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Yeah, something yeah, and then see you later, and then see you later Yeah, pretty great speaking of great We've got a lot of great topics for you guys today China is putting restrictions on video games for miners And so if you make your living pulling coal out of the ground China feels like you don't need that particular form of escapism unless I've read the headline incorrectly Minor minor people well okay miners are people Young people young people okay. What else we got we've also got Intel publishing misleading HPC benchmarks Fantastic and dead people starring in new movies that the future's awesome is quite a thing Microsoft also reports that You know what James? He's making me say this out loud Microsoft reports 40% increased productivity after decreasing working days Yeah, people went. Oh man. We should really try to keep this. Let's work hard everyone should get this in the WAN show We should get this in the WAN box so Linus will have to read it alright. Let's go again. 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That makes sense which makes perfect sense I would do the same thing so I told YouTube support who has apparently not been able to replicate my image Not been able to replicate my issue even though I sent them a link of a comment Someone's like why does this say it was streamed a week ago? And I said I would try the new one so so far. It's a great experience Why don't we jump right into our first topic of the day today guys this was posted by suits on the forum and the original Article here is actually NPR org wow that's kind of a new one China introduces restrictions on video games for Miners now hold on a second yeah hold on a second Okay, before we get too far into this all right and before we actually go through all the details of it, okay? Side discussion so just sure okay, all right screens away, okay? should the consumption of video games by miners be regulated in the same way that alcohol cigarettes Driving So gambling gambling is actually a great example example of the current Should access to gaming be restricted and and you know what I mean This is kind of an interesting one because movies The way that they are accessible to miners is actually somewhat restricted So now that the movie theater has sort of moved to the home There's less that you know a government for example or a regulating body can do to control what? Miners are seen yeah like it you still go out into a movie theater Yeah, like a nine-year-old still isn't allowed to you know buy a ticket into an R rated movie, okay? Yes, but if you're with your parents couldn't you? I'm pretty sure if you go with your parents Yeah, I think you were allowed to yeah so then Where's the where's the line should okay? Not where's the line for it will talk about the we'll talk about the finer points later. Yeah should Miners access to video games be restricted and let's start with in any way in any way In any way in any way I would say yes Okay, do you would you clear to would you care to put a finer point? Yes? I would I would very much well too bad Wants you You heard it here. I think kids shouldn't be allowed to play video games. Thank you Luke I think it should be restricted at a parental level But parents Should no offense to the parents out there a lot of you are idiots and Quite frankly if there was a test for whether you should be allowed to be a parent. You wouldn't pass it unfortunately, the only test to become a parent is whether you can convince a member of the opposite sex to You know and then you happen to be biologically capable, which quite frankly so is a chipmunk That's it that's the qualification Yeah, it's not exactly like a huge barrier It's all fine and good to say you put it in the hands of the parents but like yeah, you've got parents making decisions like um, I Don't know, you know, how do I how do I say this sensitively? I was I was reading an article about whoops a bylaw that the city that I live in recently passed restricting Overnight Vehicle parking so basically restricting people who are living out of their vans from yeah camping on public land Yeah, and I was reading this counter argument from someone who lives in the back of a like a converted van with her 13 year old daughter saying like well, you know, you're really in we we love this nomadic lifestyle and I'm like Your daughter needs to go to school Does she not go to school? Well, what does nomadic lifestyle mean? Yeah. Okay. Yeah Your daughter needs to go to the same school like yeah low regularly Yeah, and maybe you're doing an amazing job of homeschooling but like let's not pretend that every parent who's making a controversial decision About how their kid should be raised is actually, you know doing all the due diligence here so I would counter argument a little bit with sure I am 100% certain that there are cases where that kid has has some type of thing going on where them playing games is very grounding and positive for them and if you cap them at 90 minutes or whatever it was in the thing because our laptops are closed That could actually hold them back in a lot of ways So I don't like it because you could be restricting positive use of this thing I think there could be ways to manage it like movies are done where like the kid can't go buy it So maybe if China wants to be because China's pretty invasive about different things if China wants to be really invasive They could make it so that you need to have whatever so they could make it Please China don't get any ideas from the word invasive We oh, she's we prefer our sovereignty over here. Thank you very much. Yeah, that'd be great If they if they want to do this thing where you have to use like your real name and your citizen ID or whatever Sure to play games. I think it would maybe be better if they made it so that with that attachment I'm not saying it's a good idea. I'm not saying it's cool. I'm not saying that kind of stuff I'm saying if they're doing it anyways, I think it would be better if they use that to restrict what you could purchase Without parental intervention. So if your parents steps in and goes, yes, this is fine. I understand they're shooting people but it's fortnight So whatever yeah, I think they should maybe be able to do that Okay, but that's sort of a separate argument from what you were saying before about restricting So, okay So well is that your bottom line you should restrict the access to purchase the video game in the first place But there should be no regulations with respect to how much time people are allowed to spend playing it minors mind you These are people who by and large Around the world we have as adults collectively decided are not really capable of making the best possible decisions for no, absolutely and I think that's I I Have less experience with your parents than someone who has a kid would have right? I'm not around other parents very often. Well, it's pretty simple People who are parents are just people Yeah, so think of all the people you've ever been. Okay. Well, there you go I did I do a lot of work to restrict that number as much as almost possible Staying inside helps but yeah, I That's true. I've basically not been out of my house for two weeks because I've been sick but As you can probably still hear I'm very sorry about that. I thought it would be a little bit better I I don't really like the idea of punishing people who are doing things right because there are people that are doing things wrong I've always had an issue with that. Sure. So if if there's a family that are doing things great They're they're very active physically. They're they're very on the go all this kind of stuff but then on a Saturday junior wants to play six hours of fortnight because He or she has got all their homework done and they've they've been they've they have two different sports They're in and they're very active But all their game days are on Sundays or whatever and they really just want to I don't really like restricting that If everything's all positive there and everything's all healthy and good there I don't necessarily want the government sorry