I Love My Mac - WAN Show April 10, 2026

Summary

The WAN Show – April 10, 2026: “I Love My Mac”

Linus Tech Tips – Episode Summary
Aired: April 11, 2026
Hosts: Linus Sebastian & Luke Lafreniere

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Overview:

This week’s WAN Show continues its “Positive WAN” initiative, focusing on good news and upbeat commentary in tech. Linus and Luke discuss hands-on impressions of the MacBook Neo, Apple’s surprise runaway hit; the latest developments in Linux’s acceptance (including French government adoption); Steam’s innovative plans to estimate game performance on user hardware; consumer wins like Netflix’s legal defeat in Italy; open source and right-to-repair victories; and rapid innovation in hardware and AI.

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Key Topics & Insights:

1. MacBook Neo: Real-World Impressions

Starts: 00:21, Deep Dive: 02:45–19:24

• Linus’ Experience: Linus spent a week daily-driving the new MacBook Neo, praising its build quality, user interface, and general “enjoyable” feeling. However, he highlights some challenges, primarily for power users.
  • Quote [03:03]: “Every aspect of it that you interface with directly is so good. But there have been a few challenges...” – Linus
• Good for Basic Users: Browsing, office work, and light usage were “absolutely fantabulous.”
• Docking and IO headaches: Major limitations with external displays and resolution options (especially with ultra-wide/6K panels). Occasional complete disconnects and unresolved MacOS resolution scaling issues.
  • Quote [06:36]: “Not nearly as annoying as the occasional complete disconnects.” – Linus
• WiFi Issues: Linus encountered mysterious WiFi drops (both on YouTube and enterprise video platforms), unsure if it’s the Neo, their networking gear, or something else.
• App Store Oddities: Both Linus & Luke were frustrated by the lack of key apps like Discord and Teams in the Mac App Store, forcing manual installs.
  • Quote [10:12]: “Why wasn’t Discord in the App Store?” – Linus
• Setup Learning Curve: Luke, coming from Linux, found MacOS installation quirks funny but ultimately manageable.
• Spotlight Search: Both were wowed by macOS’s Spotlight, especially compared to Windows’ weak search—a recurring frustration.
  • Quote [12:16]: "Correct me if I’m wrong ... Mac community has soured on Spotlight a little bit and feels it’s gotten worse." – Linus
• Apple’s Default Apps/”Adware”: Critique of Apple TV app and other bundled software that serves as ad vehicles; compares favorably to the bloat in Windows.
• Performance & Build for Secondhand Market: The Neo’s performance, battery life, and robust build are tipped to make it a killer used-market deal in a few years.

Notable Memorable Moment:

• [29:23] Linus shares a tongue-in-cheek “if I had a nickel” story about bizarre glitches, highlighting how he always seems to encounter rare bugs.

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2. Apple Fumbles the Neo Supply Chain

Main Segment: 15:45–24:44

• Surprise Demand: Apple is already running out of A18 Pro chips, having expected to sell only 5-6 million Neos with binned silicon. Linus baffles at the low estimate for what he dubs “the product launch of the decade” in laptops.
• Market Impact: Both suggest Neo is the most impactful laptop since the original M1 MacBook—even more significant due to price accessibility.
• Supply Strategies: Apple may only sell the higher SKU or push for early Neo 2 release; direct sales backlogged up to 4 weeks.
• Neo “Cannibalizes” Apple’s Lineup: Neo is so attractive it’s eating into pricier Air sales, but the hosts praise Apple for competing with itself.

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3. Steam's Upcoming Frame Rate Estimator

Primary Coverage: 01:08, 32:20–38:13

• New Feature Leak: Valve is developing a feature for the Steam client that crowdsources and reports likely frame rate for your hardware on each game in the store.
• Data-Driven User Experience: Will use PC hardware survey data plus opt-in crowdsourced frame rates, addressing long-standing minimum spec headaches.
  • Quote [33:32]: “This would pretty much address the problem of ... what graphics card should I get and what CPU should I get to play this game?” – Linus
• Personal Stake: Linus muses whether his past feedback influenced Valve’s improvements.

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4. OS Market Shifts: Linux & Mac Gain on Windows

Coverage: Periodically throughout, Peak at 39:12–40:29

• Year of Linux? French government mandates Linux for digital sovereignty; further right-to-repair and device openness wins.
• Windows Decline: Steam analytics reveal a major OS share drop for Windows, with both Mac and Linux seeing gains—the most credible challenge to Windows dominance in years.
• Quote [40:49]: “It might not be the year of the Linux desktop, but it definitely is the year of Windows humiliation.” – Luke

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5. Legal & Consumer Rights Wins

Netflix in Italy | 47:07–51:03

• Netflix Fine: Italian courts rule years of Netflix price increases illegal; subscribers to receive major refunds; other EU nations eye similar legal challenges.
  • Quote [48:46]: “That’s ... like tidy little tax return territory ... that’s not pocket change!” – Linus
• Right to Repair – John Deere: John Deere settles for $99M, agreeing to release repair tools and docs to farmers, marking a rare pro-consumer precedent in agri-tech.
  • Quote [92:53]: “It's better than them having it under lock and key.” – Linus

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6. Open Source and Hardware Freedom Updates

Keychron, Samsung, Apple eGPU Drivers

• Keychron Makes Hardware Designs Source-Available: 83 keyboards/mice released on GitHub for hobbyists, personal innovation.
  • Quote [90:23]: “They are miles ahead of basically every other keyboard and mouse brand ... admirable.” – Linus
• Samsung SSDs with RISC-V: Samsung's move to RISC-V controllers, ending ARM's licensing dominance, signals accelerating open-source hardware adoption.
• Apple Approves AI Drivers for External GPUs: Apple okays AMD/Nvidia eGPU drivers for AI workloads, potentially thawing frosty relations—with hopes for eventual gaming driver support.

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7. GNARLY TECH INNOVATION ROUNDUP

A. Neural Compression Coming to VRAM

117:08–123:42

• Nvidia and Intel Demo New Compression: Major potential to reduce VRAM footprints up to 9–18x without image quality loss using tiny neural networks.
• Implications: Lighter games, lower costs, and potential for higher-fidelity textures—though both hosts maintain wait-and-see skepticism on visual fidelity and implementation.

B. Other Standouts

• Skoda's ANC-Piercing Bike Bell: Car company invents a bell to cut through noise-canceling headphones—releases the tech for free to save lives.
  • Quote [73:03]: “This is so based. This is so cool.” – Linus
• NASA Collaboration: NASA lunar flyby photos blow the hosts’ minds; discussed as “OLED background bait.”
  • Quote [96:58]: “That is so just, like, OLED-friendly background.” – Linus

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8. Positive Product Updates & Community Interactions

• LTT Store Products: Announcement and joking promotional banter around new multi-pocket leggings and flex pants; appeals for honest reviews.
• Floatplane Update: Shoutout to staff contributions and exclusive creator content (Mr. David Pankratz’s week at LMG).

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9. Community Q&A: Notable Moments

• Recurring throughout, see especially 57:08, 148:04, 175:06
  • Best “low power” tech that exceeded expectations (e.g., MacBook Neo).
  • Parenting approaches to kids’ device usage.
  • Significant media that inspired the hosts—Lord of the Rings, Pokémon Go, political speeches that moved them.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• [03:03] Linus: “It turns out that while the MacBook Neo has been an absolutely fantabulous sort of daily driver machine ... there have been a few challenges that have reared their head...”
• [10:12] Luke: “Why wasn’t Discord in the App Store? ... Very weird.”
• [33:32] Linus: “This would pretty much address the problem of ... what graphics card should I get and what CPU should I get to play this game?”
• [40:49] Luke: “It might not be the year of the Linux desktop, but it definitely is the year of Windows humiliation.”
• [48:46] Linus: “That’s ... like tidy little tax return territory ... that’s not pocket change!”
• [73:03] Linus: “This is so based. This is so cool.”
• [96:58] Linus: “That is so just, like, OLED-friendly background.”
• [121:19] Linus: “Intel says that an Alpha SDK is planned later this year, while Nvidia hasn't given a specific timeline...”
• [179:57] Linus: “I'm gonna go with my AirPods. They are not necessary ... but I absolutely love them.”

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Timestamps for Important Segments

| Segment | Timestamp | |---------------------------------------------|:-------------:| | Linus Neo Review & Docking Issues | 02:45–08:53 | | App Store/Install Quirks & Spotlight | 10:04–13:31 | | MacBook Neo build & secondhand market | 18:38–19:24 | | Apple supply chain/demand | 15:45–24:44 | | Steam Frame-Rate Estimator intro | 01:08, 32:20 | | Windows/Mac/Linux share talk | 39:12–40:29 | | Netflix court case in Italy | 47:07–51:03 | | Deere right-to-repair settlement | 91:32–93:26 | | Keychron source-available hardware release | 89:08–91:05 | | Skoda’s ANC-piercing bike bell | 73:03–75:01 | | NASA Artemis 2 lunar photos segment | 96:09–100:13 | | Neural compression for VRAM discussion | 117:14–123:42 | | Viewers' tech support & parenting discuss | 166:10–168:12 | | Media that inspired hosts | 175:06–178:45 |

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Tone & Language Notes

• Light-hearted and friendly; jokes and affectionate roasting throughout (especially toward Apple, Microsoft, and each other).
• Playful self-deprecation, long-winded tangents, and typical WAN Show “stream-of-consciousness” diversions.
• Technical depth is balanced with practical, relatable advice and personal anecdotes.

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Conclusion

This episode is packed with genuine hands-on insight (especially around Apple’s MacBook Neo and the seismic market shifts it’s triggering) and covers a diverse swath of positive tech developments—especially in user rights, open hardware/software, and user experience. Memorable moments abound, from delightful rants about App Store and Windows deficiencies to applause for open-source wins, consumer protection in law, and out-of-left-field safety innovations. Cemented by a dense but natural back-and-forth, the episode is both rich in details and true to the show’s classic character.

Transcript

[Linus Sebastian]

Welcome to the WAN show. We got a great show lined up for you guys today. It is week two of the positive WAN show. I had more fun last week than I probably have in over a year doing WAN show.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Maybe we just keep it this way.

[Linus Sebastian]

I'm not convinced.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I was skimming through the doc today and I was just like, yeah, yeah, you're awesome. I want to talk about all these.

[Linus Sebastian]

We got a lot to talk about. One of the big ones is that I have spent about the last week with my MacBook Neo. I am ready to talk about some of my experiences with it, both good and also not as good. And in other news that I got right before the show started. You bought one?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Technically not for me, but yes, I

[Linus Sebastian]

freaking called it, so I can't believe how hard I called that. Yeah, I don't know. Usually you're the one who's predicting things out here, like frickin Nostradamus. And now I get to do it. Yep. It's a small win.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yep.

[Linus Sebastian]

But it's a win nonetheless. Speaking of wins nonetheless, the French government is ushering in la nay de Linux, which I assume is how they would say it. The year of Linux. We'll be talking about that. What else we got today?

[Luke Lafreniere]

I mean, there's more Linux news on top of that Deere John Deere settles US right to repair lawsuit, agreeing to $100 million fund for farmers and other things that I think is arguably like more important. But we'll talk about that soon. Also, Steam just. This is actually so exciting to me. There's gonna be a. I can't find the topic, but there's gonna be a frame rate estimator for games when you're looking at them in the store, so you can tell how well it might perform on your machine, which is so sick. And they would have the data.

[Linus Sebastian]

They would have the data.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It's awesome.

[Linus Sebastian]

And I would have the intro. The show is brought to you today by dbrand, Odoo, Squarespace and Proton, alongside our rap partner, dbrand, and our chair partner and laptop partner, which is Razer and also Razer. Do we need to have a policy that you're only allowed to sponsor the WAN show, like, once at a time? You know what? No, no, I don't think we do. Let's jump right into the headline topic, which this week has just got to be. I mean, it's MacBook Neo Mania out there. And now that I've switched over to it, dude, I gotta say, it's. It's the real deal.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, it's funny because the one that I purchased, which again, wasn't for me, but the one that I purchased is the same color.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. Okay, so you like the, you like the, the, the yellowish.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I think it's just fun. There's so many things these days that are just either black or white.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yep.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And it's like, okay, so it's fun to just have something else.

[Linus Sebastian]

I don't want to bore you guys. And I know that, you know, the LTT audience tends to swing a little bit less. Hey, I'm so excited about Apple. Please tell me more about Apple. So why don't I talk about some of the challenges that I've had with it. It turns out that while the MacBook Neo has been an absolutely fantabulous sort of daily driver machine, web browsing, word processing, chat, you know, all the things that I mostly spend my days doing have been. I don't know how to describe it other than enjoyable. It's just such a nice machine to use. Every aspect of it that you interface with directly is, is so good. But there have been a few challenges that have reared their head over the last little bit. And the one that's probably been the most disruptive to me is the limitations on the IO. If you're the kind of person that never connects your laptop to anything, I think I could recommend the Neo without hesitation. Unless you use software that you, you know, you know, you're gonna need more ram, you're gonna need more performance for if you're uses a browser on your laptop. Heck yeah. If you dock. I've had some issues.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Really interesting. We got a. One of those, like dual USB C port out into a big breakout box that just runs along the side. I think there's one from Anker, Ugreen, a few different brands.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And it's been totally fine. But it's not a dock fully kind of is. There's HDMI out and stuff.

[Linus Sebastian]

In fairness to Apple, the display that I'm connected to, not the most compatible. It's that Dell 6K one that we did a video on a little while ago. And there's two problems. So first of all, it doesn't run at 6K obviously because there's no way that this would be able to drive it. It runs at 4K, which would be fine except that Mac OS's native handling of non 16, 9 and non. The same aspect ratio as their displays displays is frankly unacceptable. There's already the weirdness with how Mac handles your like where setting your resolution rather sets your dpi like it sets your scaling is. Is how we would sort of think of it on Windows. And that can already be a little bit confusing. But on top of that, when you go through the list, even when you say expose all resolutions or show me every resolution or something like that, when I'm connected to that Dell, even when I close my lid, which from the last time I did a MacBook challenge, if I recall correctly, is the only way to fully disable this display. You can't just like turn it off in the display manager. And if I'm wrong about that, guys, hit me up in the chat. But even if you close the lid and you're just only using your ultra wide display, I don't get a single ultra wide resolution. There is a tool that I downloaded. It's called Better. I think it's called Better Display. Yeah, Better Display. But frankly, after spending about three minutes on it, I didn't figure it out immediately. And it is seems pretty, pretty obtuse. So the stretching for my display has been pretty freaking annoying. Not nearly as annoying as the occasional complete disconnects.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, weird.

[Linus Sebastian]

It'll just disconnect, go back to this for a second and then fire the display back up.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I haven't messed with external displays. I haven't ran into any of that.

[Linus Sebastian]

Another big one is that I'm getting occasional wifi issues that. I don't know if it's related to Apple's WI FI chip or. Or if it's related to our Ubiquiti access points or what it is. But I'm gonna, I'm gonna fire this over to Dan just so I can show you guys. But occasionally I will just run into a situation where I can't stream video. Weird. Yeah. I was trying to review a video today on Frame IO and I just couldn't. And I was like, okay, that's really annoying. But. But Maybe it's Frame IO. I have seen it before. I've seen it on YouTube as well. But I was like, okay, maybe it's just frame IO being a derp. And so I fired up YouTube and I had exactly the same issue. I literally could not watch a YouTube video. I'm not going to make you guys watch the whole clip here, but. Dan, did you get that? Yep. Let me know when you get a chance. And

[Luke Lafreniere]

for Meat, for me, just while he's figuring that out the. There. There was some stuff that was just like learning curve things, right? Because I have no real experience with Mac os, so trying to figure out how to like set it up properly and stuff was just a little weird,

[Linus Sebastian]

but it was different.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It wasn't that bad. It's just kind of different. And you know, coming off of being on the Linux challenge for two months or whatever, like learning new things about an operating system is kind of fresh right now. So not a big deal.

[Linus Sebastian]

You might say you're more used to thinking different.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The thing that really. The thing that really got me though is installing stuff. It's very strange if it's not in the app store, the drag and drop thing, it's like, oh, drag and drop. Give us one second. It's like, oh, drag and drop. But you drag and drop and nothing happens. You have to like drag and hold and then like put it in an open spot in the folder and then it sort of happens. It's like, whaaat?

[Linus Sebastian]

I don't even think you have to do that. I think it's. I think it's already doing it. And then you're just fidgeting around more and it's doing it in the background and then you're like, oh, it's done.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I've always also a lot of like ghost loading, where that's what I want to call it, is where like you'd go to launch something and just nothing happens. Your. Your mouse doesn't go beach ball. Just nothing happens.

[Linus Sebastian]

Nothing comes out.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And then you wait. And then you. Oh man. And then you, you wait a while, then it just launches. People are saying wrong and stuff like, yeah, probably. I have no idea what I'm doing. It's just those are the things that kind of felt weird so far.

[Linus Sebastian]

And I mean, to me, it's like, I get it that. That's the Mac way you drag the thing over. Why? Yeah, I already double clicked it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, that was the weirdest part for me was like, what even is this step?

[Linus Sebastian]

Why?

[Luke Lafreniere]

What is the point?

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, why?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Just.

[Linus Sebastian]

How about just know. I'm willing to bet this is one of those things where I understand why other people are used to it. Totally get it. But hear me out. Would you notice or care if that step just went away and then nobody ever saw that ever again? Yeah, probably not.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Why does it like mount the installers? Maybe I was doing something weird. Very likely I was doing something weird because I don't know what the heck is going on.

[Linus Sebastian]

I've been disappointed by how many things I couldn't find in the App Store.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That too. Discord.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Wasn't in the App Store.

[Linus Sebastian]

Why wasn't Discord in the yeah. Why isn't Discord in the App Store?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Very weird.

[Linus Sebastian]

Maybe that's on Discord because I went

[Luke Lafreniere]

to install something and then realized, like, oh, I'm probably being such a boomer. They have an app store. Just like Linux has a package manager. I should just go use that. And then. Yeah, it just wasn't in there. It's very odd, I thought. And that was one of the steps where I was like, this is for sure a me problem. So I checked. Did I spell Discord right? Maybe it's buried for some reason. I scroll the whole time. No, it's not there.

[Linus Sebastian]

Teams, too. What the heck?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Didn't look for teams. Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

And there's so many things. And like, because people will take advantage of vacuums in available apps, there's all these things that are kind of similarly named trying to entice you to download them in the App Store. It's like, nah, obviously that's not what I want. Obviously, I just want teams and I just want my Discord.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. But other than that, it's actually been wonderful. And like, I did the. The Body Flex thing. I did that as like a demo to show them, like, no, it's actually made really well and it didn't budge.

