 And we're live! Wow! Did we do a pre-show? Welcome to the WAN show. Someone did a pre-show. Nice. Yeah, that's right. Good job. I was working. I was working too. I noticed that Colton actually officially changed the start time of the WAN show on the channel. Did he change it to five? He changed it to five, but then he told me he changed it to five. So it didn't work. Well, that's a fail. You can't tell us that you changed it to five. We would have probably never noticed. Yep. And we would have tried really hard to hit 4 o'clock or 4.30, and then we would have actually hit five. But he told us he changed it to five, so now we're screwed. You can't make us comfortable. I think we should change it back to 4.30. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then change it back to five at some time, and don't tell us. This week was freaking crazy. You want to talk about your thing that you went and did? Yeah. It was actually really awesome. So yesterday, this was a totally last minute thing. I didn't find out until, so what was yesterday? We've been trying to plan it for a little while. Yeah. No, no. It's been possibly happening for weeks. So Thursday, I went down for a tour of Monolith Productions. So they're best known probably for their work on the Matrix Online. Oh, OK, yeah. Um. Um. I'm just kidding. I mean, I knew them from that. I actually make that joke in the video. But probably almost no one else does. I knew they did that. I played. Really? Yeah. You played the Matrix Online? For almost no amount of time. You know there's a fan server? There's a guy who reverse engineered this. He packet sniffed to figure out what the server was doing. And it's super broken. It's actually really, really broken and terrible. You basically can't do anything. And I think you have to enter text commands in order to do things. Yeah, it's really broken. And it's still up. But he's been working on it since it went down back in whatever that would be, like 2007, 2009. I don't remember when it went down. What a hobby. Yeah, what a hobby indeed. But anyway, sorry, probably better known for Fear, Condemned, Fear 2, and then more recently. The Fear series definitely, yeah. Yep. So Middle Earth, Shadow of Mordor, and Middle Earth, Shadow of War are probably what they are better known for developing. And those last two have been done since the Warner Brothers acquisition. So that's how they managed to get the rights to make Middle Earth games. So anyway, I got to go down there and check these guys out. And I didn't find out that I was going to be going until I think late Tuesday night. And I left here early Thursday morning. So I actually had to get up at 6.15 in the morning and then meet Pella at the office. And then we had to leave the office by about 7.30, 7.45. That got us down there for a little after 10. And then we shot all day. So we actually shot for. Because they have a lot of stuff at their studio. Half hour lunch. So we shot for like 10 hours or so. And then we left late at night. We got some Five Guys on the way back. Nice, there you go. That was pretty sick. You can't go down to America without getting some Five Guys. Well, Five Guys is in Canada now. What? Yeah. How did you not know this? Is it cheaper than it is down there? Because two burgers and one medium fries was almost $30 Canadian dollars. So there's a Five Guys in North Van. And just like. I'm not going to say whose house that's near. But it's there. You know whose house that's near. Oh, wow. That's crazy. Yeah. I don't know if they're like anywhere else. Yeah, it doesn't look like it. Oh, cool. OK, well, at any rate. I did specifically say Vancouver. So we were shooting there for like 10 hours. And man, that place is so cool. Like, I don't want to give away everything. It's amazing. It's great there. But like. Oh, dude, there's one in Surrey. Oh, wow. OK. I'm totally going to go at some point. Yeah. But yeah, it was like super amazing. They were really, really open, which was probably the coolest thing about it. Yeah. There was one thing they really wouldn't show us. Well, they showed me, actually. They let me into the server room. But they wouldn't let us film it. Yeah, I'm not surprised. And they were, you know, there was stuff that I wouldn't have even considered. So the server room is technically like Warner Brothers property. Oh. And. Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. And so they couldn't give me details like how fast their internet connection is. They couldn't tell me what speed their internal networking is running at. I just thought it was cool that they do that on site. But they did tell me that their internal networking is way beyond 10 gig. Oh, wow. Well, you think about what their animators are working on, like the size of some of the assets that they must be working with, how responsive it needs to be. They've got somewhere between 150 and 200 people, according to Glassdoor. Like, yeah, it would have to be pretty bang in infrastructure. Man, that would have been pretty cool. I totally understand why. And it was cool, by the way. Yeah. But we couldn't film it. Yeah. But they did give us some cool stats. So they told us they have about 800 terabytes of storage on site, which, man, you should have seen the guy stiffen when I said, oh, hey, that's almost as much as we have. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Because you know, how many hard drives you have is like, yeah, yeah. The IT guy's dick measuring contest, right? There's the dick measuring contest on the forum of who has more storage, basically. There's a whole thread. The 100 terabyte club, I think it's called. I think so, yeah. So that is absolutely a thing. Like, did you get to do any stuff in the mocap room? I didn't get to actually do mocap. OK, yeah. But they were doing a shoot while we were there. Oh, cool. And their mocap room is freaking awesome. Oh, it's awesome. It's super cool. And two of the guys that, like, I don't want to give away everything from the video. I will talk a little bit about the mocap room. So it's got 39 cameras. And these are high frame rate cameras, although they said they usually record at 60 FPS. Actually, this I didn't put in the video, because there was so much. So much stuff. I had eight pages of notes that to get down to what would typically be a script for us, which is usually about 1 and 3 quarter pages. I mean, obviously, I had to cut. I had to cut, cut, cut, cut, cut. So this was really cool. So those cameras they have are fully capable of 120 FPS capture, or even higher. And what they do is they capture at 60, because they were saying that actually you end up throwing out a lot of that data anyway when you're giving the mocap data to the animators, because it's for a video games. And we're giving it to animators. So if you need to create frames in between an action, you just do that. Yeah. That makes sense. Like, these are just data points that the arm follows along. Of course, you have a model that's going to run at however many frames per second it runs at. I want to talk more about it, but maybe we'll wait till people have seen the video. Sure. Yeah. There's a few more things I want to