll use one of their board partners probably as just a contract manufacturer so that would be at a lower rate and then they don't have to you know have any margin built in for a retailer or wherever else so yeah you know what maybe maybe that's it maybe they're

just making another buck because they know that you have absolutely no other choice whatsoever if you want to buy uh the fastest gaming graphics card yeah oh well amd what what what do you got what are you guys talking about uh mark gallant says bs 2010 2011 2012 amd dominated typical shill linus uh you tell you what why don't you go back and look at what the market share numbers were like i eat cool i eat uh all right so let's go ahead and jump into our next topic here intel has been running around fudding on ryzen 4000 performance on battery so luke do you want to run us through this one people get mad if i talk too much oh boy uh last week intel gave a presentation alleging a serious discrepancy between amd cpu's performance on battery versus the performance of the same systems off battery. According to Intel,

while AMD's latest CPU Intel's getting so scrappy. I know, right. It's kind of cool, but they got to watch here. I watched a video recently where you were like, this is what competition brings. And I was like,

yes, was that the cryo cooler one? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. one? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. According to Intel, while AMD's latest CPUs offer slightly better battery life than their

Intel counterparts, they achieve this by reducing CPU performance when running on battery by 38 to 48%, which is actually quite substantial. Intel 11th gen CPUs apparently lose an average of just 8%. Intel slideshow backing up these claims referred to benchmarks the company had run on a range of mobile Ryzen 3, 5, and 7 systems from Lenovo with a single system sourced from HP. They drew from a wider range of systems for their Intel tests. They referred to benchmarks like WebXPRT, SysMark, and PCMark. WebExpert. Oh, that makes sense.

Yeah, that's fine. You did pretty good up until then. Sorry? You did pretty good up until that point. Yeah, I've even ran that before. That was sad. The central thesis of Intel's presentation is that laptop reviews should not benchmark systems only connected to AC power, which way back, we did that. We did plugged in and non-plugged in.

Well, actually, what we did way back was we didn't realize the performance differences were so stark and we didn't pay much attention to it, I think, is what we really did. That was like way, way, way, way, way back. So maybe you're thinking of less way back? Maybe, yeah. way way way way way back so maybe you're thinking of less way back maybe yeah because i'm i'm trying to think back to like unboxing in the house days and actually i don't even think we really like

had like benchmark graphs or anything like by the time we were making charts we would have been benchmarking properly yeah but um i was talking in the in the office yeah oh okay never mind then um and it is a good point uh but where it kind of starts to fall apart is intel's explanation so they say the amd systems wait for seven to ten seconds before engaging turbo mode while intel systems engage turbo more quickly according to, this is fair. Most consumer workloads are very short and this places AMD at a performance disadvantage relative to its own processors if they're not quickly engaging turbo.

But Luke, hit me with the plot holes. I want to see the plot holes. The settings that control the amount of time before turbo mode engages or turbo modes engage and the overall performance delta between ac and dc power are settings that the oem controls what the oem you say intel did not acknowledge this as something defined by lenovo versus amd why did they use only lenovo computers for amd then lu? And they used a wider amount for Intel.

No, no. You stop talking, sir. I want an explanation. Why did Intel only use Lenovo and one HP machine to prove their point? Probably because they found some consistent data points that were really nice for them

on those machines. No, no, wait. No, that was surprising. That was a surprisingly forthright answer. yes i accept it until also did not explain why it chose to highlight the performance of the 4900 hs on the left hand side of the graph above are you showing that nope we have a graph i will i will try to obtain a graph for you sir that's an amazing bullet point um um um that cpu was not part of the set of five systems that were used to average uh to average performance that's really funny actually intel did not provide data for each individual system, showing that each system boosted in the same delayed fashion.

And even if it had four of the laptops from made by the same vendor, Lenovo. Okay, so I'm looking for a graph here. I haven't found a graph here. Well, whatever. The point is, the point is, Intel, can you just not, like, you gotta, you have to know. The thing is, the thing is they do know.

I know they know. But you gotta remember, Intel's a gigantic company, right? So there's smart, diligent people at Intel, people with integrity at Intel, who know that they're going to get called on this and not even that, who know that they just should market the products honestly and with transparency. There's people who know that. And then there's the people who are smart but

don't have integrity that are going to know that they should just market the products honestly because they're going to get caught, right? So it comes down to the whole like Dungeons and Dragons thing, right? Like there's your lawful evil and your neutral evil and your chaotic evil, right? So your lawful evil is, you know, the marketing executive. And I don't mean like evil, evil. I mean like there's people who are like, yeah, marketing is evil. You know, everything should just be a spec sheet. So, you know, evil in that sense, you know, marketing. OK, so that's your lawful evil. But, you know, it should be like honest marketing, you know, and then you got your neutral evil.

