Why Does Everybody Keep Hacking Me - WAN Show September 27, 2024

Summary

The WAN Show - "Why Does Everybody Keep Hacking Me" (September 27, 2024)

Released on September 28, 2024

Hosts: Linus Sebastian and Luke Lafreniere
Description: Every week, Linus and Luke discuss the most current happenings in the technology universe.

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1. Introduction & Veritasium Collaboration [00:00 - 04:48]

Linus opens the show by sharing a personal anecdote about being hacked by Veritasium, sparking discussions about cybersecurity and online interactions. He humorously mentions his dad’s B2B marketing background, setting a light-hearted tone.

Linus [00:00]: "I was hacked again, this time by Veritasium. And as many of you observed, my wife doesn't respect me."

Luke reacts with confusion, highlighting the informal and dynamic nature of the show.

Luke [00:45]: "What?"

The hosts delve into the Veritasium collaboration, explaining that the hack was a controlled demonstration to showcase real-world attack vectors. Linus clarifies the authenticity and professionalism behind the project.

Linus [03:45]: "The attack vector is real. Derek and our team had serious reservations around intercepting my communications."

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2. Cloudflare’s AI Audit Tools [11:09 - 12:23]

Luke introduces Cloudflare's new suite of tools, AI Audit, designed to help website owners monitor and manage bot traffic. These tools identify the purpose of bots—whether for AI training, research, or data scraping—and offer options to block them selectively.

Luke [11:09]: "Cloudflare has announced a suite of tools called AI Audit, which allows website owners to monitor which bots are crawling their site as well as giving them background on the bots."

Linus comments on the positive developments from tech giants, appreciating Cloudflare’s proactive approach.

Linus [11:53]: "It was actually kind of a good week for, like, tech giants doing pretty cool stuff."

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3. California’s New Regulations [12:23 - 17:12]

The discussion shifts to California’s AB 2426, a new law requiring digital storefronts to clearly state they are selling licenses, not ownership, for digital products like software and games. This aims to prevent misleading advertising about product ownership.

Linus [14:43]: "Good companies that fail to do this will be subject to a fine for false advertising."

Additionally, California passes the Phone Free School Act, limiting student access to cell phones unless in emergencies or with specific permissions. The hosts debate the impact of these regulations on student behavior and academic performance.

Luke [16:37]: "I genuinely think it's a huge deal. Like I don't have kids, but if I did, I would."

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4. Merchandise Updates: Cargo Pants & Water Bottles [21:07 - 29:51]

Linus announces new merchandise from the LTT Store, including cargo pants and spout lids for water bottles. He humorously demonstrates the durability of the new lids by dropping them, causing minor dents.

Linus [22:03]: "These pants do not defy the laws of physics. So you cannot fit a submarine in them."

Luke adds his impressions, praising the comfort of the cargo pants and the functionality of the new water bottle lids.

Luke [22:35]: "She only rarely removes his. I have been dailying these."

The hosts discuss plans to expand clothing sizes and improve merchandise based on customer feedback.

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5. Floatplane Wallpapers & MKBHD’s Wallpaper App Controversy [30:47 - 99:04]

A significant portion of the episode addresses the controversy surrounding MKBHD’s wallpaper app, which introduced a $50 annual subscription for high-quality wallpapers. The community backlash centers on perceived value and aggressive monetization strategies.

Linus [92:32]: "A scam is fraud. Scam is lying. Nobody lied, nobody scammed anybody."

Linus defends the concept, clarifying that a scam involves deception, which wasn’t the case with MKBHD’s app. He emphasizes transparency in the app’s offerings and encourages users to make informed choices.

Linus [92:37]: "If that is a value proposition that is acceptable to you, then it's not a scam."

In response, Linus launches his own Floatplane wallpaper subscription, aiming to offer a transparent and valuable alternative. He showcases various wallpaper designs and engages humorously with the ongoing debate.

Linus [95:25]: "New announcing now here on the WAN show, now available at Floatplane.com is the LTT wallpaper pack."

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6. Intel’s Lunar Lake CPUs [45:12 - 52:34]

Luke and Linus analyze the performance benchmarks of Intel’s Lunar Lake CPUs, noting that while current models like the Ultra 7 258V lag behind AMD’s Ryzen counterparts, future versions show promise with improved graphics and battery life.

Linus [45:33]: "According to notebook check, that is only a little bit exciting. I know it doesn't affect me personally."

They discuss the potential implications for the gaming industry and speculate on future competition with Nvidia.

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7. Discord’s End-to-End Encryption: Project Dave [116:12 - 117:56]

The hosts briefly touch upon Discord’s new end-to-end encryption protocol for audio and video calls, dubbed Project Dave. While text communications remain unencrypted to aid moderation, the initiative enhances user privacy for voice and video interactions.

Linus [116:25]: "At least it's progress, I'll say that much."

They acknowledge the balance Discord aims to strike between privacy and platform safety.

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8. Reboot Rewind Documentary Project [58:49 - 67:35]

Linus shares updates on the Reboot Rewind Documentary project, a collaboration aimed at restoring the classic 1994 CGI TV series “Reboot.” They have successfully run one of three D1 machines, capturing over 200 tapes, despite challenges with media degradation.

Linus [58:49]: "They look so good. Absolutely sick."

He underscores the importance of preserving digital media and thanks the community for their support.

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9. Additional Topics & Community Engagement [73:01 - End]

The episode wraps up with various product updates, including Ridge Wallet collaborations, battery systems for power tools, and controller reviews. The hosts engage with merchandise questions, game reviews, and tech industry news, maintaining an interactive and humorous atmosphere throughout.

Linus [102:32]: "This is not gonna fundamentally change anything about the wallpaper economy, which is infinite. Infinitesimally."

Notable Quotes:

• Linus [00:00]: "I was hacked again, this time by Veritasium."
• Luke [14:40]: "People will have to change we're talking about literally everything else."
• Linus [92:32]: "A scam is fraud. Scam is lying."
• Linus [95:25]: "New announcing now here on the WAN show, now available at Floatplane.com is the LTT wallpaper pack."
• Linus [116:25]: "At least it's progress, I'll say that much."

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Conclusions & Insights

• Cybersecurity Awareness: The controlled hack collaboration with Veritasium highlights real-world cybersecurity threats and the importance of securing personal communications.

• Regulatory Impact: California’s new laws on digital storefronts and phone usage in schools reflect a growing trend towards consumer protection and digital wellbeing.

• Merchandise Success: The positive reception of LTT’s cargo pants and water bottles demonstrates the community’s support for quality, functional merchandise.

• Community Trust: Addressing controversies transparently, such as the MKBHD wallpaper app, reinforces the importance of trust and clear value propositions in maintaining a loyal audience.

• Technological Advancements: Intel’s Lunar Lake CPUs and Discord’s Project Dave showcase ongoing innovations in hardware performance and communication privacy, respectively.

Overall, the episode balances technical discussions, product updates, and community interactions, offering listeners a comprehensive look into current tech trends and the inner workings of Linus Media Group.

Transcript

[Linus Sebastian]

My dad works in B2B marketing. He came by my school for career day and said he was a big roas man. Then he told everyone how much he loved calculating his return on ad spend. My friends still laugh at me to this day. Not everyone gets B2B but with LinkedIn you'll be able to reach people who do. Get a hundred dollar credit on your next ad campaign. Go to LinkedIn.com campaign to claim your credit. That's LinkedIn.com campaign. Terms and conditions apply. LinkedIn the place to be. To be. What is up guys? Welcome to the WAN show. I was hacked again, this time by Veritasium. And as many of you observed, my wife doesn't respect me. Have you read the comments on that video? It's wild. We'll talk about that later.

[Luke Lafreniere]

What?

[Linus Sebastian]

Anyway, in other news this week, one of our friends in the industry has been embroiled in a little bit of controversy. I'll have to give you some background on that.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, we'll use our panel of judges to review. I just got signed out of the doc, so.

[Linus Sebastian]

Nice.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I'm working on it.

[Linus Sebastian]

Wow, it's a good show. What a. What a great show by a professional.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Cloudflare wants to help block AI training bots, which is actually sick. And California is changing how companies have to communicate purchases versus basically renting software, renting a game.

[Linus Sebastian]

Pretty much what we do today, which is.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I'm very happy they're doing this. This is actually super co.

[Linus Sebastian]

The show is brought to you today by remotely, Squarespace, jumpcloud, and of course our chair partner, secretlab and laptop partner lg. Why don't we jump into a little bit of behind the scenes that Veritasium Collab. We actually have been working on doing more collabs because we realized that we've kind of been stuck in our little bubble up here in Vancouver and haven't talked to anybody or collaborated with anybody pretty much since COVID And there have been a couple of small exceptions, but we used to collab, collab with other creators a fair bit and we just stopped. In fairness to us, we've been a little busy, especially over the last year. We've had some work to do getting our house in order, but we kind of talked about this a couple of months ago, I guess, and aligned on that. Hey, we need to kind of, you know, get out there, put ourselves out there, start, start seeing people again.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I was pushing for this for sure.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. 100. Cool.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It's a good. It's a. It's a. Yeah. It's a good part about being a creator.

[Linus Sebastian]

Well, and it's fun, you know, I think it's fun for everybody. It's fun for me. I like to think I'm fun to collaborate with for other creators. And I think it's fun for the audience as well to see these crossovers. Anyway, the Veritasium collab was one that completely fell into our lap. Derek reached out and he was basically like, look, I think out of kind of everyone that I could work with on this, you're probably one of the ones that would appreciate what we're doing the most. Right. And I was like, this sounds like the coolest thing ever. But something people I think don't necessarily realize is that in a production like this, there is a little bit of movie magic. That is not to say that the attack vector isn't real. It is real. That is not to say that if Derek wanted, he couldn't have intercepted my phone number.

[Luke Lafreniere]

You put a skin on it.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, we could talk about my skin a little bit later.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay?

[Linus Sebastian]

Not right now.

[Luke Lafreniere]

All right.

[Linus Sebastian]

Don't worry about it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay.

[Linus Sebastian]

The point is that he could have intercepted my number.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

But if you observed any things about the video that were a little weird, it's because it wasn't my number. Because Derek and our team had serious reservations around anybody, whether it's him or the security researcher that he partnered with or anybody, you know, just willy nilly intercepting my communications.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I was mad.

[Linus Sebastian]

Were you?

[Luke Lafreniere]

I saw video came up in my notifications and I had a massive like, wtf? Why did you not tell me? Mobile.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, yeah, that actually makes sense.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

I probably should have mentioned.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And then I skipped through the video to be like, what happened? Do I need to be doing something about, like, no one told me anything happened. And then I see your phone at one point and I was like, oh, it's not his phone. Okay. And then I went all the way back and just watched it casually.

[Linus Sebastian]

However, this was a good video. Did you enjoy it?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, it was good.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. So. So one of the things that people seemed kind of upset about in the video was that Yvonne doesn't respect me.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Why? Yeah, I don't. I don't.

[Linus Sebastian]

I would just like to give you guys a little bit of background for what happened in our interaction. First of all, when I called her. So I knew it was coming from a real sim, a sim that they obtained over the counter. Because the point was not to just do a theoretical demonstration. The point was to do a practical, real life demonstration of how this kind of an attack works. It is very real. So they just obtained a SIM and put it into a phone. But that wasn't my sim. So when I called Yvonne, it was coming from a completely different phone number. One that she wasn't familiar with.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, I didn't even. Cause I knew that. So I didn't even register. Okay.

[Linus Sebastian]

So I. So when I first called her, I was just messing with her. At the beginning of the call, did you notice I tried to make my voice sound like kind of like a scam.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I thought this was pretty obvious, to be honest. I didn't even sort of. I've been sitting here confused about what they would have even been talking about because I thought it was like pretty apparent.

[Linus Sebastian]

So Yvonne hung up on me. Not because she doesn't respect her husband or doesn't want to talk to me. She hung up on me because she is a smart lady.

[Luke Lafreniere]

No, it's good.

[Linus Sebastian]

Who happens to be the financial controller for a small to medium sized business, depending on how you measure it, and is not interested in talking to AI, robocaller, spam people. Yeah, she did a great job. It was actually partially just because I had an opportunity to just do a little test. Like if I sounded a little weird, would she stay on the line or would she hang up?

[Luke Lafreniere]

No, that's good. She did the right thing.

[Linus Sebastian]

She did 100% the right thing, if anything.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, I thought that. I didn't.

[Linus Sebastian]

So then the one that I do want to explain is that when I was actually talking to her and I was kind of explaining how the thing works and she said, I'm with Cindy, and I was immediately like, okay, bye. And she was like, bye. The reason for that is because our cat was sick. So we got two kittens a few weeks ago, man, I guess it's almost a month ago now. We adopted two little kittens that were. Our neighbor's friend found them in their shed, essentially. So these are just like wild cat kittens. And one of them developed a fever and was super lethargic. And we contacted our vet friend and we were like, hey, Cindy, context. How long should we wait? Like, because I know from talking to you, like, the smaller the animal, potentially the scarier any kind of illness can.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Be always, but for the most part, yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

But you know, if, if, if you don't like have a lot of blood and meat and liquid in you, you know, not drinking for a day is a lot bigger of a deal for something, you know, like this with no blood in it versus, like, if an elephant didn't drink for a day. It's probably going to be okay.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It does vary a fair amount, but.

[Linus Sebastian]

But yeah, it. I think. I think we can say it's a general probably.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

So. So it was enough for me to ask and I'm like, yo, Cindy, like, how long should we wait to bring him in? And she goes, a day at most. I'm like, okay, yeah. So what's your availability? Like? So she squeezed us in. So the reason that I'm with Cindy meant this conversation needs to end right now.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, yeah. Cuz you're on a crazy time crunch.

[Linus Sebastian]

Was because she was at the vet who had graciously squeezed us in to take care of our sick kitten.

[Luke Lafreniere]

If that was rude, I'm rude. I was filming a video not that long ago. Emma called me and I answered was like, I'm filming a video. And she's like, okay, bye. Just immediately hung up. She did?

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. So I don't know.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It's. It's all fine.

[Linus Sebastian]

So anyway, I just wanted to let you guys know there's a bit of. There's a bit of movie magic in stuff like this, but the video was great. The attack is extremely real and the demo was 100% real. But if there was any kind of weirdness that you guys observed, it was because it was a little weird. I was calling from an unfamiliar number in the first place. I decided to do the voice because I thought it was funny. I'm actually kind of surprised he left that in the cut. I didn't really, like. I didn't really contribute any of my thoughts to how he should cut it together or how his team should deal with that. They were super professional. It was super cool working with them. I first met Derek quite a few.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Years ago at this point.

[Linus Sebastian]

Five years ago or something like that. And remember the COVID Gap? Yeah, no, no, it was pre Covid gap at a creator summit. I think so. Yeah. So I first met him ages ago.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I'm thinking, like, it might be closer to like 7 is what I'm saying.

[Linus Sebastian]

No, I don't think so.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I don't think so.

[Linus Sebastian]

Dude. Seven years ago, I wasn't cool enough to get invited to a Creator Summit.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That's 2017.

[Linus Sebastian]

I know. Yeah. No, I didn't go to Korea. No.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Really?

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. Yeah. No, dude, even when I. Even when I went, I think it was five years ago, I was like, not a cool kid. You know, like, they're seriously like, like massive personalities at these things with, you know, global, you know, followings and huge brands and like, like, dude. I think that was around the time that, like, Dude Perfect was signing, like, deals with Nickelodeon, you know, and I'm like, hi, I make tech tips. I can fix your computer. Do you want some tech tips? Do you like computers?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Stop all the downloading. So got him.

[Linus Sebastian]

So I, so I was just happy that, you know, cool kids like Veritasium and Michael from Vsauce were even willing to, like, talk to me a little bit. That was exciting. I never thought we'd collaborate and then this one just happened completely out of nowhere. And I'm so excited. I think Derek's great, thought the video was great, really appreciated it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I learned a bunch of stuff, but.

[Linus Sebastian]

That'S why it was a little weird and everything is okay. We're okay, everyone's okay. What else we want to talk about this week? You want to pick our next topic? Sure.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Do you want to talk about Cloudflare? Cloudflare has announced, to not introduce, announced a suite of tools called AI Audit, which allows website owners to monitor which bots are crawling their site as well as giving them background on the bots, who owns them and what their purpose is. For example, scraping information for AI training, cataloging web pages, which you know you probably want them to do, or collecting information for research. Users can also choose to block all bots, to block them based on purpose, or to block them individually. According to Cloudflare, users will eventually be able to sell access to their site to these bots, either with a flat rate or a scaled rate based on their purpose. Let's go, Cloudflare.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, it was actually kind of a good week for, like, tech giants doing pretty cool stuff.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Doing big, like, enterprise level stuff as well.

[Linus Sebastian]

Well, I don't know if it's in the dock, but Valve removed force arbitration from their, their end user agreement.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Is it not in the doc?

[Linus Sebastian]

No, that's okay. I mean, it's. It was. It's a huge thing.

[Luke Lafreniere]

The Internet's very happy.

[Linus Sebastian]

There's a huge thing, but there's not a lot for us to say. There really isn't, other than that that happened and that's super cool.

[Luke Lafreniere]

One of the only times ever that terms and conditions have changed and it's like, oh, wow, that's good for the better.

[Linus Sebastian]

That is freaking awesome. There was another big. There was another big one this week actually. Why don't we, why don't we jump right into one of our other kind of.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, this is sick.

