The WAN Show - RadioShack Returns - WAN Show December 24, 2021

Episode Date: December 28, 2021

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Wait till one of them goes green and then I go. Right. And welcome to the WAN Show, ladies and gentlemen. We've got a fantastic show lined up for you today. We're going to be talking about Radio Shack. It's back. JKk it's crypto now what else we got ah yes the audiophile ssd if you don't own one you do not properly appreciate music and also you probably are just pretty smart what What else we got? Have you ever seen something on TV and you've just really wanted to take a big, juicy bite of it?

Well, now you can lick your screen. Potentially. Remember when licking the screen was like the mark of sort of not having your act together? Yeah. Is that changing? All right, sure. Let's see how this goes. Also, no one's going to see ES.

Yeah. But it's still sort of happening? It's not really news. It's see how this goes. Also, no one's going to see ES. Yeah. But it's still sort of happening? It's not really news. It's like the opposite of news. There will be no news. Sorry. Goodbye, news. There will be remote news. Goodbye, news. Hello, intro. you know what the funniest thing about today so it's brought to you by see sonic all team and cube coders uh i think is that we intended to start an hour early, and we still managed to start an hour late.

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We'll maybe come back to, sorry, chat, we'll maybe come back to the pre-show discussion about bookmarks versus pinned tabs. For now, we've got to talk radio shack that's right you heard me the one-time tech giant radio shack is back and not just as a a half-assed online store nope that's right they're shilling crypto so they're back in the same sense that stan lee is back. You see that? Oh, yeah. That was awful. Yeah.

I mean, but you know what? I shouldn't have even been that surprised because I saw what was happening. Basically, they're using Stan Lee's account to just like. Advertise like everything. Advertise. Well, yeah. So I was really shocked because it was to buy this NFT of like a character. And, you know, I get one one aspect of NFTs.

OK, that I could kind of get behind would be that the item was unique. Right. Except that if you can just mint as many NFTs as you want. Yeah, you can make copies. And like there's, so there's no limit. You can literally sell copies. Like it's not even like, it's not even like Bitcoin where there's actually a finite amount of it. Yeah. You can actually just mint more copies of it. It's like having, it's like buying a, it's like buying a digital print of an artwork, right?

Where it just says one out of question mark two out of question mark right because you're not going to keep printing this as long as it keeps making money baby let's go there's no actual control for how many of them they can make so anyway yeah they they they say it's limited but they're they're using his account to show some stupid nft of something and i i looked back through it i'm going i shouldn't have even been surprised by this because the entire account is just full of, you know, occasionally, you know, honoring his memory, basically just doing fan service

in order to get likes and get people to follow it so that they can just shill absolutely anything and everything. And it is so frustrating. Does it slightly have something to do with a superhero that he once had some form of affiliation with? Shill it. Shill, shill, shill.

Press the shill button. Go, go, go, go, go. So I hated it. And I guess I hate this too. So over the weekend, the company confirmed a pivot into decentralized finance or DeFi. Oh, man man the name for blockchain based protocols that allow people to send receive trade lend and borrow funds i've always thought that was just the

perfectly edgy name yeah it's it's great we're defying the the the standard quo standard quo i like it i like it i really like it though the standard quo so the website reads radio shack defy will be sorry sorry it's just really stupid uh will be the can you read it uh where is it uh will be the bridge between CEOs who stay standard quo instead of status quo and control the world's corporations and the world of cryptocurrencies. Yes, that's exactly what we want. More corpo currencies.

Oh, my. And it is not, it doesn't have anything to do with the Radio Shack that you know and maybe have some love left for, rather by retail e-commerce ventures the company that purchased the rights to the name in 2020. REV owns many chains that used to define US retail including Pier One, Linens and Things and Dress Barn and the general strategy for REV is to pivot failing retailers from storefronts into e-commerce while getting co-investors to pitch in. So yep, RadioShack swap or whatever the name becomes is going to launch its own token. Radio. Yep. That, cause that's what, that's the way forward. Radio. Radio star killed the,

the crypto, the big fat cats at the banks yeah yeah um the plan is to distribute 10 billion radio tokens the company hasn't yet shared how or to whom they will be distributed and the writer comments on this particular one are from colin says it's pretty clear that the radio shack brand is now being flogged for every penny it's worth and i for one i'm sad to see it go i would expect colin to be sad to see it go yeah he's definitely a maker type a creator type and radio shack used to be for those of you who are too young to remember it the place to go get things that now you can basically only get on ebay or aliexpress and wait three to 18 weeks for it to actually freaking arrive like you could go there and actually buy a capacitor

if you needed it to complete an electronics project or something like that. Like you could pick up like breadboards and stuff. Like you could actually do electronics projects without resorting to, I'm trying to think if there's anything like that left. I mean, I remember- You can browse in person.

It's mostly, as far as I know, it's mostly just like kind of small town shops but there is a bunch of online stuff like i well yeah i mean obviously it's not as cool in the same way that there's a mcmaster car you know there's there's there's definitely online electronic shops like you can go over to mouser sure fine but okay the browsing and tactile in-person experience where you can look through things and get creative with what you see on the shelf yeah there's there's very little of that these days for sure yeah and i mean i the last time i went into a store that really reminded me of old school radio shack where you just be like uh oh yeah where's the

servo aisle and you'd be like oh yeah it's like one over from the the ham radio like supplies you'd be like oh wow that's cool uh was a fries before their demise yeah i i was lucky enough to go see a fries electronics before they turned to absolute garbage did you never know you never saw i heard about how cool they were like remotely forever but never like man what would i even compare it to it's like you know metal mart yeah yeah yeah okay it's kind of like if something it's kind of like if a metal mart like ran into a home depot they just like you know like it had that it had that corporate you, all the brands you've totally already heard of side to it, but it also had that, you know, oh, you know, pick and pick and choose all these things and go assemble it for yourself. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Just figure it out. to me to see that Fry's Electronics just couldn't pull it together. And it seems like kind of like NCIX. It's not that there wasn't some money in selling electronics. It's just that they

collapsed under their own weight and their own mismanagement. I don't have any insider information about what exactly happened to Fry's. Just kind of the vibe you're getting. I'm just extremely, extremely disappointed. Yeah. There was an interesting question on the end of here. Do you have any memorable purchases from Radio Shack back in the day? Oh my goodness. Uh, I got to tell you that most of my trips to Radio Shack were as a kid. So I would geek over that. I would geek out over that stuff, but I mean, it was mostly like crappy RC cars and stuff like that. Like it was just, they had, they had the stuff that was not mainstream like toys r us right yeah i don't even know if toys r us actually does it even exist in the

states anymore i don't even know it's here in kiosk still yeah i think it's out in the states but i'm not sure yeah i can't remember the details there but uh they used to have a lot of rc toys and stuff like that i don't know that they would anymore the main thing i remember was an rc car that my dad bought that's pretty cool yep i mean they would anymore. The main thing I remember was an RC car that my dad bought. It was pretty cool. Yep. I mean, you would have been pretty young by the time Radio Shack stopped actually carrying

anything meaningfully cool. Like what was their in-house brand? I'm trying to remember. They had cheap batteries, like cheap in-house brand rechargeable batteries when I was kind of getting into high school. And finding dependable,able affordable rechargeable batteries and like sort of the early 2000s was definitely a bit of a challenge and you kind of needed them more

than you do today because a lot of devices are so power efficient now yeah and like everything used to run on the just monster amounts of of double a and triple a batteries just like you'd have I don't remember what was it game Game Gear? My Game Gear takes six. Yeah. And it would chew through them in like four hours. Yeah. And what else did I have that was a hog? I mean, my PowerShot A20 camera, I think that took, was it three or four AA batteries?

Oh, man, we got to check this thing out. Here's a review from DP Review. You know the site's been around for a while look this looked state-of-the-art okay in 2001 heck yeah okay uh hold on we got the a20 plastic compact compact digital camera okay four double a batteries nickel metal hot metal nickel metal hydride recommended, ladies and gentlemen. This thing weighed 375 grams, almost a pound, and was 2.1 megapixels. Oh, man.

But it had optical zoom, okay? I actually paid a lot extra for one, like a proper digital camera that had optical zoom instead of just digital zoom and that actually was more than one megapixel okay i got uh oh my gosh what was it called i got this weird thing from my aunt that was like a little like handheld thing and it was like sub one megapixel zoom zoom i think zooms came later i don't remember it was horrible that was cringe i returned it and then i actually ended up spending a bunch of my own money to get this one that served me very well still have some of my powershot a20 photos do you remember that that keyboard

video i filmed yes that was filmed on a zoom nice yeah it was just one of those like it's like a little rectangular brick lu Luke's first unboxing. That's a classic right there. Speaking of classics, oh, man. What will they think of next? We are going to have to do a full audiophile PC build or something like that. That was suggested by the person that posted this thread. And honestly, he listed a few different components and stuff that could go into it.

