The WAN Show - Should I DELETE my Old Videos?? - WAN Show July 10, 2020

Episode Date: July 11, 2020

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2020. Talking technology. It it's gonna be fantastic have you seen this have you heard about this you know people getting canceled left and right you know we're gonna be talking about we're gonna be talking a little bit about cancel culture on internet platforms uh so it's gonna get spicy today ladies ladies and gentlemen. We're also going to be talking about the rumored Ryzen Threadripper 3995WX that was spotted. The whole new socket and chipset. They're going to be taking on the Xeon W, allegedly. Allegedly. Allegedly.

Mexico has approved a law that is very directly against the right to repair we will talk about that shortly it's it's it's it's it's lame um also four which is all i'm gonna say yeah intro time with one more let's roll that let's roll that intro womp oh man i forgot to put the sponsor lower thirds in the right spot dang it that's fine i'm just gonna yolo it i'm gonna go full yolo how many times do you live luke once that's what i thought i mean unless your your heart stops and then you're brought back yeah but you can be you can be deemed dead that's still only one time though it was just on pause

okay yeah that's fair you're leaning out of the frame again all right all right so why don't we jump right into our headline topic today? And this was actually inspired by my usual sort of, hey, I've got six minutes with nothing to do. I love it. I'm going toranco over on Social Blade. And I discovered that, here, let's go ahead and pop my display capture on over here. I discovered that he only had a billion video views. And I was like, what? That doesn't sound right. A billion views. You got to be kidding me.

So then I was scrolling. I was scrolling. I was like, look at that. He got three quarters of a million views that day. He got 900,000 views that day. He got minus 1.88 billion views on June the 24th. Okay, so there are a number of... It's just YouTube correction. Don't worry. It's just a just YouTube correction. Don't worry.

It's just a standard YouTube correction. Don't worry about it. So there are a number of reasons that views can disappear as tracked on Social Blade, which basically just pulls data from the YouTube API, which is exactly where the view totals that are on your YouTube channel come from. So there are a handful of reasons they can go away. One reason they might go away is YouTube just doing sort of standard auditing of views and finding that, oh, you know, after further investigation, you know, we don't

think that six seconds towards the second half of the video where they actually skipped everything else we don't think that constitutes a view anymore so they'll do these audits and they'll they'll change their policies as to what exactly constitutes a view and sometimes you'll see these these one-day corrections one way or the other other reasons that you can see adjustments to view counts are things like view botting so if Phil Phil view botted two thirds of his overall viewership over the last 12 years or however long he's been active on the platform, 14 years, holy smokes, 14 years.

If that were the case, then I guess that's, they finally got him. We got him, ladies and gentlemen. So that ain't it. The other main reason that you'll see a big reduction in views is if a creator privates or deletes some portion of their back catalog. when Lou from Unbox Therapy, which we discussed before, removed some videos on his channel around that whole launch of the Later case, where he uploaded an explainer as to why he deleted these particular videos, which happened to be about a case that shared some similarities with his Later case. So it was pretty easy to tell that a video had been deleted, even if it's quite a manual

process to go back and figure out which ones. Now, as for what went on with Phil's channel today, I tried to post on r slash out of the loop because I thought that that's like a, you know, a natural enough thing to do. I didn't see anything on there about it. And I was like, oh, okay, well, I'm just going to post on r slash out of the loop. I use it all the time. It's great. And apparently my post did not meet the guidelines. Didn't give me any particular reason for it. It's just like, nope. And I was like, okay, well, I'm gonna go to a website where I control the site and I'm gonna ask there. So I post on my tech tips forum. Hey guys, does anyone know why Phil DeFranco deleted 2 billion views worth of videos uh

yabio star thank you for the utterly useless response um good job uh vegetable stew says hey reddit's pretty curious too uh one leading theory slash observation is that he privated every video prior to 2017. How interesting. Would that have been his discovery? So that was one of the speculations, that was something that was speculated on Reddit. So Zeus the Moose, who is a proud member of the parrot gang,

over here on the forum, posted that. And then Fake NSA, also a proud member of the parrot gang here, posted that. And then Fake NSA, also a proud member of the Parrot Gang here, posted that it's confirmed all videos prior to 2017 have been removed from the channel. I don't actually know him personally, otherwise I would just ask him what's going on but i i think there is a fairly safe uh guess i think there's a pretty good guess as to what exactly is shake a lakin

over here um it's funny i was on a call with my youtube rep actually earlier this week and you know how there's been just like a ton of scandal uh and drama on twitch right now in the smash community right now that's a very unintentional pun um oh oh uh-oh uh-oh anyway uh wow and um bye i'm back i'm good i'm recovered um uh anyway so there's been there's been a ton of uh drama and turmoil in those particular communities um uh on twitch right now you've got you know alinity talking about how she's been pushed to the point of suicidal thoughts you've got pewdiepie responding in a video that he doesn't basically doesn't feel bad for you've got like just like everything is crazy right now so anyway uh you know there was a whole mixer thing that went down

uh where the management was accused of basically like systemic racism um all right i didn't see that one oh yeah oh yeah it was a whole thing and i i actually don't know if microsoft ever responded to that because like what would they say other than yeah we terminated everything at this point right um we cut all ties so luckily that's handled uh yeah so anyway i'm on i'm on the phone with my with my YouTube rep and I'm like, yeah, it's like it's sure a good thing that, you know, you guys have mostly escaped notice over the last little bit. Like I was like, yeah, you guys haven't really had any really bad scandals. And then my rep makes an offhand remark. He's like, oh, I guess you haven't seen like the shane dawson jeffrey star thing

that's going on right now and uh oh also jenna marbles like deleted her channel and i'm like oh never mind that's not internal though that's not youtube themselves no content creators on you no very different but i mean you know you look at what happened with the whole dr disrespect thing it's not like like my my my best guess at what's going on there is twitch is um is through some okay it's hard to say and it may come out that there's some other reason for it so i'm not you know i'm not indelible ink you know etching this theory into stone or anything like that. I just think the timing is really suspect around the gigantic contract they signed with him around the the pushback on Twitch for holding its creators more accountable and cleaning up its image and taking care of those two things in one fell stroke, swoop, whatever one go two birds one stone um so anyway i guess the question that this all sort of brings up so right so the theory as to why phil might have deleted um basically i mean did you say there's one video that's still there from

pre-2017 or something like that? From seven years ago. From seven years ago. What video is this? So there's one video called The Nation Decides 2012 Live at the DNC Day 3. That has 24,000 views from seven years ago. Maybe he just missed it?