[Linus Sebastian]

More exciting topics. I am not, I am not necessarily the biggest fan of, you know, regulation for the sake of regulation. And I actually had a really interesting conversation at Creator Summit with a small creator who uses YouTube shorts to promote their snack business. Like, they. They are only really on YouTube because they made promotional videos for their, like, restaurant that they franchise out. And they did really well. And they're like, at Creator Summit, I'm like, okay, well, this will be a cool conversation because that's not an origin story I've heard before. Anyway, anyway, so it was really cool. But one of the things that he mentioned to me was that working in the Lone Star State, you know, opening up in Texas was like, easy as pie. And the regulatory burden for like a small, like, snack franchise somewhere like California, he said, was much higher. And that it was very frustrating. But you gotta give California props once in a while because this is cool, is awesome. California has passed AB 2426, a new law that forces digital storefronts to clearly state that they are only offering a digital license at the point of sale. These companies must list all restrictions on the license up front, including the fact that it can be revoked. Digital storefronts cannot imply that customers are buying a product that they will own unless the end user can permanently download the product and use it offline indefinitely. So good companies that fail to do this will be subject to a fine for false advertising, because that's what it is. And so they should be. You do not buy games. You don't own games. You'll lease them. In fact, you don't even lease them because there isn't a clear term. There isn't a clear term to the agreement. You are. Well, what even is it? It's not. It's like month to month rental except.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Buying a temporary right or something. Right of access.

[Linus Sebastian]

I mean, it's okay. Yes, yes, yes. It's an access license. I understand what it is. I just mean the way that they phrased it in the past makes it sound like you are buying games. You go on the valve. What? Which tab is it? What's it labeled?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Store.

[Linus Sebastian]

Right? You go on the store. That sounds like I'm buying a game, does it not?

[Luke Lafreniere]

People are like, you forgot gog. No, no, we didn't. I don't know what you're even talking about.

[Linus Sebastian]

Gog.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Get off it. Gog's great.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Gog.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yes, yes. When you buy a game from Gog that is a DRM free game that you download, you are buying the game.

[Luke Lafreniere]

They're just not gonna have to change anything.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, we're not talking about Gog.

[Luke Lafreniere]

People will have to change we're talking.

[Linus Sebastian]

About literally everything else.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Stop.

[Linus Sebastian]

I don't hate hot dogs.

[Luke Lafreniere]

My goodness.

[Linus Sebastian]

The sponsor of the bill, assembly member Irwin, cited Ubisoft deleting the crew from players accounts in April as an example of why the law was necessary. Absolute Chad.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Nice move.

[Linus Sebastian]

Absolute Chad.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Good moves.

[Linus Sebastian]

S plus, thank you for paying attention to stuff that sucks and going well. Hold on a second. Is this a one off or is this a systemic problem? This is a systemic problem. California also passed another law, the Phone Free School act, which requires schools to limit student access to cell phones except in case of emergency or with the permission of a teacher, administrator, doctor, or individualized education program for children with special needs. This makes California the 50th state to have passed such a law. I have got to say there's recently. There's recently been a lot of movement on cell phone bands in schools here in Canada as well. I'm kind of cool with it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

I'm pretty glad that my kids by the time they hit high school are not just all going to be on their cell phones all day.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I genuinely think it's a huge deal. Like I don't have kids, but if I did, I would.

[Linus Sebastian]

That, you know, of.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh my goodness, if I did, I would.

[Linus Sebastian]

Success rates got to count for something.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Very much hope that this would exist because the brain rot so intense, billions of dollars going into trying to corrupt your mind into never leaving a device is not something that you want flowing into the brain of a child. Like, it's just.

[Linus Sebastian]

I don't know and like I realize that we both literally sound. But think of the children right now.

[Luke Lafreniere]

But actually.

[Linus Sebastian]

But these are. These are things that at this point it's becoming fairly well documented have negative effects still developing minds.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It's a. Think of the. Everyone like this screws over adults and stuff too. Right. But like at a certain point you can't control them. And they're not even really controlled. They're just controlling them at school. Which, like that makes sense anyways.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. What are you doing on your phone at school? Yeah, you need your phone for.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Theoretically nothing like school. Don't a lot of the classrooms have laptops and stuff now?

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, depending.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Depending.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. And if you need one. It does. Yes.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. So.

[Linus Sebastian]

And if you don't need one, then.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It'S not going to.

[Linus Sebastian]

Then it doesn't need it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. So you don't need your phone. Stop.

[Linus Sebastian]

It's like I'm honestly surprised that they. I'm honestly surprised that this took as long as it did. I mean they Would. They would literally stop us from intercepting pieces of paper that we passed to each other. So how. I mean, I guess it can get kind of complicated, right? You know, oh, this is my personal property. You can't confiscate it from it. But like, that never stopped anyone from confiscating something from me. I mean, the confiscated my Silly String. When I sprayed that girl with it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I think the rules changed.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, that was only because she was the daughter of a teacher, though when I was. They wouldn't have done it for anyone else. I got an in school suspension for Silly String. Who cares?

[Luke Lafreniere]

When I was in grade one, I. I was racing little boats down the stream. That was at my school with my friends on lunch or recess or whatever. And then I had my boat with me in class and I wasn't even playing with it. I just had it with me and she took it and she never gave it back, ever.

[Linus Sebastian]

That witch, ever. How dare she.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I will literally never get over this. This will bother me forever. The fact that she never gave it back is nuts.

[Linus Sebastian]

His paper boat. My Silly String in suspension.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Scarred for life.

[Linus Sebastian]

Schools. School's traumatic, man. It's traumatic. I mean, my dad was always telling me about the Catholic school, and they hit his knuckles with the ruler and everything. I'm like, dad, you had it easy, brother. What about my Silly String?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, man. But no, seriously, I think it's good. There's the. There's the arguments of like, oh, yeah, but you would have it on you as a tool. So, like, learning how to use it, whatever. Yeah, it's not the point.

[Linus Sebastian]

You aren't doing that with it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Learning when you leave school either. And like, you'll get into the. You will have no problem learning the habit that your phone has answers to things outside of school.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, I'm really not worried about that. I don't think that kids need to be trained to use their phone more. Yeah, let's be. Let's be real.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Not an issue. Bad argument. One thing I want to add is there was a bunch of Cloudflare announcements, actually, and some. Some of the other ones are really cool. One of the ones that I want to point out was tweeted out by Troy Hunt and shared to me by. I think it was Handyman.

[Linus Sebastian]

Any relation to Mike?

[Luke Lafreniere]

You know Troy, right?

[Linus Sebastian]

I know.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I'm just being an fan. Wrap Cloudflare around your site and they can now automatically hit have I been pwned passwords during a login attempt. Check it against our db as in have I been pwned DB and pass a request header to the origin if the password has been breached.

[Linus Sebastian]

That's so cool.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Actually, super awesome. Really awesome. If Cloudflare could figure out their enterprise support, I would be very happy. But your tools are great and have always been really awesome. I like working with you very much. No plans of ever canceling subscriptions, so I'm putting myself in a bad negotiation position. But your enterprise support has always been a little bit questionable and it's really expensive. So if you could figure that out, that I would. That would be great. Thank you. Thank you very much.

[Linus Sebastian]

Sick. We should probably update the sign. What are we supposed to do next?

[Dan]

If you want next, let's do a couple of merch messages.

[Linus Sebastian]

Heck yeah.

[Dan]

I mean, how many topics do we.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Have to get through?

[Dan]

I mean, we can backload them. That's fine.

[Linus Sebastian]

I think we're gonna. We already did three topics, Dan.

[Dan]

I don't know what's going on. I was doing math the whole time, trying to figure out what I'm supposed to end this show. So whatever.

[Linus Sebastian]

We don't expect him to actually listen to us. He just says we. We only pay him enough to sit in the same room. All right, left Mike, let's keep going to take.

[Dan]

Come on, we got deadlines. Dying birds.

[Linus Sebastian]

All right, dude, what the heck? You better hope they're alive when he gets home.

[Dan]

Well, that's why I want to get him home. Otherwise, they will be.

[Luke Lafreniere]

They'll be fine.

[Dan]

They're fine. They're fine.

[Linus Sebastian]

Guess what's here. Cargo pants. I would like to take a moment to just point out that these pants do not defy the laws of physics. So you cannot fit a submarine in them. Oh. What? Well, just. There were some people upset about the size of the laptop.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Somebody's gonna upload a picture with like a LEGO submarine in their pocket.

[Linus Sebastian]

I'm sure they will.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Linus lied again. He was wrong. Linus was wrong. Anyway, get them, boys.

[Linus Sebastian]

The LTT cargo pants are now here for your wearing.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Is that one you.

[Linus Sebastian]

Which one? This one? Yeah, yeah, of course.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

For your. For your wearing and viewing pleasure. Complete with magnetic pocket flaps, hammer loops, zipper back pockets, YKK baby loads of carrying capacity with different sizes of either pass through. So see, these ones here are like pass throughs for pens or whatever else. Or regular pockets. Yeah, we flipping love these. We have spent a lot of time developing them. There's like an army of internal people that absolutely swear by them. Tynan, I don't think ever takes them off. Yeah, he's always Andrew from the camera crew only rarely removes his. I have been dailying these. You've probably seen them a lot in the videos. In case you're wondering, this is how they patina. So they definitely change in color a little bit. But yeah, I actually really like the way they fade out.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, I was going to say if anything I think they might look better.

[Linus Sebastian]

Anyway. It's available now. 21 pockets, gusseted crotch that allows for a wide range of motion. Darted dual layer knee pads that allow you to kneel in them comfortably. They're great for everyday wear with a soft washed down feel. And available now at LMG GG Cart cargo pants. Now there is a slight controversy already because I'm addicted to it. We only offer different waist sizes and a 30 inch inseam. At this time we are exploring alternate inseam lengths which is going to be good for taller boys. Yes, yes, Dan, I hear you but we need to see if we've. Let me put it this way, we've never really had. Oh Luke, you are standing in none of our camera views.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, but you can't see my feet anyways.

[Linus Sebastian]

What a guy.

[Luke Lafreniere]

There's no camera view that shows that.

[Dan]

Yeah, they can.

[Linus Sebastian]

None of our cargo.

[Dan]

Other website.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh my goodness.

[Linus Sebastian]

None of our lower half products have ever been particularly out of the park. Grand slam hits. This one actually does look like it's going pretty well so far. But we didn't want to over commit every additional inseam length adds another 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 SKUs. So we would like to restock. We have actually already done the work for 32 inch and 34 inch inseams.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Inseam is crotch to ankle, right? Is that right?

[Linus Sebastian]

If I recall correctly, yes.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I don't know.

[Linus Sebastian]

So anyway, yep, we know and we're working on it. And if these ones sell well then we will absolutely be looking to do more.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yes.

[Linus Sebastian]

The other thing that is finally here is the new spout lids for LTT water bottles are now available. We cleared out all of the old ones. Hey, hey. New and improved spout lid V2 on every LTT insulated water bottle. Easier to hold, easier to clean, more durable. Those are the main benefits. And I have a spout lid for myself to upgrade to right now. Oh, look at that. We've got a bunch of different colors. How wonderful is that? Gotta love it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I think the water bottles have been out for a while so now you can get them again.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, the packaging is plastic. The reason is that these are from the same. It's the same packaging we used on our old spout lids that we had. And we just forgot that we still used plastic packaging. The last time we ordered these, which was a long time ago, we ordered, like, a ton of them and we never updated them on that. We wanted new packaging that didn't have plastic. So we're sorry. We've let you down. That is our bad. Anyway, I want to do a quick demo of the durability of the new lid, and this is either going to be a great moment in wan show history.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Is this an Elon Musk throws steel ball at windshield?

[Linus Sebastian]

Dude, we don't even need to go Elon Musk to find an example of an epic live fail when doing a product demonstration. Is this a backpack dual layer moment shank? So here we're gonna go. We're gonna go Linus cam here.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So what, are you gonna whack it against the table?

[Linus Sebastian]

So you're gonna. You're gonna notice that the threads are on the outside. Yes. It feels a little funny on the lips. But we felt that the improvement in cleanability.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Incredibly easy to clean now.

[Linus Sebastian]

Was worth. Was worth the. Was worth the slight, you know, issue there. We have these little pull tabs.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Those are awesome.

[Linus Sebastian]

On our O rings.

[Luke Lafreniere]

In the. In the top one, too.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. Also in the top, there's a little pull tab in there so you can pull the O rings out. Really clean them. Because, guys, you should pull them out and you should clean them on your water bottle, on your thermos, on everything. It is disgusting the amount of gunk that can get built up in these.

[Luke Lafreniere]

You said it doesn't fit the old bottle, right? It does fit the old bottle.

[Linus Sebastian]

Fit the old bottle. Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I don't think anyone said this is an old bottle.

[Linus Sebastian]

Ah, the very, very OG bottles. The very, very first order that we ever placed it fits them, but you gotta screw them on, like, really tight or it leaks. They change the threading a little bit. It won't affect pretty much anybody because anyone who upgraded to a new lid with those, I talked to customer service about it. They were like, yeah, basically anyone who complained about it, we replaced their bottles and, like, it's pretty much dealt with. Anyway, the other thing. What's the other thing? Oh, yeah. So this stays in place real good. But the big one is that.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, what's he gonna do?

[Linus Sebastian]

We. We have upgraded the durability of this handle here.

[Luke Lafreniere]

You're dripping on your laptop.

[Linus Sebastian]

Well, you know what? Maybe you should have thought of that before you gave me a laptop. Okay, so There's. This one has, like, kind of a little, like, sharp spot, the old one. So the new one is nicely rounded, so when you're. When you're carrying it like this, it doesn't, like, cut into your fingers. But the bigger difference is that hold on, which way is tight. The old one breaks about that easily.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay. That did, in fact, happen.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yep.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I thought that was the new one, and I saw it instantly break when he did that, and I was like, oh, boy.

[Linus Sebastian]

Y'all ready for this?

[Dan]

Yeah, let me just hide the banner.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Wait. Yeah. Cool. That's. That's hitting pretty hard. That's harder than a drop.

[Linus Sebastian]

Let's go.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Nice. Okay. All right. Break the table.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, goodness.

[Linus Sebastian]

Still good. Luke, verify.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Luke.

[Linus Sebastian]

Wouldn't lie to you.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Good. It's good.

[Linus Sebastian]

All right.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, there is. I don't even think there's a mark.

[Linus Sebastian]

So spout lid V2.

[Luke Lafreniere]

There's probably a mark on the table, is there?

[Linus Sebastian]

Yep. Yeah, yeah, there's dents.

[Luke Lafreniere]

All right, well, water bottle one, I guess.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yep. So, yeah. Cool. There you go. Enjoy. So. Right. Merch messages. Now's a great time to leave a merch message. All you gotta do is go to lttstore.com, throw one of our great new water bottle v2 lid plus water bottles, or just a lid in your cart, and you'll see a little box pop up for merch messages. You can also check out the new cargo pants. Merch messages will go to producer Dan, who will forward them to someone internally, respond to them himself, sometimes incomprehensibly, or he can curate them for me and Luke to respond to. Dan, do you want to show them how merch messages work?

[Dan]

Yeah, sure. Hey, Linus, I just got a kitten. His name is Kirkland. Really excited. Since you have more cables than anyone, how do you keep them from chewing on cables?

[Linus Sebastian]

You hope that your cat doesn't develop the habit of chewing on cables. In all seriousness, though, you can buy stuff that you kind of paint onto it that tastes really, really bad to them. That is probably the best way to go about it. I mean, you can also try keeping the little spritzer near and giving them the old spritz when they do that. They're really, really not supposed to, but the bitter stuff is probably your best bet.

[Dan]

To my dear Linus, Luke, and Dan the man. I was wondering if any fixed shaft screwdrivers were in development, and if so, what are the different challenges in design compared to the existing screwdrivers?

[Linus Sebastian]

Fixed shaft, fixed craft.

[Dan]

It's Hard to say. Fixed shaft screwdriver.

[Linus Sebastian]

Fixed shaft started development before Precision did. We had sort of this grand concept of what it would look like where we would have like, blades and handles that were. That were kind of stocked as pieces and we would almost build to order. So the idea was that we would have kind of like, with our desk pads where it was like. And our water bottles where it's one price and you kind of decide what size of one you need. Right. The idea was that we would just have a screwdriver price and then you could mix and match your blades and your handles. So if you wanted like a giant. You have giant hands and you wanted like a giant handle with like a little Phillips number one or something like that, or you wanted some. A long one or a short one, you'd essentially be able to get a screwdriver in any configuration that you wanted. And if we could get the cold press fit right, then it would have all the strength and like rigidity and solidity of a fixed shaft screwdriver, but with the flexibility of a configurable screwdriver. We did a lot of development on that. We. We worked on a version of the handle that has like a rubberized overmold. I don't think that ever went to actual injection molding, but we have like, prototypes that feel pretty darn good. We designed a bunch of different blades. We worked out sort of, you know, exactly what they would be. But where it kind of has stalled right now is a process for assembly and the risk of stalking that many SKUs. So if you think about it, Phillips number two, let's say, you know, for computer builders, that's going to be one you're familiar with. How many Phillips number two blades do I need? Oh, well, hold on first. How many handles do I need? We wanted about. We wanted five sizes. We wanted small, extra, extra small, small, medium, extra medium and large or something like that. I forget. I forget exactly what we called them, but it was internal goofy names, like, they weren't. They weren't customer ready of those micro medium. Of those we were going to do, I think two shaft girths. So the two biggest sizes were going to be like a big boy, or actually it might have been three. I think it was three shaft girths. So already for each handle, we're going to need two molds or an insert mold. So that. That adds a bit of complexity as well. So like the big one, you could do like a giant, like slot number three, right? Or you could do like a Phillips 2 and then the very smallest one, you could do like a tiny, like triple, triple zero Phillips or you could do up to maybe like a Phillips one. Right. So you'd have these like three, these three blade sizes and these five handle sizes and there's going to be, you wouldn't be able to do like the smallest blade in the biggest handle or vice versa, but there'd be some overlap there. Okay. Then we had to figure out all the different tip styles. Right. So a Philips number two, we were going to need at least probably two blades times however many lengths we want to support. So if you want like a stubby length, medium length and a long, like a long boy, then okay, that's already, what is that, like six blades for Philips number two. And that's just one tip. Then we had to figure out a modular system for labeling the cap because we wanted to be able to put these into a block kind of like knives and be able to easily see or just like some kind of screwdriver holder, like a vertical one or angled one or whatever. We wanted to be able to do like a modular labeling system essentially. And we came up with a system for that. They were going to be like silicone, like, like kind of butt plug shaped things and they would just kind of pop into the butt of the screwdriver. The butt end like in the butt. They were like plugs and they go in the. But you're making it dirty. It's the butt of the screwdriver.