And I actually think it would be really interesting. And if you paired that with some like blind testing. Oh, my goodness. And then maybe tried like, okay, maybe they do tell a difference at this point. But what parts can we remove to make them like no longer be able to tell the difference? Like what is actually making the impact, et cetera, et cetera. It would be very interesting. My brain hurts so hurts so bad wait what am i even looking at here uh he's now might actually be the wrong timing for this but if you could bring in some community like

like people who claim to be audiophiles and get them to do the blind testing that could be pretty interesting too yeah what will they freaking think of next so um it's 800 without the heatsink it's an nvme ssd one terabyte um it has an eight layer copper pcb mil spec mil spec oh yes yes sorry i forgot that part very important military audio external five volt dc power input or internal motherboard input with onboard capacitor filtering gold-plated connectors because that means quality um every m.2 connector is gold-plated every single one that is the spec okay also the 800 for a oneTB NVMe SSD one does not come with the fancy heatsink. How much does the heatsink cost?

Don't actually know. It was sold out. Okay. Is this a joke, though? I don't think so. Honestly. Okay, guys. I genuinely don't think so.

Guys, help fact-check us here. Is this a joke? I think it's legit i can't possibly because there's two ways that something could be sold out right way number one oh i mean it's custom cnc so there might have been like two is that they didn't produce it yeah right yeah yeah so there could have been basically none of them. Way number two is that people actually bought it. And I just, I don't know, Jelly D in Twitch chat is like,

have you seen the stuff Audiophiles buy? This is for real. Come on guys, help me out here. Nobody, nobody has offered any kind of evidence that this is actually fake um all right well my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is completely ruined what have you seen the heat sink too yeah yeah i was looking at it i mean here's what i here's what i don't here's what i

don't really um i don't know there's lots of things i don't understand about this but but the biggest thing the biggest thing that i do not understand about the revelation audio ssd here is what are they expecting it to do it just it makes your audio better no but really? You've got a capacitor on your SSD. You're taking in external power. Power from where? Where are you taking this external power from? From a computer power supply?

Okay, well, it's going to be subject to the same kinds of, okay, maybe not technically, all the exact same kinds of challenging conditions that power running through the motherboard might. But it's going to be pretty darn similar. It's still inside a computer. It doesn't even have shielding on it, which is one of my favorite, actually useful, audiophile snake oil things to cover things with just metal foil,

essentially, which can do something in a situation where there could be a benefit to that, which here, I just don't see how there could be because there's no analog signaling taking place on an M.2 SSD. Yeah, that's the big problem. That's the big problem. That's a big problem. What's more than that? It just doesn't, it can't do anything. Well, it could cause compatibility issues with your motherboard because a lot of them have things

that go on top of them. Yeah. Okay. Another problem is that this is, this is a, who knows what controller they're even using. That apparently didn't merit mention here. problem is that this is this is a who knows what controller they're even using that apparently didn't merit mention here uh we got the audiophile grade audio note kisei capacitors but they don't

they don't bother to mention if there's a d-ram cache i don't see one a christ chris tech cc hd HD 957 femto clock oscillator it sounds like have you um have you ever watched that it's this like technical walkthrough video of this machine and it's I think it's like a few minutes long but the guy just says literally nothing that means anything oh I think I know what you're talking about the like the it's just techno babble yeah uh and it looks kind of like uh like uh like a sales presentation or like it looks very official it's just techno babble yeah uh and it looks kind of like uh like uh like a sales presentation or like it looks very official it's really well produced but it's a joke yeah i know what you're talking about yeah when i read stuff like that it it sounds like i'm reading that script oh boy so i wish them luck you should get one i would love to get one but you know what i don't know exactly why

but we have had oh my god there's an amazing typo sorry we have had oh uh should i go to your screen sure one in sattuk in sattuk oh like the socket it's supposed to be stock oh one in stock okay i don't know why exactly but i've had a ton of difficulty getting my hands on any of these audiophile snake oil products uh we probably know dude well the thing is we've even tried to buy them as like with like a different name i don't know what name we used but i i didn't do it. Right. Like we tried to get our hands on the audiophile network switch because that one was really funny. But every time we've tried to place an order for,

I think it's this one. So it's an $800 8-port gigabit switch. I mean, supposedly this is in stock, but every time we order this stuff, it doesn't arrive. Are they screening it? Are they just not shipping to Vancouver, Canada, just in case we get our hands on it? My assumption is it would probably be a very good idea

if you were in the snake oil audiophile space to screen all of your orders and make sure it wasn't reviewers. Yeah, I guess i could see that i mean it worked out not even just you right like like anybody yeah it would be pretty concerning but i don't know how they would have i don't know how they would okay i guess they could have my address but how could they have other people's addresses people who don't just have their their company address on google maps or whatever. I don't get it. Anyway, we're trying.

We're trying. If we can get our hands on the audio file SSD, we will absolutely, we will take that. We will throw it in a motherboard. We are going to listen to so much audio. We're going to listen to Hotel California. Okay, we're going to listen to it so hard. We're going to be like,

we're going to need to cleanse our palate and put on a sleep mask we're gonna we're gonna have an auditioning experience okay oh my god is that something people do i promise i don't know their audio palette i don't know about the audio i think that we could probably we could probably create enough sort of nonsense rituals sensory cleanse yeah we should play the music we should play the music into a wine glass and give it a little... Smell the aroma, you know?

Taste some ginger between songs. All right, that's enough attention for this nonsense. Why don't we talk about the flavorful TV? Oh, this is great. A Japanese professor has developed a prototype lickable TV screen that can imitate food flavors. The device, called Taste the TV, or T-T-TV, uses a carousel of 10 flavor canisters that spray in combination to create the taste of a particular food.

The flavor sample then rolls on hygienic film sure uh over a flat tv screen for the viewer to try in quotes the goal is to make it possible for people to have the experience of something like eating at a restaurant on the other side of the world even while staying at home i i think you're gonna need more than 10 flavors but a commercial version of this version of this product uh would cost about 100 000 yen or 875 i'm assuming u.s dollars to make uh potential applications include distance learning for sommeliers sommeliers sommeliers yeah uh and cooks and tasting games and quizzes the tasting games and quizzes sounds a lot more interesting to me because I seriously doubt the accuracy of the actual flavors generated by 10 flavor canisters.

Now, don't be a hater. Don't be a hater. 10 flavor canisters. Okay. I mean, I'm sure the first LCD didn't have a ton of pixels. And people would have looked at it going, you know, oh, I'm supposed to have a call with my relatives and it's going to be like spending time with them in the same room. Ha ha.

Huh? I don't know. I don't know. So the game side of it is kind of interesting. I think there's a pretty big issue with taste for cooks because like as anyone who's ever eaten anything before, there's more to it than literally just like spray flavor. There's heat, there's texture, there's smell, there's all this other stuff, right? So I don't know. It's very interesting.

I mean, it's something a lot of people have thought about over the years. And maybe it's a tech that gets wildly better over the next X amount of time. Sure. I don't know. Sure. I'm not holding my breath. Speaking of holding your breath. I'm not holding my screen, for that matter.

The one similar thing that we've experienced before that we've actually showcased is this uh smell vr thing i forget what it's actually called cilia yep so in a similar fashion it uses these these scent canisters in this case to make it so that you can have this sensory experience that accompanies your vr adventure so you're walking around in the forest and you've got a breeze blows and it wafts a scent of pine into your nose. And while I was being only sort of facetious when I was saying, oh, well, just because they've only got 10 flavors now,

they only had 10 pixels or whatever. Now we've got billions of pixels. They'll probably have billions of... Well, no, there's going to be a practical limit to that because it's it's like actual substance that you have to spray and stuff that you have to reload that you you know like i could i could see something like this existing uh commercially right like if you were yeah if you went to an arcade you this, this arcade where everyone has to collectively lick the same screen. Yes, I understand it like rolls out of film. Yeah, sanitary, hygienic, hygienic rolling film. Um, but, uh, just like this, where it was a cool demo,

but not really practical for the real world. I think that's, that's what we're looking at here. I mean, I'm glad that people are, are are are devoting their energy to very worthwhile endeavors sometimes you got to make some stuff like yeah exactly and like this this isn't the only thing this professor and his students have created and they have a wide variety of other applications that they want to use this like type of theory on yeah this was probably an interesting way for them to get a lot of attention on what they're working on which is cool for sure yeah and you know what i might be totally underestimating the the potential for this like i mean look at this image look at this image and tell me that this will definitely not be an entire genre of live streaming content in five years reacting to uh chat submitted flavors chat submitted flavors yeah so so your chat basically like you know they they they they

make something they they mash it into a thing it creates a digital representation of it and you've just got your you've got your lick thing and anytime you get a hype train going or whatever you gotta donate donate five subs and i'll lick the highest the booger the booger flavor that someone like literally picked out of their nose and put in the thing i mean we're talking oh i just unplugged my headphones i got too got too excited there yeah yeah i the limitless possibilities tell me that won't be a thing in five years i mean it's he can't it's he can't do it no i can't see i can't because it's only 875 bucks and we've seen what some streamers have spent on their setups in order to make unique content it's absolutely a thing a one-time purchase they'll just buy like tens of thousands of dollars

worth of pokemon cards and unwrap them. Yeah. Like, I don't know how the economics of that work, but I'd be in power to them, I suppose. Yeah. So like if you can spend $875 and sure, there's some flavor refills, but that's, I mean, if you can, he said a commercial version would cost $875. So if you could do that, I'm sure the refills are a fraction of that price. Yeah. I don't know. Content. Do it. Buy one, Ludwig. do that i'm sure the refills are a fraction of that price yeah i don't know content do it buy one ludwig um battlefield 24 20 40 fail i wanted to talk about this because i actually find it genuinely hilarious oh um what now i uh it's just trash in battlefield 2042's launch week uh it was already losing to farming simulator 22

um which i mean i'm not particularly into that but i've heard it is a pretty good game so that's cool um last week uh multiple 24 hour peaks were like way sub 20 000 um like one of them was like i think it was around 15 000 players it's brushing up to the amount of players that are playing actively right now battlefield 5 which is the previous game that people did not like um it's it's already going on sale for 34 off which is a terrible sign for any multiplayer game yeah um and it has a free weekend coming on steam but don't bother because it's terrible um cod and halo both absolutely ate its lunch but honestly i think that would have happened even if cod and halo weren't i mean i haven't played cod but i've heard it raises the question why

would you all launch like right at the same time they always do it's like no there's only there's only one month yeah in which you can launch a game, an FPS game. You must launch in November, December. That's it. Every FPS game comes out in late November, all the time. Is the Christmas stocking boom that big? Is that it?

