Windows 11 Is Getting Faster - WAN Show May 15, 2026

Summary

The WAN Show Podcast Summary – May 15, 2026

Episode Title: Windows 11 Is Getting Faster
Hosts: Linus Sebastian & Luke Lafreniere
Release Date: May 16, 2026

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Episode Overview

In this week’s episode, Linus and Luke dive deep into some of the most exciting and controversial happenings in the tech world. The headline: Microsoft is testing a new “Low Latency Profile” for Windows 11, dramatically improving app and menu performance—but getting unexpected backlash for it. The duo also discusses Google’s Chromebook successor, AI-powered devices and software, fun with smart glasses, Amazon’s ultra-fast delivery push, and some wild workplace responses to imposed AI tool usage. Plus: 3D Movie Maker and Space Cadet Pinball on Linux, tech community tribalism, floatplane exclusives, and more.

The show’s tone is energetic, geeky, and irreverent—full of personal anecdotes, industry critique, and memorable one-liners.

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Table of Contents

1. Windows 11 “Low Latency Profile” & Community Backlash
2. Smart Glasses, Privacy, and AI Assistants
3. Google Book: The AI Chromebook Successor & Aluminum OS
4. Amazon "Now": 30-Minute Deliveries & Bidet Tangents
5. Tech Marketing Insights
6. AI Features, Widget Excitement, and Dictation Failures
7. Workplace AI Tool Usage and “Token Maxing”
8. Classic Windows Apps on Linux
9. Industry, Company, and Store Updates
10. Comms & Community Q&A Highlights
11. Miscellaneous Tech News Rapid Fire
12. Memorable Quotes & Moments

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1. Windows 11 “Low Latency Profile” & Community Backlash

[01:56-06:22]

• Microsoft is testing a “Low Latency Profile” in Windows 11 that temporarily boosts CPU clocks for faster UI responsiveness (app launches, Start menu, context menus).
• Benchmarks: 40% faster MS app launches, 70% faster Start menu/context menus.
• Unexpected backlash: Some users accuse MS of “cheating” or applying a band-aid, rather than fixing deeper OS bloat/performance problems.
• Linus: “This is probably the most blatant, transparent admission that Microsoft is like a decade behind that I have ever seen from a Microsoft VP … they’re just doing what Mac and Linux have done forever.”
• Scott Hanselman (MS VP): “Your smartphone already does this. Mac and Linux do this already and you guys aren’t complaining.”
• Both hosts agree: criticisms are misplaced, improvements should happen whichever way possible, and the profile should probably just be default.
• Quote — Linus: “Do anything you can, as soon as you can, to improve user experience as much as you can.” [05:13]
• Concerns about battery impact dismissed: “It’s a fraction of a second. MacOS laptops are super efficient and do this.” [05:40]

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2. Smart Glasses, Privacy, and AI Assistants

[06:26-14:11]

• Linus discusses wearing Meta’s smart glasses (sponsored short coming), featuring:
  • Neural band input (tracks finger taps and swipes).
  • Voice dictation & camera integration.
• Growing trend: Apple and Google both prepping similar devices, with wide industry interest.
• “Good Boy/Timeout Brand” debate: Which company would you tolerate/trust to put tech on your face?
  • Both Linus & Luke prefer Apple—reluctantly—due to (somewhat) better privacy posture, despite past privacy compromises for profit or market access.
  • Linus: “On the other hand … Apple has absolutely compromised on privacy in China. If that's your corporate promise, there shouldn’t be a difference.”
• Meta and Google called out as “advertising companies” who explicitly sell as much user data as possible.
• Notable privacy concern: Meta’s “humans watch and categorize user-captured video” controversy (potential non-consensual content).
• Linus: “At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter which glasses you wear—it matters which ones the people around you are wearing.”
  • This could spark new 'tech tribalism'—“your choice of electronic compromises my personal security is going to be wild” (18:30).

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3. Google Book: The AI Chromebook Successor & Aluminum OS

[24:41-33:40]

• Google Book: New platform, big Gemini integration, Android app support on laptops.
• Broad hardware partnerships (Intel, Qualcomm, MediaTek).
• Quirky features: “Glow bar” (no actual details), “magic pointer” triggers Gemini on mouse wiggle (potential for lots of accidental prompts).
• Linus: “How quickly would you get a MacBook if it brought back the glowing logo?” [28:00]
• Most hyped AI feature: Custom AI Widgets (“such a perfect application of AI slop crap coding” [30:57])
  • Both hosts cite the need for personalized, context-aware widgets (e.g., multi-timezone tracker, calendar integration) instead of bland defaults.
  • Linus: “What if I could long-press on a timezone and set a calendar event in that zone—because cross-timezone scheduling sucks so much.” [31:41]

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4. Amazon "Now": 30-Minute Deliveries & Bidet Tangents

[83:52-90:20]

• Amazon Now: 30-minute (US) & 15-minute (some international) delivery pilot; 24-hr fulfillment centers; paid tiers for Prime/non-Prime.
• Linus: “Uber Eats but for, like, anything Amazon has in stock. I guess that is popular enough that it's stocked in these stores.”
• Tangent: Bidet and smart toilet talk, comparing North American adoption and pricing.
  • Linus: “I don't want to hear it—I have a bidet!” [87:26]
  • On Amazon being “bad for the world” (worker treatment, small business, copying hot sellers, etc.), Luke gives a passionate anti-Amazon speech. [91:14]
  • Concludes: “Pick your own battles. Try to be a little better. Not everything can—or will—be fixed in one go.” (with reference to conservationist Maya and personal ethics).

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5. Tech Marketing Insights

[13:49-17:42]

• LTT’s marketing: heavy increase in ad spend and off-site promotion (“pouring gas on the fire”).
• Linus surprised at “how effective [Meta, Google, Reddit, etc.] are at driving sales” [16:38].
• Linus: “It’s not an infinite money glitch, because there’s diminishing returns, but they’re crazy good at putting tech products in front of the right audience… advertising is a solved thing.”

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6. AI Features, Widget Excitement, and Dictation Failures

[30:33–38:56 & 41:58]

• Joy over AI widgets/customization: enabling time-saving, highly personalized workflows, less phone time. Excitement for context-aware reminders, dynamic data, and cross-app workflows.
• Linus pokes fun at Gemini’s inability to find the right YouTube video, being “gaslit” by incorrect search results; praises YouTube transcript search.
• Dictation fail stories: AI dictation writes “period” or “comma”; mis-capitalizes random words; inserts extra spaces; “You can’t convince me that that should ask out someone I potentially want to spend my life with.” [38:12]
• When AI is useful: “Rubber-ducking” for brainstorming and sentiment analysis; helps with clarity in sensitive communications.

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7. Workplace AI Tool Usage and “Token Maxing”

[197:57–205:26]

• Workplace AI pressure: Amazon, Meta, Microsoft pushing employees to use AI tools, measuring “token consumption” (how many AI operations an employee executes).
• Employees run meaningless or even automated, self-triggering AI prompts to appear high-usage (“token maxing”).
• “Perverse incentives” reminiscent of “lines of code” as a developer metric.
• Quote — Luke: “So [developers] have built bots that just use AI time—a token virus… just to juice their numbers. Like mouse jigglers, but for tokens.” [200:30]
• Corporate AI arms race may lead to absurd waste of resources — “Maybe tools will actually do something useful… Just kidding.”

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8. Classic Windows Apps on Linux

[176:17–178:47]

• Space Cadet Pinball and 3D Movie Maker ported to Linux.
  • Pinball decompiled, rebuilt for 14 platforms, now available on Flathub.
  • 3D Movie Maker (open sourced by Microsoft in 2022) continued as “3D MMEX,” now with Linux, ARM64 support, 64-bit, MIDI, and more.
• Linus: “It was a part of my childhood… The fun of using a crummy tool to make something good!”

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9. Industry, Company, and Store Updates

[49:47 – 57:17, 79:38, 252:00]

• New LTT Store drops: UV protective polos/caps (SeaWool from oyster shells), focus on real apparel (not “merch”), strong praise for team efforts and seasonal timing.
• Floatplane internal all-hands: floatplane infra/dev team presentations with Minecraft for attention.
• Linus chides the tradition of missing the fashion season, credits team for launching “at a time of the year that makes sense.” [54:36]
• Long-term vision: LTT as both apparel and tech education platform.
• Potential ideas: LTT-run e-waste recycler—inspired by Free Geek—could be great for content, but uncertain as a business.

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10. Comms & Community Q&A Highlights

(Various points)

• Wide-ranging Q&A:
  • Writing impactful, non-cliché wedding speeches (214:16).
  • Pool maintenance: "Don't" (with practical followups) (217:14).
  • Opinions on PC security in mixed Mac/Windows environments—“Fewer surfaces good, but failure more dangerous” (219:51).
  • Tech that annoys but still works: Linus’ light switches and printer; Luke’s audio interface and old phone.
  • Store/product feedback: More joggers & hats sizing (234:30–236:54).
  • Linux security advice: Don’t worry, update, cycles happen.
  • Should you buy a Steam Deck now? Probably, says Luke—Steam Deck 2 is a long way off.

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11. Miscellaneous Tech News Rapid Fire

• Steam Controller Easter Egg: If you drop your Steam controller (in Big Picture mode), sometimes it Wilhelm Screams (109:01).
• Trump T1 Phone: Shipping (supposedly), despite questionable renders and shifting stories; plans for a dedicated video.
• Sony Xperia 1 VIII: Lauded for headphone jack, microSD, “God King” color-accuracy display—at a steep price (~$2k CAD).
• Unitree Mech Robot: China’s 650k$ mecha amazes Linus (“If you don’t buy this giant mecha, what are you doing?”); implications for entertainment and specialized construction/demolition.
• Cybersecurity Tip: Install a Russian language pack—many malwares auto-avoid Russian locale [144:34].
• MIT “Y-Zipper”: Novel 3-sided zipper enabled by 3D printing (practical uses TBA, “just neat”).
• 3D Printing Recycling: VitroForm startup uses ground glass in binder jet printing, tackling landfill waste, but likely not “for your garage.”
• Starlink Popups: Passport verification for global use—raising security and privacy debate.
• Lithium-Sulfur Batteries: New Chinese lab tech claims 800-cycle, near double energy density for drones—it’s always “just one more breakthrough,” but war may speed adoption.
• AI backporting: AMD bringing FSR4 to older GPUs—hosts laud companies who “keep old products alive.”

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12. Memorable Quotes & Moments

• On Microsoft’s catchup:
  “This is probably the most blatant, transparent admission that Microsoft is like a decade behind that I have ever seen from a Microsoft VP.” – Linus [03:10]
• On Apple privacy hypocrisy:
  “If that’s your corporate promise, then I don’t really see why there would be a difference there.” – Linus [08:37]
• On AI widget customization:
  “This is such a perfect application of, like, AI slop crap-coding that nobody else is going to need” – Linus [30:57]
• Describing Meta/Google:
  “They are literally advertising companies… They are—it's not even saying the quiet part out loud. It's saying the really loud part as loud as they possibly can…” – Luke [13:37]
• On “Token Maxing” AI metrics:
  “Mouse jigglers, but for AI tokens.” – Luke [200:30]
• On advertising ROI:
  “It's just like pouring gasoline on the fire of your business.” – Linus [17:12]
• On classic tech tribalism:
  “Your choice of electronic compromises my personal security is going to be wild.” – Luke [18:30]
• On USB “dirty power”:
  “We always refer to it as like, 'dirty power,' and that was enough for me to understand that power bad, this power good. But that's it.” – Linus [150:14]

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Notable Timestamps

• Windows 11 speed boost & community backlash: [01:56–06:22]
• Smart glasses privacy/brand trust talk: [06:26–14:11]
• AI widgets & dictation fails: [30:33–38:56]
• Tech tribalism in the coming smart glasses era: [18:09–18:42]
• Token maxing & perverse workplace AI incentives: [197:57–205:26]
• Amazon Now delivery service & ethical consumerism tangent: [83:52–95:36]
• Classic apps to Linux (Pinball, 3D Movie Maker): [176:17–178:47]
• Floatplane/infra all-hands presentation, company culture: [74:34–80:53]
• MIT Y-zipper 3D printing breakthrough: [155:45–158:11]

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Language and Tone: Consistent geeky informality, high-energy debate, relentless honesty, tangents, spirited disagreement, and a touch of tech industry cynicism.

If you missed this episode, you missed a geek-culture snapshot: the tech industry’s furious attempts to reinvent itself, beat the hype, and sometimes own up to years of stagnancy. All while the next wave of tech tribalism looms, AI hype spirals, and companies keep racing to track, monitor, and out-autocomplete both you and your employees.

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(All times approximate; segment order matches the show’s natural flow.)

Transcript

[Linus Sebastian]

What is up, everybody? Happy Friday and welcome to the WAN show. We're back at you, geekier than ever.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

Sexy, right?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

And we've got some good news today. Windows 11 is getting a speed boost and for some reason they're getting user backlash about this. No, no, please do make Windows faster. Definitely appreciate that. I mean, how else are they gonna compet with Google Books?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, that.

[Linus Sebastian]

The AI sequels to Chromebooks. We don't know a ton about these yet, but they were a huge focus for Google at their recent Android event earlier this week. We'll be talking a little bit about those and some maybe you're going to be mad at me, maybe you're going to be mad at me, but some AI features of Aluminium OS that I am legitimately.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, no.

[Linus Sebastian]

Stoked for.

[Luke Lafreniere]

There's one that's really cool. We'll see if we have the same opinion. Linux gains more critical weight. Windows apps, very important. 3D, movie maker and Space Cadet Pinball. Those are. I mean, they're not on Windows now.

[Linus Sebastian]

Absolute app cinema.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Just another dub. And also, I don't know, This one I think is funny. I don't know if it's good news, but it's funny. Amazon employees are token maxing due to pressure to use AI tools. It's funny. It's a funny topic.

[Linus Sebastian]

The show is brought to you today by AMD, Cape, Motion Gray and XSplit, along with our rap partner dBrand, our laptop partner, Razer, and our chair partner. Also Razer. Why don't we jump right into our headline topic today, which is that Windows 11 is getting a speed boost. Microsoft is testing a new Windows 11 feature called Low Latency Profile that temporarily increases CPU clock speeds in very short bursts to speed up things like the Start menu, app launches and other UI interactions mimicking how macOS handles responsiveness. And for that matter, also Android and iOS and basically any other modern operating. I didn't realize Windows wasn't already doing this.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

Windows Central testing showed up to 40% faster launch times for Microsoft's own apps like Outlook, the Store, Paint and File Explorer, and up to 70% faster launch times for the Start menu and Context menus. The feature has drawn community backlash, with people accusing Microsoft of cheating and using a band aid solution instead of addressing underlying Windows performance issues.

[Luke Lafreniere]

They can do both.

[Linus Sebastian]

Scott Hanselman, VP for Core AI, GitHub and Windows defended this change, though responding to several critics on Twitter, noting that your smartphone already does this. You've discovered dynamic frequency scaling. Mac and Linux do this already and you guys aren't complaining. This is probably the most blatant, transparent admission that Microsoft is like a decade behind that I have ever seen from a Microsoft vp. It's like, hey guys, we were just doing the thing that everybody else completely lapped us on the track doing. Sorry. And he's 100% right. There should be zero backlash for Microsoft doing this. There should just be. Yay.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Especially considering it's a profile. So it sounds like you can turn

[Linus Sebastian]

it off if you like. This is like when my kid is running like the 800 meter and she's like the last one to cross the line. Like, you know. Yeah, you got there. To be clear. Actually, that is not how it went down, by the way. So congrats to to my youngest for actually qualifying for the next stage. But. But anyway. But the point is just that this is a good thing.

[Luke Lafreniere]

With that said, yeah, they do still have other work to do.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. There's some validity to Microsoft needing to

[Luke Lafreniere]

clean up their house because just cranking my CPU in order to make up for your In a lot of cases, fairly garbage decision making over the years is not the answer. But it can be part of the answer. If you do this in order to catch up with other operating systems and you get rid of React native being part of the start menu and things like that, the combination can be really good. And I don't think the order necessarily matters. I know some people are like, oh, you should fix those things first.

[Linus Sebastian]

It's like, no, you should do anything you can as soon as you can to improve the user experience as much as you can.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Absolutely.

[Linus Sebastian]

And if you really think that turning up the frequency of the CPU a little bit when you launch the start menu or whatever is going to have a significant impact on the battery life of your laptop. Guys, how long do you think it's actually boosting for? Like it's for a fraction of a second. Like a tiny fraction of a second.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Mac OS laptops known for being super efficient do this. Like you can probably relax. And also your phone, it's described as a profile. Yeah, that would tell me. I am guessing. But that would tell me that you can probably turn it off if you

[Linus Sebastian]

really care, which you shouldn't. It should probably just be the default profile from now on.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, honestly, I would prefer they actually did that and then called the other

[Linus Sebastian]

profile like dog profile.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Like something.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, Worse profile.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Extreme battery saver.

[Linus Sebastian]

Sure. But we already have that. So this should be funnel it into that or something. This should just be in the default balanced and performance profiles.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. Yeah, I mean, good.

[Linus Sebastian]

I just got a text on WhatsApp. I bet you couldn't even tell. No, yeah, we should. We should probably. We should probably talk about that. Yeah, I. Okay, so, full disclosure. Meta Sponsored. I think it's a short. Yeah, it's a short. Just talking about some of the new features. I am not on the clock right now, though. Right now I'm just wearing them because Sammy came in here before the show started and asked if he could just get a shot of me wearing them on the WAN show set. And I was like, yeah, sure, that's fine.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Have you uploaded the short yet?

[Linus Sebastian]

Nope.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay.

[Linus Sebastian]

And then Luke and I started talking about them, and I've been using them for about a week now. And there's a lot of stuff that is, I gotta be honest with you, pretty cool. I showed Luke the display before the show started, and I've actually. My. My neural band. So the bracelet that you wear, that kind of keeps track of which fingers you're tapping and lets you swipe through the menu like this. And then you can write texts like this. You can also dictate to it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Weird.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, it's super funky. So you wake the device by double tapping here, and then you say, yes with this, no with this. And it can tell the difference between those. It's pretty cool.

[Luke Lafreniere]

As far as my understanding goes, there's. There's ones coming from. From Apple and Google and. And actually a really wide variety of other manufacturers as well.

[Linus Sebastian]

Tell me this.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Samsung.

[Linus Sebastian]

Tell me this. If you had to put the various smart glasses brands into Good Boy brand and Timeout brand, which. Which smart glasses would you consider wearing?

[Luke Lafreniere]

You want?

[Linus Sebastian]

I want. I want the honest answer.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I don't know if this is gonna sound surprising to you or not.

[Linus Sebastian]

I. I know what.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Type it.

[Linus Sebastian]

I'm gonna type it because I already know what you're gonna say. Like, it's so. Oh, you're so predictable. Okay, hit me.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Apple.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, of course. Yeah. And, man, Apple's a company that I have a complicated relationship with because on the one hand, they definitely have, in order to. In order to access the Chinese market, have absolutely compromised their user privacy. Absolutely. I mean, is a Chinese Apple user, like, less worthy of Apple's promises with respect to their data safety than a Western one? I don't really. If that's your corporate promise, then I don't really see why there would be a difference there. And if there is a difference there, then I don't really think you get to stand there and beat the drum about how amazing you are with respect to user privacy, depending on where your lines are. But on the other hand. Right. And then there's Apple being an obstacle for years and years and years with respect to support for RCS encrypted messages across platform because it would disincentivize people to stay locked into the iOS walled garden. It's like they're highly financially motivated to just walk away from user privacy whenever it's not convenient for them.

[Luke Lafreniere]

The portability is often really trash as well.

[Linus Sebastian]

However, they also have gone to bat for their users when it's more convenient. So if there was someone that I was. That I also was going to. I'm not going to use the T word. I'm not going to say trust.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

I'll use the other T word if there was someone I was going to tolerate. Yeah, Apple does seem like an okay. Ish. Better maybe.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Bet I'm not really stoked on strapping Meta or Google or anything else to my face with visual and audio inputs like, oh, you're.

[Linus Sebastian]

I'm not actually recording you right now because my neural band battery is dead.

[Luke Lafreniere]

But I just. Yeah, I don't know. But I have always thought like, hey, there you go. Oh, I guess you can do. Is there physical buttons?

[Dan]

That was the picture.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So it also squeeze the frame or is there a button?

[Linus Sebastian]

There's a button. So it also supports not the neural band, but the, like, beta firmware that I have is neural band only. So I'm.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I wonder if you can.

[Linus Sebastian]

I'm recording you right now.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I wonder if you can cut off that little led.

[Linus Sebastian]

So if you cover it, which side's it on again? This side, right?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

So if you cover it, it'll get mad at you and it will stop recording. From what I've heard. I've never actually tried to cover it because I haven't used them in public much yet. I've used them on the court, though. So I was. I was hanging out with like a former junior national player and he was really excited about these because he's trying to grow his social media presence. And so I was like, oh, yeah, I'm going to get some like, POV footage of training with you. And Jaden's like, oh, yeah, that's super cool. Can you, like, send all that to me after? So, you know, when everyone around you is consenting and cool with it, like, man, this is a perspective that. No, there's. There's no other way to capture like this. And it's really cool.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I mean, there's is Carter in full paint chat said what about the recent news that Meta is having humans watch and categorized videos without telling anyone. Yeah. And there was also news in there that like a ton of it was accidentally recorded nudity and other various stuff and from what I've heard of various ages. So like it's. Yeah. There's, there's

[Linus Sebastian]

charge nuclei says orgy glasses.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I hope. Yeah, yeah. I promise you. Yeah. I, I hope you know Apple sticks to their.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Usually pretty decent privacy guns.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Because from what I've rumors that I've heard and maybe these are real. I don't know.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Is their ditching Vision Pro.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. I heard the Vision Pro team has basically.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yep. Going to glasses.

[Linus Sebastian]

Gone all in on these because.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Because the Vision Pro had a lot of good things about it.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh it did.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It was really did.

[Linus Sebastian]

It was the coolest product that's ever been. So irrelevant.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a cool way of saying it. Yeah. So like they could be really good and I, you know, sometimes you just have to listen to people and accept what they say and when you look at Google and when you look at Meta, they're not hiding it, just listen to them. We will take as much data as we possibly can, use it in every way we possibly can and sell it to absolutely everyone we possibly can for as much money as we possibly can.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yep. I mean they're literally advertising companies.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. Like they are. They are. It's not even saying the quiet part out loud. It's saying the really loud part as loud as they possibly can to everyone that will listen. And at a certain point you have to be like, okay.

[Linus Sebastian]

And they're really good at it. So we, we traditionally have relied almost exclusively on our own videos and our own sort of social media profiles to promote LTT Store, for instance, over the last. It's funny, we had an all hands recently and Dave who is heading up operations or I forget what his actual job title is. Whatever he's, he's, he's definitely heading up marketing. He's Dave. He's Dave, he's kind of a beast and he's been doing, he's been spearheading marketing for LTT Store off site. So we're doing things like influencer affiliate programs and things like that. We've got an. Oh, I don't know if he's passed probation yet but we've got another really super smart guy who is, who's working on that with Dave. And then Dave has been running like Reddit ads, meta ads More recently, we did Pinterest when we were promoting the leggings, which sold out like crazy fast. Thank you so much for your support. We're hopefully going to be able to do more women's styles based on that success. But he, during the all hands, he had this line that really stood out to me where he's like, okay, how many of you in this room have seen an LTT store ad lately? And 2/3, probably about 3/4. Yeah. Like most of the company was like, yeah. And like, I have. I put my hand up.

[Luke Lafreniere]

A bunch of family members of mine knew about the leggings because of ads. The leggings were one of the first times that like, I got requests to get something. Usually I'll be like, oh, we have this cool new thing. Are you interested in this? And the leggings were like, multiple people were like, hey, I want the pockets.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, yeah. And so what we're discovering is that I forget the exact numbers, but, like, for every dollar that we're spending with these advertising giants, like, it's something that I've always known, like, obviously they're running profitable businesses, right?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

And obviously, you know, people like customers like Ridge or Vessi or whoever, like, would stop giving them money if it wasn't working.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

Right. So obviously it's working. But this is my first time really seeing firsthand, like, oh my gosh, the more we spend just like marketing with Meta or with Reddit or with Google, just like the more sales we have. And it's like, I wouldn't say it's an infinite money glitch because you reached like a point of diminishing returns.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

But if you have a good product, they are crazy good. As we saw during the all hands at taking, you know, an LTT product that a tech interested person might be interested in putting it in front of them wherever they go on the Internet, it's like, I don't know, everything I'm saying is like, yeah, duh. Line is common sense. Ever since, like double click, you know, like back in the 90s or whatever. And it's like, yeah. Yes. I know that advertising is just kind of a solved thing. It's just, I don't know, it's been weird to see it from the other side.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

To experience it from the other side and go, oh, this is just like pouring gasoline on the fire of your business, Dude. We're, we're like, just like, just everything. I know it's good news wan show and everything, but like, yeah, it's, it's Just it's crazy because. And I go, right, so, right. I'm coming back to it. These are so good now.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, okay.

[Linus Sebastian]

That like people are gonna wear them. So whether you choose an Apple one or like a cool open source privacy one.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Framework makes a glasses.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, Framework does a glass. I mean the branding's already there. The framework frames. Come on, man.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Replaceable arm things.

[Linus Sebastian]

Sure, whatever, right? Or like, or graphene os, you know, makes an OS for you. You might wear that one. But at the end of the day it doesn't really matter which one you're

[Luke Lafreniere]

wearing the people around you.

[Linus Sebastian]

It matters which one the people around you are wearing. We've already got mult people here at the office that regardless of any sponsorship deals we do or don't do around like meta, AI, glass, display, whatever things are just wearing them. They buy them and wear them.

[Luke Lafreniere]

We thought there was a lot of tribalism around like consoles and like PC versus Mac.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, dude, glasses.

