 Welcome to the WAN show. I'm sorry you had to see what I was doing there right before the show started But you know I mean I'd hate to have that hanging over me during the entire show So it's better to get things out of the way So we actually have got a pretty short show for you today guys. We've got Mandatory device kill switches potentially coming to California, so that is to say that the owner not the manufacturer I Mean oh the potential for abuse is so there, but the owner of a device could go hey that Jerk mugged me well I'll show him what for and just turn the thing off or maybe you could disable certain functionality right now It's not like there's a standard that's completely ratified or anything like that, but that could be coming and as a consumer I think that's a fantastic idea. There's a standard for what it has to be able to do yes And we'll talk about that when we do the actual topic, but right now we're teasing them teasing Sony is in talks to sell off their bio line in much the same way that IBM sold off their thinkpad business So we might see bio notebooks in the future But they might take on a very different form if at all So stay tuned for that as well more information from bit torrent sync someone is actually making something called sync net Which is essentially a a way for you to access web pages without them being like normal IP domains But because it's all sourced through bit torrent sync so we'll talk about that later and oculus rink rink Oculus rift has its first launch title which will be eValkyrie Which has been kind of thrown around at all the different trade shows lately and looks amazing so That was probably the smartest move they could have possibly done. He's got hockey on the brain because Olympics Oculus rink VR hockey would be so awesome. It's they have every sport VR Like not triple a version already people are working on. Oh, I'm so stoked. It's gonna be awesome Have you seen the flight one someone's like there's no echo no no the echo usually comes when I switch to my notebook as a source But I have already disabled it this week. Sorry would you say? Yes Yeah, no have you seen the flight one no flight simulation VR as like a bird If I did hear about that yeah, yeah, you just like you just like fly around it's like so good. Oh good I'm so excited for stuff like that. I'm so excited for like but then they need like a combat mod Well, yeah bird dog fighting and like hawks and like a bird MMO You don't get an epic mount you are an epic mount I know I'm an epic mount So guys our sponsor this week is hotspot shield if you're looking for an easy way to tune into the Sochi Olympic Games Speaking of having Olympics and hockey on the brain and your country doesn't have great coverage Check out the link there bit.ly slash HS share you can get a free trial of their elite Service which will allow you to just simply select UK IP and boom you will have full access to UK's coverage of the Olympic Games Regardless of where in the world you happen to be and then if you do decide to sign up for an elite membership in the long Term you can use offer code Linus to save 20% on that so I definitely recommend heading over and checking that out So let's jump into our first topic here Do outer net or sink net? All the nets you decide which net you want to talk about first I want fish nets, but I'll settle for outer net. Let's go ahead and get this bad boy fired up All right, so just before we even start going in I found there It's about this but before we start like talking about how it actually works. I have my screen sharing not working I went down to their like like support us donate Area they they support PayPal Amazon payments direct payments through their website dogecoin and Bitcoin Really? I was like wow You guys spent a really long time on your like ability for people to support maybe spend more time building outer net It's a really interesting idea. They want to support it. Hopefully Linus gets his laptop working at some point in time Yeah in the meantime go ahead But they want it to work through hundreds of miniature satellites that orbit around the earth and all these satellites would be constantly broadcasting Like like Wi-Fi data essentially but broadcasting it downwards So for the most part it's just like a simple little Um, like like Wi-Fi data essentially but broadcasting it downwards. So for the mass majority of people this is going to be one-way communication you'll be receiving the information and they'll transfer stuff like News and information crop prices for farmers bitcoin blockchains ubuntu Wikipedia in its entirety Some music movies and games, but that's not necessarily the main focus Uh educational courseware emergency communications and many other things and this is Uh mainly designed for people that don't necessarily have access to the internet because the goal of this project is that everyone should be able to be connected how um two-way communicate communication is only going to work for very specific Users and very specific use cases so it's going to be more focused on say There's a big natural disaster and most communication lines are down You'll still be able to access outer net for two-way communication, but most people are not going to be able to this will also extend to certain people In areas where some sort of regime regime not regime regime might be restricting you from accessing the internet um Linus feels and it's unfiltered in its unfiltered entirety. Yeah, I think of unfiltered entirety Um, you know what? Oh, I do have one more idea. So go on I mean really guys. Okay. So to be clear, this is not internet for everyone the outer net is not the same as the internet the idea is it's more like Um, like the radio would have been um, you know 60 years ago So they can push you information and and uh one thing that's cool That makes it not like the radio actually is that users can help push Uh, what what is priority on the outer net at that point in time? So if something really big is going on like what's been going on in ukraine? um Uh users could push that so that it's on the outer net so you can push it through sms or certain phone apps So users kind of control what's on there Obviously wikipedia in its entirety is kind of a really important thing to be on something like the internet because it's a massive source of information Um, but more news and that kind of stuff. I think is going to be very user driven Um to do Yay, that's honestly about it But it's actually really interesting. My favorite thing is the like in case of disaster You will gain two-way communication and something that we're thinking about a long-term goal is that everyone will always have two-way communication But that is not a launch goal at all. That is a like hey Maybe weigh the heck down the line this can be supported because that would be awesome. Even one way is amazing I mean something that has really baffled me is with everything going on in the ukraine right now Why is it that every headline is about justin bieber? Yeah, because I mean and it's one of those things where look guys I'm not i'm not going to make this show about justin bieber I've had a lot of people asking me to talk about justin bieber for whatever reason Um, I think it's because we're canadians. I don't know anything about him I don't know what songs he sings. I don't know how old he is I don't know who he's dating and I really don't care and the thing about all this sensationalized Uh celebrity gossip is that the harder you ignore it the more it will actually disappear from your life You won't even notice it anymore if you just stop caring And the outer net I think would be a fantastic way for people who don't care about justin bieber to hopefully be able To tune in. Yeah, hopefully although it could turn into another twitter. It's user-driven. So but it's nerdy enough that I think it'll be users that aren't Justin bieber. Yeah, um, but I mean, you know like anything it might turn into that eventually But I still I still believe that looking at looking at the technology in the way that it is intended to be used Um this there's so much potential for it to be more like an unfiltered In terms of censorship but filtered in terms of nonsense and garbage News source that people could really come to rely on. I mean one of the problems with the internet is that it relies on ground based communication hubs that can be located within Areas that restrict their citizens from having access to information and that's what the internet was intended to be used for Unrestricted access to information for everyone and the ability to contribute to that information that everyone has access to Outer net might not allow everyone to contribute immediately, but it will give everyone access to it, which is um, quite frankly Amazing. I mean it's it's if they achieve this then I mean this is To me that I think it's a step That's as big as the internet was in the first place from my perspective from a from a human rights and equality perspective because because people uh Say people in the ukraine. That's where that short-term two-way communication could be dropped in Is you could get help while you're in the ukraine if something's going on if you're somewhere else if there's a natural disaster Like I don't think it's necessarily only natural disasters because right when the ukraine thing started going on There was all those live streams, right? And you could actually fairly easily figure out what was going on I don't necessarily know what happened, but i'm not getting as much information out of there as I was before And now i'm not hunting for it super actively every day But it would be nice if there was a stream of information that I could just Go to easily all the time and get updates because for me so far it's been Honestly a lot of manual hunting just to figure out what the heck's going on and it shouldn't be I mean it doesn't make sense. It's such a big deal. It is compared to beaver and everyone's focusing on I can't even remember what the most recent thing is but well, I wish it was the olympics. Do you? Instead of well instead of beaver. Well, okay. Yeah olympics Greater than beaver less important than almost anything else. I mean, I don't don't get me wrong National pride is great and the spirit of sport and people cooperating and competing It's all great. I just don't think the olympics is as big of a deal as You know giant super important things Yeah, like like super important things. I think coca-cola should find some other way to get their message out there I don't even know if coke is I know samsung is a sponsor of the olympics you hear about samsung Because they're a sponsor of the olympics any athletes that are using non-samsung devices have to cover their logos It might have been specifically apple but uh, but yeah, they like during the ceremonies and stuff They have to like cover up the logos on their device. I'm just sitting here going. It's like Okay That's there's a lot of comments about my sunglasses Well, it happened to be sunny out today and so I had my sunglasses on and Because I would rather put them on my head Then hang them around my neck with a strap which are the two options if they're not on your eyes I went and