The WAN Show - YouTube Killed Shorts - WAN Show April 17, 2026

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but what there will be is talking about how YouTube has yielded and finally is allowing not just kids, but all users to limit their YouTube shorts to zero minutes, which is pretty flipping incredible. Another incredible piece of news, I don't know if this really falls in with our positive news, WAN show thing, we've got going on for the month of April, but it's certainly hilarious.

Struggling shoe retailer, Allbirds, has made a bizarre pivot from shoes to AI, which has caused their stock to absolutely explode in value. I don't know if that's a good news, my own show topic. It's funny. Fair enough. Good enough. Fair enough. California bill would require long-term support for server-connected games.

Cool. That's freaking awesome. At least it seems on the surface. Yeah. Other than that, I don't know. I'm going to go with this one. DaVinci Resolve 21 is now a lightroom alternative with raw editing, tethering, masking, and more, which is great because it's free. This is so cool.

That's great. The show is brought to today by Zero Bounce, AMD, MSI, and Square, alongside our rap partner Dbrand, our laptop partner, Razor, and our chair partner also Razor. Why don't we jump right into our headline topic today, which is that YouTube is now allowing you to hide short. So if you're the type of person who just plain doesn't enjoy them and doesn't want to see them, or if you're the type of person who's on completely the other end of the spectrum and enjoys them too much and wants tools to help you with yourself control, YouTube has is moving in the right direction. Yeah, because I don't think what they're doing hides short. I think saying it hides shorts is actually just incorrect.

Is it not? So it seems a little complicated. I haven't done it. Depending on the coverage I've seen of it, either it sounds like shorts will still appear within the interface, but they will be treated like regular videos rather than just allowing you to swipe endlessly. I have a hard time believing that too. Or it sounds like if you set it to zero minutes and then actually fully, like close the app

and reopen it, they should just be just be. Maybe people didn't reload their app. So what I'm thinking is, hey, fuck it. We'll do it live. Yeah. So I like it. Let's pop over. Let's pop over onto here.

I'm going to fire up my YouTube app. I've got, yep, okay, cool. I'm on my account with premium here. So instructions. Where do I go? I go into... Show the camera a little bit more. Yeah, well, I'm trying to be careful just in case something incriminating comes up.

That makes sense. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Linus watches Spider-Man and Elsa. content. What is it? How did you know? Can't show that to the camera.

Okay, you might have to actually find instructions because I thought this would be really straightforward. I don't actually see it. Purchases of membership's guy. Oh, time management. There should be a shorts feed limit menu. Okay, I got it. So I'm here in time management.

And then all I got to do is go to my daily limits, short speed limit, and... Um... Mine is still 15 minutes. Well, what the... What the crap? Okay, I'm going to close the app. Do you need to update the app, maybe? I mean...

This wouldn't be the first time that I've run into issues where foldable devices do not necessarily get the best version of the app. Let me get it installed just in case. Daily limits. Nope.

All right. Well, good news, everyone. As long as you're not me, then you may have the option to limit your shorts to zero minutes. Wow. That blows. Okay, how's it going for chat?

I'm updating and checking mine. Rocket Man 619 says, I'm doing it on mine. I don't see the option either. Nullifier says, isn't there on my graphene pixel. Crystals got it, though. Okay.

Mine is at zero. So... How does it behave, though? Headline says not me on latest iOS. I don't have the option. It worked for me, says Blake Mavericks on a Pixel 10 Pro XL. So it looks like it depends. So a lot of people are speculating that this might be a regional update,

but I suspect less than being regional, it's probably just a slow rollout, because when you operate at the kind of scale that Google does, you do percentage rollouts for sure. You do not roll something out to 100% of you. users all at once because you never know what something might break and it's way better to break 3% of your users than 10% of them, then 20% of them versus just immediately breaking 100% of them. It gives you a lot more flexibility to stop the slow roll that you're doing versus

like trying to take C's back C's a catastrophic global rollout. So unfortunately, we don't get to try it today unless of course Luke's works. Nope. It did not. Nope. Dan? Did you try it? Oh yeah? Oh, you got your phone right there. Yeah. All right, cool. He's mute today, I suppose. No, it's not working. Dan doesn't talk anymore. You know what? I like it better this way. No, forget it. No, I'm good. Oh. No, I'm, no. Why did you attack him?

Yeah, why did you laugh out at him? All right, thanks, Dan. he's saying he has too many buttons and he just accidentally press the wrong button because he has too many buttons. There's so many things to do. All right, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, either way,

either way, I look forward to this being rolled out to me because I just don't want to see many shorts. If it actually works, I look forward to as well. While I don't necessarily know how useful this is going to be for people who find themselves quite addicted to doom scrolling and quite addicted to shorts because I don't know if you've ever set a time limit on an app in your phone, how easy it is to just say, add more time.

That's why I just uninstall them now. I also found that that was the only thing that worked for me. It worked for a long time because I just didn't do the bypass. And then there was, I think I was using YouTube for work reasons and bypass the timer. And then you get the brainworm of like, that was easy. It was. It didn't hurt at all. And then it's like, oh, no, they just have to be uninstalled now.

You know what was really nice for me? Do you remember I was talking? Did we talk about it on WAN show how Reddit got rid of R slash all? Oh, no, I don't use it enough to notice. Okay, well, Reddit got rid of R slash all for reasons that the sort of, you know, community conspiracy theorists seem to believe. Well, the homepage is more algorithmic, whereas R slash all was just top surfaced topics. from all subreddits. Okay, so now the homepage is like curated for you.

Mm-hmm. So the prevailing theory is that it's to get you more algorithmically hooked and siloed and deliver more personalized content to you rather than just have a convenient, no sign-in required spot that you can go and just check what the top upvoted stuff is today. And it has actually been a blessing in disguise because I was spending a little bit too much time just like browsing stuff on Reddit and them removing R slash all has pretty much completely killed my habit. Nobody tell them.

Yeah, I'm actually very, very thankful. Don't tell them. Good job. Good job Reddit. I have probably cut my time on your site by about 90% because I'll just check on, you know, what's going on in our most relevant subreddit. I also quite like Wall Street Betts just because I find their, I find their attitude delightful. Yeah.

I enjoy a good loss porn as much as anybody else does. Is this loss? Is this loss? It can be. Sometimes it is. I'll check, I'll check like the LTT subreddit, see how Lucas's posts are doing. So people's comments on them are. Hey, why don't we jump right into that?

Sure. In yet another, what is becoming a common LTT Labs win. Yeah. Lucas uploaded an awesome article this week here. you want to find the topic, I'll, I'll load it up on the site. Sure, yeah, I'll read what the notes are. I'm interested. I don't know if, yeah, Lucas didn't write this.

Okay, so in a new article from LTT Labs this week, we examine testing for minimum display brightness, something that's becoming a selling point with a variety of different brands. It's not part of our current test suite when we're, like, reviewing phones or anything, but we are equipped to test down to fractions of a knit. So we tested a half dozen common phones and found that they were all capable of impressingly low brightness, dimness, whatever you want to call it, of a single knit or less. We found that one of the phones tested was able to get down to just thousands of a knit. And if you want to learn more about our test equipment, the process, see the results,

all that kind of stuff, go to the article. It's on LTT Labs.com. You can navigate to LTT Labs.com. And then it's just in the sidebar. If you want to see all the articles that come out, it's in the sidebar. If you want a feed of them, there's a variety of different feed options. for getting notified about them, or they also get posted sometimes. Lucas generally posts them to the Reddit, to like the LTT subreddit,

but some other people post them on other subreddits around the Reddit and the internet's and all those fun things. But yeah, check it out. We're trying to do cool stuff over there. Yeah, that's really cool. I mean, I don't know about you, but really low minimum brightness is an absolute game changer for me in terms of like my wind down late at night. I like to have all my lights down. It makes sense. It's light emission from devices. It's supposed to be bad for your brain trying

to fall asleep, right? So if you lower it. Your circadian rhythms get kind of mucked up from from light supposedly. Look, I'm not going to make any kinds of health claims with respect to I know this for sure. It is, it is definitely a fact. We personally actually ran a peer-reviewed study of 400,000 people and their sleeping patterns for two decades and know this for sure. This is a health podcast. We are experts and scientists. Okay. For anyone listening right now, I was furiously mashing the doesn't know button.

So everything that he just said was completely nullified by that. I just want to make sure I get out there. Yeah, as Nokey said as well, every single one of those test subjects, only ever have used Firefox. They've actually never used Chrome. Never used Edge. They would install Firefox off of like USB drives. They might not use Edge, but do they edge?

When using Firefox, yes. Okay. That makes sense. Using Firefox can be very exciting. Yes. Anywho, was that, was that it for that topic? I think so. We're just kind of pointing people there.

We can talk. We can talk about the article if we want, but I also think it's just like, you know, go give it a read. Yeah, go give it a read. Okay, I'll spoil one thing. I'll spoil one thing. With a certain combination of settings, it was the latest iPhone that was able to reach a thousandth of a knit. And actually, I learned something reading that article because I already knew about some of the tweaks that you can use to push the display brightness even lower. But I didn't know about all of them.

And so mine and Yvonne's like wind down is we'll sit and play wordscapes in bed sometimes. And I honestly it doesn't work for me as well as it does for her. But like if we play wordscapes in bed, she's usually snoring within about like four minutes afterwards. So we'll sit and we'll play like a few rounds of wordscapes. And having it any higher than absolute minimum, she's on an iPhone right now. And then also turning down the like white point, there's like a white point setting and accessibility. it's just like a it's just a stupid word jumble

okay yeah yeah yeah it has really obnoxious ads I'm not recommending it I play the every once in a while we'll we'll we'll dabble with we use one phone and collaboratively play the New York Times games

like wordle and all that kind of stuff Crystal apparently tested the time limit um new time limit doesn't hide them just gives you a limit that you can immediately bypass.

Yeah, so I'm just not going to have the app installed still. Well, I guess because it's like a Google device, it's still installed, but it's disabled. Here, let's see. Okay, so there's a short. There's a short. If I click it, you've reached your limit. So when you go to scroll, it says you've reached your limit, and there's just a big glowing button. You can press to watch them anyways.

Yeah, so they didn't do Jack. that is that is useless but it's good news wancho so on to more things and you can also just not have it installed alright so that works

cool oh wait Talon says no it actually worked for me it's not showing shorts inconsistent okay Talon Crystal can you

screenshot the app and restart it potentially even restart your entire phone and yeah no hold on Hunter Doss says my app shows no shorts interesting because not showing the short would be enough.

Yeah, that would be huge. Yeah, if it's not like, if it's not like just enticing you, you know? Yeah. Okay. Mine shows zero shorts. There's a number of people saying that it shows zero shorts. I'm choosing to be cautiously optimistic. I like it.

Not because I think Google suddenly developed a conscience, but because I think that the recent ruling determining that they had created their apps intentionally in a way that harms the development of miners, We talked about that either one or two weeks ago, maybe pushing them to swing the pendulum back the other way a little bit in terms of how aggressively attention-sucking their app design is. And we should be encouraging of anything they do in this direction, no matter what incentivize them to ultimately move this way. Yeah. If it behaves the way it did in Crystal Screen Capture, then I don't care about it at all. but if it isn't showing shorts, then that's fantastic.

And if you, like, click a link to a short and it opens up in the YouTube chat, in the YouTube app, and then you decide to scroll, I don't know, whatever. If it then warns you like, hey, you're out of time, you set your time limit to zero, and you decide to bypass. At that point of time, you've done so many things to go around the setting. Like, you know, I think that's fine. We have to be accountable for our choices. Yeah, exactly.

So, like, I don't expect them to go, like, way above and beyond. But if you say, hey, I don't want shorts, it shouldn't advertise them to you. It should actually stop there. In other good news. It removes it from the main feed, but you can see it in a creator's channel if you go there.

I mean, I think that's fair. I think that's also fine. I think that's fine. Yeah. In other good news, DaVinci Resolve 21 is now a lightroom alternative. Raw editing, tethering, masking, and more.

Black Magic Design announced this at NABT. 26 and the biggest surprise is the dedicated photo page that turns Hollywood's go-to color grading suite into a direct lightroom competitor. The update supports raw files from Canon, Sony, Nikon, and Fuji film and brings Resolves node-based color tools to still images for the first time. The photo tool includes album management with ratings and filters, AI Magic Mask for one-click subject selection, AI Ultra-sharpen for upscaling, tethered shooting with Sony and Canon cameras, and the ability to import existing Lightroom catalogs.