[Luke Lafreniere]

The. Your choice of electronic compromises. My personal security is going to be wild. That's going to be crazy. I never even really thought about that too much.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh,

[Luke Lafreniere]

we're an Apple Glasses group of friends.

[Linus Sebastian]

I'm sorry, you don't use eyeglass message.

[Luke Lafreniere]

You have metas. Excuse me, you don't belong here.

[Linus Sebastian]

One of the things that on the subject of cross platform communication is a shortcoming right now is it supports messages. Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger. Like it's basically all meta ecosystem stuff. But one of the things that. Oh, okay. But things might change at some point. Sorry, I don't know when we're publishing our short and I don't know if anything we're saying it is under embargo.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Got it.

[Linus Sebastian]

But yeah, like it's. Hopefully the ecosystem will expand at some point for apps that you can use because right now they're not that useful for me day to day. Like I have to put them on intent fully to. To use them because maybe 90% of my text based communication is teams and then another 5% is WhatsApp and then another 1% is Discord. Discord is basically just you.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And then so astonishing to me that

[Linus Sebastian]

no one else in my life uses it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, because like, like I reached out to someone literally like last week on a different platform and they were like, yeah, sorry, I like really never check this. Can we jump to Discord? And that happens to me at least once a month. Like everyone I know seems to be moving to Discord.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay, so above the fold. So this is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. There's 12 chats here above the fold. Tell me how far back that goes.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I mean, four down in your back a month.

[Linus Sebastian]

By the time we get to 12. That's from that chat. It's hidden by the chat icon is from seven months ago. So there's like a dozen people that I talk to with a frequency of twice a year.

[Luke Lafreniere]

My entire screen.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

When you get to the very bottom one, it finally gets to two.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So Discord is just Discord.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, man.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Teams is. Teams and slack are obviously the lion's share. But like Discord is next after those ones. And Discord. A bunch of Discord is work.

[Linus Sebastian]

Do you think that's a generational gap? Like your cohort is five years younger than mine? Like.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. Because then once you go far enough down below mine, I don't know if it's still Discord. It might be something else. I have no idea. But probably. But like even, even a lot of creators, most. The vast majority of creators that I talk through is through Discord, so nobody wants to hear anything else.

[Linus Sebastian]

We've got Ludwig, a couple of them in here. Shroud, Finster.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

Bokobola, Elijah and you. I think you count.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Sure.

[Linus Sebastian]

And then the only work ones in here are Eshtek. So not unraid. The. The other thing that they're making, Hexos. That's embarrassing. Hex, that's the NAS software that I invested in. So their CEO messages me on here and then it's just like, yeah, a couple, couple friends, a couple YouTube contacts.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Work ones make up at least a quarter of my. Within the last day.

[Linus Sebastian]

Go figure. Like, anyway, until we get. Until we. Until there's like more cross platform chat. I'm going to get like a small percentage of my notifications on here anyway, which means I'm far more likely to look at my watch, but I can kind of through these frames.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Luke, dude, I can't freaking out about Finster.

[Linus Sebastian]

I can see the future. Oh. To be clear, I don't. So I talked to. I talked to Finster once five months ago. Basically just saying, hey, it was, it was cool that you came to visit our office.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I think people are just surprised.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, Elijah introduced me. Yeah, I don't. I don't know. I don't know very much about a lot of the people that I, that I message, but I've heard that she's pretty cool.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Sure.

[Linus Sebastian]

So. And I think she came up for LTX once or something. I think visiting the LTT camera department. Something, something, something. Oh, no. Friend met you? Yeah. I don't know. I got introduced and from what I've heard, she's pretty cool. That's. That. That's all. That's all I know.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I just thought it was funny seeing the chat.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, yeah. And apparently very popular with our audience.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yep.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

Makes sense to me. I'm going to take these off now. They're pretty uncomfortable with the width of

[Luke Lafreniere]

the headphones and stuff.

[Linus Sebastian]

Headphones, yeah. All right.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Is there. Is there any leaks with the Apple ones?

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, lots. No timelines, though, because they were kind of all in on the whole, like, VR headset that we insist is not a VR headset and that we stubbornly refuse to acknowledge the two main use cases for VR headsets.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Is this from the pressure because of the headphones you have, like, big. Whatever those are called.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Is that the pressure because the headphones, or does that always happen?

[Linus Sebastian]

No, it just always happens with them. Wow. They're. They're not like, pretty heavy, eh? Yeah, they're not. They're not super light. But also, like, I don't have nose calluses, like, because I've. I don't wear.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I guess you get more use of them, especially when they're heavy.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. And also just people who just, like, wear glasses will take off their glasses and they'll have, like, the mark there. So I. I wouldn't read too much into that. They're not uncomfortable.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Sure, sure, sure, sure. Okay. Google Book.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, yeah, we could do that. Google Book.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Google Book, the AI sequel to Chromebook. On Tuesday of this week, Google gave a sneak peek of the Google Book, which is kind of like a Chromebook, but with more Android support and deeper integration of Gemini. Obviously, Google Books can run Android apps directly on the laptop or can access files and use apps from your Android phone. It's expected that Google Books will run Google. Google's upcoming aluminum os.

[Linus Sebastian]

Aluminium os.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Aluminum os. Google didn't discuss the core hardware in the announcement, but intel and Qualcomm have both made announcements confirming their partnership. So, yeah. Okay. Google VP John Meletis later told Chrome Unbox that the upcoming notebooks will ship with processors from. Okay, Intel, Qualcomm and MediaTek.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, and MediaTek. Interesting.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Wireless, I'm assuming.

[Linus Sebastian]

No, no, no. So, okay, from my understanding, and I'm going to get some details wrong here because I don't remember and it was a while ago, but from my understanding, the whole Windows on ARM thing, being Qualcomm exclusive with their Snapdragon X chips is like a timed Thing and that's one of the reasons that Qualcomm has been so cagey around people calling it Windows on arm. They want it called Windows on Snapdragon because they want to plant their flag in the Windows on ARM space before some of the lower cost chipset makers can come in and well, do what they do best, which is be lower cost chipset makers. So while we haven't seen any meaningful traction for MediaTek on the Windows side yet, yeah, I can't think of any reason that a Mediatek SOC couldn't power a Google Book. And so having that choice right out of the gate could be very interesting. Pugboy says MediaTek has been in Chromebooks for years now. Nothing surprising there. Yeah, so what I haven't seen though is a MediaTek chipset that would be like high performance. Do they have something new that's coming that could be more of a competitor for Snapdragon X that I don't know. I remember I have a vague memory of maybe at some point there being like, like a media tech laptop grade chip that was going to be not like an absolute budget tier solution. So yeah, hit me up in chat if you guys, if you guys know if there's, if we're going to get something high performance, because that would be pretty cool. Yeah, carry on.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Google is establishing strict hardware standards across memory storage, keyboards and overall build quality. Google Books will come in a variety of shapes and size from the usual hardware manufacturers of Acer, Asus, Dell, hp,

[Linus Sebastian]

Lenovo, except okay, but this, this is the big one. This is the big feature. This is the exciting differentiator. This is why you need a Google Book. Sir, tell them the news.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Google Books feature a glow bar on the exterior. We don't know what it does, we don't know what it looks like. We don't know anything about it. But Google says that it is both functional and beautiful.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay, I'm actually only sort of joking because how quickly would you get a MacBook that went back to having the glowing Apple logo on the back? Just saying, you do it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I do.

[Linus Sebastian]

MacBook owners. If M6 brought back the glowing logo on the back, you'd consider an upgrade. That's how Apple is going to get all the people running M1, M2 silicon to finally upgrade. You'd love to have it. You've got the glowing red dot and you love it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Glowing dot is actually genuinely helpful.

[Linus Sebastian]

You love it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So I can tell my laptop's doing based on the glowing red dot.

[Linus Sebastian]

He loves it. He loves it. Here comes the glow bar. I'm Derek says. Holy true.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I am actually okay with it just being a little red dot, though. So, like, I don't know what that means. Well, Axios writer Ina Fried hopefully probably called the most visible change with the Google book the magic pointer, which calls up Gemini. Oh, right. I don't know about that. But okay, it's not yet clear. Okay.

[Linus Sebastian]

When you didn't finish your sentence.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, the magic pointer which calls up Gemini anytime you wiggle the cursor. And the amount of, like, mis prompts for that is going to be wild. But, yeah, it's not yet clear what this means for the future of Chromebooks. So the wiggle the cursor thing,

[Linus Sebastian]

the

[Luke Lafreniere]

amount of times that I'm just thinking and I'll, like, kind of shake my

[Linus Sebastian]

mouse, I have to consciously. When Luke is reading the doc, I have to consciously not do this.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, exactly.

[Linus Sebastian]

Because it interferes with him reading. Because I just, like, I just do this as I'm reading.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Well, and it's not just that it's highlighting it. It's that, man, if I can. No, keep doing it, keep doing it.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, keep doing it. Oh, I can do that all day.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Cause on my screen, see how it actually says, like, wan show one.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, wait, yeah, it's the little flag. So as I'm reading.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So that will actually, like, physically cover up entire words sometimes it's like, yo, I, like, actually can't read this now. They're both doing it. They're actually moving the text around.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, Dan, you copied those. You pasted the text.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That is not fair.

[Dan]

Sorry. It's a click and drag thing.

[Linus Sebastian]

That's even worse.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. But yeah, I'll even literally just, like, shake my mouse. So, like, the amount of times that I would unintentionally bring this thing up and then I think it looks like it kind of, like, overlays your screen, almost like a snipping tool kind of thing. So, like, it's gonna be really annoying.

[Linus Sebastian]

However, there is one AI feature of aluminum OS that is also coming to Android that I am, like, so freaking jazzed for.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Hold on, hold on, hold on.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay, I'm trying to contain myself. Luke. I'm trying to contain myself.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay.

[Linus Sebastian]

It's hard to contain myself.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I typed it down because I suspect it's the same thing.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, it's the, like, AI widgets.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, they're actually really cool.

[Linus Sebastian]

They look so cool. This is such a perfect application of, like, AI slop crap coding that nobody else is going to need. Like, okay, a perfect the one that I want is like a, like, like an ultimate, like, time zone tracker just for me. Like, I just want particular information. Like, I also want maybe a little bit of, like, weather in there for. I like to have something in Southeast Asia, like Taiwan, so that I know what's going on. Like, I know what time zone it is for anyone that I'm corresponding with in Asia. Ish.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay.

[Linus Sebastian]

I like to have one in Europe. So like, usually I'll pick like Paris or something like that just so I know about what time it is in Europe. And then I'll do the math myself for east coast, North America, but I'll have like a local one. And just the ones that exist are so bland and so boring. Like, you can see the one I'm using now. It's just like, I don't know. Here's three times. This could be so cool. What if I could long press on one of the other time zones? I don't know if it's going to be able to do this, but I could kind of see where we're headed. Like, what if I could long press on one of the time zones and then I could make an event on my calendar according to that time zone. Because I know, because, like, creating events across time zones sucks so much. Like, when I'm over in Taiwan for Computex and I want to make a note to remind myself the evening of the Tuesday when I'm back to go to whoever's band recital or whatever, I then have to do the math for what time it is now that it will be there. And if I could just integrate calendar and cool stuff like that, then I'd love it. And I know we're not there yet.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Don't think you have to do that though. I think under more options.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. On desktop, sure. But I want to be able to do it quickly.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, fair enough.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So I think on desktop you can set your time zone.

[Linus Sebastian]

I think. Yeah. So I can see the option. Like, I can go do that, but if I could just. If I could just like, long press here and basically just go, yeah, great, let's go. And like, as it is now, like, I can go in here and then I can set my time zone. I can do this, like, super tedious flow, but I want to be able to do it quickly. And that's the whole pitch of these, like, custom AI widgets is taking the things that you do all the time that almost nobody else does all the time, and making them like one or two presses. Oh, Chef Kiss can't Wait. So excited.

[Luke Lafreniere]

If. If I could put it on, like, one of my side monitors. I. I actually thought of this while we were sitting here and now I just want to do it anyways. And I'm pretty sure I can. But I would have something on my side monitor, not my main monitor, that warns me about things that I might need to be prepared for for tomorrow. And it should start generating that at, like, yeah, 5pm yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

Or like, because the.

[Luke Lafreniere]

This. The calendar is going to change all day and then at around 5pm it's probably going to decently lock in and if it can let me know of, like, oh, you have like an off site or something.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And like, let's say it's not even just for work stuff. So it's like, oh, you're going hiking tomorrow. Make sure you, like, have the right clothes that are clean.

[Linus Sebastian]

Connor, you're missing the point. The beauty of widgets is that I don't have to open my Google Calendar.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

He's like, you can. It's like, it's literally on my Google Calendar.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It's an awareness thing.

[Linus Sebastian]

I don't want to open my Google Calendar. I want to just stay on my home screen. Like, I actually have, like. I used to maintain, like, a whole bunch of, like, constant tabs in my. In my mobile browser, and I've got it down to four. And I have found that just that action of, like, opening up the Chrome app less and having, like, fewer tabs and fewer things to click on and go into is making me use my phone, like, way less.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Nice.

[Linus Sebastian]

And I'm. I'm stoked on anything that helps me use my phone less. That was one line from the Google event that really stood out to me, is we are everything. What we're doing for the future of Android is with an eye toward using your phone less and doing more with the help of your phone. Now there's some stuff that's just obviously horsesh. The. The assistant, you, like, they did this crazy demo where you snap a picture of, like, a concert poster and then you just like, tell Gemini, like, hey, can you just like, book me two floor tickets for that? I'm gonna, like, take a girl with me and set a date for that. And then you, like, go on your date, and then you're just like, hey, make another date for next week. No girl wants to hear from your f. Cking AI assistant that you asked her out again. Are you. Are you kidding me right now? Stop it. Just stop it. Stop it. Don't even pitch this. That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Maybe in Silicon Valley, maybe if it's your AI system, maybe.

[Linus Sebastian]

But like just, just know, probably work. No, like, dude, I said, I said in the script, like when I. In the video that we did on the Google event, I was like, yeah, even just setting an alarm has about a 80 to 90% success rate for me.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

And since then I tried to set an alarm for something and it, and it screwed up the. What did it do? No, it timed out. So I. And I was on WI fi, I was on WI fi at home. So I was on like two and a half gig Internet, so I didn't want to hear it. And then this is a funny one. I was dictating to my notes because I was actually thinking like, just because Meta sends these glasses over to me for a sponsored short doesn't mean I don't still have them. I could totally just do an editorial video on them after the fact. So I've started making some notes from my time just using them now. And I, I was reminded of a super annoying thing that dictation just does that drives me absolutely crazy. What is up with this word square being capitalized? The. The. So the. So the sentence here is. And the video quality off of these things is just. Is. Is capitalized. Is just mind blowingly good. Period. Also the fact that sometimes it writes the word period and comma and other times it just puts in the period for me. Come on, man. I would love to see Meta use a sensor that's square. Kind of like the selfie camera on the latest iPhone so that I could choose to crop landscape if I want to. It capitalized square. And it capitalized is why. And then the next sentence. Not. Everything that I do is best portrayed in portrait. Not. That's the beginning of a sentence. Not is not capitalized. The word portrayed is capitalized. And then between in and portrait, there are two spaces. You can't convince me that that should ask out someone that I potentially want to spend the rest of my life with. You gotta be kidding. The stakes are too high, I'm afraid.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I don't use dictation very much. When you showed me square, I was like, oh, they. It thought the company.

[Linus Sebastian]

Sure. But in that context.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And no, it did not. No, they did it to portrayed.

[Linus Sebastian]

And all this other stuff is portrayed a company. Is that like a, like a prominent silicon. Hold on here. Is that a prominent Silicon Valley company portrayed brands. Nope, forget it. We're. You're done. You're Cooked, you're out. You're. You're.

[Luke Lafreniere]

You're.

[Linus Sebastian]

You're fried. So there are definitely things that are exciting and there are things that AI is really good at. I was looking for a moment from an older video a little while ago and I just couldn't remember. I was looking for a time on short circuit when I had used AI to try to find our deskpad. I wanted it to send me to LTT Store, to the Northern Lights desk pad by taking a picture of it. I was using like the Circle to search or Google Lens or something like that. One of their image recognition search things. And I couldn't remember what video it was from. And Gemini just kept gaslighting me over and over and over and over again that it was from. I think it was like the Pixel 10 or something like that, or Pixel 9 9a or that it was from the Galaxy S24 Ultra or something. And finally, you know how I ultimately found it was YouTube transcript search. I'm trying to remember what that site. Filmat Philmot. This is a really cool site. So it just kept insisting. And the craziest part is, was I felt so gaslit by it because it would give me a timestamp and it would describe the thing that happened. It was like you searched for the thing and it just brought up other desk pads of like landscapes or something. Or like it. It brought up like the MKBHD Store or whatever. Like, it was like I was like, yeah, yeah, that's what I remember happening. But it kept telling me it happened in this video when I was like, no, it's not in that video. And it would keep insisting that it was in one of these couple of videos and it just couldn't find it. And the way that I ultimately found it was by going here on film. This is a super cool tool, by the way. And I just searched for Northern Lights. Yes, yes, yes. I'm human. Oh, my God. Relax. Hey, yeah, you go here, verify. I'm smarter than an AI.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I've never seen that one before.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay. It was from here. Google 10 Pixel Pro. A Google Pixel 10 Pro fold was what it was from. And the AI could not check this one. It just insisted that it was on a different one. And. But it knew it described the way it went down perfectly. It just linked me to the wrong video.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

And then ChatGPT tripped over itself as well. It couldn't do it either. And so, man. But then there's. But then there's things that it does so well. Like I. I don't know, man. I don't. I don't know how to deal with this anymore. I don't know how to deal with this. Like, I. Like I. Okay, what. What have you used AI for that's been useful recently? Yeah, fair enough. All right, we can move on.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I've used it in the same way for a super long time. I'll use it for. I never use attachable output. That's been a rule for a long time.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I use it for brainstorming. Every once in a while I'll be like, here's. Here's a topic. I need all the basic, like, fundamentals of this topic. And then it'll give me basically, like headline things. Not headline things. I don't know if I'm asking about a mouse, it'll say latency, you know, like, like things like that. Like, it'll give me all the different things to consider and then I'll dive into those. Another one, probably my basically like a

[Linus Sebastian]

checklist to make sure you don't overlook anything.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. Okay. I want to learn about this topic. What are the different, like, subcategory type things? I don't remember the actual verbiage because I just copy paste it. What are the things within this topic that I need to care about? And then it'll let me know. And then I'll dive into those usually myself. Or I'll ask it to expand on one of them and then dive into it from there. But I try to usually make it so that my final information does not come from it because I'm relatively aware of how consistently wrong it is about things. And then probably overall time. I don't know if in the last month or two, but overall, time. My most commonly used prompt objectively is going to be the sentiment analysis one. Sure. Where I'll be sending a message and I'll be worried about how it's going to be interpreted.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So I'll kind of rubber ducky with the LLM and just be like, what. What sentiment analysis would you get from this message? Kind of in a vacuum.

[Linus Sebastian]

You know what's funny is I actually, I use it very rarely, but that was something I used it for pretty recently. I pasted in an argument that Yvonne and I happened to get into over text. And I was like, whose fault was it? And basically it. It crapped out that it was kind of both of our fault and it legitimately did help us resolve it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

I was like, okay, well, I'm sorry for that thing that I did that I didn't really like, notice or realize I was doing.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

And she was like, well, I'm sorry for that thing that I did that I didn't really notice or realize that I was doing. And then we were like, okay, want to make out

[Luke Lafreniere]

through wan show? I have told people not quite like that. I have told a very large number of people about this whole sentiment analysis thing. And I find so few people ever try it. And every single person I've ever known that has ever tried it has been like, oh, it's actually pretty good. Because, like, if you really sat there and really break it down for a while, you'll find those things. But often it's like, this is the message that I would send. If this was a normal day, I would just click send. But I want to be a little bit more careful. Copy, paste, blunk. And then it'll be like, it'll say some stuff and it's like, yeah, I could see that. So then you make the adjustment yourself.

[Linus Sebastian]

What are your personal tells for when you know that you're probably cranky? Mine is eating sounds. If people. If people eating near me is annoying, then I know that I'm in a bad mood, even if I didn't realize it before because eating sounds normally, I won't even notice them. But when I'm like, when I'm low blood sugar or I haven't slept enough, or there's something that's just kind of been agitating me or I have a headache or whatever, if someone is in the same room as me and I can hear that, like, lip smacking, I just, I like, I want to, I want to punch them. And I'll like, I'll be like. I'll be sitting there going like, why am I so agitated right now? Look at them. Like they're, they're eating. Do they know how much noise they're making? Oh, this is me. Oh, no. Togeki B. Says, I get this. Hearing you with the braces. Hey, I have good news on the braces front. While he thinks, hey, look, this one. It's not that zoomed. Whatever. There's one tooth here that's still quite twisted. And from what I can tell when we untwist that one, we're pretty much done. So I am hoping, fingers crossed, that we are like two and a half to three months from the end here, which would put us at the low end of the time estimate they gave me. They said about 12 to 18 months, and that would put us at around the 12 and a half, 13 month mark we wasted like an entire cycle with a tie on this one that wasn't secure enough and wasn't moving it. And I felt it right away. I was like, should I go in and tell them to tie that off better? Because I can tell it's not moving and I know that this is the focus. But I didn't. And when I came in, they were like, oh, yeah, that wasn't doing anything. So we have to put in the same wire again, but we're going to tie it different and reposition the bracket. And I was like, no, that sucks.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I think for me it's like speed, speed. If I start noticing that I'm just like, like off the dome, just rifling, it's usually not a great situation.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, so you're doing things.

[Luke Lafreniere]

No longer controlling my pace. If I'm no longer really thinking through what I'm saying, if I'm going more impulsive, animalistic, autopilot brain, it's like I'm probably tilted right now. And the main way that I can try to get out of that is to try to force myself to slow down.

[Linus Sebastian]

How often does that happen on Wencho?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Not, not that often, I think.

[Linus Sebastian]

Do you believe him?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Dan nodded.

[Linus Sebastian]

I tried to cut him off. I tried to cut him off because that was, that was so perfect.

[Luke Lafreniere]

But yeah, I think that's my answer to that. There's a few other things as well. The eating thing, I think is pretty common. I think I get that too. I don't think I get it as bad as you. I've seen you react to that before. But, but yeah, I, I'll, I'll like. And I'll start noticing that like the, the non automatic part of the brain is now focused on what happened a few seconds ago instead of what I'm going to do next. Because I'm going so fast that it's like, oh, I didn't like that. I didn't frame that well. And now I'm thinking about that instead of what I'm saying next and then I start kind of falling behind and I need to go like, no, no, no, no, no, let's, let's slow down and get more control over what's happening. What is the actual aim of this conversation instead of being right about the next statement? How do I, how do I come out the best possible way out of the conclusion of this scenario or conversation or whatever it is? So I try to pull myself back into like, you know, larger picture thinking. I don't know, whatever.

[Linus Sebastian]

It's. Yeah, it's not easy Though it's not easy because, like, you have to count on one of your tells, like, one of your cues to. To come up. You have to slow down enough to think, which I need to slow down really difficult, which can be very difficult. I don't remember even recognizing that you

[Luke Lafreniere]

need to slow down is difficult, but then the, like, really difficult part is actually pulling it back.

[Linus Sebastian]

You know what? I'm the opposite. I can pull it back once I have recognized that I need to, then that's actually relatively easy for me. But the slowing down for long enough to go, wait a second. We've gone off the rails here. Or we're completely focused on the wrong thing right now. Is not always. Not always easy.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

For me.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

Float plane chat. Y' all need to stop flaming each other, and y' all gonna. Y' all gonna get some timeouts pretty quick.

[Luke Lafreniere]

What's going on?

[Linus Sebastian]

I don't care how much tenure you have. Relax. Thank you, everybody. All right, why don't we jump into a new topic? Oh, no. We are explaining comms. Hey. Oh, dude. Dude. Okay, it's not launching with the same amount of fanfare as, like, the screwdriver or the cables or the backpack or whatever, but this took a similar time frame to develop.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Really?

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay. So it was in. It was in development hell for a couple of years until we finally found exactly the right fabric for these garments. And this is our UV protective polo, which is made with Seawool fabric that's derived from reclaimed oyster shells. Yes, oyster shells that have been turned into a lightweight performance fabric that has antimicrobial properties. It has. Because of the weave, Excellent moisture wicking, excellent breathability, not to mention UPF 30 plus sun protection. The inside collar has a pop of blue, and we also added a dedicated deeper chest pocket for your sunglasses. This is the one that I've had a sample of of using, like, an older fabric that we found. We actually did a full production run of this thing, but what we found was that the older fabric could not be manufactured consistently. So the sizing of the finished run was all over the place. It is not very often that a Chinese manufacturer will tell you, hey, this thing that we made is not of acceptable quality. We don't want to ship it to you. But that's what happened. And they were like, we literally don't want to take your money for this. The sizing is all over the place. So we had to find a new material. This is made of the same Seawool fabric blend for lightweight UPF 30 plus sun protection. Anti odor performance and breathable comfort for your beach days, summer commutes, or those moments when your friends somehow convince you to do outdoor activities. I have gotten a shocking number of compliments on my sample of this over the last couple of years. It is genuinely one of my favorite garments that we have ever made. And it is like if you are like me, if you're a vampire and you burn in the sun and you want something that you can wear but that doesn't make you feel sweaty, it's like wearing like a robe in the sun. It's like wearing an umbrella. It keeps you out of the sun, but you can go in the sun and you can even go swimming in it and dry off. And because it's antimicrobial, then you don't have to worry about like stinking so much. Like it's not magic, you know, obviously you get dog do on it or whatever. You're gonna smell like dog do. But like yeah, yeah, yeah, it. Dude, these are so helpful.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Some minor odors or whatever.

