I Love My Mac - WAN Show April 10, 2026

44:45Aromine actually brings up another kind of, I don't know about good news, but certainly funny news. Nintendo lost the patent covering character summoning and battle mechanics. Did you see that? Like, the Pokeball patent? And No Man's Sky apparently immediately added the mechanic to the game. They did, yeah. Yeah. Look, my relationship with Nintendo as a brand is deeply complicated. There's so many things they do. I don't like you and I'll also buy everything you make. That if they were anyone but them, I would just patently, pun intended, refuse to buy anything from them. But on the other hand, I don't know of anyone who so lovingly cares for their IPs.

45:37with that said i haven't seen the new mario movie yet um many of the reviews i've read of it were very negative however however however i did my due diligence and i went back and read the same people's reviews of the first one and they were also negative which to me is just an indication that they're probably not a lot of fun at parties yeah and the kind of people that suck the life out of the room because the first one was just fun not everything has to be that deep man maybe i just need an excuse to eat popcorn and if as long as the second one is a good excuse to eat popcorn i think i'm going to be pretty happy with it nice all right i want to go see a movie in theaters for the first time in many years i want to go see hail mary oh yeah yeah yeah yeah i want to see that too there's actually there's quite a few uh kind of interesting movies right now my son really wants to see goat i have no idea sports movie but like animated with a with a goat like greatest of all time but also a goat i know i put that together yeah oh my god is it like this generation's air bud i don't know exactly what it is but he's excited about it which uh you know is cool i guess

46:54who's it done by um sony pictures animation man where the heck is disney yeah like all these other it's anyway sorry we can move on to something else but that's we can talk about netflix here's a fun one netflix get owned luke and i have talked about this extensively on the wan show we've taken what i feel is not necessarily it shouldn't be an exceptional approach to the subscription fees on float plane whatever you agree to when you sign up is our agreement and while technically for some reason platforms are within their rights to alter the deal pray i don't alter it any further we've never taken that approach and it looks like netflix was just informed that in italy you're supposed to do it the float plane way unless you explicitly say that you have the right to do it your way an italian court in rome has ruled that netflix's subscription price increases between get this 2017 to 2024 over a span of seven years were illegal under the country's consumer code which requires companies to provide a stated justified reason before raising prices Netflix now has 90 days to notify its roughly 5.4 million Italian subscribers of their right to a refund or face a 700 euro daily fine.

48:32Lawyers for the consumer group Movimento Consumatorio, sorry I'm sure I butchered that, estimate that premium subscribers who have been paying since 2017 are entitled to roughly 500 euros each. Whoa! while standard subscribers are owed about 250 euros that's that's like that's like tidy little tax return territory yeah like that's not that's that's not pocket change that's freaking crazy that's go get yourself something nice if every eligible unfortunately if every eligible subscriber claims this netflix's total liability could exceed 2.3 billion dollars on top of the refunds the court ordered netflix to roll monthly prices back to the 2015 launch levels.

49:1911.99 euros for premium, 9.99 euro for standard. Sounds like a lot of people are going to be VPNing to Italy. Netflix says it will appeal and insists that its terms have always complied with Italian law, but the ruling could have a knock-on effect across Europe. Consumer groups in Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, and Poland have filed parallel challenges on the same legal basis, and German courts in Berlin and Cologne have already struck down the same Netflix pricing clauses. Now, it is worth noting that Netflix has updated their terms of service now, and any price changes that they implement going forward will be legal, from my understanding of it.

49:58That's not in our notes, but that is my understanding of it from just my own reading before. But this is still a pretty nice little, yeah, a nice little W for consumers in Italy who are tired of, you know, getting squeezed on every freaking stupid subscription service under the sun, just casually, casually raising prices all the time. It's good news, WAN shows. So this isn't one of the topics for this week, but YouTube had a premium subscription increase that, you know, just, I don't know, it's that premium subscription increase. Like last time, they say it's to improve the service. And like last time, it seems to be more aligned with just general inflation and less aligned with any kind of meaningful improvement in the service.

50:47So make of that whatever you will. I still, even at the new price, I still think YouTube Premium is one of the best bang for the buck subscriptions out there. YouTube is full of incredible content. I'd like to think like you're watching right now. I use it so much that it's worth it to me still. And the fact that it includes YouTube Music, which I find to be a perfectly cromulent music streaming service. it's fine and the fact that you can get it on a family plan for a deep discount and share it with up to five family members it's just it's it's a great it's a great value it's an outstanding value all right you want to pick one oh wait nope uh oh i'm good oh oh oh guys guys that uh pull up the store right um we have a very exciting launch on ltt store this weekend it is the flex and flow collection the first item from this collection is our multi-pocket leggings they're finally here we started development of ltt um i don't want to call them yoga pants but they're yoga pants ltt leggings like i don't know three years ago or something like that.

52:04I am constantly reminded of this project because Yvonne loves her prototype one so much that I fold them every week, even though we never actually made the product. So you're going to get more now? They're just like the leggings that, you know, you could get at one of the other stores that sell these leggings. Let's be real, right? Except they've got seven total pockets. two on the thighs for your phone and five in the waistband for your smaller stuff so you can actually carry your things without needing a bag the fabric is soft breathable and moisture wicking with lycra spandex for great stretch and shape retention so you can wear them for workouts errands or just all day people in the office have been really excited about these and they've already been wearing them to pilates tennis and just around the house you can now get yours at lmg.gg slash leggings.

53:00And I'm going to take a moment to kind of go, hey, are women viewers out there? We hear you loud and clear. You've been disappointed with the assortment of women's products on LTT store. Here's your chance to help us invest in this category. This is a great product whether you wear leggings or not spread the word or wait wait for a few reviews to come in and then spread the word it's a really good product it is i would say up to or at the top of our game in terms of how quality this product is um if you want to see more women's products you're going to have to buy some there's also i saw people in full chat earlier asking about like oh i fit uh whatever size from whatever brand yes um will i fit these ones there is a size guide so um right here some people don't see it because it's just like hyperlink text but under the sizes on pretty much every product on the store there's a size guide you can click it and it will be yeah a lot of like the the pictures and stuff are generic but this grid will be for the specific product so you can see your inseam length your hip width your your pants blah blah waist relaxed whatever something and all your sizes that go along with that yep very important all right these ones are for the guys these are great the flex pants they're kind of inspired by like mountain biking pants so they are built to move we've got reinforced knees a gusseted fit and a stretchy waistband with a do not drop draw cord that can be tied on the outside or the inside and they've also got seven pockets six with ykk zippers so you can carry basically everything and not worry about anything falling out they're really comfortable they uh in like a weird way like they're not soft they're like um sheer oh here right i don't really know how to describe them they're like oh interesting yeah and they're on the inside they're like uh i don't know i don't know how to describe them i can see that being nice but i understand what you mean by that being a little bit yeah so kind of like um kind of like some of the french terry hoodies like they're they're soft but they don't sit like right on your skin so they're not super warming not like terry at all though i don't want someone to hear that and get the the wrong The effect is like that, where it kind of holds off your skin a little bit, so it makes it feel more breathable, but still not cold.

55:44It's still, you know, I don't know. It's a really cool garment. Sure. Do they fit you? I don't think they would. These are small. No, the inseam length on all of them is 29. Sorry, these are not in tall. Yeah. It's pretty normal to have a 32. But okay. all right so those are those are pretty exciting new products uh and now's a great time to order one because if you're new to the when show then i'm about to explain the coolest thing about the it's not the coolest thing but it's a cool thing about the when show instead of like other streams just throwing your money at the screen and like i don't know hoping senpai notices you or something We don't do Twitch bits or super chats or anything like that.

56:32We do checkout messages. So if you want to send a message, all you got to do is head to LTTstore.com, add something to your cart, and when we are live, you will see the interface to send a checkout message. You pick your color, you fill in your checkout message, you can be anonymous or show your first and last name. And once you place your order, it will either go up there, it'll just pop up like, thanks richie p over there um oh no it'll go to producer dan who will pop it up like that reply to it or curate it for me and luke to respond to should we do a couple curated ones to show the folks how it works yeah sure i got lots here already thanks for enabling my wife to get some high quality active wear as for my question what's the worst part of dealing with asbestos removal the price besides the price was that in the checkout message

57:26yeah i thought that's why you jumped in with that no the worst part is the price nothing worse uh well it's not the asbestos getting into your lungs and giving a mess of well that's the thing is i didn't do that i paid someone to do it so the worst part is the price i mean i'd say my bigger concern when i was crawling around in the basement was like mold not asbestos like if i if i end up with some kind of weird mold lung disease or something like that it's definitely from doing that but i don't think there was really anything in the way of asbestos down there yeah and i didn't really disturb anything like i didn't i didn't break any i didn't like touch any caulking or like uh break any uh like like um uh break any materials apart or anything i just like hauled like soggy carpet and stuff out of there okay up next just finished a computer vision project for school.

58:19What is a project that felt super rewarding after completing? Ooh. I have a pretty critical version of that, which is the mineral oil computer. That thing got me everything. It got me grants to go to school. It got me friends when I was at school. And it got me this job. That was a highly rewarding project. Nice. Really worked out. Yeah, that's... I'm not going to be able to beat that. Hiring Luke. Yeah. Is that a present project? Let's go for the feels. It was a long interview. It was a very long interview. Yeah, that's true. A project that felt super rewarding. You know what? I'm not going to go with the most rewarding, but I'll go with one that was quite rewarding recently.

59:12um i bought a couple of rc cars for me and my son back when he was well it was like 10 years ago so he was just little and i was i was probably jumping the gun a little bit we didn't use them much and they sat for 10 years and in that time all the differential fluid leaked out all the shock oil leaked out um the batteries like died died like not just were were drained they they died and there were some broken parts on them from the little that they were used because I was reckless and he didn't know really how to control it because he was just a little kid. And over the last few weekends, we've worked together.

59:49We learned how to strip apart, reseal and fill a diff on an RC car. We fixed up the shocks. We replaced a bunch of like broken pieces. And then with everything repaired, We went out, made like a makeshift ramp, and we're playing around with it last weekend. It was super cool. After two races around the yard, I crossed the pool cover with some water pooled on it, burned my motor. So we're not quite there on the reward on this project yet, but we're getting there. We're getting there because it was really fun. I think you're working on it, though, because you're working on repairing it with your son, which is like so valuable.

