The WAN Show - YouTube Nerfing Video Quality ON PURPOSE?? - WAN Show Mar 27, 2020

Episode Date: March 30, 2020

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OK, because he has been sitting on the line with me for about an hour with me not being ready to broadcast we're only an hour and 23 minutes late it's not that bad yeah that you know what okay here's the thing we've done worse so a lot of you so a lot of you are probably wondering why we are broadcasting from the comfort of our homes today. Luke, what's your story? Why are you at home? Why can't you just go to the office so that I could video call in and we could use the regular stream setup, Luke? Well, in my defense, I don't know if she wants me to talk about this. My girlfriend is high risk for the current thing that's out in the world that

I'm not going to name because we're allowed to talk about it now. Uh, YouTube has eased the restrictions on talking about COVID. Oh, okay. Yeah. So it's all good. My girlfriend, my girlfriend is high risk for COVID for some reasons that I'm not going to bother going to. And that makes, she's elderly.

She's elderly. She's over 80. So 20%, 20% risk of mortality. Yeah, you know. It's okay, Luke. We get it. We understand. Just being careful for that reason.

Yeah. Going out only when I really need to. And I didn't realize it was going to be a problem, to be clear. Yeah, it was a big problem. If I knew it was going to be a problem, I could have just done the setup on my end. We could have just done the setup on my end we could have just done the same thing but reversed why didn't you suggest that i could have done that so much faster i mean okay i was going to suggest for next week we might want to do that

what you don't you don't like my setup here wait okay i forget like the obs side of things and stuff yeah yeah sure whatever whatever you say i, did you ever end up with a video feed of me? No. Okay, cool. So Luke has no video feed of me. But the good news there is that that means that if I... Ah, yes, okay, good. I think I can add an item to our scene here.

Yeah, here we go. So here's my laptop webcam because I want to show you guys what the streaming setup looks like today, hopefully without disconnecting anything. Okay, so on my left, here we go. On my left, I have this USB dongle, which is my ethernet connection, my HDMI out to an external monitor, and my USB connection to... Okay, ignore that USB audio interface. We're not using that, but we're using that USB capture card over there.

Okay, hold on. Wait for it. It gets even better. The HDMI out connection is to this external portable monitor on the floor, which is what I'm using to both see Luke's face and bring him into the OBS scene. On my right is a GoXLR USB XLR interface. And then I was supposed to use some XLR microphone, but I was having issues with the stand that they sent me now that I'm sitting on my couch because I couldn't use my TV, and using my computer upstairs was not convenient

because it's in a separate room, and so plugging all this stuff in via USB had the potential to cause a bottleneck because I just have one USB 5 gigabit per second link over optical. So what I decided to do was use my XLR wireless microphone. So this is a lavalier mic. So I'm wearing that pack in my lap right here. Okay, so that's on my belt.

And then to monitor audio, I have these headphones plugged into the GoXLR so that I can hear myself and make sure everything's all good. And then I have in-ear monitors, which I am using to listen to Luke. And that's just plugged directly into the laptop. There's so many solutions happening all at once. That's amazing. Yes, and none of them are great.

No. It's an actual miracle that this is working as well as it is right now. Okay. So why didn't your desktop work? Because so much of this would be so much easier if you're on a desktop. Okay. My desktop was going to be a pain in the butt because I don't have a convenient way to mount a good camera behind my monitor because all I've got is a big tripod. So I would have had to use a webcam, which I thought we weren't using, but then you went and showed up with a webcam. No one told me anything.

I knew nothing. Look, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. The point is I look better than you for the first time ever in spite of my three days of self-isolation facial hair that I've got going on here. I like it, by the way. Thank you.

I haven't commented on it yet, but I actually think it looks pretty good. Thank you. And so, okay, so there was that. Plus the fact that my desktop is in a different room from the monitor. So that means that I have only a single 5 gigabit per second optical link, and between the capture card and the audio interface and all the other things that I have on there, my mouse, my keyboard, everything, I was worried that I would overcome that link. Now, I do technically have a Thunderbolt dock there, but my Thunderbolt dock or the cable

or the Thunderbolt interface on my AMD motherboard, super weird, one of those things is not working. It is not working. So I was like, okay. Oh, also, there's no convenient way for me to light that room. There's just a bunch of problems doing it next to my desktop. So then I thought, okay,

I'll do it in the living room with my media PC. And then I realized, what was the problem with the media PC? I don't remember. I don't remember. There's some problem doing it through the media PC. And so I settled on just broadcasting off my laptop. Shout out to Dell, too, because this XPS 13 2-in-1 is handling this like a champ. I'm at like 60%

CPU usage and 70% GPU usage. And yeah. I'm good. As long as I got my dongle, my life is amazing. If I don't have my dongle, my life is over. So if that dongle gets disconnected, this whole stream

is done. Completely done. Why don't we talk about what kind of topics we've got for the WAMP show today, ladies and gentlemen? Doesn't this feel like such a throwback? Where the first half of the show is why the show is an hour late? Yeah. We're just doing a retro stream. That's all that's really going on. Yeah.

You know what? Honestly, this whole week has felt like that. I think talking about what it's been like to work from home is definitely going to be a topic for the WAN show this week. Yeah. You asked me if I had any other topics, and then I have only just now realized that I do. One of the topics that I would bring up is that I've been helping my dad and the KPU plumbing department in general switch to online education. So that's the Kwantlen University is what KPU is. Kwantlen Polytechnic, yeah.

So that's been a really interesting experience, and I would like to talk about it. We've also got AMD and Xbox GPU source code gpu source code stolen that's amazing that seems terrible um apple is restricting cloud gaming services on ios which is uh basically par for the course i guess for those guys but um you know we'll talk about what that means for game streaming as a as a as a whole what else we got that's interesting lu Luke? Firefox begins paid ad-free service. It's interesting. That's spicy. And then of course, oh, sorry,

I thought you weren't gonna do it. You go ahead. Well, I don't know which one you're gonna do. Well, the headline topic. I was thinking maybe we'd do the headline topic. You know, that makes sense. YouTube default playback is now 480p. Ooh, what?

Oh my. What? Spicy. Don't go. now 480p. Ooh. What? Oh, my. What? Spice it. All right. So we're going to roll the intro, but I want to warn you guys in advance. There's nobody. There's nobody. There's nobody. you know what i don't care it doesn't matter it's over that was it that was the only time we were

going to experience that on today's stream because realistically i'll forget to do the other thing all right so let's talk about youtube defaulting video playback to 480p because that is a pretty bizarre thing for them to do, at least in normal times. So there are users that have been reporting in Europe as of last week that YouTube has been defaulting them to 480p, not even regular HD resolution, and now that change is being rolled out globally. So we actually had a handful of people at the office notice it today.

Actually, I believe it's, yeah, Alex is the one who posted this in the WAN show doc. But there's actually a very reasonable explanation for all of this. You know, Luke, would you consider dropping down Floatplane's default video quality in this time and why? I don't think we're going to have the impact right here here comes the cell phone um like youtube turning down their default playback would would result in a very large amount of users that aren't going to bother click a button to change video quality, which is maybe not of the people watching this stream right now, but it's probably a relatively large group of people that watch

YouTube. It's going to result in them sucking up a lot less of the world's bandwidth, especially when everyone is stuck at home. And this will like... Especially when there's Philistines and wouldn't have appreciated it anyway. Yeah, yeah. And this will actually very likely make a noticeable decrease on the internet usage of the world, which is crazy. And Flowplane would not be in the same category at all. So I COVID-19 pandemic has caused a massive uptick in global Internet usage for a variety of reasons. So number one is that people are stuck at home with nothing to do.

So what are they doing? They're going on Netflix. They're gaming. They're watching Twitch streams. They're going on Netflix. They're gaming. They're watching Twitch streams. They're playing... Didn't Steam log their most ever users online? And that was without any kind of crazy launch. That was before the Half- Alyx launch. That was... I mean, what, Doom Eternal was coming out around that time. And there were a lot of people playing it, but what was it, like, 20 million concurrence or something stupid like that? And if I remember correctly,

even just like Counter-Strike itself had like the most users it's ever had, which is kind of nuts. And it's not like there's been a crazy big tournament in the last week or something that's been, oh yeah, I need to go play CSGO again or anything like that. Just people are sitting at home with nothing to do.

And then the other big factor is going to lead us into our next topic here pretty nicely, is the explosion in work from home measures that are being implemented by employers. So basically, the cold hard truth of it is that unless you absolutely have to, as a business, you are not shutting down. And like, that's a good thing. It's good for the business owners. It's good for if they're's a good thing it's good for the business owners it's good for if they're big enough businesses it's good for their shareholders and it's good for the employees people want to work like my staff is not coming to me and saying hey i'd really like to get laid off right about now no honestly i mean i think some people have

this perception that like if there's a government, that people would like to take that. But we absolutely are working on something. In fact, I think there was some news about that today. Was it like $1,000 or something like that? I don't know. Whatever. I don't know. It was supposed to be for people who are impacted by the COVID-19 outbreak.

