 Well, you don't have to sit up. You could also just tilt your camera down a little bit. And we're live! Welcome to the WAN Show, ladies and gentlemen! We are gonna have a fantastic show for you today. I'm super excited because I get to take possession of my new house today. So I was thinking maybe I would show Luke some pictures and maybe you guys could look at them, too. You can... do you guys want to watch while we look at things together? I've already seen the pictures. I was gonna pretend you hadn't, so... I have not seen the pictures. This will be a first-time reaction. All reactions will be genuine. We're gonna spoil it for everyone. In other news, Microsoft has elaborated on the Windows 11 CPU requirements and is defending the requirement for a trusted platform module. So we're gonna be talking about that. What else we got, Luke? There's Sony charging developers $25,000 to show up on the PlayStation Store. That's cool and also fun. And in other cool and also fun console news, there will be TV style or I would probably say mobile style ads coming to console. And PC gaming! So cool! I'm so happy with this! Yay! Alright, um... yeah. Let's roll the intro. That actually sounds like the worst. Cool. GoodDay in the YouTube comments says, uh, sell the house and get bitcoins. Sounds like a good strat. Yeah. That sounds like a helpful suggestion. The show is brought to you by Redux, Honey, and Ridgewallet. Alright, let's jump right into our first topic of the day. Microsoft has elaborated on their Windows 11 CPU requirements and defended the TPM requirements as well. So after the reveal, like Luke, were you a little surprised to find out that 8th Gen Core and 2nd Gen Ryzen were listed as the minimum supported CPUs? Very. Extremely, I would actually say. Yeah. And this isn't one of those things where it's kind of like, you know, oh, I definitely have not seen those pictures before. Like, this is honest, honest surprise, right? Yes. Because now, my world is shattered, my world is shaken, Luke. I don't know what I can trust and what I can't because, you know, I thought you were a truthful, a truthful kind of character. And now I found out you've seen all these pictures already. Yeah. There's also stuff like, was it, was it, I think, Vista, where they had this like pretty high system requirement and then like no one listened to it and then everyone hated Vista. So like, but it, but it worked on those systems, even though it was just a bad experience. Like, it doesn't seem like that's necessarily the case. Like it could actually require these. No. So we'll get, we'll get into this. Now, the crazy thing about it though is that some older CPUs, because you got to remember there's two different important dates for a CPU. There's the date that it actually was initially available commercially. That's date number one. And then date number two is the date that it went EOL, that it effectively stopped being sold. And here's the problem. Some of those CPUs that are that are older CPUs were still being sold brand new, less than two years ago, like the Ryzen 5 1600 AF. Now, Microsoft has since announced that they are testing Zen One and Kaby Lake CPUs via the Insider program. However, installing the Insider Windows 11 build with an unsupported CPU will show a message that says the final version may not be available for you upon release, which is a pretty big downer. With that said, our internal testing has Windows 11 running on much older CPUs. So there's probably more to the story here than compatibility or performance. We actually got it running on a Core 2 Duo, and we just shot a video on how we did that and it seemed to run completely fine. Core 2 Duo, what's that, 2007? 2008? Core 2 Duo, let me see, 2006. 2006, that was, oh wow, I'm old, it was 15 years ago. Holy snakies. Anyway, the other big requirement that has caused issues for people is the TPM or Trusted Platform Module. Microsoft's PC Health Check app proclaimed that many modern PCs were incompatible due to a lack of TPM. The frustrating thing about that is that its only recommendation to rectify the problem was to buy a new PC. The PC Health Check app has since been pulled, and that's a good thing because the last thing you want to do after a period of prolonged hardship around the world is say, Hey, you know what, things not working out for you so great, PC's a little old, you know what, go buy a new one. You don't just have a bunch of money to just go buy a new one, why don't you have money to buy a new one, you slob? That's the way a lot of people felt about it, and that's justifiable because if you have a perfectly good computer, why should you suddenly just have to throw it away and buy a new one because you don't have some little validation module thing? And of course, just because your computer might have the option to add a TPM doesn't necessarily mean that it will be easy to do it. Scalpers immediately bought out stock of TPMs and put them up on sites like eBay for many, many times the price. And the good news is that most platforms since 2015 have a TPM integrated into the firmware, it's just disabled by default on DIY motherboards. So, all this confusion has led manufacturers like MSI and Gigabyte to make press releases with supported lists of motherboards that can use TPM 2.0. Although, here's a problem. Many ITX boards actually don't have the pins for the module, which is a little frustrating because, especially with high performance ones, they're always looking for new ways to save space. However, most non-ITX boards since 2013 have TPM headers and ever since Skylake and First Gen Ryzen virtually all have firmware TPMs. With that said, not all discrete TPM headers are the same. Asus and Gigabyte each have three different types of them, all of which are incompatible with each other. So, you can't just go on eBay, order a TPM module and plonk it onto your