1:00:33yeah he's learning a little bit really cool um we we had to 3d we had to make like design and print some 3d printed parts in order to finish the repair because it was like did he like leave that portion yeah that's kind of cool oh yeah i i got to show him how to use calipers you know just i don't just father son stuff you know yeah that's sweet yeah it's good stuff it's good stuff i like that should we do one more down oh no we're not we're doing two more topics do one more if you want nope i don't want to we'll do it later good bye hey let's talk about l 'année de linux the french government is apparently accelerating plans to reduce reliance on extra european software in an effort to achieve digital sovereignty and when i say extra european i don't mean super duper european i mean outside of european like like extracurricular that like that sort of extra workstations at dinum d-i-n-u-m the french government's digital agency will be the first to be moved to an as yet unnamed linux distribution my notes say insert holy war here yeah and other departments including the national cyber security agency will be following suit okay all right let's start it i already okay hold on i know my answer i know my answer hold on hold on um

1:02:02hold on hold on um I'm gonna go with um

1:02:15okay go ahead

1:02:24hold on hold on Mandriva I think that was it Mandriva Mandriva I don't know how to pronounce it I looked at I looked up I was looking up distros before the show I was like are there distros that are either popular in France or largely maintained by French maintainers that's hacking you can't search stuff I had to just guess all right fine well I don't know I could still definitely be wrong I have no clue I think I think they're going to be based, and they're actually going to roll their own. They wouldn't be the first government to do that, and I think it's going to be based on Arch. Mandrivas, or Magia or something?

1:03:01Can you just show me this word? No. What is this? Oh. M-A-G-E-I-A. I'm not any closer than you. Magia? Sure. Something? I don't know. I read something. Yeah, that's the successor, whatever. I don't know. Classic Linux stuff. it's not Manjaro. No, I can, I can say that. Um, I have no idea what it'll be. If you look at user base installs, it's very likely that it will be, you know, Debian based or arch based. People are suggesting names for a French government own role. Linux distro. We've got baguette OS. We've got, um, distro of Liberty, Linux, Arche de Triomphe. We've got Distro de Liberté. Bestie OS.

1:03:55That's pretty good. That one's pretty good. I like that. I'm liking a lot of these. I'm liking a lot of these. Le Bonne Tour.

1:04:06That was pretty good.

1:04:11Oh, man. Oh, man. That's fun. Yeah, I kind of hope. I wouldn't mind Sacre Boone 2.

1:04:23I hope they don't roll their own, or if they do roll their own, I hope there's a lot of up-the-chain development that happens. It's just, man, we don't need more fragmentation. Oh, my God. No, we don't need it, but it just seems like the kind of thing that would happen. If you look at the Steam Hardware survey, in regards to distros that are like on the more simple and easy side of things mint has a lot of install base i don't suspect they're going to end up going there my my guess would be is that they don't end up on mint um but we'll see i could see red hat something like there's something something with actual red hat fedora like real support grunt behind it totally yeah that would that would probably make the the most sense something along that line uh being said by someone who doesn't know what they're talking about but still red hat is american though that might be fair i'm not sure if it matters as much i don't think it matters as much but there's still a company behind it and that company's in the states right zuse is an open is zuse is uh is is a more european centric and still very well supported and storied distro as well that could get it yeah i think there i think the origin there is german uh don't definitely get it though that's interesting i don't know but it's exciting and there's there is a question here uh we've seen similar programs elsewhere in europe with the city of munich's uh limux uh project running from 2003 to 2017 before they ultimately decided to reverse course do you think france's efforts will be successful and I think they actually could be um the the difference between I know I've said this probably every WAN show for a month but the difference between the last time we did the Linux challenge and now is genuinely mind-blowing astronomical whoa Linux Mint has a French founder really someone in chat just said it I don't know if it's true or not But someone in the chat just said it if that's true if there's a chance that it's mint that would be so sick You are actually rooting for distros like a Linux now.

1:06:41No, I'd just be happy I you clapped You clapped that is the definition happy little clap. That is the definition. I'm happy I'm genuinely happy with whatever they go with I don't actually care, but it would be neat if it was mint i just i i i'm not a i'm not a hater of other choices but i i get a little happy when when people use mint because mint is cool speaking of linux patches to the linux kernel and kde should give a noticeable performance boost to gamers with limited vram which so sick 2026 apparently includes cards that have only eight gigabytes of dedicated memory and that really has been a trend over the last couple of years developer natalie valk has refined kernel level memory management and introduced a kde plasma component to enable vram prioritization for the foreground application i.e your full screen game the patches are out now initially for amd and theoretically intel uh on cache os and on other arch-based distros if you don't use kde as your desktop the improvements are also available in newer versions of valve's game scope compositor if you're after the technical details you can check out the developer's blog post which um

1:08:03dan will not be posting in chat so you'll just have to go Google Pixel Clusters GPU blog. I can post it in float plane chat at least. Thank you, Luke. That's wonderful. I appreciate you. Excellent. It says two more topics and we're through two more, but until he comes back, we're not... Oh, you know what? Yeah, we'll do sponsor spots. Oh, wait, I can't. I can't without Dan. I did have some people ask, like, oh, why are you so happy about Mint if you're running Cashi? I'm running Cashi on my desktop PC for the modern... Cache-y and KDE on my desktop PC for modern features and performance and power and raw.

1:08:40And I'm running Mint on my laptop for simplicity and stability and work every time-ness. And that's why I would expect a government to go more on the Mint side than a Cache-y side. But I do think there's plenty of other solutions that would make a ton of sense. Fedora, Red Hat, things like that being among them. Maybe not Red Hat again because the American company thing and that being like the whole goal of what they're trying to get away from. I don't think it's the same as using Windows, but they'll probably still not go that route. I've got a micro topic. This one isn't so much good news as it is hilarious.

1:09:14Redditor underscore underscore Erty underscore underscore posted a couple of screenshots showing an AI summary with some facts about the company that acquired us nine days ago. on April the 1st, FOMO Foundry. This is great.

1:09:43So apparently my browser thinks that FOMO Foundry is a real thing. FOMO Foundry is an entity that acquired Linus Media Group in April 2026, pivoting the tech media company toward a product-first strategy that replaced its writing and engineering departments with AI tools like ChatGPT and proprietary large language models. Following the acquisition, LMG launched the Linus coin, a physical token minted from defective screwdriver parts, which serves as a digital credit with a 2-to-1 redemption rate to maintain financial solvency. How could anything be so accurate and yet so fundamentally wrong?

1:10:26yeah we did it we did it reddit we did it we bamboozled uh what is this is this uh is this gemini then yeah it looks like gemini to me what's goggles is this i just don't want to get this wrong what is goggles i don't know yeah my browser thing so this is it's some llm somewhere um so what's What seems to have happened here is that DNS records indicate that FOMO-Foundry.com was registered March 17th of this year. So it's possible that the AI is conflating that network OS with our new corporate overlords. Or it's also possible that it just ain't that deep and it's easily confused. um if you're wondering by the way we did register fomo foundry dot ai it's not gemini yeah so it's it's something we bamboozled something so we did register fomo foundry dot ai but um you'll have to try it for yourself to see where it goes we worked on that for a while it's pretty good i actually i i think the developers who worked on that aspect of the april fool's joke are the unsung heroes of this whole endeavor so it was like actually a lot of effort and so few people went to it and like won't necessarily have legs but we worked on it for a while i know it's a good team and like to be clear the the physical merchandise team they did a lot of work getting the coin design did a lot of work getting the coin going the video production guys they did a lot of work make bringing the whole video together um elijah died for this project so that's true That was unfortunate, but...

1:12:15That still might not equal the effort. But FOMOFoundry.ai, I think, was more effort than all of those things combined. Like, Elijah's parents raising him for over 20 years, I still don't think equaled how hard the developers worked on FOMOFoundry.ai. Yeah. Yeah. But they'll be remembered by us. I mean I'm never gonna give them up yeah or let them down no okay Skoda develops a bike bell that can bypass speaking of bells that can bypass noise cancelling headphones and then gives the technology away for free which is awesome this is so bass this is so cool it sounds really cool too Skoda has developed the duo bell a bicycle bell engineered to cut through active noise cancelling headphones which is a major problem right now because tons of people have them they've become very normal uh in collaboration with researchers at the university of salford the car company points to a 24 rise in bike pedestrian collisions in 2024 partially blamed on the explosion of anc headphones drowning out traditional bells.

1:13:34Researchers found a narrow safety gap between 750 and 780 hertz, where ANC algorithms struggle to suppress sound. So the bell rings at that exact pitch. It's a range, but whatever. A second resonator at a higher frequency keeps it sounding like a normal bike bell, and an irregular striking mechanism produces sharp sound bursts that ANC processing can't really react to in time. The whole thing is fully mechanical with zero electronics. That's the coolest part. That's so cool. Also just so awesome. And in real world tests with Deliveroo couriers in London, which I'm assuming is like... I don't know, like Uber Eats or something.

1:14:22Yeah. I actually don't know. Pedestrians with ANC headphones detected the Duo Bell from up to 22 meters further away than a normal bell. That's awesome. giving cyclists a critical extra reaction window and a pretty decent one go to 22 meters in the context of like traffic movement that's that's awesome that's huge that's life absolutely yeah that's so cool skoda okay thank you cool uh neat uh skoda is publishing all the research and findings publicly for free so other manufacturers can build their own versions fitting given that skoda actually started out making bicycles 130 years ago before it ever built a car that is so cool our discussion question is when's the last time a car company did something this genuinely useful for cyclists and pedestrians without trying to lock it behind a patent uh i can't think of anything there's gotta be something at some point but yeah i have no idea What this reminded me of was the seatbelt.

1:15:29Wasn't the seatbelt something like this? Somebody invented it and then made it free for everybody? Yeah. But I don't know if that helps pedestrians. You know what? That's pretty based. Volvo and seatbelts? Yeah, that was very cool. No, I'm down with it. You know what? Let's go shout out Volvo then. Yeah. I mean, to the extent that the original Volvo even still exists as a car manufacturer. I'm just saying. Who knows? I'm just saying. well no like they're they're owned by uh who owns volvo yeah geely i mean everybody's as far as i can tell basically everybody's been sold to somebody since back then no at all uh vw is still vw they're out there ford still ford for better or for worse that's something uh you know what else is something is uh our sponsor vessi yeah the weather's looking a little nicer out there, isn't it?

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1:19:00flow plane announcement we let mr david pancratz vlog what his week at lmg is like huh if you've watched any ltd videos in the last six to seven months david has been an unsung hero in probably at least one of them as he has been really helping out the writers in their push to getting especially some of the more technical aspects of things over the line this week's float plane exclusive has him building a pc for red bull showcasing uh scripts for setting up our pcs and being part of the do writers at ltt all think the same video you can go check that out at lmg.gg slash fp wan let's see what people are thinking of this video so far uh yeah there people are people are liking it pretty cool he um he is a wearer of many many many hats all right more topics uh yeah there's uh one i want to jump into sure uh where'd it go it's on the dock so samsung electronics fires first shot in departure from arm develops proprietary ssd controller based on open source RISC-V.