But there's literally no one on my staff that's like, yeah, I sure would like to not have a job. And I'd sure like that government handout if I can have it. So our goal as a business is to be as operational as we possibly can, and all while keeping other people safe. So we've probably got a good... What percentage of people are actually in the office right now? A third a third maybe no one from floatplane for sure yeah no one from floatplanes there if you count those guys we're probably closer to like a quarter yeah so so basically the only people in office are the studio management guys so tyler and matthias are in because they need to actually physically move things around. We don't have any of our regular shooters in right now

because Brandon's on vacation. And I think he could have been like, oh, you know what? You guys are kind of short-staffed. I could probably not take the vacation. But the flip side of that is he had his vacation booked and that's a perfect opportunity to quarantine yourself for two weeks.

So he's been hanging around at home as far as I can tell. David's out self quarantined. He got a note. Sorry. Why would I not? I'm not. Why does it matter? Oh, I guess so. Okay, well, whatever. So the point is, everyone's out. Yeah. Okay, well, whatever. So the point is, everyone's out. And the only people who are in are we've got some of the editors in. We've actually been experimenting, though, with people editing from home, which I didn't think was going to be possible.

But this is kind of crazy. We've got a video that's going to be coming out about this. Do you know Parsec? Yeah. Okay, so for those who are not familiar, Parsec, okay, you know what, hold on. Before I transition to this topic, I do want to finish up with this. Basically, yeah, there's an explosion in work from home measures, which is a combination of remote access to files or to desktops, file sharing that's being done sort of over the internet rather than over a local network.

And then another big one is video conferencing. So who is it? Shoot, I forget. Is it Zoom? I think it's Zoom was saying that their user base just like absolutely freaking exploded overnight. So it's having a significant impact. So I think we had positioned in the title and thumbnail of this video

YouTube degrading quality as like it might be some kind of a bad or outrageous thing, but actually it's fantastic because as long as people don't care enough to click, like two clicks, two clicks is all it takes for them to change the quality. So if they don't care enough to make two clicks, then they can significantly decrease the amount of bandwidth that they're consuming. And that gives us an opportunity to have better internet for people who need it more, like people who are working from home or offices that are trying to coordinate remote workers. Yeah, I know from my experience trying to work on this i mean most most of the float

plane stuff is is just fine all we all we really do collaboratively in terms of videos talking to each other is we do like meetings twice a week and those have been not really impacted i didn't expect they would be um but my my dad's thing and his school, I've worked on a Discord server for them and we set up, it's actually kind of a cool setup. Every teacher has their own category and that category has like a few different text channels and a few different voice channels

and they all have interesting permissions and everything set up so that you get like enrolled in a class when you join the Discord server and then you get access to just that channel and blah blah blah um but getting streaming working for them was a hurdle um because they're not like twitch streamers they're they're plumbing instructors so that was and they've like never heard of discord before other than my dad um and and all this other kind of stuff, but they've been, they've been picking it up and we, we ended up figuring out that like don't think you can stream through Discord with OBS, but I used that as like a Canvas program. So they were able to lay out their screen

and then full screen projector source their whole scene and then capture their screen, if that makes sense. So this is interesting. The chat is basically exploding with people saying that they are limited to 720p are you guys talking about the stream we're on right now or are you guys talking about youtube in general so uh let us know guys let us know which is limited to 720p right now but that's the source so i think you're streaming in 720p oh okay, okay. It doesn't say that I am, which is weird. So I just checked, I saw that. And so I decided to check the OBS settings and it's definitely set to, oh,

oh, I don't have rescale output checked, but it says 1920 by 1080 next to that. You know what? I didn't, I didn't. Oh yeah. Okay. It's because I created a new profile and it's seven, it was in 720p. Remember when I had to change the streaming settings? All right, sorry about that, guys. Yes, this is a 720p stream today. All right, yeah, so don't worry about it. It's all good. That's not YouTube-wide. That's just yet another thing that went wrong with the stream today. All right, so let's talk about some other remote work stuff. One of the things that we've been experimenting with is Parsec.

So for those of you who are not familiar, Parsec is a company that's really focused on remote gaming. So that's a space that's really exploding right now. You've got NVIDIA with their GeForce Now. You've got Sony's offering. You've got Microsoft, Project xCloud. You've got, who else did we, oh yeah,

Google with Stadia. And then, of course, you've got some of the more kitschy niche ones. We actually got a ton of criticism in our recent roundup of game streaming service for not including Shadowtech. And I feel like it must have gotten cut in the edit or something because we did mention them but we had decided not to include them in a roundup of these game streaming services because we really felt that Shadowtech was almost a different category of game streaming service not that similar to something like a GeForce Now or especially a Google Stadia. So what Shadowtech is is a virtualized desktop. And basically what they're running is they're, if I recall correctly, they're taking each box, which has many CPU cores and then multiple GPUs,

and then much like we did with 7Gamers, one CPU, or six workstations, one CPU, they're cordoning off those resources. So every one of these virtual gaming rigs gets its own GPU and then a segment or a chunk of the CPU cores. And then what you do is whenever you want a game, you can use any device you want, whether it's an Android phone or Android TV even,

or a laptop, and then you remote into that virtual desktop and you use the performance of that virtual desktop in order to play your games or edit video or whatever the case may be. All right, so there's a reason I'm telling this whole story. Anyway, maybe we should do a follow up where we check out Shadow Tech compared to these other solutions. But what's different about it is that when you log into a shadow box, you're basically just looking at a desktop. You have to install your own games and stuff. There's no pretty launcher and stuff like that. You're just using a computer. It just happens to be 100 miles away or 1,000 miles away or whatever the case may be So we didn't really consider it to be a proper mainstream game streaming service also anecdotally

I've heard that their waitlist to get a shadow box is like six months or something like that and Every time we mention it apparently it gets really really bad So if it wasn't six months it probably will be again now that we've just mentioned it on land show because when we did our sponsored video for them a while back apparently they just were buried for like actually months in requests because there's a limit to how much data center space that you can get and how quickly you can you can scale up like there's cash flow considerations so back to um parsec parsec is kind of Shadowtech, except that instead of remoting into their data center to use the machine, you remote into your own computer to use it remotely. So totally different from like a GeForce Now or Google Stadia, because you actually have to own the hardware, but it's

like Shadowtech in that you are able to access it remotely and use it as though you're sitting in front of it. And Parsec, like ShadowTech, has really put a lot of emphasis on a couple of things. Number one is keeping their latency as low as possible. And number two is working on both absolute and relative mouse movements and making sure that they are translated correctly across this over internet access connection. So what that means, I actually had to ask what that meant. I was familiar with the concept, but I didn't know the terms. So absolute mouse movement refers to when you move your mouse and your pointer moves corresponding to it. And then when you pick up your pointer, it stays there. Okay, relative mouse, or when you let go, it stays where it is.

Relative mouse movement refers to when you're rotating an object within a CAD program, or you are gaming, where your mouse pointer is actually sort of virtually centered in the screen, and then you're just like panning around. And so that movement is relative to its starting point, not that it stays there. Does that kind of make sense? Was that a good enough explanation, Luke?

Yeah, yeah. Okay, cool. So anyway, as it turns out, a bunch of the work that Parsec has done to make it great for gaming also happens to make it great for gaming also happens to make it great for video editors or 3D designers or people who work in game studios who are working on animations or modeling. So I thought that was pretty cool. They actually just rolled out a professional level service and it's got not much going for it right now, actually.

So you have to pay for it per seat. And then you have the ability to have multiple monitors, but only by switching between them. And TeamViewer can already do that. But TeamViewer is much laggier. It's a totally different experience. So you can have multiple monitors, and then there's like administrative

stuff. So an administrator can determine who has access to which stations and things like that. But it's fundamentally the same technology. And we actually have tried using it for remote video editing. And it's not color accurate enough. Like you would still need to do a local, you'd have to like take your finished project and do a passive color correction. You would still need to do a local. You'd have to take your finished project and do a passive color correction. Or you'd have to have one person at a central location that's like your colorist for all of your video projects. But in terms of the responsiveness,

it's basically the ping time between you and the server, which, because our office happens to be like crazy, crazy fast and like a super high tier, low latency connection is pretty good for all of our workers who happen to be in the Vancouver area, plus about a frame. So that's your total latency. So it's pretty work withable. It's not perfect, but yeah, we're going to have a video coming about that. What have you guys done to make remote working easier? I mean, you've got remote people already, but I guess it hasn't been much of an adjustment. Yeah, I was going to say everyone went home

and then they kept doing their jobs. There wasn't a lot of adapting. Yeah, that's pretty much it. Everyone was already set up to be able to work at home. It's, it was, it was extremely not an issue. It took maybe less than a fifth of a day for one or two people to adjust. And then that was about it. Okay. So our side is pretty simple. Here's the big question is, will this experience change anything about the way that you work moving forward? And I'd love to hear from people in the chat as well.