[Luke Lafreniere]

You danced around everything else. You just went right in on that one.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh yeah, right in, yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

With the, with the. Just.

[Linus Sebastian]

Did I, did I already say the right? Okay, so the other issue is the workflow and product management issue of like how to just in time this, how to turn our, what is right now mostly a warehousing operation that we work with into like screwdriver assembly on site as well. Because for the regular screwdriver assembly is actually done at ph molds where they, where they do the molding because they, they like warm fit them. So it pretty much is stalled. We could just, we could just do what other people have done and just find a screwdriver set and just friggin I don't know, like put our brand, like silkscreen our brand on it or whatever. We could do that. But we for better or for worse often approach a product and ask ourselves what are we adding to this category? And if the answer is not really anything, then we kind of think maybe we just shouldn't bother. We are currently exploring a new way to Tackle like fixed ish shaft screwdriver. So it would be like a multi bit screwdriver, but where you swap out the entire blade. But what I told the team is, look, if it's not, if there's any wobble, then to me it isn't worth making. Like it's not a fixed shaft screwdriver competitor at that point. So let's just not even bother. But I think Robert from the engineering team at Creator Warehouse has actually been making some good progress on that. So maybe we'll have something to share with you guys in the next like 6 to 12 months. But don't hold your breath. If you need a screwdriver, go buy a screwdriver, brother. Like, I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna tell you it's gonna be like God's gift to screwdrivers. If we bring something out, it'll be great because otherwise why would we bother making it? But yeah, don't deprive yourself of screwdriver ownership. On my Accord, the last thing that I'm supposed to cover for the LTT announcements period of the show is modmat signups. We're getting closer to finally launching Mod Mat. So we just want to remind you that if you want to get notified the moment it drops, you can sign up at LMG GG modmat. It's going to be affordable, it's going to be extremely high quality. I think you guys are going to be really, really impressed by it. And I am based on how the last couple launches have gone with the scribe driver and the precision. If you aren't on the email list, you're not getting one.

[Luke Lafreniere]

We should. If that's going to be the case, we might want to just order more stuff.

[Linus Sebastian]

We're having some conversations internally around our stocking strategy. I think that the pendulum had swung pretty far toward ordering a lot of stuff and then struggling to sell through it in a reasonable amount of time. Because unlike a lot of retail operations, ours is not entirely self contained. It has convenient access to media empire cache that it can just kind of use whenever it needs it. So it had gotten kind of fast and loose with how much inventory it was allowed to carry. So, you know, since Taren came on, one of his major priorities has been taking care of debt and aging inventory. So we have freed up a lot of cash with Lime Day and there was another promo that we did last Black Friday Cyber Monday. So we freed up a lot of cash. So we actually have a lot of stuff on order right now and we're going to be flush with inventory and more inventory of the right things. But I think in the interim, the pendulum might have swung a little too far the other way. And we were being very conservative about our order quantities. And this is just one of those things that, you know, look, we aren't your local retailer who is taking an inventory from their regional distributor, who is taking an inventory from their, you know, country distributor, who is taking an inventory from the manufacturer. And there's. And there's a well developed supply chain here that has enough excess at each stage to help smooth out any. Any bumps so that nobody gaps out. Right. And even then, things gap out. Like intel has a controversy with 13th, 14th gen, and they're out of stock everywhere. Nobody can. Nobody can get one. Like it happens even to companies that have been doing this for decades. We haven't. So. And we don't have the benefit of these additional layers of the supply chain to help smooth things out. We are ordering directly from factories. We are creating custom products. It's not like when we don't have precision screwdrivers, we can just like source another one and swap it into our bit sets and ship them. We have to get them made, we have to get them machined. We have to source all the pieces individually. It's complicated. And so when we gap out, we tend to gap out really hard because it could be a 3, 4 month turnaround in order to actually get everything together, get it all assembled, and bring it into the store. So we're going to be working on that. We're going to do a better job for you, you guys. But in the meantime, sign up for a notification for modmat if you want one because otherwise you might not get one. We ordered these a while back. Okay. This says. Don't read the title, read the first point.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Good job.

[Linus Sebastian]

We have a very special message from our very own Riley. Let's watch.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Are you doing this?

[Dan]

You're already playing audio, so pause it from somewhere else.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yes, I will. I will do that.

[Dan]

And I made sure it worked this week.

[Linus Sebastian]

Wow. Dan.

[Dan]

I did the bare minimum.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. Good job, Good job. No, I think. I think that goes beyond bare minimum. I think that's minimum, not bare. That's a clothed minimum.

[Dan]

Thank you.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay, Are we doing this?

[Linus Sebastian]

I was just gonna let it kind of hang here awkwardly.

[Luke Lafreniere]

We don't have to do that.

[Linus Sebastian]

We could, we could.

[Dan]

No, it's fine.

[Linus Sebastian]

All right, here we go.

[Dan]

Okay, so if you play that, they should hear it.

[Linus Sebastian]

You should hear it. Whoa. That was gnarly. Hey, you want what the just happened. I have told that guy so many times. Not at work.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It was off hours. Don't worry about it. I think. Do you know, look, he actually makes it okay.

[Linus Sebastian]

He has disclosed this publicly. He has had, like, so many concussions. Every time he's like, linus, I could do a backflip. I'm gonna do a backflip. I want to do a backflip on stream. I'm gonna do that. I'm like, no, no, I don't. I. It is not worth the damage you could do to your brain.

[Luke Lafreniere]

How did you allow this to happen?

[Linus Sebastian]

That was not during work hours. It doesn't matter. Don't encourage this behavior. Do you know what happened last time he fell down the stairs?

[Luke Lafreniere]

I don't know.

[Linus Sebastian]

He missed work for like two months, but then he blew up. Now he's beloved boy. That is not the point.

[Luke Lafreniere]

What's your takeaway from that?

[Linus Sebastian]

It was a funny edit. Sorry, K. There you go, guys.

[Dan]

Hurting yourself at work is a path to fame here.

[Linus Sebastian]

No. I don't know.

[Luke Lafreniere]

No, that's what he made it sound like. Yes.

[Linus Sebastian]

No. I do not approve of this. Anyway, let's just finish the thing. Want to learn more fun facts about me? Tune into floatplane for Riley week all next week. Here's some fun clips. Gotta get the blood up. The core issue with Star wars today, as I see it, is that it's struggling to change itself. How is your Tim Cook impression so good?

[Luke Lafreniere]

I don't know.

[Linus Sebastian]

The ship is not moving. Shoot the ship. What does being a minimalist actually mean? We're gonna be so loud. I'm gonna be so disruptive. Bing bong. How is Riley's mom? Oh, you keep my mom's name out. You. Wow, those were great. You want more? Subscribe to float plane. I'm talking to you, Linus. What? I'm subscrib. I'm subscribed to float plane.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Not technically.

[Linus Sebastian]

Well, yeah, I think I'm subscribed enough. Yeah, I think when you sign the checks to the development team, you're effectively subscribed.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I don't think so, actually.

[Linus Sebastian]

All right, for those of you who don't know what people weeks are, it's when we dedicate a week of floatplane exclusives to one person with the addition of an extra float plane exclusive. So that's three extras rather than the usual two. A week Riley week includes an 18 minute Star wars rant, office interviews, and answering your very own questions about Riley. Can you guess which one was his idea?

[Luke Lafreniere]

18 minute Star Wars Rant.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I like how they put a time.

[Linus Sebastian]

On it because Riley spent an immense amount of time writing his Star wars rant. It was six pages. So please give him love and support by going to LMG. GG Riley 24.

[Luke Lafreniere]

What does that do?

[Linus Sebastian]

I have no idea. All right, Dan, hit us with a topic. You know what, Luke, hit us with a topic.

[Dan]

I'm gonna interject here. I got a message from Sammy. The float plane wallpapers are currently unlisted.

[Linus Sebastian]

We'll talk about them later.

[Dan]

Distribute them later.

[Linus Sebastian]

We'll talk about them later.

[Dan]

As long as it's in your brain. Another topic? Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. Okay. What do you want to Talk about, Luke? YouTube Premium prices are on the rise.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, it was such a good positive show so far.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay, okay. Let's go with something else. Intel Lunar Lake. No, it's actually. No, it actually looks amazing. Yeah. Yeah. Multiple outlets have now benchmarked Intel's core Ultra Series 2 or Lunar Lake CPUs. At least the Ultra 7 258V. Unintelligible product names aside.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Insane.

[Linus Sebastian]

The performance appears to fall behind AMD's top end Ryzen AI 9HX370. But it is worth noting that this isn't the most performant Lunar Lake SKU. That would be the Ultra 9 288V. But intel didn't send that one out for comparison testing. Despite this, the arc graphics 140v igpu is apparently both faster and more efficient than the Ryzen radio. Than Ryzen's Radeon. Oh, God. What'd you do? Than Ryzen's Radeon 890M? According to notebook check. That is only a little bit exciting. You know, I personally don't necessarily need, you know, 8% faster mobile. I mean, I won't say no to it. That's fantastic. But what that. What actually makes me excited about that is maybe Battle Mage won't suck. Oh, maybe Battle Mage Dedicated won't suck. Maybe Nvidia will have some pressure on them. Come on, come on, come on. I really need ARC graphics to be good. And the other thing is that the battery life apparently rivals that of the Snapdragon laptops. They've tested PC World, ran it through their standard video rundown test, looping a 4K video at fixed brightness, and Lunar Lake lasted 21 hours on a 73 watt hour battery. You know what, I gotta tell you, Framework investment aside, I never stopped using my Qualcomm laptop. Like, dude, I love. Watch this, watch this. I'm gonna show You. A magic trick. Just wait. Just wait. It's a good magic trick. It's a good trick. Okay, watch.

[Dan]

Go for it.

[Linus Sebastian]

Exciting trick.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It's not very fast.

[Linus Sebastian]

Look at that. It's. It's not about the speed. It's about the quality of the trick. I'm a quality trick. Not fast, though. Not a fast trick. Look at that. My battery isn't dead. Yeah, dude, if you were me. If you were me, okay, this needs.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So much more story around it, this trick of yours.

[Linus Sebastian]

If you were me, okay, you would know that any other laptop in my backpack, if I pulled it out, it would be dead.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, okay.

[Linus Sebastian]

Because I am really bad about charging it and I just. When I'm using it, I just, like, leave it on for long periods of time because I'll be like referring back to it for notes and so it'll just. My laptop is just always dead. Except this laptop. This laptop, always alive. I love it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I just have my same, like, very old at this point laptop that I just drag the cable around everywhere for and plug in in every room I go to.

[Linus Sebastian]

Dude, it's awesome. MacBook battery life is a game changer and I would have loved to enjoy it for the last few years, except I just can't macOS. I'm. I'm. I just, I. I just can't. Like. And the funny thing is I think that that was only because the last time I tried or thought about it was like three or four years ago. Now I probably could macOS because pretty much everything I do has transitioned. Has transitioned to a browser. In fact, I was kind of thinking my next challenge might be a Chromebook challenge. Oh, I have never. I've never really given Chrome OS a daily driver treatment. Like a real fair shake. And these days, like, yeah, I'm using Windows, but I'm using Windows with limited compatibility. If I'm going to use something with limited compatibility, I might as well open up my horizons to Mac or Linux or Chrome OS. Not Linux yet. I'm waiting for SteamOS. I want SteamOS before I Linux again.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Chromebooks are.

[Linus Sebastian]

What the heck Chromebooks cost? Nothing, dude. I mean, part of that is because they just use cheaper, crappier hardware.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, but still, like a hundred bucks.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, I mean, that's refurbished. That's refurbished. Come on. But still.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yes, actually notice that part.

[Linus Sebastian]

You're nude.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Is that the new fun name for refurbished? Is that what that is?

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Wow.

[Linus Sebastian]

It's renewed. It wasn't new, but now it is renewed. It's new again.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That shouldn't have been allowed.

[Linus Sebastian]

Anyway, in other news for intel, the company released another micro code update to protect Raptor Lake CPUs from crashing. Specifically, it prevents the CPU from asking for too much power when it's sitting idle or performing light tasks. So. Yeah, well, good luck for them. I wish them luck with all of those things. I'm. I'm actually pretty. I'm pretty. I know it's stupid and, and it, and it maybe, maybe it's. No, it's not stupid. I know that it doesn't affect me personally because realistically I'm gonna. I'm gonna go for a 5080 or a 5090 this next gen. I. I swore I wouldn't go 40 series and I didn't. But I am still running 30 series or AMD and I am. I'm. I'm ready. Bottom H. I'm ready. I don't think there's going to be a high end skew and I would. I would like a high end. I. We shot a sponsored video this week and again, you know, investment, sponsorship, whatever, all of that aside, I upgraded to a 480Hz OLED. So good. So good dude. So I. I want a faster gpu. I would like a faster GPU so that I can enjoy more of that. That super high refresh rate, high frame rate goodness. And I'll probably upgrade my CPU too. Even though I've already got a 7950X. Like I'm probably going to want to go X3D. What I'm hoping is that 50 series and 9000X3D will drop it around the same time or. I mean. Well, yeah, when is. When is Core Ultra 2 or whatever? When is the desktop Core Ultra rumored to be landing anyway? I haven't checked lately, but I'm kind of hoping it'll all line up.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Handyman is saying that there's 5090 leaks.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh yeah. Oh yeah. It's supposed to be like we don't really do leaks on wan show anymore. I don't know if you guys noticed that we don't really like do Rumor Miller leaks, but I don't even even know that. Yeah, well, I mean we don't.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, yeah, you're not wrong.

[Linus Sebastian]

It's just because we don't care. Like we can talk about it once it's out.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Pretty true.

[Linus Sebastian]

And a lot of the time the problem with us reporting on leaks is that we would like no. So it created a bit of a.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Weird little muddy trying to remember what you read online versus what you were told. Yeah. And knowing where the line is. Yeah, it is a little sketch.

[Linus Sebastian]

I don't know anything firsthand. About 5090 though. So what I heard is that it's supposed to be 600 watts, but a real daddy chip though, so 512 bit bus. Whoa, 32 gigs GDDR7. That's the current rumor. But are they going to put real.

[Dan]

Power cables into it?

[Linus Sebastian]

No, it's probably still going to be. I heard they might even do two of the high voltage, high voltage power connectors, so we'll see how that goes. What else we got today?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Did we actually do all the announcements? I don't think we did. Did we do.

[Linus Sebastian]

No, but let's give them a break from announcements. There's a lot of announcements this week.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Cool. US Bans Chinese Cars and Kaspersky Becomes the Malware the current White House administration is planning to ban certain hardware and software made in China and Russia from vehicles due to the risks of surveillance and sabotage. The official press release expresses concern that foreign adversaries could gather information on both American citizens and critical infrastructure valid perhaps to disrupt the operations of said infrastructure.

[Linus Sebastian]

Valid.

[Luke Lafreniere]

The proposal specifically mentions banning automated driving systems, suggesting the White House fears vehicles themselves could be used for possible sabotage. Somebody watched a little bit of Fast and the Furious around the same time, Russian cybersecurity company Casper started uninstalling its antivirus software from American computers to comply with its own US Ban. But the company also installed a different antivirus software on said computers. While Kaspersky did tell customers via email their existing subscriptions would be transferred to alternative antivirus software, Ultra AV users claimed the auto installation wasn't mentioned. However, Pango Group, owner of Ultra av, claims that Kaspersky communicated the transition to users starting on September 5, including an in app pop up stating Ultra AV protection will be automatically activated on your device. Which I would immediately think that my computer had been hacked to all heck.

[Linus Sebastian]

100% ultra AV protection doesn't even sound like a real thing. No, not at all. I'm sure it is, but that it's not what we use and we have a team of people who determines what antivirus we use. So that's not something I've looked into a lot personally. I'm just saying that if you don't follow, you know the antivirus industry, that could easily sound like yeah, that sounds like fake.

[Luke Lafreniere]

To be fair, a few of them do sound kind of fake. This is true. Some crowdstrike.

[Linus Sebastian]

Do you know Sentinel One?

[Luke Lafreniere]

They're all like so intense.

[Linus Sebastian]

Do you know how many years I called. No, never mind. Go ahead.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Ninja 1 and Sentinel 1 also being from two different companies blows my mind recently. Anyways.

