 are live Alright my friends welcome to the WAN show some of you are friends that I only know through the occasional little Sort of snippets of insight I get into you and your lives through the twitch chat and some of you are my friends who I have met once in person and I guess we DM'd on Twitter a little bit so welcome to the show This is a Wendell from level one Tex he is going to be co-hosting the show with me today Luke is attending a Nintendo event and I think I'll leave it to him to introduce himself and talk a little bit about who he is before we get started Howdy, I'm Wendell. I'm just another nerd. It's fine. You can check us out at level one tech, but I Don't really know what to tell you my background is computer science. I like nerding out I've got some Earl Grey tea, and we're going to talk about the news and It's going to be awesome, and I don't know why that oh right. I don't have this computer there we go alright there We go there we go alright So I just posted a link to his YouTube channel in the twitch chat there So you guys are going to want to go check that out? We're going to have that linked under the YouTube archive as well in the meantime I'm going to roll the intro which I spent most of the time prior to the show being late today Putting our entire audio setup back together because and this was a very ill-advised move on my part I took it all off and unplugged it all about half an hour before the show was supposed to start Because I was actually making a video about Wendell you you would love this thing Actually, you know what here hold on a second. Let me let me see if I have my oh I do have it Can I just kind of throw this up here? Yeah, sick, okay? So I'm just going to I'm just going to full screen this all the USB cameras check this thing out That is a server cabinet Wait he can't see it. No Wendell can't see it. He's he's on a different. He's on a different computer Okay, four post server rack that is amazing and magical hold on well Okay, they can see it if you were watching the twitch stream, then you'd be able to see it. Can you see it now? Is it the oh, that's the one that looks like a yeah, that's from I star USA. That's right Yeah, that's a you know there's a law firm I'm aware of a law firm that bought one of those because of an unfortunate placement of a 24 port switch in there like where they're The line came in for like their fiber or whatever right of the Lawyers offices, and he's like this is this is uncalled for and that totally is like a good solution for that Yep, I think it's a great solution if you're looking to increase the sort of wife factor appeal of something like a You know a bunch of audio recording gear So so basically I was trying to find every rack mount cool looking thing with lots of dials and switches on it and throw It in there And I took pictures of where all the cables went because I have no idea how to set up our compressor our Preamp our headphone amp for monitoring and our mixer. I no idea focus right flew here to set it up for me and and so I But I forgot even taking a picture wasn't enough for me because I forgot That I had taken a picture of the front where there was also some very important stuff So I put all the back stuff back to go look. Why isn't the monitor working? Anyway, let's roll the intro which doesn't work and that sorry there's a bit of a delay on the line there I'm sorry. I'm sorry It doesn't matter you've got 165 people so it's fine. Yeah. All right, we'll be right back. We'll be right back Intro time do do do do do yes. I haven't fixed this file yet. It has no audio Do do do do that has a picture of Luke, but Luke's not on the show today because it's Wendell do Do do do do okay. Yep, I pause the thing. Okay Linus tech tips and they have sponsors because Otherwise they would not be able to pay their bills, which is cool. I guess okay, and we're back So I've got a few people asking me to turn Wendell up a little bit I'm gonna turn you up a little bit see if that makes them happy although a lot of people are saying it's perfect Ten out of ten, so I'm gonna go with that and selective taking selective feedback This is the new way. Is it not taking the things you want to hear and focusing on those? How is it down in America? Actually, we don't get political on the show anymore. So you don't have to answer that Yes 27 I'm glad you asked. I'm just gonna drink some more of this tea Fortunately this tea isn't from Mexico, or I'd be paying 20% more for it now So much for NAFTA, I mean Yep Okay, why don't we talk about something that is a far less political and less controversial? Subject that was you know a source of less strife for you in the last little bit you got to explain Why are you level one text now? Well, that's as much less drama right? Yeah, we kind of we kind of started over. You know I wasn't really sure it was a lot of fun I kind of like doing this you know so I've been a consultant for you know the better part of a decade and I do programming and this this sort of thing was fun to show off Stuff, but we have this really amazing community And so I didn't really want to Abandon the community as it were because there's a lot of people in the community that are like IT pros or their students that Are like coming up and they're like I don't know if I want to study computer science or if I want to get into Networking or I want to do whatever and it's like well You know maybe we could take a sort of different a different tack on this and do some you know admittedly niche Content niche stuff the Linux content was really popular. I get to meet some really amazing guys I get I get to meet Eric Raymond and Tron guy. You know Tron guy. You've seen Tron guy, right? I actually am not familiar with Tron guy Yeah, he's a me. I'm sorry if you Google Tron guy. Oh just all the meme okay. Yes. Yeah. Yeah Yeah, so it turns out that guy is an insanely brilliant Mainframe expert and so I've met him and actually got to talk to him about System 390 and he works in the Hercules emulator and he's just a fascinating Brilliant guy and so it's just level one is about that kind of stuff It's about those kind of projects because you never know You know who the celebrity meme person is gonna be that actually works on a you know like a mainframe emulator Yes, it's Star Wars kid. He's he's a sound designer. Oh I didn't know no no no no no no I think he ended up getting bullied and dropping out of school or something like that I'm not sure exactly what happened Well that kind of sucks. I guess yeah, no that's actually not very funny Yeah, let's have been good Yeah, okay So are you going to are you