In my opinion, no. We've already been set up at Floatplane for a hybrid of remote work and local work. plane for a hybrid of remote work and local work. Uh, we have already set a precedence that it's okay, but preferred for you to be in locally. And I still think, uh, like I've seen a lot of posts going out about like, Oh, they said working from home was impossible and look what's happening now. It's like, well, no, it was, it was extremely unreasonable given that it was fine to come in and work locally. Um, and I would still prefer that everyone is local. So yeah, I don't, I don't think anything's going to really change in that regard. Um, yeah, this was, this was in terms of the difficulty of switching how we work this was extremely light

touch for flow plane because flow plane was extremely well set up for this already right oh okay people are complaining about the volume levels okay don't worry guys i'm working on it i'm working on it i turned loop down i turned me up sorry about that um I mean, for me, man, I don't know. The thing about video production is a lot of things work a lot better when you're in person. And one of the things that I get a lot of feedback that people like about working at LMG is people don't like the commute. We have people who live in Vancouver and are commuting all the way up to Cloverdale, which is not great. But I've had multiple people, without me prompting, bring up in their annual reviews last time around that one of the great things about LMG is that they could go for a beer

with literally anyone on staff. And depending who it is, they might not be BFFs or whatever, but it'd be a good time. It'd be a good time. Yeah. Good. And I feel like it'd be really hard to have that level of camaraderie and that kind of a team dynamic if you're not in the same place, doing the same stuff, seeing each other's faces, you know?

It takes work. And like, honestly, a decent part of the reason why we have those, uh, those two meetings, the Monday and Friday meeting is so that everyone at least hears each other twice a week. Right. Um, and I'm not even kidding. Like there's, there's been a not insignificant amount of those meetings that at the end of the day probably didn't need to happen, but they don't take that long they're all pretty short unless there's like a big discussion that needs to happen and we needed the meeting anyways but if that isn't there they're all pretty short and at least everyone checks in with each other there's that vocal check-in because i know sometimes there's there's a lot of loss in translation when it comes to just communicating through text oh

yeah especially if english isn't everyone's first language. Like, I know you've got people overseas and people not overseas, people in Canada. We have other languages in Canada. Yeah. And different cultures. There's different approaches to problems. We have multiple cultures in Canada.

Yes. Yeah. And there's tonal shifts and expectations in terms of communication that happens differently based on different cultures. So one culture might think that a certain form of communication, even if the language medium is the same, if they're both speaking English, they might think that a certain form of communication is very respectful. Meanwhile, different culture might think that that exact form of communication is notably offensive in some way. Yeah. Like boomers, for example. Have you noticed they put ellipses on everything?

Like every time my parents text me, I'm like, you know how ominous this sounds, right? Have you noticed that? Yeah. Yeah. And the single K? Yeah. Yeah. K with ellipses. I'm like, you know what that means, right? That means it's not okay.

That means the very opposite of okay. Yeah. But they don't seem to get it at all. to bridge those communication issues by getting people in voice because tonality can change so much of the conversation because you can just hear in someone's voice if they're like pissed or not. And if they're, Oh, go ahead, go ahead. And if you add video on top of that, that can often be helpful to another level. Uh, it might not be another level that's really beneficial or helpful depending on how, uh, kind of adapted your team is at this point, how much time they spent together, if they get each other yet or not. But like if we were to bring a new member on the team right

now, I would probably push at least the majority of the team to try to have video enabled in meetings for the first little while. Just so that you can see body language on top of tonality well part of it too is like a social credit not like china's social credit system but i i i mean like an interpersonal relationship type of credit like if you as a company you all go like paintballing together and everyone has a blast the next time someone butts heads at work you're gonna have a little bit of like goodwill in the bank yes to make it easier for that to not escalate into something really nasty you know when people have those kinds of you know yeah man good times good times when people have that to to fall

back on i feel like it helps a lot and it's hard to do that not in person i mean gaming's great but it's not quite the same either. Like, you know, we've had, we've had you and the girlfriend over for, and we end up like sitting and playing video games and like, that was a ton of fun. And the game that we were playing, uh, Lovers in a Dangerous Space Time, there's absolutely no reason whether it's through Steam or through a service like Parsec, for example, which is also like a local, it's like steam or through a service like parsec for example which is also like a local it's like internet local multiplayer is one of the things they specialize in um there's no reason we couldn't have played that game from separate locations and we could still do that

actually it's not a terrible idea maybe we should play some more of that game anyway but it's more about just like getting together and hanging out um I wanted to take a couple of comments from viewers. So Alex Shepard says, my company is already talking about maybe not going back. Probably by the time the COVID crisis subsides, about 80% of our company won't be in the office. Yeah. That doesn't surprise me that much. It's a reasonable conclusion. Sometimes what needs to happen is necessity

for something to change. So like it might not have been worth the work to swap that over for a long time. And then you have to suddenly. And now it's like, well, because I have to, it's inherently worth the work. So now we can switch to this new mode. And now it might even be more work to go back the other way. Yeah, yeah. And the company might be able to save a significant amount of money by reducing office space or whatever else. Yeah, and not just that, but there's like an overall benefit to people as well. Like, have you noticed when you have had to go out, how little traffic there is?

Oh, yeah. When I was commuting last week before I got like a bit of a, I don't even have a sore throat. It's not sore at all. I just have like a bit of a, like kind of a bit of a occasional wet cough. Like I've coughed once this entire WAN show and like my voice is low. Like I feel otherwise a hundred percent fine, but I'm just like, yeah, I clearly can't be in the office right now. Even just the optics of it. Even if i went and got tested and they were like no it's not covet 19 just the optics of being at work sick right now is just terrible so i've been so i've been working from home but when i was commuting last week i've been getting to the office in 15 minutes normally it takes me like a third longer than that i haven't even and no i

see the look on your face no no no not because I've got my foot on the accelerator. There's just no traffic. There's no traffic. Nobody's out on the road. It's kind of crazy. I've been talking for a long time. You and I have had this conversation before about future cities and what working and in-person communication and stuff might look like in the future, because the current state of these like places in the world that are hyper hubs of human population with super, super, super expensive land and rent and all that kind of stuff. and all that kind of stuff. Um, it's, I mean, I guess it's relatively sustainable, but it would be way easier if people were able to spread out, but with the need to communicate into these dense

areas, people usually want to pack in like crazy because employers want access to more potential high skilled employees. Uh, so you want to put your office somewhere where there's lots of people and then everything crams together and where where your, you know, dick feels the biggest as well. That's another thing that really, like, annoys me. There is no reason why, you know, both sports stadiums in Vancouver need to be in downtown Vancouver. Put them somewhere else. I mean, when the Olympics came to town, they were like, okay, let's put the skating oval in Richmond. And let's put this stuff over here. And let's put that stuff over there. Yeah, yeah, why not? What a novel idea. Just put it at the end of a train track. Yeah. And I mean,

I get it. I get it. That's the entertainment district or whatever. And there's lots of restaurants around there and stuff. You know what, those restaurants still going to be there. And if you go and you put a sports arena somewhere else, the restaurants will probably come. I mean, isn't that what city planners do? Isn't that their job? And at least if you were somewhere else, you know, everyone who needs to get to work or get home from work on a game night would actually be able to do it. That would be cool because there's much larger arteries and I mean road arteries. There's much larger arteries kind of outside the city because they're designed to bring people into and out from the city. Um, but yeah, that's, that's a, that's a whole separate conversation.

Uh, Chad Lafarge says at my job, everyone, not just the tech guys are going agile. So people are doing 15 minute standups who work in finance or compliance. Cool. It took me a long time to go look at the chat, so there's actually not that many comments about it anymore, but that's fine because we kind of need to talk about our sponsors today anyway. Unfortunately, I don't have any... Oh, that was weird. Okay, whatever. We're not going to fix that right now.

One of the sponsors is Displate. I don't have any Dis any displays to point at because i without thinking ahead intentionally positioned myself on a blank wall um luke had the the foresight to at least put like a fern and some you know tasteful wood paneling behind that was not me that was i know it wasn't i know it wasn't for sure sure. But anyway, Displate. They're metal prints that are magnetically mounted to your wall without as much risk of damaging your wall because they just use like a sticky thing. And then they've got a magnet on that

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So if you're bigger than me, like 5'6", what is that, 185 centimeters or whatever that works out to? Whatever, 180 centimeters. Okay, so that's how big I am. I'm not big enough6". What is that? 185 centimeters or whatever that works out to? Whatever. 180 centimeters. Okay. So that's how big I am. I'm not big enough for the BlackPak. So, you know, you go ahead. You get a BlackPak if you're larger than me. Otherwise, they've got tons of different sizes, tons of different styles. The BlackPak has a 27 liter capacity. It's made of 1680D ballistic nylon for durability. It's got an exterior water bottle pocket that is large enough to fit the LTT water bottle. LTTstore.com. It's got built-in cable management and an available

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PIA will work in China because it's a constant arms race and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But I think it was because PIA was working for me at that time and I just never got around to cancelling it. And so now I've been using it for years and years. And they now feature WireGuard,

which is in a beta state. There's no bandwidth caps. They've got configurable encryption and an internet kill switch to make sure that if your VPN disconnects, you don't accidentally leak out any data. So if you're, you know, let's say you're torrenting movies or whatever else, you don't want a nasty letter from your ISP, PIA is going to make it so that they can't tell what's coming in and what's going out.

