0:01

What is up everyone? Welcome to The WAN

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Show. Wow, that's all the energy I can

0:06

muster today. Sick. In

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any other universe where... breaking

0:11

the streak was an option. I think I

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wouldn't be here today. But let's go.

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What are you two topics? I almost pulled all

0:20

nighters. So we're gonna get

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into why that was and why we're

0:24

here anyway. What else we

0:26

got today? Oh right. TikTok

0:28

is banned. But no for real this

0:31

time. But wait, no maybe not. You

0:33

know what? No you're right. That topic

0:35

sucks. It's boring. Okay, Mozilla blasts

0:37

dating apps for dropping their

0:40

privacy standards. And this is a

0:44

bigger deal even than it sounds like. I was floored

0:46

when I was reading through this. Okay, what else we

0:48

got today? Gamers

0:50

escape from escape from Tarkov. It might

0:52

finally be over. If the Cheers weren't

0:55

enough, we've got a doozy for you.

0:58

Also, I don't know what else? Net

1:03

neutrality might be back. FCC

1:06

votes to restore Obama. Obama era

1:09

rules repealed under Trump. We're

1:12

restoring Obama. I mean you look, you see

1:14

the pictures? The day he started his term

1:16

and the day his term ended? We're

1:19

gonna restore him boys. We're gonna put that

1:21

black hair back. He's

1:24

gonna look less haunted. Dude's

1:28

seen some stuff. Oh boy.

1:31

Just roll the intro. We got

1:33

this. Wait,

1:39

what? Pretty

1:42

sick, huh? This

1:44

is awesome. Yeah,

1:57

dead. Dead in the corner. Oh

2:02

man, that's great. That's awesome. Pretty

2:05

cool. Hey, did you see that on Reddit? I

2:09

saw the post, but I never ended up actually watching it. I

2:11

meant to, but I think I just... Oh my God. That's

2:14

pretty great. It's amazing.

2:17

It's like it really raises the question, why did

2:19

we ever bother to try to create our own

2:21

intros for anything? You know that the LTT 3D1

2:24

is based on just a

2:27

random viewer that created that, and then

2:29

we reached out to them, we had

2:31

it tweaked, and now

2:34

we use that as well. Wow. That's pretty

2:36

great. Yeah, it's pretty cool.

2:39

Like that must have been...correct me if I'm

2:41

wrong, guys. If you're in the audience and

2:44

you're going like, oh yeah, that's really simple

2:46

or something, then by all means let me

2:48

know. But that looked like a freaking ton

2:50

of work to me. Absolutely

2:52

incredible. We have

2:54

one of the most, and I'm not just

2:56

blowing smoke, we have one of the most

2:59

talented viewer bases out there. When

3:02

I see stuff like that, it just absolutely blows

3:04

my mind. So that was super cool. I

3:08

feel terrible for

3:10

not knowing the name

3:13

of the person who submitted it. Do we have that handy,

3:15

Dan? Yes, that's

3:17

by Nate C. Absolutely

3:20

killed it. He remade a special

3:22

version for me without the ending credit so

3:24

that I could put our sponsors over it,

3:27

even supplied the font that was going to be for

3:29

it. Super awesome. That is

3:32

so cool. Did we give him money? I

3:35

don't know. We can follow up if you want.

3:37

Okay. Yeah, I'm going to

3:39

send a message to Vance,

3:41

and I'm going to make sure that some money

3:44

leaves our bank account. While

3:46

you do that, you were talking about housing. Amazing.

3:48

We have a very creative community. Escape from Tarkov

3:50

has a very angry community. Escape

3:53

from Tarkov developer Battlestate Games has angered

3:55

fans by releasing a new 250-year-old. US

4:00

dollar version of the game you heard

4:02

it right after taxes and fees and

4:04

everything else this is like almost 400

4:07

Canadian dollars or something like that. I don't remember

4:09

exactly But the

4:11

the fees and taxes are pretty brutal as well.

4:13

It is Wildly expensive

4:15

have you not heard of this? No,

4:19

okay, this is my one big lose

4:21

this topic dude I've

4:23

done nothing but shoot videos and inhale paint

4:26

fumes. I have no idea what's

4:28

going on Yeah, 250 us

4:30

dollar version of the game

4:32

the pricey new unheard edition

4:35

includes access to an

4:37

offline PvE co-op mode

4:39

which Supports

4:42

all of the quests and everything else that

4:44

the main game does all able to be

4:46

done in PvE co-op

4:48

actually pretty cool Like I

4:50

probably enjoy that version of the game more

4:52

because the reality of it is I love

4:54

the concept But I'm not sweaty enough to

4:56

play Tarkov. Yeah, hold on though that Existing

4:59

at all. Yeah is not why people are mad.

5:02

Yeah, we'll get there in a second Right people

5:04

love the idea that's a thing.

5:06

Yeah, totally Yeah, I've been begging

5:08

for this for I don't know.

5:10

It's the whole time the game

5:12

has existed. So yeah, totally Problem

5:15

as long as they're not plastic begging

5:17

those are banned then everything's good This

5:27

PvE co-op mode will will have

5:29

persistent progress so when the game

5:31

wipes it won't reset every time

5:34

Cool. Yeah, so those things like

5:37

like like Baldur's Gate or whatever like you can

5:39

have like a campaign that you're playing with your

5:41

friends And you're in your it's a

5:43

cool mode So if if yeah, if you can't

5:45

play all the time of that. Yeah,

5:48

exactly. Me too. I would there's there's like

5:50

every time I touch Tarkov it's

5:52

wiped like I just it's not the kind

5:54

of thing that I can commit to playing

5:56

every day or every other day I genuinely

5:58

think every time we have played played, you've

6:00

had a fresh character. So it

6:02

is what it is. Yeah. Cool. Yeah,

6:05

I think it's fantastic. There's, there's unsanctioned,

6:07

they don't like it. This is, I

6:09

don't know the, where the legality lies

6:12

on this, but there's like this thing

6:14

called SPT Tarkov where it's single player

6:16

Tarkov and there is an unofficial co-op

6:18

mode thing, but those are all, uh,

6:20

Battlestate Games fights against those and doesn't

6:22

like those. Those are, uh, they

6:25

think they're bad. So this is like an official one. Um,

6:28

the, the game's official Twitter account

6:30

has confirmed that this mode is

6:33

exclusive to the $250 US dollar

6:35

pre-taxes pre-fees

6:39

unheard edition. This is a big deal. Okay.

6:41

Really big deal. Hold on. I have a

6:43

big question here. Yeah. How did they know

6:46

that I hadn't heard about it? I just

6:51

hit my face against the mic. That made

6:53

me facepalm so hard. Um,

6:56

this is a big deal

6:58

since the, yeah, there you

7:00

go. It's a big deal

7:02

since the $150 US dollar

7:04

edge of darkness edition, which

7:07

is no longer available for

7:09

purchase, promised buyers free access

7:11

to all subsequent DLCs. And

7:14

there is actually on the subreddit, uh,

7:17

there's a screenshot of a tweet.

7:19

Are they arguing this is, they're

7:21

arguing that it's a feature, not

7:23

a DLC. Well,

7:27

what the heck is a DLC? Yeah.

7:29

What is the difference? There's a tweet. Go

7:34

for it. Can we get together and

7:36

define what exactly DLC means? Because as

7:39

far as I can tell, it's a catch all term. The

7:42

content you got, okay. Well, tell me this. Do

7:45

you download this or do they mail it to you?

7:51

I would, I, it would be so

7:53

funny if they mailed this

7:56

to everyone. So

7:58

like trying to get around it. That would be

8:01

hilarious. I mean, I'm gonna explain the cost Yeah,

8:04

I still don't think so. There's

8:06

a there's been a bunch of you Luke I have

8:10

you ever tried to mail a box of weasels like

8:12

yeah, we don't know what they're mailing. Oh man

8:17

No, sleep blindness is a heck of a thing The

8:21

what was I gonna say? There's there's been quotes

8:23

from them before about saying how like EOD or

8:25

edge of darkness is supposed to be the the

8:27

highest here They're ever gonna release There's

8:30

a screenshot of a tweet that says you don't

8:32

need to buy anything at any stage if you

8:34

have EOD You don't even have to pay for

8:36

DLCs in the future. You're all in for all

8:38

of it coming It's

8:41

it's yeah, and this would also tie

8:44

in with the fact that EOD or

8:46

edge of darkness with this All DLCs thing has existed.

8:49

I think since 2017 or 2016 even yeah, I'm not

8:51

sure but it's been at least 2017 and the

8:58

the only thing DLC-able

9:00

that has been available to them has

9:02

been a very recent release of something

9:05

called Tarkov Arena, which No

9:08

way, I would argue the vast majority

9:10

of future Yeah,

9:12

and then they never do their content and

9:15

that well they delivered Partially

9:18

and then decided that they're on a

9:20

meal pray. They don't alter it further

9:22

I mean is the Tarkov audience this

9:25

Stockholm syndrome that they just this is

9:27

their game I don't think anymore

9:29

like that's the way that I see it every time

9:31

I play Tarkov dude I'm like look if

9:34

I wasn't living and Breathing

9:36

the meta of this game There

9:38

is absolutely no way like I couldn't

9:41

I couldn't possibly hoping and some games aren't like

9:43

that some games You can drop

9:45

in six months later and fundamentally kind of

9:47

know what you're doing You know you you

9:49

jump into Team Fortress 2. It's like oh,

9:51

there's new hats. You know whatever

9:53

I'm probably gonna get beamed by you

9:55

know flying squirrel or

9:57

something but

10:01

But Tarkov, it really does feel like if you're

10:03

not on top of it, you just have no idea.

10:05

So presumably then, this

10:08

is the game that a lot

10:10

of these people play and this is going

10:12

to sound crazy. This is going to upset some people,

10:14

but $250 over a span of, let's say it's a

10:16

year. Let's

10:21

say it's a year that they actually have

10:23

this be the top tier or whatever. That's

10:29

$20 a month compared to

10:31

what some people out there who play one

10:33

game are spending on

10:35

their cosmetics, are spending on their

10:38

microtransactions. It's

10:40

not even that crazy.

10:43

Now one second, I

10:46

would never pay it. Absolutely

10:48

not. Yeah and theoretically the

10:52

people are going to pay it. Yes,

10:54

and some people already have. Some streamers already

10:56

have, which was a little disappointing. Yeah, Battle

10:58

State's going to learn nothing. I

11:00

think they're going to learn something actually. Their

11:05

player base is extremely on fire right now.

11:08

The subreddit is on fire. People are trying

11:10

to spin up lawsuits because again, there was

11:12

a version that said you get all DLC.

11:14

They've been quoted saying that you don't have

11:17

to pay anything again because you own all

11:19

the things and then now they release something

11:21

that is incredibly

11:24

more expensive than it was before. And

11:27

there's continued issues. We're not even through the main

11:29

body of this topic. There's a lot to talk

11:32

about here. You mentioned there being no other games.

11:34

I got to jump in for a second

11:37

though because Time Stamp guy Noki is coming

11:40

in correcting me on Team Fortress 2. You

11:43

often use TF2 as an example, but they

11:45

haven't added any new weapons since Jungle Inferno

11:47

2017. Metas

11:49

pop up every now and then, but nearly everything has been

11:51

static ever since. Okay, well let me tell

11:54

you something, Noki. I play Team

11:56

Fortress 2 once every approximately three years.

12:00

Yeah, so sorry.

12:04

Yes, you're probably right. My

12:06

big moment for TF2 was when they

12:08

started adding all the like rando weapons.

12:10

And I was just like, oh, okay,

12:12

now I have to pay attention to

12:14

this game a lot. You're right. It's

12:16

not really a huge issue anymore because

12:18

all this kind of moved on to

12:21

other money making endeavors. But it

12:23

was an example back then. And I

12:25

should have clarified because I should

12:27

have known that they haven't added any weapons since

12:29

Jungle Inferno 2017. Thank

12:32

you very much, Noki. And can we

12:34

just get a little bit of appreciation for Noki? Thanks,

12:36

Noki. Every week, like an

12:38

absolute chat. Yeah. All right,

12:40

thank you. Full-plane

12:43

customer support Joe in full-plane

12:46

chat said offline co-op progression servers are slammed with

12:48

20 to 30 minute queue times. People

12:50

are buying it. So I'm sad. Which

12:53

this is like, man, that is the

12:55

most if EOD buyers, so

12:57

people who bought the edge of darkness edition that said

12:59

they got all the free DLC and they never need

13:01

to pay for anything again. If those people upgraded their

13:03

accounts, that's like the most. I

13:06

feel like this is like an outdated term, but that's like the

13:08

most beta thing ever. They

13:11

just scammed the hell out of you. Wow. It's going to

13:13

be you with the hot takes. Yeah, they

13:15

just scammed the hell out of you. And

13:17

you were like, all right.

13:19

Yeah, please take more of my money. You

13:22

just abused me here. Let me financially support

13:24

you further. So, yeah, that's a little weird

13:26

to me. I don't support that

13:28

at all. But anyways, moving

13:31

forward, I'm going to try to get

13:33

through more of this topic and then we can discuss. Oh,

13:35

no, no, I'm not actually. I'm going to tangent again.