talk about, but I don't want to spoil things that you very likely talked about. I think that video is due out in about a week and a half, so it shouldn't be that long. Is it a simul? I think it'll be a simultaneous release on Floatplane and YouTube. Yeah, so that was pretty cool. That was kind of the highlight of my week. And you mostly worked on Floatplane stuff, I guess, this week. Yeah. I hired one guy who's working mostly weekends, maybe some nights. He's hopefully going to be working on the payment processing, because it's super bad right now. Oh, man. So that's really awesome. And there's another guy who's confirmed to join later next month full time. I'm not going to be giving much more information about those guys, because, you know, probationary periods and all that kind of stuff. But yeah, that's exciting, because we need some help. I have another really cool update for Floatplane, and I'm not going to give away who it is, because I don't know if this person. Have you talked to him since then? I wasn't even going to say this person's gender. I didn't want to give any hints whatsoever. But there is a person. Well, maybe I assumed. Maybe you assumed. Yeah. Anyway. I mean, I don't know. What we can assume is that this person is human, a human person, you know? I haven't seen the junk. And that's all that matters. So we do have someone who will be joining us as the very first third party creator on Floatplane. We are going to be doing some pretty janky stuff to make it happen. It hopefully won't seem janky. Yeah, hopefully it won't seem janky. But basically, our CMS, so I don't know if you guys are familiar with the term, but it stands for Content Management System. And it refers to the uploading tool where you also create your thumbnails and titles. And you do like what? It's where you manage your content. Yeah, internally, we call it Merching, because I come from retail. And so it's not enough to just put a product on the shelf. You have to merchandise it. You have to put all the little cool speeds and feeds. You have to set a price. You have to arrange them nicely. And that's the way that I see a description and tags and thumbnails. So that's where you like merge your video and that. OK, so in the last week and a half, Luke and his team. That's not entirely how it's happened, because it's been kind of been tooled on for a long time. But what stage was it at a week and a half ago? Not close to ready. And then one guy specifically on my team, I'm not going to call it your name, because I don't know a handle for you that isn't actually your name. So, huh? And I don't know if you're cool with that anyways. But one guy specifically has been working on it like crazy. What you guys used to know as Catboiler, but is now AJ Jacks Net, because he changed his name. Well, it's good he changed his name. Catboiler is a highly inappropriate name. I'm shortening AJ Jacks Net to just Ajax. I think I'm just going to call it Ajax. But he's been doing work on some of the infrastructure stuff, too. So the Australian guys have had a little bit of a server upgrade. So hopefully that goes a little bit better in the future. And there's some other stuff going on. And he's prepping for the new human entity that will be joining Floatplane as well. So yeah, it's been a group effort. TPS1980 is upset that I speak like a Valley Girl. What? And asks when I'm going to grow out of it. You know, I don't think it's. How do you speak like a Valley Girl? Like, you know, like, you know, like. Ah. I sincerely doubt that I will ever grow out of it. If you want the not like this Linus, then you're probably going to want the scripted Linus, which is most of the more professional written reviews. But if you just want me talking like I talk, then it's going to be full on Valley Girl Linus from now until the end of time. Some said Vancouver is basically like Valley Girls. You know, it's just basically like, you know, whatever. Like, you know, it's funny because I only occasionally notice it when other people do it. Because to me, it's such a natural part of my manner of speaking that I just don't even notice it. Yeah. I don't notice when someone doesn't do it. I don't notice when someone does do it. I just, yeah. Yeah, that's fair. Wow, Linus is begging for likes. No. Oh, get it? Yeah. No. No. I like the joke. Get it? No. I actually have nothing. I have like nothing to say. Should we get into topics? Yeah. Why don't we get into? Wait, we haven't even rolled the intro. Intro. But we have to talk about the topics. No, no, no. I mean, they're already here. They're committed to watch. Verizon mobile announced. No, no, it's scrolling. EA shits. Oh. It kind of sounded like you said EA shits. I mean, they kind of. They do. Yeah. Yeah. Everybody poops. I mean, they made Battlefront 2, so. Everybody poops, Luke. Including you. Hey, we have a new sponsor. Yeah. It's Coffee. Yeah. 40% off. That's considerable. FreshBooks. Yeah. And Synergy. Yeah. And we're back. Cool. Anyways, topics. We have Verizon mobile announced. Not like mobile phones. We'll get into that. You are determined to do the highlight topics thing. I'm not going to let you finish. EA shuts down the Revive network. Also GTX 1070 ATI news. Oh, wow. So you're going to go all ASMR to try and get them to pay more attention to you. And AMD is making money again. I think that whatever you're saying is not. I wonder what this is. Is there ASMR of two people talking at the same time? Is that a thing? You know what? Or is that just too much stuff happening? If a thing exists, there's a subreddit somewhere that's into it, so. I wonder if there's like a, yeah, let's just use the term subreddit for now. I wonder if there's like a subreddit dedicated to just like people talking about news. Oh, probably. But like not like. Two ASMR, one cup. I think that is slash r slash two SMR. No, I'm kidding. I mean, someone's got to make it now, right? Yeah. It would shock me if by the end of one show today, that subreddit did not exist. It's a thing when there's sometimes a top comment where it's like they link to a subreddit and people are like, oh, man, I wish that existed. And then people go and actually make it a thing because they're like, someone wishes that it existed. I can be the mod for this subreddit. Let's go. I can be the mod for like a two person subreddit, realistically, that probably doesn't need moderation so much. Speaking of websites that aren't made yet but should be. Oh, no. Oh, no. No. You're going to be kidding me. Oh, wait. Hold on. Hold on. I wonder if I just. No, no. It's fine. I'll do it. It looks like it's done. Hold on. I can go do the thing. No, no, no, no, no. I can do it. I can do it. Well, it's been, has it been two weeks since this? I don't know. Because I was at TwitchCon. I don't know. So yeah, it's been two weeks since the Luke was wrong meme started. So that's the SDI one. And I definitely need to do this. I have to say, I'm a little disappointed in the creator. Yeah? Yeah. There's been an instant, there was a Squarespace page made. And initially, it was like, oh, wow, this is actually pretty good, especially considering the short amount of time that was