to be clear the government to step in and restrict that the parents could be like You know what? No, and I'm whatever. So what if a government were to step in and provide guidelines? like hey, we have suggestions we have found that more than 60 minutes of Screen time a day will negatively affect your child's development in ways X Y or Z Here are the sort of the studies we've conducted to form a basis for great what we're presenting as fact sweet So you think that's okay? Yeah, but what if everyone just ignores it and as a government now? This is up for debate because there are people who believe that the government should basically do nothing small government and There's sort of it's it's really funny because I've had conversations with people There's people who are pro small government who have thought it through very clearly But then there's people who are pro small government who don't appear to have thought it through very well Yeah, I'm not the government shouldn't have regulations. I'm like, okay. Well, what if there's lead in your water? Well, the government should step in and make sure that doesn't happen. Yeah, okay. No, so yeah I so I wouldn't say that I'm pro small government. We're getting political which is scary But no, I'm saying that there's multiple different ways to look at it So what you're well thought out some of which are not so much but if we were to Pretend for a moment that it is the government of a country's job. Yeah to ensure the as Best as it can advancement of said country in the the global Okay in the global community, but then we're technically shifting away from hold on. I'm not done yet Okay All right If we were to make the argument that it is a government's job to ensure that the company doesn't crumble into ruin the company I like it. Yeah, I like it. I like it. Wow. That was a total total Freudian Perfect. That was so good. Sorry, keep going. So if it's the government's job to ensure that the country doesn't crumble into ruin Does a government need to step in if they see a generation of people that basically are not learning basic skills And are busy playing fortnight I think I think you're going to a very like plutonium Government structure idea thing. Yeah, if you want a republic Who's like only goal is the betterment of all society with totalitarian? Stances. Yeah, then sure If you have an omnipotent government that is never going to do anything wrong then stepping in and having a strong arm was probably a beneficial thing I think you mean omniscient all-knowing right I think in whatever omnipotent means all-powerful. Yeah, all-powerful could be very bad Okay, so all-powerful within a government sense because you're giving them all power to control anything that could possibly benefit society anyway Sorry my voice. Well, I think you're you're you're hanging out at the bottom of the slippery slope. I'm talking. Yes. Okay But I think there's been plenty of examples of things going that direction Sure, so I my kind of stance on this stuff is generally I want government regulation and stepping in and all that kind of stuff what it has to do with maliciousness and and like potential safety like lead in the water and like regulations of how you can build a product But in what you can do in your spare time as long as it doesn't hurt other people Let's as long as it hurts yourself. I'm generally okay with safety. Okay Safety isn't safety is a fun one. Think of the children especially in like socialized Medicare think of their safety. Yeah, okay So then oh Slippery slope time, right? Yeah, could you make the argument? That it would be detrimental to a child's safety to their health to spend too much time playing video games Yeah, but I don't necessarily think that line comes in it at We'll talk about the specifics later. We'll talk and I think it would be extremely difficult and I impossible Yeah, figure out how much like per day or even per month that could work out as sure because you don't know how How would I describe this how like actively shifting from activity to tivity that person is because if they're very and they don't have much Sit around time. They could be very physically active and spend a lot of time playing games Yeah, and that combination is probably fine and not a lot of like in between Yeah, like you're saying they they're not the kind of person that you know finishes hanging out with their friends playing soccer and then just like kind of like Veggies for a while around for a while and then plays a video game for a while Yeah, but if they're like bam bam bam, it could be a healthy setup sure Okay When I talk about candy now, oh boy, let's talk about the safety of candy Soft drinks and soft drinks soft drinks are brutal So I'm gonna I'm gonna come right out and say that I think the access to candy and soft drinks for minors should be Immensely restrictive so how would you how would you functionally do that as a government? That's something I'm interested in Um, well the same way that you restrict cigarettes and so they can't buy them but parents could give them to yeah, basically Okay I'm generally way more comfortable with that approach because honestly a big part of the problem is kids buying them for themselves Yeah, you're buying them at the corner store on lunch break or from the vending machines at the school or whatever else the case Maybe yeah and like guys, I know there's gonna be people that are mad about it who are watching the WAN show right now I don't even care That stuff is actually poison for your body Actually don't drink it And if you can't control yourself I think one of the like most positive what that's your that's your deal as an adult. That's cool But as a kid it is detrimental to your development to just Drink like Literally, I forget what it is in most so it's insane quarter of the can I was gonna say I think it's oh you're doing can Okay, I was thinking bottle for whatever reason and I was like you need to increase that a bit. Yeah I was like you need to increase that a bit. Yeah Yeah, I'm usually okay with that that's why I'm saying right like Maybe restrict the purchase because I've been in situations where when I was a kid I was able to rent or buy games that were definitely age-gapped above my thing And I don't know a ton about the ESRB, right? So maybe they're not the best representative of this but whatever problem you have to adapt the way that you control a dangerous substance According to the way that dangerous substance is being distributed. Yeah, so let's say for example that by and large Everybody moved from let's use marijuana as an example. It was legalized here recently Yeah, video demonetized. I know right so on let's say instead of buying a joint and And smoking it until it's all gone sure I Was just buying a plant that would reproduce infinitely very easily. Okay Would you restrict those two things in different ways because I would make the argument that video games when you were a kid Were different than what they are now. There wasn't a daily DLC. There wasn't a seasons pass every quarter So it was it was more of a buy once and there was kind of a limit to how much time you could really spend playing Super Mario World Wow came out in 2004 So I was 14 I was 13 so wow did have the advantage actually you could buy cards you could buy cards for Wow Subscription cards right? Yeah, those come later subscription cards were pretty early on they're pretty early on I think I think I know they came out in Classic I don't know if they came out at the very beginning so either way so it's been around for a good Wow, it's not like 15 years now 15 years crap anyway So this and everquest is out before that so this issue has been around for a long time Yeah, but something that just kind of goes forever I don't think it's quite enough to just say okay Well, we clearly need to restrict this at the at the source and that they are at the initial purchase and you know What it's not like Google and Apple of their own? volition came out and started putting all those warnings on apps that had in-game or in-app yeah, I think one of the ways you could even help manage this is like make it make