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excited we have great topics this week HDMI 2.1 is here that's actually really cool every single time a display cable gets updated I'm just excited it's a good thing it's like it's gonna be like more resolutions yeah and master colors and faster oh yeah right refresh rates good everything just gets better also China is using DJI drones to spy on the US rumor alleged lamer alleged well allegedly yep yeah EA Sports UFC threes egregious implementation of micro transactions so bad we'll be talking about that and finally our former employer NCIX dot-com bankrupt okay do you think I can roll the intro and adjust the tilt of the camera at the same time you got three okay two one go he's off he's gone around the table he's grabbed a lever twisting the knob oh the knobs broken off he's having some issues you might have to go get a wrench the intro is still going oh he's trying to turn the camera anyways and use route oh I have to sit up I have to do an ad thing though dragging the ad in this place thank you savage jerky Thank You spectrum Thank You Marcille my side my side Oh French yeah someone with a French name and I would know oh speaking French in really well though hdmi 2.1 yeah sure are supposed to buy sylvester silver do you mind if I have the right I was ten this is supposed to buy silver dracky on the forum and the original article here is from engadget.com let's go ahead and pull that baby up boom hdmi two point one is here with support for 10k and dynamic HDR support and it is backwards compatible with previous hdmi specifications that 10k by the way pretty weird 10k so-so 10k it looks like is gonna be more like wide 8k yeah except that that still makes it 10k yes because the way that we define resolutions because average you know Joe can say okay nothing against people named Joe kills just average Jeff consumer yeah can't handle two numbers yes okay so that's why resolutions are just something K now has to be a maximum of three characters or else you've lost them that's right before it's probably pushing it that's why swear words usually cap it for you can't go beyond there okay it's kind of a thing how interesting um so be okay here hold on back to this back to this chart that we're looking at over on Engadget here so this is this is interesting because back in the day we had Full HD and that was everyone we didn't really know that as full HD outside of like you know like yeah I mean 1920 by 1080 I think we called it 1080p back then and then Full HD was no no we didn't know what is Full HD but that was kind of like used some people inside enemy P Full HD yeah because we called it Full HD because of all the BS marketing that went on around 7:00 720 which was called HD HD okay is complete and then 4k was like okay it's I get the four so it's like four times this and it's also about 4000 pixels wide but then okay so this 5k this is interesting we've got about 5,000 pixels wide which makes sense that's consistent with the 4k naming oh it's something a lot of people don't know is that there was actually a 2k standard yeah so it's 2048 by 1080 if I recall correctly but that was only a dcpip cinema standard that wasn't actually a consumer standard and then everything got really confused with 4k because this resolution 3840 by 2160 is technically UHD Ultra HD it is not 4k 4k should be 4096 by 2160 because it would be 4 times 2k but then we weren't sure if we were using consumer nomenclature or if we were using a professional nomenclature and then the 5k thing I don't know I don't know what the hell that is because that's like widescreen 4k that's not 5 K because 5 K the only 5 K devices that exist are the Apple display on the iMac and LG's 5k display that's also for Macs and then 8 K is 4 times 4k but actually this is 4 times UHD which is 4 times Full HD so the decays never meant anything in the first place and also so 7680 is like dangerously not that close to 8,000 at this point and then 10k is now apparently four times five K at a different aspect ratio than eight K for K full-hd you know what know that was probably horrible sorry I'm sorry sorry but I I have to express my frustration to numbers is not that hard we've been doing it since you know 640 by 480 it was good enough for me it's good enough for the next generation I hate this I hate everything about it except that with new HDMI we can run high resolution and I actually am excited to see ultra wide TVs the fact that these standards are making it into the HDMI specification means you're gonna see choices like this anytime you go down a clip there's one that's really high on reddit right now anytime you see a clip of horizon zero dawn that's an ultra wide it's like oh that's probably how that game supposed to be played TV's apparently 480p was first gen HD what was that yeah HD CRTs I think they could be like 480 progressive or something or something something I can't remember the HD term has been it's been bastardized yeah there's a swear word that's not four letters yes someone in the twitch chat informed me of that yeah I said usual I mean we could have thought of a couple I'm sure I think I said you because there are some compound swear words that are definitely me and four letters so anyways there's a bunch of other cool stuff forty-eight gigabit per second that's pretty sick 4k at 120 Hertz that's actually a lot more important to me than 10k yes 8k at 60 Hertz that's pretty sweet I guess personally I'm really not that sold on above 4k at this point for yeah but that 4k at 120 is like that's pretty sweet I mean 8k 60 Hertz would be great for like a gigantic projector I guess dynamic HDR variable refresh rate yes finally oh man when I'm surprised Sony and Microsoft haven't been pushing harder for variable refresh rate because it would mask so many of the FPS dips that you know in a good way in a good way yeah like actually like Mask puts a potentially negative term yes that's true yeah but it is masking yeah but like it would it would it would look a lot better Auto low latency mode so that's cool contextual anti-aliasing removing jaggies without noticeable blur that sounds like if they get it right it'll be great and if they don't then it won't and sub 1 millisecond leg although that'll be up to the TV makers in terms of how they want to implement that and how little lag there