We're In A Video Game - WAN Show June 23, 2023

[@MrSmexy702]

I remember when I was younger my grandfather (a FFAA programmer) would block stuff from me as a kid. I'd eventually learn how to back door stuff, mask/hide stuff, and work around it. He never got mad. He'd just use another tactic. One day I learned to make my own keylogger script; hijacked his computer and the modem on our personal computer and took control changing all the passwords. He asked me how I did it and I told him thinking I'd be in trouble. He didn't get mad; just asked for access and removed all the safety stuff. A few years later I asked him why and he said he was protecting me until it was apparent I knew enough to take care of myself and there wasn't much left for him to test me on to see if I could work around it, remove it, corrupt it, or repair it. I feel like troubleshooting and learning to manually doing stuff was such a benefit for me.

[@RealJonDoe]

Very wholesome.

[@labman472011]

If you don't mind me asking, what is your profession now?

[@MrSmexy702]

@labman472011 honestly cook at specialty resturant in Las Vegas. When I was in UNLV in 2008-2010 everyone and their dog was in computers dropping the hiring rates to like 11-14$. plus we learned on useless programs like jgrasp and Javascript before sundisk bought em out. When I got into the job I have now I make nearly double that and sometimes tips if im serving the millionaire events so I lost drive to be a programmer dropped out.

[@VanticMedia]

That's so nice!

[@Axel230]

"I have taught you all you need to know, and you have learned well. Go on, the world awaits you, and you are ready"

[@donkeydelux640]

I was very legitimately mouth wide open in shock when I realized this WAN show was over. I started listening, did laundry, cycled home, did groceries, did some in-house stuff, and was about to continue listening on my PC whilst downloading a demo on steam and realized I had a bare 10 minutes left. It seems I've grown accustomed to the 4 hour format... KZbin shorts has a new meaning.

[@mikey220]

0ppplo k

[@oliver-04]

Damn you cycle home for 3 hours?

[@donkeydelux640]

@@oliver-04 well the laundry, groceries, and cleaning between houses helped pad the time ahaha

[@NoKi1119]

Someone _please_ rip the assets and make an LMG HQ map for VRChat! -Timestamps- [0:00] *Chapters.* [1:38] *Intro.* [2:04] *Topic #1: LTT is in PC Building Simulator 2.* > 4:01 Teaser trailer, finding references. > 8:30 Thoughts, free demo, more references. [9:28] *Topic #2: Mark Zuckerberg V.S. Elon Musk cage fight.* > 11:14 Covering heights & weights, diet quotes. > 12:26 Linus on Elon's demise, Mark's reply. > 14:40 Dana White's interested, FP's comments. > 15:28 Linus's & Luke's "height & weight" if fighting. > 18:29 Mark's advantage, Canadian measurements. [26:30] *Topic #3: Amazon driver leads to home devices shutdown.* > 27:49 Locked out without notice, Rossmann's report. > 29:02 Linus comments on Amazon & Rossmann. [35:28] *LTTStore's new waffle hoodie.* > 37:04 Mystery water bottle, LTT Screwdriver notif. [38:30] *LMG is hiring!.* [38:56] * LTX 2023 updates.* [41:22] *Merch Messages #1.* > 41:27 What other names Linus pondered to name LTT? > 43:04 Feelings about parasocial perception? > 43:54 Tech development that would impact consumers? ft. Taiwan. [49:24] *Topic #4: Dell Australia guilty of falsifying sale pricing.* > 50:26 Linus commends Australia, mentions NCIX weekly sale. > 53:02 Discussing the compensation. [54:48] *Topic #5: Intel discontinues Limited Edition Graphics Cards.* [56:10] *Sponsors.* > 56:20 JumpCloud. > 57:24 Kudos. > 58:20 Zoho One. [58:58] *Merch Messages #2.* > 59:22 Linus on his "Guess The Price!" stream ft. Dan nearly dies. > 1:06:18 Trend of consuming LTT content without being in the ecosystem? > 1:13:52 Communications tech 10-20 years from now? ft. Wehead. [1:16:24] *Topic #6: DPReview acquired by Gear Patrol.* [1:18:22] *Topic #7: FTC sues Amazon for tricking users into Prime.* > 1:18:34 Luke defines dark pattern, discussing Prime. > 1:21:48 Summarizing lawsuit & claims, Amazon's response. > 1:24:36 Luke recalls canceling his late Grandpa's Prime. > 1:26:12 Linus & Luke on "Zine." > 1:27:36 Linus's scenarios on canceling, leaving, "moon cancel." [1:30:32] *Topic #8: AMD's FSR exclusivity in sponsored games.* > 1:31:16 NVIDIA's comment on supporting developers. [1:32:56] *Topic #9: Subreddits change policies to lessen ads.* > 1:33:20 Moderators removed & locked out of accounts. > 1:33:44 r/PoliticalHumor makes all users moderators. [1:34:10] *Topic #10: EVE Online now has an Excel add-on.* [1:36:00] *Merch Messages #2 ft. WAN Show After Dark.* > 1:36:04 Jack-of-all-trades or a master of one in tech? > 1:40:32 Obscure innovations that would have succeeded if open and not proprietary? > 1:45:33 What would you do as Reddit's CEO? > 1:49:26 Any "F**k it, we'll do it live!" moment that went well? > 1:52:00 Biggest life choice you made without knowing what you were doing? > 1:53:22 Any WAN Show or video with Tarran? > 1:53:36 LMG channels that are in the works? > 1:55:23 What changed your mind with the Taycan? > 1:57:00 Long-term effects after KZbin's dislike removal? > 1:57:30 Luke's favorite programming language? ft. Luke & Dan moment. > 1:58:35 Did people get more or less tech savvy with tech's advances? > 2:00:18 Can Starlinked help with FP's ISP coverage? > 2:02:14 Database front-end that PF uses. > 2:02:34 What would Linus's South Park episode be, and would it involve LMG employees? > 2:03:33 The worst driving you've seen from someone else? > 2:07:56 Fixed screwdriver's durability, and being hammered? > 2:08:50 What lab would you like to visit? > 2:11:03 Is it worth it to get 8GB graphics cards? > 2:12:46 What is Linus's favorite discourse started by himself? > 2:13:27 Luke Advocating Tips. > 2:14:37 Thoughts on standardizing RGB products? > 2:15:38 Plans on retro content & recent releases? > 2:15:50 How do you feel about companies selling info? > 2:16:18 LTT merch that would make life more accessible? ft. Wooden & machined screwdriver. [2:18:56] *Outro.*