[Linus Sebastian]

Let's let me show you how wonderful the experience I had earlier today was.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. But you don't know that this is.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, no, no. I. I rebooted it and the issue went away. Went away.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay.

[Linus Sebastian]

And it's happened a few times.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Got it. I don't think we ran into this. I wonder if this is a problem with your unit or something. We'll see if other people in chat have experienced this.

[Linus Sebastian]

We're not going to be able to watch this whole thing. It's a minute of us watching this YouTube video not load. Yeah. So there's definitely been some, but it just wasn't working. It was not working. It did not want any part of any of this.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I don't think we can go back down, but, yeah, there you go.

[Linus Sebastian]

Let me just see if there's anything else that's kind of stood out. The performance is really great until it's not great.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Search is incredible.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, Spotlight.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, he's Spotlight pilled now.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I don't think I've ever used Spotlight before. It's Spotlight. It made me just mad again because I'm like, why isn't Windows so much better? But Spotlight seems awesome.

[Linus Sebastian]

The funniest part of this is that, correct me if I'm wrong, but over the last few years, I feel like The Mac community has soured on Spotlight a little bit and feels it's gotten worse.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Wow.

[Linus Sebastian]

It used to be like even better like God tier and now it's still like a tier in my, it's way better in my opinion. But, but from my understanding Mac users are a little bit like come on Apple, we can do better than this. Because they know they can.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Spotlight is like, I really, really like Spotlight. I find the navigation of like, you know, your local storage and stuff to be pretty simple. Like none of it feels like too bad. It was kind of nice coming in with a little bit of pre existing knowledge knowing that if I had like my active window, the controls for it were going to be up in like the top bar, whatever you want to call that, like knowing that ahead of time was kind of helpful. Learning how to use the, I think it's the, called the dock, the bar at the bottom. Learning how to use that in different ways and like what things mean. Like if it's to the right of the vertical line, it's not actually on your dock, it's just there right now and okay, I want to actually pin that to the dock and blah blah blah blah blah.

[Linus Sebastian]

I continue to be annoyed that Apple just kind of gets a free pass for some of the included software that is basically an ad. Like the fact that Apple TV is just literally front and center, that's okay

[Luke Lafreniere]

on my Mac is probably fair. I did think it was kind of neat that games is there though and there's like chess pre installed and there's like some fun stuff.

[Linus Sebastian]

When you want chess you don't want bejeweled with microtransactions.

[Luke Lafreniere]

See this is my point. It's like Microsoft used to come with cool stuff. It used to get Pinball, Space Cadet,

[Linus Sebastian]

Table and free sell and now it's

[Luke Lafreniere]

just like ad garbage. And I get the Mac open and I'm suddenly like excited to check out some of the apps. I'm like oh, I wonder what the Chess app is like. I wonder what some of these other things are like. Yeah, appreciated that. Not to already pivot it to Linux, but when I did my switch to kde, KDE came with a bunch of pre installed fun little games. I was like, oh that's pretty sweet. They're so tiny. Like

[Linus Sebastian]

Katos says you should try the Windows PowerToys equivalent of Spotlight. It's so sad it's not built in. No, it's infuriating. No, it's good news. I'm not going to be infuriated today. But good Call.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Good call.

[Linus Sebastian]

But the number of times that I've read that comment in floatplane chat is more than a dozen over a span of at least a couple of years. At which point it's not on me for not installing it, it's on Microsoft for not implementing it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Like if Windows is good by default.

[Linus Sebastian]

Come on guys.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I will likely be inspired to do things like that, to mod it to make it even better. But Windows has to be good by default. If Linux isn't quite there, I'm much more willing to do stuff well, I didn't pay for it because this is free.

[Linus Sebastian]

I didn't pay for it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

This is a very different they cannot be seen as equivalencies in my mind. Even if you're putting the hat on and pirating Windows, I still think it's not. The line is different. And if I can spend a little bit of time and get Linux to a great spot and then just use that, I would rather do that than fight something that actively seems to hate me. Extremely different vibes.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh Dan, I have another fun one for you. I don't think this is really like actionable in any meaningful way, but I just thought it was so funny that. Here, let me send this over to you Dan. Let's do a topic really quick that is related to the MacBook Neo and then we'll come back to something really funny. You're going to love this. The Neo has apparently been so popular that Apple is running out of the A18 Pro binned chips that were not quite iPhone 16 Pro ready but work fine for the less constrained thermal situation in the Neo. Apple reportedly only planned to make 5 to 6 million units with the leftover supply they had and are now scrambling to get more chips. I mean freaking how does it. Don't take this the wrong way. I mean this in the most respectful way because Apple is a modern day masterclass in supply chain management and forecasting. How the did Apple think they were only going to sell 5 to 6 million units of these things? I, Joe Schmo, who can't make enough cables to save my life, could have told them triple it. Like this thing is an absolute game changer and that's probably before the educational institutions have even validated this thing.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Like dude, there's gonna be a lot more.

[Linus Sebastian]

How can they not? How could they that that this is the kind of thing that I just, I find so baffling. Like you remember back in the days when you were always working on like some review of some CPU or some GPU and We'd release our video where we're like, yeah, it's not that good. And then the brand would. They'd call you up or they'd email you and they'd be like, what do you mean? And we're kind of sitting here going like, you can run the same.

[Luke Lafreniere]

What do you mean?

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, you can run the same benchmarks that we can. What are you talking about?

[Luke Lafreniere]

And in a lot of cases. Okay, this might explain some of it, which is in a lot of those cases, they did. The technical teams totally understood.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And it would end up. They would just end up being like,

[Linus Sebastian]

ah, I don't know.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It got to marketing and then they just said some stuff and like, that's not what we found.

[Linus Sebastian]

This is the opposite of that. This is like, how could they possibly not have known that they had the product launch of the decade on their hands? At least in the laptop category. Seriously, name a laptop from the last 10 years as impactful as this one.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I am not trying to shill. I don't have an investment in it. I think Framework has been very impactful.

[Linus Sebastian]

I think if you'd said M1 MacBook and while I would have accepted that,

[Luke Lafreniere]

I still think this takes both of those though.

[Linus Sebastian]

I think so too. Just because of the accessibility.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I think both of those are up there for different reasons because to me, yeah, damn.

[Linus Sebastian]

The long term picture is also really important. This is not just today. This is a $350 laptop on the secondhand market two and a half, three years from now.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And the thing is, with its build

[Linus Sebastian]

quality, it'll last probably.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It's probably going to be fine. Yeah. Like of had it slip a little bit earlier in the show and it bonked the table.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. Whatever.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Part of me went like, ooh. And then I was like, actually, it's a tank.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. It's probably not.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It's not gonna care about that at all.

[Linus Sebastian]

And like the fact that there's so little battery in it to achieve the kind of battery life that I'm getting, it's not class. Well, it is class leading, but it's not, it's not game changing battery life, especially for a MacBook, but it's outstanding. Especially when you consider the size of that battery.

[Luke Lafreniere]

The fact that its cooling isn't stellar is kind of fun.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Like Alex's video, just putting the thermal pad under there, like that's cool. That makes me want to go mod a laptop.

[Linus Sebastian]

I. I've always kind of wondered like, you know how there's laptop docks that are supposed to Assist with cooling by just blowing another fan at the bottom. Turns out they don't really do that much, at least for any laptops that we've ever tried it with. But I've always kind of wondered if there could be a thermal interface material that's non goopy sticky enough that you could like, you could add a bit of surface area to something. Like would that be a good product for LTT store? Just a machined aluminum thing that you sit your MacBook Neo on. Are we on the same wavelength?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Did you get this from someone? Did you hear this from someone?

[Linus Sebastian]

Why?

[Luke Lafreniere]

You haven't heard this from anybody?

[Linus Sebastian]

From who?

[Luke Lafreniere]

So I've been pushing this idea that there is a dock that you put your laptop in that you have to have like almost press it into like a switch too. And then kind of. But flat.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I was thinking flat, but however it works.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And then it could like that, you know where the USB Cs are. So if it's machined well enough, maybe as you press it in it could like move a lever arm that plugs in USB C or something and it puts it on some type of cooling surface. And I was thinking it would be really cool if it was like an actual thermal pad. But they're probably all going to be too goopy.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And when you pull it away it's going to pull some material off of it. So like we need some way. And then I kind of came down to like. What are they called? Basically a piece of metal with one of those frick. The electrical coolers that create heat.

[Linus Sebastian]

Peltiers are cool.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Probably not the answer.

[Linus Sebastian]

They're super inefficient. Yeah. Yeah. And you've got to get rid of the heat somehow. And so you end up with a fan and it ends up. See, I would want a passive solution for this and I don't think I would need active cooling. I think that as long as I could get more

[Dan]

than you.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And this is ignorance, not impossibility. I don't know how you transfer that heat super effectively without goop.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. My ideal for something like this because like we've dabbled in improving the cooling of passive Apple devices over many, many years. I remember water cooling the original USB C MacBook back in. What was it, like 2015. Just a tray of water or something like that. Yeah. Using Plasticine or like Play DOH or something to shield the port.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

And then just putting it in an ice bath. Yeah. It made a big difference. Made a big difference. It was pretty cool. But ever since then I've always felt like the best solution would be something more like a, like a hot cold pack, like a freezer pack, like some kind of like a bladder that, that you could, in a perfect world you could actually circulate fluid through. So you could like water cool it, but without actually having the water touching it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I think you could.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, probably. I just. We've never, we've never put the development cycles into making something like that.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, because I.

[Linus Sebastian]

What the market.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I always adored the idea, like I was pissed with the switch one that the dock didn't offer any potential performance improvements. I've always adored the idea that like it works when you're mobile, but then you can. There's like an incentive to plugging it in that isn't just big screen now the incentive is like, this is performance mode. I always thought that was really cool and realistically.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, Avian's. This probably is an example of the type of device that you could just have a laptop stand with a fan on it. It would probably get you 98% of the way there.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

But the idea of like a big machined piece of aluminum with fins in it or something like that that you like that you put it on in order to get max performance and DOC mode, it's pretty cool. It might make more sense once we get something with an A19 Pro maybe a year, a year and a half from now or something like that. Anyway, back to our actual topic here. According to Tom's Guide, Amazon seems to have the best availability of these things, which matters because if you're ordering direct from Apple, apparently you're looking at up to four week delays. Wild.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I got, I got mine from. Oh man, this is kind of unfortunate. I got mine from Best Buy. They were totally sold out on the lower capacity, no Touch ID model. So I got the higher capacity with Touch ID model.

[Linus Sebastian]

I think that was especially Touch id. I think that was a good move

[Luke Lafreniere]

because I ended up being kind of happy about it because Touch ID is pretty sweet.

[Linus Sebastian]

I have not only ended up missing Touch ID just because it's convenient and nice, but I've noticed that there are some software flows that Apple or their software partners don't seem to have factored in for devices that don't have Touch id. So you'll like get prompted to do Touch ID and like I don't have one. And it's not like if you search in settings for like Touch id, it doesn't just tell you you don't have Touch id. Like it just interesting if you don't understand that you ordered one that doesn't have touch id.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay, sorry.

[Linus Sebastian]

That could be confusing to like an average user.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So speaking of confusing to an average user, we didn't know that. So the touch id, see how yours has like a power button or a lock button or whatever it is on that key? On the touch ID one, there's no logo.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, right. Because it's a fingerprint sensor.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So we were trying to have her to touch ID and she would press it in. Like, why the heck does the computer keep going to sleep? Like trying to do basically anything and the computer keeps just shutting itself down. We're like, what is happening? Why is this thing so buggy? And then. Yeah, no, it's. We were pressing the power button. Well, I was gonna say, oh yeah, man. The best way experience, dude. I walk right in, tell them exactly what I want, and they're like, okay, I'll get it from the back, I'll meet you here in a couple minutes. Okay, sounds good. Goes and gets it from the back. Like, can I tell you about our service plan thing? And I was like, I mean, yeah, but I'm not getting it. And he was like, okay. And he pitched it to me. He was like, worse than I even thought because now it's a subscription instead of a one time buy. And he keeps going through the details and I'm like, literally just sitting on my phone like, I'm not buying this. And it goes on for so long and every once in a while I look up for my phone and he's like, oh yeah, you can bring it into geek swat anytime and they'll repair it for you. And I'm like, you guys just ship it off, right? He was like, what? I was like, you're repairing it through a depot, you're not repairing it here, right? And he's like, yeah, but we give you like a loaner laptop while yours is out for repair. I'm just like, wow, that sounds bad. Like, okay, back to my phone. And it was like a long time.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, I mean, let him do his job.

[Luke Lafreniere]

No, I did.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. You know, no disrespect to the guy, you gotta, you gotta do what you gotta do. But product service plans, eh?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, especially on. Yeah, I don't know.

[Linus Sebastian]

So, to address the availability shortfall, Apple is reportedly considering asking TSMC to restart A18 Pro production, which is wild. But TSMC is apparently already maxed out on its 3 nanometer process. So other options that Apple is rumored to be considering are dropping the base model Entirely and only selling the higher end model to hopefully slow down sales, it's not going to do much. Even at $700, it's incredible value. Or accelerating the release timeline of the MacBook Neo 2 with a 19 Pro Silicon Valley. Interestingly, the MacBook Air M5 is readily available, but that's probably because it starts at nearly double the price of the cheapest Neo. So it's not exactly filling the same niche. The Neo is kind of eating Apple's own lunch. But that's what hungry companies do. They eat their own lunch. They compete with themselves. If a series Silicon ultimately makes the lowest end M Silicon kind of redundant in the lineup, so what? That's fine, great.

[Luke Lafreniere]

No problem.

[Linus Sebastian]

That sounds fantastic. Apple, like, they're gonna get serious market share for macOS if, if they can keep up.

[Luke Lafreniere]

This thing destroys. Like, there's no, there is no other option that would have been even close to as good for the person. I think it's pretty clear. I bought it for my mom, but I, I think there's, there's no, there was no other option for her that would have even competed. One thing that has been kind of nice is that on a, on a hunch, I thought it might have been better for her because she adapted to iPhone a lot easier than she Adapted to Android.

[Linus Sebastian]

IOS and iOS have so little in common that it's kind of shocking to me they come from the same company,

[Luke Lafreniere]

but widgets on the desktop. I was off, like working on something else for a second and she just like set up a ton of widgets for herself and kind of like organized her desktop the way that she wanted. I was like, okay, cool. That wouldn't have been natural to me at all. And there was one of her apps where the like, native app support for macOS is kind of crap, but when you click on the widget, it just launches. I don't know what it's actually called, but it just launches. Like her phone on her Mac.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. Screen mirroring.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. And it just launches that up. And then she just uses the phone version of the app and it's totally fine. It's like, okay. She figured out all of that on her own. Sweet. So that, that part kind of worked. There are a couple things about Mac OS that weren't entirely intuitive, but we ended up figuring it out. And then the. Just the laptop itself. Like, dude, if you, if you hand this to either of us three months ago or whatever, I didn't ask how much.

[Linus Sebastian]

At least minimum.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Minimum. And probably more than that.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, like, got Him.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Damn.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay, but here's a funny one. Dan, roll the clip. If I had a nickel for every time this has happened to me, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's funny. It's happened twice.

[Luke Lafreniere]

How. Dud. How is that even possible?

[Linus Sebastian]

I don't know.

[Luke Lafreniere]

How do you do this?

[Linus Sebastian]

I don't do anything.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, my God. Oh, man.

[Linus Sebastian]

I don't know how to deal with this anymore. It's like I. I have this reputation. I feel for, like, being a hater, you know, like, complaining that everything's a buggy piece of. It's like. And I'm so legitimately happy that it's working great for you, but it doesn't change my experience.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That's so funny. We even installed Steam.

[Linus Sebastian]

I'm sure you did.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Ah, man, that's really funny.

[Linus Sebastian]

Sofa Tuck says thank you for getting footage. I have. I have some. I have a pretty good. I have pretty good footage. It's not on this phone, but I have pretty good footage of my screen on my. My folding phone registering clicks offset by about a centimeter as well. Like, regularly. Like. Dude, I just. I get. I get so much weird. I get so much weird stuff. Here's a fun one. And someone I know pulled up their Samsung. Was it a Samsung? Ooh, I don't know if it was actually a Samsung, but it was a. Definitely a folding phone and compared. Oh, okay. Lttstore. We have new stuff. We'll get to that in a second. First, let's click on one of these products. Oh, what the.

[Luke Lafreniere]

You click so aggressively.

[Linus Sebastian]

Sorry. There you go. I get duplicates of our product photos on our site, and his folding phone didn't get it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That's strange.

[Linus Sebastian]

I don't. I don't understand. I don't know how to deal with this stuff.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That might not be a problem for long. I don't know if you want to announce that or not, but I'll just leave it.

[Linus Sebastian]

Announce what?

[Luke Lafreniere]

I don't know.

[Linus Sebastian]

I don't know. Sure, go for it. I don't know.

[Luke Lafreniere]

The new site.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. So there's a new LTT store site? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think we've. I think we've talked about that.

[Dan]

Okay.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I have no idea. But in, like, semi classic fashion, development on the old site is not super attractive right now.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, I get it. So I get it. It is what it is.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

Anyway, we can move on to another topic. You want to pick one?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Sure.

[Linus Sebastian]

There's so much good stuff.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Steam 1. Dude, this is so sick. Steam client files point to Frame Rate Estimator feature in the works Data miners were sifting through a recent Steam client file release and they uncovered references to a new feature called the Frame Rate Estimator, which would let you pick a game, input your cpu, GPU and ram. I also suspect eventually if you do the hardware survey, it will just already have that information.

[Linus Sebastian]

Your display resolution.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. If you do the hardware thing. Yeah. And you can get a chart of expected frame rates based on crowdsourced data from other Steam users running similar hardware. The groundwork appears to have been laid two months ago when Valve added an opt in option in the Steam beta client that let users share anonymized frame rate data initially focused on SteamOS devices like the Steam Deck. At the time, Valve said that the data was meant to improve game compatibility and Steam performance. Valve is not officially. Valve has not officially announced the feature, confirmed a release timeline, or really anything at all. But yeah, it exists as unreleased code and it sounds awesome to me.

[Linus Sebastian]

This would legitimately. Okay, I was about to say in a vendor agnostic fashion, but it's not, it's not vendor agnostic, it's. It's Steam.

[Luke Lafreniere]

But they actually technically, very specifically now have their own operating system, which really throws that.

[Linus Sebastian]

But for me, this would pretty much address the problem of, you know, minimum requirements and what graphics card should I get and what CPU should I get to play this game?

[Luke Lafreniere]

This is amazing.