[Linus Sebastian]

Vikas says I'm pro it and I've never heard of it, so I don't even feel that bad.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, some users were especially freaked out because after using a third party uninstaller app to completely remove Ultra av, it just reinstalled itself after they rebooted. Whoa. Very cool.

[Linus Sebastian]

That is actual malware. That is the definition of malware. Something that installs itself without user intervention and without user consent. I mean, is that not malware?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Well, it could be a form. Like in. In their defense, it could be a form of, like it said, a third party uninstaller app. Right. So it could be a defense. If you're an antivirus, do you want third party uninstaller apps to be able to uninstall you? Yeah, probably not. I will, I will. In their defense, I will put that out there. Like, if you use the actual uninstaller.

[Linus Sebastian]

I'd still be freaked out.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yes, 100%. But I think I kind of get it.

[Linus Sebastian]

Especially if I knew anything about like, you know, Kaspersky and the whole situation that's gone down with them and why they like aren't allowed in the United States anymore and stuff. Just, just the whole thing feeling sketchy, you know. Yeah, okay.

[Luke Lafreniere]

There's a. Yeah, there's a. There's a work conversation buried in there somewhere, but we'll deal with that another time. Reboot, remaster, update.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, we could talk about that. Did we talk about that on the show, Dan?

[Luke Lafreniere]

I don't think so.

[Dan]

It was a topic for last week, but we didn't get to it. So it's continued into this week.

[Linus Sebastian]

That's right. Okay, let's talk about it. We have been in the background providing a little bit of assistance. I don't want to give ourselves credit for the restoration because that goes to other people. But we've been trying to help. We've been trying to help Mark from Disappearing Inc. And the Reboot Rewind Documentary team with their project to create high quality versions of the classic 1994 CGI TV series reboot. A few months ago, we reached out to the community for help getting the D1 machines in their possession running. They have since given us an update on their progress and some side by side comparison screenshots. They have one of three D1 machines running and they have captured a few of the 200 plus tapes. The tapes do require some tender love and care because the Magnetic media is showing signs of degradation, which is a good reminder of how physical media will degrade over time. And modernization is always an ongoing effort. We have sourced and now possess a full schematic set and user manual. Huge thanks to the community for all the leads and a good reminder to support archival sites. And the tapes and the contents are still the property of the original studio mainframe, so the captured results are released as approved by Mainframe. This is their intellectual property, but we do have some comparison images that I would be happy to show to you guys. Check this out. Here we go.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Do the slider. Do the slider. It's a slider.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, yeah. Here we go.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Here we go.

[Linus Sebastian]

Here we go.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It's insanely better, dude. Wow.

[Linus Sebastian]

This is what the artist. This is what the artist created. This is what 1994 technology could do via broadcast. Dude, dude, they look.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That is so sick.

[Linus Sebastian]

They look so good.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That's wicked.

[Linus Sebastian]

Dude, dude, dude, dude. Stuff like this. Oh, look how sharp that is. Look how sharp that is. I need. I need to rewatch this. Here's the first remastered episode on YouTube. Hopefully we don't get in trouble for this because, like, please don't. Like, we. I swear we did help a little bit. We didn't do that much, but we did help a little bit. So please don't. Dude. Even me watching through YouTube and you guys watching through my crappy stream, you guys are going to be able to see that this is so much better. So much better. Absolutely sick. Yeah. Yeah. It's an hd. Ah. So exciting. We are. We are extremely happy to be even a small part of this restoration effort. So massive shout out to the Reboot Rewind documentary team and Mark from Disappearing Ink. What else we got for this week, Mr. Luke? Do you want to do a couple. Oh, no.

[Luke Lafreniere]

IPhone.

[Linus Sebastian]

It's time for me to get mad.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh.

[Linus Sebastian]

It was brought to our attention. So shout out to the subreddit that Ghost Keyboards used a photo of me alongside a falsely attributed quote endorsing their product. I'm actually just going to try and find. Let me see if I can track this down. Here it is.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I can get it in the dock if you need. Okay.

[Linus Sebastian]

Got this ad from Ghost Keyboards. So this best keyboard I have ever used with creepy mustache Photoshop thing. This is a capture from Elijah's AMD Ultimate Tech Upgrade. And they are promoting this. This keyboard and they did a sale on it or whatever else. So here's the situation. If this was just like a meme and obviously fake and just posted on their Instagram, which they did. They did also post it on Instagram. That would be one thing, in my opinion. It was not obviously enough fake for one thing. For another thing, the quote, okay, if it was just the image, it's already our intellectual property being used for commercial purposes. That is. That is absolutely not fair use. The quote makes it much worse because not only in that video did I not say it was the best keyboard I had ever used. I advocated against buying it, and I discussed with Elijah that I felt that it was not very good quality for the money. So that's issue number two. Issue number three is that aside from them posting it as a meme on their Instagram or whatever else, there was a clear call to action for people to purchase this keyboard based on the image. And issue number four is that it was also sent soliciting members of their email mailing list to buy the key to. Yeah, to purchase the keyboard. This goes so far beyond sort of. We didn't know better. Or like engagement bait or community engagement or soft collaboration or whatever the case may be. I know that there's a number of people internally who thought it was funny. I didn't think it was funny. I think that if it was clearly marked that I did not think the keyboard was a good value. I did not think that it was something that people should buy. And if they were kind of memeing on that. Linus says, don't buy this keyboard. We disagree. Buy it. Whatever else. There was potentially angles where this could kind of work. At the very least, we should have gotten a heads up. We didn't. It just appeared not cool. They have done at least one thing right since then. Colton reached out to them via LinkedIn. I believe they apologized and they have removed the post from Instagram. I personally think there should be a public retraction and a correction of the record. I would like to see that happen. Oh, it's Ghost Keyboards. Those of you asking who exactly this was at this point, you know, if that doesn't happen, then I'm not going to. I'm not going to threaten any form of legal action or whatever else it is. They've already removed the offending material. However, I consider this a pretty solid first strike here, and I don't think we'd be open to collaborating with them in any way, any form until they have publicly set the record straight on this. Not cool. Ghost keyboards. Not cool. What else we got?

[Luke Lafreniere]

IPhones are like repairable or something. Dude, that's really cool.

[Linus Sebastian]

IPhone 16 got a 7 out of 10 repairability score from Ifixit.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That's crazy. Apple has launched its iPhone 1616 lineup, which has demonstrated a significant improvement over the iPhone 15 in terms of repairability. IFixit has given the 16 and 16 plus a rating of 7 out of 10 compared to the 4 out of 10 that it gave to their predecessors. It's an actually, like, enormous jump. Perhaps the most notable change is to the device's battery adhesive.

[Linus Sebastian]

This is so cool.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Adhesive debonds on command.

[Linus Sebastian]

This is so cool.

[Luke Lafreniere]

This is genuinely very cool. When an electric current is run through.

[Linus Sebastian]

It, it's so cool. Dude. Sorry. Sorry, I interrupted.

[Luke Lafreniere]

No, it's fine.

[Linus Sebastian]

No, I'm going to interrupt. Okay. I get so angry when I see Apple reinventing the wheel just to, like, screw people over.

[Luke Lafreniere]

This is sick.

[Linus Sebastian]

Just to make the device incompatible with a third party, you know, version that costs a third as much, you know, Apple has colossal, monumental, enormous engineering resources at their disposal. And when they use it to work against the interests of the consumer, it drives me absolutely crazy because this is what they could have been doing. That is so cool.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So cool.

[Linus Sebastian]

That is so cool.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Huh?

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay, go ahead.

[Luke Lafreniere]

While this will require users to acquire a new tool, it allows for cleaning. A clean, easily repeatable process for removing the battery. That limits the potential for unintentional damage during repair.

[Linus Sebastian]

And it makes it safer. Those pillow batteries, they can be extremely dangerous if they're bent too much or they're punctured. If they're punctured, this improves safety. Not just. Not for the user. This time, it's for the technician. It's out of consideration of the people who work on these bloody things, apparently. Good job, Apple.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Apparently, the adhesive tape is a product.

[Linus Sebastian]

But I don't care.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It doesn't really matter.

[Linus Sebastian]

It's just cool. They integrated it into their device. They did the validation. They did. They did the work. It's done. It's in the product. It benefits the user. I love it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

The removal process is similar to jumping a car battery and requires a pair of alligator clip leads attached to a 12 to 30 volt power source. The user attaches the black cable to a grounding screw near the phone's charging port, then attaches the red cable to a special tab on the battery. Really? The current will cause a chemical reaction that debonds the adhesive and allows the battery to easily detach from the device after around a minute and a half. These batteries also use a hard steel case instead of a soft pouch, reducing the possibility of puncturing the battery.

[Linus Sebastian]

Also cool dude, are we. Are we on the timeline where Apple goes back to like, like battery packs? I mean, we're slowly making our way there.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I'd be down with it. There's so many times that like, I catch myself constantly walking around with my phone tethered to a battery bank.

[Linus Sebastian]

It apparently works with lower voltages. You can just use a 9 volt battery and just.

[Luke Lafreniere]

If you can do that, then you don't really need a special tool.

[Linus Sebastian]

So cool. Yeah, so cool.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Which is awesome. The. The Pro's battery doesn't feature the new adhesive, but does. But does have the steel case. The Pro Max has no battery improvements. Really?

[Linus Sebastian]

Probably because they stuffed as much battery in as possible. That thing gets 27 hours of video playback.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Holy crap.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. So, okay.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Nonetheless, both now incorporate the dual entry design that debuted with the iPhone 14, which allows the phone to be opened from the front or the back, which allows many repairs to avoid removing the fragile screen, which is cool. IOS18 also has a new repair assistant. While the feature is currently a little buggy, it allows users to independently calibrate replacement parts so that the device will recognize them.

[Linus Sebastian]

It's cool.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That is cool. The company is also making device repairs easier by no longer requiring the device device's serial number, in some cases adding a section of settings that shows users the history of the device's parts and repairs. That's cool. Yeah, why not? It's also introducing an anti theft feature to block the repair if the new part was from a phone that had been reported as lost or stolen. I'm also down with that.

[Linus Sebastian]

This started off with Apple just fixing its own problem that it created and then ended. Pretty cool.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

If they can actually enforce this. I mean, that's the thing about sleazy, you know, black market people is they're gonna find a way around this. But sometimes race. Hey, you know what? I. This overall seems like what they're doing is good.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yes.

[Linus Sebastian]

And. And in. In to the benefit of their customer rather than just to milk their customer. I mean they. They are going to milk you, but they're gonna at least milk you to your benefit. It's a mutually beneficial milking. What are we supposed to be talking about?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Should we. Should we talk about the.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh my God, we haven't done sponsors yet.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay.

[Linus Sebastian]

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[Dan]

You're welcome.

[Linus Sebastian]

How's your, how's your fingies doing this week?

[Dan]

They're pretty good. We've sold a lot of cargo pants.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Dan]

Seem to like them.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, cargo pants.

[Dan]

They seem good so far.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I've been sitting in them for about two hours. They're comfy.

[Dan]

That's good. That's good. Nice.

[Linus Sebastian]

Luke didn't get any of the pre production samples so he's just trying them now.

[Dan]

Yeah. On the topic of.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh no, here it comes.

[Dan]

No, I was gonna save that for later.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, all right.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh fine.

[Dan]

What Luke, how is Star Wars Outlaws?

[Linus Sebastian]

Last week, those of you who don't have the context. Last week Luke was like, oh yeah?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Why was it this week?

[Linus Sebastian]

I think so. Why is everybody hating so hard on this? I fired it up and I went around the like opening area and it seems pretty good. And I logged off. And then this week he showed up on wan show set. He goes, I logged back in and I'm bored.

[Luke Lafreniere]

The lock picking mechanic is amazing. I will die on that hill. The lock picking mechanic is incredible. It's the best one I've ever ran into in a game ever personally. It's great. And then you start needing to do more stuff in the game at all and it's like ah, okay, I'm done. I don't know. It's like, it's, it's very much, you know that old like meme about MMOs where they're like ah yes, here's a new quest to get me that book across the room.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

You have to walk over and grab it and bring it back. It's very much like, like why don't.

[Linus Sebastian]

You use the force to get it? Yeah, you jackass.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, it's just like, I don't know, it's. I don't think it's as bad as most people are saying, but it's. I don't know, it's okay.

[Linus Sebastian]

Cool. That's a ringing endorsement. It's fine for a like seventy, eighty dollar game.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. I mean it's better than, better than a lot of other Star wars stuff coming out.

[Linus Sebastian]

A ringing endorsement.

[Luke Lafreniere]

But, yeah, I don't know. Get the Sabacc cheats, if you haven't already. What I'm probably going to do now is not launch it again.

[Dan]

Uninstall it.

[Linus Sebastian]

Best mod.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Just, I've got other things going on I don't have the time for. For games that are all right right now, unfortunately. But, yeah, I don't know. Maybe I'll play it again someday.

[Linus Sebastian]

But you probably won't.

[Luke Lafreniere]

How's Final Fantasy 6 going? Good. Enjoying it more than. Than. What is it even called? Outlaws.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. Oh. How far are you now?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Where am I?

[Linus Sebastian]

Thanks for helping me keep him accountable. I finished all of my stuff like you had years ago.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So much less stuff to do like.

[Linus Sebastian]

A year ago, though.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That's fair.

[Linus Sebastian]

Dude, you've had so long. Like, you're at this rate, you're gonna take longer to beat it than I did. And I took like 10 years because I first got it when I was like, six.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I. I have free use of the airship. I was older. I was older than that now. And we just went through the long series of effectively cinematics. They're not technically, but effectively cinematics of. Of you talking to the man. What are they called again? Espers. You see, the esper, like realm and the. You make. You make a baby.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, yeah, you do.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And you, like, go through all those steps and then I have free use of the airship. And right now I'm trying not to, like, you know, just Google everything. So they're like, yeah, go to that place. I'm like, you got the map?

[Linus Sebastian]

I gave you the map.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I do.

[Linus Sebastian]

He's got the paper map from my physical copy.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Based on that, I figured out where it was, flew over there, landed the ship, and then logged off.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. Okay.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So that's where I'm at. So I haven't actually entered the place to figure out if I actually did find it or not, but I don't know. Educated guess.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay, so who's your. Who's your mains?

[Luke Lafreniere]

What is his name? Okay, so the. The traitor chick that has rooted. I'm not gonna remember any.

[Linus Sebastian]

No, I'm kidding. Cells is great.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay. Yeah, she's one of them. The. The guy that has the. What is it? Blitz moves.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. 7.

[Luke Lafreniere]

He's my favorite one so far. I really like the. Whatever the one is that sends a bunch of him across the screen when they're on fire.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, fire dance. Yep, yep.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That one's great. I don't think it's actually called that.

[Linus Sebastian]

No, it's not. I'm. I'm like, some of the characters names are even different. So I'm going original. Like SNES. Final Fantasy 3.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

And he's talking Final Fantasy 6. Yeah, yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And then the other one is he uses tools and he has autocrossbow.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. Edgar.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. So those are the four I tend to run.

[Linus Sebastian]

That was four.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Well, and then.

[Linus Sebastian]

Wait, I think that was three.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That was three. So then who's my. Oh, and the thief guy. But he like, sucks.

[Linus Sebastian]

Well, why do you main him then?

[Luke Lafreniere]

I don't main him. He's been with me for a while now because of how the story's been going.

[Linus Sebastian]

I see. Okay.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay. Don't, don't, don't tell him, you guys. Don't tell him.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, I'm assuming he, like, gets good or something. I try to steal all the time. It never does anything, but I'm like, I want to try. So I try at least one version of like every mob that I fight, I will try to steal from. I think it's worked once the whole game.

[Linus Sebastian]

Dude, stealing from mobs is a complete waste of time. Don't even bother. They never have anything good.

[Luke Lafreniere]

They never have anything.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, that too.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Why can you even do it?

[Linus Sebastian]

There's the occasional one that's good, like the fossil fangs you can steal. I think it's. I think it's like elixirs or something from them. Okay. As long as you can get it before they like zombie your whole party and you just die. There's like, there's stuff that's good to steal from, but for the most part, it's a waste of time.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I just, I'm trying to be very thorough. So like, I think I told you in that one town near the beginning of the game, I was trying to figure out, like, you know, you bring the guy alcohol and then he lets you do whatever, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And it turns out I was doing it like too early. You're supposed to do it the next time you come back or whatever. So I'm like, I'm trying to be very thorough. I'm talking to everybody. I'm doing everything, so I don't want to miss something because I didn't try to steal. So I'm just. Every combat.

[Linus Sebastian]

All right.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Almost, you know, when you. When I run into a repeat, I don't do it again.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, okay. Okay. But nice. All right, well, glad you're enjoying it. It is. It is truly one of my favorite games of all time.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, it's Been. It's been good.

[Linus Sebastian]

You've played Chrono Trigger, right?

[Luke Lafreniere]

No.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, my God. You know, I had our. I had a really good. I had a really good chat with Carl Jacobs at Creator Summit. Yeah, he is an appreciator of quality games. I don't know. I think I would trust him for game recommendations over you. I'm sorry, but you just. You're not familiar enough with the classics.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Did you like Titanfall?

[Linus Sebastian]

Yes, I did two. Titanfall two. He made me play the single player campaign. All right. Yeah. What was the question? Oh, yeah. Okay. Okay, Dan, carry on.

[Dan]

We have a Star. Star Wars. How like Star Wars? Hello, lld. Will there be at any point an LTT belt for the cargo pants?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Is this an actual product from us? Oh. Oh, that was perfectly timed. I don't know how we did that.

[Dan]

I want one so bad.

