The WAN Show - Your Memory is Getting its OWN CPU?? - WAN Show February 19, 2021

Episode Date: February 22, 2021

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Yo, what's up guys? Welcome to the WAN Show. We've got a fantastic show lined up for you today. Lots of good topics. The big headline is of course the news that Samsung's HBM2 memory is going to be coming with artificial intelligence. And it... No, no, but no, it doesn't seem to be a buzzword. Like the tech here looks incredibly cool. Like the tech here looks incredibly cool. This is what Musk warned us about. First, you're going to get AI memory. Next, your computer is going to build its own legs and arms and take over. This is the beginning of the end.

It might be a good thing because as you guys saw in our video yesterday, computers are probably better off if they build themselves famous twitch streamer xqc apparently has watched my reaction to his build so we're gonna see how many layers of watchception we can go into here um where maybe on the show i don't know if he's actually done a response of any sort but maybe we'll watch him watch me watch him watch him watch me watch him this should all culminate with you guys both watching the original video together oh that could be it or we could actually just build him a computer because at this point it's becoming painful what else we got lined up today nvidia borks ethereum mining performance on specifically the rtx 3060 that's interesting

not anything else talk about that more later also facebook blocks all news posts in australia and canada considering link tax legislation due to considering link tax legislation wow you gotta be like that. Hey, okay. Only there was another option, like not using Facebook anymore. We can't block Mark Stoyle, but he can block our Stoyle. Is that how it's going to be? All right. That's fine. Just fine. Let's roll that intro. and the show is brought to you today by someone i actually can't remember remember who. Hey, there we go. Remote HQ, Ridge Wallet, and Squarespace. Why don't we jump right into our headline topic, because people get real upset when we don't do that.

This was reported on Tom's Hardware. Samsung.com also was talking about it a little bit, since it's kind of a Samsung technology. Samsung is claiming to have the industry's first high bandwidth memory. So that's HBM memory with integrated AI processors. And it sounds like buzzwordy bull spit, honestly. Like, doesn't it? Yes, absolutely.

Yes, this is our monitor with AI and our memory with AI and our water bottle with AI. It's going to be like, oh, Linus must be thirsty and it'll have like a little thing that... Actually, it's kind of a genius product idea. A water bottle that just like flashes. Well, no, you totally don't need an AI for it.

I think they also have this already. Do they have it? It just like flashes when you're supposed to drink? Of course they do. It's probably an app. It knows how depleted the bottle is and it like barks at you. So anyway, so that's the point. There's AI in basically everything.

But this looks and sounds incredibly cool. So what the point of having processing in memory or PIM is, is that it's supposed to help accelerate processing within data centers by doing some processing on the memory rather than waiting for that, in relative terms, high latency link between the CPU and memory for a transaction to be completed. So PIM basically just eliminates another link in the data chain by putting this DRAM optimized AI inside each memory bank. Now, obviously, conventional DRAM

is optimized more for, well, okay, A, performance, but B, density. So you want to squeeze as much DRAM as you possibly can into the die area that you have available in order to maximize your value, right? But you're going to take a hit here in terms of capacity. So we can fire up the original article from Tom's Hardware here. Here we go. Let me just screen share with you guys for a second here. So check this out inside. Okay. Presents the first details. It can have some DRAM with PC block fabricated into the 20 nanometer DRAM process. So where is it? Uh, yes, there we go. Uh, so here they are. So these are these, these PCU blocks right here for the different banks of memory. That is like super cool. So what you're going to end up with then is instead of an eight gig, so where you would

normally have an eight gig stack of HBM or eight gigabyte stacks by combining four, 8 gigabyte stacks by combining four 4 gigabit dies with PCUs with four 8 gigabit dies without PCUs. Okay, so where you would normally have 8 gigabytes worth of memory in a stack, you will now get 6 gigabytes of memory and they're going to be combining. Okay, wow. Siri, I'm not talking to you. It's incredible how often that thing goes off when I'm not actually talking to it. So this requires Samsung's existing HBM2 AquaBolt architecture to properly take advantage of the hardware improvement, but they claim it can offer over a two-time system performance improvement with a reduction of over 70 percent in power consumption and i'm that's got to be just for the memory right uh i would i would

certainly be with the system as a whole they're phrasing it like it sounds like they're talking about system as a whole but there's no way um and the craziest part about this and this is like often you'll read about these kinds of breakthroughs like oh we created a carbon nanotube hard drive dna storage or whatever the case may be and it's something it's something that's literally just uh sci-fi pretty much but they got kind of close to it in a lab. Unlike those things, Samsung says that this advancement doesn't require any other hardware or software changes. So the memory will intelligently know what to work on and what not to work on, making it just an easy choice for anyone who wants to gain a massive improvement in performance per watt in existing systems. So this could be

huge for all kinds of industries, high performance computing and the scientific community. So because quickly moving large amounts of data should no longer be bottlenecked as severely by memory bandwidth. So they'll be presenting their paper, a 20 nanometer, six gigabyte function in memory, DRAM based on HBM2 with a 1.2 teraflops programmable computing unit using bank level parallelism for machine learning applications. That is actually the name of the paper at the International Solid State Circuits Virtual Conference, which begins on February 22nd. So it's currently being tested inside AI accelerators.

I wouldn't expect to see this in a GPU, for example, anytime soon. But validation is expected to be completed by summer of this year, which means we could actually see these things deployed within like a year or so that's pretty freaking incredible i i i don't know man sometimes i guess i'm a little bit too inside the box thinking but this is not the kind of thing that i would have seen coming i mean we talk about a lot of kind of you know future future tech we do a lot of future crafting on this show and just in general just when we're talking but like this is not putting putting c so you got you got your cpu right and then you got

your memory and your cpu you got your like your s ram and then now you're gonna take your ram and you're gonna put like a little cpu in that and then it's like at what point do you just have all cpus and all memories and then and then the memory on the CPU gets bigger and then the CPU and the memory gets bigger and then now you've got two CPUs and two memories. You're just running a cluster. Siri I'm not talking to you! Go away! I yeah I had mentioned in the pre-show and you got me to stuff it um because we need content. did say that but what i was saying was that it we're we're progressing even further beyond the like computers and computers thing that i've talked about way in the past i was talking about how gpus are essentially just a computer within your computer

that just handles a thing yeah yeah and we're going even further than that ssds are totally like that compared to hard drives the controller on a hard drive even like sort of there but ssds are totally like that compared to hard drives the controller on a hard drive even like sort of there but ssds are just way further the controller on a hard drive is dumb as toast compared to the controller on an ssd like i mean samsung i think what are those like triple core arm processors i i i um i was using an ssd for a build today that has literally two gigabytes of DDR4 memory on it. Like, it has this, right? It has a motherboard and a processor and memory. Exactly.

And storage. It's got storage because it's an SSD, for crying out loud. Yeah. So it's just a bunch of little computers that you're making work together. Exactly. Like, what in your computer is not a computer yet? Your power supply, I would make the argument, is not really a computer. There's some pretty advanced ones that have like microcontroller grade, you know, processing capabilities.

But I wouldn't call that I wouldn't call that like a CPU. call that i wouldn't call that like a cpu whereas you know that ssd that i was talking about samsung 980 pro like it's got full-on like arm core processors in it like conceivably it could do a lot more than just you know decide uh which which parts of the flash to to retire and how to handle garbage collection to maintain adequate performance, right? Like it's pretty advanced. It's doing stuff. It's doing some serious stuff. Yeah, I don't know. It's interesting.

RAM is definitely not the next spot I expected to receive this, but it makes a lot of sense. I just definitely didn't see it coming. Very cool. Yeah, the funky thing for me is just like from like a software side, but then they claim it just kind of automagically works. So, so I just don't, I don't really get it. Like from a software side of things, what is it?

