The 24 hour WAN Show shall dawn on us very soon™. -Timestamps- [0:00] *Chapters.* [1:43] *Intro.* [2:14] *Short production meeting.* [3:07] *Topic #1: Sony releases PlayStation VR2.* > 4:09 Luke tries out the headset, LTT review incoming. > 4:52 Specs, Linus on eye tracking & render quality. > 7:28 Luke on the headset's features & earphones. > 10:06 Linus's home VR setup, Luke on tethered experience. > 11:26 Commenting on the controller & overall design. > 13:26 ChatGPT is sentient about Luke's comments on WAN Show. > 14:23 Unable to use VR2 on PC. [16:18] *Topic #2: Meta Verified "less ads" program.* > 17:19 Facebook viewers, Meta Verified, lack of support. > 20:36 Tumblr profits from "Important Blue Internet Checkmarks." > 22:54 "Whale Tier", "Extra Medium" size, Floatplane beta. [25:58] *Merch Messages discussion, Right to Repair pin idea.* [28:42] *LTTStore new WAN deskpad, desk configurator.* [Cont.] *Topic #2: Meta Verified "less ads" program.* > 30:01 Would Luke or Dan get Meta Verified? [30:51] *Topic #3: Linus & Luke hate building PCs for people.* > 33:55 LetMeGPT, Linus on the youth's computing skills. > 38:38 Luke on tech support, Linus's Athlon NCIX repair. [42:51] *Luke on the lack of news this week.* [43:34] *Topic #4: Google & Meta impacted by Canada's Bill C-18.* [48:50] *Topic #5: Fantasian boss causes Linus to ragequit.* > 1:07:52 Mentioning Reddit post, Twitch's bugs idea. > 1:09:22 Doomed to fail, boss difficulty, discussing BotW. > 1:15:56 Luke quit TARKOV due to cheaters, g0at's clips. > 1:33:18 Luke on cheating, Linus on game streaming. > 1:39:34 Riot Games' Ring 0 freaks out about TARKOV AC. [1:40:42] *Merch Messages #1.* > 1:41:06 Does being a fan make it difficult to be hired in LMG? > 1:43:36 Is there a person you want to bring on the WAN Show? > 1:46:00 Any tech to have in a studio student apartment? [1:48:28] *Sponsors.* > 1:48:32 The Ridge wallet. > 1:49:35 Squarespace site builder. > 1:50:27 JumpCloud IT community. [1:51:21] *Topic #6: Amazon buys One Medial for 3.9 Billion.* > 1:53:16 Buy n Large, poll: Best Buy's primary color. [1:58:13] *Topic #7: Apple activation unlock update.* [2:01:54] *Topic #8: China restricts access to AI tech.* > 2:05:18 Luke's trip to France, . [2:12:11] *Topic #9: TH-cam releases 1080Premium.* > 2:14:12 Dubbing videos beta, Spanish LTT dub. > 2:15:02 Podcasts upload time, WAN Show's runtime. [2:19:34] *Topic #10: LTX 2023 tickets update.* > 2:21:01 BYOC tickets for sale in small waves. [2:21:43] *Topic #11: Google accused of destroying evidence.* [2:22:44] *Merch Messages #2.* > 2:22:47 Expert in a language or proficient in many? Favorite language? > 2:25:18 Jeff's six month review on the screwdriver. > 2:26:58 Most favorite LTX moment? > 2:27:55 Thoughts on auto manufacturers not updating infotainment. > 2:32:46 What consumer products aided your productivity? > 2:33:21 Educational tech for teaching our youth? > 2:34:19 Average age of LMG's viewership. > 2:39:06 Red flags when hiring people for LMG. [2:40:34] *Floatplane is now hiring.* [Cont.] *Merch Messages #2.* > 2:44:52 Red flags when hiring people for LMG. > 2:52:34 Anything tech related Linus & Luke disagree on. > 2:55:06 Thoughts on big company layoffs & rehiring? > 2:57:44 Can LTT backpack store a full face motorcycle helmet? > 2:58:07 Where Brian the electrician has been? > 2:58:33 Does LMG have a brand standard manual? > 2:59:16 Biggest "we F'd up" moment and how did you fix it? > 3:01:54 Most notable thing to spring out of LMG? > 3:11:25 Are Linus's kids hobbies influenced by Linus's tech & hobby? > 3:12:10 Google's quantum computing error connection. > 3:12:45 What company's top-secret project would you want to see? > 3:14:19 Thoughts on gyms installing ads in mirrors. > 3:16:03 Line between sunk cost line & investing in an ecosystem? > 3:17:36 Linus's katana, update on LTT screwdriver holster? > 3:19:47 Why hire people with an engineering background? > 3:21:29 One-on-one tech in education & its benefits? > 3:27:56 Would Linus write an autobiography someday? > 3:29:56 How does Linus survive without coffee? > 3:30:32 Technology that labs decided not to test. > 3:31:42 Would LMG make an LTTStore knife multi tool? > 3:32:43 What Linus was unable to disclose in the Crucial video. > 3:34:54 What watch does Linus wear? LTTStore shouting out. > 3:35:47 Linus's SV650 bike update. > 3:36:33 Linus's thoughts on Witcher? > 3:37:14 Linus & Luke favorite flowers? > 3:37:53 Did Linus have time with GDP Win 4 after SC video? > 3:40:37 Will the way we build PCs ever change? > 3:41:03 What would your hardware upgrade look like if you didn't have that? > 3:44:12 Any game release you're looking forward to? > 3:44:42 LMG's experience with hiring immigrants. > 3:45:35 *Reason behind LMG not paying Gary.* > 3:47:51 What tech you imagined as a small child that you wanted? > 3:49:04 Does Luke thing he'd be a mid or a senior if he looks for a job? > 3:48:55 Why do PC recycling stores seem to disappear? > 3:49:24 Recommendation for VPN & password manager? > 3:51:51 What can be done to mitigate internet AI issues? > 3:53:02 Is it worth getting the LTX two day pass? > 3:53:23 Would you rather have ultra-wide QHD or 4K 60Hz? > 3:54:00 What are some kid things you had that kids nowadays don't have? > 3:57:55 How did Linus deal with LTT's meteoric rise? > 4:00:16 Should MMOs that shut down provide server codes? > 4:00:23 Linus's AI counterpart on AtheneAIHeroes. > 4:02:05 Anker alternative for battery banks & cables. [4:03:18] *Outro.*
"don't build family members a pc because you'll end up being tech support for it forever" I'm *_already_* tech support for my entire family, building them pcs will just mean I know exactly what they're running.
I have no issue helping when someone's incapable of solving a problem because they're in over their head, whether it's because they lack the knowledge/resources to solve it themselves or because they tried and either got stuck or couldn't fix something, but I don't want to be the problem solver because of learned helplessness. I've personally had 1 big computer problem when my GPU was half-dead half-working, and I wasn't able to figure out if and how to fix it and wasn't sure if there was anything else I could try before buying a new GPU, but when I asked someone more knowledgeable than me for help my question wasn't "can you fix it?" it was "do you have any suggestions for what other resources I should look into to try and fix it myself?" Sometimes the only way for someone to have fewer problems is to let them struggle their way through a small problem and learn how to resolve small problems independently.
If you are under 40, and the solution is to unplug and replug a cable, or it's the first solution on TH-cam/Google, you could have done it yourself. But, if you actually tried to fix it yourself, or help me when I need something, Then I will be happy to help.
I was not allowed devices young. I had to sneak playing video games and internet. I would usually have no idea what to do when they asked for tech support. They learnt themselves and do not need me.
A friend is telling me that the guy who made that tarkov video is full of bs, he has cheated before. Also why is he carrying a gun in the video if he is not going to shoot anybody? Also way more important why is he not uploading all the infos on cheaters he has gathered?
@@Maxaker He probably has a gun on him to defend himself if he runs into a scav. Or he just brought them in for shits and giggles since he knew his account was gonna get banned anyway when bsg saw the video.
@@BagOfH0lding Linus did previously talk about how it's impossible under Canadian law for him to prevent people from discussing wages. The reason it doesn't get brought up is probably because Americans will project and have no clue about anything.
Luke and Linus both being so above board with everything has always impressed me. Walking away from "whatever bad thing (ads on gym mirrors for example)" on principle, respect. Them shouting out teachers that made such impacts in their lives is wonderful. Seriously this is the only live stream I watch. Wanted to post here just to say thanks for sharing and giving me something to look forward to.
I'm glad my Merch Message at 3:01:50 about "what is the best thing to spring out of LMG" morphed into the Christmas album and possibly hundreds of people buying the worst thing on the face of this planet. Bravo.
