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Timestamps:
0:00 expectations subverted
0:08 Snapdragon X Elite laptop reviews
2:39 Forbes threatens to sue Perplexity
4:25 QUICK BITS INTRO
4:30 Nvidia is the world's most valuable company
5:14 Ilya Sutskever starts new AI company
5:51 Vision Pro 2, Meta layoffs, Xreal not-phone
6:42 Pixel 8 series gets display-over-USB-C
7:22 emotion-cancelling AI technology
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[@techlinked]

hey guys it's riley from the video i was just lying down for a second and then i sat up really fast because i realized i have so many emails. kinda crazy! anyway unrelated but keep your Inbox organized and check out SaneBox at try.sanebox.com/techlinked for a free 14 day trial and $25 off a paid subscription

[@Day100]

When are you coming over to shave me Riley? You said you would.

[@n1ngnuo]

Are you really, or is it the underpaid intern?

[@rocketPower047]

I get dizzy when I get up too fast

[@Bratfalken]

Why would I pay for a mailsorting thing when I can make rules for free in Thunderbird?

[@Tailslol]

Well you didn't know but japanese doesn't have bad words pretty much everything is about the tone so this is logical for japanese.

[@distantblaze561]

Jesus Jacob, Those were brutal whispers of malcontent.

[@NicolasEmbleton]

That was absolutely hilarious 😂

[@guadalupe8589]

That f-bomb threw me way off

[@sandmaster4444]

Yeah!! Was not expecting the F word but I burst out laughing!!

[@yensteel]

Those f words would start to sound flirty or even dirty.

[@UnicornBikes]

Was watching this video at work and thought my manager suddenly stood next to me

[@saitarunthotada]

Customer: 😵‍💫🤬😡😤😠 Softbank Customer care: You are so peaceful in explaining your experience, appreciated.

[@Tailslol]

Well you didn't know but japanese doesn't have bad words pretty much everything is about the tone so this is logical for japanese

[@SimonVaIe]

​@@Tailslol lol since when did Japanese not have bad words?

[@qwerasdfhjkio]

​@@SimonVaIe not sure if it's true or not but "There is no “f word”, so to speak. The closest equivalent is “stupid”. Even a less vulgar swear word like “shit” only appears in the context of “shit happens”. You can walk around the street and not hear any obscenities at all, even in the streets of Tokyo"

[@Tailslol]

@@qwerasdfhjkio indeed,they all do from context and intonation, there is very few bad word in japanese by themselves.

[@SimonVaIe]

@@qwerasdfhjkio I don't know, quick googling says otherwise?

[@ZoneKei]

I was not anticipating that brutal ASMR.

[@NicolasEmbleton]

😂 haha. Likewise.

[@belgare123]

Was not expecting it to be uncensored... lol

[@Tailslol]

Well you didn't know but japanese doesn't have bad words pretty much everything is about the tone so this is logical for japanese

[@SaHaRaSquad]

@@Tailslol I refuse to believe any widely used language without bad words exists, not to mention it's always possible to insult someone without using any vulgar language. This AI filter is pure marketing.

[@midnightstudio3742]

Can we all be honest? Most valuable company in the world shouldn't be a topic anymore. If it's just switching between Apple, Microsoft, and Nvidia I honestly don't care. Other than that, keep up the good work guys!

[@guadalupe8589]

Alphabet (Google) is crying in a corner

[@xvaldevx]

Yeah man, I'm so tired of hearing all this tech news going over the stuff that people actually use. I want to see some reviews over organic farm raised video cards and operating systems made by some guy named Steve from Massachusetts.

[@waterturtle2919]

@@guadalupe8589 I am sure they will be able to wipe away their tears with that 30% profit margin and 108B cash on hand.

[@yensteel]

In my job, I affectionatly call them MANGA stocks. Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, Google(Alphabet), Apple. Nobody in my office wants to use the acronym XD.

