 Okay, welcome to the WAN show for real suckas at least that's what we think The USB controller show? The USB controller show okay, okay, so let's just let's just power through the intro here AT&T shuts down their 2g network Trumpsingles.com make dating great again Nintendo signals the end for the Wii U and Gabe Newell confirms new IP in the Half-Life Portal universe I'm gonna recycle the joke from last time IPv6. What are you pointing at everything? You say is getting compressed everything I say is getting compressed no no this is maybe a little bit. Yeah, I'm really loud Wait wait, let me talk for a sec. Don't don't say anything. Okay. Yeah, uh Okay, yeah, I do too also I think I have this a little closer than we did when we were setting it up So I don't think we want literally everything we say to be yeah, that's fine We can fine-tune that the main problem that we had with the audio before on the show was that we didn't have everything configured correctly So that the compressor settings would work now they will and I can I can walk you through it all Later, but in the meantime, I think I sort of get it remember when I like a month or two ago when I was like I don't think that's how that works. Yeah, but you won't know which dials are what yes So I'll just walk you through how the how the control the control command station works Let's go ahead and roll the intro that doesn't have sound Maybe we'll use this opportunity to explain why we were having audio cutouts so Guys, I feel like we should do a proper like once the intro is done Do you want to do it after the intro is done? All right, like it's kind of cool. Let's do it after the intro It's interesting. Okay. I've got a lot of people asking me to finish the vasectomy story I'm actually really surprised. I um, I really thought people were also interesting not gonna be that interested in that Okay Yeah, fine. Okay, so Well, okay. Remember this is going up to YouTube. Yeah from the beginning. Okay. Okay. I'll start from the beginning So I don't want to have any more kids and there is actually a lot like any medical procedure or medication There's a lot of information and there's a lot of harder research. There's a lot of misinformation Yeah, like there's people out there that are just like okay. So aren't you're neutered then? Like you'll have no sex drive. You'll have no hormones But actually it doesn't affect that stuff at all All it does is cut off the supply of actual sperm cells to the rest of the I'm just gonna have to like use You know queasy words here you guys because it's all about those are queasy words It's all about the internet. It's all about it's all about clear communication. Okay, so there's a lot more than just sperm in male ejaculate So, you know all of that all the all the the man juices are still very much flowing You go from like proper medical terms to man juices. Well, I did call it ejaculate And then man juices, but remember ejaculate would also normally contain sperm Whereas man juices are just the juices. So now the only thing that has changed is he now has spermless Yes, ejaculate. Yes, and you absorb it and you reabsorb the sperm cells. So effectively my body just got more efficient. Yeah So better recycling plant, yeah, that's right. So so basically you get in and It was really weird because I didn't know Best start to a WAN show ever. I I know for a lot of a lot of women They prefer to have a female nurse or female doctor do like pelvic exams pap smears all that kind of stuff but for me I Okay, it turned out to be a female like nurse and preparatory crew and a male doctor So whichever one made me uncomfortable I was I was gonna I was gonna have that experience one way or the other Yeah, but honestly like once I got there it was just so Um, like yeah, like I'm probably not the only person ever who's been like, you know What if I pop a boner on the operating table? Wouldn't that be awkward? Let me tell you there is absolutely nothing There's nothing exciting about this experience They're like, okay, you know drop trow yeah, it's Dan stand on the stool drop trow. I'm like like everything they're like, yep Okay, but like get up on the table the the little kit says to to shave the area and I tried but apparently I didn't do a good enough job. So they fixed that for me So there's that then they just like I dine you up and then what had to be the most awkward part of the whole experience like more awkward than and I'm gonna try not to get too gory on this but like more awkward than the like 70 centimeter long string that was being pulled through something And like kind of kind of tightened. Okay, so more awkward than that. The most awkward part of the experience is The like it looks like just rubber bands tied together like like like on a clipboard Yeah, hold a pen in place. Yeah, so they have like one of those and they're just like, okay So we're just gonna tie this around your penis and then they have a like to kill to hold it out of the way And then they have like a safety pin and they just like clip it to your shirt So if you hurt it it's like if you were to need to defy gravity for some reason it's a story and it's still awesome You just like had like a like a like a penis retention mechanism Yeah, that holds it up. Um And I'm just like, okay sure that's fine I guess So then they just kind of they they they leave you there for a little bit and then the place that I went They just leave you there for a little bit. Yeah, well, I wait for the doctor Yeah, because like the doctor's time is very important. This is crazy. Okay, so the guy comes in He's in the room with me for like six minutes Okay, and I'm like, how many of these do you do again do a day? He's like 50 I'm like what excuse me five zero 50 50 vasectomies in a day. Holy crap, right? Wow, okay. Um, so like they got this down to a freaking Science man, so he comes in and they're like they describe the numbing process as like being Flicked in the balls with a rubber band and I'm like, wow great sales pitch because that sounds Horrible It actually feels nothing like that. Okay the bad news is that it feels more like you know when they put the topical numbing in your mouth and Then they they're like you're not gonna feel a thing and they inject you with the real numbing and you're like I can definitely tell there's like I can feel a thing. Yeah, and it's like it's not pain, but it's really uncomfortable Yes. Yeah, so as for the actual procedure, I didn't watch they actually had a mirror in the corner of the room I'm not looking at that mirror. Fortunately. They also had a TV with sports Yeah, on the ceiling. Yeah, so I was like, you know, this is very similar to the world's most comfortable gaming setup other than that someone's digging around in my spaghetti bag with like tools. Yeah. Yeah. Um, I Feel like I'd almost want to like record the mirror and not look at it at the time Oh Lordy no, I want to like I'd be interested just for like educational purposes Like what goes