system. You have to make sure that it is compatible not just with your motherboard vendor, but also with the specific model of motherboard you have. Now, Luke, how do you feel about the requirement of a TPM? It feels a little weird to me, personally, not gonna lie. I mean, we can talk about what it's for. I mean, one of the things that TPM is great for is something like BitLocker full driving encryption. Because the TPM is a pretty simple device, actually. It's a little cryptographic device that will generate. It's kind of like it's got a random number generator built into it. And then it stores the private key for the encryption so that it can't be stolen effectively. It's a little kind of... you could think of it as kind of like Apple's T2 chip, but way, way less sophisticated. So, it facilitates hardware level encryption effectively. It feels like to me that this should have been a warning campaign type of thing where Microsoft tries to... because these things, they theoretically do help. So, I feel like Microsoft should have been like, hey, while you're installing Windows 11, we highly freaking suggest that you turn this thing on or that you do this other thing. Or maybe they even block you and say your computer is not ready. And then they do that thing where there's like the text-based link in the corner that's like, I don't care. And then you can bypass it. Something like that that allows people to acknowledge that Microsoft thinks they should have this thing, but they can just install it anyways. It feels weird that it's a requirement. For OEMs, it's been a requirement for a long time now. I think a TPM, some kind of TPM implementation has been required for at least four or five years now. So, it's been available to consumers since... when was BitLocker added? Was that with Vista or 7? But I mean, we've talked about this on WAN Show before. There's Skylake systems. Skylake, am I referencing the right thing? Hold on one sec. BitLocker 2007. Yeah. Yeah, what's that? Yeah, there's Skylake systems that people are still using and still gaming on and having a good old dandy time. And they probably don't have the hardware for this, even if that's a pre-built from an OEM. Yeah. No, that's true. That's true. They might want to run Windows 11, and they, in my opinion, should just be able to bypass it. And again, maybe they could do that advanced user thing where the way to bypass it is hidden in some corner that you're probably not going to look at unless you know to look there or whatever. But I think there should... I personally believe there should be some way to be like, yeah, whatever, dude, my computer's from 2014 or something. I understand or beyond. Like, I understand there might be some security problems with the fact that my system's super ancient, but I don't... So here's what I think. I think that this is the warning. Because Windows 11, by and large, has benefits over Windows 10. But a lot of the under the hood ones seem to be focused on newer hardware, right? Like optimizing for big little architecture CPUs, for example. Obviously, if you are going to benefit... Yeah, yeah, touch devices. Obviously, if you're going to benefit from some of those newer under the hood improvements, you're going to meet the requirements for TPM 2.0, and everything's going to be hunky dory. And then if you have older hardware, I think what Microsoft is effectively saying is, no problem. Run Windows 10 then. So that gives you... I think the end of support date is 2025 for Windows 10, which actually does buy you another four years to upgrade. So in another four years, will a Skylake system be starting to get a little long in the tooth? I think that's probably fair to say. I think it sort of already is, but yeah. Well, sort of. I mean, you could definitely play very AAA games on Skylake. 100%. I mean, even going going back to Haswell, Ivy Bridge, you could still be playing very, very high end games as long as you've got a GPU that is good enough. And you do a little bit of overclocking and all of a sudden you're laughing. But there are other issues with running older hardware. They have more vulnerabilities that are never going to be patched. And I think that expecting people to upgrade about every, you know, 10 years or so is not entirely unreasonable. Especially if you consider that, like today, because there was that long period of stagnation where we just didn't see the same kind of performance improvements that we used to. You know, today we kind of take for granted that a 10 year old computer should be fine, right? But can you imagine in 2005, thinking that it's okay to run a computer that was built in 1995? Yeah, not even remotely. Get real. 2005 was the, I think the Athlon 64 was out. Let me have a look here. There's one of the things too is like we're talking about Skylake and I think that's a very legitimate conversation, but to bring it back even further, like I know people playing modern games on Sandy Bridge processors. Yeah. Like it's 100%. 