Is that your make or break moment? This is what killed Titanfall. They kept sandwiching it between Battlefield and COD over and over again when it just did not have the traction that those games had yeah release it in the summer and it'll do well yeah don't release it between those two games but yeah they just keep doing it so and halo like halo released their beta early i think in reaction to battlefield being really bad right so i think a bunch of people got battlefield were like wow this thing's trash there's game breaking bugs all over the place the the portal mode is just like also really buggy and

not anywhere near as good as the original version which people are still playing on like community servers and stuff so i might as well just go do that um and then halo comes in and just trounces it so yeah um speaking of things being buggy, I think merch messages are not working. Oh. Is that something we can fix? Yes, the queue will just disappear. The queue will disappear? Like, all these will disappear?

No. Should I just go through? We've only got 20 so far. Should I just... They won't pop up. I'll just do them manually. I'll do them manually. All right, we're doing a short

merch message intermission here. You don't want me to do it? I don't think they're going to disappear on there. Okay, so you go ahead and do your thing. But in the meantime, I'm going to get through these just in case they disappear. Brandon says,

oh, take more money from me. Over $700 for the year. Go float plane. Hey, thanks, Brandon R. Thanks, Andrew G. Michael says, old guy, poor vision update. Thanks for the help.

I got two Dell 32-inch 4K VA monitors with a modest curve. VA is the difference between night and day. Thank you so much. Merry Christmas. I think I remember replying to that merch message a while back. They were wondering if IPS glow was going to be an issue for them. And then I think I had said that if you're worried about it, then VA is not going to have that same glow.

Anonymous says, how comfortable is the CPU pillow? I want it, but like $70 for one without knowing? It's a throw pillow. It's not really intended to sleep on, but I've seen a lot of reviews where people claim to be that they sleep on it. My cat really likes sleeping on it. I can tell you that much.

I could see that for a cat. The reason it's so expensive is just because it costs a lot to make, not because it's necessarily, you know, going to be a world-changing pillow for your bed. It's really not designed as a sleeping pillow. Yeah, no, but it, I mean, we did fill it with quality stuffing just because, like, I thought it felt good.

It is quite comfortable to, like, lean on on the couch. Yeah, but I don't know. People say they do it, so that's all I can really. Sure. Yeah, Neil B., we don't, like, delete like delete the reviews on our site like don't you love that when you go on to a site and it's nothing but five star reviews on the first party site that you're looking at super obvious and you're just looking at it going come on it's it's possible that these are all legitimate reviews i i'm not even I'm not even going to challenge you on that.

But you didn't... I will say... You never were... A courier never screwed up the order and didn't deliver on time. Like half of our negative reviews are just because shipping takes a long time. Yeah. So you're going to tell me that never happened? Not even...

Come on. Very unlikely. Come on. yeah so you're gonna tell me that never happened not even come on very come on yeah i i will say this just just to ward off the skeptics uh there are reviews that have been removed um they have been removed because of uh things that just should not be on a store like yeah like profanity sexualized content like whatever else if it's an actual review negative or not it stays up on that note if you've left a negative review and we got it resolved for you if you could go back and update it we'd super like appreciate that that would be very cool that'd be that'd be awesome yeah uh neil b says love the indoor hoodie got another you bought another two i hope you know that you bought two um line us with your love of

alpaca and merino wool will more wool garments be made shirts long sleeves sweaters lounge pants uh you can expect more wool probably starting with socks um no time super soon though costs are going up like crazy and while we did buy like a year's supply of alpaca wool we will have to rebuy it again at some point so we're gonna see how that goes calvin says i really want a float plane shirt will that ever happen will that ever happen it's happened in the past yeah i don't know maybe maybe maybe jean pierre w says merry christmas from europe can we get more linux content yes we have part four of linux challenge finally coming out um do you know why it took so long no ed just didn't realize there was a part four and because i was technically the writer for that project and i almost never touched the trello

i didn't like put the card in the right spot and nice um yeah usually i have a helper that just helps me do tedious paperwork for projects that I write. And in this case, it just sort of fell between the cracks. And so that video was supposed to be up ages ago. It's been done forever. And I completed the last couple of things the editor needed on, I think, I want to say Thursday, yesterday. And I submitted all that. So we're good to go.

Something that's crazy. Yeah. And not to derail us to talk about Linux stuff for an hour again. Yeah, sure. But something that's crazy is every time it gets to the point where, I don't know if I can say his name because I don't know how long he's been here. But every time the editor that's working on this project will message me about different things that he might need for the

project um i'll i'll just do a cursory look at like how are those things doing now like i like okay it's it's the proton db page like what are the recent reviews because it's like i don't know it's very likely very different and yeah it's just constantly changing like i talked about my laptop thing like there's i believe the most recent linux video or maybe it's just constantly changing. I talked about my laptop thing. I believe the most recent Linux video, or maybe it's the next one coming out. I don't remember which one. I say I'm daily driving Linux on my laptop because it's a better experience.

It's not and you're not. I'm not anymore. You want to hear something funny? It was true for like a month. This is a bit of a spoiler for part four. But one of the things that Luke found was that even first party titles from valve were not perfect experiences in steam and uh for the part of the video where i talk about

cs go in particular i say hey we ran into these issues but we couldn't reproduce them because now it's working because now it's working get this it's broken. So I tried to launch CSGO yesterday on Manjaro and it would just, I'd get a splash screen and it would just close. That's the problem I was having. I know, I know. So what managed to happen is in between you actually doing the challenge where it was broken

and then me writing up the actual script that we both delivered and it being working and us being like well we can't reproduce this error so we're just gonna have to tell you we ran into some issues and then me actually getting the screen cap because i forgot it is now broken again that's actually so funny oh my goodness it's it's such a constantly changing landscape it's it's uh it's cool in some ways i know i know it's just unbelievable though um so i forget where we were going with that oh that's so funny timothy h says uh love the channel been watching for two years or so was the reasoning for remodeling a house done for content or just getting the house how you want it purely content he didn't actually want a house um sorry um you know what the house was a combination of things i i wanted to okay my

my kids want to not share rooms so that was thing. And we could do that in our current house, but then I would have no sanctum at all. Everything would be either a person's room or it would be a shared space. And I was super wanting to still have like somewhere that I could, you know, game stream, for example. So there were practical reasons for upgrading.

As for why we chose that particular one, it was the only one that had no clear downgrades over our current house. Our current house is amazing. It's like awesome. It's super private. The neighborhood is beautiful. It's really well built. It was actually the showcase home for the neighborhood. And it was the one that when the development was complete, the developer kept for themselves. So the actual developer of the neighborhood. Yeah, always a good sign. There were two screws everywhere. There should have been one nail, you know?

Like it was just, it was super well built. And I had already gotten everything exactly the way that I liked it. So I had run networking to everywhere that I needed painstakingly over years run networking in ceiling speaker wiring I had run uh like vr stuff yeah I had put in air conditioning myself I had put in my vr wiring for my lighthouses in the ceiling so I didn't have to have ugly wires running down my walls like I had put I had my computer running in that closet with fiber optic cabling running

through the walls. Like everything was exactly the way I liked it. And I was sitting here going, Oh man. So we move into this new place and what it's bigger, which is great for everyone, except I don't care about that. I want my tech stuff set up the way that I freaking like it.