Most of the photo page features are included in the free version, only AI Magic Mask and Film Look Creator require the $2995 one-time studio upgrade. One-time! One-time! One-time! That's so good. One-time is no problem. Black magic, dude. They don't do everything right. but they are pretty based while they do some things wrong and most things right. And that's okay. And that's okay.

And they've been winning with Da Vinci for a long time. I've had a number of conversations with people in the video creative space that are talking about how like, and I think I've talked about this on Wynchow a couple times, but the kids coming out of school are all using DaVinci. Oh, yeah. So like the industry is shifting. Oh, yeah. Pretty heavily right now.

And why shouldn't they? For context here, Adobe charges. $10 a month for Lightroom, which adds up to $120 a year with no end in sight. And that's just Lightroom. And with the way that Adobe is going, no realistic future where that's going to become cheaper rather than more expensive. DaVinci Resolves free version now covers most of what Lightroom does, and the full studio license is a one-time purchase that never expires. For hybrid photo and video shooters, having everything in one app with matching color tools across stills and footage is a genuine workflow.

game changer and I man I'm I'm almost afraid to say it but it feels like finally we're getting to the point where maybe Adobe is going to have to start to acknowledge that they have competition like do I go to do I go to our production team and basically say like okay hey are we getting close now I have asked it was four for it was four almost five years ago I think that I did that video where I the thumbnails like me holding out all the money and I'm like I'm like I pay $10,000 a month to Adobe. Dude, yeah, if I remember correctly, it's like more than a full-time employee

you're paying to Adobe a year. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's not like I'm getting a full-time employee's worth of, like, attention from Adobe, that's for sure. Hold on, let me see if I can find this, Linus, Adobe. But-but-da-bub-but-but-but.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, here it is. And you can see how many people this message resonated with, like 4.7 million views. Why do I pay Adobe 10,000? Oh, was it a year back then? Yeah. Pretty sure you spend a lot more than that.

It's a lot more than that now. Sorry, it's not $100,000 a year, but I think it's, is it closer to like $60 now or something like that? I think it's around there or above. I don't remember. When we did, how does LMG spend money? I remember it being either number one or number two for the software solutions that we pay the most for right now. It's very highly up there. Yeah, freaking.

And that's U.S. dollars, if I recall correctly. So it's pretty yucky. Ah, the number I've seen might be CAD. Okay, so that would be like a 40% uplift on yours. Yeah. Either way, it's a butt ton. It's crazy. It's a ton that's so big, I don't even know if it would fit in your butt anymore.

It's a greater than, greater than butt ton. Depends the denomination, I think. Oh, yeah, right. That would make a big difference. $100 bills would be a much bigger butt ton than fives. Mm-hmm. Anyway, Petricor Imperial asks the chat. Not the point.

The point is I'm always going to root for a disruptor coming in and making life more difficult for a monopoly or a de facto monopoly, especially one that I frankly feel has abused their position. I think so. I'm not the only one who feels that way. Adobe recently had to settle that thing around their billing practices. and I still remember how outraged I was when I found out that you can't just, like they treat it like signing a contract with them, every seat that you add to your organization, absolutely ludicrous.

And I think they might have changed some of those practices now, but not until they were forced to. Yeah, hiding fees, preventing customers from easily canceling software subscriptions. It's like, don't you have enough money? Like, can't you just have the customers who willingly pay you? Like, that's, that's mafia. a shit, you know?

I'm getting the number. Oh, it doesn't matter that much. It's fine. It's more than 10,000, less than 100,000. I think that's a fine enough sort of nebulous spot to leave it. Sure. All right. We're still moving. What are we doing?

That just says headline topic, Dan. We finished the headline topic like 15 minutes ago. He's going to put up two more topics. He's just going to make us, yeah. You guys can't see it. But he just put up a sign that just Ross says more topics. Oh, that's pretty good. Yeah, it seems right to me.

It seems totally right to me. Wow. Wow. Well, wow. Forget it. I don't even want your cue cards. I'm over it. I think they're very informative. Let's talk about a California bill that will require long-term support for server-connected game.

Stop Killing Games is backing California bill AB 1921 introduced by state assembly member Chris Ward and expected to be up for debate in the assembly soon TM. The Protect Our Games Act proposes new regulations that would apply to digital games released after December 1st, 2026. I don't like it, but I do understand it. Yeah, I know, I get that. I get it. I get that. There's an entire epoch of games that could end up lost because this will only go into effect for new games going forward. But I understand why you can't just change the rules midstream after companies have already...

This will still be changing the rules midstream for some people. Yes, but I get it. At least they get a little bit of a heads up. Under the act, digital game operators would be required to provide 60 days notice before they shut down. any services or servers that are necessary for the ordinary use of the game. They must provide details about which features will stop working. They must explain how the user can continue to play the game after the shutdown and warn of any security issues that might arise from the shutdown.

Notice would need to be provided both in-game and on the operator's website. And as originally written, the game operator would also have been required to seize sales and distribution of the game at the 60-day notice, but this has since been changed. to the shutdown date as the bill has worked its way through reviews, which I actually, I think I kind of get because if for whatever reason you're still able to use it in some way afterward, then if I was like, oh, that sounds pretty good, I want to buy it. I wouldn't want to be prevented from doing that. It should be my choice if I want to buy it or not. Sure. I could see making a warning mandatory, hey, this game is shutting down on this day, these are going to be the changes.

But just telling me I'm not allowed to buy it, I mean, that seems like it's punishing me. I can even think of certain games like a Titanfall to, I don't think, I think there's a community server mod, but I don't think it naturally had community servers on launch. I could be wrong about this. I don't really remember.

But it costs like $4 now when it's on sale, and it's like always on sale. I would highly recommend people buy it for the single player. And if the multiplayer doesn't work, like, whatever, like it's still worth buying the game. So, like, yeah, as long as there is some flag, like, by the way, the multiplayer doesn't work anymore. If you want to make that decision, I think that's still fine.

It's 40 Canadian dollars right now. Yeah, it's just on sale, like, practically all the time. Yeah, only buy it on sale, for sure. Yeah, it goes on, like, 90% off sales all the time. So I'll just wait for one of those. Yeah. Starting on the shutdown date, the operator would be required, to provide purchasers with at least one of

a new version of the game that can be used without the operator services based a patch for the existing version of the game that works without the operator services fantastic based a full refund of the purchase price that also works that also works I don't prefer that one but it works what this does is it gives companies an out if they're in an absolutely desperate situation.

Can't do the previous two for some weird legal reason or whatever else. Or for cost reasons. Sometimes that might not be practical. What was that, what was that Sony game? Concord? Or was that the one? I mean,

that's one of the games of all time. The enormous game that they had that they shut down after like a couple of weeks. One of them. I feel like they did it to more than one, but that is one of them. Yeah. So like for a game like that where the entire problem with the game, is that they've poured all this money into it,

and then practically no one bought it, it may actually make more sense. Because practically no one bought it. For them to just issue like a few tens of thousands of dollars of refunds or even a few hundred grand worth of refunds and basically just go, okay, forget it. We just, we put this in the dustbin of history. But in that case, we're talking about a game

where there's not going to be nearly the same degree of like, loss of shared experience and lost of gaming history necessarily compared to something that people played for many, many, many years and then just, you know, is turned off and can no longer be accessed. Yeah, because there's still, there is still loss, but not the same scale, I guess. It's scale of loss. Importance. And so, and so having that, having that, that pole, that pole cord that they can basically just go, okay, for whatever reason, we cannot do this. If it is, because no, I don't think any company would want to choose to refund every copy of a game they ever sold. Yeah.

Like if you were to tell Rockstar, you know, yeah, GTA 5, you can do a new version of the game that can be used without your services, a patch for the existing version, so it'll work without your services, or a full refund of the purchase price. Which one you think they're going to pick? This is also like, just as a note, this is long-term support. I don't think this is necessarily forever support. Of course there are exceptions. These new rules would not apply to subscription-based services that are clearly advertised as only offering access to a game for the duration of the subscription. So something like, wow, would not be covered by this. MMOs in general.

It does not apply to free games. And this is where things get a little bit hazy for me. Because if you've spent $300 on, say, for example, leagues can. skins. Sure, one skin, okay. Are, yeah. Is that a free game? Yeah.

Exactly. Yeah, a lot of free games, people spend more money on the paid games. Yeah. Yeah. So I'd be interested, as this makes its way through the drafting process, I would be interested to see how they're going to tackle that. And then the third one is that games that the seller can't revoke access to after the sale.

Deems that the seller can't revoke access to after the I'm not quite sure what that means, but the first two were pretty clear. I don't know what that means for games that require server connected. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, so maybe that's just for games where it wouldn't be relevant. In other Stop Killing Games news, the EU Parliament held an introductory hearing yesterday on the European Citizens Initiative,

Stop Destroying Video Games. Organizers were able to present their initiative to Parliament, but a parliamentary response is not expected to come before July. You can find video of the hearing on the European Parliament YouTube channel. This is far more momentum than I expected stop killing games to get. Oh, yeah. I'm impressed. Yeah.

On the one hand, you know, maybe my pessimism was partly rooted in a belief that there are really important other things. things that the world kind of needs to deal with other than like video games and stuff. And maybe I just, even though it's something that's very near and dear to me, I expected, you know, stuffy, octogenarian lawmakers to just look at the whole games thing as just video games and not care about it. But then on the other hand, there's enormous amounts of money at play. There's a lot of money at play. Art is important. And I think I think there's different people that do different things. There's different people that have

different expertise and you can do more than one thing at once. Yeah. No, he says, and all it took was for one guy to speak out against the movement. That's what popularized it. I don't think it's that simple, although it did definitely... I do think it had a pretty big impact. It definitely did shine a lot of light

on the movement. Speaking of big impact, against your will, I got the numbers. Oh, okay. So it's before tax, $62,000 for Creative Cloud, just Creative Cloud, and before tax. And then before tax, just for Adobe Acrobat Pro, it's $4,500. So why the fuck do we need Adobe Acrobat Pro? And why do we need $4,500 worth of it for a year? Who's doing PDFs?

I know we get PDFs signed. I'm anti-PDF files. Both of them. Hey, that shouldn't be a controversial statement. We do get PDF signed, though. I think it's very convenient to have like the cloud version of PDF signs. K. Is it convenient enough to be $4,500 a year?

I don't know. I don't know what people use them for. I don't use it. I mean, if it's an alternative to like facts, then I suppose. I haven't used Adobe Acrobat in a long time. Yeah. Okay. I've recently been using only office.

It's pretty easy. Right. Seems fine. It's free. Is that that website where you just go and it's pictures of people in suits? Mm-hmm. No, it seems to be like... That was Canadian dollars, by the way.

The, like, Linux bro open source thing that isn't Libra office. There's like both of those exist. People in chat are saying Libra Office. Someone said some other thing up above. I don't know where I saw it. I don't remember what it was called, but there's like, there's lots of options for PDFs.

You can sign PDFs with the free version. I think people at work have, yeah, PDF dash exchange. I've never heard of that, but a few people are saying that. I don't know why we have the pro one. I suspect it's for the, you can email someone,

the link, and then they can sign it digitally in their browser, and it gets like receipts for everything in both directions and stuff. And it's just, I will admit, it's very professional. I would have to guess that that's probably the business team that uses that or accounting. Business accounting and HR for like getting people hired and signing employee contracts and stuff like that. Yeah, $4,500 to like seem professional to people that you do outreach to in those contacts probably.

It might matter. Probably, maybe possibly makes sense. I suspect one of the reasons why it might be so expensive is we probably have a bunch of dead subscriptions. Because they do, they do the seat thing, right? It's supposed to be good news when show. You're not allowed to talk about that. Well, the good news could be that we might get away from that. Hey, you might maybe possibly save money.

That's a reach. Good news. That's a reach, Luke. Good news. It's a reach. Good news, everyone. Another good news. Okay, Dan, I apologize for what I did before.

Can I please have them back? Thank you. All right, we're supposed to do the CW announcement. This week, we've got, oh, Lordy, I scrolled too far. We're hiring. We've got a few open roles on our site, including a junior fashion designer and a purchasing manager, both for creator warehouse,

as well as a contract role in inventory and warehouse management based out of Atlanta, Georgia. If you think you'd be a good fit for these roles, we want to hear from you. Head over to Linusmediagroup.com slash careers to apply. Yay. This week's product launch has the variety and has quite the...