How does that processor know what to work on? Yeah, I, it's way above my head. I have no idea. Okay. It sounds cool i suspect we'll learn a lot more uh during that paper presentation that i believe you you mentioned um on february 22nd we're definitely gonna have to do some kind of update on this this is the kind of thing where if we could get our hands on any of this kind of stuff we'd love to do a full ltd just diving into this learning about it it's one of this the kind of thing that like'd love to do a full LTT, just diving into this, learning about it.

It's one of the kind of thing that like, I'll bring up in writer's meeting and everyone's going to be like me, me, me, me, me, me. I want to, I want to work on that one. Cause it's just so cool. Cause it's just not the way that I think about the relationship between a central processor and RAM. So RAM from my understanding holds the data that the cpu needs to work on so then like what the cpu would say hey i need to work on this thing and then the ram would then maybe they could grab it and start sending it like ahead of time i don't know predict that perform some kind of function that it anticipates the cpu will want to and then proactively return that result like what sorry how does this work i have no even sort of a clue but i'm excited for february 22nd yeah

really cool there's honestly not that many things these days with like desktop computers where i'm like holy crap that could be potentially like absolutely freaking amazing and this this could be one of them well still not desktop so there's that fair speaking of desktops hey hey i've actually got um wait no did i did i tell you this already? Did I tell you about your personal rig update that we're going to be doing? Yes, sort of. I know some amount of it. Did I tell the audience about this yet?

I think you might have told them sort of. I actually don't know if I did. Guys, you're going to have to tell me because I've got quite a few more details about what we're going to be doing. So we apparently talked about last man show oh forget it oh man okay i thought i was all excited okay well that's fine because we've got other stuff to talk about uh we actually filmed the video for flow plane this week

all right no let's talk about that later let's talk first about nvidia borking ethereum mining performance on the upcoming rtx 3060 luke do you want to talk us through this one? Because I got to tell you, I don't want to talk about it because... Yeah, I think you just need to mute. Anthony and I worked on a video about this topic where I'm going to be sharing my thoughts and his thoughts kind of interspersed. A lot of people don't really understand this concept, but I've actually been accused at times of, you know, the April Fools we did where it was like hashtag lie-ness,

like I don't actually know anything about computers and I don't really contribute anything. It's all a big show. A lot of people don't realize this, but when you see a writing credit at the end of an LTT video, probably 97% of the time, uh, I had a heavy hand in editing what that was. So if there was a joke in like an Anthony scripted video that you thought, you know, was really stupid, uh, don't necessarily blame Anthony. It's, it's very possible that it was, it was me who put that in because I

actually review the scripts word by word with our writers before I go up and go like this. So it's one of the ways that we make sure that even though I have a writing staff, everything that I'm saying is reflective of how I actually feel about the product. And that's one of the reasons why sometimes in the script, we will have dissenting opinions. I might say, well, this is what I thought of the keyboard, but Alex, whose fingers are longer than mine, thought that that was just fine or thought it was way worse or whatever the case may be. So you're going to hear mine

and Anthony's combined take on this tomorrow. Don't miss that video because I might not agree with what Luke's about to say. I am now hitting the mute button like a good little boy. Luke, why don't you talk us through what's going on here? I just want to say, oh, I just minimized all of my windows by accident by shaking that individual one. I want to say just at the beginning of this, to start it off, that the opening note for

this is fantastic. There's Anthony Young note, and then highlighted yellow, Linus, do not rant, and then period, and then highlighted red, do not rant. You have a video coming out tomorrow. He is specifically not allowed. He has to mute. I feel like I could say anything. I'm on top of the world right now. But instead, I'm going to talk about this graphics card. So just the RTX 3060, this is not coming to other graphics cards. Apparently my bird is joining me in this conversation. In an attempt or an effort to get these cards into the hands of people that they were at least originally intended for, they are releasing drivers, or I believe all of the drivers

Releasing drivers, or I believe all of the drivers, will nerf Ethereum hash rates by roughly 50%. It's a driver, which I find quite interesting. That might be bypassable. The RTX 3060 software drivers are designed to detect specific attributes of the Ethereum cryptocurrency mining algorithm and limit the hash rate or cryptocurrency mining efficiency by around 50%. That's a direct quote. This will not affect 3070 through 3090 cards. As I mentioned, this is specifically just RTX 3060. This announcement comes alongside the release of new CMP or cryptocurrency mining platform cards. We've seen this type of stuff in the past. I don't remember what specific card it was, but it doesn't have output on it.

You can't plug a monitor into it. It's just for compute. These cards, yeah, these cards lack any display output capabilities and are built solely for mining. NVIDIA has stated that these cards will not affect availability of 30 series cards for gamers. Maybe not current availability, but you probably could have used that manufacturing for them.

Let's just ignore that part. Um, although exactly how they can produce more chips on the same node without affecting RTX output remains to be seen. Yeah, exactly. Uh, while CMP pricing is unavailable at this time, the performance and watt numbers of the top tier card, the 90 H X are noticeably lower than what a 3080 can achieve. 86 megahertz per second at 320 watts versus 100 megahertz, mega hash, sorry, 86 mega hash per second at 320 watts versus 100 mega hash per second at 250 watts. This means a 3080 doesn't just perform better, it does so more efficiently.

it does so more efficiently. Womp womp. It's also a much easier card to resell. It's also much easier to resell a 3080 than it is to resell old mining hardware, meaning miners can recoup more of their costs if they have the more GPU-focused one for gamers than the actual mining-specific card. Pricing and availability are really going to be

the deciding factor on this. It's already hard enough to buy 3000 series cards. These are really going to be the deciding factor on this. It's already hard enough to buy 3000 series cards. These are probably going to disappear as well. So who knows? We'll see what happens there. And in semi-related news, Anthony included a link to a picture of

Zotac just showing like a mining rig with a bunch of their cards. Apparently gamers were cheesed about that one. But I don't know. Like it might not have been the most wise PR move to post that picture, but like they know what's going on

and I guarantee you that picture didn't change anything. No one's going to build a mining rig because they specifically saw that picture i seriously doubt that's gonna happen so like it doesn't matter but i do understand why people are riled up they want their cards in the heart their cards hard to get but yeah that's about it you can unmute but you're still not allowed to talk about it thanks luke no prob man great job luke heck yeah all right let's uh why don't we move on then why don't we move on uh we actually had a great video go up on floatplane earlier this week i i

know i know to the wanshow audience i generally don't spend a ton of time pimping floatplane because i know most of you guys already know about the float plane. But if you are not already subscribed on the float plane, this one is probably one of the ones that's worth it for early access. One quick thing before you keep going. Someone said, I want to hear the rant. Tune in for the video. Yeah, that was the whole point. Yes.

The video is going to be up probably about 10 a.m pacific tomorrow yeah it's coming tomorrow you really don't have to wait very long when i left the office anthony and nicole were working on the final pass of just like making sure all the i's are dotted and the t's are dotted and the other i's are crossed and all that kind of thing so let's go ahead and chuck this on here we went and we bought uh probably a few hundred dollars worth of counterfeit oh counterfeit linus merch that's right we went and we got our hands on as much fake ltt store.com swag as we possibly could. And one of our viewers on Floatplane, this is Ados,

asked us, are we planning to go after the counterfeit merch suppliers? Because honestly, some of it is pretty shameless. If we go on Amazon, for example, and search for Linus Tech Tips, you're going to see here that there is an absolute ton of stuff we don't make a i don't know why they're calling it a balaclava because that's clearly just a regular face mask anyway we don't make a face mask we haven't sold anything with this logo in years we've actually never sold anything with the wan logo and the old linus tech tips logo combined this is clearly the same ripoff design but in orange um i i don't know what wxzdh is but i can pretty much guarantee you it's nothing to do with linus media group incorporated so yeah

the uh the pedida men's l-inus t-ch t-boxer briefs yeah uh i'm pretty sure we got our hands on something from these guys spoiler alert they're absolutely atrocious they're like the worst thing ever i mean a lot of this stuff you can just tell from the picture that it's just a cheesy photoshop They're absolutely atrocious. They're like the worst thing ever. I mean, a lot of this stuff, you can just tell from the picture that it's just a cheesy Photoshop. They couldn't even be bothered to center the Photoshop. Man, we actually, wow, we actually didn't get like all of it.