[Linus Sebastian]

Should I, should I buy this? And I don't know, I'd like to think that maybe this had something to do with some of the feedback that I gave Valve a little while ago on the Steam hardware survey. It's been about a year, so they've legitimately had time. But basically I said, hey guys, I love the hardware survey, it's really cool, but there are some aspects of it that are kind of antiquated. Now, if the goal is for developers to understand what hardware they should be targeting, and if the other goal is for users to understand what kind of performance they can expect, then only reporting things like the number of cores, the frequency that they run at, and I believe it even does it cap at quad core or. I don't even think it will. Don't quote me on that. The granularity is fairly limited from what I remember for core count and then especially frequency. What I pointed out to them is I gave them examples of CPUs that were released 10 years apart that have the same core count and the same frequency, but vastly different performance and kind of laid out why we need a little bit better granularity with respect to the generation of the hardware that we're looking at. And that would be beneficial to everybody, users, game developers, realistically, Valve themselves and, and selfishly, media, who, you know, we will often lean on Steam hardware survey data in order to bring the most relevant content. Like, I don't remember a single GPU review Scrum that hasn't involved pulling up the Steam hardware survey at some point to just, just to have the right reference points like, oh, okay, you know, blah, blah, blah, let's do this, this, this and this. Holy crap. 6% of people on Steam are running a 3060. We should throw that in just for context so that 5% of the people watching can go, oh, this is how it compares to exactly my GPU right now. That's really important to us. And so I'd like to think that they took that seriously. Realistically, Valve has very smart people working there and I'm sure somebody thought of it. But you know what? I'm gonna give myself 0.1% of the credit. Anything. Can I get away with that?

[Luke Lafreniere]

I don't know. We'll see if it happens. Maybe that, that credit will have some value.

[Linus Sebastian]

0.1%, 1, 1, 1000th. Can I get away with it?

[Luke Lafreniere]

I don't know. I can't guarantee anything. I'm looking here and yeah, for CPUs specifically, it's still kind of.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yep. This is not 3.7 GHz and above. Really. And no, we do have exact core count, so that is useful. But the frequency is a. Is a major issue in my humble opinion.

[Luke Lafreniere]

2.7% of users with 24 cores, but

[Linus Sebastian]

I believe that's logical. So that would be 12 core CPUs, if I recall correctly. Check 30.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Check 32 physical CPUs.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, is that physical? Oh, okay, so those would be thread rippers then. Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Really?.7. 4% of users are thread rippers.

[Linus Sebastian]

Wait, wait, wait, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. No, that would be Intel. Intel 24 course. Yep, that's Intel. So that would be like 14 900ks and stuff. Oh yeah. Eight performance cores. 16 efficiency course. Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, see, but even that bundling in efficiency cores with physical.

[Linus Sebastian]

Exactly. There's just, there's so much more granularity gives me the ick that, that we could use to make more informed decisions. Either way, I am, I am excited to see Valve build out their tools beyond just their one console for the benefit of all PC gamers that are using the Steam platform. Do you need me to go back to your laptop?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Well, I was interested. This is certainly too old, but I'm really interested. What happens to the OS X numbers in the near future?

[Linus Sebastian]

I just think it's funny they still call it OS X. I don't think it's been called OS x for like 1,000 years.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Sure. But I like the. The sir. Oh, man. Okay, I wanna. I wanna look this up. Google search history for like running games on Mac, because these are selling like freaking crazy and they can run a ton of stuff. Like it can run cyberpunk. I was looking up for my dad to see if it could. And it can run Snowrunner. Like, it can actually run a lot of different random Steam games.

[Linus Sebastian]

It can run cyberpunk. I played it today. It's not a great experience.

[Luke Lafreniere]

To 30. Yeah, that's pretty good.

[Linus Sebastian]

It's good for what it is considered. Yeah, it's good for what it is. Hold on. I'm gonna go worldwide last. I don't know.

[Dan]

Sure.

[Linus Sebastian]

2004 to present. Here we go.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Damn.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, Wait for it. Wait for it. Ready? Dan.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Dang. This is what I'm saying, man.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yep.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Dang. So, like, it's like these laptops matter. They're making. They're making a huge impact right now. And that's going to apply to gamers, which is actually really, really interesting for the overall, like, because when I'm looking at it now for March 2026, Windows saw a 4.28% drop in user share. And the vast majority of that went to Linux, but 1.2% of that went to Mac. And then we have these laptops coming out and there's the Linux surge seems to be continuing. I see threads about it constantly talking about how people, wow, I haven't used this in a few years. I gave it a shot for whatever reason. Maybe it was us, maybe it was something else. And it's working right now. Tons of trends about that. And then also these laptops are moving like crazy and Windows, at least for gamers, is getting hit on both sides. I think there's a chance that Windows falls below 90% of the install base for Steam. Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

Do you think it could happen this year for sure? I think if Apple had an unlimited

[Luke Lafreniere]

supply, it might happen in the next couple months.

[Linus Sebastian]

If they had an unlimited supply of A18 pros. Yeah, I would say yes. I agree 100%. If they only have 6, 7 million of them, then I'm not. I'm not as sure. I'm not as sure.

[Luke Lafreniere]

But that is Wild. That Windows might be less than 90%

[Dan]

of

[Luke Lafreniere]

market share for Steam. That's. Wait, are they going to fall behind like Nvidia?

[Linus Sebastian]

I'm going to be. I'm going to be. I'm going to be writing a video next week that tentatively is titled the Humiliation of Microsoft Windows or Windows is Year of Humiliation or something. Something along those lines.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It might not be the year of the. This is not a title, but it might not be the year of the Linux desktop, but it definitely is the year of Windows humiliation.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. And just kind of talking through how, how tenuous, how, how dominant their market share still is and yet how tenuous their position is becoming, if that makes sense. And I'm going to kind of talk through some of the overall trends that we're observing both in the Linux world and the Mac world and simultaneously amongst Windows users who are just so tired of it, you know.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, it's exhausting.

[Linus Sebastian]

Why don't we jump into. Why don't we pick a good news topic? Hey, that's any topic. Nintendo, in a shockingly pro consumer move like I did. Wow. Has divorced digital and physical game pricing. The complete quote is from a GamesRadar article. And this is. This is a quote. My guess is that this is actually them lowering prices of digital games and not raising the price of physical games. That's where I'm at with this. I think generally. No, I don't agree with this part. Nintendo tries to do right by their customers and I think they do also disagree with that. I look at this as a pro consumer move. I think it's a smart move too. But it does appear to be that Nintendo will be decoupling physical and digital pricing.

[Luke Lafreniere]

We don't know that this means that digital pricing is going to go down and all the pricing is going to stay the same.

[Linus Sebastian]

We don't know that.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It's just an assumption.

[Linus Sebastian]

It could be that hardware, that physical game pricing will go up. But given that they already increased pricing for the Switch 2 generation, given that they've allegedly cut production of the Switch 2, my guess is that they're looking at their business. They're looking at their business going, okay, we've got some good titles for Switch 2. They're very expensive. How can we address this in a way that doesn't, that isn't a price drop, that doesn't devalue our software, which Nintendo never wants to do.

[Luke Lafreniere]

But, but that's, that's kind of what I'm saying is it would be a

[Linus Sebastian]

price drop, but only on the digital Copy.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

So to me, the way that I'm reading this, and maybe this is, maybe this is hopeful good news. April Wan show Linus reading it this way. But the way that I'm reading this is that Nintendo is going to be the first to blink and go, all right, digital is cheaper and I'm here for it. Or maybe not, maybe not the, maybe not the first to blink. I mean, there's certainly no doubt that you can buy a PlayStation game on sale on the, you know, PlayStation Store for cheaper than a physical copy at, you know, GameStop or whatever.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I mean, it is pretty cool.

[Linus Sebastian]

Nintendo for the first time going, okay, yeah, it's, it's cheaper online.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

And it always should have been, probably. I mean, I think there was maybe an argument in the early days of Steam that this infrastructure was so new and the investment in it was so colossal and the value, and the value of cloud save and the convenience of just downloading it whenever. You know, maybe there was an argument to be made at that time, but I think in the years after that it's been pretty hard to justify the, the price being the same for a digital copy of a brand new title versus a physical copy.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, you can't, you can't completely remove all the cost of making the physical copy because there is expense in keeping the infrastructure up, of distributing digital copies and stuff like that. But like, man, they are not even sort of close.

[Linus Sebastian]

Aromian actually brings up another kind of. I don't know about good news, but certainly funny news. Nintendo lost the patent covering character summoning and battle mechanics. Did you see that? Like the Pokeball patent and no Man's sky apparently immediately added the mechanic to the game.

[Luke Lafreniere]

They did, yeah. Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

Look, I. My relationship with Nintendo as a brand is deeply complicated. There's so many things they do.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I don't like you and I'll also buy everything you make that.

[Linus Sebastian]

If they were anyone but them, I would, I would just patently, pun intended, refuse to buy anything from them. But on the other hand, like, I don't, I don't know of anyone who so lovingly cares for their IPs. With that said, I haven't seen the new Mario movie yet. Many of the reviews I've read of it were very negative. However, however, however, I did my due diligence and I went back and read the same people's reviews of the first one and they were also negative, which to me is just an indication that they're probably not a lot of fun at parties. Yeah, and the kind of people that suck the life out of the room. Because the first one was just fun. Not everything has to be that deep, man. Maybe I just need an excuse to eat popcorn. And if as long as the second one is a good excuse to eat popcorn, I think I'm going to be pretty happy with it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Nice.

[Linus Sebastian]

All right.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I want to go see a movie in theaters for the first time in many years. I want to go see Hail Mary.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I want to see that, too. There's actually. There's quite a few kind of interesting movies right now. My son really wants to see Goat.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I have no idea.

[Linus Sebastian]

Sports movie, but, like, animated with a goat. Like, greatest of all time, but also a goat.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I know. I put that together.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, my God. Is it like this generation's airbud?

[Linus Sebastian]

I don't know exactly what it is, but he's excited about it, which, you know, is cool, I guess.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Who's it done by? Sony Pictures Animation, man, where the heck is Disney? And like all these other. It's. Anyway, sorry, we can move on to something else, but that's his.

[Linus Sebastian]

We can talk about Netflix. Here's a fun one. Netflix,

[Luke Lafreniere]

get owned.

[Linus Sebastian]

Luke and I have talked about this extensively on the WAN show. We've taken what I feel is not necessarily. It shouldn't be an exceptional approach to the subscription fees on floatplane. Whatever you agree to when you sign up is our agreement. And while technically, for some reason, platforms are within their rights to alter the deal, pray I don't alter it any further. We've never taken that approach. And it looks like Netflix was just informed that in Italy, you're supposed to do it the floatplane way unless you explicitly say that you have the right to do it your way. An Italian court in Rome has ruled that Netflix's subscription price increases between, get this, 2017 to 2024 over a span of seven years, were illegal under the country's consumer code, which requires companies to provide a stated, justified reason before raising prices. Netflix now has 90 days to notify its roughly 5.4 million Italian subscribers of their right to a refund or face a €700 daily fine. Lawyers for the consumer group Movimento Consummatorio. Sorry, I'm sure I butchered that estimate that premium subscribers who have been paying since 2017 are entitled to roughly €500 each.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Whoa.

[Linus Sebastian]

While standard subscribers are owed about €250. That's. That's like. That's like tidy little tax return territory.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

Like, that's not. That's. That's not pocket change. That's freaking crazy.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That's. Go get yourself something nice.

[Linus Sebastian]

If every eligible. Unfortunately, if every eligible subscriber claims this, Netflix's total liability could exceed $2.3 billion. On top of the refunds, the court ordered Netflix to roll monthly prices back to the 2015 launch levels. 1199 Euros for premium, 999 Euro for standard.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Sounds like a lot of people are going to be VPNing to Italy.

[Linus Sebastian]

Netflix says it will appeal and insists that its terms have always complied with Italian law. But the ruling could have a knock on effect across Europe. Consumer groups in Germany, Spain, the Netherlands and Poland have filed parallel challenges on the same legal basis. And German courts in Berlin and Cologne have already struck down the same Netflix pricing clauses. Now, it is worth noting that Netflix has updated their terms of service now, and any price changes that they implement going forward will be legal. From my understanding of it that's not in our notes, but that is my understanding of it from just my own reading before. But this is still a pretty nice little. A nice little W for consumers in Italy who are tired of, you know, getting squeezed on every freaking stupid subscription service under the sun, just casually, casually raising prices all the time. It's good news. Wan shows. So this isn't one of the topics for this week, but YouTube had had a premium subscription increase that, you know, just. I don't know. It's that premium subscription increase like last time, they say it's to improve the service. And like last time, it seems to be more aligned with just general inflation and, yeah, less aligned with any kind of meaningful improvement in the service. So make of that whatever you will. I still, even at the new price, I still think YouTube Premium is one of the best bang for the buck subscriptions out there. YouTube is full of incredible content. I'd like to think, like you're watching right now, I use it so much

[Luke Lafreniere]

that it's worth it to me still.

[Linus Sebastian]

And the fact that it includes YouTube music, which I find to be a perfectly cromulent music streaming service, it's fine. And the fact that you can get it on a family plan for a deep discount and share it with up to five family members, it's just, it's. It's a great. It's a great value. It's an outstanding value. All right, you want to pick one? Oh, wait. Nope. Oh, I'm good. Oh, oh, oh. Guys, guys, pull up the store, right? We have a very exciting launch on LTT Store this weekend. It is the Flex and Flow collection. The first item from this collection is our Multi Pocket leggings. They're finally here. We started development of ltt. I don't want to call them yoga pants, but they're yoga pants. LTT Leggings, like, I don't know, three years ago or something like that. I am constantly reminded of this project because Yvonne loves her prototype one so much that I fold them every week, even though we never actually made the product.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So you're gonna get more now.

[Linus Sebastian]

They're just like the leggings that, you know, you could get at one of the other stores that sell these leggings. Let's be real, right? Except they've got seven total pockets, two on the thighs for your phone and five in the waistband for your smaller stuff. So you can actually carry your things without needing a bag. The fabric is soft, breathable and moisture wicking with Lycra spandex for great stretch and shape retention. So you can wear them for workouts, errands, or just all day. People in the office have been really excited about these and they've already been wearing them to Pilates, tennis and just around the house. You can now get yours at LMG gglegings. And I'm going to take a moment to kind of go, hey, our women viewers out there, we hear you loud and clear. You've been disappointed with the assortment of women's products on LTT Store. Here's your chance to help us invest in this category. This is a great product whether you wear leggings or not. Spread the word or wait, wait for a few reviews to come in and then spread the word. It's a really good product. It is, I would say, up to or at the top of our game in terms of how quality this product is. If you want to see more women's products, you're going to have to buy some.

[Luke Lafreniere]

There's also, I saw people in full chat earlier asking about like, oh, I fit whatever size from whatever brand.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yes.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Will I fit these ones? There is a size guide. So right here some people don't see it because it's just like hyperlink text, but under the sizes on pretty much every product on the store, there's a size guide. You can click it and it will be, yeah, a lot of like the, the pictures and stuff are generic, but this grid will be for the specific product. So you can see your inseam length, your hip width, your, your pants, blah, blah, blah, waist, relaxed, whatever, something. And all your sizes that go along with that.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yep, very important. All right. These ones are for the guys, these are great. The flex pants. They're kind of inspired by like mountain biking pants. So they are built to move. We've got reinforced knees, a gusseted fit and a stretchy waistband with a do not drop draw cord that can be tied on the outside or the inside. And they've also got seven pockets, six with YKK zippers. So you can carry basically everything and not worry about anything falling out. They're really comfortable. They in like a weird way, like they're not soft, they're like sheer. Oh, here. Right. I don't really know how to describe them. They're like.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, interesting.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. And they're on the inside, they're like. I don't know. I don't know how to describe them.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I can see that they're nice, but I understand what you mean by that being a little bit.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. So kind of like, kind of like some of the French Terry hoodies. Like they're, they're soft but they don't sit like right on your skin. So they're not super warming.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Not like Terry at all though. I don't want someone to hear that and get the, the wrong.

[Linus Sebastian]

But the, the effect is like that where it's, it kind of, it kind of holds off your skin a little bit so it makes it feel more breathable but still not, not cold. Like it's still, you know. I don't know there. It's a, it's a really cool garment.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Sure. Do they fit you? I don't think they would cuz these are a small. No, the, the inseam length on all of them is 29.

[Linus Sebastian]

Sorry, these are not in tall.

[Dan]

Yeah, it's pretty normal to have a 32, but. Okay.

[Linus Sebastian]

All right, so those are, those are pretty exciting new products and now's a great time to order one because if you're new to the WAN show then I'm about to explain the coolest thing about the wan. It's not the coolest thing, but it's a cool thing about the WAN show. Instead of like other streams just throwing your money at the screen and like, I don't know, hoping senpai notices you or something. We don't do twitch bits or super chats or anything like that. We do checkout messages. So if you want to send a message, all you got to do is head to lttstore.com, add something to your cart, and when we are live, you will see the interface to send a checkout message. You pick your color, you fill in your checkout message, you can be anonymous or show your first and last name. And once you place your order, it will either go up there, it'll just pop up like, thanks, Richie P. Over there. Oh, no, it'll go to producer Dan, who will pop it up like that, reply to it, or curate it for me and Luke to respond to. Should we do a couple curated ones to show the folks how it works?

[Dan]

Yeah, sure. I got lots here already. Thanks for enabling my wife to get some high quality activewear. As for my question, what's the worst part of dealing with asbestos removal?

[Linus Sebastian]

The price, besides the price. Was that in the checkout message?

[Dan]

Yeah. I thought that's why you jumped in with that.

[Linus Sebastian]

No, the worst part is the price.

[Dan]

Nothing worse. It's not the asbestos getting into your lungs and giving a mess of urine. Ominoi.

[Linus Sebastian]

Well, that's the thing is I didn't do that. I paid someone to do it. So the worst part is the price. I mean, I'd say my bigger concern when I was crawling around in the basement was like mold, not asbestos. Like, if I. If I end up with some kind of weird mold lung disease or something like that, it's definitely from doing that. But I don't think there was really anything in the way of asbestos down there. Yeah, and I didn't really disturb anything. Like, I didn't, I didn't break any. I didn't like touch any caulking or like break any, like, like break any materials apart or anything. I just like hauled like soggy carpet and stuff out of there.

[Dan]

Okay, up next, just finished a computer vision project for school. What is a project that felt super rewarding after completing?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Ooh, I have a pretty critical version of that, which is the mineral oil computer. That thing got me everything. It got me grants to go to school, it got me friends when I was at school, and it got me this job that was a highly rewarding project.

