The Level1 Show May 1 2024: Search Slayer

[@xanderlander8989]

Learning Mandarin be like "Buy a man eat fish, he day, teach fish man to a lifetime"

[@johnmoore8599]

Build a man a fire, he'll be warm for a day. Set him on fire, he'll be warm the rest of his life. - Prachett Convert that to Mandarin.

[@the_beefy1986]

I've been a long time Thinkpad fan. Framework has captured my attention enough that it will be my next laptop.

[@krandeloy]

I hope some one else already noted it, but the Steam loophole wasn't for [Early Access] as in when the game is a pre-release build, but was for when a game is sold and part of the pre-order is getting to play x days early compared to official, pleb, release date. Valve is calling the later example, [Advanced Access] now.

[@Jasontyo]

If you fill your start menu full of pinned apps it cant show you ads anymore. At fist I wanted them to add more slots for pinnable apps until i realized this

[@Gallstaff621]

It's ridiculous that companies can pay to be above things you're actually searching for. I remember searching for Dollar Shave Club, and Harry's gets placed above it, for example.

[@pyroromancer]

It all began with google keep. Who's dreakin idea was it to collapse the hold to bring up copy, cut paste window into "call number" which 99% of the time isnt even a phone number"

[@n3m37h]

Ontario rental prices are beyond garbage. I live in a small town in Ontario (3300 people) and there are multiple people looking for $2600++ for 2 bedroom places. This place sucks PS Best wired internet speed available here is 10/5 Mbit..... May as well be dialup

[@sbme1147]

But, but Droudou likes the WEF. I know you mean $260 and 1,000 / 500 Mbit

[@GeminiWoods]

Sounds like prices here in Hampton Roads. With it being a military and college area, they can charge whatever they want and get away with it.

[@maltalent]

consequences of unlimited immigration

[@mugstep]

A manager for TCS told me one time "If you don't take this job I will make sure you never work in the industry again." I probably make much more than him now... lol

[@aravindpallippara1577]

The ego of the frogs in the ponds are gigantic

[@ulamss5]

TCS??

[@aravindpallippara1577]

@@ulamss5 Tata consultancy services(TCS), one of the biggest BPO (business process outsourcing - basically taking any kind of tech related outsourcing) company in India. We in the startup and small to medium companies derail the folks in these BPOs as some of the least capable and most corporate nepotists. I have low expectations when one an ex BPOs guy shows up for an interview lol.

[@michaelandrews4783]

The world is full of deluded phycos in management

[@SirReptitious]

The blindingly obvious choice for Frameworks next product is phones. How fantastic would it be to have a phone with a battery that just clips in and out again? And of course being able to replace JUST the part that failed or broke?

[@reappermen]

The company you are looking for is Fairphone. They are not focused on the upgradeabilkty like framework, but their whole point is that they are easily repairable (wherever possible user repairable too), with comittments to keep repair parts in stock for many years (which they have kept for years now sucessfully) Edit: missing F on the Fairphone name

[@Zaf9670]

That’s also a riskier business compared to laptops. I hope they’ll do something like displays. Letting you convert the current displays to portable monitors or get larger panels for DIY tabletop displays. Whichever way they go I’m excited.

[@Kwijibob]

I really hope Framework makes a smartphone

[@the.scarlet_witch.official]

A framework take on a "smart" TV would be nice too..

[@mehutolkki3232]

You know there is a thing called "fairphone"? Thats as close as you can get.

[@markm0000]

Google search is pitiful. I can’t find anything with it anymore. KZbin search has more relevant information even with the occasional gut wrenching thumbnail. If I need to figure out something I read the manual and try to figure it out with trial and error.

[@Zaf9670]

The Cyber Truck or however you write it was due to their high voltage power system having the ports in the truck bed. When it shorted/froze up from the water it took the console with it.

[@greenfeller]

7:30 "Are you ready to die in this house?" - Pretty much what my spouse said when we signed the paperwork on our current home. Need to make that into a welcome mat.

[@CarterBlackburn]

Opens KZbin: “Uploaded 5 Seconds Ago”

[@mr.hughes6363]

4 min ago is my best

[@Sommyie]

The only thing better is that but in FloatPlane!

[@Sauceyjames]

I'm on Dialup, so it took me 40 min. 🤭

[@gulagamelee4804]

@@mr.hughes6363 seen it days ago cause floatplane. just here for the almighty algo.

[@schtive81]

Level1Tech show: There's nothing like watching week old news (for us) about everyone losing their jobs to AI. You need to do an episode where it is nothing but positive news. It might only be a five minute long episode. It could be a neat idea.