it potentially mandatory for Game makers to have a like reporting feature in their games or like a parental What I'm like a parental prompt you mean well yeah, so like by reporting I mean like you'd have to like have your parents email locked in Unchangeable without their password in the game right and it like gives them like weekly or daily Digests of like how much you're playing the game sir and every time you buy something your microtransaction. There's a forced report Yes, here's how much money's been spent here's how much time has been spent here were the times it was done So basically I'm giving more power to the parents. I'm generally more okay with giving more power to the I see government I I yeah, so you would be you would be supportive them. Let me pitch you something you would be supportive of the government stepping in and Mandating that game developers embed tools in their games That give parents control over how much time the kid is spending playing if parents want they choose to because you will parental controls Implies that there's an unlimited button like through family link which is what I use to manage my son's phone. I can say he can have unlimited screen time I don't but I can and I can see like what apps he's using and all that I would to be clear I would hate this as a kid Oh, yeah, because I mean it's it was like a hundred percent my goal, and I failed a lot But it was a hundred percent my goal basically all the time to figure out how to get around my parents restrictions on things yeah pulling a Super Mario Bros was Setting your alarm for the middle of the night and then waking up and going downstairs and playing Super Mario Bros Like that was a term that my friends used actively so like yeah if you're a kid watching this I'm kind of on board with you. I'm just saying Like in terms of laws that I would be like yeah, okay sure I don't think it's a lot to get a development team to add that in I don't think that's a Want to know but as it would very likely hurt their game But if everyone had to do it I think it'd be a little bit easier Especially if you did it on a platform level right so if like the epic game store and the Steam store and whatever else or or The Xbox whatever experience thing yeah, if you did at that level would probably be quite easier So not all games are because like the the riot right now just League of Legends and TFT are in that launcher But they're making a bunch more games, and if you want to be off a platform Maybe you'd have to have your own thing Yeah, but it would be cool if you could lean on the platform I mean, I'm sure you're gonna hear the arguments from game developers It's like look oh tons of people gonna be mad at me this kind of regulation is putting more restriction more burden on us Yeah, all for the sake of what reducing our revenue well How are we supposed to justify spending development cycles on this? But do you agree that a child who obviously lacks the self-control? Yeah, who is spending you know six to eight ten hours a day playing some game? I mean fortnight's just a great example because like every kid that I have encountered like seems to play fortnight I don't really get it. Yeah, I Forget where I was going with this sentence, but the point is like do you agree that it's a problem that needs to be solved I think Yeah, see when I was a kid I played a ton of video games But I was also extremely active and did well in school right so like I feel like I had a decent balance and I think in some situations especially because like We're getting onto other stuff now But cost of living has gone up and wages have not gone up with cost of living and things are hard and parents are working More actively and yeah more moms are in the workforce, and so there's there's a little bit as I have no idea But I'm assuming there's a little bit boomer. Yeah, I'm a Yeah, correct. I'm assuming that There's there's less at-home time for parents. I was fairly fortunate my mom worked out of our garage Right so she was generally always at home But my dad had like a billion jobs and was often not at home for different parts of my youth I had other parts my you see the youth at home a lot, but we had parents home quite a bit I knew kids back then and I'm sure there's more now that their parents are often not at home Yeah, they have nights alone. They have days alone etc So putting some tools into those parents hands so that they can parent But remotely but remotely While that situation kind of sucks. I think is maybe a good idea better than nothing Yeah, so why don't we run through? I know what's actually happening here, so that was a great discussion And I feel really good about having come to I think a point we can agree on Yeah, putting more tools in the hands of the parents and having the government and force our creation of those tools Seems to be a reasonable solution Yeah, so let's talk about what China's doing Chinese officials have released official guidelines Cracking down on youth online gaming which they say negatively affects the health and learning of minors I never thought I would say this but I agree with the Chinese government wholeheartedly here so the one thing that I have trouble with here is that Minors are just sort of broadly defined as under 18 which I guess is sort of Technically something the whole world pretty much agrees on but yeah But usually on like yeah, you can't say that like an 18 year old is somehow Should somehow be controlled in the same way as a four-year-old now I have my stuff a lot more figured out when I was 18 than when I was 12 yes Absolutely now another thing now. It's something to keep in mind is that China isn't treating everyone exactly the same no online Microtransactions for example are capped. They're capped at $28 monthly if you're under 8 years old $57 monthly if you're under 16 and then if you are older than that there doesn't appear to be an online Microtransactions cap I guess presumably because you're making your own money. Maybe or like yeah, I don't know. I'm not sure Random aside when did you get your first job? How can I fathom the logic of? The Chinese government roughly how old I was 16 okay? Yeah, yeah, I got a job as lifeguard so what you 15 I was like 13, but it was a paper route my first real one was like 14 Yeah, yeah So yeah, so to work as a lifeguard until you're 16 that makes sense so but like so everyone here basically had a job by The time they were 16. Yeah, at least some form of income. Oh, yeah, I had a full-time job. Yeah, okay Alright, so let's have a look though at some of the other measures Which not all of them appear to be segmented depending on how old the minor is so first They're gonna be registering online. They're gonna force you to register online game accounts with your real name and phone number So they're building a unified system to track identity and playtime across games one thing Yeah, there's there's definitely a number, but this information is probably being handed to the game developer Register online game accounts with your real name phone number unless they do like a payment gateway system where you have to have like A set of effectively like an iframe to a different website really hard to say how they would do it because I know with things like Like we chat for example is like technically a private entity but like so when you tie your when you tie your unit sort of like government supervised, you know banking information into your like personal, you know private Corporate entity like we check a county is when tencent owns every gaming company. It basically is irrelevant really matter Yeah, nice. Well, I'm not saying that's nice. I'm just saying it is. Well, I'm just that simplifies the relevant detail. Yeah Okay, what else we got here? They are banning online video games for minors between the hours of 10 p.m. And 8 a.m Now this one doesn't appear to be divided up depending on age age group And I gotta say if I'm a 17 year old being told No, you must go to bed at 10 p.m. Like you've got to you've got to be kidding me. That is ridiculous Now I don't think a six-year-old should be gaming at 10 p.m. No under any