100%. I don't know. But like it's and it ties into that stagnation thing you're talking about, etc. But like there's people running these old computers and they're just still not having any problems. And like no matter what the hardware community is like, oh yeah, these new CPUs are amazing. Yeah. Well, the vast majority of people aren't going to use that performance. Maybe you will. And that's fantastic. And it's really exciting. And that's that's cool. But so I can totally understand why someone who just uses a web browser isn't going to care about upgrading their computer. So I think what's happening here is we are getting the warning shot. Windows 10 is going to keep getting support till 2025, which means that you'll realistically be able to keep using it for a little while after that if you want to. It won't be until after 2025 that the install base will really start to dwindle. And you'll start to see game developers not supporting the OS or you'll start to see companies like Nvidia or AMD pull driver support. So realistically, you could still be running your machine from 2015 until 2025, 2026, 2027 if you want to push it and you're willing to roll that die in terms of security updates. And, you know, in the context of going from Windows 95, right, you would have been running a Pentium 2 if you were state of the art. Okay. You were running 266 megahertz back in 1995. And in May of 2005, you were running an Athlon 64 X2 if you were if you were state of the art. Okay. So, yes, the hardware hasn't moved forward in that way over the last 10 years. But that doesn't mean that computing hasn't changed that much in 10 years and that we don't need to do something about standardizing the platform that people are running on in some meaningful way and Microsoft's justification for this ultimately does kind of make sense to me even if I'm not thrilled about it. In a nutshell, they say look, this comes down to security. Microsoft claims that PCs using a TPM and secure boot reported 60% less malware thanks to virtualization based security. And if Microsoft wants to a lot of attacks are in that vector these days. Exactly. If Microsoft wants to stay competitive with Apple and Google. So Google doesn't even have 10 year old hardware to deal with on Chrome OS. And then Apple just gets to deprecate things whenever it pleases them because they're so vertically integrated and their customers will just accept it. If Microsoft wants to do something to move Windows security forward like as a platform as something that they can really message about. I actually think that this could be a big part of the reason that Windows 11 exists at all. So, yeah, I don't see them backing down from this and I it's Windows, there's going to be hacky ways to do it probably. But yes, I don't think that Microsoft is going to endorse them in any way, and the industry is going to be expected to adapt because we have, you know, four to six years to kind of figure it out. And at some point, Windows has to get more secure and if this is the way they've identified to do it, then Windows 11 is this clear line in the sand that Microsoft is drawing that goes okay Windows 10. You know what it wasn't as good and this is why, and you can keep using it for a while, but guys, you will have to upgrade, even if you don't have to do it today. That does make sense. That does make sense. Most of the improvements like you're mentioning are kind of quality of life stuff. Yep. Absolutely. You don't have to move on from Windows 10. Actually, okay, one thing we don't know is whether this is a really critical feature that I'm excited for direct storage so the GPU's ability to access your storage directly. But then, now that I think about it, actually, no one's going to be running PCI Express Gen four, and not have TPM 2.0. Yep. So, the whole thing. The whole. Wait, where's that cronk I need that cronk GIF. It all makes sense now. If the if the benefits of Windows 11 are performance benefits, but that are applicable mainly to very modern systems, then it makes perfect sense to just kind of say, okay, well then modern systems are going to run Windows 11 and not modern systems are going to run Windows 10. And no one should really be that upset about it because you can just run Windows 10 and you'll have a just fine experience like you have. There are some other problems. Toed to good G says, yeah TPM is a repair nightmare. That is super true. Having, having like encryption keys tied to the CPU and the motherboard socket is going to be a real nightmare for people who don't practice good data storage. And I think that's one of the best practices, because if you just run your machine or that that that that you store all of your data right on your boot drive and you have some kind of problem you take it into a shop they have to swap out some hardware, you could be in for an bad time there could just be no way to access your data unless you stored your backup key somewhere that you can actually get at it could be bad you know you have a water cooling leak right so you lose a CPU and motherboard at the same time. That could be very problematic. I mean I've been advocating for a long time for people to just not store any data on their computers. But the reality of it is is I remember back when I didn't have the kind of money to just have an extra computer to keep all my hard drives in that wasn't that was, that was just not possible, even though you can build a decent NAS for a couple hundred dollars. I mean you want to talk about a computer that's not necessarily accessible to exactly a huge range of people. Exactly. I mean that is one benefit though of the, of the kind of the stagnation that took place for so long is lots of people have upgraded their computers to get better performance and the hardware that is now orphaned is very very usable. And as long as you don't mind dealing with the extra power consumption, it is amazingly affordable to build yourself a cheap NAS. Like, think about it, you don't even need a GPU, you don't even need anything that's been shortage because Intel has been building in onboard graphics for over 10 years now. That's fantastic. You just get an old cheap board CPU throw some crap RAM from eBay in it and you're off to the races, especially if it's idling all the time, it is way less problematic in terms of power consumption compared to if you are actually doing something heavy like you're using it for Plex transcoding or something along those lines. I wonder, probably not much, but I do wonder what this might do for Linux advocacy, because a lot of this old hardware, like we've been talking is still legit, especially if what you're doing is not heavy. If you're not gaming, if you're not video editing, if you're not doing