 keeping the Twitch chat primed. It is WAN show time and we have a great show for you guys today. Did you roast me at all? Cause that's usually what I do with you when you're late. No, I'm a nice person. Actually instead I was talking about how exciting it is that this is the last WAN show that will be exclusive to Twitch TV. I saw that coming. Yes. Yeah. So I don't know if you saw, but we streamed on the YouTube channel today. I did. We had 25,000 concurrence. I was there when you hit it. Watching me talk about IOMMU groups and virtualization. Imagine if we were doing something that people cared about. Imagine. Yeah. It was my imagination face. Well, one of the big things, one of the like huge problems and I can't say necessarily like what we talked about, but when I was down at Twitch a while ago, we talked about like a side discussion of discoverability and searchability and stuff on Twitch is horrible. Yeah. Finding what you want on Twitch is actually terrible. In the last four years. In the last four years, Linus Media Group has like tripled in terms of its YouTube viewership. Oh yeah. In terms of just every aspect of the business pretty much has probably tripled in the last four years except Twitch viewership, which is half of what it was then. Yeah. And it's like either, and remember too, I'm talking Wanshow Archive as well. Yeah. And like when he's talking about how it's gone like almost in the same magnitude opposite direction, when we were hosting the Wanshow when we first got in this building and it was in what we called the library, we were consistently hitting 10K. Yeah. So either it's us, which it doesn't seem to be because literally every other platform streaming or VOD is going in the complete opposite direction. Yeah. Or it's something about Twitch and the type of content. I mean, we used to be the only non-gaming content on the site, which might've made us stand out more. Like there weren't any podcasts. And they used to like that we were on there. They used to care. Because we were pretty much the only version of that. So they would promote us. Yeah. And on Twitch to be relevant, you basically have to be streaming a lot every day. Because the discoverability is terrible, but there was something else too. Now I know it's not ready yet. Don't freak out. But because we're going to be simulcast streaming, we might as well stream on Flowplane. And wait, hold on. I have a cool idea. I have no issue with that. I'm going to have to check with my FP peeps in the chat here. Okay. But what if we absolutely cranked? Like went absolutely bat crap crazy on the bitrate. I think Linus Mew Group is going to have to pony up for that. Oh yeah? Oh yeah. Is that what you think? No, cause we're helping you beta test. Okay. Yeah. Okay. That's right. Hold on a second. Even if our real time trans code isn't working yet, because we'll be simultaneously streaming, Flowplane pilots. So I was thinking the chat that we focus on is the Flowplane chat. So if people want to chat on Wanshow, basically you can think of it kind of like Twitch Prime, except you just actually pay Linus Media Group instead of paying Twitch a bunch of money. Also Flowplane Media is going to take some of it too, but that's fine. They're cool guys. I'm expecting AJ to yell at me pretty soon. But get this, if people can't handle like a 30 megabit stream, like something absolutely nuts, like we go crazy on it. If they can't handle it, they just watch the video on Twitch or YouTube, whatever, and they just use their Flowplane chat. Then they still get the benefit of the Flowplane membership. And we can experiment with different kinds of streaming qualities and stuff like that. I don't know. I've done, I've done. Seems pretty cool, right? I've done a bunch of streams on Flowplane. The quality and the delay and everything is all really good. So like I'm sure it would. It's a 4K stream. I haven't done that. I have not, I have not done that. Okay. So one, one thing to bring up here, a little interesting to bring it up live on the thing. But we haven't done it yet. We haven't had our Flowplane lunches this week, actually, or last week. Oh, not even that. Yeah, no, I know. So like we've got, we've got lots of, we got lots of, cause I got something really good for you as soon as you're done. Okay. So go ahead. You go first. This isn't actually about Flowplane. This is, well, sort of. If you wanted to, yeah. If you wanted to stream on Flowplane, or, or YouTube, if you wanted to stream on either of those right now, I think you'd be breaking the contract with Twitch because you have a sub button. Yeah, I know they can kick us out. So you have to, yeah. I would just be aware of that. That's all. Yeah, yeah, that's fine. I think we get like a couple hundred dollars a month or something like that. Like it's not going to matter. It's not going to make or break. Part our Twitch subscribers, of course. But compared to if you support us on Flowplane, it's really not that helpful. So literally Linus Media Group will make more money out of that. And then Flowplane Media gets supported too, which is great. Yeah. Ben Luke might be able to afford a razor. Yeah. Okay. Get this. So, you know how Flowplane needs like baller network connections and stuff for some of the things it does. Yeah. I might be able to give Flowplane access to, you know, Vanix? The Vancouver internet exchange? Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. So Linus Media Group might be upgrading its connection. What? To a dedicated wavelength. Whoa. Direct to Vanix. What? How did you even wrangle that? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. What? Okay. Wouldn't that mean that you basically have to be your own? So we're working with, it's a small time. Our ISP, although they've grown a lot since we first started working with them. So it's through them. They're pretty cool guys. Oh, because I was like, you'd have to be your own ISP. I've got the CTO's phone number, cell phone number. Like he replies to my emails at like two in the morning. He's a super cool guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Freaking awesome. So I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna like, yeah, I'm not gonna say too much, but like our ISP, dope guys, local guys, I tell, you've probably never heard of them. No. But they're cool guys. And anyway, so it's gonna be a dedicated 10 gigabit per second wavelength. Straight to Vanix, no switches. And then we're actually, I couldn't afford the entire 10 gigabit per second of like internet access. Okay. So it's gonna be 5.5, slummin' it. 5.5 gig. Okay, what's the, I don't wanna know the exact dollar value, but what's the like differential? I'll tell you, I'll tell you after, hold on. But what's cool is that we're going to have, because they're bros, and because it doesn't cost them more because they're already in Vanix, anyone else in Vanix, we're gonna have 10 gig too. So it's 5 gig, 5.5 off Vanix, but then it's 10 gig to AWS, Google, Akamai, like basically 10 gig to anyone that matters. Probably OVA. Probably. You can go check, it's got a list of everyone that's on there. So anyway, you guys could definitely have some rack space, and I'm sure we could find a way to make that extra, you know, five gigabit or whatever, somewhat beneficial. OVH is on Vanix. So we could- That's pretty great. So we could try and offset your extra streaming cost or whatever, try and help a brother out there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so anyway, anyway, so that's my cool news. Okay, so it's costing 30% more than our one gig switched fiber connection. Which was already really expensive, but now the new price, that doesn't actually sound that bad. It's not that bad. Plus, over the three years, we owe them one video, which is fine because like, who cares? Sounds like they're probably gonna end up getting one anyway. And honestly, they would have probably gotten, hopefully they're not watching, they probably would have gotten one anyway. That's what I was gonna- Because the whole bonded internet thing that we did that was like a commercial product that they had before, they acquired the company that did the software for the bonding, rewrote it, so it's multi-threaded now. So you don't need such an expensive appliance to do it. And they wanna, oh, I wonder if this is confidential. Well, whatever, they're gonna have, they're gonna have better products and services. Oh crap, I hope I just didn't get in a lot of trouble. Well, whatever, they're cool guys. Why don't we just say that and with cool stuff. So we probably already made a video anyway. We got a lot of great topics for you guys today. RTX. Yeah. Everybody talked about it. We haven't yet really. Ninth gen Intel chips. Ooh. Yeah, this is cool. Steam compatibility tools. So you can play more games on Linux. And 10 series GTX cards are on sale. Also this intro, you can watch it now. You know, how much would people pay to see that? Like Linus versus Austin cage fighter. Oh my God. Dude Austin beat me. And like worked out a lot. I think I'm so interested right now. The difference that Austin's such a nice person. I don't, I don't think he's actually just so nice. He's like a really good guy. I don't know. I'm so interested though, because he's ridiculously fit and works out all the time. He's super fit. But I don't, I don't think he's like actually trained for fighting though. Yeah. But any you are. I think that would be a pretty distinct advantage. It would. Like I actually, at our weight class, I really don't think him being more fit is going to be very helpful. But it's an interesting, thank you. It's still an interesting comparison. If you know what I mean. Yeah, I guess so. Oh geez. A benchmark. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Pretty much. Just to be clear guys, no Linus and Austin are not boxing. No. That's, that is not a thing we're doing. Although if he was down, like not like fucking MMA. Whoa. No, whoops. We don't swear on the way to show. Not like MMA, like fricking bare knuckle or anything like that. But like. But the boxing. Boxing could be interesting, especially because I've never boxed before. Okay. So, but like I know how to. You know pretty much most of the basics. I know how to punch. I know how to dodge. I know how to block. Like I could probably put two and two together, especially against another amateur. But tell you what, tell you what. If Austin's down, I'll box Austin. There you go. Oh my God. I can't even believe that just happened. So for the context of people are wondering, Logan Paul and KSI are fighting tomorrow. I think. I think it's tomorrow. Is that real? What? Really? That's like a thing? Yeah. Oh, it's ridiculous. Yeah. Oh man. They've both been training for a while. Some external dude did a video on how hard they're punching. So I watched that because it wouldn't give either of them views. And I'll tell you this KSI has way better form and clearly knows what he's doing a lot better than Logan. But then Logan is a mountain. So we'll see. Logan has much longer reach. Is this actually like a pay-per-view thing? Or is this just like. It's pay-per-view on YouTube. Yeah. Yeah. It's kind of interesting though because. People are gonna hate watch it. The probably. They're probably gonna watch the crap out of that. So that they see each of them or one of them individually get hit in the face. That's like absolutely. That is the entire show. See that's what I think. I think your if. Oh my goodness. I don't think that's gonna be a thing. But if you and Austin are a thing. No, that's not gonna be a thing. Austin's way too nice of a person. I don't think that should happen. There's no way. And I'm, I am joking. But it wouldn't have the allure of the like the hate fight. No, it would be a friendly. Yeah. It would be clearly a friendly bout. And I can't think. I'm sure there's some but I can't think of anyone who actively wants to see you guys hit in the face. I