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every life I think so oh hey yeah how's it going so so this sucks ooh yeah so a we actually appear to have broken 3dmark calm yeah well these guys that is some pretty that is some pretty broke dick page loading that they've got going on here yikes because Steve from gamers Nexus is live right now trying to well not trying successfully beating the record for single GPU times by extreme that we set in a video that went up like an hour ago where's this well this is all so this includes any number of GPU so this is obviously kingpin graphics cards in a technically not completely supported scenario but like oh well for you here's a driver you can you can see there's only like a handful of people that are running four-way SLI because it only works in benchmarks now which is stupid but sure and then now Steve is has apparently passed J oh whoa but not by much holy crap that's really close so I think that's what people are slamming this page over and a few passing J it is not working Steve passing J in SLI passing us in single GP and he already passed you know I'm I think so at someone someone told me that he already did but that is our video oh yeah oh yeah yeah our video went up like half an hour prior and then you know at least the video was up first at least the video you held it for a point of time we held it for a long enough to get the video edited barely that was that was really tight like I was tempted to go like super stealth about it at but then I was like hi people are gonna notice on the leaderboard so I tweeted it yeah it's uh you know what interesting it was fun while it lasted we had a lot of I mean that's what this is supposed to be about because overclocking throws a bunch of salt on Twitter mouthing it's all just supposed to be about fun cuz overclocking has no like to this degree has no practical application like well I will defend that you would never actually run a system sub-zero 24/7 unless you're a complete idiot and I'm allowed to say that because I have done it that chiller setup from our video that was my 24/7 rig back when the Core 2 Duo East 66th dude Core 2 Duo as were awesome so that was like over 10 years ago I actually had my whole rig like on a board so that I could move the chiller the reservoir and the tower in one piece whenever I needed to move it from place to place B and I had the whole thing like insulated permanently so I could run that 24/7 but that's really stupid and really impractical for a lot of reasons so there's no real reason to do it other than just for the lawls for bragging rights and to have some fun and I actually got to say I am I am very pleased that EVGA and their employee Vince number kingpins last name I know Vince I don't remember but I'm it's it's actually kind of nice that for a change Vince has stayed out of it for the first week or so and let other people have some fun I mean at some point they're gonna decide ok you know enough of gamers Nexus and Jays two cents let's just let's just get this taken care of and then he'll put up something unbeatable and whatever but I gotta say in the spirit of fun I'm glad that EVGA held the leash back for a little bit and and they've they've let the you know the YouTube community kind of have some fun with this ok cool it's been the first time I think our community has had some form of competition yep in this way yep so that's pretty cool because the reality it is like you can kind of you can kind of extrapolate because he's done sick oh wait no I think this is this new I don't know if he had single r-tx 2080 yet oh no he did okay but he hasn't done dual but then if you go to number of GPUs for obviously he's using the same of what sorry I'm not a screen sharing with you guys obviously Vince is using the same cherry-picked 79 80 XE on liquid nitrogen or liquid helium or whatever the crap he's using wait a minute hold on this is one has he beat us no did he actually like push that number though I don't know interesting I will at any rate if you go back to 4x Vince is already holding the 4x record with 1080 T eyes and by like a huge margin so all he needs to do is take that same CPU and then use whatever cooling he feels like because these vans on 28 et eyes and then just completely destroy everything else with that said I don't know if 2080 TI has 4 way in dealing ok people are saying rip L 3284 46 84 45 what is what is our 80 360 okay apparently he's a lot of people are saving 84 4680 446 all right all right you know what we had our fun Anthony and I spent actually it ended up taking a few days getting everything working because we had a variety of problems which even if we don't have the single single 28 et hi record anymore other than Vince he doesn't count because he thinks even if we don't have that anymore it was a total blast you should definitely watch the video many shenanigans so at one point we managed to almost spray the motherboard with windshield di sir okay oh yeah the jank the jank is real anyway why don't we why don't we get into some topics here and have some have some different fun let's have some fun I can congrats to Steve by the way so by beating us Steve now has other than kingpin who doesn't count the top 20 atti score because everything above that is Titan V's which obviously people have had a lot more time to spend with and potentially do the kind of crazy crap that we've seen at professional overclocking competitions where I think the most nutso thing I ever saw was a graphics card that actually had about the back third of it just hack sawed off and then had like this completely separate outboard power delivery module that was soldered on to the rest of the board it was like okay I mean