Although, okay, in fairness to Sarah, who was the one who sourced most of this stuff, a lot of these vendors will start up and then disappear before you even get a chance to go after them because they know they obviously know that they're infringing someone else's trademark or someone else's copyright and they're doing it anyway and so it's clearly just built into their business model that they're going to have to spin up these stores and then shut them down when someone actually does go after them. So in response then to your in response then to your question, no, at this time, we don't have any reason to believe that they're moving any kind of significant volume of these products.

Almost none of them have any reviews on Amazon whatsoever. And of the ones that do, one of them has a two-star review. That's it. Actually, I would love to have a look at this. My shirt was nowhere near the size I ordered, even though it said so on the shirt. Also, the stitching was coming out on one sleeve when I got it. Not impressed, says Gary A. Well, look, look, moral of the story, if you want to be impressed by the quality of Linus Tech Tips merch, you should probably buy it from Linus Tech Tips.

So, good effort, but you played yourself you 100 played yourself oh man that's what are you gonna do with the xqc watched our video thing are you gonna watch his watching of your video i don't actually know if i don't actually know if he watched it on stream does does anyone oh does anyone have like uh i'm sure twitch chat's gonna blow up as soon as they figure out that we're talking about this apparently he did watch it on stream so does anyone have like a time stamp for me or a clip or anything like that i don't i don't know anyone clip it hopefully someone can throw something in the twitch chat actually here luke do you want to keep an eye on the chat? Maybe floatplane chat.

Guys, floatplane, if you guys have a source for it. I found someone who re-uploaded it, but it's not his channel, so I don't really want to share it. Can I do the sponsors real quick here? Yeah. All right, cool. So the show is brought to you today by Remote HQ. We got a new sponsor up in here.

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Yeah, I can hear you, but I can't see you. What you guys are seeing right now that is likely very confusing. Ah, yes, there we go. So they had my feed for you. I have two cameras on this machine so that luke also has a video feed of me oh yeah so we had we had two lionesses you know spider-man yeah i have no idea discord just restarted out of nowhere yeah not a clue what happened that was uh that was super interesting and the show is also brought to you by ridge wallet stop carrying

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on whatever you want at ridge.com slash Linus. So head over to ridge.com slash Linus. This is pretty funny. Okay, hold on a second. Hold on. Hold on. I'm gonna, I want to, I want to do the thing. Hold on. Hold on. Oh, I need, I need my mouse in my other hand. Hold on. Hold on. Okay. I want to, I want to do the thing. We'd be like, oh wait, this one doesn't have the, oh, that makes sense. That's why it didn't work. Nevermind. Yeah, I'm good. Yep. That was, that was really really stupid so do you happen to have a timestamp luke i do i sent it to you on on discord also i'm getting reports that the remote hq.com slash uh does not function i went to it and it 404s um okay uh i will let is there a different different url potentially

okay well whatever i'll let colton know and hopefully he can fix it after the fact okay not gonna spend any more time on that okay so what i'm looking at here is uh it should be a time stamped twitch oh i see That must have just been the name of his stream. That is like, wow, that is a toxic, poisonous stream name. Like, exclamation mark, exclamation mark, exclamation mark. BlizzCon number one watch party location. Overwatch 2 pause champ question mark. I just, I don't even, I don't even know what i'm looking at

i'm i'm i click them i click this thing and i'm prompted do you really do you want to go here i don't know i don't know the answer to that question so this is it this is this is the the pause champer extreme uh let's get here there There we go. We got Twitch chat. We got... I have no idea what to expect here, but... Okay. Hey, guys, I'm reacting to his reaction. This is Reactception.

Uh-oh, now I'm reacting to his reaction to my reaction. XQC build. Stream reaction. You're the kind of person who piles on when somebody's already having a bad time. But here's the situation Okay, streamer XQC reached out to me a number of weeks back asking for help with a new gaming PC I pointed out that I'm sure anyone and their dog would be happy to send them a free gaming PC in exchange for a tweet Given his popularity, but I did offer my help if you really needed it

And then I promptly never heard anything about it ever again Guys in my defendal chat guys this this is how I treat the k This is not it says anything about them, okay, it's just it's just a life philosophy I feel bad people that have to interact with me, okay, but this is how bigger streamers This is how bigger streamers, celebrity Andes. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold on a second. Did he just say he can't reply to an email because he's too stream famous? I think maybe.

Did I just hear that correctly? I'm not sure. He either said that or he was saying that, like, it doesn't necessarily matter who it is. I'm just bad at communication. I'm not really sure which one he did Okay, hold on a second, hold on, okay, let's let's let's get this let's get this back going here Oh, you two birds smaller ship is out anybody interacts with me did this is just how it's just how I deal with things I don't know why it's just how it is

So I was streaming today and you guys wouldn't stop talking about how apparently horrible his build was so given that i did offer to help i will with no guilt not ego what's the critiquing i don't select qc's pc build i've never done a reaction video before so wish me luck just like i feel lucky to tell you about our sponsor ridge wallet cool it wants to redefine the wallet with its compact frame and RFID blocking plates. Check out how they can keep your wallet bulged down and use offer code Linus to... Hold on. Let me just fix the volume.

Remember the volume earlier? Does he not explain it? Because I've actually been wondering about that. Why is your face everywhere? So, no, no. There is an explanation for that. My face is everywhere because there's

like an emote on his stream i think it's okay champ or something like that or there's something that you can do to make my face appear on his stuff okay all right all right not my face it is my face why is my face on his stream okay first things first um first. Yeah, I want to unbox everything, but... First things first, I'm going to set myself up on the carpet. Now, we did show recently in our collab with ElectroBoom that the risk of actually damaging your components with electrostatic... I don't know if I'm at the same time stamp as you are.

...on a low-pile carpet and unbox computer hardware. So motherboard goes first. I got a ROG Crossair VIII formula, dude. I wanna catch you, this is a very overpaid computer, okay? Some of these parts were really way more expensive than they should have been, but it's COVID and whatnot, so it is what it is, man. Is he actually gonna water cool?

Cause that motherboard has like integrated chipset water cooling. First we'll open the actual CPU itself. What? I don't know what he just said Okay Unfortunately, I also misspoke there because I what I meant was VRM water cooling, but I was kind of like mind blown There's no real alternative. Now this is the piece that is worth all the money.

Oh man. Little metal bracket up. Oh my God, this must be how people feel watching me handle stuff, like seemingly not carefully. I assure you guys, I know what I'm doing, but I'm not actually convinced that Felix knows what he's doing. Ooh, I'm confused, oh, that got it.