given for it to be created. And then there was a Twitter made. The guy or girl or whatever, I don't know, has been tweeting. There's been a Discord created. There's been an Instagram created. But nothing has been done with it. Really? It's still the same. There's even the like. Are you sure it's still the same? Hold on. Yeah. And you click on that. When was Luke wrong? And then coming soon. Coming soon? Nothing's been done with it. Oh. But I do have fairly interesting news. I still love this site, though. Is this from mod24? Linuswaswrong.com. And yes, it was. What? No. Check out Linuswaswrong.com. When was I ever wrong? Just give it a shot. Just give it a little look. Oh, look at that picture. No. Who knows? Get notified. You can join the 30th. What does that even mean? I don't know, to be completely honest. No. Is there anything else going on on this web page? I don't know. No. The joke was that you were wrong about Pokemon. I think there's. Let's see. I think there's. Oh. I didn't know there was a Linuswaswrong.com. Yeah. Yeah. So I don't know what you're wrong about. Because neither of the websites have been updated at all. So there's no information or video clips or anything. You know what I'm probably wrong about? They probably are just like, you know what? It is wrong to be so perfect in every way. Wow. Wow. It's wrong in the sense that it defies reality. You go on Metacritic and pretend that you're a game and write yourself a joke. OK, you're doing that on purpose now, aren't you? Yeah. All right. So our first topic. Wow, we are 20 minutes into the show? Haven't even started talking about news. Heck yeah. Well, if you don't talk about any news, it can't be fake news. Wow. Or it's the fakest news of all time. One of the two. News that isn't even news. There's nothing new about it. Ryzen Mobile has been announced. This was posted by Parina on the forum. Yeah. The original article here is from my friend, Dr. Cutress, over at AnandTech. I have to say before we start, I love these stats. I love stats for AMD's new stuff because it's been so long since they've released something else. And they compare themselves against themselves. So they're like, it's 200% faster. 128% GPU performance. And the funniest thing about it is that the AMD fanboys who have, for all these years, been saying that AMD had competitive offerings are just oblivious to the fact that AMD themselves is acknowledging that they have a product that is now competitive that is anywhere between 40% to 400% faster than their previous best. Hold on a second. You can't have it both ways. And to be clear, Intel fanboys and Nvidia fanboys are no less intolerable. Oh, no. It's just poor AMD fanboys have suffered in a way that the other two groups have not. They're grizzled, though. They've been through some stuff. They have been through a level of denial that I think would kill any other living being. So you could think of them kind of like cockroaches. Or like those little, I don't remember what they're called. It's like a denial nuclear holocaust. Yeah, you're just like, no. You want me to die? How about no? No. I refuse. Yeah. Why? Because Ryzen. But they didn't know it was going to be called Ryzen. But they knew they were going to rise again. It's so funny, because even right in the name of the product, it's Ryzen. It's like AMD is painfully aware of what's going on here. Yeah, man. OK, sorry. What was the news again? Oh, right. OK, so Ryzen 7 2700U with Vega 10 is a quad core chip. 2.2 base, 3.7 gig turbo. That is freaking awesome. It would have been more impressive if Intel hadn't also launched their U series processors quite recently with quad core designs. But at 15 watts, man, Zen is looking like it scales down really nicely to these lower power envelopes. That's cool, man. Let's see what else they've got. Zen plus Vega. That's another thing, too, is Vega might not look particularly power efficient in the RX Vega 56 and RX Vega 64. But if you talk to industry people off the record, what they'll say is that, well, don't judge Vega based on the products that it's in. Vega is very efficient if you actually scale down the voltage. And a lot of what's like I know basically. So it's overclocked, basically. Yeah, and pretty much every chip company for a while now has been going really hardcore in the whole bring the temperatures down, make it more power efficient category. But where it really matters for me is mobile stuff, mobile laptops, mobile phones. And if they're going to be really efficient with those types of things, then awesome. Are you actually looking at things? These are so funny. OK, hold on, hold on, hold on. OK, AnonTech has those ads from around the web ads now. They're terrible. And these are some of the worst I have ever seen. Oh, check out that chiropractor trick, though. Hold on, hold on, hold on. So from the web, Canada, market failure, thousands of iPhone 7s for only $5. OK, so I'm going to stop you right there. That is a plus. And that is not a phone at all. That is AirPods. OK, and this guy, no, I don't remember him. I don't remember him either. I bet I cannot gasp. Also, this is one of those ones where when it's really small, it could look kind of like two people doing stuff or whatever. Yeah, it does. When it's up big, you're just like, there's no way a chiropractor is like. Yeah, that's not the simple trick that they want you to do. Look at this granny. Rich, dying granny leaves nothing to ungrateful children. She looks badass, though. Is there a shopping site where you only pay if you win? I think that's every shopping site ever. Yeah, you win when you buy the thing. Yeah, and that's when you pay. You pay when you win. The prize is the thing you bought. I think? Maybe I'm missing something here? That's really glamorizing shopping, but yeah. You win. You win. You win the Simon ring. You gave me a lot of stuff, but I'm giving you, hopefully, an equivalence back in terms of a product. Hooray. Shopping. So anyway, there's some pretty cool designs coming with Ryzen Mobile. HP has an NVX360 coming with the 2500U. It's going to have up to 512 gig SSD or 1 terabyte hard drive, 15.6 inch display, up to 8 gigs of RAM. What is this product? Yeah, really. What? Why does it? Wait, what? Who delivers a product that only goes up to 8 gigs of RAM today? And it's slim and sexy. It's an NV. It's like, HP bought that brand. How many of you have been around long enough to remember Voodoo PC? I do. I remember Voodoo. We had one. They bought that brand and then just had, they gave Raul a bunch of money for it. And then he just completely disappeared off the face of the Earth. No, they made him a VP for a bit and then got rid of him because I don't think he was really doing anything. I'm assuming. I have no idea. No rumors, nothing. This is just pure assumption. I'm making assumptions too. I'm assuming that it was based off of a vesting something or other. Oh, right. There was probably a guaranteed thing. Vesting shares to some degree. So they wanted him to come on as advisory for a little while before he took off. And that's probably part of the deal. They just had no idea what to do with that brand. And now it's a laptop