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alright ladies and gentlemen welcome to the wench and everyone else to welcome to the Wynn show we are finally live I was helping Luke I create you see what the I was helping Luke create custom length Ethernet cables by basically looking at what he was doing going wow gee that looks too hard and then going and getting some ethernet cables I happened to buy a few months ago that happened to be the length of the cables he was trying to make and handing them to him so he should be wrapping that up a pretty darn quickly and then he'll be joining me here on the show we've got a great show for you guys today gonna be a lot of discussion around Mobile World Congress obviously that was the big thing that happened this week lots of you know you know news about the latest happenings in the desktop computer world I need like a cricket sound effect that I can play so a lot lots of stuff from the the biggest handset makers you know your Samsung your LG your caterpillar evidently that that's that's a thing so we'll be talking a little bit more about that actually the caterpillar phone looks really interesting I'm hoping to be able to get one for a review what else we got going on DirectX 12 explicit multi-gpu mode has been tested by PC world so we're gonna check that out I don't know I'm sure there was something else that's interesting arrow cools dream box chassis kit potentially a more maker friendly chassis than we've ever seen before and software piracy apparently hurts Linux adoption a research study fine so more on that at 11 it's so funny I got a guy in the chat that's like sorry I'm late can you start over but yeah I by god I wish that one of the things that I could do alright so here we go we're starting over welcome to the wine show guys boom let's roll the intro oh boy alright so I think the first topic today is gonna be let's see what can i what can I handle without my my dynamic duo Ultimo sidekick here I'm sure there's something you know what why don't we jump right into the Mobile World Congress stuff if you have to go make Ethernet cables somewhere I think that's totally fine because basically I'm gonna be listing specs for the next 20 minutes which I actually won't and by the way the battery on your laptop's low get rekt I love how Dell says strike the f1 key to continue it's like you have to be really sure they want you to not press not push not even hit you got a strike you got a hit with precision accuracy intimidation I'm just stalling for time at this point alright so let's jump into the galaxy s7 and s7 edge unlike last time it looks like we're going to be seeing an s7 and s7 edge they aren't just complete equivalence of each other with one of them having a curved screen so with the s6 and the s6 edge they were they were actually kind of two versions of both there was the there was the the note which I sort of like a galaxy s6 larger and then there was the edge plus so this time around the s7 and the s7 edge are just totally different so the edge now is a larger phone so it's actually got a 5-point I believe it's a five point four inch display versus the five point one inch display of no excuse me 5.5 inch display compared to the five point one inch display of the s7 edge they're both running quad HD Super AMOLED displays and they're going to be very similar to their predecessors in that regard the camera is a big change on going from the s6 series to the s7 series so they're going down from a 16 megapixel camera to 12 megapixel camera this time around they are doing the whole HTC ultrapixel thing except that there's a power bar there don't know the other one so there's so they're actually reducing the pixel count in order to use larger pixels for better light capture especially in low-light conditions but hopefully like Apple they're doing it right so they're doing it in a way that's not going to hurt the performance of the camera in more normal shooting scenarios something that many people complain about what the one and seven this is cool so we are getting back the ip68 water and dust resistance so they are saying that it's going to allow for submersion in up to one and a half meters of water for 30 minutes at a time and we're getting some beefed up specs of course so Snapdragon 820 Exynos processors in some regions of the world this is so bizarre to me the way Samsung does this it's like this region this and that region but then again and you know it's funny as they get away with it like you look at how much crap Apple took just over using two different foundries for the same damn chip design meanwhile Samsung's like oh yeah we're just be completely different processors don't worry about it at least that is done by region though with the very awful one it was like a gamble yep what one do I get complete poop nicks yeah so to speak um some other big changes so we are getting back microSD expansion Samsung either heard their customers loud and clear or this is nothing that they didn't know already and they intentionally withheld that from the last generation to hope for there to be some reason some reason for people to upgrade from the s6 to the s7 there's also four gigs of RAM this time around actually I don't know no no I think they were three s6 I've done and it's all blurring together because it's like a new phone spec bump really premium looking devices this time around with like glass and metal and all that kind of stuff so that's again a huge step in the right direction love that from Samsung cuz they do it really well when they decide to do it um no removable battery but the capacity on the s7 looks pretty good it's got a 3000 milliamp hour battery and that combined with Android 6.0 marshmallow if any power saving features we gain there should be enough for you to get great battery life even if you use the always-on display feature so Samsung is claiming that you lose only about a half a percent of battery per hour in its tests by having the display on all the time so that's just displaying love so critical information I mean this is something that I've seen before you've probably seen before things like smartwatches that use AMOLED displays will have an always-on display so that oh that's funny I'm holding the tape there you go you can whatever you can barely see it whatever here against the purple background and I've seen sort of ambient display modes on phones before like the Droid turbo that had that proximity sensor that you could just kind of wave it it whenever you want to see and honestly that works really well but this seems pretty good and it won't necessarily be on all the time it does have a proximity sensor as well