Windows 11 Is Getting Faster - WAN Show May 15, 2026

What is up everybody? Happy Friday and welcome to the WAN show. We're back at you geekier than ever. Yeah. Sexy, right? And we've got some good news today. Windows 11 is getting a speed boost and for some reason they're getting user backlash about this. Um, no, no, please do make Windows faster. definitely appreciate that. I mean, how else are they going to compete with Google Books? Oh, that the the AI sequels to Chromebooks. We don't know a ton about these yet, but they were a huge focus for Google at their recent Android event earlier this week. We'll be talking a little bit about those and some, maybe you're going to be mad at me, maybe you're going to be mad at me, but some AI features of Aluminium OS that I am legitimately Oh, no. stoked for. There's one that's really cool. We'll see if we have the same opinion. Uh, Linux gains more critical Windows apps. Very important. 3D Movie Maker and Space Cadet Pinball. Those are I mean they're not on Windows now. Absolute App Cinema. Just another dub. Uh, and also I don't know. Uh, this one I think is funny. I don't know if it's good news, but it's funny. Amazon employees are token maxing due to pressure to use AI tools. It's a It's a It's actually It's funny. It's a funny topic. The show is brought to you today by AMD, Cape, Motion Gray, and XSplit, along with our rep partner Dbrand, our laptop partner, Razer, and our chair partner also Razer. Why don't we jump right into our headline topic today, which is that Windows 11 is getting a speed boost. Microsoft is testing a new Windows 11 feature called low latency profile that temporarily increases CPU clock speeds in very short bursts to speed up things like the start menu, app launches, and other UI interactions, mimicking how Mac OS handles responsiveness and for that matter also Android and iOS and basically any other modern operating. I didn't realize Windows wasn't already doing this. Windows Central testing showed up to 40% faster launch times for Microsoft's own apps like Outlook, The Store, Paint, and File Explorer, and up to 70% faster launch times for the Start menu, and Context menus. The feature has drawn community backlash with people accusing Microsoft of cheating and using a band-aid solution instead of addressing underlying Windows performance issues. I think they can do both. Um, Scott Hansselman, VP for Core AI GitHub and Windows, defended this change, though, responding to several critics on Twitter, noting that your smartphone already does this. You've discovered dynamic frequency scaling. Mac and Linux do this already, and you guys aren't complaining. This is probably the most blatant transparent admission that Microsoft is like a decade behind that I have ever seen from a Microsoft VP. It's like, "Hey guys, we were just doing the thing that everybody else completely lapped us on the track doing. Sorry." And he's 100% right. There should be zero backlash for Microsoft doing this. There should just be Yay. Especially considering it's it's a profile. So it sounds like you can turn it off if you want. This is like when my kid is running like the 800 meter and she's like the last one to cross the line like you know. Yeah, you got there. And to to be clear actually that is not how it went down by the way. Uh so congrats to to my youngest for actually uh qualifying for the next stage. But but anyway, but the point is just that um this is a good thing. With that said, yeah, they do still have other work to do. I yeah, there's some validity to Microsoft needing to clean up their house because just cranking my CPU in order to make up for your in a lot of cases fairly garbage decision-m over the years is not the answer, but it can be part of the answer. if you do this in order to catch up with other operating systems and you, you know, get rid of React Native being part of the start menu and things like that, the combination can be really good. And I don't think the order necessarily matters. I know some people are like, "Oh, you should fix those things first." It's like, no, you should do anything you can as soon as you can to improve the user experience as much as you can. Absolutely. And if you really think that turning up the frequency of the CPU a little bit when you launch the start menu or whatever is going to have a a significant impact on the battery life of your laptop, guys, how long do you think it's actually boosting for? Like it's it's it's it's for a fraction of a second, like a tiny fraction of a second. Mac OS laptops known for being super efficient. Do this like you can probably relax. And also it's described as a profile. Yeah, that would tell me I I am guessing, but that would tell me that you can probably turn it off if you really care. Um, which you shouldn't. It should probably just be the default profile from now on. Yeah, honestly, I would prefer they actually did that and then called the other profile like dog profile, like something. Yeah, worse profile. Extreme battery saver. Sure, but we already have that. So, this should bundle it into that or something. This should just be in the the default balanced and uh performance profiles. Um Yeah. I mean, good. I just got a text on WhatsApp. I bet you couldn't even tell. No. Yeah, we should we should probably we should probably talk about these. Yeah. I Okay, so full disclosure, uh Meta sponsored uh I think it's a short. Yeah, it's a short. Uh just talking about some of the new features. Uh, I am not on the clock right now though. Right now I'm just wearing them because Sammy came in here before the show started and asked if he could just get a shot of me wearing them on the WAN show set and I was like, "Yeah, sure. That's fine." Have you uploaded the short yet? Nope. Okay. And then Luke and I started talking about them and I I've been using them for about a week now and there's a lot of stuff that is I got to be honest with you uh pretty cool. Um, I showed Luke the display before the show started and I've actually uh my my neural band uh so the bracelet that you wear that kind of keeps track of which fingers you're tapping and lets you like swipe you swipe through the menu like this and then you can like write texts like this. You can also dictate to it. Um weird. Yeah, it's it's super funky. So, you wake the device by doubletapping here and then you say yes with this, no with this, and it can tell the difference between those. Um, it's pretty cool. As far as my understanding goes, there's there's ones coming from from Apple and Google and and uh actually a really wide variety of other manufacturers as well. Tell me this, Samsung. Tell me this. If you had to put the various smart glasses brands into Good Boy brand and Timeout brand, which which smart glasses would you consider wearing? You want I I want I want the honest answer. I don't know if this is going to sound surprising to you or not. I I going to type it because I already know what you're going to say. Like it's so Oh, you're so predictable. Okay, hit me. Apple. Yeah, of course. And man, Apple's a company that I have a a complicated relationship with because on the one hand, they um definitely have in order to in order to access the Chinese market have absolutely compromised their user privacy. Absolutely. I mean, is a is a Chinese Apple user like less worthy of Apple's promises with respect to their data safety than a Western one? I I don't really if if that's your corporate promise, then I don't really see why there would be a difference there. And if there is a difference there, then I don't really think you get to stand there and beat the drum about how amazing you are with respect to user privacy, depending on where your lines are. But on the other hand, right, and oh, and then there's Apple being an obstacle for years and years and years with respect to support for RCS encrypted messages across platform because it would disincentivize people to stay locked into the iOS walled garden. It's like they're highly financially motivated to just walk away from user privacy whenever it's not convenient for them. Ability is often really trash as well. However, they also have gone to bat. Yes. For their users. When it's more convenient. So, if there was someone that I was that I also was going to I'm not going to use the T word. I'm not going to say trust. No. Yeah. Yeah. I'll use the other T-word. If there was someone I was going to tolerate. Yeah. Apple does seem like a an an okayish better maybe bet. I'm not really stoked on strapping Meta or Google or anything else to my face with visual and audio inputs like Oh, you're doing I'm not actually recording you right now cuz my neural band battery is dead. But I just Yeah, I don't know. But I have always thought like Hey, there you go. Oh, I guess you can do is there physical button picture? Yeah, I So it also squeeze the frame or is there a button? It al there's a button. So it also supports um not the neural band, but the like beta firmware that I have is neural band only. So I'm I wonder if you can I'm recording you right now. Wonder if you can cut off that little LED. Uh so if you cover it uh which side's it on again? This side, right? Yeah. So, if you cover it, um, it'll get mad at you and it will stop recording from what I've heard. I've never actually tried to cover it because I haven't used them in public much yet. I've used them um on the court though, so I was I was hanging out with um like a former junior national player and he was really excited about these cuz he's trying to grow his social media presence and so I was like, "Oh yeah, I'm going to get some like POV footage of training with you." And Jaden's like, "Oh, yeah, that's super cool. Can you like send all that to me after?" So, you know, when everyone around you is consenting and cool with it, like, man, this is a perspective that no, there's there's no other way to capture like this. And it's really cool. There's I mean, there's is Carter in full chat said, "What about the recent news that Meta is having humans watch and categorize videos without telling anyone?" Yeah. Yeah. And there was also news in there that like a ton of it was accidentally recorded. Um, nudity and other various stuff. Um, and from what I've heard of various ages. Um, so like it's Yeah, there's there's I charge nuclei says orgy glasses. I hope. Yeah. Yeah. I I promise you. Yeah. Um I I hope you know Apple sticks to their usually pretty decent privacy guns. Because from what I've rumors that I've heard and maybe these are real, I don't know. Um is they're ditching Vision Pro. Yeah. I heard the Vision Pro team has basically Yeah. going to glasses. Gone all in on these because cuz the Vision Pro had a lot of good things about it. Oh, it it did. It really did. It was the coolest product that's ever been so irrelevant. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's a cool way of saying it. Yeah. Um so like they they could be really good and uh I I I you know sometimes you just have to listen to people and accept what they say. And when you look at Google and when you look at Meta, they're not hiding it. Just listen to them. We will take as much data as we possibly can, use it in every way we possibly can, and sell it to absolutely everyone we possibly can for as much money as we possibly can. Yep. I mean, they're literally advertising companies. Yeah. Like they are they are it's not even saying the quiet part out loud. It's saying the really loud part as loud as they possibly can to everyone that will listen. And at a certain point, you have to be like, "Okay." And they're really good at it. So we we traditionally have relied almost exclusively on our own videos and our own sort of social media profiles to promote LTT store for instance uh over the last it's funny we had an all hands dude yeah this is wild recently and uh Dave who is heading up operations or I forget what his actual job title is whatever he's uh he's definitely heading up marketing he's Dave he's Dave he's kind of a beast Um, and he's been doing uh he's been spearheading marketing for LTT store offsite. So, we're doing things like influencer uh affiliate programs and things like that. Um, we've got oh, I don't know if he's passed probation yet, but we've got another really uh super smart guy who is uh who's working on that with Dave. And then Dave has been running like uh Reddit ads, meta ads. Uh, more recently we did uh Pinterest when we were promoting the leggings which sold out like crazy fast. Thank you so much for your support. We're hopefully going to be able to do like more women's styles based on that success. Um, but he during the all hands he had this line that really stood out to me where he's like, "Okay, how many of you in this room have seen an LTT store ad lately?" and 2/3 probably about two quarters. Like most of the company was like, "Yeah, and like I have I I put my hand up." A bunch of family members of mine knew about the leggings because of ads. The leggings were one of the first times that like I got requests to get something. Usually I'll be like, "Oh, we have this cool new thing. are you interested in this? And the leggings were like multiple people were like, "Hey, I want the pockets." Yeah. Yeah. And so, um, what we're what we're discovering is that, uh, I forget the exact numbers, but like for every dollar that we're spending with these advertising giants, like it's something that I've always known, like obviously they're running profitable businesses, right? Yeah. And obviously, you know, people like Ridge or Vessie or whoever like would stop giving them money if it wasn't working. Right. So, obviously it's working, but this is my first time really seeing firsthand like, oh my gosh, the more we spend just like marketing with Meta or with Reddit or with Google, just like the more sales we have. And it's like I wouldn't say it's an infinite money glitch because you reached like a point of diminishing returns. But if you have a good product, they are crazy good as we saw during the all hands at taking you know an LTT product that a techin interested person might be interested in and putting it in front of them wherever they go on the internet. It's like I don't know it it everything I'm saying is like yeah duh line is common sense ever since like like double click you know like back in the '9s or whatever. And it's like yeah I know that advertising is just kind of a solved thing. It's just I don't know. It's been weird to see it from the other side. To experience it from the other side and go, "Oh, this is just like pouring gasoline on the fire of your business." but Dude, we're we're [ __ ] Like just like just everything. I I know it's Good News W show and everything, but like Yeah, it's it's just it's crazy because and I go right. So, right coming back to it. These are so good now. Oh, okay. That like people are going to wear them. So whether you choose an Apple one or like a cool open-source privacy one Yeah. framework does a glass. I mean the the branding is already there. The framework frames, come on, man. Replaceable arm things. Sure, whatever, right? Um or like uh or or or graphine OS, you know, makes an OS for you. You might wear that one, but at the end of the day, it doesn't really matter which one you're wearing. People around you, it matters which one the people around you are wearing. We've already got multiple people here at the office that regardless of any sponsorship deals we do or don't do around like Meta AI glass display whatever things are just wearing them. They buy them and wear them. We thought there was a lot of tribalism around like consoles and like PC versus Mac. Oh dude, glasses. The the your choice of electronic compromises my personal security is going to be wild. That's going to be crazy. I never even really thought about that too much. We we're we're we're an Apple glasses group of friends. So I'm I'm sorry you don't use eyeglass message. You have metas. Excuse me. You don't belong here. Um, one of the things that on the subject of of like cross-platform communication is a shortcoming right now is it supports like messages, um, Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, like it's basically all meta ecosystem stuff. But one of the things that Oh, okay. But things might change at some point. Sorry, I don't know when we're publishing our short and I don't know if anything we're saying in it is under embargo. So, got it. Um, but yeah, like hopefully the ecosystem will expand at some point for apps that you can use because right now they're not that useful for me dayto-day. Like I have to put them on intentfully to to use them because uh maybe 90% of my textbased communication is uh teams and then another 5% is WhatsApp and then another 1% is Discord. Discord is basically just you and then it's so astonishing to me that no one else in my life uses it or Yeah, cuz like like I reached out to someone literally like last week on a different platform and they were like, "Yeah, sorry. I like really never check this. Can we jump to Discord?" And that happens to me at least once a month. Like everyone I know seems to be moving to Discord. Okay, so above the fold. So, this is 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12. There's 12 chats here above the fold. Tell me how far back that goes. I mean, four down and you're back a month. I wonder uh by the time we get to 12, that's from that chat. It's hidden by the chat uh icon is from 7 months ago. So there's like a dozen people that I talk to with a frequency of twice a year. My entire screen. When you get to the very bottom one, it finally gets to two days. Yeah. So Discord is it's Discord. Oh man. Teams is Teams and Slack are obviously the lion's share, but like Discord is next after those ones. And Discord a bunch of Discord is work. Do you think that's a generational gap? Like your cohort is five years younger than mine. Like yeah because then once you go far enough down below mine I don't know if it's still Discord. It might be something else. I have no idea but probably but like even even a lot of creators most the vast majority of creators that I talk to is through Discord. So nobody wants to use anything else. We've got Lwig. I saw a couple of them in here. Shroud, Finster, um, Boola, Elijah, and you, I think you count. And then the only work ones in here are, um, so not Unrade, the the other thing that they're making. Hexos, that's embarrassing. Uh, Hexos, so that's the NAS software that I invested in. So, their CEO messages me on here. And then it's just like, yeah, a couple couple friends, uh, a couple YouTube uh, contacts. um work ones make up at least a quarter of my within the last day. Go figure. Like anyway, until we get um until we until there's like more crossplatform chat, I'm going to get like a small percentage of my notifications on here anyway, which means I'm far more likely to look at my watch. Um, but I can kind of through these frames, Luke, dude, the freaking out about Finster. I can see the future. Oh, to be clear, I don't So, I talked to I talked