1:20:20It's happening. More RISC news. It's happening. RISC is good. Samsung is launching its BM9K1. Cool. SSD lineup with a custom in-house controller chip built on the open source RISC-V architecture, marking the first time Samsung has shipped a commercial product using RISC-V instead of ARM. The move lets Samsung skip ARM's licensing fees and customize the chip however it wants, which is especially relevant given ARM's recent legal fight with Qualcomm over chip design changes. Samsung says the new design is 1.6 times faster. That does not mean your SSD will be 1.6 times faster, to be clear. But still, that's very cool.

1:21:04And 23 % more energy efficient. That does not mean your entire SSD will be 23 % more energy efficient, but it's still cool, than the previous generation. Samsung is following Western Digital, which has been using its own RISC-V chips in SSD controllers for years. And Samsung has played around with RISC-V and other projects since 2019, but never shipped anything until now. The BM9K1 is set to launch in 2027, and that is awesome, because any commercial products that ship with RISC on them just makes it more normal. To be clear, ARM is also RISC, but he means RISC-V. Yeah. Yeah. I have a theory it's just a theory that's not trademarked and he's retired nope he's retired a computer theory?

1:21:52sure a computer theory I have a computer theory I have a theory that as long as the transition took between x86 and ARM or not even transition because they're very much still coexisting today but as long as that took I think Risk 5's rise will be at most a third of the amount of time we're going towards a very interesting future because with the like mind share divestment that's happening from Microsoft and Windows right now of people interested in Mac and people interested in Linux and just kind of moving off of that and hardware just getting a little funky like pricing has been really crazy a lot of Chinese manufacturers are starting to kind of prop up and look at that consumer market and go we might be able to take some of that especially if pricing is going to be 2 ,000 higher than it used to be companies like more and more companies I'm finding discussions about risk five to be much more common these days than it was even three four years ago um there's you know google making their own stuff intel interested in being a fab potentially more than even their own like speaking of intel i had this queued up already i don't give financial advice on this show but if you bought intel when i said that i thought it was looking kind of cool and laid out all the reasons I thought it was kind of cool in the medium to long term.

1:23:33You're doing pretty good so far.

1:23:37I don't know, man. It's real tempting sometimes when I can just kind of like see the tea leaves and I'm like, this is the direction. Me being invested in Intel would be pretty bad, though. That would be pretty bad. anyway yeah yeah so it's like it's interesting a lot of things are moving towards like actually genuinely moving towards open source setups for things which is very based interesting it's cool I don't know what that future necessarily looks like probably a lot of fragmentation but I think it'll be fun I'm excited okay next topic stay the path says yeah that'd almost be as bad as like the president of the united states shilling a ticker or like a crypto or nft or something you know what you're right i think that um if it's their own name i think they have to that would never happen yeah yeah that's that's pretty far-fetched i i wouldn't want to live in a world that's so corrupt that the politicians at the highest level would shill stocks and also almost as bad youtubers would do it i don't want to live in that world almost almost as bad speaking of far-fetched apple approves drivers that let amd and nvidia e gpus run on mac okay i was so excited when i read that much of it carry on yeah it gets a little worse uh the software is designed for ai though and not built for gaming.

1:25:20Apple has officially signed off on those drivers. The drivers are developed by Tiny Corp, the company behind the Tiny Box AI accelerator, and Apple's approval means users no longer need hacky workarounds like disabling system integrity protection to get eGPUs running. This is specifically for AI workloads, not for gaming. The drivers are built for running large language models, so if you were hoping to plug a GPU into your Mac and fire up games, that's unfortunately not in the cards. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Nice. Solid. Solid. Tiny Corp first got an eGPU working on Apple Silicon back in May 2025.

1:26:01That was not me, by the way. That was the writer. Back in May 2025. But that required unofficial methods. Now, with Apple's blessing, installation is straightforward. For context, Tiny Corp sells some serious AI hardware. Their lineup ranges from a$12 ,000 box with four AMD 9070 XTs, all the way up to a$65 ,000 system running four RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell GPUs. The reason that this is in Good News Wandshow, I feel like I should explain that. It's still good. is that this is the first step sign of a potential future thaw in the frosty relationship between apple and nvidia i would love to see at some point um you know i think asking for an nvidia gpu baked onto apple silicon in a multi-die package that's probably unrealistic but i'd love to see a future where I could hook an NVIDIA eGPU up to my MacBook Neo 3 or MacBook Neo 4 and run serious games off of an iPhone CPU.

1:27:16That'd be sweet. And NVIDIA's down. We know this because they actually went and did the work and made a driver. And this was a number of years ago. And Apple intentionally blocked it from working. ever since bump gate things have been frosty between between the two but i just i feel like both of them have come so far and been so successful that you would think it would be time to bury the hatchet you know maybe yeah maybe maybe when pigs fly and you know me and Gamers Nexus make up and kiss.

1:28:03I had a segue planned for the next topic and it's gone. I have no idea what it was. I have genuinely no clue. How's that for an image in your mind?

1:28:17His hair just draping around your face. Hey, what makes you think I would be on the bottom? So many things.

1:28:32Keychron. I feel like he would, yeah. Keychron has made their keyboard and mice designs source available, allowing anyone to design or 3D print parts for their devices. This is so cool. They published a GitHub repository containing production-grade CAD files for 83 of their keyboard and mouse models. files are available in step for 3d cad work dxf for 2d plate cutting and dwg for engineering drawings meaning that owners can 3d print enclosures cnc replacement plate even in a new material like brass or carbon fiber or design their own mods without reverse engineering any of the measurements despite widespread reporting though calling this open source keychron founder nick zoo has clarified it's actually source available so personal builds hobby projects and educational use are fine but commercial use is strictly prohibited and you can't use the files to manufacture or sell competing products keychron had already published qmk and zmk firmware source for many of its boards so this adds the physical hardware dimension to an already pretty open stack.

1:29:45They are miles ahead of basically every other keyboard and mouse brand as far as this goes, who all seem to treat physical geometry as proprietary and lock it away. I got to say, this is admirable. I don't know if I would be able, I don't know if I would have the stones to follow this step. This is incredibly cool. Now, this is for discontinued products, and so I'm kind of, I'm trying to think, like, screwdriver is one that we've had people ask for the CAD for. And I think upon request, we've provided the outside dimensions. But we have never provided the drawings for the entire thing. I think if you're a manufacturing shop in wherever and you want to rip off their keyboard, I think you can take it apart and figure those things out.

1:30:36I think at deep commercial level, you could already steal it from them. So I think there's probably some amount of recognition there and them just being like, hey, the people who wanted to rip this off already could have. And we can be really cool guys to a lot of the people that just want to do good things with this. So, I mean, it sounds like a great move to me. And I don't really think they're setting themselves up for anything super horrible. No, I don't think so. I just don't know if I have the stones. It's so unconventional. and maybe someday maybe this is the first step in a move like this becoming conventional that'd be cool and um pretty sick i'll have to do some reflection on it you know maybe someday deity willing i could be this based um speaking about things that are based deer uh like john deere that deer yeah like like go yourself and i'm not i'm not not calling them based to be clear but what really just happened to them is is good and i don't know enough about this case to say that this was enough but i'm happy that something happened that they are probably not happy about uh deer settles u.s right to repair lawsuit agrees to 99 million dollar fund for farmers couldn't couldn't make it one more just make it 100 but i guess that's fine uh they they put that into a settlement fund to resolve the 2022 class action lawsuit that accused the company of monopolizing repair services and conspiring with authorized dealers to force farmers to use them for tractor and equipment fixes.

1:32:12The fund covers farmers who paid Deere or its authorized dealers for large agricultural equipment repairs dating back to January of 2018. More importantly, and this is where I got actually excited, Deere has committed to providing the digital tools, software, and manuals needed to diagnose and repair its tractors, combines, and sugarcane harvesters for the next 10 years on a license... I only read the first half! On a license or subscription basis, formalizing a memorandum that had previously existed but was never legally binding. License or subscription basis. Ah, that feels like that's going to be abused horribly.

1:32:53This is better than them having it under lock and key. Yeah. Hopefully it just gets pirated immediately. I was going to say anything that exists on a license or subscription basis exists on the high seas. Yeah. Yeah. Hopefully that gets on the high seas like immediately. Deer insists the settlement comes with no admission of wrongdoing, but right to repair advocates are calling it a landmark win that could set precedence for similar cases against automakers and consumer tech companies. And hopefully it does. our discussion question is deer had to be dragged through four years of litigation and a 99 million dollar settlement to let farmers fix their own tractors how many other industries are running the same playbook oh tons of them most importantly i think is is in medicine like the fact that fixing people is also bound by these same douchebaggery moves now to be clear i'm not saying it should just be a free-for-all because when something is so important that it it keeps a person alive i am not saying that just any random schmuck should necessarily be working on it with any random schmuck parts but there's gotta be a middle ground yeah there's gotta be a middle ground yeah i can tell you from experience that aviation has some of this nonsense in it my uncle showed me a light bulb a little incandescent bulb i should bring it in i'll bring it in maybe next week if i remember but it's about this big i think i get it for aviation because if you're if you're totally average size light bulb this size um it's 20 because you can only get it from deso directly no one else is allowed to make it and it's the only one that's certified so that you can put it behind like a little illuminated switch in a dashboard it's like freaking ridiculous i just don't want people with big shiny metal objects in the sky to necessarily have an easier time when it could result in that big shiny metal object smacking into somebody and but i mean that's the oh man see that's the dangerous sort of territory that we end up in because that's the kind of justification that's given for locking things down so i'm just saying there's got to be a middle ground yeah and with something like tractors it seems pretty obvious because the only person who could be harmed by it not operating correctly is the operator of it so at least by by fixing it yourself and doing your own thing to it it's your own liability that you are ultimately creating and it's sticky because i i very much support right to prepare when it comes to cars and cars has a similar problem to the plane i think i'm just a lot less worried about protecting people who own planes than i am protecting people who own cars i think you're just worried that you know if anything bad happened to me that you'd be sad Thank you.