[Linus Sebastian]

And then finally, finally. Oh, do you want to bring up the site so we can show people? I'm sure they, they're like a fun in the sun product. So I'm sure they did like a fun photo shoot. And then finally to go with them we've got the UV protective cap which uses a separate lightweight moisture wicking performance fabric with UPF50 plus protection while keeping the same familiar LTT hat fit. I'm so, so excited about these. You can check them out at LMG GG UV collection. I think this is something that is going to really resonate with our audience because hey, let's face it, I can't be the only one of us that is a bit of a vampire and want something that helps me stay out of the sun while being out in the sun.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Eco conscious sea wool from oyster shells sounds.

[Linus Sebastian]

This is the kind of stuff that Tatiana just like goes and finds.

[Luke Lafreniere]

No, that's super cool. It's just so.

[Linus Sebastian]

She's really passionate about this kind of stuff.

[Luke Lafreniere]

As someone who's completely ignorant in that world. It sounds fake. It sounds like Jonathan talking about kubernetes to me. If I don't know anything about like what.

[Dan]

That's a really, really, really good description.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Like what are you even talking? How does that even. How's that possible?

[Dan]

Like a cloud service micro orchestration.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, what are you talking about? Sounds super cool. It's. It sounds awesome. I like the fact that it's not some form of like petroleum plastic derivative thing.

[Linus Sebastian]

Also that's cool. I would love to shout out the fashion team. Did you notice something crazy about this launch?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Uh, it's at a time of the year. That makes sense. I don't even know if that's where you're going, but, like, that's been a problem for LTT store historically. Yeah. Yeah, it totally makes sense.

[Dan]

Oh, my God. Good job, Linus.

[Linus Sebastian]

No, not me. Not me. Not me. Good job.

[Dan]

Then for stepping out of the way.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh. I mean, I was not in the way. If anything I have done. Definitely wanted things on time. Let's. Let's. Let's be real here. What it comes down to is the execution of the team. So I've got to give, like, a massive kudos to Bridget. Yeah, she has been. She. She. I don't. It was a weird thing, her coming to work here because she, like, worked at a real company.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I was going to say she came from, like. Yeah, yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

Bootlegger.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

Like, you know, like an actual, you know, like, fashion company. And she's been here for, like, going on five years now, I think. So, like, this is a very substantial, like, portion of her career now. And every once in a while, I kind of check in with her and I'm like, how's that going for you? You know, does that seem, in hindsight, like a good decision? And. And. And, I mean, I don't want to put any words in her mouth, but she's still here, obviously, and she's been. She's been pushing the team really hard to start acting like what we are. This is not merch. This is apparel. This is. This is clothing. This is fashion. This is. This is a really. This.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I really like the feel of these.

[Linus Sebastian]

This is a highly technical garment.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

And technical means a different thing.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Shells in it, dude.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, it means a different thing in the fashion world. But what it means is that it's not pure fashion. It's not just for the looks. It's a highly functional piece that. That achieves its function in a way that is really just not as simple as finding some off the shelf thing and then, you know, cutting it and sewing it into the shape that you want.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, I misspoke. I misspoke. There is polyester in it.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, okay. There you go.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I misspoke.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, no, it's a blend.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It's my bad.

[Linus Sebastian]

It's a blend. And so, you know, I've got to give. I've got to give. I've got to give credit to the. Because I think the seawall is mostly responsible for the antimicrobial elements.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That makes sense.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. And so, yeah, I've got.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Very nice.

[Linus Sebastian]

I've got to give credit to the team. It has almost like a cooling to the touch.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. Really, I can. You can. I'm not even wearing it. I'm just so. I. I have mine, like, down here, and. And you can tell that it would not. Like. I'm gripping it, and it feels cool in my grip, if that makes sense. So hand isn't really heating it up.

[Linus Sebastian]

So Bridget came from, like, the traditional fashion world, where on time was the only thing that mattered. And you just, like, you shipped it. You didn't do another sample, you just shipped it. Because on time is the only thing that matters. You literally would never put the wrong season thing on the shelf. It just doesn't work like that. And then she came here, where the

[Luke Lafreniere]

only thing that mattered was winter jackets in June.

[Linus Sebastian]

Make it. Make it the best it can be. And when it arrives, we try to sell it. And she's been kind of trying to balance a little bit, bring those mentalities together.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Not completely the other way.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, not completely. No, absolutely not. In fact, that's a big part of the reason this took three years. Not because it took three years, necessarily, but because we went, okay, now it's done. So we're gonna ship it at the next opportunity that is a proper season for us to ship this thing. And. And so, yeah, I've just. I've got to give her credit for having the discipline and having the. The vision to. To basically go, okay, look, I'm going to take what I learned here. That's really, really important from this, you know, from my. My past career. And I'm going to use that to kind of elevate our strategy here. And I'm just. I'm. I'm really excited about what they're doing on the apparel side. Dude, we have, like, 80 plus product launches coming between now and the end of the year. Like, think about that for a second. We will be launching almost two new products a week. Yeah. More than two new products a week for the rest of the year.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That's pretty wild.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, that's a lot. And. And it's not with an enormous team. It's just a small team of people who just care a whole freaking lot, which is. Yeah. Which is pretty cool. Hold on a second. Ooh. Gilmore D. Says, I saw an Instagram reel before about the new shirts. Am I remembering correctly that Tatiana said something about part of the process making it safe for people with shellfish? Shellfish. Allergies My wife has a shellfish allergy. You know what? I normally wouldn't bug Tatiana during wan show, but I'm just gonna. I'm gonna see if I can grab her here because we gave people the afternoon off anyway, so if I bugger for like two minutes that quarter after six, it's probably not the end of the world. Let's see if she picks up. Oh, looks like I'm. Oh, shoot. Sammy just posted in chat. Apparently she's on vacation. Okay, I'm not going to. I'm not going to bug her then. Well, sorry, I will have to find. I will have to find that out for you. And. And we'll get someone. We'll get someone to post it on the product page. Okay. Dan, do you mind sending that to. Yeah, to maybe Bridget to check into. That would be. That would be amazing. Roman says get work zoned. Yeah, well, you know how it is. You know how it is. All right. Anyway, so that's the new products that you guys can check out at LTT store. And. And if you are looking for a good reason to do it, then why not? So you can send a comm. Comms are checkout messages. They're something that we created because we don't really believe in people just throwing money at their screens and getting maybe nothing in return from streamers. So we don't do twitch bits, we don't do super chats. We don't really do any of that stuff. Instead we do checkout messages or comms. So what you do is you head over to lttstore.com, you add any of the cool stuff that we have on there to your cart. Like say, for example, the. I don't know, the polo shirt. Luke's just shopping, so, you know, whatever.

[Luke Lafreniere]

No, I was noticing you go in here and there's a polo shirt. And then you go under apparel and you go to shirts.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay, Dan, that's another note. If we could.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I already sent it off.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, okay.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That's what I was doing with all my phone and stuff.

[Linus Sebastian]

Wonderful.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, we can. We can. Let's go to something else. Let's do this. Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

The new smaller multi bit precision set. So this one doesn't have the in handle storage, but it does come with the torque bar so that you can. You can drive things harder if you want. It comes with fewer bits anyway. Okay. Throw it in the cart. And whenever we're live, you'll see this interface to send a checkout message. You can choose your color, you can choose whether to show your name or be anonymous. Joshua C. Chose to show his name up there. After you place your order, it will go to producer Dan. There he is. Who will reply to it or who will curate it for me and Luke to respond to. So why don't we do a couple curated checkout messages?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, sure.

[Dan]

We've got a quite a few come through already.

[Linus Sebastian]

Really doesn't roll off the tongue like merch messages did, does it? No, I just. I can't call it merch anymore, Luke. I can't call it merch. I mean, I'm open to a rebranding again because it's really. Maybe the messages are merch not working for me. The. The merch was the friends we made along the way.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Something like that.

[Linus Sebastian]

I don't know, man.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I like.

[Dan]

I liked whale words.

[Linus Sebastian]

Whale words. Kind of fun. I don't know. Let me fester on it a little bit more.

[Dan]

Please do consider something else.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Dan]

Hey, dlm, love the products as always. I like the new site, but I'm wondering when slash. If the archived slash retired products page was talked about. Still gonna happen.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, the plan is still for it to happen. It hasn't happened yet. We were hard at work getting the new site up and running, I gotta say, like shout out CW and dev team. Like the fact that our new site went up and it has as few game breaking bugs as it had. Like it was, I think zero game breakers and like maybe one or two things that I would consider high severity and then like a handful of low severity things. Like as far as new site launches go, I don't think I've seen much smoother than that. Like I was actually really impressed with the team. Oh, something I haven't checked yet. Remember I showed you that weird bug on my fold where our imagery on the site would be duplicated? I haven't tried it on the new site yet. Let's see. Okay, so I'm going to click a product. I'm going to click the UV protective hoodie. No, it's fixed now. Cool, Cool. So the image scrolling is sideways now, which honestly is probably better anyway. Yeah. All right, cool. So, yeah, good job. We inadvertently fixed my stupid folding phone issue.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, there's trying to figure out if things are a bug or not. There's a new gallery style that we have. It's more prominently noticeable in other products, but like on this one, UV protective hoodie, it's selected on Icy Blue. By default. I scroll down and all I see is Icy Blue and then they end.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh.

[Luke Lafreniere]

If I want to see the other one, I click on cactus and then cactus once. This is apparently very normal. Other, like, fashion brands are doing this. This is not like. We're not the only ones doing this. I think I might be out of touch. I don't shop for things online a lot. Guy by being like. Like, I don't like that so much.

[Linus Sebastian]

Right. You want to see all the different.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I would just see all the. And then have clicking the thing. Just scroll me to the other color.

[Linus Sebastian]

No, it's tough. No, I think I can already give you the answer to this. And I think the reason is that we have.

[Luke Lafreniere]

There's other places that do this.

[Linus Sebastian]

No, no, I just mean even for us, though, we have evergreen items. Like our. Our blank T shirts are. They're on again. Trying to be more like. Like a fashion brand. We have seasonal colors now, so we have our evergreen colors, like black. And then we will do, like, new colors. And so when. If we were to do all of. If we were to do a photo shoot with these five colors and then we were to launch these three colors, then what would happen is you would have this weird, like, photo gallery that contains these five colors, some of which are gone, and then all these new colors wouldn't be represented there.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So you've got to, for me, go to the party shirt for a sec.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, sure.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And, like, I am more than happy to accept that I may be wrong here.

[Linus Sebastian]

No, I'm not saying you're not wrong. You're just, you know, this is where

[Luke Lafreniere]

it gets a little cray cray for me, because now you have the series as well.

[Linus Sebastian]

This one's out of stock. Oh, we should remove these ones that are all out of stock. Dan, do you mind sending a note, please? To whom? To.

[Luke Lafreniere]

But, but hold on.

[Linus Sebastian]

Dave, they're not. Wait, what?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Click on the other series.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay, I would say that's a bug. Oh, okay. That's a problem. Okay, we need to figure that out. Yeah, we definitely need to figure that out.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Because it doesn't say that it's out of stock. What it's saying technically is that, like, Frutiger era does not have the hasta la vista.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Design.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay. We need to figure that out. So, yeah, there's some. There's some stuff, but it's stuff. It's not that bad.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I think it looks and feels great. The site in general.

[Linus Sebastian]

By the way, check out one of the party shirts. Kurtis b. From Madison US. 10 out of 10. The shirt changed my life. Okay, that was the solitaire. Large. But there's there's lots of other variants of our tremendous party shirts. Do you look half this cool right now? I doubt it. No, I doubt it. I just. A strong doubt, that's all. Okay. Dan, do you want to hit us with a couple comms?

[Dan]

Sure. I've got one more here for you. Thank you. For the. More polo shirts, please add even more colors, especially for premium polos. So what's yalls opinion on polo shirts? And what do you look for when designing a polo?

[Linus Sebastian]

I'm gonna lean on Lisa from the CW team. And the big thing that she talks about to the point of like, oh, my God, Lisa, I get it. Yes. I know this is important to our design process. You are 100% right. But she harps on this, and it's really important. Like, to be clear, what she's saying is so valid and so right, and it's important to say it over and over again, because you should never lose track of it is she always talks about our customer and what they need, not what they want or what they think they might like what they need. And the way that one of the things that she really tries to emphasize is ease of wearing. And, like, what does she mean by that? What she means is that for better or for worse, the people who have chosen to follow the exploits of Linus and Luke over the last, you know, 14 years or however long it's been, can be a little bit like Linus and Luke, who are wearing what today? A black T shirt. Why are they both wearing a black T shirt? It goes with everything because it's easy to wear. And so that's the thing that Lisa is always hammering on, is when she's looking at, okay, how do we help our customer who we know is going to make their choice based on what is very easy to wear? How do we help them up style a little bit? And so that's where you've gotten innovations like the pop of color in the college where we're not trying to overwhelm you when you look at your clothes in your closet in the morning or in your drawers. But we're trying to, you know, help you make a choice that is easy.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, that's cool.

[Linus Sebastian]

And that elevates your style a little bit. And that's exactly, you know, what they try to do with the. With the polos also. Comfort. Like, that's one of my things, is I'll always tell them, look, I don't care. I don't care how many oysters it has in it. It Right.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Like, that is not I actually think that's really cool.

[Linus Sebastian]

No, no, no. I just mean I don't care how many oysters is in it, if it's not comfortable or if it shrinks in the wash. Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I will say my, My. My interest in it being made with oysters spiked dramatically after I touched it and was like, wow, it feels really nice.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yes.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And then. And then. Now that's really cool. And now I'm interested in that. Now I want to figure out, like, I'm going to go home and try to learn about ocean wool or something.

[Linus Sebastian]

Sea wool.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Sea wool. I want to figure out how that. How the heck they make that.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I'm gonna go, like, watch something or whatever.

[Linus Sebastian]

So that's where you see the insight from all the different members of the team come together. During mile hands address. I made kind of like a joke. I forget what, what did I refer to our. Our size as a company as. Did I call it an oil tanker or something like that? I called us. Do you remember what word I used? Dan? Let's see if he was listening. Oh, we're both trying to turn on Dan at the same time, and he ends up turned off by it. You're better at it.

[Dan]

I don't know. I can't remember what you said.

[Linus Sebastian]

Was it mass? I don't know. It was something along. It was something along those lines. No, I don't remember. But one of the things that I was kind of emphasizing is that that that's a key advantage for us is that we have so many different inputs that go into our outputs. And sometimes that can feel like a too many chefs situation and it can feel like bloat. But I think that when it's done well, it actually really elevates everything that we do, whether it's video or whether it's physical goods or whether it's a streaming platform or whatever else it is that we're creating. So, like, in a product like this, you can see Bridget's influence. It launched at a freaking reasonable time, season wise. You can see, like, Tony and Dave's inter. Their influence in the marketing and the fact that it's available concurrently at both of our distribution centers. You can see, like, Tatiana's influence in the materials choices. You can see's influence in the fit. You can see, like, Lisa's influence in just the ease of wearing it and all that stuff. You can see my influence in the. It's going to be comfortable and not shrink in the wash or at least, you know, not much.

[Dan]

It's.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, it's Just, it's. It's lots of. It's lots of stuff. It's lots of stuff. Was it mass?

[Dan]

Yeah, it was mass.

[Linus Sebastian]

All right. Okay. Apparently it was mass. I feel now I feel like I have to double check. I have my I have my all hands address speech here. It's the kind of thing that I wonder if there's some kind of an outlet where we can kind of like talk to the audience a little bit about some of the stuff that we talked about. Like the floatplane update was so cool and I feel like, you know, the

[Luke Lafreniere]

viewership of Jonathan's like, yeah, you should give context.

[Linus Sebastian]

So. Okay, so Jonathan from the floatplane team.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Floatplane was part of our all hands for the first time. Was that this week? What a. What a week. Floatplane was part of the all hands for the first time this week. So we got to show people what we do. And I thought it would be a lot less interesting to have me just kind of stand up there and talk. So I mostly just intro'd like what floatplane is just in case someone works in a business unit that's really far from floatplane and doesn't really know and what we do at a very high level very quickly and then try to get out of the way. Because I thought it would be much more interesting to have the developers speak for themselves as to what they do, what they have contributed, what things they're doing on the platform, and then also have the infrastructure side get presented from Jonathan, who is currently the primary for infrastructure on Flowplane. And it was really good. But Jonathan's first video was, if I remember correctly, almost 11 minutes long. He re recorded it. Well, not re recorded. He re rendered it with cutting a bunch of the. The like gaps between talking out. It came down to, I think it was like a minute and a half minute or sorry, nine and a half minutes or nine minutes and 45. It's still pretty long, especially in all hands context. And it was dense. It was dense and it was pretty deep in the weeds and it was really, really cool. But I was like, we're gonna lose 90 people with this. Can we get a more like slimmed down version that we're still going to lose people with? And I think at a certain point I had some, some comments on this of like, oh yeah, it was like it was too technical and it's like at a certain point that has to be okay because I can't make it like if it just is really technical. So like we, you know, try to make it approachable. Try to give real world scenarios. Like he talked about like what our infrastructure did when a power supply died in one of our servers and how the service didn't go down and how that blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So he tried to make it like relatable. It's. He tried to. Basically, I think the way that we described it, if my memory serves me correctly, is we tried to take like a math or physics problem that was just numbers and we tried to make it a word problem. So like you try to try to add context. Instead of an object flying through the air with gravitational force and whatever else, it's a catapult and they're trying to hit a target and they have to figure out the math for it. Like it makes it. It makes it. You can understand it more easily. So we try to take that approach. But we took the like uncompressed, you know, Jonathan version, which was much longer, and we put it on like an internal thing so people could see it. And that actually got a decent amount of views.

[Linus Sebastian]

I was worried that maybe no one would watch it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, they did. Like I, some of them watched it real fast.

[Linus Sebastian]

Really?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

That's super cool.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I got messages before I had settled down at my desk. Being like.

[Linus Sebastian]

I thought the floatplane team did a great job of their presentations overall actually. And I just, I'm very happy. I feel like this was probably the most eye opening all hands we've ever done for the people who work on the media side of the business. Because it was, I think the first time that we haven't really talked about the media side of the business at all. And it's, it's not to be clear, I don't, you know, I'm not going to say that the media side is not important. It's extremely important. It's the foundation upon which everything else was built. Let's be real here. But I think sometimes it's easy for the media side because I work in the media business day to day, it's easy for us to kind of go, hey, we're the center of the universe. And like everything else is outside of our tunnel vision, you know what I mean? And I felt like there were moments when I kind of looked out over the crowd and I saw people really engaged.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It did seem to be.

[Linus Sebastian]

And really interested in learning what like entire departments of people who have like been with the company for three to five years have been building all this time. And so I really.

[Luke Lafreniere]

You heard Jonathan and Peter, right? Eight plus, like they've been around.

[Linus Sebastian]

We don't See them because a lot of people in the other BU's even creator warehouse, they have their own unit. A lot of them are off site, so we literally don't see them. A lot of the. A lot of the folks on the media side don't even talk to them or think about them, but they're really, really important to keeping the lights on and keeping things. Keeping things going. Right. Keeping the ship sailing.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, it was really cool.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I was pretty excited about it. I was a little nervous about it because again,

[Linus Sebastian]

well, you had multiple teams presenting. You had infra and floatplane.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Well, it was floatplane infra.

[Linus Sebastian]

Right, okay, sorry.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Which does some stuff for local. So there was like the little shout out at the end of like, we also do all of this, which was like the hosting of all the services for internal things. Because the floatplane and internal infrastructure it team games blend a little bit now. Like, like Jonathan does work on both sides and. And AJ does work on both sides. Jonathan's more float plane leaning. AJ is more LMG leaning these days. But like there, there is. There is shared resources across the.

[Linus Sebastian]

Or like Smash Champs or whatever.

[Luke Lafreniere]

The whole.

[Linus Sebastian]

The whole intertangled web of computers.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. And the infrastructure is like right at the heart of the intertangled web of companies. So like there is a.

[Linus Sebastian]

As it would be. Right.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. But that was predominantly a presentation on floatplane infrastructure, right? Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

It was good though.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It was awesome.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, I thought it was really good.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And like, the feedback that I've gotten on the long version was also like, whoa. The partners of one of the people who presented on the dev side watched Jonathan's full version before the presentation and was just like vaguely interested at the beginning and ended up watching the entire like 10 minutes and was like, whoa, that was really cool. Like, it's pretty good.

[Linus Sebastian]

It's. It's tech tips. Yeah, it's like real tech tips though.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And they had also watched the dev version, but the dev version was. I think if you told people you were going to show them each one, most people are going to default to expecting the dev version to be more interesting. So I think that's why the infra version being really interesting is getting so much attention. It's not that the dev one wasn't interesting. It was super interesting. It was very good.

[Linus Sebastian]

It had Minecraft footage for attention.

[Luke Lafreniere]

There was a lot of attention tricks, which I didn't coach any of those.

[Linus Sebastian]

That was great though.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That was all them.

[Linus Sebastian]

That was amazing.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And I mean all three of them.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. Here do we actually. Do we. What channel were Those published to. Was it Patet? I don't have access to patet.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Linus Media Group internal.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, okay. Oh, this is great.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And then these are multi upload posts so you can see the different versions if you scroll down.

[Linus Sebastian]

Maybe I can. I don't see it. I can't scroll down. That's fine, that's fine. I just need. Let me see. Okay, so this.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, the development one just has one version. That's why the infrastructure one has two versions.

[Linus Sebastian]

So this, this will give you some idea of what apparently our internal presentations look like during our all hands meetings. So showing the. Oh yeah, these are some of the new user badges. So here's some Minecraft footage for attention. She's saying stuff during this time but you're not hearing it. You're watching Minecraft. Jk. Jk.

[Luke Lafreniere]

You're hearing it, you're hearing it.

[Linus Sebastian]

So yeah, that literally played on the projector at our all hands for 100 people. Oh man, what a we are. Sometimes we're boring in corporate and then other times we're like still a really weird company. Like we had a. We had a barbecue today in the rain with like axe throwing. Like, what the f. You know, this was an initiative from our new like HR guy who's like, I would say a first impression of him. No offense, Tim, but would be like, you know, kind of stuffy and old fashioned but like there was cornhole. I don't know what to say.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I thought it was cool. Cool way to kick off a long weekend too.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, yeah. So we did like an extra long weekend which. Yeah, that was a, that was a Tim initiative. He basically like brought it to me. He's like, here's the budget. Terry. Numbers for the, for the Friday early dismissal barbecue. Michael. Yeah, okay. He's actually a lot more charismatic than that.

[Luke Lafreniere]

But Martina D. Said please release them to flow plane.

[Linus Sebastian]

They'd need a scrub to make sure that there's.

[Luke Lafreniere]

They would need to scrub. They weren't intended to be shown and then Linus just ripped it. But that was probably fine. It's also like, you know, these people didn't necessarily sign up to be shown to the world. They signed up to be shown internally. And when they were making them initially that was the goal. So it might be possible that we could do another pass and make them.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, maybe more. Maybe we're not committing anything now. Yeah, especially because these guys like have a lot of work to do and already put a lot of work into this and so.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And are already a fairly undersized team. So, like, they're. They're very busy.

[Linus Sebastian]

I prefer the word talented.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Sure. They do a lot of output per person, basically.

[Linus Sebastian]

Very talented.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, did we actually do a comm yet? We did one. Did we do two?

[Dan]

Yes, we've done two.

[Linus Sebastian]

We've done two. Oh, sure. Should we pick another topic?

[Luke Lafreniere]

I honestly have zero memory of either of them.

[Linus Sebastian]

Nice. That's how you know it's good because it sparks a good conversation.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Dan]

I always feel good when you do a comm for like an hour.

[Linus Sebastian]

That does happen. Yeah.

[Dan]

It makes me feel good.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. Okay. Oh, I get. Right. Because that means he curated a good one.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And.

[Dan]

Yeah. Sometimes I get it wrong and you're like, yeah, 30 seconds, and then we move on. I'm like, what?

[Linus Sebastian]

We've done this before. Way to go, Dan. You've done bad and you should feel bad.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I do all the time.

[Linus Sebastian]

No, no, too much. Now we're tripping over each other on the Dan button again. No,

[Dan]

this is fun.

[Linus Sebastian]

It's cute. All right. Amazon has decided that same day shipping is not fast enough. They've started rolling out Amazon Now, a service aimed at delivering Your order in 30 minutes or less in a handful of American cities back in December and 15 minutes or less in parts of Brazil, Mexico, India, and the uae. This service is now expanding to additional cities. It uses specialized micro fulfillment centers, also known as dark stores, for the deliveries. And these sites can stock thousands of items closer to customers than Amazon's typical warehouses. The company said that 30 minute deliveries will be available 24 hours a day in most areas where the service is available. Prime members will pay a $3.99 fee for Amazon now and an additional $1.99 fee for orders below $15, while customers without a Prime membership will pay a $14 delivery fee along with an extra $4 for orders below 15 bucks. This is crazy. Like, it's basically Uber Eats, but for, like, kind of anything on Amazon. I guess that is popular enough that it's stocked in one of these micro fulfillment stores.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Probably a lot of stuff, considering. If you look at Amazon statistics, it seems like people just sort of all

[Linus Sebastian]

buy the same sort by overall pick. Yeah, yeah. Which. And. And you know What? We've built PCs using the overall pick. Using the top rated. Using the Amazon pick. Me. We did a whole video about it. I forget. I did my thing where I. I do a bunch of research and learn about it. I write a script, I host the video, and then that part of my brain withers and dies and hopefully a New part grows in its place.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Very recently. Recently about how I was, like, trying to learn something, ended up watching my own video to try to learn it. Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

It was about the DirectX 12 and SLI stuff and Vulcan. Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And I ended up watching the whole thing because I was like, oh, yeah, Yeah. I. I had no memory that you could. You could SLI four of those cards after they turned off four way sli. You could still do it, but only for benchmarks. Like, I had no idea that was a thing. Completely forgot that. Like, just tons of stuff that's just gone and no figment of a memory of it. It's just gone.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yep.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And then I can remember so many stupid things.

