 Did they turn the lights up again? Because I think so because there's a huge hotspot over here and you're really pale. I think they did. You look more pale than me, which I really don't think is true. I think they actually did it. That's okay. You know what? Luke and I have been talking before the show. And the WAN show is crap. Everything about it is crap right now. And we just need to completely reinvent it. We need a computer that doesn't reboot when I accidentally bump it with my knee. It hasn't rebooted in a while. And then Linus finally comes back to WAN show and it's like bonk out immediately. You know what I did though? So it used to reboot every time you like jostled it a little bit. And then what I did was I took it and I went like this. Give it a little bit of resilience. And then while it was off and I turned it back on and then it was actually fine until we moved over here. So it needs another shake up. So it just needs a little like, cut it out you piece of garbage. Computer professionals, ladies and gentlemen. Yeah. So it needs a little bit of that. And then this wall sucks. Our lights suck. Yeah. Our camera sucks. Like look at that light. It's pink. Yeah. It's actually pink. Yeah. And then that one's a little green. And then this one is actually a pretty decent light. It's a hive. It's a pretty nice light. And it's misconfigured because Ed did it. That's why there's a huge hotspot over here. So Ed just got thrown under the bus super duper hard. And you know what? I don't even care because he deserves it. But yeah. We could also use a mic setup that doesn't have like 14 million modules and doesn't even sound that amazing. So that's a whole thing. The problem is that we've tried simple ones. We have. Well, okay. We've tried just a simple USB interface. We've tried a USB microphone. We've tried it. Most podcast people get separate dynamic mics. Fine. Instead of a single condenser. Fine. I don't care anymore. You know what? I don't care. Just an issue with that might be that we're so close. No, that is a problem. Yeah. We are really close. Yeah. Which doesn't make matters better. But you know what? You people tuned in for a fan. We could cheat like Good Mythical Morning. Do they cheat? That mic isn't the real one they use. It's just fake. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Where people are saying the mic keeps making a bumping noise. Hold on. Let me see. Is there? Is that better? Let me get that adjusted for you. How's that? We good? We have a great show. We've got a great show for you guys today. Wonderful topics. A lot of great topics. The best topics. The greatest topics. Do you want to do a topic? New SSD form factor from Samsung is supposed to be three times the storage density of. You have to stay tuned. Get owned. That was a little rude. Wow. I'm just going to go with it. Also, Apple finally acknowledges. What an ass. Mac keyboard issues. Yeah. Bethesda is suing Warner Brothers. So that's going to be a good one. And it actually looks pretty. That looks pretty cut and dried. And speaking of things that got cut today, like, because they're bleeding a bit and stuff. YouTube introduces paid subscriptions and merchandise. Float plane's not going anywhere. But this definitely does alter some things about our deal. Pray I don't alter it further. Let's roll that intro. Crap. He's Vader in this situation. That's not good. You're like super white Lando. Yeah. Instead of capes, I wear sweaters. I mean, who would think to put a cape on a like seriously legitimate suave guy these days? Like you would not get away with that anymore. You got to admire that about the movies. Oh, all right. No, I don't even want the oh crap. Oh, now that well, you can't look at Twitch. I won't be able to look at Twitch chat for the rest of the video. That is my bad. You ruined it. Yes. I have not seen Solo yet, which means that I can't look at anything anymore because now you guys know. Not that anyone probably even cares. Like is it even an impactful enough movie? See, I can talk about Solo as much as I want because I have not even seen a trailer. I know nothing other than that. It has been an absolute box office flop. And actually, we should talk about this. It's probably not even in the doc. But we were chatting about this at lunch the other day. I don't really have a link for you guys. You can probably find one where you can just Google about it. But Disney has more or less officially said, do I need to go down? No, I need to go up. OK. Disney has more or less officially said that they are putting a pause on all Star Wars story movies like Rogue One and Solo and potentially a Kenobi movie, which is what everyone's really upset about because they're like. People are upset there's no Kenobi movie or they're upset there was going to be a Kenobi movie because there was a Kenobi movie. It was called Star Wars Episode 2 and Episode 1 and Episode 3. I think they're sad that there isn't a Kenobi Solo movie. Yeah. The whole Star Wars stuff read it. There was a Kenobi Solo movie. It was called Star Wars 4 A New Hope. They're both in it. OK. And it was the good Kenobi, the Alec Guinness Kenobi. Yeah, that was. Hey. OK, he did it. OK, hold on a second. The Kenobi sucked. But what's his face? Revenge of the Sith. Actually not that bad. Yeah, that's probably fair. Those movies were just brutal in general, though. Revenge of the Sith didn't have. And like there was a lot of really good actors in there and it wasn't necessarily their fault. Revenge of the Sith wasn't the one with the Anakin love story. No, that's Attack of the Clones, right? With the Anakin love story in both of them. Yeah, but