I put them on my head when I came in Because you guys want to talk about the sunglasses. I'll give you something to talk about i'm wearing them for the rest of the stream So there you go All right So the next topic is actually another net that is exciting and terrifying at the same time This one doesn't feel this is posted by oh shoot. Our last topic was posted on the forum by Sorry, I sometimes forget to do these callouts for you guys But is it Sean that by I said showing the doc all all the size all the size If people want me to be able to pronounce their names on the stream They need to have a Names that I can pronounce so that's all I have to say about that. Anyway, the next one's from top war gamer. So this is Sync net Sync net is interesting. My favorite thing is like one of the first quotes you see when looking for this thing at all Is sync net is experimental. No security auditing has been done. Only use it if you know what you're doing, which is insane Which basically means don't Use it. Yeah, I mean the way okay. So the way that it works if you guys aren't familiar with bit torrent sync Why don't I do the bit torrent sync rundown and then you can do the How it relates to this rundown. Okay, so bit torrent sync is actually magical It's it's one of the easiest ways to share files With yourself remotely or with other people in a in a secure environment So bit torrent sync is an application that you install on any PC with storage or any device that actually works on iOS and Android phones as well. And What it does is it actually allows you to create shared folders that use a 33 character secret Which is just another way of saying password or whatever Anyway, they call it a secret a 33 character secret to share files with other people But it's not a secret it's a secret to share files with other people. So it's a secret of a 33 character secret So it's basically a way of saying password or whatever Anyway, they call it a secret a 33 character secret to determine who has access to it So what you can do is you can create this folder create a secret enter the secret on your phone Which is as simple as scanning a QR code when you're sitting in front of that computer And then you'll have access to those files on the fly between phones Simply by sharing a secret or scanning a QR code with each other It's faster than almost anything else out there and unlike Things like Samsung's proprietary technology where they want you to put the phones together and then it'll transfer It's like but only if your friends all use Samsung. No, come on It is completely not locked down to any particular platform. So bit torrent sync is awesome And one of the other things that it does is the more The more shared folders there are distributed on devices all over the place The faster you can get access to it. So if I had my photo library Say I had it on bit torrent sync here at the office I had it on bit torrent sync at my house and I had it on bit torrent sync at my parents house If I wanted to grab one of those photos on my phone I would get the cumulative upload speed of those three locations so I've created a private cloud all pushing to me at the same time, which is Awesome, because if you get together with some friends and you create bit torrent sync shares You have to trust your friends. It has to be you know, not private data just to be clear I'm not suggesting this but if you bit torrent sync each other's stuff you can take advantage of Your own private internet which leads into or your own private cloud storage which leads into a new concept So how this works is what you're doing is instead of transferring just random files you're transferring somewhat specifically tuned HTML files and then There's a specific browser that's gonna be made that can access that So what you're doing is instead of going to a URL you're typing in this secret into the URL bar And then that instead of going to it, sorry an IP is just going to a folder So when you go there you download it You download the entire website which is a security hole and then you become a node. It's one big hole That's all it is is a hole like it's not secure at all No And then and then you become a node so it actually essentially if someone has a massive website on here It becomes easier for them to host it as time goes on because more and more people access it than they all become nodes So instead of bandwidth cost going up they either stay the same or go down Now it wouldn't work for content like a forum No, as you can't download the entire Linus tech tips comm forum Well, you could you get a singular snapshot and it's not gonna update very well Like you can update it because it's bit torrent sync So as changes happens it can be synced out but something like a forum where it's moving that quickly is not really gonna work very well Something like a chat box is not going to work Something like a news site or a blog would actually work really well or just anything static in general is gonna work fairly well And then if you have updates like once a day or something like that That's not gonna be that hard to sync out everyone because it's a synchronization folder. It you can just get an update while it's sitting there As he said you can make a secret key What you can also do is actually make what's called a read key which the read only key So people can't if they tamper with your files, it won't be streamed back out under that key Which is interesting and a good idea. You're still harboring a whole bunch of files from some random, dude Yeah, and those files that are on your computer Can be updated just like that. Yeah at any time by that dude. So if someone creates the most Benevolent service in the world or website in the world and then one day Let's even say that they don't get possessed by a demon and decide to do something evil and completely take over your computer Someone steals their secret key. But let's say someone steals their secret breaks into their house Okay, fig we're talking realistic stuff here. Someone breaks figures out who they are breaks into their house sits at their computer and updates the website and Does whatever they want because they have all this data stored on your PC That is just gonna sync itself to you and then next time you access it it can do probably whatever it wants There's now there There are ways that they could figure out how to who advance this and possibly put security in place and all that other kind Of stuff, but it's sketchy is all hell right now. So be careful if you want to go test this I think that we should probably go as far as to say don't test this probably let's just let's do that Don't test it. But here you go. This is what it is. It's it's really interesting anyways, because in the future Like I said certain security things come at hand. Maybe only certain file types can be transferred over this system blah blah blah blah blah Certain things are gonna be supported. It'll probably be very raw a lot of text-based sites stuff like that Which which is interesting enough, but we'll see where that goes There's ideas for things like colored coins and named coins being brought in so that you can have more easily accessible things like actual domain names going to Secrets because right now it's sync colon slash slash and then a 33 character secret, which is a little bit crazy So hopefully that gets easier at some point name coin can also make it so you can easily look up who's running a website instead Of just this random secret key so Yeah, I don't know. It's freaky and scary and possibly amazing and Possibly one of the scariest things on the internet all at the same time. It's going to enable things like Certain groups that could otherwise be oppressed to be able to get information out there It's also going to enable things like really really really really creepy people on the internet having stores of images and websites and stuff like that being really hard to take down so Yeah, we always have to look at the bad side, but there's also the good side It's like the force basically it's like those Jedi we saw fighting in the park the other day Yeah Awesome little Jedi. I know Jedi there's ideas in the future for Converters of sorts you could convert a website Like I just a standard website into something that can work on this this sync net thing And there's ideas for maybe Firefox and Chrome plugins So you don't actually have to have a dedicated browser for it and you can just type into the URL bar or something else Whatever the plug-in works and then Firefox and Chrome could interpret that by the time my son is in high school The internet as we know it could be a marginalized part of the internet because there's gonna be pirate Bayes internet There's gonna be sync net internet There's gonna be potentially outer net some of which will provide services that are actually more important than what the internet does today Isn't that amazing especially because the internet is being like it's losing natural net neutrality It's being way more commercialized every single Throttling was Netflix, right? Yeah, I think so, but then they're denying it. I think yeah, they can deny they can Yeah, yeah, so allegedly As long as you say allegedly then nothing really matters. Yeah, it's like that NBC story It's like the phone was hacked while I was in Sochi It's like no you were in Moscow and it was hacked because you did something stupid not because someone there was actually attacking you You're an idiot Allegedly an idiot allegedly an idiot. We don't want any lawsuits here Not at all. I yeah, I don't know that whole thing is so stupid He just went to some site and clicked on something that he shouldn't have and then was like, oh my god People are hacking people in Sochi and it's like what no. Oh God anyways, I mean there are problems in Sochi But yes, that just isn't one of them or it might be but it didn't happen to him It was this completely different thing that happened to him. All right, so next this is unbelievable, so Believe it or okay believe it or not This unbelievable thing is not being reported on by us because we happen to be a twitch partner and we're streaming on twitch.tv Right now. I think they don't call it twitch.tv. I think that's an old people thing saying dot Really? I think so. Yeah guys. Let us know. Let us know. What would you say Twitter? But twitch TV? I Think it's an old people thing to say the dot in a website. So you'd be like Facebook calm No, that's just Facebook. Like I don't think you say dot but you never say the ending. Yeah, I don't I don't think so But maybe I'm mistaken, but I don't say Facebook calm. I say I read something really interesting Apparently, you know what? I don't know if I put it in the dock or not. Let me let me check. Okay, don't worry We're gonna get to this. I say twitch TV dot TV when I'm referencing the company I say twitch when I'm referencing the website. Okay, this is sort of unrelated. Oh Bullets, where did it go? Okay, I saw an interesting article It was like a linguistics article about the way that the period is changing in meaning to mean irony or anger because so many sentences in text message communication and without periods and I Have at times been called a grammar Nazi