don't think I could punch Austin. He's too nice. Really I would not want to. You know I've actually. I've actually. I shouldn't say. It would never. It's complicated. But I don't really. I don't really count. The only time that I've ever fought with someone. Like I've never really been in a fight. No. No. I'm a pretty passive. Like turn the other cheek kind of person in general. Most real ones don't last very long. Right. When you don't have gloves and like a helmet thingy. I guess that's true. They like really. Someone gets hit a couple of times and they're like, wow, this isn't nice. They usually want to stop. You know what's really crazy? The guy. So we have a video coming soon. Once again, I hope I'm not revealing too much. Wow, my hair is just like spectacularly bad. Good. Cool. No, good. You know what? We're just. I'm just going to have like gamer hair today. So we have a sponsored video coming up on DeepSpar. Have you ever heard of DeepSpar? Yeah. But I don't know a ton about it, but I've heard of it. So DeepSpar is a data recovery company that is not like you send your hard drive there and they recover your data. They actually build tools for data recovery companies. Anyway, so they sponsored a video. We're going to have that coming out pretty soon. It's on float plane already. And the guy, the son of the CEO who also acts as like kind of an operations manager, like he's an executive there. We're going to lunch and I'm like, so like, what are your hobbies? And he's like, oh, like bare-knuckle MMA fighting. And I'm like, really? Okay. And he's like, oh yeah, love it. And I'm like, so basically you're in fight club. And he's like, pretty much. And he starts to like pull back some of his clothes and he starts showing me like some of the bruises that are on him, like right now. Meanwhile, the guy is like dressed in business casual cause he's like at work. And I'm just, I'm looking at this going like, I don't think I'm going to put a toe out of line. And I think we better deliver a really good video for these guys. He's like explaining to me how he has no feeling left in his shins. Yeah. No, that, well, that's a goal. You want that? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He's like, yeah, like here, here, like I just, like I don't even feel anything. He starts like hitting it. I'm like, stop. Yeah. It's fine. I believe he did that on purpose to get to that point, right? Micro fractures. Jeez. Kind of ridiculous. Yeah. So, so that, that's a thing. That's not me. I don't have that killer instinct, unfortunately. My left hip. Your left hip? Yeah. Same situation. Really? Yeah. Cause in, in football and rugby, basically my right side was always my more accurate and stronger side. So whenever I would hit people, I would lead on left. Okay. So every single time I would hit someone, I would throw a little bit more to my left. Wasn't really supposed to, but my whole idea was like, if it gets a little hurt, I can stay in because everything that matters is on my right side. So yeah, my left hip is like mostly numb. I don't really feel anything there. Huh. Okay. It's just a random, yeah. So if I ever actually did have to fight you for some reason, go for the right. Probably. Yeah. Generally with like everything, my right side is just generally less durable. And then die. Yeah. Someone laughed rugby in Canada. Yeah. It was, it was definitely the worst team I was on. I'll give you that much. We were not good. I don't necessarily particularly remember ever winning, but we might've. There was a pretty, like, there was a pretty good rugby program at my high school actually. My high school, no. It was the only thing we had. There was some, yeah. Okay. So I have heard of schools that are like that. Yeah. And there was like one or two schools that we went against that were pretty good, but it was not like a, it was not super common. Right. And our school was definitely not good. Cool. At all. All right. So why don't we jump right into Intel ninth gen chips on pre-order, for pre-order on a Dutch site. So this was originally posted by tweakers.net. It was posted, our original article is from tweakers.net and it was posted by Robbie on the forum. And if the rumors are going the way they have been so far, it will be set on stage that they're not true. And then immediately after they said that, they'll be 100% accurate. Yeah, exactly. Also, there's not a whole lot of useful information here. I mean, the top chip, the 9900K is listed 833 euros. I really don't think that's very likely. I wouldn't be surprised if we saw a slight price hike over the 8700K, but I don't see it going to- Even if it is in that euro range, the products are usually more expensive in euros. Anyway. The more interesting part of the rumors is that it seems to be a confirmation that we're going to see, Intel's core i3, i5, i7 thing is about to get even more confusing because we're gonna have a core i7 that doesn't have hyper-threading. Oh boy. Yeah. So it looks like three models, 9600K. So that's a six core, six thread. We're gonna have a 9700K. That's a core i7. So that's eight cores, eight threads. And then we're gonna have a core i, oh no, it will be an i9. Oh my goodness. Okay. And then we're gonna have a core i9 on the mainstream platform that is eight core 16 threads. What are they doing? Why are they making this confusing? Did I miss something? What's up with the plus too? So plus means with Optane support. Oh. I've actually been meaning to do a video about that. Like WTF is core i7 plus. Yeah. It basically, it's a core i7 and also you put Optane in your computer. Okay. Yeah. No, that's like, that's- That's silly. I mean- What a thing to put on the plus. I understand what they're doing because you can't really differentiate on CPU performance anymore. So you might as well differentiate on the overall benefits of your platform. What's the, I don't know why I'm drawing a blank on this because I think it's super cool and talk about it relatively often, but the like GPU compute thing that people use for video encoding. Or the CPU compute. Yeah. Quick sync. If it was plus and that meant quick sync, that would honestly make more sense to me. Yeah. But then that would be bad for them. Yeah, because then you'd have core i9 plus on the mainstream platform and no core i9 plus on the other one. Speaking of Intel and their GPUs, we actually screwed something up when we did our Larabee video. Actually, no, I'm not gonna move on to that yet because I wanted to talk about core i3 versus i5 versus i7. Are we just skipping- This Intel, well, people keep complaining that we haven't talked about it. So naturally my initial reaction to that is to troll them by purposely avoiding it. Yeah, yeah. This is why Intel, you shouldn't make this branding any more confusing. 