It's like, you know, yeah, whatever. Yeah, yeah, kind of whatever. We'll let it let it let it go. And then you got your chaotic evil that's just like, yeah, you know, whatever. We're just going to say whatever we want and they're going to be too stupid to figure it out and the problem that intel runs into is for whatever reason the people who have the sense to just market the product in a way that is is meaningful and honest seem to get drowned out by either dummies or dishonest people who think they're not going to get caught and or even if they do get caught it's not going to matter

and i don't know what else to say about it at this point other than please stop i was just going to say i feel like they get caught every time, but now I wonder like what stuff is getting through the filter. Well, it's not just, do they get caught? Right. Because they get caught by the enthusiast community, but let's face it. The audience watching this show right now, it's about 15,000 people are watching this show right now. What percentage of laptop buyers is that? Like it's like nothing. So unless all of you go talk to a hundred of your friends and who am i kidding you don't have a hundred friends we're not even we're not even adding even if facebook says you do yeah even if your facebook facebook how many how many friends

does facebook think i have wow i have not clicked on that link for a long time i am not even signed in okay then never mind i don't know how many friends i have on facebook oh wait oh oh it auto-populated i'm signed into my uh my thing oh no there's a code generator i you know what no i want to know i want to know how many friends on facebook it should honestly i think it's i don't know it's been a long time i think it's a yes button on your phone this was me uh yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We got a whole thing. Last time I had to do that, it asked for a code, but it never sent a code. It was either a yes button that was a pop-up,

or you had to go into the app and find the thing and say, yeah, it's fine. That's totally weird. It did ask me for a code, but then it just had me answer a bunch of questions on my phone, and then I had no code in there, and I pressed continue and i was like yeah okay yeah how do you tell how many friends you have here hold on a second uh oh wait no this is this is linus this i'm managing a page i'm on page linus tech hey i got 188 friends nice dude super popular got 188 that's like 88 more friends than i just told you guys you don't even have got them and you know what i'm gonna share i'm gonna share this

i'm gonna share this news on my facebook right now uh it'll be the first post i've made on facebook since how do you see how do you see posts you've made on facebook i don't know i don't use facebook i legitimately don't know how to do this every time i go on to facebook to do whatever contact someone for whatever reason i'm always like oh goodness what's going on here can i post on my own is it still called a wall can i can i i'm the wrong person to ask i have no idea i think you can't you know i don't think you i don't think you do it by going to your profile anymore i think you just do it on the main page what's going on right now is hilarious because you know five years ago we would have sounded like boomers and now the fact that we don't know how to use Facebook is the least booper thing ever

Yeah, I'm all the way back to 2016 and I haven't posted a single thing to my Facebook All right, so I'm doing it today. What was the thing? I said that everyone had to share with a hundred friends Intel needs to just market their products with facts rather than rather than bending the truth how about that

yeah alright I'm going for it and I'm gonna put a gif in there oh wow I found a great one I'm going with this chicken what do you think chicken I like it at least i've at least i've got chicken or whatever whatever he says okay post wow this is my first post to facebook in at least half a decade possibly ever you feel invigorated i i feel you ready to get

back onto the the news feed I feel something hold on a second hold on I got a call coming in yes Mr. Zuckerberg yep this is my first time posting to Facebook in quite some I know you can't get enough information from me if I don't

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more like um crap face notify yeah got him notify you of a of a of a poopy face um like there's there's i think there's more services than just this one there was another one that i think had a different name uh that that blew up over um a different product that they helped people buy a ton of early um there's like software that people pay very small amounts for that will scalp these things for them now like they don't even have to be fast they don't have to be innovative nope you just pay a very small amount of money to make a large amount of money by being a scumbag it's the scalping equivalent of being a script kitty yeah but it's like even worse because you don't even have to like try to run the code it just it just happens um it's like me when i was like 12 and downloaded a diablo 1 trainer

trying to convince people my godly plate of the whale was real yeah perfect um so yeah i i don't know like this is so pervasive these days so there's what thousands of members in this group their collective number is just shy of 2500 playstation 5 consoles across their members in addition to just under a thousand pre-orders from back in september um and how were they so successful uh they were asked we knew where to go before they announced it, said a manager at Crep Chief Notify. So they've got 12 people on staff. They charge a subscription fee for access starting at 30 pounds.

So that's about 40 US dollars and going up to $530. That's like significant. You got to scalp a lot of PlayStations to... What? Oh, so it's not just playstation oh so you can you can see oh so they compete with other such groups to see who can snag this is what i'm talking about this is this is across everything like internet sales in general are just ruined right now basically if you're if you're like launching some product if you expect

it to sell out and the community expects it to potentially not even if you expect it to sell it if there's a possibility that scalpers could drive it to the point of it selling out they will do so so that they can scalp you super hard um it's it's brutal and like internet sales in general like hopefully stripe or or braintree or or someone comes up with some form of actually really good solution to this i have no idea what it could be but hopefully they come up with something yeah i actually this is horrible i don't know what you can really do because honestly the only answer that i can really come up with is some like crazy big brother like you've got it you've got to you know scan your passport to buy a product right like to to create a ridiculous scan your passport to buy

some shoes like that's this that's so exactly like some kind of providing some kind of horrific amount of personally identifiable information it's like look to be clear guys i am not voting for that like i'm just saying i i i don't see any other way to have to to enforce something like you know one per customer per item right like because people can have tons of credit cards or other payment methods and shop at lots of different places. And there's just, there's no, there's no feasible way to enforce it.