heavy things like that, there's a wide range of them, modeling, etc. If you're doing word processing, if you're browsing the web, if you're, yeah, there's a lot of things you can do on your computer that isn't necessarily what a lot of this audience is doing. And once Windows 10 stops being supported, those types of tasks are actually very easy for the average user to pick up on non complicated Linux distros. This is interesting. Gabriel Garcia has a super chat in here. One benefit of the min spec being Coffee Lake slash Ryzen 2 is that Win 11 apps can target extensions like AVX2 directly. Yep. That is a huge benefit. All of a sudden, having this kind of clear line in the sand for what developers can expect from a system that's running an OS makes it a lot cleaner to optimize your apps. Yep. That is, you're probably going to see more. And we saw this kind of stuff and it annoyed the hell out of me with with companies like Elgato despite them making tons of fantastic and amazing things. Their stream deck was only supported on Windows 10 for like a super long time when Windows 8 and Windows 7 were still very viable operating systems. I think you'll see significantly more of that with Windows 11 if that's the case. But yeah, I think the low end system game more than ever, even though it's already a bit of a thing, I think the low end system game might look a lot more Linux-y for the next while. Someone in Floatplane Chat said, Linux will run on a potato. I'm like, yeah, that's my point, kind of. Yep. Exactly. There's a lot of these older systems. It could be a very fantastic answer for it. It'll be interesting to see if anything does kind of shift more than it already has in that realm. The real tech guy says, okay, but like as someone who works in a computer repair shop from a customer's perspective, why should I have to have a NAS? That's such a great question. So when someone comes into the shop and they go, why should I have to have a NAS? The answer is, you shouldn't. But then if you want the simpler, the simple, easy magic bullet, then what you need to do is you just need to pay for your OneDrive or your Google Drive subscription, and you need to practice good data management, and you need to make sure that everything is backed up there. That's the answer. So... Are they trying to sell OneDrive subs? What? No, no, no, no, no. I just mean that. No, no, no, no. I'm not saying you. I'm saying are they. No, no. That's my answer. That's my answer. If you don't want to worry about... Oh, oh, oh, I see what you mean. So that is the answer, though. So if you have heavy data requirements, the answer is you need to make sure that everything is on a NAS and all your machines are doing regular nightly backups. And if you don't have heavy data requirements, the answer is cloud storage has gotten so affordable. I mean, the sponsor that we work with all the time, the 45 drives, builds their storage box, backblaze. Oh, backblaze. Yeah, backblaze. It's super affordable to back things up to the cloud these days. There's just no excuse anymore. So from a tech shop's perspective, the answer is educating your customers about what their options are to ensure that they're not going to lose their data. It's so sad. And if they don't think it's important, because I used to work in a tech shop and lots of people would be like, I don't need data backup. I don't care about my stuff. I always bring up the wedding and baby pictures argument. Because then they're like, oh, wait, I can't lose those. And I'm like, yeah, where are you storing them? Yeah, it's like, okay, well, maybe you should consider something. Like, if you don't want to put that stuff in the cloud, there's some things you might not want in the cloud no matter what. You can do local storage with the three things where you have like on the device, on a similar device that might be in the same area and then on a hopefully different type of device in an area that is very far away. You can do that thing if you can afford it and if you can maintain it or you can just go with the cloud, whatever, but you should have more than one copy of your data. Yeah, absolutely. You know what was the eureka moment for me when I learned that my data needed to be back rated and backed up? When I learned how a when I learned how a hard drive works. That was the moment for me because it's wild. It's nuts. Okay. Like if you've ever actually seen the read and write head, right? If you've seen it move back and forth over the spinning disk. Okay, at 7200 rpm. I remember I remember someone from Western Digital explaining this to me once. They're like, yeah, at the outer edge of the spinning disk, you know, keeping that head stable. It's a real it's a real engineering challenge because effectively it's ripping around in hurricane force winds. And I'm like, what? We hold on a second. My precious memories are on this thing. Excuse me. I need to go for a minute. Yeah, it's crazy. And the fact that they like basically never fail unless you drop on this is pretty nuts as well. I don't know. Obviously they do. But like I have hard drives that have been running for a decade. Basically, it's unbelievable. It's nuts. But but yeah, back up your data, even if you think you don't care now to maybe some of the younger audience, I would say. They're stupid stuff. I had this amazing wallpaper once. It was like a really great ultra wide wallpaper. It had like it had like a horse and cart or something and it was like labeled with like console stuff. And then there was some faster thing and it was PC or something. It was this really cool cartoon. I remember that. Yeah, I had it on my desktop at at the old office, the old Langley house. And I don't know. I just like I've tried to find it again and I can't find it. And I'm like, oh, that sucks. I wish I had I wish I'd put it somewhere because having everything instantly