[Dan]

Nice.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Really worked out.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, that's. I'm not gonna be. I'm not gonna be able to beat that

[Dan]

hiring Luke.

[Linus Sebastian]

Really? Yeah. Yeah. Let's go for the feels. I mean, it was a long interview.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It was a very long interview. Yeah, that's true. Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

Super. A project that felt super rewarding. You know what? I'm not gonna go with, like, the most rewarding, but I'll go with one that was quite rewarding. Recently I bought a couple of RC cars for me and my son back when he was. Well, it was like 10 years ago, so he was just little and I was, I was probably jumping the gun. A little bit. We didn't use them much. And they sat for 10 years and in that time all the differential fluid leaked out. All the shock oil leaked out. The batteries like died. Died, like not just were drained, they died. And there were some broken parts on them from the little that they were used because I was reckless and he didn't know really how to control it because he was just a little kid. And over the last few weekends we've worked together. We learned how to strip apart, reseal and fill a diff on an RC car. We fixed up the shocks, we replaced a bunch of like broken pieces. And then with everything repaired, we went out, made like a makeshift ramp and we're playing around with it. Last weekend it was super cool. After two races around the yard, I crossed the pool cover with some water pooled on it, burned my motor. So we're not quite there on the reward on this project yet, but we're, we're getting there. We're getting there because it was really

[Luke Lafreniere]

fun working on it though, because you're working on repairing it with your son, which is like so valuable.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, he's learning a little bit.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Really cool.

[Linus Sebastian]

We had to 3D. We had to make like design and print some 3D printed parts in order to finish the repair because it was like.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Did he like lead that portion? Yeah. That's kind of cool.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh yeah. I got to show them how to use calipers, you know, just. I don't. Just father son stuff, you know.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. That's sweet.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, it's good stuff. It's good stuff.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I like that.

[Linus Sebastian]

Should we do one more, Dan? Oh, no, we're not. We're doing two more topics.

[Dan]

Do one more if you want.

[Linus Sebastian]

Nope, I don't want to. We'll do it later. Goodbye. Hey, let's talk about La n' e de Linux. The French government is apparently accelerating plans to reduce reliance on extra European software in an effort to achieve digital sovereignty. And when I say extra European, I don't mean super duper European. I mean outside of European, like extracurricular like that, sort of extra workstations at dinam D I N U M. The French government's digital agency will be the first to be moved to an as yet unnamed Linux distribution. My notes say insert holy war here.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

And other departments, including the National Cybersecurity Agency, will be following suit. Okay. All right, let's start it. I already. Okay, hold on. I know my answer. I know my answer. Hold on, hold on, Hold on, hold on. I'm going to go With. Okay, go ahead.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Hold on, hold on. Mandriva. I think that was it. Mandriva. Mandriva. I don't know how to pronounce it. I looked at, I looked up, I was looking up distros before the show. I was like, are there distros that are either popular in France or largely maintained by French maintainers?

[Linus Sebastian]

That's hacking. You can't search stuff. I had to just guess. All right, fine.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Well, I don't know. I could still definitely be wrong. I have no clue.

[Linus Sebastian]

I. I think, I think they're going to be based and they're actually going to roll their own. They wouldn't be the first government to do that. And I think it's going to be

[Luke Lafreniere]

based on Arch Mandriva's or Med or something. Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

Can you just show me this word?

[Luke Lafreniere]

No.

[Linus Sebastian]

What is this?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, M A G. Nope.

[Linus Sebastian]

That. I'm not any closer than you.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Magia.

[Linus Sebastian]

Sure.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Something. I don't know. I read something. Yeah, that's the successor. Whatever. I don't know. Classic Linux stuff. It's not Manjaro. I can say that I have no idea what it'll be. If you look at user based installs, it's very likely that it will be, you know, Debian based or Arch based.

[Linus Sebastian]

People are suggesting names for a French government own role. Linux Distro, we've got Baguette os, we've

[Luke Lafreniere]

got Distro of Liberty.

[Linus Sebastian]

Linux Arch de Triomphe, we've got Distro de Liberty Bestie os.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That's pretty good. That one's pretty good. I like that.

[Linus Sebastian]

I'm liking a lot of these. I'm liking a lot of these.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That is pretty good. Oh man.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh man, that's fun. Yeah, I wouldn't mind Sacra Boon too.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I, I hope they, I hope they don't roll their own or if they do roll their own, I hope there's a lot of up the chain development that happens. Just man, we don't need more fragmentation. Oh my God.

[Linus Sebastian]

No, we don't need it. But it just seems like the kind of thing that would happen if you

[Luke Lafreniere]

look at the Steam hardware survey in regards to distros that are like on the more simple and easy side of things. Mint has a lot of install base. I don't suspect they're going to end up going there. My, my guess would be is that they don't end up on Mint. But we'll see.

[Linus Sebastian]

I could see Red Hat something like just something. Something with actual red hat fedora. Like real support grunt behind it totally yeah, that would.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That would probably make the. The most sense, something along that line being said by someone who doesn't know what they're talking about. But still, Red Hat is American though that might be fair.

[Linus Sebastian]

I'm not sure if it matters as much.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I don't think it matters as much but there's still a company behind it and that company's in the States.

[Linus Sebastian]

Right. Zuse is an open Isuse is. Is. Is a more European centric and still very well supported and storied Distro as well.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I could get it.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, I think there. I think the origin there is German.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Don't definitely get it though. That's interesting. I don't know, but it's exciting and there's. There is a question here. We've seen similar programs elsewhere in Europe with the city of Munich's Lehman Limuk's project running from 2003 to 2017 before they ultimately decided to reverse course. Do you think France's efforts will be successful? And I think they actually could be. The difference between I know I've said this probably every WAN show for a month, but the difference between the last time we did the Linux challenge and now is genuinely mind blowing astronomical. Whoa. Linux Mint has a French founder.

[Linus Sebastian]

Really?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Someone in chat just said it. I don't know if it's true or not, but someone in chat just said it. If that's true, if there's a chance that it's mint. That would be so sick. That would be so cool.

[Linus Sebastian]

You are actually rooting for distros like a Linux right now.

[Luke Lafreniere]

No, I'd just be happy I.

[Linus Sebastian]

You clapped. You clap. That is the definition.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Happy little clap.

[Linus Sebastian]

That is the definition.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I'm happy. I'm genuinely happy with whatever they go with. I don't actually care. But it would be neat if it was Mint. I just. I'm not a. I'm not a hater of other choices, but I get a little happy when people use Mint because Mint is cool.

[Linus Sebastian]

Speaking of Linux, patches to the Linux kernel and KDE should give a noticeable performance boost to gamers with limited vram, which so sick. 2026 huge deal apparently includes cards that have only 8 gigabytes of dedicated memory and that really has been a trend over the last couple of years. Developer Natalie Vock has refined kernel level memory management and introduced a KDE plasma component to enable VRAM prioritization for the foreground application that is your full screen game. The patches are out now initially for AMD and theoretically intel, on Cashios and on other Arch based distros if you don't use KDE as your desktop. The improvements are also available in newer versions of Valve's gamescope compositor. If you're after the technical details, you can check out the developer's blog post, which. Dan will not be posting in chat, so you'll just have to go Google Pixel Clusters GPU blog.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I can post it in floatplane chat at least.

[Linus Sebastian]

Thank you Luke. Luke, that's wonderful.

[Dan]

Appreciate you.

[Linus Sebastian]

Excellent. It says two more topics and we're through two more. But until he comes back we're not. Oh you know what, yeah, we'll do sponsor spots. Oh wait, I can't, I can't with

[Luke Lafreniere]

I did have some people ask like oh, why are you so happy about Mint if you're running cashy? I'm running Cache on my desktop PC for the modern cache and KDE on my desktop PC for modern features and performance and power and raw. And I'm running Mint on my laptop for simplicity and stability and work every timeness. And that's why I would expect a government to go more on the Mint side than a cashy side. But I do think there's plenty of other solutions that would make a ton of sense. Fedora, Red hat, things like that being among them. Maybe not Red hat again, because the American company thing and that being the whole goal of what they're trying to get away from. I don't think it's the same as using Windows, but they'll probably still not go that route.

[Linus Sebastian]

I've got a micro topic. This one isn't so much good news as it is hilarious. Redditor Underscore Underscore Underscore posted a couple of screenshots showing an AI summary with some facts about the company that acquired us nine days ago on April 1st. FOMO Foundry. This is great. So apparently my browser thinks that FOMO Foundry is a real thing. FOMO Foundry is an entity that acquired Linus media Group in April 2026, pivoting the tech media company toward a product first strategy that replaced its writing and engineering departments with AI tools like ChatGPT and proprietary large language models. Following the acquisition, LMG launched the Linus Coin, a physical token minted from defective screwdriver parts, which serves as a digital credit with a 2 to 1 redemption rate to maintain financial solvency. How could anything be so accurate and yet so fundamentally wrong? Yeah, we did it. We did it. Reddit. We did it. We bamboozled. What is this? Is this. Is this Gemini then? Yeah, it looks like Gemini to me. What's Goggles is this. I just don't want to get this wrong.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Wait, what is Goggles?

[Linus Sebastian]

I don't know. Yeah, my browser thinks so. This. This is. It's some LLM somewhere. So what. What seems to have happened here is that DNS records indicate that fomo-foundry.com was registered March 17th of this year. So it's possible that the AI is conflating that network OS with our new corporate overlords. Or it's also possible that it just ain't that deep and it's easily confused. If you're wondering. By the way, we did register fomo foundry.AI.

[Luke Lafreniere]

it's not Gemini.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. So it's. It's something. We bamboozled something. So we did register FOMO Foundry AI, but you'll have to try it for yourself to see where it goes.

[Luke Lafreniere]

We worked on that for a while. It's pretty good.

[Linus Sebastian]

I actually, I. I think the developers who worked on that aspect of the April Fools joke are the unsung heroes of this whole endeavor.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So it was like, actually a lot of effort and so few people went to it and like, won't necessarily have legs, but we worked on it for a while.

[Linus Sebastian]

I know it's a team and like, to be clear, the. The physical merchandise team, they did a lot of work getting the coin design. Did a lot of work getting the coin going. The video production guys, they did a lot of work bringing the whole video together. Elijah died for this project.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So that's true.

[Linus Sebastian]

That was. That was unfair. Unfortunate, but.

[Luke Lafreniere]

But that still might not equal the effort.

[Linus Sebastian]

But FOMO Foundry AI, I think was more effort than all of those things combined. Like Elijah's parents raising him for over 20 years. I still pales in comparison. Don't think equaled how hard the developers worked on FOMO Foundry AI.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, yeah. But they'll be remembered by us.

[Linus Sebastian]

I. I mean, I'm never gonna give them up.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. Or let them down.

[Linus Sebastian]

No.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay. Skoda develops a bike bell that can bypass. Speaking of bells, that can bypass noise canceling headphones and then gives the technology away for free, which is awesome.

[Linus Sebastian]

This is so based. This is so cool.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It sounds really cool too. Skoda has developed the Duo Bell, a bicycle bell engineered to cut through active noise canceling headphones, which is a major problem right now because tons of people have them. They've become very normal. In collaboration with researchers at the University of Salford, the car company points to a 24% rise in bike pedestrian collisions in 2024, partially blamed on the explosion of ANC headphones drowning out traditional bells. Researchers found a narrow safety gap between 750 and 780 Hertz where ANC algorithms struggle to suppress sound. So the bell rings at that exact pitch. It's a range, but whatever. A second resonator at a higher frequency keeps it sounding like a normal bike bell. And an irregular striking mechanism produces sharp sound bursts that ANC processing can't really react to in time. The whole thing is fully mechanical with zero electronics.

[Linus Sebastian]

That's the coolest part. That's so cool.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So just so awesome. And in real world. In real world, tests with Deliveroo couriers in London, which I'm assuming is like,

[Linus Sebastian]

I don't know, like Uber eats. Yeah, I actually don't know.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Pedestrians with ANC headphones detected the Duo bell From up to 22 meters further away than a normal bell. That's awesome. Giving cyclists a critical extra reaction window and a pretty decent one.

[Linus Sebastian]

22 meters in the context of like traffic movement. That's.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That's awesome.

[Linus Sebastian]

That's huge. That's life saving.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. Pretty sure it's called Shkoda.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay, thank you.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Cool. Neat. Shoda is publishing all the research and findings publicly for free, so other manufacturers can build their own versions. Fitting. Given that Koda actually started out making bicycles 130 years ago before it ever built a car.

[Linus Sebastian]

That is so cool. Our discussion question is, when's the last time a car company did something this genuinely useful for cyclists and pedestrians without trying to lock it behind a patent? I can't think of anything.

[Luke Lafreniere]

There's gotta be something at some point. But. Yeah, I have no idea.

[Linus Sebastian]

I don't, I don't.

[Luke Lafreniere]

What this reminded me of was the seat belt. Wasn't the seat belt something like this? Somebody invented it and then made it free for everybody. Yeah, but I don't know if that helps pedestrians.

[Linus Sebastian]

You know what? That's pretty based.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Volvo and seat belts. Yeah, that was, that was very cool.

[Linus Sebastian]

No, I'm, I'm down with it. You know what, let's go. Let's go shout out Volvo then.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

I mean, to the extent that the original Volvo even still exists as a car manufacturer, I'm just, I'm just saying.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Who knows?

[Linus Sebastian]

I'm just saying. Well, no, like they're, they're owned by. Who owns Volvo? Yeah, Geely.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I mean, everybody's. As far as I can tell, basically everybody's been sold to somebody since back then.

[Linus Sebastian]

Not all VW is still vw. They're out there. Ford. Still Ford. For better or for worse. That's something. You know what else is something is our spot sponsor, Vessi. Yeah, the weather's looking a little nicer out there, isn't it? Which means more walks in the woods or short trips for the weekend. And it's time to update the wardrobe to something that's easy to wear and pack, is stylish, and can still handle those sporadic April showers. And the Vessi Weekend Neo is a great upgrade choice. Not only are they minimalist in design, but they're also breathable, easy to clean, and According to Vessi, 100% waterproof. They handle themselves in all terrains like slick sidewalks and lumpy logs thanks to grippy rubber soles. And this is something really cool. Their shoes now come in half sizes for half size folks like myself. Do I really have to read that? Alright, fine. You know what? Fine, I'll read it. I'll read it. All of you. You get free shipping plus every purchase is covered by a 1 year warranty and 30 day hassle free return returns. If your April plans involve moving, commuting, traveling or exploring, you need a shoe that keeps up. So stay dry and stay comfortable. And simplify your packing by getting 15% off your weekend Neo or Storm Burst [e-mail] wanshow the show is also brought to you by Ugreen. Ugreen recently released their Maxi Dock Thunderbolt 5 docking station which sports 17 whole ports all in one hub. 17. This allows you to clean up your workspace since this one box can be used for data transfer, video input, networking, storage and even just charging. Sorry, did I hear that right? Video input? I think you mean like. Like for daisy chaining video that can't be a capture card. It includes a built in NVME slot. Oh that's cool. For you to add additional high speed storage to cut down on the time you might be waiting to, I don't know, edit your 4K videos or whatever else or just to have more storage because a lot of Macs are not that expandable. The Maxi Dock can also support three independent displays on Windows or two on Mac, making it great for presentations. The Dock gives up to 240 watts of power, so you can charge multiple devices at high speed and power them all at once. And with two and a half gig networking you'll have fast and reliable connection to your wired devices. So grab your Ugreen maxi dock Thunderbolt 5 docking station for 22% off at our link today or by checking out this There it is. QR code.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Did we talk about Linux on limited VRAM already.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yep.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay.

[Linus Sebastian]

Sure did.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Topic wasn't crossed off so I wasn't sure.

[Linus Sebastian]

Sorry.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Nope.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh I just. I don't cross them off. I just. I just collapse them.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I think Dan does.

[Linus Sebastian]

What a guy.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I got it, I got it. I think you were just getting water or something. It's fine.

[Linus Sebastian]

Cool.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Just wanted to check

[Linus Sebastian]

Low Plane announcement we let Mr. David Pankratz vlog what his week at LMG is like huh? If you've watched any LTT videos in the last six to seven months, David has been an unsung hero in probably at least one of them, as he has been really helping out the writers in their push to getting especially some of the more technical aspects of things over the line. This week's Floatplane exclusive has him building a PC for Red Bull, showcasing scripts for setting up our PCs and being part of the do writers at LTT all think the same video? You can go check that out at LMG GG FP when let's see what people are thinking of this video so far. Yeah, there people are. People are liking it. Pretty cool. He he is a wearer of many, many, many hats. All right, more topics.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, there's one I want to jump into. Where to go it's on the dock Samsung Electronics fires first shot in departure from ARM develops proprietary SSD controller based on open source RISC V It's happening. More Risk News it's happening. Risk is good. Samsung is launching its BM9K1 cool SSD lineup with a custom in house controller chip built on the open source RISC V architecture, marking the first time Samsung has shipped a commercial product using RISC v instead of ARM. The move lets Samsung skip ARM's licensing fees and customize the chip however it wants, which is especially relevant given ARM's recent legal fight with Qualcomm over chip design changes. Samsung says the new design is 1.6 times faster. That does not mean your SSD will be 1.6 times faster, to be clear. But still, that's very cool and 23% more energy efficient. That does not mean your entire SSD will be 23% more energy efficient, but it's still cool than the previous generation. Samsung is following Western Digital, which has been using its own risk 5 chips in SSD controllers for years, and Samsung has played around with RISC V and other projects since 2020 sorry, 2019, but never shipped anything until now. The BM9K1 is set to launch in 2027 and that is awesome because any commercial Products that ship with RISC on them just makes it more normal to

[Linus Sebastian]

be clear, which is great. ARM is also risk, but he means Risk five.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

I have a theory. It's just a theory that's not trademarked. And he's retired. Nope, he's retired.

[Luke Lafreniere]

A computer theory.

[Linus Sebastian]

Sure. A computer theory. I have a computer theory. I have a theory that as long as the Transition took between x86 and army or not even transition because they're very much still coexisting today. But as long as that took, I think RISC V's rise will be at most a third of the amount of

[Luke Lafreniere]

time we're going towards a very interesting future because with the like mind shared divestment that's happening from Microsoft and Windows right now of people interested in Mac and people interested in Linux and just kind of moving off of, off of that and hardware just getting a little funky like pricing has been really crazy. A lot of Chinese manufacturers are starting to kind of prop up and look at that consumer market and go we might be able to take some of that. Especially if pricing is going to be 2000% higher than it used to be. Companies like more and more companies. I'm finding discussions about RISC V to be much more common these days than it was even three, four years ago. There's you know, Google making their own stuff. Intel interested in being a fab potentially more than even their own.