I spent 10 years getting it the way I like it. So that's a big part of why the house has been such a project, because in order to get it up to spec, up to what I've already got, a lot of work needs to be done. And it's going to be easier to do that when there isn't all your stuff there and you're not trying to actively live in that space. Exactly. So we want to do it all in one shot shot and there were reasons that we needed to open up a bunch of the walls anyway so it had uh poly b is the type of piping that it had oh no there was poly b up the butt okay everywhere in that house so we were going to be ripping half of the walls and half of the ceilings open anyway and that's a big job well when we're doing that you might as well put

in the speaker wiring yeah you might as well put in i mean that's definitely the time because that's also not like a small cut in the wall it's like it's a pretty big one nope it's costing a fortune but it's costing a lot less to do it now than it would cost to do it five years from now when i go darn it i just i wish i did that really wish i did that thing yeah uh i've gone a little overboard um to be honest with you like i started out not caring at all about things like um smart blinds and curtains i was like i don't care i'm never going to use that but now i'm looking at it going okay 20 years from now when it's time to resell this thing a house manual curtains is gonna be like what a house of this class yeah will not be competitive with something

brand new if it doesn't have wiring to the to the blinds into the curtains and there were some things about the house that were exceptional even today like nowadays the uh the window and door opener sensors and stuff all battery even on a brand new house they don't run wires for it but this one because it was built back in the 90s everything in this house is hardwired it's actually pretty nice which is pretty sick to swap those batteries no batteries because when you i mean even if you only have to swap the battery once every two years when you're're talking like, you know, 20 points of ingress into the house, like that's a chore. That sucks.

That means like one out of every 40 days, like once a month, you're going around and replacing some stupid like button cell battery and some stupid sensor that might not even be that easy to reach. Like that sucks. Yeah. battery and some stupid sensor that might not even be that easy to reach like that sucks yeah um so so having the opportunity now while the walls and ceilings are open to run power to the we probably won't even put in smart blinds or curtains at least not everywhere like my bedroom i think it'd be kind of nice to have just because i i i do not um i do not regulate my sleep very well. I think it's called GS, gamer syndrome.

No, I wasn't going to reveal with that. So I don't regulate my sleep very well. And something that I think could probably help me is to start to control things like the color temperature of the light, brightness, doing things like opening up the curtains slowly as you're supposed to naturally wake up. Apparently stuff like that helps a lot. So I could see myself playing around with it a little bit, but honestly, it's something that I put in more for resale value, trying to be as forward thinking as possible. And I realized that the previous owners probably tried to be as forward thinking as possible, putting in things like the intercom.

How'd that work out for them? But I think my way is going to go better because in cases where I don't know if the standards will evolve, we've put in a lot of conduit. Yeah. So as long as you've got, hey, if you've got conduit and a string, you are ready to go, ladies and gentlemen. Conduit's good uh yeah there will probably be bits for the screwdriver available at launch given that

the screwdriver is like super super super delayed how did we even get on this topic oh right i'm supposed to be going through the merch messages that have accumulated they are working now i see i see that they're working i see that they're working uh unfortunately the one thing missing is timestamps whoops uh so i have no idea where i left off and oh yeah great oh question for linus your lambo had a manual transmission oh moved and you said that's something you really liked about it is that because you find driving a manual is more fun or because it's more reliable slash easier, cheaper to repair? I have done almost zero of my own car work. I think I brought my car into our high school shop when I did take.

I took shop class. Did you know that? No, actually. I did. Wow. Yeah, I know, right? Genuinely surprising. Yeah, right?

Well, I filled my whole timetable. I never took a free blog so i did like technology where we built like this rc submarine thing and we i did metal art and jewelry we did stained glass i like made rings and stuff like that i took i took shop where i learned to change my own oil change brakes uh i learned how to do an alignment like like kind of basic stuff uh so i took like all these like electives and stuff and learned how to do an alignment like like kind of basic stuff uh so i took like all these like electives and stuff and still managed to do all my sciences uh and i will tell you out of every class that i've ever taken in my life shop is the one i remember the least from

i think the only thing that i learned in shop was my potty mouth that makes sense i'm not going to generalize okay i'm not going to generalize about shop people i took i took a few spares because i was like ahead in years and i skipped a year in chemistry i skipped i did i completed all of the computers courses that the school had when i was still in grade 10 um i skipped a year in math. I did a lot of that stuff. And then I took a fair amount of spares because I was working. Right, okay.

I was working like actually a pretty considerable amount in high school. That's fair, that's fair. I was trying to gather money for university. Never skipped a grade, Luke. Never skipped a grade. How did you have extra blocks then? We just had like,

well, you don't need to fill all your blocks in order to have enough credits to graduate so a lot of people would just take like a study block okay yeah like almost everyone i knew had at least one study block in grade 12 i was like no dog this is free it's free now it costs money later i am going for it my school didn't have a lot of like a lot of the things that you just described. We didn't have those. Oh, yeah. We had super cool electives.

Yeah. My computer's teacher was awesome. I have three amazing teachers that were just absolutely fantastic. My computer's teacher was one of them. He's a principal at a local school now. Oh, that's cool. But he used to be a computer's teacher. And he went to BCIT over the summer and took a game development course yeah and then like re-compacted that course into a course for us in school oh that's it he only ran

one time because like my year was really into it right and that was like awesome so that was like technically an extra cool course that we had outside of that it was very limited fun fact i never took a computer course really nope i mean it was mostly like programming so it wouldn't have helped no no not no yeah wouldn't have done anything for me uh so in response to your question i just prefer driving manual because it's more fun for me for me i'm not i'm not judging not judging uh i'm a computer engineering student looking to better understand the way gpus process data and turn it into images. Can you recommend any books or resources?

Oh, my God. There was this amazing blog that I bookmarked for myself like a hundred years ago that was super cool on exactly this topic. It was one of those things that was way over my head and yet accessible enough that I could figure it out. Don't remember what it was like way over my head and yet accessible enough that i could like figure it out don't know what it was yeah i wanna i wanna find it now i feel like i did send it to you because i was probably like holy crap this is everything we ever need to know about gpus or something like that yeah i have vivid memories of this but i don don't remember. I'm sorry. If anyone knows what I'm talking about, feel free to drop it in the chat. Unfortunately, the keywords GPU and blog are returning a lot of results for in my inbox. So I'm not going to be able to find this easily, at least not quickly.

So if you guys, if you guys have any great resources for that, feel free to drop it in the chat. Thanks, Timothy H. Where'd that go? Oh my goodness. People have figured out that there's a limited edition product on the store and they're starting to order it really fast. Yeah.

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slash AMP slash WAN. Man, you know what? I'm noticing a bit of a pattern here you notice how games with dedicated servers and the ability for there to be community hosted servers have a much longer shelf life than games that rely on the game developer to maintain stuff yeah it's like how is it that it ends up being so profitable to be the good guy like valve they're just like yeah community service whatever and then they just create like a facade they just create a community browser experience they i mean the old classic one is still there but they just put they put a sheen over it like a modern gaming sheen no one can tell the difference csgo still relevant so many years later

and you can still do yeah you can still do custom service and they can still make money on skins and whatever else the titanfall community and i know i know i know but we when we talked about titanfall a fair amount a while ago yeah right around that time um unplanned there was this big community push to like get people to play Titanfall again. And it peaked well higher than Battlefield 24 2 is currently at. But it has been just buried by DDoS for a long time now. Like it's been unplayable for a long time.

And users are trying to take it into their own hands and force custom dedicated servers for titanfall 2 it's pretty interesting i haven't been following it that closely but i've been following it a little bit that'd be super cool it would be awesome yeah and like it's it's people want to play so bad like the titanfall 2 subreddit is huge and it's it's just a ton of people very frustrated that they're not allowed to play a game which is such a wild concept i know right um but yeah it is what it is all right what else it is is more topics amd's 5000 series thread ripper pro chagall specs have apparently leaked. Here they are, ladies and gentlemen, posted by fake KGB on the forum.

Man, okay, hold on a second. Side conversation. If someone walked up to you and said, I'm a fake KGB operative, what do you believe? That they're a KGB operative. 100%, every time. that they're a kgb operative 100 every time so they're just they're they're pulling some next level i'm gonna be looking for the gunman gate i'm gonna be all full paranoid all that kind of stuff all right back to the specs here so we've got some uh what look like

very very raw part numbers here we've got some sockets. We've got some core counts. Looks like we're going to get everything from 12 cores all the way up to 64, which is same as last gen, but I'm still expecting markedly better performance. 3200 megatransfer per second memory. Man, why do they insist on doing this? Why does AMD insist on rating all of these, this entire lineup of processors at 280 watt TDP? I knew you were going to say the TDP when you started that sentence because I had the same reaction. I wrote that one.