with 8 gigs of RAM. The IdeaPad 720S, actually, this is a weird one too. Up to a Ryzen 7 2700U, run single channel memory, which we already know is not that optimal for Ryzen. Up to a 1 terabyte SSD, so that's a purely solid state option. Maybe Acer is going to get it right. Up to 8 gigs. Up to 8 gigs. Up to 256 gig SSD. This is a super value product. I mean, maybe I'm missing something here. But why are we? OK, this Acer one wants to take advantage of larger turbo modes. Memory will be dual channel with the. Even Ian, although the system will only support 8 gigs. Yeah. What's going on? So it looks on paper like Ryzen Mobile should be pretty competitive. I mean, at those base and boost clocks, this thing should perform pretty well. But you can usually tell before benchmarking something, how good something is. Because you've got to understand partners like an HP or a Dell or a game studio when you're talking about something like a development kit for a console. They've got access to the hardware or some approximate equivalent of it. Did you get to see the dev kits? For quite some time, yes I did. They're so cool. So usually you can tell how good they think something is by the kinds of designs they're planning to integrate it into. So this is a pretty cool thing. They're planning to integrate it into. So this doesn't give me a lot of confidence for Ryzen Mobile. But hey, I'd love to be wrong. There's some good AMD news. Maybe we'll do that as our next topic here before the. Hold on, where's the other AMD news? Yeah, before we do our sponsor spots. Someone said it's an ultrabook. Most won't need 16 gig. Also, it uses more power. So what? The Razor Blade Stealth has shipped with 16 gigs of RAM for two generations now. Marginally more power. And I think a surprising amount of people actually do use that memory. A lot of people are trying to watch. I didn't see the resolution of the screens. But a lot of people are trying to watch fairly high res Netflix content, which uses good memory. Lots of people are running Chrome. You won't be running 4K. So there's that. Because right now that's limited to Intel processors as far as I know. Yep. So we'll get wrecked on that. Yeah, that's fair. But yeah, lots of YouTube tabs in Chrome, and a Netflix tab in Chrome, and Facebook, and Reddit is going to really slam your memory pretty quick. So this is while streaming. I'm not actually even doing anything right now. And I've already got 16 gig of RAM used. While streaming off a different PC. Yeah, off a different PC. So this computer actually just has like. Actually like nothing going on. Well, OK, to be fair, it's a UC. You have quite a few things up here. But the TeamViewer thing is not connected. It's not doing anything. Yeah. One of those things is notepad. One of those things is paint. Yeah, paint. One of those things is ShareX, which is not doing anything right now. And it's also just telling me there's an update, which I don't want because it already does everything I need it to do. The Skype one is not connected. No. It's just kind of sitting there. Yeah, it's not. No, it's not signed in even. It's not even. OK, not even signed in. Because I don't have a sign in for it. One of those is FileZilla. Don't open that one. But like that's not connected to anything. Seven zip. Some seven zip tabs aren't doing anything. Audacity. OK, I do have a fair bit open. It has a lot open, but none of them are doing anything. Yeah, and so I can easily like make myself suffer with the Gram. Oh my. Oh, I'm so excited about the new Gram. But that's the issue is these designs are competing with the new Gram. So my new Gram is coming, I think, sometime in the next couple of weeks. And it's got a quad core Intel processor, eighth gen. And it's got 16 gigs of RAM. That's standard now. So when you were competing with last gen designs like this one, that was fine. That was very last gen of you. When you have to compete with new ones, then it becomes a bit of a problem. So I'm really not sure what they're trying to do here. In other news, AMD is finally making money. What? So this was originally posted. This is way cooler than it seems. I know as a consumer, you might be like, hey, I don't really care, man. But like, that's really important. It matters a lot. This is posted by Doc Swag on the forum. The original article here is actually from AMD's own site. And check this biz out. What? On $1.64 billion revenue. So you compare this to last quarter. That is a really hefty uplift. That looks like about 25% uplift over last quarter. And a little less than that over the same quarter of the previous year. Operating income, though, is $126 million gross profit with a net income. So that's, excuse me, after expenses of $71 million. Now, to be clear, this is still $0.07 per share. So it's not like all of a sudden, AMD is going to be throwing hookers and blow parties at their headquarters or whatever. But hey, this is a really, really good thing for the PC industry in general. So they beat expectations. Oh, what's up? Negative is just brackets. They don't want to put the negative symbol. No, that's normal. Brackets. Yeah. Oh, yeah, it's an accounting thing. I don't know why. That's odd. But sure. But yeah, so operating income was $126 million compared to an almost $300 million loss a year ago. And net income was $71 million compared to a net loss of $406 million a year ago. It's amazing they survived as long as they did. It really is. They had to sell everything. Sold their fabs. You know they sold their HQ, right? Yeah. Yeah, like they don't actually own their headquarter anymore. Like they had to like Monopoly style, man. They had to mortgage boardwalk. And then somehow climb back, which is like really hard to do in Monopoly. And in real life. So average sale prices for GPUs went up significantly. I don't know that cryptocurrency really would have helped AMD sell the GPUs for much higher. So I'm not really sure where that comes from. But Vega has a higher ASP than their previous flagship, Polaris. And well, they're not getting the cut from the average sale price the GPU is going up. But it does mean that stores are like, please give us more. Which is a good position to be in. High volume. Fab more. And this quarter was especially strong in enterprise, embedded, and semi-custom. So that would be stuff like, oh, I don't know, maybe the upcoming Xbox One X. Very cool. And this is weird. Our last point in the notes here was one that I went and I looked up for myself without actually knowing that it was already in the notes. But AMDs, they beat their earnings guidance. And then their stock dipped. That's different. Yeah. Why are you mad that earning money? I have no idea. Yeah. Meanwhile, Bitcoin has gone up by whatever. Yeah, you have some Bitcoin, right? I have some Bitcoin. Yeah. All right. Well, good for you. I expect it. I don't know. There's the one side of things where it's like, Bitcoin is the internet video to TV. And blah, blah, blah, this is going to completely rule the world, blah, blah, all this super hardcore crowd. And then there's people that are like, uh, nope. Yeah. So until I can buy a Grand Slam breakfast at Denny's with