with like the horrible, that horrible scene where he and Natalie Portman go to like that planet and they do the secret wedding. Is that the third one or the second one? Because that was it was just unwatchable. I don't remember which one. Didn't someone do a super cut of that movie where they just pulled all the love story stuff out and it worked just fine? The machete cut or something. There's something. Yeah, there's a version of that for The Last Jedi. So OK, bearing in mind that I haven't seen Solo, tell me. Second movie. Yeah. Because I saw the first Star Wars story, Rogue One or whatever it was called. I only saw it once. It's the only Star Wars movie I've only seen once. Even Last Jedi? I really didn't. I saw another third of Last Jedi on a plane. Does that count as repeat watching? I don't think so. It was the person in front of me watching it. That doesn't count. That doesn't count? No. OK, then. Yes, I have only seen that one once as well. OK, so you know what? Just don't worry too much. I want to know what you think. Justified move from Disney or no? People like talk about tech. You know what? Movies are tech. Star Wars is tech. We use cameras and stuff. This camera pointed at us. It's like crappy tech, but it's tech. Everything about this show is tech. Just chill. So a justified move in terms of putting the other ones on pause. I think they need to put the other ones on pause to reassess their side of things because I think they are doing a bad job of handling the Star Wars franchise. Hit me with some opinion bombs then. Of the movie? No, no. What do you think they're doing a bad job of exactly? I don't think anyone was asking for a story about Han Solo because the interesting part of Han Solo the character happens after. What I think people were really clamoring for was the Boba Fett story because that's a character that's also theoretically one that is paused. Right. Except that that's one that I would have actually gone to see in the opening week. This is what I think. I still think they should have paused it. It's the kind of situation where you hear a game gets delayed. It doesn't happen these days. They just release a beta and everyone buys it anyways. But back in the day when people actually released full games you would hear a game gets delayed and it's kind of bittersweet. It's a good thing because you're like okay hopefully it'll be a better launch than it could have been. Yeah. But I wanted to play the darn game. Right. It's the same kind of situation here. I think if they released it in its proper cadence it probably wouldn't have been a very good movie. Got it. In my opinion because I don't think they've been batting very well lately. Okay. Personally. Because you hated Force Awakens didn't you? I hated one part of it. I didn't hate it. Okay. There's one scene that really bugged me which was where you know when they're getting like basically bombed by the TIE fighters when Rey and Finn first meet. Yeah. And Finn won't stop grabbing her hand and trying to run away. And I'm like the only large female influence in Finn's life was Captain Freakin' Phasma. Yeah. Who's like a beast machine. There's no way that he learned to hold her hand and run away. There's no way that works for him. His only female influence is like a freaking boss. Right. And then he gets beat up by another girl. All the females in his life are beating him up and he's like I need to take care of you. Right. Oh no. But then the second one. That bugged me. But that was basically it. I liked the rest of the movie. It was alright. Episode 8 though. Episode 8 was hot garbage. Pretty much the whole thing. I actually thought of at one point in time making a video that was going to be like an hour and a half long of me just complaining about every single part of the movie. And then I eventually was like no because there was I didn't really like the culture that was around hating the movie at that time. And I didn't want to. The culture is still bad. Yeah. And it's very toxic. I didn't want to put myself in on that because I didn't agree with the general sentiment. I just had my own complaints. And my own complaints were like I don't want to be in the movie. I don't want to be in the movie. I don't want to be in the movie. I don't want to be in the movie. I don't want to be in the movie. I don't want to be in the movie. I don't want to be in the movie. I don't want to be in the movie. I don't want to be in the movie. I don't want to be in the movie. I don't want to be in the movie. I didn't want to be in the movie. I don't want to be in the movie. creators using the platform to announce their availability over on other platforms. So we actually got issued a community guidelines strike earlier this week for a video type that we have actually been uploading for the last many years or years or something like that. So we have found that announcing that we're live on Twitch is pretty helpful for our YouTube viewers, for our Twitter followers, oh I guess we could have at least done the tweet oops, and for our Facebook likers? Are they called likers? I don't know. I think you follow a page? I'm not sure. I use Facebook so little. Yeah I'm not really a Facebook person. So I'm here I'm gonna go ahead and throw my my screen cap on here I think. Yeah so we've been doing these videos literally every week for years and YouTube has never said boo about them and we know that they haven't been propagating them to all of our subscribers obviously. But we had theories for that like the title and the description are identical every time that was on purpose even. Yep to make it so that people who aren't interested in these