If you click on it, it says this live stream recording is not available. Oh, I see. You can still load it. You you click on it, it says this live stream recording is not available. Oh, I see. You can still load it. You can see the like to dislike. You can see the description with all the links under it, all that kind of stuff. But no comments and the video is not available. So maybe it's because of like maybe live streaming back then was super odd or something.

That could be. And he like can't get rid of it for some reason i don't know but it's still sort of there okay so you've got jenna marbles basically retreating from the platform uh over uh some of her older content you've got it looks like um shane dawson and jeffree star both in extremely hot water over some of their earlier edgy content and i'm using the term edgy just as a blanket term to describe anything that at one point might have been deemed acceptable i mean clearly it was because these are people that have not faced this backlash before um and is clearly not currently acceptable because they are being uh canceled over it or compelled to get rid of their channels and stop uploading videos over them or delete their videos or whatever the case may be

i mean do you think that's a pretty good theory as to why phil might delete his old i actually like i've followed his career but i've never actually watched the videos if that makes sense like i just i ever since the early days of source fed i've just been like oh wow like this is a guy who's out there trying to turn youtube into a business like that's that's what i'm trying to do too. So I've kind of like paid attention. Definitely always known about him. Haven't watched a ton of his content, but the fact that he reports his opinions on the news, it might've just been a strategic, like,

I don't even know what I said in all of this stuff because I've released so much content. Let's just wipe it all out. There's no real major reason for anyone to watch it now anyways because it's not because it's news um so let's just axe all of this stuff and move on i mean he had if i remember correctly his like original content on the site was like black and white that wouldn't even surprise me i mean it's it's been so long and the hardware that people had when they started doing youtube was usually like your your dad's or your grandpa's like old camcorder yeah i'm pretty sure his original stuff was in black and white so like we can probably

let those things go like i don't think he like hurt anyone by taking this content down. And he might have saved himself from maybe a side comment or something that he might not even agree with anymore. So, yeah, maybe not a terrible idea. I know there's some people that even have like Twitter tie-ins that delete all of their tweets once they're like a month old or something like that they just cut them right off it's interesting interesting uh the philly d channel is also completely empty was that like a number two channel thing i believe so there's one video left there that uh is called it's time to Goodbye, which was, I think, when he left wherever. I can't remember.

Hold on. My kids don't know how to close doors. One sec. And we're good. They've got a whole home that's entirely full of only doors, and they don't know how to close them. Sorry. Carry on. Yeah, I'm not sure what the Philly D channel was well there's no way to know now is there well his last video there might kind of explain it um

but yeah i don't know i think this like cleansing and purging of your online image is going to become the norm in my opinion so let's talk about it um should i should i should i nuke the back catalog we have definitely done some stuff that would not be considered cool probably today i mean i think i'm pretty sure you and i have both sexually harassed each other on camera yep um yeah i don't know there might be a you might be able to lean on a relationship clause there um ed grabbed my butt once at work did you mind that was all right i guess that's that's not i don't know like if they know it's okay it's fine right he didn't check first consenting adults okay all right cancel cancel ed um i don't know like there's

probably yeah i don't know i don't know what there is that that's that's like we're looking at philip defranco's thing yeah he's been making content for longer than you have he's been obviously 14 years he's been making content for much longer than i have i have no idea what i said in a video from seven years ago yeah i mean and you've done some like kind of edgy stuff like do you remember that video we did how to hide your pornography where like intentionally you know every other word out of your mouth was some kind of innuendo and the visuals were extremely um suggestive yeah and like i don't know maybe maybe that sounds played to everyone so i don't know maybe that's terrible yeah i i i don't know i mean here why don't we just why don't we just open up to open up to our viewers like the thing

is for for me too, like between the Linus tech tips channel where, hold on a second, like, let's just do a quick informal count here. Linus tech tips has 5,039 videos on it. Philip DeFranco's only has below 800 now. Now out of, um, you know, out of those 5,000, not all of them even have me in it. Like, for example, ones where Luke hosted. But I would say a good more than 4,000 of them are hosted by me. So then we've got TechQuickie, where I probably host a good two-thirds of the 769 videos. Nice. We've got TechLinked, where I've probably hosted about half of the maybe a third of the 348 um you know like

i just have no idea what's out there i have seen people put together like mashup clips of me saying or doing just the most ridiculous things that i do not recall like i i feel like single most boring thing ever yeah i feel i feel like if i was if i was to be um you know if i was to have to issue some kind of you know testimonial or be you know cross-examined based on my youtube upload history i'd have to just go full jeff sessions you know i do not recall how do you like yeah yeah how do you defend yourself from so long ago that like most of the cells in your body have been replaced yeah and to be clear like i'm not saying that that is a defense you know if you did something wrong then you you should probably apologize for it at some point

i definitely believe in that yeah but if i didn't realize it was so bad and um i have completely forgotten about it then odds are i haven't apologized for it i got called out a little while ago um for something that happened on the land show like two or three weeks ago i was making fun of you for your dyslexia and someone was very upset because they suffered from dyslexia and they were like that was you know really inconsiderate and i was like okay uh fair point but like the the counter argument to that is that mine and luke's relationship is such that yeah we are just trying to say the most hurtful possible thing to each other. And in those moments, um,

it's just very easy to go after whatever is the most obvious defect that the other happens to be saddled with. Yeah. And there's, there's maybe something to be argued there where like that should maybe be cooled when you're like on a stream to other people. Oh, definitely. But like you obviously know I have absolutely no issue with it.

And I would probably be displeased if it stopped because then I couldn't do the same thing back. Yep. I mean, don't worry. Your belly and your dyslexia and your eyesight and your cheapness and... It's okay, you're old. I'm going to die first. Actually, maybe not. Because tall people tend to live shorter lives. Maybe you'll make it.