[Linus Sebastian]

I've hosted, like, 8,000 videos. I regularly come across a video and go. I have no recollection of that, like, at all. At all. And you know what? Sometimes that's the most fun way to enjoy it. Are you okay?

[Luke Lafreniere]

I had a very bad realization. AI generated videos. Being able to potentially, like, convince you

[Linus Sebastian]

that your past is different than, like, gaslight you.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

It's good news. When I show Luke.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. We're moving on.

[Linus Sebastian]

Let that part of your brain shrivel and die.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

Anyway, you are pretty adamantly against using Amazon. Would you consider, if you needed something right now, Amazon now? If you could get it in 30 minutes?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Depends how mission critical it is. But I mean.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay, it's toilet paper. No, you're on the toilet right now.

[Luke Lafreniere]

We have a bidet at home.

[Linus Sebastian]

Nice. Solid. Is it the Ludwig one?

[Luke Lafreniere]

No.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, okay.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I got it before that.

[Linus Sebastian]

Some other one.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay.

[Linus Sebastian]

All right, cool. Did you spring for heated?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yes. Yeah, but I sprang for heated before, like, North America got really into them and it wasn't that expensive. And then they went, really?

[Linus Sebastian]

I haven't. I haven't shopped for one recently. Or heated bidets. Expensive.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Before the. The COVID toilet paper rush.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, so you were, like, way ahead of the curve. Yeah, got it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And then the COVID toilet paper rush happened and everyone went. Went, oh, bidets. And then they went. I don't know, maybe they've come back down. But, like, it's. It's been naturally. If you follow that timeline, it's been years. So, like, I don't. I don't know. I just remember, like, talking to people about how it was good. And then it'll be like, oh, yeah, well, they're, like, way too expensive. And I was like, huh?

[Linus Sebastian]

Does Ludwig still do bidets?

[Luke Lafreniere]

I don't think so.

[Linus Sebastian]

I mean, his site's still up. Oh, sold Out.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Sold out.

[Linus Sebastian]

Sold out. Okay, never mind. Doesn't. Doesn't do them anymore. Okay, so just, I don't know, buy a bidet. Oh, okay. Tushy still does them. They do know that. That's. That there's a very different website. And you know what? It doesn't matter. The point is, where's a heated one? Oh, my good. Oh, I hate it when dude websites like this. It just makes me want to leave the website. I clicked on something. I was trying to look at your product, and you popped up this whole page that just f off. I am trying to use your website and look at your product. Shop by model. Oh, my gosh. How many models of bidet do you need? Shop by feature. Warm water. Here we go. Oh, my God. Go away. What just happened? I clicked warm water. Okay, now it goes. Dude, no. I am no longer showing this website because it's too obnoxious.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, yeah. And my. My Amazon thing, to be clear, I don't. I try not to, like, you know, preach it to other people too much or anything, but I have. I have my reasons. I try to go to practically anywhere else, obviously. I try to make it like smaller. Smaller outfits, smaller stores directly from the company if I can is generally ideal, but sometimes it's not an option. But like, I often would even rather go to, like, Best Buy just something. But yeah, the thing that drives me nuts is when there's a company that is just an Amazon company, they only sell through Amazon. That's very annoying because then it's like, well, I think you need to find an alternative or get it from Amazon. Anyways,

[Linus Sebastian]

I needed a. An irrigation line adapter for my garden hose. I wanted it in 30 minutes. I would have done it because I had to wait like three days or something like that to get the stupid thing. And then that means that I had to go and manually water stupid hanging baskets.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And there wasn't like a Home Depot thing.

[Linus Sebastian]

I didn't have time to go shop. I had to order it online. I had like.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Can you order online from Home Depot?

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, their shipping is pretty expensive in Canada, though. Like, it generally doesn't make a ton of sense. 3D print it. So the plastic one that I had before was exactly why it failed, though. So I wanted a brass one. But good idea, though. Good idea. I like where you're going with it. All right.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It's way easier for distribution. I understand. It's way easier for distribution. The, like, elevator pitch portion of why I don't really like it is the mass crushing of small business, whether that be retail outlets that resell things or honestly just places making things. Like you look at people trying to make stuff in. In Western countries and the insane amounts of patent infringement that is on Amazon and Amazon's just complete blind eye to it happening. And then Amazon just watching what sells really well on their platform and then just making an Amazon Basics Sherlock. All the things and just completely crushing competition. They are ruining people's dreams is like. It's like a very fancy way of saying it, but like shutting down small business, shutting down medium business completely replacing like somebody puts their life's work into a product and then Amazon just goes. And there's an Amazon Basics version making it the default for all the things. Reorganizing their website to take out things like frequently, frequently bought with and basically only surfacing the top sellers in a category so that it is more well tuned for them to do something like an Amazon Basics or more well tuned for them to sell those top spots. It's. You hear about what they do to their workers. Like just everything, everything about it feels just really bad for society and everyone involved, including all of the customers. To me, again, you can pick your own battles. It's all good. Does not bother me when other people use it or whatever. I just. I just try not to. I try to put at least some amount of effort into. Into not

[Linus Sebastian]

everyone's got to have their own battle. I. I went to an event recently where I met. Oh man, I hope I don't get her name wrong. Was it Maya? Conservation Maya Maya. Yeah. Here we go. Here she is.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Better than Timmy. Yeah, I don't.

[Linus Sebastian]

So. So she talked at an event that I was at recently and she actually, it's really funny. She was here in Vancouver. She did a TED Talk.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Gonna say, didn't she do a TED Talk?

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, here it is.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So super cool.

[Linus Sebastian]

Her thing is this animal sanctuary that probably the coolest thing about it is that humans don't go into it. No, I don't want to sign up. I don't. Okay, whatever. The point is because they don't have to accommodate parking lots and walkways and safety for humans and a gift shop and like all this crap. She's able to take all the money that comes in to her. I forget how to pronounce it. Alveas Sanctuary. She's able to take all the money that comes into it and just spend it on supporting the animals. And she's got these. She was explaining how she's kind of like personified or she's she's created these sort of. What's it, what's it called when you give human, like, characteristics to an animal?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Personification.

[Linus Sebastian]

Is it called personification? Help me out. If it's called something else, let me know. Alveus is apparently how it's pronounced. So, yeah, she, she, she kind of personifies the animals anthropomorphic. Is that, Is that it? Anthropomorphism, whatever. One of those two things, either way. So people can, like, People can, like, give this cow that, you know, has a name and has kind of like a, like a personality, like a treat, and she's raised, like, millions of dollars at this point. And it's super cool. And I think it's very easy to look at anyone, whether it's your personal cause of Amazon being kind of bad or her personal cause of animals, and go, okay, well, like, hey, Luke, why aren't you doing anything about animals? And Maya, why are you buying stuff on Amazon or whatever? But it's like, I feel like, pick your own battles. She made a really good point at the end of her talk, which is just like, can we just, can we do something, anything, a little bit to just be, like, a little bit better in some way? And, and, and get away from the attitude that is, well, I'm causing all this damage in this other place. So it's, it's.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Therefore everything is fine.

[Linus Sebastian]

Therefore everything doesn't matter.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Consumerism under capitalism, that. Therefore I will abuse everything I can.

[Linus Sebastian]

Therefore nothing matters not.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So in my opinion, the way to go.

[Linus Sebastian]

Maybe, Maybe Zach says, I think you mean human eyes. Yeah. Either way, something. Basically, she just, she, she, she helps people form. And I'm putting. These are my words, not hers, but it's like almost form, like, parasocial relationships, but instead of with her, with, like, the animals at the sanctuary, a cow who likes treats and want to support them. And her theory is that if people, like, care a lot about this one wolf that's like, super cool and has this great personality, how do they know these details that when, that, when you know this type of wolf is now endangered, like critically endangered, that people will go, hey, no, not those. That's like, that's like my friend the wolf that I really like and that I feel a personal connection to. And I just, I just, I thought it was. I'm sorry, I'm completely butchering it. Just go watch her TED Talk.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay, yeah, there's, there's a live webcam.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay.

[Luke Lafreniere]

You can't go there and you can't, like, walk around.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, well, she'll take like, like influencers and streamers and stuff there just to help raise money for the general infrastructure for.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It is.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, the general infrastructure for the public doesn't have to be built so she can just spend everything on, on doing their conservation work. I just think, I think it's super cool.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That's sweet.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, right? Animal ambassadors. That's what she calls them.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That's awesome.

[Linus Sebastian]

Anyway, yeah, go, go watch her TED Talk. Don't listen to my version of it. But I just had a chance to say hi to her and what a, what a great job she did during her talk at the event that I was at. And Evan and Caitlin were actually the moderators for her, like Fireside Chat. They did a great job too. And I was just like, wow, you guys did a great job. That's a rough act to follow. I had to give my talk like right after her. But I did my best.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That could be pretty tough.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, I mean, I'm pretty good. I'm a pretty good presenter, but it's just. Yeah, it's always nice when you follow an easy act, you know? That's all. That's all I'm saying. That's all I'm saying. Well, what else, what else we got here? Was that even a topic? How do we start talking about that?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Not a single clue.

[Linus Sebastian]

Unitree. Oh, sponsors. Yeah, let's do sponsors. Oh, float plane announcement. Thanks, Dan. Where the devil is the float plane announcement? Well, look, we released two fan favorite LTT videos early on Float Plane this week. The tech houses. I think this is actually the fourth video, Sammy. But we, we did another tech house video. This time it's spring cleaning in the backyard of the tech house. No, the excavator is not click bait. We actually rented a little excavator so that we could tear down the shed, move a bunch of like wood ties, figure out the situation with the pond. Yes. From my past life. I do know how to operate an excavator. Fun fact, very few people know that. And then also. Well, okay, he doesn't say which one. The other one is classic Sammy. Now we're going to release another video right now, live on WAN show. I'm gonna go into the cms. I'm gonna release a video. It's gonna be great. Oh, I'm gonna use the beta version of the cms. Should I use the beta version, Luke?

[Luke Lafreniere]

No, not for that.

[Linus Sebastian]

No.

[Luke Lafreniere]

No, not for that.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Not for posting.

[Linus Sebastian]

I guess I won't then. It's. Oh, it's another episode of Setup Doctor Featuring our very own Reece, who you've probably seen in many of our videos as the production assistant for, for many other people's AMD ultimate tech upgrades and other upgrades. He's kind of an always, always the bridesmaid, never the bride of our Upgrade series. But he's finally, finally getting his bride moment. And I had two people internally, so just like, people who review. Out of the handful of people who review the video, reach out to me and be like, this is the funniest video we've done in ages. I was like, okay. I really didn't actually notice it that much when we were shooting. It was like a very chill shoot. It was just like me, David and Rhys, who are kind of recurring outside cast members of Upgrade series. So David has been the writer for quite a few people's upgrades. And then Reece is often the production assistant set of additional hands on these shoots. And then I'm off in there. So without having to carry the energy or, like, adapt to the energy of whoever the subject was, it was just kind of core crew and we didn't really have anything to do. All we had to do was build a desk and then just like, kind

[Dan]

of organize a room.

[Linus Sebastian]

So we didn't really have much of an objective. And apparently the just, like, vibes of it were like, peak ltt. I haven't actually watched it yet, but I will. Yeah. So definitely go. Go check that out. So that video is live. Finally, we have a video that Sammy is calling his magnum opus of floatplane exclusives. Tech Roulette. An actual original concept by Sammy where you put two people head to head in tech trivia. The loser gets a bullet in their Nerf gun and has a chance to pop their full water balloon above their head. This is probably going to be a recurring series and the first episode is Linus v. Luke.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It said jump. 30 seconds. Oh, yeah, perfect.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, wait, no, that's not it. Okay. I think I should be allowed to spin it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

3, 2, 1. I was actually pretty convinced I was going to go basically up.

[Linus Sebastian]

I think the party file.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I think the party file. God, that's fine.

[Linus Sebastian]

I forget what it stands for anyway.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Honestly. Me too.

[Linus Sebastian]

The S IS Standards. I know that. E is engineering. V is. Is it versatile?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Incorrect Video Electronic Standard Association.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay, all right.

[Luke Lafreniere]

All I got was the S and the A. Oh, you pull that back to. Okay, ready? I think that's on. It's hard to go.

[Linus Sebastian]

You're so far off. It's going to miss you. Keep off.

[Luke Lafreniere]

When I let go. So now it's going like, yeah, it'll probably hit it. 3, 2, 1.

[Linus Sebastian]

So lots of fun. We did three rounds. Feel free to go check that out over on float plane. Get all this and more at LMG GG fpwan. All right, what are we. Oh, right. I didn't do the sponsors. The show is brought to you today by amd. This month's AMD Ultimate Tech Upgrade was Nick Harris from the Labs team. If you haven't watched the video yet, go check it out and give him some love. It was low key, one of the funniest ones we've ever done. He already had a lot of computers, so we had to get a bit creative about actually upgrading it. Like, look at all his computers. These are all before we started. So anyway, we kind of solved some issues around his networking. We did a small computer upgrade for him. We set him up with a super cool test bench and this video strikes a really great balance between being informative about tech and all. Also just being pure chaotic entertainment. And this is cool if you want to get an upgrade of your own. AMD is giving away a Ryzen 7.9800x3D and RX9070XT bundle in the video description of that video. So go, go check it out. Luke. AMD has another question for us this month. With GPUs getting more powerful every generation, is 4K gaming finally worth it? Or do you still think think 1440p is the sweet spot for high refresh rate goodness? Ooh,

[Luke Lafreniere]

man, I think this is gonna be such an unfortunate answer. I mean, yep, the rest of the system is so much more expensive now that I think it just doesn't matter. 1440 still reigns supreme because like with the amount more that you're gonna have to spend on your storage, the amount more that you're gonna have to spend on your RAM with the amount more that you have to spend on basically everything, the overall. We've talked about this before, right? If you want to look at the price of an of, you know, the performance per dollar of a gpu, it might be more accurate to consider the performance per dollar of the entire system at the lower GPU versus the performance per dollar of the entire system against the higher end GPU and how that shifts and how that relation works.

[Linus Sebastian]

I got them boys.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That continues to apply.

[Linus Sebastian]

Both perspectives are valid looking at the performance per dollar of just the card. Because if you already have an entire system, then that's the outlay, that's what you're considering. However, when you're buying an entire system. Yeah. The performance per dollar of the entire system is what actually matters. And change chasing 4K.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And you, you might be interested in the performance per dollar of the Delta. Like if I sell the card that I have and then buy this new card, the resulting price is this many dollars. How many more frames does that give me? Like that might be interesting to you.

[Linus Sebastian]

No one asked me, but I'm gonna give my answer anyway. I said this seven years ago and I made that face. That's a face that of me exists on the Internet. It got 5.1 million views because that's a message that resonated with a lot of people. And I still stand behind it. Unless you pry. Unless it is a priority for you. The difference now, seven years later, is that 4K gaming is good.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

If you want to lay out that kind of money for it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

And. And DLSS 4.5. Let's be real here. If you have a 4K monitor, which has gotten a lot more affordable since I made that video. Okay. If you can run it at 1440p then you can turn on DLSS 4.5 and you can also run it at 4k so it's less dumb. But I still think that to my eye, a high refresh rate, high contrast.

[Luke Lafreniere]

We're talking about gaming at a computer with your monitor at a reasonable distance.

[Linus Sebastian]

1440pmonitor is still the sweet spot and especially for competitive. And they did have the word competitive in their question. For competitive, 1440p is the max. I'd go, yeah, I'd Even still consider 1080p but I'd prefer not to. 1440p is shout out, counter strike gamers

[Luke Lafreniere]

playing at 720 and below.

[Linus Sebastian]

Nice. Nice. The show is also brought to you by Cape. Time and time again we see major telecom providers facing data breaches or worse, surveillance scandals. Kape is America's privacy first mobile carrier who is still offering reliable call service while also helping protect you from things like SIM swaps and leaks. Similar to how a VPN and encrypted messaging apps can protect your data. Kape wants to protect you at the network level. Kape uses something called identifier rotation, which changes your IMSI every 24 hours so you look like a different subscriber to the network every day, making it harder for anyone to track you. Subscribers to Kape get additional phone numbers, not just VoIP that will work for things like account verification without having to give them primary number out Willy nilly. So it's kind of reminds me of like those pseudonymous like credit card number services. And every 24 hours, Kape deletes things like call and text metadata while you use their service. So why not take control back of your number from your carrier and get 33% off your first six months of cape with code WAN? This is yet another really cool sponsor of ours that happens to not be in Canada.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And I'm like, I was literally just looking it up.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, I'm sorry.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Come on.

[Linus Sebastian]

I know. Yeah, them and privacy.com are like two that I would immediately sign up for with my own personal hard earned money. Immediately.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Dude, the phone number for verification thing, that's super cool. Would be really nice.

[Linus Sebastian]

That's super cool. Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Most cool credit card things and most cool mobile plan things just never come north of the border.

[Linus Sebastian]

How long have we been live for? Holy crap. We've done like three topics.

[Dan]

We.

[Linus Sebastian]

Dude, we. Dude, we have so many topics. What the crap is going on here? Okay, quick burn through a couple topics. That's not gonna happen.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Controller screams. The WILM scream. Which I did not just do. If you drop it, if it's turned on and if you're in big picture mode, that's cool. We have a short about it. You can check the short out on the YouTubes

[Linus Sebastian]

here. This is. I can. I can shamelessly just play it because it's my channel.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. Audio.

[Linus Sebastian]

Is it seriously not on by default?

[Dan]

Sorry.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, it's.

[Linus Sebastian]

But it. But hold on. No, wait for it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Unmute it.

[Linus Sebastian]

I'm unmuting it. God. Okay, ready? Apparently if you drop the Steam controller, they can hear it. Yeah. Okay. If they can hear it, I'm happy.

[Dan]

Yeah, it's on now.

[Linus Sebastian]

Good, good Production value show. If you drop the Steam controller, there's a chance that you'll get a Wilhelm scream out of it. I came to Elijah's house to drop his controller.

[Luke Lafreniere]

What?

[Linus Sebastian]

Whoa. Did it first try? Oh, there we go. Okay. One in five. Okay. It's about one in four. Apparently if you drop the Steam controller, this short is doing numbers.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And I was talking to content dude.

[Linus Sebastian]

I was talking to Luke about this on the pre show, but I'm just like, I don't know how to deal with this, man. Like that was the lowest effort video that I have made probably in the last five years. It's getting more views than like Scrapyard Wars.

[Luke Lafreniere]

There is.

[Linus Sebastian]

Why do I try?

[Luke Lafreniere]

There is something.

[Linus Sebastian]

Why do I try anymore?

[Luke Lafreniere]

There is something interesting in tech right now. There is something interesting in Tech. Right. Now look at. Look at your historical 1.1.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, I mean, that one's actually. That one's actually taking off. That one's achieving escape velocity.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Very good.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

315.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

3.4. Same thing.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, yeah, No, I. I get it, I get it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It's just like, that is Shorts views, they don't really count. Yeah, well, except they're still measurable and comparable.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, yeah. Yes. It's shorts versus Shorts. So he's not wrong. He's not wrong. And I mean, look, you can say they don't count, but I. Sample size of not that many. I went to a. I chaperoned a band event for one of my kids, and the young kids know who I am. And I pretty much promise you it ain't the long form content.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

And so us having a foothold in shorts is. Us is us having that facetime with that demographic of viewers. We can't ignore it. We, like, we're. We're. I mean, sort of, you know, we're basically a product company at this point, but we're. We're a media company, like, at our core, at our foundation. And so we can't just look at Shorts and go like, oh, who cares if we get 300,000 views or three and a half million views? You know, it doesn't matter. It's not real views anyway. No, we have to get out there in front of. In front of viewers, and we've got to get them familiar with our style and with our content, and we have to have a strategy there. And it's something that I'll admit, that we've kind of struggled with. What now?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, hi, Josh in Full Point Chat in all capital letters. Oh, my God, it just made my controller scream.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, you have to have Big Picture Mode open. If anyone missed that before. So Big Picture Mode, it has to be on and then if you drop it, it'll. Yeah, it'll scream pretty funny. Looked like about 1 in 4. I got it to scream 3 times in 11 or something like that.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So the greatest phone ever is real and also American. After numerous delays and even rumors of being canceled, Trump mobile says the T1 phone will be shipping next week. We have a full video planned on this, so we won't comment too much.

[Linus Sebastian]

However, what we can do is we can watch this ad together.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So it's also a community note.

[Linus Sebastian]

We'll get to that. I don't know if you remember some of the. Some of the earlier shenanigans around the T1 phone. But the first, I believe it was the first launch image was actually just a photoshopped icon iPhone. Then they had an image of the supposed T1 phone that was a Photoshopped Galaxy phone in like a Spigen or Spigen case that was just like photoshopped gold. But actually. Or maybe the Spigen case was cool. I don't remember the details but. But it was just like an image off of like Spigen's website but like Trump phone or something. So there have been a. I don't know. There have been a lot of people. Yeah, the Spigen logo was visible.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I think I remember that.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, I think I remember that. There's been a lot of people looking at all of the obviously fake pictures of this phone and going, yeah, this thing is never gonna ship. But apparently, apparently something definitely not those initial renders because it's obviously not gonna be an iPhone. Something is apparently going to ship. And I don't know what Twitter is doing right now, but I cannot Play. Introducing the T1 phone. Oh, Lordy. So this is apparently it. Except readers added context to this video. Video is AI US. Flag has 11, then 9 stripes. Back texture is inconsistent. That is just. That is just two of the things that are wrong with this. There's another really good moment a little bit later here. Hold on. Wait for it there. Here. What is happening here?

[Luke Lafreniere]

What the.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, what is. Is it on a lazy Susan? Is it?

[Dan]

What?

[Linus Sebastian]

What is. What is going on right now? The brilliant display makes street. I put down a deposit ages ago. I have no idea if I'm actually going to get one necessarily because who

[Luke Lafreniere]

knows if they exist.

[Linus Sebastian]

I'm obviously not going to sign up for Trump Mobile service. I mean, I'm in Canada. They don't even have service here. They're using T Mobile Mobile for their. Their mvno. Their. Their mobile virtual network operator. So they don't have. They don't have cell towers or anything and they don't manufacture phones. They just.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I mean the phone looking completely different now than originally is crazy. Like I don't even recognize we're in the way, but I don't even recognize this. This. The phone. Like here. That doesn't.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So wait, what, you can just buy a random Samsung?

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, because they did. The mobile carrier does work. It's just an MVNO on T Mobile.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, you can buy iPhones and stuff too. Okay.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yep. Sure the deals aren't good, but like. Yeah, I mean, yeah, who expected them to be wild here? I'm from phone original photo. I'm gonna. I'm gonna see if I can find the original photo. Yeah, here we go. Here we go. So it has changed. Yeah, that's what I remember in appearance multiple times. This one was funny because this is just like. What even is this? Yeah, like, that's. This is clearly nothing. That's not. And I don't mean nothing like the phone brand. I just mean that's not anything. Yeah, I think that's the. That's. That's most of the various iterations of it. Here's what was shown to the Verge a while back. So the finished version does seem to look pretty close to this, and it has gone through two rounds of certification now. So there is pretty credible evidence that this phone will be a real thing. Here's the Spigen thing. Anyway, we're planning a full video on the. On kind of the. The whole history of this. We actually got an in, got an interview with the Verge writer who's been like a dog on a bone like, on this every single week. They have. They have posted an update, they've requested comment from Trump Mobile. Been like, hey, so what's going on with the phone? Because it's been delayed multiple times. When. Back when they announced it in, I think it was June of 2025, they said it was going to be shipping in September. And that's when I kind of went, well, this is obviously a complete scam and will never ship because there's no way that you could ship anything resembling a mobile phone in, like, three or four months or whatever. And they didn't. It looks like it's going to be more like 11 months. Oh, here's the Spigen thing. Lawsuit incoming. They humorously tweeted, because this is a. This is an image of supposedly the Trump T1 phone that, you can see it in the background, still has their logo on it. Like, it's just wild. The whole thing is just an absolute clown show, and it'll be. It'll be hilarious to see what we ultimately get delivered. Cartoon Brat says, I've been keeping track of this saga through Penguin Z apparently, So good luck, everybody. By east one says the Trump phone is definitely shipping in September. We just don't know which September or if it's in this dimension. Yeah. 603 says, I gotta say, Linus, I do not care about this news. Like, even if it sucks, I don't care.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That's funny.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I mean, sometimes you just gotta laugh at stuff.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, It's. It's just. It's. It's. What else are we supposed to do at this point, sir or ma', am, like, you know, the head of state of the world's largest economy launched a scam phone. It's definitely interesting. If nothing else, having a head of

[Luke Lafreniere]

state be super active in business while serving is very interesting. Wasn't there something with like a peanut farm and some previous president?

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, I don't know.

[Luke Lafreniere]

President.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh yeah, yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Some forced to sell or something.

[Linus Sebastian]

Was that George Bush Senior or.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I have no idea. Jimmy Carter.

[Linus Sebastian]

Jimmy Carter, okay.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Not forced to sell. He had to put in a blind trust.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yep.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And it's not even my country.

[Linus Sebastian]

I think. I think for him blind trust did not mean my sons are doing it a bit of a greater degree of separation. Zen thoxen though brings up something that is not in the dock that I'm super excited about. The new Sony Xperia looks so freaking amazing. And because Google apparently is making moving the back button part of core Android, I am like, I think I'm going Xperia.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Are we gonna be Xperia Bros Headphone

[Linus Sebastian]

Jack Micro SD flagship phone all yours for the low, low price of. I think it's like 1800 US dollars US

[Luke Lafreniere]

whoa. Does it cook?

[Linus Sebastian]

I don't know.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Does it? Yes.

[Linus Sebastian]

The Xperia 18 price. Hold on. Here, here, here, here, here. Let me look it up, let me look it up.