and are never gonna click on them basically wouldn't even see them. Yeah. And then we would generally pull them down once the archive was up on YouTube anyway but what happened was someone last week forgot to pull down the We're Live video. I know when it happened but it still happened. And it was left up and so someone at YouTube confirmed by manual review apparently that this video was inappropriate content so we're gonna go ahead and pull that up. Troubleshoot video removal, community guidelines, etc etc etc so you can appeal the strike but there's no guarantee whatsoever that they'll do that and so we a channel that yes we we created a video that was designed to drive users off platform which I can see why YouTube wouldn't be stoked on. We are no longer allowed to live stream so it's sending a bit of a mixed message. So we uploaded a video saying hey we're live streaming you can go check us out over here and then YouTube went how dare you live stream somewhere else by the way here's a community guideline strike you can no longer live stream to YouTube. Which is the best way to make someone not stream on your platform what a weird response. Obviously this is a this is like a standard response to any community guidelines strike like no one was sitting in an office getting paid an actual salary to make the decision that because we announced we were streaming somewhere else we should probably not be allowed to stream. You'd think if they had a community guidelines strike that was specifically based on announcing that you are alive somewhere else you shouldn't take away the ability. So it's not it's generally considered spam. Oh so they bundle it under that. So they're calling it spam and if you're a spammer I can see how they wouldn't necessarily want you to be live streaming on the platform. Yeah because live streaming goes on the top of the channel and is very broadcasted by them. The interesting thing to me about this though is just the fact that YouTube is I haven't signed anything so I guess I could talk about it they are they are actively seeking non-disparagement agreements from youtubers I do know this I can't really give any details of the rest of it but I do know that there are people who have been approached with some kind of an offer that includes that we can see that they are cracking down on people using YouTube as a social media platform in order to grow their base across other platforms which previously was against their terms and conditions but was generally ignored and generally allowed to continue and they are also building new features that are designed to prevent people from using off-platform services like Patreon for example by making YouTube more of a one-stop shop. Now there are really good things about this it's good that YouTube is finally seemingly taking seriously creators demands for better ways to monetize on the platform because over the last year there's been a lot of negative news around the way that YouTube has handled monetization especially with edgier let's use that word edgier creators but the bad news is that if every platform behaved like this every social platform has the potential to become kind of like a jealous walled garden and it's it's yet another move towards abstracting the relationship between the viewer and the creator and putting themselves squarely in the middle so that you can never really bridge that gap that's something that's services like patreon and of course guys take everything I'm saying for what it is as the CEO and COO of Float Plane Media yeah okay a company that is designed around off YouTube monetization take it for what it is as as conflict of interest II as it is extremely much so it is a scary thing for content creators and this isn't a new message from me or us in general we said this far far far before we six years ago we launched the Linus Tech Tips forum actually five and a half I guess five and a half years ago and the reason was that we saw YouTube's continual March in this direction of separating the viewer and the creator and putting themselves in the middle so that both of them were reliant on the platform in order to have any kind of a relationship and we created the LTT forum so that worst-case scenario if something went horribly wrong we could email at least a fraction of you and be like hey here's where to contact us or DM you through the forum or whatever the case may be I actually have no idea if we'd even be allowed to do that anymore with all the new privacy stuff but emailing everybody probably no because that would be a marketing email but we could PM everyone I guess okay because that's our own inbox yeah I would think so on an email anyway I mean we haven't gotten to that bridge I don't have to cross it right look down it cuz I don't want the EU to be really mad with us yeah yeah so yeah yeah forget about that the point is we wanted to diversify ourselves and not be entirely reliant on one basket to store all of our eggs and there's still some validity to that strategy and there's other other ways we've done that as well yeah like being on twitch but with all that said I mean I guess this is a good opportunity for us to segue into YouTube introducing paid subscriptions and merchandise so the original article here this is posted by Bobby flow on the forum this might be a no actually no I don't think this is a new record 15 minutes in and getting to our first tech topic I think we've done worse than that yeah okay so the original articles from the YouTube blog here posted by whoever I just said on the forum I can't remember and I can't see the and it's arguably a tech topic no anything Google is