[Linus Sebastian]

Speaking of Intel, I had this queued up already. I don't give financial advice on this show, but if you bought intel when I said that I thought it was looking kind of cool and laid out all the reasons I thought it was kind of cool in the medium to long term. You're doing pretty good so far. Just throwing that. I don't know man. I. It's, it's real tempting sometimes when I can just kind of like see the tea leaves and I'm like this is the direction me being invested in intel would be pretty bad though. That would be pretty bad anyway.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, yeah. So it's like, it's, it's interesting. A lot of things are moving towards like actually genuinely moving towards open source setups for things which is very based interesting. It's cool. I don't know what that future necessarily looks like. Probably a lot of fragmentation. But I think it'll be fun. I'm excited. Okay, next topic.

[Linus Sebastian]

Stay the path says yeah, that almost be as bad as like the President of the United States shilling a ticker or like a crypto or NFT or something. You Know what? You're right. I think that if it's their own

[Luke Lafreniere]

name, I think they have to never happen.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, yeah, that's. That's pretty far fetched. I. I wouldn't want to live in a world that's so corrupt that the politicians at the highest level would shill stocks and also almost as bad YouTubers would do it. I don't want to live in that world.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Almost.

[Linus Sebastian]

Almost as bad.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Speaking of far fetched, Apple approves drivers that let AMD and Nvidia EGP run on Mac.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay, I was so excited when I read that much of it. Carry on.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, it gets a little worse. The software is designed for AI though, and not built for gaming. Apple has officially signed off on those drivers. The drivers are developed by Tiny Corp, the company behind the TinyBox AI accelerator. And Apple's approval means users no longer need hacky workarounds like disabling system integrity protection to get EGPUs running. This is specifically for AI workloads, not for gaming. The drivers are built for running large language models. So if you were hoping to plug a GPU into your Mac and fire up games, that's unfortunately not in the cards.

[Linus Sebastian]

Solid. Solid.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Tiny Corp first got an EGPU working on Apple silicon back in May 2025. That was not me, by the way. That was the writer back in May 2025. But that required unofficial methods. Now, with Apple's blessing, installation is straightforward. For context, Tiny Corp sells some serious AI hardware. Their lineup ranges from 12,000 from a $12,000 box with four AMD 9070 XTS all the way up to a $65,000 system running four RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell GPUs.

[Linus Sebastian]

The reason that this is in good news wan show I feel like I should explain that it's still good is that this is the first step sign of a potential future thaw in the frosty relationship between Apple and Nvidia. I would love to see at some point, you know, I think asking for an Nvidia GPU baked onto Apple Silicon in a multi die package. That's probably unrealistic, but I'd love to see a future where I could hook an Nvidia EGPU up to my MacBook Neo 3 or MacBook Neo 4 and run serious games off of an iPhone CPU.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That'd be sweet.

[Linus Sebastian]

And Nvidia's down. We know this because they actually went and did the work and made a driver. And this was a number of years ago and Apple intentionally blocked it from working ever since. Bumpgate Things have been frosty between, between the two, but I just, I feel like both of them have come so far and been so successful that

[Luke Lafreniere]

you

[Linus Sebastian]

would think it would be time to bury the hatchet. You know, maybe. Yeah, maybe. Maybe when pigs fly and, you know, me and gamers, Nexus make up and kiss.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I had a segue plan for the next topic and it's gone. I have no idea what it was. I have genuinely.

[Linus Sebastian]

How's that for an image in your mind?

[Luke Lafreniere]

His hair just draping around your face.

[Linus Sebastian]

Hey, what makes you think I would be on the bottom?

[Dan]

So many things.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I feel like he would. Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

Keychron has made their keyboard and mic designs source available, allowing anyone to design or 3D print parts for their devices. This is so cool. They published a GitHub repository containing production grade CAD files for 83 of their keyboard and mouse models. Files are available in step for 3D CAD work, DXF for 2D plate cutting, and DWG for engineering drawings, meaning that owners can 3D print enclosures, CNC replacement plate, even in a new material like brass or carbon fiber or. Or design their own mods without reverse engineering any of the measurements. Despite widespread reporting though calling this open source, Keychron founder Nick Zhu has clarified it's actually source available. So personal builds, hobby projects and educational use are fine, but commercial use is strictly prohibited and you can't use the files to manufacture or sell competing products. Keychron had already published QMK and ZMK firmware source for many of its boards. So this adds the physical hardware dimension to an already pretty open stack. They are miles ahead of basically every other keyboard and mouse brand as far as this goes, who all seem to treat physical geometry as proprietary and lock it away. I gotta say this is, this is admirable. I don't know if I would be able. I don't know if I would have the stones to follow this step. This is incredibly cool. Now this is for discontinued products. And so I'm kind of, I'm trying to think like screwdriver is one that we've had people ask for the CAD for and I think upon request we've provided the outside dimensions, but we have never provided the drawings for the entire thing.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I think if you're a, if you're a manufacturing shop in wherever and you want to rip off their keyboard, I think you can take it apart and figure those things out. Like, I think at like deep commercial level, you could already steal it from them. So I think there's probably some amount of recognition there and them just being like, hey, the people who wanted to rip this off already could have. And we can be really cool guys to a lot of the people that, that just want to do good things with this. So, I mean it sounds. Sounds like a great move to me. And I. I don't really think they're setting themselves up for anything super horrible.

[Linus Sebastian]

No, I don't think so. I just don't know if I have the stones. It's so unconventional. And maybe someday, maybe this is the first step in a move like this becoming conventional. That'd be cool and pretty sick. I'll have to do some reflection on it. You know, maybe someday, deity willing, I could be this based.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Speaking about things that are based deer.

[Linus Sebastian]

Like like John Deere. That deer. Yeah, like, like go yourself.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And I'm not company not calling them based to be clear, but what just happened to them is. Is good. And I don't know enough about this case to say that this was enough, but I'm happy that something happened that they are probably not happy about. Deer settles US right to repair lawsuit agrees to $99 million fund for farmers Couldn't. Couldn't make it one more. Just make it 100. But I guess that's fine. They put that into a settlement fund to resolve the 2022 class action lawsuit that accused the company of monopolizing repair services and conspiring with authorized dealers to force farmers to. To use them for tractor and equipment fixes. The fund covers farmers who paid Deere or its authorized dealers for large agricultural equipment repairs dating back to January of 2018. More importantly, and this is where I got actually excited, Deere has committed to providing the digital tools, software and manuals needed to diagnose and repair its tractors, combines and sugarcane harvesters for the next 10 years on a license. I only read the first half on a license or subscription basis. Formalizing a memorandum that had previously existed but was never legally binding. License or subscription basis. Ah, that feels like that's going to be abused horribly.

[Linus Sebastian]

This is better than them having it under lock and key.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. Because it just gets pirated immediately.

[Linus Sebastian]

I was going to say anything that exists on a license or substance subscription basis exists on the high seas.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, yeah. Hopefully that gets on the high seas, like immediately. Deere insists the settlement comes with no admission of wrongdoing, but Right to Repair advocates are calling it a landmark win that could set precedents for similar cases against automakers and consumer tech companies. And hopefully it does.

[Linus Sebastian]

Our discussion question is Deere had to be dragged through four years of litigation and a $99 million sett to let farmers fix their own tractors. How many other industries are running the same playbook?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, tons of them.

[Linus Sebastian]

Most importantly, I think is. Is in medicine, like the fact that fixing people is also bound by these same douchebaggery moves. Now, to be clear, I'm not saying it should just be a free for all, because when something is so important that keeps a person alive, I am not saying that just any random schmuck should necessarily be working on it with any random schmuck parts. But there's gotta be a middle ground.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

There's gotta be a middle ground.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

I can tell you from experience that aviation has some of this nonsense in it. My uncle showed me a light bulb, a little incandescent bulb. I should bring it in. I'll bring it in maybe next week if I remember. But it's about this big.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I think I get it for aviation because if you're.

[Linus Sebastian]

If you're totally average size, light bulb this size, it's $20. Because you can only get it from DESO directly. No one else is allowed to make it. And it's the only one that's certified so that you can put it behind like a little illuminated switch in a dashboard. It's like freaking ridiculous.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I just don't want people with big shiny metal objects in the sky to necessarily have an easier time when it could result in that big shiny metal object smacking into somebody.

[Linus Sebastian]

And. But I mean, that's the. Oh, man. See, that's the dangerous sort of territory that we end up in because that's the kind of justification that's given for locking things down. So I'm just saying there's got to be a middle ground.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

And with something like tractors, it seems pretty obvious because the only person who could be harmed by it not operating correctly as the operator of it. So at least by. By fixing it yourself and doing your own thing to it, it's your own liability that you are ultimately creating.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. And it's sticky because I. I very much support right to repair when it comes to cars. And cars has a similar problem to the plane. I think I'm just a lot less worried about protecting people who own planes than I am protecting people who own cars.

[Linus Sebastian]

I think you're just worried that, you know, if anything bad happens to. To me that you'd be sad. Thank you. I appreciate that. You know, what I'm worried about, though, is that the flat Earthers are going to have a field day with how good those Photos of the solar eclipse look from Artemis 2. Oh man, they look almost too good to be real. Do you want, do you want to, do you want to fire it up while I just talk through the thing?

[Luke Lafreniere]

The full NASA galleries base. So I'll go there.

[Linus Sebastian]

The Artemis 2 crew took a bunch of photos of the moon during their lunar flyby and the images look like something out of Asimov's foundation series.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So honestly, even, even some of the ones from inside the ship like that is such a sick photo, dude.

[Linus Sebastian]

Absolutely. This is about as based as a photo can be. This is probably yet a moon base.

[Luke Lafreniere]

This is probably the coolest photo of someone taking a photo. But okay, we'll get to, we'll get to real ones. You can download these. They are really high res, fantastic background bait for, for people who want to make cool stuff. Some of these are just. Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

Wow. Isn't that incredible? Okay, that one to the right there.

[Luke Lafreniere]

This one.

[Linus Sebastian]

No, left, left. Yeah. Oh, I, I love this one. That is so just like oled friendly background.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. Wow.

[Linus Sebastian]

Maybe there's a little bit too much contrast along the bottom left, but still. Oh, that's so cool. There's a recreation of the iconic Earthrise photo from Apollo 8.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It's.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, hold on. This one. They're very similar. I mean they were taken. They were taking a lot of photos. They were taking a lot of photos.

[Luke Lafreniere]

This one's specifically called out. Is it?

[Linus Sebastian]

But yeah, here's an eclipse shot. Oh man. So good. So cool.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So good.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh. Man of the moon in nighttime is visible in the background as the sun is setting on the opposite side. The image captures the beginning of a total solar eclipse that astronauts were able to observe at the end day of the their lunar observation period. Ah, it's just, it's just the, the write ups are just exactly what was happening and yet they sound so cool. Commander Reed Wiseman told Mission control it was a surreal experience and said he'd need to invent new adjectives because no existing words could describe what they were seeing out the window. NASA has shared the full metadata for the photos to prove that they are real. Unprocessed captures from the Orion capsule. They're not renders, they're not composites, just breathtaking photos. And yet I, I firmly believe photos of a set. I firmly believe that because they look too good, someone out there will believe they are fake.

[Dan]

Sponsored by Blender.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I believe that they're real and I firmly believe that I don't care because I choose to live in a world where it is Real. And that is more interesting and more fun and more exciting.

[Linus Sebastian]

It was. I, I, I made the mistake of watching a small amount of a reaction video of someone watching a stream of some flat Earthers watching the launch and, like, talking about how they were faking it and taking the launch. Like, fake. Yeah, of course.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Just go.

[Linus Sebastian]

Because a rocket launch has to be fake. If, if the Earth is, you know, flat and stuff, you can see it

[Luke Lafreniere]

from so far away. And you can go, not that far away, dude.

[Linus Sebastian]

They start talking about, like, how many camera angles there are and how many cuts there are to conceal, like, the, I don't know, the set or, like, the fakeness of it. They cut that. It's like, you know how many, you know how many camera angle cuts there are in a soccer game. Does that mean nobody has ever played soccer? What are you even talking about? Like, it's watching, Watching these people twist themselves into mental gymnastic pretzels to continue to believe something that is just so obviously not true. But you can just.

[Luke Lafreniere]

You think any of it's bait?

[Linus Sebastian]

I wish it was.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Like, some of it's got to be bait. Some of it. I'm sure there's also people. Here's the thing that believe it.

[Linus Sebastian]

If the influencers are all. Are 100% of them. If 100% of them are grifters.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Dude, my NASA paycheck came in.

[Linus Sebastian]

Sure. So if 100% of the influencers in the space are grifters, then if nobody actually believed it, who would be following them then? Like I'm saying, even if the people who are, who are most active in propagating the conspiracy theory are in on it, okay, obviously somebody's not, because they wouldn't be watching this, so, So I can't, so I can't accept.

[Luke Lafreniere]

But you watched it.

[Linus Sebastian]

No, I watched someone making. Watching it to make fun of it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

But I think there's a lot of people that will rage watch stuff like that.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay, I'm gonna say something sadder. A peripheral family member.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, no.

[Linus Sebastian]

I ended up in, like, a fairly. I don't know about heated, but definitely firm conversation with. About it at some point, so that's unfortunate. Yeah. And there was like, it wasn't, it wasn't like, at the end of it, they were like, I'm just kidding. Like, you know, there, there was emotion, so. No, no, I'm sorry, I, Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Of commitment to something so sad.

[Linus Sebastian]

It's almost admirable.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It's just a. No, it's not a less interesting world. It's like there's so much like, I

[Linus Sebastian]

don't know if I think a flat, I think a flat like pancake thing rotating around amidst all the other round planets.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It's, it's pretty interesting, but like also to believe that we've never made it out there and we've never learned these things. We've never, you know, mankind never took that step. Like, it's just, it's smaller, it's narrower, it's,

[Linus Sebastian]

I mean, it's only a small step.

[Luke Lafreniere]

There's so much darkness and like sadness and negativity in the world very heavily right now.

[Linus Sebastian]

Not on the WAN show.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And there's, there's these, there's these moments of like human brightness that happen. And to deny that is just so sad. I, I, that's why it's like I fully believe that it's real. And even if I didn't, I would want to.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay, this might not be a topic for WAN show, but would you extend that logic to I do it with placebo things dragons do you choose to believe Abominable Snowman is real? Because that's more interesting. I think Abominable Snowman is pretty interesting.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It's not good though.

[Linus Sebastian]

That's interesting, but it's not good.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Part of this is that it's good.

[Linus Sebastian]

I mean, the vacuum of space is not good, but it's interesting.

[Luke Lafreniere]

There's nothing to lead me to believe either of those things are legitimate. Okay, so you want some evidence they're vaguely interesting. I don't think they're anywhere, even in the, the same stratosphere as interesting as, as, as this. And I don't see them as good. So like, I don't think they're equivalencies. I understand what you're trying to go. I'm just, there might be other things. I think for me it's placebo.

[Linus Sebastian]

So within limits of, you know, things that you have actual, any evidence for whatsoever, sure. You choose to believe the more interesting and exciting version and good for now.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And that's one of the, like, I will, I will repeatedly tell myself that if I take like a, a drug or a treatment for something, I will like push into my brain repeatedly. Like, it's good that I'm taking this because it works, right?

[Linus Sebastian]

No, yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And I'll like full heartedly believe that because I'm like, all right, come on, in some way, in some way this will work. So like, yeah, I think I do that with more than just NASA stuff. But then, I mean, I've, I've seen a rocket take off, so I don't know bro. You can just go, the ducks are free. I don't know man in other space

[Linus Sebastian]

related news, the FCC is set to supercharge satellite Internet performance and potentially lower costs. They just announced they'll vote on April 30th on an order to overhaul satellite spectrum sharing rules from the 1990s, replacing the old equivalent power flux density framework that limits how much signal how much signal power low earth orbit satellites like Starlink can use. FCC chair Brendan Carr said that the change could boost capacity for space based broadband by as much as seven times current levels using the same number of satellites. The rule change would mean faster speeds, potentially lower costs and better service for rural and remote users, with the FCC estimating more than $2 billion in economic benefits for the US alone. SpaceX, which has lobbied heavily for the change, stands to gain the most. Starlink accounts for about 65% of all active satellites in orbit and they have more than 10 million subscribers worldwide. The timing is pretty excellent for them right now too, with the rumored IPO coming. Interestingly though, not everyone's on board. Geostationary satellite operators like ViaSat, SES and DirecTV opposed the change, arguing that loosening the power limits could cause interference with their existing fleets. In other NASA news, that fan testing video that we released this week, it took a long time which was not great. Like I think Adam's trip was like a year ago. But the timing ended up being really

[Luke Lafreniere]

good to the point where a lot of people thought you guys didn't intentionally. Nope, don't think you did.

[Linus Sebastian]

Definitely not. There was just a lot of math and a lot of coordination and a lot of just things taken a long time and we eventually got it done. Dr. Louis Edelman, former NASA scientist, delved into the details of the fan testing equipment and methodology in an article on the LTT Labs website. How freaking cool is that? We have a special guest writer.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Awesome.

[Linus Sebastian]

You guys are definitely going to want to head over there and read this because there's only so much that we can cover in a video for format and while keeping it, you know, not a snooze fest. And you can see as I go through this clearly not all of this was in there. And just because it's not a snooze via text or sorry, just because it would be kind of snooze worthy in video doesn't mean that it's newsworthy via text. It's an excellent read and you guys are going to want to check it out. We also have another LTT Labs article to Promote. And that is power supply, turn on and turn off timings. It's something that I had never thought about before. And don't get scared by this because Lucas actually does a really good job breaking stuff down of explaining all these values and why they exist and why they matter, which is pretty cool. There's a lot of more to the ATX specification than just like 12 volt. Go burr. It's really cool stuff. And once you understand it more, you properly appreciate just how smart the folks who design these standards are and how important they are. Like Intel. It's hilarious. Like intel never. Intel never made a power supply for you to put in your gaming rig. But here they are foundationally involved in the design of functionally, every single one you've ever used in your lifetime, unless you're very, very old. Pretty cool stuff. Definitely worth a read as well. LTT Labs has been doing some really neat stuff over the last little while. Anyway, our discussion question is have you ever made a really poor fan placement decision in a previous build that this video from the collaboration with NASA would have prevented?

[Luke Lafreniere]

I don't think so, but mostly because I haven't had a lot of builds that had glass in them. There are a ton of cases out there that this would have actually potentially impacted where I put my fans, but I haven't built in a lot of them. The only case that I've ever had that had like front panel glass is the one that I currently have and there's no fan slots there.