circumstances. That doesn't make any sense. Yeah, but like But that's where it's supposed to be up to the judgment of the parents to make a call here now this is The baby maybe your dad is only able to come home pretty darn late at night And sometimes you sleep on the couch and then when he comes home you play Super Mario Bros together and it's a really cool thing Yeah, maybe you have a nap before that. I don't I don't know That happens. Okay now everything so far has at least sort of seemed somewhat Maybe sort of reasonable because these are kids that are supposed to be going to school. So right you shouldn't be Gaming while you're supposed to be sleeping especially if the argument being made for it is that this is to Ensure, you know health and proper development of children. Yeah Registering online game accounts with a real name and number, you know what? There's lots of arguments to be made both ways But there are compelling arguments to be made for that people should probably be held accountable for the thing the way that they behave online This next one though, I think I would not want to be held accountable for anything I did online in terms of talking to people in video games before I was like like 22 Yeah, I don't know so maybe maybe you wouldn't have done it just saying I don't know either way kids accountable for things They say and do when they're older is like not cool in general things they say and do when they're older. No, oh Holding them accountable when they're older for things they said and did well this doesn't say anything about holding them accountable when they're older I think the plan is to hold them accountable right now. That's fair Anyway, you mentioned the Okay. Yeah, that is fair, but like I wouldn't want that on my record. You know what I mean? Well, that's a whole that's a whole thing. Yeah, remember you live in China. You don't get to pick what's on your record It's I I know I get I'm just saying in general. Okay, I'm just you know, I think the next one is the most unassailably ridiculous the miners are restricted to 90 minutes of game time every day except national holidays a freaking arbitrary um double the game time hooray It's Chairman Mao Day or whatever. I don't actually know if they have a chairman. I have no idea I was I was you know, first time I went to China. I was blown away that they have this picture on the money I was like really? Anyway, um, so miners are restricted to 90 day wait. Okay, so on national holiday New Year's Day Chinese New Year I don't know how to say this festival Labor Day Dragon Boat Festival mid-autumn festival national day of the People's Republic of China and Golden week, okay golden week So yeah, you're allowed a maximum of three hours on national holidays And then this is where things get super de duper crazy for adult gamers They are banning playing games that depict depict sexual explicitness goriness violence and violence gambling by most video games so EA Sports is like yeah I don't know it depends on how the NBA relationship goes. Oh, that's fair. Yeah, that's fair That that does legitimately cut a lot of games Yeah, I'm like games that I would look at and go like like really like gambling define define gambling like if I go to the Like if I'm playing like a Final Fantasy Yeah, they have a casino Yeah Right because it just it doesn't even say that you can gamble in the game like it doesn't say anything about real money Yeah, it just says dip to pick gambling and depicting violence like that that is genuinely an extremely large amount of video games No matter like what scale you go to like because there's even games were like I don't know you're What is the name of that game? Silicon Valley Space Station or something it's a really weird Really weird old game that used to be on N64 really wacky the developers of that game went on to make something pretty major I don't remember the name of but you like became different animals And you'd go around and you had to like fight stuff But it was usually like other animals and was the most cartoony thing you could ever imagine right and like but that was it was I mean You're technically fighting things like this crash bandicoot out. That's right like does it matter the scale of? This is clearly not real. I don't know dude Like maybe cod is banned but like Is fortnight yeah like Splatoon yeah, but yeah exactly exactly Because like yeah sure it's paint so I don't know but sometimes you like run people over with a roller Yeah, and that would hurt and it like flattens the person out like that's I don't know so So we can wrap this up. It's not clear how offline single-player games factor into the game Single-player games factor into the new guidelines space station Silicon Valley. Yeah, so that's interesting I mean as far as I can tell on the subject of sexual explicitness like a lot of the sexually explicit games that I'm aware of Are in VR where there's a oh? Big sexually explicit push, but they're as far as I can tell it's all offline. It's borderline even a game It's just in a whole different category. Okay. I don't know I've only gotten as far as like the pictures on the Steam store page Oh I thought you were talking about like legitimately just like the viewer thing I didn't know you meant like an actual game. No. I mean actual okay I haven't done so it was it was kind of interesting so I let my kids use my index and I just I just like popped into the Steam store because my account is an adult account They just use my account because what I'm gonna go buy like additional copies of games okay There's family sharing, but I'm gonna like register my kids for Steam like well. I can't be bothered to deal with this So they just use my account like there's nothing on there that I wouldn't want them to see right And I just dropped into the storm. It was like VR picks recommended for you, and I'm like sorry What is this it's like it's like it's like made simulator or something. I can't remember exactly what it was called It was like I was like is this what I think it is and it was exactly what I thought it was um Yeah, Steam's a little funky so it's not online or offline one thing that you can do is even having an unrestricted adult account Yeah, you can choose like I don't want to see this stuff cause Steam even still tracks your Well, I didn't say that But Steam even tracks your game your in-game time even for single-player games Yes I do kind of wonder how well this is part of my thing where like you could try to do it on a platform Levels because most platforms do it anyways. Yeah, what is what is slippery frequency? You know speaking of Steam? Okay, you know what let's wrap this up, and I'm gonna rant about Steam for a little bit Okay, um blah blah blah, so why is this happening in 2018? Jin Payne called for officials to take action on the large amount of near-sighted children Caused by schoolwork phones and games so video game addiction was officially recognized as a mental health condition by the who in by the who No, not the band World Health Organization And then there's wow James even put like a whole debate question in here for us How does this affect China's influence on Western game design probably a lot quite majorly because you're gonna be trying to make sure that Your game can fit into either 90 or like 30 or 15 or 45 minute segments pretty like pristinely Yeah, having that game cut off at that time so that these guys want to play your game So they can get maximum amount of like yeah matches within their game time is gonna be pretty and that's more than just like the art Of the game that's even just the fundamental design of the gameplay of the game that is gonna be affected by something like this. Yeah Simply stunning. 