it just uses it for the opposite purpose so it'll actually turn off those pixels that it's illuminating to tell you the time or notifications or whatever else and whenever it's in your pocket or facedown on a table or whatever else although if you're the kind of person who puts your phone facedown on a table feel bad feel bad about that because there can be small like micro fragments of actually surprisingly hard minerals like I don't know if people know this but like sand is not necessarily all made of sandstone okay there's all kinds of minerals and elements and deposits and junk in just regular ordinary sand to the point where my iPhone 6s is scratched to crap just from going in and out of my pocket from getting a bits of dust and debris and sand in my pocket because I didn't put a phantom glass protector on it I know I even have one I have two I have a normal one and a privacy one and I was just like you know Yolo Yolo I'm going bareback on the 6s because I did so well with the Droid turbo which doesn't have a some glass protector for it so I never even had the option and I'd like had it for over a year and I was like oh this thing's still doing really good I'm like getting good at this like taking care of my phone thing with that said not all glass are not all scratch resistant glass is made equal even from Gorilla Glass like I swear with exactly the same treatment I have encountered phones that scratch very easily they're using the same kind of glass as ones that just seem to be completely bulletproof like that droid turbo and seem to be nearly impossible to scratch I think there's uh there's a bidding process that goes on that corning seems to not talk about where there are different grades of even every type of Gorilla Glass and it might be a little little touch of the ill luck of the draw as to whether you get a good one or one that is not as good all right we can briefly go over the s7 edge so larger display like I said five and a half inches the back of the device now has a curve to it as well making it more comfortable to hold has a 3600 milliamp hour battery and other than that looks like pretty much the same darn thing so I'm doing way fewer phone reviews this day these days there's a couple of reasons for it number one is I just don't think they're that different from each other anymore yeah and number two is that I I was getting it was really wearing on me because not all reviewers do this but I actually switch to the phone outright that I am reviewing I take my sim out of my normal phone and while these days because I use Google Authenticator for pretty much everything I do still need to carry around my daily driver phone because switching over all that stuff is a real bear I only use the other phone for everything else and it has just been wearing on me to be switching phones all the time like that so I only plan to review one of the galaxy s7 and the s7 edge so I'm gonna do a straw poll here guys I want you to let me know which one you want to see here we go strawpoll man they make it easy to do pools Boop there you go so I want to see what you guys want to see I mean I want to know what you guys wanted just okay whatever I'm gonna click results now some more interesting phones so the LG g5 seems to have kind of jumped out in front of everyone else on the whole modular phone concept certainly not to the same degree as someone really guys the edge it's a five and a half inch device I can practically write that review right now the phones really nice it's really fast Samsung continues to make improvements to TouchWiz but it's too big for my hands uh actually not personally a lot more interested in the s7 than I am in the edge apparently very few of you who are interested in it at all though this is one of the lowest percentage voter turnouts I've ever seen we've got 4700 people watching and like a thousand of you voted okay there we go it's a little better 1,500 see looks like the s7 is making up some ground here but Wow you guys are with me on the whole phones just not really being that interesting anymore thing it looks like the g5 does look legitimately interesting though so not modular to the same degree as something like the phone blocks concept where the idea was you'd actually have like almost like a breadboard with like a screen in front of it and then you just have like these modules that you can modularly plug in or take out and even cleaning to be able to do things like a hot swap a battery module while the phone is running that's not out yet that's something that's in a lab somewhere that probably will see the light of day in the future but for now the g5 does offer some modularity so the original article here I was supposed to buy ninja shadow on the forum the last one was Chris Rowe 996 and our original article here is from Android a for attack um so they've got basically most of the phone is not modular so phonebloks was like yeah you could like put in a new processor in RAM and storage and blah blah blah this one most of it is not modular it is pretty much a phone they still got the power button on the back although thankfully for me I prefer this they've moved the volume rocker to the side of the phone then um it's got I think it's a 2800 milliamp hour battery it's got some dude holding it up here design and build quality oh yeah they're going for a much much more like premium feeling designed to it it's got this actually kind of reminds me of is it Nexus S original Nexus and this actually looks like this rounded business here it feels like kind of a dated design language but um yeah yeah yeah really reminds me of that with the with like I sort of the curved look to the bump um but I mean it as long as it feels good in the hand then I'm not gonna give them I'm not gonna give them too much flak over that but there's a few unique features to this one that actually make it really interesting to me so Snapdragon 820 Adreno 530 four gigs of ram don't worry none that was unique yes it is 2,800 milliamp hours for the battery I did just check on that no support for wireless charging oh yeah the last thing that's a total bummer and a missed opportunity about the s7 and the s7 edge Micro Micro B USB connector Hey it's 2016 if it's not Type C I don't want to see it anymore get it I don't want to see anything else it's not a joke it's just dumb um anyway so the g5 supports quick charge 3.0 but no wireless charging it has a dual camera setup this is where we're starting to get into the cool stuff so it has a normal that's funny my notes say normal angle so it just has a more standard 16 megapixel camera then this is cool it has a wide-angle 8 megapixel camera and the phone can