YouTube Killed Shorts - WAN Show April 17, 2026

14:11Luke Lafreniere:so that works cool oh wait talon says no it actually worked for me it's not showing shorts

14:21Linus Sebastian:inconsistent okay talon crystal can you close the app and restart it potentially even restart your entire phone and yeah no hold on hunter dos says my app shows no shorts interesting because not showing the short would be enough yeah that would be huge great yeah if it's not

14:39Luke Lafreniere:like if it's not like just enticing you you know yeah okay i'm mine shows zero shorts there's a number of people saying that it shows zero shorts i'm choosing to be cautiously optimistic i like it not because i think google suddenly developed a conscience but because i think that the recent ruling determining that they had created their apps intentionally in a way that harms the development of miners we talked about that either one or two weeks ago maybe pushing them to swing the pendulum back the other way a little bit in terms of how aggressively attention sucking their app design is and you know we should be encouraging of anything they do in this direction yes no matter what incentivize them to ultimately move this way yeah if it behaves the way it did in

15:29Linus Sebastian:crystal screen capture, then I don't care about it at all. But if it isn't showing shorts, then that's fantastic. And if you like click a link to a short and it opens up in the YouTube chat, in the YouTube app, and then you decide to scroll, I don't know, whatever. If it then warns you like, hey, you're out of time, you set your time limit to zero and you decide to bypass at that point in time, you've done so many things to go around the setting. Like,

15:55Luke Lafreniere:you know at a certain point we have to be accountable for our choices exactly so like

16:00Linus Sebastian:i don't expect them to go like way above and beyond um but if you say hey i don't want shorts it shouldn't advertise them to you it should it should actually stop there in other good news it removes it from the main feed but you can see it in a creator's channel if you go there i mean

16:16Luke Lafreniere:i think that i think that's also fine i think that's fine yeah in other good news da vinci Resolve 21 is now a Lightroom alternative. Raw editing, tethering, masking, and more. Blackmagic Design announced this at NAB 2026, and the biggest surprise is the dedicated photo page that turns Hollywood's go-to color grading suite into a direct Lightroom competitor. The update supports raw files from Canon, Sony, Nikon, and Fujifilm, and brings Resolve's node-based color tools to still images for the first time. The photo tool includes album management with ratings and filters, AI Magic Mask for one-click subject selection, AI Ultra Sharpen for upscaling, tethered shooting with Sony and Canon cameras, and the ability to import existing Lightroom catalogs.

17:10Luke Lafreniere:Most of the photo page features are included in the free version. only ai magic mask and film look creator require the 295 dollar one-time studio upgrade one time

17:21Linus Sebastian:one time dude that's so good one time is no problem black magic dude they don't do everything

17:31Luke Lafreniere:right but they are pretty based while they do some things wrong and most things right and that's

17:38Linus Sebastian:okay and that's okay they've been winning with da vinci for a long time i've had a number of conversations with people in the video creative space uh that are talking about how like and i think i've talked about this on my show a couple times but the kids coming out of school are all using davinci oh yeah so like the the industry's shifting oh yeah pretty heavily right now and why

17:58Luke Lafreniere:shouldn't they for context here adobe charges ten dollars a month for lightroom which adds up to 120 a year with no end in sight and that's just lightroom and with the way that adobe is going no realistic future where that's going to become cheaper rather than more expensive. DaVinci Resolve's free version now covers most of what Lightroom does, and the full studio license is a one-time purchase that never expires. For hybrid photo and video shooters, having everything in one app with matching color tools across stills and footage is a genuine workflow game changer. And man, I'm almost afraid to say it, but it feels like finally we're getting to the point where maybe adobe is going to have to start to acknowledge that they have competition like do i go to do i go to our production team and basically say like okay hey are we getting close now because i have asked it was four four it was four five almost five years ago i think that i did that video where i the thumbnail is like me holding out all the money and i'm like i pay ten thousand dollars a month to adobe uh dude yeah if i remember correctly it's like more than a full-time employee you're paying to adobe a year oh yeah yeah yeah and it's not like i'm getting a full-time employee's worth of like attention from adobe that's for sure uh hold on let me see if i can find this linus adobe but but but yeah yeah yeah here it is and you can see how many people this message resonated with like 4.7 million views why do i pay adobe 10 000 oh was it a year back then yeah pretty sure you spend a lot more than it's a lot more than that now sorry it's not a hundred thousand dollars a year but i think it's is it closer to like 60 now or something like that

19:42Linus Sebastian:i think it's a little around there or above i don't remember when we did how does lmg spend

19:48Luke Lafreniere:money i remember it being either number one or number two for the software solutions that we pay the most for highly up there yeah freaking and that's u.s that's u.s dollars if i recall correctly so it's it's pretty yucky the number i've seen might be cad okay so that would be like a 40 uplift on yours yeah either way it's a butt ton it's crazy it's a ton that's so big i don't even know if it would fit in your butt anymore it's a greater than greater than but depends the denomination oh yeah right that would make a big difference hundred dollar bills would be a much bigger butt ton than fives.

20:29Luke Lafreniere:Anyway, Petric or Imperial asks the chat. Not the point. The point is I'm always going to root for a disruptor coming in and making life more difficult for a monopoly or a de facto monopoly, especially one that I frankly feel has abused their position. I think so. I'm not the only one who feels that way. Adobe recently had to settle that thing around their billing practices. And I still remember how outraged I was when I found out that you can't just, like they treat it like signing a contract with them, every seat that you add to your organization. Absolutely ludicrous. And I think they might have changed some of those practices now, but not until they were forced to.

21:14Luke Lafreniere:Yeah, hiding fees, preventing customers from easily canceling software subscriptions. It's like, don't you have enough money? like can't you just can't you just have the customers who willingly pay you like that's that's mafia you know i'm getting the number oh it doesn't matter that much it's fine it's it's more than 10 000 less than 100 000 i think that's that's a fine enough sort of nebulous spot to leave it sure all right

21:46we're still moving what are we doing that just says headline topic dan we finished the headline topic like 15 minutes ago he's gonna put up he's gonna put up two more topics he's just gonna make

21:57Linus Sebastian:us yeah you guys can't see it but he just put up a sign that just raw says more topics

22:12Linus Sebastian:Oh, that's pretty good Yeah, it seems right to me It seems totally right to me Wow, wow, wow

22:19Luke Lafreniere:Forget it, I don't even want your cue cards I'm all for it I think they're very informative Let's talk about a California bill That will require long-term support For server-connected games stop killing games is backing california bill ab 1921 introduced by state assembly member chris ward and expected to be up for debate in the assembly soon tm the protect our games act proposes new regulations that would apply to digital games released after december 1st 2026 i don't like it but i do understand it yeah i know i get that i get it i get that there's an entire there's an entire epoch of games that could end up lost because this will only go into effect for new games going forward but i understand why you can't just change the rules midstream after companies have already this will still be changing the rules midstream for some people yes but i get it at least they get a little bit of a heads up under the act digital game operators would be required to provide 60 days notice before they shut down any services or servers that are necessary for the ordinary use of the game.

23:35Luke Lafreniere:They must provide details about which features will stop working. They must explain how the user can continue to play the game after the shutdown and warn of any security issues that might arise from the shutdown. Notice would need to be provided both in-game and on the operator's website. And as originally written, the game operator would also have been required to seize sales and distribution of the game at the 60 day notice but this has since been changed to the shutdown date as the bill has worked its way through reviews which i actually i i think i kind of get because if for whatever reason you're still able to use it in some way afterward um then i if i was like oh that sounds pretty good i want to buy it i wouldn't want to be prevented from doing that that it should be my choice if i want to buy it or not sure i could see making a warning mandatory hey this game is shutting down on this day these are going to be the changes but just telling me i'm not allowed to buy it i mean that seems

24:30Linus Sebastian:like it's punishing me i can even think of certain games like uh titanfall 2 i i don't think i think there's a community server mod but i don't think it naturally had community servers on launch i could be wrong about this i don't really remember but i would it costs like four dollars now when it's on sale and it's like always on sale and i would highly recommend people buy it for the single player and if the multiplayer doesn't work like whatever like it's still worth buying the game so like yeah as long as there's some flag like by the way the multiplayer doesn't work anymore if you want to make that decision i think that's still fine it's 40 canadian dollars right now that yeah it's just on sale like practically all the time yeah only buy it on sale for sure yeah it goes it goes on like 90 off sales all the time so i'll just wait for one of those

25:19Luke Lafreniere:starting on the shutdown date the operator would be required to provide purchasers with at least one of a new version of the game that can be used without the operator services fantastic fantastic a patch for the existing version of the game that works without the operator services fantastic based a full refund of the purchase price that also works i don't prefer that one but but it works what this does is it gives companies an out if they're

25:52Linus Sebastian:in an absolutely desperate situation can't do the previous two for some weird legal reason or

25:57Luke Lafreniere:whatever else or for or for cost reasons sometimes that might not be practical what was that um what was that sony game concord or was that the one i mean that's the like one of the games the enormous game that they had that they shut down after like a couple of weeks that's one of them i feel like

26:13Linus Sebastian:I think they did it to more than one, but that is one of them.

26:15Luke Lafreniere:Yeah, so like for a game like that where the entire problem with the game is that they've poured all this money into it and then practically no one bought it, it may actually make more sense. Because practically no one bought it. For them to just issue like a few tens of thousands of dollars of refunds or even a few hundred grand worth of refunds and basically just go, okay, forget it. We put this in the dustbin of history. But in that case, we're talking about a game where there's not going to be nearly the same degree of like loss of shared experience and loss of gaming history necessarily compared to something that people played for many, many, many years and then just, you know, is turned off and can no longer be accessed.

27:02Linus Sebastian:Yeah, because there's still, there is still loss, but not the same scale, I guess. It's scale of loss. Importance.

27:08Luke Lafreniere:Importance. Yeah. And so having that pull cord that they can basically just go, okay, for whatever reason, we cannot do this. If it is, because I don't think any company would want to choose to refund every copy of a game they ever sold. Yeah. Like if you were to tell Rockstar, you know, yeah, GTA V, you can do a new version of the game that can be used without your services, a patch for the existing version so it'll work without your services or a full refund of the purchase price which one you think they're gonna pick this is also like just just as a note this

27:46Linus Sebastian:is long-term support i don't think this is necessarily forever support of course there

27:52Luke Lafreniere:are exceptions these new rules would not apply to subscription-based services that are clearly advertised as only offering access to a game for the duration of the subscription so something like wow would not be covered by this mmos in general it does not apply to free games and this is where things get a little bit hazy for me because if you've spent 300 on say for example league skins sure one skin okay are yeah is that a free game

28:27Linus Sebastian:yeah exactly yeah a lot of a lot of free games people spend more money on them

28:33Luke Lafreniere:uh-huh games yeah yeah so i'd be interested as this makes its way through the the drafting process i would be interested to see how they're going to tackle that and then the third one is that games that the seller can't revoke access to after the sale um uh the seller can't revoke access to after the i'm not quite sure what that means but the first two were pretty i don't know what that means for games that require server connected yeah yeah yeah okay so maybe that's just for games where it wouldn't be relevant in other stop killing games news the eu parliament held an introductory hearing yesterday on the european citizens initiative stop destroying video games organizers were able to present their initiative to parliament but a parliamentary response is not expected to come before july you can find video of the hearing on the european parliament youtube channel this is far more momentum than i expected stop killing games to get oh yeah i'm impressed it's yeah on the one hand you know maybe my pessimism was partly rooted in a belief that there are really important other things that the world kind of needs to deal with other than like video games and stuff.