1:35:47I appreciate that. You know what I'm worried about, though? Is that the flat earthers are going to have a field day. With how good those photos of the solar eclipse look from Artemis II. Oh, man. They look almost too good to be real. Do you want to fire it up while I just talk through the thing? The full NASA gallery is based, so I'll go there. the artemis 2 crew took a bunch of photos of the moon during their lunar flyby and the images look like something out of asimov's foundation series so honestly even even some of the ones from inside the ship like that is such a sick photo dude wow absolutely this is about as based as a photo can be this is probably yet a moon base this is probably the coolest photo of someone taking a photo uh but okay we'll get to we'll get to real ones you can download these they are really high res fantastic background bait for for people who want to make cool stuff um some of these are just yeah wow isn't that incredible um okay that one to the right there this one no uh left left yeah I love this one.

1:37:05That is so just like OLED friendly background. Yeah. Wow. Maybe there's a little bit too much contrast along the bottom left, but still. Oh, that's so cool. There's a recreation of the iconic Earthrise photo from Apollo 8.

1:37:25It's this, yeah. Hold on. This one. They're very similar. I mean they were taking they were taking a lot of photos they were taking a lot of photos this one specifically called that is it but yeah Here's an eclipse shot Oh man So good so cool so good Oh man The moon in nighttime is visible in the background as the sun is setting on the opposite side The image captures the beginning of a total solar eclipse that astronauts were able to observe at the end of their lunar observation period Ah, it's just, it's just the, the write-ups are just exactly what was happening. And yet they sound so cool.

1:38:09Commander Reed Wiseman told Mission Control it was a surreal experience and said he'd need to invent new adjectives because no existing words could describe what they were seeing out the window. NASA has shared the full metadata for the photos to prove that they are real, unprocessed captures from the Orion capsule. they're not renders they're not composites just breathtaking photos and yet i i firmly believe i firmly believe that because they look too good someone out there will believe they are fake sponsored by blender i believe that they're real and i firmly believe that i don't care because i choose to live in a world where it is real and that is more interesting and more fun and more exciting it was um i i i made the mistake of watching a small amount of a reaction video of someone watching a stream of some flat earthers watching the launch and like talking about how they were faking it and um taking the launch like fake yeah of course just go because a rocket launch has to be fake if if the earth is you know flat and stuff you can see it from so far away and you can go not that far away dude they start talking about like how many camera angles there are and how many cuts there are to conceal like the i don't know the set or like the fakeness of it they cut that it's like you know how many you know how many camera angle cuts there are in a soccer game does that mean nobody has ever played soccer what are you even talking about like it's watching watching these people twist themselves into mental gymnastic pretzels to continue to believe something that is just so obviously not true like you can just think any of its bait i wish it was like some of it's got to be bait some of it i'm sure there's also people here's the thing that believe it if the influencers are all are 100 of them if 100 of them are grifters dude right my nasa paycheck came in sure so if 100 of the influencers in the space are grifters then if nobody actually believed it who would be following them then

1:40:42like i'm saying even if the people who are who are most active in propagating the conspiracy theory are in on it okay obviously somebody's not because they wouldn't be watching this so so i can't so i can't accept but you watched it no i watched someone making watching it to make fun of it but i think there's a lot of people that will rage watch stuff like that okay i'm gonna say something sadder um a peripheral family member oh no i ended up in like a fairly i don't know about heated but definitely firm conversation with about it at some point so that's unfortunate yeah and there was like it wasn't it wasn't like at the end of it they were like i'm just kidding like you know there there was emotion so no no i'm sorry i yeah of commitment to something so sad it's almost admirable it's just a no it's not a less interesting world it's like there's so much like i don't know if i think a flat i think a a flat like pancake thing rotating around amidst all the other round planets is pretty interesting but like also to believe that we've never made it out there and we've never learned these things we've never you know mankind never took that step like it's just it's smaller it's narrower it's uh i mean it's only a small step there's so much dark there's so much darkness and like sadness and negativity in the world very heavily right now not on the land show and there's there's these there's these moments of like human brightness that happen and to deny that it's just so sad i i that's why it's like i fully believe that it's real and even if i didn't i would want to okay this might not be a topic for when show but would you extend that logic to i do it with placebo things dragons do you choose to believe abominable snowman is real because that's more interesting i think abominable snowman is pretty interesting it's not good though that's interesting but it's not good part of this is that it's good i mean the vacuum of space is not good but it's interesting there's nothing to lead me to believe either of those things are legitimate uh okay so you want some evidence they're vaguely interesting i don't think they're anywhere even in the same stratosphere as interesting as as as this and I don't see them as good.

1:43:23So I don't think they're equivalencies. I understand what you're trying to go for. There might be other things. I think for me it's placebo. So within limits of things that you have actual any evidence for whatsoever, you choose to believe the more interesting and exciting version. And good. For now. And that's one of the... I will repeatedly tell myself that if I take a drug or a treatment for something, I will like push into my brain repeatedly like it's good that I'm taking this because it works right oh yeah and I'll like full-heartedly believe that because I'm like all right come on in some way in some way this will work so like yeah I think I do that with more than just NASA stuff but then I was I mean I've I've been I've seen a rocket take off so I don't know bro you can just go the ducks are free i don't know man in other space related news the fcc is set to supercharge satellite internet performance and potentially lower costs they just announced they'll vote on april 30th on an order to overhaul satellite spectrum sharing rules from the 1990s replacing the old equivalent power flux density framework that limits how much signal um how much signal power low-Earth orbit satellites like Starlink can use.

1:44:45FCC Chair Brendan Carr said that the change could boost capacity for space-based broadband by as much as seven times current levels using the same number of satellites. The rule change would mean faster speeds, potentially lower costs, and better service for rural and remote users, with the FCC estimating more than $2 billion in economic benefits for the U.S. alone. SpaceX, which has lobbied heavily for the change, stands to gain the most. Starlink accounts for about 65 % of all active satellites in orbit, and they have more than 10 million subscribers worldwide. The timing's pretty excellent for them right now too with the rumored IPO coming.

1:45:18Interestingly though, not everyone's on board. Geostationary satellite operators like Viasat, SES, and DirecTV opposed the change, arguing that loosening the power limits could cause interference with their existing fleets. In other NASA news, that's a fan testing video that we released this week. It took a long time, which was not great, like i think adam's trip was like a year ago but the timing ended up being really good because to the point where a lot of people thought you guys did intentionally i don't think you did definitely not there was just a lot of math and a lot of coordination and a lot of just things taken a long time and we eventually got it done uh dr lewis edelman former nasa scientist delved into the details of the fan testing equipment and methodology in an article on the LTT Labs website.

1:46:10How freaking cool is that? We have a special guest writer. Awesome. You guys are definitely going to want to head over there and read this because there's only so much that we can cover in a video format and while keeping it, you know, not a snooze fest. And you can see as I go through this clearly not all of this was in there and just because it's not a snooze via text or sorry just because it would be kind of snooze worthy in video doesn't mean that it's snooze worthy via totally it's an excellent read and you guys are going to want to check it out uh we also have another ltt labs article to promote and that is power supply turn on and turn off timings it's something that i had never thought about before and don't get scared by this because um lucas actually does a really good job breaking stuff down of explaining all these values yep and why they exist and why they matter uh which is pretty cool there's a lot more to the atx specification than just like 12 volt go burr it's really cool stuff and once you understand it more you properly appreciate just how smart the folks who design these standards are and how important they are like intel it's hilarious like intel never intel never made a power supply for you to put in your gaming rig.

1:47:49But here they are, sort of foundationally involved in the design of functionally every single one you've ever used in your lifetime, unless you're very, very old. Pretty cool stuff. Definitely worth a read as well. LTT Labs has been doing some really neat stuff over the last little while. Anyway, our discussion question is, have you ever made a really poor fan placement decision in a previous build that this video... from the collaboration with NASA would have prevented? I don't think so, but mostly because I haven't had a lot of builds that had glass in them. There are a ton of cases out there that this would have actually potentially impacted where I put my fans, but I haven't built in a lot of them.

1:48:35The only case that I've ever had that had front panel glass is the one that I currently have, and there's no fan slots there. I think for me, it's less front panel glass and it's more bottom intakes. There have been many cases that have short enough feet that their bottom intakes, now that I understand how much spacing we actually need, simply just are not intaking air efficiently. that doesn't mean that i wouldn't still put the fans there but i might not rely on them as much i might go i might opt for a different configuration of the fans in the rest of the case knowing that those ones in the bottom are not really drawing in that much air or i might run them at a lower speed knowing that they're going to be they're going to have an outsized effect on the overall noise of my system because of all that turbulence in their intake i am trying to find something sorry give me a second now it's time for turbulent message from our sponsor while he looks that up nice perfect hearing the word analytics might make your brain go into snooze mode but at the end of the year everyone loves seeing their spotify wrapped and steam replay our sponsor play tracker is an app that's built for any gamer that even remotely cares about achievements it connects to all the major gaming platforms and combines data from each into one place so your gaming stats are always together.

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1:53:25sorry one of the top comments is randomly absent memory and i just think that's really funny um they got to play with trains yeah it's cool i there's been a lot going on it's not that old a video it's only three days old it feels like i watched this weeks ago i would have said i would have said like two weeks it's been a lot going on um so i don't remember all the details super super well but it's it's a great video and i just really recommend checking it out um all right cool anyways that's it hey in other good news it's real the five terabyte google one upgrade google has bumped google ai pro subscribers from two terabytes to five terabytes of cloud storage at no extra cost with the$19.99 per month price staying the same.

1:54:08The extra space works across Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Photos. This only applies to AI Pro subscribers. Standard Google One tiers haven't changed and will start at 100 gigs for$2 a month. Google announced it on April 1st, which had some users wondering if it was a joke, but VP Shermit Ben Yair confirmed it on Twitter.

1:54:32part of me kind of goes yeah are they just trying to get more of your data it's like yes but also if we were going to have to pay for it for them to get more of our data at least i guess they can get more of our data which i know it's expensive right now but home labbing is sick yeah but hey i we so rarely find a subscription service these days that is just a subscription service from a big tech company that got better instead of worse spontaneously is more rare more rather than less so we're we gotta call out bad stuff when we see it but we also gotta like you know on the other side we gotta be like good job when something doesn't suck more yeah say the past said heads up though home lab is an enormous rabbit hole yeah yeah there's i think there's i think people have a tendency to dive in further than they necessarily need to and i think you can start with home labby stuff without really going way too hard and there are content creators out there that can help you not dive past either your capabilities your desire to invest time or your desire to invest money you can do it in simpler ways and cheaper ways you can turn anything into a dick measuring contest so just don't lab is for sure one of those i have so many ai gpus in my in my house i don't even use them because i just and that's cool they work for other people you just don't have to you know you don't you don't have to do that you can keep it pretty simple yeah you don't have to do that uh do not do that

1:56:14hey oh you know what i'll save this one our last big topic neural compression speaking of ai is coming for your vram and both nvidia and intel are racing to ship it they both showed off new neural texture compression tech this week nvidia's approach neural texture compression ntc had their demo showing vram usage dropping from about six and a half gigabytes with traditional compressed textures to just 970 megabytes oh all while keeping image quality close to the original the core idea here is instead of using traditional block compression which chops textures into small blocks and approximates them ntc uses a small neural network that learns a much more efficient compressed representation of the texture data and reconstructs it on the fly during rendering yeah i'm a little skeptical too i'll need to see it in action just just relax okay you're you're brow furrowing i can feel it from here just meanwhile intel's approach texture set neural compression tsnc had intel showing two variants variant a delivers up to nine times compression with minimal quality loss they say around five percent perceptual difference while variant b pushes to 18 times compression but starts showing artifacts intel's approach works at the texture set level instead of compressing each texture individually their system looks at all the textures for a material together colors normals roughness etc and trains neural network to learn patterns across all of them at once at runtime a tiny ai model reconstructs the full set from that compressed data if these results hold up in real games if The practical impact could be significant.