tech see okay we had this we had this conversation I think last show where it was an Amazon topic that had to do with like people scamming returns that's tech how Amazon's a tech company they're like a there were a store that's online do they have servers so is for their every company a tech company I'm like random law if you ask if you ask a server if you ask for their tech company no goodness they are they actually okay no I would actually say yeah they are they're reinventing themselves to be a tech company I have that from the I think he was the CEO I remember I went I did that sponsored thing with them a little while ago with that famous guy famous host guy Ryan Seacrest oh yeah that was funny I would say I met him but I really didn't because he was in on the private jet in that room for like 30 minutes and then before we even realized he was gone he was actually in a private private car back to the airport before anyone actually like the rest of the influencers actually realized he was gone to go back to the airfield to get back on the private jet and I actually heard a rumor about how much that cost but I don't know if I would be like compromising anyone I will say it wasn't seven figures but it was okay that's like all yeah it was like halfway there apparently holy crap oh geez wouldn't it be great to be famous yeah and like I'm not talking like this like crap tier like internet famous yeah like I'm not no I'm talking like household name famous that would be nuts mind you mind you I've had enough bad experiences with like people literally waking me up while I'm sleeping in the airport to take a selfie no no that's a different level he's on a private jet no no I know I know but like I've had enough bad experiences with people like doing that kind of stuff to me that I can understand why if you were an order of magnitude or more more famous than those things you would actually not be able to walk through an airport yeah like if you're if you're Barack Obama how do you walk through an American Airport have you ever had the moment where you wanted to go up and greet someone and then you get like the huge wave of like conflict when you're like what I've been in this situation what I want to be approached right now have you ever been in that situation I as I have one very strong example but I want to hear you I stood in an elevator with Wayne Gretzky once what oh that would be hard okay and I just nodded I figured if I say anything it's kind of a cool moment in itself better not to because you're like when he was more of a Ford spokesman than a hockey player so like still but he still the great one freaking Wayne like we're Canadians that's a big deal even if you don't watch hockey really up here that's still a big deal it's like running into Michael Jordan in an elevator except I don't know if he would fit in an elevator but he's not that tall yes to go up like the freight elevator or just like sit down I mean can you even cross your legs though a lot of it especially like a European elevator no way pretty narrow no way yeah anyway sorry what you're gonna say I saw it was at PAX West I saw a market player and I know he like knows of us and all that kind of stuff and I was like oh that's exciting I want to like go say hi for the first time in person it was like 8 in the morning at a Starbucks and he was standing there waiting for his coffee I took one step and was like no I'm good I'm just not gonna he hasn't had his coffee yet he's standing there with some lady they're both being very quiet I don't think because they're awkward I think cuz they're freaking tired yeah and I'm just like I'm just gonna it's all about time to be cuz like I I actually like taking pictures with people stuff like if someone walks up and they're like hey can I get a selfie I'm like that's cool because it's like a taste of being famous yeah exactly someone like I remember I still remember the first time someone asked me to autograph something yeah just using that word I was like well I can't autograph anything but I'll sign it for you but it's all about like appropriate timing so I was I was flyering my neighborhood Oh putting lost cat posters on people's doors last weekend and I had someone like come up to me will not come up to me but like call to me from across the street and like ask me to take a selfie with them and I'm like you know I've got like this bundle of flyers with me and I'm like I've got like a roll of tape around my wrist so that I can I'm on like an electric skateboard so I can quickly go from door to door like I'm all about how many houses per hour can I do right now and I'm like literally standing there with like a lost cat poster in my hand I'm like now is really not a good time I'm trying to find my cat maybe another time and it's just like yeah I have very rarely had those situations but yeah it does it can't we haven't found him by the way we did get one lead from a really helpful neighbor who texted my wife but and actually like it would have been it would have been a you know Cinderella story ending because well not Cinderella but fairy tale ending that's what I was going for because I went and started snooping around her yard at night which was okay because she was cool with it like she told us there's been a cat hanging around and I found the cat that's been hanging around in your yard oh it's just and he's kind of striped and spotted but he's not my cat right so that sucks yeah yeah sorry to hear that when I when I heard the initial story I don't know if you noticed but I didn't ask if you found him or not because I was like I don't really want to bring it up no not yet sorry