29:53Luke Lafreniere:And maybe I just, even though it's something that's very near and dear to me, I expected, you know, stuffy octogenarian lawmakers to just look at the whole games thing as just video games and not care about it. But then on the other hand, there's enormous amounts of money at play.

30:15Linus Sebastian:There's a lot of money at play. Art is important. And I think there's different people that do different things there's different people that have different expertise and you can you can

30:24Luke Lafreniere:do more than one thing at once um yeah no key says and all it took was for one guy to speak out against the movement that's what popularized it i don't think it's that simple although it did definitely it had a pretty big impact it definitely did shine a lot of light on the movement speaking

30:43Linus Sebastian:of big impact against your will i got the numbers oh okay so it's before tax 62 000 for creative cloud just creative cloud and before tax and then before tax just for adobe acrobat pro

30:58Luke Lafreniere:it's 4500 so why the f*** do we need adobe acrobat pro what the why do we need 4500

31:06Linus Sebastian:worth of it who's doing pdfs i know we get pdfs signed i'm anti-pdf files

31:17Luke Lafreniere:both of them

31:20Linus Sebastian:hey that's too that shouldn't be a controversial statement we we do get pdf signed though i i i think it's very convenient to have like the cloud version of pdf signs um okay is it convenient enough to be 4500 a year i don't know i don't know what people

31:40Luke Lafreniere:use them for i don't use it i mean if it's an alternative to like facts then i haven't used

31:46Linus Sebastian:adobe acrobat in a long time very long time i okay i've recently been using uh only office

31:55Luke Lafreniere:it's pretty easy right seems fine it's free is that that website where you just go and it's pictures of people in suits um no it seems to be like those canadian dollars by the way the like

32:09Linus Sebastian:Linux bro open source thing that isn't Libre office. There's like both of those exist. People in chat are saying Libre office. Someone said some other thing up above. I don't know where I saw it. I don't remember what it was called, but there's like, there's lots of options for PDFs. You can sign PDFs with the free version. I think people at work have yeah. PDF dash exchange. I've never heard of that but a few people are saying that um i don't know why we have the pro one i i suspect it's for the you can email someone the link and then they can sign it digitally in their browser and it gets like receipts for everything in both directions and stuff and it's just i will admit

32:51Luke Lafreniere:it's very professional i would have to guess that that's probably the business team that uses that

32:55Linus Sebastian:or accounting business accounting hr for like getting people hired and signing employee contracts and stuff like that.

33:03Luke Lafreniere:Yeah,$4 ,500 to like seem professional to people that you do outreach to in those contexts probably. It might matter. Probably, maybe, possibly makes sense.

33:13Linus Sebastian:I suspect one of the reasons why it might be so expensive is we probably have a bunch of dead subscriptions.

33:24Linus Sebastian:Because they do the seat thing, right? It's supposed to be good news mind show. You're not allowed to talk about that. Well, the good news could be that we might get away from that. hey, you might maybe possibly save money. That's a reach. Good news. That's a reach, Luke. Good news. It's a reach.

33:39Luke Lafreniere:Good news, everyone. Another good news. Okay, Dan, I apologize for what I did before. Can I please have them back? Thank you. All right, we're supposed to do the CW announcement. This week, we've got... Oh, Lordy, I scrolled too far. We're hiring. We've got a few open roles on our site, including a junior fashion designer and a purchasing manager, both for Creator Warehouse, as well as a contract role in inventory and warehouse management based out of Atlanta, Georgia. If you think you'd be a good fit for these roles, we want to hear from you. Head over to linusmediagroup.com slash careers to apply.

34:21Luke Lafreniere:Yay. This week's product launch has the variety and has quite the... You know what? This week's product launch is pretty exciting for me personally. This is something pretty different from what we've done in the past. If you love motorsports, the Moto T is for you. I'm going to fire up. What are you doing over there? Are you shopping for Adobe subscriptions? I saw those Adobe subscriptions. You're supposed to be going to LTT Store. Oh. this show is such a disaster oh look it's really cool if you love motorsports the moto t is for you it's a race inspired jersey but instead of sponsored patches they are tech inspired patches and 3d puff prints it's designed on a 100 cotton top so it's breathable and feels premium and you can get yours at lmg.gg slash moto t very very different kind of design from what we've done in the past super cool the pink and green is obviously inspired by the old lambo color scheme isn't that cool that's a cool photo yeah i know right of course you should never ride your motorcycle without a layer over top of a cotton tee or long sleeve like this uh but hey you can you can still look the part when you are not actually on your bike that's a great is that just actually her bike did they actually bring natalie's bike into the studio it looks like maybe oh my gosh that's pretty sick uh cool okay next up is uh that's that's a great shot sweet next up is the shirt that luke is wearing if you're a frequent viewer of the wan show you might recognize this character sir ability to can oh wow he's everywhere he disappears whenever something really ridiculous happens and i can't anymore or i lose my ability to can he's super cute it's a it's bleach printed so it has kind of this vintage washed look and is very crack resistant and you can get yours at lmg.gg slash ability to can do you want to show the back of it Luke's actually wearing this shirt right now.

36:46Luke Lafreniere:There you go. Missing. Sir Ability Toucan. It's a bird. Don't worry about it. It's more of just like a WAN show inside joke, but it's also kind of a cute, fun shirt design. Do you want to pay Linus for making puns? Pretty much. I mean... Yeah. I mean, it wouldn't be the first time. Last but not least, for those who just want something basic, we have our blank baseball cap. It's the same design as our LTT hat. It's adjustable. doesn't have the top smarty or button whatever you want to call it um so you are you gonna he's gonna bring it up he's working on it he's working on it there we go no no is it is it is it missing lmg.gg slash blank cap oh there we go um it's adjustable and it's in medium and large sizes it doesn't have the top smarty so if you ever like you know bump it on anything you won't have that to deal with it's really comfortable and is now available in black and kangaroo you can shop now at lmg.gg slash blank cap and this is one of yet another products that is coming into the ltt store with creator warehouse branding that could ultimately hey if you're another creator out there and you're looking for branded apparel opportunities be rebranded to something else interesting anywho if you're looking for a good reason to send in an order to LTT store as always the best way to do so is to wait when we're live oh man my brain is so fried today when we're

38:20Linus Sebastian:live go to the store go to a product find the one you want click add to cart then this little thing will show up this is the easiest way to do it but you could also just click on this and then this box will be here probably looking like that and you can click this little checkbox and be like oh i want to say something you can make your name anonymous or not and then you can be like whoa car shirt cool thanks man smiley face and then change your color because you feel like doing that opt in for email communications because you're like uh by the way where my order screwdriver no show up please help thanks and then uh the customer support people can message you because you did this thing and then you check out and then it shows up on this the stream all

39:08Luke Lafreniere:right it goes to producer dan who will either show it up on the stream or reply to it or he will curate it for me and luke to respond to we feel this is way better than just people throwing their money at their screen and then hoping something good will happen um we like you to get high quality merchandise in the mail instead or in addition to dan do you want to show them what a curated checkout message looks like did i call it a did i call it a merch message yeah i know you're not saying anything because you're in the same room as me dan am i allowed to say things yet yes of course fine kidding hey lld but mostly luke everyone else can answer i guess what is your favorite version of boy kibble simple carb plus high protein

39:52Linus Sebastian:other than just chicken and rice oh well it's already actual actual kibble i know i know people that go really hard they'll make they'll make like a like ground beef mixed with like egg and maybe some maybe some spice and that'll be like the predominant portion of their meals for a week they'll just make one big trough of like meat um something i've been going for lately is sticking with the chicken uh or really or potentially having or potentially having steak instead but try to make that more rare i find oh right and cook it less oh my god uh i did i didn't mean that but you know don't overcook it either whatever you don't make the chicken rare guy yeah i don't do that um and but then i've been mixing the the other things up so go for like a sweet potato instead of rice or or instead of broccoli do like cauliflower or spinach or kale or uh something else and just keep changing things up a little bit um i have heard that if you just eat the same thing all the time and it's really boring um that it can act as an appetite suppressant so if you're trying to lose weight maybe that works maybe it doesn't i don't know um contrary to what i said earlier in the show not a scientist not a doctor uh but yeah i've been i've been mixing up the the carbs that are included basically um but keeping the proteins pretty basic um

41:31Luke Lafreniere:yeah yeah hopefully that's an answer nipolis cage in floatplane chat asked us to make the hat that Jay wears in Jay and Silent Bob. It's a baseball cap without a brim and literally no one sells one. Sell me one. Are you sure we need this? Wait, really?

41:49Linus Sebastian:There's no brim? Yeah, I never noticed it. I think I always just thought it was on backwards. Yeah. Wait, what?

41:57Luke Lafreniere:Yeah, no, this is the car seat behind him. There's no brim on it. How did I never notice that? Oh my God. uh that's just a beanie say people i thought i thought this is what americans call a beanie

42:14Linus Sebastian:yeah like no that had like the this is a this is a baseball cap line things in it i don't know without a brim it has the seams and everything scrappy dp says we do not want that

42:27Luke Lafreniere:i don't think anyone does we want a double brim hat too says minji no you don't you are so lying you do not want a double brim hat that is not a thing you want all right dan hit us with another checkout message hey l

42:45Linus Sebastian:l and d for the same price oh my god hold on there's a there's a whole company that sells them of course there is no no brim co oh my god that kind of has a brim though it does it really does yeah it has like a fill it up brim do they sell the squeezy jibs one original note brim brimless hats what about the long brim i saw a long brim on there wait long brim that was somewhere what was on their home page i think you made it up might have been might have been the previous one

43:17Luke Lafreniere:i think you're a liar yeah anyways that's funky um speaking of speaking of funky hats um i searched for double brim trying to find what i think you know obviously would have been you know one in the front direction back but instead i found this that's the one i saw it on your screen that's the squeezy jim super brim dude i love how the the dude wearing the hat just looks completely normal yeah i don't think that's this hat there's no way that that's this hat i uh i was actually i was actually working on my notes for the uh megany x 8k uh vr headset and i know it's one of those things that doesn't really affect your ability to make a good quality product but bad or not even necessarily bad but like clearly fake product photography just really puts me off of something and this is a classic example where where is she oh where'd she go dang it okay uh well oh here here she is she is not wearing that headset at all like look at this this is somebody tried a little bit though this is the fakest she's not wearing the headset this is not even a picture this is a render of the headset on her face and it gets worse they put a little shadow on there it gets worse oh no here it is this is the exact same photo you can tell from the pixels of the hair that this is exactly the same photo he inspected the pixels you can see it in the you can see it in like the little flyaways and stuff he's a pixel scientist that it's the same picture just with the like and here's the Here's the same picture three times.