I had the same reaction as you. I was like, wait, are you kidding me? It's so annoying. Especially when they've got they've actually got all these different core clocks that they can end up running at and all these different power draws that they're actually expecting the bloody thing to have so why not just say hey this is only a this is only a hundred and let's have a look here uh this is only in its highest power state 170 watt processor and then you can just know that you can buy a lighter cooler and for that one to run properly crazy

um unfortunately it looks like this is going to be the end of thread ripper as a consumer platform so there won't be any normal thread ripper there's just going to be thread ripper pro this just goes to show you that you either whatever die the hero or live long enough to become the villain yeah amd came in they're like yeah more course for everyone consume everything's going to be a consumer platform it's going to be freaking awesome and then they were like hey you know what in addition to regular thread ripper we're going to have like a pro one. It's going to have, it's going to have like, you know, proper ECC support and it's going to do this

and it's going to do that. The same things that we got mad at Intel a while ago. Haha, remember that consumer one? See you later, buddy. Now we're going to paywall the ECC support on this

and it's going to be really good for us and don't even worry about it. All I can hope is that Intel, you intel yeah they're not but i i would love for intel to bring in an hedt competitor that's that's scrappy and forces amd to re-evaluate this this pro sort of workstation only approach to the threadripper platform because for enthusiasts threadripper was so cool there were flaws okay there were there were flaws Threadripper was limited uh to oh man what were we stuck it was either I think it was 256 gigs of memory and on a 64 gigabyte processor that is really

not enough and so not having proper support for like registered DIMMs or load reduced DIMMs was a real bummer. And Threadripper, yeah, probably makes more sense in terms of positioning, especially now that there's a 16 core regular desktop Ryzen that once we get DDR5 is probably going to be capable of like 128 gigs of RAM. Like now that we have that, honestly, yeah, it's probably not that necessary, but it was just AMD being a bro because they were the underdog. And then as soon as they're not the underdog, they're like, nah,

we don't really have to like bro anymore. We, we realistically, we can't make enough processors for how much demand there is anyway. So let's just, yeah, let's just not worry about being a bro. And I wish that I wish AMD just would continue to,

to be a bro here. That's, that's all I have to, that's all i have to say about that oh you're the one that always tells me that they won't be because like when when amd first started coming back i was like yeah like the good ones getting good again and you were like well not really it's just good that there's more competition sorry it's good that there's more competition. Sorry. It's good that there's more competition, but like... AMD is not your friend. No. It's that simple.

Companies are not your friend. Intel is not your friend. AMD is not your friend. There are people there that could be your friend. Yeah. I know some super cool people at pretty much every major tech company. I don't personally know anyone at AMD, but I know some people... And I've trashed on Intel a lot. And I know some people and I've trashed on Intel a lot.

And I know some people at Intel that I'm friends with for sure. Yeah, for sure. And people that not just you could be friends with, but people that actually really care. Oh, yeah. Like really care about the product, really care about the enthusiast community. And even when Intel was in like the worst of the dumps, there were people that worked there that really cared. Absolutely. There's also a lot of people that work there um danny v8 asks isn't ltt a company no linus media group incorporated

is a company and as a company it has actually a in some cases different objectives and a different agenda than i personally do or than luke personally does it's true like lmg incorporated's only job is to make enough money that it can pay all of its staff including me and so that it can reinvest in its own business so it can continue to grow that is like the the capitalist definition of a company it's's a corporate entity. It's its own legal entity. It's actually, even though I am the primary shareholder, along with my wife, Yvonne, it has its own reason for being that is separate from us.

So I might be super chill, but I might disagree with Linus Media Group Incorporated Entity's agenda, and we might have to find a way to reconcile how I feel about a topic versus how Linus Media Group Incorporated might feel about a topic. So I have to put myself in different shoes. For example, we have a video upcoming that I just recorded prior to the show on the removal of the YouTube dislike counter. And Linus Media Group and I were sort of conflicted over one of the

things that I wanted to talk about in the video but Linus Media Group wasn't a big fan of. That's a good way of saying that. So one of the one of the things that we address in the video about YouTube's removal of the dislike button is how to restore it. So there's a Google Chrome extension, actually there's extensions for a number of popular browsers, that allows you to that allows you to restore the dislike counter to YouTube and the way it works is pretty interesting, we get into that, but what that doesn't allow you to do is restore the dislike counter in a youtube app on

your mobile device you could use a mobile browser to browse youtube but i think that i don't probably have to tell you guys that that's a pretty crappy experience um so you could use a browser with the extension installed on your mobile device but the way way to do it, not yet, but maybe in the future with an app is with YouTube advanced. So YouTube advanced is an application that circumvents some of the ways that Linus Media Group Incorporated makes money. And that negatively impacts Linus Media Group, its employees, its collaborators its collaborators and you know linus media group wasn't a big fan of me talking about it but linus sebastian the the tech personality who wants to make you guys as thoroughly informed on this subject as possible felt like well any conversation

about this is not going to be complete without mentioning this potential upcoming collaboration between the Return YouTube Dislike extension and YouTube Advanced. So I'm in this awkward position where either I have to harm my own business or I have to harm my own reputation by sending you guys into a rabbit hole where you find something ultimately and you go, hey, he didn't mention this. He must have known about this. What's up with that? So I won. So just like when we did the video on Piehole, we are we're just going to be like, yep, that's's a thing it's a thing that exists and

linus media group can suck it i used to i used to be super super super against ads and videos you probably remember that but ultimately at the end of the day it's just entirely unsustainable to not have ads and like it it makes sense that that's the standard for everybody now and you just need to do it to survive makes sense so so that sense. So that's what we're doing. That's how we're going with it. Good old YouTube. I've never actually tried it. If the dislike counter comes to it, though,

I'd be tempted. I'd be tempted. So I don't even know if there's a way to configure Vanced, for example, to see ads so that you can support creators in that way don't know i don't know ah what one could do is this is weird uh i don't even know if i like it um but you could get like youtube premium and then use vanced i mean yeah you could do that

i i saw someone on floatplane being like i use vanced i subscribe on floatplane yeah it's like yeah that helps us but you got to remember there's a lot of yeah there's a lot of other content creators out there uh bexim update on the sweatpants is that they are still stuck in the port the port of vancouver is just yeeting containers into a holding area and then they will open them when they get around to it. So good luck, everybody. HiHi217 says,

I use premium and advanced. But HiHi217 is a Twitch viewer, so their credibility is a little low. Yeah, it's questionable. Questionable, questionable. Everyone's pulling out a CES. Original article here is from XDA Developers, and I get it.

It's not canceled yet, but man, it just really doesn't seem like very good optics to show up at. Here we go. T-Mobile's out, AMD's out, NVIDIA's out. I know Intel's out, so this article might be a little bit older. That's sort of a big deal.

Intel almost always has one of the biggest booths at CES right when you walk into the main hall. Center Hall, I think, is the one. It's been a couple of years since I've been. I'm liking it. I'm just so tired of CES. I think I would really enjoy attending it as just an attendee. Like if I just could stealthily like, you know, just walk around on the show floor. No one knows who I am. Just kind of,

kind of look at stuff and just take it in. But covering it is so exhausting. I just, I did it for years and I just can't do it anymore. Yeah. Just can't do it anymore. It was actually really nice. The one year that I did it,

I went for like float plane and I just met with a bunch of creators it's really cool yeah i'd like go on the show floor to like find somebody and as i was cruising by just like oh that's cool see some cool stuff yeah um so yeah see you later ces i mean we'll we'll still see all these announcements and everything uh just expect to see them more digitally the the smart brands are the ones that have already reached out to work with us like asus uh sent us some some prototype devices that we did a video showing off so that'll go up when the embargo would have lifted during the show if there was to be a show. In other news, Intel is apparently planning to sell pre-binned Core i9-12900Ks that could reach 5.2 gigahertz on all cores. Could this be a response to AMD's Ryzen with 3DV cache? I don't know, but the videocards.com article seems to be uh speculating that this could be true but

then also please note that this post is tagged as a rumor does this really need to exist um and if it does why don't think it does in the modern day but i don't know they have called these types of things something else in the past haven't they so there was the there was the 9900ks yeah um what was the difference with the ks like i thought they've had like a, almost like a golden sample system a few times. So they provided us with some golden samples for a giveaway once. They are definitely capable of creating them, but to my knowledge, they've never really done a pre-binned CPU.

Right. Other than I think the KS was like a slightly more booster-y 9900K. I'm actually double-checking that on ARC right now. 9900K ARC, because it was 5 GHz all-core, and then the other

one is, oh, basically the same thing. Did it have a higher base clock or something? I can't, I gotta confess, I can't even remember the difference. Yeah, it had a higher base clock, something i can't i gotta confess i can't even remember the difference yeah it had a higher bass clock so it was four gigahertz all core so yeah it seems sounds kind of cool um personally i'd rather they just call it something else entirely i mean i guess ks is is a different name for it but it it really just it confuses the lineup. You've got to remember, the only difference from one Alder Lake to the other,

assuming a similar core configuration, is the clock speed it freaking runs at. So if that makes it this different number or this different number, why are we now changing suffixes? I get very confused. Here's a weird question. Do you think overclocking is as popular these days as it was before? It's certainly easier to do than ever before, but it's also less effective than ever before. You're not getting a huge benefit from it the way that you used to.