[Dan]

No notch, which is my favorite feature.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It's so expensive. Dan, are you getting one?

[Dan]

No, I just.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I just got this.

[Dan]

Seven.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Dan]

I still owe you my six. Stop letting me forget.

[Linus Sebastian]

Fifteen. A hundred euro. Oh, okay.

[Luke Lafreniere]

What, what, what about it?

[Linus Sebastian]

Cheap.

[Luke Lafreniere]

What's, what's cool?

[Linus Sebastian]

Everything. Sony camera.

[Dan]

Pull up a GSM arena and have a look through.

[Linus Sebastian]

Sure.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay, what is its name Exactly?

[Dan]

Sony Xperia 1v1.1 1.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Seriously?

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. Theory of 1 8.

[Dan]

But, but I understand the 8 is in Roman numerals.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, yeah, but it has a one

[Dan]

in front of it. Like there's the one and the five and the one is the better one. And then it has Roman numerals.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It's like Arabic one and then Roman.

[Linus Sebastian]

So yeah, glass front and back. Victus 2 on the front.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Bro, it's just two grand Canadian.

[Linus Sebastian]

Don't worry about it. IP68. Okay. 120 hertz display 1080p class.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay, sorry, I'm interrupting you again. My bad. I went to the Sony store. I can see the two grand Canadian in the background. They're like, do you want $5?

[Linus Sebastian]

Hey, listen, hey, listen. I've done more for less.

[Dan]

You can save the $5 to wipe your tears.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, I just. Sorry, I just thought that was really funny. I can just tell that you can like. Oh man. It's only 256 at two grand. Oh my God.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yes.

[Luke Lafreniere]

But you can put one terabyte is $2,600.

[Linus Sebastian]

Are you going to let us.

[Dan]

But you can put an SD card in it.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Dan]

So you can get the cheap one

[Linus Sebastian]

and put a one terabyte SD card. Cheap is a word that I don't know if we should use.

[Dan]

You can get the poor people one

[Linus Sebastian]

and put an SD card in there. That's crazy. Kate. You're gone too spicy. Too spicy. Dan.

[Dan]

I'm obviously being facetious.

[Linus Sebastian]

Luke, you're not letting me me finish. Android 16 with up to four major Android updates.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Up to.

[Linus Sebastian]

Don't worry about it. Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. So cutting edge chip. So that's good. 16 gigs RAM.

[Luke Lafreniere]

They look good. Wow.

[Linus Sebastian]

Triple camera system. All 48 megapixels. All the things I don't see. The selfie cameras. 12 megapixels with SDR support but stereo speakers. That's good. It better be Wi Fi 7 tri band. Okay. Oh. Oh, dude. Oh. Side mounted fingerprint. Oh, take me now. Oh. Oh.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That's pretty fantastic.

[Linus Sebastian]

Just like.

[Luke Lafreniere]

They look really good.

[Linus Sebastian]

I told you they're good.

[Dan]

Do you get it?

[Linus Sebastian]

I get naked for side side fingerprint scanner.

[Luke Lafreniere]

The like stonewashed looking finish.

[Linus Sebastian]

I will disrobe for you.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Sony looks fantastic.

[Linus Sebastian]

5000 milliamp hour battery. 30 watt wired charging. 15 watt wireless reverse wireless bypass charging. Dude, bypass charging. Underrated feature. Very cool.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Probably to plug in the headphones is so sick.

[Dan]

You guys get it?

[Linus Sebastian]

I'm glad I've always gotten it, Dan. I just. They haven't had the ability to move my freaking back button, which I need. I have small hands, Dan. And we're all just gonna have to deal with that.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Up to two days of battery life. I mean, four years of health. Battery. What is it?

[Linus Sebastian]

I think that just means that based

[Luke Lafreniere]

on simulations of repeated USB charging and discharging with the same type of battery, battery health depends on usage.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So up to four years of two days worth of battery.

[Linus Sebastian]

I mean that. I mean if. If a device doesn't have like a solid four years of the battery not sucking, then that's pretty terrible.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Play Pokemon Go. I'll torch that.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay, that's fair. Oh. Whoops. Okay. I mean I. I was gonna say I bet I could get two days out of my fold seven if I really tried. I don't know. If I could get two days. But, like, I'm at 71% today. Right now, like, I. I feel like Android battery life, as long as you are careful about which app you install and how many notifications you allow, has actually been pretty good.

[Luke Lafreniere]

This phone is. Is torched. I. I have done effectively, like, nothing on my phone today. I was desktop the whole time at 64%. I didn't. I didn't open Pokemon Go. I didn't do. I didn't do anything. All right, 64%. The. The battery on this. If I could do, like, a battery life assessment. It's done. I don't know which is, like, okay, it's. It's not.

[Linus Sebastian]

So pass through would be great for you then. Maybe even worth 2000 Canadians. I couldn't even finish the sentence.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, man.

[Dan]

So much money for a phone.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

This is just it. Like, do they have another phone this generation that isn't insane?

[Dan]

No, you can have my last generation one.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Look at. Look at this. Look at this video. Look at the finish.

[Dan]

They're really pretty.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It looks really nice.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. I want one.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I don't often feel that way about phones.

[Linus Sebastian]

I want one. I really want one. Dude, what phone?

[Luke Lafreniere]

It's a. It's an 8 Pro. But. But it's not. I don't. I do not think it's the 8 Pro's fault. I have done, you know, we know, Sony people unnatural things with this.

[Linus Sebastian]

I mean, I'm already trying to convince Sony to send over a BVM 3110. I don't think. Okay.

[Dan]

I had Sony sign my phone.

[Linus Sebastian]

You had Sony sign your. Okay.

[Dan]

Sorry.

[Linus Sebastian]

What? Story time at ltx.

[Dan]

We had a Sony booth.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Dan]

And I went, oh, my God, I love your phones. Can you sign my phone? And I had all of them sign it with their Sharpie.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That's actually pretty sweet.

[Dan]

And then I also met them. What's the. What's the one in Vegas that we do in January?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Ces.

[Dan]

Ces. I also found a bunch of them at a party and was like, sign my phone. And they. They liked that. They thought it was weird and really enjoyed it.

[Linus Sebastian]

It is weird. Yeah.

[Dan]

They remembered it. Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

That's cool.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Why do you want this? What is this? For color correction.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, okay. It's just the coolest monitor on the face of the earth.

[Luke Lafreniere]

What does it do?

[Linus Sebastian]

It's a real monitor. What does it not do, Luke?

[Luke Lafreniere]

I don't know. Anything. Give me the tips.

[Linus Sebastian]

It is the God king of displays.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Why?

[Linus Sebastian]

Because it takes any input in any color Space with functionally perfect accuracy.

[Dan]

It's the room temperature room.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Dan]

Of monitors.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, it's the room temperature room.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. It's like, it's like the reference.

[Luke Lafreniere]

You don't see all the awards. I see the awards.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

My God, she's thick. Oh, I like buttons. I like knobs. I'm getting sold. Wow, that is a lot of crazy inputs. Okay.

[Linus Sebastian]

It's. Until you've seen it, you've never seen content.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Wow.

[Linus Sebastian]

It's. It's like. It's like putting on glasses when you needed glasses and seeing the world for how it was supposed to look. 4000 nits peak brightness.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I love trying to sell. Yeah, I love trying to sell monitors through like video that someone's watching on another monitor because you have to try, try to like, try somehow to explain the difference. But there's. You can't really.

[Linus Sebastian]

No, but I mean, this is a pretty good representation because you can. You can see that instead of blowing out the details. You can like see the light. Yeah, you can see the light, Luke. And the color. Oh, the color. Oh. Oh, I'm getting chills just thinking about it. It's beautiful.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So what. What will you use this for?

[Linus Sebastian]

To make a video about it and then. I don't know. I mean, they're probably not going to let me keep it. So you're going to game on it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That's fast pixel response.

[Linus Sebastian]

Bet your ass I'm going to game on it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I mean, like, is this going to become your monitor at home?

[Linus Sebastian]

I think that probably.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Fast pixel response.

[Linus Sebastian]

Probably. The production team would riot if I took this home selfishly.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So that's why I mentioned, like, so they would use it for color correction.

[Linus Sebastian]

I guess we could use it as

[Dan]

the playback monitor for you guys at Wanset Jeep.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Piss off every single department and us, probably.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. No, I just. I just want to make a video about it because it's so cool and it's. It's better than anything that exists.

[Luke Lafreniere]

All right.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, it's. It's pretty cool.

[Dan]

Have you seen reference monitors before, Linus?

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, we did a video on one from Flanders a little while back and that was Flanders Scientific. Yeah, that was quite eye openening for me. And this is, this is a new. This is a new generation of. Of reference display. And it's, It's. It's unreal, dude. I. I've seen it in person once now and I just. We have this unlisted footage on short circuit that is just like HDR footage shot in like this weird treehouse thing in the woods and I put it on the reference monitor and I was just like, I've never seen this footage before. Not like this. Like, it's just. Oh, it's like. It's like.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And even they can have a normal power connector.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Amazing. It's my favorite things about it is that it has buttons and knobs and a normal power connector.

[Linus Sebastian]

It's like an experience I had fairly recently where listening to a particular headphone was like hearing familiar songs for the first time.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Fairly recently.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Is this a.

[Linus Sebastian]

So Unitree built an absolute unit of a mech. Check this out. Unitree is kind of a crazy company.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

A W Canada. You've already got me. Like, I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go eat there probably this weekend. Just chill.

[Dan]

Freaking.

[Linus Sebastian]

What? Yes.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That has to be like a seat. Yeah, it is a seat.

[Linus Sebastian]

Or you cannot. You can also operate it with nobody in it. Or you can get in it.

[Dan]

Wow.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It just supports itself while you.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. So go watch the video. This is Unitree's. This is Unitree's story. Let's let them tell it. But I. I said recently on WAN show that there's a certain North American company that seems to be betting its entire future on humanoid robots. The battle is already lost. Like, I can't believe how affordably Unitree is making its robots accessible. Have you looked at the price of the mech yet? Okay, cool. So obviously it's a lot of money. Obviously, yes. But their humanoid robots have already, like, leapfrogged many other competitors in terms of accessibility. In terms of price per performance, how much would you guess that that mech costs? Just based on the little that you've seen of it? And with a little bit of information, it being strong enough to punch cinder block walls over, it can walk on not just two legs, it can also walk on four legs and can be operated both with and without a pilot. What would you guess that something like that costs?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Gotta be north of 100k. I have no context at all.

[Linus Sebastian]

Who would.

[Luke Lafreniere]

For any pricing of any of this

[Linus Sebastian]

stuff,

[Luke Lafreniere]

part of me is going like, north of 250. But then it's unitary. So I'm trying to game the system a little bit. If I had no context of the company, I think I'd be going north of 250, because I have a modicum, not that much, but a modicum of context of the company.

[Linus Sebastian]

What if I told you Boeing made it it, you know, or like Northrop Grumman or whatever, like one of the big, like, military guys.

[Luke Lafreniere]

750. If it's American military complex, I jump there like immediately no matter what.

[Linus Sebastian]

What do you think Unitree is charging for it?

[Luke Lafreniere]

199.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay. It's actually closer to your initial.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay. Okay.

[Linus Sebastian]

But you can like buy it apparently for US$650,000 which yeah, to me seems pretty, pretty cheap. I like, I. I think your estimates for what like, like an American military industrial complex, you're probably on the low side.

[Luke Lafreniere]

1.5 to 2 million per at least.

[Linus Sebastian]

Apparently none sold. I mean

[Luke Lafreniere]

that's. That's the reason why I think it's so expensive is there's probably like four can.

[Linus Sebastian]

Like where, where would you.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Even if they were mass making this, I bet you they could get it cheaper.

[Linus Sebastian]

Unitry Mecca. Okay. Like can you even buy it yet? Unitry Mecca. Like I don't actually. I don't actually see it for sale yet. GD01 GD01. Like are you guys sure that nobody bought it yet? Corey says, I mean nobody could buy it. Launches GD01 starting from case like a giant transformer come to life. A blah blah blah. If you have $650,000 and don't buy this giant mecha robot. What are you doing? Does anyone actually have like an availability timeline for this thing? Oh my God, this site. What just happened? I was scrolling and then the whole article went away. Well, anyway. Yeah, I know. Good luck with that.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

Is it indexed on Google yet? Important question asks on a cash. Who actually even needs this robot? What would you actually use it for? Knocking over unsecured cinder block walls is not a valid use case. I could see. Okay. Okay. Oh oh, here. I could see like a performance spectacle like arena or something having one of these like if I was like a monster truck traveling show or something, I could see this Mecca being like part of our like intermission monster truck over or it does something, you know, or we like we jump a truck over it or whatever. Like I could see it being a like a fancy set piece. Digital B11 says construction. Maybe I give it another like 10, 20 years and then yeah, I could. I could totally see something like this being used as just like an avatar style. Like like just grab stuff and move it around or whatever. But not, not today. Not today. What else we got?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Cranes do be pretty good for that even because of like clearing obstacles.

[Linus Sebastian]

This is true.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Cranes are. Cranes are like pretty good.

[Linus Sebastian]

You don't always need to move like a whole pallet of whatever it is though. And sometimes it might.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Sometimes you need to go like down into a Pit that doesn't have a ramp.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, definitely.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Like there's, there's.

[Linus Sebastian]

I think you'll. I don't think it's going to be instead of a crane.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

I think this will be in addition to a crane.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. Forklift also do be pretty good, sir.

[Linus Sebastian]

Soy Descent says as an oil field knuckle boom operator, this would be a way to disassemble structures. Now that's interesting. So for construction. Yes. Crane for deconstruction. Strong mecha actually may be pretty useful.

[Dan]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay, sure. That makes sense.

[Linus Sebastian]

Now Wiley Giraffe says to unload the crane. Oh yeah. Actually that's like super valid. Like the final, the, the last mile, you know, like the last. More so the last few meters. Carrying something with this could be very practical. What else? Beggy says US$650,000 just for a set piece. Sounds like someone has fu money. Yeah, I don't think there's going to

[Luke Lafreniere]

be a lot of that.

[Linus Sebastian]

If you're, if, if you're using it to make money and it's like you're the only place where someone can come see it or you charge people, like if you charged people $1,000 for the experience of trying it and you could manage to make a viable business model out of that. I. You only have to put 650 people in it before you get your investment back. Like it's. I could see some commercial use of it possibly making sense if I had more context of.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I'm on the robo store, official partner of Unitree now.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And I'm seeing some of the prices of some of the things. I think I would have been more accurate.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I could probably think I would have done the shift for it.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because I think like what's. What was Tesla saying that they anticipated Optimus was going to sell for when they were doing their like revenue projections,

[Luke Lafreniere]

they said 100k optimus.

[Linus Sebastian]

I mean they've thrown different numbers around.

[Luke Lafreniere]

But I also have no idea. And I also lightly based it off of the optimus being 100k thing, but

[Linus Sebastian]

I don't know what it's supposed to cost projects. The eventual retail price of Optimus humanoid robot will be between $20,000 and $30,000 at mass scale according to AI overview. And I mean like, good luck with that.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Part of that problem is the whole mass scale thing. That's what I was saying. Like if Unitree's made like four of those, of course they're going to cost that much or way more. But if they're trying to go through like mass manufacturing it. Okay. They have their own store. Cool.

[Linus Sebastian]

I got it. Meanwhile, unitree has already leapfrogged them in terms of price to performance. Like it's kind of comical that anyone is taking that kind of pricing estimate seriously.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Whereas I don't think this is a store. I think it's just their official site.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. I don't see the. I'm not getting the pop up to translate the page. I don't know.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, just go the. The dots top right. Dots and then most of the way down.

[Linus Sebastian]

There it is.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. In English. Hello, English. There you go.

[Linus Sebastian]

There we go. So I will just. I will literally just. I. I've never tried to find it. I just reload the page and then usually it comes up.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay. User square action library. Where the bloody heck are the.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I don't think this is a store. I think it's like you have bought the thing and now you need to like do stuff with it. Place.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, interesting. You can like get.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

Actions and stuff. Oh, that's kind of cool.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

I have not. I've not played around with a unitary robot yet. I should. I. I want to.

[Luke Lafreniere]

There's ones on the robo store that look pretty cool.

[Linus Sebastian]

Or I shouldn't say I haven't played around with them at all. I did fight one.

[Luke Lafreniere]

There's one on sale right now.

[Linus Sebastian]

What do you got?

[Luke Lafreniere]

The G1?

[Linus Sebastian]

Yep.

[Luke Lafreniere]

The low, low price of 10 of those phones.

[Linus Sebastian]

Nice. Solid. I think they have a. I think they have a new one coming that looked pretty exciting. So I'm.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Is it. Is it this one?

[Linus Sebastian]

I can't remember. It came up in. It came up in writers meeting a little while ago.

[Luke Lafreniere]

3 kilogram arm load. So you can do a lot of like chores around the house like that, but sort of.

[Linus Sebastian]

Not really.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Not a ton more. You could do the dishes.

[Linus Sebastian]

I mean, well. Oh, sure. With that strength of like. Like motors. Yes. But not with the dexterity that they have now. Ah, yeah. And like the capability they have now.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I was specifically only talking about its ability to like, bear load.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, sure. I did this though. This was fun.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. Didn't you win this?

[Linus Sebastian]

Spoilers. Oh. So this is the control scheme.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Whoa.

[Linus Sebastian]

We made it look a lot more exciting in the edit than it really was. But not. Not many people watch this video. This did not resonate. I thought it was kind of a fun video.

[Luke Lafreniere]

But anyway, I think it's like space travel.

[Linus Sebastian]

I guess I'll just drop Steam controllers instead.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yep.

[Linus Sebastian]

Apparently.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I think it's like space travel, though. If people aren't involved, it's like.

[Linus Sebastian]

But I was involved.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, but you were just outside.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, so you want me to actually boxing that guy?

[Luke Lafreniere]

It probably would have gotten a bunch of views.

[Linus Sebastian]

I see. Well, yeah, I know. Float playing, crowd. Of course you guys watched it. You guys watch all the things. But it's the. It's the broader, like, YouTube audience that just did not engage with it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Wiley Draft. I'd. I'd pay $5 to watch it.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay, all right, so now. Now, hold on a second. If we could raise 20 grand for me to fight a G1, I bet we could raise 650 grand for me to fight a Mecca.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, I mean, it would break you, but I.

[Linus Sebastian]

What a way to go.

[Luke Lafreniere]

How. How hard would it be to knock over an unsupported cinder block wall?

[Linus Sebastian]

I mean, it would. It would. It would be hitting pretty hard. Like, if you got hit by something that size that was moving with enough speed and coordination to knock over suck. Yeah, it would not be good. Yeah, like, it would, like, break your bones, maybe. Like, if they were your face bones, maybe. Oh, I don't think that's a maybe, sir. I think that's a pretty solid. Yeah. Would break your. Break your face.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Well, it depends. Like, is this thing hitting? I'm losing the physics terms for this moment of action is stuck in my head. But it's like, can it. Can it, like, do this in order to push the cinder block wall over? Or is it like.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, like. Like a. Like a momentary application?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because that's what is gonna break your bone, right? Impact, force, impulse, force, kinetic momentum. Is it more of a push? Yeah. Is it more of a push? Or is it more of a strike? Here, it's in the video.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay, let's find it. All right here. We're just gonna. We're just gonna cheat and watch. Okay, Ready?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, hold on, hold on. No, I went to the wrong spot

[Luke Lafreniere]

because I am kind of interested.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay, you're interested in me fighting it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Notice how. No, no, no. Notice how high up the wall they interacted with. Yeah. Like, there's a lot of different things.

[Linus Sebastian]

Hold on. Here we go. Here we go.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay, that's a strike.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That is a strike. But it's also like the very, very tippy top of a very tall and thin wall. It's not. It's not that. It's not really cool.

[Linus Sebastian]

That would break your bone.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Not that. It's not really cool.

[Linus Sebastian]

Cool. That would break your. That would break your jaw.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Not that it's not really cool.

[Linus Sebastian]

For sure.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Something's not really cool. I just.

[Linus Sebastian]

I wouldn't want to get hit by it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

No, I'm not saying I want to get hit by it.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, like it. It. It struck it. It did not push it over. That we can say for sure. And yes, it was very high up. You guys are 100% right. All right, what else we got today? Oh, Dan wants me to do more sponsors now. Guess what? Dan? No.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, owned.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay, got him.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Owned.

[Linus Sebastian]

Cybersecurity Tip of the day Install a Russian Language pack on your computer we were talking about Lori Wired a little while ago and she's super based, so I was just reading a tweet from her. Earlier this week, Microsoft Threat Intelligence posted to Twitter that they were investigating the Mistral AI. How the devil do I pronounce this?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh geez, I've only read it.

[Linus Sebastian]

Pipi sure package. I'm going to go with PP v.2.4.6 compromise. In their post, they noticed that the attack avoids Russian language environments. Lori Wired retweeted the post with the most low effort, high reward thing that you can do for security is installing the Russian language pack. Not even joking. It's ridiculous how often this prevents execution. This was also something that was noted by Brian Krebs previously with Ransomware Samples. Discussion Question Luke do we need to install the Russian language pack on all work systems immediately?

[Luke Lafreniere]

As far as my language goes, or as far as my understanding goes, we're probably fine. But it's not a bad idea. It's not a terrible idea. It might also be super freaking annoying.

[Linus Sebastian]

Why though? Because you can install a language pack and then just never look at it or think about it again.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Is that one of those ones where it can change. No, the language pack wouldn't change your keyboard. Eh? Would it change your keyboard?

[Linus Sebastian]

Nope.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay, that.

[Linus Sebastian]

I mean, yeah, and you can just set Windows to your primary language being what it is, but they'll just. Apparently these malwares will just be like, oh, is Russian maybe. Maybe do not install. Whatever. I'm not going to try and do a Russian accent in. In Soviet Russia. Malware installs you like, whatever, don't worry about it. So I just wanted to. I just wanted to throw this out there for the WAN show watching people. According to. According to Laurie and Brian Krebs and also Microsoft Threat Intelligence, install a Russian language pack, which back in the day used to be something that you had to pay for, but nowadays is something that you can just go into Windows Update and you can just select a language pack and Install it. And apparently it will, it will reduce your. It will reduce your exposure to cybersecurity threats, which seems like a zero hassle, high reward, potentially thing to do. So.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And I can't wait for people to start getting viruses because they start googling Russian language pack for Windows.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay, just. Just get it in Windows Update.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I'm trying. How do I. Okay, Advanced options maybe. I don't really use Windows much.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay. Here. Sorry, it's not Windows Update. It's in time and language. Add a language and then you just go for. There you go. All right, there you go.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Add a language.

[Linus Sebastian]

It's. It's that easy. It's that fast. Go for it. Hey, here's another cool one. We had an LTT Labs article go up. I think it was either today or yesterday.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Sick. They're all sick.

[Linus Sebastian]

What's up with UPS?

[Luke Lafreniere]

We have one.

[Linus Sebastian]

Since with UPS's our company has always had many. UPS is around for the convenience and business case of not suddenly losing a ton of work. Thank you, Lucas. That is a very matter of fact observation. So blah, blah, blah, etc. We want to check them out further but have been wary of connecting them to any measurement equipment considering the high voltages involved. Despite that, we're throwing caution to the wind to check out some UPSs from around the office. So it's not a comprehensive look at, you know, which UPS is the best ups, but it's more of a, like laying the groundwork for what are they, what do they do, what might be characteristics of one that could be more desirable. And it's kind of like a, like a primer on us taking the time to grab some measurements, make some cool visualizations and maybe expand on it further if this is something that people are interested in learning more about. The first thing that I said when I saw Lucas's preliminary work on it was like, oh, that should be an LTT video. Like we always say on ltt, you should have a ups. We never tell you which one to buy because I've never been comfortable enough other than saying like, yeah, I don't know, get an APC or an opti, UPS or an Episode and like it'll probably be fine. Like any of the big three brands are probably okay, but I don't actually know which one is better or like how much you have to spend to get like a good one.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I don't know if we're actually doing it. We do. We do lots of different things and we change our mind and direction often. But I was talking to Lucas in relation to this article about how scrapyard wars used to be such a nightmare here. Because you and I would test in the offices and be working on our systems in the offices, then have to come out into the warehouse, usually the workshop set, but let's just say warehouse in general, and benchmark them against each other. And then they would start failing, and you and I would both always swear that our systems were stable. Then we'd go back inside to work on them and they'd be stable again.

[Linus Sebastian]

The biggest one was when it happened with Austin Evans.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yes.

[Linus Sebastian]

His system was apparently stable when running off of a ups. And then.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Well, it was stable when running off of the wall power in the office.

[Linus Sebastian]

Was it? Okay.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And then was stable when running off a UPS in the warehouse, but not when running off of the wall power.

[Linus Sebastian]

That's right. Okay. Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So I was. I was. I was poking and being like, it could be kind of interesting to go check out those plugs because I doubt they've changed much.

[Linus Sebastian]

I don't think that transformer has ever been replaced.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I doubt it. So I'm assuming that the in office ones are still. Yeah, better. Because we. We always refer to it as like, dirty power. And that was enough for me to understand that power bad, this power good. But that's it. I don't understand beyond that, really, what's going on.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, it's the, like, purity of the sine wave.

[Luke Lafreniere]

No, like, I get. I get the vague concept how long of a.

[Linus Sebastian]

How much of a delay there is in the switch over to battery power. Like, there's a bunch of things that,

[Luke Lafreniere]

like, why is it better in there and worse out there?

[Linus Sebastian]

I think those two spaces are running off of different transformers because that office space is two blended units and one of the transformers is more loaded than the other one. If I recall correctly. It was just when we were converting

[Luke Lafreniere]

it, Rod said, and I had a crazy boot issue during scrap reporters, and all of a sudden it started working. Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

There's something going on.