I mean, one thing you can do is you can limit the number of places that you can get access to the product. So, I mean, but that only works in theory. Like NVIDIA tried this when they had their Founders Edition cards. And what they discovered was that because they didn't have experience

preventing people from checking out with multiple items, there was nothing they could do to stop the bots and scalpers anyway. Uh-oh. Wow, interesting. check this out i'm gonna send it to you on the discords this was posted in floatplane chat um oh boy what do you got oh there he is. Stock checker with audio alerts. Falkadrin? What is this? It's a stock checker with audio alerts for, as you can see coming through on the ticks,

Newegg.ca, Amazon, Best Buy. I don't know if there's others included. Okay. Hold on a second. You'll have to give me... Dang it, Jake, not now. Okay, he's messaging me about like some server optimizations that he's made. Okay, yeah, give me a sec. Let me pull this up.

So, yep, I guess I want to go to this site. Look at this. Look at this crazy shiz, guys. So this is it. Stock Checker. Interesting. This is, I feel feel like a lot more manual this is insane this is completely insane this goes on for hours uh i i think it just goes on forever it's a live stream error failed to parse card the date oh my goodness it's total madness i mean people have they've gone they've gone mad yeah purchase purchasing highly sought after items online is just ruined right now like unless you basically want to be a scalper and then it's the greatest time ever i guess ah because you can like ruin christmas for a bunch of people yeah that that blows i mean because it's about more than just like money at that point for a lot of people these products are they have like an emotional meaning for them.

Like, and not just for the people receiving them, like for the people giving them, like you're basically ruining the Christmas of a whole family that wants to like give their kids a game console or whatever. And especially while everyone's stuck inside with COVID, like. Yeah, you're just, you're being a downer. You're being a Debbie downer.

Sucks, bro. It's not fun. It's not cool. That's the bottom line. like yeah you're you're just you're being a downer you're being a debbie downer sucks bro it's not fun it's not cool that's the bottom line you're not cool i mean you got money which you could use to like buy cool stuff and then you know decorate yourself with it which my understanding is that some people think is like being cool, but it's not the same. It's not the same. You're not actually cool. So one reseller on Twitter said, with a photo of what appeared to be more than a dozen PS5 consoles,

my bot came through. He was selling the $500 PS5 for $1,100 and the $400 model for $900. That's crazy. That's like a quick five six grand unbelievable uh sony is selling directly to consumers but the resupply drops are sporadic gamestop said it would have consoles available in store for black friday but the only guaranteed quantity is two consoles per store.

Walmart is offering sales on Black Friday, but only through the web store. And Best Buy has said they won't have any additional consoles for the rest of the holiday season. Now that's a little sus. That's weird. Why would everyone else be getting shipments and Best Buy is not getting shipments unless they're unloading them at a higher price on the side.

Someone find a way to mine cryptocurrency on PS5s. I know, right? Oh, it's a way to mine cryptocurrency on ps5 i know right oh it's a matter of time selling stuff it's a matter of time luke ps5 i think is less less likely than xbox yeah oh okay well in other news here's a product that you can definitely get because i was totally mistaken about how many of these we had in stock when i talked about it on the previous uh live stream uh we actually have like i think it's 10 000 of these in stock well we got okay we've sold through like well over a thousand of them so they definitely are selling but we just also do have we do have stock so uh this is my my this is my my pimp speak my pimping out lttstore.com this is my pitch all right it's my ltt store my ltt store spot the abcs of gaming suck it gaming is this is this uh maybe you don't even

want to answer this is this a one-time run thing um i don't know it's hardcore your kid will quit wetting beds and start clicking heads l is for loot noob i've been thinking about getting like a few don't have friends and just like having them for when friends of mine inevitably have kids get yours now at ltt store.com the abcs of gaming can you spell pwned batteries not included all right so that's uh that's it that's the little the fun little commercial that we made for it like the video i was like what is he doing yeah i played i played the video um so it's something we plan to run for the foreseeable

future and between all the samples we got from the manufacturer we ended up using and all the samples that we got from all the manufacturers we didn't end up using i'm sure i've got you covered luke if you ever need a desperation gift you know i always got your back for that dude multiple times so many times multiple times i have bailed you out luke has even i don't think your mom watches wandshow anymore so this should be fine luke has even bought gifts for his mom on the day of her birthday at work on the way over there it's been like i i need something for my mom what's like cool mom tech and i'm like what when's your mom's birthday today now i'm

going my way to dinner the only two birthdays I actually know with 100% certainty is mine and my dad's. And the only reason I know my dad's is because it's on an extremely significant event. Right. That makes sense. I am pretty sure between two days, and I'm pretty sure I know the month for my girlfriend that I've been dating for extremely close to six years. And I know no one else's at all.

I don't even know like the time of year for most of my friends. I message you on yours, but that's only because I have a calendar thing. Actually, I lied. That's only because Yvonne has one and she tells me oh nice yeah so i'm not even i'm not even gonna pretend i'm not even gonna pretend man no i have no memory for that at all all right so why don't we jump into our next topic here uh windows windows is running on apple silicon alexander graph is the dev that got it running

let's fire up mr graph's twitter here check this out who said windows wouldn't run well on apple silicon i actually don't think anyone said that i think what people said is that it wouldn't run because microsoft won't allow it to uh licensing, blah, blah, et cetera. But he goes and says, it's pretty snappy here. Now, Mr. Graph is not running on bare metal. So it's like kind of a hack, but the fact that it's even running in a VM is still proof that it's architecture compatible which is pretty sick