45:20Luke Lafreniere:Three times the same picture on one page. Hold on. Two more times the same picture. Come on, man. Come on. It just feels so low quality. I don't like that. I haven't actually tried the product yet, so don't take this as a judgment on the quality of the product itself. it just the the quality of the product page though the quality of the product page is not great anyway in other news i had to go to aliexpress but i did find a double-brimmed hat and it is exactly as amazing as i hoped yo inspector linus should we should we do one of these

46:06Linus Sebastian:inspector linus you could wear that in your next secret shopper or something yeah yeah yeah for

46:10Luke Lafreniere:sure all right sorry uh mr bester do you want to hit us with another check-up message hey llnd for the same price it could get a 77 inch lgc5 oled or a 100 inch samsung q led mini led why do we say q led and led it upsets me uh what would you do bigger or oled oh yeah this is a tough one Samsung has a lot of QLED TVs, and there is a wide range of quality depending on how many local dimming zones they have and how bright they are. With that said, at the same price, I could have a 77-inch or a 100-inch TV. It depends a little bit on the space. if you have a smaller room and just you know sitting farther is not an option anyway um the c5 oled is going to give you a better picture it's going to give you a poppier punchier uh more exciting picture however if you're in a large space and you want to have a big group the bigger the tv the wider you can spread your couches and chairs the more you can have people kind of kind of spread out and eating snacks over there and whatever the more people you can kind of gather around it and and even if you have a smaller room the more immersive the image is going to feel if it was me and i guess it is i would choose the larger display over the oled in my theater room i could have if i really wanted a 97 inch oled i have chosen not to instead i have 115 inch um mini led so that's what that's what i would choose however if for whatever reason the size of my display was constrained then it would be hard for me to say no to an oled at least that's the case today uh with rgb backlighting coming uh that's the one i'm more excited about but it sounds like you're getting a deal on a last gen tv so that's not going to be necessarily relevant to your purchasing decision anyway i hope that helped i didn't really give you an answer but um cool what would you do you'd do smaller oled i would think right probably that's what you did yeah yeah so it's not even hypothetical i went bigger tv he went smaller OLED.

48:44Linus Sebastian:I also have less viewing distance, I guess. Like, uh, it's one of those, like, you know, shotgun apartment hallway room things. And you just have like standard couch position, standard TV position. The throw distance is really not that crazy high. So I'd rather just a way better picture.

49:04Luke Lafreniere:A hundred inch would be a little bit ridiculous at that seating. I think so. yeah so i'd rather just have a better picture genesis 8925 says if money wasn't a problem projector but man i have a really hard time getting behind that like the the wife acceptance factor of a projector just from my experience seems to be much smaller and i don't know what it is but it's like they don't look good yeah i mean they can but there's so many other things you have to align that the that the wife acceptance factor starts to decay and then the second someone gets up to go get popcorn in the middle of the thing and there's a they interrupt the image or you have to tell your young kids hey that's a laser projector don't look into the lens and you know there's like eye safety concerns and then you accidentally leave a door open and so there's like a weird kind of like bright spot across half of it where the shadow of the couch covers like it's just it's not as friendly and there's something just kind of intuitive about the tv being the thing you like press a button on in an emergency if you forget versus like going to the back of the room and like pressing a thing on the ceiling if the remote has the batteries dead or whatever like there's just so many little things about a projector that are more you know bearded dude and less family friendly no offense dan i painted my wall just an entire the entire wall is gray you've seen it yeah there's no white factor there wow you also can't go anywhere near it or put anything in front of it or touch it ever or it's ruined yeah yeah get a tv yeah yeah that's what that's what i'm talking about Get an OLED.

50:57Luke Lafreniere:She'll like the colors. Yeah, yeah. She probably won't care. She likes the colors. She likes the colors. Okay, mine doesn't care. Whatever is in the most... I know exactly where he's going. She will be in the family room where there is an OLED TV.

51:24Luke Lafreniere:and she'll be like doing yoga on a mat or something and she will be watching on her phone and i'm just like really

51:42oh um anyway

51:48Luke Lafreniere:way let's talk about apple launching where i thought that was going apple education after giving after giving up significant education sector ground in recent years decades question mark says our notes apple appears to be making a new push to engage potential users as early as possible with apple education a redesigned landing page highlights the benefits of various Apple hardware and software for lifelong learning, starting with low-cost iPads and MacBook Neos and Airs for the K-12 crowd, and then moves up through the product line for college and postgraduate studies with all the essential productivity and specialty apps for your field.

52:27Luke Lafreniere:The site also offers special AppleCare packages and flexible financing for educational institutions, and that right there is the big one when it comes to hooking them young. I mean, I have talked for... ever yeah about how apple like fucked up allowing chromebooks to become a thing yeah and it looks like they finally figured it out and they are making a concentrated effort to just un chromebook

52:56Linus Sebastian:the world and i kind of think these stomp on chromebooks oh dude i mean i've been daily not close i think i've been dailying the neo for over two weeks now i think i i can't i can't remember

53:10Luke Lafreniere:the time but basically it's not bothering me i feel like you would remember the time if you hated

53:14Linus Sebastian:it yes because you'd be like counting it's the same thing as this linux challenge compared to the last one yep the last one we were all checking in with each other and how many days were left

53:23Luke Lafreniere:and this one i think the timer passed and no one cared yeah yep um apple also unlike google with their chromebooks seems well positioned to keep users in their ecosystem after school is out with a redesigned Apple business landing page that launched about a month ago. So our discussion question here is, did Apple make the right call in seemingly abandoning the education market after the eMac? And I mean, I think I've made my position on this very clear over the years. No, absolutely not. That was entirely the wrong call. Apple went from being the only computers in one of the elementary schools that I attended to be basically becoming utterly irrelevant in schools in a span of like, what, five years, 10 years, something like that?

54:11Luke Lafreniere:Almost nothing. It was just all PC and then it was all Chromebook. And Apple became just a complete non-player outside of, from my understanding, very affluent educational organizations. But now, man, this thing. this thing changes everything because an ipad is only useful for certain stuff for a lot of things i'm sorry but you just plain need a keyboard what is the difference right now between a neo and an ipad with a keyboard um the fact that it's running proper desktop software to me is a big one just in the the the day-to-day usability of the device or did you mean in terms of price no yeah that that to me is the big one the fact that i'm not just limited to ipad os apps and i can run any software that i want on it because there's just i mean it's inherent to the app store model that these apps are designed to be less open you know apple dictates what's in the app store they take a cut out of everything that's in the app store which you know whether you believe that that's a monopolistic practice from them or not is a tax on the developer's ability to operate within that ecosystem there's just there's things about it that are just plain not as budget friendly and not as user friendly i find it interesting how

55:43Linus Sebastian:open they are surprising price yeah it's like yeah it is a surprising price from you yeah it's also surprising price for just the general quality of the laptop but do you think this is

55:55Luke Lafreniere:tim cook wanting to like go off on a high note like there's been a lot of discussion there's been a lot around his legacy yeah there has been over the last couple years because he's getting

56:04Linus Sebastian:close to probably retiring like hasn't he been pretty open about i think so yeah and so it's

56:10Luke Lafreniere:just it's been this open conversation like what is tim cook's legacy because it i mean i'm sure he would love if it were not the uh the apple vision pro right and you look at like there's a lot of things that he has undeniably done incredibly well apple is a is a logistics monster the way that they the way that they handle messaging and their launches is perhaps unparalleled uh they're just so good at it but what product did tim cook oversee because even even airpods was before his time was it not was it actually maybe not i think earpods might have

56:53Linus Sebastian:been before his time but i don't think airpods no i think you might be right who's in charge

56:58Luke Lafreniere:tim cook no yep tim tim cook was uh yeah airpods was well after made the thing that kind of murdered

57:05Linus Sebastian:the entire audio industry. Okay. Which is pretty impressive.

57:09Luke Lafreniere:So that was relatively early on in his tenure. And then towards the end, if he oversees the creation of the laptop computer that basically murders the entire entry-level business and education laptop segment from everyone else.

57:23Linus Sebastian:I also think there's an angle which is... What a punctuation mark to put on your career. Apple spent a really long time basically fighting with chip manufacturers. like they got in this huge war with nvidia they they got in a bit of a tiff with intel a bit of a yeah uh like they they really were not being very friendly with chip manufacturers they came out with the m series chips those chips are just smashing everything they're fire how do they pipeline people into their like okay we figured out bailing on the other chip manufacturers now but the pipeline into max is not necessarily the easiest and it's not exactly the cheapest so how do we get people kind of re-interested in max we've we we own the world of audio we own the world of phones well the north american world of phones but yeah yeah we own the world of

58:18Luke Lafreniere:spending money on lots of phones um you know what's really interesting to me though is like what will apple take away from this lesson will they take away oh we could have charged more for the neo and will they go back for higher margins or will they take away holy crap we have been leaving so much volume on the table by pricing things out of reach of normal ordinary people and do we get like a really aggressive iPhone? Like, do we get like a$400 iPhone? Because if they can build this computer for$500 to an educational customer, right? Convince me. You can build a cheaper phone. Convince me they couldn't do a$400 iPhone if they really wanted to.

59:10Luke Lafreniere:They've got their own silicon for the processor. They've got their own silicon for the modem now even. The Qualcomm tax is, she's a hefty tax.

59:21Linus Sebastian:Tell me they couldn't do it. No, they absolutely could. I think this might piss some people off. I think their gamer move in the future is to basically only ever have, you know, they have two SKUs for this one. They have like the higher storage plus touch ID and the lower storage and no touch ID. I don't think you ever expand beyond that. Oh, for this one? Yeah. I think you keep Neo-T. laptops as like there is maybe two options maybe in some generations there is one and it's just the cheap laptop you can get from apple yep and then everything else is you're jumping into m

59:58Luke Lafreniere:chips and it's like performance laptops and i i actually i like that they gave it a really unique color because it clearly identifies me as a scrub who you know but it's a good looking a real macbook still yeah but it still it still looks good it has it's at it has its own very

1:00:15Linus Sebastian:clear identity the thing on the bottom is a dbrand oh yeah that's a dbrand skin just so people know

1:00:20Luke Lafreniere:yeah sorry about that so it's this part you're looking at the like that's what we're looking at greenish yellow yeah yeah yeah uh so i i really like what they did with that i could see them continuing to do that that's something that they have done in the past to differentiate otherwise very similar looking you can still get it in silver and pro yes but i would actually like

1:00:40Linus Sebastian:to see them lean into this i see most people that one is the most popular color way i've personally seen is like the yellow but i've seen most people get colorful ones which i have to say like thanks god it's been so boring everyone just always picking the most boring possible color options for everything and seeing a bunch of people get the colorful neos brought some hope I think it's like oh wow the world can not just be gray again. This is great

1:01:11Luke Lafreniere:Now don't get your hopes up what it's gonna nah everyone else is full of hopes The only reason Apple can do that is because what they sell 8 million of these things high hopes. Oh So Apple so all the others are sold out So you just had to buy well no I just mean Apple can afford to do a gray one and a yellow one No, I mean people's selection. Oh sure. I just mean though, but Apple's the only one who has the volume to gamble and do a color sure sure sure sure because they can even if the color bombs and only one in ten customers selects the color one then they are still going to sell 800 000 of

1:01:50Linus Sebastian:them yeah so they're fine i hear you i just i think like i think you just see people who have a selection of colors always going like gray white or black oh yeah and that's just kind of boring

1:02:03Luke Lafreniere:they're just safe i mean i was i was talking to the creator warehouse team about um commuter bags or hey this shirt the lambo shirt's so cool here so commuter bags it's so sick i've been rocking this um it's awesome kind of like olive like tactical green one for a little while that i really like yeah and we were just we were talking about you know yeah what would what would a future look like where we have like a range of colors of bags and we were talking through what the minimum order quantities are for each of these colors with fabric sourcing and factory time and one of the things that dave brought up is that we have access to you know industry trend data and sales data and basically it becomes kind of like a like a self-perpetuating cycle yep because the only thing that actually sells is black and gray and then that's the only thing anybody makes so then it's the only thing that anybody sells and it's a huge financial risk unless you're Apple

1:03:13Linus Sebastian:that's why I'm saying I just appreciate that people are not just buying just the silver one is like the more you make it so that people don't just buy only ever just the black one it's like oh sweet okay we can like actually have more colors of things in the world again and like okay uh oruk in float

1:03:33Luke Lafreniere:plane chat says i would totally get a pink backpack but it's tough because we'd sell like 10 of them back when uh back when steel series let me see if i can find steel series did like a

1:03:45Linus Sebastian:pink logitech has more success with this i would say um yeah yeah i just the reason i brought up

1:03:52Luke Lafreniere:SteelSeries is just because they did it a very long time ago before everyone else did it. Yeah, true. And I can't find it. Probably because it didn't sell. Like 2010. Yeah, it was really old and I remember I either was the product manager or I sat next to the product manager for it and it was an unmitigated disaster. We sold like three of them or something like that and then we had to liquidate the rest of them. That has changed to a degree, right to your point it things are a little different now and logitech seems to have done

1:04:25Linus Sebastian:better with it i think logitech has also succeeded in like it's not just hot pink like they'll they'll do colors like this Or like it's a it's a nice like soft purple that you don't have to like they call this one heartbreaker and it's the pink one but it's not just like glowing hot pink either like I think they they played with the colors a little bit more.

