 Ahhhhhhhhhh Excited we have great topics this week HDMI 2.1 is here. That's actually really cool every single time a display cable gets updated. I'm just excited It's a good thing. It's like it's gonna be like more resolutions Yeah, and more colors and faster refresh rates. It's good. Everything just gets better also China is using DJI drones to spy on the US. Rumor, allegedly. Well allegedly Yep, yeah EA Sports UFC 3's egregious implementation of microtransactions It's so bad We'll be talking about that and finally our former employer NCIX.com Bankrupt Uggggg Uggggg Okay, do you think I can roll the intro and adjust the tilt of the camera at the same time? You got three, two, one, go! He's off. He's going around the table He's grabbed the lever, twisting the knob. Oh The knob's broken off. He's having some issues. He might have to go get a wrench The intro is still going. Oh, he's trying to turn the camera anyways. Trying to use... Oh, I have to sit up Oh, I have to do an ad thing though Drag me out into this place. Thank you Savage Jerky Thank you Spectrum Thank you Marciel? Marci. Marci. Oh. It's French. For someone with a French name, you don't... You don't French very well No I don't And I would know Oh, oh my Speaking of Frenching really well though, HDMI 2.1 Yeah, sure. So this was posted by Silber... Silber... Oh, do you mind if I have the... Right, I was testing things This was posted by Silber Draci on the forum and the original article here is from... Engadget Engadget.com. Let's go ahead and pull that baby up Boom! HDMI 2.1 is here with support for 10K! And dynamic HDR support and it is backwards compatible with previous HDMI specifications That 10K by the way? Pretty weird 10K. So 10K it looks like is going to be more like wide 8K Except that that still makes it 10K Yes Because the way that we define resolutions because average, you know, Joe consumer... Okay, nothing against people named Joe, okay? Let's go with average Jeff consumer Yeah Can't handle two numbers Okay, so that's why resolutions are just something K now Has to be a maximum of three characters or else you've lost them That's right Four, that's probably pushing it, that's why swear words usually cap at four, you can't go beyond there Okay It's kind of a thing How interesting So, okay, here, hold on, back to this, back to this chart that we're looking at over on Engadget here So this is, this is interesting because back in the day we had full HD And that was everyone, we didn't really know that as full HD outside of like, you know, like the, yeah, I mean 1920 by 1080 I think we called it 1080p back then And then full HD was, no, no, we did know it as full HD but that was kind of like used alongside it Some people even said 1080p full HD Yeah, because we called it full HD because of all the BS marketing that went on around 720 720 which was called HD HD, okay, this is like, no, this is like real HD, the full HD It's complete And then 4K was like, okay, it's, I get the 4, so it's like four times this and it's also about 4000 pixels wide But then, okay, so this 5K, this is interesting, we've got about 5000 pixels wide, which makes sense That's consistent with the 4K naming Oh, something a lot of people don't know is that there was actually a 2K standard So it's 2048 by 1080 if I recall correctly, but that was only a DCI cinema standard That wasn't actually a consumer standard And then everything got really confused with 4K because this resolution, 3840 by 2160 is technically UHD, ultra HD It is not 4K, 4K should be 4096 by 2160 because it would be four times 2K But then we weren't sure if we were using consumer nomenclature or if we were using a professional nomenclature And then the 5K thing, I don't know what the hell that is because that's like widescreen 4K That's not 5K because 5K, the only 5K devices that exist are the Apple display on the iMac and LG's 5K display That's also for Macs And then 8K is four times 4K, but actually this is four times UHD, which is four times full HD So the K's never meant anything in the first place And also 7680 is like dangerously not that close to 8000 at this point And then 10K is now apparently four times 5K at a different aspect ratio than 8K, 4K, full HD You know what? No! That was probably horrible, I'm sorry to all of you Sorry, but I have to express my frustration Two numbers is not that hard We've been doing it since, you know, 640 by 480 It was good enough for me, it's good enough for the next generation I hate this, I hate everything about it, except that with new HDMI we can run higher resolution And I actually am excited to see ultra wide TVs The fact that these standards are making it into the HDMI specification means that we're going to see TVs like this Anytime you see a clip, there's one that's really high on Reddit right now Anytime you see a clip of Horizon Zero Dawn that's in ultra wide, it's like oof, oof That's probably how that game is supposed to be played TVs, very nice Apparently 480p was first gen HD What? What's that? Yeah, HD CRTs I think they could be like 480 progressive or something Or something, something, I can't remember The HD term has been... It's been bastardized There's a swear word that's not four letters Someone in the Twitch chat informed me of that I said usually I mean we could have thought of a couple, I'm sure I think I said usually Because there are some compound swear words that are definitely more than four letters So anyways, there's a bunch of other cool stuff 48 gigabit per second, that's pretty sick 4K at 120Hz, that's actually a lot more important to me than 10K 8K at 60Hz, that's pretty sweet I guess Personally I'm really not that sold on above 4K at this point Yeah, but that 4K at 120Hz is like, that's pretty sweet I mean 8K at 60Hz would be great for like a gigantic projector I guess Dynamic HDR, variable refresh rate, oh yes Thank you, finally Oh man, I'm surprised that Sony and Microsoft haven't been pushing harder for variable refresh rate Because it would mask so many of the FPS dips In a good way In a good way Yeah, like actually, like mask puts a potentially negative term on it I guess that's true But it is masking, but like it would look a lot better Auto low latency mode, so that's cool Contextual anti-aliasing, removing jeggies without noticeable blur That sounds like if they get it right it'll be great, and if they don't then it won't And sub 1 millisecond lag, although that'll be up to the TV makers in terms of how they want to implement that And how little lag there actually is Because they