[Linus Sebastian]

Well, we. That was. That set has a UPS that lives on it permanently now.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

So the power to the table is always running through UPS now. So we haven't had any problems in a long time. But yeah, I'd be very curious, man. Maybe. Maybe if the UPS content goes well, we can move into a building transformer content so we can find the best building transformer and replace them.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, probably not for the seven people that'd be interested.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, I mean, hey, like, if I was a contractor, then I'd be very interested to know how bad the cheap. The cheap transformer that I'm still definitely going to use is?

[Luke Lafreniere]

That's the problem.

[Linus Sebastian]

Anyway, go check it out at LTT Labs.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It's a really good read and we've even launched an article since then. Oh, what, seven hours ago?

[Linus Sebastian]

I missed that. What's the. What's the new one?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Two is better than one.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, on the B60.

[Luke Lafreniere]

You knew about this one. You might just not have known the time time because it released today. Yeah, there's the Labs articles are. Are coming strong and fast, so. So check them out.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, this thing's cool. It's been a long time, a long time since I've seen a dual GPU card like this. Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Intel Arc Pro B60 dual 48 gig turbo.

[Linus Sebastian]

Turbo.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I like that. Turbos in there. That's sick.

[Linus Sebastian]

Turbo.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Bring back Turbo.

[Linus Sebastian]

All right, Dan, I'll do the other sponsors now. Then we've got more topics for you guys. It's kind of a loaded show today. The show is brought to you by Motion Gray. Whether you're gaming or working, sitting at a desk for hours on end can lead to a sore back or for being honest, a little too much sweat buildup. So it can be nice to stand up from time to time to help alleviate some of that discomfort and swamp. But motiongraze ergo 2 pro sit stand desk is an affordable option to bring more comfort to your workstation, no matter what size you go. With Motion Graze, Ergo 2 supports up to £176, and each desk comes with dual legs for stability and uses German Bosch motors for a smoother height adjustment. The Ergo 2 arrives in a single box, so you don't have to worry about the legs arriving days before the desk. And everything you need to assemble, including the necessary tools, is packaged with the desk. Grab your Motion Gray ergo Pro or ergo2pro. Excuse me. our link in the video description, we'll have that down below. The show is also brought to you by XSplit. If streaming or recording yourself playing games is a hobby that you've been meaning to pick up, but you don't know where to start, check out XSplit, Dan, or there's There We Go. It's a service that has plenty of tools for streaming and video production that can help help get you going free of charge. It works with most of the major platforms like Twitch, YouTube, and plenty more. So that means you can show off Your personality with GIFs and videos overlaid atop of your gameplay. Plus, with Premium, you can stream to multiple platforms and unlock an unlimited number of scenes. It can even be used for things like business presentations or virtual meetings. So don't wait. Go to LMG GG XSplitwan to try it for free today or. Or use code WAN SHOW30 to save 30% off your first subscription. Speaking of streaming and subscriptions and stuff, Elijah came into my office in like a major huff over apparently there's some drama with like the plugins for Twitch Chat, like stuff happening on the stream or something like that. Does anyone else have any context for this?

[Luke Lafreniere]

No, not even slightly. I have no idea what you're talking about.

[Linus Sebastian]

Is it, is it.

[Dan]

What's Twitch?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Stream Elements?

[Linus Sebastian]

Is that, Is that it? Stream Elements, okay.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Stream Elements, Drama.

[Linus Sebastian]

Stream Elements.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Is Stream Elements in trouble? Stream Elements shutting down?

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, yeah, Stream Elements and talks with potential acquirers to avoid impending bankruptcy. And he was like pretty upset about it because apparently the alternative to it is like not very good or something. And a lot of people are like, oh well, I would have given more money to Stream Elements if I'd known that they needed money. But then like they clearly didn't. But then like streamelements apparently raised like, and this is from Elijah, so I don't know if this is true, but they raised $100 million and they've burned through that in the last like three or four years. So I don't know how they managed to burn through that much money doing like, I don't know, things like happening on your screen with Twitch chats. I mean, I guess the API cost would probably be reasonably high.

[Luke Lafreniere]

There's.

[Linus Sebastian]

But like the whole thing seems like, seems like a giant boatload of fail. So feel free to go look into that if you want a rabbit hole. But it's not, it's not in our notes today because it's not good news when. In other good news though, MIT researchers have revived a 40 year old triangular zipper concept that is now made possible by 3D printing. Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory built the y zipper, a three sided zipper that snaps three floppy 3D printed arms into a rigid triangular tube using a flex rigid transition mechanism, enabling the zippers to interlock. The concept dates back to 1985, patented by MIT professor William Freeman, but manufacturing couldn't be done until modern 3D printing caught up. It works because triangles are inherently rigid, so same principles like bridges, trusses and cranes. Software lets users design what the zipped shape becomes. And you can make a straight rod, an arch, a coil or screw, like twists. So come I'm not gonna lie.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I don't really understand.

[Linus Sebastian]

Check this out. Oh my God.

[Luke Lafreniere]

What for? And I would love to see an application of it. It's really cool.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. Here we go. Here we go. The Y zipper.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, there's some cool examples.

[Linus Sebastian]

Luke. Luke's first question. Why?

[Dan]

Why?

[Linus Sebastian]

There.

[Luke Lafreniere]

There is a. There is a pretty cool example at like 1 minute. Ish. Almost 1 minute 50 seconds.

[Linus Sebastian]

Huh?

[Luke Lafreniere]

The tent.

[Dan]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

You just kind of zip down the rigid poles.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It's kind of neat.

[Linus Sebastian]

I don't know man. It seems, it seems pretty cool stuff.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Like this is just neat. I don't. I'm not saying like it has to have like a really strong reason, but I would just love to. To see someone find like a really good application for it. Just to see what they do.

[Linus Sebastian]

So the entire system, arms and slider is 3D printed from Kalman Polymers. They tested PLA for better load bearing and TPU for more flexibility. And the video demo includes an adjustable wrist cast that can be tightened or made loose easily. Mechanical Blooming flower for art and design, a quadruped robot with legs that retract, lowering the robot's body to get it under obstacles in front of it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Interesting.

[Linus Sebastian]

And as rods to deploy a tent. Our discussion question is if a 40 year old zipper concept can be revived today. What other failed or forgotten historical patents do you think are waiting for modern tech to bring them to life?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Break out Leonardo's drawings. Dude.

[Linus Sebastian]

I know, right? I think probably my favorite, my favorite old technology idea that didn't work out is this thing. This thing is crazy.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

And this is a. I think this is, I think this is the video. Yeah, yeah, this is a great video. And you should go watch it because this thing was real. The why was working.

[Luke Lafreniere]

The why for this one was efficiency. Right. Because you have less wheels on the ground so there's less friction.

[Linus Sebastian]

No, it was cost. Well, because yeah, it's. It's cheaper to lay a single rail than two.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I thought it was like effectively fuel conservation.

[Linus Sebastian]

No, no, not that it was. It was the initial laying of the track and the way that they do like cool animations and everything for how all of this worked. Like you can hear, you can see like hints as to sort of how the thing worked. Yeah, I'm not going to show you everything. It used like pneumatics and stuff. It was so flipping cool. You guys should go watch this video on Primal Space. Incredible video. But pretty much the reason it doesn't work is it used to self balance. It used a Giant spinning mass. That's like, okay, yeah, a lot of energy.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

Scary amount of energy.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So the opposite of what I was thinking, because now you have to spin this giant freaking thing.

[Linus Sebastian]

It's more just like if anything goes wrong.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. Train crash. Now there's this enormous mass flying around.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, yeah. Hey, someone was talking about gyroscopically stable things. I am probably getting my motorcycle in, like, a week. Oh. Or two.

[Luke Lafreniere]

There you go.

[Linus Sebastian]

Maybe two. The. The part that was supposed to arrive. I think I gave you guys an update on this a little while ago. The part that was supposed to arrive was, like, CNC'd overseas. And the guy calls me earlier this week and he goes. Or like, I texted him, he's like, hey, do you have time for a call? Which is never good news. And he goes, look, the part that I've been waiting for, like, for two months to finish this project, it arrived, and the hole for, like, the ignition is in the wrong spot. It doesn't work. And I was like, oh, well, like, how complicated is this part? Like, I have, like, a $40,000 CNC and, like, a handful of operators for it. He's like, you gotta be me. I'm like, yeah, no, no. Like, I got my guys and, like, we've got, like a. Like, I think it's like, 5 axis or something. He's like, you gotta be me. And. And I'm like, yeah, no, I mean, do you want me to just put you in touch with one of my guys and you can, like, show them the part? And, like, like, so Sebastian from the creator warehouse team. I was like, hey, look, just like, I don't know, give me, like, your contractor rate. This is not work. So, you know, it's not work. So whatever, we'll. We'll. We'll work it out outside of work. But, like, is this something that you want to. That you're able to tackle? He's like, oh, yeah, sure. So he. So. So, like, Vance went and got it. So that was one day. By the next day, Sebastian had 3D printed a mock up of, like, a fix for it. It to, like, make it mount properly. And then Sebastian, on his way. We had. We had an early dismissal Friday, today. So he, like, stopped by today and is, like, talking about the solution with the motorcycle shop and then figures he can probably, like, make it by, like, next week. And so then they just have to do final assembly. He says, it looks sick. I haven't seen any in progress yet. Because I was like, no, no, I want to be surprised Sammy is apparently going to do a flat floatplane exclusive of me taking delivery of this bike after three years. And I want to make it really, really clear this is not the shop's fault.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, it was mostly painting.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, mostly. It just took me forever to paint it and I did some stuff wrong and I got some paint and some threads and various things. They have probably contributed a handful of delays, but the vast bulk of it was me. And honestly, I'm just impressed that they've stuck with me for this long to get this thing done. So I'm very excited to have my bike back. Do you want to pick a topic?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. Let's keep it in the 3D printing world. Innovative startup pioneers 3D printing with recycled glass New binder jet process combines powder with adhesive agent in layering technique. Vitro form. 3D is a Knoxville startup tackling the 8 million tons of glass US landfills receive yearly by 3D printing with recycled post consumer glass. Unlike conventional recycling, their process skips energy intensive melting and isn't picky about color or grade. Really? It's not picky about color?

[Linus Sebastian]

Well, you can be. You can sort by color, but you don't have to. So you could just do this.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay. Neat. Their their patent pending binder jetting technology. What a sentence. Works like this. The waste glass is ground into a fine powder. There's a thin layer of glass powder spread across the build spectrum platform.

[Linus Sebastian]

Not sure where you got that word from.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Not a single clue. Inkjet style nozzles deposit a binder slash adhesive only. Where materials should bond based on that 3D model and then repeat layer by layer to build the 3D object. The finished piece is then fired in an oven. Like that makes sense. Like pottery. To set its final shape, the end product is classified as engineered stone.

[Linus Sebastian]

I mean, yeah, glass is just rock.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, no, that makes sense. It's just interesting. Roughly 90 to 95% recycled glass and 5 to 10% polymer binder. Turning the binder's chemistry. Tuning the binder's chemistry was the core of the R and D challenge. And the process works with almost any powder, metal, ceramic or glass. Wow. Interesting. They're backed by the U.S. department of Energy to develop fire resistant cladding as a next gen building material. Neat. Actual recycling is cool. There is a lot of. We're gonna recycle this straight into the landfill.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. Or straight into a container that we try to ship overseas that they then send back.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. Or that.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yep.

[Linus Sebastian]

There's a lot of that going around.

[Luke Lafreniere]

There's a ton of that going on. So actual recycling sounds awesome.

[Linus Sebastian]

Our discussion question is, given the severe health hazards of handling microscopic glass powder, is this something that should probably stay an industrial technology as opposed to trying to scale it down for consumers?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, like 3D printing at home?

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. I think this is maybe not for general consumers, and that's probably okay.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That's. That's fine.

[Linus Sebastian]

Not everything has to be in our home garage lab.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. But maybe Oliver.

[Linus Sebastian]

Dk. Yeah. In float plane chat based. Take glass in general. Pretty cool.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It's pretty freaking cool.

[Linus Sebastian]

Glass is amazing. Have you ever done, like, glass blowing?

[Luke Lafreniere]

No, but I've always thought it's pretty interesting.

[Linus Sebastian]

Do it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I always thought it must be insanely hard. Is it insanely hard?

[Linus Sebastian]

Well, yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

But like, if you. If you. We did like, we. We did one that had like an introductory, like, friendly for kids kind of thing where you just. You make like a little bubble and. And you should. You should do it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I saw there was a. I don't remember what type of content this was, but I saw somebody doing glassblowing where they would get like driftwood and then they would do like a big, I don't know, bulb while doing glassblowing and then would droop it over the driftwood and then it would be like a vase that would. Would kind of morph itself around the driftwood. It looked super cool. I have no idea how I would find that, but it looked awesome.

[Linus Sebastian]

Molten glass on driftwood.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That is not what it looks like. But it looks like it's the same concept. Yeah. This is not. This is not it.

[Linus Sebastian]

This is not it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay, well, I mean, Amazon, it's a similar concept.

[Linus Sebastian]

Amazon was unlikely to be the solution you were going to like anyway. Yeah. Okay, here.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I wasn't even just being biased against Amazon, though.

[Linus Sebastian]

Do you see anything here that resembles

[Luke Lafreniere]

more similar to me? Not really. More similar to that one.

[Linus Sebastian]

To this one.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. And that is on Amazon, but it was like more of a branch like thing, not like a stump of wood.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I don't know. Whatever. Glassblowing is cool.

[Linus Sebastian]

All right.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, no, yeah, more like those. A little bit more like those. Still not really like those. Yes, more like that, I think.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It's just kind of neat.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, that's cool. These are cool.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're getting more close to what I was.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay, all right. I'm trying, I'm trying. I'm cooking. I'm cooking.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That looks very much closer to it.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay, all right. Okay. All right, Cool. All right. We've kind of. Apparently it's apparently it's a thing. I didn't know driftwood glass thing is a thing. I mean, we live in the world of like Pinterest, right?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Basically everything's a thing because of, because of that.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, there's. This is a new thing. There's a new Starlink policy that requires a passport check, a live portrait, and these are for international use. Update. The travel registration support page is 404 now. Okay, interesting. So Starlink just rolled out a new travel registration policy requiring customers using the service outside of their registered home country to submit their full legal name, nationality, date of birth, passport number, a copy of their passport and a live portrait selfie. Failure to register within 25 days results in the service being disabled abroad. The Pop up has been appearing for U.S. and Canadian customers, including some who have never traveled internationally. And it's reportedly triggered by owning the portable Starlink Mini, which works with The Rome Plan. 60 days per trip. International. SpaceX has not officially commented, but the move is possibly a crackdown on malicious actors like scammers in Myanmar, Latin American drug cartels. And this is given SpaceX's sort of history with the conflict in Ukraine, Russian military forces, this seems like a likely one, who have all been caught using Starlink. Some customers suspect that this is kind of a know your customer compliance situation. Concerns about this, however, include confusion for users without passports, fears that the pop up is a scam given the sensitive info that's requested and the inverse are the inverse or the opposite of that. Or a related concern is that if this is something that people know to expect, then scammers going and pretending to be SpaceX and asking for this information could be pretty scary.

[Luke Lafreniere]

This. I. Sorry, I thought you were done.

[Linus Sebastian]

No, there was also a situation where at least one boat user, Bruce Toll, reported that his service was cut off before the 25 day deadline mid voyage and he was only able to restore it because he still had cell coverage, luckily. And then also just general privacy concerns. Like in general, what else we got?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Well, I just, I think. You know how there was. There was a lot of stuff recently, there was some about ubiquity. There's some going on right now about a Canadian firearms manufacturer making sniper rifles and their sniper rifles were found in Russian military hands. There's ubiquity things, stuff like that and people are calling for like hey, you need to better control, you know, the distribution of your products. But

[Linus Sebastian]

I mean, are we asking for government overreach? Yeah, it kind of feels that way to me.

[Luke Lafreniere]

But then like sometimes it is Also, like, well, yeah, you probably should, but

[Linus Sebastian]

not have Canadian sniper rifles killing Ukrainians.

[Luke Lafreniere]

This is maybe the pendulum swinging too far. But then at the same time, Starlink in Russian military hands right now would be benefiting them tremendously. And it was a big deal when it was shut down for them. So, like, it's tough.

[Linus Sebastian]

But what's the. What's the famous quote? Those who give up their freedom for liberty deserve neither. And is that. Is that. Is that the quote? Did I get it right?

[Luke Lafreniere]

I think it's will get neither.

[Linus Sebastian]

Those who give up freedom for security deserve neither. That's. That's it, apparently, are those who give up liberty for safety. Quote. Okay, Ben Franklin, the exact quote is, those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Yeah, yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It's not relevant here. Not at all.

[Linus Sebastian]

I think super relevant.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And it's not the equivalent of a SIM card. I can get a SIM card with no identification at all. Yes, you can land at an airport and buy a SIM card and just slap it in your phone and have. No.

[Linus Sebastian]

This is one of those times when the slippery slope argument is not a fallacy, because it becomes not a fallacy when there is solid precedent for the slope leading to a particular destination. And in this case, giving a government the ability to decide whether crucial communication infrastructure works or not, or never mind. The government also a commercial entity that could be controlled by another government or other entity giving somebody else control of crucial infrastructure is, like, bad, and it often leads to very bad things. And if luckily you happen to live in a society that is free enough that that hasn't been a problem for you personally, then that's really good. And, and people around the world, I'm sure, are very happy for you, but there are plenty of folks in places like Hong Kong who would love to have a word with you about how. How awful it can be when their ability to communicate and organize can be turned on and off at a whim. And I'm sure the Iranians would also agree that this can have very negative outcomes. And the more that you give up, the greater the likelihood of those outcomes.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, Iran has Starlink service. So did Russia.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, until someone turned it off. And I was talking about the government limiting Internet access in Iran. Also, I believe owning a Starlink.

[Luke Lafreniere]

No, sorry, I'm responding to full plane.

[Linus Sebastian]

No, no, I know, but I. So I. Yes, Starlink does allow service there, but from my understanding, owning a Starlink dish, there is a crime at this point in time. So giving another outside Entity, the ability to turn on or off your communications infrastructure. I think hopefully most people can recognize, given that there are concrete examples where that has been a, a, a very big problem, that that is not something that we generally want. Yikes. Yeah. Persian tech guy says owning Starlink is indeed illegal in Iran right now. Curious Bread says Iran is actively jamming Starlink signals domestically as well. Yeah, Persian tech guy, we Iranians do agree. So just because you're lucky enough that you are not being oppressed enough yet does not mean that we should just kind of go, oh well, this is fine. The flip side of it being, do I want Canadian rifles killing Ukrainians?

[Luke Lafreniere]

No, no.

[Linus Sebastian]

But should we put a chip on every gun that has GPS tracking and you can't pull the trigger if it's in certain geographical regions?

[Luke Lafreniere]

I mean, that sounds wily draft. You're saying Russian military was killing people because of Starlink? Ukraine military is currently killing people with Starlink.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, lots of.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I'm sure they're not the only one shut off too. Like, this is like, where is the fact that the line is not set by you is the whole part of the reason, the whole part of the problem that we're currently discussing? Yes, and it's, and it's, it's an uncomfortable conversation. Yeah, it's a Western network. Okay. I mean, we're, we're never going to see eye to eye here and that's okay.

[Linus Sebastian]

But like, yeah, I mean, what does Western mean? The west is the west until the west isn't the West.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I mean, also not a Western network.

[Linus Sebastian]

The, the NATO, the NATO alliance is not exactly as concrete today as it was. It's a company 10 years ago.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It's not a government service. Service. It's, it's, it's, it's not. I don't think you can necessarily say it's a Western network. Even if he's saying like, should we enable our enemies?

[Linus Sebastian]

It's like, well, whose enemies?

[Luke Lafreniere]

It's up to.

[Linus Sebastian]

Whose enemies?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, exactly. It's up to a company.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. And like, and, and what does Western even mean right now? Nothing is that simple right now. Sorry. Good news Wen show.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, we should move.

[Linus Sebastian]

Linux gains some more critical Windows apps, including 3D Movie Maker and Space Cadet Pinball. Two classic mid-1990s Windows apps have been officially ported to Linux. Space Cadet Pinball, which was originally part of the Microsoft plus pack for Windows 95, was decompiled and rebuilt by Muzachenko Andrei and ported to 14 different platforms. The Linux build is now available on Flathub And Oracle Linux developer Steven Brennan also recently blogged about getting it running on Linux. This is in a word based.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Also, you guys should edit a movie.

[Linus Sebastian]

There's an even. Well, have you ever used 3D movie maker?

[Luke Lafreniere]

No.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, not how that works. In Even bigger news, 3D movie maker has come to Linux. Microsoft open sourced it back in 2022, but it sat mostly untouched until Registry readers Mark Cave, Aland and Ben stone spent roughly 15 months on a fork called 3D MMEX after the original 3D MMF Forever project stalled beyond a native Linux port, they added 64 bit support, bug fixes, ARM64 Windows builds, native file dialogues, MIDI, music via fluidsynth, and a G streamer powered video player. A Raspberry PI version is in the works.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So I'm looking at the video now. Is it like Source Movie Maker where you like have to use their little characters and stuff?

[Linus Sebastian]

So I actually am not sure because one of the problems that I had with 3D movie maker was that at the time almost nobody had a microphone. So I could only use the handful of audio clips that were included. And maybe it had other capabilities, props, sounds, words, scenes. So maybe it had other capabilities if you also had other accessories. But we couldn't really like do that much with it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Right.

[Linus Sebastian]

But yeah, there's like walking animations and like.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, I don't know if I ever saw anything that was the output of this. I, I definitely like never even opened that.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, it was not included. This was like paid software.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh wow.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, and there was like, there was like quests and stuff. Like you could really, like, you could go to different places in like kind of the, like the studio campus and like find collectibles. Here, let me see if I can find. Here's a video from Daw Storm that says there's still Nothing like Microsoft 3D Movie Maker 2323,000 views. Yeah, this guy, this guy was funky. And you could do all kinds of stuff. Yeah, like you could set up your scene and. Yeah, I remember, I remember these stock characters, man, they had like a handful of outfits each. You could have them talk to each other and like you could make them, you could make them die and stuff. You could make them like, like grow really big and then explode. There was like an explode effect. There's all kinds of, all kinds of cool stuff. And now you can run it on Linux for the dozens of people who want to do that. I just, it was a, it was a part of my childhood. I have multiple core memories sitting around the computer with my siblings making the, you know, the baby explode or whatever after it does something, just goofing, goofing around. It's a, it's a fun creativity tool that in some ways encourages additional creativity due to it being so rudimentary and so limited, if you kind of get what I mean. Like in some ways the ability to do anything, it's like AI, the ability to just kind of say, yeah, make this is less rewarding than using a crummy tool to try to make something good, if that kind of makes sense. Speaking of, you know, crappy AI outputs, AMD put up pretty horrible AI generated ad, which is not good news. So instead we're going to talk about an AMD related thing that is good news. Amd listened. FSR 4.1 is coming to rDNA 3 and then later to rDNA 2. The feature is going to be enabled through a driver update, bringing support to older cards supporting int8 instructions as opposed to the FP8 version that was used on Rdna 4. It's expected to drop in July for Radeon 7000 cards and then sometime in early 2027 for Rdna 2 cards. An int8 version of FSR 4.0 was leaked in 2025, which users were able to get running using tools like OptiValer. But AMD had until now not committed to bringing FSR4 to these older cards. This change by AMD will bump that support to FSR 4.1, which does improve image quality versus FSR. Our discussion question is everyone liked that. What are some other times that a company backported features to an older product and it was pretty cool. You know what? I'm going to throw Microsoft a bone. We've given them a lot of flack for the last couple of months. I think it was pretty cool when Windows 8 sucked and they said, okay, here's Windows 10 for free. Here's a free upgrade that's kind of. It's not really like backporting a feature. It's kind of backporting a feature. It's taking your old computer that was Windows 8 and backporting all the Windows 10 features to it. So you know what? I'm standing by it. You got anything? Maybe Chat can let us know if they can think of anything.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I'm rapidly typing in chat. Can you rephrase the question?

[Linus Sebastian]

What are other times that a company back ported features to an older product and it was cool and everyone liked it?

[Luke Lafreniere]

It. Didn't am. Hasn't AMD done this in the past? Yeah, I'm not going to be able to name like super specific examples, but I think AMD has done this in the past. AMD has a. A bit of a precedent of supporting platforms for a long time and bringing things to them, bringing things back to them. Nvidia also brought some of their newer features back to older cards.

[Linus Sebastian]

They've done. I think, I think they've made a pretty good faith effort to support the RTX promises of the 20th of the 20 series. Even though the hardware was just like not there yet. They haven't always done a perfect job, but I think they've done pretty okay. Solid B. There was, there was something. There was something in the chat that I had wanted to. That I'd wanted to talk about. No, I missed it. Oh, right. No, you reminded me. Yeah. AMD's track record of supporting products for a long time. We've got a really cool video coming. We're going to put the newest AM4 processor in the oldest AM4 board and then we're going to like benchmark it against that same processor in the newest AM4 board and see if you bought the right AM4 board 10 years ago. Can you literally buy a chip today and upgrade your computer? And what are the downsides of that? It's going to be pretty cool. Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That is pretty sweet, actually.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. One of our newer writers, Michael, is working on that project. So it's. And then Pancraft Kratz is helping him out with some of the testing labs. Might be actually helping out as well. I'm not sure about that. Are you still arguing with Floatplane Chat?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yes. It's okay.

[Linus Sebastian]

Don't make me timeout.

[Luke Lafreniere]

We'll be friends in the end.

[Linus Sebastian]

I'll put you in timeout.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It's okay. We're fine.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay. If you type any more to Floatplane Chat right now, I'm putting you in timeout. I've put other people in timeout today. Floatplane Chat. Spicy today. I don't know what's going on. It must be a full moon or something.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It's been interesting.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. And for once, this is wild. I'm not arguing with anyone. It's like I feel like the kid. Like mom, dad, stop fighting. For the first time ever. So, Dan, this is what it feels like. You do.