um uh yeah i'm i'm not very hopeful um and not because not because of apple silicon or anything like that watch it yeah you you might get attacked again i don't think you must be stoked no i don't have to be stoked because i don't think that microsoft is going to change the licensing terms for windows on arm they i mean it's been out for eight years or whatever they've had arm builds windows for like since windows 8 and they have never changed it They have never shown any interest whatsoever in allowing individuals at retail to buy a license for Windows on ARM, whether they want to use it on a virtual machine

or on an ARM desktop or whatever the case may be. So the only way to get your hands on it is to pirate it. And I just, I don't know. I haven't seen any indication that that's going to change. I would love to be wrong about this. I would actually be stoked for Windows on ARM to not only be available for Apple users to use if they want, but for it to be available to general consumers so that hopefully at some point we will see some actual support for it. I mean, it was just, it was one of those things where, I think I told you this already, but I went back and I rewatched my video of the original surface RT.

And it was like looking at a completely different person because I had so much hope for like windows on arm. I was like, Oh wow. Like, this is cool. There's some limitations, but like, yeah, they'll get that sorted. They didn't get it sorted out. It was a different time then. And I think, I think one of the reasons, like, I don't know, you, you, we learn as people,

you have experiences, your, your, your opinions and your approaches to things grow. And I think you got burned in the past. So you were just more skeptical this time. Yeah. Um, I mean, to be clear, my skepticism is still working out pretty great when it comes to windows on arm um it still sucks so and like and like i i i get it because usually i mean microsoft's not google they don't drop things like they do right um so so i i think in general, their support for things is usually better.

What did you say? I actually didn't catch it. Sir. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's true. And Zoom and a few other things. Yeah, yeah. It happens. Definitely happens.

Groove. Groove. Sorry. Oh, wow. Jeez, sorry. I had to just get a drink lttstore.com you could keep going for

a long time and there's something getting nowhere close to Google that's true that's fair that's fair you know I had someone get mad at me on Twitter today because they saw my review of the Chromecast Android TV and they were like Linus is hating on Stadia They saw my review of the Chromecast Android TV,

and they were like, Linus is hating on Stadia. Stadia's great. Game streaming is the future. Blah, blah, blah. What I actually said was, not a lot of people are using it, which is a fact.

So they're probably going to kill it. And then, that they're probably going to kill it. No. It was a sick burn on Google for destroying everything they've ever built. Not a burn on Stadia for being bad. I mean, I haven't looked at it since quite a while ago. It might be bad for all I know. It's just that wasn't what I was talking about.

Oh, you guys are killing me here. You guys are killing me here. Anyway, apparently scalpers are buying the books already it's a bad play it's a bad play guys i just told you we have lots of them i just said we have 10 000 units in stock okay it's a board book for gamers it's not exactly like you know a playstation 5 i don't know guys i think these are gonna fly off the shelves it's a holiday item you can give it at christmas you can give it to prospective parents you can give it to current parents you can stock up now and have spares just in case like with in my situation you're you're growing up now and some of your friends are gonna have kids there's probably gonna be a baby boom from covid

you might as well be prepared oh my god there probably is you are so right how did i not think of that yeah how would they're not happening guys you you want to have presents lined up nine months from now because you don't like actively shopping and you can just put it somewhere in a little box problem solved done get 10 of them easy no big deal someone bought seven solved seven is not the right number of this book. Maybe he has exactly seven friends. Okay, that's possible. He just knows his environment.

That's possible. Intelligent purchase. All of that stuff you said was actually stuff I totally, totally thought about when we decided to do this book. It was like, hey, when I was reading ABCs to my kids, why is it a is for apple a can be for lots of things like arcade or atari we couldn't do it when you did your i think it was last wan show you did a little excerpt where you read from it a little bit yep yep yep i thought it was pretty good oh thank you it's kind of clever a lot of our generation plays at least some amount of games or did at one point um it's a fun take it's not too expensive it's pretty pricey i can explain that though like a it costs money to

self-publish it's 15 us dollars like it's not a lot i don't know a typical board book is anywhere from like 8 to like 12 so we're definitely on the high side um but the cold hard truth is that we had to self-publish so we're taking on all of the risk taking on all of the cost of working directly with a manufacturer and producing, let me put it this way, the 10,000 units we have, that's the initial shipment. That's the air shipment. There's more coming by boat. Like we have a freaking ton of these things because we self-published it. So there's that. There's also the fact that our distribution is done through like my ex bros from NCIX. It's not, we're not Amazon.

So our distribution costs are very significant. And that has to be baked into the price of every product. That's why the cable ties are, they're either 10 or $15 or something like that, or like 20 bucks. And it's because we had to order like tens and tens of thousands of them, store them for literally over a year, which costs money too, because they sold really slowly. And we have to pay a bunch of distribution fee

every time we have to ship one. So it just is what it is. So also the reason that we wanted to market at that price was that there are many booksellers that have a requirement for you to sell in their store that they have to be able to advertise a lower price than what's printed on the back of the book. So we wanted to get out ahead of that. If anyone ever carries it, so far they haven't. I'm actually really surprised. We talked to Best Buy. And I don't