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Jake was the one who sent over this one, because we didn't have it in the pack that Jono sent. That was another thing that went wrong when we were trying to start the bloody show today. Yes, that is what my voice sounds like right now, which is why I've been recording all my videos from home this week. So you like the work from Home Scruff, hey?

I mean, I guess you would, or you'd have to at least say you like it, because otherwise how would you justify it? Mine is out of necessity, because i look terrible without one i think yours just looks good i know you've you've experimented a couple times but i think this like level of scruff looks pretty good i think it makes me look very very homeless uh Yeah, it's funny because I will I'll look at myself in the mirror and I'll be like man, I look awful

and I'll like try and fix my hair and I'll be like oh, I've got like two or three days of stubble that's the problem and I'll go shave

and be like yeah, that's better because let's face it there's no fixing my hair. Mind you, today it's kind of funny this is actually no gel I just like kind of ran this is actually no gel i just

like kind of ran my hands through it before i went to bed because my scalp was itchy not because i intended to do it and then i slept on it and it was like it's weird like see it's only at the front it's like it's like a peacock in front of the face kind of kind of working though i have an issue where i needed a haircut like probably a couple months ago and I was just putting it off like I normally do. And then now everyone's like stuck indoors and I can't go to the hairdresser anymore. Oh yeah, personal services are literally closed like by law. You cannot go to a hairdresser in British Columbia right now. So it's getting pretty bad.

It's really long. Like, it was already to the point where it was, like, kind of, you know, I really should have gone by now. And now it's been two, three weeks since then, and it's just insanely long. It's going to get to the point where, like, if this ends up going for a very long time,

I'm probably just going to buzz it again. It's been a long time since then. Okay. What do you think? Should I order the top five trimmers off Amazon and do a review? That could be interesting. Is there an opportunity here? You can't go to a hairdresser anymore.

Yeah. So as a guy, how do you take care of yourself yeah exactly i i would i would personally watch that i already own one anyway but like that would be that would be it's not very good i actually hate it so this would be an opportunity for me to expense a new one yeah i mean there you go. Solved. All right. What else we got to talk about today? Oh, okay.

That would be an interesting little series of videos, actually. It's like what you are doing to make the best of this COVID-19 thing. Like, what is Linus doing? Well, I mean mean i do have that work from home thing coming up yeah i'm gonna be talking about how can you use tech in this time to like better yours and your family's lives while stuck at home i mean i would say you know if you can afford it a vr headset is a great way to make exercise fun uh when you're stuck at home because that's the other big one is i have like look at these shakes oh you can't you can't see me you'll see it in 15 seconds or whatever but like that is my badminton withdrawal i have not played badminton

this is the longest i've gone without playing badminton in probably years I play at minimum once every two weeks. Like if I've gone two weeks, Yvonne knows there's like, there's no negotiation. I need to go play because we've worked it out such that I don't really do anything else. Like I'm not, I'm not out at the bar or like, like I don't have a social life. So like the one thing I do is I go with my badminton friends and I play once a week. And if I miss one, then I definitely play the next week. And if it's not on my regularly scheduled night,

we're going to move it. We're going to put it on another night because if I'm traveling on that night or whatever the case may be. And she's super cool about it. She'll always cover for me with the kids. But I haven't been able to because all the gyms are closed. So I cannot play.

I actually did the, this is the most stupid, total, like, dumb impulse purchase that I have made in quite some time. But one of my friends showed me this. Let me see if I can find it. It's like this weird thing. It's like, oh yeah, I think I found it. It's actually a coach in Canada that developed this thing.

And I don't think it's going to work very well, but I just, I have to have something to get my, to shake my sillies out. I just covered you with it. So it's a little like, I think it's made of like wool or something. I don't know what it's made of or like yarn, but it's a little ball that's about the same weight and kind of apparently feels the same to hit as a badminton shuttle. the same to hit as a badminton shuttle and you can kind of practice some of your your reflex drills and your control drills and hit it against the wall without damaging your wall and i was like okay how much is this wow 15 for three little stupid balls that is way too much money but i'm gonna do it because i am so bored so i bought that's interesting i mean it's not like the most insane thing ever

and it's only 15 bucks i try not to waste money on dumb stuff like that as i know i know but that's not my jam if it works unless it doesn't which is the problem with dumb stuff like that. It never does. But if it works even to a remotely acceptable level, and it helps you manage your COVID time, I don't think $15 is that bad. Okay. Have you made any dumb purchases because you're stuck inside? Nope. Zero.

You've never bought anything dumb in your life, right, Luke? No, I'm sure I have. I'm very sure I have. But I haven't bought anything. I bought food. Yeah, yeah. Toilet paper. Got enough toilet paper? We already had a decent amount because we had done a Costco run kind of like the week before all this kind of went down. Because we had done a Costco run kind of like the week before all this kind of went down. And it was one of those big like restock the long-term supplies Costco run. So we had a fair amount already. I'm going to finish, but I'm going to interrupt you right there.

Sure. If you run out of toilet paper and you have even the remotest amount of difficulty finding toilet paper, do you make the switch? Do you go bidet already ordered oh but you're not classifying that as something dumb okay because that was already planned before all of this happened all right i've been shopping for one for a while they're annoyingly expensive so knowing me it took a very long time Um, you still haven't bought a better chair, have you? No. Uh, well you did, but then you returned it. I did. Cause it wasn't very good. And then I, so that's, that's the, so I had this chair that had fallen apart and was a piece of trash. And then I, uh, bought an apartment, uh, that, that came with furniture and it had the exact same chair as mine

uh the exact identical model so i was just like well i'm gonna drop kick this chair into a uh dumpster thing a municipal waste thing i don't remember it's supposed to go there whatever um and use the new chair and then the new chair is already like i don't know uh luke exercise tips you know you don't have any weights or whatever just lift chairs so it's uh it's already destroyed it didn't take very long i think it was kind of on its last legs because Costco hasn't sold this particular chair,

as far as I know, for quite a while. I'm surprised you didn't take the other one back to Costco. That seems like such a Luke move. I'm surprised. I'm not sure if I'm more proud or disappointed. Because I'm proud of you for not being that guy, but I'm also disappointed because I expected you to be that guy. I don't usually do...

Maybe I do. I was going to say, I don't usually do cheesy returns. And then I was like... Yeah, no, you do. Yeah, okay. I'm still looking for a good chair. I think I know roughly what one I'm going to get. But I've been frustrated with chairs for a long time.

Logitech has a Herman Miller cross-developed chair coming. I know, right? What? Yeah, Logitech and Herman Miller. I think it's Logitech and Herman Miller. Hold on, don't quote me on that. What is Logitech's involvement? Well, it's a gaming chip.

It's for gamers. Okay. But what did they do? Just design? That's Herman Miller's job. I don't know, man. They made it for gamers. Maybe it has RGB or something.

I don't know. I don't know if there's any pictures out of it yet. Yeah. It's probably worth giving it a shot. I'll look into it i'll look oh herman miller and logitech joined forces to create high performance furniture solutions for gamers high performance furniture solutions i love it logitech g is committed to creating the best gear for gamers make that possible through unique collaboration process between art herman miller was the obvious choice for over 100 years of experience.

I don't know. Hopefully they do a good job. But yeah, so the bidet thing. Oh, you're calling your cat through this microphone? Yeah, sorry about that. Not the one the stream listens to? Calling my cat. No, I turned off the stream's mic.

It's actually really nice having a mute button right next to me. Oh, and I can also swear like this. F*** it. It doesn't mute. Oh, no, it doesn't mute it for you. Yeah, you can hear me just fine. I muted it for the stream. Or I beeped it.

I beeped it for the stream. Yeah. Yeah, because I'm using that GoXLR thing. We did a sponsored video for them a while back. And I've been meaning to set it up at home so that when I'm streaming, I can like bleep myself. That's my favorite thing about it. We used it on the WAN show one week. It was actually kind of fun. It's all you can. Yeah. Oh, there's a hundred ways you could do that. But this is just all in one. It's very simple. Just a little button right there. I'm down with it. It's just yeah,

it's not it's not impossible to do other ways. but yeah, the, the bidet thing there's, there's, there's a lot of options, but I think the, the like path to which one's a good one is a little bit more clear than a chair. Um, and I already had my kind of eyes on one. I was just like, yeah, this one's probably a good purchase, but it's really expensive. And then it was like, COVID happened. There's no toilet paper anywhere. And I was like, okay, boop. Yeah, just time to go for it.

Do the thing. Yeah. Really what happened was my girlfriend came up to me and was like, so I know you take a long time to make expensive purchasing decisions, but can you kind of expedite this one a little bit? Wow. That is probably the most tactful way of calling your boyfriend a cheap ass that I have ever heard. Yeah, that's probably fair.