1:58:00Smaller installs, lighter patches, and more headroom for higher quality assets on the same GPU hardware. NVIDIA also showed a companion technology called Neural Materials. Instead of storing tons of texture channels and running heavy shading math, it encodes material behavior into a compact representation that a small neural network decodes at render time. in one example a 19 channel material setup was reduced to eight channels with a 1.4x to 7.7x improvement to render speeds at 1080p uh our writer says i had to look up what channels meant in this context i'm going to drop a definition here in case you need it channels are the separate texture layers that make up a single surface like color roughness normals metallicness etc et cetera.

1:58:42One key distinction, guys, this is very important. This is not DLSS 5. DLSS, as far as we can tell, works at the end of the pipeline on the final image. There's a little bit of muddying of the waters there lately, so let's see what DLSS 5 actually ends up being. But as far as we can tell, that's what it is. These neural compression techniques are embedded deeper inside the render engine, handling specific tasks like decoding textures and evaluating materials rather than acting as a big instagram filter at the end that distinction matters because both developers and players had something of an extreme reaction to the effects of dl s5 on the original artistic intent now and now layer these two things together like how far can we stray from the original vision well it depends if the original vision is for them to use this at the start then i guess it was the original vision maybe but this is even like okay fair enough but i don't know that that's happening and also it's going to be inconsistent for each user um i won't know that until i see it i want to see it like if this is something where i end up with like boiling on every texture in my in my game or something like that then obviously i'm going to be pretty against it um i i i i'm layers and layers of interpretation is a is a bit of a scary thing i wasn't sure that dlss super sampling or super resolution or sorry not super whatever the stupid upscaling i i wasn't convinced that dlss was ever going to be something that i'd want to turn on 4.5 is something i would turn on without hesitation so while i fully understand and i'm on board a lot of the hesitancy and a lot of the skepticism around nvidia's marketing of their dlss various technologies and AI various technologies, I'm going to take a wait and see approach.

2:00:39Yeah, I mean... I'm going to wait, I'm going to see it. Because it's going to happen. Nothing else really matters. Exactly. There's nothing else that really matters. There's nothing you can do. It's not like I can call Jensen and be like, hey, that thing you were working on, stop it. It's bad. Just top the presses. Forget it. We don't like it. Turn it off now. It feels like a telephone game problem. Oh, sure. Garbage in, garbage out. A pretty intense telephone game problem. And how many layers of garbage in before all we could possibly get out of it is garbage yeah it's a good question yeah but we'll see have you seen that like looking at the ubisoft logo from the side thing or whatever oh yes it's a turd yes yes i have uh intel says that an alpha sdk is planned later this year while nvidia hasn't given a specific timeline but is framing this as part of its broader neural rendering roadmap alongside DLSS 5.

2:01:33Right now, it's hard for me to reflexively hate on anything that makes it so we don't need quite as much RAM. I'm just concerned. You should be. And I think I would have been concerned already. And then having seen that stuff from DLSS 5, I am concerned. I don't remember if I mentioned this back when we did that segment with Riley, but one of the first things I said to NVIDIA about the DLSS 5 demo is that like... I think the worst thing that they did was show it before it was cooked. I am usually the kind of person who enjoys seeing things be developed in the open and watching the progress in real time in this case I think they did so much harm and so much damage to what maybe will end up being better than what we saw by showing it to us in that state because it's not like this was on the verge of launching it's not like it was going to launch in a week yeah like it's it's months away oh uh rod rod said they're sharing dlss5 demo at pdx land tomorrow oh interesting okay well rod are you going i assume you're going are you gonna are you gonna report for us you can be our correspondent yeah you can you can be our dlss uh eye in the sky yeah he says i'm at the i'm at the land yeah heck yeah why aren't you playing video games bro You're watching Wancho for crying out loud.

2:03:11I mean, I'm not convinced it's about the video games for Rod. I think he's more about the community. And the computers. And yet, somehow, he doesn't manage to come up and play softball with us last year. He came to Whale, huh? Yeah, but he didn't come play softball. Do you know how many times I asked him to come to softball? That guy. He's coming to the next Whale, man. Can't take these guys anywhere. I think. Tarkov right now. Have one in the background. Nice. solid all right all right you know what i'll allow it um you know what else i'll allow wow wow that's bold i know that's very bold true gamer verified actual gamer um footsteps viewer wolfgang has the solution to my xbox pairing issue remember i was saying i had xbox pairing issues apparently to fix it i just need a bare metal windows install and i have to use that to update the controller firmware in the Xbox accessories app.

2:04:06They apparently tried it in a VM and even that didn't work. And of course, you also have the Xbox app installed and signed in so you can download something called gaming services. And after updating the firmware, his paired flawlessly. So I just want to take a moment to call out any company that requires me to own more of their products in order to update the firmware on their products. It's bad. Apple folks always get mad at me about this when i say it is completely unacceptable that i have to buy another apple product in order to update the firmware on my airpods and they say that it's some kind of double standard it is not a double standard it's unacceptable when microsoft does it too i already paid like 70 canadian dollars for your controller or whatever they are these days yeah i should be able to maintain them perfectly fine on any platform period i agree i'm going to jump back to the uh like graphics ai topic for a quick sec i find it very interesting because usually i'm a proponent of like you know jump don't jump down people's throats so much or else they just won't talk to you again in the future um but i find this one really weird because we have like disney and they came out with their like star wars animals thing that was horrible and then dlss5 and i just keep running into there's been other examples well i just can't really think of them off my head right now which is like why why are you showing me that yeah like the disney one especially was just like what like you thought this was cool like if they had just talking about they had just used some ai in the background and then done all you know the other work that they would do and it was just in a movie probably no one would have noticed or said anything about it Look at Ark Raiders.

2:05:48Here, Disney AI demo awful. It's just so bad. Like, it's the, like, audacity to be like, yeah, this is awesome. It was wild. Yeah, do you guys remember this? I do. What? And I'll remember this for longer than I will remember them doing something cool. Yeah. It's just kind of weird.

2:06:18Strange Anyways Oh man I forgot how horrible these were They're so stupid They're so bad yeah They're just so dumb Yeah Jeez Anyways It's time for After Dark Dan let's do this thing Good gravy There's uh There's a lot of uh There's a lot of checkout messages today. They love those leggings. I've been asking for them every week for years. The leggings are moving. Okay. All right. All right. Let's do it. Sweet. We, okay. This is one of those things. We would love to have more of those products. Do you imagine that the Creator Warehouse team, which is predominantly women, would like to make more products that they could wear at home?

2:07:14I do. Yeah. And we've given the opportunities, but we need your support. We need our 97 % male audience to evangelize these. And normally I don't ask you guys to do that. I don't want your charity. Tell them it has pockets. Tell them it has seven pockets. You guys don't owe me any favors. But if you love the products on sort of the men's side and you want us to have any shot of accessing a women audience and bringing that quality and bringing that care and attention to detail to women's products, I'm going to need your help this time. That's all there is to it. And it looks like you guys are responding to that.

2:08:00And once these, like seriously, we've actually moved quite a few of them today. Once these are in people's hands, leave a review and don't sugarcoat it. No. Leave an honest review because that's what we want. so that you can help guide people. And if we did a bad job, then hey, we'll take that and we'll go back to the drawing board. But I don't think we did a bad job. So if we did a good job, then say that too and we can build some momentum on this.

2:08:29All right, well, how many did these? Two leggings. Excited these are out to share the LDD quality with my wife. What are some tech-related hobbies that your significant others have been interested in? uh i mean my my daughters are getting really into um oh man what is my what is my eldest daughter not into she's getting really into animation on the ipad just like like drawing frames and animating them she's been getting really into um 3d modeling and 3d printing um she definitely still has some so she understands 3d printing a bit and she understands 3d modeling a bit, but she's just now starting to model things and then 3D print them.

2:09:16And so the one that she was trying to print last night, the one that I started again at like two in the morning or whatever, was a third attempt because it just was like not very optimized. So that's something that is really exciting to see her learning. Oh, wait, significant others. Sorry, I thought you meant, I read it as other significant people in my life. So I went straight to my kids. tech related hobbies Yvonne's into I mean she loves like her cricket anything to do with like vinyl plotting like 2d 2d cutting the carpet thing yeah yeah she hasn't actually used that much though whereas like the cricket she's used a lot like she did a bunch of signage for smash champs on the cricket and it's like so pro looking you would never know but she like hand aligned all of it and she was like oh I think that one's way off I'm like don't don't touch it it's no one will ever notice it's fine she's just like that though um i'd say the cricket is probably the biggest like tech thing for yvonne that she's like dived into cool was this both of us or just oh yeah uh tech stuff i mean she got into streaming for a bit there she did plenty time plenty time she liked streaming.

2:10:28That was fun. She hasn't been... She's been knitting. Okay, not tech, but sure. No, I know, but I'm saying, like, she's gone away. I mean, at a time, that was technology. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Trying to think. I don't think she's been super into tech stuff in a while. She's pretty good with it, actually. Just yeah like we we recently kind of like moved back in from the reno her computer's not set up yet it's all sitting there but just hasn't really like bothered to plug it in um and the the other computing that she's done is like she used a laptop for a short period of time just to like make a google sheet for my mom and then got off the laptop again and didn't touch it good so i don't know hey didn't she do some stuff with like vibe coding or something okay yeah there you go you got that for like her old job or something yeah right yeah yeah she took like uh oh man i'm gonna describe this really poorly but um there's like actually a lot of variants of products when you're in glasses because it does like when you're when you're trying to check the person out basically yeah does it does it have this type of coding oh my god does it fair uh does it have this type of coding does it have whatever who knows various is it is it a bifocal is it not is it all these different types of things so and then you have to try to figure out what the pricing is going to be for the person so when you're like trying to tell them what it's going to cost if they get various things um she built this like form that could help you flow through that a lot more easily.