know, I guess clearly nothing ever came of it but i'm looking at it going like why not why not like how did you not just be like yeah i'll bring in 10 units per store it's basically zero risk and it's just like this is something that if you put it in the impulse buying idol at at like kind of our age group i could definitely see that moving i don't know like 18 year old me going in to buy an uh an xbox game or whatever the heck no i'm not gonna pick that up but like if it's in the impulse buying aisle and i'm like hey so and so is gonna be having a kid soon or had a kid recently i pick one of these up just in case there's some gathering or something i can give it to him that'll

be a cool little gift like that's that's absolutely something i would do yeah so joe smith says i think linus overordered the way he's talking um it depends so we knew we were bringing these in for the holiday season and we didn't know if any resellers would pick it up. The way it is now, we'll sell through them eventually. Like we launched this three or four days ago and we've already sold I think about 1200-1300 units. Like they're moving. It's fine. I'm not actually worried about it. It's just that it will take a long time at the rate that it's going. So we're going to have to absorb some of that storage costs in order to meet the order quantities that we had

to, to manufacture our own book. And the other thing we didn't know was if this was even going to be enough. If someone like a Best Buy had picked it up, or someone like a Chapters or Indigo had picked it up and been like, okay, I want 100 units per store. That would have been 100,000 units. Right? So if someone picks it up, then we won't have enough. And if nobody picks it up, then we've got too many, but we'll sell through them eventually. It's a really fun little book.

I'm not actually worried about being stuck with them forever we're also hopefully going to do a little bit of marketing around it like on um like twitch and facebook and youtube gaming and stuff like that um and that's why we produced that 30 second clip um so hopefully hopefully it's all hopefully it's all good you know what you know what i'm gonna go get it i'm gonna i'm gonna read you guys a couple pages people are like what is this a kid's book like yeah nice board book while he's gone is there anything we can go into i believe the next topic we are going to be talking about is amazon turning alexa devices into opt-out public Wi-Fi mesh networks. This is actually amazing. This topic is fantastic.

It's called Sidewalk. Oh, he's back already, so I won't dive too far into it, but I'm pretty excited to talk about that. All right. I'll let you pick six letters. Okay. L. Oh, sorry.

One sec. Hey, Munchkin. What's up? Have you ever seen a ring with a one on it? A ring with a one? Yeah, do you ever need a ring with a string on it? Maybe later. No, like tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, for a long time.

Do you ever need one? Maybe. Okay. Do you distribute to book reviewers is that a thing okay okay thanks munchkin okay i have no idea what she's talking about all right all right so you want you want l uh just um yeah l here we go oh there we go l is for loot didn't get the drop you need start over with a different seed hey i like it i like it uh f f okay. F. F. Okay.

F is for frame rate. Some say 60 is enough. I know you won't believe that stuff. O. Okay. L, M, N, O. There we go. O is for online.

Staying safe is not a game. Never share your home or name. Very nice. Very nice. Life tips for gamers. A-T-P. A-T-N-P? Okay.

Yeah. Well, A is for arcade. Do you want to have some fun? Insert two coins, please, player one. T. I don't even remember what t is for t is for texture without these models would be flat and no one wants to look at that and what was the last one p p yeah okay p uh oh i know that one p is for party it's fun to play a damage dealer but don't forget to bring a healer see they're good i don't know i'm pretty proud of it i i had a lot of fun writing it and unlike okay so here's the thing a lot of like influencers write books but i know for a fact that a lot of those books are not actually written by them.

So for me, I don't have time to write a book right now. Like not a real one, for sure. So what this was, was the book that I actually have time to actually write. Oh, man. Sean Parko says, who is supposed to buy these these i don't understand who the market is for as the age range for this product is as the age range for this product is unable to video games that's like saying i don't understand who buys an abc book that's like c is for car because because babies can't drive f is for fire truck you can't put out fires yet doesn't make any sense like what are you talking about it's just it's just like cute pictures and

just talking to your children it's so important like it was really cool my son had reached like kind of a breakthrough moment probably a i'd say in the last six months where he stopped reading like to find out what was going to happen to the character like he's been reading fluently for quite some time he's eight um but he stopped reading just to like find out what's going to happen and like understand the gist of it and started reading just like for pleasure and would start laughing to himself while he's reading, really getting it. And it's a ton of work to get your kids not just knowing how to read, but really valuing reading.

And it is so important for so many. It's more than just the ability to absorb a story. It's more than just the ability to absorb a story. Being able to read, not just look at words, but to read, to understand what someone is saying is such an important life skill for cutting through BS and for navigating life. That's one of our big goals for our kids. And one of the things that we've done is I'd say with about 95% success is reading to our kids every night, starting from when they're probably about six months old. And so this is the kind of book that they just, they just grab whatever is like a nice color and has pictures that they like.

And some of these are inter are interactive and they're meant to be. So for example, M is for, oh yeah, here we go. Q is for quest. Put your finger by the tree. Can you find the locking key? So once they get a little bit older and their motor skills get a bit better, they're meant to kind of trace their finger through the maze and get the little tree. So it's meant to be a little bit interactive. And it's just supposed to be time that you spend together. They're hearing your voice, they're starting to put together this concept that, oh, the things you're saying are to do with what's on the page. These are these are skills that, you know, you can kind of take for granted, but the earlier you can work on them, the more you can build them. And it's, I don't know, it's just very,

very, very important. So it doesn't matter if they actually understand exactly what you're saying. And a lot of what we have in here is just meant to be more like, you know, inside jokes for the adults. I mean, what are the odds that a child is going to recognize that yellow exclamation mark above our N is for NPC, right? It's not, but if you're an old school wow player, you're going to be like, Who did the illustrations? Sarah did. Sarah did. Yeah. Yeah. We had some people asking in chat. She did an amazing job.