You gotta pull out from the thing. Okay. Okay, put the arm the other way. Also, what's important here, the most important part of all this is the thing. Okay. Okay, put the arm the other way. Also, what's important here, the most important part of all this is the bragging rights. Whenever you build a PC, all those stickers, whenever you buy these boxes. Okay, he's joking about this, but I actually have like a whole sticker book with like a shiny kitty on the front of like old case badges from yeah way back like 10 15 years ago oh man you know what i think i have that at home i wonder if i could find it to show you guys your sticker book yeah have you seen it

do you know what i'm talking about it's got like it's got a blue cover on it and then it's got like it's it's like sparkly because i because i think you showed it to me after you saw all the stickers that were on my original mineral oil cooled computer because i had the whole row of case badges yeah yeah yeah yeah i think you showed me you know okay okay showed me i showed you mine you show me yours that's how it works yeah yeah yeah okay oh man i'm kind of tempted to just let this run and go look for it but then i'm not reacting to his reaction to my reaction so i can react to it okay okay luke's gonna react for a little bit i'm gonna i'm gonna let it i'm not reacting to his reaction to my reaction so i can react to it okay okay luke's gonna react for a little bit i'm gonna i'm gonna let it i'm gonna let it ride and i'm gonna run

upstairs i'm gonna see if i can find my sticker book okay all right uh this seems worth it to me where's that uh where's that link here we go all right all right i'm putting i'm putting it back up here 128 gigs around okay but i don't know where you're at hold on i'm at him opening up the i'm at him uh opening up the 128 gigs of ram so we're at 2 0 1 16 okay yeah i'm like 201 24 201 24 wait for a sec okay i can't i can't scrub that carefully it doesn't it doesn't pop that granular i'm so uh man if you go like if you go like a little bit ahead that's probably fine anyway i mean i need 10 seconds all right we're good okay go for it um oh man i want my i want four seconds all right i'm pressing play i'm pressing play now I love the term juicers. By the way, I had a I had a I had an absolute

Boomer moment with juicers because I've been trying to I've been trying to get into chess for like a year but I've been watching a bunch of chess content and One of the guys that I was watching kept saying juicers. I was like what the heck I Was trying to look up on chess websites what juicer means and stuff. Yeah. Big boomer moment. Yes! True.

Okay. Let me do a little explaining, boys. I know some of you guys already know this. You're like a tech genius. So this is, I don't know why this computer doesn't have it, but normally you're going to have two colors. Right. These are your channels.

Sometimes. Something called dual channel, I think, or something like that. Okay. That's very close. The memory slots are color coded, so you will correctly install your dual channel memory, but they're not color coded according to the channels. It's actually the other way around. They're color coded so that your monkey brain will put two sticks in the same colors and

get dual channel operation, but it's actually the two separate channels that are the same color. Dual channel. Now you know. Open the bracket at the back. One, two, three. color dual channel now you know open the bracket at the back one two three the ram inside the computer that was awesome

now on the one hand he says i usually okay and that's not wrong i love yeah the combination of linus being like so your monkey brain does the right thing and i love the coaching from the background do you you have the lever open? Fortunately, it's so poorly put in that I'm going to lose it. Oh, that's great. I'm going to lose it. Why does my face keep showing up? Is this like a Twitch feature? Stick number two.

Twitch chat's already like call Linus. It's backwards again. Yeah, why not? He should have just done that. Dude. Okay, next. Luke's volume is going from super loud to not do that. It's probably just We don't have to have these see this is like the old SSDs which it's been nine minutes and he has installed the CPU and memory

Those are a little bit better. They're really faster. They're less of a hassle to put in. Is this true? And thankfully, boys, we got two of them. He is in for a real nightmare if he wants to configure NVMe RAID on, well, really any platform. I know there is. I've done AMD's. Yeah, yeah. I know there's a company called Rocket. I didn't suspect that was going to matter. I didn't think he was going to bother.

He said he doesn't know what it is. Like, yeah, I don't think that was the point. They have the Rocket lineup up to 8 terabytes. I think that the M.2 drives are, I don't think that's the point. De-bolt? De-bolt it, yeah. I appreciate you, AJ. you can de-bolt things anytime you want set it up are those spongebob socks because i definitely approve that really is not all the way in good thing twitch chat is babysitting oh he's no it's still not in is it not in okay i'm stupid overall i've seen far worse i've seen far worse. I've seen far worse.

Not for the second one. Wait, is he going to screw it in? I mean, he hasn't, he hasn't like ruined anything. So yeah. It's a dual bolt collider, dude. The X back plate. What? Guys, I had to screw in the X back plate before the motherboard. Oh, that's fine. No? x backplate before the motherboard no the bill i got the kraken seven seven three guys i thought back in the days you had to put like uh like a weird thing at the back yeah i figured out what he's talking about with x backplate i figured that out from down to up is he really trying to justify that i would buy a computer

based on twitch chat's recommendations is he really trying to justify... I really don't know that I would buy a computer based on Twitch chat's recommendations. Is he really trying to justify this? People say it's bad. Justify? No, not really. He's mostly just like kind of laughing and inserting like, oh, this is why I thought that, etc. Yeah, people say that. He's chill. I'm lazy. Actually, it's just because I'm lazy. It's been funny so far. You know when you explain the like color coding for dual channel and whatnot?

His reaction to that? After you said like, it's done this way so your monkey brain does it right his reaction after that? There was like a decent pause and he's just like huh? That was perfect I appreciated Call him I don't know I don't have his number Call him? I don't... Linus has his number. No, I don't have his number. He's too much of a celebrity for you, Linus. Yeah, I know, right?

Oh, man, this part was so painful to watch. He's gotta be just pretending. Like, I think you guys are just suckers. I'm pretty sure... Guys, if... Like I think you guys are just suckers. I'm pretty sure- Yeah, guys, I always pretend for content guys. I've done the computer just fine. Guys, if- Rune and Kay's- So he 100% knew that he can put the radiator in the front, he just didn't want to remove 12 screws. I'm gonna read the message I sent him.

It's possible we could get you hooked up with a system and we'd love to collab, but surely you have at least half a dozen system integrators on speed dial who could get you anything you want? Okay, the thing is like ...not in position to tackle anything big like the paper PC we built for Pewds at the moment. Okay, like there's a hurry. There's maybe faster. I'm kind of like just getting hooked up with a PC builder Just let me know. Email's best for me since this is a shared inbox with many other stuff here. Like not intending for it to be in the video, right? If you wasn't willing to remove 12 screws. There's this process that I go through

while I'm watching this stream. Guys, guys, it's not about the screws, Jack. Where I started thinking, okay. If it's, if it's, if the fans come with the case, okay? Yeah, ha ha, you know, I don't know anything about computers. You have to de, you have to about the wire holders There's a crazy audio problem We've run into these situations where it seems pretty obvious. What's up?

There's a crazy audio problem. Yes, I think we need to do the whole thing. Hold on a second. Let me pause this thing. What's the crazy audio problem? I'm not 100% certain. Oh, okay. Apparently, I'm super loud.

Oh, okay. Is it fixed now? Or not. I have no idea. I think, were you watching your own stream somewhere or something? No, no. It should be okay.. Should be fine now. We good? I don't know. Let me try to tune in. Yeah, it's fine. Yep. Sorry about that. Uh, so my bad guys. Uh, but basically, so what I was saying was there was this whole, there's this whole process where I like,

there's this whole process where i like i thought he was just like playing a character and then over time because he would he would explain really clearly he'd be like oh i don't i don't know you know anything about computers but then he would explain really clearly you know what the role of that part is or like how to install it. And I'd be like, no, you, you know about computers, but then he'd encounter something where what I think I'm, what I think I figured out was that he knows a lot, but only about the things where he's like, had the time to do the research. And so it started out with, I think a little bit of playing a character and over time became, okay, the character that he might've been think a little bit of playing a character and over time became okay the character that he might have been playing a little bit there is actually him okay fair enough all right let me turn this let me turn the stream back on here

guys they're welded to the mesh dude oh my god no they they apparently the stream was very loud. I Got it. I got it The speed with which he switches between eureka moments and having no idea what's going on again, okay? Well, this is really tough. Let's chat. This is literally soldered together And a re screw our thing manually at the top so we can put the this cpu oh i don't think you're showing the video oh sorry sorry guys there you go push or something again he's demonstrating fairly deep knowledge he knows that we're gonna have fans at the front and we're gonna have push fans at the back the reason why i sort of know in depth of a knot because one of my

brother would build pcs he would tell me about, but I would only remember certain parts. He said yo, dude a computer Airflow push pull push pull it's gonna push suck fresh air and push hot air out Balanced air flow, but then he thinks his case is welded together. I don't wait a minute Of course. All you had to do was you just had to leave the fans exactly where they were and just put the screws that came with your radiator through them. We need to go way back to basics and do a 4B... What is going on? Wait a minute.