and yet I find myself very often not using a period question marks Exclamation marks are much more likely to be used when appropriate and I think it was even commas But don't quote me on that part, but the period was much less likely to be used I think it was something like 30 to 40 percent of the situations where it would be appropriate a period was being used I see I see on forums and stuff. I see it much more commonly properly used But if I'm doing instant communication like like steam chat or something like that or if I'm doing text messages if someone uses a period I'm usually like whoo, and that's exactly it online communication I think was something like 10 to 15 percent more likely for people to use a period and then text messages were the worst and it stems from things like 160 character or 140 character limits on SMS and Twitter but the reason the article was written was because a textbook writers son Was reading the textbook, I guess, you know proofreading exercise got to leverage that free labor when you can Yeah before they move out and was like it seems like you're angry And the way it's written and then the example given in the article was like like it was like a text message screenshot It was like are you mad and then it said no period. What does that mean? It means yes, right Because when I was reading the article I was like no And then I saw that example and they're like, are you sure? No period Absolutely, that means yes. When did this happen? I Think it's been going on for a really long time. I don't think that's very new. No, it's not new But why didn't I notice I'm old you are old because I noticed and everyone else noticed Why you remind me of these things? Why do I ask you these things? Says dots not an old thing. I either say twitch or twitch.tv reliance tech tips calm The septagon is digging the shades. Thank you. These were these are the most expensive I think these are the most expensive piece of apparel I own their oak leaves. Maybe yeah, yeah Because I like I always used to lose sunglasses So what I did was like I really wanted some nice sunglasses and my wife believe it or not was basically like look we'll get you cheap sunglasses and If you cannot lose them or break them for a while Whatever period of time she gave me then you can buy whatever ones you want. I was like, okay? She really does have to manage me that way. It's sort of sad But I made it through the trial period so I got myself some nice some nice oak leaves and I'm taking extremely good care Of them. You've had those as long as I've known you they don't have any scratches on them much whatsoever. I keep them in their case But I I digress We should do a Twitter blitz on the period thing and we should move on to the twitch thing Yes, I do want to move on to the twitch thing. Please inform everyone about the world cancer day folding week Yes, world cancer day folding week only two days left better than nothing There's more information in the Linus tech tips folding at home form section Do you think Nvidia will come up with a GTX 7? I got no idea man I don't want to speculate on cards that that aren't out yet. Where did I get my domo plush? I was on Amazon Bummer about Austin Evans's pad and burning up. Yes, it was although there should be some news about something to do with that tomorrow do you think the concept of Transcendence is possible by the way love the show Constantinous see Do I think the concept of? Transcendence is possible. It depends what you mean. I think I think a genre can be transcended. I Think a state of consciousness can be transcended Would you disagree with that depending on what state you're in in the first place? Yeah, I'm gonna say that that really I think there's a top level, you know I think if you spend your life in a drunken stupor, you can transcend that Yeah, but I don't think you're in a coma would coming out of the coma be transcending a mental state potentially Okay, you know what? I don't want to get into this. We're defining it way too Michael says Terminator. Thank you Michael for bringing us back on topic. All right, so let's move Terminator yeah, I think he's talking about your glasses. Oh that makes more sense All right. So twitch TV is fourth in US peak traffic as of the I think it was a week ago What? You have got to be kidding me the companies only existed for three years now Okay, I think the stat is a little bit deceptive and I will explain why okay because one of the things about twitch TV is the Inefficiency of their broadcasting they do not transcode their broadcasts prior to Broadcasting them. So that's why when we cranked our bitrate up to 8500 kilobit per second Basically, no one could watch the stream Which we didn't really realize because I assumed that they were that they were able to more easily Transcode on the fly, but what they can transcode on the fly and that's how people can watch a 1080p stream at 720p But when you feed them a huge file like a massive bitrate file They have a lot more difficult time with it They're not able to do that much with it because even with their one minute delay That's not a ton of time and I remember talking to their COO Back at PAX where he was just basically saying he's like yeah Look one of the reasons that we need so much bandwidth is that a lot of the content is going out in pretty much the form That people are broadcasting it in so when you watch something in original quality on twitch TV You are getting original quality if both of the network connections and twitch at the time can handle it Whereas when you select original on YouTube even for something like 4k content you are getting a seriously Downsampled piece of content. In fact a great example of that is look at that. I still have the tweet up Marcus Brownlee and KBHD is actually I Don't want to use the word bitching, but it seems appropriate here is complaining about the compression on YouTube Yeah, it's not For some reason is complaining about compression on YouTube Changing even the colors in his videos to the point where his shirt goes from looking vibrant and orange to looking kind of dull and Red and so that is what you're getting on other platforms. Whereas twitch is pretty much giving you what Exactly what it is. Yeah, so while their bandwidth use is through the roof I don't necessarily think that gaming is more popular than Hulu Necessarily, right because who is gonna be much more efficient. Yeah as is Netflix as is it still shows growth it's so maybe maybe like bandwidth isn't the best way of measuring this while your computer crashes, but It still does show growth. So there's some actually really interesting stats The three most watched games in 2013 were League of Legends Dota 2 and Starcraft 2 which is all not surprising whatsoever League of Legends viewing has gone up 258 percent since 2012 which is insane but even more insane I guess because it's newer is Dota 2 viewing has gone up 508 percent since 2012 They're saying that when people look back in the future They will see 2013 as the tipping point for streaming and I don't see that surprising at all basically everyone I know now has a Netflix account and is streaming movies and Basically everyone I know that's into gaming has watched some sort of twitch stream at some point in time Even if that was just for a gaming competition And then I do know a few people that just watch twitch streams almost 24-7, which is pretty insane as well Which is another thing that I actually think is probably a little bit deceptive about these numbers Because I think that compared to a service like Netflix Where if someone starts streaming a Netflix movie they're very likely to be actually in front of that screen Um, you look at at the way that game streaming works people aren't a lot of the time Watching the game. This is this is a radio broadcast and Watching the game is often. Yeah, it's entertaining and it's there But you might actually have it minimized or you might actually have it tucked away on a secondary monitor I've been a note every once in a while tab in and out you got it running on your tablet next to your computer and a Lot of the time you're not you're not giving it your undivided attention. So twitch is a big deal gaming is a big deal I just don't think that you know, you know comparing it to some of these other things I don't think that it's one-fifth of what you to or What you do? Yeah, I don't think it's it's a 12th of YouTube either because it is pushing that much Well that the Google thing doesn't just bandwidth. Oh, okay. That's true. Yeah, so I don't think it's even 1 12th of YouTube Never mind being whatever portion of that is actually YouTube Yeah, so anyways, the average age of users is 21 years old. Although I Seriously doubt that Just putting that out there. I mean, it's one of those things where I can't tell people what to do But I had someone ask about registering on our forum They said that they put in their birthday and the forum said they couldn't join because they weren't 13. I suspect that a lot of people Circumvent that in a way that Is is pretty evident if you look at Steam stats for how many of their users are born on January the first? Last time we brought that up someone was like, but I'm actually born on January the first Like oh wow, that's actually surprising most people that say they're born on January the first really were not 93% This is old news this is from like 2011 so it might have changed now But the point is that people don't fill out their their birthdays correctly when they I'm gonna be 100% honest when I go fill Out a birthday. It's too. I'm too lazy to actually put in the accurate one Like I'm always old enough for everything, but I just click on the drop-down spin and they click on something I actually do it really I enter my birthday. I never do I know no, I it's it's a weird like OCD thing I do for things that I'm like, oh crap I'm really worried about recovering in this account at some point in time and they might ask me how old I am Mmm, so I do for that kind of stuff, but a lot of the time on Steam It's actually nothing to do with your account. You might even be signed in. Yeah, you're signed dick, which is ridiculous Yeah, except if they have family sharing enabled So like yeah, but they didn't this might not I know I've always been like what the hell I'm logged in and then when you accidentally just click next and its default is not old Enough and you just get locked out for like a day. Yeah, dude. Like come on, please stop some other interesting stats So 68% of twitch users have decreased their TV watching in order to watch more twitch 58% of their 45 million monthly unique visitors watch more than 20 hours per week And again, I think this is a stat that might be a little deceptive because I delaying and what it's easy to leave a twitch Stream on while you're sleeping. In fact, we had we had a problem back somewhere I used to live where one of the tenants would just leave twitch streams on all night And we had some bandwidth usage problems that our ISP was pretty annoyed about because even streaming like, you know Hours on twitch like not an entire day on twitch you can use like 15 20 gigs like no problem in a day and You know that that full quality streaming