So we didn't put either the author or illustrator on the front because we wanted this to be more like by Linus Media Group, but we do have credits for me and Sarah on the back. Cool. Yeah. Oh, actually, which one was I looking at before? So my chat said, I'm just sad l is not for ltd store.com no no i mean we thought about having some jokey ones like that like f is for pay respects or you

know whatever but uh oh interesting uh okay i don't want to over promise to you guys but it's possible you won't have to pay shipping because we are working on figuring out a deal possibly with Micro Center to carry these. Hey, cool. Yeah, that totally makes sense. I mean, honestly, I don't see why any computer store wouldn't just carry them. At least some, right?

And if you do like a really small run, you could always reorder more. Yep. Acarbon says that butt can draw. Alrighty then. Let's move on. That took me a second. I was like, what?

Oh, yeah. Amazon is turning Alexa devices into an opt-out public Wi-Fi mesh network. Yes. On a scale of 1 to 10, on a scale of one to 10, how happy does this make you? One is a little bit happy, like a little tickle in the bottom of your tummy. Okay.

And 10 is like the happiest you've ever been in your life. You know, you just won the lotto and it was delivered to you by a naked supermodel. And you're, you know, know you're gonna get on your private jet and go to your private island and um you know whatever i i think i given that intensity of scale and given the that the fact that a one is actually decently happy and like neutral happiness is not a five. I'd maybe say, uh, like at least a six, you'd say a six. Okay. But you got to remember the bottom of this scale is happy. Yeah. So you're pretty happy. You're pretty darn happy. This is pretty great. It's amazing.

The, the feature is called sidewalk. Um, it is sent to launch later this year. Man, I'm like up in my chair and everything. It will connect Alexa devices to nearby Wi-Fi networks, any ones, even those owned by other individuals, not like store hotspots or anything like that. Sidewalk uses Alexa devices, including Echo and Ring doorbells, to create shared networks meant to help devices work better i'll get into what that means in a second amazon said in an email to device owners it allows nearby devices to use a portion of a neighbor's wi-fi bandwidth so devices can have more range also i don't know where in the notes this is, but also it would help if you have a power outage, but your neighbor doesn't for some reason, because then maybe it can still connect. No, it happens all the time.

Does it? No, of course not. Okay. Yeah. I was like, what the heck? It's always whole neighborhoods. So like, what a weird feature, but maybe that's a thing somewhere.

I don't, I've never experienced that before. weird feature but maybe that's a thing somewhere i don't i've never experienced that before um yeah these bridge devices share a small portion of your internet bandwidth which is pooled together to provide these uh services to you and your neighbors oh how nice and when neighbors when more neighbors participate the network becomes even stronger i wish jeff bezzos was my neighbor. Because then I'd have a way nicer house. I was going to say, I don't know if he has a neighbor. I wouldn't talk to him or anything.

I'd love to live where he lives. It's probably sick. It would take you an extremely long time to get over to be able to talk to him. Yeah, I know, right? Go for a hike. He would live many neighborhoods away away even if he was technically your neighbor uh amazon published a research paper detailing the technology behind sidewalk and the steps taken to keep users data private because that's clearly a massive concern uh

uh the on by default approach is not consumer friendly. Nope. Thornton dash Trump. I'm not certain who that is, but it says no one rides on my wifi for free. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. Especially a giant corporation worth billions of dollars. Yeah. There's a website.

I don't know exactly what the URL is, but it gives a graphical representation of how much uh wealth jeff bezos has accumulated oh i know and it's just like you scroll like endlessly and you like can't scroll forever that far yeah yeah it's amazing yeah it's pretty good um and it shows like the amount of like the amount of money a doctor will make in their lifetime and it's this like tiny it's like a pixel school on it like just oh just no size at all compared to the absolute mass that is jeff bezos's personal wealth um even after losing a ton of it and divorce beautiful um amazon says before sidewalk launches we will notify existing customers with eligible bridge devices so they can consider the benefits of Sidewalk before deciding if they want to change their preferences.

Very, very specific wording there. And after all existing customers are notified, all customers setting up a Sidewalk bridge for the first time will have the opportunity to enable Sidewalk during device setup. It's basically only in the U.S. right now, but apparently some people outside the U.S. have received emails notifying them about the launch, so we're not necessarily sure what that means. But it is only in the U.S. for now. All right. So, I mean, there's really no good way to put this.