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The jerky is great But like honestly, I think the better bang for the buck is in the hot sauce because you can put it on anything Very good jerky. You have to eat as jerky unless You should make a BLT with It with the bacon jerky, yeah, you can put it on whatever you want Mmm, I'm just gonna leave the savage jerky thing there for a bit cuz people get mad if I talk during the regular show But if I'm still like chilling for Savage Jerky, then I'll see the jerky. Yeah, I Think the trains going by anyway, who cares? Oh, I want to have another piece but I think I think Nick is standing here so that I'll tell you guys about our promo on LTT store calm we are back in stock on constellations Oh nice also Check this out. So the circuit board shirt we are blowing them away And we're gonna be using the Circuit board shirt we are blowing them away The circuit board shirt is going away and we've got a promo to say goodbye to it If you scroll all the way down to the bottom of the bloody store, there it is What's the promo again? if you add a circuit board shirt and any other item to your Cart the shirt circuit board shirt is $10. There you go. Ten bucks for a circuit board shirt I'm also all you guys do sales are just ridiculous. I'm partial to the Heather cranberry personally Yeah, I like that one blue ones nice too. That's the one that has the least side. That's good. Is it well, whatever You know I'm personal to the whatever one has the most Oh on the tech link shirt is back and technically pass a million. I can't even talk Like passed a million subscribers. So buy a hat. I know right tackling has a million Cool tech quickie has three million subscribers. Oh my god. I know right cheese. What the heck? It's crazy. It's crazy It's been building an empire apparently All right, thanks Nick you can go Hopefully strike strike you You can go see it. No, I don't think so. Um You know what? It's funny you ask because I was planning to go see it I was actually kind of thinking we would organize a like rent a theater and Invite LMG and float plane people. Oh my god as many plus however many as as they want to bring Yeah, just like take over a theater and watch it. That sounds awesome It won't be like on launch day cuz like obviously whatever theater is gonna be full. Yeah, that's fine. But Yeah, I think I think Yvonne was supposed to delegate that to David to find a day and coordinate it We should like pretty expensive but in the grand scheme of things for like a corporate event It's like pretty reasonable be more than happy to like chip. That would just be super cool. I'm pretty excited like yeah If you had people cover like normal ticket price to help offset the cost it wouldn't make a difference. Don't worry about it Okay. Yeah, I'd be more than happy. I we should definitely go like Do something I don't know get food or something after because I don't want to talk about it. Oh, yeah for sure I'm definitely gonna have stuff to say I haven't even watched a single trailer I didn't know I'm gonna have stuff. Yeah, I've been trying to stay away from it as much as possible all I've seen is the like the I'm not even going to it. All right, let's move on to Intel publishing misleading high-performance computing benchmarks This is hosted by Willie W on the forum and the original article here is from serve the home comm I love the URL I'm Patrick you are your gentleman of the scholar one thing I want to say before we go into this Yeah, the last time we talked about Intel stuff and you and I both went into a a bit of a talk about like mind share and how they've left cons and how they just don't have like the The the vote of the people really right now and all that other kind of stuff. This ain't gonna help I got an email from someone at Intel Saying like I don't remember how it was like I have a question about this It was just like the video but then there wasn't necessarily a question and I meant to respond I'm not 100% sure if I did respond but if I didn't This is not it You missed Just way off target. Yeah done. Yeah. Yeah, I'm still totally down to talk by the way. Sorry if I didn't hit your email I've been super sick, but so Intel I love this Patrick. You're great Serve the home comm slash Intel dash performance dash strategy dash team dash publishing dash internet in intentionally dash misleading dash benchmarks Whoops, so they published a set of benchmarks showing Intel's advanced showing the advantage of a dual Intel Xeon platinum 9282 system versus the AMD epic 7742 Yeah, so our buds over at serve the home noticed the numbers looked a little weird particularly the gromacs Geo mean test in the life and material science section a 20% Delta seemed kind of strange on a 400 watt 56 core part I will also say the last time I met with a bunch of Intel people and talked about stuff I brought up serve the home so following the footnotes revealed that Intel had used gromacs 2019.3 rather than 2019.4 the new version that has been out since October 2nd and includes a fixed called AMD Zen 2 detection Basically the previous version doesn't support AMD's epic Rome architecture properly Yeah, now the Okay, if we're gonna talk about the letter of the law the test is still valid Yes, because they did technically use the same version on each machine It's just like this is lawful evil or relevant. Yes, evil. Yeah, not like lawful good. Nice Yeah, sorry Nice. Yeah, it's not nice. It's not like you know what? Good job, bro. Yeah, you guys are doing good We just want to show our numbers too You know know as outlined by serve the home they pulled similar stunts on several other tests including using ICC compiler is that the stupid Intel compiler? Hold on because they could also I mean they could also run this stuff on like Windows XP And it wouldn't be an invalid test Okay, just wouldn't matter. Okay. So yeah using ICC compiler using lower thread counts with AMD using old Linux kernels Yeah, okay there that was pretty much my point Using a last gen board that doesn't support PCI express Gen 4 Comparing their 400 watt part to AMD's 225 watt part while AMD by the way does also offer a 280 watt part and they also just Didn't bother to mention the price of their solution, which is not even close Like it's not even on the same planet Intel responded updating their blog post with numbers from gromacs 2019.4 with No material difference to earlier data posted on the 2019.3 version They also said that threads per core equals one was a typo and they meant two So there's some stuff here, yeah gromacs Whatever dot three dot three the one that they used It's it's very likely that they didn't publish these numbers immediately You're right. It probably took time. Yes to make its way through legal and all that. Yes So dot four might not have been out in time. I know is October 2nd. That is actually pretty recent If you line everything up Some companies are a little slow about doing things Intel is a massive giant of a company. It might have taken a long time for them to do all of this so like We can throw them a little bit of a bone there I'm just making sure everyone's aware of the situation. I'm not saying it's fair or valid I think they're thoroughly boned right now. They don't need more bone. Okay, that sounds that sounds solid I just wanted to throw them that using old Linux kernels all this other kind of stuff. Not cool I hadn't even read that part when I made my like Windows XP joke and that just hit home so much better that that was There I don't know. This is not cool. Yeah I mean, maybe the answer is for Intel to stop publishing benchmarks of their own products It's not been going well for them and like this happens all the time and we've had issues like this with AMD before Let's just be totally clear First party benchmarks every single time they're ever brought up on Wanshow We go wait till reviewers get it because it's like very You know, I really feel like the industry needs Like a performance evaluation consortium, yeah for a long sweet like ever since SSDs started getting more complex than just some basic wear leveling and garbage collection Sure It's been pretty much impossible to use off-the-shelf software in order to evaluate their performance because nowadays especially through a combination of DRAM caching and operating some of the flash in SLC mode and some of it in like Freaking TLC ways to manipulate stuff you LC mode. There's ways to tune an SSD such that 98 percent of the time in a consumer workload. It'll perform like hot beans whereas in that one sort of exception like say for