That's great. But yeah, that pushed me along. So that's ordered. It's not here yet, but it should be here in five or six days. And we definitely have enough to last us until then. So we'll be all right. All right. Why don't we talk about the AMD Xbox GPU source code stolen?

So this was posted by RC Mail on the forum. And the original article here was from Tom's Hardware. So AMD source code for Navi 10, Navi and ardent gpus has appeared online and the hacker hacker responsible claims the information is worth 100 million and is seeking bidders well that's like wow i've even got the cat 100 million dollars get real but also i don't know if i'm nvidia do i know they can't they can't there's there's no way that would be just like so an additional line is the hacker says uh it says she in bold i don't know why i don't know why it matters but the hacker says she will leak everything if she doesn't get any buyers uh so i think really what's going on here is the it's worth $100 million. I think it's more like maybe it's worth $100 million for you.

To AMD. Yeah. So AMD, there does seem to be some credibility to the claim. So AMD was apparently initially contacted by the hacker in December and has filed at least two DMCA takedowns against GitHub repos that contained the stolen source. GitHub has removed the repositories, but there are other sources, including via a post on 4chan, hosting leaked information.

Yeah, DMCA and GitHub is not going to solve anything. She claims she found the unencrypted information in a computer slash server that was hacked remotely. AMD says the leaked information is not core to its competitiveness, and the company is taking legal action to remedy the situation, including working with law enforcement officials. So it sounds like they don't intend to pay $100

billion. Million, but... This is good. Dashie, you're being a very good prop right now. Can you sit with me? Thanks, sweetheart. Good job. Oh, you're're gonna sit with me for now she's hanging you can hear her purring that's really cute i've only got one cat now so i'm gonna spend as much time as i have with that cat yeah makes sense um but yeah i think that's

mostly it for this news just say about that i don't think amd is going to respond by giving this person money because that will obviously not solve anything um because like data theft is always interesting like yeah i'll give you this money to not leak it and they're like you still have it yeah thanks for the money guess i'll leak it yeah exactly i don't know there's no actual thing stopping them from from leaking it at that point so like gee i sure couldn't copy this to another hard drive yeah um one thing jake just sent me which i think is super super valid to bring up uh is that the linus tech tips folding team oh yeah killing it right now the linus tech tips folding team is actually bigger than the default folding team right now

which i don't believe has ever been done yeah that's the default actually insane is when you start folding at home and you just don't configure anything and you're just like yeah i just want to like be helpful which is probably going to be most people it has always been the biggest contributor uh in terms of points and the ltd team let me just bring up the extreme overclocking uh folding stats right here just have a have a look here but we cracked like a billion points a day like a little while ago, a few days ago, or something stupid like that. What are we up to now? So Linus Tech Tips team, there we go.

We are up to 56,000 active users. And 2 billion points is our 24-hour average. The last, today, we have done 2.48 billion points. Now to put that in perspective, the folding team has been running for like eight years and it's always been pretty active through the forum. Those guys are freaking awesome. We've done a few little things promoting the team,

but honestly, they've been mostly this self-perpetuating machine. They've been incredible. Like we'll do a giveaway once in a while to people with folding badges, and you get folding badges by being on the folding team. But really, it's been those guys just trying to help out. So they've been running for eight years,

and we're at 132 billion points altogether over eight years. We did 2.5 billion points today. That's nuts everyone's everyone's totally chipping in it's awesome uh glad to see it um i also want to give an individual shout out to jake because he is 12th on the team and that's pretty cool yeah he's probably using stuff from work it is also nuts that jake who is probably using stuff from work uh is 12th on the team with a 24 hour points average of 200 uh 2.6 million there is someone on the team with a 24 hour points average of 11.8 million uh that's probably uh there's a guy that works at liquid uh they do like composable pci express

infrastructure or something like that and i think i see liquid on here they are currently ninth oh really oh i wonder if he had to pull it off because yeah he had a machine that was capable of like i i i don't remember that's the points average over i believe the last 24 hours so maybe something's going on i don't know but either way there's there's lots of people on this list that are absolutely killing it everyone appreciates you thank you very much i think we have a topic in here actually if i can bring back up the dog i have an update on that by the way so uh we alluded to in our first video about folding a week ago, we alluded to that there are not enough servers. So since then, one of the videos I filmed at home this week was actually

building our folding at home ingest server or like a job server. So we're going to be giving that half of our internet connection at the office. So five gigabit. I believe Jake has it deployed and we're just waiting on the folding guys to do a final validation on it, and it's going to start issuing jobs. So we're going to have that video coming out, I think, on Floatplane this weekend, or it'll be a double release on Monday, because there was one more clip we wanted to do where once it's formally up and running, Jake was going to video call me in because I can't go there.

And we were just going to like kind of go, oh, look at these bandwidth stats and CPU usage stats and how many clients are connected. We just wanted to like see some stats. That would have been like kind of a fun payoff for the end of the video. So we're just waiting on that

and then we're ready to go. But it should theoretically already be running over this weekend and we'll just be filming that clip maybe Monday morning. Then we'll throw the edit together and throw it up as a double release on Monday. That's awesome. That's super, super cool. The additional news I wanted to throw in here is actually another one of our topics. Folding at home surpasses all known supercomputers.

The folding at home network is now 10 times faster than any individually known supercomputer. It's faster than the top seven supercomputers in the world combined. It is so cool. I think the coolest thing too, is that like, since this has happened, where it's like, oh, like, i think it was like america or something um hired out a bunch of different supercomputers all to work on this and then in response there was a bunch of news articles being like folding at home is way more powerful than all of that um i hadn't actually heard a ton about this before then meaning that this is probably a majority of like grassroots forum nerd type of

people jumping on it which is awesome is pushing his users to to get into it um i know that uh tom's hardware and a non-tech have like a friendly competition between the two of them like the two forum communities um so there's there's absolutely been other guys that have kind of kicked this thing into high gear and then my whole thing is like I'm sorry you're going to try and take our spot that's our spot

so not only are we going to hold on to our spot ladies and gentlemen but we're going to take a new spot we're going to take the biggest spot the greatest spot so yeah I'm really proud of our community and not just ours, but just all these other communities that are, that are pitching in. Yeah. Yeah. It's, it's super cool. I just, I just have an appreciation for it, I think,

because it's like, even, even if you're not on the, the Linus tech tips team, it's still, it's still kind of like our people, you know? Um, so I, I just think that's, that's still kind of like our people. 100%. So I just think that's really cool that our segment is able to step up so much in this time. I think that's pretty awesome. Let's talk about Firefox having a paid ad-free program. So the source here is the Mozilla blog. And let's talk through what it is. So Firefox Better Web with Scroll is a new test pilot initiative where

users will pay to get an ad-free browsing service on partner websites. So it's $2.49 a month for the first six months. That's $2.49. So that's, what is that, like $0.42 a month or something stupid like that? And then it goes to $5 per six months after that. Unlike typical ad blocking, publishers will actually get a cut of the fee to make up for

the removal of ads. So it's kind of similar to what Brave Browser, I guess, is trying to do with their tokens. But it's not crypto-based. It's traditional currency. So where it's like, it's kind of comes down to like an attentiveness credit. Early tests showed that sites make at least 40% more than when they just display ads. Like if you guys were wondering why websites are so plastered with ads, and why they're so obnoxious, like why they're all audio ads and auto-playing video ads,

it's because ads don't pay basically anything at all. So if you're actually relying on ads to support your business, I can see why people get desperate and start putting like obnoxious stuff on their websites. Like for us, we're really lucky. Minus tech tips.com, the forum has like two ads on it or something stupid like that just because we were like, I don't know.

All the cool kids are putting ads on their websites. There's like an Amazon affiliate program link or something like that. And I don't know. There's usually something down at the bottom. We have like display banners that roll through. And we get companies contacting us all the time. They're like, hey, we noticed that your website doesn't have a lot of ads on it. We think this could be a great monetization opportunity

for you. And they show us what they figure they could do. And they always get our traffic numbers wrong and stuff like that. So they don't know exactly how much money we could be making. But they throw some sort of projections at us. And we kind of go, look, that's a rounding error.