1:04:47Luke Lafreniere:I hate though that to be a trendy girl who uses a computer you can only have a shit-tastic mouse.

1:04:54Linus Sebastian:No this is just the first one I clicked on I'm pretty sure there's there's a like I just was scrolling down and so they have like a high performance mouse like that uh okay i probably have to go watch tag g hold on yeah i think it's like a different site yeah yeah okay i think they do have some pretty cool colorways the super strike i'm pretty sure is just black and yep gray oh my god go away pop-ups are so annoying there it is magenta that's a pretty aggressive pink that is a pretty aggressive pink i found the thing that i

1:05:28Luke Lafreniere:I found the thing that I was thinking of. I didn't find the mouse, but I did find the mouse pad. So SteelSeries had their Iron Lady brand, which was... That's pretty rough. Pretty cringe.

1:05:42Linus Sebastian:That is pretty rough. It was pretty cringe. That's what I mean, though, is like these Logitech ones, not to glaze Logitech too hard, but the Logitech ones kind of look nice, and they don't say Iron Lady on them, which probably helps. Here we go. I found it.

1:05:55Luke Lafreniere:I found it. There it is. the Iron Lady gaming mouse.

1:06:02Linus Sebastian:Yeah, see, that's... Akari. That's kind of yikes. And then look at this. This is the one I was actually talking about. The G203, pretty good mouse, lilac. That's pretty cute. Actually looks nice. That's pretty cute. Okay, cool.

1:06:18Luke Lafreniere:Anyways. It's time to talk about our float plane announcements. Linus, try to guess what this means. Dan show the free shipping. Yeah, that's pretty obvious.

1:06:33Luke Lafreniere:Don't applaud me for being not a...

1:06:36Linus Sebastian:Good job, Linus!

1:06:38Luke Lafreniere:Way to go! He did it. He's our good boy. For next week, oh man. Okay. How ridiculous is it that a few months ago i was talking to the creator warehouse team and we were discussing like our sale calendar for the year and we had decided that after the success of our ship storm sale event last year that we should we should do a repeat of it we should do a ship storm sale event and we were like talking about it and we're like well yeah but you know that whole thing was precipitated by the actions of a certain one of the country leaders. So is this one!

1:07:25Linus Sebastian:Story spoiled! So anyway. They're all Gen Zers, Gen Alphas, whatever. They don't have time. They already know where the story's going. I'm just helping. So we decided

1:07:40Luke Lafreniere:to do a Shipstorm sale event on the anniversary of the first Shipstorm. we had no idea that the certain world leader was going to do a thing again that was going to completely f*** global logistics again. You probably could have relied on it. I guess we did. So anyway, the Shipstorm sale event is coming back, and we have something very excited for our floatplane supporters. Everyone on floatplane will be getting their usual 24-hour early access to the event, And additionally, LTT supporter plus tier subs will have a$50 lower threshold to get free shipping for their entire order worldwide. Nice.

1:08:25So that's$13 to save not spending$50 more, but still qualifying for free shipping.

1:08:34Luke Lafreniere:That's awesome. But that's not all. LTT supporter plus tier subscribers on Floatplane will continue to have free shipping on LTT store if the minimum spend threshold is met, even after ShipStorm is over. I'm going to say for some time, I am not locking into that forever. I don't know who wrote this thing in my notes, but I'm putting an asterisk here. for some period of time, TBD. Luke, how are we making money off this? I don't know. I warned that it might be a problem. Okay, cool. Anyway, when we announced our price increase earlier this year, we said we'd make an effort to add benefits to our float plane subscribers.

1:09:18Luke Lafreniere:So we're looking to deliver, pun intended. And I guess this is part of it. So if you're a frequent shopper on lttstore.com, this could be worth considering and you get to watch some amazing float plane exclusive videos like cutting room floor, like the heavily divided$20 ,000 PC extras, and also sometimes early releases. So I'm just going to go ahead and launch a couple of videos. Hey, guess what? Do you know about this? There's nearly 700 exclusives, by the way. Do I know about this? No, I don't. We were sponsored by Red Bull. Sick! Sort of. Someone else was sponsored by Red Bull, and Red Bull had us build computers for them.

1:09:56Luke Lafreniere:Also sick! Yeah, right? So that's going live. Right? Both those cool stuff. Yeah. And then we've also got another video that's going live right... Oh, oh, oh boy. This one is going to be a little controversial, probably. And you can watch it early on Floatplane. It's going to be...

1:10:18Linus Sebastian:What is it?

1:10:19Luke Lafreniere:The highest PC build ever.

1:10:25Linus Sebastian:Okay, so you... Wait, what? Why?

1:10:28Luke Lafreniere:Because it's going to be at 40 ,000 feet.

1:10:30Linus Sebastian:No, I get it.

1:10:30Luke Lafreniere:Why is it controversial? Well, seriously, have you not been following the community drama over the last couple of weeks? Oh, because it's in your plane? Because it's in Linus Media Group Incorporated's plane, yes. Who owns that company? Me. So it's in your plane? Well, it's... Okay, you know better than that. I can only use it for work unless I, like, it's a taxable benefit, etc., etc. But yes, Elijah came with me on the data center tour to Equinix in Virginia. And this is a small, small spoiler. He forgot the case.

1:11:12Luke Lafreniere:He left the case on the ground. That's pretty funny.

1:11:19Linus Sebastian:Did you just film it on the way?

1:11:22Luke Lafreniere:So we were supposed to film it on the way while we were filming. while we were flying during the day and then that was supposed to be our work day that day and then we were supposed to sleep and then get up super early our time because we're three hours ahead now do the data center tour and then sleep on the way back but instead elijah had to abandon me for the data center tour he had to go to micro center buy a case and then we had to shoot it on

1:11:52Linus Sebastian:the way did you shoot the whole thing on the way back or did you do part on the way there we had

1:11:56Luke Lafreniere:to shoot the whole thing on the way back there was like almost nothing we could there's almost nothing you can do without a case you put the cpu on the motherboard and like put some ram in and then that's it you're done whereas like the bulk computers yeah right oh apparently i told

1:12:13Linus Sebastian:everyone last week well whatever i think it's i forgot the detail on if you did part of it on the way there or part of or all of it on the way back anyway the video's out it is it is

1:12:25Luke Lafreniere:controversy aside an absolute banger it is so funny it's just ridiculous you've already been

1:12:33Linus Sebastian:like i i people might not like seeing the plane but i mean it's just a computer i don't think

1:12:43Luke Lafreniere:it's controversial some people you know what there's some there's some people that are upset about it but most people seem to be enjoying the window into something that otherwise we would have absolutely no access to hear about ford i did i did i did okay so key difference so we had a politician a canadian politician is in hot water right now for using and this is incredibly important taxpayer money yeah to acquire a private aircraft way more expensive way more expensive of private aircraft for... The reasoning was so funny. I didn't see the reason. What's the reasoning?

1:13:24Linus Sebastian:He was like, other people have planes. And he pointed at some other politicians that have access to planes, and he's like, I want one too. It was so good. I actually started laughing reading the article. I think it was something like Quebec has a plane or something, and he's like, they have a plane, I want a plane too. it's like really bro right now canada's on fire do you actually need a plane i don't know oh it was funny it was good it was a good time and i can i can say with 100 certainty that he

1:14:05Luke Lafreniere:could have done it on a tighter budget than that also the plane that he chose is so unnecessary for what he would be doing. It's a Challenger 650. I don't know anything about... Dude, he's a provincial politician. Where is he even going?

1:14:21Linus Sebastian:Opposition leaders dub it the gravy plane.

1:14:28Luke Lafreniere:Hold on. Challenger 650 range. This is hilarious. So the Challenger 650... Hold on. Where's Guardian Jet? Here we go. CL650. No, I don't want the brochure. online tools uh range rings here we go okay here's our range map so what's an airport uh so let's say toronto uh sure whatever markham it doesn't really matter bombardier uh but but cl yeah here we go cl 650 so this is this is what you got oh shoot i screwed up oh no i screwed up again oh man i'm such a boomer sometimes toronto seriously come on okay so markham uh yeah here we go check this out so cl6 cl650 this is the range of that thing okay does a provincial politician ever need to fly non-stop to ecuador how often do you think that comes up for context this is ontario

1:15:30Linus Sebastian:yeah the the what what i read was that he was mostly can be flying within the province of ontario well yeah he's a provincial politician sometimes going to the states to deal with

1:15:39Luke Lafreniere:stuff okay that was like it even that who would he be talking to he would be talking to bordering states so like here or he'd be talking with you know maybe washington which would be the like whatever in here in here somewhere i don't remember exactly there you go or in like dc dude he could be on a prop plane and make these flights like there's absolutely no reason whatsoever to have a challenger 650 so here's the uh one sec here it is the statement issued

1:16:13Linus Sebastian:by ford's office contrasts the price of ontario's plane to 107 million dollars it says quebec paid for one used and two new Challenger 650s, and$753 million the federal government paid for six new global 6 ,500 jets.

1:16:26Luke Lafreniere:Okay, I will say this, you know, if Quebec spent that much, that's also ridiculous.

1:16:32Linus Sebastian:That's the only thing that stood out to me on that was like, oh wait, why the heck did Quebec spend$107 million on private jets?

1:16:40Luke Lafreniere:I can understand why the federal government needs them. in terms of like federal statecraft you actually have to travel internationally you actually cannot just put your entire like cabinet on like a commercial flight to you know madrid and if

1:16:57Linus Sebastian:they have that's kind of ridiculous maybe you can borrow one now and then or something i doubt you

1:17:01Luke Lafreniere:can charter one from them i doubt i mean i don't see again it comes down to taxation and who actually owns it which is where yes the distinction between a person and a corporation or sorry do you own the corporation one level of government and another level of government actually does matter like it does matter in terms of moving funds around and who is paying for the wear and tear and how all that's accounted for like it legitimately does matter um so you can't just be like hey federal canadian government you own this thing therefore i can use it right right like it no it actually doesn't work like that um but besides you wouldn't need a global what was it a global 6500 or something like that that the federal government that's the federal

1:17:41Linus Sebastian:one yeah you wouldn't need that six new one they bought six brand new ones

1:17:47Luke Lafreniere:why do those need to be brand new i mean and they spent 753 million i mean they would cost that probably that's the that's what brand new ones go for which is why that was never going to happen that's why 1990 was uh was a good year for me they have they have rolls royce pearl engines well that's just common that's not like uh having a rolls-royce engine is just like it's a thing there's only so many efficiency there's only so many turbofan engine manufacturers honeywell rolls-royce i'm trying to think of who else uh yeah ge thank you dan at least it's bombardier so they bought it like from canada yeah i would have i would have loved to go bombardier instead

1:18:35Linus Sebastian:a little bit oh i mean if it's a government purchase you'd kind of hope it's from canada

1:18:40Luke Lafreniere:yep i i i kind of wanted to i kind of wanted to rep bombardier but it just it didn't make sense it just it didn't make dollars actually it was a lot farther off than not making sense it made too many dollars yeah all the all the dollars uh anyway so those videos are up the the highest pc build is supposed to go up on april 20th lol uh but for people who want to watch it a little early you can head over to lmg.gg slash floatplane. You can also get free shipping, early access, and extras. lmg.gg slash fpwan. All right. We got a couple sponsors for the show today. It's brought to you by Zero Bounce.