through the procedures? Like I don't want to speaking of educational purposes. They wanted to bring in a bunch of students and I was just like, you know Bunch of college kids young, you know savvy The odds of some I don't need I don't need a Linus tech tips viewer Like witnessing your balls being cut open. Yeah, I just I don't need that experience in my life It was bad enough that his partner so there's actually two vasectomy doctors that run this clinic together so his partner called me up for my morning consult and Was like at the end of it where he's like, yeah, how many kids do you have and blah blah blah this stuff? And he's like, okay. Yes, you're a good candidate etc. At the end of it he's like, so are you gonna make a video about it and I'm like Terrible terrible Nothing against the guy professionally. I'm sure he's a great vasectomy doctor, but That's funny, but that's like I'm glad that I specifically Requested the other doctor in the first place Yeah, cuz like I'd have hated for my name to come across and you'd be like, oh, yeah, I watched that guy's videos I'll do that Maybe the flip side is would a fan of the channel do a better job. Oh Or they're like, I don't think you should have won Scrapyard What if they were like cuz like we've had like really like Creepily like into us fans before yeah, what if they were like, you know, I want to preserve more of your genetic material I'm gonna screw it up. Like, you know what? It's it's funny. Like obviously that's ridiculous, right? Yes, but you hear about crazier stuff in the news Yeah, you hear about like like dentists who aren't licensed at all who have been practicing in I think it was Burnaby for like 15 years and preying on like new immigrants who don't speak English and just like Practicing dentistry out of their house and it the whole thing's just like horrifying and there's like there's like, you know, no Wow, but words are failing me here, but Sterilization of the tools like like just just insanity as this is a very very reputable clinic You have 50 vasectomies a day, you know and They're rating on Like Google is like four stars which like for me to rate someone four to five stars for cutting open my balls I better be having a great That better be some fantastic customer service No, they gave me a big bag of Tylenol if they had Tylenol mints That would be the next level yeah, yeah four stars would do again exactly my friends Second topic are you ready? Yeah. Yeah, we can go into other topics, but hold on a second. Hold on a second Someone's like I mean how how how TMI do we want to get someone's like just use a condom? It's like that's not they suck. Yeah There that's all I have to say about that It's like if I'm in a monogamous relationship where there's no concerns about STDs then like You know what? F condoms, man That is like that is you went the right route in order to say that yes Don't don't just say that if you don't get the opposite. Yes. Yes, if you want to be able to say that yeah the operation Yeah, with that said I I'm a strong believer that many many men think That they definitely don't want kids when they're young and can easily change their mind later on in their lives I went the other way around I wanted four to five and now I'm like super pleased with three and Definitely don't want any more. I'm a holdout I'm I'm I'm 26 now for those wondering and I still don't want kids lots of guys decide they want kids at like 40 yeah, and it's like It's like a revelation and they're just like oh yeah And so you know don't do it just because you don't want to wear a condom. That's not a good reason kids Do it because you're very sure you never ever ever ever ever want to impregnate anyone ever again And as annoying as the like being someone who has always said for eternity that they don't want kids as annoying as it is Having everyone be like well you're going to be older and your mind might change It's a pretty serious surgery, so yeah, I would be careful Next topic yeah, yeah, let's say so wait. I need you to do a thing. Oh, I got to do a thing Yeah, so you got to look something up. Okay look up the Hot Wheels computer the Hot Wheels computer. Yes I'm you see actually okay before we do this yeah, and I believe I have seen it this yeah this one Yeah, yeah, okay, so before we do that. I want to explain the audio cutout issues because I yes, sorry Yeah, our viewers deserve an explanation and so does focus right so focus right came by this week And they got us hooked the math up Yeah, on our audio gear We're going to have a full video of like redoing the WAN show set up in the next little bit here Where we go through all the stuff that they set us up with but basically we've got this EPM 6 mixer that will allow us to take any audio source like we could just grab a phone boom We've got a slider for it with so we can take any audio source in now just analog audio in fantastic They hooked us up with a head amp 6 Pro for monitoring the stream in real time Which will be great? You know if and when we decide to expand and get more guests or whatever the case may be if Luke and I each want to Monitor separately if we want to monitor separately at different levels because we have different headphones freaking fantastic They hooked up our DBX. It's a 166 XS compressor, so that's working now We still got to do some fine tuning But they've got it set up and like they've created a guide for me So I can make sure I can do it correctly and they hooked us up with their 18i 20 Scarlett audio interface so that we have a gorgeous preamp on the se 4400 a Microphone that they also hooked us up with like these guys came in Brought us all the gear and set it up for us, and we had a bunch of audio cutouts on the show today That is not their fault it appears to have been related to having Multiple capture cards running on the same USB controller on the motherboard throwing an additional PCIe USB Controller in there and splitting the capture cards between the two of them has resolved the issue and For those of you saying hey the audio is still not as good on the show as it could be We're aware of that and we've we've talked to focus right about it, and we're going to look into getting some There's stuff called ultra touch that is like a denim It's a cotton based batting that from my discussions with silent Mike the chin over at silent PC review is the bomb as far as Reducing those echoes and while still having it sound really natural so we want to get a cloud above us We want to get a couple of those in front of us break up some of the standing waves in here We are going to take it to the next level, but for now we have a reliable setup, and There's no reason for you guys to deal with that screechy peeking anymore because our compressor is finally working Yeah, most people don't host shows in like a warehouse. Yeah What yeah you need him oh you need me for something Okay, Ed needs to borrow me, so that's okay because You could you got your your Hot Wheels computer. I