example, you've got a C fast media card plugged in via USB 3 10 gig and you're copying that media copying that me And your performance just tanks If there was if there were tools that were more easily accessible that would help The average person understand the performance of a product versus just the specs Yeah, I think that would be to to the advantage of consumers everywhere And the only reason to keep all of your benchmarking tools private and in-house Would be if you don't want anyone else looking at them and so I remember telling Intel at some point I was like look creating an IO trace is a little bit above our level right now This is a tool that Once you know how to do it is as simple as doing a bunch of things and then seeing how quickly the drive Can run its way through it. Yeah Could you guys like do that create that tool and then what would be the best way to do that? Create that tool and then we can make the the ultimate decision of sort of what sorts of workloads We feel are important for our users, right? And they were like, oh, yeah, it seems like a cool idea And this was just a lower level person I was talking to I didn't really expect it to go anywhere and it didn't And so this is this is a great example of how You know, you'd never it would never happen But what we really need is for Intel AMD, you know throw IBM and Arm in there while we're at it Sure to get together and say okay. Look, how are our customers actually using our products? How do we help them make educated decisions? This is how we're gonna test it We're all gonna test it this way in the meantime though. I guess you know just read serve the home Yeah, yeah All right This is probably our last topic for the day because I don't I think my brain might explode if I try and go If I try and keep talking after this The original source is the Guardian and James Dean will apparently be resurrected for a new Vietnam war drama. Okay, stop Laptop screens down. What do you think? I? Hate it. Yeah, okay sweet. I think we agree we can open up again I wanted to see if you disagreed with me. This is nuts. Apparently his like family licensed his Image I guess I don't know to show up in the movie That's super off-putting I wouldn't want my family to be able to do that To be fair at the same time, right could I still be hosting tech videos in a hundred years and you don't get to Be okay or not. Okay with what you say. Yeah, cuz like acting in film is art. Yeah Even let's tech quickies art, but even if it isn't whatever You're saying stuff in tech wiki. You can't say no at this point You are putting a portrayal across Like there's there's a I think it's a different level than musicians doing performances on stage Because then they're just doing the song right? So like whatever hologram to pack or what to pack or whatever they did to pack That's because I can't talk probably right now Okay, more to it than that that's like what if to pock didn't want to participate in that particular performance like there's a there's a there's an association with their brand that every artist has to make a judgment call every time they appear in a live performance or The country or the state or the province of the town that you show up in yeah That could be the script like maybe you maybe the underlying message of the movie, you know, like just to to use an example What if um, you know Rosie O'Donnell they used her likeness for some, you know ultra far left leaning You know show after she died or whatever. She probably wouldn't be super pleased with that. I Don't know where her stances are but like in general. Yeah, how can you okay? Yeah sure, but you can't like determine Yeah, and what if their opinion would have changed in that time exactly. That's another thing too You can't just pretend that the day someone died, you know, like that that's that's that's it given the context of You know what? He died like he's died 64 years ago. So given how much has changed in the world in 64 years We can't say that James Dean might not be a completely different person today He was alive. His stances on things may have changed So the filmmakers will this is a horrible quote We searched high and low for the perfect character to portray the role which has some extreme Complex character arcs and after months of research we decided on James Dean No, no find an actor There's like like this is such a they took our jobs moment. My my dead. Yeah are taking our jobs That's fair. My biggest concern here is not with the Directors though. I have no issue with that really be completely honest. My issue is the family goes Yeah, we see this as his fourth movie that he never got to make We do not intend to let his fans down like his family's just like yeah sick, let's do it. Give me that money That's more of a problem in my opinion Because like if if if you approach a family and in like the will or something I don't know how this works. They're like, I'd love to keep appearing in movies digitally that he said 64 years ago. Yeah, right Um, but whatever let's just assume that's there then sure whatever right but like Because again, this is up to like the license of the person is fine But someone goes sure you can license me out after okay So now we're talking about licensing people which is madness in the first place But like let me give you a whole other like level of madness. Yeah, when does a person enter public domain? When can my grandkids make a video starring James Dean? Wouldn't that be and like upload it to their YouTube channel under the current letter of the law? Wouldn't that be like a hundred years or something? Legitimately happy I can't remember it but like that's never been a thing before licensing a person has never been a thing. I I love this kind of stuff So the filmmakers will use pre-existing film and photographs to create a full-body CGI of Dean with another actor providing his voice. They can't even like this is they have received backlash online Oh, yeah, one director said we never intended for this to be a marketing gimmick He was both saddened and confused by the negative comments. Oh, I'm so confused. I never Idiot yeah, you're like actually stupid. You can switch to my screen if you want to show this I'm already on it Yeah, Chris Evans Captain America piped up. I'm sure he'd be thrilled This is awful cap. I'm getting mixed messages here Maybe maybe we could get a computer to paint us a new Picasso or write a couple of new John Lennon tunes The complete lack of understanding here is shameful. Yeah, pretty much. Thanks cap. Couldn't put it better myself. Thanks, buddy Hope you're having a good day. Yeah um Robin Williams his daughter called it puppeteering the dead see for their clout alone Thank you for someone's family responding to this properly. You know what I mean? Yeah, like what the heck? Oh, man, it's very weird like the statement of like we see this as his fourth film that he never got to make no Thank you very much for all of the money that you just gave us Yeah for our dead for a very long time relative that we probably didn't know very well Yeah, no kidding dead 64 years ago like so thanks for the moolah Wow, don't even know if I'm gonna watch it like I Don't know man. I'm not down with this at all But yeah, I mean even post humus Lee releasing works of an artist That they did create like the Tolkien stories Didn't Tupac speaking of Tupac didn't Tupac release an album pused humus Lee pused pused humus Lee after he died Yeah, I think so. I haven't followed it too closely. But yeah, that's a word I've only read never heard anyone say there's there is some weird stuff there Like I haven't looked into it, but if Tolkien told because it's Tolkien son that continued that right now I think so. So if Tolkien told his son now, like he can keep working on His universe. Yeah, then great Right for as far as I'm concerned. That's fantastic. There's other gray areas So, you know, well artists performing their work, but like in hologram or whatever. Yes, that's more gray than this Yeah, I would say it's not even that gray. I mean, there's the whole so I remember reading at one point Don't quote me on this though, please