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1:20:43Luke Lafreniere:You should definitely go check out that video after the WAN show. Sven's a chill and charming dude. The only risk for you is that you might be a little bit jealous. I was blown away by how much cool stuff he has. Did you watch Sven's video, Luke? I did. He has so much cool stuff. He does have a lot of cool things. He has cool CRTs. His place looks like it would be fun to hang out in. And cool games and all the cool consoles. And he got a cool new upscaler.

1:21:12Linus Sebastian:Also sounds like a good boyfriend.

1:21:14Luke Lafreniere:He got the RetroTink 4K for his OLED. And he took care of the girlfriend. He got some cool stuff for her.

1:21:21Linus Sebastian:Who he had already taken. She has a gaming computer. Well, that wasn't hooked up to anything. But because she doesn't play games. Yeah, yeah. So he got her a more appropriate device. He didn't just get salty about it. He just got her something that she would appreciate. What a good boyfriend. He got good.

1:21:36Luke Lafreniere:What a good guy. Is what he did. Also, if you go check out the video, you're going to want to check out the link in the video description because there's a chance to win your own 9850X3D, which is the fastest gaming CPU on the planet. At the moment, big asterisk. Because, hold on a second. Have they, yeah, they've officially... Hold on, I can't remember.

1:22:06Luke Lafreniere:because there could be rumored to be something else coming at some point anyway the point is as usual amd has a little bonus question for us luke when it comes to your setup do you prefer running everything on one powerful do-it-all machine or do you like to split things up with dedicated systems for like gaming content creation server stuff home lab i like just running

1:22:31Linus Sebastian:everything on one but it's not really the answer and uh as i progress forward i'm going to be splintering into multiple devices i see within a year probably having at least three at least a Hard at least two. Definitely at least two systems. But very likely three before a year's up. I'm kind of delaying right now. I'm just hoping. You're seeing RAM do that. So I'm trying to hope and I can wait a little bit more and get some cheaper RAM. But yeah, I want to move. I have a few services that I have kind of running all the time. Not that many. And I want to have a lot more. But what's been holding me back from having a lot more is that they're all running on the same system.

1:23:15Linus Sebastian:And that just kind of sucks. so yeah it's time to split off time to have a powerful mass that can do a variety of things

1:23:21Luke Lafreniere:basically what you shouldn't do necessarily is go as far as mr nick harris i was at his house yesterday i've seen pictures of his setup nick runs software development for the lab he also just is a sort of general manager of things for the lab he uh he has some people who report to him he also oversees uh mark bench like benchmarking he also just sort of bench he also just oh yeah i know it's it's got a new name now but i still call it mark bench deal with it um he also just kind of like is a is a voice of reason you know when you when you have a group and you need to have a conversation he's just kind of a he's a he's a presence is i think the best way that i could describe him because you know having him around is a gift um so the point is i was at his house yesterday though i and i cannot emphasize this enough i had difficulty navigating his spaces due to the unprecedented level that i had heretofore never seen before of tech clutter.

1:24:38Luke Lafreniere:In the intro, in the intro, I talk, the line is, how do you upgrade the setup of someone who has not one, not two, not three, not four, not five, not six, but seven computers? And the worst part of it is that after we did the intro, when I was doing the part where I like poke around in people's living spaces and we kind of get to know them a little bit. I found more computers. Were they all running? No, the one I found was apparently a dedicated machine to run his bass pedal. He literally had a dedicated machine for pretty much every function. Wow. Was his story. And then I found out that actually one of them's a Proxmox box and he does have virtualization running.

1:25:29Luke Lafreniere:So he's got like more than 10 dedicated computer functions in this place. I just can't fathom it. But hey, that's the kind of person that you want, you know, in your testing lab. Someone who enjoys the pain of tinkering and troubleshooting and experimenting.

1:25:49Linus Sebastian:When we were going through the interview process, in one of our video interviews, I kind of talked about like you know this was a long time ago but I talked about the idea of this benchmarking software that we would have yeah mark bench well at the time I don't think it had a cool name and much of an idea really but I talked we talked about like the concept we kind of bounced ideas back and forth on the concept the next video call that we had he had built like a prototype and i was like all right there's the job basically um dude's based uh that's the gg right there not that we're saying that you should do unsolicited and unpaid work for a job you're applying for um that's not advice however it certainly got our attention yeah i'll say that much it showed like passion and interest in the subject which i cared about a lot

1:26:47Luke Lafreniere:no we'll do that later nvidia's mythical n1 soc has surfaced on a real motherboard and it's packing 128 gigs of lp ddr 5x nvidia's long rumored n1 soc has shown up on a real motherboard for the first time spotted on the chinese resale platform goo fish before the listing was taken down the board appeared to be a laptop engineering sample described as an nvidia n1 ai book and was packed with eight SK Hynix LPDDR5X memory chips totaling 128 gigabytes running at 8533 megatransfers per second. The N1 is supposed to share its silicon with the GB10 super chip that powers NVIDIA's DGX Spark workstation and reportedly packs a 20-core ARM CPU designed with MediaTek alongside a Blackwell architecture GPU with up to 6144 CUDA cores, which would put it roughly in RTX 5070 territory.

1:27:46Luke Lafreniere:This would be NVIDIA's first crack at a consumer PC chip after years of Tegra SoCs for mobile devices, phones, and consoles like the Nintendo Switch. All signs point to a Computex 2026 reveal in June, with Dell and Lenovo reportedly already testing laptops with the N1. The chip is designed to compete directly with Apple Silicon, amd's strix halo and qualcomm's snapdragon x elite in the growing windows on arm space it feels like a predominantly strix halo competitor however it's in a bit of a weird spot it's got like nvidia grade onboard graphics but it will have arm on windows grade game compatibility issues potentially unless nvidia has done some some black magic wizardry which you know after seeing what valve and apple have done over the last five six years i i wouldn't say is impossible you know the migration from intel to apple silicon was incredibly smooth and the the way that i mean look that demo that i saw at valve hq playing on the steam frame like playing an x86 windows like direct 3d game on an arm cpu on linux like blew my freaking mind man obviously it won't work on everything but i mean being on windows here's a question does like kernel level anti-cheat work on windows on arm is it architecturally no idea similar enough that it just like it's it's it's the windowsness that matters did they bother to port that like are you even gonna want a 50 70 class gpu on a windows on arm laptop like is that something anybody is asking for because do the games matter chat even seems like so unsure about that it's like it's a question nobody seems to really be asking ebalred says a kernel level anti-cheat is just a driver and like yeah fair enough but it's a driver that needs certain permissions um and i just i'm not sure if anyone has bothered to integrate it on windows as far as my googling is showing this is all this is

1:30:14Linus Sebastian:all true but it's not everything is compatible with it because not everything has drivers for it um yeah okay well anyway good good luck with this nvidia uh in other nvidia news ea is expanding anti-cheat to arm 64 okay so like some companies are working on it maybe this is

1:30:41Luke Lafreniere:part of nvidia laying the groundwork for exactly exactly this if if they're starting to do stuff like that that might also help the linux crowd but i i kind of doubt it indirectly well uh i

1:30:53Linus Sebastian:already closed that article but it mentioned something along the lines of like linux also potentially being included in their expansion of anti-cheat compatibility i'd love to see it i read

1:31:01Luke Lafreniere:a really uh long article and i think it was ars technica talking about the the sort of inherent challenges with um with anti-cheat on linux and how it's just having the user many having the user like by its very philosophy in control of the kernel is just gonna kind of make it not a thing forever my i think counter argument is that they're barely catching stuff at all right now anyways unless they are like that's the thing how do you know that even more rare people wouldn't

1:31:38Linus Sebastian:be cheating if it was even easier or easier for me i think it's past the threshold you think so so it like doesn't really matter it's just such a high percentage right now that it's already so bad that it being worse i don't think would significantly change my life but that being said the main game i've played that is a competitive shooter in the last while which i have not played very much of at all like genuinely less than five matches is counter-strike and that is compatible with linux and that had like the biggest and worst story of cheaters i've heard in a while which was fairly recent so i don't know but as far as my understanding goes a lot of those cheaters were actually just farming skins.

1:32:23Luke Lafreniere:Right, yeah. Oh, did you see the news about the huge warehouse full of PlayStation 4s that was farming FIFA stuff? No. This is hilarious. Oh my god.

1:32:42Linus Sebastian:Ukraine warehouse packed with thousands of PS4s was actually a FIFA Ultimate Team bot farm.

1:32:48Luke Lafreniere:What? Yeah.

1:32:54Luke Lafreniere:I don't quite I don't know how FIFA Ultimate Team works

1:33:00Linus Sebastian:understand this 3800 PS4s but this is so funny to me to play with all those fans look at the fans in the windows you gotta cool the PS4s man would all of those need whatever Playstation online subscription is would they all need those I guess so

1:33:21Luke Lafreniere:ultimate team cards card farming operation something something fifa ultimate cards this is so this is so funny so if lucky purchase cards contain one of the rare cards which can be sold at a huge profit with so many consoles set up to automatically play the game there's a good chance a few rare cards will be discovered this is this is like man imagine imagine the investor pitch it's like okay bro i have a foolproof plan i have a foolproof plan to make lots of money as long as they don't patch it all i need is a small loan of 3 800 playstations like what are you talking about oh man like the kind of money that's involved in the startup of something like this and and like the kind of the janky operation they're running like can you imagine the legitimate businesses that you could start with a warehouse and enough money to buy 3 ,800 playstations not to mention the ongoing monthly expense of 3 ,800 PSN subscriptions and the business chaos

1:34:29Linus Sebastian:of doing that Ukraine just to also put that out there you could just do something else

1:34:37Luke Lafreniere:just an idea I don't know it seems crazy but you could just do you could just do anything else it's pretty wild like hey you could put your effort into uh shocking the linux community with a game-changing vram hack for 8 gig gpus this is pretty cool natalie valk a contractor on valve's linux graphics driver team has developed kernel patches that fix how linux handles vram on 8 gig gpus previously when vram filled up the linux kernel didn't know to prioritize the game you're actually playing, so it might accidentally evict game data to slower system RAM to make room for a background browser tab, which could cause stutters and frame drops.

1:35:24Luke Lafreniere:VoxFix tells the OS that the game is in the foreground, and that should get first dibs on VRAM. If memory fills up then, background tasks are the ones forced into system RAM instead. In her Cyberpunk 2077 tests on an 8 gig GPU, the game's VRAM usage climbed from about 6 gigs to nearly 7.4 gigs, while spillover to system memory dropped by 53%. The patches currently only work on AMD GPUs because of NVIDIA's closed source drivers that don't allow this kind of memory management modification, and CacheOS is already integrating the fix, and the patches are awaiting merge into the main Linux kernel. Which is, I think, what we talked about last week, the CacheOS part.