[Linus Sebastian]

The answer is no. We have not been able to find a supplier that meets my standards for, like, I was excited, cracking, and. Or delamination. And part of this might just be the nature of leather goods, but I. It's just. It's this, like. It's this, like, top plasticky layer that basically everyone and their dog wants to put on them. And I think we ended up trying, like, between four and six different suppliers just looking for someone who. Who could give me something that was just a big old, thick piece of cod, you know, like just that nothing else and nobody could do it and. Yeah, because, like, if you look at it, it's just, like, it's a mess.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, yeah, I know. I can tell.

[Linus Sebastian]

And this is the kind of thing that I just. I wouldn't be. I wouldn't be comfortable selling.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Buddy from the island that made us. These is probably screaming right now.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, I mean, I'm sure if we wanted to, like, you know, artisan, you know, make way too expensive 23 belts. Sell 23 belts a year or whatever. Like, I'm sure could figure it out.

[Luke Lafreniere]

But no, you just need to get natural leather. Not finished leather.

[Dan]

Well, make them out of metal, like a watch band.

[Linus Sebastian]

Maybe we'll figure it out another time. But the other thing is, like, back to our conversation earlier about how one of the things that we look for in any category is, you know, what are we adding to the conversation? I couldn't figure out what we were adding to the conversation if, like, Strap O leather already exists. Like, my old Kirkland belt lasted a really long time. Do I really want to go toe to toe with Costco? Maybe not.

[Luke Lafreniere]

What about shirts?

[Linus Sebastian]

Shirts? Yeah, our shirts are Great.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dan]

Make a great belt.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, well. Well, we haven't found the right great supplier yet.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I'm just saying that doesn't mean you can just never do bel.

[Linus Sebastian]

Belts. You're right. You're right. And. And if we succeed at pants for the first time ever, maybe there's. Then maybe we will look at belts. Sure.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So far, that's reasonable. That's very reasonable.

[Linus Sebastian]

So far, cargo pants are looking like they are going to be a success. And if that happens, then, yeah, we want to. We want to do more inseams. We want to. We want to do. Sure, yeah. Belts. Yeah, no, I know they're. They're a little short on you. Yep, yep, duly noted. I get it. The good news is we've so far sold through probably about a fifth of our inventory, so.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Nice.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, we might move through them all, in which case. Yeah, we might be able to restock some other sizes.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Cool.

[Dan]

All right, how about one more? What do we got here?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Sure.

[Linus Sebastian]

Hit me, Dan.

[Dan]

Hey, DLL. I wanted to order a DualSense 30th anniversary controller this week, but they sold out, apparently mostly to scalpers. What can companies like Sony do to combat this relatively shitty behavior?

[Linus Sebastian]

Hey, Dan.

[Dan]

I'm sorry. I just read what was on the prompter. That was my fault.

[Linus Sebastian]

Whoops. Jesus.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Is it really just gray?

[Linus Sebastian]

What? Just gray?

[Luke Lafreniere]

What if you just got.

[Linus Sebastian]

No, no, it has a. It comes with a cool cable.

[Dan]

Dang it.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, it can't be. Scroll down, see if they have a picture of the cable. Where's the cool charging cable? I thought it comes with a cool charging cable. There's a whole conversation internally about this. I thought it comes with a cool USB C cable. Oh, wait. Cable not included. Seriously? Okay, well, what happened to the cool cable? Just.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Just go get gray skin for your controller. I mean, sorry, it's PS1 Gray. I'm sure somebody sells PS1 Gray skins. Probably.

[Linus Sebastian]

I don't know, dude. I. This is one of those things where. And you know what? Yeah, the behavior, like, sucks. People who actually want it should be the ones who have it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Totally. But also, it is very difficult to stop.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, I mean, we tried and I actually think we did a really great job, but it wasn't perfect. And, you know, for example, one of the things that was pointed out about the Verified Actual Gamer program, where we had people, like, play a game essentially as, like, the ultimate recaptcha, to prove that you were not only a human, but a gamer. One of the things that was pointed out to us after the first Few of them was, it's not really accessible. You know, someone could be a gamer, but, like, not be able to interface. Yeah. Interface with their computer that way. And we were like, okay, shoot. I'm like, what do you do to be accessible enough for every person, but also not easily defeated by a program? Right. It's really, really challenging, and I guess it kind of is what it is. And the good news is that it is a 30th anniversary controller. It is not water.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. You'll be all right.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, it's.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I understand. People are educating me. Apparently, the buttons are colored, and they're not always colored. Sometimes their gray controller looks like that, and now it looks like that because the buttons are colored.

[Linus Sebastian]

But, guys, you're not going to convince Luke with that argument. I think you'll be on his face.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I think you'll be okay. Yeah, I just. I don't know, man. Oh, I was expecting it to be, like, wicked. And then when you were like, oh, it's the cable, I was like, okay, this is gonna be sick. And then it's gray.

[Linus Sebastian]

The cable's pretty cool Here, let me see if I can find this here.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Luke is not nostalgic. No, I am. It's just. Okay. That is pretty cool.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. So it's a lot more than the controller. It comes with the console that.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, that actually looks pretty legit. I like that.

[Linus Sebastian]

But this is. This is a toy. You know, it's an expensive toy for adults, but it. But it's a toy. And I.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It's not even a toy that provides access because you can just have any other controller. Like, it's not like, you know, when. When PS5s themselves were being scalped and no one could get a PS5.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. Like, to be clear, I like cool controllers.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, me too.

[Linus Sebastian]

I really do. Like my favorite of my Xbox controllers, of which I own probably somewhere between a dozen and 15 is the one that went out to the people who developed the console. A handful of them, flipped them. And you know what? I paid way too much money for that controller. But realistically, it was a fraction of what I paid for my most expensive controller.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So that's a. It's a bit of an investment.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. If anyone wants to buy a golden Xbox controller, by the way, the previous buyer flaked, so, you know, get in touch.

[Luke Lafreniere]

He gold flaked.

[Linus Sebastian]

It's very much for sale.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Didn't you want that Gears of War Xbox controller? Yeah, and I got it.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. But just like. I don't know, but the Gears of.

[Luke Lafreniere]

War Xbox controller has, like claw marks in the controller that go into the plastic. Like they're.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, they actually did a different mold for it, at least.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

So that's something.

[Luke Lafreniere]

This is. This. It is a cool controller. It has the retro PlayStation logo with the. With the colors on it and stuff like that that they should have never ditched, et cetera. But it's also. It's just a great controller.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay. I mean. Oh, okay. So confirm pre order. So you have to pay $150 on top of the like $80. It is for the controller or whatever.

[Luke Lafreniere]

On top of.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, I would assume so.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Really?

[Linus Sebastian]

Confirmed order. Yeah. Are you buying an order? You're buying or are you buying the controller? Oh, apparently that. That Gears one was laser etched, so.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay. Okay. Either way, like they're doing. So it was different. It was cool.

[Dan]

Like nostalgia baiting.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. Oh, it's. Dude, it's 100. Nostalgia baiting. Yeah, a hundred percent. So you got.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And it's sick. If you were gonna buy a controller anyways, this is a cool controller, but.

[Linus Sebastian]

If you pay a bunch of money, you're getting nostalgia debated. Yeah, Stall debated.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I got it. It's pretty good.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, it was pretty good. I was reaching for it a little bit. All right, we got a couple more topics here. Why don't we talk about the Concorde.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Controller is cooler than the game was. That looks pretty neat. Kind of funny that they're selling these.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, it's kind of cool. Why don't we talk about our friend in the industry? Ah, yes, the big controversy this week. The one, the only, MKBHD released a wallpaper app for your phone. Okay. IOS and Android. And a significant portion of the community was quite, let's say, put out.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

About this situation.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Their rebels were roused.

[Linus Sebastian]

This is one of those things where, you know, honestly speaking, guys, I, you know, I'm not going to comment on the business decisions of, you know, a fellow creator, but what I will say is it was very clear that the community was not happy about the option for a $50 a year premium subscription that effectively paywalled the maximum quality of these wallpapers for people who were not interested in that. There was also some upset around some of the requested permissions of the particular app. There was some commentary and some observations around the quality of the app. Yeah, I believe that it turned out. Is it true that it was functionally just linking to a shared Google Drive?

[Luke Lafreniere]

It was a Firebase download server, but there was no authentication on it, so anyone could just download it and people Set up bots to scrape it because they were talking about how they were going to do, you know, I don't remember exactly the details, so I'm sorry, but like some type of. Part of the idea of the subscription is that they were gonna drop new like artist packs and things like that so you could get new wallpapers all the time. So people set up bots that were scraping it, which, because they never signed any type of agreement or anything, technically, they didn't technically even bypass anything.

[Linus Sebastian]

It's technically legal then. Yeah, there was also some upset about the revenue share, which from my understanding was 5050. And then even going into the hours leading up to this show, there has been some upset that Marques himself didn't really properly address the community's concerns on the latest waveform podcast. So that's kind of the summary that, that. I think that's probably the best summary I can give you guys of why people are upset. I'll give sort of a short devil's advocate argument here. At least they're not NFTs.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, yeah. Honestly, they did give you just a straight up download of the.

[Linus Sebastian]

I think the word scam is one that gets overused a lot these days. I saw a lot of people describe the wallpaper app as a scam. What it is not a scam. What it is, is, for a lot of people, probably not a great value. What it isn't is a scam.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It communicates pretty clearly what you're going.

[Linus Sebastian]

To get and what you're going to give up.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

And if that's a value proposition that is acceptable to you, then it's not a scam. Then you are more than welcome to pay it. And if that is not a value proposition, then you are more than welcome to not pay it. That is not a scam. A scam is representing something as something that it isn't a scam. Would be if I said, go to LTT store right now and every order comes with a free this secret skin that I have on the back of my phone and then it just still wondering about. And then it just didn't arrive. Yeah, that would be a scam. Yeah, it isn't a scam. Hobblestaff says, but Linus, is there a line where something is bad enough value that it becomes a scam? No, that is not what scam means. Scam means that you have been deceived. You have not been deceived. You are getting image files, you are sending money and permissions on your phone. Those things are all disclosed. Therefore it is not a scam. It's not your thing, it's not your bag baby, but it isn't a scam. Does that kind of make sense? No. Some people don't. See, some people don't seem to understand this.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I looked up scam, fraudulent or deceptive, act or operation.

[Linus Sebastian]

Vin says by the same argument $1,000 HDMI cables are not a scam. Well, they can or they can't be. If they claim to give you better audio quality or better video quality, then they are a scam. Because they don't do that. If they are just expensive and they literally just say there are thousand dollar HDMI cables that make you feel a warm feeling inside for being able to afford them when other people can't, then that's not a scam. I am, I. This shouldn't, this really shouldn't surprise me that much given how many people. I mean, I started this segment with. A lot of people seem to misuse the word scam. So I really shouldn't be that confused that a lot of people don't know what it means. But that, that's not what scam means. Scam is fraud. Scam is lying. Nobody lied, nobody scammed anybody. Nobody's money was. Was removed forcefully with. Against their will. So it's not a scam. Would I charge a $50 subscription for wallpaper images?

[Luke Lafreniere]

I was about to say yes.

[Linus Sebastian]

You know what? Sure, let's do it. New announcing now here on the WAN show, now available at Flowplane.com is the LTT wallpaper pack. I am going to. Can I, can I show the cms? Is that okay? Can I show the cms? That's fine.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I think I just.

[Linus Sebastian]

I'm going to show the cms. It'll be fine. It'll be fine. You'll like it. Okay, I'm showing the CMS right now going live for LTT. Sorry, LTT supporter, OG and LTT supporter. And just text posts going live only for LTT supporter plus which is available for $10 a month or $50 a year.

[Luke Lafreniere]

You said earlier in the show that you're gonna do the five dollar one.

[Linus Sebastian]

No, I didn't.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I think you did.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh wait. Oh yeah, no, that's right.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Scam.

[Linus Sebastian]

No, no, I did the math wrong.

[Luke Lafreniere]

You almost scammed.

[Linus Sebastian]

I did the math wrong.

[Luke Lafreniere]

But no, you gotta do. You gotta do OG as well.

[Linus Sebastian]

No, I don't.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, but they're supposed to get everything.

[Linus Sebastian]

No, they only get everything that we originally promised them. This is new. This is net new scam.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Radar.

[Linus Sebastian]

No, no, no, no. All right, tell you what. Fine. Sure, you will get these wallpapers created. This actually looks like all Sarah's stuff. I believe this is all Sarah. Okay. There's also this.

[Luke Lafreniere]

They just kind of scrambled.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, they just. They threw this together. They threw this together. In the minutes before the show, you will be able to get all of these wallpapers. All you have to do is sign up for floatplane at at least our five dollar a month or fifty dollar a year tier. Yeah, There you go.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

Let's see. Let's see. Let's watch people turn this into Linus's scamming his audience. I'm. I'm excited for it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, man. They did a dead pixel one.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, dog.

[Luke Lafreniere]

The dead pixel one could be used.

[Linus Sebastian]

LTT phone wallpapers for floaties. Let's go. Whoa. Look at that. Wow. Little wallpaper. Yeah. Dead pixel. That's in. That's it. That's on purpose.

[Dan]

I was expecting these to be garbage, actually.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Pretty cool.

[Linus Sebastian]

What did you just say? But what did you just say about the valued member of our team? No, no, no.

[Dan]

I wasn't sure how hard you were going to meme. Like, you know, when we were doing those sales and it's 9pm and Nick Light's only there and he goes like. He draws a stick figure, like more orange shirts.

[Luke Lafreniere]

No, this is.

[Dan]

No, this is.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I was surprised at how fast she turned. All these are great.

[Dan]

Yeah, the one with the waves on it and the logo is what we use on the YouTube background as well. That one's pretty damn cool.

[Linus Sebastian]

We've got. Oh, hold on. Wait. Which ones are the desktop ones? I thought there were. Oh, wait, no, they're only phones.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

Here are some wallpapers. No reason why they're uploaded now. Thank you for that, Sammy. Okay. I thought we had done. Oh, that makes sense. That they would be fun ones that we gotta. We gotta compete. We gotta compete head down.

[Luke Lafreniere]

With our history planning on this necessarily being like a thing that we do all the time.

[Linus Sebastian]

No, it's really not. We're just. We're just having some fun with it. So do I think that this was the world's most brilliant tactical move? I can't say that based on the community feedback, it seems like it. Is it a scam?

[Luke Lafreniere]

No, no, it is. It is factually, by definition, not a scam.

[Linus Sebastian]

So, like, calling it a scam is just telling other people you don't understand what a scam is.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. But I do think maybe, you know, maybe count. So Flucky for that.

[Linus Sebastian]

But I do think that this is, you know, maybe something that needs to be addressed in order to sort of rebuild goodwill with the community. And so that's probably the. That's probably the best advice, which I think they're doing.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I'm sure they're working on it.

[Linus Sebastian]

I hope they're working on it. I hope they're working on it. Funny hat. Funny hats asks me, what about a ripple off? I think lots of things are a ripoff. I think that basically any designer label article of clothing is a ripoff. I was recently made aware that the T shirt that the Zuck wears, that just like gray T shirt is like US$400. Of course, I personally consider that to be a ripoff. He doesn't. A ripoff. It absolutely could be. But a ripoff is subjective. Scam is not. That's where these two terms differ.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It's definitely not a scam.

[Linus Sebastian]

If you think it's a ripoff, it's a ripoff. That's it. And we could discuss that. Right? But it isn't a scam. That's all. Do you have any Idea how many LTT shirts you can get for $400? I do, actually. You can get 20. Well, don't forget about the shipping. Maybe 15 plus shipping, depending on. Depending on where you live. Okay. All right. All right. Taxes, mind you. No, you have to pay taxes on the $400 shirt, too. Actually. You got to pay shipping on that, too. Actually, I think we're doing pretty good. Luke's Birds. Unfortunately, this is my last week on floatplane. Oh, no. You won't get our second pack of wallpapers. Just kidding. I don't think we're gonna do another one.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Probably not.

[Linus Sebastian]

I asked Sarah to just kind of. Oh, no, Linus. Your face is now my MacBook screen saver. Yeah, okay, that's great. Guess who just resubbed to float plane just for wallpapers? This guy. The system works. That wasn't the point.

[Dan]

You knew what you were doing.

[Linus Sebastian]

Intern. I was mostly just memeing for the people who are already subscribed to Floatplane. Daniel, these. They're just PNGs or JPEGs or whatever they are. There's no screen cap the screen. Yeah. People. Yeah, right click the YouTube if you want to steal it. Just there. Quick press print screen. You got this.

[Luke Lafreniere]

You could go through all.

[Linus Sebastian]

Go for it. I'm gonna do it again. Get the way the merch message out of there. Get that merch message out of there. Hold on. I can move it down. I'll move it down. I got you. No, I got you. I got you. Okay, Here you go. Okay, quick, quick.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That one's quick.

[Linus Sebastian]

Screenshot. That white dot.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

I actually love that float plane one.

[Luke Lafreniere]

They also really don't have to be that fast because once they get the vod, they can just. Really cool.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

They're, like, actually good.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, well, of course they are. It's Sarah.

[Dan]

I'm always blown away by the stuff that comes out of that.

[Linus Sebastian]

Well, I just.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I thought she had, like, five minutes and would do, like, one. I didn't expect it was gonna be.

[Linus Sebastian]

She did have, like, five minutes. She just has a lot of. She has just a lot of really great artwork that she's worked on over the.