Bitcoin. Once it gets to that point, that will be insane. And then it's like, because it has staying power in very weird ways right now. But it also has some big issues, like that fork. It's potentially like, it's like. It's intense. It's a scary thing. Because it's a hobbyist thing right now. Like, normal people can't be running around dealing with, oh, like, you know, oh, you know, my currency, my currency is, you know, this is going to like fork. And then instead of $50, I'm going to have $25 and 25 doll hairs. You know? One thing that's. And then one of them might go up, and one of them might go down. So I have to like make it. I have to be following the news. I have to make a bet on which one I think is going to be the one that goes up. Otherwise I can get phone. But then there's also huge benefits that are happening for it. Where like, uh, smartphones now carrying your standard credit card and being able to tap to pay. Yes. Is naturally extremely easy and already happening for people who are like, oh, I'm going to get a phone. That's like a new way of doing things. And I think it's not just for Bitcoin. Right? So like the normal financial institutions going like, hey, we want to modernize and do this thing already works for Bitcoin. So it's not weird for consumers to switch that. So like, there's, I don't know. It's a very weird space. It's really fun to follow. That's why I have some. And to be clear, I don't have some Bitcoin as in like a few whole Bitcoin. I have like. Some not one. Yeah. I have like a thousand US dollars. Who knows that could be a lot of money. Yeah. I just, yeah. Like I don't have a huge amount in it. I just have a little bit. I'm a, I'm a. Basically like playing with it. I'm doing it for fun. Right. Yeah. I'm also doing it for fun. I've made money, which is great, but like not. But you also have to like, you have to think of it right now as gambling pretty much. That's pretty much what it is. I basically see it as spending money on a really expensive hobby. Yeah. Yeah. And if you do it for, so, so look, I don't gamble at all. Yeah, I don't either. I have never put a quarter in a slot machine. I have never walked up to a blackjack table. Put two quarters in a slot machine. Okay. Cause they were American quarters. I didn't know what to do with them. So I don't gamble. And I did it illegally cause I was underage. That doesn't mean that you can't gamble responsibly. Yeah. If you, if it's fun for you to get the rush of playing the game and you go, look, the experience of being in the casino and having people around who are also gambling. That works here. Yeah. That gambles in a very healthy manner. Yeah. And is that, that has a $500 value to me. And if I lose it all, then I got my $500 worth. And if I win something, then I'll celebrate and I'll go buy a nice dinner. You can gamble responsibly. And as long as you approach Bitcoin in that manner, I think that you can not totally screw yourself. Okay, here's my $500. And I'm going to make a hobby out of following the news. And now I've got some skin in the game. So it's kind of like, it's kind of like betting with your friends on a sports game. Yeah. And like one thing that you can do is like, oh, you see it do something trendy. And you're like, OK, I can cash out here for a certain amount of time because I believe that it's going to go up or it's going to maybe go down for a second. And I'll buy a little bit more with the money that I cashed out with. And then it'll go back up. So now I just like increased my own investment off my own investment. So you can do fun things like that. So you're not even putting more money in. It just takes a little bit more work. And then there's like transaction costs. You have to factor that in. It's just kind of a fun thing to follow and pay attention to. Jake got really into it. I was hanging out with Jake. I'm like, OK, well, if we're going to talk about this all the time anyways, I might as well just. And then it's been fun. I actually have been enjoying it. It's cool. 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The FreshBooks platform works on the PC, on a Mac, on mobile. You've got the full capabilities of the platform on your Android or iOS device. And you can try it out for free over at freshbooks.com slash when. I don't want to add different talking points in there. Freshbooks.com slash when, and you can claim your free trial there, just put Linus Tech Tips in the how did you hear about us section. Next up, we've got Synergy! So do you have the supremely first world problem of having too many computers and too many keyboards and mice plugged into them? I mean, it's legitimately a problem. Like a lot of people have very good reasons for having multiple computers. Maybe you prefer to do your development in a Linux environment or an OS 10 environment, but you want a game on your Windows computer. Well, Synergy lets you use just one keyboard and mouse across all those devices. It is cross platform. You just drag your mouse onto the other screen. You just set it all up within the software. They've got just like this grid. You set up where all your screens are. And you can even do more than just switch which one you're using. You can drag and drop files between the computers. You can share the clipboard between the computers. You can set up hotkeys and much more. The basic option does not include encryption while the pro one includes encryption for the data being passed between the computers. So you can use our link in the video description to save 50% on Synergy and sorry, go ahead. Someone said dual boot, bro. What? Wow, not the point. The point is that you can use both of them at the same time. Yeah, they can both be on. If you want to check out a retro video, look up, what would it be called? Luke's Mineroyal PC? Oh. Yeah, I'm pretty sure. Does that work? Oh, a Slicks oil-cooled PC. Yeah. Just drop it in the chat. If you check that out, I have two keyboards, two mice, two monitors, two PCs because I have everything split up. And if I had realized this was a thing back then, that would have been really helpful. Yeah, and I mean another perfect example is if you have something like a render box. Yeah, a render box. Like my main one that I tell people is if you have a laptop that you use for work, you can take it home, dock it when you get home, and then go back and forth between the two because you can drag and drop files across them, everything, it's wonderful. And the docking process is as simple as putting it down next to your computer. Yeah. And maybe plugging in power if you don't want it to die. Yeah, but that has nothing to do with synergy. But that's nothing to do with the keyboard and mouse. Yeah. So pretty cool. Bringing us to, whoa, we've got a new sponsor. Yeah. Madrina's Coffee! Whoa, look at all this. There's a lot. Wow, these guys must have sent over so freaking much of this. And there's more in the fridge. Well, no, that and I've seen people drinking it a whole week. How much did they send? I think quite a bit. Okay, well, at any rate, wait, where is it? Ah, here we go. So these guys are all about natural, hashtag, coffee for fuel and ready to drink iced coffee, fair trade, wait, what are these talking points? This is terrible. So this is ready to drink iced coffee. It's a fair trade organic cold brew and it's roasted to order, wait, what? What does this even mean? Anyway, Madrina's Coffee's founders are from the gaming world. We've actually got Shlomo from their team in the Twitch chat right now. Oh, hi, Shlomo. Hi. Okay, so that first sentence was not a very good sentence, but that's okay. I'm sure you guys are a lot better at coffee than you are at sentences. In fact, I know that for a fact. Yeah. They're coffee sourced from high altitude growing zones in Columbia. They sell iced coffee and cold brews in these 440 mil cans, or you can get their micro roast whole bean coffee as well. 