actually stitch in from the two cameras into one image and it also allows you to switch between the 135 degree wide angle and the regular camera manually within the app with an instant transition this is one of those it is so difficult to get the best of both worlds unless you just put two cameras on it problems and LG ran out and solved it by putting two cameras on it because one of the things that I liked so much about the s6 was the relatively wide angle lens particularly on the selfie camera which made it so that you didn't have to have that you know that selfie look like that you got the one arm out and you're like trying to make your face Square to the shot and trying to look natural but you can't get it out far enough to get a decent picture well with a nice wide angle lens you don't have to you can be very comfortable you can be very square and the phone can be very close to you so having the ability to take to take sorry to take wider shots of close-up subjects or this is the problem with that or to be able to get a reasonable reasonable clarity on a shot of something like you're you know you're at a hockey game or a basketball game or something and you know you're that person because everyone does it well it's like ooh this picture of this player is special because I took it then you're actually able to do that in a way that you otherwise can't all right aluminum unibody power button built into the rear fingerprint sensor fingerprint sensors are a great thing especially when they're well implemented I am such a huge fan of that I really wish it was better on the z5 compact it was it's a funny thing about this phone it was um it was something that I that I was not able to really tackle properly in my review but that I can follow up with now no matter how many times I reset my fingerprint in the settings it works great for a bit and then stops working great and while you could say well Linus it's obvious the answer is that your morphling and your fingerprints change over time I really don't think that's it because the iPhone 6s that I reviewed before that and I'm now using now after that review works like instantly just fine any so let's get into the modules so what they're allowing you to do is swap ice it looks like a single module so you have to kind of pick okay what's my specialty so they're allowing you to remove the bottom cap of the phone and swap in these modules so you lock this allows access to a replaceable battery or you could add something like a camera grip which gives you manual control for shutter and zoom as well as as well as an increase in the battery capacity so another 1,200 milliamp hours so that side brings it up to four thousand milliamp hours if you have that grip on it they've also got one called the LG hi-fi plus so that's an audio module from Bang & Olufsen which features a 32 bit as if that means anything DAC as well as a dedicated three-and-a-half millimeter headphone port and there are apparently more modules to come I can't think of too many modules that I would particularly want to add to a phone so I guess I'd like to take this opportunity to hand off to you guys and ask you what exactly would you add to a phone so let's let's let's do Twitter blitz here I want to hear from you guys at line is tech on Twitter what module would you like to see from LG let's go ahead and put that right there PC build in a fridge does it work come on let's bring on those tweets bring on those tweets as many battery modules as I can get who does an hour-long podcast all by himself not this guy yeah and not this guy yeah I love your timing eventually yeah we've actually both done that before we have both done that before yeah all right come on guys come on that thing that I'm working on is pretty much as far as it can go until I need to make large amounts of noise okay cool yeah we could talk about that actually here why don't we talk about a couple of the videos we've got coming I mean Yolo right let you do your I just do it in the background sorry do it in the back or do it in back down in the background so we talked about that which allow that yes so basically essentially I live in a rented place like a lot of people and when you live in a rented place usually you know they don't want you to drill like giant holes in the wall because that can suck sometimes you can get away with it by just not telling them but that's not really an option with my landlord so I'm instead of putting my networking on a wall I'm putting it on a board which I can just lean against the wall because up until now all of my networking kit my access point my router my modem my giant switch all of it was just in like a pile and all the cables were just going everywhere and it was disgusting and horrible and I hated it back to the pile so so instead I'm mounting it on a board that's what I'm doing over there so when I was off screen I was like brokering stuff down and routing cables and doing stuff like that it's not perfect but I'm doing it really fast so I bought a thousand dollar HDMI cable today no I I had people on Twitter are freaking out there look boilers to waste money I'm like I know I know I know trust me I know you guys you guys who watch the wind show you guys are the inner circle okay so I'm not gonna tweet out I know because if people have been watching our people I've been watching long enough to follow on Twitter and they don't know that I'm aware of the issues that's crazy with a thousand dollar HDMI cable then they can just wait for the piece of content they don't get to be inner circle okay so I know the point of the video is that someone remember that I'm not buying an HDMI cable to own an HDMI cable I am buying an HDMI cable to make a piece of content about a forementioned HDMI cable and the issue with the high end cable industry is that you've either got the people who I can't figure out why but they either buy into the snake oil and because they get given the cables maybe I'm guessing or they buy into the snake oil because they bought the cables they can't return them and they can't admit that they got fleeced and I think that's where a lot of this offending purchasing decisions yeah I think that's where a lot of this these myths get perpetuated because the only people willing the only people who have them to talk about them fall into one of those two camps for the most part so everyone else all the other people who know better are too smart to buy one so what i'm doing here effectively is i am taking it for the team yeah I just spent a thousand US dollars Oh on and yeah it's so much worse on an all silver we are talking silver wires okay the premiumness the premium one meter cable