2:12:18That's cool. And that was a little bit ago, but she was quite successful with that. And she was actually quite successful with maintaining that, which can be really annoying. And she had some frustrations with it because it's really annoying. But this was a bit ago when it was worse. So yeah, that worked pretty well. That was actually what really sold me on people who have never even looked at code before being able to vibe code things. I remember you talking to me excitedly about it. It was very impressive. Like this is something. Yeah. I don't know what it is. And it is now a tool in her belt that she has, which I don't think she's really used since then, but it's available.

2:12:58It's there. And she has the confidence to do it. And it's just going to be better for the next time, which is pretty cool. And it's again, it's one of those scenarios where like no one lost a job from that. They were never going to hire someone to do that. that was never going to happen. It just made people's lives dealing with that system a little bit better, which is like, cool. Psychoma asks if Yvonne used the laser cutter from her tech upgrade. I've used it. I made her a Mother's Day present with it. Like laser, like cork, like heat pads for like hot pots and stuff. Cool. Just say, I love you, mom.

2:13:36They're from the kids, but like I did all the work. they just like picked whatever i uh yeah yeah uh and then nokia says knitting isn't tech yvonne got that by the mirror uh that's an embroidery machine and they have been using that i just sent down a picture of a pretty cool project dude it's it's cool they they there's like open source communities for knitting because they they like share their patterns and stuff like actually sweet it was really interesting to see how much crossover there is but yeah life is life is strange and it's cool yeah go for it i'm assuming you guys were talking about um like this kind of tech actually wait hold on don't show it just yet let me just double check something really quick um gdg she's been getting into like different blends of different yarns and all these different things and it's it's cool it's pretty sweet it's not for me necessarily but it's pretty sweet i'm excited about the output yeah yeah anytime okay yeah yeah so uh this was done on the embroidery machine she made that well i mean everything else was done on the sewing machine uh but yes she's super into making stuffed animals right now uh and then the eyes were done on the embroidery machine that's pretty sick yeah this is a gift for a family member that's cool yeah from she makes them from from just fabric we're at a wee bit of a distance but i would just believe that was a product oh yeah yeah oh yeah it looks great yep that's awesome yeah pretty cool hey that's really cool no key fox firefox give me i mean you can commission one i've told her i think she should sell them but uh she's mostly just interested in making them for fun if she made a little Firefox that actually looked like the Firefox logo is Firefox.

2:15:37That would probably slam. For it to be worth her time, it would have to be pretty expensive. They take a long time. It's a hobbyist thing, for sure. Yeah, well everyone watching on Flowplane is using Firefox. I know they are. There's a lot of Firefox users. Every one of them. Hit me, Dan. Linus, with Tesla heralding the imminent arrival of unsupervised full self-driving do you think that or open pilot will be done first which would you rather have all else being equal i mean i'd rather have the version that tesla's been promising for all this time um unfortunately hold on uh hold on hold on unfortunately it's been promised over and over and over and over and over and over again and it has just never like actually arrived in the way that they have promised it um here hold on there's uh there's a really funny article that broke down all the times that Elon has said by this date, it will be more safe than human drivers.

2:16:53And then the, the writer of the article actually didn't get them all. And one of the, uh, one of the commenters under it found going back even further, more times that he had used exactly the same puffery language to describe the progress that they were making on full self-driving. And to be clear, you know, what a Tesla is capable of doing is very cool. My objection to it is the way that it's been marketed, the way that people have been misled for all of these years. At many times, in ways that Tesla and their leadership must have known was not true. That's what I find frustrating about it it's not that the software is not cool it's not that it's not useful it just isn't what they said it was or what they branded it as and the timelines have just i mean they've just become a meme at this point like it's not even it's like valve time at least valve eventually delivers the thing when are we actually going to get the tesla full self-driving that is actually safer than a human driver and maybe more importantly when is tesla going to have the stones to actually publish any peer-reviewed data that backs that up they don't waymo does but tesla doesn't and the only reason that i can think of that tesla would not publish data like their disengagements for instance is that it's not flattering that's the that's why else if you're the leader in the space, you talk about it.

2:18:36If you like to pretend and you cosplay as the leader in the space, then you obfuscate. It's that simple.

2:18:46Hey, DLL, love the show. Question for Linus and Luke. If I made an LTT video game, what would you like to see in it? I would like to see gameplay first and not an LTT video game. I just don't think an LTT video game would be very good. Like, what even would an LTT video game be?

2:19:12Like, I, like, uh... Like, I'd see something like PC Building Simulator. Like, a simulator-type game, maybe? Is it, uh, man, what was that name of the game? Video... PR Crisis Management Simulator. That makes sense. Video game creation simulator or something what was that game dev tycoon oh yeah okay it was like game dev tycoon but pewdiepie already has youtuber simulator though so like what the heck else is it that i'd be different than that game dev tycoon isn't isn't just the like game dev version of youtube simulator it's it's different you could like game dev tycoon it but with youtube channels and it wouldn't even technically have to just be tech and that's how you can get away from it being LTT based is it could just be YouTube channels.

2:20:02Now we're getting a little bit closer to YouTube simulator, but it's still different. I swear it's still different. Noki points out that we already made an LTT video game. Hold on. Here it is. Yep. Well, we also had Linus Jump. I don't think there's a lot of footage of easily findable. That was pretty cool. But Linus Jump was actually pretty sweet. For the verified actual gamer program. Yeah. Alright, Dan, hit me. hi linus luke and dan looking for the best thermal adhesive to apply rocket cool copper ihs to a 12700k any other advice found a working chip on three bay excuse the e just uh need to assemble uh also how's your steam build uh here's here's my question for you um at this point why put an ihs back on a cpu yeah go bear die maybe yeah based if it's working just um man what would i use i'm trying to remember does intel solder them um i have man i haven't felt the need to delid an intel top tier chip in quite a while i'm sure yeah i'm sure roman uh dare bauer would have a video for you but uh it's intel solder the 1200 12 000 excuse me um series chips that's what i would probably want to know yeah oh man if they're soldered by default almost anything you put on them is not going to be an upgrade i i mean doesn't rocket cool have a guide for how you're supposed to assemble their copper ihs i i would just i would just raw dog it bear die personally be fast be cool products here we go instructions here i'm gonna i'm gonna do the research for you 12th gen instructions delid relid hairdryer to soft this video is unavailable what the really you guys okay well i can see what the problem is then artemis 2 suggested in his suggestions let's go

2:22:21yeah i would check out der bauer's channel he would almost certainly have something about that but he's gotta i oh man i see people are saying liquid metal and that would be maybe the most effective but it would be pretty dangerous to apply there when you don't have a way of i wouldn't trust just silicone gluing an ihs back down and hoping that i have enough enough contact for liquid metal personally um ptm would be safe i don't know how good it would be in that in that application and i say ptm 7950 is the one i mean yeah from from ltd store we have that it's a good thermal pad um but the honest truth is i just don't know if it's the best for for that situation sorry hey ldl been a fan since i was a kid i was tasked with making one to two mil photos million photos be viewable to far away elderly family members considering google photos or a home lab solution what would you suggest oh my god well it depends do you want a fun project if that's the case how about image do you want to just upload it crap it onto the internet and not think about it anymore than google photos i mean it depends i know like some people really seem to hate helping family members with tech stuff um and them being far away i don't know how compatible it is for like are you awake when they're awake like if they're having a trouble viewing your home lab thing is it going to be okay now that doesn't mean that they're going to have no problems with Google Photos, but the blame shifts.

2:24:15It's kind of up to you. I do wonder what the cost for storing 2 million photos into Google Photos would be.

2:24:25I'll be right back.

2:24:29Bye. Bye. But yeah, I don't know. My gut would be to image it um but yeah it depends depends how how friendly are you with those relatives how much time do you want to spend um being the blame for everything and how much do you think they will understand that because it's not like google photos is gonna be perfect either but anytime you provide the solution i've had this talk with the infrastructure team a bunch locally at lmg it's like yeah i mean if if the thing that we propose that we use is someone else's thing that we're just paying for when it goes down everybody just goes ah you know dang um if it's our thing if we're self-hosting it whatever else and it goes down then people get angrier i find and specifically at you which is rough so um yeah are they that type of person or are they going to be supportive of of you trying to do it yourself i would i would self-analyze that because like i say oh i would probably go with the self-hosted solution i'm pretty confident my family would just think it's like cool and if there was more problems they're just like let me know and then it'll be fine so i don't know it depends my concern is no matter what you do uh you set it up so it'll be your fault yeah you are now on the hook for this cloud flare goes down you set it up it's your fault why did you pick something that went through cloud flare dummy me yeah well they don't even understand what that is just the thing that you were in charge of is now broken yeah and then again with certain people that won't be a problem at all and with others it will i would try to analyze which which they might be and go from there print them out and just just mail just have a have a requesting service service where they can just get tons and tons of boxes full of all the photos at any time and people just ship them around to each other what about just having an external drive with them and like a sync thing so that you can just like give them to them like mailing it with extra steps i had to we had to data transfer a ton of videos back in the day from dank pods um and it was faster and more efficient for him to just mail us a drive what is it the pigeon per second kind of thing like pigeons and and truck what is what is the data transfer rate of a at some level it becomes faster to yeah duct tape micro sd cards to pigeons what is the what is the meme what is the data transfer rate of a what are those old uh old mobiles that had the wood paneling they had like a name um vuick i don't i don't know i think there's also station station wagon yeah what is the data transfer rate of a station wagon a lot a ton these days even more because now we have one terabyte micro sd cards yep you fill up a station wagon with one of those oh yeah all of those sorry and you are you are moving data yeah you can't you can't i think that's why like uh geez backblaze part of their recovery system is we'll just ship you like a box of hard drives yep yep is there is there a discussion question we can do now i'm looking for one uh how about this one uh hey loop lenus and laniel what would you say are some examples of lower lower power tech that has far exceeded your needs and expectations what on earth is lower power tech i think i can interpret this in a few ways i think one of them is a bit of a cop-out because i'm looking at it right there but the Neo.

2:28:11It's a phone processor. I don't think that's actually talked about enough. It's a mobile phone processor and the laptop is sweet. Like I actually don't, I haven't seen a ton of people kind of pointing out like, guys, this isn't necessarily what you'd expect in a laptop in regards to the chip, but it's really good. Also, this was not low power, but would probably be considered low performance, I guess, now. But something like a 1080. People are still rocking 1080s to play modern competitive games and doing fine with it, which is wild. The fact that people are playing even like graphically great games.