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Not only is it 40% off, but you get this awesome giveaway opportunity. Heck yeah. Speaking of things that are awesome, this was posted by Fushi on the forum. EA has shut down the Revive network. That's actually not awesome at all. No. No, actually this is kind of trash. So you know how the gaming community went through this whole thing where dedicated servers started disappearing. You know, dedicated server software that came with the game that you could run and set up your own private server that other people could join. Those started disappearing in favor of the publisher actually running their own servers that everybody would connect to. And the argument for this was that, oh, we are simplifying the process and we are increasing the general quality of service for gamers and we are creating a more consistent experience with consistent rules and map rotations and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Whatever the matchmaking is a big argument that's being made for it. But the problem that a lot of the advocates for private servers brought up was that, well, hold on a second. Realistically, EA is not gonna wanna run, okay, what would be an example of, okay, so let's say Battlefield 2. EA is not gonna wanna run Battlefield 2 servers when there's maybe a few hundred people left playing the game. So this is a thing that you're gonna pay for. You're gonna buy this game and then at some point in the future, like an MMO, it's just gonna expire because it's not worthwhile for EA to keep running this stuff and keep maintaining it and you're just not gonna be able to play multiplayer anymore. So specifically, they're looking at Battlefield 2, Battlefield 21, 42, and Battlefield Heroes. I really liked Battlefield 2. So one of the big problems was that GameSpy used to run some of these multiplayer experiences and when GameSpy disappeared in 2014, Revive, the Revive network sort of rose from the ashes as an unlicensed and unauthorized way of making these games playable online free of charge. So EA had originally planned to make the older games playable at the time but reversed the decision as a result of significant technical hurdles, which basically, I think, made the Revive guys think that they were pretty much good to go, but they just posted the following statement. We will get right to the point. Electronic Arts' legal team has contacted us and nicely asked us to stop distributing and using their intellectual property. As diehard fans of the franchise, we will respect these stipulations. And they've been doing this for three and a half years now, so they've invested not an insignificant amount of their time and effort into making these gaming experiences still available. You know, I wonder if FA Forever is still around. So that's another perfect example of a community-driven project to bring multiplayer back to a game that had been abandoned. It looks like these guys are still up. So this is for Supreme Commander Forge of the Alliance. Well, this is a little funky. The experience of FA Forever is actually very good, by the way. I've played for a little bit. I've been trying to figure out this pretty much the whole time. It says, we must ask that you stop throwing down ammo crates. This is apparently a quote. Seems a little informal, but it's apparently a quote. We must ask that you stop throwing down ammo crates. In other more legal-stylized terms, please stop distributing copies of our game clients and using our trademarks, logos, and artwork on your sites. It actually has nothing to do with running the forums. And this is pointed out somewhere else in a comment, which made me realize that I'm not the only person that noticed this. Revive doesn't seem to be reacting that way, so I'm wondering if there was more in the statement from EA because it's a very short statement. So maybe we didn't get the whole thing. But basically, all they're saying is, don't make it so you can download our clients. I'm sure people can find another way around that. And don't use our artwork and logos, but I'm sure you can find ways around that. Although it might be a little bit of an issue. Where's the thing? Trademark, that might be a bit of an issue because saying Battlefield 2 on the site might be a problem. Yeah. Oh yeah, it is a bigger statement overall. Yeah, it's not that much bigger though actually. Yeah, there's not much else more here so it doesn't go this way. Yeah, okay. Yeah, so honestly, this is one of those crappy legal things where at the end of the day, totally get why they have to do this. Okay, hold on a second. Kidultra13, I should just ban you from the chat. Let the old online games die and buy new ones. What's wrong with that? I'm down. Hopefully you're just trolling. I sincerely hope you're just trolling. But I don't know, no, it's probably fine. No one could be that stupid, so it should be okay. Okay, good. We'll just leave it, probably trolling. And I can respect trolling more than I can respect thinking that. Yeah, they're our sponsor today. Yeah, I know. Yeah. Why don't you just drink it on camera? How much did they send? I've seen everybody drinking this stuff. Drinking what? A nice refreshing medrenas? Oh, Lordy. You're off camera with that. Yeah, you're off. You're too tall. Now you're behind the mic. Everyone gets it, it's okay. Oh, boy. That was awesome. Anyway, so. That sucks a lot. Yeah, I totally get why it's happening. And they're actually right today, but they're only right today because they were wrong years ago and they didn't provide. Yeah, they didn't provide server software for people to set up their own private servers. And instead of doing it this way, they could have found some legal way to sanction these kind of things. Yeah, well, what they would have to do is they would have to release the server software, but because it contains all this matchmaking crap and all of this other stuff that a traditional game server wouldn't have, it probably contains a lot of IP that they are actually still using today and that wouldn't be proprietary. That's fair. So they actually can't do anything now. They have to protect the trademark, otherwise they risk not being able to defend it in the future. And they can't release the server code, so. But there's gotta be another way to, again, they don't specify that they can't run the servers. Right. They don't want the trademark being used, they