Thank you for talking about EFT. LTT has influence in this space and many players are hoping this will encourage tangible, real action on BSGs behalf. For far too long we have acknowledged this issue without realizing the scope of a cheatdemic and turned a blind eye and said well there's no perfect solution. In reality, there is a solution we just have yet to find it. Again, thank you
Props to Linus for silently having Luke’s back when it came to “leaking” the video. He totally spinned it as best he could as to soften the potential blow to g0at. Top lad lol
Last few weeks I come here thinking "Surely they cant go longer next week" and they surprise me every time I watch WAN shows little by little over the week when I get time, lately it become only thing I watch on youtube during week and still I dont make it to the end of episode before next one comes out, I just finished with last weeks episode now (monday)
I used to watch the WAN show pretty consistently like 8 years ago. Never stopped watching LTT but stopped watching the WAN show, I'd always be surprised at how long the shows were. Now, I watch a 4-hour show and I feel sad when it's ending, looking forward to next week. Linus and Luke, this is my favorite podcast again. Y'all rule. 💙
Thank you for talking about Tarkov. The community is on fire about it and are infighting about the video instead of being mad at the game being able to cheat in so easily.
The ending with AI Linus had me laughing so hard I woke up my fiance. I was crying laughing at Linus' reaction and then I looked at the description and ridge wallet was the sponsor. Oh man, so funny.
EXACTLY! 1 hour podcasts released by people are over too soon! I would happily enjoy a 4+ hour podcast over the week of doing chores/tasks every week! Sometimes I don’t get time to listen to it all before the next comes out so I continue listening to it until I’ve finished it and then start the next one. I kind of love it when I get a backlog because I know I have tons of hours of content to keep me entertained! Sometimes I get distracted and may let it play through and end up going back and rewatching. So hopefully as a longtime YT Premium customer this benefits them! They should defo try aim for specials like 8 hour podcasts, or 12 or 24, maybe even for charity. I’d happily tune in live for those and rewatch whatever I missed. Would defo donate and buy merch during those special streams as well, even though I’m in the UK and postage costs more than the merch haha.
Hey Linus, In most of the Final Fantasy games there was an impenetrable barrier spell called 'Trine' which would absorb all hits (it sounds very similar to the barrier spell you describe), but 'Trine' could be defeated by a magic spell called 'Bio' that would disolve 'Trine' instantly. Does your Chemist not have anything like this available to them? Not sure if this mechanic is in the game, but I thought I'd mention it just in case.
Linus and Luke talking about hiring woes hits me right in the heart. I think what people who don’t hire don’t get is that one a person by person basis all these things might seem insignificant or could be explained away in the interest of giving people the benefit of the doubt but when you’re talking to 60 people over the course of 6 months, patterns start to emerge and you can see the difference between those people who don’t give a shit and those who do, and that makes a massive difference to how much work it’s gonna be for me and the rest of the team to make a prospective hire productive and people who don’t care drain the life out of a talented team.
In the UK they collect though data on medical care other systems don't have and have access to education records. The majority of highschool graduates are girls, the majority of people starting medical training are women. 40% of graduate doctors who go on to specialise are women 10% of surgeons are women Male patients have equal results from surgery between women and men leading their care... female patients have better recovery and fewer complications after surgery by a woman It's quite upsetting that Germany doesn't collect that data and I can't assess how this came to emerge from British health records
2:34:15 this is why I love that my high school has 3D printers freely available for us to use, and a course for us on how to use them. About a year ago the attachment mechanism for my desk lamp broke and I just spent like 20 minutes replicating it in CAD and printed a replacement the next day at my school. Also a lot of the bigger libraries in Finland have 3D printers that you can just use, with some restrictions
I actually researched that problem with a lack of tech skills the younger generation has in me ed tech class while pursuing my degree. From my survey data, a lot of kids these days have had UI so well designed, if its not something they can fix in one click, they just give up because its not worth their time. So stuff like troubleshooting computer problems or even as basic as doing something in word beyond the initial top ribbon, they don’t know it. A lot of us grew up in a weird “beta testing” era of tech and we are now in a place where software especially is so well designed that there is little need for troubleshooting skills. Its a blessing and curse
not sure if I agree completely. could have bought a mac or stuck with windows and prebuilt machines back in the days but I was CURIOUS! went through the hassle of installing various linux distros (usually split up onto up to 10 CDs). those were the days where you'd need to read and try for months to get any signal out of your graphics card (xserver xorg screw you), let's not even mention how much work it was to get WiFi or sound running. I really had no use for linux back then I just wanted to learn. once everything was up and running I'd start from scratch because that fresh release of some distro had a wicked sick looking new window manager... one xmas my parents told me I can get a new computer, instead I bought a graphics card, bigger RAM, another HDD and a TV card because I knew that for the same money I'd end up with a better system overall going the upgrade route. I had no clue about hardware, it was the first time I even opened a PC. again had to do lots of digging and reading on dialup internet to figure things out but I did. Maybe youngins lack this kind of curiosity today because computers are not new to them, their parents probably had a machine at home long before they were born. I'm so glad I went through all this trouble because today computers are the most important tool for my job and I'm in control of my tools (for the most part), not the other way around.
I also think it's not that bad, most boomers have serious click fobia. They don't dare click on something they don't know. Young people just click around and see what happens. Because we grew up with it. But the in-betweeners that have lived the beta days are obviously the best at tech right now. Young ones just need to learn.
@@jdijkstra8115 interesting observation. people older than me: afraid to break something people younger than me: don’t even know there are ways to break something 😂 to be taken with a grain of 🧂 please 😉
@@jdijkstra8115 I've already started struggling with touch interfaces and it's getting worse. Where youngsters easily find a way to "intuitively" interact with their devices, I struggle. And I'm afraid of the day where voice communication will become truly ubiquitous and the "default" option for interaction with devices. When trying to reverse engineer the system will become highly inefficient, largely equivalent to attempting to tweak a piece of software using disassembly tools these days. Our reckoning will come. Enjoy it while it lasts.
it’s a double edged sword tbh. the more disconnected you are, the less you’re aware of the changes in the world around you and the more out of touch you are. but the better it is for your mental health and wellbeing i’ve really just come to stop caring about issues that i have no influence over or impact on. outside of internet arguments, those topics don’t affect me once i’m done reading about them
I'm fairly sure it works that way and I should do it too, but not sure how to do it. I'm aware that I could just listen to radio news or something once a day and I would know if something major is going on, but I'm just used to do everythong on the internet. Fairly sure about 99% of the stuff that comes our way is not necessary, and I should be OK not understanding context of a meme that has no impact whatsoever on my life, and I think this always connected thing causes stress.
There's a great quote about the news from The School Of Life: There's hardly anything we need to know about other than the life of 10 or so people who count on us
While I agree, I am definitely struggling with being out of touch with what is happening locally (shitty government being especially shitty apparently?). Hoping to find a nice balance between being informed and not drowning in the depressing hellscape that tends to be mainstream news...
Love Dan, also as a Tech with kids and nephews in their teens Luke is 100% right. They are not used to computer problems and expect it to do the things. They have no sense of problem-solving.
The WAN show has made it to the absolute top of my podcast list, perfect for about 4 dog walks! Look forward to it every week, long live the WAN show 🍻
My niece started high school this year, one of the school supplies was a Ti-83+ calculator (which are drastically overpriced). I gave her the one I used in high school...23 years ago. It made me realize I'm on my way to being old when the calculator i use is older then her lol.
Linus's experience with Fantasian mirrors my own exactly. It's a really cool game until the second half then it just becomes stupidly overtuned bosses that require very specific strategies to beat and if you miss one rotation then the boss kills one party member and generally you aren't able to stabilise the fight after that point. They just aren't fun to fight.
@@rmo9808 Well that's their definition of fun. Not everyone has the same idea about what's cool and what's mundane, apparently. I don't like it that much, either, but probably would still prefer that type of game over a glorified visual novel where you use whatever and still win. I want some of the decisions to matter, and that means sometimes I get punished for it, and things are a lot harder than they needed to be. Learning that you needed to do a very specific thing 10 hours of playtime ago with no indication whatsoever 100% sucks though, but then again there are players who are gluttons for punishment. Let them have these games, too.
It is Saturday evening and I'm just at 3:30:00. I guess I won't finish WAN show on Sunday soon, as it's getting longer. Longer the better, isn't it. Good show, thanks.
I’m the tech support for the friend group. I’ve built 15 PCs in the last year over the phone/discord and 6 in person. And when any little thing goes wrong they all crawl back to me flooding my messages. A friend wanted to use blue stacks and couldn’t be bothered to google virtualization on his own when blue stacks told him to enable it.
as a 20 year old, Im in computer engineering thanks to my interest of trying to get tech to work lol. For example, when I was 10 learned how to root my android, and did so just so that I could get features newer phones had and etc. I learned to love computers by trying to maximize what my parents could afford to get me.
the things I wish my kids could see is stuff like Toys R Us and department stores at Christmas, also in my local area before austerity there used to be a butterfly farm and small zoo, which was amazing. I guess that does make me think of just my kids being in a nation were your wage went further and you could put the heating on without having to sell your car.
1:39:39 Luke hits a pretty solid point. I hope we see some company come up with a way to do an encrypted sandbox without absurd overhead soon, that can just encrypt the game process in a way that can't be cracked (i.e. each time you boot it automatically rerolls the keys). It's how lots of DRM works, but we're seeing the performance impact on Denuvo and similar. If the figure out how to reduce that impact, sandboxing a game in a way that breaks any memory access would be a much better solution than driver-level rootkit anticheat, that stuff's just way too invasive for anything other than a dedicated gaming machine that not everyone can afford.
