YouTube Killed Shorts - WAN Show April 17, 2026

Now, it's the Wan Show. We've got a great show lined up for you today. There will be no singing of that song. But what there will be is talking about how YouTube has yielded and finally is allowing not just kids, but all users to limit their YouTube shorts to zero minutes, which is pretty flipping incredible. Another incredible piece of news. I don't know if this really falls in with our positive news WAN show thing that we've got going on for the month of April, but it's certainly hilarious. Struggling shoe retailer Allirds has made a bizarre pivot from shoes to AI, which has caused their stock to absolutely explode in value. I don't know if that's a good news topic. It's funny. Fair enough. Good enough. Fair enough. Uh, California bill would require long-term support for server connected games. Cool. That's freaking awesome. At least it seems on the surface. Yeah. Uh, other than that, I don't know. I'm going to go with this one. Da Vinci Resolve 21 is now a Lightroom alternative with RAW editing, tethering, masking, and more, which is great cuz it's free. This is so cool. That's great. The show is brought to you today by Zero Bounce, AMD, MSI, and Square alongside our rap 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 YouTube is now allowing you to hide short. So, if you're the type of person who just plain doesn't enjoy them and doesn't want to see them, or if you're the type of person who's on completely the other end of the spectrum and enjoys them too much and wants tools to help you with your self-control, YouTube has is moving in the right direction. Yeah, cuz I don't think what they're doing hides shorts. I think saying it hides shorts is actually just incorrect, is it not? So, it seems a little complicated. Depending on the coverage I've seen of it, either it sounds like shorts will still appear within the interface, but they will be treated like regular videos rather than just allowing you to swipe endlessly. Hard time believing that, too. Or it sounds like if you set it to zero minutes and then actually fully like close the app and reopen it, they should just be gone. Maybe people didn't reload their app. So, what I'm thinking is Hey, [ __ ] it. We'll do it live. Yeah. So, I like it. Let's pop over Let's pop over on here. I'm going to fire up my YouTube app. I've got uh Yep. Okay, cool. I'm on my account with Premium here. So, uh instructions. Where do I go? I go into Show the camera a little bit more. Yeah. Well, I'm trying to be careful just in case something incriminating comes up. That makes sense. Mhm. Lionus watches Spider-Man and Elsa content. What is it? Play. How did you know? Can't show that to the camera. Okay, you might have to actually find instructions because I thought this would be I thought this would be really straightforward. I don't actually see it. Uh purchases and memberships got Oh, time management. There should be a shorts feed limit menu. Okay, I got it. So, I'm here in time management and then all I got to do is go to my daily limits, short speed limit, and um mine is still 15 minutes. Well, what the what the crap? Okay, I'm going to close the app. Do you need to update the app? Maybe. I mean, this wouldn't be the first time that I've run into issues where foldable devices do not necessarily get the best version of the app. Let me get it installed just in case. Daily limits. Nope. All right. Well, good news everyone. As long as you're not me, then you may have the option to limit your shorts to zero minutes. Um, wow, that blows. Okay, how's it going for chat? I'm updating and checking mine. Rocket Man 619 says, "I'm doing it on mine. I don't see the option either." Nullifier says, "Isn't there on my graphine pixel?" Crystal's got it though. Okay, mine is at zero. So, how does it behave though? Headline says, "Not me on latest iOS. I don't have the option." It worked for me, says Blake Mavericks on a Pixel 10 Pro XL. So, it looks like it depends. So, a lot of people are speculating that this might be a regional update, but I suspect less than being regional, it's probably just a slow roll out because when you operate at the kind of scale that Google does, you do percentage rollouts. You do not roll something out to 100% of users all at once because you never know what something might break. And it's way better to break 3% of your users, then 10% of them, then 20% of them versus just immediately breaking 100% of them. It gives you a lot more flexibility to stop the slow roll that you're doing versus like trying to take sees back sees a catastrophic global roll out. So unfortunately, we don't get to try it today unless of course Luke's works. Nope, it did not. Nope. Dan, did you try it? Oh, yeah. Oh, you got your phone right there. Yeah. All right, cool. He's mute today, I suppose. No, it's not working. Dan doesn't talk anymore. You know what? I like it better this way. No, forget it. No, I'm good. No, no, why did you Why did you know? Yeah. Why did you Why did you lash out at him? All right. Thanks, Dan. He's saying he has too many buttons and he just accidentally pressed the wrong button because he has too many buttons. There's so many things to do. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, either way, either way, I look forward to this being rolled out to me because I just don't want to see many shorts. And if it actually works, I look forward to it as well. While I don't necessarily know how useful this is going to be for people who find themselves quite addicted to doom scrolling and quite addicted to shorts because I don't know if you've ever set a time limit on an app in your phone how easy it is. It's too easy to bypass. That's why I just uninstalled them. Now I also found that that was the only thing that worked for me. It worked for a long time because I just didn't do the bypass. And then there was I think I was using YouTube for work reasons and bypass the timer and then you get the brain worm of like that was easy. It was It didn't hurt at all. And then it's like, oh no, they just have to be uninstalled now. You know what was really nice for me? Um do you remember I was talking Did we talk about it on W show how Reddit got rid of r/all? Oh, no. I don't use it enough to notice. Okay. Well, Reddit got rid of r/all for reasons that um the sort of you know community conspiracy their homepage then seem to believe. Well, the homepage is more algorithmic whereas r/all was just top surfaced topics from all subreddits. Okay. So, now the homepage is like curated for you. Mhm. So, so the the prevailing theory is that it's to it's to get you more algorithmically hooked and siloed and deliver more personalized content to you rather than just have a convenient no signin required spot that you can go and just check what the the top upvoted stuff is today. And um it has actually been a blessing in disguise cuz I was spending a little bit too much time just like browsing stuff on Reddit and them removing r/all has pretty much completely killed my habit. Nobody tell them. Yeah, I'm I'm actually very very thankful. Don't tell them. Good job. Good job, Reddit. I have Probably cut my time on your site by about 90% cuz I'll just check on you know what's going on in our most relevant subreddit. I also quite like Wall Street Bets just because I find their I find their attitude delightful. Yeah. I I enjoy I enjoy a good loss porn as much as anybody else does. That's about it. Is Is this lost? It can be. Sometimes it is. I I'll check I'll check like the LT subreddit, see how Lucas's posts are doing. See what people's comments on them are. Hey, why don't we jump right into that? Sure. in yet another what is becoming a common LTT labs win. Yeah. Um Lucas uploaded an awesome article this week here. If you want to find the topic, I'll uh I'll load it up on the site. Sure. Yeah, I'll I'll read what the notes are. I'm interested. I don't know if Yeah, Lucas didn't write this. Okay. So, in a new article from LT Labs this week, we examine testing for a minimum display brightness, something that's becoming a selling point with a variety of different brands. It's not part of our current test suite when we're like reviewing phones or anything, but we are equipped to test down to fractions of a nit. So, we tested a halfozen common phones and found that they were all capable of impressingly low brightness, dimness, whatever you want to call it, of a single nit or less. We found that one of the phones tested was able to get down to just a thousandth of a nit. Uh, and if you want to learn more about our test equipment, the process, see the results, all that kind of stuff, go to the article. It's on ltlabs.com. You can navigate to ltlabs.com and then it's just in the sidebar. If you want to see all the articles that come out, it's in the sidebar. If you want a feed of them, there's a variety of different feed options for for getting notified about them or uh they also get get posted sometimes. Lucas generally posts them to the Reddit, but uh to like the LTT subreddit, but some other people post them on other subreddits around the the uh the Reddit and the internets and all those fun things. But yeah, check it out. We're trying to do cool stuff over there. So, yeah, it's really cool. I mean, I don't know about you, but really low minimum brightness is an absolute gamecher for me in terms of like my wind down late at night. I like to have all my lights down. It makes sense. It's light emission from devices is supposed to be bad for your brain trying to fall asleep, right? So if you lower it, your circadian rhythms get kind of mucked up from from light supposedly. Look, I'm not going to make any kinds of health claims with respect to I know this for sure. It