[@bobmaxjohn1306]

Wow

[@SubtoXtra]

Thank you!

[@lindan2533]

You legend

[@wwllsswtrustong]

gigachad

[@austin_merrill]

Saved for later till time stamps are pinned

[@GoldenAgeMath]

I'm simply amazed by that Canadian units flow chart

[@coff3eSl0th]

One of the best parts is one that was barely mentioned - construction/trades is all imperial. But all engineering is metric. So you'll get blueprints with measurements like 10.2cm, 762mm, 6.092m etc. where you have to convert it to feet/inches (4in, 2'6", 20ft respectively) to know how to measure it with your imperial tape measure

[@MrPatateHead]

And it perfectly represents the way we use both. Even in Quebec (French province of Canada) we use it exactly the same way.

[@BigMontey]

As a Canadian I never thought about it since it just how we all do it it's pretty funny

[@Krutonium]

It's not even complete either. It forgot the Driving segment. "Are you Driving?" Yes => Time | No => (see other units)

[@MrPatateHead]

@@Krutonium I feel the driving time measurement would also be used in the USA or other large land mass. Versus Europe where everything is close. But I can be wrong.

[@lindan2533]

Our hopes for the 24hr WAN show have been vanquished. We touched 5 hrs and it's all been downhill from there.

[@jonatanrullman]

Like Icarus, we flew to close to the sun.

[@guy_autordie]

I don't have time for that.

[@nhojlagap6222]

Should have first asked for 12 hours... We demanded too much

[@DX88]

This wan show is 80 minutes longer on Floatplane :)

[@CakePrincessCelestia]

@@jonatanrullman Weren't even remotely close... didn't notice anyone ^^

[@ashaw1016]

As an Englishman and an avid tea drinker, the thought of not having milk in an office is giving me anxiety! 😅

[@iLaCore]

For coffee too. I swear a ton of people drink milk with their coffee here, I didn’t know that seems to be such an absurd idea in North America?

[@ADMNtek]

@@iLaCore It is? Isn't that what Starbucks is all about coffee with tons of milk. But tee with milk that is just vile.

[@ashaw1016]

@@ADMNtek I mean it depends on the tea. I wouldn't have a green tea or an earl grey with milk, you are right that would be vile. But a black tea (preferably Yorkshire tea for me), bag left in for a good while and a little dash of milk and if your feeling indulgent a little bickie (like a good old chocolate digestive) and your on to a winner 🏆

[@ashaw1016]

@@iLaCore I seem to hear north Americans talk about coffee creamers alot. I assume it's like a little pot of UHT milk or I guess UHT cream? That you put into your coffee.