to Finster once 5 months ago basically. Um, just saying, uh, hey, it was it was cool that you came to visit our office. I think people are just surprised. Yeah. Uh, Elijah introduced me. Um, yeah. I I don't I don't know I don't know very much about a lot of the people that I that I message, but I've heard that she's pretty cool. Sure. So, and I think she came up for LTX once or something. I think visiting the LT camera department something something. Oh, no. Friend met you. Uh, yeah. I don't know. I got introduced and from what I've heard, she's pretty cool. That's uh that that's all that's all I know. I just thought it was funny seeing the chat explo. Yeah. Yeah. I And apparently very popular with our audience. Yep. Makes sense to me. Uh I'm I'm going to take these off now. They're pretty uncomfortable with the width of the face and stuff. The headphones. Yeah. All right. Is there is is there any leaks with the Apple ones? Yeah. Lots. No timelines though because they were kind of all in on the whole like VR headset that we insist is not a VR headset and that we stubbornly refuse to acknowledge the the two main use cases for VR headsets. Is this from the pressure because of the headphones? You have like big um whatever those are called. Oh yeah. Is that the pressure cuz the headphones or does that always happen with No, that just always happens with them. Wow. They're they're not light. Pretty heavy, eh? Yeah. They're not They're not super light, but also like I don't have nose calluses like I don't wear glasses. I guess you get more used to them especially when they're heavy. Yeah. And also just people who just like wear glasses will take off their glasses and they'll have like the mark there. So I I I wouldn't read too much into that. They're not uncomfortable. Sure, sure, sure. Sure. Um Okay. Google Book. Oh yeah, we could do that. Google Book. Google Book. The AI sequel to Chromebook. On Tuesday of this week, Google gave a sneak peek of the Google book, which is kind of like a Chromebook, but with more Android support and deeper integration of Gemini. Obviously, Google Books can run Android apps directly on the laptop or can access files and use apps from your Android phone. It's expected that Google Books will run uh Google Google's upcoming aluminum OS, aluminium OSU OS. Uh Google didn't discuss the core hardware in the announcement, but Intel and Qualcomm have both made announcements confirming their partnership. So yeah. Okay. Uh Google VP John Mletus later told Chrome Unbox that the upcoming notebooks will ship with processors from Okay. Intel, Qualcomm, and MediaTek. Oh, and MediaTek. Interesting. Wireless, I'm assuming. Uh no, no, no. So, okay. From my understanding, and I'm I'm going to get some details wrong here because I don't remember and it was a while ago, but from my understanding, the whole Windows on ARM thing being Qualcomm exclusive with their Snapdragon X chips is like a timed thing. And uh that's one of the reasons that Qualcomm has been so ky around people calling it Windows on ARM. They want it called like Windows on Snapdragon uh because they want to like like plant their flag in the in the Windows on ARM space uh before you know some of the lowerc cost chipset makers can can come in and well do what they do best which is be lowerc cost chipset makers and um so while we haven't seen any meaningful traction for MediaTek on the Windows side yet yeah I can't think of any reason that a MediaTek SOC couldn't power a Google book. And so having that choice right out of the gate could be very interesting. Uh Pug Boy says, "Mediate has been in Chromebooks for years now. Nothing surprising there." Yeah. So, um what I haven't seen though is a MediaTek chipset that would be like high performance. Do they have something new that's coming that could be more of a competitor for Snapdragon X? That I don't know. I remember I have a vague memory of maybe at some point there being like a like a MediaTek laptop grade chip that was going to be not like an absolute budget tier solution. So uh yeah, hit me up in chat if you guys uh if you guys know if there's if we're going to get something high performance because that would be pretty cool. Yeah, carry on. Google is establishing strict hardware standards across memory, storage, keyboards, and overall build quality. Google books will come in a variety of shapes and sizes from the usual hardware manufacturers of Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc. Okay, but this this is the big one. This is the big feature. This is the exciting differentiator. This is why you need a Google book. Sir, tell them the news. Google books feature a glow bar on the exterior. We don't know what it does. We don't know what it looks like. We don't know anything about it. But Google says that it is both functional and beautiful. Okay, I'm actually only sort of joking because how quickly would you get a MacBook that went back to having the glowing Apple logo on the back? Just saying. You would do it. I do. You MacBook owners, if if M6 brought back the glowing logo on the back, you'd consider an upgrade. That's how Apple's going to get all the people running M1, M2 silicon to finally upgrade. You'd love to have it. You've got the glowing red dot and you love it. Red dot is actually genuinely helpful. You love it. So, I can tell what my laptop's doing based on the glowing red dot. He loves it. He loves it. Here comes the glow bar. I'm Derek says, "Holy True." I am actually okay with it just being a little red dot though. So, like I don't know what that means. Um, Axios writer Ena Freed, hopefully probably uh called the most visible change with the Google book the magic pointer which calls up Gemini. Oh, right. I don't know about that, but okay. Um, it's not yet clear. Okay. When you you didn't finish your sentence, Luke, you did the thing. the the magic pointer which calls up Gemini anytime you wiggle the cursor and the amount of like misprompts for that is going to be wild. But it's not yet clear what this means for the future of Chromebooks. So the the wiggle the cursor thing the amount of times that I'm just thinking and I'll like kind of shake my mouse. I have to consciously when Luke is reading the dock, I have to consciously not do this. Yeah, exactly. Because it interferes with him reading because I just like I just do this as I'm reading. Well, and it's it's not just that it's highlighting it. It's that the man if I can. No, keep doing it. Keep doing it. Oh, keep doing Oh, I can do that all day. Cuz on my screen, see how it actually says like Wancho one. Oh, wait. My screen. Yeah, it's the little flag. So, as I'm reading, so that will actually like physically cover up entire words sometimes. It's like, yo, I like actually can't read this now. They're both doing it. They're actually moving the text around. Yeah, Dan, you copied you pasted the text. That is not fair. Sorry, it's a click and drag thing. That's even worse. Yeah, but yeah, I'll I I'll even literally just like shake my mouse. So, like the amount of times that I would unintentionally bring this thing up and then I I I think it looks like it kind of like overlays your screen almost like a a snipping tool kind of thing. So, like it's it's going to be really annoying. Um, however, there is one AI feature of Aluminium OS that is also coming to Android that I am like so freaking jazzed for. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Okay. I'm trying to contain myself, Luke. I'm trying to contain myself. It's hard to contain myself. I typed it down cuz I suspect it's the same thing. Yeah, it's the like AI widgets. Yeah, they're actually really cool. They look so cool. This is such a perfect application of like AI slop crap coding that nobody else is going to need. like, okay, uh, a perfect the one that I want is like a um uh like like an ultimate like time zone tracker just for me. Uh, like I I just want particular information like I also want maybe a little bit of like weather in there um for I like to have something in Southeast Asia like Taiwan so that I I I know what's going on like I know what time zone it is for anyone that I'm corresponding with in Asia-ish. I like to have one in Europe so like usually I'll pick like Paris or something like that just so I know about what time it is in Europe. And then I'll do the math myself for East Coast, North America, but I'll have like a local one. And just the ones that exist are so bland and so boring. Like you can see the one I'm using now. It's just like I don't know. Here's three times. This could be so cool. Uh what if I could long press on one of the other time zones? I don't know if it's going to be able to do this, but I I I can kind of I could kind of see where we're headed. Like what if I could long press on one of the time zones and then I could uh make an event on my calendar according to that time zone because I know because like creating events across time zones sucks so much. Like when I'm over in Taiwan for Computex and I want to make a make a note to uh remind myself the evening of the Tuesday when I'm back to go to whoever's you know band recital or whatever. I then have to do the math for what time it is now that it will be there. And and if I could just like integrate like calendar and like like cool stuff like that, then I'd love it. And I know we're not there yet. Don't think you have to do that though. Um I think under more options. Yeah, on desktop. Sure. But I want to be able to do it quickly. Yeah, fair enough. So I think on desktop you