wanted to show this is oh you want to discuss it. Yeah, oh, okay? things to say okay, maybe do Maybe do do another topic in the meantime. I'll be right back. I'm assuming what he needs is very important. I hope so oh Okay, this is gonna take a moment. Don't go too quickly Okay, so topic line of screen There we go Nintendo signals end for Wii U might seem a little early considering That they haven't even released their new console yet, and you would be right. It is rather early apparently Reggie you guys know Reggie Nintendo America guy has told polygon that Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild would be the last game that the company is releasing on the Wii U and He is very specifically said we really are at the end of life for Wii U That's pretty much the entire topic, but that's kind of ridiculous it's it's literally like the end has been signaled and The switch isn't even out yet Mario Kart 8 was Wii U's best selling game 8 million copies sold the Wii U didn't do that amazing Nintendo that being said the end of life thing is only being quoted for Nintendo games, but Nintendo games are pretty much The only thing that matters in terms of like really large selling titles on the Nintendo platform So I don't know I'm really excited for people to watch this I I kind of want to go get my ice pack before I sit down. I would get someone else to get your ice pack Would get someone else to get your ice pack Is it weird like getting someone to grab an ice pack that you like has been Okay, okay, it's also probably very clean Do you want to grab it for him there we go Anyways Linus will be here in a moment. Well you gotta This is awesome okay the next topic that we will be discussing funny thing funny thing I was like so what about stairs and they're like oh your house has stairs I'm just like Do anything My house has stairs And they give you like a jockstrap, but without a cup to kind of lift support and separate kind of thing Whoa okay, that is cold That is cold some cold relief right there Okay, oh hold on. I just got it. Oh Okay, oh Just getting down here. Yep So here one sec. All right. We need I'm having fun. Hope everybody's having fun. Can I do this? Yeah? Okay, I yes the good old Hot Wheels PC Yeah, so I can't claim complete credit for this someone sent this to me on my stream thing and was like you should do a Mod like this and I took that very literally instead of as a joke and have been trying to figure out some way that I could do a modern version of the Hot Wheels PC for a little while now and Decided eventually like you know what maybe I should just sit Colton on it so Colton just messaged Hot Wheels seriously and the YouTube partner of Mattel Yeah, I just back and was like hey cool. Yeah, we should get on a call no We might legit be making like an approved like Hot Wheels is in on it with us. No way Like like this but for like a modern computer So I'll get like a modern keyboard that and like decklet out like that Yeah, that would be absolutely Banana and now now that they're in on it. I'm gonna try to do like the racing wheel and like yeah The mouse pad and the speakers we could probably get like guys like D brand involved we could probably get Who do we know I don't you know what I wonder if like neighbor Steve would help us out with some of the flames Like so he'd like he could like paint it properly. Yeah Yeah, like I'm thinking like sky's the limit for a project like that. I want to make it like Super awesome. Yeah, that's sick. Should we still have a CRT just for fun? I don't think so. Okay, because I think because I think the idea should be yeah This is a pretty wicked like modern. Okay Hot Wheels. Okay kind of deal. I'm down What we should try to do though is if we can we should try and get the original tower chassis. I Think that's gonna be nigh impossible. You think so again that wouldn't be a modern thing. It has like a floppy drive area No, it does it. Yeah, but we could know we could modernize it So we could use so um, there was a really cool mod on the forum Not a moderator a really cool like computer mod on the forum all the balls of the former where a guy built a An SD card reader where you load your SD card into a floppy diskette and pop it into a floppy drive That was modified to read SD cards. That's pretty cool. So like we could But I want to make it like I don't want to just like recreate the old thing I want to make a cool new thing. Okay, all right drop. Oh, it's drop. Oh, it's drop. Oh, yeah We got a straw pull that of course. We got a straw pull that let the people decide let yeah We're giving the decision back to you the people. Yeah Sorry that I don't remember who recommended it on my thing. This was like many months ago, and it's just coming to fruition now All right, okay getting the old chassis you're trying Mmm old school versus new school. I think it's like Okay, there we go So I've got what chassis old one modded or create something new and getting the old one like might not even be possible So we just have to keep that in mind So even if you guys do vote for the old one we might have to go with a new one just because it's like Literally not a twitch chats like build a physectomy PC That's just like it's half a PC. It's a PC without the without without the potency no venom And what the white one just goes nowhere Well, there is there just isn't like like 3d particles inside of it, right Oh lordy, it's a clean loop. Yeah, John's like no Okay, so Overwhelmingly twitch chat is like yeah, they're with yeah, okay. They're with you on this. I clearly lost So there you go like one thing. I'm wondering about too It's like you want to go to Hot Wheels website real quick, which I don't even like I'm assuming they have one Yeah Hot Wheels dot-com en CA yeah Wow Whoa there you go, okay, so they still have like the flames kind of bright So their branding hasn't really changed and it's still blue and yellow and red. Yep, okay So I was wondering if we would have to like change the design But I think the general design can stay the same, but we just do with modern stuff Those are some actually pretty cool looking Super Mario. I like how they still have the mustache Hot Wheels. Yeah, that's awesome Okay. Anyway, this is not a this is not like a sponsored by Hot Wheels stream We're just excited to to be working with them. That's pretty cool. Yeah, I think that's gonna be pretty wicked It's gonna be a little hard for certain components like the monitor because the CRT has way more bezel or play with Well, I think I can make the back look really cool Yeah That we could probably find something with like a cool stand that lends itself well to To modification like I think we can find a way to work work with it Like I think if we just go hardcore with like try to stay true to the original idea instead of like the exact Layout of the right one then I think it'll be good I still do have to check like if you can get a Hot Wheels PC on you I can't imagine they sold a ton of them