13:37

You said there's no other games. Funny

13:40

timing. There's

13:43

a very recent game now in early access.

13:45

Is it in early access? No, you can

13:47

just request it. I think they had

13:49

a play test recently or something. I'm not really sure what's

13:51

going on with this, but Greyzone Warfare is a game that

13:53

has like a... It's not

13:55

the same thing, but it will probably capture

13:57

a very similar audience. During

14:01

this, Battlestate Games, I think

14:03

most notably Nikita, got in

14:05

a direct argument with another

14:07

game called Arena Breakout Infinite

14:10

that they are claiming is

14:13

a direct ripoff of Tarkov. So

14:15

maybe there is an alternative for

14:17

people, but we'll see.

14:21

Oh my god, I just

14:23

read the next bullet point.

14:25

This is unbelievable. In

14:27

an attempt to fix the

14:29

situation, Battlestate Games COO Nikita

14:31

Buyanov took to Reddit to

14:34

announce this is great.

14:36

They're giving Edge of Darkness buyers access

14:38

to the offline PvE mode. This is

14:40

less great for six months. Yeah. That

14:44

is unhinged. Yeah.

14:47

That's not even the next bullet point though. There's more. This

14:50

is a super hardcore game. You die,

14:52

you lose all your stuff. And

14:54

this edition of the game is

14:57

directly, unquestionably, pay

14:59

to win in multiple ways.

15:02

Oh no. Why would you have a pay to

15:04

win co-op game, Luke? No, no, no, no. Why

15:07

would you have a PvE pay to win? The

15:10

features are in co-op, but also in

15:13

the main game. So

15:16

there's things

15:19

like... Let me see if

15:21

I can find... Yeah,

15:23

here we go. Wait, no, this is update regarding

15:25

the EOD edition. You

15:27

know, I hate to generalize,

15:30

but can gamers grow a backbone a little

15:32

bit? Yeah. Like

15:35

the gaming community has to be one of the most

15:37

whiny communities. But

15:40

when it comes time to actually just do

15:43

something, or better yet, not

15:45

do something, just don't

15:47

buy it. They can't.

15:49

And I realize I've probably gone on

15:51

this rant before, but like, this

15:53

is just embarrassing. I mean,

15:56

look, I don't think you're allowed to use the

15:58

term beta male anymore. Maybe not. It's

16:03

for real. It's just like... You're getting a

16:05

view and then giving them more money. Yeah.

16:08

It's like... maybe

16:11

there's a more correct current term. I don't know what

16:13

it is. But

16:16

yeah, let me read through some of the features

16:19

of this edition. Fine.

16:24

I'm not even going to read through all of them because one of

16:26

them is like digital copy preload, which is like, who cares. So

16:29

access to that PvE mode, that's cool.

16:32

I wish there was other ways to buy it so

16:34

you didn't have to spend an amount of money that

16:36

most people don't even have to spend on video games

16:38

at all, let alone one of them. Increased

16:41

stash size, so that's like

16:43

mostly a... No way. You

16:47

get a bigger stash? So hold on.

16:49

It's so much worse. It's

16:52

so much worse. Expanded

16:55

PMC pockets. So

16:57

while you're playing, you have a limited amount

16:59

of inventory space. The game

17:01

works and it has a

17:03

very complicated and important economy. And

17:06

being able to take more things out

17:08

of the raid will make it so

17:10

that in future raids you're going to

17:12

be better geared because you have a

17:14

better financial situation. And having increased pocket

17:16

sizes... Well yeah, it has like a

17:18

cumulative effect. Yeah, so before...

17:21

Whatever. It'll have a snowball effect because if

17:23

you can take so much more stuff out,

17:26

you can carry out more stuff to sell

17:28

and then you can buy more cooler stuff,

17:30

which means you can kill

17:32

people even more easily and better and raid their stuff

17:34

and take even more. But this is ridiculous. And it

17:37

makes it so that if you're trying to do a

17:39

run where you're trying to be very economic, you

17:41

can actually bring less stuff in because not

17:43

only do you have more pocket slots, before

17:46

you had four one by one pocket slots.

17:49

Now you have two one by one pocket slots

17:51

and two two by one pocket slots. So

17:54

you have tall things that you

17:56

can put like full size magazines in. I

18:01

don't dude I don't think that there is a scandal

18:03

big enough to make gamers wake

18:05

up like literally this version

18:07

of the game Could be

18:09

could be called Give

18:11

me your money bitch edition internal. Yeah,

18:13

that's a total codename that might even

18:16

be leak and Gamers

18:18

would do it anyway. Yeah. Yeah

18:22

So in addition to the the pockets and the

18:24

sash size you also have an increased like

18:29

Reputation standing with one of the the characters

18:31

in the game called fence so that you

18:33

can sell more stuff on the flea market

18:35

Which is like player-to-player selling and

18:37

you have more slots on the flea

18:39

market So you can put more things on

18:41

the flea market Which is directly going to

18:43

mean that you're going to be able to

18:45

make more money faster, which is a huge

18:47

portion of the game You

18:49

get a unique in-game melee weapon,

18:51

which people found was just

18:54

an asset from the unity asset store Directly

18:56

taken they didn't do any form of modification

18:58

to it. It's just literally straight

19:01

up an asset from the asset store I don't remember

19:03

if it was like a free asset or like a

19:05

six dollar asset or something, but they just like oh You're

19:08

the asset. Yeah, pretty much Increased

19:11

mail retention time so like if you

19:13

if you buy insurance, oh,

19:15

yeah If you

19:17

buy like insurance in the game or something like that

19:19

look Most

19:22

People don't play Tarkov. So

19:24

there's a lot of people watching this that are probably

19:26

going I don't understand anything It's a big deal

19:28

out of this Yeah And I get this I

19:31

get this every time that I talk about something

19:33

that Apple is doing that is super anti consumer

19:35

as well Where you know you'll have the usual

19:37

crowd of low-line is just hates Apple. Just

19:40

don't buy it You'll you'll get you'll

19:42

get that sort of that chorus of

19:44

bad takes where people are are missing

19:46

the big picture here the big picture

19:49

is that this is a this is a

19:51

precedent now and Outrage

19:53

we have a limited capacity

19:55

for outrage, right? We

19:58

were so outraged and I know we talk about

20:00

this one a lot. We were outraged about

20:02

horse armor in Oblivion. Nowadays, we're

20:05

basically like men, this game is

20:08

great because all their

20:11

DLC is cosmetic and

20:13

not balance shifting. Or, you know

20:16

what, we can maybe

20:18

allow for this skin, this

20:20

really popular skin. It's

20:23

kind of more camouflaged on this

20:25

map and that map. You know

20:27

what, we'll still accept that. You

20:29

know what, realistically you could farm

20:31

for ammo for that super OP

20:34

gun, so you don't have to

20:36

buy ammunition. I know

20:38

that slippery slope arguments are not

20:40

very good arguments, but when

20:42

you are slipping down the

20:44

slope, actively tumbling

20:46

head over heels, like what's going

20:49

on with this Tarkov situation, where

20:51

they are taking a game where

20:54

balance is everything

20:56

to the experience and

20:59

messing it up and charging you a bunch of money.

21:01

My connection

21:09

didn't actually die there, my brain is slow today because

21:11

I didn't sleep last night and I ran out of

21:14

steam. I thought if I

21:16

just stop moving, then maybe they'll think I'm not

21:18

with the connection. I

21:21

brought up the trailer and got

21:24

some visual representations of

21:26

some of the pay to win things. Here's

21:28

your increased stash size, here's your increased PMC

21:30

pockets. You can see how these ones are

21:33

taller, so you can fit full size magazines

21:35

in your pockets now that was never possible

21:37

before. Now you could go without attack rig,

21:40

so you're spending less money on doing

21:42

future raids. Your character skills are just

21:45

increased. This was already a weird thing in

21:47

my opinion because people who could play the

21:49

game for a living would have higher base

21:51

skills because it would take an obscene

21:55

amount of hours to level these skills up.

22:00

maybe work for a living and then

22:02

spend money on the game can also

22:04

have increased skills and that can directly

22:06

make it so that if you play

22:08

exactly the same the

22:10

person with the higher skill count could beat you

22:12

because some of these things are like you won't

22:15

bleed as as easily or You're

22:17

more accurate or reload faster with guns. You

22:19

can run for longer. You can carry more

22:21

stuff you can Jump higher

22:23

what like if you're if your strength is high enough

22:25

in the game You can jump

22:27

on to things that other people can't like it's it's

22:30

being able to have higher skills is directly pay to win

22:32

Right and then down here improve

22:34

starting equipment set Which

22:38

is less of a big deal in my mind and

22:40

then moving forward Every

22:45

idea that battle state games implements here

22:47

is something that we will see

22:50

implemented somewhere else when

22:52

inevitably gamers just lie

22:54

down and take it and There's

22:57

no consequences. So here it

22:59

is. This is my call for anyone

23:01

who Is

23:04

actually into Tarkov because they're

23:06

the only ones who can who can make

23:08

up set a precedent here who

23:10

can say look? This is too far Don't

23:13

play it. Yeah, like seriously set a

23:15

calendar set a calendar. I look I get

23:17

it. It's your favorite game That's

23:20

chill set a calendar

23:22

notification for yourself for six months

23:25

At least a temporary boycott will send

23:27

a message like yeah It might

23:30

not affect their wallet because realistically you already

23:32

bought the game anyway, whatever But

23:35

what it will do is it will cause

23:38

their concurrent player counts to decline it

23:40

will send an actual message

23:42

that they can actually understand it

23:44

will degrade the gaming experience for

23:48

New people who come in and they're like this thing is

23:50

empty and to be clear. It's

23:52

not about punishing them It's about punishing

23:54

battle state games. It's about like look we

23:57

are your community. We are

24:00

What makes your game good? Treat

24:03

us with respect act

24:05

like you deserve respect and you might get some

24:07

there. That's it Yeah,

24:10

oh Wow Six

24:14

months boycott don't play Whoa

24:19

the the top. Oh, no

24:21

what now the top Tarkov streamer

24:23

right now I

24:26

believe is Streaming modded

24:28

single-player Tarkov, which is a

24:31

little unheard of in

24:34

my mind 5,000

24:36

viewers are watching this person playing a modded

24:38

version of the game, which is like super

24:41

not okay with Tarkov. I Was

24:45

just wondering I was gonna go see like how many streamers are

24:47

currently playing this I wouldn't go after Streamers

24:50

that are playing the game It's really rough when

24:52

like if you're if your entire income stream is

24:54

based around like playing this one game even

24:57

if the Company that runs

24:59

that game does something deplorable It's it's

25:01

rough to kind of fully pull out

25:04

but maybe encourage people to to try

25:06

out alternatives like Greyzone warfare Or

25:09

potentially it's not out yet And I know nothing

25:11

about the game at all But arena breakout infinite

25:13

alternate games that are in somewhat

25:15

of a similar style that you think they might like

25:17

and their audiences might also like But

25:19

I wouldn't go around don't don't go around

25:21

like harassing streamers for playing it, but Yeah

25:25

rough I I was already

25:27

done because their response to the whole

25:29

cheater situation was a giant nothing burger

25:32

And I'm not down to Play

25:35

a game like this with a bunch of cheaters

25:37

and then when I first heard this announced I

25:39

didn't see the price tag and

25:42

I saw the The co-op

25:45

PvE mode and I was so

25:47

stoked because I was like we're back. This

25:49

game is super sick It's not gonna wipe I can

25:51

play with like Linus or Joe or whoever else is

25:54

a bunch of different people that I play with It'll

25:58

be fun. We don't have to deal with any of that kind of stuff and

26:00

then I

26:04

was like, ah, no, yeah, no. I don't want

26:06

anyone to buy this. So I guess that's never happening.

26:09

There's other weird stuff too. Like there's an

26:11

item that you can get. I think this

26:14

might only be if you have the Unheard

26:16

edition or something, I'm not certain, where Scavs,

26:18

the scavengers, basically the AI characters in the

26:20

game, won't shoot you if you

26:22

are 60 meters

26:25

or more away, but

26:27

like only if you have this version. So it's like, it's

26:29

super pay to win. I don't think anyone

26:31

that like enjoyed the hardcore

26:33

realism nature of Tarkov should honestly play

26:36

anymore. I think this entirely broke the

26:38

game, but it's up to

26:40

you guys to make your own decisions. Moving

26:42

on though, next topic. We're gonna see what happens. Apparently

26:44

that streamer got permission to stream

26:46

that version of the game. Really?

26:50

From Battle State? Apparently. What?

26:53

Apparently, that's what Flipplane Chat is

26:55

saying. Unprecedented

26:58

times. Anyway, we can move on to our next

27:00

topic. They

27:03

said they wouldn't DMCA him. I

27:07

mean. Cool? That's

27:12

weird. I don't know what that means. Okay.

27:14

But anyways. Do

27:17

you wanna talk about Mozilla blasting dating apps?