is it is definitely a fact. We personally actually ran a peer-reviewed study of 400,000 people and their sleeping patterns for two decades and know this for sure. This is a health podcast. We are experts and scientists. Okay. Doctors. For anyone listening right now, uh I was furiously mashing the doesn't know button. Um so so everything that he just said was completely nullified by that. I just want to make sure I I get out there. I Yeah. As Noki said as well, every single one of those test subjects only ever have used Firefox. They've actually never used Chrome, never used Edge. They would install Firefox off of like USB drives. They pass the executable. They use Edge. But do they edge? Uh when using Firefox. Yes. That that makes sense. Using Firefox can be very exciting. Yes. Um anywh who was that was that it for that topic? I think so. We're just kind of pointing people there. We can talk about the the article if we want, but I also think it's just like, you know, go give it a read. Yeah, go give it a read. Okay, I'll spoil one thing. I'll spoil one thing. With a certain combination of settings, it was the latest iPhone that was able to reach a thousandth of a nit. And actually, I learned something reading that article because I already knew about some of the tweaks that you can use to push the display brightness even lower, but I didn't know about all of them. And so one of mine and Ivonne's like wind down is we'll sit and play Wordscapes in bed sometimes. And uh I I honestly it doesn't work for me as well as it does for her. But like if we play Wordscapes in bed, she's usually snoring within about like 4 minutes afterwards. So we'll sit we'll play like a few rounds of Wordscapes. And having it any higher than absolute minimum, she's uh she's on an iPhone right now. And then also uh turning down the like white point. There's like a white point setting in accessibility. Uh it's just like a it's just a stupid word jumble. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It has really obnoxious ads. I'm not recommending it. I play the every once in a while we'll we'll we'll we'll dabble with we use one phone and collaboratively play the uh New York Times games like Wordle and all that kind of stuff. Uh Crystal apparently tested the time limit. Um, new time limit doesn't hide them, just gives you a limit that you can immediately bypass. Yeah. So, I'm just not going to have the app installed still. Well, I guess because it's like a a Google device, it's still installed, but it's disabled here. Let's see. Okay, so there's a short. There's a short. If I click it, you've reached your limit. So, when you go to scroll, it says you've reached your limit. And there's just a big glowing button you can press to watch them. Anyways, yeah. So, they didn't do jack. That is uh that is useless. But it's good news, Wancho. So, on to more things. And you can also just not have it installed. All right. So, that works. Okay. Hooray. Talon says, "No, it actually worked for me. It's not showing shorts." Inconsistent. Okay. Talon Crystal, can you close the app and restart it? Potentially even restart your entire phone and Yeah. No, hold on. Hunter Doss says, "My app shows no shorts." Interesting. Cuz not showing the short would be enough. Yeah, that would be huge. Great. Yeah, if it's not like if it's not like just enticing you, you know? Okay. I'm Mine shows zero shorts. There's a number of people saying that it shows zero shorts. I'm choosing to be cautiously optimistic. I like it. Not because I think Google suddenly developed a conscience, but because I think that the recent ruling determining that they had created their apps intentionally in a way that harms the development of miners, uh we talked about that either one or two weeks ago. Uh maybe pushing them to swing the pendulum back the other way a little bit in terms of how aggressively attention sucking their app design is. And you know, we should be encouraging of anything they do in this direction, no matter what incentivized them to ultimately move this way. Yeah. If it behaves the way it did in Crystal Screen Capture, then I don't care about it at all. But if it isn't showing shorts, then that's fantastic. And if you like click a link to a short and it opens up in the YouTube chat in the YouTube app and then you decide to scroll, I I don't know, whatever. If if it then warns you like, "Hey, you're out of time. you set your time limit to zero and you decide to bypass at that point in time you've done so many things to go around the setting like you know we have to be accountable for our choices yeah exactly so like I don't expect them to go like way above and beyond u but if you say hey I don't want shorts it shouldn't advertise them to you it should it should actually stop there in other good news it removes it from the main feed but you can see it in a creator's channel if you go there I I think that's I think that's also fine. I think that's fine. In other good news, Da Vinci Resolve 21 is now a Lightroom alternative. Raw editing, tethering, masking, and more. Blackmagic Design announced this at NAB 2026, and the biggest surprise is the dedicated photo page that turns Hollywood's go-to color grading suite into a direct Lightroom competitor. The update supports raw files from Canon, Sony, Nikon, and Fujifilm, and brings Resolve's node-based color tools to still images for the first time. The tool uh the photo tool includes album management with ratings and filters, AI magic mask for one-click subject selection, AI ultrasharpen for upscaling, tethered shooting with Sony and Canon cameras, and the ability to import existing Lightroom cataloges. Most of the photo page features are included in the free version. Only AI Magic Mask and Film Look Creator require the $295 one time studio upgrade. One time. One time. One time. One time, dude. That's so good. One time is no problem. Blackmagic, dude. They don't do everything right, but they're pretty based while they do some things wrong and most things right. And that's okay. and they've been winning with Da Vinci for a long time. I've had a number of conversations with people in the video creative space uh that are talking about how like and I think I've talked about this on my show a couple times, but the kids coming out of school are all using Da Vinci. Oh yeah. So like the the industry is shifting pretty heavily right now. And why shouldn't they? For context here, Adobe charges $10 a month for Lightroom, which adds up to $120 a year with no end in sight. And that's just Lightroom. And with the way that Adobe is going, no realistic future where that's going to become cheaper rather than more expensive. Da Vinci Resolve's free version now covers most of what Lightroom does. And the full studio license is a one-time purchase that never expires. For hybrid photo and video shooters, having everything in one app with matching color tools across stills and footage is a genuine workflow game changer. And I I man, I'm I'm almost afraid to say it, but it feels like finally we're getting to the point where maybe Adobe is going to have to start to acknowledge that they have competition. Like should do I go to do I go to our production team and basically say like, okay, hey, are we getting close now? I have asked it was four four it was four almost five years ago I think that I did that video where I the thumbnail is like me holding out all the money and I'm like I pay $10,000 a month to Adobe. Uh dude yeah if I remember correctly it's like more than a full-time employee you're paying to Adobe a year. Oh yeah yeah yeah. And it's not like I'm getting a full-time employees worth of like attention from Adobe. That's for sure. Uh hold on. Let me see if I can find this. Linus Adobe. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Here it is. And you can see how many people this message resonated with. Like 4.7 million views. Why do I pay Adobe 10,000? Oh, was it a year back then? Yeah. Pretty sure you spend a lot more than that. It's a lot more than that now. Sorry. It's not $100,000 a year, but I think it's Is it closer to like 60 now or something like that? I think it's I think it's a around there or above. I don't remember. when we did how does LMG spend money I remember it being either number one or number two for the software solutions that we pay the most for very highly up there yeah freaking and that's US that's US dollars if I recall correctly so it's it's pretty yucky the number I've seen might be CAD okay so that would be like a 40% uplift on yours either way it's a butt ton it's crazy it's a ton that's so big I don't even know if it would fit in your butt anymore It's a greater than greater than button. Depends the denomination. I think Oh, yeah. Right. That would make a big difference. $100 bills would be a much bigger butt ton than fives. Anyway, Patrick or Imperial asks the chat. Not Not the point. The point is, I'm always going to root for a disruptor coming in and making life more difficult for a monopoly or a de facto monopoly, especially one that I frankly feel has abused their position. And I'm I'm not the only one who feels that way. Adobe recently had to settle that thing around their billing practices. And I I still remember how outraged I was when I found out that you can't just like they they treat it like signing a contract with them every seat that you add to your organization. Absolutely ludicrous. And I think they might have changed some of those practices now, but not until they were forced to. Yeah. Hiding fees, preventing customers from easily canceling software subscriptions. It's like, don't you have enough money? Like, can't you just can't you just have the customers who willingly pay you? Like that's that's mafia [ __ ] you know. I'm I'm getting the number. Oh, it doesn't matter that much. It's fine. It's it's more than 10,000 less than 100,000. I think that's that's a fine enough sort of nebulous spot to leave it. Sure. We're still moving. What are we doing? That just says headline topic, Dan. We finished the headline topic like 15 minutes ago. He's going to put up He's going to put up two more topics. He's just going to make us Yeah, you guys can't see it, but he he just put up a sign that just raw says more topics. Oh, that's pretty good. Yeah, it seems right to me. It seems totally right to me. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Forget it. I don't even I don't even want your Q cards. I'm for it. I think they're very informative. Let's talk about a California bill that would require long-term support for server connected games. Stop Killing Games is backing California bill AB1921 introduced by state assembly member Chris Ward and expected to be up for debate in the assembly soon. TM. The Protect Our Games Act proposes new regulations that would apply to digital games released after December 1st, 2026. I don't like it, but I do understand it. Yeah, I know. I get that. I get it. I get that there's an entire there's an entire epoch of games that could end up lost because this will only go into effect for new games going forward. But I understand why you can't just change the rules midstream after companies have already This will still be changing the rules midstream for some people. Yes, but I get it. At least they get a little bit of a heads up. Under the act, digital game operators would be required to provide 60 days notice before they shut down any services or servers that are necessary for the ordinary use of the game. They must provide details about which features will stop working. They must explain how the user can continue to play the game after the shutdown and warn of any security issues that might arise from the shutdown. Notice would need to be provided both in-game and on the operator's website. And as originally written, the game operator would also have been required to seize sales and distribution of the game at the 60-day notice. But this has since been changed to the shutdown date as the bill has worked its way through reviews, which I actually I I I think I kind of get because if for whatever reason you're still able to use it in some way afterward, um then I if I was like, "Oh, that sounds pretty good. I want to buy it." I wouldn't want to be prevented from doing that. That it should be my choice if I want to buy it or not. I could see making a warning mandatory. Hey, this game is shutting down on this day. These are going to be the changes. But just telling me I'm not allowed to buy it, I mean, that seems like it's punishing me. I I can even think of certain games like uh Titanfall 2. I I don't think I think there's a community server mod, but I don't think it naturally had community servers on launch. I could be wrong about this. I I don't really remember, but I would It costs like $4 now when it's on sale, and it's like always on sale. And I would highly recommend people buy it for the single player. And if the multiplayer doesn't work, like whatever, like it's still worth buying the game. So like, yeah, as long as there is some flag, like, by the way, the multiplayer doesn't work anymore. If you want to make that decision, I think that's still fine. It's $40 Canadian right now. That Yeah, it's just on sale like practically all the time. Yeah, only buy it on sale for sure. Yeah, it goes it goes on like 90% off sales all the time. So I'll just wait for one of those. Ye. Um, starting on the shutdown date, the operator would be required to provide purchasers with at least one of a new version of the game that can be used without the operator services. Fantastic. A patch for the existing version of the game that works without the operator Based a full refund of the purchase price. That also works. I prefer that one, but but it works. What this does is it gives companies an out if they're in an absolutely desperate situation. Can't do the previous two for some weird legal reason or whatever else or for or for cost reasons. Sometimes that might not be practical. What was that um what was that Sony game? Concord or was that the one? I mean that's like one of the games of all time. The enormous game that they had that they shut down after like a couple of weeks. That's one of them. I feel like they did it to more than one but that is one of them. Yeah. So, like for a game like that where the entire problem with the game is that they've poured all this money into it and then practically no one bought it, it may actually make more sense because practically no one bought it for them to just issue like a few tens of thousands of dollars of refunds or even a few hundred grand worth of refunds and basically just go, "Okay, forget it. We we just we put this in the dust bin of history." But in that case, we're talking about a game where there's not going to be nearly the same degree of like loss of shared experience and loss of gaming history necessarily compared to something that people played for many many many years and then just, you know, is turned off and can no longer be accessed. Yeah. Cuz there's still there is still loss but not the same scale. I guess it's scale of loss. Importance. Importance. And so and so having that uh having that that pull that pull cord that they can basically just go okay for whatever reason we cannot do this if it is cuz no I don't think any company would want to choose to refund every copy of a game they ever sold. Yeah. Like if you were to tell Rockstar, you know, yeah, GTA 5, you can uh do a new version of the game that can be used without your services, a patch for the existing version, so it'll work without your services, or a full refund of the purchase price. Which one you think they're going to pick? This is also like just just as a note, this is long-term support. I don't think this is necessarily forever support. Of course, there are exceptions. These new rules would not apply to subscription-based services that are clearly advertised as only offering access to a game for the duration of the subscription. So something like WoW would not be covered by this. MMOs in general, it does not apply to free games. And this is where things get a little bit hazy for me because if you've spent $300 on, say for example, League skins. Sure. One skin. Okay. Are Yeah. Is that a free game? Yeah, exactly. Yeah. A lot of a lot of free games people spend more money on than paid games. Yeah. Yeah. So, I'd be interested as this makes its way through the the drafting process. I would be interested to see how they're going to tackle that. And then the third one is that games that the seller can't revoke access to after the sale. Um, uh, games that the seller can't revoke access to after. Okay. I'm not quite sure what that means, but the first two were pretty clear. I don't know what that means for games that require server connected. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So, maybe that's just for games where it wouldn't be relevant. In other Stop Killing Games news, the EU Parliament held an introductory hearing yesterday on the European Citizens Initiative, Stop Destroying Video Games. Organizers were able to present their initiative to Parliament, but a parliamentary response is not expected to come before July. You can find video of the hearing on the European Parliament YouTube channel. This is far more momentum than I expected Stop Killing Games to get. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I'm impressed. It's Yeah. On the one hand, you know, maybe my pessimism was partly rooted in a belief that there are really important other things that the world kind of needs to deal with other than like video games and stuff. And maybe I just even though it's something that's very near and dear to me, I expected, you know, stuffy oxygenarian lawmakers to just look at the whole games thing as uh just video games and and not care about it. But then on the other hand, there's enormous amounts of money at play. There's a lot of money at play. Art is important. And I think I think there's there's different people that do different things. There's different people that have different expertise and you can you can do more than one thing at once. Um, yeah. No says, "And all it took was for one guy to speak out against the movement. That's what popularized it." I don't think it's that simple. Although it did. I do think it had a pretty big impact. It definitely did shine a lot of light on the movement. Speaking of big impact, against your will, I got the numbers. Oh, okay. Um, so it's before tax, $62,000 for Creative Cloud, just Creative Cloud, and before tax, and then before tax, just for Adobe Acrobat Pro, it's $4,500. So, why the do we need Adobe Acrobat Pro? What the And why do we need $4,500 worth of it for Who's doing PDFs? I know we get PDFs signed. I'm anti-PDF files. both of them. Hey guys, me too. That shouldn't be a controversial statement. We We do get PDF signed though. I I I think it's very convenient to have like the cloud version of PDF signs. Um K. Is it convenient enough to be $4,500 a year? I don't know. I don't know what people use them for. I don't use it. I mean, if it's an alternative to like fax, then I I haven't used Adobe Acrobat in a long time. Very long time. I Okay. I've recently been using uh Only Office. It's pretty easy, right? Seems fine. It's free. Is that that website where you just go and it's pictures of people in suits? Um No, it seems to be like That was Canadian dollars, by the the like Linux bro open source thing that isn't Libra Office. There's