1:36:03Luke Lafreniere:This does not apply to integrated GPUs like those in the Steam Deck, or handheld PCs because they are using the same graphics pool anyway. Well, not quite. I mean, okay, the Steam Deck would be, but I think for something like a Strix Halo, it's a static allocation, so maybe it would. Okay, TBD. TBD on that last bit. What else we got, Mr. Luke?

1:36:29Linus Sebastian:Xbox Game Pass. Apparently the, what is it, the new CEO? Yeah, new Microsoft gaming CEO, Asha Sharma. said in a leaked internal memo that Game Pass has become too expensive for players and that Microsoft needs a better value option. Microsoft hiked Game Pass Ultimate to$30 a month last year, up from$20, which was itself already up a bump from$16.99. That's two price increases in 15 months, and there was price increases before that as well, as far as my understanding goes. Game Pass now runs from$10 for Essential to$15 for Premium and$30 for Ultimate. Sharma says the long-term plan is to evolve Game Pass into a more flexible system, though the details are pretty vague.

1:37:14Linus Sebastian:The memo also comes days after rumors surfaced that Call of Duty 2026 could skip Game Pass entirely, which would be a major shift given that adding COD to the service was widely seen as the reason the price hikes happened in the first place. That would be wild. And might also be the reason why she's saying it's overpriced if they're not doing that anymore.

1:37:32Luke Lafreniere:The whole point of Game Pass was supposed to be that I subscribed to it forever and like, you know, that sucks, but you're giving me a good value in return for it. And that's like the deal is I get all the cool new games.

1:37:46Linus Sebastian:I get all the Microsoft games. Yeah.

1:37:49Luke Lafreniere:And it's a one all you can eat for the price of...

1:37:54Linus Sebastian:God, it feels weird saying that COD is a Microsoft game. I know, right?

1:37:57Luke Lafreniere:Sorry to just... No! wasn't there also like that weird whole thing around the conversation for the activision blizzard acquisition where like they they weren't going to do all kinds of f***ery with cod and which platforms i mean i guess i guess not having it on game pass would ultimately be satisfactory

1:38:21Linus Sebastian:to someone like sony was they didn't want to have it taken away from sony so this yeah still doesn't

1:38:26Luke Lafreniere:do that yeah well okay so this this is fine i don't remember it's been a while but is this kind of a killer for game pass if you're not getting the hot new game i think it will be for some people yeah definitely because to me that's the whole point of game pass is that i'm entering into kind of like an understanding cod we're like there's a new one every year that's the kind of game you subscribe to yeah like that's the agreement i have right is i give you money for game pass and then I never think about it again. I can just play the games. But if all of a sudden all my friends are playing that game, that one game, and it's not on Game Pass, what is even the point of Game Pass?

1:39:07Luke Lafreniere:I might as well just buy that one game. And then I could see that kind of shifting people's mentality and going like, that could be the kind of thing that just makes me mad enough to just cancel the subscription and then give you my money another way. Ultimately, yeah. So Microsoft will probably learn nothing, but hey, at least Luke is winning a small, maybe not decisive, but small battle here. I mean, you've been adamantly anti-games as a subscription since the entire concept arose. And in the beginning, I think I actually argued quite passionately with you that at that original pricing, it made a ton of sense.

1:39:52Linus Sebastian:but it has ultimately was the entire argument too was that if if everyone ends up subscribing then they have all of the power all the leverage and that's like literally never goes well and the

1:40:07Luke Lafreniere:best way to play it was still going to be to you know subscribe when it was cheap play single player games or play experiences that you would never want to have again and then once it's not

1:40:19Linus Sebastian:cheap anymore start buying games again but i still go and play civ 5 but not everyone operates that

1:40:26Luke Lafreniere:way yeah or like not i mean not everyone operates the way that they play a game and then they're done with it yeah i um i used to be more of a like go back and play a game that i haven't played in

1:40:36Linus Sebastian:a long time guy but i'm not anymore i don't do it often but it's also nice to just i don't know it's nice okay so 10 billion years ago i did this stream for one of my birthdays i don't even remember which one it was but it would be kind of tough to do this now but uh i think i was 28 or something and i did i played one game for one hour for every year that i had been alive so i was born in 1990 so i played a game that released in 1990 for an hour i remember that it was it was awesome it's actually really fun it did really well for charity i suggested a couple of the games that

1:41:09Luke Lafreniere:you played i forget if you liked them though anyway i don't remember but it sounds likely

1:41:13Linus Sebastian:but that was really fun. I was largely able to play a lot of those games because I've had the same Steam account for most of my life and I just launched it from Steam. Some of them I had to go get, of course, especially the like 1990 era ones but like there was a lot of games that I just launched on Steam. It's nice that I can. I think I value the ability to do so a lot even if it's not something I super commonly do.

1:41:40Luke Lafreniere:That's one of the things I actually brought up. I wrote the Microsoft's year of humiliation script earlier this week. So that was my kind of video essay video this week. And that specifically was one of the things that I brought up as my, hey, I'm not a hater. There's a lot of things that I love about Windows. How about the ability to like click compatibility mode and run software from my childhood? That's crazy. Yeah. Do that on your PlayStation 5.

1:42:11Linus Sebastian:like come on i think that's the thing that's been eating me up the most about the linux challenge going really well is the frustration with windows it's it's it's like almost been i have time for the weekly windows really needs to do better yeah bit yeah it's mostly been kind of sad i don't i don't even know like i'm more sad about it than I am angry. Like, it's like, dang, I actually really liked Windows for a long time. Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 was just such a great series of operating systems, assuming you didn't have a assuming you had a powerful computer when Vista came out. So are we here now?

1:43:01Linus Sebastian:I think like maybe 6.5.

1:43:04Luke Lafreniere:Okay, so we're sad.

1:43:05Linus Sebastian:I definitely spent a long time in 3. I think I skipped 4 entirely. four and five i skipped entirely and then now i'm like six and a half right now yeah all right yeah um it's just why don't you list eight because when eight came out it was trash yeah 8.5 was like pretty okay yeah but one sure yeah yeah yeah yeah um but but yeah when eight first came out it was like just it was comically it's like the worst initial release of an os that i had experienced at that time um i'm not saying it's the worst ever but it's the worst i had

1:43:41Luke Lafreniere:experienced well you hadn't experienced millennium edition even i barely did like i was in i was in grade eight or nine or something like that when when millennium edition was my dad would have had

1:43:53Linus Sebastian:it but i don't think i was exactly forming opinions on operating systems at the time a lot of people skipped it yeah well my dad like messed with computers like we had two or three computers that time and he would get random software all the time i remember for one of my birthdays i received a i think i've told you about this before it was awesome actually i got a a like writable cd that just had sharpie all over it with like 20 different games it's like here's your birthday gift it was awesome yeah anyways it's just it's frustrating that it's that it's so

1:44:29Luke Lafreniere:frustrating to use right now hey speaking of things from the late 90s um while attempting to reduce the size of a 600 plus gigabyte backup of a discourse server engineers at discourse discovered that a 1.6 megabyte gif of jennifer aniston's happy dance was duplicated almost a quarter million times

1:44:59Luke Lafreniere:this isn't really good news it's just funny news while trying to fix the duplication while trying to fix the duplication i'm so tired this week duplication he got it we're good while trying to fix the duplication problem with a single instance of the gif and hard links in the file system for each time somebody tried to upload it again the admins discovered a limitation of the ext4 file system that they previously didn't know about a file can only have 65 000 links pointing to it so instead of one copy and 250 000 links for all the duplicates of it they got one copy 65 000 links and another 180 000 duplicates of the file um dan if you could throw the link to the blog post that would be pretty funny the blog has a bunch more detail including their eventual fix and you can check it out if you're into that sort of thing but these are the kinds of i guess bugs that are really frustrating and can be sometimes be scary because when you're working with with anytime you're working with data yeah loss is is it can be very frightening loss no no you understood what i meant uh data loss can be can be very scary can be very frustrating Oh, no, I didn't mean it that way.

1:46:23Luke Lafreniere:It's a meme. I know. Is this loss? I know. Okay. No, no, I know. I just mean, yeah, I was memeing back at you. Of course not. Yeah, it can be very frightening, but this is... Doesn't this feel like the kind of thing that is like, this is why we play the game? Oh, yeah, I know. This is fun. To find stuff like this? Oh, yeah. Because, of course, there might be a limit to how many linkbacks, because whoever did this, however long ago they designed this, This must have gone, well, surely nobody will need more than 65 ,000 linkbacks to a single file.

1:46:59Linus Sebastian:Oops, Jennifer Aniston jumping. Yeah, I don't know. It's not really good news. I just thought it was really funny. That's funny. I like that they made a blog post out of it because it's funny.

1:47:08Luke Lafreniere:Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Sharing the knowledge with the community.

1:47:12Linus Sebastian:Yeah. Speaking of things that are funny, struggling shoe retailer Allbirds makes bizarre pivot from shoes to AI. and their stock explodes in value. Allbirds, the wool sneaker company, announced it's leaving shoes behind entirely. I think they even sold off everything and is rebranding as Newbird AI, an AI compute infrastructure company, because why not? Stock went from under three bucks to about 17 in a single day. I got this from Atrioc, but look at the much bigger view. Go many years instead. Oops. uh the plan is to buy gpus and lease them out uh for ai compute customers who can't get reliable access from hyperscalers what a plan secured 50 million dollars in funding to get started oh boy uh cnbc's jim kramer oh boy called it ridiculous so maybe it's actually really high

1:48:10Luke Lafreniere:value i guess it's a really good idea time to invest okay but not not financial advice

1:48:16Linus Sebastian:pointing out that it fits the classic pattern seen during the crypto boom dying companies bolting blockchain onto their names to pump the stock and now it's AI and this goes back super super super super far beyond just the the blockchain push as well. Yeah don't forget dot com. And and others. The classic 90s bubble. Yeah Allbirds was a public benefit corporation championed by Leonardo DiCaprio, Oprah and Obama. The pivot includes dropping that status entirely with filings stating the company would be Silicon Valley circles I don't know man That's like a almost a flex

1:48:55Luke Lafreniere:I have no idea this is the kind of thing that again it wasn't good news but it was just It was too funny It was too funny for me to not talk about

1:49:04Linus Sebastian:Maybe it can be good news and things that are funny

1:49:07Luke Lafreniere:Like seriously if I was if I was less if i was less principled man just an ipo with just linus media group ai ai infrastructure in canada ai infrastructure come to the north cooling's easier here we're going to be making videos about our ai data center build out we're going to have we we do this like pitch video offering unparalleled transparency into the the ai data center build out in the frozen north we've solved cooling just put it in the arctic yeah and we've got all the did we've got all the energy and you know blah blah blah like you go you i i don't i don't know who the gullible people giving all birds 50 million dollars are but i secure a meeting with them somehow like i just it just seems like the playbook is so simple and so dumb and just so easy that i i feel like it couldn't be that hard It couldn't be that hard.

1:50:10Luke Lafreniere:Oh, man. Dude, did you see the one where that woman got a$5 million refund from the CRA on her taxes? So this is just classic, you know, scammers are not that smart kind of lore here. So what she did. The ones you know of. What she did, yeah, right, well, she reported$9 ,999 ,999 in foreign income on her tax return, reported to the CRA that she had paid income tax on it, and then said that she was entitled to a$5 million refund. Hold on. The next part is the funniest part, and I want to make sure that I don't get this wrong because it's so funny. Here we go. Court records say that auditors later became suspicious after realizing that Wallace, the person who filed this claim, was claiming status both as a resident and as a non-resident of Canada.