You know what? This week's product launch is pretty exciting for me personally. This is something pretty different from what we've done in the past. If you love motorsports, the Moto T is for you. I'm gonna...

What are you doing over there? You shopping for Adobe subscriptions? I saw those Adobe subscriptions. You're supposed to be going to LTT store. Oh. This show is such a disaster. Oh, look, it's really cool. If you love motorsports, the Moto T is for you.

It's a race-inspired jersey, but instead of sponsored patches, they are tech-inspired patches and 3D puff prints. It's designed on a 100% cotton top, so it's breathable and feels premium, and you can get yours at lmg.g.g-g-g-modot-tie. very very different kind of design from what we've done in the past super cool the pink and green is obviously inspired by the old lambo color scheme isn't that cool that's a cool photo yeah i know right of course you should never ride your motorcycle without a layer over top of a cotton tea or long

sleeve like this but hey you can you can still look the part when you are not actually on your bike that's a great should is that just a actually her bike. Did they actually bring Natalie's bike into the studio? It looks like maybe. Oh my gosh. That's pretty sick. Uh, cool. Okay. Next up is, uh, that's a great shot. Sweet. Next up is the shirt that Luke is wearing. If you're a frequent viewer of the WAN show, you might recognize this character, Sir, Ability to Ken. Oh, wow. He's everywhere. He disappears whenever something really ridiculous happens and I can't anymore or I lose my ability to can. He's super cute. It's a, it's bleach printed so it has kind of this vintage washed look and is

very crack resistant and you can get yours at lmg.gg slash ability to can. Do you want to show the back of it? Luke's actually wearing this shirt right now. There you go. Missing Sir ability to can. It's a bird. Don't worry about it. It's more of just like a, uh, a Wandshow and Side Joke, but it's also kind of a cute, fun shirt design. Pay Linus for making puns? Pretty much, I mean, yeah. I mean, it wouldn't be the first time.

Last but not least, for those who just want something basic, we have our blank baseball cap. It's the same design as our LTT had, is adjustable, doesn't have the top smarty or button, whatever you want to call it. So are you going to, he's going to bring it up,

he's working on it, he's working on it. There we go. No, no. Is it missing? LMG slash blank cap. Oh, there we go. It's adjustable and it's in medium and large sizes. It doesn't have the top smarty, so if you ever, like, you know, bump it on anything,

you won't have that to deal with. It's really comfortable. And it's now available in Black and Kangaroo. You can shop now at LMG.G slash blank cap. And this is one of yet another products that is coming into the LTT store with Creator Warehouse branding. that could ultimately, hey, if you're another creator out there

and you're looking for branded apparel opportunities, be rebranded to something else. Ooh, interesting. Anywho, if you're looking for a good reason to send in an order to LTD Store, as always, the best way to do so is to, wait, when we're live, oh man, my brain is so fried today. When we're alive, go to the store, go to a product,

find the one you want, click Add to Cart. Then this little thing will show up. This is the easiest way to do it, but you could also just click on this. And then this box will be here, probably looking like that. And you can click this little checkbox and be like, oh, I want to say something. You can make your name anonymous or not. And then you can be like, whoa, car shirt, cool. Thanks, man, smiley face.

And then change your color because you feel like doing that. opt in for email communications because you're like, by the way, where my order, screwdriver, no show up. Please help. Thanks. And then the customer support people can message you because you did this thing. And then you check out and then it shows up on the stream. Thanks. All right.

It goes to producer Dan, who will either show it up on the stream or reply to it or he will curate it for me and Luke to respond to. We feel this is way better than just people throwing their money at their screen. and then hoping something good will happen. We like you to get high-quality merchandise in the mail instead. Or in addition to, Dan, do you want to show them what a curated checkout message looks like? Did I call it a merch message? Yeah, I know you're not saying anything because you're in the same room as me, Dan. Am I allowed to say things yet?

Yes, of course. Fine. Hey, LLD, but mostly Luke, everyone else can answer, I guess. What is your favorite version of boy kibble? Simple carb plus high protein other than just chicken and rice. Oh, well. It's already real. Actual actual kibble.

I know I know people that go really hard. They'll make, they'll make like a ground beef mixed with like egg and maybe some, maybe some spice. And that'll be like the predominant portion of their meals for a week. They'll just make one big troughed of like. meat. Something I've been going for lately is sticking with the chicken or or potentially having or potentially having steak instead, but try to make that more rare, I find.

Oh, right. And cook it less. Oh, my God. I didn't mean that. But, you know, don't overcook it either. Whatever you do, don't make the chicken rare. Yeah, I don't do that. But then I've been mixing the other things up.

so go for like a sweet potato instead of rice or or instead of broccoli, do like cauliflower or spinach or kale or something else and just keep changing things up a little bit. I have heard that if you just eat the same thing all the time and it's really boring, that it can act as an appetite suppressant. So if you're trying to lose weight, maybe that works. Maybe it doesn't. I don't know. contrary to what I said earlier in the show,

not a scientist, not a doctor. But yeah, I've been mixing up the carbs that are included, basically, but keeping the proteins pretty basic. Yeah. Yeah. Hopefully that's an answer. Nipolis Cage in Floatplane Chat asked us to make the hat that Jay wears in Jay and Silent Bob.

It's a baseball cap without a brim and literally no one sells one. Sell me one. I, are you sure, are you sure we need this? Wait, really? There's no brim? Yeah, I never noticed it. I think I always just thought it was on backwards. Yeah.

Wait, what? Yeah, no, this is the seat of the, this is the car seat behind him. There's no prim on it. How did I never notice that? Oh my God. That's just a beanie, say people. I thought, I thought this is what Americans call a, Beanie.

Yeah. Like, no, that had like the, this is a, this is a baseball cap. Line things in it. I don't know what you want to call it.

Yeah, but without a brims. It has the seams and everything. Scrappy DP says we do not want that. I don't think anyone does. We want a double brim hat too, says Minji. No, you don't. You are so lying.

You do not want a double brim hat. That is not a thing you want. All right, Dan, hit us with another. checkout message. Hey, L-L-N-D for the same price. Oh my god, hold on. There's a there's a whole company that sells them. Of course there is. No, no brim co. Oh my god. That kind of has a brim though. It does. It really does. Yeah, it has like a closed-up brim. Do they sell this squeasy jibs one too? Original no brim, brimless hats. What about the long brim? I saw a long brim on there.

Wait, long brim. It was somewhere. What was on their home? I think you made it up. might have been the previous one. I think you're a liar. Yeah, anyways, that's funky. Speaking of funky hats, I searched

for double brim trying to find what I think, you know, obviously would have been, you know, one in the front or one in the back, but instead I found this. That's the one. I saw it on your screen. That's the squeezy jibs. Super brim, dude. I love how the dude

wearing the hat just looks completely normal. Yeah. I don't think that's this hat. There's no way that that's this hat. I was actually working on my notes for the Megany X 8K

VR headset. And I know it's one of those things that doesn't really affect your ability to make a good quality product, but bad, or not even necessarily bad, but like

clear fake product photography just really puts me off of something. And this is a classic example. Where is she? Where'd she go?

Dang it! Okay. Well, oh, here she is. She is not wearing that headset. At all. Like, look at this. this is somebody tried a little bit though

this is the fakesest she's not wearing the headset this is not even a picture this is a render of the headset on her face and it gets worse they put a little shadow on there it gets worse oh no here it is this is the exact same photo you can tell from the pixels of the hair that this is exactly the same photo

he inspected the pixels you can see it in the you can see it in like little flyaways and stuff. He's a pixel scientist. That it's the same picture. Just with the, like, and here's the same picture three times. Three times the same picture on one page. Hold, hold on, two more times the same picture.

Well. Come on, man. Come on. It just, ah, it feels so, it feels so low quality. I, uh, I don't, I don't, I don't like that. I haven't actually tried the product yet, so don't take this as a judgment on the quality of the product itself. It just... The quality of the product page, though.

The quality of the product page is not great. Anyway, in other news, I had to go to Ali Express, but I did find a double-brimmed hat, and it is exactly as amazing as I hoped. Yo! Inspector Linus. Should we do one of these? Inspector Linus. You could wear that in your next secret shopper or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.

All right, sorry, Mr. Bester. Do you want to hit us with another checkout message? Hey, L-L-N-D. For the same price, it could get a 77-inch LGC-5 OLED or a 100-inch Samsung Q-ledd mini-L-D. Why do we say Q-Led and lead? It upsets me. What would you do?

Bigger or OLED? Oh, yeah. This is a tough one. Samsung has a lot of Q-led TVs, and there is a wide range of quality. depending on how many local dimming zones they have and how bright they are. With that said,

at the same price, I could have a 77-inch or a 100-inch TV. It depends a little bit on the space. If you have a smaller room and just sitting farther is not an option anyway, the C-5 OLED is going to give you a better picture. It's going to give you a poppier, punchier, more exciting picture. However, if you're in a large space and you want to have a big group,

the bigger the TV, the wider you can spread your couches and chairs, the more you can have people kind of spread out and eating snacks over there and whatever, the more people you can kind of gather around it. And even if you have a smaller room, the more immersive the image is going. going to feel. If it was me, and I guess it is, I would choose the larger display over the OLED. In my theater room, I could have, if I really wanted, a 97-inch OLED. I have chosen not to. Instead, I have 115-inch mini-l-D. So that's what I would choose. However, if, for whatever reason, the size of my display was constrained, then it would be hard to

for me to say no to an OLED. At least that's the case today with RGB backlighting coming. That's the one I'm more excited about, but it sounds like you're getting a deal on a last gen TV, so that's not going to be necessarily relevant to your purchasing decision anyway. I hope that helped. I didn't really give you an answer, but cool. What would you do? You'd do smaller OLED, I would think, right? Probably. That's what you did. Yeah. Yeah, so it's not even hypothetical. I went, bigger TV, he went smaller OLED. I also have less viewing distance, I guess.

Like, it's one of those like, you know, shotgun apartment hallway room things. And you just have like standard couch position, standard TV position. The throw distance is really not that crazy high. So I'd rather just a way better picture. A hundred inch would be a little bit ridiculous at that seating distance. I think so. Yeah. So I'd rather just have a better picture.

Genesis 8925 says if money wasn't a problem, projector, but man, I have a really hard time getting behind that. Like the wife acceptance factor of a projector just, from my experience, seems to be much smaller. And I don't know what it is, but it's like... They don't look good. Yeah, I mean, they can, but there's so many other things you have to align that the wife acceptance factor. starts to decay. And then the second someone gets up to go get popcorn in the middle of the thing

and they interrupt the image or you have to tell your young kids, hey, that's a laser projector. Don't look into the lens. And, you know, there's like eye safety concerns. And then you accidentally leave a door open. And so there's like a weird kind of like bright spot across half of it where the shadow of the couch covers.

Like it's just, it's not as friendly. And there's something just kind of intubstant. about the TV being the thing you like press a button on in an emergency if you forget versus like going to the back of the room and like pressing a thing on the ceiling if the remote has the battery is dead or whatever like it there's just so many little things about a projector that are more you know bearded dude and less family friendly no offense Dan I painted my wall just an entire the entire wall is gray you You've seen it. There's no white factor there. Wow, you also can't go anywhere near it, or put anything in front of it or touch it ever or it's ruined. Yeah, yeah.

Get a TV. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. Get an OLED. She'll like the colors. Yeah, yeah. She probably won't care. She likes the colors. Okay, all right.

She likes the colors. Okay, mine doesn't care. It's whatever is in the most... I know exactly where he's going. She will be in the family room where there is an OLED TV and she'll be like doing yoga on a mat or something and she will be watching on her phone. And I'm just like, really?

Anyway, let's talk about Apple launching. That is actually where I thought that was going. Apple education. after giving up significant education sector ground in recent years decades question mark says our notes Apple appears to be making a new push to engage potential users as early as possible

with Apple education a redesigned landing page highlights the benefits of various Apple hardware and software for lifelong learning starting with low-cost iPads and MacBook Neoes and airs for the K-12 crowd and then moves up through the product line for college and post-rength graduate studies with all the essential productivity and specialty apps for your field.