available at your fingertips has been great in a lot of ways. Right. Like everything's a quick Google search away except for things that are gone. Because the Internet has gotten so big and so broad that it's so easy now for things to disappear forever. There's this great flash game I used to play called Pearl Harbor where you're this you're this plane and you go back and forth, back and forth. Every time you get to the end of the scene, it just kind of turns around and you're fighting something. I don't I don't remember exactly how it played anymore because one day it disappeared and you can't play it anymore. It's that experience is completely gone. There's that whole saying like the Internet remembers and it's like, yeah, unless it doesn't. And in a lot of cases it does. But in a lot of cases due to the sheer size of the Internet, it doesn't. It's just sites will go down and all your stuff's just gone. So back it up. I know a lot of the kids watching aren't going to take this to heart because I I sure didn't. But the memories that you have and like the photos and stuff that you have now, back them up. You'll care later. I don't care. Now you'll care later. I have lost a big chunk of photos once. It was really hard. It was really rough. Yeah. Yeah, people in float plane chat are talking about their are talking about their bad experiences, losing data. Neocortex says, then your house burns down is burgled or flooded. So there are solutions to these things. I have a fireproof NAS at my house that I actually use for extremely important things. I can't fit everything on it because it's just a two hard drive NAS. It's just two drives and raid one. But you should absolutely have some kind of contingency. Also, conveniently, I have a super fast Internet connection both at home and at the office. And I have keys to the server room so I can put things at the office if I really want to. But off off continent or off like general geographic areas. Also a very good idea. Like if you if you're planning on backing up data and it's not in the cloud, it's that that three stages thing at a minimum is very important. I had a raid doesn't count. It should be rated. But raid does not count. I am surprised that there isn't kind of like an open source, super easy to use community based like, hey, you know, I'll show you my data if you show me yours kind of backup app. I've been pushing the unraid guys to build this for ever like unraid friends or something like that, where what I want is fairly straightforward, just built right into the OS. I can friend someone effectively and we can allocate. We can we can cross allocate a shared storage space to each other. And then it will effectively just take whatever I want to put in my in my offsite important folder or I'll flag certain folders as as key folders. It'll synchronize them to my friend server and store an encrypted copy locally on their server. And then I can effectively take some of my storage and give them the same thing. Now you can set up stuff like this. I don't think it's the kind of thing that you can do it manually. But I think it's the kind of thing I've told them for years now. I think it's the kind of thing that could really set their software apart. You can do it. What's that? I would get evangelical about that. I and I know obviously, yeah, you can do this yourself and quite a few people do. You got to consider like if you are the tech person in this like manual setup, you now have to maintain this for as many people as you you enter into that agreement. And I would love like to have this. I would I would love to just like basically sell little boxes that I'm obviously not making money on, but sell little boxes to like my whole family and just be like, OK, we're creating a friend storage pool on unraid. It works updated every once in a while. See you later. Like that would be that would be great. I don't know. I'd go nuts with that. But I'd try to get basically everyone I knew because like it's it. It really sucks being the tech person for your group of people and then having someone be like, oh, I my laptop got wet or something. I'm like, I'm going to go and get all my wedding photos. And it's like, yeah, I told you to do backups for that and you didn't because I guess it was complicated or whatever. And it would be great if like there was just some. Yeah, I don't know. I would like that. I'd be unraid homies with you. Yeah, for sure. For sure. And like I would like in a minute. Yeah, I would just throw like a giant unraid box at the office and everyone could just have their encrypted data on there. You know, what about if someone got busted with illegal content? Sure. But it's it's encrypted. So whatever illegal content they have, you got to you got to imagine. Think of it kind of like if you know someone put child pornography in their Dropbox Dropbox is not in possession of the child pornography. That is encrypted data that they can't even read. And ultimately, whoever put it there is the one who would be in trouble in that case. So there should be no reason from like a personal criminal liability standpoint that it would matter. I would also think, though, that you'd want you'd want your unraid homies to be people you know and mostly trust anyway. But friend friend raid coming soon to LTT stores as Jamer Jamer person. Yeah, exactly. So Synology has that feature. The last time that I tried to mess with it, it wasn't exactly what Linus is saying. It can be done. It's kludgy and Synology NASs are well, they're Synology. It's not cross platform. So what I want is a way to just do it on something that runs on cheap commodity hardware. Yeah. Yeah, because you like I just gave the that probably I probably put that person down that path because I said I would just sell my family these little boxes. But that's that's not particularly what I mean. Like my my brother's pretty techie. My dad's pretty techie, etc. They would probably just want to use some old computer hardware that they had laying around and connect some drives to it. Like it's they wouldn't want to buy a new Synology NAS. Like, yeah, it's it's different. Yeah. People are saying try explaining that to a judge. I don't have to explain that to a judge. You guys don't think this has ever come up. But come on, guys, you got to you got to use come up. You got to use your common sense here. All right. Cool. All right. 