We'd rather the linus tech tips forum just continue exactly the way it is the way that people love it and change absolutely nothing about the way we monetize it versus like you know the couple hundred dollars a month or whatever that it's going to bring in like it just doesn't even register for us and quite honestly with the contributors that we have on the forum, it's a break-even proposition as it is anyway. We don't actually spend a lot on it. Volunteers like Colonel Mortis spend so much time making sure that the website is running smoothly. And so the way that I see it is if we were to turn around and heavily monetize that thing, A, that's really a stab in the back

to the people that have contributed their time for which they weren't paid to build it. And B, we're going to lose all our staff. How are we going to run the thing? So all of a sudden, I get to make more money, but now I just have to pay people to run it. That's not useful. That's not good business. Mortis has laughed at us in the past and been like, you guys suck at making money. We could probably make money better on this website. So there you have it, Mortis. I just actually don't give a ****. It means nothing to me other than that it's just a great website where people go to get help with their problems okay that's it mortis is amazing thank you very much mortis colonel mortis and of

course all of our moderators yes absolutely i get man i got cc'd into just like the dumbest moderation thread because the user like didn't like what the moderator was telling them and they like cc'd me into it as though i was gonna come in and like rescue them and i was like no actually like the moderator had typed like these long explanations they're so good yeah i agree actually amazing why what they were doing was wrong and made no sense and i just was like i'm not even gonna reply to this they got this this 100% under control. If I step in and I'm like, yeah, you know,

my name's on the site or whatever. And like, you know, I'm like, I'm the Linus of Linus Tech Tips. Like I'm not doing anything useful. Honestly, LinusTechTips.com at this point operates almost like a completely separate entity. Like it kind of does. And like, honestly, one of the, I'm still in the, in the communication platform that the forum moderators use and all that kind of stuff.

And I often go in and read stuff. And every time I'm like, oh yeah, this looks like it like probably needs my attention. I'm like, oh, oh, okay. Cause I keep reading and eventually they solved it better than I would have anyways. And I'm just like, oh, all right. They got this because they're amazing. Oh, there was something else. Right, right. So we were talking about how, but not everyone has the luxury of their community forum being like a fraction of their revenue. A lot of publishers do rely on them. And so, yeah, 40% more than what they made for displaying ads. That sounds like a better internet for everyone.

So unlike Brave, which blocks all ads and gives users the option to fund websites, this test pilot would only block ads on partner websites. So publishers that don't wish to partner will continue to be able to serve ads. But Mozilla uses a customized enhanced tracking protection setting in order to block third party trackers, fingerprinters and crypto miners, which could impact those sites ability to monetize if they don't join the program. And they expect to just keep being able to, you know, mine crypto in the in the background on your computer when you go to their website.

That's fantastic. Do you think chrome would ever do this uh i don't think so really because i was gonna say i think so youtube basically has this with youtube premium so google has definitely shown that there's a precedent for it my point oh um okay so i i would go with google makes so much money through their ads, right? And like, I would probably argue, no, I don't know. I actually have no data on this. I'm not going to argue either way. But I was going to argue that the majority of ads on the internet were going to be Google ads. Well, Google makes money through, not ads. If we break it down one more layer, Google makes money with data.

So this program might actually give Google an excuse to collect even more data. Now, if they couldn't serve an ad to you directly with the data... There's still other ways to manipulate the populace. There's still other ways to steer people in purchasing directions, like predicting Google searches and other things like that. But yeah, I don't know. My gut reaction says they wouldn't, but they totally could. The question I have for you is, would you do this? For what? I know, I know you don't, uh, you don't use Firefox, right? Your main browser is Chrome. So, uh, if Chrome had this feature and it was identical, would you pay? So the only reason I bought YouTube Premium was because people at work complained that when they need to go back to our library

to rip a video off of YouTube for whatever reason, like if they can't find it on the vault or if we're borrowing content from someone else, the easiest way for us, like if we're like, yo, Austin, can we use a clip or whatever else, the easiest way for us to get it is to just rip it out of his video. And so when people are on YouTube for work, they were like, you are literally paying me to watch ads right now. It's probably cheaper for you to just pay for YouTube premium on the LTT account and then not pay us to watch ads.

And I was like, that is very sound logic. Probably true. Yes, I will buy. He actually made me buy it on TechQuickie as well. He's like, well, I am often logged into this account and it would save me having to switch accounts. I was like, wow, that really actually doesn't seem like that much work to switch accounts.

It's breaking down a little bit now. But fine, whatever. I don't care. It's like, what is it, like $8 a month or something? In the grand scheme of things for Linus media group incorporated as an entity that is not a lot of money so i was like okay fine if this makes you a happier a happier more productive employee then i guess i'll let it slide um but for myself i mean I think we've talked about this before. Like I have a superpower, you know that, right? My superpower is that I don't see ads. Yeah. I cannot see them. Like I can,

I can sit and I can load up a video on YouTube and it'll have an ad on it. And my brain will go into this trance like state and then the skip ad button will appear and i will press it and then if you ask me three seconds later what that ad was for i would not be able to tell you unless you prompted me ahead of time to like pay attention to the ad because you were going to test me on it later i would not have seen it i i um i would have to look into it more than this tertiary look that we're making right now. Would you consider it though? I would. I absolutely would.

Because if it's done in a certain way, I feel like it could lead to a better internet. Okay. That's one way of looking at it. If it doesn't, it's going to have to promote clickbaiting to a certain degree because every reasonable financial model does. Oh, yeah. So like whatever people dislike about clickbaiting, you can't get away from that. But if we got away from all this kind of junk that's going on and we could move to websites being ad free. I think that would just be better for the world. Um, and I think, I think everyone ad blocking everything is not the answer.

Um, and I've had a really weird mixed opinion on this for a long time where like, I have ran ad blockers in the past because I don't want my computer to get infected with terrible things because lots of ads are terrible things, terrible things. But at the same time, I mean, Mortis does these days, but I used to run the LinusTectives.com forum and we were always extremely friendly with our ads and everyone always told me that they would whitelist websites that handled ads properly and then basically no one did no because it's it's the kind of thing that i think people tell themselves like yeah i'll whitelist the creators that are like really good or i'll whitelist the websites that like do a great job of maintaining a minimal amount of ads but like we actually have numbers

you guys don't do it no why don't we just all stop pretending yeah and and the line of sectors forum has always been good in terms of ads um like from from any reasonably objective point of view and basically no one turned I'd block off. I'm sure there's two of you, whatever, but like it, it, yeah. And great. Thank you. But not, not enough that it made a difference. Yeah.

Um, and I think this could make, uh, more websites that are better, more viable, if done properly. And that is something that I think is really good. So I'm not a huge fan of the state of the internet right now. And I think it could be better if it wasn't so ad driven. And if websites weren't so desperate because it's so hard to make money, partially because of partially their fault, partially other people's fault, and partially the people blocking ads fault. It's a combination of people blocking ads, clickbait and listicles and like the kind of junk that people click on sort of

not having a very low barrier of entry for people to create. there's so much of it so then there's so much ad inventory out there that it drives the prices down yeah it's it's and then and then people abuse it's a it's a it's a vicious circle essentially it's the ouroboros eating itself um and i this just to me if done properly and if enough people embraced it uh could could free us from the vicious cycle maybe i'm probably being too optimistic but um i would just like to think that way i guess so i would definitely try it right now uh firefox better web with scroll is only available to customers located in the united states so so i won't try it um yeah you won't try it. Go f*** yourself. Yeah, you won't be trying it. It's so weird to hear that because I know they don't, but I do.

So it's like, whoa, you can't say that on the internet. This is a Christian Minecraft. Yeah. So hold on. We've got one more topic that I wanted to hit today before we uh before we uh go through some super chats oh wait no can you uh uh uh hold on hold on uh nick is going to kill me if i don't talk about ltdstore.com i Guys, we have a shipping promo. So it's for our Canadian home dogs. Let me just try and remember what it is.

Yes. So from the WAN show right now through Sunday night, it is going to be $5 shipping for all Canadian orders. Also, we have a new product that just launched that's all just our old products it's called the mystery shirt so this is basically

a mix of shirts that didn't sell um or that were like promotional limited time ones where we just had kind of a few odds and ends um there's some stuff in here that's like uh the reserve inventory that we hold on to in case um you know someone has uh they get the wrong size or whatever else so that we have a little bit of inventory on hand to deal with customer service problems so these are ones where we feel like okay yeah it's been a while we don't really need any of those anymore so um mystery shirts just launched $12.99 a shirt we recommend that you just buy one because we can't guarantee that you'll get unique designs if you order more than one in some sizes there

might only be like one design but uh anyway we've got those and for our canadian home slices we've got um five dollar shipping for um from now until sunday night so this this might not be the most cheery thing to discuss but shipping has been a pretty major issue in the in the times of the covid um oh yeah okay i've got a story you want a story yes guess how much we are going to be paying we're restocking stealth hoodie because we are completely out um guess how much it's going to cost us in shipping to get them over here from the other side of the pacific ocean oh boy per hoodie okay per hoodie i have no idea this is in bulk okay this is in bulk i have literally no clue we are not raising the price for our valued and beloved users but we are definitely taking less margin on them you gotta guess come on you gotta guess can i guess the

delta because i i wouldn't i would have no clue where to start have some fun throw out a number it's fun it's a game it's fun play fun game three dollars three dollars i i don't know it's more ten dollars there's no way it's ten dollars you're still there i can't see you i have to wait till the stream oh i'm so sorry yeah it's still up up more okay okay more than ten dollars for one sweater uh how cold am i you're pretty warm you're getting more you're getting more okay 15 it's 12 12 it's gonna cost us 12 dollars per per hoodie to get them over here so that is gonna be a big hit to our margin but uh that's like that's that's on a ship that's not like no no that's air that is oh that is air but that is is brutal, even for air.