1:51:19Luke Lafreniere:wallace they noted submitted a vague two-word explanation in tax forms for the claimed foreign income united nations what does that this got past two reviews they wrote the check a third review that got flagged because it was an outlier refund found it and was like yo oh, what is this? And they froze her assets, but already hundreds of thousands of dollars are gone. And like, this is the kind of person that you got to look at and go, they got no shot whatsoever. There's no way they didn't waste that money. Pull that off.

1:52:05Linus Sebastian:You got to get it overseas and move out of Canada.

1:52:08Luke Lafreniere:So that's the thing is like, she didn't.

1:52:12Linus Sebastian:Yeah, that's crazy. That's like, you got a bail. You're done here. That's crazy. And you have no time. You gotta leave.

1:52:19Luke Lafreniere:Like, that's the kind of scam that, like, seriously, I would be a criminal, I'd be a criminal f***ing mastermind compared to some of these people. Yeah, but again, she got caught. Yeah, I guess. That's, I think that's a big part of it. But, like, I would have skipped town. I'd be gone. I'd have gone to Costco and bought all the gold bullion. Or you'd just be running a bank. Yeah, or I'd find a legal way to be a criminal. I just, I just, I don't get it, dude. I don't get it. It seems so simple. It seems like we could just, like if someone says they paid$5 million in taxes, you'd think there'd just be like an AI check that's like, did you though?

1:52:59Luke Lafreniere:No. Well, it's not in our bank account, you know? Like this is like that thing I went through when we got like wire frauded a while back. Remember that? When our pool contracting company.

1:53:13Linus Sebastian:Details, yeah, I know it happened.

1:53:14Luke Lafreniere:Our pool contracting company got their email server infiltrated. So they were able to send us emails from our pool company and then intercept our responses was what happened. And then so we wired money like from a bank to a bank within Canada. And then we did ultimately end up getting it back. But there was like a high risk that we weren't going to be able to. And I'm sitting here going, what is the bloody point of electronic fund movement? if it can't be reversed if it turns out that it was a f***ing criminal? Like, obviously fraud. And, like, how hard is it to go, hey, that was fraud. When the person shows up to take it out, just handcuff them.

1:53:57Luke Lafreniere:Like, I must be missing something here, because I believe genuinely that.

1:54:03Linus Sebastian:I also don't get it, so I feel like we're both missing something.

1:54:06Luke Lafreniere:Law enforcement probably, for the most part, like, you know, tries pretty hard and stuff. I've met some very hardworking law enforcement people. But it just seems like sometimes it really is that simple as just, hey, you know that it was taken, you know, illegitimately. So just wait on the other side and go get them.

1:54:29Linus Sebastian:Okay, so Willing Spy said, LOL at Linus, wait till you find out how credit card security works. There's a reason why Mythbusters couldn't do an episode on it. I know about that. but my understanding of that is that's why the like honestly ability to get your money back from credit card fraud is so easy it's because they know it's kind of crap so they just cover

1:54:48Luke Lafreniere:you yeah no i and then that's just part of what you're like the one and a half percent or two

1:54:54Linus Sebastian:percent merchant fee covers is yeah like i had i had my card skimmed once and i just had a call with a guy and he was like okay let's go through your thing and just basically point out all the ones that seem not legit and i did and he's like yep seems right just sent me all the money like it was super easy because of that so that's why this scenario is weird is because that part isn't

1:55:17Luke Lafreniere:super easy there's no insurance obviously fraud because every day on every transaction you're paying for transaction insurance yeah yeah if you use uh at least in north america if you use a

1:55:28Linus Sebastian:credit card please say no more how it works here i hear you but like it doesn't matter if someone wants to rip off credit cards they can do internet research for roughly five seconds and figure out how to do it um like it's it's us talking about on the wancho is not going to move the needle that's one of the reasons why it's like fully acceptable to make content about doing stuff like that about uh security tools and whatnot on on youtube on the internet uh publishing books about it doing whatever is because like oh no i missed this and it's better to educate people about how it's done so they can protect themselves than it is to...

1:56:01Luke Lafreniere:NoKey just posted, Veritasium apparently made a video, this is their most recent video, on how you can make a payment with no upper ceiling and stole$10 ,000 from MKBHD.

1:56:12Linus Sebastian:Yeah, dude, what's up? Veritasium's making a ton of, like, hacking content. Yeah. Where did that come from? It's been doing really well. It's been great. It's just a surprising pivot, but... Yeah, 3.7 million views exposing a flaw in Tap2Pay.

1:56:29Luke Lafreniere:Yeah. I mean, good for Derek and the acquiring company. He seems to have found the way to divest of the channel that he founded without it completely losing its soul. and the acquiring company seems like they are they are they have a strong interest in being good stewards of of the channel that they i i'm not sure what amount of it they acquired so just take this for for what it is i was not involved in the deal in any way um but it seems like from the outside that it's going pretty good avian says the new host is hard to watch i mean part of it might just be not being used to used to them um i thought they were fine yeah i i do think it's probably not being used to them because i think they're fine yeah ball of ridd says they've gotten the kind of deal that linus refused and now there's many writers doing many kinds of topics and nine out of ten videos is like legit good yeah that's that's cool i mean if we if we could find someone who was willing to do it the same way as that i might consider it again but uh it would have to be there were there were a lot of factors there was there was the team as well like i was i was very worried that they would not only not be good stewards of the content but they wouldn't be good stewards of the team and um i'd have to see what the proposal would would assure as far as all of that goes.

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2:01:04Luke Lafreniere:BYD has already built out over 5 ,000 of their 1.5 megawatt flash charging stations and is aiming for 20 ,000 by the end of the year in China with a European rollout now underway as well. Dude, is this it? Is this the last obstacle to widespread EV adoption? Five minutes. Maybe.

2:01:32Linus Sebastian:The weight still sucks. It's interesting in North America because, like, okay, so there's some Chinese EVs coming to Canada that's going to move the needle here quite a bit. but apparently i've heard that they're you're not even going to be able to be allowed to like road trip through the states like you might not be able to enter america at all in a chinese cv really i've heard that might be a thing there's no way that will last longer than the next uh 2.75 years though let's be real uh we'll see they might they might still want to protect

2:02:07Luke Lafreniere:their automotive program no matter what who's in admin i don't see how preventing someone from road tripping into the states uh will help american automotive manufacturing

2:02:20Linus Sebastian:i think their idea is you can't enter the states with them so they can't be like left there like if you drove down and then happened to fly back up or something you just left your car there and now there's a chinese ev in in china

2:02:36Luke Lafreniere:you mean in the u.s but yes yes there's lots of chinese evs in china quite a few quite a few i I saw them. I saw them with my own eyes.

2:02:46Linus Sebastian:Next topic. Quick. Google will begin punishing sites for back button hijacking in June.

2:02:51Luke Lafreniere:I love this so much. I love it. Freaking. Some sites will do it twice. Yeah. Like you'll go to go back and it'll not. It'll just like go to some sub menu thing and you'll go to go back again and it goes to some other thing. You go back. I meant back.

2:03:08Linus Sebastian:Yeah. Google is adding a back button hijacking to its spam policy starting June 15th. Sites that mess with your browser's back button, trapping you in loops, redirecting you to pages you never visited, or shoving ads and recommendations in the way when you try to leave will face ranking penalties or manual spam actions. This should have been done ages ago. Yeah. Google is giving sites a two-month heads up and notes that some of the worst offenders might not even know they're doing it since the hijacking can come from third-party ad scripts or recommendation widgets baked into the site. That's brutal, actually.

2:03:42Luke Lafreniere:I don't care. Yeah, I don't care either.

2:03:44Linus Sebastian:It needs to go away. Yep. And, like, you're going to have to be responsible for the ad scripts and stuff that you put on your site.

2:03:53Luke Lafreniere:Yeah. It is what it is. Now, the next thing I want is a single close button on all mobile ads. Because I play Wordscapes with Yvonne, like, almost every night, I have had more exposure to mobile ads in the last like three to six months than the previous my entire life combined. And they are so annoying. My ad block works to a certain degree to the point where I could tell you very few of the things I've ever even seen an ad for. Like I can't. Oh, you're not actually running ad block. You mean your brain's auto.

2:04:24Linus Sebastian:Yeah.

2:04:24Luke Lafreniere:Like I can't. I don't care what it is or know what it is. But what I do care is that like sometimes the exit is up here and sometimes it's over here. and sometimes you have to wait for a circle to complete and other times you have to like go open it on the ads app store and then go back and then exit it and there oh man there's this one really obnoxious one that the x never appears until you just like press somewhere on the screen and it won't open the ad but it will make the x appear so you have to like press it and then x and then it brings up another thing and then x again it's one x i find like i i mentioned i play the new

2:04:59Linus Sebastian:times games it's been a while but i play them every once in a while uh sometimes by myself usually with emma they're at they have ads right they're gonna have to have ads to do whatever yeah but if you notice you can make it perfectly perfectly go away nice so it's just gone solid

2:05:19Luke Lafreniere:no problem i don't mind that at all solid i think that's that's totally good um what's a little less That's good. This is the one exception to the good news show this week. Major news outlets are blocking the Internet Archive. Wired reports that in an effort to limit AI agents accessing historical data for training, 23 major publications, including USA Today and the New York Times, are currently blocking the Internet Archive's crawler, IS-ArchiverBot. the abuse of fair use policies in the training of llms is a serious concern for both copyright holders and the internet archive organization um the yeah hosting massive amounts of data and and for the internet archive organization because hosting massive amounts of data has bandwidth costs associated with it um due to llm bots accessing it over and over and over and over and over and over again.

2:06:18Luke Lafreniere:Often in an incredibly inefficient way because they don't care. This is really bad news because the Internet Archive has only grown in importance as the world has increasingly abandoned print journalism and the archives maintained by libraries and news organizations have fallen into disrepair. It used to be that you could go to your local library and pull up a microfiche of the newspaper of any given day in history and you could go read it. Like you could go read the newspaper the day that you were born for instance this has gotten very difficult in spite of pushback from copyright holders courts have established that the archives actions are legal and that creating a searchable index without making copies of the materials is impossible but i can also understand why copyright holders are doing what they're doing because just having AI agents trained on their stuff is also not good.

2:07:13Luke Lafreniere:Wayback Machine Director Mark Graham is reportedly in talks with several outlets that the archivers bought could gain access to the websites once more, but right now is an uncertain time for archiving important information that otherwise could just be lost. On that subject, rare bootleg concert recordings are coming to the internet archive you don't have to go uh i i do i just have to i don't know do a couple more topics one more topic okay uh music superfan adam jacobs has built a collection of more than 10 000 cassette tapes by attending and recording concerts since 1989 after jacobs was featured in a documentary in 2023 the internet archive reached out and now once a month a volunteer named brian emmerich picks up 10 to 20 boxes stuffed with tapes and transfers the analog recordings in real time to digital files that are sent to other volunteers to clean up, organize, and publish.

2:08:10Luke Lafreniere:So far, almost 2 ,500 tapes have been digitized and added to the Adam Jacobs collection on the Internet Archive. The collection includes rarities like Nirvana performing in 1989, two years before Smells Like Team Spirit was released as a single. Wow, that's cool. So they recorded Smells Like Team Spirit. Oh, that's so cool. Unreleased tracks by Tracy Chapman and previously unknown recordings of Sonic Youth, REM, Phish, Liz Phair, Pavement, Neutral Milk Hotel, and a host of others. This is maybe a controversial take, but I have never really felt the need to record a concert. I thought you're not really supposed to.