[Linus Sebastian]

I think for me it's less front panel glass and it's more bottom intakes. There have been many cases that have short enough feet.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

That their bottom intakes. Now that I am. Now that I understand how much spacing we actually need. Simply just are not intaking air efficiently. That doesn't mean that I wouldn't still put the fans there, but I might not rely on them as much. I might go. I might opt for a different configuration of the fans in the rest of the case, knowing that those ones in the bottom are not really drawing in that much air. Or I might run them at a lower speed, knowing that they're going to be. They're going to have an outsized effect on the overall noise of my system because of all that turbulence in their intake. Mm.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I am trying to find something. Sorry, give me a second.

[Linus Sebastian]

Now it's time for turbulent message from our sponsor while he looks that up.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Nice. Perfect.

[Linus Sebastian]

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[Luke Lafreniere]

Chat helped me figure it out.

[Linus Sebastian]

Nice. Good job Chat.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I need another second to actually bring up the actual video, but we're talking about power supply timings and it made me think of a video I watched recently from Lori Wired, which is this one. Your RAM has a 60 year old design flaw. I bypassed it.

[Dan]

Oh that was sick.

[Linus Sebastian]

I watched that recently too.

[Luke Lafreniere]

This is incredible. Amazing video. It's so awesome. I didn't know it worked this way. I don't want to go way too deep into it, but the storytelling is really good. Her work is really good. I. I personally like long format videos on YouTube. It's just an awesome watch if you're into that kind of stuff. Usually I'm pointing you guys for these types of things to the Labs website and you should go check that out for the NASA fan video and the power supply timings thing. But you mentioned timings reminded me of this amazing video. I don't want to spoil too much of it, but. Yeah, a very, very old design constraint from like when we were trying to figure out how to do PC memory has your RAM modules effectively, like kind of turning off so capacitors can recharge and then turning back on and that is technically a performance loss and then diving into like why that is required and blah, blah, blah, blah. Very, very good video. I don't want to say too much, but check it out. It's fantastic.

[Linus Sebastian]

Is this the one where it involved having multiple copies of the same data on the RAM and then hitting the one that had the lowest latency or something like that? Or was that a separate ram?

[Luke Lafreniere]

I think that's a separate article this week.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, okay.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Dan, do you remember? I'm pretty sure it's a separate thing.

[Dan]

Might be a separate thing. It's incredibly complicated. There were like two copies though, but I don't know. Yeah,

[Luke Lafreniere]

sorry. One of the top comments is randomly absent memory and I just think. Think that's really funny.

[Dan]

They got to play with trains.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, it's cool. I. There's been a lot going on. It's not that old a video. It's only three days old. It feels like I watched this weeks ago. I would have. I would have said like two weeks. There's been a lot going on, so I don't remember all the details super, super well. But it's. It's a great video and I just really recommend checking it out.

[Linus Sebastian]

All right, cool.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Anyways, that's it.

[Linus Sebastian]

Hey, in other good news, it's real. The 5 TB Google One upgrade. Google has bumped Google AI Pro subscribers from 2 TB to 5 TB of cloud storage at no extra cost. With the $19.99 per month price staying the same. The extra space works across Gmail, Google Drive and Google Photos. This only applies to AI Pro subscribers. Standard Google One tiers haven't changed and will start at 100 gigs for $2 a month. Google announced it on April 1, which had some users Wondering if it was a joke. But VP Shermit Ben Yair confirmed it on Twitter. Part of me kind of goes, yeah, are they just trying to get more of your data? It's like, yes, but also if we were going to have to pay for it for them to get more of our data, at least I guess they can get more of our data.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Which I know it's expensive right now, but home Labbing is sick.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. But hey, we so rarely find a subscription service these days that is just

[Luke Lafreniere]

a subscription service from a big tech company that got better instead of worse.

[Linus Sebastian]

Spontaneously is more rare, more rather than less. So we're, we gotta call out bad stuff when we see it, but we also gotta like, you know, on the other side we gotta be like, good job. When something doesn't suck more.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. Say the past. A heads up though. Home Lab is an enormous rabbit hole. Yeah, there's, I think there's, I think people have a tendency to dive in further than they necessarily need to. And I think you can start with home laby stuff without really going way too hard. And there, there are content creators out there that can help you not dive past either your capabilities, your desire to invest time or your desire to invest money. You can do it in simpler ways and cheaper ways.

[Linus Sebastian]

You can turn anything into a dick measuring contest.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So GM Lab is for sure one of those.

[Linus Sebastian]

I have so many AI GPUs in my, in my house, I don't even use them because I just.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And that's cool.

[Dan]

They were for other people.

[Luke Lafreniere]

You just don't have to, you know, you don't, you don't have to do that. You can keep it pretty simple.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, you don't have to do that.

[Dan]

Do not do that.

[Linus Sebastian]

Hey. Oh, you know what? I'll save this one. Our last big topic, neural compression, speaking of AI is coming for your vram. And both Nvidia and Intel are racing to ship it. They both showed off new neural texture compression tech this week. Nvidia's approach, neural texture compression. NTC had their demo showing VRAM usage dropping from about six and a half gigabytes with traditional compressed textures to just 970 megabytes, all while keeping image quality close to the original. The core idea here is instead of using traditional block compression, which chops textures into small blocks and approximates them, NTC uses a small neural network that learns a much more efficient compressed representation of the texture data and reconstructs it on the fly during rendering. Yeah, I'm a little skeptical too. I'll need to see it in action. Just relax.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay?

[Linus Sebastian]

Your brow furrowing.

[Dan]

I can feel it from here.

[Linus Sebastian]

Meanwhile, Intel's approach texture set neural compression. TSNC had intel showing two variants. Variant A delivers up to 9 times compression with minimal quality loss. They say around 5% perceptual difference, while variant B pushes to 18 times compression, but starts showing artifacts. Intel's approach works at the texture set level. Instead of compressing each texture individually, their system looks at all the textures for a material together, colors, normals, roughness, etc. And trains the neural network to learn patterns across all of them at once. At runtime, a tiny AI model reconstructs the full set from that compressed data. If these results hold up in real games, if the practical impact could be significant. Smaller installs, lighter patches, and more headroom for higher quality assets on the same GPU hardware. Nvidia also showed a companion technology called Neural Materials. Instead of storing tons of texture channels and running heavy shading math, it encodes material behavior into a compact representation that a small neural network decodes at render time. In one example, a 19 channel material setup was reduced to 8 channels with a 1.4x to 7.7x improvement to render speeds at 1080p. Our writer says I had to look up what channels meant in this context. I'm going to drop a definition here in case you need it. Channels are the separate texture layers that make up a single surface, like color, roughness, normals, metallicness, etc. One key distinction. Guys, this is very important. This is not DLSS5. DLSS, as far as we can tell, works at the end of the pipeline on the final image. There's a little bit of muddying of the waters there lately, so let's see what DLSS5 actually ends up being. But as far as we can tell, that's what it is. These neural compression techniques are embedded deeper inside the render engine, handling specific tasks like decoding textures and evaluating materials, rather than acting as a big Instagram filter at the end. That distinction matters because both developers and players had something of an extreme reaction to the effects of DLS5 on the

[Luke Lafreniere]

original artistic intent, and now layer these two things together. Like, how far can we stray from the original vision?

[Linus Sebastian]

Well, it depends. If the original vision is for them to use this at the start, then I guess it was the original vision.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Maybe, but this is even like, okay, fair enough, but I don't know that that's happening. And also it's going to be inconsistent for each user.

[Linus Sebastian]

I won't know that Until I see it, I want to see it. Like, if this is something where I end up with, like boiling on every texture in my. In my game or something like that, then obviously I'm going to be pretty against it. I. I'm.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Layers and layers of interpretation is a. Is a bit of a scary thing.

[Linus Sebastian]

I wasn't sure that dlss, super sampling or super resolution or, sorry, not super, whatever the stupid upscaling. I wasn't convinced that DLSS was ever going to be something that I'd want to turn on. 4.5 is something I would turn on without hesitation. So while I fully understand and I'm on board, a lot of the hesitancy and a lot of the skepticism around Nvidia's marketing of their dlss, various technologies and AI, Various technologies, I'm going to take a wait and see approach.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

I mean, I'm going to wait, I'm going to see it, because it's going to happen.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Nothing else, really. Exactly. There's nothing else that really matters. Like, there's nothing you can do.

[Linus Sebastian]

It's not like I can call Jensen, but be like, hey, that thing you were working on, stop it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It's bad.

[Linus Sebastian]

Just stop the presses. Forget it. We don't like it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Turn it off. Now. It feels like a telephone game problem.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, sure. Garbage in, garbage out.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Pretty intense telephone game.

[Linus Sebastian]

And how many layers of garbage in before all we could possibly get out of it is garbage? Yeah, it's a good question.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, but we'll see. Have you seen that, like, looking at the Ubisoft logo from the side thing or whatever.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, maybe it's a turd. Yes.

[Dan]

Yes, I have.

[Linus Sebastian]

Intel says that an Alpha SDK is planned later this year, while Nvidia hasn't given a specific timeline, but is framing this as part of its broader neural rendering roadmap alongside DLSS5. Right now it's hard for me to reflexively hate on anything that makes it so we don't need quite as much ram.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I guess I'm just concerned.

[Linus Sebastian]

You should be.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And I think I would have been concerned already. And then having seen that stuff from DLSS5, I am concerned.

[Linus Sebastian]

I don't remember if I mentioned this back when we did that segment with Riley, but one of the first things I said to Nvidia about the DLSS5 demo is that, like, I think the worst thing that they did was show it before it was cooked. I am usually the kind of person who enjoys seeing things be developed in the open and watching the progress in real time in this Case, I think they. I think they did so much harm and so much damage to what maybe will end up being better than what we saw by showing it to us in that state. Because it's not like this was on the verge of launching. It's not like it was going to launch in a week. Yeah, like it's. It's months away.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, Rod. Rod said they're sharing DLSS5 demo at PDX Land tomorrow. Oh, interesting.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay. Well, Rod, are you going. I assume you're going to. Are you gonna report for us?

[Luke Lafreniere]

You'll be our correspondent.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, you can be our dlss eye in the sky. Yeah, he says I'm at the Len.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

Heck yeah. Why aren't you playing video games, bro? Watching. You're watching Wancho from crying out loud. I mean, I'm not convinced it's about the video games for Rod. I think he's more about the community and the computers, and yet somehow he doesn't manage to come up and play softball with us.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Last year he came to whale hunt.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, but he didn't come play softball. Do you know how many times I asked him to come to softball? That guy?

[Luke Lafreniere]

He's coming to the next whale land.

[Linus Sebastian]

Can't take these guys anywhere. I think Tarkov right now have one in the background. Nice. Solid. All right. All right. You know what? I'll allow it. You know what else I'll allow?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Wow. Wow, that's bold.

[Linus Sebastian]

I know.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Very bold.

[Linus Sebastian]

True gamer Verified actual gamer viewer. Wolfgang has the solution to my Xbox pairing issue. Remember I was saying I had Xbox pairing issues? Apparently to fix it, I just need a bare metal Windows install and I have to use that to update the controller firmware in the Xbox accessories app. They apparently tried it in a VM and even that didn't work. And of course you also have the Xbox app installed and signed in so you can download something called gaming services. And after updating the firmware, his paired flawlessly. So I just want to take a moment to call out any company that requires me to own more of their products in order to update the firmware on their products. It's bad. Apple folks always get mad at me about this when I say it is completely unacceptable that I have to buy another Apple product in order to update the firmware on my AirPods. And they say that it's some kind of double standard. It is not a double standard. It's unacceptable when Microsoft does it too. I already paid like 70 Canadian dollars for your controller or whatever they are these days. Yeah, I should be able to maintain them perfectly fine on any platform, period.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I agree. I'm going to jump back to the, like, graphics AI topic for a quick sec. I find it very interesting because usually I'm a proponent of, like, you know, jump. Don't jump down people's throats so much, or else they just won't talk to you again in the future. But I find this one really weird because we have, like, Disney, and they came up with their, like, Star wars animals thing that was horrible. And then DLSS5, and I just keep running into. There's been other examples. Well, I just can't really think of them on top of my head right now, which is like, why. Why are you showing me that? Yeah, like, the Disney one especially was just like, what? Like, you thought this was cool?

[Linus Sebastian]

Like, if they had just.

[Luke Lafreniere]

What are you talking about?

[Linus Sebastian]

If they had just used some AI in the background and then done all, you know, the other work that they would do and it was just in a movie, probably no one would have noticed or said anything about it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Look at our creators here.

[Linus Sebastian]

Disney AI demo. Awful.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It's just so bad. Like, it's the. The, like, audacity to be like, yeah, this is awesome. It was wild.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. You guys remember this? Like, I do.

[Luke Lafreniere]

What?

[Linus Sebastian]

And I'll remember this for longer than I will remember them doing something cool.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, it just. It's just kind of weird. Strange. Anyways,

[Linus Sebastian]

man, I forgot how horrible these were. They're so stupid.

[Luke Lafreniere]

They're so bad. Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

So dumb. Yeah. Jeez. All right.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Anyways.

[Linus Sebastian]

Anyways, it's time for After Dark, Dan. Let's do this thing. Good gravy. There's a. There's a lot of. There's a lot of checkout messages today.

[Dan]

They love those leggings. I've been asking for them every week for years.

[Luke Lafreniere]

The leggings are moving. Okay.

[Dan]

All right.

[Linus Sebastian]

All right. Let's do it. Let's.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Sweet.

[Linus Sebastian]

We. Okay, here. This is one of those things.

[Luke Lafreniere]

We would like to have more of those products.

[Linus Sebastian]

Do you imagine that the Creator Warehouse team, which is predominantly women, would like to make more products that they could wear at home? I do.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

And we. We've given the opportunities, but we need, you know, we need your support. We need our. We need our 97% male audience to evangelize these. And normally, I don't. I don't ask you guys to do that.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I don't want your charity to pockets.

[Linus Sebastian]

Like, I don't have seven pockets. You guys don't owe me any favors, but if you love the products on sort of the men's side. And you want us to have any shot of accessing a women audience and bringing that quality and bringing that care and attention to detail to women's products. I'm going to need your help this time. That's all there is to it. And it looks like you guys are responding to that. And once these like, seriously, we've actually moved quite a few of them today. Once these are in people's hands, leave a review and don't sugarcoat it. No, leave an honest review because that's what we want. So that you can help, you know, help guide people. And if we did a bad job, then, hey, we'll take it. We'll take that and we'll go back to the drawing board board. But I don't think we did a bad job. So if we did a good job, then say that too and we can build some momentum on this.

[Dan]

All right, well, how many did they. Two leggings. Excited. These are out to share the LDD quality with my wife. What are some tech related hobbies that your significant others have been interested in?

[Linus Sebastian]

I mean, my, my daughters are getting really into.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh man.

[Linus Sebastian]

What is my, what is my eldest daughter not into? She's getting really into animation on the iPad. Just like like drawing frames and animating them. She's been getting really into 3D modeling and 3D printing. She definitely still has some. So she understands 3D printing a bit and she understands 3D modeling a bit, but she's just now starting to model things and then 3D print them. And so the one that she was trying to print last night, the one that I started again at like 2 in the morning or whatever, was a third attempt because it just was like not very optimized. So that's something that is really exciting to see her learning. Oh wait, significant others. Sorry, I thought you meant. I read it as other significant people in my life. So I went straight to my kids. Tech related hobbies Yvonne's into. I mean she loves like her cricket. Anything to do with like vinyl plotting like 2D cutting the carpet thing. Yeah, yeah. She hasn't actually used that much though. Whereas like the cricket she's used a lot. Like she did a bunch of signage for Smash Champs on the cricket and it's like so pro looking you would never know. But she like hand aligned all of it and she was like, oh, I think that one's way off. I'm like, don't, don't touch it. No one will ever notice. It's Fine. She's just like that, though. I'd say the Cricket is probably the biggest, like, tech thing for Yvonne that she's, like, dived into.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Cool. Was this both of us or was just tech stuff?

[Linus Sebastian]

I mean, she got into streaming for a bit there. She did plenty time.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Plenty time. She liked streaming. That was fun. She hasn't been. She's been knitting.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay. Not tech, but sure.

[Luke Lafreniere]

No, I know, but I'm saying, like, she's gone away.

[Linus Sebastian]

I mean, at a time that was technology.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Trying to think. I don't think she's been in super into tech stuff in a while. She's pretty good with it, actually. Just. Yeah, like, we. We recently kind of, like, moved back in from the Renault. Her computer's not set up yet. It's all sitting there, but just hasn't really, like, bothered to plug it in. And the. The other computing that she's done is like, she used a laptop for a short period of time just to, like, make a Google sheet for my mom and then got off the laptop again and didn't touch it again. So I don't know.

[Linus Sebastian]

Hey, didn't she do some stuff with, like, vibe coding or something?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay, yeah, there you go. You got that for like an old

[Linus Sebastian]

job or something like that, right?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, yeah. She took like. Oh, man. I'm gonna describe this really poorly, but there's, like, actually a lot of variants of products when you're in glasses, because. Does, like, when you're. When you're trying to check the person out? Basically, yeah. Does. Does it have this type of coding? Oh, my God. Does that fair? Does it have this type of coding? Does it have whatever. Who knows? Various. Is it a bifocal? Is it not? Is it all these different types of things? And then you have to try to figure out what the pricing is going to be for the person. So when you're, like, trying to tell them what it's going to cost if they get various things, she built this, like, form that could help you flow through that a lot more easily.

[Linus Sebastian]

That's cool.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And that was a little bit ago, but she was quite successful with that and she was actually quite successful with maintaining that, which can be really annoying. And she had some frustrations with it because it's really annoying. But this was a bit ago when it was worse. So, yeah, that worked pretty well. That was actually what really sold me on people who have never even looked at code before being able to vibe code.

[Linus Sebastian]

I remember you talking to me excitedly about it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It was very impressive.

[Linus Sebastian]

Like, this is. This is Something.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

I don't know what it is.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And it's. It is now a tool in her belt that she has, which I don't think she's really used since then, but it's available, it's there and she has the confidence to do it and it's just going to be better for the next time, which is pretty cool. And it's again, it's one of those scenarios where like, no one lost a job from. That they were never going to hire someone to do. That was never going to happen. It just made people's lives dealing with that system a little bit better, which is like, cool.

[Linus Sebastian]

Psychoma asks if Yvonne used the laser cutter from her tech upgrade. I've used it. I made her a Mother's Day present with it. Like laser, like cork, like heat pads for like hot pots and stuff. Cool. Just say, I love you, Mom. I. They're from the kids, but like, I did all the work. They just like picked whatever. I. Yeah, yeah. And then, no, he says, knitting isn't tech. Yvonne got that by the mirror. That's an embroidery machine and they have been using that. I just sent Dan a picture of a pretty cool project.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Dude. It's cool. There's like open source communities for knitting because they share their patterns and stuff. It's actually sweet. It was really interesting to see how much crossover there is. But yeah, life is. Life is strange and it's cool.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, go for it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I'm assuming you guys were talking about like this kind of tech.