and then I am legitimately going to benchmark it in a way that should actually be meaningful oh yeah see that's the part you didn't know I bet no because yeah well I haven't gonna do that - um that is unless it actually turns out to perform better because in my benchmark there is a chance in fact my benchmark will give it every advantage because while watching a video or listening to audio over a forementioned hdmi cable literally cannot at least on this earth be affected by the silver wires I believe that it is possible if the design of their cable is truly superior that I will be able to overclock a monitor further with it because monitor overclocking is dependent on the cleanliness of the signal as well as the Headroom that's left in the scaler of the monitor so my intention is to take a high refresh rate high resolution freesync monitor so it's got a high powered scaler in it and then using HDMI 1.4 I am going to overclock as high as I can with the silver cable and overclock as high as I can with a four dollar cable from monoprice if it performs better in a repeatable consistent fashion then the cable is superior but that won't change anything about it won't make it worth $1000 in any meaningful way because you could just get a display port cable yeah and you're not overclocking your home theater because all the content you're watching on that runs at 24 to maximum 60 frames per second that brought up a point saying it overclocked your monitor but you just spent $1000 on a cable so why didn't you just buy the better monitor that's not the point because you can overclock better than the best monitor yeah yeah yeah all right that to which my point is just is the case is the cable better in any possible way at all yes and so we are going to we are going to do our best to answer that question that no one cared about because no one was gonna buy that cable who watches our videos definitively yeah um so yeah I don't know should be it should be cool I'm looking forward to it because that's the kind of stuff that's this really fun for me is is like taking the the general wisdom and actually testing it which I guarantee you I guarantee you almost every single person who says expensive hdmi cables are a waste has never used one which doesn't mean that they're wrong it doesn't mean they're wrong okay I'm not gonna it just means they haven't used one they're taking what someone else said as the truth you're not wrong with me I have not used one I have not used one yep so I'm gonna use why don't we for the first time yeah the workshops although do you want to try it - sure okay we're both try we'll try it together we'll have like an we'll audition the cable you know we'll have like a listening party I oh I think so I think that's pretty I think that's pretty famous there the danceable cables expensive cables you should oh no heavens no all right so let's let's jump into oh this is great was I supposed to buy good bytes on the forum I swear I think he would actually curl up into a ball and die if someone else beat him to the punch on some like positive Microsoft News and this is some pretty positive Microsoft news the 8th the HP elite x3 we've talked about the leaks last week but obviously there are more details is announced and it is designed to be your Windows Phone laptop and desktop to which my reply would be sorry good bytes and everyone else who thinks this is relevant this is not relevant we're not there yet it's running a Snapdragon 820 it is running four gigs of RAM it's got hold on I'm gonna have to do slow to switch between scenes of RAM is not nearly enough well that's top experience ok it's not really no for me no it's not nearly enough for you but it's also a fun need like 32 gigs of RAM for my tabs bro me too sadly enough I run out of the 16 gigs of RAM on my computer upstairs ected me I used to be great I'd have like five times open at a time lots of tabs is great and then I used to laugh at you because you'd have way too many tabs open and now I have like four windows of the same browser and there they all have too many you want to hear the truth what you got busier yeah it's true and it's not about being too busy to close a tab it's about that you're legitimately working on every single thing that's open in a tab and and and when you get that dizzy you you start to you start to think about your time very differently the three seconds that it takes to type in a URL is not worth the organisation of not just having that tab open already and when you're really busy and you work on the same tasks repeatedly you actually you learn you remember where it is yeah tab number one is my is my work Gmail tab number two is usually my second work Gmail for when I need to reply to something tab number three is gonna be my personal Gmail well no not my personal my YouTube my YouTube like personal Gmail tab number four is this happening and you actually and so it's like this chunk is usually like something I was working on a while ago and then I need to get back to this chunk is what I'm working on right now it's not that hard to find things it's faster than opening up a new tab I have a whole window for forum management which has like the tiered system that you decide yeah I have a whole window for like like emails and like so like work email I have work email inbox and then I work email like working on whatever it is that so my social land yeah yeah yeah social land like whatever music is currently going on all that kind of stuffs in that window that like working on video a and then working on video B yeah man yeah tat tat boy those have stack tab life um all right so back to the elite x3 which kerbs crushes like four times a day well that's because it's Firefox Chrome has its own issues the my chrome at home is just brain explosion like total brain explosion my Chrome on my laptop has another it has an issue too like whenever I VNC into our servers I in Chrome did it's the one computer it doesn't work perfectly on I remember the whole idea behind Chrome remember the commercials really lightweight no I'm gonna get back to that I have not forgotten it's sitting there with the new notifications waiting for me yeah yeah it's not yeah um okay so let's talk about the elite x3 though the most powerful Windows 10 mobile device you can get 40 150 milliamp hour battery that I like oh five point nine six inch AMOLED quad HD display quad-core Qualcomm blah blah blah 64 gigs of storage expandable to 2 terabytes with micro sd although if you're storing two terabytes of data on a micro SD card you need to re-evaluate your strategy that's a really terrible idea I don't I can't think of anything that could be enough to