27:19

This one's really interesting to me. Yeah, according

27:21

to a- As if we're into the dating

27:23

apps. Yeah, we're both

27:25

very active in this realm. According

27:27

to a recent report with Mozilla,

27:29

dating apps are growing increasingly aggressive

27:31

and invasive when it comes to

27:34

collecting users' personal information, having declined

27:36

significantly since the last time Mozilla

27:38

reviewed their privacy practices in 2021.

27:41

Around 80% of the apps reviewed

27:43

share or sell personal

27:46

information and do not guarantee users'

27:48

right to delete their data. Most apps

27:50

requires users to opt out of precision

27:52

geolocation tracking and do not appear to

27:54

adequately protect the data that they collect.

27:57

At least one Catholic group was able

27:59

to- out a priest

28:01

after buying Grindr, Scruff, and

28:03

OkCupid user data. Grindr

28:06

is also facing a class

28:08

action lawsuit alleging that it

28:10

unlawfully shared UK users HIV

28:12

status with vendors, something

28:16

which Grindr admitted to doing,

28:19

though it denies doing so for

28:21

commercial purposes. What? What?

28:25

You just

28:27

did it because you thought it would be fun? Like,

28:30

what? Due to

28:32

the nature of dating apps, much

28:34

of this information can be incredibly

28:36

personal and revealing, including religious affiliations,

28:38

political beliefs, and sexual history. These

28:41

companies also automatically aggregate information from

28:43

users, devices, social media, third parties,

28:45

and the metadata of uploaded content

28:47

like photos. Match Group,

28:49

who own over 40 dating apps

28:51

including Tinder, Hinge, Match, and OkCupid,

28:53

say that private DMs are scanned

28:55

by automated tools and may be

28:57

reviewed by human agents if the

28:59

bot flags potential illegal or

29:01

unsafe behavior. However, DMs are

29:04

also reviewed in

29:06

order to evaluate, train, and improve

29:08

their automated tools. Okay,

29:11

this one blew my mind because

29:13

basically if they left it at

29:15

the beginning, if they left it at, okay,

29:17

there's something potentially unsafe here, it has to

29:19

be reviewed by a moderator, you

29:21

know what? I kind of get that because inherent

29:23

to a dating app, you're going to

29:26

have monstrous things happening.

29:28

You're going to have human trafficking potentially, you know,

29:30

like you, oh yeah, these platforms do

29:32

have to be moderated to at least some degree.

29:36

However, saying,

29:38

look, we can review basically

29:40

anything we want for

29:43

the purpose of evaluating, training,

29:46

and improving our automated tools, that's

29:48

basically saying, yeah, it's like selling

29:50

a camera. It's like,

29:52

yeah, I'll just tune

29:55

into it whenever I feel like it. Cool?

29:58

Cool. Like, I... I haven't

30:01

used a dating app before, so I'm

30:03

going to sound potentially kind of out

30:05

of touch here, but I don't

30:10

imagine that this is clear to the

30:12

user when they sign up for this

30:14

thing. Like, guys, are

30:16

you on one of these

30:19

platforms? Was it clear

30:21

that they might be collecting and

30:23

sharing your sexual history and any

30:27

infections you might have? Or,

30:30

man, reading your

30:32

DMs? Yo! Like,

30:35

what? I've heard tell that some of

30:37

the younger generations are trying

30:40

to go back to more

30:42

archaic versions of dating, skipping the whole dating

30:44

app thing, which I think is fantastic.

30:47

Very good job. Keep going. Wow.

30:51

It's buried in the TOS, I'm sure. Yeah, a lot of people

30:53

are not saying. These

30:56

apps have also become significantly

30:58

more gamified and addictive, in

31:01

part to cope with declining revenues and

31:03

market share. As millennials have

31:05

gotten older and settled down, Gen

31:07

Z users have become the largest population

31:09

of singles. However, they are typically less

31:11

interested in hookups and casual dating than

31:13

previous generations. Did I just get slut-shamed?

31:15

I think so. I

31:17

think our whole generation did. Which,

31:20

you know, sounds probably about accurate. You

31:23

know what? Pre-love, man. Yeah,

31:26

man. Yeah. The discussion question, is

31:28

there an inherent problem having

31:30

platforms involved in something as intimate

31:33

as personal dating? I

31:35

don't think it has to be. But

31:38

it looks like it obviously is. No, I think if

31:41

you respect – yeah, if you respect user data,

31:44

then no, it shouldn't be a problem.

31:46

You should – If

31:50

you just make it so that you can't raid DMs

31:52

unless you're like basically – The way is brutal. Yeah.

31:54

I don't know why it's so delayed. You're not that

31:56

far away. But I'm noticing the same thing.

32:00

If it would

32:02

be nice if they couldn't read any DMS

32:04

unless one of the users involved flagged the

32:06

conversation That

32:09

would that would make cool in floatplane chat

32:11

says when I was at This

32:14

place we had a presentation by tinder

32:16

execs on data usage and

32:18

getting to profitability and it was

32:20

a very creepy conversation Yeah,

32:25

I don't I don't doubt that I

32:27

don't doubt that at all but but

32:30

like this really does seem like the kind

32:32

of thing that could be done and It's

32:35

it's just it's just

32:37

people you know power corrupts absolute power

32:39

corrupts absolutely or whatever, right? Like because

32:42

people who enter personal information in a

32:44

dating app compared to a political survey

32:47

or compared to You

32:49

know a workplace Profile

32:51

survey or something like that Assuming

32:54

that they have an

32:56

earnest Desire to find

32:59

a partner. I was

33:01

reading about how people will answer

33:04

questions much more honestly and transparently

33:07

because By hiding it

33:09

they all they're the only person they're

33:11

hurting is themselves and so All

33:14

they had to do was say okay And

33:17

our service is to pair you up with

33:19

someone and you pay us for that and

33:22

we don't have to have growth forever We don't have

33:24

to have limitless growth. I at

33:28

risk of sounding like Like

33:31

like like an anti-capitalist man,

33:34

the the and the Enshitification

33:37

of everything just does seem inevitable

33:39

when you have this mindset of

33:41

needing growth forever Yeah,

33:43

yeah, I Understand it

33:45

to a much greater degree now, but especially when

33:48

I was younger. I would I

33:50

would come across a news article. That's like Big

33:53

company X has missed

33:56

their their estimated earnings

33:58

that the share that

34:00

analysts were expecting from them by

34:03

two cents per share

34:05

and their stock price tumbled 10%. In

34:08

other news, they made $10 billion

34:11

this quarter. I

34:14

would listen to that and be like, sorry, what? They

34:17

make hundreds of millions or they make a billion

34:20

dollars or billions of dollars in this

34:22

time period, but they didn't do as

34:25

good ever as we expected and that

34:27

we were gambling on that

34:29

we had kind of priced into their

34:32

gamble-a-tron share price. So

34:35

what? They need to do a bunch of

34:37

stock buybacks? Who announced huge, huge

34:40

stock buybacks just now? I forget

34:42

who it was, but

34:45

their share price, I think it was Google. I've

34:48

done this until I find it. Google

34:50

surges after buying back billions of dollars

34:53

of its own stock a day ago,

34:55

$70 billion. Do

34:58

you know why a company buys back stock? There's

35:01

two potential reasons. One is they're expecting

35:04

it to go up a lot and

35:06

so that could be good value

35:08

to own more of their company if they're super

35:10

confident they're going to do awesome. But do you

35:12

know the real reason they do it? I've

35:15

had a- Their share price goes up. The

35:23

personal investments that the executives have in

35:25

that company and that the shareholders have

35:27

in that company go up. It's just

35:29

to enrich them personally. When

35:32

you look at a company like Google over the last

35:34

year or so, what were the big bumps to their

35:36

stock? Laying off a bunch of employees

35:39

and using that money to

35:41

buy back a bunch of stock. I

35:44

was talking about this on the pre-show, but I was

35:46

watching the John Oliver bit on Boeing. Really

35:50

fascinating. You can basically

35:53

trace back their decline into

35:55

crappiness to the moment that

35:58

they started spending their money on stock buybacks. instead

36:00

of on making a good product. Why

36:03

don't we have systems? Why

36:05

don't companies implement systems that

36:08

punish terrible, terrible

36:11

long-term thinking? I don't understand

36:13

it guys. Yeah, I

36:15

always had this theory that maybe not stock buybacks

36:17

to the tune of 70 billion dollars, but I

36:20

always had this theory that smaller

36:22

size stock buybacks were based

36:24

around a lot of

36:27

companies do stock as compensation. So how do

36:29

you just keep doing that forever? So you

36:31

probably have to buy some of your own

36:33

stock and then it makes this cyclical thing

36:35

where you're increasing the value of your stock

36:37

by buying your stock and then giving stock

36:40

to your employees which increases how much they

36:42

want to potentially stay or try hard or

36:44

whatever. If that even works, who knows? A

36:46

little more complicated than that. You can issue

36:48

more stock without necessarily buying the stock.

36:52

Does that dilute the value of the stock that you currently

36:54

have though? Because

36:56

you added more.

36:59

I genuinely don't know. Yeah.

37:01

Every company works a little bit

37:04

differently. If

37:07

Yvonne Umbrella Corporation group of

37:09

companies had some kind of

37:11

stock program, I

37:13

personally would feel that we should take a

37:17

Bitcoin-like approach where

37:19

not necessarily that you use GPUs or

37:21

ASICs to mint more of the stock.

37:23

I just like the stock. That's why

37:25

I buy all these GPUs. So

37:28

not from that point of view, but from the

37:30

point of view that they are finite and

37:33

in order to issue incentives, for

37:35

example, we would have to actually

37:37

be profitable.

37:39

We'd have to actually own what we give someone.

37:43

I don't know how that would work and maybe

37:45

I'm just naive, but from my point

37:47

of view, it's always been frustrating

37:49

to me that if I

37:53

have something that's worth a value that

37:56

someone can just like decide, oh yeah,

37:59

no, actually. Actually it's like less than that. Yeah.

38:04

Not financial advice guys. Not

38:07

financial advice. I'll be the first

38:09

to admit that when it comes

38:11

to stocks, when it comes to

38:13

real world finance stuff,

38:20

I don't get it and I think part of it

38:23

is almost just like a

38:25

rejection of it. Like I actually not sure if

38:27

I care to get it. I don't

38:29

have to play the game so maybe I

38:31

just won't. Maybe I'll take my ball and go

38:33

home. I know that's the

38:35

majority of it for me. I

38:37

hate it. It just feels so... Yeah,

38:41

I'm not going to get into all the reasons why.

38:44

We'll get to a new topic.

38:46

EV company blows whistle on potential

38:48

corruption. This is one

38:50

that hits genuinely close to

38:52

actual home. The

38:54

government of British Columbia, Canada

38:56

is investigating allegations of potential

38:58

conflicts of interest in how

39:00

provincial low carbon innovation grants

39:03

are administered. This

39:05

follows an allegation from CEO

39:07

Chase Barber of Edison Motors

39:09

who claims that MNP, a

39:12

gigantic accounting firm involved in

39:14

administering grants, reached out to

39:16

his company after declining their

39:19

first application. According

39:24

to... Let's build the doc together

39:26

a little quickly today folks. Yeah,

39:28

it's genuinely not their fault. I'm just

39:30

trying to piece it together. By

39:32

the way, just a quick shout out

39:34

Edison Motors. These guys are doing absolutely

39:36

incredible work. If anyone from Edison

39:38

is watching right now, we would love to do a

39:41

video together. That would be sick. I think actually Alex

39:43

from our team may be in touch but just want

39:45

to indicate my super willingness

39:49

to come over there and check out what you

39:51

guys are doing because it's outstanding. It looks

39:53

absolutely incredible. That would be awesome. According

39:56

to Barber, rolling back just

39:58

because it's been a little bit, the CEO of Edison Motors Edison

40:00

Motors. MNP offered Edison Motors

40:02

a service to help them apply

40:04

for future grants which included a

40:07

success fee of 20% of

40:09

the grant's value. Ew. Should the application

40:15

succeed? It's unclear from publicly available

40:17

information whether these grants included the

40:19

ones that MNP was helping administer.

40:21

I'm gonna pause, there's more of

40:23

this topic, but I've heard of

40:25

this a lot before with government

40:27

grants where they're effectively impossible to

40:29

get unless you partner with a

40:31

company who takes a significant portion

40:33

of the money which means that

40:35

your government tax credits which are

40:37

supposed to power innovation

40:39

and business growth within your country are

40:43

being diluted by middlemen that is

40:46

the only way to actually get them. Well the

40:48

business of being a worthless middleman is a business,

40:50

they're growing that business. We should

40:52

find a way to delete all of them. Anyways

40:55

I'm going to move on. Barbara

40:58

says that he raised concerns with the Energy

41:01

Ministry in person and shortly

41:03

after his company was disinvited

41:05

from a promotional event

41:07

by a government-funded lobby

41:09

group for vehicle electrification.

41:11

Edison Motors is the only

41:13

company in the province that manufactures

41:16

heavy-duty electric trucks. MNP

41:18

has threatened to sue Edison Motors which is a small privately owned

41:20

company. According

41:28

to Barbara the company can't afford a legal

41:30

battle with a billion dollar company. Neither

41:34

could like most people so I don't

41:37

blame them. Ann

41:40

stated that he personally lives with his

41:42

parents because as far as my understanding

41:45

goes he has invested like everything he

41:47

can into the company which is the

41:49

like driven dedicated.