are constantly dinking around with the signal trying to do whatever it is that they're trying to do That I certainly wish they wouldn't do Yeah, every time that I even think about maybe looking into a TV Which I don't, I haven't, I've never technically bought a TV So I mean like if someone asks me or whatever else I end up just being like I wish I could just buy a ginormous monitor Because I don't even want Those do exist now Yeah, like can you get like 60 inch, 65 inch monitors? No, I think the biggest is That's what I'm talking about though LG has a 42 Because like not only do I not want this stuff that's on the TV Right, so you don't want the smart TV and the tuner It makes it worse It's not like oh that's not a benefit It's like no I really really wish that wasn't there I would pay the same price just please take it off Right It's so annoying I've got people asking me what's up with the iJustine thing So I went down there hooked her up with a sick 150 terabyte storage server In pink and white Did you see the picture? Yeah It's sweet It looks really clean It's super cool and then while I was down there I actually impromptu shot a studio tour of her place Because I actually didn't take a camera person This is kind of a funny story So the original plan was for me to take a camera person down And I was going to stay down for like two or three days And I was going to hang out with Jayce2Sense And do because he's actually working I don't want to say what he's working on Because his might still be top secret But it's a really cool build It's like sort of a collab except I don't need to be there So I don't need to be there for that anymore So we shortened my trip And then the other reason that I was going to take a shooter Was that I was probably going to do some kind of video for our channel with Justine And then I was like you know what forget it I just need to do a short trip because I've been traveling so much lately And you know what I don't know if we're going to have time in one day to do the video for her channel and one for mine Don't worry about it She already came up and she did a guest appearance for us On a thing that's never coming out On a thing that it'll come out eventually I'm kidding I'm kidding Forget it I'm not going to shoot a video And then what's funny is Yvonne booked a room with two beds Just in case I like changed my mind at the last second and took a shooter But I didn't But then I got to Justine's place and I was like this place is amazing This place is unbelievable And so what I did was I actually borrowed her shooter And then just got the clips off the SD card Carded them back here and it's actually being edited right now Nice You are going to be blown away And this is coming from the same person who just did a dead mouse studio tour Her place is unbelievable It's incredible That's really cool Yeah I'm stoked Do you want one spoiler? Yes She probably has literally 50 Xbox One controllers Literally What? Literally Okay one more spoiler Yeah Literally every Amiibo Literally Like properly using that term every single one Literally What the heck Literally actually literally Oh my god that's so many Amiibos She is a way bigger nerd than I give her credit for There's a few I haven't been able to get I'm not collecting that many to be very clear I have like four But there's some that I've wanted that I can't get Yeah so her place was super cool and I was really excited to That's pretty cool The entire chat is just like literally Literally Literally I found something that I thought Okay you know what forget it We'll get to it in the video Okay What were we talking about? We were technically on HDMI But I think we passed on Oh yeah I think we were We were in between things and we were maybe doing DJI Should we do flow play? Oh let's do DJI first DJI wow so this was posted by WMGroomAK on the forum And actually we're going with our forum for the source of this article here Because apparently this was a really epic post Oh no no end gadget is the original source here Let's pull that up If it ever goes It'll go It'll go It'll go I'm going to post it in the Twitch chat anytime Come on baby you got this There we go alright Homeland Security claims that DJI drones are spying for China And it released a memo detailing what it believes to be DJI's main targets Wow That is like some pretty serious business accusation going on So this is a memo from the Los Angeles office of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Bureau Alleging that the data captured from DJI drone customers in the US is being provided to the Chinese government And the memo originally in August says that And there's a quote With moderate confidence the Chinese based company DJI Science and Technology is providing US critical infrastructure and law enforcement data to the Chinese government The information is based on open source reporting and a reliable source within the unmanned aerial systems industry with first and second hand access So they conclude and this is more quotes That it assesses with high confidence the critical infrastructure and law enforcement entities using DJI systems are collecting sensitive intelligence That the Chinese government could use to conduct physical or cyber attacks against the United States and its population Yeah So DJI appears to be targeting users with the ability to disrupt critical infrastructure Railroads, utilities, companies that provide drinking water, weapon storage facilities DJI's statement though to be clear this is all alleged DJI's statement says that the memo was based on clearly false and misleading claims Shortly after however DJI released a local data mode which allows users to cut off drones from all internet activity Which they probably should What does my drone need to do on the internet I have no clue Especially in terms of reporting like camera and telemetry data Yeah especially when I'm recording Like other than when I'm performing a firmware update Yeah Or I could see And that should only be down I could see it reporting something like if I'm flying in a no fly zone like that kind of stuff's coming But again that shouldn't be going to a foreign government that's for sure That should be going to one that has jurisdiction over the area that I am flying an authorized drone for example That should be like when you have to register your drone or something now right So that should be like when you register your drone they like get a key or something Yeah Wow Pretty brutal So now the ICE memo did focus on the drones used by