[@user-ep1hp7vj6p]

@@ashaw1016 yea its just sugary, flavored cream

[@nicholasarenas1587]

That metric-imperial conversions back-and-forth Luke and Linus had RIGHT after marveling over how ripped Zuckerberg is was one of the funniest things I've listened to in a while. Always love a good WAN show.

[@RealRSmokinJoe]

Regarding false sales: Hobby Lobby in the US is notorious for marking items 40% or more above MSRP then putting them "on sale" making the item normal price. As a builder of Bandai models, Hobby Lobby does carry quite a few, but I only buy them when they go "on sale" so I can actually get them for regular price. It is shady, dishonest and should be illegal.

[@philipcooksey3422]

Yes there is a few stores in the US that everything is basically perpetually on sale, its just how much is it on sale.

[@Zaque-TV]

Amazon does that with "prime day." They mark stuff up and then put them on "sale."

[@michaeljames1893]

Dell Customer here in Australia, The refund is the full price we paid for the monitors at the time + interest. Already been talking with Dell this past week and my money is due in 7-9 days.

[@marcruijs1039]

Luke saying that computer science students should not drop out and learn Cobol was a slap in the face. I was planning exactly that 😂

[@jeremycarroll978]

Crazy that a 2 hour wan show is now considered short 😂

[@CakePrincessCelestia]

It's not vertical after all ;)

[@wijayleon8159]

Too long, should have been 1 hour

[@jasper265]

On the prime canceling: there's literally a Seinfeld episode on how impossible it is to cancel gym memberships. It's not a new thing or an online thing, it's a subscription thing. And in my opinion, not allowing counteroffers until the cancelation is complete (so closing the tab rejects the counteroffer) is a part of the solution.

[@ADMNtek]

it must be a US thing. In Germany, it is very easy to cancel it. go to cancel > Are you sure? YES> Are you super sure?🤨YES> REALY!😢? YES> fine😞

[@drakemarsaly6644]

There's a new piece of banking regulation in the UK called the Consumer Duty. Part of its requirements is that canceling a product or service should be as easy as signing up (and there's a bunch of guidance etc. on what that means). Otherwise it's a "sludge" practice. Glad to see this kind of thing getting attention in other sectors/countries.

[@IdiotRace]

@@drakemarsaly6644 I'd been a regular member of my last gym for almost 10 years. When I came to cancel it because I was moving they tried to charge me an extra month because thats their policy. I told them I'd already cancelled the direct debit and to *youtube friendly swear word*.

[@swiper2830]

Never knew coffee without milk is so popular in Canada. Everywhere I go they have milk to make drinks (australia).

[@Techfly11]

Maybe it's east vs west? I've never worked an office in Canada without milk.

[@DevBrandonJackson]

Hey Linus, I'm the original customer here. I encourage everyone to read my article or at least this comment. I was never locked out of anything due to self hosting many of my own services and many devices run locally only. Just my echos were locked out. All my lights and automations keep on working, we just used Siri or flipped light switches as all my lights can just function as normal lights too. The real reason I went public with this is because not everyone self host (nor should they have to) and I knew I wasn't the only one who's had something like this happen. I wanted to raise awareness plus be able to use all the press to actually get the attention of law makers. I'm just starting on part 2 now of getting law makers on board. I figured it would be easy to ignore just me but if we got some momentum behind this, something could actually get done. I don't care who you are, what you look like, what you believe in, getting your account locked across the board is crazy. It would have been a reasonable step if they just refused to deliver while they did an investigation if they believed a credible threat was present. However, what does that have to do with turning on lights?

[@MeBloxboy305]

Linus finding out about an LTT game tie-in through a tweet is hilarious, how did nobody think to inform him? 😂

[@Adam1984_]

The joys of not being CEO anymore. It just wasn't something he needed to be made aware of. I agree that it's absolutely hilarious, but I get it.

[@tnaxpw]

​@@Adam1984_iirc this was before new CEO, and it's more of marketing department thing.

[@Jessev741]

@@tnaxpw Linus is still the CEO for another week.

[@courtney5796]

@@Jessev741 I think that is in 'title' only. I bet TT is already heading most of it. I have been known to be wrong, but I felt like we even had more Linus time the last week or so.

[@ru2225]

@@courtney5796 he said himself, that the new guy hasnt started yet lmfao

[@DeepFriedLettuce]

One of the best places ive ever worked at supplied us with four gallons of milk, four loaves of bread, and PB&J every week after the owner noticed that employees were going without lunch some days because they were too busy to go eat out for lunch. Even though we have a legit cafe these days, ill always remember the grind from back then and eating PB&J with a big glass of milk along with a few coworkers.