2:28:51People are playing Ark Raiders on 1080s and having a totally fantastic time. And the 1080 has been around. Yeah. Three times. Ugh. No ding for that? Fine. i'm back i'm gonna turn 360 degrees around and walk away yeah nice yeah hey oh um it's story time remember you asked why i was so tired this week sure so we had a trip to virginia okay uh we went to see a data center for i did like a sponsored video for equinix which was pretty cool cool um unlike the last equinix data center tour we did i was like hey we can't just like do the same thing over and over again they're like oh yeah that makes sense don't worry we've actually got lots of really cool stuff and i was like okay cool so uh we went into one of their um one of their like experimental cages you got in the cage nice and that's something i don't think you got in the cage and in their like test platform cages uh they had a lot of it was actually like older stuff but it was kind of experimental stuff so one of the things that we're going to show is like this um you know how direct liquid cooling is like totally a thing for servers yeah um what i hadn't had somehow escaped my notice was they have a two-stage system there that instead of using water is using water to cool a uh or a two-phase excuse me uh they have a two-phase system so they're using water to cool a refrigerant that is being pumped around with a compressor out to the systems in it apparently it's been around for like four or five years now which i thought was pretty cool so we we checked that out um anyway that's not the story the story is that there's a particular member of the writing team who was uh basically came to me and said i would like to uh i would like to ride the thing and i basically said well you can't just ride it because as much as i joke about oh well as long as we have a business meeting then it's a business expense that's not actually how it works you just actually have to do something you actually it has to actually be for a reason and so he pitched the lowest hanging fruit possible uh that we would build the highest pc ever but like haha get it um now obviously we're not just going to do like the most low effort nonsense ever so uh what we did is we worked with uh pancratz who has his um week in the life of vlog over on floatplane right now lmg.gg slash floatplane uh to make what we believe is maybe not the but one of the most efficient gaming PCs so in terms of FPS per watt I don't think we were much clearer of like 200 watts by the time we were done with it but we were playing Cyberpunk at like 60 FPS 1080p like very solid settings nice very cool anyway is how it was supposed to go until we had finished meal service and we went to get everything out of the luggage compartment and realized that one certain writer had left the case on the ground

2:32:10did you did you buy the case on the other end and then build it on the way back so we devised a plan okay the way it was supposed to work was because we wouldn't just like take it up to build a computer and it didn't bring it down like it would have to be going somewhere for a good reason already anyway uh so he was he was on he was with us on the whole trip and then he was just gonna like work from home for the rest of the trip and then what was supposed to happen was on the way back we were supposed to be able to nap because the equinix tour started at started at eight o 'clock in the morning Eastern time, which is five o 'clock in the morning for us.

2:32:46So I was up at like four 30 or something or four 20, uh, after doing the highest PC build. Um, and so I wanted to work all day and then sleep on the way back. But instead we devised a plan, uh, while Sherrod and I went to Equinix with, uh, Sean, one of our, uh, new, one of our newer guys, he's a camera op actually. He's, um, he's, he's awesome. You guys will meet him at some point pretty soon. I think, uh we went to do the data center tour and um screw it elijah you're gonna find out soon enough chat all guests because you like hinted to the idea super strongly in the oh did i in the announcement video announcement video you talked about like how i don't even think it was build like low power draw and uh high performance and oh did we already have this video planned at that point i get my timelines you mentioned lightweight a lot so it might not have been exactly this it was pretty much this yeah it's pretty light it's not the lightest thing but it's it's like it's small it's pretty light and it's super low power okay yeah it was elijah um anyway so he went and it turns out hey there's micro center about 40 minutes from the data center so he basically went to micro center bought the case um and then went back to the airport and just like sat and like work from home because like what the heck else is he gonna do we don't have a hotel room anymore because we were going back that day so he just like hung out at the airport for like six hours and then we finished the data center tour i'm like wiped because i actually had a really hard time falling asleep the night before um because i'm not time adjusted and then i was getting up at like and also i just i have a hard time sleeping and then i had to get up at like 4 30 my time and then so i worked all day and then we did our meal and then i was like sitting there and it's like time to rally okay let's do this thing um smelling salts just to film videos and it actually ended up working out okay we were really worried because the original plan for the trip had us flying back at night or like in the dark not at night but in the dark and what we've learned so far is that that would not work i don't think we can film in there other than daytime uh but we not only got it working we got everything going we got power figured out uh we got i was even able to download obs so that i could do screen cap because we forgot to put obs on the drive before we took off it took forever oh yeah right that makes sense but we were able to game the one thing you know what i'm not gonna i'm not gonna spoil anything else it is probably the most unhinged video that has been on our channel in a solid six grounded you could say you could say that you could say that I will give you guys one I will give you guys one hint I'll give you guys one hint okay I'm gonna send this to you Dan just throw this on the just throw this up on the stream this is so funny normally the video would be hosted by like me and elijah right and and sean would film it but we actually had a special guest for this video on the way back uh dan you want to you want to throw that up for us when you get a minute oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah you got a sec I oh yeah oh yeah yeah go for it go for it Sherrod decided to uh lend us a helping hand on the shoot what am I looking at here he was napping the whole time was he snoring or something uh no but when I had to cable manage under him was pretty interesting

2:36:48oh boy it's sheer it's sheer dumb fun it's it's complete dumb fun and if you thought that the you know not being grounded joke was terrible we've got whole new depths of depravity to sure you know what else i'm actually really excited about is uh we've got uh we've got a video coming where i finally do a build with sammy oh cool do you know about this no sammy sounds great though only sort of my permission uploaded a short called oh i do know about this one dollar for my pc for every my my boss will spend a dollar on my pc for every subscriber yeah that video drove 18 000 subscribers so i was contractually obligated to build samia workstation for 18 000 with a caveat i got to pick the hardware i mean i'm the one buying it right so so sammy and i build a machine together and uh james was watching it he said that it's uh it's one of the most fun videos we've ever done and also because sammy is like has built a computer before but like not well is actually full of like really good solid like tech tips for beginners and intermediate builders and stuff uh i'm really excited about that one too both of these videos have like very similar just just plain fun energy is it gonna happen just plain fun no i got it i was wondering if it's gonna happen there we go thanks dan i thought you're still talking about the sammy yeah well no both of them both of them i think we're i don't know man we're headed into an interesting era i think i um i was looking at what uh what's the video that we have coming out this weekend uh let me have a look here train oh yeah like oh man uh i think it's coming this weekend or monday but um we had uh we had our electric chargers cut our ev chargers cut and the copper cord stolen and just classic this is like classic ltt stuff i thought you did that for a completely different reason no okay no this is like classic ltt stuff like just a thing happened in our you know daily lives and we use it as an opportunity for tech tips we make an upgrade to the car chargers we talk about the process we talk about like uh the the value of the copper that was stolen um by the way for you like copper thieves out there it's not a lot it's like not actually worth that much like really don't do that it's not it's like not worth it i was talking to uh this is a side quest i was talking to alex um alex alex dick uh our um our logistics manager guy and i was like dude like what would you think of just like putting a little sticker on the car chargers that's just like hey if you need it that badly there's 10 bucks in a tin can behind the building just go take it like this is not worth it man it's crazy like what people will do for for 10 bucks i don't know how to deal with that he's he's talking generally to the youtube audience the float plane people are all like we've seen this we saw this two days ago oh oh he's talking about a weekend release for for youtube why didn't sammy have the uh i don't know why didn't sammy have the early releases on uh on the floatplane announcements no

2:40:28yeah anyway all right cool uh oh sorry dan we can go back to uh checkout messages hey and nad is gil and you know any updates on the tech house uh any fun or interesting things you want to include in the house oh man i need to go there and just kind of sit and meditate in the middle of the house for a while because it's a really weird problem it's it's large enough that it has like all the rooms you know what i mean it's got a kitchen and like a spot for a kitchen table and a family room and a dining room and a living room right like it has all the rooms and it's big enough for that but it's not really big enough that all those rooms are like a like an ideal size the kitchen is really small gotcha and so to expand the kitchen i actually think that it should get more of like a condo layout where instead of having a formal dining room and also an eating area it should just be one but unfortunately because of the sunken living room where you would do that without the floor plan just being super weird is not obvious and now that we had to pay so much to get the asbestos removed i don't think our our hypothetical homeowner gi even if i did feel like spending the money i if our if our hypothetical homeowner Guy is trying to do things on a reasonable budget.

2:42:09I think he's in a situation right now where he's kind of exceeded his budget. And if he wanted to like expand the sunken living room or something, like make a major change like that, it probably wouldn't be feasible. So I want to try to find a way to make it make sense where we don't have to make a major change, but just because like the kitchen's in this corner and then you've got like a really small dining room and then you've got this like stairs down to the living room and then over this way you've got like your back door like your back sliding door so you're sort of bounded on that side and then you've got like a family room and it's like well we can't go this way and we can go this way but unless we go this way like a lot it's really weird and then also sorry where is the dining area supposed to be like i just i need to sit and i need to fester on it for a while fester yeah that's a choice i have a short circuit hoodie and i love it why did you switch from cotton polyester spandex to 100 cotton on most new hoodies which new hoodies have lots of pockets like the short circuit hoodie um generally speaking people sort of are of the mind that more cotton content is more better i like you do not necessarily agree that it provides a better experience for me um they're trying to get away from microplastics right uh no no and just in terms of just like quality not not not necessarily even like ecological concerns the wan hoodie though is the closest to the short circuit hoodie in terms of having like all the all the fun pockets and stuff like here's a pocket on the arm because i don't know there's a pocket here's a pocket on the chest because we put a pocket there here's a pocket in the back because we put a pocket there um this is sort of the the spiritual replacement for that

2:44:14hit me dan hey dan luke and avon's husband oh you recently put out a video saying that ram prices are going to be going down soon assuming that's true when are we expecting storage prices to do the same i mean what i said was i think the worst may be over i don't know that they will in short order go down to where we started nothing nothing happens overnight like you won't this increase didn't happen overnight and a decrease won't happen overnight um so there's always a lag and with that in mind i don't think the worst has hit us yet for storage i wouldn't go out and you know buy a million dollars worth of SSDs and hoping to flip them in, you know, four weeks or whatever, because of that sort of intuition.