The site also offers special Apple care packages and flexible financing for educational institutions. And that's that right there is the big one when it comes to hooking them young. I mean, I have talked for ever, ever about how Apple like fucked up allowing Chromebooks to become a thing. And it looks like they finally figured it out and they are making a car. concentrated effort to just un-crumbook the world. And I kind of think these stomp on Chromebooks. Oh, dude. I mean, I've been daily-

It's like not close, I think. I've been dalying the Neo for over two weeks now, I think. I can't remember the time. But basically, it's not bothering me. I feel like you would remember the time if you hated it. Yes. Because you'd be like counting. It's the same thing as this Linux challenge compared to the last one.

Yep. The last one, we were all checking in with each other on how many days were left. And this one, I think the timer passed and no one cared. Yeah. Yep. Apple also, unlike Google with their Chromebooks, seems well positioned to keep users in their ecosystem after school is out with a redesigned Apple business landing page that launched about a month ago. So our discussion question here is, did Apple make the right call in seemingly abandoning the education market after the EMAC?

And I mean, I think I've made my position on this very clear over the years. no, absolutely not. That was entirely the wrong call. Apple went from being the only computers in one of the elementary schools that I attended to basically becoming utterly irrelevant in schools in a span of like, what, five years, ten years, something like that? Almost nothing.

It was just all PC, and then it was all Chromebook. And Apple became just a complete non-player outside of, from my understanding, very affluent, um, educational organizations. But now, man, this thing.

This thing changes everything because an iPad is only useful for certain stuff. For a lot of things, I'm sorry, but you just plain need a keyboard. What is the difference right now between a Neo and an iPad with a keyboard? Um, the fact that it's running proper desktop software to me is, a big one just in the day-to-day usability of the device?

Or did you mean in terms of price? No. Yeah, that to me is the big one. The fact that I'm not just limited to iPad OS apps. And I can run any software that I want on it because there's just, I mean, it's inherent to the App Store model that these apps are designed to be less open. You know, Apple dictates what's in the app store. They take a cut out of everything that's in the app store, which, you know, whether you believe that that's a monopolistic practice from them or not is a tax on the developer's ability to operate within that ecosystem.

There's just, there's things about it that are just plain not as budget friendly and not as user friendly. I find it interesting how open they are. Surprising price. Yeah. It's like, yeah, it is a surprising price from you. Yeah. It's also a surprise and price for just the general quality of the laptop. Do you think this is Tim Cook wanting to go off on a high note?

Like there's been a lot of discussion around his legacy. Yeah, there has been. Over the last couple years. Well, because he's getting close to probably retiring. Like, hasn't he been pretty open about that? I think so. Yeah. And so it's just, it's been this open conversation.

Like, what is Tim Cook's legacy? Because it, I mean, I'm sure he would love if it were not the Apple Vision pro. right and you look at like there's a lot of things that he has undeniably done incredibly well apple is uh is a logistics monster the way that they the way that they handle messaging and their launches is perhaps unparalleled uh there's just so good at it but what product did tim cook oversee because even even AirPods was before his time was it not was it actually actually maybe not I think ear pods

might have been before his time but I don't think AirPods are no I think you might be right who wasn't trying to Tim Cook no yep

Tim Cook was yeah AirPods was well after So he made the thing that kind of murdered the entire audio industry okay

which is pretty impressive So that was relatively early on in his tenure and then towards the end if he oversees the creation of the laptop computer that basically

murders the entire entry level business and education laptop segment from everyone else. I also think there's an angle, which is... What a punctuation mark to put on your career. Apple spent a really long time basically fighting with chip manufacturers. Like, they got in this huge war with Nvidia. They got in a bit of a tiff with Intel.

A bit of a, yeah. Like, they really were not being very friendly with chip manufacturers. They came out with the M-series chips. Those chips are just... mashing everything. They're fire. How do they pipeline people into their like, okay, we figured out bailing on the other chip manufacturers now, but the pipeline into Max is not necessarily the easiest and it's not

exactly the cheapest. So how do we get people kind of re-interested in Max? We've, we own the world of audio. We own the world of phones. Well, the North American world of phones. Yeah. Yeah. We own the world of spending money on lots of phones.

You know what's really interesting to me, though, is like, what will Apple take away from this lesson? Will they take away, oh, we could have charged more for the Neo? And will they go back for higher margins? Or will they take away? Holy crap, we have been leaving so much volume on the table by pricing things out of reach of normal, ordinary people. and do we get like a really aggressive iPhone? Like do we get like a $400 iPhone? Because if they can build this computer

for $500 to an educational customer, right? Convince me. You can build a cheaper phone. Convince me they couldn't do a $400 iPhone if they really wanted to. They've got their own silicon for the processor. They've got their own silicon for the modem now even. The Qualcomm tax is,

She's a hefty tax. Tell me they couldn't do it. They absolutely could. I think this might pissing people off. I think their gamer move in the future is to basically only ever have, you know, they have two skews for this one. They have like the higher storage plus touch ID and the lower storage and no touch ID. I don't think you ever expand beyond that.

Oh, for this one? Yeah. For the neon? I think you keep neo tier laptops as like there is. maybe two options, maybe in some generations, there is one. And it's just the cheap laptop you can get from Apple. And then everything else is you're jumping into M-chips and it's like performance laptops. And I actually, I like that they gave it a really unique color because it clearly identifies

me as a scrub who, you know, but it's a good looking thing still. Yeah. But it still looks good. It has its own very clear identity separate. The thing on the bottom is a Dbrand. Oh yeah, that's a Dbrands scale. Just so people know. Yeah, sorry about that.

So it's this part. You're looking at the like, that's what we're looking at. Greenish yellow. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I really like what they did with that. I could see them continuing to do that. That's something that they have done in the past to differentiate otherwise very similar looking regular iPhone.

You can still get it in silver. And pro? Yes. But I would actually like to see them lean into this. I see most people. That one is the most popular color way I've personally seen. is like the yellow. But I've seen most people get colorful ones,

which I have to say, like, thanks. God, it's been so boring. Everyone just always picking the most boring possible color options for everything. And seeing a bunch of people get the colorful NEOs brought some hope, I think. It's like, oh, wow, the world can not just be gray again.

This is great. Nah, don't get your hopes up. What? It's going to, no, everyone else is. Full of hopes. The only reason. Apple can do that is because would they sell 8 million of these things?

High hopes. Oh. So all the other ones are sold out, so you just had to buy it. Well, no, I just mean Apple can afford to do a gray one and a yellow one. Oh, no, I mean people's selection. Oh, sure. I just mean, but Apple's the only one who has the volume to gamble and do a color. Sure, sure, sure, sure. Because they can, even if the color bombs and only one in 10 customers selects the color one.

then they are still going to sell 800,000 of them. Yeah. So they're fine. I hear you. I just, I think, like, I think you just see people who have a selection of colors

always going like gray, white, or black. Oh, yeah. And that's just kind of boring. They're just safe. I mean, I was,

I was talking to the creator warehouse team about, um, commuter bags. I've, or hey, this shirt. The Lambo shirt's so cool. Here.

So commuter bags. Oh, it's so sick. I've been, been rocking this that's awesome kind of like olive like tactical green one for a little while

that I really like yeah and we were just we were talking about you know yeah what would what would a future look like where we have like a range of colors of bags and

we were talking through what the minimum order quantities are for each of these colors with fabric sourcing and factory time and one of the things that Dave brought up is that we have

access to industry trend data and sales data and basically it becomes kind of like a self-perpetuating cycle because the only thing that actually sells

is black and gray and then that's the only thing anybody makes so then it's the only thing that anybody sells and it's a huge financial risk

unless you're Apple that's why I'm saying I just appreciate that people are not just buying just the silver one is like the more you make it so that people don't just buy only ever just the black one, it's like, oh, sweet, okay. We can like actually have more colors of things

in the world again. And like, okay, uh, Oruke in float plane chat says I would totally get a pink backpack, but it's tough because- I promise we'd sell like 10 of them. Back when, back when Steel Series, let me see if I can find. Steel Series did like a pink

GameRamouse. Logitex had more success with this, I would say. Yeah, yeah. The reason I brought up Steel Series is just because they did it a very long time ago before everyone else did it. Yeah, true. And I can't find it. Probably because it didn't sell.

Like 2010. Yeah, it was really old. And I remember, I either was the product manager or I sat next to the product manager for it. and it was an unmitigated disaster. We sold like three of them or something like that. And then we had to liquidate the rest of them. That has changed to a degree, right? To your point, things are a little different now.

And Logitech seems to have done better with it. I think Logitech has also succeeded in like it's not just hot pink. Like they'll do colors like this or like it's a nice like soft purple. You don't have to like, they call this one heartbreaker and it's the pink one. but it's not just like glowing hot pink either. Like I think they played with the colors a little bit more. I hate though that to be a trendy girl who uses a computer, you can only have a shittastatic mouse.

No, this is just the first one I clicked on. Oh, okay. There's, there's a, like, I just was scrolling down and saw that. Do they have like a high performance mouse like that? Okay, I probably have to go launch tag G. Hold on. Yeah. I think it's like a different site.

Yeah. Yeah, okay. I think they do have some pretty cool color ways. The Super Strike, I'm pretty sure, is just black and gray. Oh my God, go away. These pop-ups are so annoying. There it is. Magenta.

That's a pretty aggressive pink. That is a pretty aggressive pink. I found the thing that I was thinking of. I didn't find the mouse, but I did find the mouse pad. So Steel Series had their Iron Lady brand, which was, that's pretty, Pretty rough. Pretty cringe. That is pretty rough.

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

The Iron Lady gaming mouse. Yeah, see, that's... Akari. That's kind of yikes. And then look at this. This is the one I was actually talking about. The G203, pretty good mouse. Lilac.

That's pretty cute. actually looks nice. That's pretty cute. Okay, cool. Anyways. It's time to talk about our float plane announcements. Linus, try to guess what this means. Dan show the free shipping.

Yeah, that's pretty obvious. Yeah, what? Why, don't, don't, don't, don't applaud me for being not a... Good job, Linus! Okay. Way to go! He did it. he's our good boy.

For next week, oh man, okay. How ridiculous is it that like a few months ago, I was talking to the creator warehouse team and we were discussing like our sale calendar for the year and we had decided that after the success of our shipstorm sale event last year that we should do a repeat of it. We should do a shipstorm sale event. And we were like talking about it and we're like,

well yeah but you know that whole thing was precipitated by you know the actions of a certain one of you know the country leaders hold on i'm you know story spoiled so anyway it's they're all they're all gen zers gen alphas whatever they don't have time they already know where the story's going i'm just helping so we decided to do a shipstorm sale of on the anniversary of the first shipstorm, we had no idea that the certain world leader was going to do a thing again that was going to completely fuck global logistics again.

You probably could have relied on it. I guess we did. So anyway, the shipstorm sale event is coming back, and we have something very excited for our floatplane supporters. Everyone on float plane will be getting their usual 24-hour early access to the event. And additionally, LTT supporter plus tier subs will have a $50 lower threshold to get free shipping for their entire order worldwide. Nice.

So that's $13 to save not spending $50 more, but still qualifying for free shipping. That's awesome. But that's not all. LTT supporter plus tier subscribers on float plane will continue to have $3.5.000. shipping on LTT store, if the minimum spend threshold is met, even after shipstorm is over, I'm going to say for some time, I am not locking into that forever. I don't know who wrote this thing in my notes, but I'm putting an asterisk here. For some period of time, TBD, Luke, how are we making money off this?

I don't know. I warned that it might be a problem. Okay, cool. Anyway, when we announced our price increase earlier this year, we said we'd make an effort to add benefits to our floatplane subscribers, so we're looking to deliver, pun intended, and I guess this is part of it. So if you're a frequent shopper on LTTStore.com,

this could be worth considering, and you get to watch some amazing floatplane exclusive videos, like cutting room floor, like the heavily divided $20,000 PC extras, and also sometimes early releases. So I'm just going to go ahead. and launch a couple of videos. Hey, guess what?

Do you know about this? There's nearly 700 exclusives, by the way. Do I know about this? No, I don't. We were sponsored by Red Bull. Sick. Sort of. Someone else was sponsored by Red Bull,

and Red Bull had us build computers for them. Also, sick. Yeah, right? So that's going live. Red Bull does cool stuff. Yeah. And then we've also got another video that's going live right.