we're kind of starting to give up hope he's been gone for a week I mean rocket was gone for six weeks but I think that's an exception not rocket was kind of a rocket was somewhat more competent than rumble like rumble was the one that we used to well used to yeah used to really worry about getting out because he's such an idiot less anyway so right YouTube paid subscriptions and merchandise yeah so with channel memberships viewers will pay a monthly recurring fee of $4.99 to get unique badges new emoji and members only posts in the community tab along with access to custom perks offered by creators such as exclusive live streams extra videos or shout outs channel membership has already been available for a select group of creators on YouTube as sponsorships and it will soon be expanding to eligible channels with more than a hundred thousand subscribers under the new name channel memberships so they hope to bring it to even more creators in the coming months and they are also adding merch stores directly to YouTube so they have partnered up with teespring yeah so merch store partnerships yeah so creators can choose from over 20 merchandise items to customize and sell via a shelf on their channel so that's available to all eligible US based channels with over 10,000 subscribers and they will be expanding it in the future so thoughts from from my standpoint I mean this was a matter of time you know if I'm Google or if I'm anyone like say for example me and you hey and I'm looking at the twitch model where people are for some reason willing to pay five dollars a month knowing that only half of it goes to the creator then surely there's a way to create a better deal around that and YouTube has apparently figured it out because and this was like an update that I read on a site somewhere I don't think this was off the official YouTube blog but apparently they will be offering a 70 30 revenue split to be fair on twitch creators there's probably a lot more bandwidth going through per subscription that's true like a lot more a subscriber on twitch is probably watching for many many many hours potentially many hours a day if they watch like at work and stuff compared to a video a day yeah that's true that's true it's a little bit easier for YouTube to do this split that being said twitch does super okay so there's also that also not in the doc somehow but we should really talk about this is Instagram's IGTV have you looked into this at all like are you a little bit yeah yeah it's it's weird I don't really fully get it but it might be like maybe I'm just old now or something but yeah Instagram announces IGTV standalone app for longer videos by longer I don't think they they mean like five minutes it's like an hour right up to an hour up to an hour long videos and they're all vertical that's another kind of interesting part is they're designed to be vertical videos up to an hour long vertical videos that whole like meme of like slapping someone in the face and then knocking their phone sideways is no longer gonna be applicable because you can make our freaking long Instagram TV videos it will still be applicable yeah I don't like the verticalness if you're settling in to watch for an hour the shape of your field of view is like this yeah why feel the view like this why vertical not like this I think the hour thing to be completely honest is them just being like there's no real cap anymore yeah yeah in effect like with the kind of videos that people record on their selfie cams pointing at themselves I think an hour is about as long as you'd really want to be holding your arm up like my my potentially out of the loop brain is thinking that this is just gonna create a lot more kind of behind the scenes content on Instagram yep and is going to open a few holes for those types of content I don't I can't see this being mainline content I know they've they've got some interesting partnerships you mentioned one I don't remember her name I can't remember it was like something like that one of them they're all completely interchangeable to me yeah in the news some kind of marriage good some kind of trouble or relationship okay so I won't general I won't say marriage let's try to realize it or like maybe pregnant or maybe not pregnant or I don't know or even more controversial no longer pregnant yeah or oh or that making news now but one of them I think has some deal for something I don't know but it has to do with Instagram TV maybe they will do even more selfie videos that are slightly longer right now I don't think there's a monetization strategy but I think unlike Facebook which to my knowledge outside of certain partnerships very few bill doesn't do an ad share with creators I think they're open to the idea but I don't know I read the article like a couple days ago and I don't actually have any notes on it I do want to hear from you guys though are you coming around to vertical video I'm gonna vote on this you're really you're gonna vote on this all right all right no for now no never all right so this has nothing to do with me being all flow plane I still I hate vertical video all right no I yes yes twitch chat I can't look at you because you're bad people who will probably spoil solo for me well you're not bad people you're just good people who do bad things yeah trolls yeah trolls so there you go guys I really need to see your votes on this one I'm actually you know what I'm gonna vote on this too I'm a no I'm a no never that's what I did Wow okay this is pretty clear this could be an audience thing it could be that our audience is specifically no nevers or no not for nows because there's really not