companies and institutions Not the drones flown by hobbyists So I don't know if you necessarily have to stop you know hovering your drone in the bedroom to film yourself making a sex tape or whatever I wouldn't recommend that either way Yeah blades Yeah you know Blades and penises not a good combination unless you don't want to have kids anymore like me But there's better ways to do that Yeah Oh speaking of which I know you wanted to talk about stuff that's on float plane It's hilarious Okay it's actually so funny I can't even one of Taryn's scenes in this is so golden They're like you know that Yeah Oh my goodness Okay so Oh my goodness Stuff that's on float plane right now You guys join the club it's cool all the cool kids are there We've got case made of radiators literally Oh it's coming out It's out literally Nice A case made of radiators literally Look at it literally case made of radiators okay Achieving the ultimate 4K experience the first ever Nvidia sponsored Linus Tech Tips video of all time literally I hope I hope top comment on this thread I haven't looked yet is Nvidia we'll see though I hope so too Yeah That won't be Taryn hosted a video recently on the Elgato stream deck I have so many problems with that thing I haven't watched this video yet but we'll see Let's see what else we got here we got some exclusive stuff we toured the server room that was pretty cool Well where's the chance you find one Oh it's coming it's coming oh that's already up on YouTube Oh there it is Triton 700 super powerful super thin gaming laptop very cool And there it is cruel pregnancy prank gone wrong It's amazing how many people are giving us crap about that gone wrong in the title I would hope it's fairly obvious that that like naming scheme is played out at this point and that anyone doing it now I don't think people are still really doing it Almost 2018 exactly anyone doing it now is clearly just being ironic It's tongue in cheek it's just it's silly we all know it's dumb gone sexual gone wrong I don't think we've done a prank in a while Yeah So it's kind of a show back to like when YouTube used to be prank tube Prank tube basically yeah like I just I there were a couple people who seemed legit upset about it No no it's just it's a joke it's just a it's just a joke bro it's just a joke It's just a joke bro It's just a joke Oh my goodness that was the worst In all seriousness this wasn't a very funny joke It was hilarious as an external person So there are actually it is a it is a two prank video Yeah So should I should I say you know I'll say what the first one is Because that one's right at the beginning Okay Okay so the first prank is when Yvonne got pregnant with our third She and I got together and we were talking about how guys are not that observant Like women can tell that each other are pregnant like basically immediately I don't know how they do it it's like they can smell it on each other or something He called me on the phone Yeah Oh okay well I'll keep doing this So women can tell right away and I was like no there's no way guys would notice Like that's why we never ask like we never bring it up Because we can't tell the difference between like eight months pregnant and fat And you don't want to run that risk because you're like there's no way to win right And she was like no they'll be able to tell I was like they will not be able to tell And they certainly won't say anything and so she and I kind of made a little bet I was like they won't be able to tell even if and they'll think that it's me being mean If I'm like constantly going after you about how you're getting fat They won't be able to tell they'll just be like Linus is an ass They will not figure out that you're actually pregnant And you have to consider that while he's being an ass to his wife who's also an employee of the company that we all work at He's also everyone's boss Yep yep It's a really weird dynamic And this is great I would ask people like do you think do you think Yvonne's getting fat Meanwhile she has actually gained 15 pounds because she is pregnant they'd be like oh no Anyway there's actually a part two to the prank that is not funny at all but No it's actually hilarious It's a good video go sign up for Float Plane Having having The second part's not funny though Having nothing to do with it it is hilarious But like there's certain points in time where I was like oh this is getting bad There you go there you go guys go sign up for Float Plane one week early access ish ish It's not always a week but it's like definitely early access Also beautiful videos with top tier audio quality Top tier audio quality Just want to drop that out there Alright speaking of top tier quality why don't we talk about SC2 Mitch's post on the forum The original article here is from Astute Gaming a site that I've never heard of Neither but sure why not There you go and the headline here whoa whoa whoa the headline whoa EA Sports UFC 3 the single most egregious implementation of microtransactions to date So bad Whoa Have you read any of this at all You know what Do you think about this at all This is this is not my deal I'm not a UFC guy I'm not an EA sports guy and I rarely even have time for gaming And I definitely don't pay for microtransactions so I tend to pretty much ignore them wherever they exist So it offends me probably less than other people because this is a game I was never going to play from a company whose game I was never going to buy But it should still offend you Okay hit me Reasons why it should still offend you No no run through what it is Okay Run through what it is At the top every single technique ability fighter stat roll all of it is in quad is entirely acquired and upgraded through a loot box system Okay Where's the quote You can't actually like buy a fighter Pressing the square button apparently we're going for PlayStation here pressing a square button to throw a punch at an opponent the simplest and most obvious mechanic in an MMA game will do more damage if players have paid more If players have paid money In an online PVP game it will do more damage if players have paid money So good microtransactions are also the only means of acquiring perks and boosts Perks are powerful abilities that can be equipped for a small number of fights before expiring and boosts are temporary enhancements that offer endurance boosts and durability bonuses meaning you can fight longer you can take less damage and you can hit harder which is literally the entire game Boom So good So basically EA is