[Dan]

Extremely competent.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, I like competent people. I just do. I really do. Let's play a game. Okay, let's play a game really quick. What do you think will be the dominant misinterpretation of that segment we just did?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, yeah, that's a good one. Downplaying the privacy stuff.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, okay. Okay. Well, let's address that then. Let's address that really quick. It's really bad. Okay. Okay. What's next?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Sounds like in. If I can throw my hat in the ring there. As someone who has had to, in some cases, write, in other cases, work with lawyers to write in other cases, write and then work with lawyers to write and then rewrite it for them and be like, is this better? And they're like, yeah. And I'm like, cool, thanks.

[Linus Sebastian]

That has happened, actually, more than once.

[Luke Lafreniere]

These things.

[Linus Sebastian]

More than he knows, even.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, I bet. Yeah, these things suck. And I. I have no idea. I have literally talked to none of them. Yeah, I bet you they were just like, hey, lawyer people, can you please write one of these for us? And they were like, sure, Blanc. And just wrote it too aggressive. Because in a tweet that I saw, I think they were like, yeah, we're not even gathering all this stuff. We just, like, wrote it too. Too harsh. Yeah, I do. I suspect there is some amount of stuff for the free tier, for the advertisement delivery, stuff like that.

[Linus Sebastian]

And there is. There is some stuff they really just, like, needed to not do. Like that. Like, the whole thing about. Yeah, it took a colossal amount of work to make it launch on Android on both platforms.

[Luke Lafreniere]

When it's multi. Kotlin. Multiplatform. There was a. There was a couple things.

[Linus Sebastian]

Why say that if you, like, don't, you know, didn't do that.

[Luke Lafreniere]

If it was. Should you give us a ring next time. We got you.

[Linus Sebastian]

It is actually kind of funny to me how often I watch other creators just, like, stumble through things when, like, stuff is hard when, when, when we already stumbled through it and like, they have my digits and, like, had I been happy to chat with them about it. I don't know. I. You know, on the other hand, though, we can, we can kind of.

[Luke Lafreniere]

We can yolo things.

[Linus Sebastian]

We yolo things as well.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That's a really good point. We do that literally all the time.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yep.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Maybe. Maybe creators just actually kind of suck at reaching out sometimes. Including very much us.

[Linus Sebastian]

There's. There's some. There's some pretty good ones. There's some pretty good ones in the chat. Linus doesn't understand how words change over time, which is just another way of them saying they don't understand. That scam actually does have a definition. And it doesn't mean that we got another one. Linus is just out to protect other tech tubers unwilling to criticize them.

[Luke Lafreniere]

We straight up did.

[Linus Sebastian]

No, no, no, no, no, no. This isn't. No, no, it's not.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, these are theories of what controversy might be.

[Linus Sebastian]

Don't be so defensive. For once it's him and not me. This is great.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Let's fight.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, no, there was another. There was another really good one. There was another really good one. Linus criticizes Marques's wallpapers, then launches his own behind a subscription at the same price. Actually accurate take. Yeah, actually accurate take.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

I love it. Trevor W. Asks bad faith question how is this different than your stance on horse armor? My stance on horse armor? Is that it?

[Luke Lafreniere]

It's a different thing.

[Linus Sebastian]

It was the first pebble rolling down the hill that caused an avalanche of colossal in gaming, which fundamentally changed how.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Games are made and played.

[Linus Sebastian]

Moving forward, nobody is buying this wallpaper app. This is not going to change.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I guarantee you some people do.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay, sure. But this is not going to fundamentally change anything about the wallpaper economy, which is infinite. Infinitesimally. I forget the word, but whatever. It's. It's. It's vanishingly small. And the idea of paying for wallpapers has existed for decades and the number of people who pay for them is still exactly what it is is today. This is going to change nothing is. Is sort of why I don't really care about it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, I think the negative reaction to it was overblown. I think the negative reaction to a lot of stuff in this space is insanely overblown and has been for a while.

[Linus Sebastian]

Now I do. I do also understand why, like, why people were so frustrated in this case. I mean, because is. It's someone whose job is to advise people on making good value decisions when they purchase mobile electronics. And this doesn't seem to be aligned with that. I do think that. I do think that there's also some friction that's around just paying for art and I think that's contributing to the outrage. But I do also, I do see where people are coming. Coming from. I just think that this could have been messaged better, it could have been handled better. It didn't have to be a disaster. And I think that in the longer.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Term, I just think it's.

[Linus Sebastian]

It won't be overblown.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Like, we saw, we saw like genuinely taking over the Internet level trending of people just like trying to light him on fire.

[Linus Sebastian]

And it's like, yeah, it's been a lot.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Maybe chill.

[Linus Sebastian]

It's been a lot.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Like, you can, you can express your.

[Linus Sebastian]

Like, it's not good, but I can personally think of times that would have made more sense to light Marquez up over. Like, it's just. Well, no, I, I just. I just mean it's. Yeah, it's an overpriced product. Yeah, dude.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And there's some. There's some.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, subjectively. Subjectively. By the way, I just got. I don't know how Crystal manages this, but. But she manages like, something I respond to. And basically, like, every show it feels like at Linus, we need a scam shirt. It's exactly the same as every other shirt.

[Luke Lafreniere]

But it costs like.

[Linus Sebastian]

But it costs like four times as much and just says scam on the front. I am so down. And I'm down right now. I am sending this to Nick and Sarah. I am sending it to them right now. I will bring you. I will bring you the biggest scam T shirt that you have ever seen.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, what if you. What if you. It's probably not worth it, but what if you got it, like, poorly printed?

[Linus Sebastian]

No. Unacceptable. Yeah, I wouldn't do that.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay.

[Linus Sebastian]

Actually. Or what if we didn't print it at all? What if it's just our blank shirt and it just costs more?

[Luke Lafreniere]

It's. It's. It's our black shirt and we just, like, include a Sharpie.

[Linus Sebastian]

No, we should, we should put like. We should, we should screen print, like a little scam, like on the inside so you'll know you got scammed, but no one else will see it. Okay, well, we'll work. We'll work on some concepts for A scam shirt. But what I can promise you is that it will cost more than our regular shirt. That's the only thing that I will promise you right now. It will be more expensive. Why? Because you got scammed, that's why.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay, it's not even a scam.

[Linus Sebastian]

No, it's not even a scam. Okay. Okay, we'll have to make some. Oh, no. Oh, this is.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I don't think you can actually do it.

[Linus Sebastian]

No, I'm. I can't actually. Yeah, okay, well, whatever. You'll think it's a scam.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Maybe put scam in quotes.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay, well, we'll. We'll work on it. Well, we're gonna work on it. We're gonna work on it.

[Dan]

Could you could pay to have the concept of a shirt shipped to you and then you just ship them a box.

[Linus Sebastian]

We could share half of the profits with mkbhd. Because people are just. They're offerings, they're offering suggestions. Workshop the scam shirt. Now. I'm gonna. I'm gonna let. I'm gonna let Sarah do her magic. You've already seen.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I just. I think people going in and being like, you've ruined your whole reputation for stupid, but, like, there was a lot of people.

[Linus Sebastian]

That's so stupid.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Guys, chill.

[Linus Sebastian]

It's. It's all the people who have never made a mistake. Yeah, like, it's the never made a mistake crowd.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Relax. I don't know.

[Linus Sebastian]

I don't know. I mentioned this on the pre show. We're deep enough in the show now. Maybe I'll just say it. But like, honestly, I'm pretty thrilled with Marquez right now.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, you're right. Right? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

He has single handedly done more to take the heat off of me for a. Than any other human being on the face of the planet. Thank you, Marques. For once, I am not the most controversial tech tuber.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It's nice.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, I feel like I need like a celebratory donut or something. Like, I just. It feels good. Feels good.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Send them like a thank you cake or something.

[Linus Sebastian]

Mind you. Mind you, now that we've. Now that we've launched our own own. Our own wallpaper subscription, maybe we'll be embroiled in the same controversy. Did I mention you can get yours now at floatplane.com/z4g. Well, whatever. You'll. You'll figure it. Yeah, you guys will figure it out.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

This is so funny.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Apparently all the wallpapers already posted on Reddit.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, of course. This is. Dude, this is great. Look at the comments on this, I never thought I'd sub to Floatplane. This is too good of a deal. I think I missed some context. Why is everyone saying scam? I know it's a joke, but oh my goodness. This is amazing. Yeah. Thank you guys.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I used. I used Riley24 to subscribe and download these. That's pretty good as well actually because they're tracking that to see how well the concept works.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, thank you, thank you. We genuinely appreciate your guys support. By the way, Floatplane pays for our development team. It pays for people like Sammy to do their jobs bringing you guys great behind the scenes content. Thank you. Thank you very much. The wallpapers, if you decide to throw a couple of bucks at it, hey, we got to pay Sarah somehow.

[Luke Lafreniere]

You should probably after them go check out the exclusives or something. Which is what the platform is actually for. It's very unlikely we're ever going to upload wallpapers again. This is not a wallpaper thing.

[Linus Sebastian]

Also, we might be bringing back some early access.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, cool.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, not across the board, but selectively to add to the float plane. Fun. We're doing an early access release for our newest secret shopper this time. Who are we secret shopping?

[Luke Lafreniere]

I'm actually pretty excited about this framework.

[Linus Sebastian]

We. Secret shopped framework.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Linus is not involved.

[Linus Sebastian]

They don't know.

[Luke Lafreniere]

They know.

[Linus Sebastian]

Did we talk about this last week?

[Luke Lafreniere]

I don't think so.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, okay.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So I pretty sure I learned about it today, so.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, they don't. They don't know. They are finding out probably now.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

Right now.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yep. Someone's sending a frantic message. Which order was it?

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Do you have them shipped here?

[Linus Sebastian]

No.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, I didn't.

[Linus Sebastian]

Of course not.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

Also I didn't have them do anything. Well, yeah, yeah, we, I. This was.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Apparently it was mentioned last week. I don't remember that. Okay, weird.

[Linus Sebastian]

But it was all delegated. I recused myself. Anyway, it comes out tomorrow, September 28th on floatplane and then later on in the week on YouTube. Finally, the last announcements thing we got to pare these down a little bit. Next week is Ridge Wallet Collab. We've been working with Ridge for five plus years. Oh. Oh, sick. And we finally got around. Whoops. Whoops, whoops, whoops. I'll get this. We finally got around to doing a proper product collab. This is on a wallet that will be launching on October 1st. It has a cool circuit board design from our one and only Sarah Butt. And it comes with both a cash strap and a money clip. And it has extra silver screws in the box so you can change the look according to your tastes.

[Luke Lafreniere]

You had to drop something.

[Linus Sebastian]

Well, look, okay, I saw the sticker.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And I was like, wow, I'm surprised you saved that.

[Linus Sebastian]

All right, so there you go. There's your money clip, and then there's the super cool, like, circular inspired design. Very cool. All right, what else are we talking about today? Oh, wait, is this After Dark? Dan, I can never tell anymore.

[Dan]

No, we're not in After Dark yet.

[Linus Sebastian]

It says that on the thing.

[Luke Lafreniere]

What's going on with your phone?

[Dan]

Dude, that means you're supposed to do.

[Linus Sebastian]

Talk about that in After Dark.

[Dan]

We've got, what, 45 minutes left?

[Linus Sebastian]

Did we talk about YouTube premium prices going up?

[Dan]

I don't think so.

[Linus Sebastian]

Well, they're going up in a lot of parts in the world. And that's the world. And that's a bummer. Okay, there. We did a quick one there. We might see. Hi, Fi. Rush 2. That's exciting.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Nice flappy bird returns. But it's a scam.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Might actually legitimately be a scam. Not sure.

[Linus Sebastian]

But maybe don't do that. And Discord introduces Dave. They're rolling out end to end encryption for audio and video calls. It will not, however, be encrypting text communication. Right. Which they say is to facilitate moderation and ensure safety on the platform. But if it's an audio call, then you don't need to. Anyway. Discord's current moderation involves both user reporting and a combination of image hashing and machine scanning to flag csam. Other forms of automated moderation are controlled by community moderators on the server level. The full technical details for Discord's audiovisual end to end encryption protocol, which they call Dave, is outloaded, outlined in a white paper they've published. Likewise, its backing libraries are open source to allow for public transparency and scrutiny by security researchers. At least it's progress, I'll say that much.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Sure.

[Linus Sebastian]

All right, let's switch over to After Dark, shall we?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yes, we shall.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay. Phone time while he gets set up.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, okay. Yeah. Really? Is this that important to you?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Just what is? Why. Why won't you say it? I think that's why I'm so interested. I'm being baited.

[Linus Sebastian]

So, Dan, can I ask you to do me a big favor?

[Dan]

Yes.

[Linus Sebastian]

It's not going to be an easy favorite.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, boy. What are you trying to do?

[Linus Sebastian]

I need. I need the entire. I need the entire place to go completely dark.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh.

[Dan]

Oh, okay.

[Linus Sebastian]

Can you do that?

[Luke Lafreniere]

That's Actually pretty easy for him.

[Linus Sebastian]

Ideally this one last.

[Dan]

Which for the overhead.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yes. S. Feel free to do a merch message or something in the meantime. Luke.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah? There's a.

[Dan]

There's a bunch in there for you.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay. Uno momento.

[Dan]

And then I've got to get the back ones.

[Linus Sebastian]

The back ones are manual. We have to climb a ladder?

[Dan]

No, we just turn all. Everything off.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, well, I have to climb a ladder. Maybe Dan can reach.

[Dan]

Okay, let's see what this breaks. Should be nothing. You ready?

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh. Oh, God. You're turning off the battery backup.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay.

[Dan]

Ready?

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, I guess.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Whoa. Whoa. Oh, that's so bright.

[Linus Sebastian]

Hold on, hold on. I'm going to have to play around with the focus a little bit here.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, because it looks way better in person.

[Dan]

It should be person detect.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It's gonna have a hard time in the dark. I think that's. That's very bright, so.

[Dan]

Okay.

[Linus Sebastian]

You can turn the lights back on.

[Luke Lafreniere]

How? Chat's actually asking the same question I have. How much radiation?

[Linus Sebastian]

Well, how much radiation?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. Yeah. What is.

[Dan]

We still live.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay.

[Dan]

Yeah, we are.

[Linus Sebastian]

Sorry.

[Luke Lafreniere]

What makes it glow in the dark?

[Linus Sebastian]

It's. It's cool.

[Luke Lafreniere]

What is it?

[Linus Sebastian]

It's cool. It's.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Why are you being so cagey? But.

[Linus Sebastian]

Because. I don't know, some stuff might happen.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Did you make this? How is it for that phone? That's another. That's. I think that's the thing that's been driving me.

[Linus Sebastian]

What? The Samsung Galaxy Note 9. This is a popular device that many people still enjoy.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Dan]

Why?

[Luke Lafreniere]

How do you have a. So this was custom made for you. Oh, man. It's textured too.

[Linus Sebastian]

Isn't that cool?

[Luke Lafreniere]

That's really nice. Actually.

[Linus Sebastian]

Pretty cool.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Hey, it's also our company's orange.

[Linus Sebastian]

I don't know what you're talking about.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Interesting. It feels nice.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, I know. It's kind of grippy. Kind of feels good. Yeah. Interesting, right? All right, cool.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay.

[Linus Sebastian]

I'm sure I'll have more to say at some point.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. But photo fluorescence is that fine. All I know about glow in the dark stuff is they used to do it with incredibly radioactive stuff. Oh, that was a long time ago.

[Dan]

Ethically sourced radon now.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, I'm just gonna give them a closer look at it and then you can feel free to do an emergency.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It looks sharp.

[Linus Sebastian]

Sure.

[Luke Lafreniere]

All right.

[Dan]

For Luke. Hey, Wan Luke. If you can share. What is the flow plane algorithm for deciding username color on a live.

[Luke Lafreniere]

In live chat. Yeah, I guess.

[Dan]

Live chat.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

We'Re just stopping it There. We're not doing the. Oh, there's a Linus question after that. I see. Okay, got it. I don't remember. That's entirely a Jaden thing. I think it's a secret, if I remember correctly. I don't think it's a secret. I think. Yeah, Conrad's saying it's just a hash table. I thought it was either that or it was the first letter that it was based off of.

[Dan]

You can see the texture. Yeah, there you go. Perfect.

[Luke Lafreniere]

If I remember correctly, you can even play with the capitalization of your name and it will change it or something. I don't remember exactly how it works. If you ever see Jaden in the chat, poke him and he'll be able to tell you if he feels like it or he won't because he might not feel like it because he's not on shift.

[Linus Sebastian]

Sounds about right.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I'm not gonna tell him what to do. Yeah, that's it.

[Dan]

Linus, how do you feel about PlayStation raising the prices on Horizon Zero Dawn?

[Linus Sebastian]

Is this for the remaster or whatever? Like it's $10 more but now it's the remaster or something or what are we talking about raising the price?

[Luke Lafreniere]

But I don't know.

[Linus Sebastian]

I don't know. It costs however much it costs. If you like the price and you buy it at the price. If you don't like the price, you don't pay for it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That's PlayStation quietly raises Horizon Zero Dawn PS4 price following remaster announcement.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, I guess don't buy it. I mean, I don't know. Guys, come on. Like, yeah, sucks. Games cost a lot of money. But like you had like four years, five years to buy Horizon. When did Horizon Zero dawn come out?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, really?