Oh, oh, oh, boy. This one is going to be, A little controversial, probably. And you can watch it early on float plane. It's going to be... What is it? The highest PC build ever. Okay.

So, wait, what? Why? Because it's going to be at 40,000 feet. No, I get it, but why is it controversial? Well, seriously? Have you not been following the community... The community drama over the last couple of weeks. Oh, because it's in your plane?

Because it's in Linus Media Group Incorporated's plane, yes. Who owns that company? me. So it's in your plane? Well, it's, okay, you know better than that. I can only use it for work unless I, like, it's a taxable benefit, et cetera, et cetera. But, but yes, Elijah came with me on the Data Center tour to Equinex in Virginia. And this is a small, small spoiler.

He forgot the case. He left the case on the ground. That's pretty funny. Yeah. Did you just film it on the way? So we were supposed to film it on the way while we were filming, while we were flying during the day. And then that was supposed to be our work day that day. And then we were supposed to sleep and then get up super early our time, because we're three hours ahead now.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do the data center tour and then sleep on the way back. But instead, Elijah had to abandon me for the data center. tour. He had to go to micro center, buy a case, and then we had to shoot it on the way back. Did you shoot the whole thing on the way back? Or did you do part on the way there? We had to shoot the whole thing on the way back. There was like almost nothing we could, there's almost nothing you can do without a case. You put the CPU on the motherboard and like put some RAM in. And then that's it. You're done. Whereas like the bulk of computers. Yeah, right?

Oh, apparently I told everyone last week. Well, whatever. I think it's, I forgot the detail on if you did part of it on the way there or part of it or all of it on the way back. Anyway, the video's out. It is, it is controversy aside, an absolute banger. It is so funny. It's just ridiculous. I think you've already been like, I, people might not like seeing the plane, but, I mean, it's just a computer. I don't think it's controversial.

Some people, you know what, there's some, there's some people that are upset about it. but most people seem to be enjoying the window into something that otherwise we would have absolutely no access to. Do you hear about Ford? I did. I did. Okay. So key difference. So we had a politician, a Canadian politician, is in hot water right now for using, and this is incredibly important, taxpayer money to acquire a private aircraft. Way more expensive. A way more expensive private air. aircraft for and I'm having a reasoning was so funny I didn't see the what's the reason he was like other people have planes and he pointed at like some other politicians that have access to planes and he's like I want one too it was so good I actually started laughing reading the article I think it's something like Quebec has a plane or something and he's like they have a plane I want a plane too

It's like really, bro, right now? Canada's on fire. Do you actually need a plane? I don't know. Oh, it was funny. It was good. It was a good time. And I can say with 100% certainty that he could have done it on a tighter budget than that.

Also, the plane that he chose is so unnecessary for what he would be doing. It's a Challenger 650. I don't know what anything about. Dude, he's a provincial politician. Where is he even going? Opposition leaders dubbed it the gravy plane. Hold on.

Challenger 650 range. This is hilarious. So the Challenger 650, hold on, where's Guardian Jet? Here we go. CL 650. No, I don't want the brochure. Online tools. Range rings.

Here we go. Okay. Here's our range map. So what's an airport? So let's say Toronto. Sure, whatever, Markham. It doesn't really matter. Bombardier.

Blah, blah, blah. C. Yeah, here we go. CL 650. So this is what you got. Oh, shoot, I screwed up. Oh, no, I screwed up again. Oh, man, I'm such a boomer sometimes. Toronto.

Seriously? Come on. Okay, so Markham. Yeah, here we go. Check this out. So, CL650. This is the range of that thing. Okay.

Does a provincial politician ever need to fly nonstop to Ecuador? How often do you think that comes up? For context, this is Ontario. Yeah. What I read was that he was mostly going to be flying within the province of Ontario. Well, yeah, he's a provincial politician. Sometimes going to the states to deal with tariff stuff. Okay.

And that was like it. Even that, who would he be talking to? He would be talking to bordering states, so like here, or he'd be talking with, you know, maybe Washington, which would be, like, whatever, in here somewhere. I don't remember exactly there you go. Or in, like, D.C. Dude, he could be on a prop plane and make these flights. Like, there's absolutely no reason whatsoever to have a Challenger 650. So here's the, one sec.

Hit me with it. is. Get me with it. The statement issued by Ford's office contrasts the price of Ontario's plane to $107 million that says Quebec paid for one used and two new Challenger 650s and $753 million, the federal government paid for six new global 6,500 jets. Okay, I will say this. You know, if Quebec spent that much, that's also ridiculous. That's the only thing that said out to me on that was like, oh, wait, why the heck did Quebec spend $107 million on private jets? I can understand why the federal government needs them. In terms of like federal state craft, you actually have to travel internationally.

You actually cannot just put your entire like cabinet on like a commercial flight to, you know, Madrid. And if they have six of them, maybe you can borrow one now and then or something? I doubt it. You can charter one from them? I doubt it. I mean, I don't see, again, it comes down to taxation and who actually owns it, which is where, yes, the distinction between a person. in a corporation or sorry do you own the corporation one level of government and another level of government actually does matter like it does matter in terms of moving funds around and who is

paying for the wear and tear and how all that's accounted for like it legitimately does matter um so you can't just be like hey federal canadian government you own this thing therefore i can use it right right like it no it actually doesn't work like that um but besides you wouldn't need a global what was it a global 6,500 or something like that that the federal government bought? That's the federal one. Yeah. You wouldn't need that. They bought six new ones.

They bought six brand new ones. Why do those need to be brand new? I mean, uh. And they spent $753 million. I mean, they would cost that. Probably. That's the, that's what brand new ones go for, which is why that was never going to happen. That's why 1990 was, uh, was a good year for me.

They have, they have, they have a real. Rolls-Royce pearl engines. Oh, that's just common. That's not like, uh, having a Rolls-Royce engine is just like, it's a thing. There's only so many. Efficiency. There's only so many turbofan engine manufacturers. Honeywell, Rolls-Royce.

I'm trying to think of who else. Uh, yeah, GE. Thank you, Dan. At least it's Bombardier, so they bought it like from Canada. Yeah, I would have, I would have loved to go Bombardier instead. That helps a little bit. Oh, I mean, if it's a government purchase, you'd kind of hope it's from, Canada. Yep. I kind of wanted to rep Bombardier, but it just, it didn't make sense.

It didn't make dollars, actually. It was a lot farther off than not making sense. It made too many dollars. Yeah, all the dollars. Anyway, so those videos are up. The highest PC build is supposed to go up on April 20th, LOL. But for people who want to watch it a little early, you can head over to LMG.G slash floatplane. You can also get free shipping, early access, and extras. LMGG slash FPWAN. All right. We got a couple sponsors for the show today.

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I did. He has so much cool stuff. He does have a lot of cool things. He has cool CRT. His place looks like it would be fun to hang out in. And cool games and all the cool consoles. And he got a cool new upscaler. It also sounds like a good boyfriend.

He got the Retro Tink 4K for his OLED. And like, yeah, and he took care of the girlfriend. He got some cool stuff for her. Who he had already taking, like she has a gaming computer. Well, that wasn't hooked up to anything. But because she doesn't play games. Yeah, yeah. So he got her a more appropriate device.

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because there's a chance to win your own 9850X3D, which is the fastest gaming CPU on the planet. But at the moment, big asterisk. Because hold on a second. Have they, have they, yeah, they've officially... Hold on, I can't remember. Uh, because there could be rumored to be something else coming at some point.

Anyway, the point is, as usual, AMD has a little bonus question for us. Luke, when it comes to your setup, do you prefer running everything on one powerful do-it-all machine, or do you like to split things up with dedicated systems for like gaming, content creation, server stuff, home lab? I like just running everything on one. But? It's not really the answer. And as I progress forward, I'm going to be splintering into multiple devices. I see within a year probably having at least three.

At least, hard at least two. Definitely at least two systems. But very likely three before a year's up. I'm kind of delaying right now. I'm just hoping you're seeing RAM. It's dipping a little bit. Do that. So I'm trying to hoping I can wait a little bit more and get some cheaper RAM.

but yeah I want to move I have a few services that I have kind of running all the time not that many but I want to have a lot more but what's been holding me back from having a lot more is that they're all running on the same system and that just kind of sucks

so yeah so I'm just split off time to have a powerful NAS that can do a variety of things basically what you shouldn't do necessarily is go as far as Mr. Nick Harris I was at his house yesterday I've seen pictures

so set up. Nick run software development for the lab. He also just is sort of general manager of things for the lab. He has some people who report to him. He also oversees Mark Bench, like benchmarking.

He also just sort of... He also just... Oh yeah, I know. It's got a new name now, but I still call it Mark Bench. Deal with it. He also just kind of like is a voice of reason, you know, when you have a group and you need to have a conversation. He's just kind of a, he's a presence is I think the best way that I could

describe him because, you know, having him around is a gift. So the point is, I was at his house yesterday, though. I, and I cannot emphasize this enough, I had difficulty navigating his spaces due to the unprecedented level that I had heretofore never seen before of tech clutter. The in the intro, in the intro, I talk about, the line is, how do you upgrade the setup of someone who has not one, not two, not three, not four, not five, not six, but seven computers. And the worst part of it is that after we did the intro, when I was doing the part where I like poke around in people's living spaces and we kind of get to know them a little bit, I found more computers. Were they all running?

No, the one I found was apparently a dedicated machine to run his bass pedal. He literally had a dedicated machine for pretty much every function. Wow. Was his story. And then I found out that actually one of them is a proxmox box. And he does have virtualization running. So he's got like more than 10 dedicated computer functions. in this place. I just can't fathom it. But hey, that's the kind of person that you want,

you know, in your testing lab. Someone who enjoys the pain of tinkering and troubleshooting and experimenting. When we were going through the interview process, in one of our video interviews, I kind of talked about like, you know, this was a long time ago, but I talked about the idea of this benchmarking software that we would have. Yeah, Mark Bench. Well, at the time, I don't think it had a cool name and much of an idea, really. But I talked to, we talked

about like the concept, we kind of bounced ideas back and forth on the concept. The next video call that we had, he had built like a prototype. And I was like, all right, there's the job, basically. Dude's based. That's the G.G. right there. Not that we're saying that you should do

unsolicited and unpaid work for a job you're applying for. That's not advice. However, it certainly got our attention. Yeah. I'll say that much. It showed like passionate interest in the subject, which I cared about a lot. No, we'll do that later. Nvidia's mythical N1SOC has surfaced on a real motherboard,

and it's packing 128 gigs of LPDDR 5X. NVIDIA's long-rumored N1SOC has shown up on a real motherboard for the first time, spotted on the Chinese resale platform, Goofish, before the listing was taken down. The board appeared to be a laptop engineering sample described as an Nvidia N1 AI book and was packed with eight SK-Hinex LPDR-5X memory chips totaling 128 gigabytes running at 8533 megatransf per second. The N-1 is supposed to share its silicon with the GB10 super chip that powers NVIDIA's DGSI, Spark Workstation

and reportedly packs a 20-core arm CPU designed with Media Tech alongside a Blackwell architecture GPU with up

to 6144 Kuda cores, which would put it roughly in RTX 5070 territory. This would be Nvidia's first crack at a consumer PC

chip after years of Tegra SOCs for mobile devices, phones, and consoles like the Nintendo Switch. All signs point to a Computex 2026 review

in June with Dell and Lenovo reportedly already testing laptops with the N1. The chip is designed to compete directly with Apple Silicon, AMD's Strix Halo, and Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite in the growing Windows on arm space. It feels like a

predominantly Strix Halo competitor. However, it's in a bit of a weird spot. It's got like Nvidia grade on board graphics but it will have arm on Windows grade game compatibility issues potentially, unless Nvidia has done some black magic wizardry,

which, you know, after seeing what Valve and Apple have done over the last five, six years, I wouldn't say is impossible. You know, the migration from Intel to Apple Silicon was incredibly smooth. And the way that, I mean, look, that demo that I saw at Valve HQ, playing on the Steam frame like playing an X-86 Windows, like direct 3D game on an ARM CPU on Linux

blew my freaking mind, man. Obviously it won't work on everything, but I mean being on Windows, here's a question. Does like kernel level anti-cheat work on Windows on Arm? Is it architecturally... I've no idea. Similar enough that it just...

Like, it's the Windowsness that matters. Did they bother to port that? Like, are you even going to want a 50-70-class GPU on a Windows-on-arm laptop? Like, is that something anybody is asking for? Because do the games matter? Chat even seems like so unsure about that. It's like it's a question nobody seems to really be asking.