gonna touch on any of the I mean, I'm sure people would be it would love to hear your side of the story the entire chat is going like blah blah blah text indicate this text indicate that are you gonna are you gonna talk about it? No, I don't think so All right It's just Yeah, it was fun while it lasted This is a little bit different and it is what it is so Yeah Having fun so far? Yeah, so far. It's actually been I was actually kind of surprised by the community The the community was like you should do this and you know, don't go away and blah blah blah It was like, okay. Well, I mean, I guess that's fine And so that that worked out really well I was really surprised by you know the support from the community so far and just kind of trying this as an experiment and Doing doing fun interesting stuff, but you know, I don't have this this whole like YouTube e-celebrity Whatever. I don't really like honestly. I really don't fully get it. Like I just I don't really I'm just nerding out and I guess the audience is along for the ride So what you don't you you don't you don't get? You know why someone might think that like Jenna Marbles is the most amazing person on earth I just I feel every time I make a video There's that little voice in the back of my head that is like you self-important blowhard. Why are you doing this? This doesn't make any sense at all. It's just like well, I get I mean it's like I'm spreading the gospel of open source and and and Linux and and you know knowledge is power and all that kind of stuff So I guess it's alright Yeah, you guys I mean just from like a purely sort of you know self-important blowhard sort of You know, but really focused on being an e-celebrity sort of perspective you guys are doing really well I mean for such a new channel 130,000 subscribers, but more importantly than that the last four videos are averaging about 30,000 views give or take Each or the last five or so which means that a quarter of your audience Is watching is interested. Yeah, everything you put up. I mean for me people can look at it And they'll go oh, yeah, he's got like 3.6 million subscribers But we're averaging like five hundred six hundred thousand views per video So that means that like one seventh and I'm not that great at mental math So hopefully that's pretty close, but closer to a sixth or a seventh. So those are like really really impressive numbers it's it's really kind of weird though because like some of the content is Really really esoteric like we did like the SMB multi-channel video And I can't I can't imagine that anybody would have just a casual interest in that But if you're a system administrator or somebody that's like been through that banging your head against a wall There's information in there that you just you can't get into there's information in there that you just you can't get anywhere else because Nobody has bothered to write it up and plus Microsoft's changed it like 12 different times. So You know, but there's a it's really dense technical information So I guess that's good and the Linux videos are kind of like that but The storage server video there's not really a lot of technical content in that The first version of that was like an hour long and it had a lot of technical information But we sort of did a funny skit in it. I don't know if you saw it or not But you there was a little picture of you and on a picture and there was on the wall and some other You know tech youtubers and yarn. It was kind of funny What is when we were building our storage server and so it's a it's a it's based on fedora Which is a distribution of Linux and it's using ZFS And so there's about a hundred hard drives and four rack mount chassis and an old Google server And so it's 172 terabytes and I had a blast not only building that but also sort of documenting it on video at one point I rode the rack. It's it's on a wheeled rack And so at one point I rode the rack like a skateboard around the office and there's a little a little bit of that in the video but uh Doing that kind of like i'm good I'm doing that stuff anyway, whether or not it's on camera And so now it's just like oh I can do it on camera and people will watch that and you know There's ad dollars for that. Okay, sounds good. I can just buy more random crap So, I mean the intention for you is never to turn this into your full-time gig is it I don't think so the the the interesting situation I mean maybe but the situation is that a lot of the stuff that that we would be doing videos on Are things that I'm doing professionally or things that are connected to things that I'm doing professionally And so like we're working on a video right now on docker, which is like a programming thing And if I weren't doing that professionally, I don't know that I would Know enough about it to do a video. That's like this is how you get started with docker This is how you're productive with this something with like zfs in the server It's like if I wasn't doing it professionally, I don't know that I would sort of figure that out I don't know that the content would be as interesting. I'm just throwing up your uh throwing up your video here on the on the screen share So people can see you sitting next to what is that a 6u? Uh, it's two it's four 4u cabinets and one 2u server. Well, then I oh you're probably not looking at the same Frame of the video is me. Okay. So there you go. There's this is a good view of it So there's the there's the two 4us right there you guys and then there's the 2u right up there Let's see if I can find your fun little skit part Where do you where do you ride the where do you ride the rack because that sounds amazing? There's a gif of it somewhere that the people have already made so it's it's probably it's there's it's probably in the description or something I don't know but it's uh Yeah, it just ended up being kind of nuts and it's not insanely fast. It's only got one 10 10 gig interface right now I've got to get a dual 10 gig Adapter for it, but it can move a gigabyte per second. No problem, and it's all spinning rust I do have one in vme in there for caching but but uh other than that it's a good thing Rust which is not bad so we are we are finally. Oh, I have figured out how I'm doing the archival storage actually So it looks like we're going to be using bluster fs cool. That's awesome. That will be good. I think so that's um right now We've got all of the super fast stuff. So the pure nvme storage server that's running windows server native smb There's a lot to be said for it. Is it perfect no, but support for pure nvme Diy solutions right now as far as I can tell is