"Nothing happened this week" except the pretty big controversy about LMG's policies regarding employees communicating their pay rates with eachother. Why wasn't this discussed?
Linus' Distain to the Fantasia game is my entire reaction to most of the game industry. Games as a service, games that use dark patterns to milk people for money etc etc. The entire industry has become basically a glorified casino and the "entertainment" value is literally to just to bring you into the front door.
I'm not sure about this game in particular. Never played it myself, but "do this fight over and over until RNG blesses you" has been a staple of JRPGs way before milking people for mobile subscriptions.
Luke, you have no idea how jealous I was the whole time you were talking about your computer teacher... what I would have given to have any adult try to ignite that fire within me... These stories make me think of going into teaching one day, but then I remember the reasons almost all of my teachers had had any passion drained out of them and I realize I would probably turn out no better.
Love these long shows, love listening on my long drive to and from work and a little bit during the day. It’s my Saturday thing to listen to for the day
I did order that dvd for my 2014 mustang in 2020. I only did it because the head unit doesn't support Carplay or Android Auto so I actually used the built in GPS/maps in it. I found out that the 2019 pack was the last map pack it would ever get too... So, since the specific version of head unit in my mustang was on it's last year at the time I only got 5 years of updates.... So now no matter what it's going to be out of date. 5 years is not long enough for a car, 10 years should be the minimum support length for something like that.
1:19:20 would just like to point out that the invisible players and scavs have been an issue in the game since beta started. And ive been playing since 2018... and for those that might not be aware the game has had major breaking bugs and exploits re introduced over and over and over again every single wipe!
Totally agree with the building or even providing pc/laptops to friends or family. I stopped doing it in 2019 as I would get several messages and missed calls while at work because a laptop I gave to someone 4 years prior had 4gb memory and wouldn’t load the 23rd Chome tab!! Another shot at his motherboard with a paintball pellet and wouldn’t stop pestering me saying it was my fault it stopped working! Gah! And you are right about younger (teens to mid 20’s) not having a clue about tech. I was manager for a few people for a data role and the guy had no idea and thought i was magic when I showed him the contents page builder on Word… wha! Where has the explorer gone with tech? Where has that interest and drive gone! Luke is right. Things just work now, it’s all too easy.
Luke's computer class story was amazing! Mr. Trattle (sp?) is the GOAT for doing that, inspiring countless students and instilling knowledge and a desire for tinkering, tech, and everything else. I am so lucky to have had a couple supremely influential teachers like that and I can't ever thank them enough for being a part of what makes me who I am today. I really hope as time goes on, the education sectors everywhere get more of the funding, attention, and love they need to help these kinds of teachers flourish.
Edit: I agree with Linus about making the effort to resolve the issue before reaching out for help. In defense of the refresh rate issue from Linus's family friend: I discovered that my 100Hz monitor and 60Hz monitors caused ALL my monitors to sync at 60Hz - it had nothing to do with Vsync and yes, the main screen was set to 100Hz. Turns out WALLPAPER ENGINE rendering animations was forcing the main screen to 60Hz despite clearly showing 100Hz and vsync set to OFF. After I set wallpaper engine to a static png, it works perfectly fine. My cousin was showing off his insane ultra ultrawide 1440p 240hz monitor as well as 3 external 1440p monitors and when I sat in front of it, I said to him this does not feel like 240Hz despite windows reporting 240Hz. I unplugged a few of his monitors and sure enough, the display's fluidity suddenly felt way faster. He said he'd never seen the monitor that smooth before. Probably a bandwidth issue on the GPU but it is very difficult to troubleshoot without firsthand experience. It took me over a year to figure out my wallpaper engine issue.
HAHAHAHAHAH I can't believe Microsoft STILL didn't fix that issue with windows. It's been like 8 years since I discovered this bug. There's tens or hundreds of threads about this issue with thousands of comments on microsoft's tech support website and they still haven't allocated the necessary budget for investigating it. About 5 years ago NVidia tried fixing it but quickly found out it's not a problem from their drivers but from windows and wrote about it in one of their release patchnotes. This isn't only an issue with walpaper engine but with ANY animation on windows like for example hovering over a youtube video in a browser while the window is on the 60hz monitor. Thankfully I stopped caring about it like 5 years ago when I replaced my secondary 60hz monitor with a 240hz one. While this bug could still happen to me because my main monitor is a 144hz one it's far from noticeable unless I play something competitive on the 240hz one and something's playing on my main (which hardly ever happens).
I love the longer and longer wan shows. You are genuinely making my Mondays awesome (I save them for a long drive, van driver here) and I will love and appreciate all long streams you ever do. Never shorten it, make it in fact 24h+ in length. Thanks boys!
Tech support for people who aren't technical, especially over the phone, is its own kind of hell. I've been trying to help out some of the older folks in my neighborhood the last few years with computer stuff and its beyond frustrating almost all the time... especially when they do exactly what Linus was talking about contacting you about EVERYTHING else to do for them. Had one ask me to help with their DYI home security, then asked me to set them up for two other family members of theirs across town, that progressed into asking me to do plumbing, etc. You have to be careful about the people you help because some of them will start to take advantage of your generosity. Its also better in most cases to teach them to be far more self sufficient so they don't feel like they need to get help for simple things.
I would 100% read Linus' autobiography lol. He is a great story teller and getting the behind the scenes look into how things unfolded would be genuinely really interesting to me.
Have to echo the tough love on the PC hiccups, having experienced it myself. So many younger folks these days seem to have lost or never found the ability to use logical problem-solving for so many things. And as Luke mentioned, as tech-savvy as people are these day, the fact that people still don't just "google the question, Moss" when they think of a question is crazy. Even hand-holding someone through a problem-solving situation doesn't seem to transfer to whatever the next issue comes up to, but as chat mentioned, the moment you answer one thing for someone, you become the defacto go-to tech support person for them as if you are their dedicated 24/7 Geek Squad with nothing better to do than to instantly jump at a moment's notice to fix every little thing they can't be bothered to figure out.
Shouting into the void, but on variable length adds and automation. Using your stream deck you could theoretically inject a "start of advertisement" and "end of advertisement" tone. That could then be automatically picked up and used by the workflow as a guide for where to splice the new audio
@3:25:00 Luke's story... This was basically my "technology" class in 9th and 10th grade. Only I did it solo. It got the school's attention and they put me in an apprenticeship program for my 11th and 12th grade years helping the i.t. Department keep the school running. We had everything from Pentium 233mmx to core 2 duos lol
Hmm let's ask Chat GPT about claiming the Jinggel Bells Lyrics. Prompt: Write me a LTT style version of Jinggel Bells Lyrics: Let's put a modern twist on "Jingle Bells" and see how it sounds! Verse 1: Dashing through the snow, On a pair of RGB skis, Through the LAN we go, Streaming all our victories. Cables all attached, Gone are the days of dial-up, What fun it is to game and chat, On a high-speed internet hub! Chorus: Jingle bells, tech is swell, Our rigs are running fine, Oh what fun it is to play, On our battle stations prime! Verse 2: Custom water-cooled loops, Glittering like freshly fallen snow, Oh, the fans and LEDs, Put on quite the show! We overclock with glee, And benchmark with delight, What a thrill it is to see, Our frame rates taking flight! Chorus: Jingle bells, tech is swell, Our rigs are running fine, Oh what fun it is to play, On our battle stations prime! Verse 3: Gone are the days of waiting, For games to load and start, Now we fire up our SSDs, And watch them do their part. We frag and slay with ease, Thanks to our advanced gear, Oh, what a Christmas it will be, With the latest tech premier! Chorus: Jingle bells, tech is swell, Our rigs are running fine, Oh what fun it is to play, On our battle stations prime! Outro: So, tech enthusiasts, let's unite, And raise a glass to those who fight, To keep our rigs so fast and bright, Merry Christmas and a Happy Byte!
To add to the "applying to jobs without wanting to work there" discussion, I am in a situation where I love my current job and have no real desire to move from it but it also has a pay ceiling that is lower than the amount I want it at, so I have applied to jobs without much desire to move, that pay more, BUT are also something I'd actually want to do. It's the difference between the questions "why do you want to move from your old position?" and "why do you want to work here?"
Your issue with your family friend is the same position I am in with a few people. I am suddenly their full tech support for everything, even if its nothing to do with the computer (two of them work on I.T Desks??) so yes I now try to avoid building computers for people.
The “not building computers for people” bit hits home for me. I literally just had a (younger) friend visit my house yesterday, bring his laptop, and ask me to increase the VRAM on his Ryzen 5700U’s integrated GPU. He’s literally just trying to play Genshin Impact at a stable 30 fps on 1080p medium settings. I told him, that was impossible. Either lower the settings or use a better PC. Hell, get an iPad and a Bluetooth controller and you’ll be fine for Genshin. I showed him my midrange living room PC. I had to redownload Genshin Impact and reset my password there, since I dropped it after playing for 1 day a long ass time ago. I showed him this is a 6650 XT. Look. I can play Genshin Impact at 4k medium settings with it pretty much at 60 fps 99% of the time. The laptop is not gonna cut it. And his OBSESSION with VRAM. No matter how many times I tell him, I think he’s convinced a 12 GB RTX 3060 is more powerful than the 8 GB RTX 3070. It blows my mind how he never learns.