Hot Wheels PC Oh It's gonna be a lot of hot wheels PC games Okay Micro racers. Yeah, they say computer in them or do they just say PC because you could try Hot Wheels computer Sure Hot Wheels desktop computer or something Well here we've got categories now toys and hobbies video games and consoles Yikes Oops Zero results for Hot Wheels computer. Okay. All right. Well, that's fine. I'm over it. I'm over it Yeah, no problem. Okay Speaking of things that I'm over to what Oh, did you find? $100 someone found one five hundred bucks. That's not even that bad. Someone was it whipped by on twitch chat a Few people have posted it. I'm trying to I'm trying to over you on dot CA Oh possibly look at that. It's up to Hot Wheels desktop computer System monitor speakers steering wheel keyboard. I wonder if this thing works There'll be a really cool prop for the video, but it would cost 500 freaking dollars the auction is for And floppies if you have questions, feel free to message me. Everything has been tested to the point of powering on Let's stop monitor base base needs to be repaired original floppy disk for 93 Camaro and rigor motor Wow Hot Wheels interactive tattoo designer. Hell yeah Wow Alright, so there you go You can apparently buy one and if if our previous experience Trying to buy something on the WAN show is anything to go by by the time I refresh this page someone will have already But it's gone. Yeah, 11 watching 11 watching for viewed per hour That thing's hot folks Hot Wheels Guys had no traffic on this thing at all for months, and then it's all sudden. It's like whoa That's the WAN show effect my friends. Yeah, all right so AT&T shuts down their 2g network They announced yesterday that the 2g wireless network will if was officially shut down on January 1st 2017 after four years of planning for its discontinuation So what that means is that the original iPhone will no longer receive cellular service from the AT&T network Effectively shutting it down so if anyone Was still using the original iPhone? Which I sincerely hope they were not Then your interesting that their first sales note for the iPhone was a widescreen iPod Not that it was a revolutionary phone Yeah That is interesting breakthrough internet device high technology high technology high technology Is that like a laser? I think it's a laser. I don't think it had laser beams I feel like we would have made fun of it for having high technology if we were doing WAN show way back then It's funny though because like they would have had to have Such a simple message behind it in order to have anyone have a chance of understanding what it was that actually makes Because nowadays like how do you describe something kind of like an iPhone, but whatever like how do you describe a phone? Yeah, all right, or maybe not today because now there are other good phones, but like five years back. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah interesting So there's not really much else to say about that they're just looking to free up some more spectrum for future network technologies including 5g and I guess that's yeah, really all there is to it. This is awesome. So they were talking about this on my favorite Morning sports show because the time that I'm driving into work is actually when they do a segment called crossover where the morning hosts and the the brunch hosts that like the lunch hour hosts are Overlapping in the studio for 30 minutes and they almost never talk about sports It's always just like a bunch of kind of jocks growing out about ridiculous nonsense Yeah, so they were talking about the Trump singles calm website that promises to make dating great again, so the site experienced a membership spike Apparently they've racked up around 24,000 members since the official launch in June and David Goss the site's founder told Fox News Fantastic that membership jumped by about 5,000 after Donald Trump's shock election victory in November with another wave of new members that just signed up so the basic premise of the site is that He Goss was upset about the divisiveness of the election season and Wanted a place where people could go to meet people who? Especially folks in more liberal areas where they could have a community to go where Trump supporters wouldn't get Hated on he said for example. It's hard being a Republican in the LA area. It's not an easy thing One interesting little tidbit here if you go back is that oh is it gone now? Yeah? No, do you need me to go back to it? Yeah? Oh wow? Oh my goodness. This is great So okay hold on a second. Okay. Where do you want me? Keep going a little bit did to do okay right there the perfect right here trumpsingles.com is not the only dating site to emerge from the Me of the tumult yeah maple match Helps Americans fleeing the Trump presidency find a Canadian soulmate I got a okay What the heck that's a print Okay Maple match is this is this real maple match calm this can't be real. Oh my god again The dating app that makes you better at dating free iOS dating yeah, this doesn't seem to actually say anything about that With the goal of bringing Americans and Canadians together in a fun meaningful way wow will I be matched? I Can't imagine this is real. This is a really basic site. There's almost no copy on it. They keep talking about the app I'm gonna see if it's available okay in the meantime though. This is where trumpsingles.com goes Maybe the account was suspended just because their traffic has been too high That's possible actually been did from what contact your hosting provider for more information I don't know, but make make dating great again It's gonna have to it's gonna have to wait maple match is not on Android okay Maybe it's iOS only that's okay. I got an iPhone. I got an iPhone. It did say something about iOS on there. Yeah Okay, maple match I Feel like this is one of the most disjointed WAN shows we've ever had Okay, okay, hold up Jake is like is the WAN show sponsored by directs or something. Did you not hear any of that? He's avoiding using them. Yeah, I'm trying to not give my money to yeah All right no speaking of sponsors though. We should probably we should probably do our sponsor spot so fresh books Yeah, are you a small business owner? Are you a freelancer? Are you looking to get organized and get paid faster and basically? Are you frustrated with trying to track all your expenses in your hours in a way that is easy to understand? Yeah, like like all that kind of stuff See fresh books is all about making your life easier as a small business owner or freelancer They've got simple to use invoicing tools. 