so that That's that's just something you know that I think is you know, we have to temper our enthusiasm a little bit No, I know like it's still huge, but still massive Yeah so that that comes out to twitch users running an average of 106 minutes of content per day and 12 billion minutes every month not each user but in total 12 billion minutes every month, which is How many lives is that does someone want to do the math and maybe tweet me with how many lives? That is per month that are basically sacrificed to the twitch gods You know, I was I was wonder how many lives have been sacrificed to the Linus. I was just gonna tell you I Looked at the other day. That's what made me think of this Actually, this made me think of that and I went looked at our number So every day I think about a year and a half get sacrificed to the Linus tech tips gods in terms of minutes watched So has that been a life yet? Oh more. Oh, yeah every day a year and a half So that means in a year about oh, wow. Yeah 500 years or so get sacrificed to the Linus tech tips gods. Oh, wow Isn't that crazy? That is pretty crazy. Yeah, I mean you spread it out among enough people We have to increase that number. We have to increase that number. We need to commit our genocide our base genocide So there's about 900,000 broadcasters per month 5100 of those are partnered So a mass proportion of the broadcasters are not actually partnered and there are about 6 million total videos broadcast per month Which is pretty crazy an interesting statistic would I didn't think about doing this would be to split down like how many broadcasts? There are versus how many broadcasters versus how many videos and how many videos versus how many minutes? So like how long is the average broadcast? Seen for right be pretty interesting No one no one has done the math yet on our bill. Oh, okay. There we go about 325 lives says Mitch oops wrong one So yeah. Yeah, yoinkermans like yep. I always fall asleep to twitch So that's a thing that I just think is less likely to happen with a service like Netflix. Yeah If they all live 90 years at the end of the movie anyways, wouldn't it? Depends if you're watching a show it'll keep it'll keep running like I've fallen asleep to net So I'm sure that's happened at least but not nearly as much. Yeah, I think it seems less likely Yeah, and I've got a few people backing me up on always filling in the correct birthday Looney, thank you Yamuda says 86% of statistics are made. Oh, thank you for that Um, okay. I had one person backing me up On always it would be looney. It would be looney, wouldn't it? Okay, fine be like that That's awesome I see how it's gonna be. All right. So yeah, I want to talk about this So this is an Indiegogo campaign that I actually That I act oh, you know what I don't know if you guys are gonna get audio from this or not, where is the Yeah, where'd the where'd the plug go? I'm stepping on it. Well, that explains it I'm just gonna throw this in so this my friends is the air doc and I actually tweeted out about it and I Posted a link on the forum before I had actually tried it just cuz I kind of looked at the video and I was like Oh, that's really cool potentially I Was totally not interested and then I watched the video and I was like, yep. Okay, cool Yeah, I just want to get to you know what whatever so the point is he got in touch with me and So guys, it's here. I'm just gonna throw the Indiegogo link in here. It's not cheap. I think it's about 75 bucks Even with the Indiegogo discount, so I think it's gonna be about a hundred bucks retail But it's really cool. So check this out. Here it is. Oh, it's stuck Okay, so it's a chi wireless charger and I should probably do this Okay, and or charging dock. So you've got a micro USB here. You can run that down to Your your cigarette outlet in your car or whatever else it comes with a kit that has This is just like a pre-production one we're gonna be doing an unboxing and review So I'll give you guys full impressions once I've really had a chance to use it But I just want to give you my initial impressions right now. So it comes with the cigarette adapter It comes with a cable comes with So I never really do unboxings like this anymore. Yeah, so it's like it's like back to the old days This thing is like bat shit crazy feel the material on there This could stick to anything I'm like I could probably stick to I'm like I could probably stick it to your arm Yep, nice not going anywhere. We should leave it see how long it lasts Yeah, we should see how long that stays there on his sweaty arm So it comes with all that stuff then it comes with another another piece here That is got to be the best bendable arm. I think I've ever encountered It's about the thickness of my pinky and check this out That's what it takes to bend it and then it stays it doesn't go it just doesn't move anymore and then it's got An articulating arm here and then it's got like a more standard suction cup on the bottom piece here Okay, but the real magic and they actually this is hilarious because they call it magic Okay, let's see. What does he say? Okay. Okay, and I got I got a call him out on this magic foam and Magnets hold the phone to the air dock here really magic foam And anyway and magnets is basically the same as saying they're magic So that's like saying that there's magic holding the magic and then it has wireless charging Which in my mind is also magic because it works with magnets which are magic. So it's like magic cubed and The thing that really got my attention when I looked at it Indiegogo video was the demo where he takes a phone puts it on like this and listen to this He loves the sound the sound Okay, so this one came really dirty out of the box and what really wasn't working that well and I was like Oh, my one doesn't stick to it at all. I'm not impressed. I don't like it So but then what I did is I washed it. So it's just you just wash it with water I mean be careful. Don't push it. I mean, it's just You just wash it with water. I mean be careful. Don't put like water all over it or anything like that Because there's like electronics inside and stuff, but you just kind of wash off the surface and then boom You throw a phone on it shake it around. It's gonna. Okay, so it's not perfect It's gonna hold up pretty well to any kind of normal vibration that you would have in a car Especially if you're at an angle that's somewhat reasonable and this is on an htc1 Which is not a validated device Um, if you give me your g2 for a sec Okay, let's just go ahead Yeah, there we go. So let's go ahead and stick the g2 to it So this is not a validated device either but plastic back devices are going to be more able to stick to it so I can Shake that around and listen to this So I don't know scared of it ripping the back off at some point in time if you ever if you have a back Removable device like I bet you my old s3. Yeah, it would just take the back right off So and it does have magnets in it too So some phones and tablets actually have metal plates in them for magnetic mounting So that holds it on and then the magic foam which is actually I think it's some kind of nano thing The magic foam holds it in place So I think it's really cool, especially because just having it in your car and then just being like bloop And it charges and it sits there well enough that you can easily do whatever navigation you're going to do It's not going to come off in transit So we're going to do a full video of it But I just thought that was really cool and I wanted to call out their indiegogo campaign and give you guys an opportunity to get it For 25 less This thing is still sticking to my arm somehow despite being bumped like yeah, of course it's sticking to your arm Oh, hold on. Can I get it up? Yeah, there we go Okay, so I was able to pull it off so you can see how dirty he is It was gross before you put it on my arm. See the skin cells. Ew. How would you? I Got a troll you know, I know it's all about the troll Are we moving on to the next thing? Yeah, let's move on to the next thing Okay, so oculus rift it has a launch title and they're actually going to be co-publishing it, which is really interesting Uh, they've been doing a lot of stuff lately in that realm But the idea that they have an actual exclusive launch title and the fact that it's eve valkyrie is kind of huge because eve valkyrie has won tons of awards like uh, PC game of the year at e3 2013 or pc game of 2013 Um from pc gamers, which is pretty crazy awesome. And it's Also in my opinion probably the most well-developed game for rift. There's been games that have been made for rift I have not oh, it's amazing. I've seen like every possible video on the internet. It is so amazing It's like it's unlike anything you've ever tried exactly which is exactly what they need Oculus rift needs that killer app to bring people to oculus rift because there's all these different Virtual reality goggles coming out and they're going to need something that splits them apart So they're obviously moving in that direction with this and other things those other things being recruiting people like 3d artists animators gameplay engineers And more which they're doing right now. They're actively trying to hire these people So if you are one of those be sure to check it out. Also, um, they have hired david demartini Which is kind of scary because he was the senior vice president at electronics arts yay helping publishing Don't like it. Anyways moving on I have another thing. I don't like about it. Um, I mean, okay I guess it's fine as long as it's not exclusive But you've written here first exclusive oculus rift launch title Is that correct launch? Yeah at launch. Okay, it's only gonna be on rift at launch Okay, I don't know if it's like forever's yeah Because I mean the the the direction that I see the industry moving is less exclusivity and more openness And I just I feel like if you try to turn rift into It says exclusive. Yeah Um now I don't know if that's going to be forever exclusive I don't know if that's just some games are launch exclusives, right? Uh, we've seen that actually quite a bit where it's exclusive at launch and then it can be distributed after that And I mean I get it I mean I get it because developing for a particular vr goggle is going to be different from developing for another one And if i'm oculus and i'm investing heavily into this piece of hardware and the marketing and the production and all and and hiring John freaking karmak and all this stuff. I want to make money on my investment But I just you know, I don't want to see I mean even nintendo Has finally begun to yield on first party titles for their first party systems They haven't said what they're doing exactly, but they'll have some mobile content coming Yeah, but most people are assuming they're going to be extremely short demos and i'm assuming that wallpapers and i'm assuming that too, but Progress is progress. Yeah, that's true But like a two-minute demo and a wallpaper, I don't think is exactly what we need Any more than that, but I don't know so david demartini is going to be working with Uh, he's gonna figure out how to partner effectively with big partners small developers all the