9.5. This is the second most watched video that Linus Media Group has ever made. What the heck is core i3, i5 or i7 at 9.5 million views? Melting screen prank isn't there. I just wanna know what it's at. I checked the other day, you're not there. It's close. Melting screen prank is number three, I think. Oh my goodness. Yeah. Why does it keep going up? It's still doing really well actually. I think every time I check it, it's up like a million views. And core i9 isn't generating any less confusion because that was four years ago with nine and a half million views. And this is a year ago with two million views. And remember that core i9 is such a 1%er product anyway that literally all of them watched it. Not even just that, a huge amount of people watched it because they were like, what, should I care? I bet as many people watch this video as have bought core i9's total ever. That's pretty funny. And that's a problem when you have to do that much education with your consumers. Sorry, what was I gonna talk about before? I don't remember. We're dodging RTX. Seemed important. No, there was another thing that I was- Oh, we were talking about how some of them don't have hyperthreading when it seems like they should. Oh yeah, right. The plus thing is super weird. So we're gonna have to make another video about it. The plus thing is dumb. Oh, you were gonna make a video about the plus. Oh yeah, that's basically it. We just wanted to do a video kind of like sharding on it because we think it's pretty dumb. Like we don't think Optane is dumb. I actually, we've done sponsored stuff for Optane. This isn't it. Optane tech is cool. Yeah. Definitely cool. Oh wow, you know what just occurred to me? With that pipe in here, we could also experiment with server configs that we can't necessarily buy or rent at existing data centers. Like we could build something totally custom, throw it in and see what happens. What do you mean? Like if we wanted to experiment with something like Optane Caching. Oh, for floor playing. Yeah, definitely. That would be cool. Yeah. Okay, anyway, sorry. I just think AJ's would geek the freaking hell out over that. I think so too. Cause I've actually got a project upcoming. Six workstations, one CPU. I was streaming about that today. Yeah. And I might be able to get a hookup on some Optane drives for that. And then once that's done, I could rip them out. We could throw them in a server and just see what happens. Would you want to make LTT videos about that? Yeah, I think so. Potentially, sure. Seems interesting. Yeah, I don't see why not. I would be interested. And like, I don't necessarily care if people know what like. What our experimental server in the LMG office is. Whatever. I don't think it matters. Oh no, you can see the videos you're paying to see. Good heavens. Yeah. All right, what else? What else we got today? Actually, this is a really big topic. So why don't we do the Nvidia thing first, I guess. Sure. So this was posted by Ratman on the forum. We will finally acknowledge it. The original sources, I don't know, everywhere. Everyone's talking about it. GeForce RTX. Yeah. It has new cards. They're sold out everywhere. The brand. Did you know that? They're legit sold out everywhere. Really? You can't buy them anymore. They're all out. A bunch of people were like, oh, oh, like you can solve the availability problems by like cranking the price, Nvidia, you thought about that, ha ha ha. And then boom, sold out almost immediately. There's people like angry that they can't buy them. Like it's. Really? Yeah. But they don't even know what the performance is yet. No one seems to care. It's a great world, isn't it? Really? There's like, there's less performance metrics than there was on the Pascal launch. There's basically none. Even the Pascal launch, like they had more direct performance metrics. They were like, it compares this weird abstracted number better in this game, but like SMP based. And that was the weirdness. With every generation Nvidia's hubris grows. But the thing about hubris is that it's supposed to like cause some kind of downfall. And I don't foresee that as long as people keep giving them money for stuff that's completely sight unseen. And like, I think, I think the, the prediction from last when even if it doesn't end up being completely true, is going to be more true than is kind of comfortable. Because I really don't think there's going to be a huge performance increase. I think it's a feature thing. Yeah. That's what it looks like to me too. Because ray tracing does seem super cool. It's going to be faster. GDDR6 is faster. And I'm sure they haven't been completely sitting on ass for the last two years. So obviously it's going to be a bit faster. But I don't think the FPS increases are the story here. Is the story here. Here's the thing that makes me uncomfortable. A lot of the ray tracing demos that we've seen so far running at like 45 frames per second for one of them. And I'm kind of looking at it going, ah. 30 to 45 to be clear too. 45 was on the high end. For Tomb Raider? When was the last time you felt like lighting was the issue for in-game realism? Okay. So I will answer