be 2 terabytes but that could be unimportant enough to put a micro SD card I could be wrong it's got a 16 megapixel rear camera 8 megapixel front camera windows hello I and fingerprint scanners that's pretty darn cool ip67 rating for dust and waterproof Milson military standard 810 rating one meter drop very nice she and PFA wireless charging holy freakin crap BitLocker encryption image encryption I can yes and here's where we get into the really interesting stuff because it has continuum it allows you to either wired Lee or whoa yeah USB 3.0 type C way to go wired Lee shut up wired Lee or wirelessly you're so mean connect to a couple of accessories that HP has so one is this dock that I forget what it's called it has a stupid name HP really needs to learn from Apple have a cool name pencil have a pretentious name because for better or for worse it helps me remember it then aloud that gives you a display port which by the way can be adapted to HDMI to full size powered USB 3 ports with device charging capability one USB type-c connector and a Kensington lock and then there's actually a laptop that has no actual system in it it has a 12 and a half inch screens keyboard touchpad speakers headphone jack Ethernet port two full size USB 3 connectors one USB 3.0 type-c connector and a 48 watt hour battery that does not feature its own CPU the phone actually transmits to the laptop wirelessly so you can keep it in your pocket once it is connected to the laptop very very cool so we'll want a second line if that sounds awesome and it sounds like you're amped on this great point except the reason I'm not amped is because it needs two more generations and this is not HP's fault this is intel's fault for not getting their head in the game on their mobile x86 processors tell me about this when it runs x86 because the beauty of Windows is the application compatibility the Achilles heel of Windows Mobile is the application compatibility I mean as I was just I was browsing aimlessly on the internet I came across an article that the verge did on the apps that are not only not developing for Windows Mobile but pulling their apps and it was like terrible was like American Airlines like Pinterest like it was just like devastating devastating apps that are discontinuing development or flat-out pulling their apps from the platform citing a lack of users as the reason for it so until you can tell me about x86 Intel powered phones I'm really not that interested but when you can Wow am I ever excited about this like as someone who carries around a supremely opie laptop I also have recognized that other than my chrome hungry hungry hippo Aang I don't need that much power when I'm out and about so something like this could be fantastic if it has compatibility for all the stupid junk I needed to run and is maybe a little bit more powerful and is maybe a little bit more powerful because give it to more generations we're gonna have eight or 16 gigs of ram in it we're gonna have a more powerful CPU we're gonna have everything that I can imagine today wanting although my needs might change in the next year and year or two Razer has confirmed they're sending over a blade stealth we're really late on that I actually looked back at my emails and they were like let me get back to you tomorrow on availability it was like five weeks ago so today I was like I'm getting requests to review the blade stuff like the other people have reviews up and there's some people with reviews that are like almost a month old at this point I'm like yo are you guys sending one they're like oh oh yeah so so they're sending it I'm hoping to get my hands on their core as early as possible and I'm gonna cut yeah the the external GPU box oh yeah so I'm gonna kind of dig a knife into their side be like yeah you guys got me the blade stealth super late so I really think I should be the first with the core this is this is the kind of stuff that goes on goes on behind the scenes I I don't know how much they like me though to be perfectly honest like Razer like that's the thing is like I'll I'll play those games but like ultimately when the device arrives I'm just gonna say whatever like Razer razors gotten some pretty bad reviews here over the years they've also gotten good ones they've gotten good ones they've gotten really good ones at the end of a better job get a better view they also with that said they also at least you know like I don't think they intentionally snubbed me on the blade stealth or like we're late on the blade stealth anything it was probably just a thing they miss whatever they have a pretty mature attitude about it when we say something negative about their products like that's something that a lot of a lot of people I think worry about because we have relationships with pretty much every company whose products we review like there's people that we're gonna have to talk to when we publish a really negative review and say yeah well we didn't like it sorry that's that's the reality and you've done that we've got some pretty inflammatory stuff back sometimes the mounting thing with which one is that the cooler the cooler it was really hard to install like what the hell oh yeah the who made that Detroit yeah yeah yeah yeah so so stuff like that like yeah they weren't happy about that but actually that's not like they stopped supplying us with review samples and that's something that I think viewers I hope viewers should recognize and understand is that even if we say something negative and even if they don't like it the mature companies the guys like a Corsair or a razor are gonna continue to deal with us regardless which i think is better for them better for us and better for the consumer because ultimately if the company tries to control what we say we will make the decision to either buy the products ourselves if we think they really need to be covered or we just won't work with them anymore and Astro is a perfect example of that I actually covered that in a video that I don't believe is released yet oh but they base straight up never replied to an email from me after I released a negative review of the a 50 which quite frankly is everything I said it was it's just plain not very good it was not as good as any of the other wireless headsets I tested it against like I'm sorry I don't make the rules it's a tag for 20 and it's it's one of those things where I think it comes down to the the pedigree of the company as well like I like to bring up Corsair because they do a really good job of being big boys about it when we don't like something with Corsair for like Yahoo we don't like they're like okay what can we do better yeah that's a good point