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It's not Half-Life 3 confirmed, but it is possible That it could be a Half-Life related game not out of the question. Okay. I hadn't actually read that quote. That's cool. Um, so there you go um They're using source 2 but seeing that like titanfall 2 was in source 2 engine That's not a bad thing. Thank you. All two looked good And it ran really well This is pretty cool The sentry small form factor case that we actually reviewed an early prototype of a few months back Just for the few people that do care as well before we go here Um, he has also said that they're designing vr games first party and they're designing a knuckles controller, which is cool Oh fantastic. So to complete with the oculus complete compete with the oculus touch Yeah, so we've we've seen a little bit of that in my in my review that I did of the oculus touch Yeah, we saw a little bit of the knuckles controller, but um, i'm sure it'll look a lot better than what I had called it so the sentry crushed their crowdfunding goal within a matter of like hours and Yeah, it seems to be well on its way. These guys are I mean, I can't say that they won't sort of run away with everybody's money It's an indiegogo campaign and I you know can't personally guarantee them but from my interaction with them they seem like good folks and The product that I had in spite of being very early a very early sample Was something that I would have been If I wanted a console in this a console shaped pc in this form factor Something I would have been comfortable spending the money they're asking on so Uh great great job those guys congratulations Solid stuff huge huge shout out. Um, seagate closing one of its largest hard drive manufacturing plants Yeah, check power up posted by num lock 21 on the forum. Dun dun. Uh Wow located in suzhu. Hopefully i'm saying that right china The closure will significantly reduce the company's hard drive output They're looking to optimize their production reducing hard drive production capabilities from 55 to 60 million hard drives per quarter to around 35 to 40 million wow and seagate's laying off 2200 employees wow So basically what this means is not necessarily that seagate expects A huge dip in the business for high capacity hard drives Those I mean we met with them back at ces Those whether you talk to seagate or wd They are pretty bullish on shipping 10 terabyte plus hard drives to cloud storage providers Facebook data centers. Yep, facebook google Those are not going away hard drives are not going away But what is going away much more quickly than like I remember talking to folks at wd and seagate, you know back three four years ago For consumers as like the the main drive in a computer or even as a secondary drive in a computer They went away a lot faster than I think they saw coming Well, like every single laptop basically used to come with like a 500 gig or one terabyte hard drive and now they Don't and if they do come with a hard drive It's a 500 gig or a one terabyte because not like that two or three range That should be kind of the low end like if we were still scaling the way we were and the reason for that is that I don't whether it's a end user or whether it's the manufacturers They don't want to invest a bunch of money in the hard drive and for most people I believe one terabyte is that magical number where realistically? the majority of people Don't need more than that because Especially with a lot of stuff being cloud now There's a considerable amount of people that don't really save much on their local computers And there's an argument to be made for once you reach a certain amount of storage on a device that can fail Should that even be done or would it be safer to just take that 500 gigs or whatever and throw it up in the cloud now? The cloud has its own sort of issues. I personally don't store anything Incriminating in the cloud. I'm having troubles Finding a way to like make a video that people will actually watch about it So I don't necessarily know if I ever will but Synology is doing some really cool stuff Are they? For your private cloud. So their NAS has always been solid enough But now they're working on making things beyond that like Your own kind of hosted off your own server style google docs and google sheets Okay So it's not google at all But you can have collaborators and multiple people can be editing at the same time and you can see people editing and stuff And it's hosted off of your own server docs and sheets and chat Okay, so a slack styled They they use that and it looks like it Now I should maybe use some different design cues But yeah, I would like to see functionality like that in something like a docker container so that it could be used Across platform, but I know Synology does support docker. So is that how they're implementing it? Or is it like a Synology proprietary? I haven't played with it myself much I'll be keeping an eye on it because right now to my knowledge. There still isn't a super simple Like dropbox ease of use equivalent way to back up photos that you take and videos that you take on your phone It used to be that code 42 Had like a like a personal cloud type product of some sort that had an app don't don't quote me on that though I don't remember who it was but there used to be something it ended up getting discontinued. Um And it would be great if you could create something a little bit easier to use Yeah Yeah, we'll we'll see I know right now like It's a little janky like when you set up your thing, it doesn't have a friendly url right off the start Yeah, so it has like a really messy url to get to your thing You can you can change it and you can like make it so that it's clean But you have to go through another one of their apps in order to do that. It's not automatic, right? Because they're not like a Low-end client company. They're like a you know what you're doing kind of company ac says google Google drive. No. No google drive is not the solution. I'm looking to store this stuff on my own thing Apparently own cloud uh own cloud got forked um Yeah, maybe i'll play around with it Um and someone says code 42's crash plan enterprise does I called them like a few months ago back when I was looking into um What I was going to use to synchronize our on-site server and our off-site one I ended up with beyond compare running as a scheduled task in like with like a script because Basically, I think they had removed that functionality and there were a bunch of other reasons that it wasn't going to work But um, but crash plan is a really good solution for just kind of backing up an image of your hard drive off-site Actually, this is kind of a cool thing that I hadn't really talked to anyone internally about but as part of the server room reorganization So it was the old way was wannock was sada ssds And then it had a a real-time synchronization server that was mechanical drives So wannock is moving to nvme and the real-time sync is probably going to be ssd sada ssds And I think i'm going to repurpose that like 25 terabyte Mechanical one as like a crash plan target That everyone who works here can use oh, that's cool Which would be kind of cool because the way crash plan works is everything that people would sync to the office Would be encrypted as like a in a container file Um, so I would just create like