I mean, the other target's a little better now. In the old days, you were able to overclock a CPU in some cases to double its original clock speed. I mean, that's insane. Doubling your performance, who would spend the extra money? And you've got legendary chips like the Celeron 300A that was just dirt, dirt cheap. And people would just overclock the snot out of those things, like 450 plus megahertz. Like that was the golden era of overclocking. I mean, 50 plus megahertz. Like that was, that was the golden era of overclocking. I mean, even by the time I got into it, overclocking had pretty much seen its heyday. Like you were not, you were not

taking your Athlon 2500 plus, Athlon XP 2500 plus and really doing that much to it. I mean, P4C Northwood was maybe the last really, oh no, Prescott. The thing about Prescott though, the thing about those later P4s was that they were so non-competitive with AMD from a performance standpoint that even when you overclocked them, they still didn't make a ton of sense and they weren't that cheap. So it just didn't, yeah, it didn't, didn't make a ton of sense to me. Like there was just no reason to own one in the first place so even if you could overclock the bananas out of it why i just i find i rarely hear people talking about overclocking these days and and yeah i think the biggest part

of it is the the limited performance gains um But I don't know. I mean, my system's not overclocked. Mine isn't either right now. It's water-cooled and not overclocked. It's like really stupid. I should just be running air cooling, honestly speaking. That was my theory with my previous rig. I knew I was probably going to be running it

not overclocked for the most part. So I was just like, whatever. Might as well go no maintenance. I guess now's as good a time as any to reveal our gpu wasteland collection that's right my friends it's a limited edition desk pad and enamel pin created by the one and only sarah butt i did we did we say how many of them we made? Apparently we do not. It's full of all kinds of fun little Easter eggs. Let's see if we can bring up the full-size image here. Welcome to Scalper City. Sold out.

Bitcoin. Scalper Central. Got barbed wire everywhere. She had a lot of fun doing up these graphics. Maybe too much fun. I'm actually not sure if this project made a ton of sense. We only printed, I think, a thousand of them. But if you order the desk pad, you will also get a limited edition pin that goes with it.

So it's just a little enamel pin to remember these times. How great is that? I actually like the pin. I think the pin looks pretty cool. I think the pin looks really cool. I mean, there's no doubt that the design is great. She did a great job. We've got no NFT references.

You know what? NFTs, back when she designed this, because our deliveries have been so freaking, we were worried the GPU shortage would be over by the time we got these. Like it's been delayed so many times. NFTs hadn't really taken off in the news to the same degree yet so yeah guys get them while you can and then people already have been don't get them while you

can't there's been a lot of messages with those the last the last six merch messages that have come through have all been the gpu wasteland test pad set. Oh, wow. OK. Yeah. All right. In news that could be positive regarding GPUs, Video Cards has reported on Raja Koduri from Intel talking about their upcoming ARC GPUs over a live stream.

So our hardware is apparently past the beta state, which means we are closing in on release now, ladies and gentlemen. We've got a video coming where we actually show Intel's timeline for new products. It's somewhere in the neighborhood of around three years. And once the beta hardware stage is passed, things are imminent. Arc alchemist is already

sampling to partners who are providing feedback arc gpus are being manufactured at tsmc but silicon shortages are affecting them and the main incentive with this launch is to get a foothold in the market which tells us intel is going to be aggressive which is great the bigger the install base the more game developers will pay attention to them. So they are saying that they are incentivized to get these into the hands of gamers rather than miners, to which I say, put up or shut up. We would be happy to do a big launch event with you guys with the Verified Actual Gamer program.

Let's go. I'll take as many as you can send. I promise they will go to Verified Actual Gamers. So there you go. I promise they will go to verified actual gamers. Yeah. So there you go. I have issued my challenge. And Koduri confirmed that Intel is developing hardware solutions for blockchain operations, but they will not be GPUs.

Could they be similar to NVIDIA CMP cards? We don't know. The discussion question for this one from Nicholas Poof is, are these cards going to live up to the hype? Honestly, my hype level is pretty low. Yeah. I expect them to be a mainstream option that ain't great, but is good enough for people to just have something to buy.

Which I will argue is what we need right now. That's what we need. We just need something that makes sense to buy. So we don't have freaking, like here, here, okay? Let's go to eBay, okay? What's a GTX 1060 6GB worth? It's going to disgust me. Anywhere from $275 to $350. You can get them as little as $255. That is horrible. That's absolutely horrible. That shouldn't be a thing. And any modern graphics card, no matter how supply constrained, should be able to beat that in terms of price to performance. So that's what I want. I want people to just have anything to

build a system because honestly, I think it's been a hugely detrimental period for the custom PC enthusiast community over the last couple of years. Oh, deeply. Like, building a computer sucks. People don't want to watch videos about building computers. I have friends in real life who have, like, pivoted their hobbies away from computer hardware to other things. A lot of them have been cars because it's just been such a bad space. Yeah, how's cars working out for them? I mean, it's better.

If you don't actually have to buy a car, then I guess it's fine. Yeah, because working on your current car has actually been okay. Buying a new car, yeah, not great. But working on your current car, tinkering with it, making it better, changing out other things

have largely been insulated. Unless you're trying to do electrical stuff stuff but a lot of them aren't so right yeah fair enough uh shoot i think i might have accidentally lost my my tab for the merch message dashboard that's really really i've been managing it everything's okay on top of it okay that means i can't read them though there's a lot coming in okay but uh yeah well i got it covered yeah sorry guys we're not going to be able to address them all today that's just the the cold hard truth because we we just can't i have to get home and like eat dinner with my family at some point so let's go ahead and do our last topic here goodbye hdmi 2.1. Hello, HDMI 2.1a. Now with source-based tone mapping, which is actually pretty cool because HDR tone mapping is a real big challenge.

Oh, I heard that wrong. Okay, that makes a lot more sense. Cool. So 2.1a will be the active certification scheme going forward, but it still won't be on the packaging. Instead, you will see a list of optional features. So SBTM, source-based tone mapping, is an optional feature that will allow a portion of the HDR mapping to be performed by the source rather than the display device, which is good because a lot of display devices don't handle it very well. This could allow for HDR content on one screen and SDR content on another at the same time, which is super cool. That's nice. But it's going to be a confusing, absolute gong show to know whether your HDMI 2.1 device supports this or variable refresh rate or high bandwidth or whatever else.

And I hate it. I hate everything about that. All right, let's go through and do a few merch messages here. Oh boy, they are coming in really fast. Daniel asks, any plans for photography-centric

products? Probably not as much. Oh, wait. What is happening right now? If I refresh this page, is it going to be? Oh, boy. It should be fine. Okay, so I can just archive that.

Probably not as much just because it's not our jam as much. Leonard, happy holidays. Hey, thanks, you too. By the way, as PC brands are very different in Asia, could you expand more about Asian tech and related content? I mean, we try to cover things when we can get our hands on them, but it's not always that easy and it can be very expensive like that transparent tv cost a fortune it was impossible to it took forever to get and it was impossible to get rid of i couldn't even i couldn't

sell it for like 500 bucks so we gave it away at the christmas party like i don't even know if that many people entered to win it i don't even know what whoever many people entered to win it. I don't even know what whoever won it is planning to do with it. Like, honestly. Check out bangle.js. Yeah, I included that just for you. Really? How have I not seen this? Hackable smartwatch.

Interesting. Hardware buttons. Huh. Oh. Interesting. Okay, bangle.js for 70 british pounds um yeah if someone from there wants to wants to reach out and get in touch i'm i'm i'm intrigued i'm very intrigued it's affordable i just want a simple i just want simple that's pretty cool okay uh brandon a asks it went away uh is it time to upgrade my and then like i think 15 year old hardware 2900x is in crossfire

i think it's probably time just even from like a power efficiency standpoint that's pretty brutal everything's so expensive though uh no i wasn't actually planning to watch the launch, but that sounds awesome. Adam B., I just bought a 5600X. Do you think it would be a good match for my 3060? Absolutely, yes. Alexander L., first time buying merch live on the stream. Any updates on LTT Sandals? No updates whatsoever on the sandals.

We had an unexpected staff departure that delayed that project. The good news is that I think people internally know already, so I'll just say it. She's coming back. Yeah. It's like, turns out the pastures were greener here. Hey, working at LMG is not that bad. So yeah, we're pretty excited. Actually, it was way more complicated than that. It was not that simple. But we've worked it out, and I'm extremely excited to be working with her again, and hopefully we'll be able to get the...

Luke, where are you moving this stuff to? Oh, I see. Yeah, hopefully we'll be able to get Sandals rocking again. We already gave an update on the next Linux challenge video coming very soon. Do you want to see internal right-angle USB Type-C connectors become the standard for motherboards as badly as I do? Not necessarily because the male connector is so bulky that you could end up with it interfering with a lot of cases. So I don't think that's a cut and dried answer. I think it really depends on the

case. Oh my goodness. They're coming in so fast that I can't even click on things properly because it just moves. You just focus on the curated. Okay. How are your birds doing? Sorry? How are your birds doing? They're doing good. They were kind of buttholes last night.

They didn't want to go to sleep. That was very annoying. But overall, they're good. They're healthy. Everything's all right. Healthy buttholes. Calvin, I really want to flip. Oh, no, I already answered that.

Powell asks, how do I clean this? It's going to be soaked in pizza juices. Well, I see you already bought two of them, referring to the GPU Wasteland desk pad. So I think you already know the answer. I mean, I told Sarah about this project. I was like, look, we are never doing a mouse pad like this again. I'm sorry.