this in two different ways. One is more direct to the question. And one of them is a little bit more abstracted. Sure. Basically never for the first one. Yeah. But really, really, really good applications of lighting have definitely helped with realism. And there is examples of like, holy cow. With the right lighting that really helps get you out of the valley. The uncanny valley thing is what I'm talking about. I can understand the benefits to it. But it is extremely a like, if we're talking about gaming, it's extremely a single player focused thing. Because if you're playing anything multiplayer, you're gonna want to turn that the heck off. Yeah. Because for me, like I have always been far more, I've always found poor facial animations. Yeah. Definitely. And resolution textures. Or just poorly done graphics in general. Yeah. Or just lazy or sloppy set deck is what we call it in production. I don't know what they call it in gaming. But just like the clutter in a room when you walk into it. Like seeing that same clock model reused a lot. Like that kind of stuff is far more jarring to me than the bounces of the light rays as they move around a scene. Someone in chat said, LOL lighting ray tracing isn't just about, well, it's X 47. I'll give you a call it. Isn't just about lighting for games. The most important thing will be reflections that can show objects that are behind a perspective camera. Wow, that's niche. He didn't have the wow, that's niche part. I threw that in there as a little flavor text. Also reflections or lighting. Yeah. Right there, bro. So, yeah. Okay, I think the tech is actually really cool. And I was talking to, had a buddy over here who he, I told you about him. I met him in Sweden. He gave me the tour of the particle accelerator labs and the laser labs and stuff. He's really excited about it from like scientific applications. Yes. Because those cores are gonna be super helpful. Yes. And like he's stoked. Also they might actually be willing to do videos at that place now. That would be amazing. Yeah. Okay, we'll take that offline. Yeah. Okay. And it's still very unsure and stuff but I'll get you more info later. Sure. But like he's really stoked and that's really cool. And that lines up with the story that Nvidia has been giving us for quite a few years now which is where like AI stuff is important. Science is important. We're doing the deep learning stuff. We're doing blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. They've been trooping for this for a very long time. I wish I owned Nvidia stock. Yeah. It, yeah, exactly. It makes sense in their path that they've been taking. It's all very logical. The fact that the performance jump probably isn't gonna be that huge but they have this really cool ray tracing stuff and they have the new cores and all that kind of stuff. That's all very cool. Basically Nvidia has gone from making gaming GPUs that they adapt to workstations and professional uses to making professional GPUs and then trickling the features down to gaming somehow. And I think that is reflected in the fact that the 1080 Ti is basically a Titan which has been more or less accepted by most people. Yes. So anyway, the prices that these cards have sold out at- Did I say 1080 Ti? Yeah, 20. I meant 20. Yeah. So the founders edition 2080 Ti is 1200 US. The founders edition 2080 is 800 US and the founders edition 2070 is 600. So the best news I think coming out of all of this given that anytime, like I've, ugh. So here's the other problem. When Nvidia launched the 1080, it was all about this voxel based illumination stuff. Like that was all they wanted to talk about. Are there any games that used it? SMP, simultaneous multi-projection. That was actually the biggest thing that they were pushing. Was that the big thing? Yes, it was simultaneous multi-projection. And games use that, but it was VR. The voxel thing, yeah. Voxel global illumination. I'm pretty sure it was that. VXGI, that's what they called it. Yeah, voxel global illumination, VXGI. VXGI game. So there's a Epic Games demo from 2015. Unreal Engine 4.19, Nvidia VXGI, Flow Blast. So here's my problem. Anytime we get a fundamental shift in the way that games are rendered, the first generation card that supports it, by the time any games launch, any demanding triple A grade games launch that use it, is not gonna perform well enough for the way it's meant to be played experience. That's my problem. Every time we get a card that is sold based on a feature, whether that feature is tessellation, or whether it's DirectX 12, or whether it's VXGI, you go back again and again and again and again. And there's a selling feature, and then that's when you have hardware, so game developers can actually start working on the bloody thing. And then there's the next card or the one after that, that actually does it well enough that you can get a great gaming experience with it. That's my concern about ray tracing with these new cards, is that yes, they will support it, but when we actually get games that do a fantastic job, once the game developers fully understand this technology and know how to use it, it's probably not gonna be able to keep up. But I could be wrong. And I mean, frankly for me, if we don't see any improvement in anything other than lighting, if ray tracing is the only thing that the game engine makers work on over the next couple of years, and they find a way to make me totally wrong, because the games will basically run the same way that they run now, except we'll be fully utilizing this ray tracing additional hardware, then great. But I don't know. I don't know if I've yet seen something that has broken that pattern. Can you think of anything? Yeah, well, okay, again, it's- First card that supported PhysX, by the time anything really implemented PhysX properly, did it run well? No. I do fully believe the bigger push for Pascal was SMP. And looking up SMP game is gonna be confusing because SMP is a- Yeah, because it's just like