way to the individual who wants to make something For the rift which is interesting and a good idea. He's from ea and that's scary I mean, I don't know with all of that said just because someone's from ea doesn't mean that they're evil I know and i'm hoping that maybe he left ea because he wanted to do something different And i'm hoping that oculus was clever enough to hire someone that has a philosophy that's similar to theirs Yes, and I mean anything that pushes more oculus rift development and more titles Honestly is is big thumbs up for me because I am buying one 100 you guys can mark my words if I don't buy one then You can I don't know call me foul names or something like that. I'm very Probably planning on just whenever the next developer kit comes out retiring mine and giving it to like the high school I went to and then just moving on to the next one Because if they release a developer kit for crystal cove oh All over that like that thing looks so cool and i'd love to have a 1080p panel and the oled thing And the oled thing, uh the the low persistence oled. Yeah, oh my goodness. That sounds amazing So down for that. All right, so sony Does something that's not surprising? Well, I was gonna pretend it was a little surprising It's not that surprising. I mean, when's the last time you actually saw someone using a sony vio notebook Um, probably when I used to work in a repair shop and not not not not i'm not saying I didn't mean it that way. I just meant because I saw a lot more laptops then Um, we didn't particularly see a lot of bios there um But like yeah, honestly, I don't see them a ton to be completely honest Usually in classrooms you see either an army of max or you're somewhere that isn't business and you see an army of cheap laptops so it's Or an army of expensive laptops that are hp or dell Yeah, or like business class think pads. Yeah Yeah, I I just and and you know looking at some of the stuff that they've done over the last little while I just kind of Scratch my head like the the the the vio duo 13 is actually an ultra book that I will be giving away shortly I have a huge giveaway to announce in the next little while here Um, there will be a proper video about it, but i'm going to give you guys a sneak preview But as much as it's an interesting notebook and it's a high end notebook and to to get it for free in a giveaway will be Awesome. Don't worry It has some design decisions that were made that I just kind of look at and I go what were you thinking? Which one was that? This was the one so it's a it's a convertible So basically when the screen comes up it goes I want to sort of make this visual for them in a way That's easy to understand so the screen comes up like this and then slides down like that So it only goes at a fixed angle. You can't adjust it and then the hinge back here is actually exposed Whereas something like this which I think is called a pinwheel two in one makes a ton more sense. It's a notebook It's a tablet Nothing is exposed and I can fully adjust the angle of the screen when i'm not using it as a tablet so Yeah, I like and I saw someone in the twitch chat well i'm on a laptop right now it's like yeah they exist We're not trying to say that. Um, it's just Quite a few years ago. I saw them all the time And now not nearly as much That's more I mean it can't be helping that the uh that pc sales have gone down. What was it seven percent in the last year? Yeah, and when you're someone like sony where your market share is not Uh, you know dominant Um that seven percent hurts a lot that might have been the difference between scraping by and not making it And I mean sony hasn't quite gotten over that. They're not a premium brand anymore So they design these products they put a lot of money into the rnd of bringing them to market And then they're not a premium brand anymore and I don't think people really accept it and I mean there are regions where sony still has Um some brand mystique and quite honestly I find it baffling when there are products that just aren't that great that somehow manage to have Like this they get put on this pedestal. I mean products like Honestly samsung Um a lot of their stuff fantastic some of their stuff How was anyone even accepting this? I mean their galaxy high-end phones the the s3 and the s4 particularly the s4 How was that competitive with a lot of the other stuff? Yes s3 was sorry s4 Build quality wise it just it was not up to par with other devices that cost the same And I mean google came in and you know crapped all over everyone Yeah, that's interesting right now like people have asked me about buying phones. I'm like well you have a few options They're all in the google store If you're trying to buy a brand new phone like just full out buy a brand new phone. I'm like yeah Like there's there's not a ton of options They're all in google store because if you try and do price per performance outside of the google store like you're screwed Everything's gonna be eight hundred nine hundred dollars And yet someone like samsung gets away with it I mean you look at stuff like their smart tvs i've complained about this in the past none of the features work like Motion control this uh, you know tracking that you know voice control none of it works How do we accept this? How do we let them get away with delivering something? That's just not polished like at all Um, so I don't know plug in a chromecast. So So some people i'm sure still feel that sony is super awesome. Apparently sony doesn't think so anymore So they're selling off that business unit I think the the rumored sort of on the table price is somewhere in the 500 million dollar range. Yep And the random estimation is about 493 million um Yeah, it's it's kind of interesting although not surprising We were actually fairly recently talking about that like massive ridiculous over-the-top percentage of sony bankrupting Oh, yeah, someone said what was it? There was a uh, there was an article that claimed there was a 78 percent chance we talked about this on the wind show Yeah of sony going bankrupt in the next I think it was some ludicrously short period of time like two years or something like that And I think what we said was well No They have a lot of assets that they could sell to keep them going for a really long time before they just declare bankruptcy So yeah, and we see the beginning of it and I expect them to liquidate certain assets And then try to empower others to try and get Profit going again and that looks like exactly what they're doing. If you were a buyer Would you even be remotely interested in the in the vile brand? Because does the vile brand mean anything without sony attached to it? Is it the vile brand you're buying them? Yeah, or you buying infrastructure? You're well, you're buying both You're buying a distribution system. You're buying the vile brand But the rumor right now is that vile notebooks will probably disappear outside of japan for a while Anyway, so you're you're probably gonna lose whatever momentum you had but then look at this they forecasted 293 million profit and lost 1.1 billion For the year Would you buy this business unit and this brand that obviously doesn't resonate with consumers? I think that was a total for their company. Um, i'm not entirely sure but oh, yeah. Sorry. Yeah, you're right You're right. You're right. So not just vile laptops, but like there's interesting people looking into it There's that investment group from japan. There's also lenovo or uh What am I trying to say is lenovo Lenovo is a company that owns ibm or it owns thinkpad rather. Yeah, there we go So it's lenovo that's looking into via which is interesting because ibm just sold them thinkpad Yeah, so I could see I could see them consuming it ibm just sold them their server business as well Really? Yeah, is ibm just gonna sell them everything? I don't know. I guess so Maybe lenovo is just gonna buy everything just like amazon and google are buying everything It's interesting how these massive companies are just going on insane Shopping for you. In the last few years lenovo came from absolutely Not significant at all with funding from the chinese government to being a dominant pc manufacturer. It's Amazing that chinese government backing I love it pretty strong. So there's gonna be quite a few things hit by this. Um about 5 000 jobs They're gonna be cut. That's about 1500 in japan and 3500 overseas Uh, so it's not all just randomly sony dropping part of their business. It's also sony dropping 5000 jobs, which is Not good to hear as the job market in many places isn't super great right now So it could be worse. They could work for linus media group. I mean how likely is your job to end? I fire you. Well, I haven't fired you in a long time actually Speaking of acquisitions amazon just bought a game studio. So this is posted by top war gamer and Top war gamer. Can you please not post mobile links when you link people to things on the form? Come on, man Well, well, I don't think it's that hard to fix. Oh, yeah, but At least he I I would okay. I'm not gonna harp on him that hard because he always fills things out That's true and I would way rather it was filled out and had a mobile link than wasn't filled out and had a normal link True that All right. So there you go here carry on. This isn't in my opinion that super interesting yet It's interesting because of what might happen in the future There's been a lot of rumors spinning around about amazon maybe releasing a set top box console Which is interesting However, that might possibly work. I don't know. Is it a steam box? I don't know Is it an android system? Who knows? Does it use their cloud to do your cloud gaming? Maybe I don't know. There's a lot of different stuff spinning around about this. So we'll see what happens there It's also not the first gaming acquisition. They've made they they got casual game maker reflexive entertainment back in 2008. So they're adding These guys to the list double helix is still pretty good These guys to the list double helix is still fully intending to support killer instinct Which was a xbox one game so you can be releasing more content more characters into it And they fully expect to release uh more killer instinct games for xbox one in the future Not that very many people watching this show care And Yeah, so a lot of what double helix is doing is not going to change but they're going to be a part of amazon game studios And there's all this other stuff going on about amazon game studios. So while this isn't interesting now Once amazon actually does make a proper announcement about what their gaming system set top box possible Maybe possibly thing might be Uh, this might become interesting and once they make announcements about what these gaming studios are actually doing that might also Be interesting but right now it's just they bought something and Yeah, that's about it So there's not a ton we can actually say about that right now speaking of things to buy or not necessarily buy our sponsor Today is hotspot shield so you can visit bit.ly slash hs share It's a bit.ly link hs share and i'm gonna go ahead and post a nice little link for you guys in the twitch chat I realize this is something I should probably do all the time because you have more reason than ever to care about hotspot shield at the moment particularly If you're in a region that doesn't have great coverage of the sochi olympics, so i'm gonna go ahead and throw that link in there So hotspot shield is the fast easy way to set up a vpn You can get a free trial of their elite service by clicking on the link that I just put in there and with offer code Linus you can save 20 percent off of your first purchase of their elite service So you can use that in this case to get access to uh, the bbc's coverage of the sochi olympics If your coverage in your area isn't that great? 