actually is because they are constantly dinking around with the signal trying to do whatever it is that they're trying to wish they wouldn't do yeah every time that I even think about maybe looking into a TV which I don't I haven't I've never technically bought a TV so I mean like if someone asks me or whatever else I end up just being like I wish I could just buy a ginormous monitor because I don't even exist now yeah like can you get like 60-inch 65 inch monitors no I think the biggest that's what I'm talking about she has a 42 because like not only do I not want this stuff that's on the TV right TV but like I'm in the tuner it makes it worse it's not like oh that's not a benefit it's like no I really really wish that wasn't there I would pay the same price just please take it off right it's so annoying I've got people asking me what's up with the I just een thing so I went down there hooked her up with a sick 150 terabyte storage server in pink and white yeah it's sweet it looks really clean it's super cool and then while I was down there I actually impromptu shot a studio tour of her place because I actually didn't take a camera print this is kind of a funny story so the original plan was for me to take a camera person down and I was gonna stay down for like two or three days and I was gonna hang out with Jason and do cuz he's actually working I don't want to say what he's working on cuz his might still be top secret but it's a really cool build it's like sort of a collab except I don't need to be there so I don't need to be there for that anymore so we shortened my trip and then the other reason that I was going to take a shooter was that I was probably gonna do some kind of video for our channel with Justine and then I was like you know what forget it I just need to do a short trip because I've been traveling so much lately and you know what I don't know if we're gonna have time in one day to do the video for her channel and one for mine don't worry about it she already came up and she did a a guest appearance for us another thing that's never coming in I think that it'll come out um forget it I'm not gonna shoot a video and then what's funny is Yvonne booked a room with two beds just in case I like changed my mind at the last second and took a shoot here but I didn't but then I got to Justine's place and I was like this place is amazing this place is unbelievable and so what I did was I actually borrowed her shooter and then just got the clips off the SD card back here and it's actually being edited right now nice you are gonna be blown away and this is from the same person who just did a deadmau5 studio tour her place is unbelievable it's incredible really cool yeah I'm stoked I want one spoiling yes she probably has literally 50 Xbox one controllers literally what literally okay one more spoiler yeah literally every amiibo literally like properly using that term every single one literally what the Hat literally actually literally oh my god that's so many amiibos she is a way bigger nerd than I gave her credit for there's a few I haven't been able to get not collecting that many to be very clear I have like four I've wanted that I can't get yeah so her place was super cool and I was really excited too that's pretty cool yeah the entire chai is just like literally literally I found something that I thought okay you know what forget it that we'll get to it in the video okay what were we talking about we were technically on HDMI but I think we passed on oh yeah in between things and we're maybe doing DJs should we do flip lay oh let's do DJ I first yeah DJ I wow so this is supposed to by WM groom a K on the forum and actually we're going with our forum for the source of this article here because apparently this was a really epic post oh no no Engadget is the original source you always pull that up if it ever goes it'll go it'll go it'll go I got posted in the twitch oh there we go alright Homeland Security claims that DJI drones are spying for China and it released a memo detailing what it believes to be DJ eyes main targets wow that is like some pretty serious business accusation going on so this is a memo from the Los Angeles office of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Bureau alleging that the data captured from DJI drone customers in the u.s. is being provided to the Chinese government and the memo originally in August says that and there's a quote with moderate confidence the Chinese based company DJI science and technology is providing us critical infrastructure and law enforcement data to the Chinese government the information is based on open source reporting and a reliable source within the unmanned aerial systems industry with first and second hand access so they conclude and this is more quotes that it assesses with high confidence the critical infrastructure and law enforcement entities using DJI systems are collecting sensitive intelligence that the Chinese government would use to conduct physical or cyber attacks against the United States and its population yeah so DJI appears to be targeting users with the ability to disrupt critical infrastructure railroads utilities companies that provide drinking water weapons storage facilities DJ eyes statement though to be clear this is all alleged DJI statement says that the memo was based on clearly false and misleading claims shortly after however DJI released a local data mode which allows users to cut off drones from all internet activity which they probably what is my drone you do and they have had no clue like actually in terms of reporting like camera and telemetry data yeah especially when I'm recording like other than when I'm performing a firmware update yeah or I couldn't actually only be down I could see it reporting something like if I'm flying in a no-fly zone like that kind of stuffs coming but again that shouldn't be going to a foreign government that's for sure that should be going to one that has jurisdiction over the area that I am flying you have to would you have to register your drone or something now right so that should be like when you register your drone they like get a key or something yep Wow pretty brutal so now the ice memo did focus on the drones used by companies and institutions not the drones flown by hobbyists so I don't know if you necessarily have to stop you know hovering your