that Disney was waiting for some sort of statute of limitations to expire after Robin Williams is deaf and that they had enough material from his recording sessions for Jeannie for Aladdin For a lat for preview the previous Aladdin movies to like write an Aladdin 4 with Robin Williams as Jeannie just around his lines because apparently the first movie was just kind of Mostly written or rewritten based on him ad-libbing things. Yeah. Yeah in the voice. I've heard that as well and That's like already pretty Pretty craptastic but from my understanding of like the way that voice acting contracts work It's maybe not that outlandish. I think that's still so I was reading an article on Toy Story 4 From the I feel really bad because I I forget her name Voice oh, dude, I don't know like any actors or actresses names at all All right, here we go any pots So who's the voice actress for Bo Peep sure Toy Story awesome? And apparently with all the changes to the script and the fact that they don't read in the same room as each other and how Long they've been working on it. She had never actually seen a finished script and It wasn't until the movie was screened to her that she realized that she was like the leading character So apparently this is a thing And that happens in video game stuff, too You just give them a bunch of lines and they just use whatever They want slash can You are paid for those lines that you delivered So I don't know that could be its own thing still a gray area though Yeah, depends on how the contract works and stuff That's that's I guess my kind of thing if there's pre-existing agreements for this kind of stuff then great and I Don't know the Tolkien situation But I think that would be a good example if there was already a pre-existing agreement there if I continue on yeah then fantastic I think he's doing a positive service there I mean there really is so much danger of the the the After death work being just not even close to the quality and just sullying yeah original work That's my biggest concern have you read a Bernstein Bears book by Mike Bernstein the son of Stan and Jen no They're terrible like he writes like a grade six kid. Oh like no offense Mike, but you suck You're awful. I guess that's a little bit like it's like there's there's a line and there's this we have this stupid dinosaur dig one and it's like Brother and sister like those dinosaurs like what do you what are you even talking about? That's not writing. That's just oh You're awful at a certain point. You don't want to give it to your kids, and you should quit. I'll talk poorly um All right, are we talking about the last topic that we mentioned sure why not? Microsoft it reports 40% increased productivity after decreasing working days. This is specifically Microsoft, Japan They tested a four-day work week now what I did notice is that it doesn't say anything about how? How long the days are of those four days, so if they're like four 12 day workdays, then yeah I could see needing a break they saw But okay, they also did other things at the same time including capping meetings at 30 minutes and increasing remote conferences They reduced their electricity cost and they printed somehow 60% fewer pages in the period I don't really that's pretty weird that sounds like there was it sounds like there is a sweeping amount of changes There's also something that I would Be really aware of which is if you hear this change is going to be tested in your area You're probably going to bust your butt For the amount of time that that's going because then you get a free extra day off for the rest of time Yeah, we also don't know like how You know we don't know what the work the total work week actually looked like according to a 2016 government study almost a quarter Of Japanese companies required employees to work more than 80 hours of overtime a month So yeah, there you go. That's a thing who knows let's do a super chat thing Kang says did you just get started? Back when you posted that who knows a cupcake person LTX 2021 happening. Why don't we worry about 2020 first? Yes, 2020 is happening. Hey Um Tyler says fans and since AIX. Thanks Tyler Thanks cam. Oh any possibility of keeping one show episodes as a plex web show. Oh, I don't know maybe It's a low priority Like everything to do with WAN show no offense WAN show your wonderful WAN show good job Good job. Yeah, WAN shows like the only it's the only production that we still do That uses equipment that we owned when we started Linus media group this table has been has been with us Since the very beginning. Yep Karaz says would you consider a video comparing ultrabooks and eGPU noise and performance? Um No, not really I mean the noise of an ultrabook is the noise of an ultrabook and then the noise of the eGPU is the noise of the eGPU and you literally put them together Tech X says what app to use for Airpods pros on Android? I actually just don't even bother I just use them because I don't really care what my battery life is it it is alive until The noise cancellation starts to kind of like derp out and then it's not and I put it in the case Honestly, I mostly wear them not even listening to music because the noise cancellation is so good And they're just really comfy. So part of this being sick thing was that I lost all Not all hearing I lost a significant amount of my hearing in both my ears for like a week And then just randomly while I was just sitting around it kind of cleared back up and it was like Partially scary and extremely painful for a little while and like the fridge sounded extremely loud and I was like, oh my god I want to unplug that thing and you don't even have kids. No Yeah, hi, Dury says Since I can't afford the LTT underwear Here's all my Google rewards money and it's like 10 euros. You were getting close dude Google rewards money though I don't think he can spend that on I would be forever grateful if you could hook me up with a coupon code I stayed up until 2 a.m. To send this I have no idea how to I don't even have a tool to message you dude I'm so sorry I also don't think the racket of like turning Google rewards money into LTT store money is probably gonna be a thing We're gonna want to continue in the future. It's our new money laundering operation Unless that is something you want to do Good luck. Thanks. You've already Thanks, Eric. Apparently this is brought to you by gamers nexus at gamers nexus net awesome. Thanks for that Heck yeah, Paul any opinion on the Halloween video feedback. Yeah, I think I'm just too old Seth says okay boomer A bunch of people are sending gamers night enclave strong sent a gamers nexus message. Okay, boy What are you guys doing? What's going on? How Steve went off on gaming chairs on Twitter yesterday? No, that was awesome I liked it Stopped rebranding the same chair and selling it as though it is like different revolutionary Well, I just added that in that's not necessarily what he said. I don't remember what he said, but I thought it was funny Alejandro says what happened to the release of tech link stress balls? Yeah, where are my stress balls? We're working on it. We're like eight things. Yeah, what's the Halloween video? He gave out like 15k worth of stuff. Yeah for Halloween this That yeah Some people liked it some people thought it was fake. It wasn't I don't know Did you give it to random people? Oh, yeah, some people thought it was dumb kind of was Now you bought all this Or at least some of it what bought a lot of it a lot of it I grabbed from here. Did they even know what they were getting a lot of them did actually, huh? Thanks that kid was upset because I gave him candy because I thought he was too young to appreciate hardware He comes back later and cries because he wanted a cell phone. What? anyway Okay You got candy, which is cool by itself You got a whole bag of M&Ms. That's amazing That's like the King house when you're a kid man. So uh that kind of bothers me a little bit Daniel asks if we've got the GTX razor blade stealth yet. Yes haven't gotten around to working on it yet though Sebastian is sending more google opinion rewards money. Boomer. Thanks Sebastian Okay, the