can set your time zone, I think. Uh yeah. So I can like I can go do that. But if I could just if I could just like long press here and basically just go, "Yeah, great. Let's go." And like as it is now, like I can go in here and then I can set my time zone. I can do this like super tedious flow, but I want to be able to do it quickly. And that's the whole pitch of these like custom AI widgets is taking the things that you do all the time that almost nobody else does all the time and making them like one or two presses. Oh, Chef Kiss. Can't wait. So excited. if if I could put it on like one of my side monitors. I I I actually thought of this while we were sitting here and now I just want to do it anyways and I'm pretty sure I can. Uh but I would have something on my side monitor, not my main monitor that warns me about things that I might need to be prepared for for tomorrow and it should start generating that at like 5:00 p.m. Yeah. or like because the this the calendar is going to change all day and then at around 5 p.m. it's probably going to decently lock in and if it can let me know of like oh you have like an offsite or something. Yeah. Yeah. And like let's say it's not even just for work stuff. So it's like oh you're going hiking tomorrow. Make sure you like have the right clothes that are clean. M and Connor M and Connor, you're missing the point. The beauty of widgets is that I don't have to open my Google calendar. Yeah. He's like, "You can." It's like, it's literally on my Google calendar. I don't want to open my Google calendar. I I I want to just stay on my home screen. Like, I actually have uh like I used to maintain like a whole bunch of like constant tabs in my in my mobile browser and I've got it down to four. And I have found that just that action of like opening up the Chrome app less and having like fewer tabs and fewer things to click on and go into is making me use my phone like way less. Nice. Um, and I'm I'm stoked on anything that helps me use my phone less. That was one line from the Google event that really stood out to me is we are everything what we're doing for the future of Android is with an eye toward using your phone less and doing more with the help of your phone. Now, there's some stuff that's just obviously horseshit. the uh the assistant, you like they did this crazy demo where you snap a picture of like a concert poster and then you just like tell Gemini like, "Hey, can you just like book me two floor tickets for that? I'm going to like take a girl with me and set a date for that." And then you like go on your date and then you're just like, "Hey, uh make another date for next week." Like, no girl wants to hear from your [ __ ] AI assistant that you asked her out again. Are you Are you kidding me right now? Stop it. Just stop it. Stop it. Don't even pitch this. That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works. Maybe in Silicon Valley. Maybe if it's your AI system. Maybe. But like just just know probably work. No. Um, like dude, I I said I said in the script like when I in the video that we did on the Google event, I was like, "Yeah, even just setting an alarm has about a 80 to 90% success rate for me." Oh, yeah. And since then, I tried to set an alarm for something and it uh and it screwed up the um What did it do? No, it timed out. So, I I and I was on Wi-Fi. I was on Wi-Fi at home, so I was on like 2 and a half gig internet, so I didn't even want to hear it. And then, uh, this is a this is a funny one. Um, I was dictating to my uh to my notes cuz I was actually thinking like just because Meta sends these glasses over to me for a sponsored short doesn't mean I don't still have them. I could I could totally just do an editorial video on them after the fact. So, I've started making some notes from my time just using them now. And I I was reminded of a super annoying thing that dictation just does that drives me absolutely crazy. What is up with this word square being capitalized? The the so the so the sentence here is and the video quality off of these things is just is is capitalized is just mind-blowingly good. Period. Also, the fact that sometimes it writes the word period and comma, and other times it just puts in the period for me. Come on, man. Uh, I would love to see Meta use a sensor that's square, kind of like the selfie camera on the latest iPhone, so that I could choose to crop landscape if I want to. It capitalized square and it capitalized is why. And then the next sentence, not everything that I do is best portrayed in portrait. Not. That's the beginning of a sentence. Not is not capitalized. The word portrayed is capitalized. And then between in and portrait, there are two spaces. You can't convince me that that should ask out someone that I potentially want to spend the rest of my life with. You've got to be kidding. The stakes are too high. I'm afraid. I don't use dictation very much. When you just showed me Square, I was like, "Oh, they it thought the company Sure." But in that context and No, it did not. No. They did it to Portrayde and all this other stuff. Is portrayed a company? Is that like a like a prominent Silicon Hold on here. Is that a prominent Silicon Valley company? Portrayed brands. Nope. Forget it. We're you're done. You're cooked. You're out. You're you're you're fried. You're So, there are definitely things that are exciting and there are things that AI is really good at. Um, I tried to I was looking for um a moment from an older video a little while ago and I just couldn't remember. I was looking for a time on short circuit when I had used AI to try to find our deskpad. I wanted it to send me to LTT store to the Northern Lights deskpad by taking a picture of it. I was using like the circle to search or Google Lens or something like that. one of their image recognition and search things and I couldn't remember what video it was from and Gemini just kept gaslighting me over and over and over and over again that it was from I think it was like the Pixel 10 or something like that or Pixel 9 9a or that it was from um the Galaxy S24 Ultra or something. And finally, you know, how I ultimately found it was um YouTube transcript search. I'm trying to remember what that site. Filmont. Filmont. This is a really cool site. So, it just kept insisting and and the craziest part is was I felt so gas lit by it because it would give me a timestamp and it would describe the thing that happened. It was like you searched for the thing and it just brought up other desk pads of like landscapes or something or like it it brought up like the MKBHD store or whatever. Like it was like I was like, "Yeah, yeah, that's what I remember happening." But it kept telling me it happened in this video when I was like, "No, it's not in that video." And it would keep insisting that it was in one of these couple of videos and it just couldn't find it. And the way that I ultimately found it was by um going here on film. This is a super cool tool, by the way. And I just searched for uh Northern Lights. Yes, yes, yes. I'm human. Oh my god. Relax. Hey. Uh yeah, you go here. Uh verify. I'm smarter than an AI. I've never seen that one before. Okay. It was from here. Google 10 Pixel Pro. Uh Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold was what it was from. And the AI could not check this one. It just insisted that it was on a different one. And but it knew it described the way it went down perfectly. It just linked me to the wrong video. And then chat GPT tripped over itself as well. It couldn't do it either. And so, man, but then there's But then there's things that it does so well like I I don't know, man. I don't know how I don't know how to deal with this anymore. I don't know how to deal with this. Like I like I Okay. What What have you used AI for that's been useful recently? Yeah, fair enough. All right, we can move on. I've used it in the same way for a super long time. I'll use it for I I never use it actual output. That's been a rule for a long time. Yeah, I use it for brainstorming every once in a while. I'll be like, here's here's a topic. I need all the basic like fundamentals of this topic and then it'll give me basically like headline things, not headline things. Uh I don't know if I'm asking about a mouse, it'll say latency, you know, like like things like that. Like it'll give me all the different things to consider and then I'll and then I'll dive into those. Um another one probably my basically like a checklist to make sure you don't overlook anything. Yeah. So okay, I want to learn about this topic. What are the different like subcategory type things? I don't remember the actual verbiage because I just copy paste it. Uh what are what are the things within this topic that I need to care about and then it'll let me know and then I'll dive into those usually myself or I'll ask it to expand on one of them and then dive into it from there. But I try to usually make it so that my final information does not come from it because I'm relatively aware of how consistently wrong it is about things. Um, and then probably over all time, I don't know if in the last month or two, but over all time, my most commonly used prompt objectively is going to be the sentiment analysis one. Where I'll be sending a message and I'll be worried about how it's going to be interpreted. So, I'll kind of rubber ducky with the LLM and just be like, what what sentiment analysis would you get from this message? Kind of in a vacuum. You know what's funny is I actually uh I I use it very