drone in the bedroom to film yourself making a sex tape or whatever I wouldn't recommend that either either way you have blades yeah you know blades and penises not a good combination unless you don't want to have kids anymore like me but there's better ways to do that yeah yeah oh speaking of which I know you wanted to talk about stuff that's on floatplane it's hilarious okay it's actually so funny I can't even one of teryn scenes in this is so golden go like you know that yeah oh my okay so oh my good stuff that's on floatplane right now you guys join the club it's cool all the cool kids are there we've got case made of radiators literally human owned it's out literally a case made of radiators literally it look at it literally case made of radiators okay achieving the ultimate 4k experience the first-ever nvidia sponsored linus techniques video of all time literally I hope I hope talk comment on this threat I haven't looked yet isn't video shows will see that I hope so too yeah there's no way it won't be a Terran hosted a video recently on the elgato stream deck I have so many problems with that thing I'm watching this video yet but we'll see um let's see what else we got here we've got some exclusive stuff we toured the server room that was pretty cool well where's the Chum super fun one uh-oh it's coming it's coming oh that's already up on YouTube treyton 700 super powerful super thin gaming laptop very cool and there it is cruel pregnancy prank gone wrong it's amazing how many people are giving us crap about that gone wrong in the title I would hope it's fairly obvious that that like naming scheme is is played out at this point and that anyone doing it now when people are still really doing almost 2018 exactly anyone doing it now is clearly just being ironic its tongue-in-cheek it's just it's silly we all know it's dumb gone sexual gone wrong I don't think we've done a prank in a while yeah so it's kind of a show back to like when YouTube used to be prank - prank - basically yeah like I just I there were a couple people who seemed legit upset about it no no it's just it's it's a joke it's just a it's just a joke bro it's just a joke joke bro it's just a joke um that was the worst in all seriousness this wasn't a very funny joke it was hilarious as an external person so there it is a it is a - prank video yeah so should I should I say you know else know what the first one is that one's right at the beginning okay okay so the first prank is when Yvonne got pregnant with our third she and I got together and we were talking about how guys are not that observant like women can tell that each other are pregnant like basically immediately I don't know how they do it it's like they can smell it on each other or something yeah okay well I'll keep doing this so women can tell right away and I was like no there's no way guys would notice like that's why we never asked like we never bring it up because we can't tell the difference between like eight months pregnant and fat and you don't want to run that risk because you're like there's no way to win right and she was like no they'll be able to tell I was like they will not be able to tell and they certainly won't say anything and so she and I kind of made a little bet I was like they won't be able to tell even if and they'll think that it's me being mean if I'm like constantly going after you about how you're getting fat there's they won't be able to tell they'll just be like Linus is an ass they will not figure out that you're actually pregnant and yesterday that while he's being an ass to his wife who is also an employee of the company that we all work at he's also everyone's boss yep yep if we can dynamic and this is great I would ask people like do you think do you think he founds getting fat meanwhile she has actually gained 15 pounds because she is pregnant they'd be like oh no anyway there's actually a part two to the prank that is not funny at all but no it's Ashley Lillian it's a good video though sign up for floatplane having having the second parts not funny though having nothing to do with it it is hilarious but like there's certain points of time where I was like oh this is so this is getting bad there you go there you go guys go sign up for Flo plain one week early access ish it's not always a week but it's like definitely early access also beautiful videos with top-tier audio quality top-tier audience one of the rock that out there all right speaking of top-tier quality why don't we talk about sc2 mitches post on the forum the original article here is from astute gaming a site that I've never heard of by neither but sure one there you go and the headline here whoa whoa oh the headline oh EA Sports UFC three the single most egregious implementation of microtransactions to date so bad whoa have you read any but this at all you know my above all this is this is not my deal I'm not a UFC guy I'm not an EA Sports guy and I rarely even have time for gaming and I definitely don't pay for micro transactions so I tend to pretty much ignore them wherever they exist so it offends me probably less than other people because this is a game I was never gonna play from a company whose game I was never going to I still offend you okay hit me reasons why I should still friend you know run run through what it is okay country what it is right on top every single technique ability fighter stat roll all of it is in kwatak yeah is entirely acquired and upgraded through a loop box system okay where's things you can't actually like buy a fighter pressing the square button apparently we're going for PlayStation here pressing a square button to throw a punch at an opponent the simplest and most obvious mechanic in an MMA game will do more damage if players have paid money in an online PvP game it will do more damage if players have paid money sogood microtransactions are also the only means of acquiring perks and booths perks are powerful abilities that can be equipped for a small number of fights before expiring and boosts are temporary enhancements that offer endurance boosts and durability bonuses meaning you can fight longer you can take less damage and you can hit harder which is literally the entire game boom so good so basically EA is saying that UFC gamer fans are just endless like like money teats that they can suck on pretty much does that sounded