don't want the logos being used, they don't want them to distribute copies of the game. You can stop distributing copies of the game, people can figure that out on their own. No, distributing, oh, okay, no, distributing copies of our game clients. Yeah, so they can stop doing that. Okay. People can find a way to get a copy of the game. So let's see how it goes. If they're going as far as finding this site, I'm sure they'll find a way to download a non-cracked version of Battlefield 2. I still have a Battlefield 2 key somewhere. Yeah. Never actually played that game. I'm sure there are websites on the internet where you can find the ISO file for an uncracked Battlefield 2. In other news, the Nvidia GTX 1070 Ti looks to be taking the fight, thank you Ars Technica, to RX Vega 56 at 450 bucks. Specs of this thing actually look pretty good. 2432 CUDA cores, eight gigs of GDDR5, so it's the cheaper GDDR5, not GDDR5X. 256 gigabytes of second memory bandwidth, okay, cool. And it is, yes, overclockable. So you will see custom designs coming from partners like ASUS. So yeah, the rumor, which I'm happy we very clearly pointed out as being a rumor, of this being not overclockable was not true. That was made very clear in the press release. There's some funky stuff going on though from source Ryan Schroet. Ryan Schroet, sorry. Here's our source, he told us that. Hi from PC perspective. Sorry man, yeah, Ryan Schroet. There's some funky stuff going on. Apparently partners are not allowed to bin their GPUs, but off the record, some board partners assure that they will be binning GPUs. So that's gonna be interesting. The other rumor is that partner cards will not be overclocked out of the box. So it will be up to the end user to overclock it. So what this looks like to me is NVIDIA making, if all this is true, is NVIDIA making an effort to avoid cannibalizing 1080, I guess. Because this card specs. Being able to overclock above it or to it. Look pretty good. Like this thing's got 500 more CUDA cores than the GTX 1070, this is a much, much fatter GPU. They're drastically different. It's thick, you know, thick. That's what the kids say, right? THICC. Yeah, do they spell it? Or is it just implied, thick? No, they say thick, but if you're typing it out like through a text message or something, it's THICC. Why? I don't know, too old. Okay, so this was posted by Hawk on the forum. The original article is from Tweaktown. Intel has announced their next gen Optane SSD, the 900P. And I'm gonna pee myself because this thing is the biggest deal to happen to SSDs since like the X25M, potentially. I haven't actually tested it myself, I haven't actually used one. But right now, the U.2 form factor, so this guy right here is available at 280 gigs. I like U.2. And the add-in card, yeah, Intel has not abandoned it, apparently, no one else is supporting it. But Intel's like, yep, nope, we're doing this. Because I guess it lets them reuse their server designs. And the ports aren't going away on high-end boards. They're still there. And it pulls it off the board. M.2 and PCIe, they're fixed on the board. Being able to have way more stuff pulling it off the board is also good. And this add-in card is available at 280 and 480 gig capacity points. It looks good. It looks pretty good. Like it doesn't have the really sick skull, which I've always been into that. The digitized skull was super cool, the skull trail skull. But it looks sharp. I like the black. But hopefully the back of it isn't all scratched up, like that one SSD. Yeah, oh my god. That thing looks so good. You know how much debate there would be at a company as corporate as Intel about using something like this on their branding? Because you gotta remember too, North American culture, yeah, skulls and flames, cool. Whereas I'm pretty sure that in at least some parts of Asia, this is like putting a big bad omen on your product. It's like basically like, say do not buy. It looks so cool though. And it's weird because I don't even generally like skulls. Like remember when we were not, I wouldn't say growing up, but like teens, there was all the like, people had, clothing with skulls on it was like totally in fashion. You know what, I think I was a little older than you. Probably, but not by a time. Because like, you know. Like late teens, early 20s. We had bum equipment and no fear. Yeah, no I had that too. Remember no fear? Is that still around? I don't think so. There's a picture of me wearing a no fear, like mesh shirt, it's terrible. You remember those? The like slightly see through? And it was only slightly see through from like here up. Cause like, don't show the nipple, but gotta have that see through. It was awesome, man. Oh man. No way, no fear is still around. Sort of. Actually I don't know if that stylized the same. I miss, so I used to have a no fear hat. It was black and it had the eyes on the, just above the snap. I thought you still had that. No I don't have my no fear hat anymore. I loved my no fear hat. When did you? It had the eyes here and then it was no fear on the back. When did you stop having that? Oh no, I have my stupid gecko hat. That's probably the one you're thinking of. No, no, no, I know that hat. When did you stop having that? Before I met you. Oh weird. Oh yeah, long time ago. Maybe I've seen a picture or something. Yeah, there's not much no fear stuff. Yeah, there's not much. No fear was huge. But at one point in time, probably, I'm gonna guess I was in grade 10. Skulls were totally a thing. Just black fabric with white skulls on it was totally a thing. And I was always like, that's so stupid. You're not edgy, it looks dumb. I don't know what you're doing. You're not edgy. It just wasn't. That's ultimate burn. You know what? You're not edgy. You're trying, which automatically means. It's your basic. It doesn't work. Yeah, but that looks, the skull trail skull though has always looked sick because they found a classy way to put a skull on something, which I don't know. I thought it was really cool. All right, last topic for today. We gotta talk about this. Posted by Blue Chin Chili Eating Dorito on the forum. Original article here is actually from the Vancouver Sun. Amazon wants to let the delivery person unlock your front door and go inside your home to the service is called, how can you call this a service? It's called Amazon Key and incorporates a smart lock. You give Amazon a key to your house because who knows. What? What? People are gonna do it, man. People are absolutely gonna do it. Cause like, honestly, this is one of those things where you're basically just, you're trying to get Amazon drivers, to get Neruduel applicants to become Amazon delivery drivers. And then like, if they were anywhere near, I like, I'm afraid to be giving them ideas because by and large, as far as I can tell, most thieves aren't that brilliant. But like, if they have a brain on their shoulders at all, then what they would do is they would find the squeaky cleanest one who is the driver and he just cases. What? Yep, I've heard it before too. People are absolutely gonna do this. Someone internally is apparently planning to sign up for this. Yeah, and