[Linus Sebastian]

Actually. Wait, hold on. Don't show it just yet. Let me just double check something really quick.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Gg, she's been getting into, like, different blends of different yarns and all these different things. It's. It's cool. It's pretty sweet. It's not for me necessarily, but it's pretty sweet. I'm excited about the output,

[Linus Sebastian]

Dan. Yeah, anytime. Okay. Yeah, yeah. So this was done on the embroidery machine.

[Luke Lafreniere]

She made that?

[Linus Sebastian]

Well, I mean, everything else was done on the sewing machine, but yes, she's super into making stuffed animals right now. And then the eyes were done on the embroidery machine.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That's pretty sick.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. This is a gift for a family member.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That's cool.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. From. She makes them from. From just fabric.

[Luke Lafreniere]

We're at a wee bit of a distance, but I would just believe that was a product.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It looks great.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yep.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That's awesome.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. Pretty cool.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Hey, that's really cool. No Key Fox, Firefox. Gimme.

[Linus Sebastian]

I mean, you can commission one. I've told her I think she should sell them, but she's mostly just interested in making them for fun.

[Luke Lafreniere]

She made a little Firefox that actually looked like the Firefox logos. Firefox that would be, that would probably slam.

[Linus Sebastian]

For it to be worth her time, it would have to be pretty expensive. They take a long time there. It's a, it's a hobbyist thing for sure.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. Well, everyone watching on floatplane is using Firefox.

[Linus Sebastian]

I know they are.

[Luke Lafreniere]

There's a lot of Firefox.

[Linus Sebastian]

Every one of them.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Dan]

Hit me Dan Linus with the Tesla. With Tesla heralding the imminent arrival of unsupervised full self driving, do you think that or Open Pilot will be done first? Which would you rather have? All else being equal?

[Linus Sebastian]

I mean I'd rather have the version that Tesla's been promising for all this time, unfortunately. Hold on, Hold on, hold on. Unfortunately it's been promised over and over and over and over and over and over again and it has just never like actually arrived in the way that they have promised it here. Hold on. There's, there's a really funny article that broke down all the times that Elon has said by this date it will be more safe than human drivers. And then the, the writer of the article actually didn't get them all. And one of the, one of the commenters under it found, going back even further more times that he had used exactly the same puffery language to describe the progress that they were making on full self driving. And to be clear, you know, what a Tesla is capable of doing is very cool. My objection to it is the way that it's been marketed, the way that people have been misled for all of these years at many times in ways that Tesla and, and their leadership must have known was not true. That's what I find frustrating about it. It's not that the software is not cool, it's not that it's not useful. It just isn't what they said it was or what they branded it as. And the timelines have just, I mean they've just become a meme at this point. Like it's not even. It's like Valve time. At least Valve eventually delivers the thing. When are we actually going to get the Tesla full self driving that is actually safer than a human driver? And maybe more importantly, when is Tesla going to have the stones to actually publish any peer reviewed data that backs that up? They don't. Waymo does, but Tesla doesn't. And the only reason that I can think of that Tesla would not publish data like their disengagements for instance is that it's not flattering. That's the. That's why else. If you're the leader in the space, you talk about it. If you like to pretend and you cosplay as the leader in the space, then you obfuscate. It's that simple.

[Dan]

Hey, dll love the show. Question for Linus and Luke. If I made an LTT video game, what would you like to see in it?

[Linus Sebastian]

I would like to see gameplay first and not an LTT video game. I just don't think an LTT video

[Dan]

game would be very good.

[Linus Sebastian]

Like what even would an LTT video game be. Like? I like. Like I'd see something like PC building simulator.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Like.

[Linus Sebastian]

Like a simulator type game maybe.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Is it man, what was that name?

[Linus Sebastian]

PR Crisis management simulator.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Makes sense. Video game creation simulator or something. What was that? Game Dev Tycoon.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh yeah. Okay.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It was like Game Dev Tycoon.

[Linus Sebastian]

But PewDiePie already has YouTuber Simulator though. So like what the heck else is it? I think it would be different than that.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Game Dev Tycoon isn't. Isn't just the like game dev version of YouTube simulator. It's. It's different. We could like Game Dev tycoon it but with YouTube channels. It wouldn't even technically have to just be tech and that's how you can get away from it being ltd based is it could just be YouTube channels now. We're getting a little bit closer to YouTube resim later. But it's still. It's still different. I swear. It's still different.

[Linus Sebastian]

Noki points out that we already made an LTT video game. Hold on. Here it is. Yep.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Well, we also had Linus jump, which I don't think there's a lot of like footage of easily findable.

[Linus Sebastian]

That was pretty cool.

[Luke Lafreniere]

But Linus jump was actually pretty sweet

[Linus Sebastian]

for the verified actual gamer program.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

All right, Dan, hit me.

[Dan]

Hi Linus, Luke and Dan. Looking for the best thermal adhesive to apply rocket cool copper IHS to a 12700K. Any other advice? Found a working chip on 3 bay. Excuse the e. Just need to assemble also. How's your steam build?

[Linus Sebastian]

Here's. Here's my question for you at this point. Why put an IHS back on a cpu?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

Go bear, die maybe.

[Dan]

Yeah. If it's working.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Just

[Linus Sebastian]

man, what would I use? I'm trying to remember. Does intel solder them? I mean I haven't felt the need to delid an intel top tier chip in quite a while, I'm sure. Yeah, I'm sure. Roman dear Bower would have a video for you. But until solder the 1200 12,000. Excuse me. Series chips. What I would probably want to know. Yeah. Oh man. If they're soldered by default, almost anything you put on them is not going to be an upgrade. I mean, doesn't Rocket Cool have a guide for how you're supposed to assemble their copper ihs? I. I would just. I would just raw dog it. Bear die personally. Be fast, be cool products.

[Dan]

Here we go.

[Linus Sebastian]

Instructions here. I'm gonna, I'm gonna do the research for you. 12th gen instructions. Delid relid hair dryer to soft. This video is unavailable. What the. Really? You guys. Okay, well, I can see what the problem is then.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Artemis 2 suggested in his suggestions. Let's go.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, I would check out Der Bauer's channel. He would almost certainly have something about that. But man, see people are saying liquid metal and that would be maybe the most effective. But it would be pretty dangerous to apply there when you don't have a way of. I wouldn't trust just silicone gluing an IHS back down and hoping that I have enough. Enough contact for liquid metal. Personally, PTM would be safe. I don't know how good it would be in that. In that application. And I say PTM 7950 is the one. I mean, yeah, from, from LTT. So we have that. It's a good thermal pad. But the honest truth is I just don't know if it's the best for that situation. Sorry.

[Dan]

Hey, ldl. Been a fan since I was a kid. I was tasked with making 1 to 2 mil photos. Million photos be viewable to far away elderly family members. Considering Google Photos or a home lab solution, what would you suggest?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh my God.

[Linus Sebastian]

Well, it depends. Do you want a fun project? If that's the case, how about image? Do you want to just upload it, crap it onto the Internet and not think about it anymore? Then Google Photos. I mean,

[Luke Lafreniere]

it depends. I know like, some people really seem to hate helping family members with tech stuff and them being far away. I don't know how compatible it is for like are you awake when they're awake? Like if they're having a trouble viewing your home lab thing, is it going to be okay? Now that doesn't mean that they're going to have no problems with Google Photos, but the blame shifts. So it's kind of up to you. I do wonder what the cost for storing 2 million photos into Google Photos would be.

[Linus Sebastian]

I'll be right back.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Goodbye.

[Dan]

Bye.

[Luke Lafreniere]

But yeah, I don't know. My gut would be to image it. But yeah, it depends. Depends how, how friendly are you with those relatives? How much time do you want to spend being the blame for everything? And how much do you think they will understand that? Because it's not like Google Photos is gonna be perfect either. But anytime you provide the solution. I've had this talk with the infrastructure team a bunch locally at lmg. It's like, yeah, I mean if, if the thing that we propose that we use is someone else's thing that we're just paying for, when it goes down, everybody just goes ah, you know, dang. If it's our thing, if we're self hosting it, whatever else and it goes down, then people get angrier I find. And specifically at you, which is rough. So yeah. Are they that type of person or are they going to be supportive of. Of you trying to do it yourself? I would, I would self analyze that because like I say, oh, I would probably go with the self hosted solution. I'm pretty confident my family would just think it's like cool and if there was more problems they're just like let me know and then it'll be fine. So I don't know. Depends.

[Dan]

My concern is no matter what you do, you set it up so it'll be your fault.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. You are now on the hook for this.

[Dan]

Cloudflare goes down. You set it up, it's your fault.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Why did you pick something that went through Cloudflare? Dummy.

[Dan]

Yeah, well they don't even understand what that is. Just the thing that you were in charge of is now broken.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. And then again with certain people that won't be a problem at all and with others it will. I would try to analyze which, which they might be and go from there.

[Dan]

Print them out and just, just mail.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Have a requesting service where they can just get tons and tons of boxes full of all the photos at any time and people just ship them around to each other.

[Dan]

What about just having an external drive with them and like a sync thing so that you can just like give them to them like mailing it with extra steps.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I had to, we had to data transfer a ton of videos back in the day from dank pods and it was faster and more efficient for him to just mail us a drive.

[Dan]

What is that? The pigeon per second kind of thing like pigeons and truck.

[Luke Lafreniere]

What is the data transfer rate of a.

[Dan]

At some level it becomes faster to duct tape micro SD cards To pigeons.

[Luke Lafreniere]

What is the meme. What is the data transfer rate of a. What are those Oldsmobiles that had the wood paneling? They had, like, a name.

[Linus Sebastian]

Buick.

[Dan]

I don't. I don't know.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I think there's Oldsmobile station. Station wagon. Yeah. What is the data transfer rate of a station wagon?

[Linus Sebastian]

A lot.

[Luke Lafreniere]

A ton these days.

[Dan]

Even more because now we have 1 TB micro SD cards.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yep. You fill up a station wagon with one of those.

[Dan]

Oh, yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

All of those. Sorry. And you are. You are moving data.

[Dan]

Yeah. You can't. You can't. I think that's why, like, geez, Backblaze. Part of their recovery system is we'll just ship you, like, a box of hard drives.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yep. Yep. Is there. Is there a discussion question we can do?

[Dan]

No, I'm looking for one. How about this one? Hey, Loop, Linus and Laniel, what would you say are some examples of lower, lower power tech that has far exceeded your needs and expectations? What on earth is lower powertech?

[Luke Lafreniere]

I think I can interpret this in a few ways. I think one of them is a bit of a cop out, because I'm looking at it right there. But the Neo, it's a. It's a phone processor. I don't think that's actually talked about enough. It's a mobile phone processor. And the laptop is sweet. Like, I actually don't. I haven't seen a ton of people kind of pointing out, like, guys, this isn't. This isn't necessarily what you'd expect in a. In a laptop in regards to the chip, but it's really good. Also, this was not low power, but would probably be considered low performance I guess now. But something like a 1080. People are still rocking 1080s to play modern competitive games and doing fine with it, which is wild. The fact that people are playing even, like, graphically great games. People are playing arc Raiders on 1080s and having a totally fantastic time.

[Linus Sebastian]

And the 1080 has been around.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

Three times.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, no ding for that. Fine.

[Linus Sebastian]

I'm back.

[Dan]

I'm gonna turn 360 degrees around and walk away.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. Nice.

[Linus Sebastian]

Hey. Oh, it's story time. Remember you asked why I was so tired this week?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Sure.

[Linus Sebastian]

So we had a trip to Virginia.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay.

[Linus Sebastian]

We went to see a data center for. I did like, a sponsored video for Equinix, which is pretty cool. Cool. Unlike the last Equinix data center tour we did. I was like, hey, we can't just, like, do the same thing over and over again. They're like, oh, yeah, that makes sense. Don't worry, we've actually got lots of really cool stuff. And I was like, okay, cool. So we went into one of their, one of their like experimental cages.

[Luke Lafreniere]

You got in the cage. Nice. And I don't think you got in

[Linus Sebastian]

the cage and in their like test platform cages they had a lot of. It was actually like older stuff, but it was kind of experimental stuff. So one of the things that we're going to show is like this, you know how direct liquid cooling is like totally a thing for servers.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

What I hadn't had somehow escaped my notice was they have a two stage system there that instead of using water, is using water to cool a. Or a two phase. Excuse me, they have a two phase system. So they're using water to cool a refrigerant that is being pumped around with a compressor out to the systems in it. Apparently it's been around for like four or five years now, which I thought was pretty cool. So we checked that out. Anyway, that's not the story. The story is that there's a particular member of the writing team who was basically came to me and said I would like to, I would like to ride the thing. And I basically said well you can't just write it because as much as I joke about oh well, as long as we have a business meeting then it's a business expense. That's not actually how it works.

[Luke Lafreniere]

You just actually have to do something.

[Linus Sebastian]

You actually, it has to actually be for a reason. And so he pitched the lowest hanging fruit possible that we would build the highest PC ever. But like haha, get it now. Obviously we're not just going to do like the most low effort nonsense ever. So what we did is we worked with Pankratz who has his week in the life of vlog over on Floatplane right now. LMG GG Floatplane to make what we believe is maybe not the, but one of the most efficient gaming PCs. So in terms of FPS per watt, I don't think we were much clear of like 200 watts by the time we were done with it. But we were playing Cyberpunk at like 60fps 1080p, like very solid settings. Nice, Very cool. Anyway is how it was supposed to go until we had finished meal service and we went to get everything out of the luggage compartment and realized that one certain rider had left the case on the ground.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, did you, did you buy the case on the other end and then build it on the way back?

[Linus Sebastian]

So we devised a plan.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay.

[Linus Sebastian]

The way it was supposed to Work was because we wouldn't just like take it up to build a computer in it and bring it down. Like it would have to be going somewhere for a good reason already anyway. So he was, he was on, he was with us on the whole trip and then he was just gonna like work from home for the rest of the trip. And then what was supposed to happen was on the way back we were supposed to be able to nap because the Equinix tour started at, started at 8 o' clock in the morning Eastern Time, which is 5 o' clock in the morning for us. So I was up at like 4:30 or something or 4:20 after doing the highest PC build. And so I wanted to to work all day and then sleep on the way back. But instead we devised a plan while Sharad and I went to Equinix with Sean, one of our new, one of our newer guys. He's a camera op actually. He's awesome. You guys will meet him at some point pretty soon I think we went to do the data center tour and screw it, Elijah, you're going to find out soon enough.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Elijah, chat all guests because you hinted to the idea super strongly in the.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh did I?

[Luke Lafreniere]

In the announcement video. Announcement video you talked about like how

[Linus Sebastian]

I don't even think it was build

[Luke Lafreniere]

like low power draw and high performance

[Linus Sebastian]

and oh, did we already have this video planned at that point? I get my timelines.

[Luke Lafreniere]

You mentioned lightweight a lot. So it might not have been exactly this.

[Linus Sebastian]

It was pretty much this. Yeah, it's pretty light. It's not the lightest thing, but it's, it's like, it's small, it's pretty light and it's super low power draw. Okay. Yeah, it was a little Elijah. Anyway, so he went and it turns out, hey, there's micro center about 40 minutes from the data center. So he basically went to Micro center, bought the case and then went back to the airport and just like sat and like worked from home because like what the heck else is he gonna do? We don't have a hotel room anymore because we were going back that day. So he just like hung out at the airport for like six hours. And then we finished the data center tour. I'm like wiped because I actually had a really hard time falling asleep the night before because I've not time adjusted. And then I was getting up at like. And also I just, I have a hard time sleeping. And then I had to get up at like 4:30 my time. And then so I worked all day and then we did our meal and then I was, like, sitting there, and

[Luke Lafreniere]

it's like, time to rally.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay, let's do this thing.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Smelling salts. Just to film videos.

[Linus Sebastian]

And it actually ended up working out okay. We were really worried because the original plan for the trip had us flying back at night or, like, in the dark. Not at night, but in the dark. And what we've learned so far is that that would not work. I don't think we can film in there other than daytime. But we not only got it working, we got everything going. We got power figured out. We got. I was even able to download obs so that I could do screen cap because we forgot to put obs on the drive before we took off. It took forever.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, yeah, right. That makes sense.

[Linus Sebastian]

But we're able to game the one thing. You know what? I'm not going to. I'm not going to spoil anything else. It is probably the most unhinged video that has been on our channel in a solid six months.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Grounded. You could say.

[Linus Sebastian]

You could say that. You could say that.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So aggressive.

[Linus Sebastian]

I will give you guys one. I will give you guys one hint. I'll give you guys one hint. Okay, I'm gonna send this to you, Dan. Just throw this on the. Just throw this up on the stream. This is so funny. Normally the video would be hosted by, like, me and Elijah, right. And. And Sean would film it, but had a special guest for this video on the way back. Dan, you want to. You want to throw that up for us when you get a minute? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You got a sec? I. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Go for it. Go for it. Sharad decided to lend us a helping hand on the shoot.

[Luke Lafreniere]

What am I looking at here?

[Linus Sebastian]

He was napping the whole time.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Was he snoring or something?

[Linus Sebastian]

No. But when I had to cable manage under him was pretty interesting.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, boy.

[Linus Sebastian]

It's sheer. It's sheer dumb fun. It's. It's complete dumb fun. And if you thought that the, you know, not being grounded joke was terrible, we've got whole new depths of depravity to.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Sure.

[Linus Sebastian]

You know what else I'm actually really excited about is we've got. We've got a video coming where I finally do a build with Sammy. Oh, cool. Do you know about this?

[Luke Lafreniere]

No.

[Linus Sebastian]

Sammy sounds great, though. Only sort of. My permission uploaded a short called.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, I do know about this.

[Linus Sebastian]

$1 for my PC for every. My. My boss will spend a dollar on my PC for every subscriber. Yeah. That video drove 18,000 subscribers. So I was contractually obligated to build Sami a workstation for $18,000. With a caveat. I got to pick the hardware. I mean, I'm the one buying it, right? So Sammy and I build a machine together. And James was watching it. He said that it's. It's one of the most fun videos we've ever done. And also because Sammy is, like. Has built a complete computer before, but, like, not well, is actually full of, like, really good, solid, like, tech tips for beginners and intermediate builders and stuff. I'm really excited about that one too. Both of these videos have, like, very similar just. Just plain fun energy.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It gonna happen.

[Linus Sebastian]

Just plain fun.