like about what ei apparently thinks so yeah they're their audience here and you know what the interesting thing is when when we when we rolled out the keep on digging shirt that was because of Ubisoft I know but they've like taking turns well yeah cuz EA was like always crap like the keep on digging was only relevant because Ubisoft scrapped and this was like kind of a new thing like EA I mean when was the last time oh no cuz I remember like at that time we did actually have some positive EA liens yeah so they've switched and like like Ubisoft is not doing everything right right now yeah there's some extremely valid complaints to be made about certain games of there's like for honor but they also launched as a south park game South Park game was very fun it's quite a long game lots of content in it I haven't heard many people complaining about that all the negative reviews that I've seen on Steam because there's quite a few of them are people going why the heck do I need you play that's not a new problem that's a consistent that's been a problem it is a dumb problem but is existed for a long time I should play it did that just come out fairly recently there's nothing like stick of truth right it's extremely similar to country I'll take basically the same game yeah it's just a different story yeah like like the overworld is essentially identical well yeah I mean so yeah but like even town in Colorado what do you want yeah I don't know new town in Colorado and you can't redo the art style because it's South Park so like it's it's like the same thing and you do the same thing where you go from like house to house which you know me so many house yeah yeah but like it is a very good game it's funny yeah okay they said it as a completely different combat system I don't even remember the previous one but yeah it's not it's not like super next level or anything sure I would recommend playing it on as heart of the difficulties is yeah I will yeah stick of truth is pretty easy yeah okay cool like it's it's what do we even say about this there's like nothing to say you can't defend it you know like you can't even play devil's advocate and be like oh well you know maybe if nope not at all and like this is this this ties in with there's battlefront issues going on right now while that's going on they somehow thought it was okay to throw it beta keys for this game with this already implemented and this being the style they take the microtransactions out of battlefront 2 and then what just assume that everyone's gonna be super ok with UFC like a different target audience they're not even gonna bring it up I don't think this can be what is you haven't told me any other time ok where were you going mom you just got Loki owned I did what you gotta preface that a little bit you sent them 16 minutes ago ok this is not fair yes I did I did okay okay sorry one moment okay well in the meantime um I'm gonna I'm gonna go I'm gonna they look pretty good mom we actually they do it they look pretty good hi I hope you have a good trip okay bye me too yeah no problem oh dear okay so let's jump into our sponsors sponsor number one spectrum which glasses do you want today oh I'll just go straight up with these so spectrum staring at a monitor all day can be hard on your eyes overtime and spectrum is an affordable solution to help you keep from your eyes getting fatigued there are software solutions to reducing the amount of blue light that goes from your monitor into your eyes like flex and Twilight but they don't give you the same kind of filtering that an actual piece of glass or two pieces if you have two eyes would they have many features including that they are stylish they you would well yeah that's what they do yeah no you wait you know what they do right yeah 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keep playing these yeah next up we've got Oh was this this has happened a handful of times and people always like people always go tinfoil hat on this kind of stuff when it happens but have you said did you watch our video about this the answer ones but no I didn't interesting okay so this has happened a handful of times where we with no no intention of actually ever working together we've done a review of a product in this case it was the M cable from marsai a product that claims to improve the image quality of a device that it's attached to I didn't see this video okay so many sewing off please explain it's over a hundred dollars okay so one hundred and fifty bucks okay for an EM cable yeah and what they claim well you can see what they play I'm reserving judgment because big sponsors excellent graphics rejuvenation advanced contextual anti-aliasing contrast and detail enhancement leg free real-time processing and an automatic movie mode they claim and it works so inside the cable see how there's a USB connection yes it it's it it is actually a powered signal processor and I saw on the teeth on the TV end of the cable is like huge yep so so it actually works particularly well for certain applications one of which is anime so I think you're holding the cinema edition yeah does a great job of like low resolution anime collections you got a bunch of like 480p anime it cleans up a lot of the lines a lot of bandana about 2006 Warcraft video I got no that so there's a limit to the tech so we went oh oh we hooked it up with like original unreal it looked really good ah the m cable cinema is actually apparently also great for streaming content that isn't something that we tested extensively in ours but we did take a look at a lot of downsampled content and it managed up to do a really good job you guys can't see it because it's way too small but in this corner and I'm sure if you go to their website which is probably on green yes I my Sai ink.com it shows that there's like a processor and stuff going on with yeah the cable sub 1 millisecond leg we did not notice any discernible lag even in like uh you know CRT optimize the games like Super Mario World it's pretty awesome and it's even supports frame rates up to 1080p 120 so you can legitimately game on the gaming Edition here and yeah you guys you guys should probably check it out though the best use cases we found for it we're older consoles but not too old so you don't want something like an S but something like an n64 PlayStation PlayStation amazing sense actually