3:23:00 Lmao Luke that's exactly how my CS class in highschool went! They diverted the school district e-waste through the CS classroom and we validated and built computer after computer for CS student use! Passionate teachers are the BEST!
I start watching (listening to) the show usually on Monday in working hours with smaller pauses (meetings, lunch and stuff). This one took almost 3 workdays to finish (9-5 job, 4 pm at the moment). Can't wait for the next one!
@24:20 there's a solution. Have an automatic form emailed out that let's the customers pick the items of the month they want. They can choose say 3 of 10 or something, or only one, or none. For the months they skip, a credit(a) could be added to their LTT store account. Maybe enough could add up to get "real" merch over time too. Or, if they just don't respond to the email then it'll automatically select nothing and they'll get a credit for next time.
At 1:36:00 when Linus is talking about point differential in badminton team matches, it’d be awesome for him to be in a squid game type scenario like that. He be like a badminton goku, trying to survive and loving every moment of the challenge
I also 10:39 I also have my bedroom wired for my base stations when my house had an extension except instead of 12v it’s just 230v mains that have a figure of 8 lead spuring off connected to the index’s transformers and then all of it tucked inside a wall box, unfortunately I did not foresee myself getting 4 base stations so if I upgrade I will probably have to spur off them again or make a custom PSU to accommodate 4 of them, I think the reason I wasn’t able to get 12v was because I couldn’t find the right barrel jack for it, I guess the upside is that if any base stations come out with higher power requirements then I’m set so that’s good
Longer WAN shows are great! The longer it is the more content I have to enjoy throughout the week when doing tasks and jobs, and I’m sure many others are the same! 1 or 2 hour podcasts a week aren’t enough!
Luke bringing up demo discs instantly took me to a better place hahaha, demo discs were about 90% of my childhood gaming. I still vividly remember clocking like 50 hours in a demo of a game called dark cloud because it never actually released in australia
2:18:00 could you do like in the 50's when a tape reached it's end in the movietheaters there would be a cirkel or something flickering 2 times in a corner.. , when you go to an ad click something that brings up that sign, and make an script that notices that, as being the start of adds
1:13:00 "Shika, something.. something.." Makes me think "something something, Vicky, something something" from the Janet/Michael ploy in The Good Place
31:00 When I set up a PC, I do a restore point and put the shortcut on the desktop so when they inevitably screw it up, they can click it and get back to how I had it.
+1 to going for fidelity at the expense of convenience. Tethering / cables. Dedicated tracking beacons. BIG SPEAKERS. They wouldn't exist if they weren't all better.
3:48:00 One of my friends is a travelling automation engineer who goes and sets up equiptment for big manufacturing houses. Canada is one of the worst places to go. Entering the country for work is a nightmare to the point where you don't even know if you have permission till you land in Canada and have a conversation with the immigration officer about why you are there. The conversations are pretty hilarious. Immigration officer: "Why are you here" Friend: "My company has been hired to setup specialized technology for your countries production lines" Immigration officer:"Why aren't Canadian citizens doing this work?" What my friend would like to say: "**** if I know, your people hired me and have paid me money" What he has to say or he gets turned around:"I have talents that are hard to find and my company is the only one who works on this equiptment" (not actually true but that's what he has found has worked to get allowed into the country. You mess up any question and you get turned back immediatly. Then you have to explain to the company who already wrote the check why their government is ***ed up.
3:15:00 QDOLED needs a few more generations in the oven. Look up issues with the first gen, bent panels, and they tend to turn green from overheating. They also ran broken firmware for a few months. LG C/G series supports Dolby vision. WOLED is still great, and still getting better. More importantly, the tech is mature.
The outside in tracking that the Index has is no longer needed. The way forward is tracking sensors inside of the controllers so no cameras are required. This fixes all the occlusion problems. Mounted lighthouses that require power are not coming back.
I've built PCs for loads of friends and family members, or rather, I've physically been there to guide them through it. I've found that people, if you build their PC for them are too afraid to touch things, for fear of running it or breaking stuff. If they on the other hand have participated in building it themselves, then it's far easier to go back, re-seat a CPU, RAM and whatnot later on - because they've already done it.
Luke: if you want to auto splice the ads for Spotify, add an timestamp button to the stream deck, hit the button just before and after the ad read. Auto splice by the timestamp. If the timestamps can't be lined up magically, have the stream deck add an inaudible tone (outside human speech frequencies) instead and search for the tone and auto splice.
Weird how Tarkov has this problem of broadcasting the location and status of players to everyone, when 10 years ago while making an MMO one of the first things we assumed was that someone would get into the data stream and decode it, so I basically told everyone to assume that any piece of info we send to the client is as good as rendered.
Im the tech support in the family and my granddad has developed this habit that he writes his tech issues on a note and every other weekend when i go to see them, he grabs his list and we are walking through his tech issues :D
One nice thing about the IEMs on the sony headset is that you could likely cut them off and replace them with an MMCX/2-pin connector, or even just a female 3.5mm so that you could use an IEM of your choosing instead.
The Quebec French speaking thing, I actually just came home from Montréal. I know some French but it's not exactly the best. Every person I spoke to, I'd start trying to speak French, or even "desole, ne parle beaucoup de francais" and there was exactly one person who did not immediately say "it's okay, I speak English"
Re: tech support for friends/family... if I'm at a family reunion and I haven't talked to you for 12 years, and the first thing out of your mouth to me is "hey my printer is broken", I'm probably going to choose not to know anything about printers that day. If you need help on something and the conversation goes like "come on over, I'll grill some steaks while you fix the computer and then we can eat", I'm probably super down for that. I've had both scenarios and I think it just comes down to people having respect for you personally as a member of the family and for your time as a (probably) functioning adult with your own priorities to deal with.
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I flubbed one of the specs of the Quest 2. It has physical IPD adjustments. I was thinking of the Rift S. My bad! - LS
Nah
To be fair, the Quest 2 has like three IPD settings, many people don't find one that exactly works for them.
I mean, is 3 ipd settings really ipd anyway?
big oof linus
So did the Quest 1 and it had more than three settings unlike the Quest 2.
The 24 hour WAN Show shall dawn on us very soon™.
-Timestamps-
[0:00] *Chapters.*
[1:43] *Intro.*
[2:14] *Short production meeting.*
[3:07] *Topic #1: Sony releases PlayStation VR2.*
> 4:09 Luke tries out the headset, LTT review incoming.
> 4:52 Specs, Linus on eye tracking & render quality.
> 7:28 Luke on the headset's features & earphones.
> 10:06 Linus's home VR setup, Luke on tethered experience.
> 11:26 Commenting on the controller & overall design.
> 13:26 ChatGPT is sentient about Luke's comments on WAN Show.
> 14:23 Unable to use VR2 on PC.
[16:18] *Topic #2: Meta Verified "less ads" program.*
> 17:19 Facebook viewers, Meta Verified, lack of support.
> 20:36 Tumblr profits from "Important Blue Internet Checkmarks."
> 22:54 "Whale Tier", "Extra Medium" size, Floatplane beta.
[25:58] *Merch Messages discussion, Right to Repair pin idea.*
[28:42] *LTTStore new WAN deskpad, desk configurator.*
[Cont.] *Topic #2: Meta Verified "less ads" program.*
> 30:01 Would Luke or Dan get Meta Verified?
[30:51] *Topic #3: Linus & Luke hate building PCs for people.*
> 33:55 LetMeGPT, Linus on the youth's computing skills.
> 38:38 Luke on tech support, Linus's Athlon NCIX repair.
[42:51] *Luke on the lack of news this week.*
[43:34] *Topic #4: Google & Meta impacted by Canada's Bill C-18.*
[48:50] *Topic #5: Fantasian boss causes Linus to ragequit.*
> 1:07:52 Mentioning Reddit post, Twitch's bugs idea.
> 1:09:22 Doomed to fail, boss difficulty, discussing BotW.
> 1:15:56 Luke quit TARKOV due to cheaters, g0at's clips.
> 1:33:18 Luke on cheating, Linus on game streaming.
> 1:39:34 Riot Games' Ring 0 freaks out about TARKOV AC.
[1:40:42] *Merch Messages #1.*
> 1:41:06 Does being a fan make it difficult to be hired in LMG?
> 1:43:36 Is there a person you want to bring on the WAN Show?
> 1:46:00 Any tech to have in a studio student apartment?
[1:48:28] *Sponsors.*
> 1:48:32 The Ridge wallet.
> 1:49:35 Squarespace site builder.
> 1:50:27 JumpCloud IT community.
[1:51:21] *Topic #6: Amazon buys One Medial for 3.9 Billion.*
> 1:53:16 Buy n Large, poll: Best Buy's primary color.