a VR thing. And it's like a suite of things. Yeah. As well, and you can use it in different ways. So there's games that weren't really VR based that used parts of it to do things. But really there wasn't a ton of titles that utilize SMP. Right. As far as I know. Okay. You're thinking short term. That is exactly what we're doing. That is exactly what we're doing. You are correct. When you spend your money, you're actually buying a thing to actually use. Especially when you're buying like emerging technologies. Yeah, and like, here's the thing is that, it's kind of funny because it's one of those situations where the more affluent you are, almost the more likely you are when the next one comes out that can actually run it well, the more likely you are to just be able to buy that too. So if you can afford a 2080 Ti now, then you could probably afford to just run your 1080 Ti that you probably have until a 3080 Ti comes out that'll actually run like by the time some games come out that can actually utilize it. You could probably just buy that. That's my point. It's almost like the more money you have, the less it makes sense to waste it. Whereas if you were someone who had to scrimp and save in order to get a 2080 Ti, well then you're probably getting a big upgrade because you're probably running something that's a lot slower. So you're probably also getting additional performance. I wouldn't be surprised if you're on like six or 700 series. I guess that's kind of the point. Like if you're someone who upgrades every three or four years, by all means go out and buy a 2000 series. Have fun, because you're gonna be getting a great upgrade across the board. It's just until I see it, I'm gonna have a hard time believing that based on this feature, this upgrade makes a ton of sense for someone that has a modern card. Unless again, I've been wrong before, but we don't have performance benchmarks. Yeah, I don't have a card. Yeah. So I'm just talking out of my butt. Yeah, who knows? The fact that everyone pre-ordered this already is freaking insane. Yeah, and every generation of cards, Nvidia just kind of takes even more control over the messaging. Like they've announced the cards, they've put them on sale, and we still, the independent media knows absolutely nothing other than what we've had leaked by Nvidia's partners or what they said on a stage. Yeah. Dang. Yeah. And like obviously, and I'm sure some people are thinking this, no one's really said it, but I'm sure some people are thinking this. There is benefit to us to say, wait for performance benchmarks. Yeah, sure. Sure, of course there is. Yeah, but there's also a huge benefit to you. Yeah. So like, Just throwing that out there. We're both benefiting here. This is great for both of you. No, no, fake news. Fake news media. And not even just us. You should like watch our video when it comes out, check out our performance benchmarks, and then look at like a lot of other people's as well. Yeah. Yeah, go check out, go check out Shroud, go check out an OnTac. I'm sure Ryan will do some stuff. Like by all means, like it's not just about us. I like doing a little mix of like the video people and the written people. That's good. Aidan Games 1250. Thank you very much for the reminder. Aidan Games 1250 says, sponsors, don't forget your sponsors. Thanks. Thank you. Why don't we start with a relatively new sponsor. They're sort of new. They're new in the sense that they're new right now. We haven't worked with them in a while. Shade Tree Sunglasses are handmade from premium wood materials. This is the hazelnut, helpfully labeled by Jono. No, nice. Yeah, I know, right? 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Habanero peppers, apple cider vinegar, honey, lime juice, garlic, onions, kosher salt, light brown sugar and ground mustard. That actually sounds delicious. It does sound delicious. It also sounds like Carolina Reaper is the second ingredient. It also sounds savage. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Savage jerky. Oh boy. Made from the best ingredients without nitrates or preservatives with the goal of creating a snack that is full of flavor and spice, but that isn't bad for you. He's taking the safety thing off. They've got 13 different flavors of jerky like the Sriracha bacon and maple buffalo bacon. Maple buffalo bacon's my personal favorite. They also make barbecue sauce, hot sauce and a spice rub. One of their hot sauces is made from Carolina Reaper peppers, one of the hottest peppers in the world. And you can use offer code LTT to save 10% on all their products. I'm just gonna try a little bit because I, you want a little bit? If you're going, I'm going. All right. I think, I think. Ah! Why would you move right then? There's hot sauce all over my laptop. Oops. Oh man. That's a lot. I'm gonna die. Well, hold on. How much do you have? Oh! I wasn't looking. I'm pretty sure that's more what happened. I don't actually think I knew that. No, no. I was looking when I was pouring the other one. Where's the lid? Did that get on you? Yeah, it's all over my pants. Ooh. Hot pants. I see. I'm wearing hot pants? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, hot pants. Those are the things. Whoa. What just happened? Oh, did someone just turn off all the filming lights? But, that's only one of them. Thank you. I think they're working on it. Okay. Okay. Who has more? Do we have the same amount? That's pretty similar. I might have slightly less, but my finger is bigger. Okay. You've got some wrapped around. Be aware of that. Yeah, I do. Okay. All right. Yeah, I think we're good, Ed. Okay. I actually really don't want to do this. Me neither. Okay. Oh, I can already feel it. Wow. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Ed, could I get a paper towel? I spilled hot sauce on my laptop. I need something to wipe it off with. Oh. Anyways, if you want, you want a huge variety of grapefruit jerky. I'm crying so much right now. Thank you. My eyes are fine. I'll try to prove that. Oh no, I got them tears. You're crying a little bit, yeah. But I, so my chest has already not felt very good today. I'm man enough to cry. And I can feel it. Maybe this will clear me up, you know? Oh, once you get, like, if I wasn't just drinking it, like I actually, I love hot sauce on my like marinara pasta. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. And then adding like a pasta or something. That's really nice. The flavors are really good. It's got some lime to it. Like it's, that is actually a really delicious hot sauce. It's got a nice acidity. I wouldn't recommend just drinking it. Yeah. Nice. Okay. Well, there you go. I'm actually, I'm going to take that home. One thing I noticed about that was the immediacy of it. Some of them, there's like a bit of a delay. So that hits you right away. Straight to the vein. All right. All right. Anyway, do we have any more like tech news topics we wanted to talk about here? Okay. There's the- Wow. Oh yeah. Steam compatibility tool. Yeah. Oh, do you want to do the Kalashnikov electric car first? That's amazing. But we don't have to do it first. No, let's do it first. Let's do it first. Okay. So Kalashnikov. Yes. That Kalashnikov. I always thought it was Kalashnikov, but it's like, it's not. It's like clearly not spelled that way. So did I. It actually looks really cool. It actually looks really cool. I really like the style. Kind of like hipster-y, like modern, but with classic inspiration. Like I'm not really a car guy. Like it's clearly old school, but then the rims and the lights and the grill. That would turn my head on the street. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It looks great. For sure. It's got style. Most cool modern cars, it's hard to see them ever being classic. Yeah. Whereas this has a really iconic looking design. It's really different. Really different from anything else. So Russian weapons manufacturer, Kalashnikov, best known for making the AK-47, has unveiled a fleet of electric and hybrid cars, buggies and motorcycles. These guys went all out. I guess them falling weapons rifle sales in the U.S. might be prompting this. You know about that, right? No, I didn't actually. Yeah. So it's interesting for the gun companies, democratic leadership has actually been better for their sales because people run out and buy a bunch of guns. Wow. Just in case. So they'll get grandfathered in, in case a bunch of anti-gun protection. Yep. Anyway, so this includes an electric vehicle that the company claims will rival Tesla. Well, when Tesla makes all their stuff open source, it kind of makes sense. It's a concept car dubbed the CV-1 and bears a close resemblance to the Soviet era Trabant. See, I'm not actually like, I'm not a car guy. So I'm not that, let's have a, let's have a look at that. I don't know how to pronounce it, but I've seen it before for sure. I watched a mini documentary on it. Okay. Yeah. It does kind of. There's clearly a lot of differences. It's the Faulty Towers. Wait, what? Hold on a second. Is this the car that, where does this from? I thought he drove a British car. No, it can't be. There's no way he's driving like a Soviet car. That can't be right. Anyway, it just, it looks like the parking lot of the Faulty Towers hotel from the show. It's not, is it? Anyway, whatever. So that's the car it's based on. Looks really cool. Let's have a look here. So the CV1 is based on the. Trabant was an East German car. Okay. East German car. Okay. Made out of starch plastic. There you go. So it's based on the retro IZH 21252 and that's known as the Combi and it's a test bed for Kalashnikov's electric drive train. So the company said they developed it in-house. It's got a cruising range of 350 clicks, zero to a hundred kilometers. So that's zero to 60 for our American friends in roughly six seconds and 90 kilowatt hours or battery capacity of 90 kilowatts per hour. I think that means 90 kilowatt hours. I think that's just a typo in our notes. Yeah. Would you buy a Kalashnikov car? Okay. So with what I know about their most famous rifle, not necessarily their other productions, but the most famous rifle. Yeah. Cause the idea is that it just always works. So it does that. I don't know if that goes into their other forms of engineering. In a lot of ways, electric vehicles are less complex than an internal combustion engine, even though they're, actually, it's funny. I was about to say they're newer tech. They're not. Electric cars actually came first, if you go back far enough. They're really old. But the modern electric cars are definitely newer tech than the very refined internal combustion engines that we have today. But in a lot of ways, they're a lot simpler. So it shouldn't be that big of a surprise that we're seeing almost a land grab, gold rush style, I don't know, what would you call it? Like a Renaissance? Yeah. You're seeing a lot of brands pop out of the woodwork with electric cars, electric motorcycles, just complete nobodies. Mostly, most of the traditional car companies are stepping in as well, but there is a lot of random new companies stepping up and making electric cars. Yeah. I mean, even that bike that I want to go down and test drive, which I will be doing. I have a trip to San Fran confirmed. So I will be doing that. Did I talk about that on my show last week? Igor Kozyrev says, BS BS, fully spelled out. You naive Canadians don't understand anything in Russia is proposed for corruption, not for making final product. It sounds a little aggressive. So nothing in Russia will be produced. I'm also starting to question his username because he's like, it sounds like he's trashing Russia, but he sounds like he has a super Russian username. So he might actually be like playing that angle. Says you won't get one. Yeah, I don't actually expect Kalashnikov to necessarily make a push into the U S. Yeah. But that doesn't mean that no one will ever own one. We'll see. If they make them. All right. This