rarely, but that was something I used it for pretty recently. I pasted in an argument that Ivonne and I happened to get into over text and I was like, whose fault was it? And basically it it crapped out that it was kind of both of our fault and it legitimately did help us resolve it. And I was like, "Okay, well I'm sorry for that thing that I did that I didn't really like notice or realize I was doing." And she was like, "Well, I'm sorry for that thing that I didn't really want to make out through WAN show. I have told that I have told a very large number of people about this whole sentiment analysis thing." And I find so few people ever try it. And every single person I've ever known that has ever tried it has been like, "Oh, it's actually pretty good." Cuz like if you really sat there and really break it down for a while, you'll find those things. But often it's like, I don't know. This is this is the message that I would send. If this was a normal day, I would just click send, but I want to be a little bit more careful. Copy, paste, blunk. And then it'll be like it'll it'll say some stuff and it's like, yeah, I could see that. So then you make the adjustment yourself. What are your personal tells for when you know that you're probably cranky? Mine is eating sounds. If people if people eating near me is annoying, then I know that I'm in a bad mood, even if I didn't realize it before, because eating sounds normally I won't even notice them. But when I'm like when I'm low blood sugar or I haven't slept enough or there's something that's just kind of been agitating me or I have a headache or whatever, if someone is in the same room as me and I can hear that like lip smacking, I just like I want to I want to punch them and I'll like I'll be like I'll be sitting there going like why am I so agitated right now? Look at them like they're they're eating. Do they know do they know how much noise they're make? Oh, this is me. Uh, oh no. To be says, "I get this hearing you with the braces." Hey, I have good news on the braces front. Well, he thinks uh Hey, look. Uh, this one, it's not that zoomed. Whatever. There's one tooth here that's still quite twisted. And from what I can tell, when we untwist that one, we're pretty much done. So, I am hoping, fingers crossed, that we are like 2 1/2 to 3 months from the end here, which would put us at the low end of the time estimate they gave me. They said about 12 to 18 months, and that would put us at around the 12 1/2 13 month mark. Uh, we wasted like an entire cycle with a tie on this one that wasn't secure enough and wasn't moving it. And I I felt it right away. I was like, "Should I go in and tell them to like like tie that off better cuz I can tell it's not moving and I know that this is the focus." But I didn't. And when I came in, they were like, "Oh yeah, that wasn't doing anything. So, we have to put in the same wire again, but we're going to like tie it different and reposition the bracket." I was like, "No, that sucks." I think for me it's like speed. speed. If I start noticing that I'm just like like off the dome just rifling, it's usually not a great situation. Oh, so you're doing if I'm no longer controlling my pace, if I'm no longer really thinking through what I'm saying, if I'm going like animalistic autopilot brain, it's like I'm probably tilted right now. God, and I need to and the the main way that I can try to get out of that is to try to force myself to slow down. How often does that happen on Wan show? Not not that often, I think. Um, do you believe him? Dan nodded. I tried to cut him off. I tried to cut him off cuz that was that was so perfect. But yeah, I think I think that's my answer to that. There there's a few other things as well. The eating thing I think is pretty common. I think I get that, too. Um, I don't think I get it as bad as you. I've seen you react to that before. Um, but but yeah, I I I'll I'll I'll like and and I'll start noticing that like the the nonautomatic part of the brain is now focused on what happened a few seconds ago instead of what I'm going to do next because I'm going so fast that it's like, well, I didn't like that. I didn't frame that well and now I'm thinking about that instead of what I'm saying next. And then I start kind of falling behind and I need to go like no no no no. Let's let's slow down and get more control over what's happening. Um what is the actual aim of this conversation instead of being right about the next statement? Mhm. How do I how do I come out the best possible way out of the conclusion of this scenario or conversation or whatever it is? Uh, so I try to pull myself back into like, you know, larger picture thinking. I don't know, whatever. It's uh, yeah. It's It's not easy, though. It's not easy because like you have to count on one of your tells, like one of your cues to to come up. You have to slow down enough to think I need to slow down, really difficult, which can be very difficult. I don't remember. Even recognizing that you need to slow down is difficult. But then the like really difficult part is actually pulling it back. You know what? I'm the opposite. I can pull it back once I have recognized that I need to. Then that's actually relatively easy for me. But the slowing down for long enough to go, "Wait a second. We've gone off the rails here or we're completely focused on the wrong thing right now is not always not always easy." Yeah, for me um uh float plane chat, y'all need to stop flaming each other and y'all going to y'all going to get some timeouts pretty quick. I don't care how much tenure you have. Relax. Thank you everybody. Uh all right, why don't we jump into a new topic? Oh no, we are explaining comms. Hey. Oh, dude. Dude. Okay, it's not launching with the same amount of fanfare as like the screwdriver or the cables or the backpack or whatever, but this took a similar time frame to develop really. Okay, so it was in it was in development hell for a couple of years. until we finally found exactly the right fabric for these garments. And uh this is our UV protective polo, which is made with seaw fabric that's derived from reclaimed oyster shells. Yes, oyster shells that have been turned into a lightweight performance fabric that has mic antimicrobial properties. It has because of the weave uh excellent uh moisture wicking, excellent breathability, not to mention UPF 30 plus sun protection. The inside collar has a pop of blue, and we also added a dedicated deeper chest pocket for your sunglasses. This is the one that I've had a sample of of using like an older fabric that we found. Uh we actually did a full production run of this thing, but what we found was that the older fabric could not be manufactured consistently. So the sizing of the finished run was all over the place. It is not very often that a Chinese manufacturer will tell you, "Hey, this thing that we made is not of acceptable quality. We don't want to ship it to you." But that's what happened when they were like, "We literally don't want to take your money for this. The sizing is all over the place." So, we had to find a new material. This is made of the same Seawool fabric blend for lightweight UPF 30 plus sun protection, anti- odor performance, and breathable comfort for your beach days, summer commutes, or those moments when your friends somehow convince you to do outdoor activities. Um, I have gotten a shocking number of compliments on my sample of this over the last couple of years. It is genuinely one of my favorite garments that we have ever made. Um, and it is like if you are like me, if you're a vampire and you burn in the sun, uh, and you want something that you can wear, but that that doesn't make you feel sweaty. It's like the it's like wearing like a robe in the sun. Like it's it's like wearing an umbrella. It keeps you out of the sun, but you can like go in the sun and you can even like you can go swimming in it and dry off. And because it's antimicrobial, then you don't have to worry about like stinking so much. Um, like it's not magic, you know? Obviously, you get dog dew on it or whatever. You're going to smell like dog dew, but like Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, it dude, these are so exciting. Some minor odors or whatever. And then finally, finally, uh Oh, do you want to bring up the site so we can show people? I'm sure they they're like a fun in the sun product, so I'm sure they did like a fun photo shoot. And then finally to go with them, we've got the UV protective cap, which uses a separate lightweight moisture wicking performance fabric with UPF50 plus protection while keeping the same familiar LTT hat fit. U I'm so so excited about these. You can check them out at lmg.gg/uv collection. I think this is something that is going to uh really resonate with our audience because hey, let's face it, I can't be the only one of us that is a bit of a vampire and wants something that helps me be stay out of the sun while being out in the sun. Eco-conscious seaw from oyster shells sounds uh this is the kind of stuff that Tatiana just like goes and finds. No, that's super cool. It's just so she's really passionate about this kind of stuff as as a as a com someone who's completely ignorant in that world. It sounds fake. It sounds like Jonathan talking about Kubernetes to me if if I don't know anything about it. Like what? That's a really really really good description. Like what are you even How does that even how's that possible? Like a cloud service micro orchestration. Yeah. What are you talking