Ebalrid says a kernel-level anti-cheat is just a driver. And like, yeah, fair enough. It's a driver that needs certain permissions. And I just, I'm not sure if anyone has bothered to integrate it on Windows on Arm. As far as my Googling is showing, this is all true, but it's not everything is compatible with it because not everything has drivers for it. Yeah. Okay. Well, anyway, good, good luck with this, NVIDIA.

In other NVIDIA news, apparently EA is expanding anti-cheat to ARM-64. okay so like some companies are working on it maybe this is part of invidia laying the groundwork for exactly exactly this if if they're starting to do stuff like that that might also help the Linux crowd but I kind of doubt it indirect well uh I already closed that article but it mentions something along lines of like Linux also potentially being included in their expansion of anti-cheat compatibility I'd love to see it I read a really long article and I think it was Ars Technica talking about the the sort of inherent challenges with with anti-cheat on Linux and how it's just having the user having the user like by its very philosophy in control of the kernel is just going to kind of make it

not a thing forever my I think counter argument is that they're barely catching stuff at all right now anyways unless they are like that's the thing how do you know that even more rar people wouldn't be cheating if it was even easier or easier. For me, I think it's past a threshold. You think so? So it like doesn't really matter. There's just such a high percentage right now that it's already so bad that it being worse, I don't think would significantly change my life.

But that being said, the main game I've played that is a competitive shooter in the last while, which I have not played very much of at all, like genuinely. less than five matches is CounterStrike, and that is compatible with Linux. And that had like the biggest and worst story of cheaters I've heard in a while, which was fairly recent. So I don't know. But as far as my understanding goes, a lot of those cheaters were actually just farming skins. Right.

Yeah. Oh, oh, did you see the, uh, did you see the news about the, uh, the huge warehouse full of PlayStation Force that was farming FIFA stuff? No. This is hilarious. is. Oh my God. Ukraine warehouse packed with thousands of PS4s

was actually a FIFA ultimate team bought farm. What? Yeah. I don't quite, I don't I don't know how FIFA Ultimate Team works. Understand this?

3,800 PS4s. But this is so funny to me. To play with all those... Look at the fans. Look at the fans in the windows. to cool the PS4s, man. Would all of those need whatever PlayStation

online subscription is? Would they all need those? I guess so. Ultimate team cards, card farming operation, something, something, FIFA Ultimate Cards. This is so,

this is so funny. So if lucky, purchased cards contain one of the rare cards which can be sold at a huge profit, with so many consoles set up to automatically play the game, game, there's a good chance a few rare cards will be discovered. This is, this is like, man, imagine, imagine the investor pitch.

It's like, okay, bro, I have a foolproof plan. I have a foolproof plan to make lots of money. As long as they don't patch it. All I need is a small loan of 3,800 PlayStation's. Like, what are you talking about? Oh, man. Like, the kind of money that's involved in the startup of something like this. and like the kind of the janky operation they're running like can you imagine the legitimate businesses that you could start

with a warehouse and enough money to buy 3,800 playstations not to mention the ongoing monthly expense of 3,800 PSN subscriptions and the business chaos of doing that Ukraine just to also put that out there you could just do something else idea. I don't know. It seems crazy. But you could just do, you could just do anything else. It's pretty wild. Like, hey, you could put your effort into shocking the Linux community with a game-changing V-Ram hack for 8-gig GPUs. This is pretty cool. Natalie Vok, a contractor on Valve's Linux graphics driver team, has developed kernel patches that fix how Linux handles V-Ram on 8-gig GPUs. Previously, when V-RAM filled up, the Linux kernel didn't know to prioritize the game you're actually playing, so it might accidentally evict game data to slower system RAM to make room for background, for like a background browser tab, which could cause stutters and frame drops.

Vox Fix tells the OS that the game is in the foreground, and that should get first dibs on V-Ram. If memory fills up, then, background tasks are the ones forced into system RAM instead. In her cyberpunk 2077 tests on an 8 gig GPU, the game's V-RAM usage climbed from about 6 gigs to nearly 7.4 gigs, while spillover to system memory dropped by 53%.

The patches currently only work on AMD GPUs because of NVIDIA's closed source drivers that don't allow this kind of memory management modification, and cacheOS is already integrating the fix, and the patches are awaiting merge into the main Linux kernel. Which is, I think, what we talked about last week,

the cacheOS part. This does not apply, to integrated GPUs like those in the Steam Deck or handheld PCs because they are using the same graphics pool anyway. Well, not quite. I mean, okay, the Steam Deck would be, but I think for something like a Strix Halo, it's a static allocation, so maybe it would.

Okay, TBD, TBD on that last bit. What else we got, Mr. Luke? Xbox GamePass. Apparently the, what is it, the new CEO? Yeah, new Microsoft Game. gaming CEO Asha Sharma said in a leaked internal memo that GamePass has become too expensive for players and that Microsoft needs a better value option. Microsoft hiked GamePass Ultimate to $30 a month last year, up from $20, which was itself already up a bump from $1699. That's two

price increases in 15 months. And there was price increases before that as well, as far as my understanding goes. Game Pass now runs from $10 for Essential to $15 for premium. and $30 for Ultimate. Sharma says the long-term plan is to evolve game pass into a more flexible system, though the details are pretty vague. The memo also comes days after rumor surfaced that Call of Duty 2026 could skip game pass entirely,

which would be a major shift given that adding cod to the service was widely seen as the reason the price hikes happened in the first place. That would be wild. It might also be the reason why she's saying it's overpriced if they're not doing that anymore. The whole point of game. Pass was supposed to be that I subscribed to it forever and like you know that sucks but you're

giving me a good value in return for it and that's like the deal is I get all the cool new games. I get all the Microsoft games. Yeah. And and and it's it's a one one one one one one all you can eat for the price of it. It feels weird saying that cod is a Microsoft game. I know right? Sorry to just. Wasn't there also like that's weird? whole thing around the conversation for the Activision Blizzard acquisition where like they weren't going to do all kinds of fuckery with Cod and which platforms. I mean, I guess I guess not having it on Game Pass would ultimately be satisfactory to someone like Sony. I think the main thing

was they didn't want to have it taken away from Sony. So this still doesn't do that. Yeah. Well, okay, so this this is fine. I don't remember. It's been a while, but. Is this kind of of a killer for Game Pass if you're not getting the hot new game. I think it will be for some people, yeah, definitely. Because to me, that's the whole point of Game Pass is that I'm entering into kind of like an understanding. Especially a cod, where like there's a new one every year. That's the kind of game you subscribe to.

Yeah. Like, that's the agreement I have, right? Is I give you money for Game Pass and then I never think about it again. I can just play the games. But if all of a sudden all my friends are playing that game, That one game and it's not on game pass. What is even the point of game pass? I might as well just buy that one game and then I could see that kind of shifting people's mentality and going like like that could be the kind of thing that just makes me mad enough to just cancel the subscription. Yeah. And then give you my money another way. Ultimately, yes. So Microsoft will probably learn nothing, but hey, at least, at least Luke is winning a small. a small, maybe not decisive, but small battle here.

I mean, you've been adamantly anti-games as a subscription since the entire concept arose. And in the beginning, I think I actually argued quite passionately with you that at that original pricing, it made a ton of sense. But it has ultimately... This was the entire argument, too. was that if everyone ends up subscribing, then they have all of the power.

All the leverage. And that's like literally never goes well. And the best way to play it was still going to be to, you know, subscribe when it was cheap, play single player games or play experiences that you would never want to have again. And then once it's not cheap anymore, start buying games again. But I still go and play Civ 5. But not everyone operates that way.

Or like not, I mean not everyone operates the way that they play a game and then they're done with it. Yeah. I used to be more of a like go back and play a game that I haven't played in a long time guy, but I'm not anymore. I don't do it often, but it's also nice to just, I don't know. It's nice. Okay, so 10 billion years ago, I did this stream for one of my birthdays. I don't even remember which one it was, but it would be kind of tough to do this now. But I think I was 28 or something.

and I played one game for one hour for every year that I had been alive. So I was born in 1990. So I played a game that released in 1990 for an hour. I remember that. It was awesome. It was actually really fun. It did really well for charity.

I think I suggested a couple of the games that you played. I forget if you liked them though. Anyway. I don't remember, but it sounds likely. But that was really fun. I was largely able to play a lot of those games because I've had the same Steam account for most of my life and I just launched it from Steam.

Some of them I had to go get, of course, especially the like 1990 era ones, but like there was a lot of games that have just launched on Steam. It's nice that I can. I think I value the ability to do so a lot, even if it's not something I super commonly do. That's one of the things I actually brought up. I wrote the Microsoft's Year of Humiliation script earlier this week. So that was my kind of video essay video this week. And that specifically was one of the things that I brought up as my, hey, I'm not a hater. There's a lot of things that I love about Windows.

How about the ability to like click compatibility mode and run software from my childhood? That's crazy. Yeah. Do that on your PlayStation 5. Like, come on. I think that's the thing that's been eating me up the most about the Linux challenge going really well is the frustration with Windows.

it's it's it's like almost been I have time for the weekly Windows really needs to do better yeah it's mostly been kind of sad I don't even know like I'm more sad about it than I am angry like it's like dang I actually really liked Windows for a long time Windows XP Windows Vista Windows 7 was just such a great series of operating systems

assuming you didn't have a, assuming you had a powerful computer when Vista came out. Yeah. So are we here now? I think like maybe 6.5. Okay, so we're sad. I definitely spent a long time in three. I think I skipped four entirely.

Four and five I skipped entirely. And then now I'm like six and a half right now. Yeah, all right. Yeah. It's just, why don't you list eight? Because when eight came out, it was trash.

Yeah. 8.5 was like pretty okay. Yeah, 1, but yes. One, sure, yeah. Yeah, yeah. But, yeah, when 8 first came out, it was like just... It was comically bad. It was like the worst initial release of an OS that I had experienced at that time.

I'm not saying it's the worst ever, but it's the worst I had experienced. Well, you hadn't experienced Millennium Edition. Even I barely did. Like, I was in grade 8 or 9 or something like that when Millennium Edition was like... My dad would have had it, but I don't think I was exactly forming opinions on operating systems at the time. Well, a lot of people skipped it. Yeah. Well, my dad, like, messed with computers.

Like, we had two or three computers at that time, and he would get random software all the time. I remember for one of my birthdays, I received a, I think I've totally about this before. It was awesome, actually. I got a, like, writeable CD that just had Sharpie all over it with, like, 20 different games. It was like, here's your birthday gift. It was awesome. Yeah. Anyways, it's just, it's frustrating that it's, that it's so frustrating to use right now.

Hey, speaking of things from the late 90s, um, while attempting to reduce the size of a 600 plus gigabyte backup of a discourse server, engineers at discourse discovered that a 1.6 megabyte GIF of Jennifer Aniston's Happy Dance was duplicated almost a quarter million times. This isn't really good news. It's just funny news. While trying to fix the duplication, while

trying to fix the duplication, I'm so tired this week. Duplication, he got it. We're good. While trying to fix the duplication problem with a single instance of the GIF and hard links in the file system for each time somebody tried to upload it again, the admins discovered a limitation of the Exti 4 file system

that they previously didn't know about. A file can only have 65,000 links pointing to it. So instead of one copy and 250,000 links for all the duplicates of it, they got one copy, 65,000 links, and another 180,000 duplicates of the file. Dan, if you could throw the link to the blog post, that would be pretty funny.

The blog has a bunch more detail, including their eventual fix, and you can check it out if you're into that sort of thing. But these are the kinds of, I guess, bugs that are really frustrating and can be sometimes be scary, because when you're working with, anytime you're working with data, loss is, it can be very frightening. Is this loss? No, no, you understood what I meant. Data loss can be very scary, can be very frustrating. Oh, no, I didn't mean it that way. It's a meme.

I know. Is this loss? I know. Okay. No, no, I know. I just mean, I was, yeah, I was meming back at you. Of course not. Yeah, it can be very frightening.

But this is, doesn't this feel like the kind of thing that it's like, this is why we play the game? Oh, yeah, I know. This is fun. To, like, to find stuff like this. Oh, yeah. Because, of course, there might be a limit to how many link backs. because whoever did this, however long ago they designed this, must have gone, well, surely, nobody will need more than 65,000 linkbacks to a single file.