Wait. That makes sense, dude. I just de-bolt them? What is going on? Wait, damn it sense dude Leave them there The radiator on is the GPU so one tip though beginners Like really for beginners. We need to bring in a committee of qualified beginners to ask We answer every single one of them. Dude, there's not enough space for three of them. Why is he trying to put three fans there?

Is he faking it? Because he came with three of them. No, it doesn't go like this. No, but... No, dude, you can't... It doesn't matter if it came with three of them. It's not designed for that spot. I spun this thing the both ways.

The most painful part of this was how many times I saw him put it in there properly. Like, he'd be like, oh, I have it lined up. And I'd be like, yes, you do. Please stop moving it now. You're good. You're good you're good but you know i think i think a significant i think 80 of the problem though is his chat so i tuned into one of his streams uh yesterday where he was like gambling in a gta5 casino or something like that and his chat is just it moves at such a rate and with such a a diverse many minds of its own that to to have it to have it even remote be even remotely helpful would have to be an accident like it's if if he managed to build a pc with help from his chat, it would take as long as it took, like,

Twitch Plays Pokemon to beat the game. Like, it just... That's the level that we're dealing with here. So people would tell him when he had it right, and they would give him the right information when he had it wrong, but mixed into that information with so many people

giving the wrong information that it's just... you couldn't hear the signal over the noise yeah yeah he absolutely i mean okay it would have been worse without chat probably but i still think that chat because there was so much uh incorrect information and because the timing is often a little bit off. So sometimes he'd be like repositioning something really fast and they'd be like, yeah, that's right. And then because of the five or 10 second time delay, it's really easy to make a mistake based on that lag, right?

Yeah, definitely. All right, let me put this back on. Let me put this mess back on. What time is that now? I'm at 2 2 10 24. the radiator should fit in here yes it does all right we got the radiator in okay why would you have the tubes down are they gonna work against gravity dude fun fact in a closed loop gravity kind of is like canceled out you could think of it that way because gravity might pull some of the water down but then that equal force

will push the other water like up like it's wait a minute i think his mind yeah but wouldn't you want gravity to be doing that process and on top of the pumping, instead of doing that motion through mechanical pumping. Oh no. Oh, none of that meant anything. Oh no. Okay, all right, okay. Let me take another crack at this one. Okay, so, okay.

So let's say hypothetically, okay? You've got your pump, you got your pump here, okay? In the bottom of the thing. Okay, you know what? No okay you know what no we're going we're going ms paint we're going ms paint ladies and gentlemen we're doing it okay i got got some ms paint up in here display capture okay here we go so i'm gonna draw i'm gonna draw for y'all so we got uh we got a loop okay we got our cpu block okay so there's our CPU. Okay. And we got our tubes. So here's a tube. You got your radiator. There's some fans. They're pushing. They're pulling. Okay. And then you got your other

thing. You got your pump here. Okay. Pump. Okay. You got your res. So, you know, you got your, you got your res right here. Okay. Res. Resurrection. All right. So then you got your other more different tube going up to here. Okay. So there's your thing. So theoretically, okay. All this all this like water okay it's got the gravity it's got the gravity on it right okay so the stream's super delayed so i'm just seeing this now but like oh my oh that's that's that's even pretty bad for like for you and paint like this is the next level of low. Luke, can you just chill for a second, okay?

We have descended further into the Diablo 1 castle. So here, I'm getting a different color. I'm bringing some production values, okay? Nice, nice. Okay, so we got the... Here's some water. No, no, shoot. Hold on.

I screwed that up. Oh, wait. No, no, it's fine. It's fine. I can fix this. I just need the paint bucket and some blue. Hold on. I don't want to redraw the arrows.

It's too hard. Okay. Okay, so there's your water. We got some gravity water. Okay, and then this water. Oh, no, gravity water. Okay, hold on a second. I need some gravity waves.

What color are gravity waves? They're brown. Okay, so here's gravity waves. Gravity color are gravity waves? They're brown. Okay, so here's gravity waves. Gravity waves on the water. They're going down. Okay, gravity waves. Okay, okay. So then we got some more water in here.

Let me just, we're doing a little science lesson. Got some water, okay? All right. So I think we can all agree right now that the gravity waves on this water are neutral, neutralized, right? Because this water is going neither uphill nor downhill. Okay, we good?

Luke? I won't be able to see it for a little bit. The one going across. I'm going to say yes. The one going across. Okay. Oh, cool. Yeah, sure.

Yeah. All right, cool. So that's the gravity waves. They're canceled out. Okay. I think I can actually screen share with you through Discord. let's just do that okay nice there we go we good we good we good okay yes i'm up to date now gorgeous uh hold on a second i think i just screwed that up by uh minimizing the discord thing uh okay yeah sure it should be fine okay so we good we got gravity waves right here

yeah okay uh so then we've got the gravity waves that are pulling this water down the hill right right here yes okay good but then we've got the gravity waves that are pulling this water that's trying to go up down impossible that water will never make it because there's gravity it'll never make it because of the gravity. Okay. Yeah, okay But here's the mind-blowing thing This is this is what I think Felix is maybe not aware of is that water is Basic for all intents and purposes non compressible Okay, so what happens is that as the gravity pulls down this water here?

We're gonna get some more arrows in here. I need just like a thicker thing. As the gravity pulls down this water, okay, that water comes into the pump, into the reservoir, okay, so it gets into the reservoir and then it rises again. We call it the resurrection reservoir. Okay. So it goes down and then rises again because this gravity force down here, it actually enacts like an equal force pushing this water up. So within a closed system, gravity is effectively... Because the pump is there, I think not really. It would just be pressure from the pump. No, no.

I'm only talking about the impact from the brown waves, Luke. Only the brown waves. be pressure from the pump. No, no, I'm talking, I'm only talking about the impact from the brown waves, Luke. Only the brown waves. We're ignoring the pump, okay? Because he's saying gravity is affecting it. So I'm just demonstrating why gravity would not affect it. Without friction, okay,

if you started this water moving, it's a perpetual motion machine. It would go forever because gravity would not stop it because the force that gravity exerts pulling the water down equally affects pushing the water back up. That's the point I'm trying to make. Okay. So basically the only way that gravity can affect a loop, okay, is right here. If this line is too long, okay, this line goes like this.

Or not too long, it goes up too high. And the water never actually reaches this point right here where the gravity starts to cancel out and it goes down the hill and back. So that is where the specification for pumps, that's where the head pressure starts to matter. Okay. In the event that you had a situation where the pump had to push water up a long way, like let's say, for example, that I wanted to dig up my backyard, bury a bunch of copper tubing and do like a geothermal cooling solution for my server room.

Totally hypothetical. Haven't had Colin look into this at all. What I would need is down at the bottom, like at the ground level of my house, is I would need a pump that has sufficient head pressure to push the water up to the second story of my house in the first place. Okay? Once it's up there, once the water's moving, if in some way I was able to prime that system and fill it with water, it would not

be an issue. So once the water starts to fall to cancel it out, we good, but you do have to have sufficient pressure to get the water over the hump in the first place. So that's what I was trying to explain. And that's what this diagram, I think, very clearly demonstrates. Okay. Is that all crystal clear? It's essentially a perfect diagram. Yeah. I also just have a question of when that diagram on a shirt will be available on the LTT store. I'm thinking probably never. That's maybe a good thing. Yeah, I hope maybe that'll make more sense. But yeah, pressure is essentially the answer to all of it. All right. Okay, cool. So let's go ahead. Oh, wait, people couldn't see the diagram. Couldn't you guys see the diagram i'm pretty sure

i showed it maybe maybe not near the end i was definitely able to see it on the stream before you started sharing on on discord all right cool well sorry about that guys sorry we're doing we're doing our best here we're doing our best here all right so let's go back to let's go back to the stream here boop i need more monitors somebody said tubes down won't fit with the GPU longer lifespan of the products you're at like 1120 right now and then you install the thing on the bracket and then you bracket it in that was such a beautiful moment. I was so happy Why? Dude, it's fine. You got the other holes. It's okay. It doesn't fit dude. It does. It's fine

Well, we're gonna be using those then then we have to use those then people are gonna tell them to flip it around, right? Apparently I'm still out by the way. I know so the problem is his stream is super quiet Okay, you know what I can adjust you. No way. Hold on. Give me a second Okay, we should be good Other NZXT. Dude, the fans are on the wrong side, man. Guys, the wire's on the other side. Fans can go on any side of the radiator you want.