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But I will probably like when when it's when it's decorated and done up by the person that currently lives there, like people, anyone who's like shop for apartments or anything done, anything like that, they'll know like it's your own flair on things is going to change a place a lot. Yeah. But that fireplace, though, I get a kick out of this picture frame. So you've got the picture, you got the frame around it, you got the light that shines down on the picture. And then you've got another room that goes around the picture. And I'm kind of sitting here going, I don't own a single piece of art. What do I do? What do I put there? I have no idea. There's all this there's all this like wiring in these walls that just I don't want a light there. What would I do with the light there? I put your your your it's not your wedding photo. With one with you and Yvonne on the thing. Oh, the honeymoon photo. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I could I could put that there. I know you. Yeah, I don't know, man. Here's the things that you have. That's the only thing I can think of. Yeah. Here's a shot of the kitchen. So we're probably going to refinish the floors. They're solid wood floors, which is super cool. Would be extremely wasteful to take them out. So I think we don't like the color. So I think what we're going to do is we're going to sand them down and refinish them with something a little bit cooler, a little bit. Yeah, a little bit less, a little bit lighter, lighter, maybe a little bit cooler. We're pretty pretty overall happy. The kitchen looks pretty amazing. So many people are telling me to put a TV above the fireplace. Guys, are you doing that to trigger me? Is that why you're asking me to put a TV above my fireplace? It's the worst. I refuse. I absolutely refuse. Oh, man. Brass Caribou over on float plane says I'm liking that kitchen desk. OK, so that's not called a kitchen desk. That space is designed for you to take phone calls and write down messages and stuff. Yeah. Remember that? Kitchen desk. There's so many things about this place are so like 1995 baller 90s. Yeah. Yeah. Super baller 90s because I wanted to have coated phones. Right. Yeah. And you would often someone would call your residence and not be able to call a specific person. So it was very often they would get the wrong person. It would be very often that that person would not be available at that time. So you wouldn't want that like desk so you could like take call notes. I think it was built in 92. So that should give you some idea of the era of things. Unfortunately, that means there's no network wiring whatsoever. But hey, at least they've got this fantastic built in bookcase unit with this wonderful TV spot here that you can tell is totally the shape of modern TVs. So that's really convenient. Absolutely fantastic. Yeah, it is CRT tastic. And then over here, this spot right here is a built in CD storage unit. By the way, another very, very specific art location. I know. Right. I just don't know what to do with that stuff. It's just it actually has more than two fireplaces. And over here is a there's at least one more. I can't remember how many more there are because I think we're putting in one more. Let's see. That's so that's it for the main floor. If you guys are bored of this, I can definitely stop showing you house pictures. But if you are not bored of it, I would be happy to show you a little bit more of it. There's a good look at the downstairs here. I'm just making sure we can't see outside. Yep. There's a good shot of the downstairs. So there's a foosball table there. This is funny. Apparently, this closet is specifically a little bit taller than a normal closet so that you can tuck your folding ping pong table into it. That is apparently a thing. That's actually amazing. Oh, my goodness, dude. So that's pretty great. There is an unfinished basement. Oh, man. Most of the basement is unfinished. We're going to turn this area where the ping pong table is here into a theater room. This area here is going to be like a gaming area for me and my kids and my wife. I'm probably going to try to cram five PCs in here. I don't know if it'll fly. So there will be at least three for the kids. And then my wife and I might have our machines upstairs in the office. Over here is going to be so cool to have a five person land area, though. I hear you. I understand. But but oh, it's not as big as it looks. This is a wide shot for at least four, though, because then you could do left for dead. Oh, yeah. OK, I'll do my best. I'll do my best. OK, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It is not as big as it looks at all. That place is also pretty. Yeah. Someone could come over with like a laptop and you could just do like a temporary table. Yeah, for sure, for sure. And there will be a second or there will be at least one other gaming machine or there will be at least two other gaming machines in the basement. So there will be one in the media room, obviously. And then there will be a VR space that's over where that foosball table was that will also have a TV on the wall and will obviously also be gaming capable if it's going to be where my VR setup is going to be. So I'm there's going to be a lot of content coming over the next little bit here, guys, because this place is