41:51

That's what we should be

41:53

trying to encourage. Yes. That's

41:55

what we should want out of entrepreneurs. Edison

41:57

Motors has been doing everything that it takes

41:59

to kill it and we should be supporting that. They've

42:02

been pushing limits of technology, they've been pushing

42:04

limits of quality, they've been doing all these

42:06

things that like, like we, British Columbia should

42:08

be very proud of this company and be

42:10

trying to prop them up, not trying to

42:12

step on their neck. So this is very

42:15

frustrating. We've got a couple discussion questions.

42:17

Even if MNP hasn't technically done anything

42:19

wrong, shouldn't Edison Motors be allowed to

42:22

raise concerns without the threat of a

42:24

company crushing lawsuit? Yeah,

42:27

absolutely. I mean, you should be able to

42:29

raise concerns about anything ever. And the

42:32

worst case scenario should be, you know,

42:34

hey, we've, we've investigated your concerns and

42:36

we don't agree with them. Like

42:39

you can't be punished for,

42:42

for real. I mean, honestly, though, there's so

42:44

many things that are like this. I mean,

42:47

the US is finally growing a spine

42:49

about the whole realtor thing, how

42:51

difficult it is to sell a home without

42:53

a realtor and how, how those

42:56

fees have absolutely ballooned in recent

42:58

decades to the point where the

43:01

simple job of being a sales

43:03

rep and helping you list

43:05

your house and fill out

43:07

some paperwork has turned people

43:09

into these multi gazillionaires. And

43:11

to be clear, I'm not down on anyone

43:14

who's busting their butt as a realtor. I

43:16

understand that it's one of those skills that's

43:18

there being a streamer. Yeah, where where the

43:21

the 1% that are

43:24

crushing it are sort of overrepresented in

43:26

our in our perception, but actually, most

43:28

of them are struggling to sell a

43:30

house. Whereas those few that are

43:33

succeeding have, you know, a team of people working

43:35

for them. And they're basically just parasitically

43:37

taking money from them. I

43:41

get that. But also just the

43:43

business of being a middleman should be

43:47

fine. But it

43:49

shouldn't be this lucrative. And you

43:51

know what, Luke, I, I

43:53

don't want to get too much into it. But

43:55

we've as a company, had experiences

43:58

that strike me Oh, yeah. Not

44:00

that dissimilar to this. Oh yeah, I've directly

44:02

been involved with some of them. Yeah.

44:07

And none of this should be necessary. You

44:09

should be able to fill out the paperwork

44:11

the right way and

44:13

submit your application according to the

44:15

process that is on your government's

44:17

website, and it should be processed

44:19

in priority sequence, and

44:21

then it should be dealt with. Okay,

44:25

you know what? Fine, I'm saying it. Yvonne is

44:27

still chasing some kind of credit that we've

44:29

been due since, I think, 2018. Well,

44:34

what? I'm sure if

44:36

we knew someone, that wouldn't be the case.

44:38

And the biggest problem with that, because if

44:40

you're hearing this, yes, that's a very, very,

44:42

very, very, very long delay. That is pretty

44:45

ridiculous. It's 2024 now. That's six years. The

44:48

biggest impact of that to me is

44:50

not something that we necessarily even felt

44:52

that much, which is if you're

44:54

not as... That was when we needed

44:56

the money. Exactly. We're still here six

44:58

years later. We needed it then.

45:01

Yes. If you're a smaller

45:03

startup company, you

45:06

need everything you can possibly get, because you

45:08

don't have a lot of assets yet. You

45:11

don't have a significant amount of cash flow

45:13

yet, probably. All these other

45:15

things. You need that capital to be able

45:17

to keep progressing. So by holding it for

45:19

this long and making it so hard to

45:21

get, what you're

45:23

really doing is only enabling

45:26

large companies to be

45:28

able to get this

45:30

money, which

45:32

in a lot of cases they probably

45:34

didn't even really need. It

45:37

might benefit them. They might be able to do a little bit

45:39

more from it, but they probably didn't need it. And

45:41

the companies that really needed it, it could have

45:44

made or break their whole company, and then they'd

45:46

be fine after that, are generally unable to get

45:48

it. So very

45:52

frustrating. Shout out Edison Motors. These guys are

45:54

doing super cool stuff. We'd love

45:57

to collab with them and see if we can get

45:59

them some much needed attention. attention, see if they can

46:01

invest in business their way. Honestly, what I suspect is

46:04

that their bottleneck, because the product is super cool,

46:06

what I suspect is that their bottleneck is more

46:08

just capital, which is probably

46:10

why this is so frustrating

46:12

for them. I'm speculating right now, but

46:15

when your tech is that cool, I

46:18

suspect it's production capacity that's holding them back

46:20

right now, not having a cool product. My

46:22

grandpa used to work in financing four semi

46:25

trucks. These

46:28

things are expensive. I'm sure

46:30

a new company trying to get into the space isn't

46:32

going to be able to produce an enormous

46:35

amount of them all the time. There's

46:38

a lot of

46:41

cost involved. Sponsor

46:43

time? All right. Do you

46:45

want me to hit these? Yeah, let's

46:47

do that, but we've got a bit of a scary merch update.

46:50

Are we supposed to do some merch messages? Sorry,

46:54

we'll get those after sponsors, I think. Okay,

46:58

let's do it. Luke's going to do it

47:00

today because my brain is bad. Yeah, yeah,

47:02

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new MagSafe compatible wallet and then I'm supposed

48:28

to show how this works. Oh, I'm supposed

48:30

to go to, I don't think I actually

48:32

have one for this. How do I fix

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this? Just do luke cam. Luke cam, three

48:37

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I have a phone and Ridge wallet and it

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Hey, yeah, I wasn't even doing that intentionally, but that

48:51

is a, I have a pineapple

48:53

and an Apple pen or something. Something like that?

48:56

Yeah, sure. I don't remember how it goes. There's an adapter

48:58

too? There's an adapter. Yeah. Okay.

49:00

So there's, yeah, there's some 3M tape on

49:02

the back. I'm assuming you just peel this

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off, stick it onto whatever phone you have

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and then voila.

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That one is missing. Alright, cool.

51:13

Thanks, Luke. That was a good sponsor

51:15

read. I have some good news. Mr.

51:18

Matt from our procurement team says,

51:21

Hey, Dan, want to tell Linus we're getting

51:23

ready to go with Edison Motors? Waiting

51:25

on the weather to get better before going up the Coca-Cola

51:27

highway and going to check them out? Oh,

51:29

let's go. I love their shorts. That's great.

51:31

Yeah, that's how I found them too, actually.

51:34

Yeah, super cool. I didn't know they were

51:36

from here originally, and that's amazing. Yeah. I

51:40

ended up deep diving a little bit after I found one of

51:42

their shorts and then figured out they were from here, which is

51:44

pretty cool. I think we need to do some announcements. Do

51:47

we have a... is there store stuff

51:49

or anything? Yeah. Merch, yeah. Yeah,

51:51

we do. We have a date for

51:54

the screwdriver bit set pricing increase. Oh,

51:57

good lord. Okay, I warned you guys about this a little while ago,

51:59

but... There's not much warning

52:01

here. They're going up starting Monday,

52:03

April 29th. So if you

52:05

want to get some screwdriver vidsets, they're going from $6.99, which

52:09

apparently is not profitable, so cool,

52:12

to $9.99, which apparently

52:14

is better. Thank

52:18

you, CEO Taren. So

52:22

make sure you get those at $6.99 while you can.

52:26

They're going to be going up on Monday, April 29th. We

52:29

also have restocks of some of our graphic keys,

52:31

including the neon hard drive, sensor,

52:34

and retro GPU. I have no way of screen

52:36

sharing with you guys, so you might just have

52:38

to kind of imagine what those look like. But

52:41

if you want to send a merch message, those might be

52:43

some things you want to pick up. I

52:45

need a nap before I go to this party tonight, though, so I

52:47

don't know if we're going to get to every merch message. But yeah,

52:50

we'll definitely try and do a few. Luke,

52:53

Luke Week. What is Luke Week? Luke

52:57

Week, yeah. We're doing something special on full

52:59

play next week, and it's all about me,

53:01

I guess. We will have a few me-centric

53:04

videos, including the iconic chicken recipe. No, no,

53:06

no, no, no. No, no, if we're going

53:08

to have Luke Week, we need Linus Week.

53:12

Yeah. And I hear... No, I understand your argument. Every

53:14

week is Linus Week, and you know what? That's fair,

53:16

but I think we can all agree. There's no such

53:18

thing as too much Linus Week. No,

53:20

I think we should... Is

53:23

it Ashley? No,

53:26

no, I'm totally kidding. It's just funny that after

53:28

all these years, we have Luke Week. All

53:31

you had to wait was 10 and a half years.

53:34

On a platform that he's in charge of. Hey, whoa,

53:36

whoa, whoa, whoa. So the whole idea is that... Luke

53:38

literally was the inventor. He was

53:40

the inventor of Brandon Appreciation Day, and

53:42

it's taken him all these years to

53:44

get his own appreciation week. It's

53:48

not an appreciation week. My goodness.

53:50

There's going to be other people as well. It's not

53:53

just me. I didn't choose that it was me that

53:55

started this. I

53:58

don't know. I just... Yeah, I knew your ego was... Oh

54:00

my goodness take off at some point. I was asked

54:03

and I just didn't say no You've

54:05

got one chicken recipe. Okay, you're not a god

54:15

There's a video where I cook and talk

54:17

about the chicken recipe and I get I

54:19

get already to try it There's

54:21

my thoughts on the gaming industry and

54:24

a video of meeting my

54:26

birds. So there's three videos coming So

54:30

your haul passes already Yeah,

54:33

so the whole like yeah,

54:36

that's a little weird Don't

54:38

worry about it because the chicken

54:40

recipe it has a 100% success rate.

54:42

So I thought about this and I think I think

54:46

For it to be a success

54:49

or a failure. There has to be a goal

54:52

applied So there was

54:54

no goal applied with already. So I think we're fine I

54:58

See, okay. Yeah, I think

55:00

I think we're good And

55:03

then I guess I guess we have a teaser. Here's

55:05

a teaser of what to expect next week. So

55:07

Dan can you Play audio

55:09

from my screen Yes,

55:11

if you want to go I'm there. I'm not

55:14

getting any audio from you. Oh, it's not playing

55:16

yet. Here we go There we go. Yeah Okay,

55:19

hold on hold on hold on. Oh Oh,

55:23

is it not working? Yeah, it's 2002 I

55:25

approached the desk at the rental store with

55:28

a freshly minted copy of the Elder Scrolls

55:30

3 More after

55:32

handing over my change and scurrying

55:34

home. I proceed to play for

55:36

roughly 24 hours straight more Captivated

55:38

by this finely crafted world than

55:40

anything I had seen in my

55:42

entire Half years

55:45

you got me. Yeah. Wait, is

55:47

it it's just audio. Okay. No

55:52

We're starting over. All right. I approached

55:54

the desk at the rental store with

55:56

a freshly minted copy of the Elder

55:58

Scrolls 3 More flawless. After

56:01

handing over my change and scurrying home, I

56:03

proceed to play for roughly 24 hours straight,

56:06

more captivated by this finely crafted

56:08

world than anything I had seen

56:11

in my entire 11

56:13

and a half years of life. Even boobs.