It's okay, at least I'm not short. Or small. The amount of pleasure this guy would take from, like, storing bins and stuff on the top of shelves. And, like, me needing to get a ladder or him needing to get it down for me. You had a ladder. It's still emasculating to have to go get it and use it. Yeah. You know, if my girlfriend wants to hide something from me in the fridge,

she'll just put it in the bottom. Because I can't see it. I would have to like full crouch to get there. Oh, that's hilarious. I'm not even like that tall either. This is a problem for a lot of people. Okay. Anyway. Yeah. I just i you know it's one of those things where i look at and i go you know fortunately i've never

relied on that you know sort of that kind of shock humor like i was uh what's her name um the canadian youtuber um lily singh Singh, Lily Singh was trending on Twitter the other day. And every time I see a name that I recognize, I'll just be like, Oh, I wonder if it's positive and it's not. Um, and so, uh, people were really upset with her over, uh, cultural appropriation stuff or something. I don't know. I never followed her content, so I didn't really know what they were talking about, but I was like okay so people are mad about that um and fortunately i i never really i never really rode that wave of like you know edgy comedy so i i really i doubt there's you know unless people are offended over the you know wanton destruction of keyboards or

other computer hardware i really doubt that there's anything that bad back there we've had like i haven't heard this term in a long time but like what do you even call it like toilet humor potty humor toilet humor yeah you've never heard the term toilet humor no i it's not that i haven't heard it I don't think it's used that often anymore but like we've had a lot of that over the years hence the how to hide your yeah yeah how to hide your things and stuff how to hide your datas

your homework folder yeah your pictures of dogs it's yeah I don't know uh honey not now sweetheart i'm i'm live you gotta go talk to mommy oh for crying out loud i could close this door again i'm just scrolling through i'm just scrolling through uh hold on yeah no worries i'm scrolling through the linus tech tips videos and just looking at like the thumbnails and looking at the titles i can't show you guys

these so i'm sending them to feel like we weren't that bad there's something to be said for like the scientific method of approaching social situations like you might not no worries i've sent you I've sent you some screenshots. Oh, no. Some wonderful things that I've ran into while just scrolling through the Linus Tech Tips backlog of like thumbnails. Oh, yeah. Wow.

This is like, hold on a second. Wow. Yeah. I don't know if we would. I don't know if we would do this one again uh these days my favorite compact console killer so this thumbnail has a banana for scale um that's not great uh what else we what else we got here like i mean i don't think any of that is again though i don't even know i don't even know what the standards are um reimagining the pc case yeah this one

this one seems worse i think so i don't i don't actually i don't actually know what the rules are but that doesn't seem great um yeah i don't even remember like i have no memory of that i have no memory of that either uh i don't know what's so bad about this one's uh six million subs just the phrasing of the title none matter um that one i could probably that one i could probably get away with still but yeah the the the the the paying attention to the grommet one it's probably not the best thing ever yeah again i have literally no memory of it and that's just like a screenshot from a video where i maybe was just showing where the cables go through, where it goes through. It's also you though.

There was a solid chance that it was very intentional. Very likely that was intentional. Yeah. So I don't know. And the problem is that the rules keep changing, you know? So just because that is probably still getaway with a bull now doesn't mean that, um, necessarily be in the future.

That's, that's, I was starting to get into this while you were gone, but like the, the scientific sexual does not equal offensive. I agree. Yeah. But we're not the ones making the rules.

Yeah. So there's, there's, yeah. What I was trying to get into was like the scientific method of social acceptedness where like there's maybe something that you do or have an opinion on because it's kind of easy and it's what everyone around you is thinking and you don't really think too much about it. And then you receive more information later on in life and it opens your mind up a little bit and you go, oh, okay, that was wrong. I'm now shifting my views on this and my actions on this, whatever. And I will now act appropriately in this way. That's a fairly standard way that I think people should operate in order to grow as humans um but diving back super super far into someone's history and picking these things out

is kind of counter to that and that seems bad and the really dangerous thing is that the intent doesn't seem to matter one of the only times that I ever legitimately had like a, like a, it wasn't like a cancel moment. Cause I don't think canceling was such a prominent thing yet, but one of the only times that I ever had like significant backlash, um, on social media outside of just, you know, the comments on a particular video where people thought we did a bad job of measuring the thermals of a case or whatever, like, um, like, like a cultural criticism was on the one, uh, where we were, um, where we covered the Amazon go store. So I went down and I decided, and in retrospect, I don't care. I stand behind it because I actually don't care um in retrospect if I had wanted to

avoid controversy I would have said um we bought sanitary pads or we we shoplifted I don't know we stole sanitary pads from the Amazon Go store that would have been my title instead of we stole tampons from the Amazon Go store because it created this backlash because I was so misogynistic that I didn't know the difference between pads and tampons. And what actually happened was I thought tampon was a better keyword because pad could be anything. There's lots of things that are pads. And if I wanted the best possible related video linkage, I wanted to use something that was much more clearly understood

from one language to another one. Not all of our viewers are English first language, for example. So I decided on tampons. The reason that I didn't just buy tampons when I was in the store was because I wanted something that would be for, at risk of giving far too much information, something that would be useful for a member of my family who might need them. And I happen to know, not, not only do I, not only do I know the difference between them, I just like actually know the right one. And there, a lot of people were like never really bothered to understand what the intent of that piece of content was. All they heard was what they wanted to hear, which was a tech bro being misogynistic. But what was actually

happening in the intro to that... Or uninformed, more accurately, I would... I understand. That's what they went after you for, for sure. But that's not... Well, there was also the intro of the video. So in the intro of the video, my setup for our coverage of the Amazon Go store is that, you know, you have to go buy something that's so unspeakable that you don't want to talk to or see another human being the whole time you're shopping. So this is perfect for that. And it was that your significant other is having a feminine emergency. What was actually happening was I was mocking people who see it that way, because to me, it's just a feminine emergency what was actually happening was i was mocking people who see it that way because to me it's just a roll of cotton or a pad of cotton or whatever

they're made of i actually like i don't care about that i don't need to get into the technology of them but to me it's not a big deal to like go pick up some pads or tampons or whatever. And so I was mocking that sort of that icky fear of them that some people seem to have. He was on your side. And that's exactly it. There was another dumb period on Twitter a little while ago, pun intended, where what happened was I was getting criticized for a poorly worded, but generally supportive message that I sent out.