is going to need a real tech makeover. I don't think I'm going to do all of the stuff myself this time, though. I spent I mean, it took me 10 years to get my current house to the state where I'm really happy with the technology situation with my server closet, with my Wi-Fi access points everywhere. I need them to be everything's hardline cat six a like this place is perfect. I've got all of my base stations, my lighthouses for my VR and the living room, all wired up through the ceiling. So none of the cables are running down the wall or anything like that. But it took me. It's not often I get home at the end of the day after work and I feel like crawling around in my crawl space. You know what I mean? I think I'm I think I'm going to let a professional come in and do the cat six a this time instead of doing it myself. Yeah, I a bunch of people in full playing chat were asking for moving vlogs. I I can I guess you can speak to this. I don't suspect there will be moving blogs. But but no, like what you just said, I'm sure there will be like tech upgrade. There will be content around the house anyway. So the people are asking to see the mechanical room. So like the the boiler and furnace and stuff. So it doesn't have a furnace. It has in floor radiant heat, which is sweet. And get this. I don't even have to hire someone to do the check of it because Jake got Fleer to send us that like thirty thousand dollar thermal camera. So I'm just do it myself. So you just turn the heat up across the whole house and then you just walk around with your thermal camera and make sure that there's no dead spots. Pretty cool. Anyway, here's the the mechanical room is crazy. It's huge. This room really is as big as it looks. And the reason for it is that they had intended to put in a pool and they never did it. And they had wanted all the pool equipment in this room and it never went in. So it doesn't have a continuous water heater like we put in our current house, but it does have two hot water tanks. So you should basically never run out, which I thought was pretty funny. That is a very 90s continuous heaters don't exist yet or they are too expensive solution to that. And there is absolutely no Ethernet in this place whatsoever. So I'm going to need that. Tell us says fiber is available to the address, though. So that's good. Someone in chat said, where's Luke's room? And then someone responded, this looks like Luke's room. Nice. Here this can be this can be Luke's room. J.K. This is the master bedroom. Pretty simple. You know, a lot of the places we went and looked at had crazy master bedrooms. Like there's a weird sitting area in it. And like, I'm kind of sitting here. Who sits in their bedroom? Like, that is so weird. Or they would have like a balcony that opens out in front of the house. I'm sitting here going, they'd have like a and it would be staged by the realtor or whatever. And they would have a little they'd have like a little table for sitting and having tea or I'm sitting here going, who would do that in your room? Yeah. Why would you do that in your room? Unless you have like literally a servant. But like that's, you know, because it's always it's always places where you would see this stuff that are enormous. Right. And have a gorgeous backyard and patio. So I'm sitting here going, why on earth would I be sitting sitting on the front of the top of the front of my house when I could just be in my backyard where I have privacy? Yes, I would like to observe the cul de sac or wherever it is. Yeah. Or whatever. I need to I need to observe every car that drives down my street perfectly. I think that's pretty much it for the pictures that I can show without showing any of the exterior. And that's my goal is to not show the exterior of this house at all. Something that we something that we did to make things a little bit more challenging is a thing I'm just actually not going to talk about just to make my life my life easier. So I get to go pick up the keys in 20 minutes, which means we better get through some more tech topics. Otherwise, we're going to have had a one topic show. So thanks for thanks for looking at house pictures of people are asking all kinds of things here. It's so obvious you don't have servants says new master 96. Yes, I do not have servants. Yes, it has air conditioning. I actually like the air conditioning at my current place better, not just because I and I did it, but because it's it's room by room at our current place because we did it with many splits. Whereas at the new place, it's just one big unit. So you're going to you're going to have rooms that are hotter and you're going to have rooms that are not as hot. And that just is kind of annoying. Someone says looks like the roof needs to be redone. The roof does need to be redone. It's going to cost like 100 grand or something like that. We're putting we're putting in solar though and stuff. Oh, that's cool. There's a reason we're going like super sustainable like forever. Are you getting power walls? I don't think power walls here yet. There's solar roofing stuff isn't here yet. So I don't know. I haven't actually looked into that. Yep. Tech topic, tech topic, or we still doing the house questions. Yeah, let's do a tech topic for sure. Heck yeah. Or more Microsoft employees stole $10 million in gift cards. Amazing. I'm going to butcher this name, but I'm going to try it. Volodymyr Kibashchuk was working at Microsoft's Redmond office testing e-commerce infrastructure. He's 26 year old. I don't know why this matters. He quickly discovered a flaw in the system that he then exploited. He did not report it. He exploited it. He started small. He started off with 10 to $100 codes. He didn't generate really all that many, but he was scalping them. He was selling them. Two years later, only two years later, he had generated over 152,000 gift codes at a