56:15

I woke my dad up the next morning by

56:18

professing my love of this game and begging him

56:20

to buy a real copy of it to replace

56:22

my rental version. To my surprise,

56:24

he agreed. My dad and I would take

56:26

turns playing on a shared save file where

56:29

one of us would read through the player's

56:31

guide and direct the other who would control

56:33

the character. These are some

56:35

of my favorite gaming memories ever. We

56:38

use that player's guide so much it

56:40

barely holds together at this point. The

56:42

cover has been missing for decades. I

56:44

was driven into software development because I

56:46

wanted to work for Bethesda, for Todd

56:48

Howard. I wanted to make things like

56:50

Morrowind, this piece of art that means

56:52

so much to me. To say this

56:54

is my favorite game ever would be

56:56

an understatement. Fast

56:58

forward 21 years to Starfield's release

57:01

and I tried with every fiber of my

57:03

being to find that diamond in the rough

57:05

but it just wasn't fair. Okay,

57:10

I thought that was going to be a shorter clip. But

57:14

essentially I- Wow, that was pretty long. Wow,

57:16

Luke Week apparently takes an entire week. Yeah,

57:18

apparently, yeah. It

57:22

also changes significantly from there but I end

57:24

up talking about how Starfield

57:26

sucked but I'm not going to go through all the

57:28

details as to why because that's

57:32

been done to death already. Here's

57:34

my thoughts on how the gaming industry

57:36

is going, why it's going that way,

57:39

different companies, yada yada yada. Hopefully

57:42

it's interesting. The people that have seen it so far liked it. Like

57:45

previous themed weeks we will be doing some LTT

57:47

store giveaways that you can sign up for on

57:49

Floatplane so if you want to see that content

57:52

and get some potentially free stuff be sure to

57:54

sign up. And if you want to see what

57:56

else Floatplane has, if you're not on Floatplane for

57:58

whatever reason, we're also releasing- using the car

58:00

break-in prank for 48 hours

58:02

on LMG clips and it's

58:05

live now. Did

58:07

they know the show was starting at 1pm? Is

58:10

it actually live now? Dude, we've been driving

58:12

a lot of subscriptions on floatplane

58:14

lately. Yeah, it is live now. It went

58:16

up 35 minutes ago. We're

58:18

back pretty close to cracking 3500. There's

58:22

apparently extras. Oh, 3500. Oh,

58:24

there's the line for the Linus Tries Influencer Drinks

58:26

video now. 35,000,

58:29

sorry. Yeah, I was just bugging

58:31

you. Yeah,

58:34

floatplane's been rocking it lately. Yeah,

58:37

these places have just been posting. Elijah's got an exclusive talking a

58:39

bit more about the humble PC. Oh,

58:41

nice. That went up two days ago. Yeah,

58:44

there's so much. The 90 Days

58:46

Scorpion Share Challenge video is finally up. That went

58:48

up two days ago as well. Oh, was it

58:50

Elijah week? There's like three

58:52

Elijah exclusives in a row. Either that or the

58:55

social team has just figured out that that guy

58:57

is solid meme gold any time you point a

58:59

camera at him. Yeah, I don't

59:01

think it actually was, but I think it

59:03

just became that anyways,

59:05

which is great. But

59:08

yeah, check that out. Hopefully you guys enjoy it. Let

59:10

us know how it goes. Oh,

59:14

LTT Forum Folding Update. Our team

59:16

is once again participating in the

59:18

Boink Pentathlon, which runs from May

59:20

5th to 19th. We

59:22

strongly encourage anyone interested to participate.

59:24

The LTT team placed third overall

59:26

last year, which was easily our

59:28

best so far. Participation

59:31

is typically quite low since Boink is

59:33

a bit more complex than Folding at

59:35

Home, but people are willing to help

59:37

out if you want to learn. So

59:40

check out more information on the forum,

59:42

which is, I mean, there's a URL for

59:44

it. But if you just look up the

59:46

LTT Forum and Boink Pentathlon 2024, a topic

59:48

made by one of

59:52

our very own moderators, Lead Eater, you

59:54

will find it and it'll be good. And

59:57

you can do stuff. We

1:00:06

can do merge messages. Alright, what's our next topic?

1:00:08

Merge messages. Yeah, just do merge messages. Hello

1:00:10

LDL, have you heard about MRAM and

1:00:12

what do you think it will do

1:00:15

for PC and security due

1:00:17

to its ability to retain the data

1:00:19

when powered off? I

1:00:27

haven't actually particularly heard of this, but

1:00:29

retaining the data when powered off could

1:00:32

be potentially kind of bad. There

1:00:35

was tactics in the past where

1:00:37

you would, I don't remember, was

1:00:39

it like liquid nitrogen or

1:00:42

something? But you would cool

1:00:44

RAM down to very, very, very low temperatures

1:00:46

and then swap what system was in and

1:00:48

then you could pull information out of it.

1:00:51

That was a very interesting... You could

1:00:53

pull potentially really bad information like if

1:00:55

there was a, in

1:00:58

some cases plain text

1:01:00

essentially storage of critical

1:01:02

system information or user input. Yeah,

1:01:05

is it super realistic for people to be

1:01:07

able to get into a computer and like

1:01:10

super freeze its RAM and transfer it over to another

1:01:13

computer? I don't know.

1:01:16

But it was a really cool thing and

1:01:18

if that is now able to be done without

1:01:20

the difficulties of cooling and

1:01:22

whatnot, that could be a little

1:01:25

sketch. But yeah. One

1:01:27

sec here. There we go.

1:01:29

Sorry, I didn't have my double tabs.

1:01:32

I was in the middle of responding to another one.

1:01:35

Hi LLD from France. I want to

1:01:37

buy a cap since the first announcement,

1:01:39

but I think the logo is too

1:01:41

big. How do you choose where

1:01:43

to place a logo and have you considered a

1:01:46

free ad version for a higher price? I

1:01:50

mean, we have pretty subtle logos on a lot

1:01:52

of our stuff. I think they just mean branding

1:01:54

free. No, no, no. Free

1:01:57

ads. Like

1:01:59

giant logo. A

1:02:01

higher price? Yeah, maybe they do mean

1:02:03

ad-free. Yeah. I think they mean ad-free.

1:02:05

Yeah. I appreciate them.

1:02:08

Yeah, okay. Sorry. Yeah,

1:02:10

I think they mean sponsorship stuff free

1:02:12

or branding free. I don't

1:02:14

know. I think, honestly, we generally strike

1:02:16

a pretty good balance. Even on the hat,

1:02:18

yeah, the logo is pretty big, but

1:02:21

it's black. It's

1:02:23

black on black. It doesn't stand out a ton. That's

1:02:27

kind of a thing, right, is wearing a brand

1:02:30

on your baseball cap. I

1:02:34

think the start of that

1:02:36

product was actually people not really buying the

1:02:38

dad hats and a lot of the feedback

1:02:40

that we got being that they weren't obviously

1:02:42

LTT enough. I think

1:02:44

this is just one of those things where you're not going to

1:02:46

be able to please everybody. I really like the new hats. It's

1:02:49

possible that if they sell really well, we will

1:02:51

explore that fit in different styles, but for now,

1:02:54

we're really focused on the regular LTT hat and

1:02:56

the LTT hat pro. Yeah,

1:03:00

fair enough. Okay, and last one for

1:03:02

this section. Howdy, guys. Curious

1:03:04

your take on the EPA

1:03:06

regulations causing automakers to make

1:03:08

changes that may negatively impact

1:03:11

reliability, examples being Toyota's new

1:03:13

direction with turbocharged engines. Man,

1:03:20

regulation is one of those things. You can't

1:03:22

really think, you can't live without it. I

1:03:26

don't know the right answers here. Sometimes

1:03:29

it's really obvious. Hey,

1:03:32

you actually cannot discriminate against

1:03:34

your customer. As stupid as

1:03:36

they look, those broadband nutritional

1:03:38

facts things in the

1:03:40

States make a ton of sense given

1:03:42

how predatory that industry has been in the past.

1:03:47

It's obvious that sometimes we end

1:03:49

up with regulation that harming consumers

1:03:51

rather than helping. Man,

1:03:54

I was reading about another car, one that

1:03:57

was to do with all electric targets or

1:03:59

something like that. Was it was

1:04:01

looking pretty ridiculous to to

1:04:03

be clear, i'm I'm, I'm

1:04:05

pro. You know, sustainable energy

1:04:07

or whatever, but just. In.

1:04:10

The signing a law and saying

1:04:12

okay, go innovate, Good luck everybody.

1:04:17

Is Not. Is. Not the move. Via.

1:04:24

The. I don't. we have a lot add

1:04:26

their it just it just sucks like I'm

1:04:28

planned obsolescence as it is a terrible thing

1:04:30

and making things like almost intensely unreliable is

1:04:33

bad but at the same time you don't.

1:04:35

You don't want to stifle a company from

1:04:37

being able to make like a. Bleeding.

1:04:40

Edge version of something Aura or an

1:04:42

ultra high performance version of something that

1:04:44

that just has to lose some of

1:04:46

it's reliability in order to to push

1:04:48

those limits. So. And

1:04:50

are no. I.

1:04:53

Just became aware of a

1:04:55

controversy. Apparently the edit of

1:04:57

our Linus tries influencer foods.

1:04:59

ah pushes pretty aggressively to

1:05:01

the flood plain exclusive where

1:05:03

I try more of them.

1:05:05

Ah, I haven't watched the

1:05:07

video. unfortunately. I do review

1:05:09

every Ltt by don't review

1:05:11

every short circuit. The people

1:05:13

seemed pretty upset. Ah, I'm.

1:05:16

A Basically, you know what? I'm tired of

1:05:18

just taking responsibility for everything I didn't see.

1:05:20

this. So hope

1:05:23

yeah I will. I will message the appropriate

1:05:25

people internally and will try and find a

1:05:27

better balance. Hopefully. We can put

1:05:29

this behind us. Is it that I've

1:05:31

seen it? Have

1:05:33

you actually watch the Not sure. Merit.

1:05:39

Ah this video was a sixty minute ad for

1:05:41

floatplane. I don't know I like again I haven't

1:05:43

watched it but you also that sort of seem

1:05:45

to be my content. Here are

1:05:47

entirely on where you ripped off. I.

1:05:50

Don't. The. Sultan deceiving.

1:05:54

Ah, Or

1:05:56

a while. Yeah, I'll I'll I'll I'll take this

1:05:58

to the people internally who. This call and

1:06:00

our meal will find that the sorted out

1:06:03

but thing as we are up. In.

1:06:05

We're not a big company, but we are a

1:06:07

big enough company that. Believe. It or

1:06:09

not not, everyone knows absolutely everything that's going

1:06:11

on all the time and sometimes you know

1:06:13

we're gonna make a judgment call. It's not

1:06:16

going to be right. I think it's pretty

1:06:18

clear that the community has spoken. they sang

1:06:20

the says this is not right This are

1:06:22

so we'll We'll we'll. We'll. Do

1:06:24

what we can look at. The sex Okay

1:06:26

thanks guys. Ah,

1:06:33

Didn't know. murmurs business. Okay,

1:06:38

Is hop with the rational explanations. I want to

1:06:40

be angry. And

1:06:42

I took out a D S People Talk on

1:06:44

Reddit. No loss of

1:06:46

area to sell my soul if you

1:06:49

die if you got something I got

1:06:51

a sodium deficiency have destroyed their you

1:06:53

get to see if you'll be taken

1:06:55

care of entirely. Nintendo Issues Take downs

1:06:57

over Gary's mod contents: Following community members

1:07:00

noticing that Nintendo related same content was

1:07:02

being removed from Gary's mod, Gary Numan

1:07:04

has confirmed that Cease Punch has received

1:07:06

a take down notice from Nintendo. Quote:

1:07:09

If you want to help us by

1:07:11

deleting your Nintendo related uploads and never

1:07:13

uploading a guest stuff with sofa so.

1:07:15

Forth. Ah,

1:07:19

your vision gary. Or

1:07:21

they're almost twenty years worth of

1:07:23

uploads for Gary's mod workshops, including

1:07:25

sixty five hundred items if you

1:07:27

just search for the word Mario.

1:07:29

While ah, there were rumors that

1:07:31

the notice was fake, potentially caused

1:07:33

by force copyright trolls, but according

1:07:36

to Gary, response has confirmed the

1:07:38

veracity of the notice with Nintendo.

1:07:40

And then there's a speech of

1:07:42

a tweet saying ah, I have

1:07:44

been around and acts or whatever

1:07:46

the heck animals are, I have

1:07:48

been. Assured that the take downs

1:07:50

have been verified by Nintendo as

1:07:52

widgets so this will now continue

1:07:54

as planned sorry And then. I.

1:07:57

Don't even know the a modi said he included. It's

1:08:00

like a bad I bought an hour. And.

1:08:02

I were like a foot or anything

1:08:04

garbage can. Then. A mushroom

1:08:06

so those those ones are like or it sounds good.

1:08:08

Guards can mushroom and then I don't know what the

1:08:11

hell a thing as a Us ah I'm. To.

1:08:13

Be clear, Nintendo is well within their

1:08:15

rights here. This is yeah, intellectual property

1:08:18

in this case the at that The

1:08:20

likeness you know of Mario is absolutely

1:08:22

something that's within their it. Sort of

1:08:25

baffling to me that a gaming company

1:08:27

managed to go twenty years without noticing

1:08:29

Gary's mod. Ah, I'm ill.

1:08:31

maybe that's part of what makes didn't handle

1:08:33

different Said they just why they don't look

1:08:35

at other games they don't have. No.

1:08:38

One who works there has a gaping computers by

1:08:40

test out of know it's easy working for them

1:08:42

for him for them pretty good on. I can

1:08:44

definitely see how this is really frustrating for people

1:08:46

that are like yeah we can. I just thought

1:08:48

this was okay. it had been. Twenty.

1:08:50

Years ah of. Art

1:08:55

Our discussion questions: should there be some kind of

1:08:58

statute of limitations when it comes to brands not

1:09:00

protecting their Ip? I believe there actually are, but

1:09:02

I don't think that that would be covered in

1:09:04

this case, that it would all come down to

1:09:06

the law of the various lands. That

1:09:09

are involves. I think Gary is taking

1:09:11

an extremely bitter approach and the outraged

1:09:13

gamers who are frustrated with Nintendo's action

1:09:16

by all means be frustrated with Nintendo.

1:09:18

They are kind of jerk wad sometimes,

1:09:20

but this is within their rights and

1:09:22

our Gary is right to comply with.

1:09:27

Yeah, right. Speaking of things that

1:09:29

ah, the have to do with,

1:09:32

right? No, it doesn't Her celebrity

1:09:34

with high net Neutrality is back.