saying that UFC gamer fans Are just Endless like like money teats that they can suck on. Pretty much. That sounded like about what EA apparently thinks of their their audience here and you know what the interesting thing is when we when we rolled out the keep on digging shirt. That was because of Ubisoft. I know. But they've like taking turns. Well yeah because EA was like always crap like the keep on digging was only relevant because Ubisoft's crapness was like kind of a new thing like EA I mean when was the last time. Oh no because I remember like at that time we did actually have some positive EA headlines. Yeah. So they've switched and like like Ubisoft is not doing everything right right now. Yeah. There's some extremely valid complaints to be made about certain games of theirs like For Honor. But they also launched the South Park game South Park game was very fun. It's quite a long game lots of content in it. I haven't heard many people complaining about that. All the negative reviews that I've seen on Steam because there's quite a few of them are people going why the heck do I need you play. That's not a new problem. That's a consistent that's been around. It is a dumb problem but it has existed for a long time. I should play it. Did that just come out. Fairly recently. It's nothing like Stick of Truth right. It's extremely similar to Stick of Truth. Oh cool. It's like basically the same game. Oh okay. Yeah. It's just a different story. Yeah I'll just go play. Like like the overworld is essentially identical. Well yeah I mean. Yeah but like even. Town in Colorado what do you want. Yeah. You want to make a new town in Colorado. And you can't redo the art style because it's South Park. So like it's like the same thing and you do the same thing where you go from like house to house which. I don't know. There's only so many houses. Yeah yeah. But like it is a very good game. It's funny. Yeah okay. They said it has a completely different combat system. I don't even remember the previous one. But yeah it's not it's not like super next level or anything. Sure. I would recommend playing it on as hard of the difficulties as. Yeah I will. Yes. Stick of truth is pretty easy. Yeah. Okay. Cool. So like it's it's. What do we even say about this. There's like nothing to say. You can't defend it. No. You can't even play devil's advocate and be like oh well you know maybe if. No not at all. And like this is this this ties in with there's battlefront issues going on right now. While that's going on. They somehow thought it was OK to throw out beta keys for this game with this already implemented. And this being the style they take the micro transactions out of battlefront to and then what just assume that everyone's going to be super OK with UFC like different target audience. They're not even going to bring it up. I don't think that's going to be a thing. What is. Hold on. Yes mom. Oh boy. Hi. I wanted to say goodbye to you because I'll be gone for three weeks. OK. And I can't get a hold of you at any other time than when you're actually doing the show. So answer your phone. You haven't called me any other time. Sorry. OK. Where are you going mom. You just got low key owned. I did. I did. I'm going to burn and I sent you on over Facebook pictures of my bullet wounds. What. I sent you pictures of the bullet wound so you could tell me if you think they're any good. I'm practicing doing my bullet wounds for the war movie I'm going to be working on. You got to preface that a little bit. I told you. You sent them 16 minutes ago. OK. This is not fair. You thought I was going to be working on a war movie. Yes I did. I did. OK. OK. So I wanted your pinning on my bullet wounds. OK. Sorry. Well in the meantime I'm going to I'm going to go. I'm going to feel pretty good. Mom we are. We. They do. They look pretty good. All right. I will let you go. But at least I got a chance to say goodbye to you before I left. Bye. I hope you have a good trip. OK. Bye. Me too. Bye. Thank you for having a Friday show so I can talk to my son once in a while. Yeah. No problem. Thanks. All right. Bye. Oh dear. OK. So let's jump into our sponsors. Sponsor number one Spectrum. Which glasses do you want today. Oh I'll just go straight up with these. So Spectrum staring at a monitor all day can be hard on your eyes over time and Spectrum is an affordable solution to help you keep from your eyes getting fatigued. There are software solutions to reducing the amount of blue light that goes from your monitor into your eyes like flux and twilight but they don't give you the same kind of filtering that an actual piece of glass or two pieces if you have two eyes would. They have many features including that they are stylish. They are. Well yeah that's what they do. Yeah. No you wait. You know what they do right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. OK. 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I'm going to keep wearing these. Yeah. Next up we've got. Oh. What is this? This has happened a handful of times and people always like people always go tinfoil hat on this kind of stuff when it happens. But have you did you watch our video about this? The end. No I didn't. Interesting. OK. So this has happened a handful of times where we with no no intention of actually ever working together we've done a review of a product in this case it was the end cable from Marci a product that claims to improve the image quality of a device that it's attached to. I didn't see this video. OK. I have so many going off. Please explain. It's over a hundred dollars. OK. It's 150 bucks. OK. For an end cable. Yeah. And what they claim well you can see what they claim. I'm reserving judgment because they claim pixel and graphics rejuvenation advanced contextual anti aliasing contrast and detail enhancement leg free real time processing and an automatic movie mode. They claim and it works. So inside the cable see how there's a USB connection. Yes I did see that. It is actually a powered signal processor. And I saw on the TV on the TV end of the cable is like huge. Yeah so so it actually works particularly well for certain applications one of which is anime. So I think you're holding the cinema edition. Yeah. Does a great job of like low resolution anime collections. You got a bunch of like 480p anime. It cleans up a lot of the lines a lot of banding that 2006 Warcraft video I got. No that. So there's a limit to the tech. So we went. Oh oh we hooked it up with like original unreal. Oh yeah. It looked really good. The end cable