It is a matter of time until this gets horrifyingly exploited. And the fact that it is opt-out rather than opt-in, so that means it is enabled by default, means that there's going to be a ton of non-tech savvy people who don't understand that smart doorbell means it's connected to someone else's servers and someone else is poking around in there um that are going to be exploited this is this is a matter of time and it's uh that that's a shame and considering how this is worded we will notify existing customers

with eligible bridge devices so they consider the benefits of sidewalk before deciding if they want to change their preferences there's a lot of very specific word usage in there if if they use that type of uh of language when notifying their customers but the benefits of this new beautiful feature they're just going to turn it on whatever turn it on they will not turn it off right oh yeah sure that sounds fine yeah yeah yeah whatever i don't want to bother going to that dashboard i don't know how to get there anyways exactly in other better news the eu votes for standardized repairability ratings on electronics the european parliament has voted to develop and introduce mandatory labeling to provide clear immediately visible

and easy to understand information to consumers on the estimated lifetime and repairability of a product at the time of purchase that is awesome especially because even though i'm not european and therefore it doesn't technically affect me a lot of the time you still get the information whatever the eu does tends to trickle down into other uh other regions just because it's very inconvenient to produce a product one way for the EU, like with better repairability so that you can have a better score and then another crappier way somewhere else. Like if you're gonna make it properly in the first place,

you might as well just ship the good one everywhere. So this is fantastic. It's hoped that this will result in a mandatory repairability score index for all electronic products sold across the EU to help consumers shop with confidence and reduce planned obsolescence. I wonder who's going to oversight that, and I wonder what metrics they're going to look for. I have no idea, but the EU motion calls for a repair score similar to the scores that iFixit has been assigning to gadgets for the past 15 years. repair score similar to the scores that iFixit has been assigning to gadgets for the past 15 years i would love to see iFixit tapped to help develop something like this i don't know if that's how

it'll go down because iFixit has their own agenda you know yes you can't necessarily just draw them into like and they're american aren't they a government body. But according to a recent survey, 77% of EU citizens would rather repair their devices than replace them. 79% think that manufacturers should be legally obliged to facilitate the repair of digital devices or the replacement of individual parts. And the resolution was adopted with 395 in favor

and just 94 against with 207 abstentions. Good news. Good news. Good news. It is about time that right to repair started getting taken seriously by legislative bodies. I'll be very interested to see what the new U.S. administration does, if anything. One of my big worries is that they're going to feel like, oh, you know, left wingers are going to be so glad that it's not Trump anymore, that we can just kind of do whatever and no one will care but that's not how it's going to go down they have to like actually do stuff that matters like protect net neutrality and like

help right to repair and stuff actually i think it's pretty much bipartisan opposition to right to repair at this point so i'm not really i shouldn't really be hoping for anything um and the last big news item is apple m1x max have leaked so one of the biggest complaints about the m1 was of course the lack of performance compared to well what people might expect in a pro product or in a, well, in a, you know, proper desktop product, like anything but a Mac mini. And it looks like the reason is that Apple was holding out for the M1X, which is going to have 12 cores in total, eight Firestorm performance cores, and then four Ice Storm high efficiency cores. And, you know, four more cores

instead of, so 12 versus 8 might not sound like that big of a deal to you but if it's true according to our testing that would put cpu performance roughly in line with the 2020 27 inch iMac which runs a 10 core core i9 cpu and if i had to guess i'd say that thing is probably going to come in the like 40 to 45 watt total system power range that is nuts that's absolutely nuts leaks apple pro has a spotty leak record at best um but apple is specifically incentivizing purchases of intel based 16-inch macbook pros and 21-inch iMacs for Black Friday by offering $150 gift cards,

strongly suggesting that these will be the next products to receive the Apple Silicon treatment. Sweet. Makes sense. Anthony notes, doubling the Firestorm cores makes all the sense in the world for a higher performance M1. They don't really need to do much else than that.

I would say that a little more IO would be good, so I don't know if I 100% agree with him, but it's also possible we'll see that. He has no reason to believe this would be inaccurate, barring exact pricing and availability and which products they appear in. Anthony Note 2. If I had to guess, it'll take some time before a 27-inch iMac and especially iMac Pro are available. Maybe end of 2021, early 2022 for the 27-inch. I don't know, Anthony. I think it could be sooner than that. I think Apple's like, they're going on this.

They're gung-ho, full gung-ho. Just like I'm gung-ho on reading Super Chats. All right, guys, what do you send to people who don't need your money? Thanks, Robert Mail. Happy American Thanksgiving, he says. Lucky Falcor says, in a recent TV review video,

oh, TV review video, you said to get good blacks with a projector theater room, you would need to control the lighting. I suggest a video with Vanta black painted walls to control the light. That would actually be sick. And if I had access to a media room

that we could like, you know, do stuff to, then I would definitely do it someday someday when i live next to jeff bezos and i have a big media room uh we will we'll do a vantablack vantablack uh media room uh kenneth says i'm currently seven years deep extremely expensive uh vantablack i thought it was well yeah but that's why i'd be living next to jeff bezos by that point ah yeah yeah right it's why I'd be living next to Jeff Bezos by that point. Ah, yeah, yeah, right. It's like the darkest paint or something like that.

Like it's super light absorby, for those of you who aren't familiar with Vantablack. Kenneth says, I'm seven beers deep, and while I'm rolling on the floor at 8 p.m. petting my cat, I just want to say I so want an RTX 3090. Well, you'll never get one giving me $20 to send that message. RTX 3090. Well, you'll never get one giving me $20 to send that message. Yeah, what you need to do is spin up a

coin farming operation. Aye. All right. In other news, Armando says, you guys benchmarked the ROG Zephyrus G14 with a Ryzen 4000 series CPU. Did you notice anything odd about on-battery performance?

We actually have not dug into those claims because we have been absolutely buried in Techtober, which has extended into Techvember. Like, I can't tell you guys what's coming, but it's not over. I'll say that much. Osasoft says, wanted to at least once catch a WAN show live.