[Linus Sebastian]

Horizon Zero dawn release PS4 cuz like I bought it on PC like three years ago. I feel like, dude, this game came out in 2017. It came out seven years ago. If you wanted to play it, just play it. I don't know, guys. It's a scam there. It's a scam to scam, scam, scam. I mean, I'm not a fan of game prices going up, but like, honestly, we've talked about it extensively on the show before. The fact that game prices haven't gone up a lot more is crazy.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I feel like it's been a standoff where different companies are just like, who's gonna go first?

[Linus Sebastian]

Dude, there's probably more people who work in the marketing department of a modern AAA game than worked on Super Mario World in its entirety, right? Like it's. And that was a, that was a sixty dollar cartridge back in 1994. 93. When did Super Mario World come out? Wasn't 92, was it? I think it was 93, was it 2? 1990. Good Lord. Right? So yeah, games are flippin expensive. I mean, do I think the whole we're remastering a seven year old game thing is a little bit ridiculous and sort of, you know, playing around with the hype cycle and the fact that it's in the news and raising the price or whatever. It's like, yeah, sure, whatever. But realistically guys, this is games. Wait another three months and it's probably going to be on sale again or whatever and you can get it for a lower price. Like I really. Yeah, I don't think it's, I don't think it's that big of a deal personally. I'm sorry man, I'm. I'm gonna, I'm gonna get. I'm gonna get in trouble.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Ah, okay. I see. I knew there'd be more to it. Naturally people saw the. This is. I'm reading off of Dual Shockers. I'm gonna just share my screen because they seem to have actually pretty good coverage of this. Naturally, when people saw the price spike of Horizon zero Dawn, it left them scratching their heads, blah blah, blah blah blah. It's like almost doubled in or it's effectively doubled in price. Following the title of this article is it closes a loophole. So I was like, what does that mean? Apparently if you own the original version, you can upgrade to the remaster version. So they released the remaster version at this price. People were just buying the old one and then upgraded.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, I've got it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay. So.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay, well that makes sense. Luca 103 on the subject of scams asks, where's your iPhone? Linus? After I shot the short circuit they needed it for some other content so they're gonna give it to me when they're done with it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

16.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, I'm going with the 16 plus.

[Luke Lafreniere]

You're gonna run one like mainline.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

You're gonna put that away? Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yep.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Wow.

[Linus Sebastian]

It's going away. It's going away. D Starfire actually there's a couple questions from Floatplane Chat from earlier. D Starfire asked, I've always wondered what is LMG's stance on like the LTT gifs in Discord and stuff like that. We don't mind that kind of thing. This was in response to the ghost keyboards situation.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, you're not. That's not marketing something with an endorsement with Linus.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, yeah. You're not creating a fake endorsement of a product that I explicitly said I don't think is a good value.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, yeah. I think the gifts are hilarious.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. We are pro community engagement and community use of our likenesses.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Anytime some like meme Face of Me takes over the subreddit for a little while. It's great fun.

[Linus Sebastian]

Tor Melkson asks, how's the cat? I realized after I said that the cat was at the vet, I never really gave an update. He's doing great. We don't know what exactly his deal was. He was favoring a leg a little bit. Maybe he just did something stupid because he's a dumb kitten and he got a little bit of inflammation, got a little bit of a fever and then they just gave him an anti inflammatory and painkillers and he was fine in like two days.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Cool.

[Linus Sebastian]

So yeah, he's doing great. All right.

[Dan]

What's up Glee and Lee? I chimed in a while back asking Luke if he had played body cam and his opinions on it. Is there any updates and if so, how does he feel about the camera movement and mechanics?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Did I ever talk about it?

[Linus Sebastian]

I don't know if you ever did.

[Dan]

There was a brief discussion about it when it sort of just first.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, I thought that might have been on the pre show or it might have been off camera.

[Dan]

I remember talking about the laser scans and the details and things like that.

[Luke Lafreniere]

But my back to it. I hated it. Sorry, sorry. To the body cam.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, tell us how you really feel. Was it a scam?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yes. No, no, no, no. It like it has a really interesting aesthetic. They did, they, they cooked. They. They did interesting things with it. But there was parts of the game that were just like what? Like if you. It was. The gameplay that I was playing was like seek and destroy style where when you die, you're out until the next round. Right. But you would then be able to pilot a drone so you could just fly around the map. Almost no clip style because you have a drone. Find where they are and then the in game voice chat you could tell your teammates where they were.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh well that seems like an oversight.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So stupid.

[Linus Sebastian]

That's a scam.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So my team had one less player than their team. The KD ratios of everyone on our team was better than them in general. But we would just always lose because it would come down to a one like it just.

[Linus Sebastian]

I don't skill issue probably.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I was pretty bad. To be completely honest. I did not do well. But it was also super annoying. Like you. You would actually get someone and you'd be stoked and then you'd hear the drone come around and it's like, oh, okay, guess I'm screwed.

[Linus Sebastian]

Nice.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Like. And you just. You hear the voice chatting drone telling them where you are.

[Linus Sebastian]

It's like iracer6 says they will announce a scam shirt next week. Calling it now. You must have missed the part of the show. We are going to do a scam shirt.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, yeah. And it like, it was. It was one of those games where they're like, it's realistic so they just made it like feel horrible.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh sure.

[Luke Lafreniere]

You're super clunky and like coming to a stop is really slow. And like. No, it's really not actually that slow. We don't have to play this way. People can turn on a dime pretty quickly.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I don't know. But it is the, you know, the aesthetics are really interesting. What they did with it is really interesting. Just I did not enjoy the gameplay and I did not enjoy the gameplay mechanics. Like the whole drone thing and stuff, that drove me nuts. So I bailed out.

[Dan]

But yeah, I'm going to try to dump through some more Luke ones here.

[Linus Sebastian]

The reviews are in for our wallpaper app.

[Dan]

Nice, Nice.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Looks pretty good.

[Dan]

Hi, Wan show. Question for Luke. What are your thoughts on companies asking employees to return to office, such as Amazon?

[Linus Sebastian]

I'm glad I don't have to answer this.

[Dan]

They just asked Luke.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I don't know. I think just like with pretty much any situation, a lot of it's going to come down to the management. I think there are people I have. Can I talk vaguely enough about this? I think so. I have employed people that didn't work out because in my opinion they weren't necessarily a bad worker, but they were not capable of work from home. Work. They were. You could. You could kind of tell they were not, you know, they weren't doing it. They probably needed more micromanagement. They probably needed more. Someone can literally see what they're doing all the time. Level micromanagement, which you can't effectively do with work from home. This whole like monitor their mouse movement thing, whatever. You will always lose that war.

[Linus Sebastian]

And also just. Can we not.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, that too. Like, companies are never going to win. So they.

[Linus Sebastian]

Can we just not.

[Luke Lafreniere]

They shouldn't even do it.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Because it's like invasive and weird and you're not going to win anyways. So just stop. Yeah, but properly managed teams with good people that are going to be honest and do their Work. Work from home versus work in office. I don't know, it doesn't really matter at this point. I think it's like easier to manage people that are work from home.

[Linus Sebastian]

I think you navigated that really well. The tough thing is that I feel like in our super polarized world, I.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Need a. I need a more aggressive take.

[Linus Sebastian]

No, no, no, it's not that. No, no, no. In our super polarized world, you're either with us or you're a against us. And so I think for you to. I think that, you know, you would talk to like the Kevin O'Leary's of the world or whatever else. And if you say anything other than the employer has the absolute right to dictate when and where the worker works, then they'll be like, this is communism, you know. And to be clear, I don't know Kevin O'Leary. I don't know if he. I just, every time I. Every time I read anything about his take on something, it's usually what I disagree with. So I just. So I'm just picking on him essentially. I don't know exactly what his take is on this, but I'd probably disagree with it. And then on the other side, you've got like r anti work that basically goes, I should work when I want, however I want and if I want and whatever else. And there's sort of this like, for you to have sort of a middle ground feels impossible, like for you to say something like, you know. Yeah. Sometimes the employer abuses their power. That's going to upset your capitalist fat cats. And for you to say, sometimes the worker is not in good faith contributing positively to the success of the company that by the way pays their paychecks, then the other crowd is going to be up in arms because no person would ever do that.

[Luke Lafreniere]

What you're saying is I just pissed off every everybody?

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, kind of.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Nice, nice. I don't know.

[Linus Sebastian]

Way to be a centrist.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. I also have people literally on my team right now that I think I could objectively say just work better by working from home, more on task. If anything. Like that type of stuff. Like there's just people are people and people are different.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, dude, this is great. People work slow playing Chaz. Lighting up with just like dumb. That Kevin O'Leary has said. Oh man, oh man.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I don't even. Like he was on Shark Tank, right?

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, the Canadian one.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, okay.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, the like, you know, whale tank. I don't know what it's called.

[Dan]

Salmon tank.

[Linus Sebastian]

Anyway. Anyway. Yeah. The reality of it is is there are never accepted. There are good faith and bad faith bosses and there are good faith and bad faith employees.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

And any kind of blanket it this and only this is the interpretation of the situation is wrong.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

Period.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yep. It's a different type of management. It also takes a sometimes, not always, but sometimes it takes kind of a different type of employee. I think it can be beneficial for some people. I think it'd be negative for other people. I think sometimes if it is negative for that person, they might be willing to make certain compromises to make it work if it like saves them a bunch of money or if it saves a bunch of time or whatever else.

[Linus Sebastian]

I've also found that if it's negative for people, they tend to be the kinds of people that lack the self awareness to recognize that it's negative for them.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That is almost certainly also a thing. I think that's also on both sides though. I think. Yeah, I think sometimes I think that's fair. If managers can't figure out how to manage remote employees, they will just say, oh, this system doesn't work.

[Linus Sebastian]

It's easy to blame all these people.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Are bad 100% and no one else, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. When realistically it's just. It's a. You know, if you are on a remote team and you like it, try to do good by it if you want it to stay existing. Because there is a bit of a war on this stuff going on right now. And I think being unrealistic about its potential downsides is not going to help. And I also think that there is. There's bad faith arguments on both sides, you know.

[Linus Sebastian]

Absolutely.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. It is what it is.

[Dan]

How about some more Luke ones? Hi, Luke. As an avid active curler from California.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Sick.

[Dan]

Yes, we curl in California.

[Luke Lafreniere]

California, yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

You had me in. Yeah. Not gonna lie, they had us in the first half.

[Dan]

Other recreational sports or is that it? My question is lead, second, vice or skip? Which one are you usually playing? Also, do you prefer draws or hit hits?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, generally hits.

[Linus Sebastian]

No idea what we're talking about.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Hits. Are you a curler from California? I only hear them called takeouts. I'm probably wrong. They're probably right. I bet you a hit is when it. Anyways, don't worry, it doesn't matter. I believe I'm usually second. My dad is always the skip and I don't foresee myself ever playing curling if it's not with my dad. So I will not be that role. Usually my brother's the lead. I'm Second, my uncle or someone else playing, depending on if my uncle can make it or not, is third. And then my dad is Skip. Yeah, it's basically just the order that you throw the rocks in.

[Dan]

No, I don't. First, second.

[Linus Sebastian]

I've curled.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, yeah, what do you say?

[Dan]

First, second and third.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And then skip is just last. But it's essentially like the team captain of sorrow.

[Linus Sebastian]

I'm sorry, I was just. I was a little thrown off because you, like, kept forgetting your dad's name. It's Rob. It's not Skip. I know the positions.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay.

[Linus Sebastian]

That's my uncle.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, that's actually pretty funny. Terrible. But no, it's not even just the throwing order. Each one of them has, like slightly different roles and responsibilities. Anyway, most of it lays on the.

[Linus Sebastian]

And that I don't know anything about because I've only ever done it once.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

All right.

[Dan]

Okay, back up to the top. Hi, Dll. Notice the new ad insert tests compared to the normal ones on recent videos. Can you talk about these? How are they doing? Any learnings? Enjoying the change up personally, I gotta.

[Linus Sebastian]

Tell you guys, I. I'm as surprised as you to see some of them. The one where my son gets swapped out with Dennis was a little jarring.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, I did see that.

[Linus Sebastian]

That was not. That was not in the version of the video that I reviewed. Normally. I'm the final pass review on LTT videos. I did not see that. I thought it was really funny.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It was funny. Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. I think we're just. We're trying to. We're trying to have fun with it a little bit. Like we used to do more of that kind of stuff and then we just got kind of formulaic and that's. Dennis job now is to make our. Make our sponsorship spots as engaging as our content. I think he's. Sorry, excuse me. I think he's doing a really good job in terms of making it more engaging. I think that the team is still kind of working on, you know, what KPIs look like for sponsors to drive more revenue from it. But if nothing else, if we're entertaining you guys, then we consider it a good investment, I think. Yeah. It doesn't all fall into my department now. You gotta understand that everything that I say now comes from the perspective of Vision Man, a member of the upper management. But not the one who makes.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Even when he doesn't show up to upper management meetings, not the one who.

[Linus Sebastian]

Makes all the decisions. I show up sometimes.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Sometimes, yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

And I get summaries. You can. I've Told.

[Dan]

I told you the meeting comments.

[Linus Sebastian]

I told you you can always like, call me in if you need, you know, help back up on something or whatever. I told you that.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It's not even necessarily that I think you're general input on things would be good, though.

[Linus Sebastian]

Well, and you can always table something for a future discussion if you're just like, yeah, I've known Linus for 1000 years and I feel very strongly that as the investor, primary shareholder of the company, he would think this is phenomenally stupid. Like, we can always have conversations. Nothing's set in stone. We, we make that. We try to make decisions as a team.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And I do think we do a pretty good job. I just think sometimes it's surprising the amount of times that the discussion goes to, what would Linus think? And it's like, wow, this would be insanely more efficient if he was here and said what he was thinking.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay. But I got like videos to shoot.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I know.

[Linus Sebastian]

The challenge is like, if all I had to do was be an executive, I could probably do a pretty good job of it. I'd be bored as hell. I struggle to stay on task in that way. I like creating reports and it's a weird world reviewing reports. I can kind of do it. I can hyper focus and I can power through it. I don't know if you probably got a bunch of emails from me like one morning. Yeah, yeah, I.

[Luke Lafreniere]

No, I understand. This doesn't even.

[Linus Sebastian]

I went through like 300 unreads in my inbox and just like powered through it on a flight and like, that's the kind of thing I can do. But I'm. I'm more of a. I'm a sprinter. I'm not a marathon runner. And. And I'm just like. I don't know, I just, I get pulled in all these different directions and I enable it. My behavior enables the way that people pull me into side conversations and like, like, talk to me about things. So I guess what I'm saying is I'm more than happy to do that.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

But, yeah, I won't be an exec meeting every time. Anyway, the point is, yeah, I'm a member of the exec team, but everything that I say is a perspective of mine now. It's not just what the company is doing. I am not the CEO.

[Luke Lafreniere]

The company's big and there's a lot of execs.

[Linus Sebastian]

And I, I had a conversation with Taran yesterday that was basically like, he was like, you know, yeah, you know, are we, Are we doing this? It was like, something that he wants to do that I was kind of lukewarm on, and I was like, well, you said we're doing it, so we're doing it, like. And I was kind of. I was kind of joking with him. I was like, you know, if I. If. If I give you the title, it's not a title. It's. It's a responsibility. And so, you know, as long as you have the title, until such time as you are fired, you have my sword, you know, like, is there.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Do you. Do you ask shareholders permission to do things?

[Linus Sebastian]

You. It would be more the board of directors, but the board of directors would often represent the interests of the shareholders. Theoretically, everyone is sort of representing the interests of the shareholders, but members of the board of directors, especially in smaller companies like ours, are often the shareholders.

[Luke Lafreniere]

People are tagging me, and they're just saying, warm, nice. Yeah. Because, I mean, I think it's. I think it's still in Taran's defense. I think it's still valid to ask the shareholders what they want.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, absolutely. No, it is. It is 100%. And for me, my role is not to micromanage that. It's to set the direction. And if there's a particular. Let's say, a personnel decision or if there's an investment decision, like, if there's some kind of.

[Luke Lafreniere]

In both of those. Him going to. I'm in defend Taran mode now. He's doing great in both of those. I'm not saying. You're saying he's not doing great in both of those situations. Vision man makes sense to consult in both of the things that you just described. And depending on the impact, severity, et cetera, of those things, consulting shareholders might also make sense.

[Linus Sebastian]

Sure. But what I'm trying to say is.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That what I also empowered.

[Linus Sebastian]

What I will probably say is, here's your rope, which is fair enough. Use it to go as far as you can, or use it to hang yourself. Well, it's an expression.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Fair enough.

[Linus Sebastian]

Right. Because that. That's the way it is. That's what. That's what leadership is. You either. You have to be given the leeway to successfully lead until such time as you lose the confidence of the board of directors and then you're fired. Right. Like, because it's the top. It's the top position in the company.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It's realistic.

[Linus Sebastian]

So you either are capable of leading or you've lost. Or you've lost confidence and you're done. Right. Like, there's no real. Like, it's not like I Can be like, oh, well, why don't we demote you to VP of happiness or whatever? Right? Like, is that. That's not how that works. When someone is brought in to lead.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I feel like that is a role that some company has somewhere.

[Linus Sebastian]

I mean, probably, but I don't think Taryn would be the one to occupy it. That guy is the worst resting face.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It's. It's pretty bad. I'm used to it at this point. It doesn't faze me anymore.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, and to be clear, I'm not saying anything about him that I haven't told him to his face multiple times. Yeah, yeah, we.

[Luke Lafreniere]

He told me, like, almost immediately.

[Linus Sebastian]

He told you that?

[Luke Lafreniere]

I said he probably.