a generic account that everyone can create their own accounts and then sync to yeah um, and like I I paid the $30 a month to freaking tell us and now I have unlimited data nice so I would just sync like That's the way to be man The month after because I kept on hitting my data cap like Within a gig every single time and then eventually they called me and they're like you're like metering yourself and i'm like, yeah I'm not going over because you guys charge a lot. They're like would you like unlimited? We'll give you like a discount nice and they give me a discount for like a year So i'm not technically paying 30 right now, but it will go back up. I was like, yeah sure in the very next month It was like massive amounts of data We don't regret this at all. I mean you're on a fiber line anyway Yeah, like and i'm I think i'm the only one around on it realistically it costs you nothing. So um Yeah So many people are asking me this Like for our setup here, why don't you build a san? because i'm not gonna build a san like you Everyone's suggesting that have you looked into the cost? Yeah of a san It's like what we have is expensive. Yes. The gear we have is like kind of expensive I spent like twenty thousand dollars on nvme ssds That is a drop in the bucket Compared to what I would spend on a san not to mention having someone come in and set up Which would require ongoing maintenance because i'm not familiar with it on a san and for what? Why? Everyone's like it would be way better way better in what way? We don't have three hundred employees No, i'm not gonna run out and buy a san It's storage area network, right? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. So there's some people in chat asking what to say Yeah, basically it uses different it uses different networking hardware like you would end up building Some kind of like fiber channel type of like interconnect you would have Multiple boxes you would have things like failover so that if one box just failed out Right, the whole thing would keep on keep on ticking. You know what? We don't have that many people Enough people to justify something like that and the performance of that nvme box For all the criticism in the video that just went up about how Man, it was oh man. It was just kind of endless. Why didn't you do this? Why didn't you do that? This is stupid. There's a lot of things people don't consider. Why am I running windows server? Because we have all windows clients and smb 3.0 Runs best on windows Had a lot of people asking why I was using hardware raid. I am not using hardware raid There is no hardware raid controller for 24 nvme drives What hardware raid controller would I be using? I had a lot of people saying that the performance would be bottlenecked by the four 10 gigabit network connections Why I mean sure if I was hitting the whole thing sequentially from one client then I guess I would need a 100 gigabit Client what what would I need a hundred? What would I need 10 gigabytes a second for? It's for multiple clients when you have multiple clients. It is just fine to spread out over multiple network interfaces and Especially when none of those clients will need more than one gigabyte per second at a time All our all my clients are either gigabit or 10 gigabit And the other factor to consider is that unless you are hitting it basically purely sequentially you're never going to see 10 gigabytes a second anyway And when we've got multiple people playing back say for example a red footage at 8k Each of those clients can do like three gigabit It's pretty heavy and then if someone's ingesting footage over there, then they could be they could be writing at about four gigabit And all of that stuff It makes makes the makes the interaction with the data more random and less Sequential so it could there be a bottleneck sure Am I concerned about it? No so far it has been operating Extremely well. Thank you very much The chat is like oh my god Linus is so mad. I'm not mad my balls just hurt Okay ZTE project CSX phone hands-free IGF project CSX phone hands-free eye tracking device so this portion of the Indiegogo Pledge goal that they have reached is everything kickstarter. Sorry kickstarter pledge goal that they've um That they've reached Is everything that big companies need to know? about Crowdsourcing the ideas for your products Because people have ideas But that doesn't mean that they would actually pay money for a product That had that idea implemented What Basically they so they crowdsourced a bunch of ideas for this phone and people were like, oh we want eye tracking Oh, you don't mean the funding you're talking like they they had like A site that you could go to and suggest. Yeah So they crowdsourced ideas for the phone and they've like I didn't even know that they've set themselves down on this path Where they've committed to build it and the ideas are terrible Like they're just terrible Scrolling based on eye tracking so pages should scroll automatically up and down or left and right based on movement. Absolutely. Hate it horrible Voice commands can be used to navigate between pages Voice commands are already bad enough. I don't think voice commands need to get any worse Do you know I swear siri has gotten worse I've been on the iphone quite a bit lately because i've been waiting for an unlock code for my s7 A lot of people have asked why i'm wearing an apple watch lately The next one sticks to walls and surfaces with self-adhesive case. That's gonna get so gnarly Just to bring back an old word like that's gonna get really gross Really fast and not work. Yeah, immediately like denis bought one of those iphone No, he has an s7 edge. I think he bought one of those cases that has that microsection stuff It'll work and he's like a little bit and he's like, oh linus. This is so cool You should make a video about this case and I was like No, because i'm plenty familiar with that stuff And within like eight applications It's not going to stick to anything not to mention that it barely sticks to anything In the first place anyway, unless you're sticking it to a window There is no reason to use it whatsoever now to be clear. I love that stuff So I did a handy tech under 100 where I featured that stuff Oh, that would have been great for your sticky stuff one, but i'd already done it Yeah, you don't you don't have it as your case. No, I don't have it on that stuff on something. Yes Yeah, so I have a strip of it on my nightstand next to my bed Where I lay down any devices that i'm charging So that they can't get pulled off if I or one of my kids grabs a cable That's what it's for. Yeah Or didn't you have some in your car before? Uh, no that came on a chi charging dock That ended up melting because I got an early prototype that was 3d printed. Yeah So that's hilarious. Yeah, it's expected to ship in september and it has all the most generic specs ever Qualcomm 625 3 gigs ram 5.5 inch 1080p display 3000 milliamp hour battery 12 megapixel Plus 13 megapixel optical zoom rear camera. Yeah, that's not too weird. 