[1:58:13] *Topic #7: Apple activation unlock update.*
[2:01:54] *Topic #8: China restricts access to AI tech.*
> 2:05:18 Luke's trip to France, .
[2:12:11] *Topic #9: TH-cam releases 1080Premium.*
> 2:14:12 Dubbing videos beta, Spanish LTT dub.
> 2:15:02 Podcasts upload time, WAN Show's runtime.
[2:19:34] *Topic #10: LTX 2023 tickets update.*
> 2:21:01 BYOC tickets for sale in small waves.
[2:21:43] *Topic #11: Google accused of destroying evidence.*
[2:22:44] *Merch Messages #2.*
> 2:22:47 Expert in a language or proficient in many? Favorite language?
> 2:25:18 Jeff's six month review on the screwdriver.
> 2:26:58 Most favorite LTX moment?
> 2:27:55 Thoughts on auto manufacturers not updating infotainment.
> 2:32:46 What consumer products aided your productivity?
> 2:33:21 Educational tech for teaching our youth?
> 2:34:19 Average age of LMG's viewership.
> 2:39:06 Red flags when hiring people for LMG.
[2:40:34] *Floatplane is now hiring.*
[Cont.] *Merch Messages #2.*
> 2:44:52 Red flags when hiring people for LMG.
> 2:52:34 Anything tech related Linus & Luke disagree on.
> 2:55:06 Thoughts on big company layoffs & rehiring?
> 2:57:44 Can LTT backpack store a full face motorcycle helmet?
> 2:58:07 Where Brian the electrician has been?
> 2:58:33 Does LMG have a brand standard manual?
> 2:59:16 Biggest "we F'd up" moment and how did you fix it?
> 3:01:54 Most notable thing to spring out of LMG?
> 3:11:25 Are Linus's kids hobbies influenced by Linus's tech & hobby?
> 3:12:10 Google's quantum computing error connection.
> 3:12:45 What company's top-secret project would you want to see?
> 3:14:19 Thoughts on gyms installing ads in mirrors.
> 3:16:03 Line between sunk cost line & investing in an ecosystem?
> 3:17:36 Linus's katana, update on LTT screwdriver holster?
> 3:19:47 Why hire people with an engineering background?
> 3:21:29 One-on-one tech in education & its benefits?
> 3:27:56 Would Linus write an autobiography someday?
> 3:29:56 How does Linus survive without coffee?
> 3:30:32 Technology that labs decided not to test.
> 3:31:42 Would LMG make an LTTStore knife multi tool?
> 3:32:43 What Linus was unable to disclose in the Crucial video.
> 3:34:54 What watch does Linus wear? LTTStore shouting out.
> 3:35:47 Linus's SV650 bike update.
> 3:36:33 Linus's thoughts on Witcher?
> 3:37:14 Linus & Luke favorite flowers?
> 3:37:53 Did Linus have time with GDP Win 4 after SC video?
> 3:40:37 Will the way we build PCs ever change?
> 3:41:03 What would your hardware upgrade look like if you didn't have that?
> 3:44:12 Any game release you're looking forward to?
> 3:44:42 LMG's experience with hiring immigrants.
> 3:45:35 *Reason behind LMG not paying Gary.*
> 3:47:51 What tech you imagined as a small child that you wanted?
> 3:49:04 Does Luke thing he'd be a mid or a senior if he looks for a job?
> 3:48:55 Why do PC recycling stores seem to disappear?
> 3:49:24 Recommendation for VPN & password manager?
> 3:51:51 What can be done to mitigate internet AI issues?
> 3:53:02 Is it worth getting the LTX two day pass?
> 3:53:23 Would you rather have ultra-wide QHD or 4K 60Hz?
> 3:54:00 What are some kid things you had that kids nowadays don't have?
> 3:57:55 How did Linus deal with LTT's meteoric rise?
> 4:00:16 Should MMOs that shut down provide server codes?
> 4:00:23 Linus's AI counterpart on AtheneAIHeroes.
> 4:02:05 Anker alternative for battery banks & cables.
[4:03:18] *Outro.*
Ty
Hello ily
Yeet!
Faster than me trying to find timestamps
For those of you from the future, this was posted 9 minutes after the live ended. The hero we needed, but maybe didn't deserve, probably.
"don't build family members a pc because you'll end up being tech support for it forever"
I'm *_already_* tech support for my entire family, building them pcs will just mean I know exactly what they're running.
I have no issue helping when someone's incapable of solving a problem because they're in over their head, whether it's because they lack the knowledge/resources to solve it themselves or because they tried and either got stuck or couldn't fix something, but I don't want to be the problem solver because of learned helplessness. I've personally had 1 big computer problem when my GPU was half-dead half-working, and I wasn't able to figure out if and how to fix it and wasn't sure if there was anything else I could try before buying a new GPU, but when I asked someone more knowledgeable than me for help my question wasn't "can you fix it?" it was "do you have any suggestions for what other resources I should look into to try and fix it myself?" Sometimes the only way for someone to have fewer problems is to let them struggle their way through a small problem and learn how to resolve small problems independently.
If you are under 40, and the solution is to unplug and replug a cable, or it's the first solution on TH-cam/Google, you could have done it yourself.
But, if you actually tried to fix it yourself, or help me when I need something, Then I will be happy to help.
I was not allowed devices young. I had to sneak playing video games and internet. I would usually have no idea what to do when they asked for tech support. They learnt themselves and do not need me.
Yeah, but at some point you will forget who has what. 🥴
Lol I like that way of thinking.
Thank you guys for sharing some light onto Tarkov cheaters problem, this is much needed right now
What a schmuck. As if the world revolves around your opinion.
Alot of people do, even if you dont. Take your negativity somewhere else.
@@gaydonaldtrump huh?
A friend is telling me that the guy who made that tarkov video is full of bs, he has cheated before. Also why is he carrying a gun in the video if he is not going to shoot anybody? Also way more important why is he not uploading all the infos on cheaters he has gathered?
@@Maxaker He probably has a gun on him to defend himself if he runs into a scav. Or he just brought them in for shits and giggles since he knew his account was gonna get banned anyway when bsg saw the video.
@@Maxaker tell me you never play tarkov without telling me you never play tarkov
Linus and Luke: Nothing happened this week, we have nothing to talk about.
Also Linus and Luke: Continue to do the longest WAN show to this point.
Kinda surprised the whole “LMG not allowing wage discussion” thing didn’t come up.
Yes no actual tech news, but 2.5hrs just spent on Merch messages which is not considered and milking the length of WAN show.
@@BagOfH0lding maybe they just didn't choose to. there's 2 side to that and either way it might just end up as bad PR... plus Streisand Effect...
@@BagOfH0lding Linus made coded references to it throughout
@@BagOfH0lding Linus did previously talk about how it's impossible under Canadian law for him to prevent people from discussing wages. The reason it doesn't get brought up is probably because Americans will project and have no clue about anything.
I'm seriously so happy this show has gotten a lot longer. Even the two hour ones were way better than the hour but 4 hours is magical
Luke: There's no news.
He says, an hour into a 4 hour long WAN show.
Yeah, he said that and than I wondered how long it was and yeah ... 😁
Over 1.5hrs was merch messages tbf
Luke and Linus both being so above board with everything has always impressed me. Walking away from "whatever bad thing (ads on gym mirrors for example)" on principle, respect. Them shouting out teachers that made such impacts in their lives is wonderful. Seriously this is the only live stream I watch. Wanted to post here just to say thanks for sharing and giving me something to look forward to.
The 4 hour show. We finally did it boys!
my condolences to the timestamp person
And I am here for it 👍👍👍
Guess I finally need to get used to 2x instead of just 1.75x speed.
We gradually creep up to the 24hr show
Ya and on the week where "nothing happened" lol
I'm glad my Merch Message at 3:01:50 about "what is the best thing to spring out of LMG" morphed into the Christmas album and possibly hundreds of people buying the worst thing on the face of this planet. Bravo.
Nothing happened this week - Luke 30 seconds in. Also luke and Linus doing a 4 hour wan show
Thank you for talking about EFT. LTT has influence in this space and many players are hoping this will encourage tangible, real action on BSGs behalf. For far too long we have acknowledged this issue without realizing the scope of a cheatdemic and turned a blind eye and said well there's no perfect solution. In reality, there is a solution we just have yet to find it.
Again, thank you
Props to Linus for silently having Luke’s back when it came to “leaking” the video. He totally spinned it as best he could as to soften the potential blow to g0at. Top lad lol
g0at doubled subscriber count (lol)
Its now g0at's most watched video ever by a landslide. Luke did him a big favor in the end.
I just checked g0ats channel, his last few vids rlly rlly blew up.
can you share the timestamp please.
That was an epic WAN Show, they should all be 4hrs long
Last few weeks I come here thinking "Surely they cant go longer next week" and they surprise me every time
I watch WAN shows little by little over the week when I get time, lately it become only thing I watch on youtube during week and still I dont make it to the end of episode before next one comes out, I just finished with last weeks episode now (monday)
I used to watch the WAN show pretty consistently like 8 years ago. Never stopped watching LTT but stopped watching the WAN show, I'd always be surprised at how long the shows were.