[@techlinked]

How dare you. But ok fair enough

[@juskim]

7:57 brings me back to the good ol' days when I worked at Walmart

[@slavboii420]

Now we need Softbank powered noise-cancelling headphones!

[@Garrettdx1988]

I could fall asleep to Jacob calmly whispering to me about how I'm a piece of shit. I've worked enough customer service jobs hungover and wanting to fall asleep while people actually yell at me over the phone that if you turn that into a whisper, it's basically a lullaby

[@Motoko5000]

same lol

[@mbayasi]

this comment made me tear straight up. bless u

[@bilateralrope8643]

Now think about what will happen when a customer says something legally actionable. Specifically, when the call center tries to use the recording as evidence despite the AI having altered it. Also, I'll need more than the word of the people who built this AI to trust that it isn't altering the words the caller uses.

[@Systox25]

8:06 Riley saying OK and thinking. How is this a real job. 😂 Never change this format!

[@gasracing5000]

@7:56 This is going on all my friends voices mails come 2am tonight 😂

[@MCurley]

“But I’m just a tech news guy. How does he make the laptops float? I don’t know.” 😂

[@p_mouse8676]

I always learned that when you run a business, you should always under promise and over deliver. But these days big companies seem to do the opposite. I guess because they get away with it....... 😢

[@johernandez266]

That last part with the abusive ASMR had me in tears of laughter..🤣🤣🤣 "I could buy you .. I could buy you."

[@baluk05]

All I need is more battery life. Whoever gives me more, I will take it-without paying $200 for additional RAM, for sure.

[@rubiconnn]

idgaf about battery life. You can buy low power laptops that will last a long time on battery. High end laptops should have high performance CPUs.

[@liamsz]

@@rubiconnn both is clearly possible.

[@whatskrakin37]

Well I just got my SL7 and I’m at 45% battery after 9 and a half hours of usage!!! I started at 100% on launch day and dropped to 82% in exactly 3 hours. By the 5th hour I think I was at 68% and when I woke up the next day, it was still at 68%. Today I used an additional 4 and a half hours and I’m at 45% before I closed it. During my usage I had a very generous amount of things open, way more than I’ve ever had on any previous laptop. 10 - 15 tabs of chrome, settings, geek bench, copilot, task manager, Microsoft word and excel, notepad, Discord, Spotify, and most of the time some form of KZbin audio playing in the background. I did stream and watch videos during my usage and download some things. The 120hz refresh rate is amazing and my battery was not on low power mode either. I am completely blown away by the performance.

[@rubiconnn]

@@liamsz it's not though. If there was a way to make the same performance with less watts then desktop CPUs would already do that. Laptop CPUs are significantly less powerful than full power desktop CPUs.

[@arnox4554]

Yep. Seconded. Qualcomm has also said their machines will support Linux out of the box too. Fuck Apple.

[@RyanMacabre]

Honestly surprised they didn't bleep Jacob's whispers like they do on Wan Show lol

[@GrEeCe_MnKy]

Didn't ask

[@de_nstream]

When did they start swearing uncensored?

[@zyeborm]

​@@de_nstreamI think after about 4 minutes into the video give or take KZbin doesn't get upset any more

[@jezuconz7299]

7:57 ​@@de_nstream

[@DanKaschel]

@@de_nstreamhope they don’t stop

[@felixdesrochers9940]

As if Forbes articles have never been barely cited paraphrased articles form smaller news outlets.

[@K3NnY_G]

7:56 - Ho-... Holy shit dude.

[@alexforce9]

I feel like Im watching the intro of a cyberpunk dystopian game about events happened 20 years before the singularity.

[@firsttry0014]

Damn they swear sweared at the end there, caught me off guard😭

[@ChippTheFox]

Here before that asmr gets bleeped out. That might have been the funniest joke on tech linked so far. XD

[@Sir_punchwood]

New contenders in tow-aaaaannnnnnndddddd they tripped getting in the ring.