it was cool it was cool it was pretty cool but like didn't they even make those available for sale at some point I don't think so or like the backboards yeah yeah possibly but then you would have had to have the mid soldering skills not to mention the like the the diagram like the board layouts of these GPUs in order to make any kind of practical use of it okay so what do we got for topics today right the headline that's it's huge the Windows 10 October update potentially deleting files that's one huge headline you know what you know my favorite part about this is which one before I read that because I I saw the October update potentially deleting files thing before I saw it in this doc yeah before I read that I was prepared to come on this show this exact twinge of this time to tell everyone that I was probably gonna finally give in and install Windows 10 oh really I'm not making that up for like funsies reasons I I wanted to play the new Forza so I was like oh maybe I'll just finally give up it's been long enough I'm sure it's gotten a lot better what we are live but unlisted on YouTube oops shout out to the two viewers that was yeah massive shout-out to the two people watching a leg joon-ha behind it that was that was a big mistake big problem right there oh crap I can't believe that just happened I only checked I wasn't sure what the difference was between stream options make archive unlisted when complete and basic info privacy unlisted lol twitch twitch masterrace right now because you guys have been watching apparently one of the people watching is Steve from gamers that's on YouTube oh I'm so sorry everyone watching on YouTube because you guys missed the first like 10-15 minutes I accidentally had it unlisted Oh Lord he's still learning how to use these things so the big story is today Windows 10 deleting files you want to recap what you're saying it's been notorious for me for a while to kind of trash I witnessed an on the show and talked about how I don't use Windows 10 I use Windows 8.1 yeah I wasn't planning it as of like sometime last weekend yeah thought I was gonna update the Windows 10 because I want to play the new force' yeah because it looks sweet it looks awesome yeah and I like just I'm not good at them at all but I like playing racing games every now and then bad like I'm so bad like you played Forza just racing games oh I'm so bad like what Mario Kart did you did you CJ just like walk into the 10k gaming setup at LTX and just completely destroy everyone that's a different situation though still you put it you put a racing wheel if I can't feel the actual acceleration and braking like I'm busy staring at the speedometer and the tag I crashed or I'm looking out the window and I go oh I'm going far too fast and crash like I can't do it at all yeah where you can feel it but anyways yeah for more realistic racing games I'm terrible at them I'm pretty good at Mario Kart but none of those reals things wanted to play it anyways was like you know what I'll give up I'll finally install Windows 10 I'm sure they've gotten a lot better over the last like quite a while as I've been using old operating systems and then this week the week I was planning on announcing that I read the news article that the new update is maybe gonna just delete people's files brilliant so we'll get into that later and then the actual big news like we're far larger implications is that China apparently infiltrated Apple and Amazon and multiple other companies with a hardware security compromised so we'll get into that quite a bit more later allegedly allegedly allegedly let's go ahead and run the intro allegedly well we're absolutely running yeah a legend it's being very careful [Laughter] like just let our video go up and like let the momentum starting to go down you have to just get right in there and crap all over it which I mean we've I don't think we're gonna take another run at it like realistically it's a lot it's actually a lot of work and so you know mad respects to the people who you know get top scores and stuff but I think I think I think we're done I mean really what we wanted to do was come out of nowhere having not acknowledged what was going on at all and just be like womp goodbye but then we didn't have an NB link bridge so we couldn't do SLI which is what everyone else was kind of focused on but that's probably fine anyway because we don't have the same godlike CPU that Jay has and we only a even tried one GPU yeah we're just like okay hopefully this one's pretty DS here we go so we got we got lucky we got lucky all right speaking of getting lucky why don't we just open with this so it was posted by Sparta man 64 on the forum the original article here is from Bloomberg and there is a fair bit of kind of uncorroborated information in this article what's up that people are yelling that there's a Bloomberg thing sorry that there's a super chat oh there's a super time Oh fake news on the bloomberg article yeah we are gonna talk about yeah oh boy I think that's the one they're actually talking about okay so we know we know there's there's some weird stuff in the bloomberg article we'll talk about that later we'll talk about we'll talk about that gamers Nexus just sent us a super chat when and you know the funny thing about this is like we were just trying to be nice you know by beating over we were just trying to no no we raised more attention to no we sent them a super chat Oh during their live stream yeah yeah so we were just trying to be nice I mean the that it was 84 dollars and 46 cents which happens to be the single GPU score Wow hmm is a coincidence and there's really no reason for Steve to get all salty about it and like return the money because I