sort of yeah Not really exist not doesn't really exist I mean if you want to go to ibm or something and you want to buy some hyper fast, you know 100 You know gigabyte like you know super flat Storage doodad that plunks into a proprietary system sure go for it You got to be careful with those because they'll happily take your fifty thousand dollars, but it doesn't always live up to the hype I mean It's just you got to get one and play with it and don't be afraid to send it back even though it costs You know five six figures, but that's the thing is on the very high end. There's that on the very low end There's you're not buying 48 nvme drives because you're trying to do it more cheaply than that so and there's this there's this in between that super micro built This server that I don't understand who the customer is for but I ended up with one and uh, and so windows windows server It is I guess for now anyway, so we've got that for high speed and then we're moving to uh, glusterfs Running on I forget some linux distro once again I'm having people come in and say hey, we're going to do this Uh running on I forget some linux distro once again. I'm having people who understand it better than I do Fly up here and set it up for me. So Brett from 45 drives is actually coming up to set us up so we are actually aiming and i'm not sure if we're going to get there yet because Dat mula, but we are aiming to do a one petabyte storage machine the petabyte project nice Nice So you guys just laid off a bunch of people though So I don't know what that means for the hard drive industry spinning rust. Yeah Well, they laid off a bunch of people we talked about this in the wind show last week actually So I don't think we can do it as a full topic But they they laid off a bunch of people and they closed down like Significantly into double digit percentages of their hard drive production capacity as I recall At that time had they announced the 14 and 16 terabyte drives. I had just noticed that the last few days No, I don't think so Yeah, they just announced 14 and 16 terabyte capacity drives but I can't get any information out of them on the throughput of the drives because It seems like the capacity of the drives have been going up and up and up and up But the throughput on the drives really hasn't improved all that much and like our I mean, you know our storage array is basically Surplus so it was retired I got lucky though because the power on hours on all the drives are only about 18 months and the You like mechanical hard drives you can set your watch by their design at least enterprise grade. They're designed last five years Anything beyond five years you are on borrowed time and and that that comes from a decade of experience and The the drives that we've got they're only two terabytes. There's like a hundred of them, but uh But the time to replicate them is really really quick Like those drives have a have a streaming performance or just you know transfer rate of like 150 Megabytes per second 140 150 at the fastest part of the disk. So reimagining two terabytes not a big deal Yeah, reimagining 14 terabytes say 200 megabytes per second to 10. Maybe Yeah, I mean that's gonna take like days I mean not to mention you look at what western digital is doing for their 12 and 14 terabyte disks. So their 12 is going to be standard Standard perpendicular magnetic recording, but their 14 terabyte is only going to be available and shingled Yeah, the rewrites on that aren't going to be fun I guess it's good for archives, but yep, which is about it, which is exactly what we plan to be using stuff like that for but um Yeah, it's gonna be uh, it's gonna be a very interesting next next few years I mean, uh, look walking around in seagate's booth at ces I don't know if you were that were you down at ces or no, no, no, I skipped ces I'm hoping to make it to Computex, but uh, you know, it's only 125,000 subs I've got to I gotta spend a couple of years growing my subscribers or whatever We'll try to throw a few your day away today. Thanks. Appreciate it I've learned in the lingo learning the vernacular as it were subs Alright so uh next topic of the day. I don't know if you I don't know if you looked at the video I'm sure you didn't because you would have already known the answer to this We did a video Yesterday, I think it was yesterday. Yeah yesterday called does a thousand dollar windows perform better Where we took a server version of windows and basically, you know ran your typical desktop benchmarks Against good old-fashioned windows 10 and the comments on this video are just Just just poisonous. Um, so so this guy says wow the ignorance in this video is tremendous No one is actually paying the server edition of windows for performance. They are paying that big buck for its features Uh, I really thought that linus would research first before making these kinds of videos So tell me something wendell you've known me for About four years now actually I think you've known me for about four years. Do you think that I expected? The server version of windows to perform dramatically different from the desktop one Yeah, probably not Do you think there is a case to be made for making a video because perhaps somebody else? Other than the host might not know this Yeah, that that could come out I could see that maybe I can see that as it relates to the game mode the upcoming game mode for windows honestly, because if you look at like um The host processes and the default loadout on like which services are enabled and what server is doing and blah blah blah Yeah, especially especially if you start with like core os and you just enable the desktop experience and that's all you've got Uh, depending on what you're doing that can actually be faster if you can do whatever you're doing without the desktop experience Then that would even be better. But for desktop workloads, you're probably going to need the desktop experience You probably will um And honestly the the most frustrating thing about this is that like the very beginning of the video I even point out old forum threads from back in the vista days of people asking does vista ultimate perform better Oh, actually, I think that was true. I think that not vista ultimate but I think that like server 08 Actually did perform better than vista because vista was just a huge steaming pile of trash I ran vista for a long time Maybe you just didn't have the horses That's right That might be true. I mean it's possible I mean I wasn't trying to run vista on a on a netbook either though So that I mean that was painful. You remember that when they were shipping