or no we don't agree in this is why because their pedigree is enthusiasts they actually care if you look back at Astro and I'm not gonna like I'm not gonna make disparaging remarks or anything like that but if you just read their company history they are literally a branding firm that is literally their core business that they did and I believe still do that they just kind of went oh well we're really good at this I'm assuming making assumption okay that it seems like what they did is they went oh we're really good at just like taking something and building a brand around it so why don't we do that with our own stuff and so do I necessarily think that they approached it with the same level of enthusiasm and engineering adeptness skill knowledge that someone else might my perception based on that the product was straight-up not as good as what Corsair and Steel series both brought to the table is no so there you go that's what I have to say about that I don't know how I got on that topic when I aimed let's jump into that Twitter blitz that I had that I had promised to do with you guys before so what would you guys want to see a good vibration mode it's such a good Fabray shin motor um anyway PCI Express I can't say I agree with that one what was this question uh what modules do you want to see oh don't forgot the question but turnip you're correct huh maybe an installer not upgrade that's an interesting thought although I don't think we're antennae limited the same way we were when we had that pull up the little thing before we could make a call more storage ah not you know okay like if you don't want my crusty storage like if you want SSD storage then I could kind of see that yeah seems like you wouldn't be but you could go okay I want more storage and battery or maybe not micro you use the full sizes do you get like two of them well no if I had like an SSD sorry SSD no I know but that would be huge no no not like two and a half inch SSD like like like Apple did with the iPhone six where it's like you want a little compact SSD I could see that desktop grade GPU everything you guys want is terrible I'm sorry better internet audio module an awesome camera okay it doesn't really work that way it's just a module that kind of like slides into the bottom but to Allie here like when phonebloks when and f phonebloks becomes a thing that's the kind of stuff that that'll do yo no Jono wants the audio module a physical keyboard galaxy s7 uses microwaves to be because of the gear vr yep that makes perfect sense thank you for pointing that out that doesn't mean I have to be happy about it but really some new decent front-facing speakers okay it's a little module that slides into the bottom so I don't know how well that's gonna work I love you guys but I think maybe we should have shown a better picture of the thing that we were doing thank you for that $1000 HDMI you should better phone all Linus videos all the time Milas module windows in vm with bluetooth mouse and keyboard okay infrared - microSD - more micro SD s hang in there Tony read the reviews off Amazon Oh people everyone's talking okay so that was one of our less successful tablets what says usually you guys have a lot of like really really great suggestions but it probably would have helped if I'd shown better so we're in the chat type C module the g5 use Type C already let me check I'm not sure I missed that part a lot of notes not in my notes so yeah if it's already got a USB connector and quite frankly if it supports wireless charging it's less the the crappy durability of the micro B is less of an issue for me a kind of cool though if the charger for the phone was modular just in case yeah screw the charger up I like having it in your pocket and having it torque or whatever if you did oh well right yeah it's like yeah I'm eating you know 60 bucks or whatever overpriced price tag they want to put on these in order to buy a whole new phone Before we jump into our next topic now's a perfect opportunity to talk about books each other saying its type C okay just type C thank you for that then I thought so but it wasn't in my notes I couldn't double check fresh books is the easy to use invoicing software that helps small businesses look professional and get paid faster not only will you look more professional you will be more professional because it helps you stay organized 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that I've got an opportunity to do at CES and the point of it is basically to determine if you have the horses to run in VR with the conclusion being that the odds are excellent that you indeed do not Luke's got a video coming out where he talks about this benchmark as well as I think you're gonna encourage people to create a database of yeah so you should still watch the video but what it really kind of boils down to is that we have a fantastic Cinebench community on the forum I think it's made by jumper one one eight hopefully I remember that correctly and it's awesome there's over 500 submissions everyone's and it's their Cinebench codes I actually look at that every once in a while just to check where things are sitting it's pretty cool and I want to create the same kind of thing based around steamvr performance test results figure out how ready the actual enthusiasts community is because there's problems and I go over it in the video yep because as interesting as this team Hardware survey is I have a lot of machines personally yeah a big part of videos talks about not gaming machines yeah junk data that's in the hardware survey which isn't necessarily junk data for game developers that aren't developing for VR but how many machines do you have that you actually intend to play VR games on probably 1 or 0 and I have like seven machines in the hardware survey at least yeah so like I mean with the number of test benches that I set up I've got to have dozens in there to be perfectly honest here all right the unthinkable has happened Radeon and GeForce together in DirectX 12 so this is the dx12 explicit multi-gpu mode and the way that it supposedly works is that it takes any DirectX 12 compliant device and utilizes its resources in the best way possible oh wow in the best way possible for a performance boost that is not reliant in any way on SLI or crossfire and can indeed work across mixed vendor multi-gpu setups so PC world tested it out and this feature is gonna is still invaded by the way but it will make its debut in ashes of the singularity which is launching next month and so Gordon MA PC world benchmarked with the resolution of 2560 by 1600 with the crazy presets to GTX 980 s with SLI a single GTX 980 a single fury X and