And I ended up in an exchange with someone over it where I basically went like, look, this is friendly fire at this point. And they're like, well, basically, in summary, I'm paraphrasing, but they basically said, well, allies that are doing it wrong are just as destructive as enemies. And I'm like, well, then I have nothing else to say, really. Because how can you possibly reason with that kind of mentality? I don't know. I don't understand it.

how can you possibly reason with that kind of mentality i don't know i don't understand it like at that point you go okay well uh you know let's let's educate but instead if you just uh attack and spew poison then it really doesn't create any kind of positive outcome for anybody it's much easier and more productive to train a dog through positivity. And I'm nothing, if not a dog, you know, dog sup dog. I don't know. I'm saying like, it's, it's relatively hard to sway someone to sway someone's like genuine opinion and feelings and actions through just like pointing a finger in their face and being like screw you so in summary i was never considering deleting the videos i uh it was a good discussion i wanted to have this discussion

there this is entirely off topic but I sent you a screenshot of... I don't remember how I got there, but I was searching something in my email and this email thread came up. It was an email thread between my mom and I. I don't remember a time where my mom and I emailed each other. I thought we always hit each other up on instant message type things. But I think this was Computex 2013. And it was just really cute. Western Digital, a hard drive company. We were just talking about old videos and I thought about it. Thanks, mom, for helping with the insurance and comments about the videos. Smiley face.

A few of the videos that have gone out were more of my A content. Some of the ones that are still to be released won't be as good, but right now the like dislike ratio is very strong so I'm quite happy. Today was awesome. I had dinner with an engineer from western digital parentheses hard drive company and it was very interesting talking to him about future storage technologies that are currently in r&d very hush hush talk but very cool oh geez i felt very old reading that oh yeah for sure oh man i remember that computex no kidding some of the videos were

not our a content so nobody who worked on that project is still at wd so i feel pretty safe talking about this but our deal with them for that show was that they they sponsored it it was a pretty big sponsorship deal for us at the time because it was enough for us to fly overseas and create content at Computex for a week. But the problem was that we'd never been to Computex before. We had no idea how much of it was just like samey, ugly computer cases. And problem number two was that part of the deal was that we had to create a video at wd's booth every day for the entire show so we ended up with like that was on you and okay i was doing my best luke okay did did the company survive oh you mean i had to do those videos oh yeah yeah yeah i remember i felt like slightly

shafted because i got i got all the like junko booths and i had to like do a lot of the reconnaissance type content but then every time i like was started to feel bad for myself i was like he has to make videos at wd every day i have no idea what i would do i mean One of the videos was just about the like model of a race car that they had in the booth. And get this, get this. Oh, it was the most horrible thing ever, because even though we were working with like I forget, I don't think she was VP level, but she was at least I'm pretty sure she was like director level. So even though our handler was like pretty high up at WD wd initially we couldn't even get permission to sit in it and i was like you have got to be kidding me here what am i supposed to do how am i how am i supposed to i i am i can't wait until i retire because that is when i'm gonna finally do

i'm gonna do like a 12-hour stream and i'm gonna talk about like every stupid sponsor request i ever had or like just every weird interaction by the way when i was scrolling through for those three thumbnails i saw i sent you yeah i saw quite a few thumbnails that i remembered and was just like oh yep yep that hurt i remember that yep all right why don't we uh why don't we move on to one of our more tech-related topics today. So this was posted by Matey on the forums. The original article here is from TechPowerUp, but apparently the original leak is from the ChipHell forums.

Let's have a quick boo at this here. Oh, would you look at that. This is pretty believable looking. AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro. We haven't seen that before, ladies and gentlemen. Threadripper Pro 3995WX. And the first note on this topic is, yes, it's another CPU topic courtesy of Anthony.

Hi, Luke. Hi, Anthony. Why don't you walk us through it, Luke? I prefer GPU topics, okay? I know you want to talk about this i know you want to hit me up yeah i uh there's there's there's four processors one of them has 64 cores 128 threads that's fun none of you are going to buy it that's cool um it is called a 3995 wx there's a 3975 wx 32 cores 64 threads 3.5 gigahertz base that's really fast for that main course uh 4.2 gigahertz boost 144 megabytes of cache 3955wx 16 cores 32 threads 3.9 gigahertz

base okay i'm bored 3 gigahertz you made your point yeah you made your point okay so the main the main thing here is that the difference between the existing epic processors so these are their server chips and threadripper is not in the core counts they've got similar core counts but epic tends to run at a lower clock speed for better power efficiency and has support for eight channel memory as well as up to two terabytes is it two or four i think it might actually be four terabytes of memory for a single chip threadripper third gen by contrast supports quad channel memory and up to well it's not strictly speaking limited to 256 gigs but in practical terms it's limited because you can only hook up eight slots to it

and you can only get um unbuffered uh ecc memory in up to 32 gig dims so the problem is that epic doesn't have the the the bursty like single threaded horses and might not turbo as high and it's not overclockable okay so it's not as good for a high-end workstation and threadripper can't have the memory capacity that some people need like for example when we were working on our pc pro which was intended to be like our mac pro killer machine. We ended up going epic because we felt like we were going to get called out if we went Threadripper and we were limited to only 256 gigs of RAM when the Mac Pro can have up to 1.5 terabytes. We ended up giving up some performance there. I mean, not so much that it didn't still run circles around the Mac Pro,

but we would have definitely rather gone with, you know, a 32-core overclocked Threadripper if we were able to. It is alleged that these will come on a new socket, STWX8, with the 8 instead of STRX4, which is what the current Threadrippers are on, denoting the number of memory channels. And AMD will reportedly position the new chips towards professional studios, designers, engineers, and data scientists. So they will use registered ECC memory, which is available in capacities of up to, I think, can you get 256 gig dims? Can't remember. Don't quote me on that. can't remember don't quote me on that i'm gonna try and find out blah blah blah samsung shows off 256 gig registered dim okay i i don't know i can't look for that right now and i don't care yeah here's a crucial load

reduced dim well just me it's one of those okay i don't mean i don't care i'm curious but it's like it's one of those things that's like well um i'm never gonna buy one like i don't mean i don't care i'm curious but it's like it's one of those things that's like well um i'm never gonna buy one like i don't i don't need it yeah uh 512 512 no 16 by 32 gigs i can't tell if this is a kit or if it's um blah blah blah module oh yeah no it looks like i think you can get up to 512 gig modules, it looks like. Registered memory module. Yeah, don't quote me on that. I'm sure the chat's like, um, actually.