mean really really it was it wasn't about like you know getting attention over on his live stream or whatever this was about wanting to be supportive of his efforts hmm I mean you can you can you know you can break a lot of hardware you know treating it the way that he is right now so it's just a we care about the hardware more yeah yeah exactly exactly I was on a break thing yeah and we have a lot of respect for Steve which is why we wanted to support him and the valuable work that he does yeah with our 84 dollars and 46 cents donate to gamers yes today yeah all right Danny we don't need our charity but they might need you oops okay so let's go ahead and let's let's run through this here shall we so a Bloomberg report claims claims allegedly allegedly that China spies have carried out the most significant supply chain attack ever known against American companies what they mean by a supply chain attack is that instead of trying to to steal data by intercepting network traffic or by gaining physical access to a server that is already configured and already running and then and then steal the data that way a supply chain attack would have the attacker actually hijack the shipment physically oftentimes between two parties neither of which are aware of what's going on yeah make some kind of change and then forward it again without either party becoming aware of what's gone on so here's the story allegedly according to the Bloomberg report so in 2015 Amazon began evaluating American startup called elemental technologies yada yada yada that became Amazon Prime video so as part of their due diligence and hired a third party company to scrutinize their security elemental was apparently using allegedly servers assembled by Super Micro so we're familiar with Super Micro we've used a fair bit of Super micros gear ourselves including our main file storage server um I think they're also pretty well known overall yeah so they were sent to Ontario for testing the testers found a tiny microchip about the size of a grain of rice that wasn't part of the board's original design the chip apparently allegedly incorporated memory networking capability and sufficient processing power for an attack so allegedly when the server was installed and switched on the microchip could alter the operating systems core so it could accept modifications and the chip could contact computers controlled by the attackers for further instructions in code so the primary role of an implant like this would be to open doors that other attackers can go through depending on the board model allegedly the chips varied slightly in size suggesting that the attackers had supplied different factories with different batches Amazon allegedly reported the discovery to the US authorities at this time allegedly and at this time as well elemental servers could be found in Department of Defense data centers the CIA's drone operations and the on-board networks of Navy warships but elemental is just one of hundreds of super micro customers so the allegedly ensuing top-secret probe remains open today more than three years later with investigators determining that the chips allowed attackers to create a stealth doorway into any network that included the altered machines now as with a lot of these things don't initially necessarily pass a sniff test here even even like for not super technical people like here can I give my my idiot version of why a lot of this doesn't make a ton of sense ok and then I'll let you go sure ok so a chip on a motherboard unless you're running your router with like what's it called the auto configuring stupid thing yes wo man that's the auto connecting thing if that's where you're tired yeah no not that one what's it called UPnP okay yeah unless you're running a router with UPnP to my knowledge there is no way that a machine on the network can reconfigure the ports that your network has open and how they're forwarded so there's there's even more stuff than just that okay but that's just that's just the first thing yeah so one thing I noticed what wasn't good enough with electronics to really yeah dive further into but then was super happy that Wendell started talking about it on Twitter yeah was that like a chip of literally that size and that in that place connections yeah we would have to be like a 2 to 4 pin chip right like what is it doing yeah what can you do with two pins so and people started diving more into that but it's like it's already weird just at that level yeah and like this is way beyond me so but the first hardware thing that stood out to me and we should go ahead and we should pop this this article open here again and one thing I want to add is that people far better at this stuff than Linus and I are noticing these things yeah so so this was the first thing that popped out to me here's the board and you can see they're kind of stripping off components as we go here and here's the chip so I just I'm gonna I'm gonna print screen' this real real quick here there we go ah mspaint mspaint saves the day okay can we not shrink this really really oh paint can you just why why why okay resize here we go percentage I don't I don't know 40% there we go good enough all right so here's the issue so this this is a type of motherboard that is pretty typical and what do they call blade servers yeah so this is where you basically are just sliding an entire computer into a small Bay in a larger chassis that would contain multiple computers so this is really high density high density stuff here alright so the location was like somewhere around here and the bloomberg article reports that it was able to get memory information I'm kind of sitting here going how because this is your main motherboard