[@Deltarious]

With regards to infrastructure vulnerability we're actually right now *at peak* with how vulnerable we are, as in the future systems are likely to get significantly more resilient and hardened. We are moving to renewable energy with micro (or at least *more* micro) interconnected grids with *way* more connection points, and we right now have multiple constellations of satellites providing space based internet which themselves too are being specifically built with resilience and redundancy in mind. All this is layered on top of the fact that having resilient infrastructure be an actual government target thing that we are aware of is *a thing* now for many nations, and so active planing is taking place to reinforce this idea

[@RowanHawkins]

We are much better infrastrure now than we were 10 years ago.

[@BigMontey]

Good to know we are taking steps

[@RickyDonker]

As an Aussie, I'm proud of our ACCC. It's far from perfect and too like America is influenced by big corps like Wesfarmers and insurance and the big four, but overall, it is a very capable and active consumer protection watchdog. It has gone in to bat well above it's weight class before and won.

[@BalvornLupus]

And even if they cant win a straight up suit they usually get enough stink made to cause a recall or make the company in question do something about it.

[@Xeonerable]

Musk vs Zuck is like the fight of the century, forget all these boxers and MMA fighters, this is the fight everyone will watch.

[@esaedvik]

The one where everyone is rooting for the cage itself...

[@dalton6173]

There was a Kmart in Greenville South Carolina that was going out of business for going on 8 or 9 years when I moved out of the state... The funny thing is it looked like it was going out of business since day one whenever you stepped inside like it just felt empty and it felt like the employees there had not only given up on life but given up on the business even existing a week from then.

[@dalton6173]

@@hammerth1421 to be fair there aren't many CEOs that aren't greedy. The Kmart CEO was just a little too greedy for the company's own long-term viability.

[@durstroyer3924]

Just to note for construction here in Canada that yes we mostly use feet and inches as the preferred measurement that engineered drawings are in millimeters. For example the drawings call for fire rated wood blocking in a wall that gets TV mounting. The height for the blocking would be 2200mm-2700mm or something like that.

[@OsomoMojoFreak]

Such a weird thing that the industry hasn't changed completely to metric yet.

[@88porpoise]

​@@OsomoMojoFreakA couple big reasons: First, all the construction work done on already existing structures etc create issues if the sizes of things were changed to metric. Second, especially in the materials side there are a LOT of ties to the United States. In general those are the two reasons for the continued use of imperial measures, continuity and ties to the US.

[@OsomoMojoFreak]

​@@88porpoiseAt some point 'murrica has the realize the metric system is just better

[@AlexJordan]

Linus a year ago: "I mean, there just seem to always be people who simply don't get the joke. they don't get that I'm joking. like honestly, what do I do?" Linus now: "f*kin idiots." 🤣 1:04:20

[@yazzmatazz86]

I was having a freak out earlier while watching the WAN show because I took out my earbuds and I could still hear Luke and Linus's voice in my head. I couldn't even hear myself speak over the sound of their voices! It turned out I was dreaming and I had fallen asleep watching the WAN show. I should stop watching this in bed - LMG crew always make it into my subconscious when I fall asleep watching the WAN show.

[@OGruurd]

Yoo that is wild dude😂

[@DavideFalconi]

As an Italian who doesn't use stupid measurement units, it was really hard to follow the first part of the WAN show with a lbs to kg and a feet to meters converter always open

[@Nanioh1]

Americans use everything from football stadium to stick to butter for measurement

[@DavideFalconi]

@@Nanioh1 they're canadians, but I guess they used lbs, feet and inches because most people watching the wan show are probably american

[@DavideFalconi]

@@dominick253 it was just an exaggeration, but they should really use both in their videos, sometimes they only put weight for laptops in pounds for example. It would really be appreciated to also have the weight in kilos

[@DavideFalconi]

@@ffsireallydontcare yes I know, it was just an exaggeration. But it would be appreciated if they always used both, even in their videos, which they don't always do

[@MiriaJiyuu]

@@DavideFalconi Nope, we just use feet/inches and lbs for personal height/weight in most cases. Most of us know our height/weight in both. Common in Canada to ask for a height and get it in feet/inches.

[@LeviWarkentin]

How am I going to be able to listen to wan all week now? I'm going to need to find another podcast for my drives or listen at .25 speed

[@captainpumpkinhead1512]

"How many cups in a liter?" "I don't know?" Luke is my spirit animal

[@InShortSight]

I was wondering why they thought milk at the office would be weird, when it's common to use in coffee, but then I remembered canada's milk bag situation.