yeah you can clean up the quality of an affair bit cuz to be fair an S is already pretty clean old anime yeah um streamed video I'm sorry oh that's where I got confused by strange video I don't necessarily mean live streaming although it would help with that but any kind of Internet video where it's like pretty good but a little bit of tidy up would probably not be a bad idea it's great for that guess what VR lots of people are using it for VR because the displays are low resolution and it cleans up the image a little bit yeah and apparently the results are fantastic though I actually haven't tried that personally yet let me say it's interesting how like a type of content is specifically better that actually makes sense so check them out at MRSA inc.com this is one of those situations where we intended to do a useless tech over a hundred ended up spending anthony spent an entire week because we knew we couldn't come out and say this thing is really great unless we absolutely proved it like if we were going to come out and say it's it's junk that would be easy because we've done that before it's a video on the $1000 like silver HDMI cable based on that their claims were BS which they obviously were yeah and that's easy that's like cheap easy content so we were intending to do more cheap easy and instead and you got I screwed paid someone for an entire week video but then they turned around another sponsoring the land show so I guess that worked out okay so uh alright last Vaughn sir they're back I'm gonna do something hot this week by the way someone said their background looks fake it's not I'm a can see I can like pick things up from yeah I'm gonna type I'm gonna type on this Underwood the keys don't come back up like the world's most convincing that's that's my can go to the the frame convincing I think this is an Nvidia ammo box why don't we have it showing the top-secret it's the wrong way around because it's a secret good dog I don't I don't know how to no it's so much cooler all right there's the Nvidia crowbar too yeah that's hidden that was the that was the container that anyone who reviewed the GTX 590 got the card in and it was such a terrible shipping container my first one was broken because if they just put like packing peanuts in like an anti-static bag in there oh this is a metal container there's no like there's no shock absorption so my card was totally broken so we're the chat Wow CGI has come a long way oh you dicks alright what do you want today we're doing we're going hot you can do whatever you want but I'm going with the ghost peppers let's ghost pepper buffalo sauce did you do it last week no I went I went I ate an entire pack of the maple maybe we both said we were like going to do it or I said I was gonna do it and I don't think either of us did it so yeah oh I'm preparing myself these guys really do make frickin hot jerky and not just jerky they also make barbecue sauce hot sauce and a spice rub so they're Carolina Reaper hot sauce uses one of the hottest peppers in the world the jalapeno I'm just kidding Carolina Reaper their drug is made with great ingredients without nitrates or preservatives I'm the globalists accretive snack that is full of flavor and spice that's not bad for you it's definitely full of flavor yeah it's definitely flow spice I'm starting with a small piece I'm working my way up to it today we've got 13 different flavors of jerky I'm gonna regret that when some of the favorites did you eat the whole thing yep well beating the sriracha bacon maple buffalo bacon and traditional flavors I'm partial to the Moho me too and the much once alone with the white and black packaging the sucker classic is that classic no classic event traditionals red no there's one little white and black package that's really good whatever the one with the white and black package anyway Hughes offer code LTT to save 10% on their products at the link below sea salt I've what it was itsomething pepper cracked pepper and sea salt that was really good okay I'm gonna keep working on this I'm gonna slow and steady wins the race mode Windows 10 is bringing tabs to every whoa Microsoft is bringing tabs to every Windows 10 app the spice flip that around on me note a hex app was this posted this on the forum Microsoft is planning to add tabs like the ones in your web browser to apps in Windows 10 allowing you to group apps together they're calling this feature sets so say you're working on a word document you need to research data on the web or grab notes from PowerPoint you can create sets or tabs of these tasks in a single window honestly I think this is actually pretty sick yeah that sounds great I really like this because oftentimes I'll have a few different things that are for one thing honestly my preferred method is to just have more monitor space so I can have it all open at the same time you're gonna have Windows 7 anyway that's so 8.1 or you running 8.1 okay yeah okay I'm excited I wish this wasn't news because I wish this was a thing ages ago but I'm not gonna be down on them for like doing something good so it would also be really cool if like on the taskbar at the bottom you can have your set icon down there so you could like click on it and then it would bring up the multiple things instead of having it all in one because often times I want a copy between them and read one thing while I'm typing one thing and having it all in a set actually isn't very conducive to that but it'll still be really nice and oh except not for me so oh well although a point was getting painful because I think it's like less than 10% of people are using it so a compatibility for my platform it's like really not great so file explorer even notepad they'll eventually be extending to app so that I have custom title bars like Photoshop and they're aiming to let iPhone and Android users start sets and then resume them on a PC or vice versa all I'm getting my spicy hiccups dang at all right this is pretty bad this is posted by heyyo on the forum websites use your CPU to mine cryptocurrency even when you close your browser that's new well yeah like we've heard of we talked about the Pirate Bay yeah and another one I don't remember who was but another one but this is new it's always it's always been kind of a short-term thing because it's only lasted while you were on that page yeah luckily for