[@GrEeCe_MnKy]

Get a life

[@B.D.F.]

@@GrEeCe_MnKyPot, meet kettle.

[@cardboard_boi]

ive had people at scam call centers chew and curse me out in the most bored tone ever for wasting their time, i imagined their voice for the ai

[@mhammadalloush5104]

Windows laptops have a windows problem. If my 8 year old laptop can achieve amazing battery life on linux, the problem isn't the hardware anymore

[@paulelderson934]

There are already plenty of windows laptops with amazing battery life. Just don't expect to use them for gaming workloads. Which is what most people do consider as a factor for a windows laptop.

[@itsarian.]

My laptop from 2009 with a dead battery could get to the login screen if i was lucky if it wasn't plugged in. Now with Linux i can use it for around 5 minutes before it turns off.

[@paulelderson934]

@@itsarian. Yeah, I mean there is no question whether Linux is a more resource efficient OS or not. It obviously is. My point is that amazing battery life isn't just achievable with Linux. It's mostly the use-case that causes the complaints.

[@ThePlayerOfGames]

​@@paulelderson934OS-for-OS Linux will beat Windows out 9/10 times on the same hardware because the vast majority of Linux distributions don't have spyware running in the background sucking up your activity. (some laptops have special energy saving chips who's firmware is only available to Microsoft, takes extra time to reverse engineer those, and some people don't know to install tlp on Linux laptops to save energy)

[@LogicalError007]

Mine gives worse battery backup when using Linux. So I just started using WSL.

[@Kipu2021]

Holy guacamole that ending ASMR was A LOT lol

[@Motoko5000]

it was funny tho lol

[@Tailslol]

Well you didn't know but japanese doesn't have bad words pretty much everything is about the tone so this is logical for japanese

[@Kipu2021]

@@Tailslol Ohhhhhhhh that'd be so kawaii if this were in Japanese

[@seamillo]

@@Tailslol Do you know Japanese? Cause there's some rippers in that language too. You got some classics and then they also use some metaphorical set-phases. You can absolutely verbally abuse someone regardless of tone.

[@Tailslol]

@@seamillo yea there is a few words obviously but this is not their main way. You can check ,you'll see.there is really a few.

[@watercannonscollaboration2281]

Softbank’s going to turn Gordon Ramsey into some Bob Ross ASMR

[@zAnti_]

I watch these for the laughs first, then the tech news 🤣 great job as always guys

[@josephgood2704]

Samsung Dex has been solid for years... Still will never use it outside of emergencies. But it does all the stuff I need.

[@aravindpallippara1577]

Same with moto ready for (connect whatever they are calling it now) Especially good as an emergency full screen OS with mouse and keyboard support

[@nostrace]

Exactly it's a nice backup.

[@cyjanek7818]

I had this on Huawei and it was useful, I was very disappointed to find out it's not standard among flagships and my new pixel 7 was lacking that feature

[@HxHStudios]

real mess fr. would be great if vendors didnt lowkey lie in benchmarks

[@CreativityNull]

Yeah, that's why I don't even care about whatever they're launching until independent reviews are out.

[@arnox4554]

I totally get why people are mad about that, but I'mma be honest. The only reason I'd ever consider one of those Qualcomm chips is for the long battery life. And with that, there goes Apple's one advantage down the drain. Wonder what Apple's going to pull out of their ass this time as the feature they're going to use to try to justify bending customers over.

[@LogicalError007]

Reviewers aren't doing a great job too. Comparing gaming benchmarks from a gaming laptop to a notebook without any discrete GPU.

[@zeronin4696]

You always have to lowkey lie or do some cherry picking benchmarks for your new product. No one wants your brand-new device which is already worse than current similar products

[@marcogoncalves1073]

Benchmarks are actually pretty similar to the benchmarks given to us.