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There's no like overclocking olympics there It would be in the mountains though, although Actually, we don't really cover the overclocking olympics either anyway, so Frankly, they aren't that interesting. No A way more because it's not representative of what you're gonna be able to do I don't know. I mean my problem with professional overclocking really comes down to To the personalities like remember how hard it was for you to get an interview from anyone god I felt so useless at that event. I was like k they're focused on working and I have to And that's fine. I respect that I get that But at the end of the day in my mind, it is the obligation of a professional sports person or a professional competitor to to advocate for what they do to make people interested in it because there was stuff there that was Really interesting but no one wanted to show it to us or talk to us about it. Like when I was at gigabytes thing at ces One of the overclockers there had a graphics card that had a full pcb And then it had the back pcb of a different graphics card or like some evga like weird thing like soldered to it so they could like plug in more pci express connectors and get more power to it and i'm like Who's covering this? That's awesome. Yeah, and that's really cool. But then No one will talk to you about it. Yeah, it's interesting Um also a problem that I have with it is it's so hard to replicate at home Yeah, there's a lot of insane binning that's going on Uh, like just throwing away tons of parts because they're not good enough people are like trade secrets my friends You know what? I don't care because you can have a trade secret that no one's talking about and no one's watching and Maybe doesn't exist five years from now if you care about having a job You have to be open about it. It's like look at any professional sport Do they hide how to dribble a basketball or do they want all the youth in the world? dribbling wanting to dribble a basketball just like lebron james That is how it works. That is how you get people engaged and excited about what you're doing I don't hold anything back from you guys about what we do here I'm willing to explain anything we do whether it's on the computer side or whether it's even on the youtube or social media side I love answering questions about this stuff because quite a few times The reality of it is if you're not constantly innovating people will catch up to you anyway So if you just sit there and jealously guard your secrets and try to prevent other people from furthering what you're doing Well, how are you ever going to learn from them as well when they innovate and they discover it's all about sharing And that's what I think a lot of people don't understand which is actually exactly have we released that video yet? Which one the 2014 update? No So which is exactly what a future video will actually be about is how we're planning on trying to be agile again Because we always try to plan on being trying to change things. It actually yeah, okay, right I promise to give some information about the giveaway. Yeah, so this giveaway is going to be for the crate computer So that's a 4670k gtx 780 500 gig ssd pc that's built onto the back of a 27 inch gaming lcd worldwide giveaway Okay, we're also giving away an asus gtx titan Boom, and we're also giving away a sony vio duo 13 ultrabook boom three things all at the same time And all you're gonna have to do there's gonna be a video coming up on tech quickie that you're gonna have to Comment on and then the titan and the vio ultrabook are gonna be a little bit different So the main prize is the crate computer and anyone can enter that one But to enter into the other draws you must either Be a social media influencer with 10 000 followers on some platform or another and share the video Or you must get a social media influencer to share it and credit you For sharing it with them in the first place and then you will be entered for a chance to win the titan So I am I am enlisting you guys to help spread the word about the crate computer giveaway by incentivizing you with a chance to be in a much Smaller pool of people who could win a gtx titan. I just one wins both I'm sorry. Imagine the dude that wins the crate also wins the titan. Is that possible? Are we allowing that to be possible? I don't think we can allow that just reroll. Yeah, we'd have to reroll We'd have to draw the crate computer first. Yeah. Yeah, and then the vio ultrabook is for the influencers Yeah, so anyone who shares it who is an influencer is in the bucket to win the vio Which I don't think there will be that many maybe 10 or 20 influencers tops That's great odds on a thousand dollar notebook And then the titan for the people who get influencers to share and then the crate computer which anyone can join Yeah, so it's gonna be crazy Someone's like of course you have to have a stupid garbage book or Twitter account. What the hell are you talking about? I said you have to leave a comment on the tech quickie video for a chance to win the crate computer I did that actually that no no no good try though Someone's like sellout sellout to who I Don't understand what just happened, but let's ignore the twitch chat right now Wow Most people have said good things. Yeah, I I love you guys mostly but some of you don't get it All right, so let's move on to our next topic Here we go. Ah, yes California There's a California bill that's proposing a mandatory Kill switch for phones and tablets in 2015 really cool actually really cool So I'm more than down so there's some requirements that it has to make they're not making you use like a specific one They're not like oh, yeah, low jack has to come pre-installed on every single mobile device No, then they're not doing that but but it has to meet certain requirements So those requirements are if I can find it really quickly Once activated it should be able to prevent phone calls internet access and the ability to run apps you can also It also has to be able to restrain people from doing a hard reset It has to be able to restrain them from returning the device to factory condition or downgrading to a different operating system So basically it has to be able to be on there all the time Yeah Because you shouldn't be able to remove it and it should be able to restrict you from phone calls internet access or running apps so it essentially renders your entire phone useless and You can't remove it. So this comes this stems from An increase in muggings that are targeting mobile devices I mean, what is something that you could basically assume someone will have on them that they can give you in less than 10 seconds That is reasonably valuable and easy to flip super easy to flip. It's not going to be jewelry necessarily I actually I was reading a really interesting article on the resale value of diamond jewelry and it's like nothing it's it's like pennies on the dollar basically because the assumption is that it's probably stolen plus there's the fact that Diamond retailers are buying at wholesale that is so much lower than the retail prices That people bring in diamond jewelry for trade-ins and they're just like they usually just end up keeping it anyway Because it's just not actually worth anything. Yeah, and so so jewelry is not necessarily the answer So you just walk up like give me your phone because people's wallets won't necessarily have anything of value in them It's everyone's card now. Yeah, it's gonna be plastic. It's like yeah here. Go ahead. Take my wallet Just let me take my driver's license and like, you know and the leather and you can have everything in it Yeah, you can have everything in it because i'ma go ahead I'ma place the phone call right now with like someone else's phone because you probably just stole my phone Which is the only valuable thing and i'm gonna cancel all those cards Yeah, so They're gonna be pushed pretty hard retailers are gonna be fined around 500 to 2500 dollars per device that sold that doesn't have this type of technology Yeah, so it's not set in stone or anything But the fine could range anywhere in there and it's important to note that per device word So a retailer that sells 10,000 phones that aren't equipped with this technology In california could be looking at whatever the math is for that Millions of dollars in fines potentially so Kind of a really big deal Um, I think it's awesome. One thing that they are expressing worry about is that no one's really gonna want to make a phone just for california But they were saying that if that does even look like it starts to happen They're gonna push really hard for basically everyone else in the world Uh, they're gonna push really hard for basically everyone else in the states to back this as well It looks extremely possible that that is going to happen regardless of whether or not people are worried about making phones for california There are other states that are very interested in proposing a bill that is essentially the exact same thing and i'm totally down for that Totally completely down for that because phones getting stolen is a huge deal So that's that's about all I have to say i'm happy All right, next up this is the rumor mill and that's my on-screen keyboard posted by Hi, karey. I should know how to say this by now. Uh, you post a fair bit of news So the rumor mill says gm 107 is a new core that could be coming from amd at some point here. This is from videocards.com What's up, you said it amd did I say amd? Yep. Oh, sorry invidia the invidia logo is clearly visible there So don't mind don't mind the man behind the curtain So there's an even bigger invidia logo there thank you for that Okay, you've got the summary in the doc. So so essentially it's a hybrid between gk 107 and gk 106 for all you guys that were super excited for a big massive card Maybe not so much the slower variant. Oh, I don't think we ever said this Yeah, so rumor on the street word on the street is that this is maxwell. Yeah Maxwell but 700 series maxwell 700 series maxwell. So not gtx 800 series Not a 20 nanometer chip So this is still at a 28 nanometer manufacturing process and then like you were saying somewhere between gk 107 and gk 106 Okay, go ahead. Um, so the focus of it is extremely low power So the slower variant the gm 107-300 will be used for a gtx 750 rumored allegedly rumored And then the gm 107-400 will rumored allegedly be used for a gtx 750ti rumored allegedly um, we have a chart down here that shows speeds and the speeds are not Oh my god fast, but the power usage