is huge news this week. This was posted by Pip Nino on the forum and it is the steam compatibility tool. So the original article here is actually steam, the steam community, boom steam for Linux, introducing a new version of steam play. So it looks like they have not given up on gaming for Linux, even though steam OS kind of died on the vine. They've released a beta. Which is probably fine. Of a new and improved version of steam play to all Linux users. It includes a modified distribution of wine called proton. So wine is, wine is not an emulator. It's way to play windows games on steam. Called proton to provide compatibility with windows game titles. Here are some of the improvements it brings to the table. Windows games with no Linux version currently available can now be installed and run directly from the Linux steam client, complete with native steamworks and open VR support. Wow. DirectX 11 and 12 implementations are now based on Vulkan resulting in improved game compatibility and reduced performance impact. Full screen support has been improved. Full screen games will be seamlessly stretched to the desired display without interfering with the native monitor resolution or requiring the use of a virtual desktop. Improved game controller support. They will automatically recognize all controllers supported by steam. That's very cool. And expect more out of the box controller compatibility than even the original version of the game. Performance for multi-threaded games has been greatly improved compared to vanilla wine. Wow. Good. So the initial set of supported games with the beta release is. The second one is the most important. Beat Saber, Bejeweled 2 Deluxe, Doki Doki Literature Club, Doom, Doom 2 Hell on Earth, Doom VFR, Fallout Shelter, Fate, Final Fantasy 6. Fallout Shelter? Really? Oh wow. I am gonna go get that and play it on Linux just for lulz. Geometry Dash, Google Earth VR, Into the Breach, Magic the Gathering, a bunch of other Magic the Gathering, Mountain Blade, Mountain Blade with Fire and Sword, Nier, Payday, Quake, Stalker, Shadow of Chernobyl, Star Wars Battlefront 2, Tekken 7, The Last Remnant, Tropico 4, Ultimate Doom, Warhammer 4000, Dawn of War, Dark Crusade, some other Warhammer thing. And users are also able to try playing non-white listed games using an override switch in the Steam client and apparently a ton of stuff is working. Going forward users can vote on their favorite games to be considered for Steam play using platform wishlisting and presumably they will like work on that. Wow. Very cool. Very, very, very cool. Proton contains a custom version of wine as well as additional libraries developed alongside it. It is fully open source and available right now on GitHub. This could change everything. Especially if they keep progressing. Especially if they like actually stick with it. Mind you, Valve has shown considerable resilience when it comes to decoupling themselves from Microsoft and Windows, even if the particular projects that they've worked on have not necessarily developed much. Like I don't think they've done anything with Steam Link since the original one. Yeah. Not that I'm aware of anyway. But I think like when you look at Steam Link, Steam controller and the, what was it? Steam OS, Steam box kind of deal, that situation. None of that really was enough to pull people away, I guess. So maybe this will be. I definitely know some people, I don't know anyone who's going to switch to Linux because of this, but I definitely know some people that were already using Linux and already trying to game on Linux that are super excited because of it, if that makes sense. What's going on? This was an actual topic in the dock. I had no idea. This was a topic? Yeah. Who should Linus fight on? I thought we were just like dicking around. No. The biggest event in internet history. I have focus pads. If this becomes a thing, we can train. Oh wow. I know like the basics of boxing training now. Cause I've started. I'm not fighting Austin, that's stupid. No, I don't think you should fight Austin. But if you do fight someone, I just think Austin's too nice. You don't think I'm too nice? Wow. Wow. Wow, Dick. You don't think I'm too nice to punch someone. Have you ever seen me look like I was close to punching someone? No. But I think you could. Actually, yes. I think I have. When? On the couch at my parents' house. What happened there? Scrapyard Wars season four. What happened in, what was season four? Remember, okay, the power went out that day. We had to move the entire operation for the end of season four, Scrapyard Wars, to my parents' house, cause they still had power. And then we had to film Scrapyard Wars and a channel super fund there. And because of, we had a room arrangement planned here and because we couldn't do it here, we had to sit in the family room of my parents' house while everyone else was in the garage and they had to film it on their cell phones and hangouts to us. And basically everyone was like doing it. Oh, I was mad, but I couldn't have punched anyone. No one that was there. But I think you could have punched someone. I could have punched something, but not someone. I was mad enough to punch something. You definitely wouldn't have hit anyone that was there. No, no, no, no. Those are my friends. I would never punch a friend. Like that couldn't be a thing. It's also like illegal, but it's why I don't think you'd be stupid enough to just hit random people. But if you're in like a ring and it's measured, I think you could hit someone. All right, well on that note, my battery is dead on my laptop, so the WAN show's over. Thanks for watching guys. See you again next week. Same bat time, same bat channel. Bye. Oh, what the crap? That wasn't what was planned. I'm gonna go to the gym. Gannafile says, I imagine Linus and Austin fighting like Mandark and Dexter from Dexter's lab. Where they like kind of slap each other and then they fight and then they fight and then they fight.