[@Kneedragon1962]

Australian here ~ The Australian digital panic department has gone to war with Musk ~ Ok, I'm not completely enthusiastic about either party here, but the argument / conversation does seem to have been hijacked by people with an agenda. We had a stabbing in a church, by a teenager, which was motivated by Muslim extremism. It was a terrorist attack. We had footage shot on a phone, showing the teen run up during the service, and stab the guy over a dozen times before anybody else got close enough to stop him. Ok. That footage was all over the web. The order was, as I recall, to take it down and edit / chop it so you can see the kid run up, but stop before you see a knife penetrating a body. Ok, I am against censorship, but I can sort-a almost see a point to this. If we can't watch two consenting people have sex, then maybe we shouldn't be able to watch Avengers movies or this either. This is a not unreasonable case for censorship. Problem now, is the whole thing has been hijacked by people who have a binary black / white ~ yes / no view, and they're both wrong, and they're both arguing with an edited version of the facts and the issues. The story should not be suppressed, and it is still being reported. I'm not sure the whole video clip should be deleted, but I can see a perfectly reasonable case for only posting an edited / censored version. My issue, is people who have an agenda, hijacking a difficult and contentious event, and starting a civil war over it. Both sides seem to me, to be arguing a case that's only half true, that includes all the things that seem to support their position and leave out all the things that don't. Commentators in Europe and the US have seized on this and shouted that Australia has become like a police state, where the government is stifling the free press, and that is sort of a massive distortion. That is an issue this raises, but that isn't a fair report of the whole circumstances.

[@TonyLamb]

You should be free to find and watch the whole video if you wish. You as an individual should be free to choose. Those who choose safety over liberty will eventually have neither.

[@MrLunithy]

@@TonyLamb We are, but some of our judges are a bit stupid and arrogant.

[@darrenvail8726]

Christianity is being attacked while Luciferian agenda is being promoted. The attack on Christianity is prophecy.

[@JK-zx3go]

Ford: that's not a loss that's development costs that should be spread over the next 10 years. They're looking for a Tax break.

[@ffsireallydontcare]

Is it strange that when I read "Ford" my mind IMMEDIATELY went to: "Ford! You're turning into a penguin, stop it!"

[@hellonader]

You guys rock! 🏆

[@denvera1g1]

12:54 Common misconception, while it is true that OLED is emsisive, and is technically able to be produced without a backlight with individual red, green, and blue OLED sub pixels, 99% of OLEDs on the market today use a monochrome OLED backlight and some sort of color converter on top of it. This is opposed to a color filter on LCD that blocks unwanted light making(making it a transmissive display), the color converter takes the often blue OLED light and converts it to red or green, with blue pixels not having a color filter and just passing it through, this means it is a 'new light' and thus an emissive display. This is actually a good thing as different colored OLEDs tend to both be used at different rates(leading to uneven burn in) and even if used at the same rate, will burn in at different rates. What QDEL does is take the color converting layer found in OLEDs, QLEDs, and QD-OLEDs and directly energize them with electricity. Think of it like the phosphor layer in a CRT, electons come in and excite the phosphor layer to directly create light rather than filtering it like an LCD, or converting it like an OLED With OLED you can think of it as a similar principle to miniLED, but taken to the extreme, where miniLED might have 2k-30k mini LEDs on a 1080p display(~2m pixels), an OLED will have 3-4 backlights per pixel or between 6 and 8 million on that same 1080p resolution. keep in mind that rather than filtering colors like a mini LED, you get a near pure conversion of colors with OLED with some of the colors like blue and white not being converted at all(assuming there is a white OLED and that blue is the backlight color)

[@denvera1g1]

What makes QDEL interesting on the surface(wait for products to make it to market) is that unlike OLED which requires either physical vapor deposition, or chemical vapor deposition(the reason for their price is that this generally requires a vacuum sealed high temperature chamber) QDEL can use traditional LCD manufacturing methods, and in theory, a 65 inch QDEL could offer better color, better efficiency than OLED, while being cheaper than LCD as there are far fewer layers/steps in manufacturing.

[@TheSlowDude]

Searched for Slayer. Raining blood is a very nice answer 😂

[@GorditoCrunchTime]

The person behind Wendell in the background is freaking me out 😂

[@ettcha]

Good lord! ThioJoe needs to make a booty bot killer! They're evolving and are everywhere 😂

[@denvera1g1]

18:17 Who would have thought that a manufacturing plant that requires A LOT of water..... situated in the desert..... would have trouble with its workers before realizing there was a water problem

[@user-mt4zr5kp7h]

Regarding the cyber truck, from what I'm hearing, he didn't even take it through the car wash, he just hosed out the box. You know what never breaks down after I hose out the box? My F-150. 😂

[@nal_er]

❤‍🔥Love these guys. Love this news show.