is oh my god low Some of these are actually going to be able to even be used without any extra power or just a single six pin which is interesting and boring Well, come on you can't call power savings boring. You know what? I actually had a really interesting conversation with a guy from intel Um when and it was just like everything was off the record. It wasn't like official intel You know jargon or anything like that, but I was he was like, you know You know, what's your take on what we've been doing for the last few years and i'm like, it's boring It's the typical enthusiast response You guys haven't done anything that's lit my world on fire in terms of driving up performance and he's like, you know What you know power savings aren't boring aren't interesting and i'm like, well no and he's like well, you know What about this? What if that die area that we saved on making the cpu more powerful is what enables your notebook to go from sleep? To wake in like, you know a second, but they're not talking about that who? Intel intel I know Um, no, no, no, i'm just talking about like the conversation I was having no I I know but he's like But you have to like have we not? Introduced exciting technologies And i'm like, okay. Yes, you've introduced exciting technologies It's just that the performance hasn't excited me and I kind of go and i'm kind of sitting there going But I see your perspective because just because saving some power doesn't excite me personally the enthusiast Doesn't mean that it isn't having an impact I mean if we can take this card and have it be fairly close to this in terms of performance So it's probably going to have jacked up memory frequency because that's what nvidia's been doing lately So even though it's only got a 128 bus. It's hard to see. Sorry. So I can't highlight it It's a picture way to go. Uh, so even though it's only got a 128 bit bus compared to 192 bit bus The overall specs are similar and if it has faster memory, we could be looking at very similar performance But at just over half of the power consumption and then something else to think about is the global impact of this. I mean if A hundred thousand people hypothetical number are using this card versus that card We are saving all of that power and all those resources for the world when we're gaming and that is awesome It just does it's not exciting and it's not exciting Like it like it's cool, but it just and like with the the the technologies that intel's coming out with like that's cool, man But well, it's more of an expectation management thing I think yeah like like you expect there to be a significant difference between 3 000 series or To between 2 000 series and 4 000 series intel processors and when overclocked it's just like meh So, I don't know yeah the twitch chat seems to be with us that power savings are boring But then the twitch chat also figured I was selling out because I was doing a giveaway I don't get that. I I think people don't know what selling out means. Are you selling out to yourself? Because you're driving tech quickie, which is us. Yeah, so you're selling to yourself So it's like a loop transaction and i'm using my own stuff. Yeah, like all this all the stuff you are losing things To buy things for myself for yourself Is that selling out i'm curious I'm not gonna ask the twitch chat though Except we're except we're both staring at the twitch chat except we're both staring at the twitch chat. Yes. Yes, we are Okay, we're not gonna look at the twitch chat anymore. Sorry twitch chat All right titanfall minimum specs are out and this is both surprising and not surprising at all I mean it is based on the source engine which can basically run on this Which I think was the point of the picture that nice hat decided to post which is awesome, which is awesome Um, but I guess just you know, next generation game You know super exciting AAA title that people are stoked about I was expecting it to not run on an athlon X2 2.8 gigahertz my favorite part is the requirement for windows 7 And then the 512 megabyte ram requirement and then windows 7 having a it's not you can go lower than that But windows 7 is like yeah, you should probably go about one gig or two gigs And so you're having a 64 bit operating system, which this game also requires You should probably go about two gigs and the game's like 512 megabytes It's all good. Yeah, I don't know if i'd really want to play it with these specs. I don't think so. I don't think so I think I don't think so. I think it's going to install and you'll load it and then You'll probably want an upgrade. But I mean for particularly laptop gamers I mean, I don't know how many lands you've gone to but a lot of the yeah I know you've gone to a lot of lands. I was like what it's just usually how I preface things. I know But the ones that I've been to there's a lot of people gaming on older notebooks Because that's the kind of machine they needed They're not going to buy a notebook and a desktop and gaming notebooks out of all the types of gaming devices Even tablets that are optimized for gaming. I feel like Degrade in relative performance to everything else slower than gaming notebooks If you buy on a bad generation of gaming notebook You could have the next gen of gaming notebooks be a quantum leap forward in performance because it actually gets a core change In addition to a branding change and then it could stagnate for two or three years So you you either are are kind of up there or or like you're not at all And the industry just moves forward without you So I think this is great for people who have a several year old gaming notebook and actually want to be able to play titanfall Because it looks pretty exciting Yeah, actually, I'm actually pretty stoked for it. Um, but then i'm kind of scared as well, but I don't know We'll see how it goes In other news of things that i'm excited for and scared but I think the scared level like the excited level this time last year Was the exact same as the scared level is this time? Like around now is the eso beta. No, hold on a second. They do say that uh, no you oh right. Never mind That's 107. Yes. Oh beta. Where is that? Uh, it's not in here, but yes Oh betas this weekend. Um, I don't think that part's under nda and if it is the entire internet knows so shut up um, but like the the The nda behind eso beta is ridiculous. They're doing like a server load balancing level beta And it's still under nda like everyone and their mom got a beta key But they're like, nope. Nope. Don't talk about it. Don't stream it blah blah blah because it's ugly as hell Which is part of the problem and a whole bunch of other problems But yeah, anyways, i'm gonna stop talking about things that are scaring me. Okay. What else we got? We have the different sites supporting bitcoin payments. Oh, yeah, so you can buy uh Here you can buy things off tiger direct and scan.co.uk by using bit bitpay Which is using bitcoins bitk bitpay is a little bit uh I don't know I was trying to figure out like how bitpay works So I went on their website and went to the like how it works area and the youtube video that they have specifically made for that As showed up as set to private so I was like that's weird So I went to youtube and was like bitpay I find their channel. I'm like, okay cool Maybe they have a new updated one and they just forgot to update the website click on the channel This channel was like removed or deleted or something. I'm just like, oh Okay So in theory the way bitpay works is that exchange rates are calculated every minute and can be grabbed through an api And shown on a website like tiger direct.com or scan.co.uk Which is kind of awesome because one of the things that was happening in the past Uh was very early adopters of bit bitcoin payments what they were doing was just taking like The high point and then going a little bit higher and then being like Uh, I mean, sorry the low point and going a little bit lower and being oh, sorry Yeah, the high point you're going a little bit higher than being like that's how much it actually costs So you'd get crazy charged whenever you try to buy anything with bitcoin So it's actually a lot more worth it to just go exchange exchange your bitcoins in to dollars and then buy the thing with dollars But this makes it more realistic to buy things with bitcoins. Um, it's honestly actually pretty Easy and cheap for someone to set up It's about 30 bucks a month to run as long as you're doing under about 30 000 20 29 000 a month um, but then I worry about a few things On it like it doesn't seem I don't know it doesn't seem like the most secure thing ever and the website's a little bit sketchy Um, but it's probably entirely fine. I just worry about a lot of things like that a little bit more than I probably should Here's a bunch of folks that are using it Yep So it's not like they're Really small and nobody's using it at all. That's very true But then when you look into a lot of these websites, they're there are ones I recognize named cheap Yep A lot of them are just straight up bitcoin websites though. Yeah, a lot of them are like an extremely large portion. Yep Okay Wow, there's a lot of stuff on this page i'm not gonna scroll it's really really long Uh, that's actually why I brought that out too is I have sketchy feelings because of like the youtube page disappearing and all that other kind of stuff, but then there's also this which is Actually really cool. They're like look at all the things we're working on right now, right? So you It might work. It might be entirely fine. Um, I don't know. I don't know how big the team is Maybe it's a small team thing. So they just haven't noticed the youtube thing yet, right? Uh, maybe it's something else It's probably entirely fine. Massdrop uses them. That's kind of cool. That is actually lots of good stuff on massdrop. Yep all right Well, I think we're about five minutes from the end of the show So let's go ahead and see if there's uh, quite a few things left actually Do we call of duty is now on a three-year death cycle. So this is interesting I they they added a a developer called sledgehammer, which I believe worked on a previous game in conjunction which with another one of the teams and apparently this was a knee-jerk reaction to Uh the crazy low ratings that call of duty ghost got Apparently it's sold fairly well Um, the sales are going down a little bit more rapidly than they had hoped but the initial sales were actually pretty All right, but I think that has in no smart small part due due to the new consoles Because people just wanted games for them um But yeah They're saying this should help their teams be able to polish and ensure really high quality games every single time They have a release because now they have a three-year cycle instead of a two-year cycle So instead of releasing a game and then trying to support it for another year While kind of working on a new game and then crazy working on a new game for one year You kind of have supporting your game for a year and then crazy working on a game for two years Which is actually a lot more time Yeah, that's that this makes such a big difference because I mean you look at even something like battlefield 4 like how