[@Techfly11]

Every Canadian office I've worked in had milk, even the one that was bring your own coffee.

[@leodaza2151]

I'm Canadian and my workplace has milk as well as cream. They buy the ones that come in 1L cartons instead of the bagged milk

[@Daphoid]

@@leodaza2151 Ours buys the little cups (which generates more waste, but not my call) of both creamer/milk - in bulk from our weekly coffee refill vendor.

[@rikschaaf]

1:05:00 It's pretty common to have dairy products available in the lunch room at places where I worked.

[@leonkernan]

The snacks are next to the milk in the kitchen. I’ve never known a place that doesn’t have tea and coffee making facilities!

[@w0nd3rlu573r]

1:04:10 Actually..., it's not about the milk helping with the hot sauce. It's the fat molecules, that help. So just some regular sunflower or olive oil would've done even better.

[@ateiviz]

The metric vs imperial discussion is hilarious. As someone who grew up in Europe and have used metric then moved to post imperial Ireland I can relate. I've no idea how much is in a pound, feet, stone or miles but I can fairly accurately estimate after living in Ireland for 18 years 😂

[@Pslytely_Psycho_GreybeardGamer]

I love it your final build in PC builder was a Hyte 60 case. I love that case, my current build is in one.

[@christhorney]

today i learn that linus doesnt have coffee facilities for his employees lol

[@maciej21]

Exactly my thoughts. My company has like 150 employees and we have 3 kitchens with 4 coffee machines with tons of milk (including almond milk for our veggie colleagues). Don't get me started on free breakfasts... Why you need milk in the office Linus? For you staff!!!

[@MWM1293]

@@maciej21thank you lol

[@christhorney]

@@maciej21 I know right, literally every business i have ever worked at that has a lunchroom, i spent most of my life in construction working out of a van, but i have worked at dozens of factories and warehouses over the years with anything from 2 to 500 employees and every single one had milk and coffee available for staff, alot of them yes even including almond and skim milk! it literally blew my mind not just how he was clueless about it, but intentionally made a point about it as if his making a point to his staff so they stop asking him for proper coffee facility. I would bet any money that their is atleast 1 staff member who every day buys milk there only to have is all used by the other staff and only get to make 1 coffee with it, but dangit they need that coffee so they continue to sacrafice everyday and the other employees all assume the company is buying it not that other poor staff member

[@christhorney]

@@alexjamesbilodeaubecause everyone can have lactose right

[@SirVer51]

Were you guys not listening? They use creamer

[@ww11gunny]

I think whenever a company breaks the law for monetary reasons. The absolute minimum penalty should be 110 percent of however much profit made from unlawful acts plus all costs spent to investigate and audit the company to determine how much profit was made. In other words make it so it is always more expensive to break the law than it is to follow the law.

[@technewb8241]

We're almost a year after release of PC Building Simulator 2. The devs added an LTT-themed shop, but controller support IS STILL MISSING! I have a disability that prevents me from using a mouse and keyboard, and I've been waiting to be able to play PCBS2 since the open beta

[@Axel230]

Ouch, yeah, can see why a PC-building game wouldn't put controller support high on a priority list, but it still sucks Have you tried the Steam Controller options tho? There's usually Mouse & Keyboard emulation options, and community-made button layouts. Admittedly not the best solution, but a solution

[@boneappletee6416]

Regarding 1:05:00 -ish: milk is far more common in work kitchens for coffee & other drinks than creamer, in my country. The only creamers generally used are quite low quality, so aren't as common in non-low income contexts.

[@GoldenAgeMath]

Knowing metric and imperial can be useful, Linus pointed out that a teaspoon is 5ml and a tblspoon is 15ml, metric can "quantify" the more intuitive imperial units, and vice versa.

[@DailyCorvid]

Luke is pathetic to have lived in Canada all that time and still not have picked up the basic math of the locality!! I was surprised, I actually used to think Luke was way smarter than he is... Just I thought maybe he was trying to appeal to a younger audience. Nope! Lol. I am unsure as to what techniques Linus has been using to put up with Luke. I swear I would be hard pressed not to shut down half of his stupid theories immediately! He reminds me of a 50 yr old divorced lady I know, they are the same in different bodies lol.

Cups and spoons are not intuitive. Nothing is, everything is learned.

[@GoldenAgeMath]

@ Yeah I didn't elaborate enough--I meant "intuitive to the person in question". When I said "vice versa" I meant that you can use the system that's more familiar or easier to use in that context to "quantify" the other system.