32 gig storage usb type c. Wow i'm so bored 200 though cool Um Wow Reddit user this is cool. So this was posted by good good tofu fry good tofu friday. That's a great username Uh reddit user posts a picture of an am4 bracket. So here's the ek water blocks am4 versus am3 bracket Demonstrating that they appear to be compatible. Although I probably could have told you guys that from looking at am4 boards At ces it does look like amd is keeping the existing Mounting holes wasn't that definitely public knowledge already? I certainly didn't think it was a secret Um, but there you go reddit's happy about it. So good for them. Okay, you did it reddit I I thought I thought has just no one said it because we just all assumed that everyone else knew maybe Because I that's pretty funny asrock is showing off a new desktop Form factor so check this thing out. So it spreads the io out quite a bit more Uh, it looks like we can put an mxm here And I was I honestly thought it was like a matter of time before we were going to see something like this and I am Super excited for the kinds of designs you could build with a board like this soda memory And uh front io right here actually wow the closer I look at this original article from an on tech This is posted by ah my good friend. Dr. Cutress um this looks amazing so Wow, i'm actually like super stoked on this Basically, this would allow you tiny computer to build Effectively like a laptop thinness desktop with like a 7700k 32 gigs of ram and like a gtx 1080 That'd be pretty sick this would be bananas Do you see any power connectors? So power is probably dc. So probably external power if I had to guess I would say that's a power in okay Yeah, that's probably I was looking for circular and you can see a little bit of circular black on there It could also be up here based on that that's where this comes in But I would assume central more so so that it can feed the slot here. Yeah I'm also not sure exactly how they're planning to handle mxm cards that require external power Like it's possible that this is just one of Yeah, but oh man an enthusiast grade desktop. That's like look at the size of this thing It's like this big by like this wide with like a 1080 in it Because like that's like I look at laptop hardware. I'm like yeah, that's just like awesome. I'd love to like use the crap out of that stuff Except that it's got a display and a keyboard and like a bunch of a bunch of stuff that adds cost and complexity that I don't need Whereas oh man like the kind of chassis you could build around something like this where you could have like a mono block style cooler for the cpu and the gpu so you can Man, I'm excited about this thing Oh, there's some more pictures. So there's a good Good sense of the size right there Yeah, and that does indeed look like power in although I could be Could be wrong Look at all that m.2 on the back That is ba Very cool. Oh, here we go What's that? Hmm, what are both of those? Um He probably says yeah, he probably says Front part blah blah blah Hmm. Yeah, dc and jack. Okay. There you go Yeah, so that looks fantastic. I'm excited. This could turn into uh Into some very very cool form factors. I just want to see if there's any other no, okay stoked on that I'm adding that to our uh, we have a we have like a a weekly meeting now Where we yeah where we like go through like what's cool. What's coming? Are you gonna talk about the Which The three the three the two three. Yeah, the three i'm trying to not say anything. Uh Oh, um sure yeah So this is interesting We have completed call for writers 2016 I know it's 2017 now, but we started it in 2016 and that's how the That's how the nomenclature works. Yep. Um And we are hiring three people so a I would say their names but Um, I could I could say first names Okay. Yeah, I mean they've got their employee agreements where they agree to have their name and likeness Technically they haven't signed them yet. So maybe okay, so i'll stick with not names yet names soon But uh, we are adding three people to the writing team here, which is going to I hope dramatically increase the Cohesiveness of the content coming out of this place. Um, it's no secret that for a long time Um, i've been overworked. It is no secret that luke has his attention split between content And development of float playing club our early access platform Um, and we've been in desperate need of help for quite some time more help than we can get from Brandon with his camera reviews and taryn with electric bikes and keyboards And we've like never truly had a pre-production hire for Linus Tech Tips. No That was sort of the intent with John but he Bid into tech quickie and became the tech quickie guy in a way that which is great In a way that no one anticipated and He only rarely finds time to to pitch in on the ltt side of things. So we said we were going to hire two to three and We decided uh, we decided to go with three the decisions made and those folks will be two of them had to relocate But those folks will be heading out here sometime in the next actually about three weeks. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so that's exciting because like Over doubling the team essentially and and two of them will be heading out here sometime in the next actually about three weeks And and like tripling it we've we've grown these other sectors of Linus Media Group a lot and just never touched our side ever Yeah, um, and this doesn't necessarily mean that like We're just not going to show up on camera as much or almost at all anymore. That's not the plan John has already done a bunch of Linus Tech Tips scripts Like if you've seen any of our console stuff the Xbox one and the PlayStation 4 Xbox one s and PlayStation 4 pro Yeah, to be more specific. Those were both largely John scripts and what this will do I've got a lot of people asking about more content. No, no I do not intend for us to release more than a video per day But what I do want you guys to see is more stuff like PlayStation 4 water cooling Great video. Yeah, but a video like that is extraordinarily time consuming and the guys that we're bringing in will not only have more time But they also have very unique skill sets. Yes. So one of them I would consider to be kind of an all-rounder Kind of similar to me in that way like pretty self-taught except that he also has some coding experience One of them Has an engineering background. Yeah, dude's got an engineering degree So if we wanted to create a trebuchet for channel super fun We finally have someone on staff who can have us not get killed. Yeah, while we're trying to do that The other one has over a decade of like it Background and like has has like replaced electrical components on board Yeah, and has gone around like fixing snes and nest systems And like all this other kind of cool stuff and is very interested and good at that So we're bringing in three very different people At