2:08:49Luke Lafreniere:And I've actually come around to the idea of a concert being an experience for the moment and not something to be recorded. But maybe I'm, maybe this is, it kind of goes against my general stance as just like a data hoarder and everything should exist forever but I don't know I uh maybe I just grieved it already because there were really great experiences I had live that I was never able to recall again and I just was like okay well I guess that's just the nature of the beast I think there is also certain things that you

2:09:23Linus Sebastian:shouldn't be distracted by the camera you should just experience um I also remember I went to blink-182 had a concert in vancouver and my brother and i went yeah i remember i i recorded it on my phone and sent it to a buddy because i thought he'd like it and then a few days later i went back and watched it and was like why the would he like this yeah because i just sent him a really crappy recording of blink-182 playing a song that he's heard before in a good recording so like i don't know i do think like i have heard live recordings professional live recordings before of songs that i i prefer the live recording of the song um i think also like as a piece of history to have some recordings from concerts from bands is cool do i think every single person in the audience needs to have their cell phone out recording aggressively no yeah just enjoy the darn concert when you know there's 40 000 other freaking phones in the audience out maybe you don't need your individual pov and could have someone who's one foot to the side of you it's going to be posted on the internet anyways and just use theirs and enjoy it yourself um i part of the experience to me too is like

2:10:38Luke Lafreniere:I like I wish the performers could could be themselves a little bit more and and not have to be worried about everything from the concert just immediately being published like one of the funniest concert experiences I ever had was with Michael Bublé of all people he did a perform an outdoor performance uh in Vancouver about must be about 20 years ago now um and Yvonne and I attended it we just like kind of randomly got tickets for it i think my aunt might have gotten them for us or something i don't know anyway the point was we went neither of us were huge michael buble fans but we had a really great time and one of the funniest moments was when um he like was interacting with the crowd that was like right up next to the stage and this i couldn't see her because i was like way back uh but presumably young young lady like uh you know handed him passed him passed him like a note and he made like an offhand joke he's like you're like 12 uh you're you're a little young and everyone like laughs um because that was you know not i guess that was that was pre-epstein files when you know we could kind of go like yeah a famous person saying no to that was common at that time and and just like you know the idea that he might say anything other than no was funny and it was just it was but it was it was hilarious and he just kind of burned her in front of 10 ,000 people.

2:12:07Luke Lafreniere:I don't know. I don't know if you can get away with that anymore. Well, bad.

2:12:18Luke Lafreniere:Yeah, alright. Alright, time for After Dark. What do you got for us, Mr. Dan? Sure, let me just push some buttons here. Okay. and yeah i've got a couple for you today sure really need to like make this one single button that would make my life easier there we go um hey when hosters linus any update on the gpd win 5 review also did the wan design backpack sell well enough for a restock keep up the great work love your products and the work y 'all do i don't know if i'm ultimately going to end up doing a review of it but i do end up talking a little bit more about my experience with it in the upcoming short circuit for the one x player uh apex that's a competing strix halo handheld and both of them have their own unique selling points both are very expensive this one actually can be configured with liquid cooling is that us which is pretty oh yeah of course which is pretty wild liquid cool i I mean, the people who have it apparently love it, but...

2:13:27Luke Lafreniere:Is that two reviews? Oh no, nine or something? It's a pretty wild little device. And I talk a little bit more about the Win 5 and my experience daily driving it in there. As for the WAN backpack, I don't know if we're restocking it. You might just have to send in a message to customer care to ask about that. Hello from the UK. My Android Auto seems very sensitive to cable quality. Hoping this cable is the solution. Have you had much feedback on the type of problems the TrueSpec cables have solved? Actually, yeah, there's been a ton of feedback about them. If you look at the reviews on the site, some of them I think people are actually wrong and misunderstanding what a cable does, but there are also a lot of them where people do seem to know what they're talking about.

2:14:14Luke Lafreniere:Is there some that says their audio sounds better or something? There's some stuff like that. Look, if it makes you happy, then I guess whatever. I'm glad you're happy, but that's not really how it works. digital signal um but there are people that are like oh yeah no like i was getting uh transfer issues with my high speed external storage and now it's consistently faster or the uh the more robust build quality is making it so that when my roomba runs over it it's less likely to you know get destroyed like people are are really enjoying this product so i'm just i'm glad they are we had a small restock earlier this week they're like almost all gone now if you want to get a true spec cable you are going to need to sign up for a notification like if you do not click this button you are not going to get one for a while our manufacturer increased their capacity just for us to make more of these cables it is still not even close to there's there's a to c's yeah there's

2:15:12Linus Sebastian:short ones there's a a few short a to c's and a really long a to c and all the ones in the middle

2:15:18Luke Lafreniere:sold out yeah yeah for you luke what's your go-to wait can you do luke's after yep hi lld hey linus now that your kids are getting into 3d printing what cad software do they use um also did you teach them how to use it or how did they teach themselves it um they learned tinkercad at a local sort of uh stem mostly computer kind of study thing called code ninjas um which seems to be working pretty well for them they can make just about any kind of basic thing that they want uh my daughter did something for uh for our project for school earlier this week um yeah they're just they're still having a really good time with it both just you know using it as a toy factory and also to do legitimately useful things.

2:16:09Luke Lafreniere:Yeah, Tinker's great. I think Grasshopper, is that free? Can we get them into Grasshopper? I mean, I guess. Yeah. They know it better than I do at this point. They could go work with Seb. Hey, Linus, my five-year-old just had his first dental work and managed to chew his lip up due to the anesthesia by accident. um how sore are you these days is the end in sight i'm actually really sore today it's really hard to talk um i don't when i'm not getting enough sleep it uh they like dig in extra and then they put in a super strong wire for the one tooth that like stubbornly stayed really twisted after the first rounds and like the bracket was not quite in the right place and stuff so this tooth here yeah turned like maybe 15 degrees with this wire like a lot okay maybe 10 but like freaking a lot um which moved like everything and it's like you can really tell when they're moving a lot because you'll like kind of press on the bracket and you can like you can like feel them like moving and like it'll go like they'll like kind of reshift and stuff like in real time if there's a lot of tension built up.

2:17:24Luke Lafreniere:And then the wire for this one, you can see there's a long fan of wire, just like slices the inside of the lip there. And then there's another one on this side that's doing the same thing. I'm actually like in extreme discomfort right now. The WAN show is not a lot of fun when my mouth is as sore as it is right now. I have to bail. Luke's going to have to do his thing. I really got to go. I've got a family thing.

2:17:44Linus Sebastian:Bye. Bye, have fun. Don't forget your bag. I see you walking past it. Say the line. um no well you can call me oh yeah i forgot we can do that nice uh luke what's your go-to

2:17:55Luke Lafreniere:character build when you play morrowind slash oblivion slash skyrim etc question mark please

2:18:00Linus Sebastian:no stealth archer okay well i have to defend myself a little bit it's stealth archer isn't it defend myself a little bit it's stealth archer when i was a wee child and i played morrowind and i didn't look up things on the internet of how to do stuff and you still ended up with

2:18:17Luke Lafreniere:stealth archer i still end up with stealth archer but stealth archer was not skyrim level op back in morrowind i watched a video today i think that was talking about how skyrim pushes you

2:18:30Linus Sebastian:through into being stealth archer it kind of does it kind of does so i liked stealth archer before then and then in skyrim i actually didn't i don't think or i did a mix or something because it kind of did feel too overpowered i always liked being martial um i found spell casters in those games are just like always too overpowered um especially morrowind spell casting and more you're just a god like it especially if you if you start getting into enchanting in morrowind like i remember one of my characters i i made i think it was a ring and i called it like i think i called it the god ring because if you just use the like activatable ability on the ring everything just died so i would be like oh i can't get past this quest i'll go grab that and put it on and just win the game so i found it more engaging to um work with like block or parry mechanics i i generally like having a shield because i feel like uh fighting with the shield is like kind of more fun uh but yeah, I was always more into martial stuff.

2:19:40Linus Sebastian:I liked the archery in Morrowind because Morrowind doesn't play around. If you end up in a too high level area, it's just too high level and they'll just wreck you, but it's also Morrowind. So there might be a way around it and the AI is really dumb. So like, I wanted to like, you know, kill everything in entire city because I was 14 and that's sick. Um, but the, the guards and stuff are way too tough for me. So I just brought an incredible amount of arrows and stood on like this weird part of a building that they couldn't get to and just shot them for like an incredible amount of time until i killed every single guard in the entire city and then got all their super high value loot and stuff so i i liked archery and stuff early on but always focused on um always focused on marshall builds i'm planning on doing a thing i was kind of dabbling with it a little bit in the oblivion remake but i'm gonna wait until the fan remake mod version called Sky Blivian comes out.

2:20:41Linus Sebastian:And then I'm going to actually try to do it because I'm much more interested in Sky Blivian than just the official Blizzard remake. But I'm going to do a thing where, you know how in the game you pick a class, you pick what sign you were born under, you do all that kind of stuff. I'm going to pick warrior for every single option because you can pick the warrior class, you can pick the warrior sign, you can pick the warrior whatever. So I'm going to do as many selections as I can. It's just warrior. And then the only magic that I'll use is restoration magic and I'm gonna see if I can beat the game while kill on sighting anything that ever casts a spell that isn't restoration magic that's great if you if you use any school of magic other than restoration I will have to cleanse you from the earth and I'll see if it's it's literally possible at all I don't know you're doing it with like punching or sword or I can't remember what you said.

2:21:30Linus Sebastian:Yeah, I'm a holy knight and if I see you casting a darn spell that isn't restoration magic, I gotta put you down. I told you about

2:21:40Luke Lafreniere:my punches and drugs Skyrim

2:21:42Linus Sebastian:build character. Yeah, that's surprisingly possible in Skyrim because Skyrim has some really good...

2:21:47Luke Lafreniere:That's why it's possible. It's also super broken. It's just like high level bracers and then you just punch dragons to death.

2:21:53Linus Sebastian:It's like that's my... It's high level bracers, you're getting like Riften or something right oh yeah you just remember this you just sit there and you just make

2:22:00Luke Lafreniere:bracers and then you just punch everybody to death yeah um because you're unarmed and your

2:22:07Linus Sebastian:braces are really good crafting in those games are always a mess oh yeah blizzard remake oh sure bethesda that's my stealth archer i can't not to do that sure yeah there's there's fun ways to play the game i even think stealth archer can be fun it's just fun one time i think what happens is

2:22:24Luke Lafreniere:people want to play something different and then they just accidentally it's it's like crabs

2:22:29Linus Sebastian:everything evolves into a crab everything also evolves into a stealth archer pretty much um like it's you usually have it as a fallback it's just because it's so overpowered um i always wish actual stealth was like a little bit more viable in those games so you could be like a dagger build that was more yeah viable I guess but yeah usually I end up being some form of marshal either like a two handed weapon or one handed weapon and a shield or just both yeah yeah I think that's it I guess we can call them yeah hold on a second let's see

2:23:16Linus Sebastian:all right we're trying

2:23:22Linus Sebastian:you like my dbrands game hello you gotta sign us off

2:23:27Luke Lafreniere:oh yeah before I do gotta figure out the details around the WAN show channel I think we may not be able to have the transition be as long as we had originally intended because there's just like duplicate VODs I think we might have to accelerate this so just throwing that out there Make sure you're subscribed to the WAN Show channel because we may have to stop streaming on the LTT channel sooner rather than later. We'll see you again next week. Same bad time. On a different channel.

2:23:58Linus Sebastian:Next week. Wow. Okay. All right. Bye! Okay, see ya.

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