much patching Is going into that game realistically? How much work is getting done on battlefield 5? Okay No, yeah, like you have to support the game Yeah, at least in theory for a fair amount of time after you've released it Which really eats into that time for the next game Whereas this I mean this is great So by adding a full another development studio as long as they as long as they do a good job of it They've they're able I believe this is the same number of teams that Nvidia uses So for new GPUs, I believe don't quote me on this, but I believe Nvidia has three teams So each new graphics core each new graphics architecture has a different team that worked on it every three cycles That's how long it takes to develop a GPU if Nvidia only had one team. They would have fallen behind AMD Years and years and years ago And so that makes sense This is a business model that exists outside of games and uh, I mean if they're gonna jam a new Call of duty down our throats every year It might as well be one that was worked on for a reasonable period of time Honestly, I don't even mind the one year cycle. I've talked to different people about this before I just it has to be good It has to be really good and I haven't been I was in like a love affair with call of duty 4 The first modern warfare and a lot of the call duties before that and then it's kind of just gone down pretty Hardcore lately and I have not been interested if they can fix it with this three-year dev cycle I more than happily go back to call of duty. I just hate it right now, right? Not into it at all And I mean, you know what? That's a good point because I have no problem with a month-long release cycle The more content you throw at me the better you look at something like episodic gaming like what walking dead's doing like what wolf Among us is doing so that's telltale. I got no problem with that. Give me short content That's inexpensive and throw it at me really often people don't have an issue with that It's just when you deliver something that doesn't meet their expectations Speaking of which I had completely forgotten about wolf among us and uh ed reminded me today that the second episode's out So I am playing that nice. I'm definitely playing that tonight. So stoked Um, then there's steam music Yeah steam music. So i'm less excited about this than I am about in-home streaming Yeah, this isn't the most crazy thing but it has it's going to work with in-home streaming. Yep So this is supposed to buy a neuro knight So this still ties in with the idea of having a semi low powered device With almost no storage on one end and then having your beast machine on the other end because you can store all your music somewhere else In the house and then stream from it Um, there is basically nothing in terms of features right now other than a play button. That's almost a direct quote from one of the developers Uh, but they're taking suggestions and they're planning on putting in a ton of new features If you want to sign up to be a part of the steam music beta It's the exact same way that you signed up for steam in-home streaming You got to go to the steam music community page and join the community and then you will be in right now It's only working with mp3s, but that's not going to last for too long They're already working on bringing in a bunch more support for different formats Um, like I said, it works with in-home streaming and the idea is that there will now be an in-game player for your music So you can change things without tabbing or and you can it's it's just going to be a lot more easily integrated It's not a music store at least as of yet. You can get game soundtracks through steam that has existed for a very long time Um, but it's not a music store in itself The idea is you point it towards the directory on your computer. It finds all the music and then you can play it That's pretty much it and you can play it by using like the steam overlay and it's super easy and super integrated It's it's not the most exciting thing ever, but it's cool. And I think it's a good Move. I think it makes a lot of sense um Linus is looking at goat simulator. Well, yeah, we have to talk about this I had totally forgotten until someone mentioned it in the twitch chat I posted this on facebook earlier this week, but this looks like the kind of thing if it's like five bucks I would probably pay five bucks and play it for a little bit. This also isn't the first time we've seen it This is just the first time we've seen uh, this awesome demo. So this is uh some alpha gameplay footage And when you find the ladder the head just like It goes like this You get the order for just doing things oh his head is banging against all the rocks. Yeah Because this is a you know game mechanic that makes sense this better come with physics Yeah Car plus ragdoll 64 times two So, okay, I think we're done here yeah, but uh There you go guys. You can check that out goat simulator first alpha gameplay on youtube Uh, if you want to watch something that makes absolutely no sense, but just Somehow I want to benchmark it you need to buy it Yeah, I like really want it to be a benchmarking video how to build a rig that's perfectly optimized for goat simulator Yeah, we should actually do it Um for updates that haven't happened in quite a while. Um, but the folding team is doing quite well We're in 52nd position overall for folding which is actually like kind of insane with how young the team is Um, and just because like the form hasn't even existed for that long and that's what drove the start of the Linus tech tips folding team. So that's epic Uh, we should be within the top 50 in about a week, which is also really cool And we're number eight for active fold folders, which is also huge and extremely cool Um, the star citizen team, which you should join is I think that we're number one in activity right now And we're number six in the world for member count And I think honestly within the next day or two will probably be number third Meaning we will be front paging for most members and we will be on the top and front paging for activity Which is epic So if you're looking for a team to join for star citizen, I would definitely join us It's funny you mentioned the um, the steam music Uh streaming because it's not in big picture on the windows client, but I swear there was something about video In steam os and i'd have to fire up my steam machine to to have a look at it again But I wonder if a local video streaming is something that they're looking at adding the idea and if you read through the music thing It plays into that very well because the guy's talking about how they're they're trying to be They're trying to make it so that's all you need Yeah, you won't need anything else So so supporting video makes a lot of sense and it's probably not going to be a thing where you can buy movies through the steam store It's probably going to be a thing just like how music works, which is where it's like point at this directory And then you can play things. Yeah, that makes a ton of sense. That's probably how that's gonna work I really really hope that that comes because that would mean that I would pretty much never need to leave big picture on my htpc Whereas right now I was like, oh, okay I guess I need like a video player if i'm gonna legitimately replace my windows machine not happening yet Speaking of my windows machine, I discovered something interesting about steam and home streaming And that is that even if you have a pretty powerful cpu The cpu based decoding is just not uh, not low latency enough It's not good enough to have a 1080p or even really stutter free experience overall. I'm still using a linfield 760 or something like that no seven Crap, I can't even remember anymore. Anyway, the point is that it was the last intel cpu that didn't have a Hardware based h264 decoder on the integrated gpu So what i'm gonna do this weekend is i'm gonna take this graphics card home because it's the only one that we have That's actually short enough to install in my home theater pc And i'm gonna see if this makes the difference between that pc being able to run in home streaming satisfactorily or doesn't Because initially I thought it was power line network That was causing the frame drops as much as it was the I thought it was power line network that was causing the frame drops as much as 20 to 30 percent of my frames were being lost And then I concluded that that wasn't it when I bought a 50 foot cat 6 cable ran it down my stairs Like across my hallway and I was like, oh, oh It's not fixed. Okay. I guess it's time to get a graphics card then So this card has a built-in h264 decoder. Actually, this is a kepler card. So this has an encoder as well But there is so much more to be done within home streaming for one thing They've added some more resolutions so you can stream at 480p now And I saw some interesting behavior when I was playing around with it I haven't really dug into it again since I did my video and they've changed some stuff since then But I saw the resolution changing dynamically during a stream rather than just frame rate resolution Yeah, and and it was like 1600 by 900 or 1680 by 1050 or something Like it was in between it was a tweener res It wasn't 1920 and it wasn't 720 but maybe it was like my eyes playing tricks on me I got to play around with it some more But there are still so much more that they can do if they can figure out how to take advantage of Kepler's onboard hardware encoder Which I don't believe they're doing right now and they can find a way to take advantage of Which they've already done the hardware decoders We could be looking at a low enough latency experience that it will be kind of like sitting in front of it I mean and with good enough hardware now even you can get pretty darn close But we're just not quite there yet some people have raised concerns about the California bill saying that's the exactly the same as what the Ukraine government wants and how the uncle Sam's gonna have a kill switch on your device. I don't Think I'm pretty sure it's a hundred percent user controlled. Yeah, but I mean it's I mentioned I hear the show to because it's user controlled doesn't mean it doesn't mean that there isn't some sort of backdoor And with all the stuff NSA is doing lately that is actually kind of freaky. Usually I do think of those things Yeah, didn't really think about it this time. So that's something definitely Really important to consider and to those speculating that I'm wearing sunglasses because my wife beat me you are 100% correct Thanks for watching the show today today guys if you tuned in late the archive will be up later and now I changed my mind um Think that's pretty much it. Yeah, he's out guys. Thanks so much for watching. See you later. Thanks for watching Are you sure you thanks them enough Thank you for thank you for listening to me. Thank you for watching over the top of this music I love you love so very much. I really like this music. I do too. You're not even listening to this I am but I Like curiously listening to you because I'm dancing. Yeah Sure. Alexa can go ahead and test out this song now. She definitely has a point at one part of this song too