that many other look at them votes coming in look at them look at them numbers moving on this one and look at them numbers not moving so much on this one the pie chart is pretty sweet too yeah red and green is like the whole thing basically this again this could be a target audience thing there's a huge community of people especially very young people that are just like Instagram Twitter and other apps they're not on Facebook they're not on YouTube as much yeah they're much more on Instagram and Twitter and they might be much more down for the vertical video my wife not only like is a consumer vertical video mostly on Facebook she also even watches horizontal video with her phone vertical just cuz she finds that more comfortable no to hold your phone that way no I know I know I know it makes me so sad more comfortable and like she's she's like this all the time you know what I'm about to I'm about to just go off on this for a little bit here so she'll do this kind of stuff where she'll take a picture of the kids or something and she's good about turning her phone when she takes a picture so that's good at least but then she'll take the picture and she's always got her orientation locked she'll hand me her phone to look at it and I'm like I can't I can't even you're using literally a third of your screen why do you even bother having a smartphone why don't you go back in time and get a flip phone if all you want is a third of the screen then you could have hardware buttons then then you wouldn't have to deal with all this extra screen that you apparently can't handle it which that divorce time like even Netflix man even what yes she will watch movies like that oh that's pretty cuz I was I was giving a little bit of benefit out like if it's if it's like a two-minute video maybe you just don't even want to bother change the setting no no she's basically evil she'll also she'll also watch this this drives me nuts especially because we have an OLED TV she will watch Netflix content on the TV in a window with the start menu burning in a like six thousand dollar TV because I totally took home the w7 of course Wow right white windows logo bottom frickin left and I'm like it's already burnt in it's okay it's okay I've done like the restore thing a couple times and it's it's fine I don't notice it Nick and twitch that yikes but like that is a sin that's really bad and like to me she's like oh yeah I didn't I'll walk in I'll be like yo the video is not full screen she'll be like I didn't notice yeah what how does that even happen how can you not how can that not be the immediate I would notice that before 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believe it's gonna be four episodes oh was it four days or three days it was four days but it was like two of them were half days depending on what was going on on your side it might be fine because there was a lot going down I saw something oh did you know I won't say what it was we don't want to spoil it yeah yeah the no internet challenge is gonna be real and it's gonna be pretty intense I saw something that I very almost did oh like very close but didn't so it'll be cool got it yeah all right new SSDs from Samsung in a new form factor so they Samsung just launched the oh crap I need to go fix something in today's tech link episode okay I have no idea what that means because I don't know what today's tech link episode was I'm not sure what he read but it says in the notes here actually let me get this posted into twitch chat I'm not really gonna be able to get this on screen super easily I wonder what that even means I'm oh geez oh no I can do this trust me anyone play Titanfall 2 that was an amazing single-player huh it doesn't work okay he's got it set to Luke screen which makes no sense because it's very specifically his screen okay Samsung launches 8 terabyte NVMe solid-state drive in NF 1 form factor the 8 terabyte is amazing but the NF 1 form factor is actually the more interesting part in my opinion Samsung has launched the largest capacity NVMe solid-state drive to date at 8 terabytes cool the NF 1 SSD will target data focused analytics and virtualization requirements within data centers this is not targeted towards consumers it's an 8 terabyte freaking crazy SSD this isn't this I know I know I know you'd like it but it's not really for you yet they probably will be one day the otherwise known as a next generation small form factor which makes me want to cry because calling things next generation is not a good idea because eventually it's last generation and F1 is a mini school form factor featuring in a form factor measuring in at 11 centimeters by 3.05 centimeters three times the storage density of m.2 it runs on 16 pieces of 512 gigabyte NAND and you know what's happening you have no idea that would be great welcome to WAN show welcome to the most professional show there is yeah pretty much on television we're talking about I mean at first when he had his first gasp I was like oh this is this like NDA stuff I'm assuming it's probably just like we said something and then news came out later and that thing is no longer what I'm assuming it is is the first line of this which is probably all he got into so Samsung has launched the largest capacity NVMe Solace Drive today to date at 8 terabytes so we probably said the largest capacity Solace Drive is bleh and now it's been defeated probably wrecked probably something like that each one of these things has 16 layers of 256 gigabit V NAND with three bits per second cells Samsung is planning to launch another version later this year with 512 gigabit V NAND cells oh dang this allows for 