netbooks with vista? Yeah. Oh I tried to use one once. I was just like this is ridiculous Um, so let's talk a little bit about windows 10 game mode because i've actually got like i'm sure you have the same video In the in the work, so it's going to be the race to who can make it first But windows 10 game mode versus those windows 10 de bloatify scripts that you can run Versus stock windows 10 out of the box. How interesting of a video is that going to be? You know in the preliminary testing that we've done there's not like the the game mode the The build that we played with was the very first version that enabled game mode And honestly, I couldn't really tell that it did a whole lot other than it disabled search indexer while your while the game was running which okay and uh There was something else that it did it did something with the dvr the xbox live dvr sure and and that was and it's like okay I mean sure the de bloat script that we have mostly disables the telemetry and all that crap So do any of these things fix the start menu yet? No, you mean where the start menu just randomly doesn't respond sometimes yeah, yeah, no isn't that baffling? Yeah, it really is i'll give you one better uh windows 10 the the builds that we that we use in the like for business stuff Uh randomly after like three or four days. It just stops being responsive you have to restart the whole machine eventually explorer will crash for no apparent reason Really did you try turning it off and turning it back on again? Did that fix it? That does fix it. Oh good Well, I mean yeah, I'm talking to the level one text guy right so I gotta throw these jokes in here So in a nutshell oh For those of you who aren't familiar with game mode We've got an article here from ours technica that we got all of our information from because we don't do any actual research But the idea behind it is improved resource allocation gives a boost to frame rates and in a nutshell They're saying that when game mode is active the os will lean towards allocating cpu And gpu resources to the game. I don't know what else it would be allocating gpu resources to but who knows for games that are cpu or gpu bound um Kevin gammill partner group program manager for the xbox platform said that they were seeing frame rate improvements of two to five percent I mean the the thing about frame rate improvements from two to five percent is that it's one of those things where it sounds kind of good on paper But in practice a two percent frame rate improvement is one of the things that we're seeing One percent frame rate improvement is what? at 60 fps Yeah, not enough. Is that the difference between like the hardware that you had now? You're like really getting the most out of it and uh Terrible gaming experience. I don't based on the testing that we've done. I don't think we're gonna do a video on this But here's something that you could try for for yours in task manager as a control Just right click on the game process and set it to an elevated priority not real time not high just the the one that's above normal and um I bet that will result in a two to five percent performance increase Hmm Just elevating the process, I mean there's uh That was one of the fixes from rockstar when gta 5 first came out Um for like middle of the road i-5 systems. They're like everything is fine, but sometimes it goes glitchy and weird literally the the thing from rockstar was uh Right click on the thing and set it to above normal and people were like oh my god that fixed it So and it might be that windows is doing you know like the search index or bullshit in the background or whatever The malware service is executable is the one that keeps killing my like my my razor blade will be sitting on a table like Like 10 feet away from me and it'll start going I go over there. I'm like what do you mean 18 CPU usage? There's nothing open It's doing a background scan because that's what you need right? Yeah, I need that when i'm running on battery. Thank you Thank you um So anyway game mode in case you do care about it will work for both traditional win 32 games and new universal windows platform games The creator's update will ship with a periodically updated whitelist of known games for automatically enabling game mode So that's cool. I guess Whitelist for increasing the priority like I can do that with a powershell script done Anyway back to back to making videos that we already know the answer to I think probably I think this is one of my biggest frustrations as a content creator Because we actually did one quite a while back. Um, does water cooling Make your room cooler or something along those lines. I can't remember exactly what we called it Yeah, there it is. Does water cooling make your room cooler? And the one that drove me craziest on that one at least with the windows versus windows server video people were like Linus you're an idiot because Of they got the right answer And they they knew that like there shouldn't be much of a difference with this one half the comments are Linus you're an idiot you why would you think this and the other half of the comments are Linus, you're an idiot. Of course, it makes your room cooler. How did you not know that? I'm sitting here going that is why I made the video Now I'm probably going to get some hate for saying this but uh, yeah You know, you've got your computer and your computer is drawing, you know 700 watts 800 watts or whatever That is that is functionally no different than having a space heater that is dumping seven or eight hundred watts of heat into your room It's like oh the computer like you you really want to get pedantic You can be like oh the computer is doing the work and the amount of energy that's going into doing work is not Going to generate heat that is negligible. Yeah, that's the stupidest thing i've ever heard because see it's pretty obvious Okay, like when you have a heat sink on your cpu, okay, you touch the heat sink. It's very hot And when you have a water cooling radiator water is inherently cold Somewhere else. Yeah, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, the water is much cooler much cooler you touch the radiator No, no I mean that my friends is why when you have a laptop that's running really hot and you take it into a room You can look right out the window and bam temperature goes down global warming defeated Yeah, that's one of the things that did you guys do a video on um alternative Fluids for liquid cooling because that has come up a lot on our forums and it's just like jesus the specific heat capacity of water Is really good. It's hard to beat it No, I