And so thank you for that very much, guys. So I don't know, I guess this is pretty neat. The original Threadripper will be repositioned to, oh, get this, enthusiast gamers, streamers, and editors. Okay, in fairness, editing is actually a great use case for these. Our new workstations are Threadripper, and as far as I know, the editing staff is really happy with them as an upgrade for our old 10-core Extreme Editions,

so that's pretty sweet. My girlfriend is looking to upgrade her computer because I guess my old 2600K and 780 aren't good enough for streaming anymore. So are you going to upgrade then? So that she can have a hand-me-down? You should be like, look, hon, this is how, you know what? Like, I wasn't going to upgrade. I didn't want to spend the money.

But, like, you need a new computer. And, like, we can't afford, afford you know two new computers at once so this this way you know i can get the new computer because you know i need it for work and that's how i'm getting yeah that's how i'm getting the big fat discount you know so if i told linus look like i'm you know i need this hardware but like it's for you he might not like that um you know or whatever and then you can have my old ones it's like kind of like two for one nice you think it'll work she's not everything in this computer is lmgs she can borrow it's fine i don't actually care yeah okay and that's chill it's chill if he tries to if he tries to if he tries to blame me for uh not wanting to share with you

that's like totally not a thing sweet yeah i mean that does kind of simplify that whole problem yeah yeah you're you're basically you're basically part of the you're part of the lmg family as far as i'm concerned all right wait so now i have to buy a new computer wait hold on what just happened i'm suddenly not okay with this okay all right maybe uh you just got played maybe in a little bit we'll see when the new stuff comes out then i'll buy the slightly older stuff big brain all right we got a couple uh sponsor messages my phone is starting to get a little old is that uh that's a pixel 2xl right yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah i'm sure you're gonna be sniffing around for a phone we're done with soon enough the problem is like i haven't even probably not i

want to use the fold but there's like weird app incompatibility issues that have prevented me from daily driving it so i'm still on the note 9 like i cannot come up with a justification. I'm not going to, I refuse. I am going to wait out this completely ridiculous notch bullet hole display thing. I'm not going to do it. I'm not going to have a hole in the display. It's so unnecessary and stupid. And people are like, you can turn it off. Well, the issue is that the notch was like sort of turn offable. The bullet hole hole the exit wound

is not and the reason the reason is that when you've got the hole like down here and you've got this little sliver of display above it for no reason because it serves no functional purpose whatsoever it's this tiny amount of display so you can have a hole in the display why this was a design goal why we engineered a solution to this problem i cannot imagine but anyway it means that if you do turn off the notch so to speak you get a gigantic forehead that's more five head sized and the crazy thing is note nine okay two-year-old phone pretty small forehead has like an iris scanner uh decent amplified speaker in it uh front facing camera basically everything you need i just i just i get i get angry luke

yeah i get angry um my i would be perfect i have one weird bug or sometimes when i answer the phone uh my screen will not turn on no matter what until the other person hangs up super annoying that's um especially annoying when you get called from like scam calls and you press like accept call and the screen just goes black and then you can't hang up until your phone runs out of power or the other side hangs up that's the only two ways i can do it um or the the like force restart thing but i always forget the combos i just have to google it but um then and the other issue is just minor battery life but now that i don't go anywhere uh it's a bit less of an issue all right let's uh let's do some sponsor spots uh they are not a sponsor today oops um

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Right, right. So one of the reasons that we want to practice getting better at these promo spots is, get this, I want to actually start doing LTTstore.com like oops i want to start doing lttstore.com ads and just like pay to have them run on just like random other youtube videos just for the lulz could you target this you're gonna hate me could you target like computer hardware tech review videos? It would be so funny. Your merch ads show up on like other tech creators videos that have their own merch ads in them. It might be one of those things that's just like, I don't know.

I have no idea what the ROI is. It's so funny. You should do that campaign and make a shirt that is like the LTT store versus the tech community. And make that like the promo that the ad runs for. I mean, I don't want it to be too adversarial here, but... No, start a war. Like it's one of those things where... One more use of the tech community, you need more drama, okay?

Even though I'm so reliant on YouTube ads, like Google ads on YouTube for my living, I actually know almost nothing about their efficacy. Like it's quite possible that it makes a ton of sense to run ads for the Linus Tech Tips water bottle on a Bitwit video or whatever. I don't know. Maybe we'd sell way more water bottles than on our own channel who knows but uh i i we're we're using uh we're using creating

these spots for sponsors to kind of practice them and get better at them and i think we're going to actually create some for ourselves what if you try to buy like, what if you try to buy the baked in ad spots on other tech creators channels? I've thought about their own merch stores. So I've thought about it. I mean, the worst they can say is like,

no, right. Cause like, these are people I know obviously, but we have an upcoming product that I do intend to do it for. Oh yeah. Yeah. I think I'm on the same page and I think that makes a lot of sense. It's the secret one though. Not the one we've tweeted like pages of. I don't think I've seen tweets of this one. Okay. I think I know what you're talking about. Can I send it to you on Discord?

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that's ridiculous, Linus. I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna promo LTT store.com in my videos. And I'm like, okay, fair enough. Fair enough. I get it. But, uh, I mean, the thing is if I'm, if I'm gonna go out there and tell, you know, advertisers, Hey, you should, you should, uh, do influencer marketing, right? Like you should, you should pay me to, to, uh, to inform people about your products and services. I mean, if I didn't, if I didn't drink my own Kool-Aid a little bit, then that comes across kind of hypocritical, doesn't it?

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spend on this today okay i gotta yell at them for spending too long like a long time it's a 17 page document i know well a lot of it's just garbage at the bottom okay why don't we get through some of this not garbage is like nine pages mexico approves the law against right to repair this was posted by fabian leonard launer on the forum and the source is from l universal um so the convention of technological protection measures or digital padlocks will now be criminalized without exceptions. That's crazy.