cinema is actually apparently also great for streaming content. That isn't something that we tested extensively in ours but we did take a look at a lot of down sampled content and it managed to do a really good job. You guys can't see it because it's way too small. But up in this corner and I'm sure if you go to their website which is probably on green. Yeah. Marci. Marci Inc. It shows that there's like a processor and stuff going on with the cable. Sub one millisecond lag. We did not notice any discernible lag even in like CRT optimized games like Super Mario World. It's pretty awesome and it even supports frame rates up to 1080p 120. So you can legitimately game on the gaming edition here. And yeah you guys you guys should probably check it out. The best use cases we found for it were older consoles but not too old. So you don't want something like a NES but something like an N64 PlayStation PlayStation 2. That makes sense actually. You can clean up the quality of it a fair bit. Because to be fair a NES is already pretty clean. Old anime. Yeah. Streamed video. Oh sorry. Oh that's where I got confused. By stream video I don't necessarily mean live streaming although it would help with that but any kind of internet video where it's like pretty good but a little bit of tidy up would probably not be a bad idea. It's great for that. Guess what? VR. Lots of people are using it for VR because the displays are low resolution and it cleans up the image a little bit. Yeah. And apparently the results are fantastic though I actually haven't tried that personally yet. It's interesting how like a type of content is specifically better. That actually makes sense. So check them out at Marciinc.com. This is one of those situations where we intended to do a useless tech over a hundred ended up spending, Anthony spent an entire week because we knew we couldn't come out and say this thing is really great unless we absolutely proved it. Like if we were going to come out and say it's junk that would be easy. Because we've done that before. We made a video on the $1,000 like silver HDMI cable. Based on that their claims were BS which they obviously were. And that's easy. That's like cheap easy content. So we were intending to do more cheap easy content and instead. And you got screwed. I paid someone for an entire week to sit and make a video. But then they turned around and now they're sponsoring the LAN show. So I guess that worked out okay. Bazaar. Alright. Last sponsor. They're back. I'm going to do something hot this week. By the way someone said their background looks fake. It's not. Our background looks fake? You can see. I can like pick things up from it. Yeah. I'm going to type. I'm going to type on this. This is like the world's most convincing. That's. That's my. Oh it's over the frame. Convincing I think this is an Nvidia ammo box. Why don't we have it showing the top secret? It's the wrong way around. Because it's a secret you donk. No. I don't know. I don't know. It's just so much cooler. Alright alright. I'll put the top secret. There's the Nvidia crowbar too. Yeah that's coming back. That's hidden. There's a lot of cool things that are hidden. That was the container that anyone who reviewed the GTX 590 got the card in. And it was such a terrible shipping container, my first one was broken. Because they just put like packing peanuts and like an anti-static bag in there. And it's just a metal container, there's no like, there's no shock absorption. So my card was totally broken. So we're in the chat, wow, CGI has come a long way. Oh, you dicks. Alright, what do you want today? We're going hot. You can do whatever you want, but I'm going with the ghost pepper buffalo sauce. Did you do it last week? No, I ate an entire pack of the maple bacon. I think we both said we were going to do it, or I said I was going to do it, and I don't think either of us did it. So yeah, let's do it this week too. Alright, I'm going for it. I'm preparing myself. These guys really do make frickin' hot jerky. 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Whatever, the one with the white and black package. Use offer code LTT to save 10% on their products at the link below. Sea salt, what was it? Something pepper? Cracked pepper and sea salt, that one's really good. Okay, I'm going to keep working on this. I'm going slow and steady wins the race, man. Windows 10 is bringing tabs to every, woo! Microsoft is bringing tabs to every Windows 10 app. The spice flipped that around on me. Nona Hexa, was this posted, this on the forum? Microsoft is planning to add tabs like the ones in your web browser to apps in Windows 10, allowing you to group apps together. They're calling this feature Sets. So say you're working on a Word document and need to research data on the web or grab notes from PowerPoint, you can create sets or tabs of these tasks in a single window. Honestly, I think this is actually pretty sick. Yeah, that sounds great. I really like this. Because oftentimes I'll have a few different things that are for one thing. Honestly, my preferred method is just to have more monitor space so I can have it all open at the same time. You're going to have Windows 7 anyway. That's 8.1. Are you running 8.1? Okay. Yeah, okay, I'm excited. I wish this wasn't news because I wish this was a thing ages ago, but I'm not going to be down on them for doing something good. It would also be really cool if on the taskbar at the bottom, you could have your set icon down there. So you could click on it and then it would bring up the multiple things instead of having it all in one. Because oftentimes I want to copy between them and read one thing while I'm typing one thing, and having it all in a set actually isn't very conducive to that. But it'll still be really nice and helpful, except not for me. Although 8.1 is getting painful because I think it's less than 10% of people are using it. So compatibility for my platform is really not great. So File Explorer, even Notepad. They'll eventually be extending to apps that have custom title bars like Photoshop, and they're aiming to let iPhone and Android users start sets and then resume them on a PC or vice versa. Oh, I'm getting my spicy hiccups. All right. This is pretty bad. This is posted by HeyYo on the forum. Websites use your CPU to mine cryptocurrency even when you close your browser. That's new. That's brutal. Yeah, like we've heard of. We talked about the Pirate Bay. Yeah, and another one. I don't remember who it was, but another one. But this is new. It's