Now, I watch a 4-hour show and I feel sad when it's ending, looking forward to next week.
Linus and Luke, this is my favorite podcast again. Y'all rule. 💙
Thank you for talking about Tarkov. The community is on fire about it and are infighting about the video instead of being mad at the game being able to cheat in so easily.
4-hour WAN show, let's see how long it takes for timestamp guy to do this
How long does he usually take?
He usually gets it in an hour or so of ending
Already done it.
10 minutes
@@007i1 what a chad
I'm glad Linus is super positive on the PSVR2, I've seen way too many people being super dismissive for no reason like they have to hate it.
The ending with AI Linus had me laughing so hard I woke up my fiance. I was crying laughing at Linus' reaction and then I looked at the description and ridge wallet was the sponsor. Oh man, so funny.
i’m assuming linus’ dialogue is artificially generated, which makes it so hilarious that he did a sponsor plug bc it means it wasn’t planned
I watch WAN show over multiple days anyway so a 4 hour wan show is great, more days of content.
EXACTLY! 1 hour podcasts released by people are over too soon! I would happily enjoy a 4+ hour podcast over the week of doing chores/tasks every week! Sometimes I don’t get time to listen to it all before the next comes out so I continue listening to it until I’ve finished it and then start the next one. I kind of love it when I get a backlog because I know I have tons of hours of content to keep me entertained! Sometimes I get distracted and may let it play through and end up going back and rewatching. So hopefully as a longtime YT Premium customer this benefits them!
They should defo try aim for specials like 8 hour podcasts, or 12 or 24, maybe even for charity. I’d happily tune in live for those and rewatch whatever I missed. Would defo donate and buy merch during those special streams as well, even though I’m in the UK and postage costs more than the merch haha.
Yup its great
Hey Linus, In most of the Final Fantasy games there was an impenetrable barrier spell called 'Trine' which would absorb all hits (it sounds very similar to the barrier spell you describe), but 'Trine' could be defeated by a magic spell called 'Bio' that would disolve 'Trine' instantly. Does your Chemist not have anything like this available to them? Not sure if this mechanic is in the game, but I thought I'd mention it just in case.
Linus and Luke talking about hiring woes hits me right in the heart. I think what people who don’t hire don’t get is that one a person by person basis all these things might seem insignificant or could be explained away in the interest of giving people the benefit of the doubt but when you’re talking to 60 people over the course of 6 months, patterns start to emerge and you can see the difference between those people who don’t give a shit and those who do, and that makes a massive difference to how much work it’s gonna be for me and the rest of the team to make a prospective hire productive and people who don’t care drain the life out of a talented team.
In the UK they collect though data on medical care other systems don't have and have access to education records.
The majority of highschool graduates are girls, the majority of people starting medical training are women.
40% of graduate doctors who go on to specialise are women
10% of surgeons are women
Male patients have equal results from surgery between women and men leading their care... female patients have better recovery and fewer complications after surgery by a woman
It's quite upsetting that Germany doesn't collect that data and I can't assess how this came to emerge from British health records
2:34:15
this is why I love that my high school has 3D printers freely available for us to use, and a course for us on how to use them. About a year ago the attachment mechanism for my desk lamp broke and I just spent like 20 minutes replicating it in CAD and printed a replacement the next day at my school. Also a lot of the bigger libraries in Finland have 3D printers that you can just use, with some restrictions
Luke and Linus: there are no topics for this week!
Also Luke and Linus: 4 hours WAN Show!
Cant wait for the 24 hour wan show special
Merchathon WAN Show
It's gone up an hour and a half just this year, and seems to be increasing at a quicker rate.
I actually researched that problem with a lack of tech skills the younger generation has in me ed tech class while pursuing my degree.
From my survey data, a lot of kids these days have had UI so well designed, if its not something they can fix in one click, they just give up because its not worth their time. So stuff like troubleshooting computer problems or even as basic as doing something in word beyond the initial top ribbon, they don’t know it.
A lot of us grew up in a weird “beta testing” era of tech and we are now in a place where software especially is so well designed that there is little need for troubleshooting skills. Its a blessing and curse
not sure if I agree completely. could have bought a mac or stuck with windows and prebuilt machines back in the days but I was CURIOUS! went through the hassle of installing various linux distros (usually split up onto up to 10 CDs). those were the days where you'd need to read and try for months to get any signal out of your graphics card (xserver xorg screw you), let's not even mention how much work it was to get WiFi or sound running. I really had no use for linux back then I just wanted to learn. once everything was up and running I'd start from scratch because that fresh release of some distro had a wicked sick looking new window manager...
one xmas my parents told me I can get a new computer, instead I bought a graphics card, bigger RAM, another HDD and a TV card because I knew that for the same money I'd end up with a better system overall going the upgrade route. I had no clue about hardware, it was the first time I even opened a PC. again had to do lots of digging and reading on dialup internet to figure things out but I did.
Maybe youngins lack this kind of curiosity today because computers are not new to them, their parents probably had a machine at home long before they were born.
I'm so glad I went through all this trouble because today computers are the most important tool for my job and I'm in control of my tools (for the most part), not the other way around.
I also think it's not that bad, most boomers have serious click fobia. They don't dare click on something they don't know. Young people just click around and see what happens. Because we grew up with it.
But the in-betweeners that have lived the beta days are obviously the best at tech right now. Young ones just need to learn.
@@jdijkstra8115 interesting observation. people older than me: afraid to break something
people younger than me: don’t even know there are ways to break something
😂
to be taken with a grain of 🧂 please 😉
@@jdijkstra8115 I've already started struggling with touch interfaces and it's getting worse. Where youngsters easily find a way to "intuitively" interact with their devices, I struggle. And I'm afraid of the day where voice communication will become truly ubiquitous and the "default" option for interaction with devices. When trying to reverse engineer the system will become highly inefficient, largely equivalent to attempting to tweak a piece of software using disassembly tools these days.
Our reckoning will come. Enjoy it while it lasts.
I agree with Luke, the more I'm disconnected with social media and especially main stream news, the much happier and mentally healthier I've been.
I agree, and also the inverse. The worse I'm doing emotionally, the more I depend on social media. It's a vicious cycle
it’s a double edged sword tbh. the more disconnected you are, the less you’re aware of the changes in the world around you and the more out of touch you are. but the better it is for your mental health and wellbeing
i’ve really just come to stop caring about issues that i have no influence over or impact on. outside of internet arguments, those topics don’t affect me once i’m done reading about them
I'm fairly sure it works that way and I should do it too, but not sure how to do it.
I'm aware that I could just listen to radio news or something once a day and I would know if something major is going on, but I'm just used to do everythong on the internet. Fairly sure about 99% of the stuff that comes our way is not necessary, and I should be OK not understanding context of a meme that has no impact whatsoever on my life, and I think this always connected thing causes stress.
There's a great quote about the news from The School Of Life: There's hardly anything we need to know about other than the life of 10 or so people who count on us
While I agree, I am definitely struggling with being out of touch with what is happening locally (shitty government being especially shitty apparently?). Hoping to find a nice balance between being informed and not drowning in the depressing hellscape that tends to be mainstream news...
Love Dan, also as a Tech with kids and nephews in their teens Luke is 100% right. They are not used to computer problems and expect it to do the things. They have no sense of problem-solving.
Luke: Not much news this week
Meanwhile: 4 hour WAN show
The WAN show has made it to the absolute top of my podcast list, perfect for about 4 dog walks! Look forward to it every week, long live the WAN show 🍻
Love that this show is getting longer and longer.
My niece started high school this year, one of the school supplies was a Ti-83+ calculator (which are drastically overpriced). I gave her the one I used in high school...23 years ago. It made me realize I'm on my way to being old when the calculator i use is older then her lol.
Linus's experience with Fantasian mirrors my own exactly.
It's a really cool game until the second half then it just becomes stupidly overtuned bosses that require very specific strategies to beat and if you miss one rotation then the boss kills one party member and generally you aren't able to stabilise the fight after that point. They just aren't fun to fight.
I never understood the need to make a boss that can only be beat by rng with a very specific strategy or cheesing the whole fight.
@@rmo9808 Well that's their definition of fun. Not everyone has the same idea about what's cool and what's mundane, apparently. I don't like it that much, either, but probably would still prefer that type of game over a glorified visual novel where you use whatever and still win. I want some of the decisions to matter, and that means sometimes I get punished for it, and things are a lot harder than they needed to be. Learning that you needed to do a very specific thing 10 hours of playtime ago with no indication whatsoever 100% sucks though, but then again there are players who are gluttons for punishment. Let them have these games, too.
It is Saturday evening and I'm just at 3:30:00. I guess I won't finish WAN show on Sunday soon, as it's getting longer. Longer the better, isn't it. Good show, thanks.
I like how the run time keeps going up by 20-30 mins. 8 is the the next mile stone. LETS GOOOO!