[Dan]

Yeah, I was gonna say it was incredibly important for him to say that. Otherwise I would have been crying every time I talk to him.

[Luke Lafreniere]

No, you get used to it. Like, super.

[Dan]

If I know and everybody's like, no, he's just like this, then it's like, okay, yeah, I can. I can. I can handle that.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That's fine.

[Linus Sebastian]

Just like this.

[Luke Lafreniere]

By the way, that's great.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, what now? What is a Chief Happiness Officer? Oh, my goodness. Yeah, you can't have a Chief Happiness Officer without.

[Dan]

That is the most dystopian term I have ever heard in my entire life. Beatings will continue until morale improves. All right, top performers get an additional one minute break. Dear Linus, if AdBlock is piracy, but closing your eyes isn't, then what is your opinion on a robot that detects ads and puts a blindfold over your face until it's over? Kind of joking, but also curious. I'm gonna ask, have either of you seen Black Mirror?

[Linus Sebastian]

I should. I've only seen bits and pieces.

[Dan]

First season, 15 million merits. There is actually this. They're forced to watch advertisements or they can pay to make them stop. And if you cover your eyes, a rising tone gets louder and louder and louder and it says, resume viewing. Resume viewing. And you have to watch it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Is this in order to.

[Linus Sebastian]

You know what I think? I think it's a scam.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yep.

[Linus Sebastian]

Scam.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yep.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay, I'm gonna give you a serious answer. It's the automation. It's the automation that makes it that. So anything you do, anything you do manually and then resume manually, that requires your attention. Because that's essentially the payment. The payment is attention. It can be attention on the ad. It can be attending to, not paying attention to the ad. I. I don't look at ads. I mean, we've talked about this extensively. Like, I actually, it is a Matter of personal pride that I do not like to be influenced by ads. Occasionally I'll click on stuff very, very occasionally, but I don't like doing it. And I will actually go out of my way to just like, avert my eyes for nine seconds and then like, check back in. But attention is the form of payment. So you're either paying attention to when it's over or you're paying attention to it playing through. And anyway, it's not piracy, it's privateering. We've been through this.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, yeah. Interesting take.

[Dan]

Hey, Linus, Luke and Dan, during a fresh Windows install, Windows Update downloaded and flashed my BIOS on restart. Is there an end in sight for the amount of power Microsoft. Microsoft is taking lately?

[Linus Sebastian]

Actually, hold on, I want to go back to the other thing for a second. It's also. It's also down to like. I'm not condemning anything. Whatever you're comfortable with, you just do your thing there. Okay. Is there an. To be fair, actually, the biosplashing thing, I believe that's more down to the system integrator. Like, that would never happen with a custom machine. So I don't think this is really Windows. This is more Windows Update having a functionality that the system integrator is choosing to make use of as opposed to Microsoft seizing power. There's plenty of Microsoft abusing power lately that we could point out. I don't think this is it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

All right.

[Dan]

Okay. What else? I gotta make sure that that is broadcast. Since LMG has such a wide array of different jobs, how does growing in your own field look like, for example, graphic designer, particularly with the continual growth of the company?

[Linus Sebastian]

Like a lot of small slash medium. I think technically we still qualify as small by a lot of definitions. Like a lot of small companies, we struggle with this and we've had to in some cases create sort of. I don't want to call them artificial because they are reflective of the increased experience and. Or compensation that is associated with them. But we've had to kind of of create new segmentations sometimes within roles that previously would have been the same. So we previously had writer. Now we have junior writer and senior writer.

[Luke Lafreniere]

In order, you could take a piece from like Silicon Valley tech stuff where you have like numbered levels.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, yeah, something like that. That would be one good thing that could come from Silicon Valley tech.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I'm sure it's misused for horrible reasons somehow.

[Linus Sebastian]

It's absolutely something that we have looked at a little bit and. And it's absolutely something that we haven't looked at. Enough and haven't solved.

[Dan]

Linus, I remember you saying you had to go to Saskatoon to get your Taycan. How did you like your visit to our flat? Chunk of dirt.

[Linus Sebastian]

I did not say that. This. This kind of thing. This kind of thing happens a lot. I read a lot of things that I apparently said that I definitely never said and definitely never happened. I imported it from Quebec, so you're close. Just got the province wrong and you got who went where wrong, however conveniently. I have been to Saskatchewan. I think. I think I drove through Regina, though. Which one does. Which one does the one road go through? It was a long time ago. I was 16 years of age. But I did drive through the prairie. I didn't really think they were as flat as people make them out to be. Yeah, I went through Regina. I did not go through Saskatoon. That was. Boy, would that ever have been a long way out of the way. Yeah, I mean, they were like. They were flat. But I just. The way people talk about it, it's like, yeah, you could see for like, a thousand miles in every direction. I mean, like, yeah, sort of. Like, there's rolling hills and stuff. Like, at least. At least in the bottom part of Saskatchewan that I drove through. Regina, you guys. Regina, it's a city. Calm down.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I knew it was going to happen immediately. Immediately.

[Dan]

All Canadians giggled, too.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Good job. Chat.

[Dan]

Question to Linus. Is there any other tech or house dream upgrades you want to make? Thanks for all the amazing content.

[Linus Sebastian]

I don't know. It's all, like, kind of awesome.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I'm getting pretty stoked on something we're going to be working on. On.

[Linus Sebastian]

I forget.

[Luke Lafreniere]

No, not us.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, cool.

[Luke Lafreniere]

We as in myself and Emma, My roommate is gone. Yeah, birds were sick, which sucked. They were gone for a long time. Was very expensive, but that let us, you know, get crazy chemical carpet cleaners in there. Just really, like, clean things up.

[Linus Sebastian]

Not a great review of your former.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Roommate for the whole house. In his defense, it was pretty bad, but we did do it for the whole house. And we're going to be moving all the, like, computers and stuff.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, sick.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And we're already kind of planning out there. There's still more things to plan out, but, you know, both desks against one wall with, like, a little island in the middle for where the birds are going to go and stuff. It's going to be. It's going to be pretty cool.

[Linus Sebastian]

Sick.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It's going to be cool.

[Linus Sebastian]

I can't really think of any tech upgrades that I need to make right now. My Tech setup at my house is like kind of.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, and that awesome. No, I won't go into it.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, okay. Now I'm curious.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It's. It doesn't really matter. But what go away.

[Dan]

Does stopping a long form YouTube video and finishing it later or the next day negatively affect the creator?

[Linus Sebastian]

I can't answer for sure. But what I can say is that probably that would actually be a part positive signal. We have videos that have extremely low retention but extremely long, strong performance over time. Here, let me see if I can just. What is happening right now.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Google Analytics is a weird. Or YouTube analytics is a weird.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. So here, Magic. Here, check this out. I'm just going to share my screen real quick here. So how to build a PC. The last guide you'll ever need. Let's look at the original one. This retention graph is absolute poo poo. Like by the end of this video, only 16% of people are watching this video. And yet this got served for a whopping 12 million views on the platform. So like for context here, okay, let's take something, let's take something more recent. Okay. Can you have too many WI fi routers? Obviously it's a much shorter video, but you can, you can clearly see here we're looking at more like by the time the end sponsorship spot, 45% above typical retention. Right. By the time we reach the end, I don't know, 1.3 million views. Let's not, let's not, let's not serve that as much. YouTube home down. YouTube recommendations down. Why would that be? Because the first video I showed you guys is reference material. The overall watch time is huge because it's like two hours long. So that 16% or whatever it was at the end amounts to longer watch time. And YouTube wants you on the platform. The other thing is that people look at it, they go, well that's nice, but I'm not building a computer right now. And then they come back when it is time to build a computer. That is a very strong signal. So you just have to think about what kind of signal your behavior is sending. Algorithmically looking at something going, I don't have time for this right now. And going out of your way, going out of your way to take part of your day and search for it and go back to it and finish it. That is a very strong signal that you were quite engaged by that content. So I would say it's a very good thing. Actually. Don't, don't like do that. Don't just like start videos and then like like go back on purpose to go watch them or whatever. Just, just you know, use the platform and it should theoretically tune itself for you.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Dan]

Hey Linus, now that you are switching to iPhone, will you also be trying the Apple ecosystem? Watch macOS maybe HomeKit?

[Linus Sebastian]

I don't really have any need to switch to macOS right now. And besides, I think my perspective with iPhones was always using an iPhone as a Windows guy and that will continue to be my perspective, I think.

[Dan]

Dll we're currently working for a tech startup in a decision making position and my team is scaling quickly. What methods have you used to evaluate if you're making the right decisions for growth? These are hard questions.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, it's hard. I mean realistically you could take an entire degree of that.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

So.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And you'd still barely know what you're doing.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. Find data you can trust at least a bit and then try to be guided by it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Also, as much as I'm not a fan of the guy, Bezos has an interesting quote on data stuff that I've been trying to push around a little bit lately as we're. As we're getting more and more data driven. Driven that the. It's very easy for data to lie. It's also very easy for you to misinterpret what the data really means. So if the sentiment and it's really good to capture data and to read it and try to figure out what's going on. But if the sentiment and the data notably don't match, try to figure out what's going on. But generally you should strongly consider the sentiment, it says something along that line. So I don't remember what it is.

[Dan]

How have power tool companies been given a pass for so long for locking consumers into their ecosystems with batteries? While companies like Apple or Google are criticized for being anti consumer.

[Linus Sebastian]

Because it's a different less. Okay, first of all, if you talk to any trades they hate, that drives them crazy. You know, you talk to, talk to farmers, they hate lockdown John Deere tractors. You know, they're not, they're not getting a pass. We tech folk just aren't really talking about it because it doesn't affect us day to day. Because no offense to you, but you probably don't work with a drill every day because you watch this show and yes, yes you, I know you do, but most of the yous don't. So we tend to kind of fixate on the things that affect us day to day, the things that we are closest to. I mean that's that's probably a significant contributor to how flipped out Everybody was over MKBHD's wallpaper app. If someone that you didn't know, you know, if. What's her name? The Goop. Goop actress.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, whatever.

[Dan]

Goop actress.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, if she launched some Gwyneth Paul Goop. Yeah, that Goop. If she launched some. If she launched some Goop product that was like a hundred dollar, you know, cucumber slice that you put on your eye or whatever, you won't hear about it. You won't care. That doesn't mean that she got away with it, you know? Yeah, you just didn't care.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Dan]

I'm fighting with a Milwaukee guy. You're forgetting about the brand loyalty as well.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. They also might not care because they will happily give like Milwaukee 300 for a radio.

[Dan]

Ooh, Milwaukee. Get the Makita espresso machine. That's battery powered. Yes. It's a real thing.

[Luke Lafreniere]

There's a lot of brand war in. It's really intense with tools, trucks is a crazy one. You have a Ford. We can't be friends now.

[Dan]

My dad's a Ryobi guy. I like the green dude.

[Linus Sebastian]

There's people who would actually just like use a manual screwdriver versus use a drill from a brand that they don't like. It's. It's. It is mind blowing. They should.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Is.

[Dan]

I will not touch Team Red.

[Linus Sebastian]

So I wasn't. I wasn't kidding about that. This is. This is a radio for 300 Canadian dollars. Yeah, KMS tools is right.

[Dan]

Look at that.

[Luke Lafreniere]

You got.

[Dan]

You got to show the Makita coffee maker.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Coffee maker.

[Dan]

I need you to. I know we're pressed for time, but.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay, well, at least it's cheaper than the other thing. Okay, well, I'm over it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I don't need to click.

[Dan]

Yeah, that's fine. You get the point. All right, I appreciate you all. I am curious about how Linus solar panels have been impacting his electric bill. Maybe an idea for a future video.

[Linus Sebastian]

Lowering it a bit.

[Dan]

Hey, LLD love how you guys keep reviews on LtdStore as they are and don't censor poor reviews. That said, why are we not able to review products after a few months? Months?

[Linus Sebastian]

I don't know. Just review them right away, I guess. Well, no, that's stupid because then if you wanted to leave a long term review, you wouldn't be able to. I. I don't know. We had an issue with our reviews. Our reviews plug in this week where someone thought we were. We had changed the gradient. Oh, it's still like this. Okay, so. So it. On some, with very few reviews, it. The way the gradients work on the lower ones. Oh, no, it's the. Oh, yeah. No, this is. This is better because the opacity was different. Opacity? Opaque opacity.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Was it like blue at the. So it's harder to see or.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, the colors were different, so it made it seem like these ones were not as big.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, we weren't doing that.

[Linus Sebastian]

No, no, we didn't do that. Intense. No, no, no. It's okay. It's okay. It's okay. Anyway, Conrad already fixed it, but the point is that we didn't do that intentionally. The plugin that we use for customer reviews just, like, updated and we didn't know and we had to manually intervene in order to make it not do that. So it's possible that might just be a limitation of the platform we use. We didn't create our own review system.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And there are things I don't like about it. I don't want us to make our own.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, that's basically where we're at on this.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It is what it is. Cool. I don't think anyone else internally wants us to make our own either, so.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yep. Sorry, that will not be an initiative.

[Dan]

Yo, Linus, have you played Paper the Thousand Year Door? It seems like the sort of RPG you'd have fun playing.

[Linus Sebastian]

I have not, but I should. It definitely seems like the sort of RPG I would enjoy. Oh, I accidentally.

[Dan]

That's fine.

[Linus Sebastian]

Just archived a second one.

[Dan]

Hi, Wan show. This is for you. Linus, you have mentioned that you are emotionally needy in relationship. How did you and Yvonne deal with this? And what conversation complications did you both have?

[Linus Sebastian]

Well, we're both emotionally needy, so we met and then basically. You notice I never talk about friends that I have other than like, people I work with. It's because Yvonne and I met became completely. I believe the word is enmeshed. Yeah. And healthy or not. Hey, we're coming up on 20 years, baby.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I'd say that's healthy.

[Linus Sebastian]

Congratulations. So cool.

[Dan]

All right, I found the one that you deleted. Hello, Wan Dll. I'm currently without power and Internet due to four days due to the hurricane Helene, but safe. How would you handle getting your tech family through a similar situation without power?

[Luke Lafreniere]

I'm. I'm super obsessive about battery banks. I have tons and they tend to be rather charged. I've got. I've got food and water reserves.

[Dan]

The problem is that he's currently without power. Ah, that, that makes things really hard.

[Luke Lafreniere]

You haven't already prepped.

[Dan]

Yeah, I don't know what, what we did for a long time is we got an old generator from a boat, diesel generator from a boat and you could run that thing on like old engine oil if you wanted to. It was really powerful. Very, very easy to run, but giant but also very cheap. A lot of people do the natural gas ones outside, but that doesn't really work if the natural gas infrastructure explodes. Don't know.

[Linus Sebastian]

Code Red 255 in floatplane asks, is this a rerun? The WAN show is always live except for that one time. Was it April Fool's that we did a pre recorded one or was it Christmas? I think we did one on Christmas.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I think it was Christmas.

[Linus Sebastian]

I think we've done it once or twice. We've pre recorded the WAN show. I'll prove it. See, I wouldn't do that if it was pre recorded. Why would I think to pre record that? That'd be crazy.

[Luke Lafreniere]

40 chess with time travel. Yeah.

[Dan]

Okay, well, last one then.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, ouch.

[Dan]

Linus, I have heard you recommend anno 1800 for years. I finally got the game for Steam. I have been playing on my framework 13 do it yourself intel 12th gen. Do you have any suggestions for a noob?

[Linus Sebastian]

Watch at least a couple of just like people's startup videos and then invest no more than probably like 30 to 60 minutes in that because it's fine. You'll. You'll, you'll want to explore for yourself, right? Like you'll want to kind of figure out your own way to do things. And then the other big one is look at just one or two videos of people kind of showing off their final states because that'll give you some ideas in your mind for what you need to plan ahead for as you're laying the foundation of your city or cities.

[Luke Lafreniere]

My thing would actually be something that Linus hammered in hammered home for me. I was somewhat sheltered when I kind of first started playing Anno because I would just like be the military ship guy and then Linus would build all the islands. But something he used to mention all the time was to look at your production. So instead of just like looking at the map and you know, you highlight over something and you're like, oh, I don't have enough of this. I'll build another thing so that I can have more of it. That's actually a pretty bad way to go. You want to look into your production and see how much your, your like resource harvesting places are generating versus how much your product producing places are using those things and making new ones and how many of those things you actually need and balance the equation instead of just like building kind of stuff that you think you might need. It's wildly more efficient and I find more rewarding. And once you figure that out on one island, then the efficiency growth of like, oh, actually potatoes take up a lot of freaking space. So I found this other island that has potatoes. Maybe I'll just grow those there and I'll set up a trade route back and forth and do it that way. Doing stuff like that starts to become very natural.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, this is cool. I didn't know about this. Someone pointed this out in chat. Cas Multi Brand battery system. CAS bands. Cordless alliance. Something I think.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Do you just need like an adapter or something?

[Linus Sebastian]

I don't know. Metabo. Metabo Cast Cordless.

[Dan]

Sorry. The drill communicates with the battery itself. The BMS has a specialized computer in it on each battery. I know because family friend is a Makita dealer and he gets us buckets of old batteries that have basically just failed and then we Frankenstein them back together, make adapter plates and things like that. It's very interesting.

[Linus Sebastian]

Cool. I forget, what does CAS stand for? I think we've love hugged the site. Oh, Cordless alliance system. There it is. Cool. Well, good luck with that and good luck with you guys finding something else to do now because it's the end of the show. Yeah, we'll see you again next week. Same bad time, same bad channel.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Bye.

[Linus Sebastian]

Go home, medicate your birds.