[@hobiwankinobi4750]

Love you guys. Keep up the great work! I never miss a Techlinked

[@seamillo]

One of the most entertaining Linked episodes yet and that's not an easy level to surpass!

[@MaNameizJeff]

can I get a real time translator version of that for retail jobs? "Why no im not ignoring you listening to my music, I am listening to your manic raving sweet nothings with nothing but serene calmness. "

[@imopn]

you guys make my day. Always love the show even if I don't care about half the topics just listening to all your humor is great

[@vinylwalk3r]

That ending was hilaroius! Almost lost my tea with Jakobs calming insults 😂😂 Please make a Techlinked ASMR episode! ASMR-Linked!

[@BeanGTR]

why are ASMR insults so funny - I laughed for ages at the end ?! Great video guys :)

[@russellmm]

that tech AMSR at the end had me rolling... Nicely done!

[@nick-dogg]

In reality, most users don’t need the extra performance for every day task. We need something that’s power efficient and compatible for all of our applications.

[@darkraven-666]

This. if new qualcomm chips still have high TDP we might as well have not switched from x86. I want my laptop to behave like my phone dammit, not have to worry about blocking the air vents, being away from the charger etc.

[@areyoufeelingitnowmrkrebs]

Did I just hear an F bomb?? Lmao

[@jvmauricio107]

That was the first F word I heard from LMG lol

[@albyx]

The Softbank story was probably the best lol Riley's face was the best XD

[@davidmeier1004]

Thanks alot for covering more indie makers and RISC-V products. That said you missed some as there is also the pinetab2 by pine64 and MNT laptops both offer ARM and RISC-V variants as well as another riscv laptop coming out soon.

[@Aria_Saarkia]

This was one of the best tech linked yet - super informative, well written, but also funny at times! 10/10 would link again

[@pwseisaietsiftou]

bro no one can match how good you are at this news thing, even your speech articulationt and tone is perfect.

[@user-zl4pm3sf3q]

Caught me off guard, nearly died taking a sip of coffee. Fuck that was good. This reminds me of the good days of attack of the show level of humor.

[@dmagik8]

that jacob end part was fucking awesome! hells yeah to that guy pulling off pricks on the phone.

[@joem3793]

Omg I laughed so hard at that angry ASMR that my stomach hurts

[@BloodBlight]

Well, that was disturbing... Bravo!

[@terranceblount5959]

That last part. I hollered. 😂

[@The4dGoonSpoon]

Remember when Dave2D was sitting the whole time? I remember.

[@jaredangell5017]

The tech industry has absolutely no idea what it's doing anymore

[@nopers2223322]

Damn you dropped the f bomb

[@SherKhanShani]

"How does he float the laptop?" Say's the guy with the floating laptop in the thumbnail.

[@gmt1]

Thanks for the ASMR.

[@wuma_]

Can we get a whole channel for ASMR insults please?

[@yashkothalkar5512]

Guess we can't have good things in this world nowadays without flaws.

[@the-answer-is-42]

That ASMR at the end made me so uncomfortable 😂

[@stephens1393]

"what we used to call plagiarism" 🤣 love it!

[@TeunSegers]

I want an hour long ASMR Spotify track of Jacob going full Karen mode. I probably won't listen to it, but I feel like that is something that should exist.

[@danielmatheus6620]

Those whispers at the end... Pure gold

[@JeThKo_MSW]

That ASMR was gold LOL

[@dswartze]

I picked up a SL7 ... love it! Best Windows laptop I've owned. I don't game so I'm not concerned about the lack of gaming support. But I would expect things to change over the next months and years. Things didn't change overnight for Apple when they went ARM many years ago. Also, app emulation is AWESOME! Most of my non-Microsoft apps aren't ready for ARM, but I wouldn't know! BTW, I am coming from the Core i7 16GB RAM Surface Pro 9.

[@Shat_Tastic]

Trigger ," I can buy you".

[@kumaririnki-cl1zz]

The buzz around Cyberopolis is built on solid achievements and clear potential. This isn't hype, it's reality.