It doesn't matter. If they're on this side, then they blow. And if they're on this side, then they suck. The wire goes inside the computer. This goes on the outside. This is going to hang the whole thing together. The fans then need to go inside the fucking bracket. It doesn't matter.

So like this then. That's fine. The bracket goes at the back. And then the bracket goes inside at the back. Logo, outside, punks, inside. I had it right the whole time, dude. I don't know if you had it right the whole time, but yes, fundamentally what you're saying is sound. So the logo, the sticker. Oh, man.

Okay. He gets so happy when I'm like, yeah, you did this one little thing right. Wait. Over the radiator. You also, I will say, you also seem genuinely proud of him when he does do something correctly.

It is completely installed just fine. I mean, the fans... Stern and honest, but on his team, which is cool. I was on his team. I want to... Look, from the very beginning, I wanted him to succeed, man. No, he does have the tubes at the top.

So yes, the fans are sticking right up next to the window. Okay. I mean, that's not going to affect the functionality of the top. So yes, the fans are sticking right up next to the window. Okay, I mean, that's not gonna affect the functionality of the machine. ROG Strix Gaming Graphics Card, GeForce RTX 3090, Nvidia Asus Aura OC O'clock 2.40 GPU Juicer. There it is. I don't think that's gonna fit.

That thing, it's an enormous card. If it wasn't COVID, I would just fly out there and build it for him i can't screw it it's actually not lined up this was so painful man you just gotta you just gotta kind of you know it's weird because he's saying like it's not lined up but he's showing i can see how that would be really confusing for people i have seen so much worse than that like and even then the GPU Doesn't you line up dude unless you're meant to use the squares part, but I don't think so. No, please don't do that You just don't get there dude

Meanwhile he's showing that like you can totally see. You can see daylight through them, Luke. Luke, we can see daylight. I don't know, but it looks completely fine to me. I don't understand the problem. DCI back plates sometimes don't quite have the mounting holes. He wants to say something.

I figured out what was the problem. If I de-bolted the motherboard a little bit, a tiny bit, and I loosened it and I pushed the whole motherboard to the side and then re-bolted it, it would have given me a bigger play zone to get the screws in. I love his wording for things. A bigger play zone. Yes. Okay. Yes. Yes. What he's talking about is the differences in manufacturing tolerances from one case to another.

So as long as you kind of like have a little bit of wiggle room, it can help. 2.8 grand. I'm actually just like kind of doing what you need to do. You gotta have, you gotta put some force on it sometimes. You gotta understand that the kinds of costs that pc case manufacturers are targeting it's just it kind of comes with the territory okay i'm gonna re-box most of this stuff i can't chat with you in your case there you go corsair honest consumer review your case a disaster the good news is i don't think any of this stuff is broken okay now i feel worse because at the beginning it was pretty clear that he was just,

pretty much knew what he was doing, but was kind of like playing a character. Then by the end, it's obvious that he was ready to huck the GPU at the wall. So Felix, if you're watching this, my offer still stands. I DM'd you. I would be happy to walk you through this.

We can make that case work. You can destroy that case, get rid of it, do whatever you need to do, donate it, get a different one, but um... Just let me know. No. Cause uh, I'm- I'm here for you, my fellow- So the case was a disaster. Does he agree? Does he agree that the case is a disaster? No, I don't agree the case is a disaster.

I think you agreed, right? No. Canadian. No Hey look at him learning about FreshBooks I do I will say this Yeah There seems to be at least a bit of Honor with the Twitch people

That will I thought the fractal was pretty good and it's got built oh he's talking about the case he's not learning about fresh books okay go ahead luke the most of people on twitch that i've seen watch youtube videos will watch the ads every time really yeah oh interesting i think that's like actually kind of cool okay got it got it got it okay here i think yeah i think it's like like he watched your he watched the ridge wallet at the beginning and he's like oh cool like they also like don't like trash it and stuff no that's cool that's cool i see i don't know that much about twitch culture like yeah i'm streaming on twitch right now or

whatever but like that doesn't mean i actually have any idea what their what their deal is over there it's uh i'm learning i'm learning though i'm learning we keep hiring zoomers so i keep learning more stuff uh we i i got i got an hr complaint luke um i i received an hr complaint from uh some of our editors that one of our new editors who's not off probation yet so we uh we're not giving her name yet but one of our new editors and then nicole okay ganged up on a couple of our older editors and called them boomers because they had never heard of xqc and kept accidentally referring to him as xkcd sounds like they're boomers to me it kind of does sound like they're boomers to me if you don't know if you don't know xqc but you know xkcd you might be a boomer that's that's all i have to say about

it okay so hold on let's hear let's hear his let's hear felix's uh wrap up here whether you're a tradesperson creative agency or youtuber they've got a plan that's right for you and if you're having trouble their award-winningwinning Toronto-based support team is always happy to help you. Very nice. So don't wait. Try FreshBooks for free for 30 days today. No credit card required at freshbooks.com slash Linus.

Normally at the end of our videos, we throw to another similar video we've made that you can go enjoy. But since we... Fractal, yes. Bite, we can match. Oh, okay, because you have one. Makes what I have right now. Like this before, why don't you go watch Linus reads mean comments?

They're me I'm not really the cut Well, that was very nice Okay, he didn't roast me too hard cuz he didn't roast me too hard by the way chat Cuz I was yes It's just um, I can't tell if he's upset or not. First of all, you're hitting a table. Oh, he switches it over. Oh, true.

Oh, man. How hard can it be? If Linus can do it, it's your fault, Linus. You made it look easy. True. Oh, come on now That's not that's not fair Guys I'm not subscribed to guys this yeah, this is my business account boys. This is this is a business account I got the business account. Oh

I'm sorry. I I didn't mean to I didn't mean to I just thought I don't know why oh He was so close to just liking the videos with this dude. I'm not I never like her dislike videos I'm sorry chat. I didn't know it is my friend bento guys birthday. Can I get a happy birthday Ben? Okay excuse me guys birthday can i get a happy birthday ben okay excuse me now hold on a second guys i don't know how to explain the game and even if i did it it would still question mark me okay i don't know what it is about communicating with other people hi chat smile smile smile i just i'm just not the best communicator like uh five months somebody will show interest or they want to help whatever and i'll send a one dm and then yeah so he wasn't saying that he like or he can't reply to you yeah yeah yeah oh i was mostly just teasing because the okay was it not

clear that i was just teasing earlier because i tell people exactly the same thing. I apologize. I'm just like, look, I'm so sorry. The reality of it is that I am, I get a lot of emails and I mean, you've probably seen me pull this at trade shows. I actually hate trade shows. I get like the worst anxiety about it. And the reason is not because I don't love learning about new tech. I mean, Luke, you go through the same thing, quite honestly. You've been here. And it's not personal. It's just that I get this really bad anxiety at trade shows because no offense to anyone else. And I'm not trying to make this like an ego thing or anything like that. Like just like Felix, I think it's really easy for me to talk about this and have it come across totally the wrong way. But the reality of it is when I go

to a trade show, I meet every single time. I meet somewhere in the neighborhood of probably 200 to 400 people will introduce themselves to me. And that's ignoring the extras at parties. I'll go into a booth. There will be a whole bunch of people that I've never interacted with before from like the European or Asian offices of some, some company. They'll all introduce themselves to me and say their names. And then I'll go and I'll do the same thing 45 minutes later with some other company. I'll do the same thing 45 minutes later. I'm running on basically no sleep, not enough food. Like, so what happens is you do this enough times.