[Dan]

Get used to it.

[Linus Sebastian]

What, mom and dad fighting or. Yeah. Oh, okay.

[Dan]

And then you have this like, smugness. You have smugness, like, and like you're just watching. You're watching.

[Linus Sebastian]

Big smugness.

[Dan]

Yeah, big.

[Linus Sebastian]

Like, I mean, he's the one doing the gesture. I'M just right.

[Dan]

Pair of smug.

[Linus Sebastian]

All right, thank you.

[Dan]

And you're just watching.

[Linus Sebastian]

Class dismissed. Meta employees have launched a protest against mouse tracking technology at their US offices. This one is.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I want to say, you gotta stay tuned on this one because at the beginning it's like you're thinking it's like mouse jigglers or something like that.

[Linus Sebastian]

No, no, no. So much. Stay tuned. And the reason that this belongs in good news wan show is because I have massive respect for the Meta employees that are speaking out right now for reasons that I'll get to in a minute. Okay? So on May 12, Meta employees distributed flyers at multiple US offices to protest the company's recent installation of mouse tracking software on their computers, pushing for colleagues to sign an online petition against m. The tracking tool is called Model Capability Initiative, or mci, and it logs mouse movements, clicks, keystrokes, and occasional screenshots of work related applications in order to not monitor if you're working, but in order to train Meta's AI models. Meta's justification for this is that it is building agents to do everyday computer tasks, so its models need real examples of how people actually use computers. Spokesperson Andy Stone added that the data isn't used for anything else, with safeguards in place for sensitive content. With that said, employees expect that the data is used to train the models that will replace them. This protest is landing just before Meta lays off 10% of its staff, or about 8,000 people, on May 20. So that's in five days, while also canceling plans to hire for another 6,000 open roles. All of this is happening while Meta plans to spend up to $135 billion on AI infrastructure this year, building toward what Zuckerberg calls personal superintelligence for its 3 1/2 billion daily users. The protest has also spread to the uk, where users are organizing through the United Tech and Allied Workers Union, with organizer Eleanor Payne accusing executives of pursuing speculative AI strategies while forcing staff to endure, quote, draconian surveillance, unquote, to train the very systems meant to replace them. Boy, is there ever a lot to unpack here.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So pretty wild.

[Linus Sebastian]

On the eve of mass layoffs, people are speaking out and taking action against this draconian surveillance. Massive respect there. The fact that Meta is treating their employees as like. As. Like as training data is sort of next level unhinged, like I'm trying to. Okay, Luke, hit me with something here. Stop arguing. Hit me with something here. What would be. What would be work?

[Luke Lafreniere]

I don't need to see the screen.

[Linus Sebastian]

Timeout. Can I Put another admin.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I can just remove it.

[Linus Sebastian]

I'll time out the people you're talking to.

[Luke Lafreniere]

No, no, no, no, no.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay, all right, all right, then stop.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Good people.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay, we just.

[Luke Lafreniere]

We just got confused. They're good people.

[Linus Sebastian]

What's worse, Luke? What's worse if meta was doing this to their user base or doing this to their staff, who at least they

[Luke Lafreniere]

pay just doing it to Both.

[Linus Sebastian]

Well, I know, but. No, no, no, no, no. Just for the sake of. For the sake of having a moral argument right now. Like, I just. I want to hear your perspective. I value your perspective, that's all. I respect you. What would. Okay, let's say it was me, okay? In our hypothetical scenario, it's me. I'm building. I just need footage of people wanking it. What's better if I record my staff, who happen to be paid porn performers. Okay, okay. Right, because they were going to wank it anyway.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So you're trying to train an AI bot because you're going to be selling sex robots in the future for my

[Linus Sebastian]

users who are wanking it at home. And it's in the tos. Like, it's. Either way, you know, I was allowed to do it. Which one's worse? That's what I want to know.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I think it depends on how 603

[Linus Sebastian]

in the chat says, say no more. I'm your man, Gilmore D. Why did I know you were gonna say that, Linus? Because you've been watching WAN ship for too long.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah,

[Linus Sebastian]

we'll jiggle all the things.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

Which one's worse?

[Luke Lafreniere]

I think it depends on how explicitly communicated it is, because if it's. If it's a meta service and it's explicitly communicated to the user, you can just not.

[Linus Sebastian]

Sorry, did you say nut or not?

[Luke Lafreniere]

In this case, both. Realistically, you're picking one or the other, but, I mean, I have a really hard time believing, unless you're an influencer of some kind, that Instagram is a requirement to your life.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay, yeah, I can see that.

[Luke Lafreniere]

But you need a job.

[Linus Sebastian]

But you do need a job. But you could work somewhere else.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Maybe. Job market's really bad. Economy is wrecked, and the job market's really bad.

[Linus Sebastian]

Can I tell you? Can I tell you? And maybe. Maybe this is. Maybe if I was going to put on my lizard brain hat, right, I. I would feel ickier about my employees.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Because if you had to watch someone wank.

[Linus Sebastian]

No, no, no, no.

[Luke Lafreniere]

You'd rather not know them.

[Linus Sebastian]

No, I don't mean the watching. I just mean the. Like, the. The Using of them. Well, that's what they're doing. They're using their employees to train some data set because they know that it's one of the only clean, clean data

[Luke Lafreniere]

sources as a reminder.

[Linus Sebastian]

Poisoned.

[Dan]

Now they provide the tissues to clean

[Luke Lafreniere]

the data set as a reminder. In the scenario, I have to pick one of them. So I can't just.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, you have to pick one.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I'm just re giving that context because some people are gonna be like, like I.

[Linus Sebastian]

Because with an employee, even if I've never actually interacted with them, because let's say I, I run a company that has tens of thousands of employees or whatever, with them, there was at least a pen and paper version of a handshake that exists between me and them. We have some level of mutualism in our relationship. Whereas I feel like, well, I guess the user's that too. But I don't have to look in the whites of their eyes at an all hands meeting. I don't know. To me, it feels ickier to use the people who are directly benefiting you every day through the labor that they contribute to your organization. But then again, the users are directly benefiting you as well. And that's pretty icky too. In fact, like, they could be more dependent on you. Like an Instagram influencer. Such a great example that I wouldn't have thought of. But they're super dependent on the platform.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It's a job.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, it is a job. And you don't have to like that job. You could think it's stupid or whatever and that's fine. That's your opinion. But like, like that doesn't change that for some people. And more importantly, where your argument falls apart for the people who work for those people, it is very much a job. You can argue all day that my job shouldn't be a job being YouTuber, blah, blah, blah, stupid. Go get a real job. But everybody who works for me has a real job. Like Dan. Well, he had a real job. He apparently left it. Don't worry about that. The point is people with very real jobs work for Linus Media Group Inc. And the same would be true of Instagram. That's a really good point.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, like, so it's hard to. It's hard to. So for most users, I see Instagram as very non essential. Right. Not only is it non essential, but there are alternative platforms that do like almost the same thing, so. But then it's not true for everyone.

[Linus Sebastian]

And it's not always possible to just switch over. Not every Viner succeeded On another platform.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, no, I'm talking pure viewers.

[Linus Sebastian]

Pure viewers, sure.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, sure.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Like, I don't think you can argue that any of those things is, like, essential. Although I have heard that a lot of people are using TikTok as search now.

[Linus Sebastian]

That's a terrible idea.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I've. I don't have it. I have no idea.

[Linus Sebastian]

But, I mean, based on how much, like, horrible AI slop misinformation we found the last time we did, like, a TikTok Tech Hacks video. You shouldn't search anything on TikTok.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Somebody recently was asking me, like, what's my primary media source? And I said that it was YouTube. And they're like, oh, what do you mostly use it for? And I was like, honestly, I think, like, learning things mostly. Most of the content that I watch is, like, information or education included. My goodness. Oh, my God. What is this?

[Linus Sebastian]

It's me doing a TikTok dance.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, yeah, this is some.

[Linus Sebastian]

This is some crazy next level crazy Adam intro energy here. Don't worry about it. Yeah, don't overthink it. Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And. And they were like, oh, yeah, I do that too. Like, like for, like, fixing things and whatnot. I was like, oh, yeah, sure. Like, I, I, you know, we were taking apart my washing machine and I just watched some YouTube video of, like a. Of a appliance repair person taking apart the washing machine, and they're like, yeah, except I don't use YouTube for that anymore. And I was like, huh? They're like, Yeah, I use TikTok. The videos are like, faster. Oh, that's weird. To my brain, a person who doesn't use TikTok. But, yeah, I don't know.

[Linus Sebastian]

The children are actually wrong this time.

[Luke Lafreniere]

This was not a. I know.

[Linus Sebastian]

I just mean like the, the Seymour Skinner quote.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

No, it's the children who are wrong.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. This person was similar age to me. But I also, I also understand what you're saying. Yeah, I. I don't know. Both of them are, I think, inherently evil.

[Linus Sebastian]

You have to pick one, though. Which one's ickier.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I think it really comes down to how much you said tos. If it's just tos.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Then I kind of want to say user base.

[Linus Sebastian]

They had it coming.

[Luke Lafreniere]

What? Oh, my God. Just because lying to consumers is like a. Yikes. And it would be, I think, much harder to hide from employees. But if it. If there's like a pop up when you load Instagram that's like, we're stealing everything. The camera is always on please wank then. I mean what you do is your own if you decide to keep using

[Linus Sebastian]

it or it belongs to Mark. Yeah, either way. Either way.

[Luke Lafreniere]

At that point I would be more upset about the employees because I feel like the employees are more trapped in that scenario. And then we come back to the cyclical argument of Instagram creators and blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. But yeah, I think, I don't know, this might be a terrible argument, but I think where I'm going to land on how much of a disclosure there is. And the more of the disclosure, the more I It's not that I'm more okay with it, the more I become less okay with the employee side, if that makes sense.

[Linus Sebastian]

Let's talk about because, sorry, at a

[Luke Lafreniere]

core of the argument, if you tell that to a bunch of employees, there's gonna be a ton of people that cannot leave because their life situation won't allow them to. And if you tell that to users, people could just decide in the moment to uninstall Instagram.

[Linus Sebastian]

So then we both agree that employees is ickier because they're stuck, I think so, in the relationship.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I think so. Unless you're not disclosing it to consumers because then that's such a huge consumer

[Linus Sebastian]

rights violation that like that the employees rights come second. Amazon employees are Token Maxing due to

[Luke Lafreniere]

I'm actually so excited for this topic

[Linus Sebastian]

due to pressure to use AI tools and this is good news because it's just really, really fucking funny. On May 12, the Financial Times reported that Amazon employees are using an internal AI tool to automate non essential tasks. That's important, non essential tasks just to show their managers that they are using AI more frequently. This practice is being called token maxing, which I think is going to take me a while to be able to say with a straight face. This pressure stems from Amazon setting a target this year requiring more than 80% of developers to use AI tools each week, plus internal leaderboards that track each employee's AI token consumption. Employees told the Financial Times that there is, quote, so much pressure to use these tools and that tracking usage creates perverse incentives, which is one of Luke's favorite pet peeves. Amazon said that the stats would not factor into performance reviews, but several employees said that they believed that managers were checking anyway. Amazon has since limited team wide visibility of usage stats so only an employee and their manager can see them and is reportedly discouraging managers from using token consumption as a performance metric at all. Fake news Token maxing has also surfaced At Meta and Microsoft, where Meta's internal AI leaderboard reportedly only lasted days after Gold going public, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said he would be, quote, deeply alarmed if a $500,000 a year engineer wasn't consuming at least a quarter million dollars in tokens annually. Meaning that the entire ecosystem seems to be incentivized for consumption and for it to continue climbing, even if a lot of that token consumption turns out to be performative.

[Luke Lafreniere]

No way, dude.

[Linus Sebastian]

This is a whole, whole new layer to the financial circle jerk that is going on around AI infrastructure building out and AI company valuations. If they're all.

[Luke Lafreniere]

What if we record the circle jerk for training?

[Linus Sebastian]

If they're all just using their own AI tokens and using as many of them as they possibly can to juice their token consumption, to juice the revenues that create the valuations to wholly. Holy crap.

[Luke Lafreniere]

What is going on here from a. From a dev friend in Silicon Valley is that not only are people unnecessarily using it just to make sure that their numbers stay high, some of them are. Some of them are building their own tools that will just automatically use it in order to just sit there and like, token virus, basically, to just consume tokens without them even interacting with anything in order to try to juice their numbers. So they have built bots that just use AI time, which, if you think about the impact of this stuff, is like tons of water, tons of energy, tons of various forms of pollution, massive amounts of expense so that they don't lose their jobs, which is just at a certain level, Dan. Lose them at a certain level. It's. It's just. It's so. It's. It's. Part of me wants to laugh that we've gone from mouse jigglers to auto AI token scripts that just burn your tokens so that you can look good. This arms race of, like, are. Are these people doing their jobs? Is getting crazier. Luke. Oh, man.

[Linus Sebastian]

Luke. There are days when I think everyone, you know, struggles to, like, go into work. I have my days like that.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, sure.

[Linus Sebastian]

Today is a day that I am extremely happy and proud to work at Linus Media Group Incorporated, where this does not exist.

[Luke Lafreniere]

No, next week.

[Linus Sebastian]

No, no. Token leaderboard.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Next week. Next week for sure. Yeah. Crazy. I just thought it was really funny, that guy telling me the story about building a little tool that just consumes tokens.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, I mean, it makes sense. No valuable output because, like, if. If all you're being tracked on is, like, how much you're using AI, because I don't like, like, what is it that they don't have ways of putting together meaningful like quarterly goals and performance metrics? It's just. We're back to. We're back to lines of code.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Luke, this is. Oh, the lines of code argument has come up a lot in AI land because AI enjoyers, some AI enjoyers, a substitute set of AI enjoyers will brag about like, oh, yeah, well, My agents output 37,000 lines of code today. What are you doing, small boy? Look at me. And it's like, is it 37 lines of good code, bro? I don't know. Maybe. Probably not.

[Linus Sebastian]

Wow.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Fun world. Very fun world.

[Linus Sebastian]

Ran a kale Renekel says in floatplane chat it'd be like tracking truckers performance by gas consumed. It's like, yeah, like kind of. It could be a proxy for like them doing stuff, but it also like, definitely couldn't for the ones that just lead foot it or literally just dump gas out onto the gravel in the parking lot because they know that they're going to get a good performance review for doing so. Like, that's the perverse incentive thing.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Put a brick on the pedal and leave it in neutral overnight. Yeah, just.

[Linus Sebastian]

Just send it. Yeah, send it nowhere.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, like it's, it's just obviously bad.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, man.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. And then like, you know, the arms race is just going to continue. So now managers are going to start getting reports like there, I'm. I'm sure there's going to be some way that they can ask the, the, the whatever system they have what this user has been using it for. And then they're going to find that it's a bunch of junk data. So then the other side is going to build more sophisticated context aware waste tools where you are informing the waste tool of what various tasks you have going on at the time. And then it will just research and generate garbage output based on those things

[Linus Sebastian]

and then it will. And then the arms race will get to the point where the tools actually do productive work. Maybe. Just kidding.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah,

[Linus Sebastian]

they'll be so good at hiding the fact that they're not doing anything useful that they will start to do something useful.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Sounds like, Sounds like a lot of corporate life.

[Linus Sebastian]

It sounds like a great short story. Like, yeah, yeah,

[Luke Lafreniere]

yeah, it's. It's wild, man.

[Linus Sebastian]

But hey, here's something cool. On May 4, Boise State announced that a team led by electrical engineering professor Chris Campbell and Pearl Hill Technology CEO Bamidel Omotowa has built a portable device that detects forever chemicals or pfas, in water samples in real time out in the field. The device, called the Environmental Optically Gated Transistor, uses specialized transistors paired with machine learning to detect pfas down to 1 part per trillion, the threshold set by current EPA regulations. Current EPA proof PFAS tests cost about $300 per sample, take weeks and require lab only equipment like liquid chromatography paired with mass spectrometry. The new device aims to do the same job on site, in real time and at competitive prices if scaled. PFAS or per and polyfluoroalkyl substances are a group of over a thousand chemicals found in drinking water, food, cookware and clothing. The most toxic ones are linked to multiple cancers, infertility, developmental delays in infants, and compromised immune systems. The breakthrough started as an accident. In Campbell's lab, undergraduate researchers leaning over microscopes noticed that their breath was causing weird variations in transistor results, which turned out to be the transistors reacting to different chemicals in the air. In methanol tests, the team has hit accuracy rates between 86.7 and 97% depending on the PFAS molecule. The next step is reaching those numbers in real water samples, which have other contaminants that can complicate detection. Our discussion question is do you think a higher awareness of PFAS will lead to stronger regulation around it? I'm going to go ahead and say no because awareness of tooth decay has not led to good decisions around fluoride, for instance. But hey, maybe we'll figure it out.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, I was, I was watching a video a while ago. Somebody testing water around where like hikers would go versus areas that they didn't. I found like massive increases in PFAS content because like a lot of hiking gear is just covered in it.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, Rins Care at Rinkzate says, I thought this whole time was pfas maybe.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, whatever.

[Linus Sebastian]

It's one of those things I've only ever seen written, so there's so much stuff like. Yeah, I read predominantly as my source of media ingestion.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So sorry, I've heard it called PFAS before. I don't know what's correct. I know in Linux. I know it's like the because file system. Whatever, whatever. So it's like fstab. I like calling it fst.

[Linus Sebastian]

Nice.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It just sounds cooler.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, apparently Derek from Veritasium says it the way that I say it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So yeah, I've heard it called PFAS before.

[Linus Sebastian]

Either we're both wrong or we're both right. Yeah, let's go.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I mean, you call it Jif.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. Which is correct. The creator says it's Jif, therefore it's Jif. I mean, it's that simple.

[Luke Lafreniere]

If I. If I create something that's like four A's, and then I say it's pronounced potatoes.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That's fine.

[Linus Sebastian]

That's how it works. I like that. I mean, it's. It's one of those things. It's like. It's like. Like name. Names are like that. Like someone. Someone's name will be like this. This is a story my mom used to tell all the time because she overheard a conversation where this lady with the last name S C R E M I N insisted that her name

[Luke Lafreniere]

was or S C R E M

[Linus Sebastian]

I N S C R. Yeah. Insisted that her name was pronounced Scremin. And like rules of English, it could just as easily be screamin. But she was, like, really mad that someone pronounced it screamin. And my mom just thought it was funny. Like that screamin family, those Screamin kids, you know? Anyway, the point is just that if you have a name that has an ambiguous spelling, you decide how it's pronounced and everyone kind of rolls with it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It.

[Linus Sebastian]

It's true. I mean, look, Ashley Ash le I G H. Are you kidding me? But I have to play along. That's Ashley.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I love the framing of I have to play along with. Arms out. I have been assaulted with this information my whole life. Oh, man. Okay. Anyways, let's move on.

[Linus Sebastian]

I mean, I Battle battler gun in floatplane. Chat says Linus got rejected by Ashley. No, I was rejected by Ashley with an L, E Y. Okay. It was a long time ago and I'm totally over it. You can tell. China's new 800 cycle lithium sulfur battery could nearly double drone flight time. On May 12, a research team at Tsingshua Shenzhen International Graduate School announced a new lithium sulfur battery design that nearly doubles the energy density of current drone batteries. The prototype pouch cell hit an energy density of 549 watt hours per kilo, compared to the under 300 watt hours per kilo that today's commercial drone lithium ion batteries typically deliver. Lithium sulfur batteries have long been viewed as the obvious next generation alternative because sulfur is cheap, abundant, and theoretically stores way more energy than lithium ion. The catch has always been that the chemistry is hard to stabilize during repeated charging. The new design dropped the battery's internal resistance by 75% compared to conventional lithium sulfur designs. And in lab test tests, it ran stably for 800 charge discharge cycles. While still retaining nearly 82% of its original capacity. And our discussion question here is, every few months we get a battery breakthrough that never escapes the lab. What are the odds that this is the real deal?

[Luke Lafreniere]

I'm going to tell a story and then say something. And floating chat beat me to it. But I had the thought before I read it. One is, I remember CES a very, very long time ago. I saw a booth that was talking about battery technology, and they told me all their claims, and I told them, wow, if you guys do this and bring it to market, you'll all be billionaires. And they looked a little bit uncomfortable with that because I'm pretty sure they knew it was never coming to market.

[Linus Sebastian]

Right.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And it never came to market.

[Linus Sebastian]

Right.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I don't remember the name of it or anything, but, like, I was following it for like, a few years afterwards, and it kind of just petered off.

[Linus Sebastian]

Carbon nanotubes.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. And then the other one is. And floatplane got to this for. I did, but again, I thought of it independently. I don't see the message anymore. But war do be great for innovation and drones do be crazy right now. So maybe there's a little bit more potential expectation that there might be some form of battery technology improvement. I'm not surprised at all that they mentioned drones in the text because it is probably very pointedly related at that.

[Linus Sebastian]

I mean, it's never a guarantee, but billions and billions of dollars and national defense being at stake does tend to incentivize certain developments.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Governments around the world have been paying a lot of attention to the, like, just incredible things Ukraine has been doing with drones and are kind of starting to wake up that. That might, you know, all those random people on battlefield strapping C4 to drones and then flying them into tanks and stuff might have made sense in the real world, too. Yeah. Yeah. Interesting.

[Linus Sebastian]

He does know I'm not going to press the button. And you know what I know is it's time for Dan to feed us some comms.

[Dan]

Sure.

[Linus Sebastian]

It's after dark, baby. Hit me. Daniel Besser.

[Dan]

Okay. All right, what do we got? Hi, ldl. My parents are getting remarried soon and I'm going to be the officiant to each other or to Teddy here. Any advice on giving a speech that is genuine and heartfelt without being cliche or sending a weird message?

[Linus Sebastian]

Man, what would I do? So genuine and heartfelt without being cliche. So

[Luke Lafreniere]

what is the context?

[Dan]

Talk about.

[Linus Sebastian]

Talk about the people. I think that's the best way to avoid cliches is make it Specific to the actual people and how you think that they are a great fit for each other. I think that would be my best advice for writing, like a. Like a wedding speech of any sort. You looked like you were going to say something. I thought.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I thought I was going to basically say that. I think it's almost hard to be cliche at a wedding.

[Linus Sebastian]

Really.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I think people might let me look up. Yeah. I don't know. I think weddings are cliche.

[Linus Sebastian]

Interesting. So you would actually even say it's okay to just play it safe. Say the bride has never looked better. The groom is so lucky. You know, just the.

[Luke Lafreniere]

You know, I think all of us probably fine.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. Just stick with the.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I don't think anybody's gonna be bothered by that.

[Linus Sebastian]

Stick with the basics.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It wraps around. I also think talking with the people all, like, everything that you said is. Is great.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. I think that's good advice too, though, because trying to be too creative can hit real hard, but it can also miss super bad.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. So if you're not sure, just fall back on the. Like, these things are obviously good, and it's fine.

[Linus Sebastian]

Schraff 2k says just go. Corinthians. Can't miss quote Ezekiel 23:20. Okay, I gotta know what Ezekiel 23:20 is. This is according to curious bread. Ezekiel 23:20 is one of the most infamously graphic and shocking verses in the Bible. It uses explicit metaphorical language to describe the spiritual unfaithfulness and idolatry of Israel and Judah, comparing their alliances with pagan nations to elicit sexual lust. There she lusted after her lovers whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses. Why did you have that at the ready. For a parent's wedding? Let's move on.

[Dan]

Hey, LLD just bought my first pool for the upcoming summer. Linus, as a pool owner, any maintenance tips for a newbie?

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, don't get a pool. Sorry, too late.

[Dan]

Same here. I would also say the same thing. Also, thank you for the EV Chargers. Bcit will put them to good use. Use as training aids.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. So any maintenance tips for a newbie? Oh, gosh.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Sell it.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you

[Dan]

do not let the chemicals go out of spec. You're gonna spend a lot more money and time getting them reinspect.

[Linus Sebastian]

That's good. That's good. That's good stuff. And when you change the temperature, that totally changes the chemicals, even though you didn't change anything other than the temperature. Watch out for that one.

[Dan]

No glass near the pool.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. Oh, before you get a pool, make sure that you have anyone to share it with you because it costs exactly the same if nobody swims in it as it does if everybody swims in it. Good chat.

[Dan]

Good chat. Thoughts on the specs of the Steam machine?

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, man. I mean, I feel like I've talked about it a fair bit in the LTT videos that we did on it, but I guess we're getting pretty close to potential delivery of this thing, so it's kind of on everyone's mind. Again, I man, it all depends on price. If it comes in at a really reasonable price, which is feeling more and more unlikely, the longer we get it, the further we get into this rampocalypse, then I think that the spec is a really fine target that Valve went for. But if it's really expensive, then that's going to be a really tough pill to swallow because there are benefits of the Steam machine, like being able to wake with cec, having the integration with the dongle for the Steam controller, the super quiet compact form factor. These are all really good things. But, you know, it's always hard for me to recommend something that isn't a great value and so I'm just. I'm gonna have to compare it to a DIY machine no matter. No matter what happens.

[Luke Lafreniere]

There was. There was an article on Vice that I didn't fully read.

[Linus Sebastian]

Nice. Solid.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I just kind of saw the headline. Oh, yeah. I really don't know, but

[Linus Sebastian]

yeah, I hope not.

[Luke Lafreniere]

There was like this thing. So I saw this new update to the source code suggests the machine frame will exceed €1,000.

[Linus Sebastian]

That could be anything.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It really could be anything.

[Linus Sebastian]

That just looks like placeholder values.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It could be.

[Linus Sebastian]

I doubt it. I think that's too high. Yeah, I don't think so.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Hopefully not.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, I doubt it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Hopefully not.