these websites a lot of people just leave things open in tabs Wow look at this so they've got a pop under that's opening up another tab that is running this in the background so you see once they close it the CPU usage goes away Wow close it so one researcher recently documented 2500 sites actively running crypto mining code in visitors browsers that's a lot of sites actually yeah that's pretty brutal I wonder what these sites are though so basically in a nutshell do to do so the one that they're focused on is mining Manero so this is like I don't know I think everyone should be offended by this like some people might not think it's that big of a deal but this is using your electricity and your CPU resources so like your investment to just make money from a site ranking your CPU and it's potentially making your CPU run really hot which you can potentially reduce its lifespan especially if you're on a mobile device and speaking of a mobile device if you're on something that's battery-powered this is going to destroy your battery life if it's a technique that's being used on any sites that you visit regularly right now the technique works on the latest version of Chrome running on the latest versions of Windows 7 and Windows 10 at the moment no indication that it's being used on other browsers or operating systems so you're in compatibility that's freaking brilliant it's the Apple approach you know we are secure because no one's making viruses for us you know what's interesting root it ways that sound in the dock have you heard about that uh yeah I did see that hilarious you know what's interesting is our render server like the one that does our final export before we upload yeah almost never errors out on a render in fact I'm not aware of it ever having done it windows 8.1 it's the embedded version the window yes all right dude message me today it's it's like the third a few days ago it's like the third year anniversary of like Windows 9 thing oh really cool yeah so this is sort of a big deal if you're into like that sort of thing but our formal and our former employer oh yeah here we go where is it it's kind of crazy yeah so here hold on I'm gonna bring this up search civil by party name so net link Computer Inc oh wait hold on so here's some here so here you can see I actually didn't even know you can do this of course that makes sense so you can search for lawsuits or like you can search for court cases by party name it's a net linked Computer Inc small claim small claim small claim small claims four times over the over the last you know since 2011 and boom net link Computer Inc Bora Group Inc the net link Computer Inc supreme bankruptcy December 1st 2017 so this just went down my formal my former employer is I mean is this up oh no I think it's still loading no no I'm pretty sure it's still loading oh oh yeah there we go the site still up I really don't know that I would necessarily recommend apparently shopping there though getting your stuff after you buy it has been a little bit of an issue recently for a while yep so I yeah I haven't done any I haven't done any pre like sort of research here but I'm heading over to the I'm heading over to the forum ok restructuring ok important service announcement we figured it's time to write a formal post about the restructuring Wow I'm pretty sure this thread has been pruned because I know that there were other things in here before huh alright NCIX supreme bankruptcy confirmed okay what is supreme is there sub supreme bankruptcy I have no idea it sounds crazy like what Wow yeah I've had a lot of people know fire to box I did not cause this um no I mean that okay I don't know I don't know well how much should I talk about right now scale of 1 to 10 like a 6 or 6 okay like not not that I so I left partly because I saw a great opportunity in content creation online and partly because I had some significant or even closer to 3 fundamental disagreements with senior management okay particularly the owner over what exactly we needed to do in terms of our direction as a company I also left this was a significant part of the reason for my departure I also left because the people that I had been mentored by they're the people that I had really felt like I learned a lot from were departing and they sometimes for very good reasons I'm not going to defend the conduct and job performance of at least one of them but some of them were forced out by extraordinarily in my opinion extraordinarily poor management decisions and that ultimately led me to believe that I could do it better so I had an opportunity and I thought I could do it better and I thought that my company made my way would be something that would make me happier too up in the morning and go to it's made me happier well I'm glad to hear that uh I know you're having a moment I just want to add some comedy yeah thank you and that was ultimately why I left I didn't agree with the strategy I thought and this was something that I pitched about six and a half years ago I thought the direction for us to go and meet by us I mean I was at NCIX I was one of the top product management people there I might have been a category manager at that point can't remember anyway I was basically at or near the highest rank that you could really have in the company there before and I don't wanna you know the odds of anyone that this might apply to ever watching this stream are pretty low but my opinion of some of the people that were hired in senior positions couldn't possibly be any lower so you know that was that was though there were some bad decisions there as well anyway where was I where was I going with this right so the direction that I had wanted to go was to try to get acquired and the way to try and get acquired is to have some kind of a value that somebody else would want and it wasn't gonna be the website let's be honest it wasn't going to be the logistics system and you know I can't say too much about what NCIX had because you know I don't want to I don't want to be disrespectful of their privacy as a company but I will tell you that it wasn't you know robot arms and you know robot eyes and automated conveyor belts like what state-of-the-art warehouses were doing even back then it was not that so it wasn't gonna be the warehousing system it wasn't going to be the inventory management system I can tell you