like both of those exist. People in chat are saying Libra Office. Someone said some other thing up above. I don't know where I saw it. Uh I don't remember what it was called, but there's like there's lots of options for PDFs. You can sign PDFs with the free version. I think people at work have Yeah. PDF- exchange. I've never heard of that, but a few people are saying that. Um, uh, I don't know why we have the pro one. I I suspect it's for the you can email someone the link and then they can sign it digitally in their browser and it gets like receipts for everything in both directions and stuff. And it's just I will admit it's very professional. I would have to guess that that's probably the business team that uses that or accounting, business accounting, HR for like getting people hired and signing employee contracts and stuff like that. Yeah. $4,500 to like seem professional to people that you do outreach to in those contexts. Probably it might matter. Probably. Maybe. Possibly makes sense. I suspect one of the reasons why it might be so expensive is we probably have a bunch of dead subscriptions cuz they do they do the seat thing, It's supposed to be good news show. I don't you're not allowed to talk about Well, the good news could be that we might get away from that. Hey, you might maybe possibly save money. That's a reach. Good news. That's a reach. Luke, good news. It's a reach. Um, good news, everyone. H, other good news. Uh, okay, Dan, I apologize for what I did before. Can I please have them back? Thank you. All right, we're supposed to do the CW announcement. This week, we've got Oh, lordy, I scrolled too far. We're hiring. We've got a few open roles on our site, including a junior fashion designer and a purchasing manager, both for Creator Warehouse, as well as a contract role in inventory and warehouse management based out of Atlanta, Georgia. If you think you'd be a good fit for these roles, we want to hear from you. Head over to linusmedia.com/careers to apply. Yay. Uh this week's product launch has the variety and uh has quite the you know what this week's product launch is pretty exciting for me personally. This is something pretty different from what we've done in the past. If you love motorsports, the Moto T is for you. I'm going to fire up um uh What are you doing over there? Are you shopping for Adobe subscriptions? I I saw I saw those Adobe subscriptions. You're supposed to be going to LTT store. Oh, this show is such a disaster. Oh, look. It's really cool. If you love motorsports, the Moto T is for you. It's a race inspired jersey, but instead of sponsored patches, they are tech inspired patches and 3D puff prints. It's designed on a 100% cotton top, so it's breathable and feels premium. And you can get yours at lmg.gg/ moto t. Very, very different kind of design from what we've done in the past. Super cool. The pink and green is obviously inspired by the old Lambo color scheme. Isn't that cool? That's a cool photo. Yeah, I know, right? Of course, you should never ride your motorcycle without a layer over top of a cotton tea or long sleeve like this. Um, but hey, you can you can still look the part when you are not actually on your bike. That's a great Did is that just actually her bike? Did they actually bring Natalie's bike into the studio? It looks like maybe. Oh my gosh, that's pretty sick. Uh, cool. Okay, next up is uh that's that's a great shot. Sweet. Next up is the shirt that Luke is wearing. If you're a frequent viewer of the WAN show, you might recognize this character, sir. Ability to can. Oh wow, he's everywhere. He disappears whenever something really ridiculous happens and I can't anymore or I lose my ability to can. He's super cute. It's a It's bleach printed, so it has kind of this vintagewashed look and is very crack. And you can get yours at lmg.gg/ability to can. Do you want to show the back of it? Luke's actually wearing this shirt right now. There you go. Missing sir ability to. It's a bird. Don't worry about it. It's more of just like a win show inside joke, but it's also kind of a fun shirt design. Pay Lionus for making puns. Pretty much. which I mean, yeah. I mean, it wouldn't be the first time. Last but not least, for those who just want something basic, we have our blank baseball cap. It's the same design as our LTT hat. It's adjustable. Doesn't have the top Smarty or button, whatever you want to call it. Um, so are you going to He's going to bring it up. He's working on it. He's working on it. There we go. Nope. No. Is it Is it Is it missing? lmg.gg/blanketcap.ap Oh, there we go. Um, it's adjustable and it's in medium and large sizes. It doesn't have the top smarty, so if you ever like, you know, bump it on anything, you won't have that to deal with. It's really comfortable and is now available in black and kangaroo. You can shop now at lmg.gg/blankcap. And this is one of yet another products that is coming into the LTT store with creator warehouse branding that could ultimately, hey, if you're another creator out there and you're looking for branded apparel opportunities, be rebranded to something else. Oo, interesting. Wow. Anywh who, if you're looking for a good reason to send in an order to LTD store, as always, the best way to do so is to wait. When we're live, oh man, my brain is so fried today. Um, when we're live, go to the store, go to a product, find the one you want, click add to cart, then this little thing will show up. This is the easiest way to do it, but you could also just click on this. Uh, and then this box will be here probably looking like that. And you can click this little check box and be like, "Oh, I want to say something." You can make your name anonymous or not. And then you can be like, "Whoa, car shirt. Cool. Thanks, man." Smiley face. And then change your color cuz you feel like doing that. Opt in for email communications cuz you're like, "Uh, by the way, wear my order. Screwdriver. No show up. Please help. Thanks. And then uh the customer support people can message you because you did this thing and then you check out and then it shows up on this the stream. Thanks. All right. It goes to producer Dan who will either show it up on the stream or reply to it or he will curate it for me and Luke to respond to. We feel this is way better than just people throwing their money at their screen and then hoping something good will happen. Um we like you to get highquality merchandise in the mail instead. Or in addition to Dan, do you want to show them what a curated checkout message looks like? Did I call it a Did I call it a merch message? Yeah, I know you're not saying anything because you're in the same room as me, Dan. Am I allowed to say things yet? Yes, of course. Fine. Hey, LLD, but mostly Luke. Everyone else uh can answer, I guess. What is your favorite version of Boy Kibble? Simple carb plus high protein other than just chicken and rice. Oh, well. It's already actual actual kibble. I know I know people that go really hard. They'll make they'll make like a like ground beef mixed with like egg and maybe some maybe some spice and that'll be like the predominant portion of their meals for a week. They'll just make one big trough of like meat. Um, something I've been going for lately is sticking with the chicken. Uh, or or potentially having or potentially having steak instead, but try to make that more rare, I find. And cook it less. Oh my god. Uh, I did I didn't mean that, but you know, don't overcook it either. Whatever you do, don't make the chicken guy. Yeah, don't do that. Um, and but then I I've been mixing the the other things up. So, go for like a sweet potato instead of rice or or instead of broccoli, do like cauliflower or spinach or kale or uh something else and just keep changing things up a little bit. Um, I have heard that if you just eat the same thing all the time and it's really boring, um, that it can act as an appetite suppressant. So, if you're trying to lose weight, maybe that works, maybe it doesn't. I don't know. Um, contrary to what I said earlier in the show, not a scientist, not a doctor. Uh, but yeah, I've been I've been mixing up the the carbs that are included basically. Um, but keeping the proteins pretty basic. Um, yeah. Yeah. Hopefully that's an answer. Nicholas Cage in float plane chat asked us to make the hat that Jay wears in Jay and Silent Bob. It's a baseball cap without a brim, and literally no one sells one. Sell me one. I Are you sure? Are you sure we need this? Wait, really? There's no brim. Yeah, I never noticed it. I think I always just thought it was on backwards. Wait, what? Yeah. No, this is the seat of the This is the car seat behind him. There's no brim on it. How did I never notice that? Oh my god. Uh, that's just a beanie. say people I thought I thought this is what Americans call a beanie. Like no that had like the this is a this is a baseball cap line things in it. I don't know what you want to call it. But without a brim it has the seams and everything. Scrappy DP says we do not want that. I don't think anyone does. We want a double brim hat too says Mi. No you don't. You are so lying. You do not want a double brim hat. That is not a thing you want. All right, Dan, hit us with another checkout message. Hey, L D for the same price. Oh my god. Hold on. There's a there's a whole company that sells them. Of course there is. No, no brim co. That kind of has a brim though. It It really does. Yeah, it has like a folded up brim. They saw the squeezy jibs one original not brim brimless hats. What about the long brim? I saw a long brim on there. Wait. Long brim. That was somewhere. What was that on there? Home page. I think you made it up. Might have been might have been the previous one. I think you're a