chipset as far as I can tell and this it actually they seem to have blanked out some of the details on this but this isn't much and I don't know the most about PCB layout and board design for sure but what I do know is that you don't go out of your way to run traces like this well definitely not on a curse but like yeah you don't want to run them farm definitely you don't want to run them any further than you have to except in very specific instances like for example memory high speed memory can benefit from little zigzags so you'll see little zigzags and some traces and then you'll see straight straight traces running to other places so for example let's say this is a CPU and this is the like you know four dimm slots next to it so in sum can you hold this for me please sure thank you sir so in some cases you might see straight traces going out to the extremities and then you might see zigzag traces going here and that's because when you're going real real fast I'm good when you're going real real fast it can actually the difference in the arrival timing of the electrons can make a difference on that scale so anyway but for something where you're transferring I wasn't fully listening to what you're saying I was reading chat but AJ saying no it's to match the length of the lengths of the traces I know I just said that oh I don't know it's just trying to put his input in there okay that was okay okay if it wasn't clear then it's really important that that's clear the reason that they're zigzagging here is because that's a shorter distance and the reason that they're not zigzagging at the extremities is because that's a longer distance so you got a zigzag here so the traces are all the same length so that the timing doesn't get bummed up all right so anyway that chip in order to have ax to memory what was it memory networking and what else allegedly was it did it have access to here oh let me go let me go back to our notes um doorway into network etc etc what's that I don't necessarily want to see it ah interesting answer fen everyone's spamming that oh I have my phone on silent what do you want I don't think anything that I do could reflect poorly on my image I think people are kind of used to my nonsense at this point what can I do for you my feelings are super hurt actually so you know you know that you know that event that um that you went ahead and attended last year where we kind of like buried the hatchet and stuff like you were you were there for that right because I had really understood that the hatchet was buried and now it really feel that it feels like the hatchet has been pulled out but like not out of you the stump you know not Under the Sun look Steve I never pull out okay that's why I got a vasectomy okay so look it feels like the hatchet that you pulled out was not in a stump but actually in my chest and I'm bleeding right now Steve I'm bleeding you know what just just just just don't show up at LTX next year oh just don't show up even though and then you know what this is breaking news breaking news actually we had a great chat with we're not gonna name any names but we had a great chat with an unnamed large and party organizer and it looks like such don't name them and it looks like LTX had somewhat confirmed next year is gonna be more than double the footprint with a BYOC lan that is gonna have capacity for hundreds of gamers oh my god that is actually amazing and by the way Steve I'm totally joking you have to be there it's gonna it's going to rock and of course I'm just messing with you thank you for thank you for thank you for being hilarious consider doing oh yeah no way man it's gonna be so much better next year we are really looking forward to it and I mean I just just so everyone knows like these events don't happen overnight like we are absolutely already working on it's not gonna be happening for like another 8 or 9 months but yeah I'm looking forward to it and I know I've kind of missed you at the last couple of events I don't even think either of us went to went to the thread Ripper 2 thing did you go okay well if nothing else I'll see you at CES right all right okay cool man all right bye Steve you guys should consider just for fun yeah having like an over a live overclocking panel you could even throw in like make it make it weird hardware or something I would actually I thought you zeroes in 98 hundreds I've always had more fun overclocking like weird stuff yeah yeah I get like gt7 tens and then just see totally yeah go to town it would be sweet like you like bring in some weird hardware and have a little like overclocking thing anyway so thank you to raging gamer Sam Landis and Paco sands who all messaged with super chat here I'm just seeing it now to answer my phone sorry I had it muted because I'm trying to be a bit more of a professional streamer now just like my phone would go off all the time during streams in the past anyway so yeah I I just don't get people who think that there's any kind of real like Nana masa tea between us Steve Jay like any of those people that's one thing that the computer hardware review community has had for a long time is we've all been kind of friends for a long time which has been cool there are a couple of notable exceptions but I'm not gonna name any names but I will say that none of them are youtubers like anyone who thinks that you know me and anyone has any kind of beef like or that were even really think of each other as competitors like yeah like awesome is coming to dinner like oh yeah just hanging out not making videos because sometimes that that's nice to do anyway let's get back to let's get back to the chips oh all right so in response to my initial sort of reaction here like what