Oops, Jennifer Harrison jumping. Yeah, I don't know. It's not really good news. I just thought it was really funny. That's funny. I like that they made a blog post out of it because it's fun. Yeah, exactly. Exactly.

Sharing the knowledge with the community. Yeah. Speaking of things that are funny, struggling shoe retailer all birds makes bizarre pitiful. it from shoes to AI. And their stock explodes in value. Allbirds, the wool sneaker company, announced it's leaving shoes behind entirely. I think they even sold off everything and is rebranding as New Bird AI, an AI compute infrastructure company, because why not? Stock went from under three bucks to about 17 in a single day. I got this from Atrioc, but look at the much bigger view. Go many years instead.

Oops. The plan is to buy GPUs and lease them out for AI compute customers who can't get reliable access from hyperscalers. What a plan. They've secured $50 million in funding to get started. Oh boy. CNBC's Jim Kramer, oh boy, called it ridiculous. So maybe it's actually really high value. So I guess it's a really good idea.

Time to invest. Okay. Not financial advice. pointing out that it fits the classic pattern seen during the crypto boom, dying companies bolting blockchain onto their names to pump the stock, and now it's AI. And this goes back super, super, super, super, super far beyond just the blockchain push as well. I don't forget.com.

And, and others. The classic 90s bubble. Yeah. Allbirds was a public benefit corporation championed by Leonardo DiCaprio, Oprah, and Obama. the pivot includes dropping that status entirely with filing stating the company would be Silicon Valley circles. I don't know, man. It was like almost a flex. I have no idea.

This is the kind of thing that again, it wasn't good news, but it was just, it was too funny. It was too funny for me to not talk about. Maybe it can be good news and things that are funny. Like seriously, if I was, if I was less, if I was less principled, man, just an IPO with just Linus Media Group AI. AI infrastructure in Canada. AI infrastructure in Canada. Come to the north.

Cooling's easier here. We're going to be making videos about our AI data center build out. We're going to have, we do this like pitch video offering unparalleled transparency into the AI data center build out in the frozen north. We've solved cooling. Just put it in the Arctic. And we've got all the, we've got all the energy. and blah, blah, blah, like, you go, you, I don't know who the gullible people giving all birds $50 million are, but I secure a meeting with them somehow.

Like, I just, it just seems like the playbook is so simple and so dumb and just so easy that I, I feel like it couldn't be that hard. It couldn't be that hard. Oh, man, dude, did you see the one where that, that woman got a $5 million, refund from the CRA on her taxes. So this is just, this is just classic, you know, scammers are not that smart kind of lore here. So what she did, what she did, yeah, right, well, she reported $9,99,99 in foreign income on

her tax return, reported to the CRA that she had paid. paid income tax on it, and then said that she was entitled to a $5 million refund. Hold on. The next part is the funniest part, and I want to make sure that I don't get this wrong because it's so funny. Here we go. Court records say that auditors later became suspicious after realizing that Wallace, the person who filed this claim, was claims. claiming status both as a resident and as a non-resident of Canada. Wallace, they noted, submitted a vague two-word explanation in tax forms for the claimed foreign income.

United Nations. What does that do you? This got past two reviews. They wrote the check. A third review that got flagged because it was an outlier. refund, found it and was like, yo, what is this? And they froze her assets, but already hundreds of thousands of dollars are gone. And like, this is the kind of person that you got to look at and go, they got no shot whatsoever. There's no way they didn't waste that money.

If you pull that off, you got to get it overseas and move out of Canada. So that's the thing is like she didn't. Yeah, that's crazy. That's, that's, like, you got to obey. You're done here. That's crazy. And you have no time. You got to leave. Like that's the kind of scam. That like, seriously, I would, I would be a criminal, I'd be a criminal fucking mastermind compared to some of these people.

Yeah, but again, she got caught. Yeah, I guess. That's, I think that's a big part of it. But like, I would have skipped town. I'd be gone. I'd have gone to Costco and bought all the gold bully and. Or you'd just be running a bank. Yeah, or I'd find a legal way to be a criminal.

I just, I don't get it, dude. I don't get it. It seems so, it seems so simple. It seems like we could just, like if someone says they paid $5 million in taxes, you'd think there'd just be like an AI check that's like, did you though? No. Well, it's not in our bank account. You know?

Like, this is like that thing I went through when we got like wire frauded a while back. You remember that? When our pool contracting company. Yeah, I know it happened. Yeah, our pool contracting company got their email server infiltrated. So they were able to send us emails from our pool company and then intercept our responses was what happened. And then so we wired money like from a bank to a bank within Canada. And then we did ultimately end up getting it back.

But there was like a high risk that we weren't going to be able to. And I'm sitting here going, what is the bloody point of electronic fund movement? If it can't be reversed, if it turns out that it was a high risk. a fucking criminal. Like obviously fraud. And like how hard is it to go, hey, that was fraud.

When the person shows up to take it out, just handcuff them. Like I must be missing something here. Because I believe genuinely. I also don't get it. So I feel like we're both missing something. Law enforcement probably for the most part like, you know, tries pretty hard and stuff.

I've met some very hardworking law enforcement people. But it just seems like sometimes. It really is that simple as just, hey, you know that it was taken,

you know, illegitimately. So just wait on the other side and get them. Okay, so Willing Spy said LOL at Linus, wait till you find out

how credit card security works. There's a reason why MythBusters couldn't do an episode on it. I know about that, but my understanding of that is that's why the like, honestly,

ability to get your money back from credit card fraud is so easy because they know it's kind of crap so they just cover you. Yeah, no, I, and then that's just part of what you're like the one and a half percent or two percent merchant fee covers is just. Yeah, like I had my card

skimmed once and I just had a call with the guy and he was like, okay, let's go through your thing and just basically point out all the ones that seem not legit and I did and he was like, yep, seems right, and just sent me all the money. Like it was super easy because of that. So that's why this scenario,

is weird is because that part isn't super easy. There's no insurance. It was so obviously fraud. Because every day on every transaction, you're paying for transaction insurance. Yeah, yeah. If you use, at least in North America,

if you use a credit card. Please say no more. I hear you, but like it doesn't matter. If someone wants to rip off credit cards, they can do internet research for roughly five seconds and figure out how to do it.

Like it's us talking about it on the wancho is not going to move the needle. That's one of the reasons why it's like fully acceptable to make content about doing stuff like that, about security tools and whatnot on YouTube, on the internet, publishing books about it doing whatever is because like, oh no, I missed this. And it's better to educate people about how it's done so they can protect themselves than it is to No key.

No key just posted. Veritasium apparently made a video. This is their most recent video on how you can make a payment with no upper ceiling and stole $10,000 from MKBHT. Yeah, dude, what's up? Veritasium is making a, ton of like hacking content. Yeah.

Where did that come from? It's been doing really well. It's been great. It's just a surprising pivot. But yeah, 3.7 million views exposing a flaw in tap to pay. Yeah. I mean, good for Derek and the acquiring company. Like they seem to be, he seems to have found the way to divest of the channel that he founded

without it completely losing its soul. and the acquiring company seems like they are they are they have a strong interest in being good stewards of of the channel that they I'm not sure what amount of it they acquired so just take this for for what it is I was not involved in the deal in any way but it seems like from the outside that it's going pretty good Avian says the new host is hard to watch I mean part of it might just be not being used to used to them I thought they were fine. Yeah. I do think it's probably not being used to them because I think they're fine. Yeah. Ballard says they've gotten the kind of deal that Linus refused, and now there's many writers doing many kinds of topics.

And 9 out of 10 videos is like legit good. Yeah, that's cool. I mean, if we could find someone who was willing to do it the same way as that, I might consider it again. But it would have to be, there were a lot of factors. was there was the team as well. Like I was very worried that they would not only not be good stewards of the content, but they wouldn't be good stewards of the team.

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with five minute flash charging. This is nuts. Absolutely nuts. This is, so this is going to be starting with the yuan plus. So it sold as the AdO3 outside of China, which was the 13th best selling EV globally in 2025. And at first debuted,

in BYD's luxury models like the Yangwang U7 and the Denza Z9 GT. They claim it will charge from 10% to 70% in 5 minutes, 10% to 97% in 9 minutes, and only add about 3 minutes to those times in extreme cold temperatures, like down to minus 30C. BYD has already built out over 5,000 of their 1.5 megawatt flash charge. charging stations and is aiming for 20,000 by the end of the year in China with a European rollout now underway as well. Dude, is this it?

Is this the last obstacle to widespread EV adoption? Five minutes. Maybe. The weight still sucks. It's interesting in North America because like, okay, so there's some Chinese, there's some Chinese CVs coming to Canada, that's going to move the needle here quite a bit. But apparently, I've heard that you're not even going to be able to be allowed to, like, road trip through the States.

Like, you might not be able to enter America at all in a Chinese CV. Really? I've heard that might be a thing. There's no way that will last longer than the next 2.75 years, though. Let's be real. We'll see. They might still want to protect their automotive program, no matter who's in admin. I don't see how preventing someone from road tripping into the states will help American automotive manufacturing.

I think their idea is you can't enter the states with them so they can't be left there. Like if you drove down and then happened to fly back up or something, you just left your car there and now there's a Chinese EV in China. You mean in the U.S., but yes. Yes. There's lots of Chinese EVs in China. Quite a few. Quite a few. I saw them. Saw them with my own eyes.

Next topic, quick. Google will begin punishing sites for back button hijacking in June. I love this so much. I love, I freaking, some sites will do it twice. Yeah. Like you'll go to go back and it'll not, it'll just like go to some submenu thing and you'll go to go back again and it goes to some other thing. You go back. It meant back.

Yeah. Google is adding a back button hijack. to its spam policy starting June 15th. Sites that mess with your browser's back button, trapping you in loops, redirecting you to pages you never visited, or shoving ads and recommendations in the way when you try to leave will face ranking penalties

or manual spam actions. This should have been done ages ago. Yeah. Google is giving sites a two-month heads up and notes that some of the worst offenders might not even know they're doing it since the hijacking can come from third-party ad scripts or recommendation widgets baked into the site.

That's brutal, actually. I don't care. Yeah, I don't care either. It needs to go away. Yep. And like, you're going to have to be responsible for the ad scripts and stuff that you put on your site. Yeah. It is what it is.

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

You mean your brain's auto... Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, I don't care what it is or know what it is, but what I do care is that, like, sometimes the exit is up here and sometimes it's over here, and sometimes you have to wait for a circle to complete, and other times you have to, like,

go open it on the ads, App Store and then go back and then exit it. And man, there's this one really obnoxious one that the X never appears until you just like press somewhere on the screen. And it won't open the ad, but it will make the X appear. So you have to like press it and then X and then X and then brings up another thing and then X again. It's like I mentioned I play the New York Times games.

It's been a while, but I play them every once in a while sometimes by myself, usually with Emma. They have ads, right? They're going to have ads to do whatever. Yeah. But if you notice, you can. make it perfectly perfectly go away.

Nice. Solid. And it's just gone. Solid. No problem. I don't mind that at all. Solid. I think that's totally good. What's a little less good? This is the one exception to the good news Wandshow this week. Major news outlets are blocking the internet archive.

Wired reports that in an effort to limit AI agents accessing historical data for training. 23 major publications including USA Today and the New York Times are currently blocking the Internet Archives Crawler, IS dash archiver bot. The abuse of fair use policies in the training of LLMs is a serious concern for both copyright holders and the Internet Archive Organization. The, yeah, hosting massive amounts of data, and for the Internet Archive Organization. because hosting massive amounts of data

has bandwidth costs associated with it due to LOM bots accessing it over and over and over and over and over and over again. Often in an incredibly inefficient way because they don't care. This is really bad news because the Internet Archive has only grown in importance as the world has increasingly abandoned print journalism

and the archives maintained by libraries and news organizations have fallen into disrepair. It used to be that you could go to your local library and pull up a microfiche of the newspaper of any given day in history, and you could go read it. Like you could go read the newspaper of the day that you were born, for instance.

This has gotten very difficult. In spite of pushback from copyright holders, courts have established that the archives actions are legal and that creating a searchable index without making copies of the materials is impossible. But I can also understand why copyright holders are doing what they're doing, because just having AI agents trained on their stuff

is also not good. Yeah. Way back machine director Mark Graham is reportedly in talks with several outlets so the archivers bot

could gain access to the websites once more but right now is an uncertain time for archiving important information that otherwise could just be lost.