2:45:04Like I wouldn't actually bet money on it, but I don't think the worst of it has yet hit us because of how much later SSD prices started to skyrocket compared to RAM. I also haven't seen any solid evidence that there's anything that would ease storage demand um i think there's a very very strong incentive to

2:45:36to to find workarounds to just needing infinite memory um storage i'm not convinced has hit the point where it's costing so much that there's as as much of an incentive it's still pretty bad but yeah for sure i'm not talking about for consumers i'm talking about for the data center builders uh amaria in flipping chat was like i wouldn't buy it right now i'm paraphrasing slightly uh i'd sign a letter of intent to buy them nice nice solid hello lld recently found out my 11 year old made an instagram account would love to hear linus's approach to parental controls iOS screen time is mega broken and isn't cross-platform.

2:46:23Any practical tips? This is a big part of my problem with Apple's approach. They are not cross-platform. I don't think Family Link is especially cross-platform on the Google side, but I have found it to be, at least to my knowledge, reasonably reliable. I'm pretty happy with it. It allows overall device management as well as per app management in a way that I think is pretty darn intuitive. I wouldn't recommend like going and buying an Android phone in order to do that. one of the things you could do is if you have a router that supports it you could check the the services that are being utilized by your kid's phone's IP I doubt they have the sophistication at 11 years old to install a VPN to obscure which apps and which websites they're using so that would be a way to keep an eye on it there's always good old-fashioned grounding you know, okay, you made this account without permission and you're using it after we talked about not using it guess what you don't have a phone for some indeterminate period of time um at the end of the day right though it comes down to your relationship with your kid that's what you got to manage and not even your relationship with your kid your relationship with that human they're only going to be 11 for less than a year and they're only going to be not an adult for just over half of the time that they've existed again right so good luck parenting is hard at linus what are you thinking for for your next car after the taken i don't know it took me like 10 years to upgrade from a clapped out civic uh tycan seems pretty good second tycan what about second tycan how about a byd uh oh yeah one of those 10 000 horsepower ones uh probably uh carry the tycan in it i i think i think i could be i think i could be convinced by the yang wang u9 yang wang is awesome heck yeah that looks hot dude have you rode in linus's wang yet it's a yang wang sir not a wang okay number wang um i don't know it looks it looks pretty cool and it's not as expensive as you would think how much is this thing uh yeah 236 000 us dollars man linus is not as expensive as you would think is always like oh god yeah but it's a hyper car they cost like two million u.s dollars it's still it's also usd so it's like 42 million canadian dollars um hopefully not for long it's not as much as you would expect for other vehicles in that performance class with gullwing doors with all the like super angular styling and stuff like it's priced like a chinese car compared to the western alternatives but like a top tier hyper car it's there's cheaper places to get way stay the path says it looks like a corvette shrug i actually i don't think that's true what i don't agree with that either dude uh c8 corvettes i think they look pretty cool i i unironically like the z06 or z6 this is the newest 2026 yeah like this thing it just don't i don't like it i don't like it's butt you don't like it's butt i think i like the butt yeah i like i i loved a butt sorry what i gotta disagree what mid-year is this the 2023 2023.

2:50:27Oh, that looks good. 2026 looks good. Yeah. Okay, I'm going to take it back. Alright. Good. Chat doesn't like it. That's fine. You don't have to buy one. I also don't have to buy one. I don't think I could go back to internal combustion at this point. I don't know if my car's ever going to die, so... Yeah, I... Okay. It might not matter. What would it take? I'm thinking. I'm sizing you up. Every once in a while, there will be, like, someone will almost T-bone me or something. and it'll flash through my head of like oh my god am i gonna have to buy another car what would happen and then it doesn't happen and i'm like oh cool car's still fine

2:51:18i don't think you will literally ever replace it if i don't have to i probably won't i think the only thing that would cause you to replace it would be if you had a repair bill that was more than the sticker value of the car i think that's i think that's the only way that's what happened last time yeah that's what happened the only other time i replaced okay if that happened if that happened what would you what would you get this is one of the reasons why whenever i almost get schwacked by someone not paying attention it flashes through my mind is because i don't really know right i don't really know i would man i would be so happy if acura was making uh plug-in hybrid tl variants but they're just not yeah honda and toyota seem to be like publicly melting down right now about how weird like doomed they are if they don't immediately change everything

2:52:19to be clear i think there's a long-term market for plug-in hybrids and i think them like if china is just going to completely own the electric car market which they might maybe not in america but they might pretty much everywhere else i think them being like japan is the plug-in hybrid market i think they could do really well um but i don't know anything about any of that so don't listen to me um but yeah it just makes me sad that like i really like the I don't know what you want to call it I really like the idea of my car I feel very comfortable in that car I Tim03 like that a lot says okay you're cheap but like what about saving money over time because of gas costs okay so here's the thing he doesn't drive that much yeah and that's why his car is never going to die yeah

2:53:10like anything that's like this date or mileage whichever one comes first it's always the date that car has literally never hit the mileage count before the date and i have done like road trips down to portland and back still not gonna hit the mileage first yeah yeah and i really like the the look of the new tlx's and stuff um but would you get same model year and make oh right they don't even do it anymore yeah 2025 is the last year i guess yeah but now they do integras and the integras look pretty sweet too. Like it's not the technical like type R. It's S. For this generation. Or do they have an R of the Integra?

2:54:03I have no idea. They had a type R of the I think it was like TLX 2023 or something and that was a sweet looking car dude. Damn. Damn. But yeah they're just still fully iced I believe. Is this one you're talking about? TLS type S? No. Oh, okay. Well, not the one that Dan's talking about. I think that's also a different brand. Got it. But, yeah. Alright. I'd be very interested. Like, I've been sitting here kind of twiddling my thumbs like, oh, they'll totally make one that's a plug-in hybrid eventually and then I'll wait for it to be used for a bunch of years and then I'll get one. And they just won't do it.

2:54:44So, I'm not 100 % sure, to be honest. Um...

2:54:50All right. Hit me, Dan. Hey, Litmus, Duke, and Flan. Artemis mission photos are releasing and have brought people together. Do you remember a piece of media that had a profound impact on you or inspired you to dream bigger? Ooh, dream. Ooh, okay. My first thought was not dream bigger necessarily. How about inspired you? Or how about profound impact? Profound impact and brought people together? I think it's really hard to ignore. Lord of the Rings. Okay. I'm just answering for you No that's fantastic That isn't what I was going to say but that's fantastic I like that I was going to say the original launch of Pokemon Go If you want to talk about Brought people together like Holy It was years where if you saw people Walking around in groups outside on their phones It was like Even now it's like still a thing It's decently popular still It's not where it was but it's been out for over 10 years So the fact that it's still as popular it is is crazy for me a impact on me in particular um i mean i saw puget systems at pax with a mineral oil computer and that's what inspired me to make my own um watching the making of uh i think it was morrowind and the making of the original halo were like super impactful and wanting to get me into software development um yeah there's there's tons of stuff man it has been really interesting like there was there was uh three plus million people i think i think at one point in time there's over five million people just watching just the streams on nasa's youtube account yeah not even all of the other people reacting to it all the other space channels putting up their own feeds all that kind of stuff there was many many millions of people watching the artemis uh launch landing everything in between um and looking at the chat as as divided as the world is right now looking at the chat on youtube which is often like uh a wretched hive of scum and villainy there we go that's the quote i was looking for um like quite literally but it's usually so bad but it was really just people talking about how awesome this was and like posting their country's flag and being like watching from here or there or whatever like this is so awesome look at what look at what we can all do um really awesome moment anyways This is going to probably upset someone, but I don't really feel that bad about it.

2:57:19But I think that Prime Minister Carney's recent speech was... The Davos speech? Was the first time that I really felt like a Canadian politician in my adult lifetime actually understood the problems that we have here. and actually had some semblance of not just a plan, but the will to try to at least solve them.

2:57:57There's one line in particular that I've used multiple times, and that's nostalgia is not a strategy. I think that at times in my life I've spent, I mean, I suspect we're probably all guilty of this sometimes, but I've spent too much time looking to the past for our solutions and they're just not going to be there. Yeah. I've shown people on, on many parts of the political spectrum, including people that would generally be against him. I've shown them that speech and pretty much everyone. He's been like, damn.

2:58:36Yeah. Even people that don't necessarily like him or, or whatever else. It's a, it's a good speech. Good speech. Last one I got for you today. Greetings, Linus and the one on the right. What's a computer product that isn't super necessary, but it's very useful to have. Ah. The one on the right's going to answer this one first. Nice. Solid. I still love it, man. PowerPlay. And I've heard the new one is worse or something. like I heard PowerPlay 2 is worse than PowerPlay 1 I don't know why I haven't looked into it at all because my PowerPlay 1 still is completely awesome and fine it's just great and yeah the default mousepad is too small I just put an LTT desk mat over it and ditched the default mousepad just tossed it and it's totally fine that's a good answer it's awesome they are expensive it's a luxury item for sure but I'm kind of surprised I don't see them more often because they're just sweet.

2:59:42I haven't plugged in my mouse in years and I haven't swapped the batteries ever. It's awesome. I'm gonna go with my airpods they are not necessary i could use pretty great i could use wired um i could use over the ears uh when i'm you know doing a data center tour or whatever i could take the little squishy ear things but man i use them every day literally every single day i use my airpods they aren't necessary but i absolutely love them i wish the i wish the threes um the three pros were as comfortable as the two pros for me they still like i i still haven't managed to mold my ears to them um but the the superior active noise cancellation is just it's unavoidably better and worth it after after the amount of time that i've spent with them now i have run out you have run out what do you mean you've run out you're right there thanks we'll see you again next week same bad time same bad channel wait no no no a different channel okay so hold on we may need to change up the strategy so it's fine we may need to change up the strategy for switching to streaming to the wanshow channel yeah uh people are migrating faster than i expected oh there's like 2500 people the last time i checked that were watching on the wan show channel rather than on the ltt channel and people are getting like double notifications and stuff we like need to deal with this do we either do we just do the thing that you suggested which i'm aligned with or do we pull the audience figure what they want basically we're trying to we it's like we agree we got to split it up so do we keep the channel that's there as the clips channel and move the live stream again somewhere else i i oppose that i'm not asking them that let's take it offline let's you and i talk about it the cliff channel somewhere else i'm fine with either one well okay there's other voices internally that point at other video podcast channels that do have the podcast and the clips all on the same channel and what apparently happens over time is if you only click the live stream and you never click the clips you will stop getting the clips because YouTube is all algorithmic now.

3:02:03So let's talk about it. Let's you, me, and James get together. It would be nice if it can be one channel. Sit down. I would like for it to be one channel. That would be much simpler from just an IP management standpoint. Totally. Okay. We'll figure it out. We'll see you again next week. We hear you though. We know it sucks. At the WAN Show channel. And more enthusiastically this time. Bye!

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