GTX 980 plus Theory X the really interesting got the results here so the GTX 980 plus fury X actually performed the best at 56 points frames-per-second with the 980 + 980 s Li off multi-gpu on outperforming 980 + 980 s Li on now with that said this is just like an FPS graph FPS average not like yeah we need PC per yeah we need this we need captain Shrout to to have a look at the frame times tell us if there's stuttering or micro stuttering or any kind of other anomaly in in this data that is not evident unless you're using a frame capture device and and Nvidia's tool in order to see yeah it's like something like this where it's a technology there's a new technology yeah that we we need a much deeper dive to figure out what's actually going on and if NVIDIA could just go okay balls to the wall here we go we're gonna use all the processing power of the GPUs I suspect they would but they've been really focused like all their messaging about SLI since the launch of the 980 has been about smoothness butter smooth consistency of the frame delivery not necessarily about the frame rate they deliver good frame rates there's no doubt of that but that's not what they're talking about and not what they're focused on when it comes to driver and hardware development right now so it's possible that that frame rate is not meaningful it's also possible that this is like bananas and the coolest thing ever sort of because there is one big caveat and that is that the developer has to specifically implement this feature oh and based on how many developers even today are still not working with nvidia and AMD on crossfire or SLI support never let alone at lunch like at all I don't have much hope for this being like the way forward for gaming and building your system based around the idea that whatever game you're gonna play has this enabled is crazy unless you only plan to play games that are already yeah so yeah this was posted on the forum by cloaked and the original article here is from Business Insider a 19 year old made a free robot lawyer that has appealed three million dollars in parking tickets in the UK pretty cool so government super stoked about this kids robot yeah so that's awesome so hiring a lawyer for a parking ticket appeal is not only a headache but can cost more than just paying the ticket which is one of the things that they rely on it's it's way less hassle to just pay the ticket than it is to try and fight it however with the help of this robot created by Joshua Browder who is 19 years old all you have to do is give the robot some information and it asks you these questions and generates an appeal letter which you then mail to the court without ever requiring a lawyer to draft the letter um it can also help with delayed or cancelled flights or on payment protection insurance claims and he's working to program u.s. city laws into the bots starting with New York rats for everything right Browder doesn't think that robots will be dealing in the US Supreme Court anytime soon but he says fewer lawyers will do mundane tasks and people will save money on stupid little disputes which I absolutely love not only that but it learns that's cool yeah so the more people use the robot the more intelligent it becomes I guess any time it fails at something you might analyze why I'm not sure exactly how it learns but entrepreneurs are already talking to Browder about implementing the bots into cars so I'm not sure exactly why you would need to be able to dispute your ticket directly from the I guess people that want to deal with it immediately I guess so or maybe if there's new cars where they don't just have to put a ticket on your dash where they can like give your car the ticket and then you can dispute it completely automatically I can't see you know I can't see in park being that stoked on that I don't care if in Park you stoked on anything though yeah me neither so hate those guys alright we're gonna take it from them and I hate them this kind of sucked you were actually in the middle of working on something that used Oh my next last week so this is supposed to by Pandolph on the forum and the the mint Linux ISO download was compromised so if you installed mint off of that ISO it actually had a backdoor in it can you explain how the crap something like that happens it wouldn't even actually be that hard if they had access to the server where people are downloading the ISO it was from and they just replace the ISO with one of theirs that has extra stuff on it that's and I mean even the most conscientious downloader who's checking the md5 checksums I mean if they replace the heaven t5 checksum on the download server then you have no way of no way of checking that the ISO you downloaded is actually compromised so I was using mint it doesn't actually matter I could use a huge array of other things but it's just frustrating because I had to start not quite from scratch but I had to redownload other things and reset up my whatever and things sucked that video is not gonna be coming for why doc swag posted this one on the forum the original article here is from w CCF Tech dang it Brandon ah okay hold on I think our stream computer is running off of the UPS right now what just happened no no no we're not we do have power why doesn't that have power okay and that's not working anymore okay cuz it's not on at all yeah it's not even going Slightly this looks kind of cool yeah it's like when shone the Halloween edition we need I kind of I kind of like it we should do like where's way home yeah I want to do like a spooky story I should do like a really serious wind show I don't know where your phone is anyway so PlayStation VR effectively 60% more powerful than an equally SPECT PC apparently very very interesting the way that they're achieving this is the usual console advantage so with the lower level access to the hardware with the fact that game developers can program for a specific set of hardware so all those things that were used to seeing but there is also some unexpected secret sauce as well so let's go ahead and and pull this up so this is so Sony's Richard Marx held a presentation during the AR V our vision summit February 10th to 11th and the presentation provided an overview of PlayStation VR and the basic development process apparently thanks to the fixed hardware the latency is extremely low we're talking less than 18 milliseconds which doesn't sound that low to me there's some problems with this it's got a 100 degree field of view I I do wonder if that's a typo in our notes though that is possible super low latency of less than 18 milliseconds mind you if that's end to end if that's end to end that's a pretty