least one of them has a fair bit of experience with 3d modeling and 3d printing So we're bringing in a bunch of different skill sets that are going to unlock a lot of ideas that we've had on the back burner for a long time And just haven't had the time to learn how to and this shouldn't just make it so that there's more like really awesome Cool in-depth projects, but it should also free up Linus and I to do things like scrap yard wars Yes, it's been a long time since scrap yard wars up season four It's it's it's difficult to do. It's extremely difficult To do when you have two people that can do the pre-production for projects and you take both of them out So I've got a lot of people speculating. No, Jerry is not coming to work here. They're all Canadian So I'll put to rest any speculation about Jerry Um, and because we just said they're all Canadian. It's not like it's not Wendell Yeah, yeah, he's also American though. It's it's not like we didn't we didn't plunder like hardware connects we didn't wonder anyone these are all new guys these guys are fresh blood and we're really excited to bring them in and And and really ramp things up in the next little bit just so everybody knows Wendell like has a real job Like I don't I don't know if people know this because a lot of people And I like the existence of level one techs. Yeah, and I like what he's doing over there and I don't Yeah, yeah If you guys actually could help me out a little bit i'd appreciate it if you can ask Wendell when the crap he's gonna come on Wanshow with us and talk about level one techs because That's been that's been on both of our calendars for quite some time. Just tweet that guy be like yo Hey, Linus is like why aren't you on my show and you'd be like we want you on the show Because it's been a long time No excuses, brah brah brah What else we got brah Um, yeah, PC one year test. How's it going? It is Going it's going I I checked in on it a couple days ago. Have you been back there? Yeah. Yep. It's going they're all running Uh next doc turns intel's compute card into a two-in-one laptop This was posted on the forum by Dawson Wajaj and the original article here is from the verge Okay, oh yeah this thing yeah Looks pretty cool. So they announced the compute card at ces, which was back in early january So a credit card sized computer. So this is the follow-up to the compute stick which was a stick size computer And it's essentially a full computer So it's got cpu gpu wireless connectivity and it's designed to let harbor manufacturers easily add computer internals to smart devices So it's all built around a single upgradable standard So the next doc is one of the first products announced that looks to take advantage of the compute card The company is listed as one of intel's regional partners for the compute card And it's a touchscreen device with two slots on the side one for the compute card Which contains the actual computer of the device and one for a larger custom usb c module for swapping in and out ports And battery as the situation requires Not a huge fan of that. I wish it kind of just had ports and a battery. Yeah Apparently it can be converted into different form factors using a keyboard and kickstand accessory So they hope that by separating the os and the processor from the rest of the hardware They can prolong the lifespan of the computer and help reduce the environmental impact very cool Um, what else we got here? I guess that's pretty much everything from my side Opera neon is opera's new concept browser So that's cool. Cool. And um, thanks for watching the land show Do you have anything else that you want to say? Wendell's playing video games right now Yeah, it's like he's not even doing anything more important than being on the land show with us. So what okay? What's his twitch? What's his twitch? Let's get this pgp. Okay, so twitch dot tv slash team pgp guys, we got to fix this Okay, so everyone get over there and like Cause of cause a riot Okay, everybody cause a riot you can tell him I said so no don't tell him I said so actually that would be better But I want to see a riot in wendell's twitch chat in the next 30 seconds Or i'm ending the stream Actually, i'm gonna end the stream in 30 seconds. Anyway, there it goes. Okay. Do we have a riot? Yeah Okay, very good. Okay. The riot level is about a four out of ten I need to see about a 12 out of ten here guys Come on riot riot. It's team pgp team pgp. Let's get that link going again riot All right So thank you guys for tuning into the wend show We will see you again next week same bat time same bat channel all that good stuff We hope you guys had as much fun as we did Huge shout out again to focus right for hooking us up on this audio gear We're super stoked especially for the fact that we're going to be doing a lot of stuff We're super stoked especially now that we figured out the um Sort of bummer that was the uh, the usb conflict resource conflict that was causing our cutouts Um, oh this is really important if you guys are not already subscribed to channel super fun I'm linking that in the chat right now all the episodes of nerd sports oops I have no idea what the heck. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Go subscribe to channel super fun. All the nerd sports episodes are up So go check them out Um also right, um if you want to get early access To linus tech tips channel super fun and tech quickie videos float playing club does exist So, uh, you can go check that out as well. I'll go ahead and throw you guys a link Actually, it's kind of amazing. I mean do do we want to tell people like how many people are subscribed? uh No, should we say that it's more than hundreds? I guess So we've got a lot of people i'm gonna post this uh Post the link to where you can join the float playing club. The video and audio quality is quite wonderful Yep, we've got a lot of great great feedback from Tremendous tremendously knowledgeable people that the video and audio actually the audio is one of the biggest differences for me because i'm usually watching on like a laptop or a um, or a phone so a small display anyway, um But listening with in ears one of those things that you've been asking Yeah, we tried it and it like works, but it's like really scary for the servers. So like no, but later. Yes Does it have three letters? The first of which is h no. Oh, don't I don't want to I don't literally don't want anyone to know Oh, okay, but it's two It's two. Oh, okay. I think I know which oh wow Okay Um All right. So guys go check out go subscribe to channel super fun. Go check out flow playing club. Yes Audio quality really is better. You guys are doing almost no compression, right? I like Like they change things all the time. Thank you. I appreciate it. I'm not complaining. I'm just saying I don't really know what's going on all the time. Uh, so like a while ago. Yeah. No, not really Okay All right. Good night everybody Bye Oh, yeah, the outro oh which has no music. So whatever