valuation of $10.1 million. He flipped those cards for Bitcoin and then flipped that Bitcoin for cash and was very quickly living on a seven figure lakefront home. I don't know how you could possibly think you weren't going to get caught for that. I suspect just like after a while of not getting caught, he just thinks he's invincible and then buys a seven figure lakefront home. I guess so. I mean, hubris, right? That's some classic hubris. Nine years in prison for gift card theft. I mean, it was $10 million of gift card theft. He effectively stole $10 million. Yeah, that is crazy. Apparently he was responsible. I don't see where this is. Yeah, he flipped so many cards, 150,000 cards that were just generated of thin air, right? So he was responsible for global fluctuations in the price of Xbox gift cards on reseller markets because he flooded them so hard. Holy, absolutely crazy. That's nuts. That is un-freaking-real, man. What can you do about it though, right? Yeah, I mean, the second it goes into Bitcoin, it's a little difficult to track. I do wonder how exactly he was caught. I don't know if like one of his fellow employees comes and visits his home and is like, how did you get this? But yeah, pretty crazy. Pretty crazy. All right. I am getting a call from the wife, so I think I'm going to have to go pretty soon. But why don't we try and get through a couple more topics here. Intel and Apple are going to be the first to get three nanometer from TSMC. They are both lined up as the first customers for the new process, which will be referred to as N3 and will be deployed in late 2022. It will offer a 10 to 15 percent performance increase at the same power and transistor count, a 30 percent power reduction at the same clocks and complexity, as well as 70 and 20 percent gains in logic density and SRAM density, respectively. According to an AK report, both companies are already testing their chip designs that are being produced using the N3 process. And it also states Intel is apparently preparing at least two products to be made with the process, one for notebooks and one for servers. It's possible these will only be more niche products as opposed to Intel's mainstream consumer products. But only time will tell. Apple will be using N3 on an SOC in late 2022 or early 2023 in the iPad. And apparently that will be a new processor versus the current M1, which kind of makes sense because M1 will have had well, it'll be two years, at least two years old by that time. We know that Intel will be outsourcing some Adam and Zeon based SOCs to TSMC. So it's a safe bet that these are among those products. Fascinating. I have one more quick thing to announce on LTT store. Do do do do do do do. We have a new product. Oh, yeah. Reflective heatsink shirt is here, ladies and gentlemen. Look at this fantastic modeling team we've got. That's right. It's reflective. Has a reflective LTT logo on the back. Look at this guy. Look at this girl. Look at this guy. Look at this other guy. Hey, and you can get them now for $19.99. Also, we have brought back mystery shirts. They're $12.99 and they're a mystery. A lot of them are going to be older and less popular ones or ones that are we only had oddball sizes left and good stuff like that. So, hey, there you go. They're a mystery, but they're cheaper. And I think that's pretty much it for the show. I think I got to go, ladies and gentlemen. So I'll just do a couple of super chats here. Oh, my goodness. There's quite a few, but at least I managed to click the tab so they didn't all go away. Adrian Frick recommends a game, The Messenger. I'm not looking for more games right now, though. I got a bunch of them. Got a bunch of them last week. Thanks, Bob Costco. Anyone else notice? Little Linus and Luke's beards disappear going from the intro to the sponsor. Yes, that's because the sponsor things are older. Michael says, thanks for all the content. Love watching the videos. Hey, awesome. Robert says, Windows 11 system requirements are a mess. Hard to keep up with the leaks and discussions and their own tool is still not for users. Yeah, 100 percent. The good news is that it's not actually launched yet, so they've got time to get this stuff figured out. Yeah. Hunter says the TPM 2.0 requirement is going to put a strain on schools. I can tell you for a fact my district can't afford slash doesn't want to pay for new positions. Yeah, that's actually a really, really good point. They do have quite a quite a few years, but I do know that a lot of schools try to stay on the most modern operating system at the very least. So that that will make that tough. Tomek says, live streams don't work in the Floatplane app I built for WebOS TVs. I'm going to fix it and test next week. Sweet. A WebOS app. That's pretty cool. That's very cool. Yeah, I'm an LG TV guy myself. So unfortunately, most of the time anyone's live streaming on Floatplane, it's me. So there's no point in me watching it on my WebOS TV, but that's fantastic. With that, I think you probably have to go. Yes. Let me just see if there's. I know you're going to want to get sucked into that. I'm just trying to. Christian says look into smart vents. They open and close based on room temperature. Yeah, I've heard some of them aren't very good, though. So I'll have to have a look at that. And Lyon says if you reach out to Elon Musk, I bet you could get not only their solar roof, but also the Powerwall. I don't know. I kind of doubt it. I don't. We're not exactly on a first name basis. I don't think he cares. Josh says, hey, a couple of WAN shows ago, you read a super chat I sent. I didn't really expect you to read it, let alone genuinely take it seriously. It made my day. So thanks for that. Hey, you're welcome, Josh. All right. Thanks, everyone. We'll see you again next week. Same bad time, same bad channel. Bye. Oops. Oh, whoops. I need that. There we go.