Because what I told her from the beginning was that I wasn't that comfortable doing something that would be very stainable because A, I don't like producing stuff that is going to just wear out and need to be replaced very quickly. And B, from a brand standpoint, I don't like seeing people's like setup shots

with like our product looking ugly and got like coffee stains all over it so i told her i wasn't that comfortable doing it in the first place and then when we did it anyway uh i looked at the one that she's had on her desk since she got the first samples it is a degalus okay it is degoutant it is absolutely okay it's it's it's awful um it's just it is covered in coffee stains i'm like this completely validates everything that i said concerns that the concerns that I had. Yes. Yeah. So I really don't think we're going to do another one. It's not recommended, but we've had successful machine washes, right? Not on a white mouse pad.

There's just a limit, right? On the black ones, yeah. I machine washed my mouse pad. Yeah? Yeah. I guess you'd have to be really careful. Cold? Yeah. Of course.

Yeah. Ryan C. says, this says this is pog indoor hoodie uh floatplane vods when um wasn't sure what he was referencing to probably for the wan show i would think i included that there are there are floatplane vods yeah i just sometimes i'm a little slow putting them up because it doesn't process immediately so i can't do it right after the show and then i get distracted with my life and then i don't do it they're supposed to be automated now are they i mean if they are then great matt c can you add more apu videos since gpus are dumb right now yeah the problem is what else are we supposed to say right like once we say hey an apu makes sense to buy to tide you over

what are we contributing by doing another video about that? That's why it's been so challenging lately. Like, what are we supposed to say? There's not anything, there's no new story to tell. I think that Labs is going to really help with this. I think that as we go through and we just test stuff, just mercilessly test stuff, stories are going to emerge. But I wouldn't be surprised to see, at least for a time, the LTT upload schedule get scaled back. There's not enough to talk about,

and I think we're spinning our wheels a little bit right now. I mean, content in the computer hardware space has been kind of tough for a long time as hardware releases have been more spread out and more rhythmic and more expected performance levels and all that kind of stuff. And then you make it so that no one can buy anything. And it gets way more difficult.

It's pretty boring. Igor, do you have any plans to have a cybersecurity job opening in the future? Would love some cyber content as well as patch notes or summary of the week's top news. I mean, that's the kind of thing that I think makes more sense as a much smaller, completely separate channel.

And it's something that's on our radar, but it's not something that we have any imminent plans for. Have you ever thought of making Merino wool t-shirts slash button shirts instead of just using it for socks? Asks Simon W. Yeah, we have, but we're not in any particular hurry. We want to get the socks figured out and then we're going to go from there. Anonymous, will labs delve into keyboard performance tests at all? If so, I'm very interested in an organization

such as LTT publishing latency tests for big name keyboards and perhaps other custom mechanical keyboards. Yeah, honestly, that's the kind of thing that we would be very interested in covering for sure. Yeah, love the idea. Actually, I kind of feel like i need to add that to the doc real quick and like do you want to do a do you want to do a chat sure yeah

there's a lot specifically addressed to linus did you guys ever test that $1,000 hdmi cable from back in the day on the new cable tester i didn't i got rid of that immediately i paid the restocking fee and i returned it oh nice good yeah any possible possibility for highlander 2 or lowlander we've been trying to get it off the ground for years playing minecraft in a mine yeah that's actually pretty good i had not thought about that one i had pitched a submarine at one point in time, but Minecraft in a mine is pretty fantastic. It's just spectacle though.

There's no learning outcome. There's no point to it. How they get internet down there would be like an interesting discussion. Yeah, I guess so. Run a cable, maybe? Probably is the answer with access points along the way like yeah i have always wanted you guys to do a video and i've probably talked to you about this a few

times about internet in greenland it's actually super interesting but anyways um is the indoor hoodie dryer safe i dried the ltd beanie and it turned out looking worn out. Yeah. So something like this, you wouldn't want to tumble dry, especially if your dryer has any sort of anything abrasive or anything that can catch on it. But the indoor hoodie would be fine to tumble dry, yes. Actually, I don't know if I'm contradicting the official care instructions, though, when I say that. I think a lot of our stuff is is actually marked like.

Hold on. Oh, we apparently say do not tumble dry. So now, you know. Sorry, but honestly, the biggest reason for that, um, I, I have tumble dried this one already. The biggest reason for that is to cover our butts because, uh, tumble drying is like, we can't control what kind of dryer you have, what kind of heat settings you're on. So we can't control if you're going to destroy your garment, but, um, yeah, I, you know, I'm just going to stick with the company line. No, do not tumble dry it. It's better. It is do not tumble dry it. It's

better. It is better to hang dry your clothes. And then if you just want them to be softer, then you can throw them in the dryer for like five minutes. Um, that's just a nice way to kind of soften them up after you hang dry them. But one of the things that I'm going to be setting up for myself at the new house is one of those cool, uh, there's actually just little portable, uh, drying racks that are heated. Oh. So it just makes the air around them a little bit warmer, and it creates natural convection that helps them to dry things out faster. And I'm going to switch to hang drying a lot more of our clothes instead of tumble drying.

It's way more power efficient, obviously, as well. Cool. So that's one of my things that I want to do at the new house. Any updates on the backpack? I gave a big update on the backpack in the pc build stream that I did earlier this week it's kind of towards the end it should be as you scrub through it it should be pretty obvious where it is because I am holding a backpack a lot so you can go check that out there uh drake asks any tips on getting a super script

stripped screw out of a motherboard I'm trying to get this motherboard out of the case for a new build for a friend keeping the case isn't an option sadly oh boy rubber band that's always been my first go to screw yeah there's like needle nose pliers there's um yep yep done that too man everything's risky especially if you have a working motherboard next to it like you could say okay yeah you just take a dremel create a new slot head in it and then get it out that way but if you got a motherboard there you don't want to get metal shards all over it i don't think the rubber band's too risky no the rubber band's not that risky but it might be hard to get access to it like that's fair especially if it's buried in a case which presumably it is man what would be

the best way to do that what i've done in the past is i actually put the rubber band on the screwdriver so like i i cover it on the bit and then i pull it all the way to the back so it's attached to the screwdriver so then i don't actually have to place it there yeah give it a shot joshua mine is seeing that it took a worldwide pandemic to start growing a beard when and what made you get rid of your pink hair and frosted tips um i think i just i thought i started working retail yeah yeah because uh when i met yvonne i had pink hair and then i just like didn't didn't do it again after that and that was right around the time i started working at ncix did they ask you to or was that like a personal choice no i was doing was doing student works. No, I just decided that going door to door trying to sell house painting service,

it probably wasn't a good idea to have like pink spiky hair. Makes sense. Yeah. Anonymous, last week you mentioned not knowing much about metrology. Have you ever looked into any of the semiconductor manufacturing equipment that fabs use to make chips? Honestly, we have not looked that deep into it. I have learned about some of that stuff

uh as part of my trip to intel's fab and you're right it is absolutely freaking wild uh rory long time viewer first time caller love the show i had to pick up the abcs of gaming for my nephew and a close family friend any idea when that pillow from last week will be available i uh from last week will be available. I mean, they're in the port. I don't know what to tell you soon. I'm sorry. Hans says, I'm currently studying computer engineering. I want to keep my options open. However, working in the tech journalism industry like LTD would be awesome. How can I make myself more attractive to employers in the industry? Honestly, there's not many left. That's a big part of the motivation behind labs. There's just not a lot of tech journalism left. So we want to try to resurrect that as LTT labs. So honestly, what we're looking for is a combination of hardware and software

know-how. We're looking for enthusiasm. Like we want people who are actual enthusiasts rather than just engineers so that you know not just how to measure but what to measure it there's there's i know it's like a lame employer thing but there are certain fields where you need you need to be inherently hungry for knowledge in that field or you're not going to be good at that job yeah um like just straight up so yeah you should be interested in it and you should probably want to have a drive to do a certain amount of it just kind of in your own time uh ryan asks uh linus luke would you do a podcast with broken silicon also known for doing morris law is dead with tom and dan i know they've been wanting to get you on at the beginning of the

year in their podcasts i've never heard from them. So if they want to hang, then hey, I'm pretty easy to get in touch with. To be perfectly blunt, it's not hard to reach me. If you are a creator with a significant following and you email the official LTT email, I mostly guarantee it'll make it to me, although things do slip through the cracks sometimes. Burn to notice. burn to notice burn to notice

should I feel bad buying this mat since I bought two scalped cards for my first build which I'm starting this Christmas I mean I guess if you got scalped like you definitely you felt the pain you felt the pain

so there's that uh question for luke any chance we'll get a floatplane app on google tv oh oh man that was uh i think i know who this is um right now no there there is a what is is it hydra hydra v I believe, is like a community created one that works. I'm not endorsing it. I have not looked at the code. But yeah. And other than that, not right now. There's a lot of other things for us to work on.

Here's a good one from Kirk S. What's the oldest tech you own and still use? I'm going to have to think about this one for a minute. Yeah. Maybe let's like move on. Okay. I'll leave it there for now. I'll this one for a minute. Yeah, maybe let's move on. Okay, I'll leave it there for now. I'll leave it there for now. Oh boy, what is this? Something visualization software, free to learn,

Deadmau5 uses it for his cubes. Vid Idea. Oh, Touch Designer, the visualization software. I'm going to be honest with you. I don't know nearly enough about it to even begin to approach that. Misha, could you make a key tag the way you have lanyards, honest with you i don't know nearly enough about it to even begin to approach that yeah misha could you make a key tag the way you have lanyards basically a lanyard but smaller to fully fit

in your pocket um a key tag are our key tags popular what are they for why do we want them um can i just see key tag oh like this thing oh. People spend $18 on a Lululemon thing just to put on their keys so that they can just... That you don't even see. So they can know how Lululemon they are. Wait, hold on. What is this?