[@mrgee9430]

Can't wait for 256-bit LPCAMM to take over laptop AND desktop PCs!

[@StewartWright]

A Framework car would probably look like the Aptera

[@fred_e]

We can hope that aptera lives up to that example

[@churblefurbles]

New Zealand felt entitled to censor the internet for the world as well, something is up with those two prison islands.

[@wertacus]

I have seen some unreal sales at target recently. They're either going out of business or severely downsizing their business. There was a 65" samsung tv for $115 and bicycles had a similar run recently.

[@TheDudesRug]

11:50 repairable earpods already exist: Fairphone's Fairbuds

[@COVJJB]

"You ready to die in this house?" That is some kind of serial killer talk.

[@roejogan292]

That's funny you bring up Toyota and Tesla because in the early 2010s Toyota used Tesla motors in the RAV4 EV.

[@fred_e]

I almost bought a RAV4 EV. Went for the Golf EV instead

[@roejogan292]

@@fred_e that's a good car. My neighbor has one. And I used to have a gas one of the same era.

[@mmuller2402]

​@@roejogan292Golf EV is a good car? What?

[@nunyabiznez8120]

If you don't want your car to phone home, just find and disable the antennas for all those systems.

[@drewlarson65]

Wendell wagging his tail at the start.. wholesome as pressing f

[@bluephreakr]

The modular car should be a unibody-on-frame with semi-modular chassis. For whoever takes the mantle on this idea, it is going to always be better long-term to develop a unified top which mounts on complete with floor on frame than to make the top half of the car hyper-modular. A dual-frame construction where the top is _also_ a frame for pieces to go on can help lighten weight during install and enable top frame alterations which allow for additional features, but cost more money to develop.

[@jtfernandez5594]

I was in Hong Kong a couple of weeks ago and saw a cpu vending machine. From looking in it was mostly socket 1366 stuff so I didn't try my luck.

[@cracklingice]

Gotta be careful what Kitchenaid you get tho. Some of them only have those crappy white coated attachments. I put my sisters thru the dish washer and ruiined them and she can't get the plain metal replacement ones any more and the coating apparently chips off the coated ones. So basically, gotta buy a whole new mixer because of BS.

[@dividion8102]

I traded in my day 1 Surface RT toward a Surface 3 that died when the battery swelled and cracked the screen. Both were pretty useless. The new Minisforum V3 tablet with the Ryzen processor looks impressive, but the price is too high for a tablet.

[@TheVolcaneR]

I use a microsoft account for Uni, after logging in on the new outlook it connected my windows and my uni account. Last week i made my laptop a linux machine because its path variable was fucked. My gaming PC will remain windows unless microsoft decides that im not allowed to use windows if my uni account is terminated. Windows is becoming more and more a pain in the ass to use.

[@bigflea11-ig8jr]

"Homer the Smithers" is the Simpsons episode, not futurama. Unsurprisingly it's a Swartzwelder, like the majority of memorable episodes.

[@Jermunkle]

Imagine a tech company committed to producing ZERO e-waste...because ALL of them currently do the opposite.

[@Bagline]

The subtitle of that image "renters have the peace of mind knowing they can end a lease, pack up and plant roots elsewhere" uh, how is constantly moving "planting roots"? My roots are bound because I can't break out of this fking pot that's trapping me.

[@cracklingice]

IMO it's not the people requesting refunds abusing things. It's people releasing early access paid games and leaving them in early access for extended periods. Early access should be limited to like 3 months max or ALL purchases are refunded.

[@stevensawolkin3873]

My wife and I greatly enjoy your tri-weekly shows, but today I find myself puzzled a bit. Two things. A. Wendell, do you refer only to the Kitchen Aid before they changed ownership, and switched from metal to nylon/plastic gears, or even to today's less celebrated (by chefs) models? B. Wendell, is the economy really so bad as you assert? Is that the sort of metrics MIT teaches? I look at job numbers, for example. Sometimes I think, you can take the boys out of the Kaintucks, but you cain't take the Kaintucks out of the boys. Krista is recused for today. All that said, we do love you guys, you're like watching "We Bare Bears" only with computer technology included. That may be the oddest simile I'll make this week, so I hope you enjoyed it. Take good care.

[@markm0000]

Notification squad on the scene 😎

[@StubbyPhillips]

Yes on modular vehicles. Why does every car need a different instrument cluster (or pretty much anything else) for example? They don't. It's dumb. It's insanity.