So back when I was doing purchase orders for NCIX, if we were ordering something like heat sinks, I think heat sinks are something pretty comparable to a shirt in terms of the dimensional weight. It would cost, you would have to account for somewhere between about a dollar for a heat sink to like two dollars or something like that uh if you were no oh sorry sorry no no no no probably more like three to five for something like the size of a heat sink or a power supply if you have to airship a small

quantity whereas shipping by sea it's like less than a dollar well that's that's what i yeah in my head i thought we were talking about shipping by sea yeah so i don't think you said that but i just 12 dollars a unit and that is at reasonable scale like obviously we're not ordering a container or whatever like it's like hundreds of units as opposed to or maybe like a little over a thousand or something like that but it's like ridiculous and so nick comes to me he's, this is a lot of money. This is very unreasonable. Do we just wait or do we order it?

Or do we go through with it? And I'm like, well, you know, making $5 a unit is better than making $0 a unit and not selling anything. And people are bugging us about it they're like hey stealth hoodie's out of stock wtf i can get a stealth hoodie and animal crossing but i can't get one in real life and we're like yeah we'll we'll sort that out wait what you can get a stealth hoodie and animal crossing you can make it someone made a stealth hoodie someone else made a swack it they look amazing dude my my girlfriend will not stop talking about or playing that game yeah it's amazing yvonne was asking and she was literally designing sweaters last night i'm not getting it i have never tried an animal crossing game but it seems like the kind of game i just

shouldn't play like i get super addicted to things sometimes like i think i told you i think i might have told you this no i was on the land show with james last week i played probably over 30 hours of ano like in the week leading up to last week's land show just like i was up till like 3 4 a.m like two-thirds of the nights just like completely addicted to this anophile because I was having these like economic problems that I couldn't solve and I hadn't clued into selling ships to boost your economy and anyway I was just like trying to crack this crack this nut and I was like overproducing on my islands and I was like yeah but like if i don't overproduce then i get these precipitous drops in income because the people can't get their luxury goods which is what really

drives your income is people buying luxury goods at the marketplaces and and so anyway i solved it i solved it so i'm i'm kind of i'm kind of um on the wagon again now but i don't know i actually don't necessarily think that you'd be that much of an animal crossing fan i've never tried it so it's hard for me to say yeah i just i think um someone said luke is super uninterested that's actually wrong i i played anna with linus for quite a while and it was really fun he completely destroyed me but it was still fun um well not technically because he bid me mercy and decided not to blow up everything i had but um he destroyed me well that's part of the fun of playing that game it's like kind of co-op if you want to yeah we were sort of doing that and kind of learning the game and all that kind of stuff

but it's fun i like ano but the the thing that makes me think that you wouldn't necessarily like animal crossing is there's um i i asked emma last night what the goal was um and it took a really long time to get to an answer and i started with like is the goal to decorate right and she was like well no and it it ended up with like yeah the goal is kind of to decorate um and i feel like that wouldn't necessarily enthrall you quite as much maybe not yeah maybe not as much uh cosmetic upgrades haven't really been my thing yeah in the past it's it's very funny to me to see like now with animal crossing being like a worldwide phenomenon um yeah remember that headline we were talking about where microsoft basically decided they were above both sony and nintendo because their true competitors were

amazon and google i'm like guys maybe that's true but not in the way you want it to be yeah like guys you don't understand like it doesn't matter how good your cloud infrastructure is if nintendo keeps creating gaming experiences that people need to buy their hardware and buy all their software and buy all their accessories in order to have the full experience they are going to keep making money hand over fist five ever like one small example of this is um for one one random person in in twitch chat twitch plays dion said in all capital letters the goal is to be cute and i think think that's probably better than how I described it. The goal is to decorate.

I think, yeah, the goal is to be cute. It's those games where you just dressed up the dolls, like those web browser games, and then just made a little room for them to sit in and stuff. But it's like this island, and you get to decide where people live and help lay out the flowers and the trees. So it's Anna this Island and you get to like decide where people live and, and help like lay out the flowers and the trees and catch the, um,

but, but a lot less technical, I think. Um, and there's only one Island, but you can go visit other people's Islands through a plane. I don't know. I watched her play it for a little bit.

Um, shoot. What was I going to say? Uh, what were you just talking about? man i don't even know who knows oh no oh yeah nintendo is never gonna stop making money the pokemon franchise alone is going to be enough for them to make money forever yes and they have they have the like the most insane war chest ever for the size of their company it is baffling to me that they still aren't into like heavy into the theme park thing because i would be as likely to go to nintendoland as disneyland with the kids i would love to go to they have so many beloved intellectual

properties and the amusement park industry is the kind that i think nintendo could just go in and like okay so what we we need 100 experts? Let's just, we have all the money in the world. Let's go poach 100 experts and design and build a park. Like, there's no way they couldn't do that. I think the last time that they had a business model where you had to go to the facility in person, they want to kind of hide that history a little bit.

What was that? What are you talking about i gotta know now let me make sure my information is not messed up uh all right why don't i do a couple super chats while you look that up no i already found it um this is this is it's from kotaku so grain of salt but uh the nintendo they've tried to forget gambling gangsters and love hotels oh the beginning of new nintendo was uh okay well they were like a little bit hard company they were a playing card company and they had a uh quote-unquote love hotel and some of their playing cards had less than clothed women on them and things like that scandalous yes very much so um i don't know i'm just making a joke but yeah i i really think they should make nintendo land they literally had a game called nintendo land

and i enjoyed it and it was fun and they could do a much better uh job with a in-person real life experience i think that would be significant like they they could they could do a much better job with a in-person real-life experience. I think that would be significant. They could get really heavily into augmented reality stuff. They could have a really focused Pokemon Go-like experience within Pokemon Land. They could have... They could have the Safari Zone, but actually have the Safari Zone. Oh, for sure.

For sure. I mean, Pokemon Land could almost be completely its own thing. Yeah. But like obviously there would have to be a kart racing thing. The Mario Kart ride. Duh. Like there's just, it would be so much fun to build and I would go there and it would be great. Maybe they're planning.

Who knows? there and it would be great um maybe that maybe they're planning who knows i the one the one thing i i'd like to point out here is like so far already just with emma playing animal crossing she has expressed not she's gonna buy them but she has expressed desire for another dock so that she can more easily dock her switch in more than one area luckily i also have a switch so we had another dock so not a problem and then the other one was that uh we don't have the battery pack joy-con uh holder thing where you slide the two joy-cons go on to yeah yeah we don't have the battery pack version of that we just have to play for long enough that she needs an extended controller battery. Well, I think she was maybe not being the most diligent about putting her Joy-Cons back on.

I see. And it's not the newest Switch, so there's probably been some battery depletion there as well. Like, there's some other things going on there. But she wanted a controller that she could, like, plug in so that she doesn't have to worry about that. It's never been a problem, but she doesn't want to worry about it. And I was like, yeah, I mean, they have that option. It's called a Pro Controller. It's $100.

Oh, apparently they have Poke World in Japan. How have I never heard of this? Poke World. All right. I want to do a few super chats here. Robert Mel says, SD Express is coming out soon. Yes, we know. So that would be cool.

So it's PCI Express SD cards, basically. Thanks, Treffy1. Thanks, Jose Jimenez. Growlfighter says, did Alex brought people to VR for more AAA games? I'm not sure if I 100% understand your question. I think it makes people invest in VR because there's a AAA game,

if that's what you're asking. There's definitely been more interest in it. Luke, have you played any Alyx yet? I have not. I actually didn't know it was released until today. I am quite surprised that you didn't manage to notice that. That is very surprising to me. I've been surprisingly disconnected

because I've kind of been getting stuff done. Huh. So I didn't know that was a thing, and now I'm probably going to get less stuff done. Are you going to stream that tonight? Not tonight. I already have plans tonight, but maybe Monday? Do you want to hear my review of the first hour and a half?

Yes. Yeah. It's Half-Life. Hmm. In VR. first like hour and a half yes yeah it's half-life hmm in vr now i haven't made it that far in i still don't have any good guns or anything but like it's it it's in in true half-life fashion you just kind of get there's no clear like oh you solved the puzzle now here's another puzzle you just sort of walk into dead ends and you just have to like do stuff um one of the things i liked so much about crosscode i know i always come back to how much i love crosscode um but crosscode did a really great job of building on the skill that you just developed with your next puzzle

in a very logical way. Whereas Half-Life, I think they want you to kind of not be sure what to do a lot. And I honestly just find it kind of tedious. Okay. How big of a fan of original Half-Life games are you i never played half-life one i never got through it because i tried to go back and play it after playing half-life 2 and it just sorry no offense it didn't hold up it's a little rough these days 15 years ago it didn't hold up um although i do want to try out that remake mod black mesa yeah yeah i want to try that out um i i suspect it probably won't be much better i i don't i don't like the style as much i had far more fun playing far cry than i did playing half-life too so this is why i wanted to ask you

that was because i assumed that and i think some people when they hear it's like half-life are going to be like yeah but i could tell by the tone of your voice that you were like so portal's a better game i'm a huge fan of portal so that's not a really difficult argument to make with me but um i yeah i'm interested i'm definitely going to try it out i'm i'm interested in it being a a like halo product for for vr that's cool um one really cool thing that i've seen already i wonder if i could find it um someone made a like teaching uh in Half-Life Alex YouTube video that was like hilariously good. Teaching angles?