That is crazy. This is in spite of the fact that exceptions exist in the US and Canada and are permitted by the United States-Mexico-Canada agreement. Nobody's ever going to call it this. Or NAFTA 2. Penalties range from fines of up to $75,000 US and up to six years in prison

for bypassing a digital padlock to, get this, inspect, repair, maintain, modify a device, vehicle or technological device and circumventing a digital padlock to exercise the rights to freedom of expression is also forbidden by the law this is crazy not only does this just sort of criminalize tinkering and learning in some cases it also makes the problem of e-waste worse because what like you can't circumvent so if some company

decides to create like a a totally unnecessary lock on their device that makes it so you can never fix it then it just ends up in a bin instead of fixed and still in use like that's madness i wonder how many businesses they just shut down and how many honest workers they just unemployed. It's crazy. Because every like cell phone repair shop is just gone. La Red en Defensa de los Derechos Digitales. I'm sorry, my Mexican. Yeah, Spanish, Mexican.

Shoot, what language do they speak there? Spanish. My Spanish is bad. Um, released, released a statement on July 1st where it warns that in a hasty and- We're on a whole topic about deleting your whole video. I know, right? Um, they warn that

in a hasty and undisputed way the Chamber of Senators and Deputies approved various reforms to the LFDA and the Federal Criminal Code derived of the implementation of the treaty between Mexico, the United and canada that violate the constitution are contrary to international human rights standards and seriously violate the fundamental rights of millions of technology users in mexico i agree well said thank you very much i'm sorry i pronounced your organization wrong and had a brain uh gash gas moment there where I forgot what language they speak in your country. So I'm

a moron and you can hate me and cancel me, but it's going to be friendly fire because I'm on your side. This is terrible and they need to fix this. Yes, absolutely. Alright. In other news... I don't think there's a ton to say there. It just sucks.

Yeah, it sucks. It sucks in every way. There's a tunnel to say there. It just sucks. Yeah, it sucks. It sucks in every way. There's good people fighting against it. In other news, Thunderbolt 4. It's Thunderbolt 3, but now plus one. Nice. Basically, Thunderbolt 4 is still 40 gigabit per second. But the only difference is that you're no longer allowed

to use just two PCI express lanes instead of, uh, four. So you will definitely have 32 gigabit per second instead of 16 gigabit per second. Uh, you definitely have to support up to however many Watts of charging instead of being allowed to like not have that. Uh, and you have to have support, uh, to prevent, or you have to have, uh to prevent or you have to have um a defense against direct memory access attacks that have recently become a point of failure for thunderbolt security and um yep okay so basically it's intel turning thunderbolt into more of a certification of usb4 and um less of an actual different technology which

is something that we were expecting since intel opened up the thunderbolt standard yeah in other thunderbolt news apple has promised to continue to support thunderbolt on its new arm max in spite of the fact that this technology was developed as a joint project between apple and intel uh that's pretty much all i have to say about that sony buys a 250 million dollar as a joint project between Apple and Intel. That's pretty much all I have to say about that. Sony buys a $250 million stake in Epic Games. So this is interesting because on the one hand, I was unfair in my mocking of Tim Sweeney,

kind of accusing him of shilling for the PlayStation 5 for money from Sony. On the other hand, Sony just gave Epic Games $250 million for a 1.4% stake in the company. And there was a big announcement today about their strategic cooperation going forward. Probably just leave it there. Yeah yeah that's probably best the biggest thing i was wrong about was not doing my due diligence on the very cool technology in the playstation 5 before saying that it seemed like um it seemed like sony was paying money for good things to be said about them. And also just generally just talking smack without fully understanding the issue. So I'll say that I was wrong about that.

But yeah, Sony just bought $250 million worth of Epic Games. So that happened. And $ million dollars don't happen overnight so there is absolutely no way on this green earth that uh those statements about the ps5 were not made knowing that something like this might happen yeah so that's pretty neat i feel i feel like you handled that well thank you are you sure i think so are you cutting me off now because i should probably stop talking now yes i think we should move on i think you did good though thanks thanks bro uh rumor could apple also ditch amd this comes from tech radar and the rumor comes from the longhorn twitter account which shows a table that seems to suggest that future macs here we go apple silicon mac so we got uh apple gpu uh okay intel based mac intel nvidia and amd gpu wait Apple GPU. Okay. Intel-based Mac, Intel NVIDIA and AMD GPU. Wait, what NVIDIA? Oh, I mean,

I guess at some point or another, not recently. Yeah. So it looks like Apple Silicon Macs are not going to have AMD GPUs because they're going to have Apple GPUs. So how about that? Contains an Apple Design GPU. Yeah. so during a wwdc session apple implied that future development will take place on apple design gpus and focused on the shift in tools and apis that will enable high performance on those gpus that's pretty much all i have to say about that too alienware made an ultra wide monitor back in 2008 this thing is actually pretty trippy so this is a post on reddit showing this crazy

ultra wide monitor I actually think I remember reading about this what's really bizarre is that even though it's the size of a CRT it's actually not a CRT it is four DLP projectors in portrait mode

which is freaking awesome, and also explains why it's so dim. Apparently it had 0.02 millisecond response times, though, and, sorry, 900 vertical resolution. So what even was the horizontal resolution of these things? Oh, screen sharing, so you can see my calculator. 2280 divided by four like what is what is that even by 570 what kind of what kind of projector is a 900 by 570 resolution that that's pretty trippy um no price was given and press at the time stressed that it

was a prototype but that it could have debuted in the second half of 08 it appears to be nearly identical to an nec display check this thing out but um this is from n gadget way back in the day and the oem for this thing was apparently a company called Ostendo Technologies, who today appear to be designing and manufacturing quantum photonic imagers. So these are ridiculously tiny displays that use stacked multicolored pixels with spacing between 5 and 10 micrometers

compared to about 100 micrometers for a 22-inch 4K display and response times as low as sub 5 nanoseconds ostendo supposedly sold these ultras ultra wides at least from august through november 2009 at 6500 us dollars a piece okay if anyone out there has one i will commit to you i will buy it from you for 10 000 us dollars if it works so that i can make a video about it so we're pretty easy to get in touch with let me know if you have a working one 10 grand and i understand that i'm gonna have to pay extra for shipping because that thing looks flipping huge flipping huge wow that would be a very cool video um you get the high speed camera and stuff oh yeah oh for

sure yeah like playing crisis one like you know in style absolutely uh half-life 3 confirmed to be dead um jeff keely's yeah go ahead already been confirmed to be dead like four times but now it's like super confirmed to be dead uh jeff keely's the final hours of half-life alex is a making of interactive storybook that among other things has revealed a swath of games developed and shelved by valve between the release of half-life 2 episode 2 and half-life alex um which will make yeah i read a really good summary of it today that was probably too spoilery because now i kind of feel like i don't have to pay the ten dollars but i'll probably do it anyway just because uh this was a lot of work and it's the kind of work that i'd love to support uh but yeah go ahead love these