haven't I mean that's one of those things where we've shied away from some of the really really nerdy Enthusiast topics like that. Um, it's something that i've been aware of for a long time I don't know how long how long have you been in the water cooling scene? You're more of a like a Enterprise tech guy. I've never done a custom loop water cooler ever so, um, i've been in the the custom water cooler scene since about 2006 or so and back then the the popular one was an additive called water wetter That was an automotive additive. So people were putting that in their in their water cooling loops And I think people were getting quite confused Um in those days, especially because there was a lot of a lot more even a lot more misinformation So people were putting water wetter in On the advice of friends and water wetter was supposed to be was supposed to it was advertised that it would help with cooling But I think one of its more important characteristics was actually an anti-corrosive additive that was in it So back then mixing metals brass copper aluminum even on the same piece was a lot more common because people were actually pulling heater cores out of um out of cars and using them as water cooling radiators um, yeah So, uh, oh, okay. Apparently water wetter is used in motorcycles. Apparently that's that's what it's for I thought it was automotive. Anyway, the point is that It has always been true and it continues to be true today um, you know whether you're talking fesser one or whether you're talking fluid xp or whatever the case may be Pretty much any fluid that you put in a water cooling loop other than mineral oil Which I would strongly recommend against because it'll destroy the hell out of all of your gaskets and tubing So please don't do that unless you're putting like mineral oil or uh, what's it called? Fluorine that stuff from 3m Yeah, yeah or fluorine or something into your tubing Whatever you use will eventually become somewhat electrically conductive because that's just the way it works all those cooler fluid xp is water-based It just has some kind of glycol of some sort in it and then it has something else in it I can't remember but eventually it'll pick up enough metal ions that it will become conductive And the other thing is that the more you add to water the worse it will perform That's why if i'm actually building a water cooled system that I actually intend to run for more than a couple of months as a showcase Then all I run is water with a couple drops of iodine or with a chunk of silver in it That's the only thing you should use for the best performance Yeah, and that makes sense chemically I mean you would want to use even like the metal ions that the water picks up the water itself is going to conduct Electricity because the water becomes ionized So you would I mean you'd be probably is there any uh mythology around uh using distilled water or something like that? Because it seems like that would also help it be more chemically stable Yeah, a lot of people um, a lot of people want to use distilled water in their loops A lot of people say that's the best thing to use personally. Um, we don't have particularly heavy tap water around here anyway So i've always you know, what's really funny. Okay. Okay, we're getting we're oh we're digging up the stories now. So Every time in a video you've seen me pull out a jug of distilled water and pour it into a water cooling loop I am just appeasing the distilled water fan boys. That's tap water. I drank the distilled water Or I found a jug somewhere like it doesn't matter It's fine I won't tell anybody if you don't yeah, that's right So, uh, so yeah, there's that And twitch chat's freaking out twitch chat's freaking out. Yeah. No, I It it doesn't make a difference um You know what? I do have to jump into now is our sponsor spots for the show today We have gotten through almost no topics. 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It's like curling for americans where they don't have ice I think lawn darts are illegal here in the u.s Lawn darts are super illegal in the u.s And in canada i've been trying to get my hands on a set for uh for a channel super fun video for quite some time They're illegal to sell illegal to buy illegal to own Um, they're basically illegal in every possible way So i've i've been having a fair bit of difficulty getting my hands on any of that stuff Uh, so like you need to talk to a metal fabricator and they can make you some Can they probably be even more badass than the originals? Wow. Yeah, we could have like instead of like a nine inch long spike We could have like a 16 inch long spike and they could be like They could the whole thing could be like three feet long giant lawn. That's actually not a terrible I mean, it's a terrible idea, but it's a fun idea. 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So you got a little vertigear logo over there just takes one person to assemble the chair I'm not actually quite sure how that's a selling point I've never had enough difficulty assembling a chair that I needed someone to help me unless it was from ikea And that has nothing to do with the difficulty of assembling the chair and more to do with the documentation It glides very smoothly on any surface The tall backrest is meant for the neck shoulders and lumbar support and like the plus line Which I was supposed to tell you about first apparently But the plus line is the chair that luke normally sits in as you can see there is no chair And there is no luke like the plus line you can adjust the seat to fit your height It's got an adjustable arm rest which is cushioned for the arm as opposed to cushioned for your balls I suppose which is good because most people don't sit on the arm rest in order to prevent stress relief muscle strain As well as any other shoulder or wrist pain I don't know how the arm rest affects wrist pain But okay the knob under the seat can be set in order to match your weight So you can rock and tilt with ease and that actually does work quite well And the backrest can be changed from 80 degrees to 150 degrees So you can check out their gaming chairs at vertigear.com or at the link below which says video description Don't copy this copy below and paste that please. Thank you colton for putting that in there all right So why don't we jump into some of our other topics here? What else do we got? That's like interesting. I don't even I don't even know This is like zoom. It's the post ces slow season. It's been slow for us too on the news. I know there's like nothing. I mean Uh x-horizon lawyer is now the chair of the fcc. Okay, so that's