liar. Yeah. Anyways, that's funky. Um, speaking of speaking of funky hats, um, I searched for double brim trying to find what I think, you know, obviously would have been, you know, one in the front and one in the back, but instead I found this. That's the one. And I saw it on your screen. That's the squeezy gym. Super brim, dude. I love how the the dude wearing the hat just looks completely normal. I don't think that's this hat. There's no way that that's this hat. I uh I was actually I was actually working on my notes for the uh Mega X8K uh VR headset. And I know it's one of those things that doesn't really affect your ability to make a good quality product, but bad or not even necessarily bad, but like clearly fake product photography just really puts me off of something. And this is a classic example. Where where is she? Oh, where'd she go? Dang it. Okay. Uh well, oh here, here she is. She is not wearing that headset at all. Like look at this. This is the Somebody tried a little bit though. This is the fakest. She's not wearing the headset. This is not even a picture. This is a render of the headset on her face. And it gets worse. A little They put a little shadow on there. It gets worse. Oh no. Here it is. This is the exact same photo. You can tell from the pixels of the hair that this is exactly the same photo. He inspected the pixels. You can see it in the You can see it in like the little flyaways and stuff. He's a pixel scientist that it's the same picture just with the like and here's the here's the same picture three times. Three times the same picture on one page. Hold hold on. two more times the same picture. Whoa. Come on, man. Come on. It just ah it feels so It feels so low quality. I uh I don't I don't I don't like that. I um I haven't actually tried the product yet. So, don't take this as a judgment on the quality of the product itself. It just the quality of the product page though. The quality of the product page is not great. Anyway, in other news, I had to go to AliExpress, but I did find a double brimmed hat, and it is exactly as amazing as I hoped. Yo, Inspector Lous, should we should we do one of these? Inspector Loose, you could wear that in your next secret shopper or something. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. All right. Sorry. Uh, Mr. Besser, do you want to hit us with another checkup message? Hey, LND. For the same price, I could get a 77in LGC5 OLED or a 100 in Samsung QLED mini LED. Why do we say QLED and lead? It upsets me. Uh, what would you do? Bigger or OLED? Yeah, this is a tough one. Samsung has a lot of QLED TVs and there is a wide range of quality depending on how many local dimming zones they have and how bright they are. With that said, at the same price, I could have a 77 in or a 100 in TV. It depends a little bit on the space. If you have a smaller room and just, you know, sitting farther is not an option anyway. Um, the C5 OLED is going to give you a better picture. It's going to give you a poppier, punchier, uh, more exciting picture. However, if you're in a large space and you want to have a big group, the bigger the TV, the wider you can spread your couches and chairs, the more you can have people kind of kind of spread out and eating snacks over there and whatever, the more people you can kind of gather around it. And and even if you have a smaller room, the more immersive the image is going to feel, if it was me, and I guess it is, I would choose the larger display over the OLED. In my theater room, I could have, if I really wanted, a 97in OLED. I have chosen not to. Instead, I have 115in um miniLEDD. So that's what that's what I would choose. However, if for whatever reason the size of my display was constrained, then it would be hard for me to say no to an OLED. At least that's the case today. Uh with RGB backlighting coming, uh that's the one I'm more excited about. But it sounds like you're getting a deal on a lastg TV. So that's not going to be necessarily relevant to your purchasing decision. Anyway, I hope that helped. I didn't really give you an answer, but um Cool. What would you do? You'd do smaller OLED, I would think, right? Probably that's what you did. Yeah. So, it's not even hypothetical. I went bigger TV. He went smaller OLED. I also have less viewing distance, I guess. Like, uh it's one of those like, you know, shotgun apartment hallway room things. And you just have like standard couch position, standard TV position. The throw distance is really not that crazy high. So, I'd rather just a way better picture. 100 inch would be a little bit ridiculous at that seating distance, I think. So, yeah. So, I' I'd rather just have a better Genesis 89:25 says, "If money wasn't a problem projector, but man, I have a really hard time getting behind that." Like, the the wife acceptance factor of a projector, it just from my experience seems to be much smaller. And I don't know what it is, but it's like they don't look good. Yeah. I mean, they can, but there's so many other things you have to align that that the wife acceptance factor starts to decay and then the second someone gets up to go get popcorn in the middle of the thing and there's a and they interrupt the image or you have to tell your young kids, "Hey, that's a laser projector. Don't look into the lens." And you know, there's like eye safety concerns and then you accidentally leave a door open and so there's like a weird kind of like bright spot across half of it where the shadow of the couch covers it. It's just it's not as friendly. And there's something just kind of intuitive about the TV being the thing you like press a button on in an emergency if you forget versus like going to the back of the room and like pressing a thing on the ceiling if the remote has the battery's dead or whatever. Like there's just so many little things about a projector that are more, you know, bearded dude and less familyfriendly. No offense, Dan. I painted my wall. Just an entire The entire wall is gray. You've seen it. There's no white factor there. Wow. You also can't go anywhere near it or put anything in front of it or touch it ever or it's ruined. Get a TV. Yeah. Yeah. That's what That's what I'm talking about. Get an OLED. She'll like the colors. Yeah. Yeah. She probably won't care. She likes the colors in front of her. Okay. All right. She likes the colors. Okay. Mine doesn't care. It's whatever is in the most I know exactly where he's going. She will be in the family room where there is an OLED TV and she'll be like doing yoga on a mat or something and she will be watching on her phone and I'm just like really anyway, let's talk about Apple launching where I thought that was going. Apple education after giving after giving up significant education se sector ground in recent years, decades. Says our notes. Apple appears to be making a new push to engage potential users as early as possible with Apple Education. A redesigned landing page highlights the benefits of various Apple hardware and software for lifelong learning starting with lowcost iPads and MacBook Neos and Airs for the K to2 crowd and then moves up through the product line for college and post-graduate studies with all the essential productivity and specialty apps for your field. The site also offers special Apple Care packages and flexible financing for educational institutions. And that's that right there is the big one when it comes to hooking them young. I mean, I have talked for ever about how Apple like [ __ ] up allowing Chromebooks to become a thing. And it looks like they finally figured it out and they are making a concentrated effort to just unchromebook the world. And I kind of think these stomp on Chromebooks. Oh, dude. I mean, I've been daily. It's like not close. I think I've been dailying the Neo for over two weeks now, I think. I I can't I can't remember the time, but basically it's not bothering me. I feel like you would remember the time if you hated it. Because you'd be like counting. It's It's the same thing as this Linux challenge compared to the last one. Yep. The last one we were all checking in with each other on how many days were left and this one I think the timer passed and no one cared. Yep. Um, Apple also, unlike Google with their Chromebooks, seems well positioned to keep users in their ecosystem after schools out with a redesigned Apple business landing page that launched about a month ago. So, our discussion question here is, did Apple make the right call in seemingly abandoning the education market after the Emac? And I mean, I think I've made my position on this very clear over the years. No, absolutely not. That was entirely the wrong call. Apple went from being the only computers in one of the like elementary schools that I attended to be basically becoming utterly irrelevant in schools in a span of like what 5 years 10 years something like that almost nothing. It was just it was just all PC and then it was all Chromebook. Um and Apple became just a complete nonplayer outside of from my understanding very affluent um or educational organizations. But now man this thing this thing changes everything because an iPad is only useful for certain stuff for a lot of things. I'm sorry but you just plain need a keyboard. What what is the difference right now between a Neo and an iPad with a keyboard? Um, the fact that it's running proper desktop software to me is a big one just in the the the dayto-day usability of the device. Or did you mean in terms of price? No. Yeah, that that to me is the big one. the fact that I'm not just limited to iPad OS apps and I can run any software that I want on it because there's just I mean it's inherent to the App Store model that these apps are designed to be less open. You know, Apple