576 terabytes of storage to be put into two you rack servers 576 terabytes in two terabytes into you so it's like that right about there that's like a one that's probably like it's like it's a fours are like so like a store nader that's a to you right is that through you I thought those were four okay I haven't handled them nearly as much as line says so it's something just come up that asked me if I was a child on his screen I think it said are you a child yes or no 45 drive store nader let me see here I'm actually quite interested because people are fairly familiar with that side yeah well that's like a very standard server size it is so I just don't remember which version of it is build and price storage server I think the XLS 60s I think base tell me for you yeah for you okay so like half the size of a store nader yeah that's pretty dank yeah for like that much storage and it's all SSD you'll probably pay for like this building a couple times yeah yeah in what I'm assuming the cost of this thing will be me yes yeah dang it runs on NVMe one it runs on the NVMe 1.3 protocol and has support for PCI 4.0 dang dang dang that's pretty crazy is that even like standard yet no as far as I know no that's pretty sick and apparently withstand 1.3 drive rights per day equating more than 10 terabytes of rights daily for the three-year warranty period holy cow it's daily yeah this is like super not a consumer product holy crap it's not for you I know I know at least one person I don't know if he's watching right now but loony from the form is like gimme it's not for you loony okay it's for like the zuck yeah yeah you want to talk about this one Bethesda suing Warner Bros yeah I saw the title I didn't really look into it too much neither of I so we're in a great boat right now Bethesda sues Warner Bros Bethesda software suing Warner Bros and fallout shelter co-developer behavior interactive over the recent release Westworld mobile game alleging it's a blatant ripoff oh so it's developed by the same code of yeah oh yeah like this is a word yeah this is a really big deal Bethesda super copyright infringement breach of contract and misappropriating trade secrets yeah so like that's a that's a very big deal obviously I don't know what a contract with Bethesda looks like because that's not our business but especially that type of contract if you're looking at what I would assume to be you know probably eight figures to nine figures total to make like a game like this I and well the thing is there's also recurring yeah well it's contracts and that's what I mean yeah like contracts like overall total development contract or something like this it's got maybe I'm overestimating it's at least a seven figure thing I have no idea but it's a massive amount of money so if you're looking at that there's gonna be some pretty significant confidentiality agreements in there there's gonna be some non-compete stuff in there so essentially what they've done is they've created the same game or a very similar game I guess for a direct competitor yeah so yeah I would assume Bethesda is not gonna be very very pleased with that but those that alleges that Westworld released this week Android and iOS has the same or highly similar game design art style animations features and other gameplay oh boy it really does you can't show my screen okay but if you just Google Westworld mobile game and go to images oh man they really didn't it looks like a reskin oh my it looks like a reskin seriously though which screen am I going to um he's back like check out this one yeah but no on here Luke screen line of screen oh Luke screen I didn't I didn't oh good it didn't hit the computer it did the thing where it freezes when I touch it again wow I haven't even like played a game but that like definitely looks like it it's really similar so yeah I didn't realize it's the same same code of did the Westworld one yeah no that's like real real man real bad yeah oh man I was saying when we intro'd the show I was like this is gonna be this is gonna be bad I'm like not even okay my biggest thing is this character looks really similar to the smaller one like the art style is almost the freaking same it's it's not like they're like oh it's a multi-tier underground thing with some rooms and you got to maintain it like that's like okay it's another battle royale game whatever this is like mmm have you even talked about the part where there's a bug that's present in both games no no no it gets so much worse but that just says the game uses the same copyrighted computer code created for fallout shelter in Westworld alleging that a bug evident in an earlier version of fallout shelter which was later fixed also now appears in Westworld I mean I'm not a lawyer but I'm just gonna go ahead and say that but that's a probably has a case here oh my goodness be I'm no expert but yeah behavior is like the studio that was working on it that's a shortened version so behavior breached its contract with this as Bethesda and utilized its restricted access to Bethesda's intellectual property including Bethesda's copyrighted code trade secrets and and other rights to make a new game on the cheap which I mean from the outside yeah kind of sounds like it looks looks like they might have some going on there pretty brutal that's that's gnarly when I first clicked on this I was kind of suspecting like oh it's another battle royale thing where people are copyrighted concept like the arts almost identical it's just like looks pretty damn lightly it looks like you bought a Westworld costume for the fallout game and like a Westworld room skin who would think that that's gonna fly