[@DogsAreGods]

OMG: with the situation with Amazon: that has to be illegal. Think about it, you PAID for all of those smart devices and their features only for them to be stolen from you because big-company is sad that you or your "smart door bell" said something that THEY found offensive. This is a major breach of privacy and security for the user purchasing these devices. Thank you for reminding me never to purchase smarthome devices or a smarthome. OMG IOT introduces so many vulnerabilities to your home network already, and now a COMPANY can seize control of YOUR property. This must be illegal. What they are doing is STEALING.

[@Jeffcrocodile]

1:50:00 this aged like fine milk lmao

[@SeanColey]

I'm 2 months behind my watch later list and there are so many WAN Show episodes that didn't age well. This one in particular and the one where Linus mentioned having HR problems and they'll continue to make mistakes. Many big oofs. I'm still rooting for them though. We all make mistakes and should be given the opportunity to redeem ourselves.

[@linuxras]

The Canadian measurements is so true, I built houses in Canada for years and while all the blue prints where metric but every measurement we took was in imperial. The tape also has both too.

[@Pratalax]

Linus reacting to the pc build sim trailer was very sweet

[@KyleCarsonDj]

I never realized how much i appreciate the time stamp guy until i have to come back to the podcast and try to remember where i left off at

[@scottydoesntno]

It’s hilarious with the metric vs imperial, as an American I use both in a similar way to the Canadian way. I don’t use metric as often but when it comes to working on vehicles I usually use metric because most parts are metric but height or distance I use imperial. Cooking is interchangeable for me, and Linus is correct about a quart bs a liter they are so close that in most cases I don’t even worry about the difference.

[@meair]

working on cars is all fun n games until i run into some aftermarket crap and now I have to pull out my imperial wrenches that i rarely ever use

[@scottydoesntno]

@@meair or Chrysler cars that have both metric and imperial.

[@Sam_on_YouTube]

For typical temperatures, double Celsius and add 30. The REAL conversion is multiply by 9/5 and add 32. But the way I said it is close enough. For high tempuratures, you're better off adding 25 and for low temperatures add 35 instead. But typically adding 30 will be within 2 degrees.

[@redx566]

“We’ve made it” a 2 hour WAN show

[@dotcom624]

I have no problem subscribing to channels that I want to keep watching. Do I watch? That’s the nice part, my “feed” is my subscriptions tab, and I get to watch what I want. But I understand that doesn’t help me discover new channels, like LTT, if I don’t look. The recommended videos from YT are really hit or miss (mostly miss) except for a few, very rare times. Hopefully, watching subscribed videos helps? In no uncertain terms will I EVER turn on notifications. I really hope that it doesn’t help the algorithm, because I refuse to use them. No one gets my instant attention except regional/local emergencies, or text messages from family. Everyone else can wait like they did when I was a kid. And I just turned the ‘Answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything’ years old, so I’m young enough, and yet old enough to say noooo.

[@dotcom624]

1:25:14 also, Amazon… they don’t bother to tell you a renewal/cancel date. So suddenly there’s a charge? Even if you change settings, they’ll only email you 3 days in advance. WHAT??

[@Slandica]

The measuring flow chart spot on 😂

[@SteveRand]

1:04:55 In Australia, milk is in pretty much every office. We drink tea and coffee and workplaces usually provide it all.

[@dalton6173]

Also this is why you should attempt to cancel if you intend on keeping it every few months. That way you can get an offer to keep what you already planned on keeping.

[@vegansuponhull7946]

Never commented before but another person remembers Warcraft Counter Strike, truly a golden era (Orc rushing with grenades was so fun when drunk on a UK uni server at a uni I didn't even go to).

[@TetraSky]

Linus's personal mantra "the show must go on" is the same as what TB used to say as well. Miss him...

[@ADMNtek]

same.

[@caffau]

One correction on the flowchart: Canada, at least officially, uses metric cups that are exactly 1/4 of a kg (and spoons are measured in metric ml). Only old recipes would be using imperial

[@cszqravr]

I understand it's a strain on your ressources, but I miss the super long wan shows a lot. Especially in comparison the show (specifically the discussions) feel a bit rushed and the whole atmosphere changes when you are seemingly on a timer. I also get work and life get in the way and it won't be possible always regardless. Just wanted to voice my opinion on how awesome the 3.5+ hours shows have been for me (and probably many others)

[@71ruinsigil]

The main reason the show wasn't that long this time is because Linus has to catch a flight after

[@verg4469_]

u guys help me get thru work every week thank you!

[@rammie656]

I have never laughed so hard in public transport until the Canadian Measurement Flowchart.

[@OsomoMojoFreak]

Just... wat?