[Dan]

We are a mixed Mac and Windows business environment. Will switching our users to Mac improve our company's overall security posture?

[Linus Sebastian]

Ooh. I think switching everyone one way, one way or the other would hold on possibly be better because you'd have fewer surfaces, but possibly be worse because if anything does go wrong, it hits everybody there. That's my uneducated take.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So, to chat. That sounds like a nightmare. Yeah, we do that.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

We also have Linux machines.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, yeah, we do.

[Dan]

It's bad.

[Linus Sebastian]

We're a shockingly small organization for like,

[Luke Lafreniere]

the complicated nature of everything that we do.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, yeah. We have like everything from, like enterprise equipment in the cloud to enterprise equipment on prem to extremely not enterprise. Yeah, yeah. All of it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yep.

[Dan]

With weird rules. This is a desktop workstation, but I have it under a server rule banner.

[Linus Sebastian]

Right.

[Dan]

So that it doesn't update and I get to choose. And there's like every single little tiny computer that we have around.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. Because different. A small part of Dan's soul goes into a Horcrux every time the WAN show crashes. So he really, like, tries to stay on top of that. Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So are we pretty sure it was. It was mvenc?

[Dan]

Has it been causing problems now? No.

[Luke Lafreniere]

There was the one stream that we did where you're like, oh, I went back to nvenc and that one had a couple problems.

[Linus Sebastian]

Are we on CPU encoding right now?

[Dan]

No, we were for two shows and then I fixed the problem.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, and nvenc? We're on NVENC right now and have

[Dan]

been for the last couple weeks.

[Luke Lafreniere]

What did you do? Do you swap the GPU or something?

[Dan]

No, I just rolled back the drivers until they're like a year out of date.

[Linus Sebastian]

If only we could just air gap this system. Except that we have to stream from it, so.

[Dan]

Well, we could use WI fi.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, yeah. Wait, but that's not air gapping, it is a gap.

[Luke Lafreniere]

He's trying to. Yeah, he's trying to.

[Dan]

I'm just baiting you. Mostly.

[Linus Sebastian]

Luke.

[Dan]

Luke has a real problem.

[Linus Sebastian]

Masterful job, Dan.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I was gonna say he was.

[Linus Sebastian]

It's kind of a bit of both. Masturbator.

[Luke Lafreniere]

If you record and you can use that, you can use that information to train.

[Dan]

Well, I mean, the camera is running all the time. Hey, lld Linus, you mentioned after announcing Smash Champs, you will never do another large scale like that. With your stance on E waste. Would you make a company like. Like free it to keep E waste out?

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, man.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Free it?

[Linus Sebastian]

Like kind of like free geek. I. I think that a potential, like, future era of the media side of our company could be that we run like a free geek, like electronics recycler. I think it would be an incredible mine for content. And I think that if we also, like, were a retailer and you could like, buy systems and stuff, we would never have to search for a reason to build a computer again because we would just have like, customer systems and stuff. We'd never have to search for, you know, a system that needs to be fixed or troubleshot again, because there would just always be a constant flow of them. We wouldn't have to go out looking for cool, weird old tech to make videos about because people would just bring it to us.

[Luke Lafreniere]

How much of that actually turns into content?

[Linus Sebastian]

Though it wouldn't really matter because you could, if you can, build a sustainable, functioning business.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I don't know if you can.

[Linus Sebastian]

I don't know if you can either.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I kind of.

[Linus Sebastian]

I don't know if you can either

[Luke Lafreniere]

question that a lot because the space required versus how much you'd make off that is a really bad relationship.

[Linus Sebastian]

This is true.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And there's a reason why I like universally loved Free Geek.

[Linus Sebastian]

Well, apparently the reasons it died. I actually had a longer chat with Mark from Disappearing Inc. A little while ago.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay.

[Linus Sebastian]

You know, I'm not going to name any of the names that he named or anything like that, but he, he was very close to Free Geek physically and, and also in terms of his relationships. And he made it seem like. Or at least my understanding of it was. I'm hedging a lot here because I don't want to get anybody in trouble. But basically he made me feel like somehow that Free Geek could have survived if not for stuff that was preventable and avoidable. Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay, interesting. Good to know.

[Linus Sebastian]

Free Geek was like.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Was that because of, like, donations and stuff or were they actually making enough from the storefront?

[Linus Sebastian]

I don't want to get into the details, but sure. He made it seem like to me that it could have been workable because you.

[Luke Lafreniere]

You ain't getting donations if you do it.

[Linus Sebastian]

If there was enough will. I mean, I mean, you can set up a separate organization. We could set up a nonprofit.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I just.

[Linus Sebastian]

People would. Would like. Oh, donate to it. I mean, it depends. It's. It would have to. It would have to have its own separate boundaries, which it should. If it's operating as a nonprofit. Like, I wouldn't be able to like, profit from it. Right. So. And I think you'd have to have, like, you'd have to have like. There's a lot of stuff that nonprofits have to do to be compliant. Like, you just have.

[Luke Lafreniere]

People would expect you to solely fund the entire thing.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, they'd expect it, but I wouldn't. I wouldn't be able to.

[Luke Lafreniere]

And then not forever. Like, for that reason, I feel like it would fail.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, I don't know. It's like, it's a, like, it's a funny thing. I have sort of like a weird. I have like a weird way of contributing back to the community. Like, Smash Champs is a for profit business, but it has not made a profit and it might. Might not ever pay back the overall, like, investment in it, but I certainly am like, open to the possibility of it making money and just to be clear, just so that this is not in conflict with things that I've said internally, Smash Champs is not a cash flow drain anymore. But that's only because Smash Champs has a really, really nice landlord that doesn't charge it right rent. Then someday, at the very least, I would like Smash Champs to pay the landlord rent so that there can be some possibility of some kind of repayment of that investment ever. But not, not, not for now. So, like, I could see. I could see something like an LTT Free Geek being kind of like that, where we put in the initial basically go, okay, here's the space. Guess what? Now you have a really nice landlord that doesn't charge you rent, but you're going to have to find a way to make it break even month to month. Aside from that, or something like that. I could see that being a possibility, but if I bought another building, I think my wife would divorce me. We have too much of our total assets in greater Vancouver real estate, which has taken an absolute pummeling in the last couple of years, as you may or may not have noticed. So that's been cool. Which, to be clear, I have. I've been rooting for my entire adult life. I've been like, the crash must come. I just, you know, it feels a

[Luke Lafreniere]

little bit more real over the last few months.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, it's. I can tell you it's fallen. It's very real.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

Like, it's been real for a long time. Just like it's taken a long time for sellers to clue in how real it is.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

And. And adjust their expectations for what they think.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It's necessarily that. But they are becoming more solvent, which is like, sad.

[Linus Sebastian]

Sorry. Which is more solvent.

[Luke Lafreniere]

The sellers, I think they're running out of money.

[Linus Sebastian]

I think they have to move. Less solvent then.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Less solvent.

[Linus Sebastian]

They've reached insolvency like they are. I don't think we're quite using it right, but basically, I don't know, whatever. They're getting desperate.

[Luke Lafreniere]

They're running out of money. There's been the rate at which Canadians have been defaulting and having places get foreclosed and whatnot is like massively ramping because people have been holding out, trying to sell it at higher values and just people aren't buying.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, hi. Josh says slightly less tactfully, all the boomers are realizing their houses aren't worth what they think they are.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yep, that's a. I would like to say it that way, except they were selling it that amount for a really, really, really long Time.

[Linus Sebastian]

It was crazy up here.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. So like they were right, honestly, which sucks.

[Linus Sebastian]

And so there's a lot of like, not boomers that bought in at the peak and it. And, and that really sucks for them because they're. They're underwater now at this point.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

Just gonna kind of look here. I know I talked about this a little while ago, but the number of court ordered sales in here is freaking crazy. Like, I don't know. Here's like a freaking large scale retail and commercial space for. For lease. This is a wait court. Oh, no, this is Court Drive. Okay. No, no. For sale by court order, though. In Kelowna, three acres for sale under court order in court order in Victoria.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It looks like a landmark.

[Linus Sebastian]

Commercial property.

[Dan]

A hundred prison.

[Linus Sebastian]

115, 000 square feet. Look at this thing.

[Dan]

Wow.

[Linus Sebastian]

For sale, court order. 122 parking stalls. You want to move to Victoria, boys? Look at this thing.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Like on the island.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

It'd be sweet.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. We're not moving to the island.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh.

[Linus Sebastian]

Owner, occupier or office investment opportunity. Yeah, it's going to be. It's going to be a pretty Fairmont Le Chateau. 925 acres.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Whoa.

[Linus Sebastian]

Damn.

[Luke Lafreniere]

We can work there.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, I bet you'd like that. Where is, where is this?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Montebello, Quebec.

[Linus Sebastian]

You want to move to Quebec?

[Luke Lafreniere]

If we.

[Linus Sebastian]

You've got the last name for it, then yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, it would be super annoying because everyone's going to speak to me in French.

[Linus Sebastian]

Hello, I am Monsieur Lafreniere.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I don't know how to speak this language. I'm so sorry. And I'll be like, but your last name is French. And be like, I know, know, I know.

[Linus Sebastian]

All right.

[Dan]

Sup, bros and Sparky from the Better Coover, Stop leaking our tax haven. Thanks.

[Linus Sebastian]

Do you.

[Dan]

Do you think intel will start. Start pushing pursuing R D in Hillsborough with the recent SpaceX visit? Or will my bros stay sad sans job?

[Linus Sebastian]

I think Intel's investments into intel fab business are very much like made right now. And wherever they were going to do it is where they're going to do it. However, I do, I do think that that's something that is going to become, as I've said before on the WAN show, I think that Intel's fabrication capabilities are going to become very important geopolitically. I don't know if you all have noticed, but Trump and President Xi are having a summit right now. Or is it a state visit? It's some kind of thing that they're doing right now and Monsieur Z has made it very clear that Taiwan will become a flashpoint between China and the US at some time in the near future, which puts TSMC's situation in a pretty different light compared to even 12 months ago, 18 months ago. And I, I have said before, I think that things are going to be really important. Oh, apparently he flew back today already. Okay. Okay. So it was just over the last couple days that I think Intel's fab business is going to become very important to Western interests. Say that much.

[Dan]

My fiance and I are starting a business together, a cafe downtown. Any suggestions on first time co owned business? We both have complimentary experience but are hesitant on hiring full time staff.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Half.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, it's tough man. You need to be aligned on what your goals are. I think 90% of the fights that Yvonne and I have had about LMG and its related companies have been because we were not aligned on what we wanted to put into it and what we wanted to get out of it. So hopefully you guys have done that. And yes, I would be hesitant on hiring full time staff because a lot of them work out really great, some of them like really don't. And sometimes it's, you know, it's always a spectrum, right? Sometimes it's more your fault and sometimes it's more their fault and, and it can. People are the best part and they're the hardest part.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Pre marriage or common law, you are more stuck with an employee than a

[Linus Sebastian]

partner, which is crazy. But actually like not. Well, it depends. I mean you're somewhere else in BC we have extremely strong worker protections which can be a very good thing and they can be a very challenging thing. They can be, they can be both

[Dan]

of those things keeps me employed. Up next.

[Linus Sebastian]

No, that's not what keeps you employed. Dan.

[Dan]

Hi ll.

[Linus Sebastian]

You don't have the spine to come after me.

[Dan]

Lawyers are very expensive here. Hi LLD. I switched to Linux around 6 months ago and have been getting nervous from all the latest vulnerabilities like Copy fail, Dirty Frag and fragnas. Do you have any security tips for Linux?

[Linus Sebastian]

Don't worry about it too much. Everything is cyclical. Do your updates. Windows has its times when it's in the news for vulnerabilities. So does Apple's software, so does Google software. Don't overthink it. Don't freak out. It's gonna be okay. And install a Russian language pack.

[Dan]

Any joggers coming out anytime soon? I love the pair I bought a while ago but was unable to get another pair because of the demand I

[Linus Sebastian]

don't think there's any on the roadmap right now.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I thought there are some up right now. Am I crazy? Flex pants. Can you.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, the flex pants are actually really great. Yeah. Pick up some flex pants. These are super nice.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I know they, they might not look 100% like it, but they've got the little thing at the bottom. And I think, I think you could have a good time jogging in these. Yeah, these are super only concern. Sorry. LTT store. 29 inch seam length. Yeah, I would, I would also point

[Linus Sebastian]

out LTT store, they're aware and they're working on it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay. They're working on a 32 shorter than the regular.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yep, I know. So they are meant like, you can see the, like the style they have.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay, that's fair. I hadn't considered that before.

[Dan]

Lld why are all the hats so deep? It pushes the tips of my ears down, making me look like Dumbo. Outside of that, I've been loving the many new arrivals recently purchased, especially the new new polo shirts.

[Linus Sebastian]

Interesting. We have two sizes. Did you order the big size? Do you maybe not need the big size? Because like my ears are well clear of the hat by, like, by like an entire finger width on both sides. So that's our LAN hat. Here's another new one. And we, we did specifically do two sizes so that we wouldn't have that problem. Yeah. I'm not sure what to tell you. Maybe we need. Maybe we need more sizes.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Interesting. Yeah, I haven't heard that feedback before.

[Linus Sebastian]

Like, we did have, like, we did have earlier samples that would hit my ears and we, and I'm not the only one we've tried these on. Just to be very clear. It's not like, oh, it works for Linus, therefore it's good for everybody. If anything, we are to Luke's point about the inseam lengths. There's an upcoming pair of bottoms that specifically will not fit me because they use like a more industry standard inseam length and they're like a, like a straight leg. They're going to be the super soft pants. So the matching. The super soft hoodie. We have some pants coming that are like a very Gen Z straight leg fit.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I even, I have short legs for my height and I, I have a trouble with our store some sometimes.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Dan]

Could stick a couple Oreos under the hat and just keep it up off your ear. And then if you get. You have snacks.

[Linus Sebastian]

Terrible advice for later.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Is there like sizing information? Probably. Yep. Yep, there is sizing information on the Hats, the large and the medium circumference and hat size.

[Dan]

Okay.

[Linus Sebastian]

I was.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I was thinking before, like, I don't think I've ever checked, like, that height. I'm not a hat guy, but I've never checked that height on a hat, and it's never been a problem. It's interesting.

[Dan]

Hi, Dan, Linus and Luke. I've been debating for a while on buying a PC Linux handheld. I'm leaning towards the Steam Deck. Should I continue to hold off in hopes of a Steam Deck 2 or just buy one?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Now I'm doing that. Steam Deck 2 probably isn't coming for, like, at least two years, three years maybe. I'm not expecting it anytime soon. I'm holding out because I have a Switch 2 and I'm kind of just deciding I'm not gonna flip it. So I have a Switch 2.

[Linus Sebastian]

So now you're committed.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yep. I'm just gonna run with that for a while, and then when Steam Deck 2 comes out, I'm getting one.

[Dan]

Hey, DLL, what's the most recent piece of tech in your house that generally annoys you every time you use it, but you haven't replaced it because it still technically works?

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, man.

[Dan]

Might be easier to list the stuff that.

[Linus Sebastian]

My light switches. I actually have the box of Innovelli switches in my garage, and I need to just start putting them in every time.

[Dan]

You still haven't done that.

[Linus Sebastian]

One of those switches ticks me off. And yeah, I still have those stupid GE JASCO switches. They need to go, but they technically do turn the lights on and off. But, like, some of them, the little tab to turn them off is, like, broken off of them. And, like, I can't. I can't add them all to our. To the Z wave controller because it just gets too overwhelmed and, like, it's a whole thing. I. Oh, yeah. Yikes. Oh, yeah. Magnetic flux. And chat says printer. Yeah, our printer has all kinds of problems, and I'm gonna make a video about it, but I haven't gotten around to replacing it because I was like, yvonne, can it wait until I make a video? Elijah needs a printer too, so we're gonna go printer shopping for a video. So it's been. It's been, like, months now.

[Luke Lafreniere]

That's funny.

[Linus Sebastian]

And last didn't answer. I don't know.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I don't have a lot of. Like, I have no home automation.

[Dan]

I think it could just be anything. And it didn't necessarily say, how much

[Luke Lafreniere]

tech do I have in my house? I have my computer phone battery.

[Linus Sebastian]

You Complained about your phone battery today, but it technically still works. And anything else like that.

[Luke Lafreniere]

TV's totally fine.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. Now it is.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Don't. Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

Got broke a while ago.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I don't think that was a problem with it, though.

[Linus Sebastian]

No, it really wasn't.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Computer's fine. I think I find. Yeah. My mic interface. I don't think it's an actual problem with the thing. I just haven't bothered to go through the work of like, fixing why it sounds like crap. Because I open the menu and I just go, ah. And then I want to put it away because I don't know what any of the things do. Oh, man. I have. It's not even the device's problem as far as my understanding goes. They're good. But I have a. What is it? Rodecaster duo. My goxlr gave up the ghost. It finally just stopped. So I was like, okay, I gotta get something else. Went for a Rodecaster duo. It's nice to use interface and everything's really good. It looks really nice. Cool. It doesn't do the cool thing that goxlr did when it would boot up, which is genuinely a loss. That sucks.

[Linus Sebastian]

I really wish all the RGB, like LEDs.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. And having the faders just go like it was cool. So it doesn't do any of that. Which is sad. But it also just sounds worse, which I'm fairly certain is a settings thing because I did dial in the goxlr

[Linus Sebastian]

but made it easy to dial in.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I find the Rodecaster does not feel as easy to dial in. And it is probably a, like, user problem. But the user experience on the goxlr felt easier.

[Linus Sebastian]

It guided you through it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah. And you know what? Maybe I skipped a menu or something. I don't remember. I don't feel like I did. Why don't you just get another xlr? They're like, kind of dead. There's. There's some community project that's kind of keeping them alive and stuff. But I didn't want to. To reinvest into a what is effectively end of life product that I can't get support for or any of that kind of stuff.

[Linus Sebastian]

All right, hit me, Mr. Dan.

[Dan]

Last one I got for you tonight.

[Linus Sebastian]

Hey, LDL.

[Dan]

What's been the biggest year over year leap in consumer tech since 2020 outside of AI also iMac G3 colored translucent screwdrivers.

[Linus Sebastian]

When I think the Prismagic colorways are doing pretty well. So we do more colors, but no. No guarantees, no timeline on that Right now.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Most things I can think of Relate to AI in some way. I was, I was going to say like, you know, DLSS style things.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh yeah. DLSS is, relates to AI though. Yes. I've got a couple if you want to think about it.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I didn't. I see it is in full plane chat, but I thought of batteries. Batteries have improved a fair amount, but maybe go for it because those were the only two that first jumped in my head.

[Linus Sebastian]

A couple big ones for me. Tandem OLEDs. Like the first time I saw the iPad Pro with that tandem OLED display, it just flipping blew my mind.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Even just displays in general displays have

[Linus Sebastian]

been moving really fast in ways that maybe we're not appreciating as much right now because they had already had had like a big burst of improvement.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

And then there was like a short lull where they were like, these are like all good enough now and not moving that fast. And then they've been like taking off again. But maybe we're not appreciating this development cycle as much because, you know, the ones from last time are like still pretty darn good. Like it's not like when we went from TN being the norm to like IPS being the norm. Now we're going from IPS, which is like good enough, to like OLED, to like tandem OLED, quantum. OLED, like all these, these, these great incredible technologies. And then my other big one is noise cancellation. Active noise cancellation is like worlds better today in consumer tech products than it was five years ago. Like, like decades better if we compare it to all the advancements before. Actually, I want to see how good it is in commercial products. One of the things that the tech jet gives me an excuse to benchmark is aviation headsets. So I actually asked one of our pilots. I was like, hey, can you give me a list of every good aviation headset brand? And then whichever one, we'll test them because we have a guy who we know who I think would be pretty good at testing something like that and answer a question once and for all for the dozens of people who care who makes the best noise canceling headset.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Because wouldn't you care more for like a Cessna style thing for both. That's way louder.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, they're all super important because the, like the, it's the long exposure that can be, that can be damaging to your hearing. And no matter how in the, in the jet, it's pretty loud. But yes, you're right. Like a prop plane would also be really loud. But maybe we could collab with the, with the airport and be like, hey, are there any pilots that would want to like trials and try some of these? Or would they, Would they take a microphone up with them so that we could get some test audio?

[Luke Lafreniere]

I'd be really interested too. Like, like, you know, DMS's testing versus the anecdotal opinions of the pilots.

[Linus Sebastian]

Ryzen 97969X says the aviation standard is Bose, which I know, but what I want to know is, okay, but what about these upstart companies? Are they quietly, pun intended, better, and everyone just buys Bose because Bose has always been the best, or is Bose still leading the pack? I don't know. And it's been something that I've been curious about ever since I learned that Bose's pedigree was aviation headsets and that technology is what made its way down into consumer products. I don't know if you remember this, but we actually did a video where we rented a plane so that we could do an intro for a noise canceling headset.

[Luke Lafreniere]

No, I don't think I know this.

[Linus Sebastian]

Here, let me see if I can. Let me see if I can find this man. If somebody knows, by all means, let me know because I, I don't actually remember.

[Luke Lafreniere]

While you look.

[Linus Sebastian]

What an intro. Look at this. I'm in a turtle outfit.

[Luke Lafreniere]

While you look. Another one that I think would be

[Linus Sebastian]

like, yeah, we rented a plane so that we could.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Wow, cool plane. You ride on top of the plane.

[Linus Sebastian]

This is actually kind of a cool ad. It's. It's like, it's a show except it's like just travel to Montreal. Montreal's sick. Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Wow.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. So it was, it was. Yeah, it was just so that we could do the intro and then we just stood on the tarmac and. And did the A roll. Neat, right? I don't know. I think it's kind of cool.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I think another thing that's advanced really nicely since 2020 has been like the ability to build things at home with not a tremendous amount of skill and relatively cheaply. So like 3D printing and the derivatives of it at home level tools have been dropping in price and dropping in cnc. Barrier of entry in general.

[Linus Sebastian]

Just everything.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Slicing software has gotten a lot easier to use.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, that's a topic that we didn't touch this week. The whole bamboo.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yes.

[Linus Sebastian]

Prusa.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Don't know a ton about it.

[Linus Sebastian]

Bamboo versus the world situation. Basically the summary version. Sparks notes. Is bamboo bad?

[Luke Lafreniere]

Well, no, I already knew that.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Known that for a while.

[Linus Sebastian]

Okay.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, well, basically that I don't know

[Linus Sebastian]

fully Bamboo more badder or Prusa man mad.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

Proof said justified. Mad.

[Luke Lafreniere]

See, but I thought all of that was already known.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, but.

[Luke Lafreniere]

So the thing that I don't know now is what happened to change

[Linus Sebastian]

Bamboo was going after someone who was doing something with.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Did they sue someone?

[Linus Sebastian]

I don't think they sued them. No.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay.

[Linus Sebastian]

But basically Bamboo. Bamboo not being a good citizen.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Okay.

[Linus Sebastian]

Not being a good open source citizen.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I haven't looked enough into it, but I know like, I think it was like.

[Linus Sebastian]

And being kind of a bully.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Rossman got his hands on some code or something and like.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. It wasn't hard to get his hands on. It was like.

[Luke Lafreniere]

I don't know anything about it.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah.

[Luke Lafreniere]

But yeah, I don't know. I was already kind of in the bamboo bad camp, so it didn't really change anything for me. So I didn't pay much attention to it.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yep. I'm not going to throw away my bamboo printers. I already have, but I don't see myself buying another one.

[Luke Lafreniere]

One. Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

So that's where I'm at. Yeah. I was going to say something. Shoot. I think I. I lost it. Bummer. It was interesting.

[Luke Lafreniere]

There's a cease and desist to the repo owner of Orca Slicer. Then I thought I read somewhere that it was a fork of Orca Slicer that received the season to. But I am not read up on this. So like, I. I don't know. It was a fork. Yeah, it was a fork. Not Orca Slicer. Yeah. So that, that's part of the problem is like I haven't, I haven't dove enough into this to get like the actual for sure things. And I know that there is some. That's not 100% correct, like statements like that it's all a fork. That's the point. I don't know. Whatever.

[Linus Sebastian]

Basically, I don't know what's going on. Bamboo being a bad boy.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

Is. Is the bottom line.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Prusa's got some really cool stuff.

[Linus Sebastian]

They sure do.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

It's not cheap.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Nope.

[Linus Sebastian]

But they actually have some really cool stuff that I'm looking forward to checking out very soon.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Nice.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, we're like, we have someone on the writing team who's like very 3D printing now.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Now. Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

So we've. We've got some pretty cool 3D printed stuff in the, in the hopper right now. And I'm. I'm pretty excited about it. Yeah. He. He appeared in the video about.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Oh, that's crazy. Apparently his own software is a fork of Prusa's yeah, that would be why Prusa's mad.

[Linus Sebastian]

Oh, yeah. Prusa. Big mad. Wow.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Crazy.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah. So Sean worked for all 3DP back in the day, so he's like hardcore. Hardcore 3D printing.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah, I know. He's been in a couple videos talking about. It's cool.

[Linus Sebastian]

Yeah, Looking forward to it. All right. And I'm also looking forward to. I guess that's the end of the show. Hey, thank you guys so much for tuning in. We'll see you again. We hear you on the whole the wan show channel not being a good place for the live show and the clips. It's been a very messy transition.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Yeah.

[Linus Sebastian]

There's precedent for people doing it the everything goes on one channel way. There's also a lot of precedent for people doing it the other way. Luke and I have to schedule a meeting basically to kind of go, okay, do we do yet another channel? And then, like, what, do we move all the clips over? I don't actually know the right answer right now, but we're going to figure it out. And we do hear you guys that you don't want to subscribe to that channel as long as there's clips if all you're really interested in is the live show show. So, yeah, good to know.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Kind of tough.

[Linus Sebastian]

See you next week. Well, I don't know. It might be a different time. Okay. Same bad time, same bad ch.

[Luke Lafreniere]

Bye, Sam.