1:09:36

Fcc votes to restore Obama era

1:09:39

rules repealed under Trump. Ftc voted

1:09:41

three to two to restore rules

1:09:43

that prevent internet providers from favoring

1:09:45

some sites and apps over others,

1:09:48

reserving high speeds for those willing

1:09:50

to pay more for them or

1:09:52

otherwise interfering with what consumers do

1:09:54

online. Ahead of the vote, Fcc

1:09:57

Chairwoman Jessica. Rosen

1:09:59

worse off. Okay

1:10:01

for the rates are seated. In

1:10:03

our post Pandemic world's we know

1:10:06

that broadband is a necessity, not

1:10:08

a luxury. Opponents claim it will

1:10:10

still innovation and investment in the

1:10:13

bought broadband industries. Supporters argue that

1:10:15

without such regulations, broadband providers are

1:10:17

incentivized to charge customers more to

1:10:20

use internet fast lanes before four

1:10:22

hundred page draft order has not

1:10:24

yet been publicly released. I

1:10:30

will. I will say, I don't

1:10:32

think I heard of a ton

1:10:34

of things happening as a result

1:10:36

of the repeal of these rules,

1:10:38

but I think I'm pretty happy

1:10:40

that they may be coming back

1:10:42

so. Yeah. This

1:10:44

is great, Others a seal. other really important

1:10:46

ones. I wanna make sure that we hit

1:10:49

here like this is. Actually I'm a big

1:10:51

week for news. Ah tic toc As low

1:10:53

as we talked about this of the beginning

1:10:55

congress's the Us Congress has passed a law

1:10:57

getting ticked off tech company Bite Dance until

1:11:00

January of next year to sell the app

1:11:02

or it will be blocked from us app

1:11:04

stores and internet service providers. Is this what

1:11:06

it would take for I phone users. To.

1:11:09

Finally say. Hey.

1:11:11

We need to be able to side load. Is

1:11:14

this what it would take to make

1:11:16

the I phone uncool with Jens ease

1:11:18

and gentle says if you couldn't put

1:11:20

Tic Toc on it because there's no

1:11:22

way to side load an app and

1:11:24

Tic Toc isn't in the app store

1:11:26

or anyone to. This forced divestment was

1:11:28

passed as part of a large foreign

1:11:30

aid package target that Ukraine, Israel, and

1:11:32

Taiwan by Dance has promised to fight

1:11:34

the legislation in court, calling it an

1:11:36

unconstitutional infringement on American uses free Speech

1:11:38

rights. Sources inside the company of told

1:11:40

Reuters that like dense leadership would rather

1:11:43

tic Tacs down. Then sell it. I

1:11:45

honestly think Tennessee that's like this is my ball

1:11:47

I'm going to play with that are gone home

1:11:49

The take it with me. A major reason lawmakers

1:11:51

game for the decision to forced by dance to

1:11:53

divest from tic toc is the lack of a

1:11:55

barrier between the Chinese government and Chinese companies. as

1:11:58

a social security and privacy experts expressed concern,

1:12:00

both that the app could be used to

1:12:02

access sensitive user information and that its algorithm

1:12:04

could be used to manipulate public opinion about

1:12:07

the CCP. I

1:12:09

guess what I'm asking is, why

1:12:11

aren't you forcing Facebook to

1:12:13

sell to, to who even?

1:12:15

I don't know. Or Twitter to

1:12:18

sell to who even? I don't know. Like

1:12:20

if basically your concern in a

1:12:22

nutshell is that there's an entity

1:12:24

controlling this app that you can't

1:12:26

control and that could tune

1:12:29

its algorithm for its own purposes. I

1:12:32

don't know, man. Like I'm not, I'm not exactly pro China.

1:12:36

That entity is specifically another country because

1:12:39

I see where you're going and I do think you're entirely right.

1:12:42

But I think they're like, Ooh, this is,

1:12:44

this is, uh, what

1:12:47

is it foreign foreign national interference or

1:12:49

whatever? I don't know the term

1:12:51

for it, but I think it's something

1:12:54

that they're fighting against. Um,

1:12:57

who do you want to see by it? Is I

1:12:59

discussion question in,

1:13:02

I really, can I say the brackets? Can I say

1:13:04

the brackets? Sure. In

1:13:07

brackets, it says, don't say Elon. I

1:13:12

mean, if you hate tech talk, maybe you will. I was

1:13:15

going to say, I kind of wanted to be. Oh,

1:13:23

man. I just, I

1:13:25

think the part of me that just like loves

1:13:28

to see things burn sometimes just, you

1:13:30

know, why not? It

1:13:32

is entertaining. It's

1:13:34

another thing that I don't like or use. So

1:13:36

like, whatever. I

1:13:39

don't know. Speaking of government,

1:13:41

the state of California would like to

1:13:43

know your location and also your velocity.

1:13:46

California Senator Scott. I'm

1:13:49

sure it's, I'm sure it's

1:13:51

not pronounced quite like that. I love it.

1:13:53

Initially proposed a bill that would

1:13:55

place speed limiters in passenger vehicles

1:13:57

to physically. Oh, no, this was the thing I was talking.

1:14:00

about earlier, okay, yeah, that would prevent them

1:14:02

from going more than 10 miles an hour

1:14:04

over the speed limit starting in 2027. Actually

1:14:07

what? However, this

1:14:09

has recently been revised to just

1:14:12

using visual and audio signals to

1:14:14

alert drivers of their speed. Wieners

1:14:17

also amended the bill to clarify that drivers would

1:14:19

receive one warning each time they go over the

1:14:22

speed threshold rather than a constant warning. This

1:14:25

version of the bill has passed the Senate

1:14:27

Transportation Committee along party lines. The

1:14:29

bill is backed by the National Transportation Safety

1:14:31

Board, which has pushed for speed limiting systems

1:14:33

since 2012, and the

1:14:36

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has documented

1:14:39

a sharp increase in traffic fatalities nationwide,

1:14:41

including in major Californian cities. It

1:14:43

should be noted that these speed limit warning systems

1:14:46

are not new and are actually set to be

1:14:48

mandatory in all new vehicles in the EU starting

1:14:50

in July. Man, new cars

1:14:53

are going to be on the struggle bus pretty

1:14:55

quick styles here. Yeah. Because

1:15:00

that's what I was sitting here thinking, like it says,

1:15:05

would place speed limiters in passenger vehicles.

1:15:07

They mean just new ones, right?

1:15:10

You don't have to retrofit your car to have a

1:15:12

speed limiter in it. I mean, given that

1:15:16

even seat belts, you don't have to have

1:15:18

them if your vehicle's old enough. I doubt

1:15:20

that we're going to see speed limiters retroactively

1:15:22

coming into cars, but who knows, right? So

1:15:24

in this case, then the used car market

1:15:27

is just going to be so like you're going

1:15:29

to have used cars from other states being shipped

1:15:31

to California because people are going to want to

1:15:34

buy older used cars. Or

1:15:37

I wonder if you could even get just

1:15:39

any new car, but from out of state.

1:15:42

Like our car dealerships along the

1:15:45

outside, but along the Californian border are

1:15:47

going to be like super popular because

1:15:49

you can get non-California law

1:15:52

compliant cars and then

1:15:54

like just, you know, bring

1:15:56

them into California. I don't know. I don't know how

1:15:58

those laws would work. I don't know. American stuff, but

1:16:00

yeah. EK

1:16:04

has given a statement on

1:16:06

the allegations that

1:16:08

they failed to pay suppliers, employees, and

1:16:11

contractors for multiple months. CEO

1:16:13

and founder, Edward Koenig, has released a

1:16:15

statement apologizing, both for the hardship caused

1:16:18

by lack of timely payment and lack

1:16:20

of adequate communication. He took

1:16:22

over as CEO in February and claims to

1:16:24

have already addressed several issues, but acknowledged there

1:16:26

is still a long way to go. You

1:16:28

know what's funny is this is

1:16:31

round two of this. Did you

1:16:33

know that? No. Yeah.

1:16:36

Edward steps down as CEO once, like

1:16:38

10 or 12 years ago. I

1:16:41

can't remember exactly when. EK basically

1:16:43

went to crap and then

1:16:45

he stepped back in and restored it

1:16:47

to its former glory and better. And

1:16:50

then I didn't even know that he was out again,

1:16:52

but it

1:16:54

seems like something about EK for

1:16:56

blocks runs best when Edward

1:16:59

Koenig, Mr. EK, is at

1:17:01

the helm. Koenig

1:17:03

claims that EK is committed to fulfilling

1:17:05

its financial obligations and regaining community trust.

1:17:08

I mean, our discussion question here is a really big one. Why

1:17:11

did it take so long to communicate the new

1:17:13

plan? Like that's something that he doesn't have an

1:17:15

excuse for because if he's been CEO for two

1:17:18

months, that would have been

1:17:20

the time to communicate better. Like

1:17:24

we said in the video that featured a bunch

1:17:26

of EK parts, though, we are hopeful that

1:17:30

they will get themselves out of this

1:17:32

because you know what? I

1:17:34

love the product. It's a great product and

1:17:37

I want to

1:17:39

see them succeed, but obviously that success

1:17:41

can't come at the cost of

1:17:44

their employees and their contractors, right? It can't come

1:17:46

on their backs. Good

1:17:49

luck. Good luck, EK.

1:17:51

Godspeed. Yeah. I

1:17:55

don't really care about that one. Nope,

1:18:02

it's the the Braun Jean tattoo one.

1:18:05

Yeah Okay, where

1:18:07

is this? Just pretty cool. They're naming

1:18:09

conventions for their new chips are really

1:18:11

stupid Yeah Snapdragon

1:18:15

X elite but like with less

1:18:17

clock or less clockers. Yeah,

1:18:19

but the name is but we're What

1:18:23

but we're what is even the difference for this one? What

1:18:25

am I even looking at here? It

1:18:28

just has a different part number Doesn't do

1:18:30

for boost. I think I think there's no

1:18:32

dual core boost wise. Oh That's

1:18:35

right. And then why does why is plus less?

1:18:42

Qualcomm has said that gaming on these

1:18:44

chips will just work with the x-series

1:18:46

of SSEs No porting required and this

1:18:48

was apparently achieved through a Rosetta to

1:18:50

style translation layer It seems they're positioning

1:18:52

these chips to be an alternative to

1:18:54

AMD's mobile radians and mobile risons

1:18:57

and Intel's ultra lineup They've been showing off

1:18:59

their snapback and X elite primarily laptops and

1:19:01

claim it can work with discrete GPUs. Okay,

1:19:03

that's pretty cool So have

1:19:05

having the ability To

1:19:08

like put an Nvidia GPU

1:19:10

on this thing and just use it as a CPU is kind

1:19:12

of it just kind of blows my mind I don't know why

1:19:16

Semi-accurate comm talked with unnamed OEMs that

1:19:18

claim the Qualcomm benchmarks are faked though

1:19:21

up to 50% higher than what the OEMs can

1:19:23

reproduce With the same X-piece chip Qualcomm

1:19:25

has claimed that the weaker X plus can deliver 28

1:19:28

better 28 percent better performance in Cinebench 2024 than

1:19:30

Intel's ultra 7 155

1:19:33

H at the same power consumption and it looks like

1:19:35

there's a few more nodes here But what this is

1:19:37

gonna boil down to is show me

1:19:39

the money Let's see. Let's

1:19:41

see what you guys have actually got going on here

1:19:43

enough enough talk I'm pretty

1:19:45

excited to check these out though. This could

1:19:47

be the the Apple silicon moment for Windows

1:19:49

PCs I wouldn't mind better battery

1:19:51

life. That would be okay Yeah,

1:19:54

we could we could use it who

1:19:56

thought naming four products only two

1:19:58

different names was Cool. I

1:20:02

don't mind the plus that much. I

1:20:05

think the problem that makes it weird is the

1:20:07

Placing that it has in this chart because

1:20:09

elite sounds better than plus so if plus

1:20:11

was just first and then elite came after

1:20:13

It'd be fine Yeah,

1:20:16

exactly. I guess what's just snapdragon

1:20:19

x what yeah Yeah,

1:20:21

but there isn't one of those Three

1:20:25

of them just be called snapdragon x elite

1:20:27

is like definitely the whole problem Ah

1:20:32

well, um Okay,

1:20:34

anything else doo-doo-doo-doo Cybertruck

1:20:37

thing the

1:20:40

high school principal thing I Do

1:20:44

the high school principal thing for the for the people

1:20:46

playing bingo high school Okay,

1:20:50

never mind. Oh, yeah, sure Sure,

1:20:55

I might have to go pretty soon boys you can carry

1:20:57

on a little longer without me, but I am fading extremely

1:20:59

fast Only got one

1:21:01

ring, right? I Didn't

1:21:04

sleep last night at all and I got

1:21:06

on a plane at 8 a.m So

1:21:09

I had to be I'd leave for the airport at 5. So

1:21:11

basically I stayed up working on a paint

1:21:13

job Until about

1:21:15

4 30. I got a little bit of rest

1:21:19

Not sleep just rest while I packed

1:21:22

and then I headed out for

1:21:24

the airport at around 5 30 and then I And

1:21:28

then I ate and then I flew and I got a little

1:21:30

bit of sleep on the plane But I'm dying but you know

1:21:33

what? I don't know whether it's the lack of sleep or whether

1:21:35

it's the paint fumes I'm feeling pretty silly

1:21:37

today, but it was worth it. I just got

1:21:40

I got a message from Alex that

1:21:42

says Honestly

1:21:47

paint job is pretty sick It's

1:21:51

terrible. So I just want to get that out

1:21:53

there right now. It's terrible, but

1:21:56

that's the intention You

1:21:58

guys might remember that in that

1:22:00

we upgraded Pluth's car video. We

1:22:02

alluded to potentially a part two.