always been kind of a short-term thing because it's only lasted while you were on that page. Luckily for these websites, a lot of people just leave things open in tabs. Wow, look at this. So they've got a pop under that's opening up another tab that is running this in the background. So you see once they close it, the CPU usage goes away. Wow. At least you can still close it. So one researcher recently documented 2,500 sites actively running crypto mining code in visitors' browsers. That's a lot of sites, actually. Yeah. That's pretty brutal. I wonder what these sites are, though. So basically in a nutshell, so the one that they're focused on is mining Monero. So this is like, I don't know, I think everyone should be offended by this. Some people might not think it's that big of a deal, but this is using your electricity and your CPU resources, so your investment to just make money from the site. And it's cranking your CPU. And it's potentially making your CPU run really hot, which can potentially reduce its lifespan, especially if you're on a mobile device. And speaking of a mobile device, if you're on something that's battery-powered, this is going to destroy your battery life if it's a technique that's being used on any sites that you visit regularly. Right now, the technique works on the latest version of Chrome, running on the latest versions of Windows 7 and Windows 10. At the moment, no indication that it's being used on other browsers or operating systems, so your incompatibility saves the day. That's hilarious. Freaking brilliant. It's the Apple approach. We are secure because no one's making viruses for us, except for Root. That's not in the doc. Have you heard about that? Yeah, I did see that. Hilarious. You know what's interesting is our render server, like the one that does our final export before we upload, almost never errors out on a render. In fact, I'm not aware of it ever having done it. Windows 8.1. It's the embedded version, the Windows 9. That's what I'm using too. All right. Dude, message me today. It's like a few days ago. It's like the third year anniversary of the Windows 9 thing. Oh, really? It's kind of cool. So this is sort of a big deal if you're into that sort of thing, but our former employer has... Here we go. Where is it? This is kind of crazy. Yeah. So here, hold on. I'm going to bring this up. Search civil by party name. So Netlink Computer, Inc. Oh, wait. Hold on. So here you can... I actually didn't even know you can do this. Of course, that makes sense. So you can search for lawsuits or you can search for court cases by party name. So Netlink Computer, Inc. Small claims, small claims, small claims, small claims, four times over the last... You know, since 2011. And boom. Netlink Computer, Inc. Bora Group, Inc. The Netlink Computer, Inc. Supreme Bankruptcy. December 1st, 2017. So this just went down. My former employer is... I mean, is the site still up? Oh. No, I think it's still loading. No, no. I'm pretty sure it's still loading. Oh. Oh, yeah. There we go. The site's still up. I really don't know that I would necessarily recommend... Apparently... Shopping there, though. Getting your stuff after you buy it has been a little bit of an issue recently. For a while. Yep. So I... I haven't done any pre-like sort of research here, but I'm heading over to the forum. Okay. Restructuring. Okay. Important service announcement. We figured it's time to write a formal post about the restructuring. Wow. I'm pretty sure this thread has been pruned because I know that there were other things in here before. Huh. All right. NCIX supreme bankruptcy confirmed. Okay, what is supreme? Is there sub-supreme bankruptcy? I have no idea. It sounds crazy. Like, what the... But, wow. Yeah, I've had a lot of people... No, fire two box. I did not cause this. No. I mean, okay. Not at all. I don't know. How much should I talk about right now? Scale of one to ten. Like a six. A six, okay. Like not that high. So I left partly because I saw a great opportunity in content creation online, and partly because I had some significant... We're getting closer to a three. Fundamental disagreements with senior management, particularly the owner, over what exactly we needed to do in terms of our direction as a company. I also left... This was a significant part of the reason for my departure. I also left because the people that I had been mentored by there, the people that I had really felt like... I learned a lot from were departing. And they... Sometimes, for very good reasons, I'm not going to defend the conduct and job performance of at least one of them. But some of them were forced out by extraordinarily, in my opinion, extraordinarily poor management decisions. And that ultimately led me to believe that I could do it better. So I had an opportunity, and I thought I could do it better, and I thought that my company made my way would be something that would make me happier to get up in the morning and go to. It's made me happier. Well, I'm glad to hear that. I know you're having a moment. I just wanted to add some comedy. Yeah, thank you. And that was ultimately why I left. I didn't agree with the strategy. I thought... And this was something that I pitched about six and a half years ago. I thought the direction for us to go... I mean, by us, I mean I was at NCIX. I was one of the top product management people there. I might have been a category manager at that point. Can't remember. Anyway, I was basically at or near the highest rank that you could really have in the company there before. And I don't want to... You know, the odds of anyone that this might apply to ever watching this stream are pretty low. But my opinion of some of the people that were hired in senior positions couldn't possibly be any lower. So, you know, that was... There were some bad decisions there as well. Anyway, where was I going with this? Right. So the direction that I had wanted to go was to try to get acquired. And the way to try and get acquired is to have some kind of a value that somebody else would want. And it wasn't going to be the website, let's be honest. It wasn't going to be the logistics system. And, you know, I can't say too much about what NCIX had because, you know, I don't want to be disrespectful of their privacy as a company. But I will tell you that it wasn't, you know, robot arms and, you know, robot eyes and automated conveyor belts like what state-of-the-art warehouses were doing even back then. It was not that. So it wasn't going to be the warehousing system. It wasn't