[Luke Lafreniere]

No, I got it. I was wondering if. It's gonna happen. There we go.

[Linus Sebastian]

Thanks, Dan.

[Dan]

I thought you're still talking about the Sammy.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, well, no, both of them. Both of them. I think we're. I don't know, man. We're headed into an interesting era. I think. I. I was looking at. What's the video that we have coming out this weekend? Let me have a look here.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Train.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, yeah. Like, oh, man. I think it's coming this weekend or Monday. But we had. We had our electric char, our EV chargers cut and the copper cord stolen and just classic. This is, like, classic ltts.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I thought you did that for a completely different reason.

[Dan]

No.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay.

[Linus Sebastian]

No, this is, like, classic LTT stuff, like, just a thing happened in our daily lives, and we use it as an opportunity for tech tips. We make an upgrade to the car chargers. We talk about the process. We talk about, like, the value of the copper that was stolen, by the way. For you, like, copper thieves out there, it's not a lot. It's, like, not actually worth that much. Like, really don't do that. It's, like, not worth it. I was talking to.

[Luke Lafreniere]

This is a side quest.

[Linus Sebastian]

I was talking to Alex. Alex Dick, our logistics manager guy, and I was like, dude, what would you think of just, like, putting a little sticker on the car chargers? That's just like, hey, if you need it that badly, there's 10 bucks in a tin can behind the. The building. Just go take it. Like, this is not worth it, man. It's crazy. Like, what people will do for. For 10 bucks. I don't know how to deal with that.

[Luke Lafreniere]

He's. He's talking generally to the YouTube audience. The float plane people are all like, we've seen this. We saw this two days ago.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh. Oh.

[Luke Lafreniere]

He's talking about a weekend Release for. For YouTube.

[Linus Sebastian]

Why didn't Sammy have the.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I don't know.

[Linus Sebastian]

Why didn't Sammy have the early releases on. On the floatplane announcements? No. Yeah. Anyway. All right, cool. Oh, sorry, Dan. We can go back to checkout messages.

[Dan]

Hey, and Nat is Gil. And any updates on the tech house. Any fun or interesting things you want to include in the house?

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, man, I need to go there and just kind of sit and meditate in the middle of the house for a while because it's a really weird problem. It's. It's large enough that it has, like, all the rooms. You know what I mean? It's got a kitchen and, like, a spot for a kitchen table and a family room and a dining room and a living room. Right. Like, it has all the rooms, and it's big enough for that, but it's not really big enough that all of those rooms are like a. Like an ideal size. The kitchen is really small.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Gotcha.

[Linus Sebastian]

And so to expand the kitchen, I actually think that it should get more of, like, a condo layout, where instead of having a formal dining room and also an eating area, it should just be one. But unfortunately, because of the sunken living room, where you would do that without the floor plan, just being super weird is not obvious. And now that we had to pay so much to get the asbestos removed, I don't think our hypothetical homeowner guy, even if I did feel like spending the money, if our hypothetical homeowner guy is trying to do things on a reasonable budget, I think he's in a situation right now where he's kind of exceeded his budget. And if he wanted to, like, expand the sunken living room or something, like, make a major change like that, it probably wouldn't be feasible. So I want to try to find a way to make it make sense where we don't have to make a major change, but just because, like, the kitchen's in this corner, and then you've got, like, a really small dining room, and then you've got this, like, stairs down to the living room. And then over this way, you've got, like, your back door, like, your backsliding door, so you're sort of bounded on that side. And then you've got, like, a family room. And it's like, well, we can't go this way, and we can go this way, but unless we go this way, like, a lot, it's really weird. And then also, sorry, where is the dining area supposed to be? Like, I just. I need to sit and I need to fester on it for a while.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Fester?

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That's a choice.

[Dan]

I have A short circuit hoodie and I love it. Why did you switch from cotton polyester spandex to 100% cotton on most new hoodies? Which new hoodies have lots of pockets like the short circuit hoodie?

[Linus Sebastian]

Generally speaking, people sort of are of the mind that more cotton content is more better. I like you do not necessarily agree that it provides a better experience for me.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So trying to get away from microplastics, right?

[Linus Sebastian]

No, no. And just in terms of just like quality. Not, not, not necessarily even like ecological concerns. The wan hoodie, though is the closest to the short circuit hoodie in terms of having like all the, all the fun pockets and stuff. Like here's a pocket on the arm because, I don't know, there's a pocket. Here's a pocket on the chest because we put a pocket there. Here's a pocket in the back because we put a pocket there. This is sort of the, the spiritual replacement for that. Hit me, Dan.

[Dan]

Hey, Dan, Luke and Yvonne's husbando, you recently put out a video saying that RAM prices are going to be going down soon. Assuming that's true, when are we expecting storage prices to do the same?

[Linus Sebastian]

I mean, what I said was I think the worst may be over. I don't know that they will in short order go down to where we started. Nothing, nothing happens overnight like you won't. This increase didn't happen overnight and a decrease won't happen overnight. So there's always a lag. And with that in mind, I don't think the worst has hit us yet. For storage, I wouldn't go out and, you know, buy a million dollars worth of SSDs and hoping to flip them in, you know, four weeks or whatever because of that sort of intuition. Like I wouldn't actually bet money on it. But I don't think the worst of it has yet hit us because of how much later SSD prices started to skyrocket compared to ram. I also haven't seen any solid evidence that there's anything that would ease storage demand. I think there's a very, very strong incentive to, To, to find workarounds to just needing infinite memory storage. I'm not convinced has hit the point where it's costing so much that there's as. As much of an incentive.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It's still pretty bad. But yeah, for sure.

[Linus Sebastian]

I'm not talking about for consumers. I'm talking about for the data center builders.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Amaria in Full Point Chat was like, I wouldn't buy it right now. I'm paraphrasing slightly I'd sign a letter of intent to buy them.

[Linus Sebastian]

Nice. Nice, solid.

[Dan]

Hello LLD recently found out my 11 year old made an Instagram account. Would love to hear Linus's approach to parental controls. IOS screen time is mega broken and isn't cross platform. Any practical tips?

[Linus Sebastian]

This is a big part of my problem with Apple's approach is they are not cross platform. I don't think Family Link is especially cross platform on the Google side, but I have found it to be, at least to my knowledge, reasonably reliable. I'm, I'm pretty, I'm pretty happy with it. It allows overall device management as well as per app management in a way that I think is pretty darn intuitive. I wouldn't, I wouldn't recommend like going and buying an Android phone in order to do that. One of the things you could do is if you have a router that supports it, you could check the, the services that are being utilized by your kid's phone's IP. I doubt they have the sophistication at 11 years old to install a VPN to obscure which apps and which websites they're using. So that would be a way to keep an eye on it. There's always good old fashioned grounding, you know. Okay, you, you made this account without permission and you're using it after we talked about not using it. Guess what? You don't have a phone for some indeterminate period of time. At the end of the day, right though it comes down to your relationship with your kid. That's what you got to manage. And not even your relationship with your kid, your relationship with that human. They're only going to be 11 for less than a year and they're only going to be not an adult for just over half of the time that they've existed again. Right? So. Good luck. Parenting is hard

[Dan]

at Linus. What are you thinking for, for your next car after the Taycan?

[Linus Sebastian]

I don't know. It took me like 10 years to upgrade from a clapped out Civic. Taycan seems pretty good.

[Dan]

Second Taycan.

[Linus Sebastian]

What about second Taycan?

[Dan]

How about a BYD? Oh yeah, one of those 10,000 horsepower ones. Probably carry the Taycan in it.

[Linus Sebastian]

I think, I think I could be, I think I could be convinced by the Yangwang U9.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yang Wang is awesome.

[Dan]

Heck yeah, that looks hot.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Dude, have you rode in Linus's Wang yet?

[Linus Sebastian]

It's a Yang Wang, sir, not a Wang. Okay, Number Wang. I don't know, it looks, it looks pretty cool. And it's not as expensive as you would Think. How much is this thing? Yeah. US$236,000, man.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Linus is not as expensive as you would think. It's always like, oh God, it's a hypercar.

[Dan]

That cost this thing US$2 million.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It's still, it's also USD, so it's like 42 million Canadian dollars.

[Dan]

Hopefully not for long.

[Linus Sebastian]

It's not as much as you would expect for other vehicles in that performance class with gull wing doors with all the like super angular styling and stuff. Like it's priced like a Chinese car compared to the western alternatives. But like a top tier hypercar, it's.

[Dan]

There's cheaper places to get weighing.

[Linus Sebastian]

State of path says it looks like a Corvette. Shrug. I actually, I think that's true. What?

[Luke Lafreniere]

I don't agree with that either, dude. C8 corvettes, I think they look pretty cool.

[Linus Sebastian]

I, I unironically like the Z06 or Z6. This is the newest. Yeah. Like this thing. It makes sense.

[Dan]

I just don't.

[Linus Sebastian]

I don't like.

[Dan]

I don't like its butt.

[Linus Sebastian]

You don't like its butt?

[Luke Lafreniere]

I think it looks.

[Linus Sebastian]

I like the butt. Yeah, I like to. I love to butt. Sorry, what? I gotta disagree.

[Dan]

What mid year is this? The 2023. Oh, is that.

[Linus Sebastian]

Look at this.

[Dan]

Yeah, that looks good. 2026 looks good.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Dan]

Okay, I take it back.

[Linus Sebastian]

All right, good chat. Doesn't like it. That's fine. You don't have to buy one. I also don't have to buy one. I don't think I could go back to internal combustion at this point.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I don't know if my car is ever going to die. So.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, I.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay, it might not matter.

[Linus Sebastian]

What would it take? I'm thinking of sizing you up.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Every once in a while there will be like, someone will almost T bone me or something and it'll flash through my head of like, oh my God, am I gonna have to buy another car? What would happen? And then it doesn't happen. And I'm like, oh, cool, car's still fine.

[Linus Sebastian]

I don't think you will literally ever replace it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

If I don't have to, I probably won't.

[Linus Sebastian]

I think the only thing that would cause you to replace it would be if you had a repair bill that was more than the sticker value of the car. I think that's. I think that's the only way.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That's what happened last time. Yeah, that's what happened the only other time I replaced.

[Linus Sebastian]

If that happened. If that happened, what would you, what would you get?

[Luke Lafreniere]

This is One of the reasons why whenever I almost get schwacked by someone not paying attention, it flashes through my mind is because I don't really know.

[Linus Sebastian]

Right.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I don't really know. I would, man, I would be so happy if Acura was making plug in hybrid TL variants, but they're just not.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. Honda and Toyota seem to be like publicly melting down right now about how weird, like doomed they are if they don't immediately change everything.

[Luke Lafreniere]

To be clear, I think there's a long term market for plug in hybrids and I think them, like if China's just going to completely own the electric car market, which they might, maybe not in America, but they might pretty much everywhere else. I think them being like Japan is the plug in hybrid market, I think they could do really well. But I don't know anything about any of that, so don't listen to me. But yeah, it just makes me sad that like I really like the. I don't know what you want to call it. I really like the idea of my car. I feel very comfortable in that car. I timo3 like that a lot.

[Linus Sebastian]

Says, okay, you're cheap. But like, what about saving money over time because of gas costs? Okay, so here's the thing. He doesn't drive that much.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

And that's why his car is never going to die.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. Like anything that's like this date or mileage, whichever one comes first, it's always the date. That car has literally never hit the mileage count before the date. And I have done like road trips down to Portland and back. Still not going to hit the mileage first.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. And I really like the look of the new TLX's and stuff.

[Dan]

But did you get the same model, year and make?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh right. They don't even do it anymore.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, 2025 is the last year, I guess.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. But now they do integras. And the Integras look pretty sweet too. Like it's not the technical, like it's S for this generation. Or do they have an R of the Integra?

[Dan]

I have no idea.

[Luke Lafreniere]

They had a type R of the. I think it was like TLX 2023 or something. And that was a sweet looking car, dude. Damn. Damn. But yeah, they're just, they're just still fully iced, I believe.

[Linus Sebastian]

Is this the one you're talking about? Tls, type S?

[Luke Lafreniere]

No.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, okay.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Well, not the one that Dan's talking about.

[Dan]

I, I think that's also a different brand.

[Linus Sebastian]

Got it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

But yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

All right.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I'd be very Interested. Like, I've been sitting here kind of twiddling my thumbs like, oh, they'll. They'll totally make one that's a plug in hybrid eventually. And then I'll wait for it to be used for a bunch of years and then I'll get one and they just won't do it. So I'm not 100% sure, to be honest.

[Linus Sebastian]

All right.

[Dan]

Hey, Litmus, Duke and Flan, Artemis mission photos are releasing and have brought people together. Do you remember a piece of media that had a profound impact on you or inspired you to dream bigger?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, dream. Oh, okay. My first thought was not dream bigger necessarily.

[Linus Sebastian]

How about inspired you? Or how about profound impact.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Profound impact and brought people together. I think it's really hard to ignore

[Linus Sebastian]

Lord of the Rings.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay, that's just.

[Linus Sebastian]

I'm just answering for you.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That didn't. No, that's.

[Linus Sebastian]

For me.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That isn't what I was gonna say, but that's fantastic. I like that. I was gonna say the original launch of Pokemon Go, if you want to talk about, brought people together. Like, holy. It was years where if you saw people walking around in groups outside on their phones, it was like you just point a nod.

[Linus Sebastian]

Even now, even now, it's like still a thing.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Decently popular still. It's not where it was, but it's been out for over 10 years.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

The fact that it still is popular is crazy for me. A impact on me in particular. I mean, I saw Puget Systems at Pax with a mineral oil computer and that's what inspired me to make my own. Watching the making of. I think it was Morrowind and the making of the original Halo were like super impactful and wanting to get me into software development. Yeah, there's. There's tons of stuff, man. It has been really interesting. Like, there was. There was three plus million people, I think. I think at one point in time, there's over 5 million people just watching just the streams on NASA's YouTube account.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Not even all of the other people reacted. Reacting to it, all the other space channels putting up their own feeds, all that kind of stuff. There was many, many millions of people watching the Artemis launch, landing, everything in between, and looking at the chat as. As divided as the world is right now. Looking at the chat on YouTube, which

[Linus Sebastian]

is often like a wretched hive of scum and villainy.

[Luke Lafreniere]

There we go. That's the quote I was looking for, like, quite literally. But it's usually so bad. But it was really just people talking about how awesome this was and, like posting their country's flag and being, like, watching from here or there, whatever. Like, this is so awesome. Look at what. Look at what we can all do. Really awesome moment.

[Linus Sebastian]

Anyways, this is going to, you know, probably upset someone, but I don't really feel that bad about it. But I think that. I think that Prime Minister Carney's recent speech was. The Davos speech, was the first time that I really felt like a Canadian politician speech in my adult lifetime. Actually understood the problems that we have here and actually had some semblance of not just a plan, but the, the will to try to at least solve them. I. There's one line in particular that I've used multiple times, and that's. Nostalgia is not a strategy. I think that at times in my life I've spent. I mean, I suspect we're probably all guilty of this sometimes, but I've spent too much time looking to the past for our solutions, and they're just not going to be there.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. I've shown people on, on many parts of the political spectrum, including people that would generally be against him. I've shown them that speech and pretty much everyone, he's been like, damn. Yeah. Even people that don't necessarily like him or whatever else. It's a, It's a good speech. Good speech.

[Dan]

Last one I got for you today. Greetings, Linus. And the one on the right, what a computer product that is.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I'll take it.

[Dan]

Super necessary, but it's very useful to have.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Ah, I'm gonna. The one on the right's gonna answer this one first.

[Linus Sebastian]

Nice. Solid.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I still love it, man. Power Play. And I, I've heard the, the, the new one is worse or something. Like, I heard powerplay 2 is worse than power play 1. I don't know why. Never happened.

[Dan]

Ever.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I haven't looked into it at all because my powerplay one still is completely awesome and fine. It's just great. And yeah, the, the default mouse pad is too small. I just put an LTT desk mat over it and ditched to the default mousepad. Just tossed it.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yep.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And it's totally fine.

[Linus Sebastian]

That's a good answer.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That's awesome. I, I, it's, it's. I, they are expensive. It's a luxury item for sure. But I'm kind of surprised I don't see them more often because they're just sweet. I haven't plugged in my mouse in years and I haven't swapped the batteries ever. It's awesome.

[Linus Sebastian]

I'm gonna go with my AirPods. They are not Necessary. I could use pre.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Great.

[Linus Sebastian]

I could use Wired. I could use over the ears when I'm, you know, doing a data center tour or whatever. I could take the little squishy ear things, but man, I use them every day. Literally every single day. I use my AirPods. They aren't necessary, but I absolutely love them. I wish the. I wish the threes. The three pros were as comfortable as the two pros for me. They still, like, I. I still haven't managed to mold my ears to them. But the. The superior active noise cancellation is just. It's unavoidably better and worth it after. After the amount of time that I've spent with them. Now.

[Dan]

I have run out.

[Linus Sebastian]

You have run out? What do you mean you've run out? You're right there.

[Dan]

Thanks.

[Linus Sebastian]

We'll see you again next week. Same bad time, same bad channel.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Wait, no, no, no.

[Linus Sebastian]

A different channel. Okay, so hold on. We may need to change up the strategy, so.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It's fine.

[Linus Sebastian]

We may need to change up the strategy for switching to streaming to the WAN show channel. Yeah, people are migrating faster than I expected. Oh, there's like 2500 people the last time I checked that were watching on the WAN show channel rather than on the LTT channel. And people. People are getting like double notifications and stuff. We, like, need to deal with this.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Do we either. Do we just do the thing that you suggested, which I'm aligned with, or do we pull the audience, figure out what they want? Basically, we're trying to. We're. We. It's like we agree we got to split it up. So do we keep the channel that's there as the clips channel and move the live stream again somewhere else?

[Linus Sebastian]

I oppose that. I'm not asking them that. Let's take it offline. Let's you and I talk about it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Clip channel somewhere else. I'm fine with either one.

[Linus Sebastian]

Well, okay. There's other voices internally that point at other video podcast channels that do have the podcast and the clips all on the same channel. And what apparently happens over time is if you only click the live stream and you never click clips, you will stop getting the clips because YouTube is all algorithmic now. So let's. Let's talk about it. Let's you, me and James get together.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It would be nice if it can be one channel.

[Linus Sebastian]

Sit down. I would like for it to be one channel. That would be much simpler from just an IP management standpoint.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Totally.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay.

[Luke Lafreniere]

We'll figure it out.

[Linus Sebastian]

We'll see you again next week.

[Luke Lafreniere]

We hear you, though.

[Linus Sebastian]

We know it sucks at the Land Show Channel.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And more enthusiastically this time. Bye.