1:22:05

Well, what we came up with is that we

1:22:07

were going to do a part two, adding more tech to his

1:22:09

car. So we added Android Auto, we added a backup

1:22:12

camera last time, and we

1:22:14

had teased maybe doing power windows, power

1:22:17

door locks, putting in some

1:22:19

new headlights. But we can't have

1:22:21

everyone internally complaining that we're upgrading Pluth's car

1:22:23

and nobody else's. So there had to be

1:22:25

a catch. And the catch is that

1:22:28

I got to paint his car any color

1:22:31

I wanted. I'm

1:22:35

very excited. Oh, man. Okay,

1:22:39

sorry, Dan, go ahead. Tara, let's

1:22:41

get through some merch measures. We've got

1:22:44

four that curated right now. Hi, DLL,

1:22:46

first time watching live at 42 just

1:22:48

found out that I'm expecting my first

1:22:50

child. While you had your family young.

1:22:53

Do you have any advice for someone having their

1:22:55

first in their 40s? Oh,

1:22:58

man. Well, having not tried it yet.

1:23:01

It's not Cromwood. I

1:23:06

don't know. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

1:23:09

Or not ideally. I

1:23:11

know. Having not tried it. I mean, I

1:23:16

would say the biggest thing that

1:23:18

has kept me more

1:23:20

aligned with my kids is being into

1:23:22

tech actually. Like I introduced

1:23:24

my kids to Discord, which they use

1:23:26

to socialize with their friends. Don't

1:23:29

let your kids you know, move on to

1:23:31

Instagram or move on to that move on

1:23:33

to the platform, and then follow them around

1:23:35

because that makes you not cool

1:23:38

and everything about it not cool. But if you

1:23:40

just kind of are staying with it a little

1:23:42

bit, and you have some idea what's going on,

1:23:45

don't underestimate the importance of knowing what the

1:23:47

heck they're talking about. And

1:23:49

yeah, some of it's going to be kind of stupid. My kids like

1:23:52

stupid movies and stupid videos and stupid

1:23:54

games. They talk, man, my kids just

1:23:56

got into Fortnite. Anyway, the

1:23:59

point is. You're not always gonna

1:24:01

enjoy it, but think of it

1:24:03

as work. Little man has such

1:24:05

good taste in games forever. I

1:24:08

know. Ah! My

1:24:11

soul. Okay. That's fine. You

1:24:14

know what? I

1:24:17

haven't shown him Warcraft 3 yet,

1:24:19

and I think that's gonna capture his attention.

1:24:22

So I'm gonna step up my plan. He

1:24:24

is an RTS gamer. He

1:24:26

totally is. Oh. That's

1:24:28

a good sign. He's amazing for RTS. Yeah. Yep.

1:24:32

He's got the brain for it. He loves Anno. Yeah. Loves

1:24:35

Supreme Commander. So yeah, I'm gonna... We haven't played

1:24:37

the Warcraft 3 campaign. That's...

1:24:40

It's a good one. It's a really good one. All

1:24:42

right. What have we got, Dan? Get

1:24:45

him on Factorio. Maybe not yet, but I'm sure

1:24:47

he'll like that. He won't go to school anymore.

1:24:50

I'd like to see it once in a while.

1:24:53

Yeah. Yeah. He's

1:24:55

probably a bit better with sleep strategy than you. Sorry.

1:24:59

Hi, DLL. How

1:25:03

have you managed to keep a good

1:25:05

level of structure and tidiness in your

1:25:07

test or lab places with a growing

1:25:09

team working for a company that struggles

1:25:11

establishing good practices while growing? I

1:25:15

think we struggle with that too. Same.

1:25:19

Yeah. But yeah. Hi, DLL. You're

1:25:23

gonna continue. Sorry. Yeah. Do

1:25:26

we? No. Hi,

1:25:29

DLL. I started as a job as the... No

1:25:31

way. We... Okay, hold on. Hold

1:25:33

on. We deserve a little bit more credit

1:25:35

than that. We started by having

1:25:37

a pretty big space for them, so they were able

1:25:39

to spread things out a little bit. They

1:25:42

actually do a pretty darn good job of assigning

1:25:45

a place for everything. We

1:25:48

don't always have everything in its place, but overall,

1:25:50

we have a place for everything, so it keeps

1:25:52

things from getting too messy. And

1:25:55

we're trying not to rush them. And they've had

1:25:57

a forward-thinking plan the whole time. There

1:26:00

was like essentially models

1:26:02

of where they were going to put things

1:26:04

from like the very beginning. Yeah.

1:26:08

Okay. Go ahead, Dan. Right.

1:26:12

Oh, one moment. Hi,

1:26:14

DLL. I started a job as the IT

1:26:16

guy for a company. Not much before it

1:26:18

was documented. I want

1:26:20

to document all the processes, but

1:26:22

would doing that make me replaceable?

1:26:24

How can I make myself indispensable?

1:26:28

Have good ideas like documenting all your processes

1:26:30

and execute it and totally kick butt at

1:26:32

it and then have a new good idea

1:26:34

and then do that and then all of

1:26:36

a sudden not only will you not be

1:26:38

replaceable, you'll be indispensable. There,

1:26:41

I had a point this way. The

1:26:45

importance of initiative and making

1:26:48

the company work better regardless of whether

1:26:50

it's directly on your quarterly KPIs. The

1:26:52

importance can't be overstated. Yeah.

1:26:56

And like if people are really paying attention and

1:26:58

you're just not documenting things as an IT person,

1:27:01

you will be very suddenly extremely

1:27:03

replaceable. Yeah. So

1:27:07

and as somebody who was irreplaceable

1:27:09

for about seven years, you

1:27:12

want to be replaceable. I

1:27:14

took four days off in those seven years. Yeah. I

1:27:17

need to take a Friday off when I'm here. Yeah, but

1:27:20

we got to take the context

1:27:22

here. The context was they are

1:27:25

making themselves replaceable

1:27:28

by making their job function really, really, really

1:27:30

smooth. So it was a

1:27:32

very different thing that I was talking about. Constant innovation is

1:27:34

not the same thing as being the only guy who knows

1:27:37

how to do it and so you just get called in

1:27:39

the middle of the night by the owner or whatever. And

1:27:42

he did technically end it with or whoever this

1:27:44

was, did technically

1:27:46

end it with how can I make

1:27:49

myself indispensable. So I think Linus's

1:27:51

answer was like pretty good. Yeah.

1:27:53

You want to be indispensable and yeah,

1:27:55

exactly. Yeah. tuning

1:28:00

L.D. caught a merch message in a March

1:28:03

wan about screen time for kids and

1:28:05

that Linus put out a lot of

1:28:07

good info. Curious Linus, what is

1:28:09

the standard bedtime in your house for the kids?

1:28:13

Oh man, you gotta understand, I got three kids. We

1:28:16

were all over that stuff, like,

1:28:18

you know, bedtime routine, we brushed

1:28:20

all the kids teeth by hand

1:28:22

ourselves and like always

1:28:24

did stories and it was always kind of the same

1:28:27

time. These days it's like, I don't

1:28:29

know, are you tired? I'm tired, okay. Kids,

1:28:31

go to bed. You

1:28:35

eventually kind of relax on that stuff. Generally

1:28:38

speaking, one of my kids

1:28:40

is a total night owl, my eldest daughter, so

1:28:42

I can put her to bed at 8.30 and

1:28:45

she'll still be awake in her bed just lying there staring

1:28:47

at the ceiling at 10.30 anyway, so what's the point? So

1:28:51

I'll send her to bed if she's like cranky and obviously

1:28:53

needs to sleep, but other than that, she kind of

1:28:57

sleeps when she's tired and then the

1:28:59

youngest one, we try to get her in bed at

1:29:01

8.30 and screen time does

1:29:03

end once bedtime starts. However,

1:29:06

I mean, my problem as a kid was never screens when

1:29:08

I was supposed to be sleeping. It was always books and

1:29:10

we do let our kids read in bed, so sometimes

1:29:13

they're tired and they're hard to wake up in the morning,

1:29:15

but honestly, if I can raise a

1:29:17

house of readers, I consider a little bit of lost

1:29:19

sleep to be acceptable collateral damage.

1:29:23

Okay, the last of the curators I've got

1:29:25

for you here with how bad the car

1:29:27

industry is getting, what do you think of

1:29:29

a reality involving an open source car? I

1:29:32

know we both believe the vast majority will

1:29:34

not own their own cars in the future.

1:29:38

Don't those exist? Kit cars? Aren't

1:29:41

there kit cars that are effectively open source? So

1:29:45

much of making a car is not the

1:29:47

car. So much of it is

1:29:49

the infrastructure to produce the car. Look

1:29:51

how many car companies there are that can make one

1:29:53

car or a dozen cars. The

1:29:56

problem is that the overhead involved in designing

1:29:58

and building a car and setting up for

1:30:00

manufacture means that you have to make thousands and

1:30:02

thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of cars

1:30:04

or it doesn't make any financial sense. I

1:30:07

don't think that the traditional model of car

1:30:09

manufacture is going anywhere anytime soon. But

1:30:13

who knows? Hey, framework raised another what? Like

1:30:15

$16 million? Maybe that's their next big expansion?

1:30:19

Probably not. I actually, oh, I had meant

1:30:21

to kind of speculate on that, but I think I actually

1:30:23

just need to go and lie down for a little bit

1:30:25

before this event. I'm supposed to attend. Yeah,

1:30:27

do it. Go here. Maybe next week. Why

1:30:29

don't next week? Why don't

1:30:31

we play a guessing game and see what

1:30:34

frameworks next investment cycle is going to

1:30:36

go into? Number one was framework 13.

1:30:38

Number two was framework 16. Number

1:30:40

three is something and they're saying it's going to be

1:30:42

quite different. Yeah, not a laptop.

1:30:46

Investment disclosure. Yeah. Yeah.

1:30:49

All right. I think it's not a laptop. I need

1:30:51

to go. Okay,

1:30:54

bye. Thanks for tuning in. See you again

1:30:56

next week. Same bad times, same bad channel. I

1:31:00

can't say my thing because I'm not leaving, but

1:31:02

bye Linus. Okay.

1:31:05

Yeah, high school principal almost framed

1:31:07

for fake racist rant using AI.

1:31:10

A clip was posted to a

1:31:12

popular Instagram account with the voice

1:31:14

of Baltimore County Pikesville High School's

1:31:17

principal making racist remarks targeting teachers,

1:31:19

students, and parents by name. These

1:31:22

included one threat to drag the

1:31:24

school's athletic directors. Wow. We're

1:31:28

not going to

1:31:30

say that, but it was bad

1:31:33

and the clip is still up apparently.

1:31:37

It was convincing enough that it began to

1:31:39

spread immediately. Emily

1:31:41

Y says, if you don't want to hear it, there

1:31:43

are a couple of points where it sounds off

1:31:46

and it's easy to gloss over them because the

1:31:48

rest sounds so natural. Yeah,

1:31:50

that's rough. This

1:31:53

stuff is getting crazy. But

1:31:56

faculty and the community believed the clip.

1:32:00

Really and this led

1:32:02

to the principal being temporarily removed and an

1:32:04

investigation launched the investigation revealed that it was

1:32:06

in fact a fake Made by the schools

1:32:09

made by the school's athletic director What

1:32:12

a twist? Good

1:32:15

I love this story. It's terrifying.

1:32:17

That's wild. So the athletic director

1:32:20

Made an AI clip of the principal Very

1:32:24

negatively calling out the the

1:32:26

athletic director That's

1:32:31

rough The

1:32:34

investigation revealed that yeah The

1:32:36

smoking gun was that he had used

1:32:38

the school Computers and his school email

1:32:41

to sign up for the AI voice

1:32:43

imitation service and distribute the fake recordings

1:32:48

Okay forensic and analysis points to

1:32:50

a service like 11 labs which

1:32:52

can synthesize voices with just a

1:32:54

few minutes of audio Only

1:32:56

the principal's union leader suggested that the clip

1:32:59

may be a deep fake one

1:33:01

person How

1:33:05

can we be sure of anything we see or

1:33:07

hear anymore is there any coming back from this

1:33:10

in my opinion Not

1:33:12

really to be completely honest We're

1:33:17

in like post truth or whatever I'm

1:33:22

not getting in the chair. This is Luke. So you could

1:33:26

I'm not getting in the chair. This is Luke. This is

1:33:28

Luke. This is Luke. This is Luke. This is Luke. This

1:33:30

is Luke. That was a I don't want

1:33:32

to I don't care That's

1:33:34

like a is that okay? I feel

1:33:37

bad about that. Why do you feel bad about it?