I just like I just don't even like you're you're you're a professional game developer by some you know then probably I'd be apparently not but not someone who works there thinks they're a professional game developer and they it hasn't occurred to them that IP law is like a big problem yeah and the kind of thing that a company like Bethesda would spend a lot of money to protect yeah and like I've brought up PUBG or a battle royale a few times in this and PUBG has sued a lot of people that has actually made a ton of sense where it's like almost the exact same game and there is some interesting points with their fortnight thing which is like the the plane comes in on PUBG and the bus comes it's a freaking plane comes in on fortnight like it's almost the same in that way but then fortnight has the benefit of having like the building features and like all these other weird things that really set it apart that helps them a lot in their case right there I don't think there's there's much in this one yeah oh geez and like the art in fortnight looks drastically different than the art in PUBG and that helps them a lot too okay last last big topic here Intel CEO has resigned after a consensual relationship with an employee because 2018 we like really need well yeah that's important so he's like definitely broken company policy yeah but he's not like getting wrapped up in the whole hashtag me too yeah yeah so basically Intel has announced that he has resigned a CEO it makes a little sketchy that we have consensual relationship in quotes oh well okay it's like actually a consensual relationship everything's okay so anyway he's resigned a CEO following an investigation into a consensual relationship with an Intel employee which is another way of saying he was fired he also left the board even so he's like out of the company yeah chief financial officer Robert Swan will step in as interim CEO like another indication that you were fired is that there has to be an interim CEO because I didn't have something lined up there's nothing lined up yeah and basically he violated a policy that said that managers cannot have relationships with people who report to them either directly or indirectly and when you're the CEO that means everyone yeah I would think I'm actually making an assumption there which is officially why we can't be in a relationship the relationship ended and took place some time back whatever that means and was probably an affair Krasnich's total compensation topped 21 million last year so he's and the company paid for his transportation and residential security this his Intel stock rose about 120% during his tenure as CEO 21 million dollars a year that's a lot of money that works out to hold on a second so calculator so 21 1 2 3 1 2 3 divided by how many you know you know what I know the I know the hourly calculation that is $10,000 an hour if you worked 40 hours a week oh my god right can that be right that's pretty insane wow wow Brian I think you'll be okay even though he's probably not getting his golden parachute he sold all of his stock in that or not all like half of his stock in that high-profile thing around the meltdown inspector bugs yeah but if he has to sell what I'm assuming is one of his many homes or cars I'm sure he'll he'll be fine yeah he'll figure like he made enough money that I'm sure he has enough assets that it really won't matter I don't know man I he's not gonna have to go be a greeter or anything I really no offense to greeters I'm just saying I really don't I don't understand how any person can be that valuable because you know you know like we talk about how you know well do you know what do you know what Elon does have you heard about the CEO salary thing not to toot his horn anymore but and I'm guys got enough of an ego at this point yeah and I'm not gonna bother look it up but it was like comparing the difference between the like lowest paid employee and the CEO at different companies yeah what the percentage of whatever his was 0.9 the reason for that is because he gets like crazy stock options and all this other kind of stuff so this was total compensation not salary okay so I don't know I I I I have I have trouble with I have trouble with that you know ten thousand dollars an hour yeah because if you think okay think about it in terms of like like slavery we all agree it's wrong freaking I hope we all agree it's wrong we all agree it's wrong with those kind of kinds of resources could a person effectively own another person 24 hours a day seven days a week for the rest of their life yeah does that give you enough power to do something like that well you could you could own three people at eight hour shifts very very very very easily so I don't know I just literally three people at eight hour shifts you could pay them with like the the last two digits before the dot yeah I don't know man it's just I don't know it apparently Broadcom CEO made a hundred million last year nice what do you even do with a hundred million one of my favorite things is when a company is just tanking and a CEO gets like oh the Toys R Us thing was a disgusting mess I'm not familiar they basically raided the company and then walked off with golden parachutes and people who'd been working there 20 years as a cashier or shelf stalker or whatever got nothing is gross yeah all right anyway on that happy note hey that's it for the WAN show for today and we will see you again next week same bad time same bad channel now I'm running it intentionally all right fish books spectrum glasses marina's coffee probably already missed out on the first 50 orders there but I don't know give it a shot