[@siggy6044]

I guess I just don't understand how others use KZbin. I always click on my subscriptions first to see if there's anything new from my favorite channels, then let the algorithm try to find something if there's not. I've never had a video from a channel not show up, let alone a channel disappearing from the feed entirely. Any time I've wondered why I haven't seen a video from a particular creator it's always because they simply haven't uploaded. Do people just subscribe to channels and assume the algorithm will always feed them those new videos first? I can only think people just actually don't know how to use the service. It's like they forget what number their favorite channel was every time they turn on the TV so they just flip through channels til something catches their attention for a few minutes, then go right back to just flipping through.

[@Silvar55x]

1:08:48 I would argue that one big reason that livestream VODs have different patterns to regular videos is that they're *super* long. Fewer people will want to sit down to watch a 2 - 3 hour VOD of a livestream; It's likely to contain much more padding/uninteresting stuff/ignorant hot takes than an edited video would. At least when it's originally live you get the experience of sharing it with others and potentially interacting. Add to that that the important topics will be later available in more easily digestible clips on the sister channel.

[@GIHD]

I think he said in a former WAN Show that Livestreams actually performe better than regular videos

[@Silvar55x]

@@GIHD This was about livestream *VODs* - watching the video of the stream afterwards instead of live.

[@GIHD]

@Silvar55x Yes sorry I also mean livestream VODs

[@karintippett753]

Metric was introduced in Canada the year I started high school, 1975. It was not taught my entire 4 years but officially Canada is metric. At work we are completely Imperial because our biggest customer is USA. Only Myanmar, Liberia and the US still use Imperial officially but many, many items in the US are in metric as many cars are built jointly by Japenese, Korean and US or Canadian companies. To work on a US built vehicle you need metric tools.

[@alanhilder1883]

A messed up measuring system... Yep. The US and Europe did do a space mission together, it crashed due to sensors reporting in one system and the computer working in another. I'm an old bloke from Australia and I know that it is 14 pounds to a stone... how many feet to a mile? it is a "totally random" number.

[@bilditup1]

5280

[@alanhilder1883]

@@bilditup1 Do you know what rhetorical means?.. Thanks for the answer but as I said a "random number" Mr Fahrenheit set his measurements off:- Zero= the coldest place he could find ( must have been a heat wave at the time ) And 100= body temperature, so he took his wife's temperature ( the fact she was sick in bed at the time ment she didn't run away )

[@OGruurd]

That is interesting

[@NaerenVastir]

for the dell compensation thing, they need to give the customers the 60% off they promised in the "ad" from what the actual base price was before the "sale" wa posted.

[@thefimo4505]

Thanks

[@personwhohasnoname]

That whole milk section was so weird to me, every office I have ever worked in has provided milk, and usually multiple varieties, for people to use in tea and coffee. Is this not normal everywhere? Is it just an Australian thing?

[@greywizard2557]

Nope, we do it in the UK too. I suspect this no milk in the office thing is a North American trend.

[@startedtech]

​@@greywizard2557it's pretty normal in the US too. Canadian then?

[@pauldub77]

Same in New Zealand 😊

[@NatSparky]

@@startedtech I'm Canadian and every office environment I've ever worked in has had milk for coffee!

[@greywizard2557]

@NatSparky Must be an LMG thing.

[@GamePlague]

I always wondered why you guys seemed so good at converting units in your head but with that chart it all makes sense now. I kind of like it.

[@Parrg84]

You could walk into ANY UK based business and they would have milk in the fridge, i'd be more surprised if they didn't have milk!

[@zizo47]

This. I am soo confused by their reaction 😐

[@TRIAL_ndERROR]

I am a subscriber who watches just just about every single video y’all upload and still sometimes I find that I have to search out and go directly to your channel to see your latest uploads

[@alecwhatshisname5170]

Imagine the Meta team trying to figure out how to livestream the fight in vr to Quest users 😂

[@DailyCorvid]

It will be 3 seconds of Zuck flattened Musk with the Whale move. Easy just use a shorts clip lol.

[@nexus7tablet610]

Punch out view

[@esaedvik]

They're too busy betting on the fight (I know someone at Meta) :D

[@BoldRam]

LTX has turned into a once a year Tech Disneyland. On my bucket list from New Zealand!!

[@reinasgallery]

As a former track athlete from the states, it’s usually easier or me to gauge distance in meters, since metric is the standard measurement system for events. I can physically feel when i’ve crossed roughly 1600 meters/1 mile, and can eyeball distance in increments of 400 meters (quarter mile), the standard distance of one track lap

[@w2.ill_]

I love how we spent 15 minutes talking about the zucc vs Elon 😂

[@CroneLife1]

The inability to opt out of subscriptions is not an Internet thing only. I used to work for Sprint from a Canadian call centre. That was nearly 20 years ago. It was a huge thing then.