going to be the inventory management system. I can tell you that much. It wasn't going to be the super talented team. And there were talented people on it. Obviously, like, I was part of it. I think I was pretty talented. There were definitely talented people on it. But I don't know that that was visible enough externally. And I think that you would end up with a lot of – in order to acquire a team, you'd have ended up with a lot of dead weight. And I don't even necessarily mean in terms of people, like, the locations that we had leased. I think at one point there were three locations in Richmond, which is a small city, just to give you guys some idea of why that wouldn't be a good idea. So my concept for what we could build, having seen the partnership between Nvidia with the Shield and EB Games in the States, where I think the Shield was initially only available to preview it at EB Games in the States. And I was like, why would they make it exclusive to them? And I could be remembering some little detail of this wrong. Maybe it was a Nintendo system. I don't know. Whatever. The point is, the reason that they partnered with them was that they still had, at that time anyway, 4,500 locations, which has a value. Another thing that I thought could have a value would be a distribution system slash business model that combated one of the biggest difficulties of doing business in Canada, which is extremely high shipping cost. It deters customers from shopping online, and it enables brick and mortar to continue to be competitive here, because shipping a case across the country from Newegg is like $7. Shipping a case across this country from NCIX could be as much as $30, $40, $60, depending on how remote you are. So it was a constant refrain from customers. Shipping kills the deal. You'd hear it all the time. So the concept that I pitched was like an NCIX lite. These would be extremely small stores, like maybe 600 to 800 square feet, really small stores with really small storefronts that were effectively kind of ordering kiosks. And the idea was that you'd have technical services, so you could walk into small communities like Kamloops and displace the mom-and-pop shops with a trusted brand. Believe it or not, at the time, we were a trusted brand. You could displace those mom-and-pop shops as a trusted brand. You could probably cover your lease and your employee overhead with the services business that you're doing. Then you would stock like two SKUs tops of every category so that if someone walked in, they could build like basically the computer at any given time. Which is pretty easy to define. It's really easy to do. So right now you would stock, assuming that there is inventory, you would stock the $8,400 for Intel, and you would stock the Ryzen 5 1600 or something along those lines. And then you'd have like a motherboard for each of them. You'd have an 8 gig stick and a 16 gig stick, and obviously multiples of each of these. But the idea is that if someone just wanted like the computer right now, like the bang for the buck sweet one that everyone wants, you could just walk in and buy it. Or we would build a system, and it wouldn't be a complicated system, but we would have a network of trucks that would crisscross the country constantly between the two locations that we had in the West and in the East so that the model would be you can shop online and you can ship to your house, or we'd have these little tiny low overhead locations scattered across the country, and you could get free pickup at any location. And this was well before Amazon started doing pickup. Someone in the chat, whoa, NCX actually sounds really cool. This was an idea that he was pitching. This never happened. I pitched this. This is what I wanted to do instead of these monolithic high overhead extraordinarily expensive retail stores in order to, you know, the writing was on the wall like seven years ago. Amazon was going to kill us all. Like the people who were paying attention knew this already. So the idea was to build this infrastructure so that when Amazon decided to hit the switch, and you can see now they're running around acquiring people that have infrastructure that they like, like Whole Foods, the idea was that when they came in, they could buy us. And that never happened. If I'd had the resources, I think that could have been the way for me to never have to work again. Like if I could have built my, like I, even to go back, like if I was the one who had the resources that I have today, even that might have been a model that I would have pursued. I really believed in it. I thought that it was a great opportunity. It's not worth it now. Oh, no, you'd never make it now. No. But I should buy NCIX and do that. I couldn't afford NCIX, not because I couldn't afford like what NCIX's net value is right now, but I couldn't afford NCIX's overhead, the monthly expenses, even with all the layoffs that they've done. There's still a lot of employees. There's still a lot of buildings. There's still a lot of inventory. So when we didn't do that and when we continued marching down the obviously no longer viable big box retail path, I figured out that I had to get out. So ultimately the reason that I ended up leaving NCIX and taking this guy with me and Ed with me. Thanks for coming along, bro. No worries. Yeah, that I was thinking that five year thing. It's actually like seven or something or eight or something. Yeah. It's kind of ridiculous. So anyway, sorry, I forget where I was going with that. Right. So what happened when I left was I had decided to leave. And the reason that I was able to take the line is Tech Tips Channel. And so to be clear, I take no pleasure whatsoever in NCIX's demise. You know, and I've seen a lot of horror stories online, but however they've treated other people, everyone there all the way up to Steve, the owner and Mary, his wife, they have always treated me with the utmost kindness and respect. I have not had personal bad experiences with anyone there from HR to my colleagues to I shouldn't say everyone. There were some there were some some poor hiring decisions made. But at the very highest level, at least the people that I consider to be at the highest level, you know, I take no pleasure from this. I learned a lot there. Like I am everything I understand about business and what to do right, what to do wrong was ultimately from them. I didn't go to school for business management. I don't have an MBA. I don't I don't actually have any formal education. Everything I learned was