dictates what's in the app store. They take a cut out of everything that's in the app store, which you know, whether you believe that that's some monopolistic practice from them or not is a tax on the developers ability to operate within that ecosystem. There's just there's things about it that are just plain not as budget friendly and not as user friendly. I I find it interesting how open they are. Surprising price. Yeah. It's like Yeah, it is a surprising price from you. It's also a surprise in price for just the general quality of the laptop. But do you think this is Tim Cook wanting to like go off on a high note? Like there's been a lot of discussion around his legacy. Yeah, there has been. Over the last couple years. Well, cuz he's getting close to probably retiring. Like, hasn't he been pretty open about I think so. And so it's just it's been this open conversation like what is Tim Cook's legacy? because it I mean I'm sure he would love if it were not the uh the Apple Vision Pro, right? And you look at like there's a lot of things that he has undeniably done incredibly well. Apple is a is a logistics monster. The way that they the way that they handle messaging and their launches is perhaps unparalleled. Uh they're they're just so good at it. But what product did Tim Cook oversee? Because even even AirPods was before his time, was it not? Was it? Actually, maybe not. I think EarPods might have been before his time, but I don't think AirPods were right. You know what? No, I think you might be right. Who wasn't trying to Tim Cook? No. Yeah, Tim Cook was uh following him. Yeah, AirPods was was well after made the thing that kind of murdered the entire audio industry. Uh which is pretty impressive. So that was relatively early on in his tenure. And then towards the end, if he oversees the creation of the laptop computer that basically murders the entire entry-level business and education laptop segment from everyone else. I also think there's an angle which is what a punctuation mark to put on your career. Apple spent a really long time basically fighting with chip manufacturers. Like they got in this huge war with Nvidia. They they got in a bit of a tiff with Intel, a bit of a like they they really were not being very friendly with chip manufacturers. They came out with the M series chips. Those chips are just smashing They're fire. How do they pipeline people into their like, okay, we figured out bailing on the other chip manufacturers now, but the pipeline into Max is not necessarily the easiest and it's not exactly the cheapest. So, how do we get people kind of reinterested in Macs? We've we we own the world of audio. We own the world of phones. Well, the North American world of phones, but Yeah. Yeah. We own the world of spending money on lots of phones. Um, you know what's really interesting to me though is like what will Apple take away from this lesson? Will they take away, oh, we could have charged more for the NEO and will they go back for higher margins or will they take away, holy crap, we have been leaving so much volume on the table by pricing things out of reach of normal ordinary people and do we get like a really aggressive iPhone? Like, do we get like a $400 iPhone? Because if they can build this computer for $500 to an educational customer, Convince me you can build a cheaper phone. Convince me they couldn't do a $400 iPhone if they really wanted to. They've got their own silicon for the processor. They've got their own silicon for the modem. Now, even the Qualcomm tax is she's a hefty tax. Tell me they couldn't do it. No, they absolutely could. I I think this might this might piss some people off. I think their gamer move in the future is to basically only ever have you know they have two SKs for this one. They have like the higher storage plus Touch ID and then the lower storage and no Touch ID. I don't think you ever expand beyond that. Oh, for this one? Yeah, for the Neo. I think you keep Neo tier laptops as like there is maybe two options. Maybe in some generations there is one and it's just the cheap uh laptop you can get from Apple and then everything else is you're jumping into M chips and it's like performance laptops and I I actually I like that they gave it a really unique color because it clearly identifies me as a scrub who but it's a good buy. but it still it still looks good. It has it's it has its own very clear identity. The thing on the bottom is is a Dbrand scale. Oh, yeah. That's a Dbrand scale, just so people know. Yeah. Sorry about that. So, it's this that's what we're looking at. Greenish yellow. Yep. Yep. Uh, so I I really like what they did with that. I could see them continuing to do that. That's something that they have done in the past to differentiate otherwise very similar looking. You can still get it in silver and pro. Yes. But I would actually like to see them lean into this. I see most people, that one is the most popular color way I've personally seen is like the yellow. Um, but I've seen most people get colorful ones, which I have to say, like, thanks. God, it's been so boring. Everyone just always picking the most boring possible color options for everything. And seeing a bunch of people get the colorful Neos brought some hope. I think it's like, "Oh, wow. The world can not just be gray again. This is great. Nah, don't get your hopes up. What? It's going to Nah. Everyone else is full of hopes. The only reason Apple can do that is because what? They sell 8 million of these things. High hopes. Oh, so Apple So all the other ones are sold out, so you just had to buy it. Well, no. I just mean Apple can afford to do a gray one and a yellow one. Oh, no. I mean people's selection. Oh, sure. I just mean they'll But Apple's the only one who has the volume to gamble and do a color. Sure. Sure. Sure. Because they can even if the color bombs and only one in 10 customers selects the color one, then they are still going to sell 800,000 of them. So, they're fine. I hear you. I just I think like I think you just see people who have a selection of colors always going like gray, white, or black. Um and that's just kind of boring. They're just safe. I mean, I was I was talking to the creator warehouse team about um commuter bags. I've Or hey this shirt, the Lambo shirt's so cool. Here. So, Commuter Bear. Oh, it's so sick. I've been rocking this uh That's awesome. kind of like olive like tactical green one for a little while that I really like. And we were just we were talking about, you know, Yeah. what would what would a future look like where we have like a range of colors of bags? And we were talking through what the minimum order quantities are for each of these colors with fabric sourcing and and factory time. And um one of the things that Dave brought up is that we have access to, you know, industry trend data and sales data. And basically it becomes kind of like a like a self-perpetuating cycle because the only thing that actually sells is black and gray and then that's the only thing anybody makes. So then it's the only thing that anybody sells and and it's it's a huge financial risk unless you're Apple. That's why I'm saying I just appreciate that people are not just buying just the silver one is like the more you make it so that people don't just buy only ever just the black one. It's like, "Oh, sweet. Okay, we can like actually have more colors of things in the world again." And like, okay, uh, Oruruk in float plane chat says, "I would totally get a pink backpack, but it's tough because we'd sell like 10 of them." Back when uh, back when Steeler, let me see if I can find Steeler did like a pink Logitech had more success with this, I would say. Um, yeah. Yeah. I just the reason I brought up ste steel shares is just because they did it a very long time ago before everyone else did it. Yeah, true. And I can't I can't find it. Um probably because it didn't sell like 2010. Yeah, it was it was really old and I I remember I I either was the product manager or I sat next to the product manager for it and it was an unmititigated disaster. We sold like three of them or something like that and then we had to liquidate the rest of them. That has changed to a degree, right? To your point, things are a little different now and Logitech seems to have done better with it. I think Logitech has also succeeded in like it's not just hot pink. Like they'll they'll do colors like this or like it's a it's a nice like soft purple that you don't have to like they call this one heartbreaker and it's the pink one, but it's not just like glowing hot pink either. Like I think they they played with the colors a little bit more. I hate though that to be a trendy girl who uses a computer, you can only have aastastic mouse. No, this is just the first one I clicked on. I'm pretty sure there's there's a like I just was scrolling down and saw they have like a high performance mouse like that. Uh okay, I probably have to go launch G. Hold on. I think it's like a different site. Yeah. Okay. I think they do have some pretty cool colorways. The super strike I'm pretty sure is just black and y gray. Oh my god. Go away. Pop-ups are so annoying. There it is. Magenta magenta. That's a pretty aggressive pink. That is a pretty aggressive pink. I found the thing that I was uh I found the thing that I was thinking of. I didn't find the mouse, but I did find the mouse pad. So, Steeler had their Iron Lady brand, which was That's pretty rough. Pretty cringe. That is pretty rough. It was pretty cringe. Uh, that's what I mean though is like these Logitech ones, not to glaze Logitech too hard, but the Logitech ones like kind of look nice and they don't say Iron Lady on them, which Here we go. I found it. I found it. There it is. The