could possibly affect all those things apparently what it was supposed to affect was ipmi which I've actually made a video about in the past and what I PMI is is it is remote access to the server and it does allow you to pretty much control the things so you can get a video feed out you can actually power it up and down you can change bio settings you can change pretty much anything that you would like about it sort of so back to the allegedly alright so investigators found that the chips had been inserted at factories run by manufacturing subcontractors in China who makes 75% of the world's mobile phones and 90% of its PCs they also found eventually that it affected almost 30 companies including a major bank government contractors and the world's most valuable company Apple in May 2015 so this is going way back in time Apple allegedly found malicious chips on Supermicro motherboards and severed ties with Super Micro the following year though for what it described as unrelated reasons so here's the part where this gets real tricky here's the list of everyone who has denied this Amazon said missus quote it is untrue that AWS knew about a supply chain compromise an issue with malicious chips or hardware modifications when acquiring Elemental Apple said on this we can be very clear they have such an Apple way of talking to me Apple has never found malicious chips Hardware manipulations or vulnerabilities purposely planted in any server Supermicro we remain unaware of any such investigation the Chinese government supply chain Safety in cyberspace is an issue of common concern and China is also a victim okay that's not really the strongest to denial no no but the FBI CIS and NSA said no comment now the company's denials are countered by six current and former senior senior national security officials who in conversations that began during the Obama administration and continued under the Trump administration detailed the discovery of the chips and the government's investigation in all 17 people confirm the manipulation of super micros hardware and other elements of the attacks those actually confirmed or is that claimed by Bloomberg this is all claimed by Bloomberg yeah so yeah I don't know me so there's more allegedly so here's here's part of the problem with all of this a denial is interesting but not necessarily the be-all and end-all it's not like Apple is going to you know yeah all of our networks were compromised yeah well actually they would they were just verify first why would they as long as they've fixed it now and again allegedly one government official said that no consumer data was known to have been stolen so if Apple has found the problem fix the problem and doesn't have to worry about this problem popping a at any point in the future then okay why why would they go ahead and you broadcast this on their own funny interesting thing for me how is super microstrip saying we remain unaware of any such investigation it's kind of interesting that these it's it's so it's so much of a blanket no so Apple says note we've never seen anything like this in a server and China says we're a victim too yeah that's pretty weird that's a little weird so I'm not much of a tinfoil hat conspiracy theory unit but I can't understand why it would be that these companies have issued denials and that everyone is speaking under condition of anonymity and anima Deon something like this because you might have an NDA or you might be subject to criminal prosecution if you were to talk about it that's true that's very fair so now would they go to Bloomberg I don't know it's a wonderful question so all we can really do is say hey here's what was reported by Bloomberg who has not typically been known to be complete Yahoo's here's all the denials that have been issued and there were lots of them and make of that what you will I didn't the ICIS and NSA not commenting is not really a denial to be clear yeah those are listed under denials but it's not really until now the only way that we could know for sure would be if independent owners of super micro servers contacted Super Micro asked for a board layout diagram and check their motherboards to see if these chips were present now the problem with that is that this all allegedly happened a few years ago and depending on the upgrade cycle of any given data center it would be fairly simple and be fairly straightforward for these these middlemen to intercept only large-scale orders intended for a particular customer and if the goal wasn't going after end-users then the goal probably also isn't your mom-and-pop you know YouTube channel like us and the motherboard in their one-off Super Micro server it was probably looking for these bulk orders that were that were subcontracted out because otherwise I believe Super Micro actually has their own manufacturing capabilities don't don't quote me on that one so depending on the upgrade cycle of the data centers of the companies they were targeting or depending on their policies some of them just destroy Hardware rather than flipping it on eBay whereas others do like you'll see you know when 100 gigabit networking gets to the point where it's affordable and practical all of a sudden you'll see a bunch of 40 gigabit enterprise gear just flooding a but not everyone some do that but some of them don't so we don't know if any of these servers because we don't know what models they are have ended up on eBay or have ended up in the hands of individual users so there's still certainly more to come on all of this but all we can say is what we know for now which is nothing for certain I don't even drop a plug here real quick Oh for my thing is that cool no yeah yeah go for it was thinking of servers and