Oh no, it's pretty big. It's huge. So it doesn't fit in their pocket. Why we made this? Ah, okay. Well, that's a good question to answer. Take one thing at a time. Clip this embossed keychain onto your gym bag or backpack

for easy access to your keys. Do your keys go in it? Is it a container? No. Nope. I have to confess this is one of those products that i just don't really understand so i think i'm probably going to not commit to have those on ltd store uh i mean yeah it seems it seems cool um maybe i'm just maybe maybe the reason i don't get it is I have so many keys that I just...

Adding anything to my keychain seems like the last thing I would want to do. The lanyard is so I can find them and get them out of my pocket easily. And then everything else is just because I absolutely have to carry it. It's like keys to my in-laws, keys to my house, keys to carry it. It's like keys to my in-laws, keys to my house, keys to the office.

It's a two. Oh, man. Car fobs. Why are they so big? I hate it. Like my two fobs, one for the minivan, one for my Volt. They really don't need to be very big. It drives me crazy.

Can you get replacement ones? Like, is that a thing? I don't think so. I wonder if you can. Can I replace my car fob? The best way is to buy a new one from the car dealer. Oh, thanks. Oh, sweet.

All right. Thanks for the suggestion, idiot. All right. Well, let's put that away for now. Linus, current CS student and work at best buy in washington have had three people come in that have ordered frameworks that were inspired by you i didn't so i thought this was pretty interesting i didn't know you could get a framework from best buy i had no idea is this must be super new um when when when this came in, I had a big, like, what moment? Because, like, what the heck?

I don't know. I don't see anything about it when I Google it. Bestbuy.com. I just frame. Oh, my goodness. Why pop-ups? I'm on your site. I am trying. I'm trying to shop sorry i'm just i get triggered when i go onto a site i try to find something and they're like

hi there hi there hi there no i know what i'm looking for oh okay well no i don't see anything on their site finding it yeah i really don't know i don't know what you're talking about um but hey i like the way you said it uh uh wrote a paper on repairability this past quarter as well got an a plus hey happy to hear it okay sorry um it could be a third party seller potentially a prime said this in the floatplane chat actually um oh and apparently aj added a framework uh emote to the full plane chat that's awesome but uh it could be a third party seller maybe not sure i don't know seemed weird anyways moving on all right joseph s i'm putting your merch message up but i'm going to advise against trying a dremel on the motherboard thing because too much metal shard is not a good thing.

Zeke says, hey, if you were to recommend any gaming monitor, what would it be? I've looked at the Samsung G7, thought that was the best overall because it's not super hard to drive because it's 1440p. Also, do you own any crypto? Okay, so let's do the monitor one first.

LG's super low response time panels are basically as good as it gets right now. So if you can get something based on that. LG has their own products. Whatchamacallit. Oh, man, that company that's super, super controversial. Yeah, Eve has a monitor based on it. I'm not necessarily recommending that one because of their history,

but maybe they're shipping them this time. I don't know. I really don't know. Maybe they are. I'm not out here to slander anyone. Maybe they're doing a great job this time, but they definitely have a checkered past. So something based on that panel would probably be the way that I'd go. 27-inch is still a real sweet spot for gaming. 1440p, 27-inch. 1440p starts to look a little pixelated at 32 inches. But I did see it on the Corsair Xenion the other day. And one of the things that contributes to image quality as much as pixel, well, not as much as pixel count,

but definitely like pixel count is contrast ratio. And it's super high contrast. It looks really sharp. I put some Halo Infinite on it. Looks real good. And do you own any crypto? So I have whatever crypto we have mined on the lounge gaming PCs. And it's our internal events fund.

I'm not a serious holder by any stretch of the imagination. I might throw some. We got that CMP GPU that we did a video about a little while ago. I'm thinking I'll throw it in the gym. We'll just have it sit and heat the gym you know like but i we're nothing nothing serious ladies and gentlemen ever since i lost everything to quadriga cx uh i have not gone back in yeah that's fair yep uh nice says merry christmas ltd are you looking forward to the new socket from amd do you think it will be lga or pga I think it's rumored to be LGA.

And yes, I'm definitely looking forward to more cool stuff from AMD. Jonah, more actual tech tips to help with the production schedule as opposed to product showcases or even process videos, editing, gaming, et cetera. It's harder than it sounds. Honestly, those videos are the ones that I want to focus on. They're not the ones that are easy and fast. They're the ones that take the most time. And so what I want to do is I want to distill LTT down to only the best that we make. I mean, I can even see right now, just based on the last little while where we've, where we've struggled, viewership is pretty rough. I think

it's at its lowest in quite some time and wancho too like normally we'd have probably in the neighborhood of 10 000 live viewers on youtube we're right in the actually oh no we're low on uh twitch today as well it might just be the holiday i mean it's yeah okay well that kind of okay never mind i'm not gonna panic yet but yeah i definitely do want to figure out how to how to make LTT great again. The next WAN show is probably also going to be pretty low because it's Christmas Eve. New Year's Eve, but yes. New Year's Eve.

Sorry. Yeah. Mason asks, when's whole room water cooling too? Okay. So I have a plan to water cool the server rack at the new house. Okay. It will definitely involve piping water outside to a radiator. Ah, sweet.

We're doing it. Are you looping in the pool? Is the whole thing happening? I want to loop it into the pool, but Jake and actually the manufacturer of the air conditioner heat exchanger one talked me out of that one. Oh. But I am going to have solar panels that are dual purpose so they are uh they're going to be electricity generation and water heating and those ones will go into the pool very cool so they'll just dump all the money into the pool yeah uh chris s merry christmas do

you think the shortage will get worse next gen cards coming soon i think it'll probably stay about the same um okay what is the oldest tech that you own and still use i think it's like because okay so tech is technically an extremely broad term i mean you only recently upgraded your tv that was super old but you upgraded it so you can't count that yeah this might be kind of lame but i think it's like the bluetooth in my car that is lame yeah come up with something better 2009 come up with something in your house like do you still have your old ducky that you use every day no you don't you upgraded it yeah yeah uh let me think old pa monitor

yeah that's it that's gotta be it i still have the two asus monitors that i bought when you first officially personally hired me so after the n6 nine years ago yeah yeah okay yeah yeah okay um i think mine is probably my corsair sp2500 speakers i also have those so you lied to me. And those would be older than the monitor. Oh man. So I got those from the Corsair rep back when I did this unboxing of them over 10 years ago for NCIX Tech Tips. And the only reason I still use them is because I need a foot rest. That's the main thing I use them for as well. Yeah. Oh, and also

A-Prime is calling you out. What about your headphones? Actually, I think your HD 595s are older. Those are even older. I did a really bad job with this. Yeah, 595? 595s. Yeah, I think your HD 595s are older. Those are even older. I did a really bad job. Or a 595? 595s. Yeah, I think. Those are from before. Those are going to be like 15 years old. Yeah, those are real old. I actually mentioned to my girlfriend the other day that like once these die,

I'm going to be genuinely very sad. No, it's fine. There's better. There's more to life than 595s. They're okay. I really like my 595s. Pick up some 600s. They're 595s, but better okay. I really like my 595s. Pick up some 600s. They're 595s

but better. I don't like the dual cable. Oh my god. I don't like it. Mod it. What a fun project. Make it a single one? Yeah, dual cables are stupid. I modded my headphones. Like run it over top? Yeah, you could totally do it. That'd be interesting. Yeah, he likes

it. He's not going to do it. He's lazy but he likes it. I might. I've been trying to learn electronics in my spare time one of the few things i've been doing to be clear they're still decent i think i think people are going to be a little upset about me like trying to trash on the the 595 he's just trying to mess with me i i really like those headphones yeah i was a five i was a 555 guy um and i got those around the same time but uh jayden says i'm using the sennheiser hd 600s came out in 97 i got them a year ago though yeah so i also have an old pair of hd 600s but i didn't get them new so i i didn't really count those i'm just trying to think if there's anything i think my 595s i think i'm on my like fourth or fifth set of uh ear pads and it's it's

gotten to the point where i i can't get sennheiser ones anymore and it actually sucks because they're like way lower quality right i have to buy like third party ones um i think that would be a really cool thing for ltt store to tackle just like those kinds of uh longevity increasing accessories for really iconic products yeah it's hard to justify the kind of volume that you have to produce though yeah because i was just gonna say like it's it's they're pretty specific right yep yeah all right i think that is it for the show today thank you guys so much for tuning in. We will see you again next week. Same bad time, same bad channel.

You just never got around to anything that might surprise the audience. Hey, thanks, Brian P. Sorry, sorry, no more merch messages. All right. We gotta go. We gotta go. Bye. Bye.

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