Iron Lady gaming mouse. Yeah. See, that's kind of yikes. And then look at this. This is the one I was actually talking about. The G203. Pretty good mouse. Lilac. Actually looks nice. That's pretty cute. Okay, cool. Anyways, it's time to talk about our float plane announcements. Lionus, try to guess what this means. Dan, show the free shipping. Yeah, that's pretty obvious. Yeah. What? Why? Don't don't don't don't applaud me for being NOT GOOD JOB. OKAY, WAY to go. He did it. He's our good boy for next week. Oh man, it Okay, how ridiculous is it that like a few months ago, I was talking to the creator warehouse team and we were discussing like our sale calendar for the year and we had decided that after the success of our ships sale event last year that we should we should do a repeat of it. we should do a ship storm sale event and we were like talking about it and we're like well yeah but you know that whole thing was precipitated by you know the actions of a certain one of you know the country leaders hold on I've story spoiled so anyway it's they're all they're they're all Gen Zers gen alphers whatever they don't have time they already know where the story's going. I'm just helping. So, we decided to do a ship storm sale event on the anniversary of the first ship storm. We had no idea that the certain world leader was going to do a thing again that was going to completely global logistics again. You probably could have relied on it. I I guess we did. So anyway, the ship storm sale event is coming back and we have something very excited for our float plane supporters. Everyone on float plane will be getting their usual 24-hour early access to the event. And additionally, LTT supporter plus tier subs will have a $50 lower threshold to get free shipping for their entire order worldwide. Nice. So, that's 13 bucks to save uh not spending $50 more, but still qualifying for free shipping. But that's not all. LT supporter plus tier subscribers on float plane will continue to have free shipping on LT store if the minimum spend threshold is met even after Shiptorm is over. I'm going to say for some time. I am not locking into that forever. Uh, I don't know who wrote this me this thing in my notes, but I'm putting an asterisk here. For some period of time, uh, TBD, Luke, how are we making money off this? I don't know. I warned that it might be a problem. Okay, cool. Uh, anyway, when we announced our price increase earlier this year, we said we'd make an effort to add benefits to our float plan subscribers. So, we're looking to deliver, pun intended. Uh, and I guess this is part of it. So, if you're a frequent shopper on ltstore.com, this could be worth considering. And you get to watch some amazing float plane exclusive videos like uh cutting room floor like the heavily uh divided $20,000 PC extras and also sometimes early releases. So, I'm just going to go ahead and launch a couple of videos. Hey, guess what? Do you know about this? Nearly 700 exclusives, by the way. Do I know about this? No, I don't. We were sponsored by Red Bull. Sick. sort of. Someone else was sponsored by Red Bull and Red Bull had us build computers for them. Also sick. Yeah. Right. So, that's going live. Red Bull does cool stuff. Yeah. And then we've also got another video that's going live, right? Oh. Oh. Oh, boy. This one is going to be a little controversial probably and you can watch it early on float plane. It's going to be What is it? the highest PC build ever. Okay, so you wait, what? Why? Because it's going to be at 40,000 ft. No, I get it. But why is it controversial? Well, I seriously have you not been following the smoking drugs, the community drama over the last couple of weeks. Oh, cuz it's in your plane. Because it's in Linus Media Group Incorporated's plane. Yes. Who owns that company? Me. So, it's in your plane. Well, it's okay. you know better than I can only use it for work unless I like it's a taxable benefit etc etc but but yes Elijah came with me on the data center tour to Equinex in Virginia and this is a small small spoiler. He forgot the case. He left the case on the ground. That's pretty funny. Uh yeah. Uh did you just film it on the way? So we were supposed to film it on the way while we were filming while we were flying during the day and then that was supposed to be our work day that day and then we were supposed to sleep and then get up super early our time because we're 3 hours ahead now. Do the data center tour and then sleep on the way back. But instead, Elijah had to abandon me for the data center tour. He had to go to MicroEnter, buy a case, and then we had to shoot it on the way back. Did you shoot the whole thing on the way back or did you do part on the way there? We had to shoot the whole thing on the way back. There was like almost nothing we could There's almost nothing you can do without a case. You put the CPU on the motherboard and like put some RAM in and then that's it. You're done. Whereas like the bulk of computers Yeah. Right. Oh, apparently I told everyone last week. Well, whatever. I think it's I forgot the detail on if you did part of it on the way there or part of or all of it on the way back. Anyway, the video's out. It is It is controversy aside, an absolute banger. It is so funny. It's just ridiculous. I think you've already been like I people might not like seeing the plane, I mean it's just a I don't think it's controversial. Some people, you know what, there's some there's some people that are upset about it, but most people seem to be enjoying the window into something that otherwise we would have absolutely no access to. Did you hear about Ford? I I did. I did. Okay. So, key difference. So, we had a politician, a Canadian politician is in hot water right now for using, and this is incredibly important, taxpayer money to acquire a private aircraft, way more expensive, a way more expensive uh private aircraft for And I'm the reasoning was so funny. I didn't see the re What's the reason? He was like, "Other people have planes." and he pointed at like some other politicians that have access to planes and he's like, "I want one, too." It was so good. I actually started laughing reading the article. I think it was something like Quebec has a plane or something. And he's like, "They have a plane. I want a plane, too." It's like, "Really, bro? Right now, Canada's on fire. Do you actually need a plane?" I don't know. Oh, it was funny. It was good. It was a good time. And I can I can say with 100% certainty that he could have done it on a tighter budget than that. Also, the plane that he chose is so unnecessary for what he would be doing. It's a it's a Challenger 650. Dude, he's a provincial politician. Where is he even going? Opposition leaders dub it the gravy plane. Oh man, hold on. Challenger 650 range. Uh, this is hilarious. So, the Challenger The Challenger 650. Hold on. Where's Guardian Jet? Here we go. CL 650. No, I don't want the brochure. Online tools. Uh, range rings. Here we go. Okay, here's our range map. So, what's an airport? Uh, so let's say Toronto. Uh, sure, whatever. Mark them. It doesn't really matter. Bombardier. Uh, CL. Yeah, here we go. CL 650. So, this is this is what you got. Oh, shoot. I screwed up. Oh, no. I screwed up again. Oh, man. I'm such a boomer sometimes. Toronto. Seriously, come on. Okay, so Markham, uh, yeah, here we go. Check this out. So, CL6 CL 650. This is the range of that thing. Does a provincial politician ever need to fly non-stop to Ecuador? How often do you think that comes up? For context, this is Ontario. Yeah, the the what what what I read was that he was mostly going to be flying within the province of Ontario. Well, yeah, he's a provincial politician, sometimes going to the states to deal with tariff stuff. that was like it even that who would he be talking to? He would be talking to bordering states, so like here. Or he'd be talking with, you know, maybe Washington, which would be like whatever in here in here somewhere. I don't remember exactly. There you go. Or in like DC. Dude, he could be on a prop plane and make these flights. Like there's absolutely no reason whatsoever to have a Challenger 650. So here's the uh one sec. Hit me with it. Here it is. Hit me with it. The statement issued by Ford's office contrasts the price of Ontario's plane to $107 million. It says Quebec paid for one used and two new Challenger 650s and 753 million the federal government paid for six new Global 6500 jets. Okay, I will say this. Um, you know, if Quebec spent that much, that's also ridiculous. That's that's the only thing that stood out to me on that was like, oh wait, why why the heck did Quebec spend $107 million on private jets? I can understand why the federal government needs them in terms of like federal state craft. You actually have to travel internationally. You actually cannot just put your entire like cabinet on like a commercial flight to, you know, Madrid. And if they have kind of ridiculous maybe you can borrow one now and then or something. Maybe you can charter one from them. I doubt it. I mean, I don't see, again, it comes down to taxation and who actually owns it, which is where Yes, the distinction between a person and a corporation or But sorry, do you own the corporation? one level of government and another level of government actually does matter. Like it does matter in terms of moving funds around and who is paying for the wear and tear and how all that's accounted for. Like it legitimately does Um so you can't just be like, "Hey, federal Canadian government, you own this thing, therefore I can use it." Right. Like it no actually doesn't work like Um but besides, you wouldn't need a global what was it? A global 6500 or something like that that the federal