infrastructure if you guys are into that I thought I was done hiring for a little while but apparently not flow playing media is looking for a system administer administrator and what I was 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about it it's finally happening allegedly and not just like a file or - apparently one user is claiming to have lost 220 gigs of data after updating like who so the version number is Windows 10 1809 and it says here if you get a warning about Intel drivers do not proceed okay so all the AMD fanboys are like so it appears to be related to some interaction with onedrive oh great where documents saved in the user directory and not onedrive will be deleted oh yeah that's the reverse of what I thought was gonna happen in that so much yes it also appears that if you've done anything non-standard with onedrive or your My Documents folder it may place your files at risk and all right went down the wrong pipe what ii III definitely had I think a lot of people here he'll know now that it's the most practical way especially if you're running a single box and you don't have an ass the most practical way to run your storage these days economically is to have a small boot SSD for most of your programs and stuff and then a large hard drive for your mass storage yeah and the problem is that Windows automatically puts your My Documents on your C Drive because Microsoft still lives in the land of single drives and computers so it's just baffling to me that it's just not automatically tiered anyway a whole other conversation um but anyway so a really common thing for people to do because a lot of programs without asking will just automatically dump crap in my documents my pictures my videos like that kind of thing so what a lot of users will do if they're managing their data correctly in fact I think we did a guide that's got like over a million views over on NCIX tech tips showing people how to do this is they'll remap those those stock system folders to a folder on their mechanical hard drive so if you did that it appears that it might place your files at risk and rolling back the install does not restore the missing files Wow the rollback not restoring the files in my opinion is worse than its leaving the files in the first place oh yeah way worse way worse that's gnarly and since we're on the subject what does this windows update even offer well this was posted by good bytes on the forum mostly minor changes and to be clear good bytes is constantly pointed out as being a hard core yeah mostly minor changes some features like sets and alt tab bringing up browser tabs have been delayed so your phone and app that your phone an app that will allow you to better interact with your phone from your PC allows you to send and receive SMS messages and interact with your 25 most recent images from your gallery on an Android phone so that's cool cool but then that should also be coming to Windows 10 version 1803 so while it's headlining as an 1809 feature it's actually an independent app there's a new clipboard history that syncs with the cloud and works across devices so it's being added to Swift key on iOS and right that's pretty cool that's actually pretty cool that is quite cool also comes to the Windows 10 onscreen keyboard with this update I can't believe that took so long Microsoft bought SwiftKey what like two years ago anyway there's a dark theme for file explorer ok I could see people wanting to update for that snipping tool is being deprecated being replaced by a new snipping experience no with wind shift s I don't know it might be fine I mean do you do not use CRX at this point anyway yeah ok and the usual improvements to Microsoft edge browser want more but like on on systems that I haven't used before having snipping tool is really nice new emoji notepad improvements so all of that sounds worth giving up some data over it ok ok if there wasn't if there wasn't the data loss I will throw them this bonus there wasn't the data loss if you were if you were able to recover your data with us with a system rollback you throw them a bone yeah pretty much this does actually sound like a decent update yeah dark theme is cool the phone app thing is cool the Swift key copy/paste cloud thing is cool but yeah I need my files so sorry not alright and finally MacBook Pro and iMac pros require Apple's Diagnostics for certain repairs ot to chip so you know about the t2 chip right so that's the encryption chip on some of Apple's new devices that basically makes it so that let's talk about the good things first someone who steals your device can't get your data I mean he's cool that's pretty cool yeah but it does other stuff so on the 2018 macbook pro repairs involving the logic board ok touch ID all right that's security related the battery the keyboard the display the top casing and the track the track that and the speakers the speakers the speakers really to be fair the keyboard battery trackpad and speakers are all only included because of the topcase so the t2 chip if you complete a few complete repairs like those without apples blessing will brick your MacBook Pro if you replace a broken speaker now on the iMac Pro this makes more sense logic board and flash storage repairs okay fine so if any of those parts are repaired and Apple Diagnostics are not run the system will be inoperative and the repair will be incomplete now the Apple diagnostic suite is limited to internal use by Apple stores and Apple Authorized service providers so independent repair shops without Apple certification may be unable to repair certain parts of these machines and in the case of the MacBook it's like basically anything now apparently the t2 chip does include more than