On that subject, rare bootleg concert recordings are coming to the Internet Archive. You don't have to go? I do. I just have to, I don't know. Do a couple more topic?

One more topic. Okay. Music superfan, Adam Jacobs, has built a collection of more than 10,000 cassette tapes by attending and recording concerts since 1989. After Jacobs was featured in a documentary in 2023, the Internet Archive reached out, and now, once a month, a volunteer named Brian Emrick picks up 10 to 20 boxes stuffed with tapes and transfers the analog recordings in real time to digital files that are sent to other volunteers to clean up, organize and publish. So far, almost 2,500 tapes have been digitized and added to the Adam's, or the Adam Jacobs collection on the Internet Archive. The collection includes rarities like Nirvana performing in 1989, two years before Smells Like Team Spirit was released as a single.

Wow, that's cool. So they recorded Smells Like Team Spirit. Oh, that's so cool. Unreleased tracks by Tracy Chapman and previously unknown recordings of Sonic Youth, R.E.M., Fish, Liz Fair, pavement, neutral milk hotel, and a host of others. this is maybe a controversial take, but I have never really felt the need to record a concert. I thought you're not really supposed to.

And I've actually come around to the idea of a concert being an experience for the moment and not something to be recorded. But maybe I'm, maybe this is, it kind of goes against my general stance as just like a data hoarder and everything should exist forever. But I don't know. I, uh, maybe I just grieved it already

because there were really great experiences I had live that I was never able to recall again and I just was like, okay, well, I guess that's just the nature of the beast. I think there is also certain things that you shouldn't be distracted by the camera you should just experience. I also remember I went to Blinquent A2

had a concert in Vancouver and my brother and I went. Yeah. I remember I recorded it on my phone and sent it to a buddy because I thought he'd like it. and then a few days later I went back and washed it and was like, why the fuck would he like this? Yeah.

Because I just sent him a really crappy recording of Blinkwine 2 playing a song that he's heard before in a good recording. So like, I don't know. I do think like I have heard live recordings, professional live recordings before of songs that I prefer the live recording of the song. I think also like as a piece of history to have some. recordings from concerts from bands is cool. Do I think every single person in the audience needs to have their cell phone out recording? Aggressively, no. Just enjoy the darn concert. When you know there's 40,000 other freaking phones in the audience out, maybe you don't need your individual POV and could have someone who's one foot to the side of you. It's going to be posted on the

internet anyways and just use theirs and enjoy it yourself. Um, I, Part of the experience to me too is like, I wish the performers could be themselves a little bit more and not have to be worried about everything from the concert just immediately being published. Sure. One of the funniest concert experience that I ever had was with Michael Bublay of all people. He did an outdoor performance in Vancouver, must be about 20 years ago now. and Yvonne and I attended it. We just kind of randomly got tickets for it. I think my aunt might have gotten them for us or something.

I don't know. Anyway, the point was we went. Neither of us were huge Michael Bubli fans, but we had a really great time. And one of the funniest moments was when he like was interacting with the crowd that was like right up next to the stage. And this, I couldn't see her because I was like way back. But presumably young lady like, you know, handed him,

passed him, passed him like a note, and he made like an offhand joke. He was like, you're like 12. You're a little young and everyone like laughs. Um, because that was, you know, not, I guess, that was, that was pre-Ebstein files when, you know, we could kind of go like, yeah. A famous person saying no to that was common at that time. And, and just like, you know, the idea that he might say anything other than no was funny. And it was just, it was, but it was, it was like hilarious. And he just like kind of, he kind of like burned, he burned her in front of like 10,000 people. I don't know. I don't know if you can get away with that anymore.

Well, bad. Yeah, all right. All right, time for after dark. What do you got for us, Mr. Dan? Sure. Let me just push some buttons here. Okay. And yeah, I've got a couple for you today.

Sure. I really need to make this one single button that would make my life easier. There we go. Hey, WAN hosters. Linus, any update on the GPD Win 5 review? Also did the WAN design backpack sell well enough for a restock. Keep up the great work. Love your products and the work y'all do.

I don't know if I'm ultimately going to end up doing a review of it, but I do end up talking a little bit more about my experience with it in the upcoming short circuit for the 1x player apex. That's a competing Strix Halo handheld, and both of them have their own unique selling points.

Both are very expensive. This one actually can be configured with liquid cooling. Is that US? Which is pretty, oh yeah, of course. Which is pretty wild. Liquid cool. I mean, the people who have it apparently love it,

but... Is that two reviews? 1009 or something. It's a pretty wild. little device and I talk a little bit more about the Wynn 5 and my experience daily driving it in there. As for the WAN backpack, I don't know if we're restocking it. You might just have to send in a message to customer care to ask about that. Hello from the UK. My Android Auto seems very sensitive to cable quality, hoping this cable is the solution. Have you had much feedback on the

type of problems the true spec cables have solved? Actually, yeah, there's been a ton of feedback about them if you if you look at the reviews on the site uh people some of them i think people are actually wrong and misunderstanding like what a cable does um but there are also a lot of them where people do seem to know what they're talking about and is there like some that says their audio sounds better or something there's some there's some stuff like that which look if it makes you happy then i like guess whatever i'm glad you're happy but that's not really how it works digital signal um but there are people that are like, oh yeah, no, like I was getting transfer issues with my high-speed external storage and now it's consistently faster or the more robust build quality is making

it so that when my Roomba runs over it, it's less likely to get destroyed. Like, people are really enjoying this product. So I'm just, I'm glad they are. We had a small restock earlier this week. They're like almost all gone now. If you want to get a true spec cable, you are going to need to sign up for a notification. Like if you do not click this button, you are not going to get one for a while. Our manufacturer increased their capacity just for us to make more of these cables. It is still not even close to enough. There's A to C's. Yeah, there's short A to C's and a really long A to C and all the ones in the middle are sold out. Yeah. Yeah. For you, Luke? What's your Oh, wait, can you do Luke's after?

Yep. Hi, LLD. Hey, Linus, now that your kids are getting into 3D printing, what CAD software do they use? Also, did you teach them how to use it, or how did they teach themselves it? They learned TinkerCAD at a local sort of STEM, mostly computer kind of study thing called Code Ningen,

which seems to be working pretty well for them. They can make just about any kind of big. basic thing they want. My daughter did something for a project for school earlier this week. Yeah, they're just, they're still having a really good time with it, both just, you know, using it as a toy factory and also to do legitimately useful things. Tinker's great. I think Grasshopper, is that free? Can we get them into Grasshopper? I mean, I guess. They know it better than I do at this point. They could go work with Seb. Hey Linus, my five-year-old just had his first dental work and managed to chew his lip up due to the anesthesia by accident.

How sore are you these days? Is the end in sight? I'm actually really sore today. It's really hard to talk. When I'm not getting enough sleep, they dig in extra, and then they put in a super strong wire for the one tooth that stubbornly stayed really twisted after the first. rounds and like the bracket was not quite in the right place and stuff. So this tooth here. Yeah. Turned like maybe 15 degrees with this wire like a lot. Okay, maybe 10, but like freaking a lot, which moved like everything. And it's like you can really tell when they're moving a lot because you'll like kind of press on the bracket and you can like you can like feel them like moving and

like it'll go like they'll like kind of reshift and stuff like like in real time if there's a lot of and built up. And then the wire for this one, can see there's a long sand of wire just like slices the inside of the lip there. And then there's another one on this side that's doing the same thing. I'm actually like in extreme discomfort right now.

The WAN show is not a lot of fun when my mouth is as sore as it is right now. I have to bail. Luke's going to have to do this thing. I really got to go. No problem. I've got a family thing. Bye.

Bye. Bye. Have fun. Don't forget your bag. I see you walking past it. Say the line. No, well, you can call me. Oh yeah, I forgot we can do that.

Nice. Luke, what's your go-to-character build when you play Moro-Win slash Ophillian slash Skyrim, et cetera, question mark. Please know Stealth Archer. Okay, well, I have to defend myself a little bit. It's Stealth Archer, isn't it? I have to defend myself a little bit. It's stealth Archer.

When I was a wee child, and I played Morrwind, and I didn't look up things on the internet of how to do stuff. And you still ended up with Stealth Archer? I still ended up with Stealth Archer. But Stealth Archer was not SkyRim, Rim level O.P. back in Morrwind. I watched a video today, I think, that was talking about how Skyrim pushes you through into being Stealth Archer.

It kind of does. It kind of does. So I liked Stealth Archer before then. And then in Skyrim, I actually didn't, I don't think, or I did a mix or something, because it kind of did feel too overpowered. I always liked being Marshall. I found spellcasters in those games.

are just like always too overpowered. Especially Morwind. Spell casting in Moro, you're just a god. Especially if you start getting into enchanting in Morwind. Like, I remember one of my characters I made, I think it was a ring. And I called it like, I think I called it the god ring. Because if you just used the like activatable ability on the ring, everything just died. So I would be like, oh, I can't get past this quest.

I'll go grab that and put it on and just win the game. So I found it more engaging to work with like block or pari mechanics. I generally like having a shield because I feel like fighting with the shield is like kind of more fun. But yeah, I was always more into martial stuff. I liked the archery in Morwind because Morwin doesn't play around. If you end up in a too high level area, it's just too high level and they'll just wreck you. But it's also Morwin. So there might be a way around it.

And the AI is really dumb. So like I wanted to like, you know, kill everything in an entire city because I was 14 and that's sick. But the guards and stuff are way too tough for me. So I just brought an incredible amount of arrows and stood on like this weird part of a building that they couldn't get to and just shot them for like an incredible amount of time until I killed every single guard in the entire city and then got all their super high value loot and stuff. So I liked archery and stuff early on, but always focused on, um, always focused on Marshall builds.

I'm planning on doing a thing. I was kind of dabbling with it a little bit in the oblivion remake, but I'm going to wait until the fan remake mod version, um, called Sky Blivian comes out. And then I'm going to actually try to do it because I'm much more interested in Sky Blivian than just the official Blizzard remake. Um, but I'm going to do a thing where, you know how in the game you pick a class, you pick what sign you were born under, you do all that kind of stuff. I'm going to pick warrior for every single option because you can pick the warrior

class, you can pick the warrior sign, you can pick the warrior or whatever. So I'm going to do as many selections as I can as just warrior. And then the only magic that I'll use is restoration magic. And I'm going to see if I can beat the game while kill on citing anything that ever cast a spell. That isn't restoration magic. That's great. If you use any school of magic other than restoration, I will have to cleanse you from the earth and I'll see if it's literally possible at all.

Are you doing, you're doing it with like punching or sword or? Oh, sword and everything. It's all good. Yeah, I'm a holy knight. And if I see you casting a darn spell that isn't, uh, restoration magic, I got to put you down. I told you about my punches and drugs, Skyrim build character. Yeah.

That's surprisingly possible in Skyrim because Skyrim has some really good. That's why it's possible. It's also super broken. it's just like high-level braces and then you just punch dragons to death it's like that's my it's high-level braces you're getting like Rifton or something right

oh yeah you just I remember this you just sit there and you just make braces and then you just punch everybody to death yeah because you're unarmed and your braces are really good crafting in those games

are always a mess oh yeah Blizzard remake oh sure Bethesda remake my that's my stealth archer I can't not to do that sure yeah there's fun ways to play the game I even think stealth archer can be fun.

It's just fun one time. I think what happens is people want to play something different, and then they just accidentally... It's like crabs. Everything evolves into a crab. Everything also evolves into a stealth archer. Pretty much. Like you usually have it as a fallback,

it's just because it's so overpowered. I always wish actual stealth was like a little bit more viable in those games, so you could be like a dagger build that was more... yeah viable i guess but yeah usually i end up being some form of martial either like a uh two-handed weapon or one-handed weapon in a shield uh or just both um yeah yeah i think that's it i guess we can call them yeah hold on a second let's see all right we're trying you like my dbrands game hello hello you got to sign us off Wanshow channel. I think we may not be able to have the transition be as long as we had originally

intended because there's just like duplicate Vods. I think we might have to accelerate this. So just throwing that out there. Make sure you're subscribed to the Wanshow channel because we may have to stop streaming on the LTT channel sooner rather than later. We'll see again next week. Same bad time. On a different channel. Next week. Wow. Okay. All right. Bye! Okay, see it.