1:33:39

I don't know cuz it's your your in line this is show. I'm

1:33:41

just here to do merch message Yeah, but we used to have guests

1:33:43

on the show all the time. I Think

1:33:46

Elijah was even like hey, can I join and I

1:33:48

was like, I mean if James says it Okay, but

1:33:50

I also don't know how long we're doing this show

1:33:53

for yeah, it'll be a little while longer. I guess

1:33:56

Little bit. Yeah, I Think you have

1:33:58

some other topics. The

1:34:01

cyber trunk may be bulletproof. But.

1:34:03

It's not waterproof. You can stand.

1:34:06

Here. Cause dad. Was.

1:34:09

Switching can't wait. I can't do it. Oh.

1:34:14

I. Don't know. How to do

1:34:17

vary? The I'd honestly normally do

1:34:19

camera sourcing. Supposed

1:34:24

to. See

1:34:26

us! That is like arrived on this remote

1:34:28

into it. It's fine if we find. Bugs

1:34:36

Bunny. Ah, there we go. The cyberattack

1:34:38

may be bulletproof, but it's not waterproof

1:34:40

car wash woes. Turns out that the

1:34:42

bullet resistant trucks is not able to

1:34:45

handle a bit of water. The terms

1:34:47

and conditions of the cybersex say that

1:34:49

if you fail to put it into

1:34:51

car wash mode, your new eighty thousand

1:34:54

to her track can be rendered a

1:34:56

paperweight ticked off user of. Top.

1:35:00

To and caption. Cash. And add.

1:35:03

Went to. Went.

1:35:05

To the beach with his dogs and and

1:35:07

he didn't even pressure was it but rinse

1:35:09

it out A result the bed with a

1:35:11

hose and now his infotainment screen is completely

1:35:13

non from smoke. Whoa.

1:35:16

This includes the trucks pedometer, all

1:35:18

the. Odds

1:35:20

are urging information and rear camera

1:35:22

which is necessary to back up

1:35:24

the vehicle because the back windows

1:35:27

otherwise too narrow and often obscured

1:35:29

by the trucks bedcovers. Several other

1:35:31

users have reported problems with corrosion,

1:35:33

in part because stainless steel is

1:35:35

not rustproof, merely ross resistance. Ah,

1:35:37

all the cyberattacks are apparently recall.

1:35:40

Every cyberattack has been recalled due to

1:35:42

a fault with the accelerator pedal. Recall

1:35:44

here means that has of will be

1:35:46

replacing the faulty parts not and like

1:35:48

slip off right? Yeah I think at

1:35:50

least part of it was that often

1:35:52

gets stuff and it stuck in that

1:35:54

it forces he salute or down there

1:35:56

is there the break overrides because they're

1:35:58

all digital. A break over the accelerator

1:36:00

cools off you would press the break.

1:36:03

It wouldn't matter, the accelerator was down to

1:36:05

see would just break. I mean, how long would

1:36:07

it take you to realize. That. Your

1:36:09

own we aren't pushing down and how? And are

1:36:11

you actually going on that because you don't know

1:36:14

that? That would override. it can really put it

1:36:16

into neutral and he can't. Old. Turn.

1:36:18

The engine on a lot of a tricks

1:36:20

you do in a gas car knock in

1:36:23

a worse right into a while and a

1:36:25

trick that you wouldn't really necessarily do any

1:36:27

gas cards does work so it's like I

1:36:29

am I their terrifying not not good he

1:36:31

is more have club. Too.

1:36:34

Any yeah, Oh

1:36:37

yeah here we go his that he

1:36:39

tells this of the it is possible

1:36:41

for the accelerator pedal to slide up

1:36:43

while flooring it, lodging the pedal cover

1:36:45

against some trim and causing the penalty

1:36:48

get stuck all the way down of

1:36:50

at seems like a problem was caused

1:36:52

by an unapproved chains and yet and

1:36:54

we've experienced one of those a school

1:36:56

backpack organic backyard of attacks were serious

1:36:58

cause my an unapproved seems to the

1:37:00

assembly of the petals and introduced a

1:37:03

lubricant some soap to. Help the cover

1:37:05

slide on, but I guess that stayed

1:37:07

there are. The recall also revealed that

1:37:09

Tesla has only delivered thirty one hundred

1:37:11

and seventy eight cyber trucks. And

1:37:15

samosas a cyber truck cos it's like a hell of

1:37:18

a lot of money isn't it? Juicing

1:37:20

The brakes are physical. still. Ah,

1:37:22

I'm said non fly by wire break but

1:37:25

the i don't think they figure that out

1:37:27

perfectly at the accelerator accelerators and in my

1:37:29

car has as a fly by wire accelerator

1:37:31

as year and a lotta automatics will have

1:37:33

the automatic cotton blip and things like that

1:37:35

right? I

1:37:38

mean, why would they. Be.

1:37:40

Like a hundred thousand dollar truck or something like

1:37:43

that flagship products and think so far they just

1:37:45

like gluing on are slipping over a cover. Why

1:37:47

isn't it. Like mailed.

1:37:49

aluminum or you know there's a screw

1:37:52

in it i could one screw right

1:37:54

at the bottom one singles in our

1:37:56

this is just one right there and

1:37:58

that when But come

1:38:00

on I was I didn't have

1:38:03

to do like I

1:38:05

don't want to deal with the recall yet But I need to

1:38:07

drive my truck a little bit What

1:38:09

is my fix just take off some of those

1:38:12

were pretty funny? Yeah, you just take the cover

1:38:14

off you can screw it on yourself You can

1:38:16

do there's like somebody like screw just right through

1:38:18

it. Yeah, what's it gonna hurt

1:38:20

the resale value? It's been in the air for

1:38:22

like a week. It's already rusted You've

1:38:25

had to clean it six. You're not gonna get your

1:38:27

money back on like the rags and the cleaning fluid

1:38:29

for yeah Yeah, yeah, I don't

1:38:31

know. Yeah, I can't I can't

1:38:34

get a Tesla's website to play nice right

1:38:36

now It's

1:38:38

just forcing me to select the language. Yeah.

1:38:40

What if I actually just pick one? Okay

1:38:42

now it's working. That's weird Rivet

1:38:47

that's a good idea. Joe. Uh One

1:38:50

rivet, do you know the price of rivets like

1:38:52

practically nothing? I think they're like four dollars a

1:38:55

ton Or

1:38:57

actually, what about that microwave welding thing

1:39:00

where you just like Squoosh

1:39:02

it and then oh, yeah. Yeah, like

1:39:04

I think even the stream deck is

1:39:06

made with that stream deck can do

1:39:08

it Why can't Tesla? I Bet

1:39:11

that they make a good car pedal.

1:39:13

I don't know. I wonder I wonder how good

1:39:15

it was before they did the soap thing Because

1:39:18

it was an unapproved change that they're blaming

1:39:20

on but there wasn't a fastener. Yeah, I'm

1:39:22

not sure maybe it like clipped on I

1:39:25

mean you got a pretty strong interference fit

1:39:27

with like rubbers or metals or things like

1:39:29

that But

1:39:31

why would it need soap? Like

1:39:34

are they putting on by hand? Yeah,

1:39:37

I'm not sure what the manufacturing process was but

1:39:39

it was a lubricant to put it on yeah,

1:39:41

you would normally well Why isn't that lubricant glue?

1:39:44

I Glue

1:39:47

it's let me superglue nice

1:39:49

nice smooth stuff just Yeah,

1:39:52

there. I'm bloody hell Obviously

1:39:55

they would buy it in higher quantities with bigger discounts,

1:39:57

but a 50 Pack of rivets

1:39:59

from Home Depot. Nine bucks

1:40:01

Canadians stainless steel, I

1:40:03

think so. Because. Along with

1:40:05

a bill to avoid the build a

1:40:07

wash your pedal after attacking. America.

1:40:10

Careful don't watch it with too much water. Might

1:40:12

sort out your old trust. For

1:40:15

this before it or watch mode for his

1:40:17

I was I was promised utopia. I

1:40:20

don't like current year. I don't think I have for a while.

1:40:24

Make good things. Don't.

1:40:26

Make bad things. I've

1:40:28

lived as we had a discussion question to even

1:40:30

talk about it. What kind of process results in

1:40:33

a truck that isn't even weatherproof? Yeah.

1:40:37

I don't know. man. Cm, Ego

1:40:40

is an ego, is it? I'm

1:40:43

happy with like What? Tesla?

1:40:46

Did by existing. Just.

1:40:49

Like get more interesting ease

1:40:51

and I'm. Paid.

1:40:54

Like the seen it. I mean it to

1:40:56

me on paper. Stance.

1:40:59

Your car cool. Delorean.

1:41:02

Yeah. You. Queen it with gasoline.

1:41:05

That's the best way to clean the

1:41:07

Delorean is gasoline seconds Murtha? Yeah it

1:41:10

going. Stainless steel really good. Which

1:41:14

I think is hilarious as we

1:41:16

don't do that anymore and is

1:41:18

an electric Cars. And

1:41:20

gases like what? Three four dollars

1:41:22

a gallon? Now nearly three dollars

1:41:25

a leader? Hear about two pound

1:41:27

of leader And the America that

1:41:29

is over on the other side

1:41:31

of the pond like I don't

1:41:33

know, is crazy. Apparently

1:41:36

this is. I

1:41:38

don't have those. Doesn't seem like a natural

1:41:40

official video a a white diesel and make

1:41:42

sense but. whose

1:41:45

their six i thought this was a do it

1:41:47

yourself version of the six because i've seen

1:41:49

as v i didn't think this was tesla sexy

1:41:51

i mean just literally that so they i

1:41:53

think this was the so when i saw though

1:41:55

the one those claiming this is a d

1:41:57

i y six to say not to say Okay,

1:42:00

I don't know but this looks like just

1:42:02

like a 3d printed block that ensures that

1:42:04

you line it up properly and then I

1:42:07

think they're drilling a hole and then just

1:42:09

riveting the hole. I think is the whole

1:42:11

thing. We'll see here in a moment So

1:42:15

come back. We're drilling a hole in it. Wait

1:42:17

for it Wait

1:42:20

for it. There we go. There

1:42:23

it is Looks

1:42:26

like a rivet to me I'm

1:42:29

not a fan of remits. They're not serviceable. Yeah

1:42:33

Yeah, me too Gonna

1:42:36

have to drill that out right to repair. I Mean

1:42:39

you could drill it out though. Yeah Robert

1:42:43

in there An

1:42:46

open future is on the horizon get it

1:42:48

because that's the name of the operating system

1:42:51

Meta is opening its quest

1:42:53

VR headset software now called

1:42:55

horizon OS to third-party devices

1:42:57

meta has already included

1:43:01

three official partners planning to planning

1:43:04

on creating horizon OS based headsets including

1:43:06

a gaming focused device from a soos

1:43:08

a Learning focused device from

1:43:11

Lenovo and a limited edition meta

1:43:13

quest in collaboration with Xbox Meta

1:43:15

apparently wants its OS to become

1:43:18

the Android of virtual reality a

1:43:20

major benefit for users is the ability

1:43:22

to bring profile information across devices and

1:43:25

device manufacturers and cross-device

1:43:27

compatible programs and games Adam

1:43:30

thinks a major downside for users is the

1:43:32

ability for meta to track even more of

1:43:35

you Which is I'm

1:43:37

sure 100% of the reason why they

1:43:39

want to do this. Yeah, that seems

1:43:41

like the reason anybody does anything these

1:43:43

days Oh, we released this new

1:43:45

pair of software. It's open and free We

1:43:49

get all the information Discussion

1:43:51

question would a default platform shared

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between various headsets be a boon

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to VR Do we trust Zuckerberg

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to be the man with the plan? What's

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in it for Mark after the mediocre

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launch of the Vision Pro is meta

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feeling bullish or bearish on the VR

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market as a whole? What about you?

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A lot of questions actually. That is a lot

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of questions. I'm a computer tethered guy. Yeah.

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My headset's a screen. One

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of the reasons I switched to the index over the I

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still call it the CV1 because I was

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a DK1 boy. Been there from

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the start. Yeah. Get in there for the dev stuff.

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Me too. Is because the

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Lighthouse system is a little bit more open

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to third-party trackers and like tracking and things

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like that then maybe a closed system or

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even inside out right? But

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I mean I would like to see the software

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at least being a little more open. I

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don't even see why the headsets

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couldn't just be like tethered headsets

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but you would attach a computer

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module to the headset so you

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kind of have like headset driving

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companies and then maybe also headset

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display companies. Like the

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index had a plug on the top and I could just

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pop a Oculus Android

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phone. Yeah so it's really turning into

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like computer and monitor. Yeah. Instead

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of all in one device. Yeah. Yeah. I

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like the idea of like someone putting a

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sticker on their headset that's like my other

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my other VR headset is a computer monitor.

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Yeah. Yeah. I mean that makes sense. A

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lot of the good stuff. Yeah.

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I think the

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shared between I think I think they're bearish right

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and I think I think

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a lot of people maybe have been moving

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