I thought so system management controller signal image signal processor audio controller and SSD controller and the secure Enclave but why did it have to include the audio controller I'm sure Apple has some kind of reason but then they also could recognize that replacing a speaker is probably benign really frustrating nothing we say or do is gonna change anything I mean Apple very intentionally because you bet your butt they noticed the videos that we made about our experience with the iMac Pro very intentionally has not acknowledged us they've not reached out offering to help or anything like that so Apple is just clearly going yeah I think we're just gonna keep doing this okay people aren't upset enough so and the frustrating thing is it seems to be it seems to be spreading I mean you and I were talking about this the other day so one of the reasons that I went with the Chevy Volt was that I am really not a fan of what Tesla's doing with respect to write to repair the fact that they are limiting people live basically limiting the ability to work on these vehicles to people who have their you know magic wand blessing what exactly is that why do we accept that as consumers and there's youtubers who have made careers out of trying to find ways to like forcibly repair Tesla's did you watch the same documentary I did then I don't think I've watched a documentary right I was YouTube video but it was in a doggy style very likely then I forgot the guy what the guys needs yeah yeah yeah he's awesome yeah basically like awesome dude he's super awesome flat out um and so really impressive the kind of stuff yeah I don't really understand why we're supporting these things because it is blatantly anti-consumer yeah period yeah because the security there are some okay there are some legitimate concerns in both of these areas yes to defend them a little bit yeah electric guitars can be electric guitars it's my day today man I'm just on point electric cars can be a little bit problematic if repaired poorly but like so can normal cars explosions and stuff right like I don't know this doesn't seem super hard to understand not like your there's some liability involved in repairing some things huh but generally with most countries laws if the owner of the item is repairing it they're taking personal liability for the repair and if you pay a shop to repair it that shop is taking liability for the repair and the reality of it is that this industry of like basically massive like buckets of explosive fuel that people ride around in has been around for an awful long time yeah and I think we've correct me if I'm wrong but I'm not aware of any situation where a repair doesn't are repaired something somehow like a repaired Ford came back to Ford somehow because of an error that the repair technician made I don't know if I'm wrong please do yeah I don't I don't know honestly I'm sure it has happened some dude tried to fix this Ford and then when he failed he brought it to Ford and Ford was like what the heck dude I don't know but that's fine oh you're talking like a repair happened on a vehicle and then it blew up or something and got in trouble yeah hmm not aware of anything like that happening yeah personally I don't know all right we've got a couple of super Chad's serpent XFS appreciate the love among tech tubers look forward to next year's LTX hashtag never pull out rock on man Spencer says so Microsoft can fix the update right thanks Spencer good ah vast horizon I'd send more but this is all I can afford I love you guys though oh well thank you Jordan been watching guys a little over a year you guys boosted my interest in a tech career currently attending college for ICT i TS keep doing what you do rock on to you too I think that's pretty much wraps oh this is a good question okay last topic of the day and this was actually suggested here by me oh no I wonder what would happen if you used the CPUs integrated heat spreader as a water block so basically just drill two holes and solder copper pipes onto it okay so a couple problems here problem numero uno you would have to have some way of like protecting the rest of the cpu from the water which will inevitably pick up some ions that will make it conductive and then obviously that's going to be a pretty bad scene problem number ii as far as I know most IHSS are not fully sealed so you would have to make sure that you actually complete the seal and do a good job there problem number them next is they're quite small and so actually getting like large enough Barb's that you'd be able to get the kind of flow rate that you want for the first for optimal cooling would be a little bit difficult number problem number the next is that having the die soldered or liquid metal to an IHS probably increases your surface area helping with cooling more than the benefits of having the water directly touching the die would help I guess is what I'm trying to say so having this bigger area where you've got a slight barrier that you have to pass through versus having a very small area I suspect they'd probably like thought of that at some point but it seems like the kind of thing that we'd be crazy enough to try so I'm not saying we're never gonna do it cool suggestion someone said sorry wizard Mon said a hundred Ford's start firing crashes and not a single person cares 1 Tesla hits a barrier at high speeds spraining an ankle of the driver and the car slowly starts off on fire as he limps away national TV newspapers talk shows reblogged 12 million times this argument has been brought up many times personally I don't think it's a valid enough reason to take rights away from consumers and I think we can end the show right there cool thanks for watching