Hey, finishing my sixth pint of beer. My Lord, six pints. I hope I get to the end of the show to be able to ask something. Well, I hope I get to the end of the show. Yeah. Okay. Osasoft appears to still be alive, which is good. How about a Plex centered video?

Build comparison, budget, mid-range over the top. I don't know. It's so niche, dude. Like, I don't know how much we can, I don't know how much we can i don't know how much we can really say about it like more more better plex is like more better more better cpu is good you know gpu doesn't jake have a really sweet setup he does there's some channels out there that have great plex content just go watch them i, we don't have to cover everything. Osasoft sent another super chat. $10 LTT store shipping for actual goods? Nah, mate, too expensive.

Sending $10 worth of super chats. Aw, yeah, baby. Faith in humanity lost. Faith in six pints increased? Yeah, exactly. Clearly drunk texting me at this point. I think so. Oh, man. This is kind of funny.

Dal Seams says, I learned not to use honey with Domino's Pizza. It added every available coupon to the cart and got me all the pizza deals nearly ended up with 60 pizzas how does that work they must not have had it limited to like one code okay do you know about this project diablo 2 someone's like can you can you message can you say something about this a mod for and by passionate diablo

2 fans we aim to maintain the lord of destruction experience and provide consistent ladder resets while improving on the game as if development never ended interesting well apparently that's the thing and uh yeah i guess i i guess i shouted it out adam larson i definitely find diablo 2 more interesting to play than diablo 3 wait a minute addled spoon says there's a wanshow reference on letter that has specifically clipped that i would be i would be are you sure it's a wansho reference or is it just like a a video podcast reference yeah it's probably not wansho it's probably not wan show all right uh there's a few more here a flying modem says i'm actually someone who got his gf pregnant during the pandemic lol six months to go so the book is something i'm super excited about i was just gonna say

hey get a book flying modem what you should really be doing is saving your money not sending super chats because kids dang they expensive also by the way if that already happened you don't know there might be number two you should get more than one book they might destroy the first one not actually we went through a lot of manufacturers to find one that's like pretty indestructible so it should be kid proof okay cool uh sir sir zavarin says playing rpgs are why i learned to read super mario rpg is my childhood that game is so good i am totally going to start playing it tonight actually you should you should say you should say kid resistant not kid proof you're right you're not wrong i'm totally gonna play super mario rpg i'm going

to start it tonight uh i've been are you streaming it took me uh i don't know probably maybe i'll think about it i'll think about it because i was kind of going to play it on the couch um i couldn't play it for ages because it took me forever to figure out the latency fixing setting in retroarch that for whatever reason is not just enabled by default uh or retroarch or snes 9x snes 9x um and so i wasn't able to time the the double damage combos and so it was just like frustrating and annoying so i just kept not making it very far into it i should totally play again um p dizzle says i have nothing to say just take my money um i mean all right i'll put it in the pile uh jeremy says yeah go ahead if i could speak to you super chatters for a second yeah are you subscribed

to floatplane yeah really you get some actual benefits over there yeah there's like exclusive content and stuff yeah there's some like really cool stuff that goes on floatplane. And I think not enough people even know about it. But like some of the most, here's some random internal insights. Some of the content with the most activity on floatplane, likes, comments, et cetera, views, including views, are like videos that that don't hit youtube um they're videos that i think would do poorly if they did to be fair um because they're like hardcore content um but there's some really cool stuff there okay hold on a second martino over on floatplane says

yeah 10 pints is a buzz but six is like i'm taking it easy gotta go work early in the morning now hold on a second because my understanding of a pint of beer is that it's not an actual pint i thought it was like just like a colloquial way of describing like a mug my understanding was that you can order a pint and in some places a pint is like a ton of beer so maybe i'm mistaken i guess i'm i guess i'm wrong people are like no a pint is just a pint already then shows you what i know uh the mug holds a pint blah blah blah 473 mils okay yeah no i am i'm completely wrong um nick pinged me on teams to say uh sarah reacting to part three secret shopper is a floatplane exclusive he says floatplane exclusive hard sell sarah reacting to part three secret shopper yeah so that's on there

and that video if i remember correctly is like the the third most viewed video like ever on full plane it's pretty sad and it's it's hilarious so yeah all right and that's pretty much it for the wan show for today hopefully you guys uh oh i think i understood that now hopefully you guys enjoyed it we'll see you again next week same bat, same bat channel. And Nick says, also, please let YouTube chat know that we are not making LTT condoms because we don't want that responsibility. I mean, we could make a condom

as long as it's like the like get you pregnant condom, you know, that then we wouldn't have to worry about like, you know, there being any misunderstanding, like the badcondoms.com, know please tell me that exists you could bundle it with the book badcondoms.com $2.99 for the first year available really nobody wanted bad condoms.com how is that even possible so i can think of all kinds of great business ideas that would go with bad condoms.com and i think we're done here to be fair no one has good condoms.com really except that one costs a lot more oh yeah and also part four of secret shopper is already out on

it'll be coming to youtube very good as well secret shopper was great yeah i really enjoyed it it's a lot of work but it's a lot of fun i'm sure it's incredible but yeah it's very entertaining vlog all right see you later guys bye and stream youtube is dead