[@smashboy]

she lives welcome back

[@Joedad000]

Is that a Goldeneye background?

[@bluephreakr]

The AVP v. MQ3 stuff is just like Sony and JVC / RCA all over again. VHS reigned supreme _because_ in spite of being mediocre in the end, it was more product per-dollar and down-costing made economical playback units. Meta Quest and their openness gives promise compared to what may turn out to be the Betamax of our time.

[@fieldgadget]

GOLDENEYE!

[@nogravitas7585]

I have never heard of a vehicle having or needing a "wash mode" and in fact to the best of my knowledge everything in an engine bay (assuming all covers/caps/dipsticks etc are undamaged and properly fitted) should be just fine to pressure wash. (wide spread not a tight jet since that could probably bend a radiator fin)

[@MrSchrootenstein]

Year of the Linux Car

[@mrtempertantrum]

Is that a golden eye N64 game background?

[@dunastrig1889]

Woot!

[@Ghennesph]

It's a culture thing, like watching horror movies, zombie movies, furry movies, etc. Some people dislike it and don't need to consume it. Some people like it and want to consume it. It gets much darker than you think, for those with a taste for the darkness.

[@nixnox4852]

Several months ago google finally managed to piss me off enough that I moved to paying for Kagi for search, and fastmail for gmail. Honestly I've been very happy with the move. Being able to create a masked email address for every service is amazing, and there's so much less seo spam in kagi's results that it's easy to manually downrank/block the bit of trash that manages to get through. Ain't going back. BTW there are other free options for watching youtube than youtube, if you catch my drift. It's nice being able to load my channel list and see a most recent list of videos uploaded from ALL my channels, not whatever the algorithm wants me to see. KZbin's algorithm is toxic to creators. I wish there was a easy and comprehensive way to give a dollar a year to each of the channels I love, that's far more than they'd ever get if I sat down and watched thousands of their videos full of adds. Unfortunately a lot of patreons and such want like $5 a month (lmao), and very few channels are THAT special when there's a hundred others I'd like to support.

[@bdbgh]

Happy labour/worker day

[@dirg3music]

The worst part about Windows 11 to me is that its almost like they're sabotaging it. I genuinely like the OS, I love the interface, I appreciate their move to modernize Windows, but then they do boneheaded shit like the hard TPM/Secure Boot requirement and adding "recommendations" to the start menu. Like, it could be so much better if the marketing department didn't have such a hard on for ostracizing and antagonizing their userbase. I work in audio production/post production so that essentially removes Linux as a viable option for me, so I genuinely want Windows to be better because I refuse to buy Apple's disposable devices. Its just a shame at this point.

[@Zendien]

If Wendell doesn't have a video on how to setup a dualboot windows/linux then I think he needs to make one :P ... may as well start getting people used to Linux, lol

[@MickeyDs-ws2ot]

Tri eye cyxiplis, y'all should try twisted metal

[@chrisw1462]

Does Wendell have a name for the new head on his left shoulder? 🙂

[@Kane0123]

Wasn’t the Unibody thing cancelled?

[@VideogamesAsArt]

12:10 fairbuds! from fairphone

[@Ryet9]

[Comment removed by Australian eSafety commissar]

[@Walczyk]

12:23 fairbud i think

[@mrhoogles]

can you roll your own altavista style search engine?

[@cracklingice]

lpcamm is terrible unless they will not permit manufacturers to create single channel modules or anything smaller than 32GB.

[@excitedbox5705]

Saying Ford lost 130k per vehicle is like saying anybody building a new product is losing money their first 3 months of production. A factory and development costs are amortized over the lifetime of the product. Your source article is either written by a moron or propaganda to manipulate the narrative. The fact that Ford could ONLY be down $130k each on 10k cars is actually a sign of how profitable this will be. Their loss is $1.3B on 10k cars another article lists a loss of $34k on just 36k units. As upfront costs spread and sales increase that cost will come down.

[@Semi-Detached]

I would not say windows on arm is good, but it runs ok on a Mac as a virtual machine. As well as Windows 11 has ever run at least.

[@RyugaHidekiOrRyuzaki]

32:40 Of course not, if anything it serves as free advertising for their IPs

[@diogoalbuquerque]

repairable earbuds to my knowledge are only made by fairphone, they also have repairable headphones and smartphone

[@AlexAlex-ng4vw]

Nintendo is a company that would make a board game and find a way to ban/sue you if you use the pieces in another game, or make your own higher quality board. Even if it needed replaced/fixed.

[@l0gic23]

What kind of company is Amazon?

[@ffsireallydontcare]

See the thesaurus for all the synonyms of "corrupt".