I’m the tech support for the friend group. I’ve built 15 PCs in the last year over the phone/discord and 6 in person. And when any little thing goes wrong they all crawl back to me flooding my messages. A friend wanted to use blue stacks and couldn’t be bothered to google virtualization on his own when blue stacks told him to enable it.
as a 20 year old, Im in computer engineering thanks to my interest of trying to get tech to work lol. For example, when I was 10 learned how to root my android, and did so just so that I could get features newer phones had and etc. I learned to love computers by trying to maximize what my parents could afford to get me.
Keep going!
the things I wish my kids could see is stuff like Toys R Us and department stores at Christmas, also in my local area before austerity there used to be a butterfly farm and small zoo, which was amazing. I guess that does make me think of just my kids being in a nation were your wage went further and you could put the heating on without having to sell your car.
Watching the support for g0at was awesome to watch. What an amazing community of viewers LTT has!
1:39:39 Luke hits a pretty solid point. I hope we see some company come up with a way to do an encrypted sandbox without absurd overhead soon, that can just encrypt the game process in a way that can't be cracked (i.e. each time you boot it automatically rerolls the keys). It's how lots of DRM works, but we're seeing the performance impact on Denuvo and similar. If the figure out how to reduce that impact, sandboxing a game in a way that breaks any memory access would be a much better solution than driver-level rootkit anticheat, that stuff's just way too invasive for anything other than a dedicated gaming machine that not everyone can afford.
Ideas for whale tier:
- select a product to be tested in labs
- vote via multiple choice for exclusive video
"Nothing happened this week" except the pretty big controversy about LMG's policies regarding employees communicating their pay rates with eachother. Why wasn't this discussed?
Linus' Distain to the Fantasia game is my entire reaction to most of the game industry. Games as a service, games that use dark patterns to milk people for money etc etc. The entire industry has become basically a glorified casino and the "entertainment" value is literally to just to bring you into the front door.
I'm not sure about this game in particular. Never played it myself, but "do this fight over and over until RNG blesses you" has been a staple of JRPGs way before milking people for mobile subscriptions.
Luke, you have no idea how jealous I was the whole time you were talking about your computer teacher... what I would have given to have any adult try to ignite that fire within me...
These stories make me think of going into teaching one day, but then I remember the reasons almost all of my teachers had had any passion drained out of them and I realize I would probably turn out no better.
Video idea! I'd love to see what you could make of a recycling truck and then hand them over to a school again!
Love these long shows, love listening on my long drive to and from work and a little bit during the day. It’s my Saturday thing to listen to for the day
I did order that dvd for my 2014 mustang in 2020. I only did it because the head unit doesn't support Carplay or Android Auto so I actually used the built in GPS/maps in it. I found out that the 2019 pack was the last map pack it would ever get too... So, since the specific version of head unit in my mustang was on it's last year at the time I only got 5 years of updates.... So now no matter what it's going to be out of date. 5 years is not long enough for a car, 10 years should be the minimum support length for something like that.
Good luck Timestamp guy. You'll need it 👍
Took 10 minutes
1:19:20 would just like to point out that the invisible players and scavs have been an issue in the game since beta started. And ive been playing since 2018... and for those that might not be aware the game has had major breaking bugs and exploits re introduced over and over and over again every single wipe!
Without teaching myself to trouble shoot, i wouldnt be the highly paid technician i am today. I didnt have google, but i did have early stage forums.
Totally agree with the building or even providing pc/laptops to friends or family.
I stopped doing it in 2019 as I would get several messages and missed calls while at work because a laptop I gave to someone 4 years prior had 4gb memory and wouldn’t load the 23rd Chome tab!!
Another shot at his motherboard with a paintball pellet and wouldn’t stop pestering me saying it was my fault it stopped working! Gah!
And you are right about younger (teens to mid 20’s) not having a clue about tech.
I was manager for a few people for a data role and the guy had no idea and thought i was magic when I showed him the contents page builder on Word… wha!
Where has the explorer gone with tech? Where has that interest and drive gone! Luke is right. Things just work now, it’s all too easy.
Finally built my second PC after a gap of 17 years. Thanks to LTT for pushing me so much all these years!!
43:13 "there's nothing happening what are we gonna talk about?"
> cue 4 hour WAN show
Watching Linus describe Zelda is utterly hilarious, love the show!
Luke's computer class story was amazing! Mr. Trattle (sp?) is the GOAT for doing that, inspiring countless students and instilling knowledge and a desire for tinkering, tech, and everything else. I am so lucky to have had a couple supremely influential teachers like that and I can't ever thank them enough for being a part of what makes me who I am today.
I really hope as time goes on, the education sectors everywhere get more of the funding, attention, and love they need to help these kinds of teachers flourish.
Edit: I agree with Linus about making the effort to resolve the issue before reaching out for help.
In defense of the refresh rate issue from Linus's family friend: I discovered that my 100Hz monitor and 60Hz monitors caused ALL my monitors to sync at 60Hz - it had nothing to do with Vsync and yes, the main screen was set to 100Hz. Turns out WALLPAPER ENGINE rendering animations was forcing the main screen to 60Hz despite clearly showing 100Hz and vsync set to OFF. After I set wallpaper engine to a static png, it works perfectly fine.
My cousin was showing off his insane ultra ultrawide 1440p 240hz monitor as well as 3 external 1440p monitors and when I sat in front of it, I said to him this does not feel like 240Hz despite windows reporting 240Hz. I unplugged a few of his monitors and sure enough, the display's fluidity suddenly felt way faster. He said he'd never seen the monitor that smooth before. Probably a bandwidth issue on the GPU but it is very difficult to troubleshoot without firsthand experience. It took me over a year to figure out my wallpaper engine issue.
HAHAHAHAHAH I can't believe Microsoft STILL didn't fix that issue with windows. It's been like 8 years since I discovered this bug. There's tens or hundreds of threads about this issue with thousands of comments on microsoft's tech support website and they still haven't allocated the necessary budget for investigating it.
About 5 years ago NVidia tried fixing it but quickly found out it's not a problem from their drivers but from windows and wrote about it in one of their release patchnotes. This isn't only an issue with walpaper engine but with ANY animation on windows like for example hovering over a youtube video in a browser while the window is on the 60hz monitor.
Thankfully I stopped caring about it like 5 years ago when I replaced my secondary 60hz monitor with a 240hz one. While this bug could still happen to me because my main monitor is a 144hz one it's far from noticeable unless I play something competitive on the 240hz one and something's playing on my main (which hardly ever happens).
I love the longer and longer wan shows. You are genuinely making my Mondays awesome (I save them for a long drive, van driver here) and I will love and appreciate all long streams you ever do. Never shorten it, make it in fact 24h+ in length. Thanks boys!
Luke: "Slow news week"
4 hour wan show
I love it
Tech support for people who aren't technical, especially over the phone, is its own kind of hell. I've been trying to help out some of the older folks in my neighborhood the last few years with computer stuff and its beyond frustrating almost all the time... especially when they do exactly what Linus was talking about contacting you about EVERYTHING else to do for them. Had one ask me to help with their DYI home security, then asked me to set them up for two other family members of theirs across town, that progressed into asking me to do plumbing, etc. You have to be careful about the people you help because some of them will start to take advantage of your generosity. Its also better in most cases to teach them to be far more self sufficient so they don't feel like they need to get help for simple things.
24 hour WAN show when?
I would 100% read Linus' autobiography lol. He is a great story teller and getting the behind the scenes look into how things unfolded would be genuinely really interesting to me.
4 hour WAN Show? Good luck, timestamp guy.
Aaaand it's already done
Have to echo the tough love on the PC hiccups, having experienced it myself. So many younger folks these days seem to have lost or never found the ability to use logical problem-solving for so many things. And as Luke mentioned, as tech-savvy as people are these day, the fact that people still don't just "google the question, Moss" when they think of a question is crazy. Even hand-holding someone through a problem-solving situation doesn't seem to transfer to whatever the next issue comes up to, but as chat mentioned, the moment you answer one thing for someone, you become the defacto go-to tech support person for them as if you are their dedicated 24/7 Geek Squad with nothing better to do than to instantly jump at a moment's notice to fix every little thing they can't be bothered to figure out.
one day we will have a 128 hour long wan show and it will be just non stop
Shouting into the void, but on variable length adds and automation. Using your stream deck you could theoretically inject a "start of advertisement" and "end of advertisement" tone. That could then be automatically picked up and used by the workflow as a guide for where to splice the new audio
Let's wait for the timestamp guy
negative 1 minute
@3:25:00 Luke's story... This was basically my "technology" class in 9th and 10th grade. Only I did it solo. It got the school's attention and they put me in an apprenticeship program for my 11th and 12th grade years helping the i.t. Department keep the school running. We had everything from Pentium 233mmx to core 2 duos lol
Linus doing a South Park Canadian is one of my favorite things ever! Keep getting that internet money :)
Hmm let's ask Chat GPT about claiming the Jinggel Bells Lyrics.
Prompt: Write me a LTT style version of Jinggel Bells
Lyrics:
Let's put a modern twist on "Jingle Bells" and see how it sounds!
Verse 1:
Dashing through the snow,
On a pair of RGB skis,
Through the LAN we go,
Streaming all our victories.