types of things absolutely love them um i i bought it already i haven't watched it yet but i'm going to um another one that was super great that i don't remember the name of was the indie game documentary that was on steam a while ago if anyone here is interested it's very good so some highlights include half-life 3 created in the source 2 engine and drawing some gameplay inspiration from left for dead uh left for dead 3 an open world game set in morocco potentially featuring hundreds of zombies at a time it was deemed unworkable because of the unfinished source 2 arty a light-hearted voxel based game that allowed for open-ended destruction and creation in the vein of minecraft

borealis a half-life vr project that would have been set on the set on a time traveling ship based game that allowed for open-ended destruction and creation in the vein of Minecraft. Borealis, a Half-Life VR project that would have been set on a time-traveling ship that was mentioned in Half-Life 2, skipping between the Half-Life series Seven Hour War. Hot Dog, another new take on Left for Dead. That's a code name that was purposely code named so people on the internet wouldn't know it was a Left for Dead game. No details were revealed. And Vader, Valve's first internal attempt to create a VR headset. It was apparently designed without compromise, but was scrapped when it became clear that it was too ambitious. The team estimates it would have cost five grand per unit if released. I remember when there was leaks about Vader.

That was actually a pretty fun time um but yeah you know with how much people do spend on vr i wonder if five grand would have actually been too much i mean it depends how much better it was like i don't know what compromises they did make for the index. Yeah. I don't know. They definitely would have sold some because the, the enthusiast community, especially at that time was, was so small,

like VR, especially post COVID VR is doing super well, which is really cool. But, um, very, very happy to see it. Um,

but at that time the community was so small that they might have actually like done somewhat okay like there was a decent amount of people that would have just bought it regardless in other cool news uh the work from home craze right now has caused a spike in pc demand in the u.s that has uh pcs at 2009 levels of demand so that's like good i guess um initially initially pc shipments fell 9.8 percent in the year's first quarter following disruptions in the supply chain in asia but hp is uh leading the pack with a quarter of the market and they're apparently up 11.2% year over year. Crazy.

PC shipments as a whole, not HP specifically necessarily, although with them in the lead with a quarter of the market, they're probably up as well. That's pretty much everything that I think is super interesting from the doc today. I think so. Japanese convenience stores will use VR-controlled robots to stack shelves. I'm just waiting till some whiz kid comes up with a program that's able to automate this and then applies for every single job for controlling these VR robots and then just runs like a little server farm and just has like

40 minimum wage jobs at the same time oh man it's a matter of time because we've talked we've talked on wan show about people who like basically hadn't been to work for literally years and we're still collecting salaries because they just automated their jobs right there's well there's the two there's one where they they automated their jobs yeah there's one where they literally just outsourced their work both of those have actually happened like multiple times that's great there's there's one guy that like i i read a thing from him where like he got multiple promotions and he started like heading a department and was like a very big deal in the company, but refused to work on location. He would like he would come in for like corporate events and like parties or whatever, but he refused to like work with people on location. And it's because he had a company in like

a company worth of people in India backing him. He would just forward everything that they assigned to him at work. He would just forward it all over. He did nothing. Wow. And just everything was done super quickly. It was done very well. The code

quality was good. They would review other people's code like he everyone just thought he was this like absolute whiz and he just was like whatever i just get paid like half as much as i would be paid but my salary is insane so it doesn't matter i just don't do anything epic unbelievable what a weird world what a weird world where people like send money to people on the internet to read their comments uh mac de boer sent a super chat luke when is the full toper key switch review coming never i would think what i don't even know what he means i got the real force r2 and

that fuck is fat yeah sweet i don't i don't joseph kish says love the show um robert mail says ltt minecraft server just reset and updated to 1.16. Bunch of fun. Yes, that's true. I should go check it out. Christian says, I recently got a Gigabyte RX 5700 XT. I remember them having some sort of issue

to flash the BIOS to get the promised performance. Yeah, unless it was a very early one, you shouldn't have that problem. ChaosTheBomb says, Re-BMW features as a service. If your heatedomb says, Yeah, that was a topic last week. I hope I'm looking at the right super chats here. He's probably talking about the new Mexican law. No right to repair?

Nope. No, it was too long ago but that's okay uh jd says where's the video about the water cooled chair summer is halfway through swamp but is the thing okay yes we have not actually done it yet but we definitely want to do that uh jason shang says never going to give you up never going to let you down thanks jason tommy gun says hey linus when will you update yvonne's pc you upgraded yours three times in the last six months and luke will you ever buy your dad a proper hammer that you actually get and give to him maybe i should just as like a troll joke this christmas just wrap up a hammer be like yeah cool there you go you definitely don't need this but here's

another hammer hey as as as a dad i can say confidently that you can never have enough hammers i mean we we roofed we we did our own roofing so everyone needed one and we like had help from family friends and my current roommate so we we have a lot of hammers level gaming says no don't delete the back catalog don't worry don't worry it's all good i just wanted to i just wanted to talk about that uh that that topic um what else we got here. Hey, this is great. Robert Merderks says, just got the four shirts, the elemental shirts from the

4 for 50 deal. I was expecting to donate them because I'm so picky, but I just wanted to support you guys. Now they are in my rotation. Keep up the great merch. Water bottle is great too. Darn straight. Darn straight. Sween says, Linus, this may be the only chance I get to ask you. With all the satirical retirement comments and

videos you've been making, is this something you actually are considering in the near future? So I made a video about my thoughts about it. It was called I've Been Thinking of Retiring Lately. And really, you know, in the words of Forrest Gump, that's all I have to say about that. I'm not going anywhere, but I just needed to, I needed to realign my reasons for doing this. You know, I got into the YouTube business as a business. I think a lot of people sort of dance around this, but I'm not. I started Linus Media Group Incorporated to make money. I started uploading in the first place because it was my job. I got a bonus at work for uploading YouTube videos. That doesn't mean that I'm not passionate about technology or whatever.