damn impressive yeah that's probably end to end okay um 100 degree field of view which is yeah okay like that's that's not too shabby I haven't tried project Morpheus so now the 60% more powerful than same spec PC point was apparently reported by middleware providers not Sony and has also been confirmed by a VR developer on reddit Brennan I really don't think that light is on okay who said psvr is extremely close to being on par with vive and the rift with a GTX 970 based on the tests that I've done Wow so if your app runs at 90 Hertz on a PS on a PC with a GTX 970 then you should be very close to 60 on the ps4 and with the 120 Hertz reproduction applied it is glassy smooth so psvr only required about one quarter of the render target size that vive requires the ps4 has hardly any driver overhead compared to Windows the draw calls on the ps4 are faster than with DirectX 11 on a PC I noticed that DirectX 12 is being conveniently ignored here there's also a 20% buffer for classified techniques that further reduced the render target size so the vive render target is 457 million pixels per second so that's 15 12 by 16 80 times 2 times 90 Hertz whereas the psvr is approximately a million 1920 by 1080 by 60 - approximately 20% but we don't know what that 20% is yeah if I'ma just wait till they come in yeah I mean to say that a 60 to 120 Hertz up sampling or what what are they what are they calling reproduction works well we'll see yeah we'll see I mean even for video playback I have found that those kinds of you know clear motion technologies are very they're great as long as the motion is predictable and the processor which by the way doesn't operate at 18 milliseconds as long as you give that TVs process or a lot of time and as long as the motion is predictable can actually be like wow I didn't know that there weren't actually more frames in the original content like very believable but something is unpredictable as a game yeah an interactive medium we'll see yeah I mean I want to try it that's cool might sound a little bit weird coming for me but that would be absolutely fantastic because right now what VR needs mostly is just wide adoption so if a huge amount of PlayStation players get behind it and then VR becomes a super normal thing sick yeah great yeah that's awesome bring on bring it on to the mainstream believe it more when I see it but the opie here is mr. troll and the Gears of War Ultimate Edition PC against screenshots file size and requirements apparently the ideal specs are 16 gigs of ram with a 980ti or an r9 390x Wow there though the minimum specs go down to a 650 Ti and a 260 which is exactly how PC games should be they should scale all the way down for people who don't have the horses and they should scale all the way up for the people who are investing all this money into a gaming experience that they want to have that games refuse to deliver because of the consoles because the ideal specs are like a chunk above the recommended specs yes which is sick yes super down with that yeah so minimum is 650 Ti with like an AMD FX 6 core or Core i5 at 2.7 gigahertz recommended is a GTX 970 which is actually the highest percentage graphics card on the Steam Hardware servers yeah yep so like sure so like I get it okay I'm stoked cuz I've never played Gears of War I played one of them very possibly the first one well I'm stoked I'm gonna play it I haven't actually played a game in the last little while so I'm gonna play that that's my that's my objective um really interesting article this one was posted by Patrick 30-27 on the forum original article here is from TorrentFreak software piracy hurts Linux adoption research finds most of the research sometimes it's research into piracy is focused on determining how it hurts paid software options like Microsoft Office or like you know Adobe Wow can't remember I remember from here ok so long how this would even be possible but now I totally get it yeah so the this this new research suggests that software piracy has a detrimental effect on the adoption of the Linux desktop operating systems and I would go as far as to say that a that makes total sense oh yeah and be that you could say the same thing about any free software and free software is is driven by user base they benefit from whether it's ad supported or whether it's donation supported the more people who use it the better and if people run out and just pirate paid software than what they're effectively doing is they are taking the wind out of the sails of open source or free to you software developers which is a really interesting new way to think about that so the way that they tackled it was they looked at actually the notes for this one are not very good but they looked at it on a regional basis so they went ok this country has an estimated piracy rate of this they accounted for factors such as the GDP of the country and local anti-piracy efforts and estimated that the number of Linux users would increase by 50 percent if all piracy disappears surprised it's that low I think that a lot of people pirate simply because they can not because they can't afford the software so I think that's why they're trying to factor in things like the country's GDP in averaging I mean I did I'll admit to that it was completely because I couldn't afford the software right like 100 percent I there was no way um there it was a mix for me when I did like there was there was definitely some i reviews things i straight-up can't afford this and then there was other like you know what actually you know what i did pay for vista oh no I wasn't gonna say stuff like Windows Vista was like yeah I'm gonna use this for like a bid and I'm probably gonna go back to XP so III did pay I didn't pay for this difficult I liked mr. it was fine computer yes I did I don't want to get into that conversation and that's the other thing too is I think that's where the piracy because I can't afford it argument gets really inexcusable is like if you went and spent a bunch of money on your computer and you can't afford a hundred dollars for a Windows license then then yeah I don't know how your computer budgeting worked yeah I think that's pretty much it we should probably uh probably get crack-a-lackin' thank you guys for tuning in to the LAN show you'll see you guys again next week same bat-time same bat-channel why are you holding that get it no one's gonna understand but you might have oh yes yeah we're going to play hockey yeah and it's not how you use it though this isn't good this is a gordon freeman pro bar it is used like this it's the only correct way to use a gordon freeman crowbar good call alright thanks guys see you next time yay