Like I can't remember it. I'm not retaining it because when my brain's in trade show mode, it's in like, okay, I need to remember absolutely everything there is to know about this product so I can talk about it for four minutes without having to consult a piece of paper or notes. You're like pump and dumping memory. Exactly. I remember, and you taught me kind of how to do this way back.

I don't know if you ever remember, but you'll remember almost nothing about a product like five minutes after you leave the booth. And it's just, it has to be that way or else you won't be able to do the next video. Exactly. You have to like be able to do the next video exactly you have to like be exchanging that memory as fast as you can and you get into this mode you get into this groove and so what happens is unfortunately because i've been going to trade shows for over 10 years there will be people that i have met under these, literally five or six or seven times, and I will walk up and I'll be like, hi, Linus, nice to meet you. And they'll be like, yeah, we go through this every year. I feel so bad.

You got to stop saying nice to meet you. That was one of my tricks. I don't say nice to meet you anymore. I would always try and get it right because I know i'm not going to remember the name so i will try to at least get right whether i'm supposed to know who they are or not but then sometimes i'd sometimes i'd i'd go for it it'd be a clear miss you know and uh you know i just learned to i just learned to accept that there was this really nice guy who worked at Antec when I first met him and who I think moved to, I want to say, Razor.

And it was like, oh, man, it was like four or five times I did this to him. And he was like, yep, I like flew out to the NCIX headquarters. I briefed you on this case. We had a one-on-one briefing for over an hour. And this, this time I really just didn't have any excuse because like, but the thing is I was focused on the case. Like that's how I am. I'm like, I'm all about the product. I'm all about the tech. I'm not, Luke, I'm going to, I'm going to confess something. I'm going to confess something on stream. I'm not much of a people person. You know, I got into the, you know, this, you know, this, I got into this line of work because

I'm not a people person. The people happened by accident. I didn't ask for anyone to follow me. You know, I just, I got, I got tapped. I got tapped on the shoulder to make the tech channel because I cared more about memory timings than going out on, you know, with my friends because I didn't have any. You know what I'm saying? I just... Yeah, I was kind of in the same spot. You're the one that kind of pushed me to go on camera.

Originally. Oh, man. I just... So anyway, the point is I am basically exactly the same i'm always apologizing to people for forgetting their names for not replying to their emails because i i just i have no i have no brain space for that like my inbox i leave things marked on red because there is otherwise absolutely no chance in hell that i will ever remember to look at it again. I mean, even things like, you know, remembering important events for my wife or something like that.

Like, I have a doc of, like, ideas for special occasions and stuff like that. And I have, like, calendar events. Like, hey, Valentine's Day is coming up. like calendar events like hey valentine's day is coming up there's this one time when we've just started going out that um i pulled like the biggest bonehead move i think i've talked to you about it on the land show before so i'm not gonna go real deep into it but pretty much i we were at school and i like invited her to come over after school which was no small feat because we went to school at ubc which is at the very, very west end of the Vancouver area. And I lived in Maple Ridge, which is by train,

which is how we were going, about three and a half hours. So if we're done class at like, you know, early afternoon, mid afternoon, we're only going to get a couple hours together before I have to drive her home. One small problem. So she was basically giving up her whole evening to spend it on the train just to kind of hang with me for a little bit the problem is she thought i had something special planned because it was her birthday so she thought i remember this but it's been a while she had plans with her family that evening that she bailed on because she thought her boyfriend had something really special that he was going to do for her for her birthday. And it wasn't until we reached

the train station. Okay. The West coast express. It wasn't until we reached the train station. And it's not that I don't know her birthday. I know her birthday. I just, I'm a bit of a scatterbrain, you know? I didn't know what the date was. I didn't know the date. I know the date of her birthday. I just didn't know the date today. So I got my train ticket and it had the date in big bold letters on it. I went, holy sh**. had the date in big bold letters on it i went holy so anyway point is yeah yeah that's a big l

big l big f big oof big everything so i'm i'm just trying to say i'm sympathetic okay let's go back let's go back to Felix's thing. So I'm just saying I get it. I get it. I'm in... I think it's pretty much done. I'm in different brain mode. I'm just going to see if he says anything.

Jamming. And I end up not replying to anybody. Oh, God. This is kind of weird. All right. Okay, we'll call it. We'll call it there hey you know what um thanks felix for watching the video i'm glad you enjoyed it i'm glad you recognized that i wasn't trying to roast you too hard it's not it's not really my jam like i don't want to start any drama with anyone i legitimately just want to help and you know i like you You seem like a nice guy. I've tuned into your stream a handful of times just in the lead up to this, just kind of being like, okay,

who exactly are we like pseudo collabing with? You seem like a nice guy. Um, I, you know, maybe a bit of a scatterbrain, but I get it. So I love that he says in his stream there, but i get it so i love that he says in his stream there i'm a dm him yeah he didn't i think so he's honest okay he's honest i'm a dm him but by the way i never dm anyone because i get grooving fair enough i get it i think i think you have to be to be like at that size on twitch and you're trying to manage that audience and stuff you kind of have to be a scatterbrain. Yeah, you got to be able to tune out in a certain sense and you got to be able to kind of engage like tentacle style in another sense

because you got to be able to like take all this input. I mean, I've said it time and time again. I have, I don't envy streamers at all. You know, even the massive ones that are making a million dollars a month or five million dollars a month or whatever it is. You know what? Power to them. I wish them all the success in the world.

I want absolutely no part of it whatsoever because that job looks way too hard for me. Truthfully. I stream from time to time. Like I do it enough and I know video presentation. I know online media well enough that even though I'm not going to call myself

some kind of master Twitch streamer or anything, I know enough to know that I don't know enough and to know that I don't have it. I don't got it. I don't got what it takes. Like I could survive as a twitch streamer but i would never i would never be a top tier personality in that space we've even had some some really good ideas i think for for stream style content more longer form stream style content but that's one of the reasons why i think we've never really

yeah dove into them yeah just because yeah it kind of takes a different different type of person it's a different kind of mind man uh float player is reminding me about the sticker book i couldn't find it i am i'm so disappointed right now i'm sure i have it somewhere so i'm gonna do my best you know what actually i just had one more idea one second idea. One second. Nope, I don't have it. So no, sorry i can't i can't find it unfortunately uh we've got a couple other topics today that we should probably talk about though facebook is blocking all news posts sorry what's that they're doing everything they're blocking news posts they're making watches they're they're yeah they're all over the place so in australia

and canada which have in common that they are considering some kind of link tax legislation facebook committed to blocking australian news content entirely on its platform rather than complying with australia's proposed news media bargaining code and so how the block works is australian news publishers cannot share or post content no news link can be viewed or shared by an australian user and international users cannot see or share australian news content but as everyone should have expected like absolutely everyone when this happened they categorically failed in a lot of different brutal ways, one of which is hilarious. A lot of pages were caught in the crossfire because obviously the filter wasn't perfect.

Obviously. Things that were caught in the crossfire were fire departments, food banks, charities, and even Facebook's own page. So good. Oh, my goodness. Whoopsie-daisy. This is a response to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's proposed legislation that would make search and social giants pay to link to Australian news content. Essentially, the government is trying to tackle being the middleman of the imbalance between publishers and platforms.