school of hard knocks and NCIX was a stupendous proving ground for me. So, you know, I take no pleasure in this, but where was I going with this? But how you got the channel? Right. How I got the channel. So so ultimately I was able to write. Right. So I'm very grateful to them for giving me the opportunity to build up this channel and then ultimately take it with me because the deal was, look, I'm leaving because I disagree with some of the stuff we're doing and you my boss is gone, who I loved and that sucks. And so I'm out. So you can either let me walk away to another retailer. And I mean, you know, I didn't have four million subscribers and a team of, you know, 19 people that's like a world class video production team like I hadn't built any of this yet. Yeah, we were pretty far from it. We were a long way away from this. But for me personally, anyway, my stock was high enough that I could have walked into literally any electronics entity and gone like this. And I would have had a job. So I wasn't concerned about getting a job. What I was concerned about was building a team and building something and making sure that Luke and Ed, who were both out of work, if I walked out of there and didn't manage to take them with me, making sure that they stayed employed. So the deal was, look, I'm leaving. But if we can work out a deal where I take the Linus Tech Tips YouTube channel, the trademark and any associated assets, which now that this is going on, I'm really happy we did buy the book with a lawyer. Get to that more later. But if I take all that stuff with me, I'll sign a non-compete for I believe it was two years, but it ended up getting extended to three. And for pennies on the dollar, I'll come back and I'll continue to support the NCIX Tech Tips channel so that you don't have to replace me immediately. Also, I'll give you as much notice for my departure as you need. So I had originally planned on giving somewhere between a month and six weeks notice. I ended up giving about five months notice. Although in fairness, I phoned in about the last three weeks of it. But then I had trained my replacements for pretty much everything. I didn't really know what to do all day. When it's five months. Like I tried. Okay, I tried. So the fact that we acquired those assets legally is really important because if the bankruptcy lawyers, if whoever NCIX's creditors are, were to find that it had an asset that was worth a significant amount of money, and let me tell you, Linus Tech Tips is worth a significant amount of money, both as a brand and as a YouTube channel at this point. Although, you know, I'm not going to say no thanks to NCIX, but most of that development has been done in the five years since they left. But if it was found that that asset wasn't transferred tidally, then it could also be found that NCIX still had some claim to make against it. And then their creditors would as well. So Steve, I trusted to never do anything untoward with me. But creditors, all bets are off. I really didn't. You know, I didn't think it would come to this. I take no pleasure in it, but that's what happened. And yeah, that's the context there. We broke off at what? Two hundred and forty thousand subscribers. Something like that. Yeah. We're now at four point eight million. Yeah. There's kind of been a lot of work done. Yeah. We've been we've been going pretty hard on it. So. Yeah. So Alina's tech tips documentary. No, no, that probably won't happen. We actually tried to do a behind this like a behind the blow type thing here, and it was a total disaster. We brought in a third party film crew. They like shot a bunch of stuff. Then they submitted a rough cut that was awful, totally unusable. And then we tried to edit it together ourselves. But by then, our team was like 60 percent bigger. So like different. Yeah. Like a third of our staff wasn't in the video. Yeah. It doesn't make sense. Yeah. All right. So what else do we have for topics? Yeah, that was wow. That was kind of a fricking downer of a topic, man. Also took a long time. I'm surprised people are still watching. Sheesh. Let's find something exciting. It's pretty interesting. Yeah, I guess so. It's like learning that before Coke came out, it was green. I'm like I'm like down. Let's just find like something like one cool topic to do. And then these are all terrible. Oh, Tinder. Tinder tests using A.I. to suggest who to super like. They're testing a new feature called Super Likeable that intermittently presents a card on your screen and offers you a bonus super like that can be sent to one of four people presented to present it on the card. The original super like was designed as a way to signal your interest in a potential match was stronger than others. But users have a limited number per day. Wow. How many of those could you possibly need per day? Wow. I'm not I mean, like I'm sort of pre online dating, so I don't really get. I wonder if you're in like a social hub. Sheesh. Like somewhere like like like L.A. or San Fran. Or if you just like go through a few hundred people and you're just like, yeah, there's many more. You know what I mean? I don't know, because I don't feel like it's like that up here. Huh. I don't know. OK. Well, I'm bored of that already because this is way better. Yeah. There's officially Mario. Yeah. So I like super need some. OK. This also isn't the first time that Nintendo has tried to do cereal. I thought it was kind of interesting because right now they're huge because the switch is like wildly, wildly successful. But at a previous time of them being huge, they also tried to roll out cereal. And this one is not just cereal. The box itself is essentially an amiibo. So you tap the box on your switch and you get stuff in game. Wow. It unlocks gold coins and hearts in Super Mario Odyssey hits shelves mid-month. OK. I'm down for that. All right. Well, that's pretty much it. Also, LL Max route access issue. Oh, yeah. If you have a Mac and you're watching the show, you should maybe look it up on your own. It's not in here, but I'm pretty sure if someone literally just attempts to sign in as username route with no password, they just have all the stuff. Yeah, I'm not entirely sure on all the details. It's not in the dock. But if you have a Mac, look into it because it's a big deal. So thanks for watching, guys. We'll see you again next week. Same bat time, same bat channel. No, don't be down. Apparently it's patched. So just update. Yeah, there you go. Yeah. What an issue. That's one of the short of it. No, no, no.