that's just that's terrible. Um Let's wait and see what evil things he does before we make fun of him. Okay, sure in the meantime There's a link to the ars technica article that uh that that's from yeah. Okay, man. Oh, man. I Yeah, okay. No, we don't We've been cutting back on on on the the political sort of nature of the show ever since we got um Um sort of roasted for talking about nothing, but donald trump for an entire episode Of what is purportedly a tech show? Oh the schadenfreude for my countrymen Um, all right. Oh vivaldi ceo calls on microsoft to quote unquote Do the right thing and stop aggressive edge pushing so how excited do you get? When you're sitting there using windows because I know using windows gets all your juices going When you're sitting there using windows 10 and you open up another browser and you get a little little pop-up little pop-up from the taskbar It's all like hey, did you know that chrome is 22 faster than some arbitrary thing we pulled out of our butt? Uh edge did you know that edge? Did I say chrome? Yeah chrome's not faster than anything that was obviously a an error An error It's it's been doing that I mean Maybe it's because i'm on the insider build on the windows machines that I have to use regularly I'm i'm not sure but it's been doing that for like six months, but it's not just chrome It's been doing it with a lot of things. Yep Even just like the office pop-ups and it's like oh, let's get microsoft office and let's do a trial But the version of microsoft office that I have is for developers And so it's like i've got microsoft office installed You'd some dumb ass programmer didn't take into account if you're running the developer version of office Yeah Um, so basically it's addressing and so so this is kind of the quote so it addresses how microsoft's Anti-competitive practices create problems for the user So john tells a story about how a friend of his had her pc upgraded from windows 8 to windows 10 With the browser being changed to edge Um, and again another quote instead of building a better browser microsoft is forcing its product onto people in the most Unapologetic manner, so I actually was planning to make a video about this um, I switched to edge For edge has better battery life about two weeks because I was trying to address the Abominable battery life with chrome. I'm a bit of a tab monster. Uh, this is something i'm attending regular meetings. I'm working on it Um, I have a sponsor Um, so i'm a bit of a tab addict and I mean I was getting like a couple hours of battery on my laptop Which is like not very good. So I was like, okay I heard from microsoft that edge has much better battery life. I'm gonna try it It's just such a piece of garbage I mean just just fundamental stuff Okay, and I don't know if this will happen on every machine but on my machine it definitely does if I click a link If I click a link in an email in gmail in my browser It manages to crash not only the tab that spawns but also the tab with my gmail in it Maybe like 60 percent of the time like if I do a middle middle click And surprising i'm sitting here going this is this is ridiculous How can anything be this unstable and there's all kinds of just rendering issues? Um all kinds of crashing that I mean I don't know what browser to use anymore. What are you using? Uh chromium chromium is a build of chrome with all the google stuff stripped out Yeah, yeah, and actually the canary build which is like the well canary is the the Like the developer build of chrome. It's like chrome plus one. It's like the next version There's a there's a setting that you can tweak in chrome so the non-active tabs don't get a cpu And so like any kind of like backgrounds most of its advertisers fault honestly Yeah, uh because there's like all kinds of javascript stuff like that running in the background of the tabs That's what's chewing up your battery because chrome was like, yeah, sure Let's let's keep going eight percent of the battery to this tab. Sure. No problem Yeah, and uh animations is also the thing a lot of like when you implement animations with javascript If you don't use like request animation frame, they'll just run continuously. Right. Um, and so nobody knows to use request animation frame So it's bad But if you get the canary version there's a tweak that you can enable and it may be it's I think it's going to be in chrome 56 55 56 I think 55 is out now. It's probably going to be in 56 um, and when you enable that option you should have reasonable battery life again from Um super mega I have I too have a problem with a lot of tabs and so Uh, yeah Yeah, it's okay. You can join my support group if you ever move out to the west coast This is great. Just one one person's complaint about chrome really struck a chord with me How is it even possible that they still do this? Bullcrap where the first time you launch it The the address bar is here for some reason why? Why it's like nobody in the microsoft ux team for edge has ever heard of muscle memory ever I think that this ui might be designed for geriatrics Because I could see how this might be easy for old people You know what's really funny though is there's actually been I'm trying to think of what the other thing that really Had me thinking about that recently was Uh, I don't remember if it was like an iphone thing or an android thing or a windows thing But I was going through this a little while ago where I kind of It kind of dawned on me because I was sitting there thinking this product is a piece of garbage How could anybody like this and then I went wow old people That's it and it was it was such an epiphany for me um All right, so hp lab Tops caught fire or something. I don't know. It's a battery's catching fire It feels like it's not even news at this point a certain level It's entropy. I mean you cram a lot of energy in a small space. It can't wait to catch on fire. I mean that's Again back to physics No, no physics is boring. We don't talk about that on this show No physics. No politics. You keep your physics in your politics and you go you put it on level one text We can talk about it we can We can well not the politics where we kill politics on our forum because the mods were like i'm tired and I want to go home And it's like okay, we'll eliminate politics as not related to tech and they're like they're peppy and happy again. It's really nice. It's great Uh, so there's a bunch more details on the nintendo.co.uk website about the switch So they've got like a whole like diagram and everything game cards sold separately technical specifications All of this good stuff that nintendo