about? Sounds super cool. It It sounds awesome. I like the fact that it's not uh some form of like petroleum plastic derivative thing. Also, that's cool. I would love to shout out the fashion team. Did you notice something crazy about this launch? it's at a time of the year that makes sense. I don't even know if that's where you're going, but like that's been a problem for LTD Store historically. It totally makes sense. Oh my god. Good job, Lionus. No, not me. Not me. Not me. Good job then for stepping out of THE WAY. OH, I mean I was not in the way. Uh, if anything, I have definitely wanted things on time. Let's let's let's be real here. What it comes down to is the execution of the team. Uh, so I've got to give like a massive kudos to Bridget. Yeah, she has been she she I don't It was a weird thing her coming to work here cuz she like worked at a real company. I was going to say she came from like Yeah. bootleger. Like a you know like an actual you know like fashion company. And she's been here for like going on five years now I think. So like this is a very substantial like portion of her career now. And every once in a while, I kind of check in with her and I'm like, "How's that going for you?" You know, that does that seem in hindsight like a good decision? And um and and I mean, I don't want to put any words in her mouth, but she's still here obviously. And she's been she's been pushing the team really hard to start acting like what we are. This is not merch. This is apparel. This is this is clothing. This is fashion. This is uh this is a really this is I really like the feel of these. This is a highly technical garment and and technical means a different Shells in it, dude. Yeah, it means a different thing in the fashion world. But what it means is that it's not pure fashion. It's not just for the looks. It's a highly functional piece that that achieves its function in a way that is really just not as simple as finding some off-the-shelf thing and then, you know, cutting it and sewing it into the shape that you want. Oh, I misspoke. I misspoke. There is polyester in it. Oh, okay. There you go. I misspoke. Yeah. No, it's a blend. That's my bad. It's a blend. Um and so, you know, the I've got to give uh I've got to give um I've got to give credit to the because I think the Seawool is mostly responsible for the antimicrobial elements. That makes sense. Yeah. Um and so yeah, I've got I've got to give credit to the team. It has almost like a cooling to the touch kind of really I can you can tell. I'm not even wearing it. I'm just I'm So I have I have mine like down here. This is a fidget toy. Um and and you can tell that it would not like I'm gripping it and it feels cool in my grip if that makes sense. The hand isn't really heating it up. Uh Bridget came from like the traditional fashion world where on time was the only thing that mattered and you just like you shipped it. You didn't do another sample. You just shipped it because on time is the only thing that matters. you you literally would never put the wrong season thing on the shelf. It just doesn't work like that. And then she came here where the only thing that mattered was we ship winter jackets in June, make it make it the best it it can be and when it arrives we try to sell it. And she's been kind of balance a little bit bring those mentalities together. Um not completely the other way. Yeah. Not completely. No, absolutely not. In fact, that's a big part of the reason this took three years. Not because it took 3 years necessarily, but because we went, "Okay, now it's done. So, we're going to ship it at the next opportunity." That is a proper season for us to for us to ship this thing. And um and so yeah, I've just I've got to give her credit for having the discipline and having the the vision to to basically go, okay, look, I'm going to take what I learned here that's really really important from this, you know, my from my my past career and I'm going to use that to kind of elevate our strategy here. And I'm just I'm I'm really excited about what they're doing on the apparel side. Dude, we have like 80 plus product launches coming between now and the end of the year. Like think about that for a second. We will be launching almost two new products a week. Yeah. More than two new products a week for the rest of the year. That's pretty wild. Yeah, that's a lot. And and it's not with an enormous team. It's just a small team of people who just care a whole freaking lot. Um which is Yeah, which is pretty cool. Uh hold on a second. Uh Gilmore D says, "I saw an Instagram reel before about the new shirts. Am I remembering correctly that Tatiana said something about part of the process making it safe for people with shellfish shellfish allergies? My wife has a shellfish allergy. uh you know what? I normally wouldn't bug Tatiana during wan show, but I'm just going to I'm going to see if I can grab her here because we gave people the afternoon off anyway. So, if I bug her for like 2 minutes at like quarter after 600, it's probably not the end of the world. Let's see if she picks up. Oh, looks like I'm Oh, shoot. Sammy just posted in chat. Apparently, she's on vacation. Okay, I'm not going to I'm not going to bug her then. Well, sorry. I uh will have to find I will have to find that out for you and and we'll get someone we'll get someone to post it on the product page. Okay. Uh Dan, do you mind uh sending that to um Yeah, to maybe Bridget to to check into. That would be that would be amazing. Sure. Roman says, "Get work zoned." Yeah. Well, you you you know how it is. You know how it is. Um all right. Anyway, so that's the new products that you guys can check out at LT Store. And if you're looking for a good reason to do it, then why not? So you can send a comm. Uh comms are checkout messages. They're something that we created because we don't really believe in people just throwing money at their screens and getting maybe nothing in return from streamers. So we don't do Twitch bits, we don't do super chats, we don't really do any of that stuff. Instead, we do checkout messages or coms. So what you do is you head over to ltstore.com. you add any of the cool stuff that we have on there to your cart. Like say for example the uh I don't know the polo shirt. Luke's just shopping. So, you know, whatever. No, I I was noticing uh you go in here and there's a polo shirt and then you go under apparel and you go to shirts. Okay. Uh Dan, that's another note. If we could uh I already sent it off. That's what I was doing with all my phone and stuff. Wonderful. Yeah, we can we can let's go to something else. Let's do this. Yeah, the multi the the new uh smaller multi-bit precision set. So, this one uh doesn't have the inhandle storage, but it does come with the torque bar so that you can uh you can drive things harder if you want. It comes with fewer bits anyway. Okay, throw it in the cart. And whenever we're live, you'll see this interface to send a checkout message. You can choose your color. You can choose whether to show your name or be anonymous. Joshua C chose to show his name up there. Uh after you place your order, it will go to producer Dan. There he is. Who will reply to it or who will uh curate it for me and Luke to respond to? So, why don't we do a couple curated checkout messages? Yeah, sure. We've had quite a few come through already. Really doesn't roll off the tongue like merch messages did, does it? I just I can't call it merch anymore, Luke. I can't call it merch. I mean, I'm open to a rebranding again cuz it's Maybe the messages are merch. Not working for me. The the the merch was the friends we made along the way. Like, what were we even Something like that. I don't know, man. I like I liked whale words. Whale words kind of fun. I don't know. I'll let me fester on it a little bit more. Please do consider something else. Hey, DM. Love the products as always. I like the new site, but I'm wondering when slash if the archived/retired products page was talked about. Uh, still going to happen. Yeah, the plan is still for it to happen. It hasn't happened yet. We were hard at work getting the new site up and running. Um, I got to say, like, shout out CW and dev team. Like, the fact that our new site went up and it has as few gamebreaking bugs as it had, like it was, I think, zero game breakers and like maybe one or two things that I would consider high severity and then like a handful of low severity things. Like, as far as new site launches go, I don't think I've seen much smoother than that. Like I was actually really impressed with the team. Um, oh, something I haven't checked yet. Uh, remember I showed you that weird bug on my fold where our imagery on the site would be duplicated. I haven't tried it on the new site yet. Let's see. Okay, so I'm going to click a product. I'm going to click the UV protective hoodie. No, it's fixed now. Cool. So, the image scrolling is is sideways now, which honestly is like probably better anyway. Yeah. All right. Cool. So, yeah, good job. We inadvertently fixed my stupid folding phone issue. Um, yeah, there's trying to figure out if things are a bug or not. There there's a new gallery style that we have. Um, it's it's more prominently noticeable on other products, but like on this one, EV protective hoodie, it's selected on icy blue by default. I scroll down and all I see is icy blue and then they end. Oh, if I want to see the other one, I click on cactus and then the cactus ones. This is apparently very normal. Other like fashion brands