the dude in the stormtrooper hat is fantastic. I'm gonna watch this later. That's funny. Thanks Tyler I want a cell phone. Oh my thanks Kyle tellers Um, you guys should get Janice to guest host an episode of tech linked not a bad suggestion peter We've never had Taron do one we realized that today. So he's uh, he's signed up in the queue Tristan says he's a fan of the So he's uh, he's signed up in the queue. Um, Tristan says Can you do some sort of fun collab with Steve? I worry he's working too much and not giving himself enough time to recover. What is with all the gamers nexus people? Yeah, so you should work with him more. Yeah, so that he can have more time to recover. Um Thanks, johnny nimble Vincent says at what point did you become a communist linus? What I don't know. Let's see Let's see the red back there Even my chair is red. What about the blue? Uh, is mine blue? Haha Yeah, uh saiyan says huh free super chats. It's just black and you wasted your super chat on that Matt y says rise of nine or 9900k stay stay tuned. Just wait That's all i'll say for now. Just wait a little bit um Matthew says can you do your shirts in 100 cotton? Probably not we like the blend. Um, so we're gonna stick with the blend for now I don't know cotton would be cheaper but like Shirts are always i'm just gonna throw this out there shirts are already crazy cheap. Hey, have you seen the design for the uh, the uh Floatplane shirt to commemorate launching. Um, did you like float plane and stuff? Hold on. I don't have teams. Yeah, it's on teams I don't I don't have teams logged in here. So I can't I can't show it to you right now, but it's pretty sick Should I do you want to show it on camera? My team's notifications are a little under camera Yes, uh, you won't be able to see much. I don't know. I also sent like four messages to james today through teams I don't think any of them went through he kept on asking me if I was doing when and I kept on going Yeah, and then he'd ask me again how to be like, yeah, and I don't think any of the yas went through Yeah, so I don't think any of that worked. Oh, yes. I've seen it. Sorry. Yes. I've definitely seen that. Um, Is that the is that the copy we agreed on? At least my brain was still deciding that this was a pin. How do you like the copy? Like the the text. Yeah, I think it's cool. Oh, no, I mean do you think it's like funny though? Funny oh because of the yeah. No, I like it. Okay. So yeah, this is it guys It's an ltt logo and a float plane logo kind of uh packed together and it says beta squadron Yeah, I thought that part was cool because we just think that's pretty funny. I think it's sweet. I I like it a lot I just beta because beta when I first saw it When I first saw it when I first saw it, I thought it was a pin and my brain's just like attached to that way Too much. I don't know why so when you mentioned shirt, I was like no i've seen a pin Oh, yeah, but yeah, no, I've definitely seen that Yeah, it's very cool. Joshua has a great discussion topic for us ltt great channel or greatest channel discuss. Hmm Hmm It's tremendous I think it's a good one. I think it's a good one. I think it's a good one. I think it's a good one Hmm Todd sent us a joke. What do you call broccoli that isn't green? There's some really good Cauliflower. Yeah, that's the answer but that's like really stupid good try Todd Um, that's actually you yeah, it says cauliflower in the comment You did guess it looks like not even a joke. You got it. Not a gym. No, it's like This is next super chat cauliflower with the main ingredient cauliflower pizza, which is a healthy alternative for regular I don't know dude Alexis recently upgraded to a 4790k due to bottlenecking. I want to get a new gpu 980ti. Is that good 250 budget? That's basically the best you're going to do for that budget. I think so. Yeah Machiavelli asks when are the mouse pads coming? I think we're going to get this message every week until they're here That's good. Yeah in a bit Uh kang says this announcement is more about restrictions for microtransactions The execution is really doubtful since the game company would be highly likely to find a workaround for this regulation since they want to get the Money, we'll see I mean breaking the law in china is like not necessarily a good plan um Yeah Uh hoshi says love the channel brought me back to the pc Is it possible to run a plex nassar and a steam cache from the same machine with unraid? Uh, yeah, you should be able to do that I've never set up steam caching on unraid. Although we did set up a steam cache vm Like just using unraid as a as a vm host and then we had that running a steam cache off of Passed through storage devices. So yes, you would definitely be able to do it. It's just a matter of how Uh green lungs. Thanks green lungs Uh gordon child says this conversation is stupid. Please. Okay, i'll move on sounds good Uh, cool. Can you please make ltt case badges fangirls, etc? Probably not anytime soon vc jester marketing reverse nexus stuff Uh hib fisher, they shouldn't be limiting the user's playing ability They need to use their strengths to make sure developers don't use predatory tactics Yeah, but how do you define that? That's extremely difficult. It's tough. Luke says i'm still waiting to buy your book Luke o'brien, I haven't even started writing it. So I guarantee you it'll be a bit it'll be in seasons passes Uh venom squad says when's the minecraft server going online? We are planning to launch in just under a month Remember how you had your idea to release it in like sections and make some people have to subscribe to episodic you should do DLC which is editors notes on what you said That's and then you should have extra dlc that is like comments of people that you work with about what you said totally unlimited monetization potential you want a cut of your dlc sure 10 sick i'm in Awesome I'm so down No one's gonna buy it and I don't care. Oh they would People would buy the crap out of they'd probably buy the crap out of yours Yvonne's oh i'd buy evans. Oh my goodness. Yeah, this will totally work Yeah, like when i'm telling like i would 100% buy evans. I should have my mom do one. Yeah I'd buy my mom's just like what is she what is she on about? What does she think about this? And you can't like Read any of them and then change anything Yeah, i'd sign up for that. Yeah Don't be a dick though. I don't think I would be I don't know legitimately don't think I would be I was there for the roast I ended that really I thought everyone was gonna be ending that with like as much as I did And then mine was like really long But I thought it was I thought it was good I thought my roast was pretty all right Jim says would you recommend synergy or mouse without borders? I've never tried mouse without borders, but there was another one we used recently that was pretty good That wasn't either of those two I was working on something recently that I set up synergy for and um The setup is a little clunky still um and there was a couple little issues that I had but It did accomplish the goal So the other one was in the video where we had a mac and a pc Yeah on the super ultra wide monitor. We had a mac and a pc. Maybe check out that one as well One thrust man says longtime listener on apple podcasts People listen to this on apple podcast. Yeah, he's he's the one wow Just wanted to thank you guys for the countless hours of entertainment. Thanks one thrust man. Yeah 10 bucks cool Uh, what else we got robert mail more gamers nexus stuff. Should you just call steve and ask why? He's like sending his army over here. Yeah This ad break brought to you by the gamers nexus mod mat. It says deep fried lettuce All right. Thanks guys And that's enough for today. We'll see you again next week same bad time same bad channel. Bye Bye oh right the intro thing Where is it? There it is. Oh crap I honestly wasn't that sold on the dlc idea. I just thought it was funny until you mentioned Like I would buy a bonds like oh my goodness. I would definitely buy a bonds There should be additional dlc on top of that where you are replying to reply. Yeah Yeah, you should work for ea yeah