exactly what you're saying, the driver is gonna case the house, figure out if there's anything valuable in there, figure out where the security cameras are, what type of alarm system they're using, what their camera setup is, everything. And then leave. And then someone else will do it. And then create a list because they're gonna be going around to like many, many houses every day. So they would just get back in their car, pull up the little Google sheet on their phone, be like A or B or C, the date they were there, like the last date anyone from Amazon was there to make it a little bit harder to put two and two together. And then like six months down the road, you're gonna get hit. And they'll know exactly what you have and exactly where it is. So they'll be in, out, gone and have all your most valuable things. Get freaking out. That's like actually the stupidest thing of all time. You know what's great too? You know what's gonna happen. And because, hold that thought. Because there's another big problem too. They don't even need to see where your stuff is. It doesn't matter. They know what you have. They know what, they don't even need to know that. They just need to know what kind of stuff you have. Yeah. Because if you're the kind of person who just like, because they're not gonna be able to just like wander around in your house. Cause I'm sure the smart lock, if they have, again, if they have a brain on their shoulders. Well, a camera turns on when they enter. Yes, exactly. Okay, cool. So I haven't actually read that far into it, but I would certainly hope that there's a camera. Yeah, they see you on camera. They're not wandering around in your house. But if they- And you have recordings of every time they've been inside. But if they stand in the front hallway and they see nothing but a dirty old dog bed and some soiled newspapers and you literally ordered a case of Kraft dinner, then you're a C. Or you're a D. Not worth hitting. But if you're ordering baller stuff from Amazon and you got like a nice home, you gotta be stupid if you think that you're not getting hit. You know what I'm really excited for? Yeah. Amazon key enabled apartment buildings. Okay, I can kind of see being convenient for apartments. When they build the structure, they set up key enabled doors and key enabled cameras for every single suite. I would be less concerned in an apartment, far less. So that I'm actually a lot more okay with. I would be less concerned too. Not entirely off the hook, but I would be less concerned. Yeah, because especially if your apartment has modern features like needing a fob in order to access a given floor, as long as you've got a camera on the person that's there the whole time that they're there, then yeah, it's far less of an issue. I was kind of thinking it would be cool if you had a double door refrigerator. So you could come up to the side of your house and then put groceries in the back of your refrigerator. Yep, so I can see there being stuff that this kind of idea would be cool for. I have no interest in randoms coming into my home though. Someone in chat, Amazon shed, sure. Yeah, I'd be super down for Amazon shed. I'd put one of these smart locks on a dumpster in my driveway. Okay, fine. So there are ways that the tech can be used, but the idea of just letting someone go into my house, and so there are positive security things about not leaving a package outside, but I don't think that they were overcoming that by having someone go into your house. So that's where I'm at. So there are brands already signed on to enter dwellings via Amazon Key, including Mary Maids and the animal caregiver, rover.com. Man, you know, I just, this, you know what this feels like? This feels like to me, like I'm getting left behind the same way I did when online dating became a thing. Cause to me, I was like, oh, apparently Jeff Bezos became the richest man in the world today as their stock price surged 13% to a record high and he owns 81 million shares. So he's now worth $90 billion. There you go. So I feel like I'm being left behind in kind of the same way that I was when online dating became a thing. Cause to me, like I haven't dated since online dating didn't have a stigma around it. Like back when I was in high school, meeting online- Yeah, it super doesn't anymore. No, yeah, it's no big deal. Which is like weird. Late show hosts are talking about like, you know, swiping left and swiping right. Like it's super cash now. And like celebrities are legitimately on it. Yeah. But when I was in high school, it was like, oh my God, a Femet online. Ew. To go 100% Valley Girl for you guys. Yeah. And- It was good, you did good. For me, I'm looking at this as kind of the same thing. Like I'm, instead of, but instead of meeting someone random at a, at a, you know, away from my home and my stuff and like my privacy location, I am, like a restaurant or something, I am bringing randoms into my house. Now, when I hire a babysitter- You know who they are. Or a gardening service or whatever, I, or usually Yvonne- Yeah, that's fair. Interviews them. Yeah. In the same way that if you think about it, you would traditionally meet a dating partner by an interview process, like an in-person- Of sorts, yeah. Handshake, no, but you get what I mean. It is though to a certain degree, yeah. But we're moving away from that to like, sort of, you know, finding your maid or your dating partner by, you know, flipping through the available options and kind of going, oh yeah, that one's got good reviews on, you know- Maid swipe. Maid swipe.com, Lordy, I'm sure it's probably a thing. Oh. Interesting. I wonder how much it costs. Can't be available. Cause you know that's just gonna turn into a fetish site, like immediately. It's available. What? Not even expensive. Maid swipe.com. It's only 15 bucks. I really expected that we'd make that. 15 Canadian dollars. No way. Holy. Maid swipe.com. Whoever buys that, don't just buy it and sit on it. Buy it and make a killing because that is legitimately, you get a business like that going, you get signed up with Amazon Key, there is a model here, and you actually just clone the Tinder interface. Well you could make like an Uber like service for maids. Yep. Using maid swipe. And you could swipe through and they could have different rates and different specialties. They could be like nearby or not nearby. They come, they clean up. Different services that they offer, like maybe this one will do your laundry. That domain will like straight up not be there for very long. That's not a bad idea. Hazy. Hit it up. You need to hire a development team to start developing all the ideas that I've told you. Like pup swipe. It's also maids swipe. I mean some of them might offer that service. I don't know. Yeah. Yeah, anyway. So thank you for watching the WAN Show and we will see you guys again next week. Goodbye. See you that time same bat channel. Maids wipe. Linus the valley girl apparently exists. Oh no, no, nevermind. No one has actually put a website on it yet. It's available though. Oh no, it's not. No, someone has registered it. Perfect. That's what we need. Oh right, sponsors. Boop, boop and boop.