are doing this. This is not like we're not the only ones doing this. I think I might be uh out of touch. I don't shop for things online a lot guy by being like I don't like that so much. Right. You want to see all the different I would just see all the and then have clicking the thing just scroll me to the other color. No, it's tough. No, I think I can already give you the answer to this. And I think the reason is that we have No, there's there's other places that do this. No, no, I just mean even for us though, we have evergreen items like our our blank t-shirts, our um they're on again trying to be more like like a fashion brand. We have seasonal colors now. So, we have our evergreen colors like black and then we will do like new colors. And so when if we were to do all of if we were to do a photo shoot with these five colors and then we were to launch these three colors, then what would happen is you would have this weird like photo gallery that contains these five colors incredible, some of which are gone. And then all these new colors wouldn't be represented there. So you've got to for me go to the party shirt for a sec. Yeah, sure. And like I'm I am more than happy to uh accept that I may be wrong here. No, I'm not you're not wrong. You're just, you know, this is where it gets a little cray cray for me. Because now you have the series as well. This one's out of stock. Oh, we should remove these ones that are all out of stock. I Dan, do you mind sending a note, please? To whom? um to but but hold on Dave, they're not. Wait, what? Click on the other series. Oh, shoot. Okay, I would say that's a bug. Ooh. Okay, that's a problem. Okay, we need to figure that out. Uh yeah, we definitely need to figure that out cuz it doesn't say that it's out of stock. What it's saying technically is that like Frutiger era does not have the hosta Vista. design. Okay, we need to figure that out. So yeah, there's some there's some stuff, but it's it's not that bad. It looks and feels great. The site in general, by the way, check out one of the party shirts, Curtis B from Madison, US. Uh 10 out of 10. This shirt changed my life. Okay, that was the solitire large, but there's there's lots of other variants of our tremendous party shirts. Like, how do you look half this cool right now? I doubt it. No, I doubt it. I just a strong doubt. That's all. Okay, Dan, do you want to hit us with a couple coms? Sure. I've got one more here for you. Thank you for the more polo shirts. Please add even more colors, especially for premium polo. What's all's opinion on polo shirts and what do you look for when designing a polo? Um, I'm going to I'm going to lean on uh Lisa from the CW team. And the big thing that she talks about to the point of like, oh my god, Lisa, I get it. Yes, I know this is important to our design process. You are 100% right. But she harps on this and it's really important. Like to be clear, what she's saying is so valid and so right. And it's important to say it over and over again because you should never lose track of it is she always talks about our customer and what they need. Not what they want or what they think they might like, what they need. And the way that one of the things that she really tries to emphasize is um ease of wearing. And like what does she mean by that? What she means is that for better or for worse, the people who have chosen to follow the exploits of Lionus and Luke over the last, you know, 14 years or however long it's been. um can be a little bit like Lionus and Luke who are wearing what today? A black t-shirt. Why are they both wearing a black t-shirt? It goes with everything. Because it's easy to wear. And so that's the thing that Lisa is always hammering on is when she's looking at, okay, how do we help our customer who we know is going to make their choice based on what is very easy to wear? How do we help them upstyle a little bit? And so that's where you've gotten innovations like the pop of color in the uh in the collar where we're not trying to overwhelm you when you look at your clothes in your closet in the morning or in your drawers, but we're trying to, you know, help you make a choice that is easy. Oh, that's cool. And that elevates your style a little bit. And that's exactly, you know, what they try to do with the uh with the polos. Also comfort. Like that's one of my things is I'll always tell them, look, I don't care. I don't care how many oysters it has in it, right? Like that is not I actually think that's really cool. No, no, no. I just mean I don't care how many oysters is in it if it's not comfortable or if it shrinks in the wash. Yeah. I will say my my my interest in it being made with oysters spiked dramatically after I touched it and was like, "Wow, it feels really nice." And then and then now that's really cool and now I'm interested in that. Now I want to figure out like I'm going to go home and try to learn about Uh is it o ocean wool or something? Seabool. Seawool. I want to figure out how that how the heck they make that. Yeah. I'm going to go like watch something or So that's where you see the in from all the different members of the team come together. U during my hands address. Um I made kind of like a joke. Um I forget what did what did I refer to our our size as a company as? Did I call it an oil tanker or something or something like that? I called us. What? What? Do you remember what word I used, Dan? Let's see if he was listening. oh, we're both trying to turn on Dan at the same time and he ends up turned off by it. You're better at it. Um, I I don't know. It's I can't remember what you said. Was it mass? I don't know. It was something It was something along It was something along those lines. Um, no, I don't remember. But but one of the things that I was kind of emphasizing is that that's a key advantage for us is that we have so many different inputs that go into our outputs. And sometimes that can feel like a too many chefs situation and it can feel like bloat. But I think that when it's done well, it actually really elevates everything that we do, whether it's video or whether it's uh physical goods or whether it's a streaming platform or whatever else it is that we're creating. So, like in a product like this, you can see Bridget's influence. It launched at a freaking reasonable time season wise. You can see like Tony and Dave's inter in um their influence in the in the marketing, in the fact that it's available concurrently at both of our distribution centers. You can see like Tatiana's influence in the materials choices. You can see Alamade's influence in the fit. Um you can see like Lisa's influence in just the ease of of wearing it and all that stuff. you can see my influence and that it's h going to be comfortable and not drinking the wash. Uh or at least, you know, not much. Um it's Yeah, it's just it's it's lots of it's lots of stuff. It's lots of stuff. Was it mass? Yeah, it was mass. All right. Okay. Apparently, it was mass. Now I feel Now I feel like I have to double check. I have my uh I have my all hands address speech here. It's the kind of thing that I I wonder if there's some kind of an outlet where we can kind of like talk to the audience a little bit about some of the stuff that we talked about like the float plane update was so cool and I feel like you know the viewership of Jonathan's yeah you should give context. So okay so Jonathan from the float plane team float plane was part of our all hands for the first time uh was that this week? What a what a week. Uh uh faux plane was part of the all hands for the first time this week. So we got to show people like what we do. Um and I had the I I thought it would be a lot less interesting to have me just kind of stand up there and talk. So I mostly just introed like what float plane is just in case someone works in a business unit that's really far from float plane and doesn't really know. um and and and what we do on a at a very high level very quickly and then try to get out of the way because I thought it would be much more interesting to have you know the developers speak for themselves as to what they do what they have contributed what things they're doing on the platform um and then also have uh the infrastructure side get presented from from Jonathan who is currently the the primary for infrastructure on flow plane um and it was really good but Jonathan's first video was, if I remember correctly, almost 11 minutes long. Um, he he re-recorded it uh, well, not re-recorded, he rendered it with cutting a bunch of the the like gaps between talking out. It came down to I think it was like a minute and a half minute or sorry, 9 and 1/2 minutes or 9 minutes and 45. It's still pretty long, especially in all hands context. And it was dense. It was dense and it was pretty deep in the weeds and it was really, really cool. But I was like, we're going to lose 90 people with this. Um, can we get a more like slimmed down version that we're still going to lose people with? And I think at a certain point I I had some some comments on this of like, oh yeah, it was like it was too technical. And it's like at a certain point that has to be okay because I can't make it like if it just is really technical. So like we, you know, try to make it approachable, try to give real world scenarios. Like he talked about like what our infrastructure did when a power supply died in one of our servers and how the service didn't go down and and how that blah blah blah blah blah. So he tried to make it like relatable. It's he tried