government. That's the federal one. Yeah. You wouldn't need that. Six new ones. They bought six brand new ones. Why do those need to be brand new? I mean, uh, and they spent 753 million. I mean, they would cost that. Like, that's the that's what brand new ones go for, which is why that was never going to happen. That's why 1990 was uh was a good year for me. They have they have Rolls-Royce Pearl engines. Well, that's just common. That's not like having a Rolls-Royce engine is just like it's a thing. There's only so many efficiency. There's only so many turboan engine manufacturers. Honeywell, Rolls-Royce. I'm trying to think of who else. Uh, yeah, GE. Thank you, Dan. At least it's Bombardier, so they bought it like from Canada. Yeah, I would have I would have loved to go Bombardier instead. That helps a little bit. Oh, I I mean, if it's a government purchase, you'd kind of hope it's from Canada. Yep. I I I I kind of wanted to I kind of wanted to rep bombardier, but it just it didn't make sense. It It didn't make dollars actually. It was a lot farther off than not making sense. It made too many dollars. Yeah. All the all the dollars. Uh anyway, so those videos are up. The the highest PC build is supposed to go up on April 20th, lol. Uh but for people who want to watch it a little early, you can head over to lmg.gg/flatplane. Uh, you can also get free shipping, early access, and extras.ggfpwan. We got a couple sponsors for the show today. It's brought to you by Zero Bounce. Email marketing is one of the many ways people use to grow their business. But what happens if your messages are not hitting inboxes? Well, they nobody sees them. Well, Zero Bounce has the solution. They stop the guesswork by offering a bunch of validation tools to make sure that your delivery rate stays high and your bounce rate stays low. All you have to do is punch in an email or upload a whole list. And Zero Bounce will let you know which ones are worth your time and your money. Cuz sending emails is not free. 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The only risk for you is that you might be a little bit jealous. I was blown away by how much cool stuff he has. Did you watch Sven's video, Luke? I did. He has so much cool stuff. He does have a lot of cool things. He has cool CRTs. This place looks like it would be fun to hang out in and cool games and all the cool consoles and he got a cool new upscale. Also sounds like a good boyfriend. He got the Retro Tank 4K for for his OLED and like Yeah. And he and he took care of the girlfriend. He got some cool stuff for her. He had already taken like she has a gaming computer. Well, it wasn't hooked up to anything, but because she doesn't play games, so he got her a more appropriate device. He didn't just get salty about it. He just got her something that she would appreciate more. What a good boyfriend. He got good. What a good guy. What he did. Uh, also, if you go check out the video, you're going to want to check out the link in the video description because there's a chance to win your own 9850 X3D, which is the fastest gaming CPU on the planet. Well, at at the m big asterisk um because hold on a second is have they have they yeah they've officially hold on I can't remember uh because there could be rumored to be something else coming at some point. Anyway, the point is as usual AMD has a little bonus question for us. Luke, when it comes to your setup, do you prefer running everything on one powerful do-it- all machine or do you like to split things up with dedicated systems for like gaming, content creation, server stuff, home lab? I like just running everything on one, but it's not really the answer. And uh as I progress forward, I'm going to be splintering into multiple devices. I see within a year probably having at least three at least two definitely at least two systems. Um but very likely three before a year's up. I'm kind of delaying right now. Just hoping you're seeing RAM it's dipping a little bit do that. So I'm kind of hoping I can wait a little bit more and get some cheaper RAM. Um but yeah I want to move I have a few services that I have kind of running all the time. not that many and I want to have a lot more. But what's been holding me back from having a lot more is that they're all running on the same system and that just kind of sucks. So yeah, time to split off. Time to have a powerful NAS that can do a variety of things. Basically, what you shouldn't do necessarily is go as far as Mr. Nick Harris. I was at his house yesterday. I've seen pictures of his setup. Nick runs software development for the lab. He also just is a sort of general manager of things for the lab. He uh he has some people who report to him. He also oversees uh markbench like benchmarking. He also just sort of bench he also just Oh yeah, I know it's it's got a new name now, but I still call it Mark Benbench. Deal with it. Um he also just kind of like is a is a voice of reason. you know, when you when you have a group and you need to have a conversation, he's just kind of a he's a he's a presence is I think the best way that I could describe him because, you know, having him around is a gift. Um, so the point is I was at his house yesterday though. I, and I cannot emphasize this enough, I had difficulty navigating his spaces due to the unprecedented level that I had hereto for never seen before of tech clutter. The in the intro in the intro I talk the line is how do you upgrade the setup of someone who has not one, not two, not three, not four, not five, not six, but seven computers. And the worst part of it is that after we did the intro, when I was doing the part where I like poke around in people's living spaces and we kind of get to know them a little bit, I found more computers. Were they all running? He No, the the one I found was apparently a dedicated machine to run his bass pedal. He literally had a dedicated machine for pretty much every function. Wow. Was his story. And then I found out that actually one of them's a Proxmox box and he he does have virtualization running. So he's got like more than 10 dedicated computer functions in this place. I just can't fathom it. But hey, that's the kind of person that you want, you know, in your testing lab. Someone who who enjoys the pain of tinkering and troubleshooting and experimenting. When we were going through the interview process, Um, uh, in one of our video interviews, I kind of talked about like, you know, this was a long time ago, but I talked about the idea of this benchmarking software that we would have. Yeah. Mark Bench. Well, at the time I don't think it had a cool name and much of an idea really, but I talked we talked about like the concept. We kind of bounced ideas back and forth on the concept. The next video call that we had, he had built like a prototype of it and I was like, "All right, there's the job." Basically, um, dudes based. Uh, that's the GG right there. Not that we're saying that you should do unsolicited and unpaid work for a job you're applying for. Um, that's not advice. However, it certainly got our attention. I'll say that much. It showed like passion and interest in the subject, which I cared about a lot. No, we'll do that later. Nvidia's mythical N1 SoC has surfaced on a real motherboard, and it's packing 128 gigs of LPDDR5X. Nvidia's long rumored N1 SoC has shown up on a real motherboard for the first time spotted on the Chinese resale platform Goofish before the listing was taken down. The board appeared to be a laptop engineering sample described as an Nvidia N1 AI book and was packed with eight SKH LP DDR5X memory chips totaling 128 GB running at 8533 mega transfers per second. The N1 is supposed to share its silicon with the GB10 super chip that powers Nvidia's DGX Spark workstation and reportedly packs a 20 ARM uh a 20 core ARM CPU designed with MediaTek alongside a Blackwell architecture GPU with up to 6144 CUDA cores which would put it roughly in RTX 5070 territory. This would be Nvidia's first crack at a consumer PC chip after years of Tegra SOC's for mobile devices, phones, and consoles like the Nintendo Switch. All signs point to a Computex 2026 reveal in June with Dell and Lenovo reportedly already testing laptops with the N1. The chip is designed to compete directly with Apple Silicon, AMD's Stricks Halo, and Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite in the growing Windows space. It feels like a predominantly strict Halo competitor. it's in a bit of a weird spot. It's got like Nvidia grade onboard graphics, but it will have ARM on Windows grade game compatibility issues potentially unless Nvidia has done some some blackmagic wizardry which you know after seeing what Valve and Apple have done over the last five six years I I wouldn't say is impossible. you know, the migration from Intel to Apple Silicon was incredibly smooth and the the way that I mean, look, that demo that I saw at Valve HQ playing on the Steam frame, like playing an x86 Windows like direct 3D game on an ARM CPU on Linux, like blew my freaking mind, man. Obviously, it won't work on everything, but I mean being on Windows, here's a question. Does like kernel level antiche work on Windows on ARM? Is it architecturally? I have no idea. Similar enough that it just like it it's it's it's the Windowsess that matters. Did they bother to port that? Like, are you even going to want a 5070 class GPU on a Windows ARM laptop? Like, is that something anybody is asking for? Because do the games matter? Chat even seems like so unsure about this. It's like it's a question nobody seems to really be asking. Ibalrred says, "A colonel level antiche is just a driver." and like, yeah, fair enough.…

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