Yeah. The law would ensure platforms are notified of any major algorithmic changes the platforms make as well, which is pretty problematic. I can see why Facebook would just say, no, forget it then. We're out. Because if I'm Facebook, yeah, I consider that a loan, never mind just the money that it's going to cost them to pay Rupert Murdoch's empire for the privilege of sharing that news. Aside from that, if I'm a company like Facebook, my algorithm is, that's the keys to the castle. to the castle like i i've spent millions upon millions of dollars developing this algorithm that makes me able to keep people sucked into their phones like absolutely nothing else on the planet there's no way i must start just like telling because remember they tell anybody they tell everybody yes yeah i'm not i'm not just going to start telling people what i'm doing with my

algorithm because and you know i've talked to i've talked to google about this a lot with respect to youtube whenever you notify or inform anybody about these changes immediately they start to game it and people are going to try to game the system anyway but at least you know security through obscurity right like by obfuscating it you at least slow down the cat and mouse game and if you constantly change it while always obfuscating it hopefully you can keep people in the dark enough that it's a more level playing field uh meanwhile uh hold on a second google has already inked about a billion dollars in deals with publishers there so google is going actually kind of sort of good guy here um trying to want to see it yeah i don't know i mean i i get it i get it you know there's a value to there's a value to reporting there's a value to

news media and it's clear that that business has become unsustainable in a way, like especially doing it properly has become unsustainable. And so finding some way to prop it up is honestly not, I don't know that this is the right approach, but finding some way to prop up journalism is not a terrible goal at the very least. In a weird way, because this is for search, right, as well. So I wonder what this would do to setups like DuckDuckGo like in a way are they effectively like crushing everyone other than media giants because who's going to be able to

build a system like this and I don't know the terms I have no idea what the terms are so maybe they have my understanding is that it's mostly targeting the big players on both sides. Yeah, okay. So meanwhile in Canada, we don't have a clear idea of what Canada's approach to a link tax is going to be. Just weighing options.

But Facebook is proactively taking steps against Facebook. And Stephen Gilbeau has condemned Facebook's action and vowed that Ottawa will not be deterred from drafting similar legislation. Can you imagine that, Luke? If Facebook just like pulled out of Canada? I mean, how easy would it be then to just be like, hey, you know, mom, maybe don't be on Facebook. And then we could just use something else.

My parents don't really, yeah, we still communicate with the overall family that way i guess but actually no it's a digital i think my mom's been keeping up with the web show because my mom's been communicating with everyone through signal i just thought about that over the last few weeks it's moved over interesting i know she does remind me every once in a while we'll talk about something she's like you know i do watch that's hilarious so she heard you swear she heard you say that bad word she probably did she probably did our last big story of the week the xbox series x got an update that's giving console gamers 60 plus FPS consistently via their FPS boost tech for select previous generation games. So five previous gen games are going to get major frame

rate improvements on the Series X, including Far Cry 4, New Super Lucky's Tale, Sniper Elite 4, UFC 4, Watch Dogs 2, and there are more titles that are going to be coming. So it requires no extra work from developers. This is a system level optimization, which is basically, as far as I can tell, just means a validation procedure that the game will just like run at that frame rate and then unlocking it. But the good news for gamers is that the new tech gives gamers a reason to actually go back and replay older backwards compatible titles that have FPS boost enabled for a better experience, aka PC gaming.

You know, I've been meaning for years. You know what? Yeah, I was talking about how I don't have professional Twitch streaming, you know, in my blood or whatever. But you know what? I'm going to do some Twitch streaming. Maybe not this weekend

because I got to work this weekend. But I'm going to replay Far Cry 1. I have been meaning to replay far cry one for years on the best hardware i want to do ever into diablo diablo one okay i i didn't wasn't really paying that much attention so i i'm pretty sure they're remastering diablo 2 but i think they might also be remastering diablo 1 that could be pretty fun remastering diablo 1 i can't think of a reason to remaster diablo 1 it was an extremely shallow game like i i liked it as a kid but i i would i don't think as an adult i could get into a game

like i think i think blizzard's current strategy is okay maybe it's just diablo 2 i think it's just diablo i think their current strategy is, okay, maybe it's just Diablo 2. I think it's just Diablo 2. I think their current strategy is to just re-release everything they possibly can. I mean, they're remastering and re-releasing, or maybe not remastering. I don't know. I wasn't paying that much attention. But Lost Vikings is having a re-release of sorts on every platform on the planet, along with a couple other of their older games, but I wasn't as familiar with them.

Some racing game that I know they're famous for but again i i don't know um and a shooting game that i had never heard of before i still remember this super weird blizzard game that was like you're supposed to like kill chickens or something like that i i remember yeah i remember um I remember, yeah, I remember, um, oh man, where is it? Yeah. Something, something, something, something. Uh, one of, one of my friends in high school showed it to me. It was like on Mac or something like that. I was like, I've never, I've never heard of this game before. This is made by Blizzard. And then I, I've never been able to find any information about it again. And I think all you pretty much did was you like had a crosshair and you just like slaughtered chickens or something i don't know if anyone remembers maybe i'm just totally totally

out to lunch uh if anyone three games that they're releasing that i'm talking about it's the blizzard arcade collection and it's the lost vikings blackthorn and rock and roll racing oh rock and roll racing is sick that's a great game i'd never played it oh it's so good for super nintendo yeah i i like knew about it we just we never had it and back then that was a you know oh i uh only one who had it because so i couldn't sneaker it either i never had it back then either so yeah but you know emulators it's yeah the soundtrack is like amazing it's rock and roll racing it's freaking awesome well i think that's pretty much it for the show today you guys thank you for tuning in we will see you again next week same bad time same bad channel apparently it's not

rock and roll racing it's mega race something? Something like that? What? Mega race? What is? Apparently, you know what? We're going to do it. I never raid channels, but we're going to raid XQC because, you know what? What the heck? Why don't we do it? So if anyone's watching over on YouTube or over on Floatplane, head over to Twitch.

We're going to start the raid after the outro plays. Super chats? Oh, wait. No, we're going to start the raid after the outro plays. Super chats? Oh, wait. No, we're going to start the raid after we do a few super chats. Thank you, Luke. BuildDog says, running that train game. Hey, thanks. Switchblade says, we all know YouTube is perfectly balanced and cannot be exploited.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Gregory, my Australian Facebook feed has no links except sponsored adverts and YouTube videos. It's all just friends posts and memes. It's kind of nice, but it's going to force Normies back to TV and other mainstream media. That's one fair point. I'm not convinced Facebook news is any better. If I've learned anything from the spiffing Brit,

literally nothing is perfectly balanced. Justin Carlisle says, first time live on the WAN, hoping for help with my mouse problem. I have quite large hands and the G502 is not working for me. I wanted to know what's a good large FPS mouse. Looking at the Model O wireless. Luke, you got any thoughts on big baseball mitt size hand mice? Oh, you're muted. I have generally liked the larger format Logitech mice. I have always found that they work a bit better with my hands.

But yeah, I know there's a trend and I understand why for mice to be smaller and lighter these days. And I get it. I get it. It's just not really for me. Gabriel Johnson says, Last episode you talked about letting OnlyFans people on Floatplane. Would you let weed YouTubers on Floatplane? I don't see why not.

I mean, we wouldn't allow illegal content, but as far as my understanding is, there's a lot of weed content that would not qualify as illegal. So we're not going to allow anything dangerous. Like if they're showing... As with everything, because we monitor the content on the platform,

we review new creators, it would be on a platform. We review new creators. It would be on a case-by-case basis. Yeah. Abdur says, Hey, guys, about to head to bed. Talk to you tomorrow. Falls in UK. All right, fair enough.

Ilya says, So it's been two weeks with Madison. What are your impressions? Any regrets? No, she's doing a great job. I think she's doing an absolutely fantastic bang-up job. I mean, we hired her based on her qualifications, not based on the community saying to hire her.

We just happened to be finally at a point where we were ready to hire a social media coordinator. So we went with someone that we knew our audience was already in love with, who we thought had a good amount of both competence and memory that we thought would be a good amount of both competence and memery that we thought would be a good reflection of our image and our approach to community interaction. I think she's been doing a great job. All right, it's raid time.

Hopefully you guys are over on Twitch if you want to participate. We're doing it. See you later. Let's roll that outro Thanks for watching!