[@reappermen]

15:33 The EU has nothing to do with that. Neither Israel (base of the startup) nor the US are part of the EU, and that startup doesn't seem to have any other major ties to the EU. They literally have no basis or reason for involvement.

[@_JWT]

Engagement!

[@Sleepy.Time.]

the tears of Cybertruck owners bring me great joy

[@Walczyk]

i love my cybertruck, i feel like batman

[@phxsisko]

@@chbrules - probably because the chances are extremely high the type of person who buys a Cyber Truck falls into the stereotype of someone who's probably a smarmy arrogant privileged douche canoe and most people, rightfully so, love to see that person take one to the chin. Also, why do you care?

[@Walczyk]

@@chbrules the same reason people complain about apple even though they’ve never owned an apple product

[@walterstarr1588]

I will only ever buy Framework laptops from now on.

[@murraywebster1228]

Late to the party today, just back from Berlin…

[@fred_e]

Welcome to the party 🎉

[@warmwaffles]

You won't see open source and modular software for cars because the NTSB will have your balls in a vice if you release software without going through testing.

[@nagi603]

12:45 yeah, they have gone down the drain with a few of their stuff, a friend got electrocuted (nonfatally, thankfully) by their brand new stuff.

[@sambojones8681]

Tuesday!!!!!

[@fricki1997]

7:30 Funny how cultures are different in this regard. Here in Germany your own house is something you'd work your entire life for, so yes, the first house you buy would be your retirement home. Then again housing also is more expensive here, you'll probably struggle to find a decent 220 square meeter (~2370 square feet) house for less than 600,000€. There's just far less space available than in the gigantic US. However I don't see myself ever owning a home, it just isn't worth it to me, the headache about constant repairs and renovations, and even if I got a decent salary increase I'd still have to pay off the bank loan until close to the end of my life, so I wouldn't get much of truly "owning" or saving on rent.

[@swankshire6939]

It's not constant repairs and renovations. In the 4 years I've owned my home the only real repair I've had was when my furnace went out on a Saturday at 2 pm. I looked up how a furnace works and started testing the parts of the furnace. Took me an hour to figure out the blower fan capacitor was probably bad. A nearby hardware had the part and it took 5 minutes to replace it. $35 and a few hours over 4 years isn't bad. My house was last renovated in the 90s and it's not getting another one anytime soon. The people talking about repairs and renovations are just making propaganda. It's the same idea as not owning your car or video games. They want to own the product and get paid to let people use it.

[@Walczyk]

krista i got you 20:13 i’m mailing you a cybertruck, you need to put it in car wash mode

[@StephenMcGregor1986]

If it's our jobs to fix Google's dogshit, then they can start paying us. Maximum rates. I charge $120 /h minimum $80 call out fee Google.

[@The_Seal77]

7:03 you will own nothing and be happy

[@MorRobots]

CAN bus, it literally is just modules

[@jakobfindlay4136]

Wuuu! Framework! Make me a nuc like device I can buy my mother. when something beeaks since shes clumsy I can buy a part and fix it. When its been 5 years and the device is slugish I can replace the motherboard and it will feel brand new again.

[@finarfin9939]

If framework wants to branch away to another industry with its repairability and modularity; might i suggest they look into mobile phone industry. Your welcome.

[@GainingDespair]

36:57 First they prevent you from seeing it They than prevent you from talking about it Before ultimately it never happened

[@qwa1986]

❤

[@alexpearson7459]

Fairphone made repairable earbuds

[@MegaAshabasha]

Boycotting Nvidia has never been easier!

[@konic40]

Musk hasnt learned he needs to do a cosmetic redesign of his cars every couple years or so it seems

[@dfcx1]

Apple could start their AI crusade by adding animal eye detection into their camera autofocus like Sony has.

[@mmuller2402]

Would be nice to have socket ram on gpu again 😂

[@godwhomismike]

@24:41 - Windows 11 is total crap. I upgraded my Win10 Gaming PC to Win 11 and it is stutter city. I disable a bunch of services/processes in the background, and it's fine. I turn off the services in services.msc, and magically, those same garbage services that bog everything down re-enable themselves within 2 reboots. I am going to clean install Windows 10 back on my gaming machine.

[@godwhomismike]

@25:15 - except for games with absurd Windows-only anti-cheat services built into them.

[@00101001000000110011]

time to engage!

[@homercles79]

The dude who ruined Google search came from Yahoo. Go figure.

[@paxdriver]

Meta, to its credit, are responsible for react and AI libraries too. Credit where it's due.

[@Stephen-bn7cj]

"DoN't bE eViL" 🤔🤔