I know. Sorry. Hold on. It sounds weird. And I clicked on it because it sounded super weird. But it's really cool actually. I'm going to do a couple more super chats while you do that. Rat splits.

Cheers from a farmer. Oh, yeah. No problem. You know, we will bring you the entertainment to your house, even if it takes us two hours to get the stream going. That's how long I spent on it. Luke spent an hour just helping me troubleshoot remotely and uh helping out uh kinestic says is that the porn hub casting couch um no but it could probably serve that purpose it is leather so it

is easy to clean okay um i've got it. The one issue is if I play it, they're not going to hear the sound, which is maybe fine, but I can skip through it and show why it's cool. Kinestic wants to know why are shipping to Australia is expensive. That's because shipping to Australia is expensive. Sorry, this is the best we can do. Yes. All right, go ahead, Luke.

Okay. For now. Let's play Angular vocabulary review. So you guys can't hear this, I guess. But this is Half-Life Alex. And the presenter guy, the guy hosting the video, talks as if he is teaching a class remotely. He's like, Oh, this is the first time we've had to do this. I guess I'm coming to you from my home. This is a view from my home.

You wouldn't normally see this because I talked to you in the classroom, blah, blah, blah. He's like role-playing as if he's a teacher. And then he goes into this room and he's able to manipulate the objects and write on the glass. And when I first saw this, I didn't think he was actually gonna do anything. glass and when i first saw this i didn't think he was actually going to do anything and he's looking around for something i didn't think he's

actually going to do anything and i thought this writing was already there and i was like oh it's interesting random thing to have in the game maybe some uh like math nerds will appreciate it i wish he i keep jumping to parts where he's just looking around but no he did it all and i thought this was wild it's actually really cool he does a whole legitimate math lesson in in alex um and it's it's kind of random but like you could legitimately learn to understand angle vocabulary after watching this person's video and it got 615,000 views that's pretty crazy i don't know i think it's pretty cool it's interesting um and it's like well presented and and honestly the medium works really well for him yeah um and i don't know it's just i just thought it was really cool

cool use of vr cool use of using a a video game to accomplish a different task uh jake says what are the prospects of honest answers volume two particularly interested if my youtube premium helps the artists i watch um i don't i didn't really have anything planned for another round of it, but I can tell you your YouTube premium does help. It's way more than ads. Way more. Cal says, Nope, that's just his house.

That's just my house. That's a literal zero contribution from me. That's my girlfriend going around decorating things. It would look a lot more sparse, and there would be probably band and movie and gaming posters around and nothing else, really, and it would be messier if it was just me. Pickles, yep, crushing it and folding at home uh we talked about that probably uh after you sent the super chat so yes rank four soon you better believe it uh alex says conclusion of the rebuild of the transcode server

um i have not even thought about it since we redeployed it i'll have to think about that some more later aaron thompson just finished my first week of working from home. Just bread-cheap type work, but when you're on 100 milliseconds, it sucks. Hmm, okay. Well, that's good to know. Engine says, thoughts on the dbrand Cybertruck skin? Yeah, that's dbrand for you. Thanks, Thomas.

Let's see. ChalkRJ. So I'm watching your VR Thursday video and wondered at what point did Linus just build a fake home at the office because he filmed there so often. No, no, that's just my house. And yes, you're welcome for bringing back Channel Super Fun. Let me just go through. There's not too many of these this week uh death here says

what headset is luke using uh it's not a headset it's headphones they're sennheiser hd 595s they're quite old at this point um but they've served me well they're still working i've had to buy new uh well i didn't have to, but it would have been a very bad idea if I didn't. I've had to buy new little pad things twice now. Um, just not because they were bad, just because I use them a lot. And again, it was the right thing to do. Um, but yeah, I'm very happy with these headphones. I hope I never have to replace them. The only thing that has started to become a little bit of a drawback is that they're open back. Um, and my current position of my computer, as you can maybe guess is in the middle of like the living room area. So sometimes if someone's like cooking food or, or doing

something like that, it can be hard to hear things, but like, there's a good option coming. If you want to like spend a lot of money again on something that you don't have to get something better than again for a long time um i tried out the drop x thx pandas so they're wireless um oh that's cool i like that but you can plug in a wire and always a good option it sounds the same wired and wireless and they sound great okay just outstanding i have been thinking if i got another pair of headphones they would need to be wireless and closed i wouldn't use them i wouldn't use them on bluetooth for gaming though i mean i haven't actually tried um and they are using some new codec something something something but i doubt the latency is going to be good enough yeah it would more be for like a niche case where like

i don't know my the the tv in my place is just to my right so like if my girlfriend wants to watch something on there um and i want to do something on my computer that has audio whether it's gaming or not um it it would be so that these open back head but they don't block anything like at all so it would be just to to to make it so that the tv isn't literally louder for me than it is for her because the speakers are right beside my freaking face um so, yeah, I don't know. I wouldn't be too worried about like, oh, I can't hear footsteps at the exact same fidelity. Like, I'm not super concerned about that.

As long as they sound really good overall, I'm not necessarily looking for hardcore gaming headphones. Right. And are wireless and are closed. Those are like the things I'm looking for. So maybe I'll check. All right. I've just got a couple more. Zach's Tube says, more proof everything is messed up this week.

A fern is the special guest on the WAN show. Diego says, greetings from Guatemala. Scott says, big shout out to all the folding people out there. Well done, everyone. Indeed. Dark Swordsman says, I don't use PIA, but WireGuard is there. Well done, everyone. Indeed. DarkSwordsman says, I don't use PIA,

but WireGuard is awesome. So there you go. PIA now has beta support, I believe, for WireGuard. Thanks, Andrew. Thanks, Tyler. Thanks, SheriffMayorTV.

Thanks, Brian River. This is for getting my man a better mic. Or this is for my man getting a better mic. I don't know if that's to get one or to thank me for getting one. The mic I'm using is okay, isn't it. I don't know if that's to get one or to thank me for getting one. The mic I'm using is okay, isn't it? I don't know.

You're not watching the stream. No, the mic you're listening to me on is terrible. iKyle says, what's the best GPU for folding? RTX or Quadro? RTX, not Quadro. Quadro's not faster. It's just got validated drivers. Oh, man, you sent that super chat like multiple times.

I'm so sorry for not seeing it sooner. We don't do these till the end of the show, though. Now you know for next time. All right. Sorry, guys. No more time for super chats. It is 8 o'clock. We've been streaming for an hour and 45.

Okay. I'm sorry, Luke. We went for a long time today. It is okay. No need to apologize to me. Yeah. Good chat. It is okay. No need to apologize to me. Yeah, good chat. Yeah, absolutely.

Hey, are you streaming tonight? No, my girlfriend is going to be streaming Animal Crossing tonight. What? So wait, so she streams, but she still doesn't say her name. Interesting. Yeah, I don't know. I think i said it once on this show i forget

what the rules are all the time um so it's just better to say nothing i guess yeah but yeah she's she's streaming animal crossing tonight um and hopefully that'll be fun i don't i guess it's promotion time it's twitch.tv slash I think you don't know you're terrible you're a terrible you're a terrible boyfriend and a terrible person I wasn't prepared for this you don't know your own girlfriend's twitch channel twitch.tv slash plenty time apparently she's playing animal crossing with my mom I think I think they're even like on voice chat with each other and stuff legitimately sounds like it might be entertaining

i mean it could be so i mean i'm not gonna watch it but like i hang out in the chat sometimes you know yeah yeah all right cool um yeah so hey how's your beat saber training coming you ready to take me on very well i i i haven't been doing a ton in that realm for a while i've been working on stuff my nas is all fully updated it only took two and a half weeks oh that's good and now like my next major project that i'm working on is I have to drill a bunch of holes so that I can put this NAS somewhere where it's not going to be annoying. And then I'm going to work on kind of redoing the networking through my entire place. Because right now only four plugs at a time can work and be active, the wall plugs and that's a limitation of the modem router combo that i'm still on that telus gave me um so i want to switch off of that but then there's issues with the other

stuff and so yeah that's my but then shipments are all delayed so maybe i won't be able to do that i don't know but yeah i've been working on lots of stuff i'm also this was a project no one watching cares about this at all so maybe we can just cut it now but one of my other projects is i'm gonna be working on planters for the deck this is a me idea because i want to play it is boring food um not not random other stuff people are suggesting a raid i don't know all right your. Your thing. Well, cool story, bro. Thanks. Yeah. Thanks for tuning in this week, guys. See you again next week. Bye.

Hopefully not at the same time, but definitely the same time. She's laughing a lot from the other room, so I think a bunch of people went. Plenty time I think you just type in the chat slash raid plenty time Oh god