has been kind of keeping to themselves For the most part up until this time actually don't know what luke is learning at the event that he's at right now But uh, how excited are you about the switch? Not at all. Oh, okay. Well that was quick. Uh, to clarify why So I really like like so I grew up I had a nintendo the original nintendo I had like the original original one and a super nintendo and I really liked them. I really love the titles zelda You know super mario brothers all that. I really really like that nintendo has screwed the pooch So much with community and like understanding the community and understanding who their consumer is That I just don't care anymore and it's really sad to say that like I hate to be like that Because I you know like the nes mini like the nes classic whatever the the new one is that came out the rest of the emulator And it's probably some version of linux and whatever I I 60 bucks I might buy that but I have a real hard time supporting nintendo just because of the way like the let's Plays and like the aggressive Quote-unquote protection of the ip is just it's like So, I don't know Yeah, I um, I I I share I share your frustration. Um, I really think I I really don't I mean, how do how do I put this? Like i've run into situations a number of times in the past where i've kind of gone You know what? I'm sure i'll be fine to do x so we okay. Here's a perfect example So we use a few frames from an exit from an episode of south park in a video that will be coming up very soon So I actually purchased a child tracker like a gps child tracker So south park did an episode about 15 years ago where all the kids get equipped with this like head gear with satellite dishes And stuff going around and because all the parents are concerned they'll get they'll get kidnapped And so every once in a while I will do something like that and i'll kind of go Because I I nod to the episode I go, you know It's amazing how often south park calls it 15 years ago They did this episode and we use a couple a couple frames from it And here we are all this time ahead and here I am reviewing a child tracker the child tracker 9 000 or whatever Um, so every once in a while I will do something like that where I'll go they get nothing but benefit from this Technically, I am on the wrong side of the law. I understand that I I have I have broken their copyright here, but I haven't given away any of the real meaning of the content It's not like you had the experience of watching the episode from the chunk that I used it illustrated my point incredibly well And they got nothing but praise and positive encouraging support for the wonderful program They've been producing for so long out of this few seconds of footage Realistically, I consider myself protected by the the human being factor Someone somewhere would have to decide that it is worth the bad will that they're going to generate To sue me over this And I consider that a reasonable protection in a lot of cases Nintendo breaks that that kind of that covenant Constantly Constantly where there's nothing in there's nothing in this for me other than being like a nintendo fan or like You know spreading the nintendo gospel And you get nothing but negative publicity out of going after me for this, but they just do it. Anyway Did you see what uh, jim sterling what he figured out to combat nintendo? It's amazing No, I didn't So he was doing a review of something nintendo and he used some he used a clip That he knew would be flagged by nintendo of america Just like one or two seconds and he used another clip that nintendo japan would flag and because both of them have claimed his video Neither one of them get any revenue I haven't seen the video, but I actually did hear about that. That is fantastic That's how it's done the master troll Um Let's see. What else we got here. Oh, this is pretty good microsoft hololens The microsoft admits that sales figures are in the thousands But that's all they need Says the headsets commercial lead so the original article here is from the inquirer.net Man, I remember when that site used to be like the go-to for all of the dirt You know 5 000 doesn't sound like many but if those are developers and like hardcore users that actually could be a big deal I mean assuming that let's say I mean I wouldn't be dropping. What is it? 2 000 pounds or 4 000 pounds depending on the dev only version or the enterprise model I wouldn't be dropping that kind of money on it if I wasn't either a developer looking to build an application that I expect others to use or a high-end big business user who's looking to develop something for internal use so there will be Applications for it based on those kinds of sales numbers. I mean, I'm not as I'm not as what is it bear or bearish? Bear bear in a bowl on the uh the thing bullish bullish no bullish is good. So i'm bullish. I'm not bear bull or bear market I don't know the opposite of bullish. I'm sorry. I'm looking like an idiot to twitch chat, but i'm sure they already know I'm sure they already thought that anyway All right Ooh This is exciting. So the original article here is from endgadget.com. Let's go ahead pull that up here the first Ultra hd blu-ray pc drive ships next month only There's a catch and i'm sure i'm gonna get some ranting from you on this you must have a kb lake processor and Windows 10 to play your uhd 4k hdr movies off the disc So just like netflix 4k streaming we are looking at hardware drm Built into your intel cpu in order to play back the content. What do you think go go? Go wendell. Well, so okay Before we talk about the drm part of it. There is actually a legit technical reason for that and the Legit technical reason is that kb lake has hardware acceleration not found on any other cpu That will hardware accelerate the decoding of this content because if you've got a low end kb lake sku Like a like a portable device an i3 something like that. It's not going to perform well It's going to get hot and it's going to run the battery down so like if you've got you know a surface pro 4 and Well surface pro 5 because kb like well No, yeah If you've got a surface pro 4 with a skylake cpu and you wanted to watch high def content The battery is going to be dead in an hour and it's going to be about 80 degrees c Um, and so okay, I could see I could see some legitimacy in that. This is an internal drive And so this is five and a quarter inch drive. Yeah. Yeah, so this is this is a little bit more about drm but how crazy is it that we've gotten to uh, a a point where The content manufacturers literally don't trust the computer And so like the cpu