Cables all attached,
Gone are the days of dial-up,
What fun it is to game and chat,
On a high-speed internet hub!
Chorus:
Jingle bells, tech is swell,
Our rigs are running fine,
Oh what fun it is to play,
On our battle stations prime!
Verse 2:
Custom water-cooled loops,
Glittering like freshly fallen snow,
Oh, the fans and LEDs,
Put on quite the show!
We overclock with glee,
And benchmark with delight,
What a thrill it is to see,
Our frame rates taking flight!
Chorus:
Jingle bells, tech is swell,
Our rigs are running fine,
Oh what fun it is to play,
On our battle stations prime!
Verse 3:
Gone are the days of waiting,
For games to load and start,
Now we fire up our SSDs,
And watch them do their part.
We frag and slay with ease,
Thanks to our advanced gear,
Oh, what a Christmas it will be,
With the latest tech premier!
Chorus:
Jingle bells, tech is swell,
Our rigs are running fine,
Oh what fun it is to play,
On our battle stations prime!
Outro:
So, tech enthusiasts, let's unite,
And raise a glass to those who fight,
To keep our rigs so fast and bright,
Merry Christmas and a Happy Byte!
4 hours? will the timestamp guy survive?
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Correction at 13:19 . Quest 2 does have physical ipd adjustment (the lenses move). Quest 1 doesn't have physical ipd adjustment.
Caught the last quarter of the show live. Gold as usual! Thanks for the fun show
To add to the "applying to jobs without wanting to work there" discussion, I am in a situation where I love my current job and have no real desire to move from it but it also has a pay ceiling that is lower than the amount I want it at, so I have applied to jobs without much desire to move, that pay more, BUT are also something I'd actually want to do. It's the difference between the questions "why do you want to move from your old position?" and "why do you want to work here?"
Your issue with your family friend is the same position I am in with a few people. I am suddenly their full tech support for everything, even if its nothing to do with the computer (two of them work on I.T Desks??) so yes I now try to avoid building computers for people.
Linus and Luke: There's literally nothing to talk about for this week's WAN show.
Also Linus and Luke: Still ends up with a 4+ hour run time.
The “not building computers for people” bit hits home for me. I literally just had a (younger) friend visit my house yesterday, bring his laptop, and ask me to increase the VRAM on his Ryzen 5700U’s integrated GPU. He’s literally just trying to play Genshin Impact at a stable 30 fps on 1080p medium settings. I told him, that was impossible. Either lower the settings or use a better PC. Hell, get an iPad and a Bluetooth controller and you’ll be fine for Genshin.
I showed him my midrange living room PC. I had to redownload Genshin Impact and reset my password there, since I dropped it after playing for 1 day a long ass time ago. I showed him this is a 6650 XT. Look. I can play Genshin Impact at 4k medium settings with it pretty much at 60 fps 99% of the time. The laptop is not gonna cut it.
And his OBSESSION with VRAM. No matter how many times I tell him, I think he’s convinced a 12 GB RTX 3060 is more powerful than the 8 GB RTX 3070. It blows my mind how he never learns.
3:23:00 Lmao Luke that's exactly how my CS class in highschool went! They diverted the school district e-waste through the CS classroom and we validated and built computer after computer for CS student use! Passionate teachers are the BEST!
I start watching (listening to) the show usually on Monday in working hours with smaller pauses (meetings, lunch and stuff). This one took almost 3 workdays to finish (9-5 job, 4 pm at the moment). Can't wait for the next one!
@24:20 there's a solution. Have an automatic form emailed out that let's the customers pick the items of the month they want. They can choose say 3 of 10 or something, or only one, or none. For the months they skip, a credit(a) could be added to their LTT store account. Maybe enough could add up to get "real" merch over time too. Or, if they just don't respond to the email then it'll automatically select nothing and they'll get a credit for next time.
I like this option
Brian the Electrician needs to come back. He should become your maintenance manager for facilities.
At 1:36:00 when Linus is talking about point differential in badminton team matches, it’d be awesome for him to be in a squid game type scenario like that.
He be like a badminton goku, trying to survive and loving every moment of the challenge
I'm glad Luke described the Tarkov video as much as he did, I probably wouldn't have checked it out with just a vague description.
I also 10:39 I also have my bedroom wired for my base stations when my house had an extension except instead of 12v it’s just 230v mains that have a figure of 8 lead spuring off connected to the index’s transformers and then all of it tucked inside a wall box, unfortunately I did not foresee myself getting 4 base stations so if I upgrade I will probably have to spur off them again or make a custom PSU to accommodate 4 of them, I think the reason I wasn’t able to get 12v was because I couldn’t find the right barrel jack for it, I guess the upside is that if any base stations come out with higher power requirements then I’m set so that’s good
Longer WAN shows are great! The longer it is the more content I have to enjoy throughout the week when doing tasks and jobs, and I’m sure many others are the same! 1 or 2 hour podcasts a week aren’t enough!
03:18 nostalgia. Didn't know this was so long ago :o
Luke bringing up demo discs instantly took me to a better place hahaha, demo discs were about 90% of my childhood gaming. I still vividly remember clocking like 50 hours in a demo of a game called dark cloud because it never actually released in australia
2:18:00 could you do like in the 50's when a tape reached it's end in the movietheaters there would be a cirkel or something flickering 2 times in a corner.. , when you go to an ad click something that brings up that sign, and make an script that notices that, as being the start of adds
1:13:00 "Shika, something.. something.."
Makes me think "something something, Vicky, something something" from the Janet/Michael ploy in The Good Place
31:00 When I set up a PC, I do a restore point and put the shortcut on the desktop so when they inevitably screw it up, they can click it and get back to how I had it.
+1 to going for fidelity at the expense of convenience. Tethering / cables. Dedicated tracking beacons. BIG SPEAKERS. They wouldn't exist if they weren't all better.
Linus' "stress test" of the PSVR2's eye tracking is both hilarious and enormously helpful!!
3:48:00 One of my friends is a travelling automation engineer who goes and sets up equiptment for big manufacturing houses. Canada is one of the worst places to go. Entering the country for work is a nightmare to the point where you don't even know if you have permission till you land in Canada and have a conversation with the immigration officer about why you are there. The conversations are pretty hilarious.
Immigration officer: "Why are you here"
Friend: "My company has been hired to setup specialized technology for your countries production lines"
Immigration officer:"Why aren't Canadian citizens doing this work?"
What my friend would like to say: "**** if I know, your people hired me and have paid me money"
What he has to say or he gets turned around:"I have talents that are hard to find and my company is the only one who works on this equiptment" (not actually true but that's what he has found has worked to get allowed into the country.
You mess up any question and you get turned back immediatly. Then you have to explain to the company who already wrote the check why their government is ***ed up.
3:15:00
QDOLED needs a few more generations in the oven. Look up issues with the first gen, bent panels, and they tend to turn green from overheating. They also ran broken firmware for a few months.
LG C/G series supports Dolby vision. WOLED is still great, and still getting better. More importantly, the tech is mature.
The outside in tracking that the Index has is no longer needed. The way forward is tracking sensors inside of the controllers so no cameras are required. This fixes all the occlusion problems. Mounted lighthouses that require power are not coming back.
I've built PCs for loads of friends and family members, or rather, I've physically been there to guide them through it. I've found that people, if you build their PC for them are too afraid to touch things, for fear of running it or breaking stuff. If they on the other hand have participated in building it themselves, then it's far easier to go back, re-seat a CPU, RAM and whatnot later on - because they've already done it.
Luke: if you want to auto splice the ads for Spotify, add an timestamp button to the stream deck, hit the button just before and after the ad read. Auto splice by the timestamp. If the timestamps can't be lined up magically, have the stream deck add an inaudible tone (outside human speech frequencies) instead and search for the tone and auto splice.
Weird how Tarkov has this problem of broadcasting the location and status of players to everyone, when 10 years ago while making an MMO one of the first things we assumed was that someone would get into the data stream and decode it, so I basically told everyone to assume that any piece of info we send to the client is as good as rendered.
Im the tech support in the family and my granddad has developed this habit that he writes his tech issues on a note and every other weekend when i go to see them, he grabs his list and we are walking through his tech issues :D
One nice thing about the IEMs on the sony headset is that you could likely cut them off and replace them with an MMCX/2-pin connector, or even just a female 3.5mm so that you could use an IEM of your choosing instead.
The Quebec French speaking thing, I actually just came home from Montréal. I know some French but it's not exactly the best. Every person I spoke to, I'd start trying to speak French, or even "desole, ne parle beaucoup de francais" and there was exactly one person who did not immediately say "it's okay, I speak English"
Re: tech support for friends/family... if I'm at a family reunion and I haven't talked to you for 12 years, and the first thing out of your mouth to me is "hey my printer is broken", I'm probably going to choose not to know anything about printers that day. If you need help on something and the conversation goes like "come on over, I'll grill some steaks while you fix the computer and then we can eat", I'm probably super down for that. I've had both scenarios and I think it just comes down to people having respect for you personally as a member of the family and for your time as a (probably) functioning adult with your own priorities to deal with.