[@rally_furymoments5294]

See running windows on ARM will always be a disaster

[@ojtibi9906]

OMG Jakob, you gave me feelings I never knew were there! 🤣🤣🤣

[@troypickett7716]

the out of pocket uncensored emotional abuse was golden lmao

[@luttinbuck413]

the comment about making the laptops float made me laugh so much I had the need to comment about it. Very sharp

[@mikedonaldson8898]

I love you guys! The funniest tech channel on KZbin!

[@DJK3NND0]

The last story OMG, I couldn’t keep a straight face working in customer service if AI was giving some pissed off customer a calm and ASMR type voice, I’d absolutely would lose it 😂

[@TheSorrowedMan]

on the graph at 1:24 you think "hey intel ain't doing THAT bad", then you realize it's got a massive af battery.

[@meandhiminc]

amazing ASMR I didnt know I needed

[@williambryant7686]

Even though I am sad to see the off-screen commentary return, I still appreciate the few episodes we got that did not feature that. Plus I am sure others enjoy it so that must be good news for them.

[@salvatore_dali]

you guys are something else. Keep it up (:

[@triadwarfare]

People forgot Microsoft tried this before with Windows RT. It got nowhere. AI's not gonna magically solve that.

[@DJMeku]

lol a the japan customer care calming insults hahaha!!!

[@Dunkskins]

That ending threw me off 10/10!

[@ELMolliez]

The last bit was actually hilarious 😂😂

[@radiant9230]

The best use case for using your phone as a secondary PC display (imo) is for when you need a drawing tablet. I just recently did some texture work in Substance 3D Painter, and my S23 Ultra came in clutch.

[@DaPoets]

Ok that ending ASMR will prevent me from sleeping tonight.

[@paulascholz600]

In many countries, people who deliver tech news wear colorful and provocative costumes.

[@maddy_uwu_8330]

had the video playing in the background and the uncensored whispering at the end scared me to death istg

[@MinimalisTech]

That end ASMR was so unexpected. LOL

[@shawnbleeds]

5:31 that’s crazy, I can’t believe it

[@wildridersp]

This man never disappoints. 😂😂😂 not a tech guy but love this show😅😂😂❤

[@riodave4954]

No bleeping on that f word.. nice keep it up hahaha

[@tylerrinek8862]

That ending is the best. I can buy you.

[@LegoWormNoah101]

Japan may be the first country to build Cybermen for real

[@Artista_Frustrado]

glad to know "POV you're a customer support employee" ASMR is a niche

[@alllbw]

The ASMR at the end was crazy

[@LeonEdwinsHeart]

Emotion canceling AI 😂

[@bubbles581]

My microsoft snapdragon notebook just came in. The hardware is VERY nice. Only issue is the x86 emulation doesnt work with hardware drivers. So not all accessory hardware (like printers) work

[@beowulf2772]

lol that ASMR bit

[@lilyjohnson6587]

What are the benchmarks for CAD programs on the Qualcomm chips?

[@AlbertStewart]

Can't lie, the last few seconds of this video may have unlocked something in me lol

[@brunoob1557]

7:56 funniest joke so far 😂

[@Blunthammer]

Forbes dosent have real reporters either.

[@PKMNwww411_MkII]

Monitors powered by USB-C, having a USB service port, and DisplayPort input and output are sufficient in daisy chaining monitors.

[@BoraHorzaGobuchul]

My expectations that this thing would be overhyped are hereby validated.

[@demonhogo]

this was a very well written episode

[@nataranja3030]

I’m not sure selling the winners to buy the losers is the best opinion out there.

[@Dewdimpple]

that ending ASMR is good 10/10

[@Jeremyak]

If "AI" has to cite it's sources then the entire business model will collapse. If stealing other peoples ideas and work is artificial intelligence then I was decades ahead of the technology. 🤷‍♂