It just means that, you know, I didn't, you know, I'm not a conventional early YouTuber in the sense where I just like really enjoy social media and just really wanted to upload videos of myself. And I was like passionate until I sold out because the money. If you think about it in those terms, I guess I was sold out from day one, which is not selling out. Because if my values were that I'm doing this to make money, then I'm anything but a sellout, because here I am still doing it all these years later. Except that nowadays, I'm not finding that particularly motivating. So I just needed to find I needed to find a new reason to do it. So I uploaded that video sort of talking about some of the soul searching I've been done. And it's worth a watch if you actually care about the answer to that question dude uh i'm thinking of retiring to yeah retiring the uh the i don't know oh the sequel yeah that makes more sense

okay i was gonna say it'd be good for you to tell me that like not on stream so we can talk it through i thought you were like i'm thinking of retiring too. No, no, no, no, no. Sorry. Okay. That makes sense. But no, not even close. Significant amount more work to do before that starts to become a consideration. Oh God. But no, I think one thing that I really liked about that video, I think as like a, if I put myself in a, in a viewer kind of position, you get a lot of content as a viewer of the tech stuff and blah, blah, blah.

But there's a lot of people that have been watching for what is for a lot of people very likely half their lives at this point. Wow. You got to get an old dig in there. Carry on. Like how most other people would have seen that as just like deep but like he knew he knew um but like yeah i think getting those kind of insights and like what's going on in your head right it's cool and it doesn't always have to be like kind of in the pits a little bit like that one was yeah i was a bit of a downer but like the like the honest answers series i think was cool for that reason as well. You know what's funny is Marques released a video

the other day called Can You Trust MKBHD? Which was basically Honest Answers, how do sponsored videos work? And I wrote that video over a year ago and it was finished. It was actually fully edited and Yvonne and Nick killed it because i didn't do a good enough job of explaining it in a way that came across properly like they didn't want me to

take out the information because that's really important to me for honest answer series is it has to be like honest answers this is it this is the straight goods they just thought that some of them weren't explained very well and it was going to come across really bad um and i shelved it meaning to kind of go back and tweak it and reshoot it and then we just never did it and now marquez made that video and i'm like oh well i guess i uh i guess now it's kind of tough for me to make make the same video but oh well um it happens it happens all the time like i had someone reach out to me about one of our recent videos going holy crap i can't believe you guys just released a video talking about your plan for that because uh i like just sat down to start working on a similar project and now when i release my video people are gonna be

like copied linus i don't know i just don't even care about that stuff anymore like remember when we got accused of copying jay because you put a network switch on a wall and cable manage some stuff like i was that was one of my i love jay and i have that that man is fantastic um but that that was one of the moments where like you know how you just feel it sometimes yeah or like the whole internet starts going after me slash us for like copying his video. And he just goes like, what? No.

A, I didn't invent this. And B, I'm not sure they even watch my channel. Just stop, go away. And I was like, cool.

Thanks so much. Yeah. I don't know. That was, that was very cool. Um, all right. What else we got here?

Mr. Temper Tantrum says, love all the LMG channels, don't go full cancel culture. But think about if you're being a role model for bullies or if your kids would be proud. That's a fair point. That's a fair point to make. What else we got? James Oldige, this is not an ad.

Honey just saved me 120 bucks on codecademy well there you go uh rob p asks any new channels coming to flowplane what a wonderful question i love it when people pay me to have a meeting with you about that project yeah um there was a thing that was hopefully going to get launched at a time that was very close to now, but was never announced to be launched at a time that is very close to now. So we're still fine. That will be launched very soon. And once that thing comes out, recruitment is going to be spinning back up. And I already have a lot of people that I'm ready to approach. And I think some people that are kind of ready to get going on the platform right away. But that thing is the expansion of the post feature. So

we're going to be able to post multi-content posts. So we'll be able to have something that has video, text, pictures, audio, whatever, all in one post. You could have multiple attachments to one post and just the varying types of content. So now you'll be able to not just post videos. You could post text, picture and audio. And that is going to have a fairly comprehensive overhaul to like the content management system and all this other kind of stuff. So onboarding someone right now would be kind of weird and uncomfortable.

So we're in a slight pause and then we're going to be going very much full steam ahead the second this thing launches. Nice. Perthekler says, an analysis of one of the major semen sellers with hundreds of horses on file shows an average price of $873 per dose

with the most expensive horse semen costing $6,500. Tom Cigars asks, Garth, I ask you again, where are the bodies buried? I need closure, man. What is even happening here in my... Okay. Shoe125.

Hi, Linus, Luke. Flowplane works on the system I was using. I'm home again. Last week, you talked about hacking BMW. Tuners have been hacking cars for years, and a simple toggle switch may activate the feature if you hardwire it. Much love.

All right, thank you. I've got a couple non-super chat comments I wanted to reply to. Not good at this, like an hour and a half ago. Asked, Linus, when is the 2Mad collab coming, bruv? We're still waiting on, I think, two parts. So as soon as those are in, I'm going to reach out to them, be like, hey, what's up? Please don't get me canceled when we're shooting this video.

And we're going to get together, put on some PPE and build a computer. And Mayo Dunn says, got the LTT orange lanyard. And let me tell you, it's very good quality. That is something that makes me so mad about so much of the merch out there. You know what the difference in cost is between a good quality lanyard and like a cheap crappy one? It's like a dollar. like a cheap crappy one, it's like a dollar. And so when someone's charging $10 or $15 or $20 for a lanyard or whatever their price is, I have no idea how much we have ours listed for. Let me find out. How much do we charge for the lanyard? $10. Okay. So if someone's charging whatever,

like what frigging difference does it make if it costs a dollar or two dollars or two dollars or three dollars? Like at that point, you're making good enough margin on it. Just have it not suck. How hard is that? Turns out it's actually pretty hard because a lot of suppliers are not even capable of building anything decent. But yes, thank you for noticing. We just don't believe in garbage stuff on the store because it sucks and it's garbage. And I hate producing stuff that's just going to end up in a landfill like immediately. It's so dumb. Like literally manufacturing garbage is the worst.

All right. That's it for me. Is there anything that you wanted to respond to? I can't see them. So neat. Well, that's pretty much it then thanks guys for tuning in we'll see you again next week same bad time same bad channel assuming we haven't been canceled by then yeah Luke? What's up?

I'm trying to sign off the show. Oh, bye! Sorry, I thought you just clicked it. I thought we were already offline. It's going to be an interesting ending. Oh, man. Terrible.