to basic I think the way that we described it, if my memory serves me correctly, is we tried to take um like a math or physics problem that was just numbers and we tried to make it a word problem. So like you you try to try to add context instead of an object flying through the air with gravitational force and whatever else. It's a catapult and they're trying to hit a target and now you have to figure out the math for it. Like it makes it it makes it you can understand it more easily. So we try to take that approach but we took the like uncompressed you know Jonathan version which was much longer and we put it on like an internal uh thing so people could see it and that actually got a decent amount of views. I was worried that maybe no one would watch it. Oh, they did. Like I I wanted Someone watched it real fast. Really? That's super cool. I got messages before I had settled down at my desk being like I I thought the float plane team did a great job of their presentations overall. Actually, um and I just I'm very happy. I feel like this was probably the most eye-opening all hands we've ever done for the people who work on the media side of the business because it was I think the first time that we haven't really talked about the media side of the business at all. And it's um it's not to be clear I don't you know I'm not going to say that the media side is not important. It's extremely important. It's the foundation upon which everything else was built. Let's be real here. But I think sometimes um it's easy for the media side because I work in the media business dayto-day. It's easy for us to kind of go, hey, we're the center of the universe and like everything else is is outside of our tunnel vision. You know what I mean? And like I felt like there were moments when I kind of like looked out over over the the crowd and I saw people like really engaged. It did seem to be and really interested in learning what like entire departments of people who have like been with the company for 3 to 5 years have been building all this time. Um and so I really you heard Jonathan and and Peter, right? Eight plus. Like they've been around. We don't see them because a lot of the a lot of people in the other BU uh even creator warehouse um they have their own unit or they a lot of them are are offsite. So we literally don't see them. Uh a lot of the a lot of the folks on the media side don't even talk to them or think about them. Um but they're really really important to keeping the lights on and keeping thing keeping things going, right? Keeping the ship sailing. Um, I I was pretty excited about it. I was a little nervous about it because again I I'm I'm Well, you had multiple teams presenting. You had infra and float plane. Well, it was it was float plane infra, right? Okay. Sorry. Which does some stuff for local. Okay. So there was like the little shout out at the end of like we also do all of this which was like the hosting of all the services for for internal things because the the flow plane and internal infrastructure/IT teams blend a little bit now um like like Jonathan does work on both sides um and and AJ does work on both sides. Jonathan is more float plane leaning. AJ is more LMG leaning these days. Um but like there there is there is shared resources across the or like Smash Champs or whatever. The whole the whole intertangled web of companies. Yeah. And and the infrastructure is like right at the heart of the intertangled web of companies. So like there is there is as it would be right. Yeah. But that was predominantly a presentation on float plane infrastructure, right? Um yeah, it was good though. It was awesome. Yeah, I thought it was really good. And like the feedback that I've gotten on the long version was also like whoa. The partners of one of the people who presented on the dev side um watched Jonathan's full version before the presentation and was just like vaguely interested at the beginning and then ended up watching the entire like 10 minutes and was like, "Whoa, that was really cool." Like it's pretty good. It's It's tech tips. It's like real tech tips, though. Um, and they they had also watched the the dev version, but the dev version was um I think if you told people you were going to show them each one, most people are going to default to expecting the dev version to be more interesting. Um, so I think that's why the introversion being really interesting is getting so much attention. It's not that the dev one wasn't interesting. It was super interesting. It was very good. had Minecraft footage for attention for uh there was a lot of attention tricks. Which I I didn't coach any of those. That was great though. That was all them. That was amazing. And I I mean all three of them like Here. Do we actually do Do we uh What channel were those published to? Was it Pet? I don't think I have access group internal. that one. Oh, okay. Oh, this is great. And then these are these are multi-upload posts. So you can see the different versions if you scroll down. Uh maybe I can. I don't see it. I can't scroll down. Uh that's fine. That's fine. I just need let me see. Okay. So this Oh, the development one just has one version. That's why the infrastructure one has two versions. Uh so this this will give you some idea of what apparently our internal presentations look like during our all hands meetings. Um, so showing the Oh, yeah. These are some of the new um user badges. So, here's some Minecraft footage for attention. she's saying stuff during this time, but you're not hearing it. You're watching Minecraft. JK. JK. Um, so yeah, this that literally played on the projector at our all hands for 100 people. oh man, what a We are Sometimes we're boring in corporate and then other times we're like still a really weird company. Like we had a we had a um a barbecue today in the rain with like axe throwing. Like what the [ __ ] You know, this was an initiative from our new like HR guy who's like I I would say a first impression of him, no offense, Tim, but would be like, you know, kind of stuffy and old-fashioned, but like there was cornhole. I don't know what I thought it was cool way to kick off a long weekend, too. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, we did like an extra long weekend which um yeah, that was a that was a Tim initiative. He basically like brought it to me. He's like, "Here's the budget terry numbers for the for the Friday early dismissal barbecue." I'm like, "Yeah, okay. He's actually a lot more charismatic than that." But, uh Martina D said, "Please release them to Flow Plane." Uh uh. They'd need a scrub to make sure that they're they would need a scrub. They weren't intended to be shown and then Linus just ripped it. But, uh, that was probably fine. Um, it's it's also like, you know, these people didn't necessarily sign up to be shown to the world. They signed up to be shown internally. And when they were making them initially, that was the goal. So, it it might be possible that we could do another pass and make them. Yeah, maybe. we're not committing anything now. Yeah, especially cuz these guys like have a lot of work to do and already put a lot of work into this and so and are already a fairly undersized team. So like they they're they're very busy. I prefer the word talented. They do a lot of output per person basically. Very talented. Um Oh, did did we actually do a com yet? Yes, we did one. Did we do two? Yes, we've done two. We've done two. Oh, sure. Should we pick another topic? I honestly have zero memory of either of them. Nice. That's how you know it's good cuz it sparks a good conversation. I always feel good when you do a com for like an hour. That does happen. Um Yeah. Makes me feel good. Yeah. Okay. Oh, I get right cuz that means he cured a good one and Yeah. Sometimes I get it wrong and you're like nah 30 seconds and then we move on. I'm like what? We've done this before. Way to go, Dan. You've done bad and you should feel bad. I do all the time. No. No. No. Too much. Now we're tripping over each other on the Dan button again. No. It's fun. It's cute. Uh, all right. Amazon has decided that same DAY SHIPPING IS NOT FAST ENOUGH. They've started rolling out Amazon now, a service aimed at delivering your order in 30 minutes or less in a handful of American cities back in December and 15 minutes or less in parts of Brazil, Mexico, India, and the UAE. This service is now expanding to additional cities. 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Uh we did a whole video about it. I forget. I did my thing where I I do a bunch of research and learn about it. I write a script. I host the video. And then that part of my brain withers and dies and hopefully a new part grows in its place. Lance and I were talking very recently about how I need I was like trying to learn something. Ended up watching my own video to try to learn it. Um it was about the um DirectX12 and SLI stuff and Vulcan. Yeah. And I ended up watching the whole thing cuz I was like Oh yeah. Yeah. I I had no memory that you could you could SLI four of those cards after they turned off four-way SLI. You could still do it, but only for benchmarks. Like, I had no idea that was a thing. Completely forgot that. Like, just tons of stuff that's just gone. And no figment of a memory of it. It's just gone. And then I can remember so many stupid things. I've hosted like 8,000 videos. I regularly come across a video and go I have no recollection of that like at all at all. 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