and the dvd or the the drive are going to have this secret private conversation that we're not allowed to know What it is, even though it's our own hardware In order to be able to decode the hardware to decode the thing and send it on that just seems a little you know anti-consumer to me this just seems like the the the This just basically seems like the content companies finally won the battle. I mean it's it is no great secret I I think I mean, okay This is maybe this is my personal opinion But I think piracy is ultimately what led to windows being the dominant platform. I think that pirated games Pirated content of all sorts the fact that you had this one box That could play all the music obtain all the music play and obtain all the movies play and and obtain all the games for free Where it was like you could justify at a time when a computer wasn't necessary for your job or anything you wanted to do You could justify this multi thousand dollar expense Because it saved you so much money on all the music and movies and games you weren't going to buy I believe very strongly that that's a huge part of why Microsoft and intel had their success and it looks like they have finally given in and gone. Okay We're turning our back on on the on the piracy and we're kind of going. Okay. We're gonna hardware drm this be So there there you have it then That's pretty much it. I imagine at some point someone will find some way to To pull feed it. Oh, yeah to defeat it But um, it looks like this might be a bit more difficult than it has been in the past at the very least Well, you know the technical i'm honestly not really worried about how difficult it is technically but the political climate and the whole like You know legal climate of that is really really nuts I mean, it's like, uh, man slaughter You broke the copy protection on a movie It's kind of the same things in terms of jail sentence and you know what you might be facing and stuff like that I mean, how crazy is that? It's nuts. Yeah I mean, I don't know. I don't know if we've got time for it, but anecdotally, you know, I i'll confess I'm a consumer horror and I picked up all of the episodes of star trek the next generation on dvd the remastered ones from 35 millimeter bottom all and I transcoded them Uh to my media server and I will tell you that I would not Enjoy the content at all if I had not transcoded it to the media server. I've got all the content I've got all the special features. I got everything but it's like I want to watch Season four episode two click and i'm watching it. It is a two second operation Yeah If I if I had to deal with the bullshit of the disc I would be ready to slit my wrists after two minutes and I still wouldn't be able to do that Are you a plex guy? Yeah, well i've got plex but i've also been experimenting because plex has done some weird stuff and i'm experimenting with uh, My sort of own home-cooked web thing. But yes, I love plex and we're gonna do some videos on plex Cody has gotten to the point where it it will basically run as a full-fledged media server as well And you don't really need the stuff with play you don't need the subscription or the account or anything with plex either That you would need with plex. So yeah plex threw a free subscription at me. So i'm just using it I didn't make any videos about it or anything, but like I was like, okay Sometimes plex is is awesome, but I don't know five bucks a month. It's like yeah, i've already Yeah, I mean i'm just frustrated because this means that all of the content even some of that i've bought at 4k hdr I am not gonna get to enjoy in 4k The good news is that all of those discs came with a regular blu-ray, so I will watch that in the meantime I suppose well, I've really really enjoyed the crispiness of star trek the next generation the the remastered stuff They really did a nice job of that I should watch it I actually haven't watched star trek the next generation since they were airing new episodes like as a kid sitting on the couch with my dad So that would probably be worthwhile. It's just as magical I mean, it's like they really they've done a really nice and it came from 35 millimeters. So they they readed the effects but Um, you know they they haven't it was not like star wars they they kept everything exactly the way that I haven't watched all of them From beginning to end but i've watched some of my favorite episodes As i've had time and i've been really really happy with it. I'm really happy with the media server Do you still spend about 60 percent of the time following the episode and 40 percent wondering how patrick stewart still looks the same? Yeah, he's kind of ageless, you know, it's really All right, well on that note our admiration our mutual admiration for patrick stewart Gets to be the end of the show I think because I have a badminton class that I have to be at in 42 minutes and it's about a 45 minute drive. So Thank you very much for joining me on the show guys. You can find wendell over at youtube.com Slash level one text i'm gonna have that linked to do you guys not have that link? I think it's just level one dot tech. Uh, oh no, there it is youtube.com slash c Slash level one text so i'm gonna drop that in the twitch chat. I'm gonna have that in the video description Don't miss don't miss their content because they actually take this whole like Pf sense linux you need to enter prizy security stuff seriously Whereas i'm not gonna do that. I'm gonna do that. I'm gonna do that Um, wait, wait on the last on last week's show didn't you say that you hired a veteran it guy or something? Yeah, but he's not quite like what you guys are doing either, but he's a lot better than me But yes, we have we have three guys joining us soon I think that you know just looking at your growth over the last couple of years. I think that that will You'll be fine. It'll you'll be fine. Oh, i'll survive. I'll just keep making ugly kids I think that that will you'll be fine. It'll you'll be fine. Oh, I'll survive. I'll just keep making ugly keyboards That's that's my that's my I think Second fastest to a million view video ever as I put gold keycaps on a keyboard I mean people are upset with me about like clickbait titles and Blood I'm like you. I share your upset. I don't want that to be my best performing video of all time Well, you've got the you started the trend with that. I think with the datamancer keyboard It's that modded model M keyboard that keyboard is nice. It's really cool All right, we'll take care and we will we'll talk soon, okay? See ya. All right. Thank you for having me Oh, yeah, my pleasure of course