that much it wasn't going to be the the super-talented team and there were talented people on it obviously like I was part of it I think I was pretty talented there were definitely talented people on it but I don't know that that was visible enough externally and I think that you would end up with a lot of in order to acquire a team you'd have ended up with a lot of deadweight and I don't even necessarily mean in terms of people like the locations that we had least I think at one point there were three locations in Richmond which is a small city just to give you guys some idea of why that wouldn't be a good idea so so my concept for what we could build having seen the partnership between Nvidia with the shield and EB Games in the States where I think the shield was initially only available to preview it at EB Games in the States and I was like why would they make it exclusive to them and I could be remembering some little detail of this wrong maybe it was a Nintendo system I don't know whatever the point is the reason that they partnered with them was that they still had at that time anyway 4,500 locations which has a value another thing that I thought could have a value would be a distribution system slash business model that combatted one of the biggest difficulties of doing business in Canada which is extremely high shipping cost it deters customers from shopping online and it enables brick and mortar to continue to be competitive here because shipping a case across the country from new AG is like $7 shipping a case across this country from NCIX could be as much as 30 40 60 dollars depending on how remote you are so you know it was a constant refrain from customers shipping kills the deal you'd hear it all the time so the concept that I pitched was like an NCI x-lite these would be extremely small stores like maybe 600 to 800 square feet really small stores with really small storefronts that were effectively kind of ordering kiosks and the idea was that you'd have technical services so you could walk into small communities like Kamloops and displace the mom-and-pop shops with a trusted brand believe it or not at the time we were a trusted brand you could displace those mom-and-pop shops as a trusted brand you could probably cover your lease and your employee overhead with the services business that you're doing then you would stock like two SKUs tops of every category so that if someone walked in they could build like something basically the computer at any given time which is pretty easy to define it's really easy to do so right now you would stock assuming that you there is inventory you would stock the 8,400 for Intel and you would stalk the Verizon five sixteen hundred or something along those lines and then you'd have like a motherboard for each of them you'd have an eight gig stick and a 16 gig stick and like obviously multiples of each of these but the idea is that if someone just like wanted like the computer right now like the bang for the buck sweet one that everyone wants you could just walk in and buy it or we would build a system and it wouldn't be a complicated system but we would have a network of trucks that would crisscross the country constantly between the two locations that we had in the West and in the east so that the model would be you can shop online and you can ship to your house or we'd have these little tiny low overhead locations scattered across the country and you could get free pickup at any location and this was well before Amazon started doing pickup so whoa insects actually sounds really cool this was an ICU never happened he was pitching I pitched this this is what I wanted to do instead of these monolithic high overhead extraordinarily expensive retail stores in order to you know I the writing was on the wall like seven years ago Amazon was going to kill us all like the people who were paying attention knew this already so the idea was to build this infrastructure so that when Amazon decided to hit the switch and you can see now they're running around acquiring people that have infrastructure that they like like Whole Foods the idea was that when they came in they could buy us and that never happened if I'd had the resources I think that could have been the way for me to never have to work again like if I could have built might like I even to go back like if I was the one who had the resources that I have today even that might have been a model that I would have pursued I really believed in it I thought that it was a great opportunity it's not worth it now oh no you'd never make it now no but I should PI NCIX and do that I couldn't afford NCIX not because I couldn't afford like what NCIX is net value is right now but I couldn't afford an STI X's overhead the monthly expenses even with all the layoffs that they've done there's still a lot of things there's still a lot of buildings there's still a lot of inventory so when we didn't do that and when we continued marching down the obviously no longer viable big-box retail path I figured out that I had to get out so ultimately the reason that I ended up leaving NCIX and taking this guy with me and me thanks for coming along well um yeah that I was thinking that five-year thing it's actually like seven or something or eight or something yeah it's kind of ridiculous so anyway sorry I forget where I was going with that right so so what happened when I left was I had decided to leave and the reason that I was able to take the line is tech tips channel and so to be clear I take no pleasure whatsoever in NCI x's demise you know and I've seen a lot of horror stories online but however they've treated other people everyone they're all the way up to Steve the owner and Mary his wife they have always treated me with the utmost kindness and respect I have not had personal bad experiences with anyone there from from HR to my colleagues to I shouldn't say everyone there were some there were some some port aspiring decisions made but at the very highest level that at least the people that I consider to be at the highest level you know I take no pleasure from this I learned a lot there like I am everything I underst and about business at what to do right what to do wrong it was ultimately from them I I didn't go to school for business management I don't have an MBA I don't I don't actually have any formal education everything I learned was school of hard knocks and NCIX was a stupendous proving ground for me so you know I take no pleasure in this but where was I going with this but how'd you go the channel right how I got the channel so so ultimately I was able right right right so I'm very grateful to them for giving me the opportunity to build up this channel and then ultimately take it with me because the deal was look I'm leaving because I disagree with some of the stuff we're doing and you my boss is gone who I loved and that sucks and so I'm out so you can either let me walk away to another retailer and I mean you know I didn't have four million subscribers and a team of you know 19 people that's like a world class video production team like I hadn't built any of this yet yeah we were pretty far from it yeah we were a long way away from this but for me personally anyway my stock was high enough that I could have walked into literally any electronics entity and gone like this and I would have had a job so I wasn't concerned about getting a job what I was concerned about was building a team and building something and making sure that Luke and Edie who were both out of work if I walked out of there and didn't manage to take them with me making sure that they stayed employed so the deal was look I'm leaving but if we can work out a deal where I take the Linus tech tips YouTube channel the trademark and any associated assets which now that this is going on I'm really happy we did buy the book with a lawyer get to that more later but if I take all that stuff with me I'll sign a non-compete for I believe it was two years but it ended up getting extended two three and four pennies on the dollar I'll come back and I'll continue to support the end cix tech tips channel so that you don't have to replace me immediately also I'll give you as much notice for my departure as you need so I had originally planned on giving somewhere between a month and six weeks notice I ended up giving about five months notice although in fairness I phoned in about the last three weeks of it by then I had trained my replacements for pretty much everything I didn't really know what to do with five months like um like I tried okay I tried so the fact that we the fact that we acquired those assets legally is really important because if some if the like the bankruptcy lawyers if whoever NCIX as creditors are were to find that it had an asset that was worth a significant amount of money and let me tell you Linus tech tips is worth a significant amount of money both as a brand and as a YouTube channel at this point although you know no I'm not gonna say no thanks to NSA X but most of that development has been done in the five years similar but if it was found that that asset wasn't transferred Title II then it could also be found that NCIX still had some claim to make against it and then their creditors would as well so Steve I trusted to never do anything untoward with me by predators creditors all bets are off I really didn't you know I didn't think it would come to this I take no pleasure in it but that's what happened and yeah that was some context there we broke off at what two hundred fourteen thousand subscribers or something like that yeah we're now at four point eight million yeah there's kind of been a lot of work done yeah we've been we've been going pretty hard on it so yeah yeah so aligned is tech tips documentary no no that probably won't happen we actually tried to do a behind this like a behind the blow type thing here and it was a total disaster we brought in a third-party film crew they like shot a bunch of stuff then they submitted a rough cut that was awful totally unusable and then we tried to edit it together ourselves but by then our team was like 60% bigger so like different yeah like a third of our staff wasn't in the video and you know it doesn't make sense yeah alright so what else let me out for topics yeah that wasn't wow that was kind of a fricking downer of a topic man also take a long time I'm surprised people are still watching sheesh let's find something exciting it's pretty interesting yeah I guess so it's like learning that before coke came out it was green I'm like I'm like damn let's just find like something like one cool topic to do and then these are all terrible Oh tinder tinder tests using AI to suggest who to super like they're testing a new feature called super likable that intermittently presents a card on your screen and offers you a bonus super like that can be sent to one of four people present it's presented on the card the original Super Lake was designed as a way to signal your interest in a potential match was stronger than others but users have a limited number per day Wow how many of those could you possibly need per day wow I'm not I mean like I'm sort of pre online dating so I don't really get like a social hub sheesh like somewhere light like deep like LA or San Fran if you just like go through a few hundred people and you're just like yeah there's many more you know what I mean I don't know I don't feel like it's like that up here huh I don't know okay well I'm bored of that already cuz this is way better yep there's officially Mario series yeah so I like super need some okay this also isn't the first time that Nintendo has tried to do serial I thought it was kind of interesting because right now they're huge cuz the switch is like wildly mildly successful but at a previous time of them being huge they also tried to roll out a cereal and this one is not just cereal the box itself is essentially an amiibo so you tap the box on your switch and you get stuff in game wow it unlocks gold coins and hearts in Super Mario Odyssey hits shelves mid-month okay I'm down for that alright well that's pretty much it o.o LOL max root access issue if you have if you have a Mac and you're watching the show you should maybe look it up on your own it's not in here but I'm pretty sure if someone literally just attempts to sign in as username root with no password they just have all the stuff alright yeah I I'm not entirely sure in all the details it's not in the doc but if you have a Mac look into it because it's a big deal so thanks for watching guys we'll see you again next week same bat-time same bat-channel no don't be down apparently it's patched so just update yeah there you go yeah what an issue easy