[@wilk2809privat]

Neat part about the European dry wall. We normally aren’t using dry wall. We are building ‘real houses‘ 😂

[@Etho_7]

A lot of people don't realise that most industrial supplies in metric are based on imperial measurements. Linus mentioned lumber, 2"x4" is 50x100 here. Very frustrating sometimes because it's often not rounded correctly.

[@allenqueen]

Ya know, the idea of LMG acquiring a different tech publication feels good to me. From whatever little I know of their way of conducting business, they seem to be ethical and I could see LMG/EUC being an umbrella company for tech journalism. While I'm dreaming, an LMG/EUC Venture Capital company would be very, very interesting.

[@3dprintinglifegaming]

It’s supposed to be 100°+ all week in the DFW area (texas) and we work outside in this during the summer.

[@handlemonium]

The devs probably bought a bunch of LTT merch and photo-scanned them into the game. 😏👍

[@JustusS2036]

After they talked about the "guess the price right or get punished" livestream I checked the LTT and Super Fun channel for the live stream but couldn't fine it. It took me 10 minutes to find out that livestream vods's aren't listed as channel uploads anymore, but are hidden in an extra "livestream" tab.

[@SpineShank7]

Since it was a fake 50% discount, Dell should be required to hand out an actual 50% discount on all monitors sold... So 2.5 million total

[@xelisk1]

1:34:22 Dan screaming YES in the background to Eve Excel support

[@SynWOS]

FSR is open to a lot more gpus. DLSS has restrictions for Nvidia own gpus. If FSR covers Nvidia cards it is up to the developer to also include DLSS. Developers that start with DLSS will have to include FSR to cover AMD cards and older Nvidia cards 1:32:55

[@thefimo4505]

That’s an good argument

[@Apollos31]

About Amazon - they do the same thing with Audible. They make unsubscribing difficult, bombard with offers and unnecessary shaming prompts, and if you have credits in your account, you lose them by unsubscribing. To keep your credits, you are required to use them to purchase an audiobook or "pause" your subscription temporarily.

[@mrlilmatt123]

As a Brit, it is so weird to me that you *DON’T HAVE MILK* at work 😳 Every single workplace in the UK does 😂🇬🇧

[@Validole]

Metal collar on a wooden screwdriver would be traditional. They press fitted collars to the shank end to avoid the handle splitting. So no cover needed for the collar

[@laytonfoster50]

You guys forgot about our unit for long driving distances "How far away is kamloops from Vancouver?" "About 3.5 hours"

[@mrcafe3x_]

When talking about temperature and measurements, i recalled about a day, i live in Brazil, in a summer during the pandemic, my city hit 44 c° arround 111 F° that day was miserable, funny enough that same year's winter hit 0 C° or 32F°

[@LoyalSage]

50:50 I was in a brick and mortar store yesterday and there was a sign that said “All furniture 30% off always”, and I was just like, “Isn’t that illegal?”

[@McLovin0826]

CHIEF VISION OFFICER GOES BALLISTIC ON STREAM 1:05:16

[@dvklaveren]

I've worked at a company like this and I just left. Yeah, we've seen multiple people make multiple accounts because our site is just so jank ("move fast and break things") that people don't know that to claim the discount, they need to go to one part of the website and not another, but because it's been a while or they have a new device, they end up accidentally making a whole new subscription. Our system often catches this, because this is actually not how we wanted that to go; we needed a unique e-mail and other stuff, but there would still be old people who managed to break the site enough that they'd get it through and end up with multiple accounts unwillingly, while at the same time there would be other people who'd try to make multiple accounts and complain to us when we point out that's not how the service is supposed to work. Inside of these companies, they will hire customer service people who will be genuinely passionate. That is what they're selected for. They really want to help their customers and most of the time, the customers are indirectly complaining about a dark pattern. The stupid thing is; we know that this is the dark pattern, but the pattern ends up being darker than intended (basically; we don't want to make it so easy that a customer could accidentally unsubscribe), but the company has "other priorities rn". Which is corporate speak for 'we know that this is a problem that makes our service look bad, but actually, the entire company is constantly on fire, so just deal with it'. And when the company isn't constantly fighting fires anymore, guess what, then they focus on being profitable, so they kind of want to keep the dark patterns they built up accidentally.

[@mikeallensonntag]

Linus I really love watching your show while having some drinks.

[@greggatesjr1301]

My fav shortcut for Fahrenheit and Celsius: 82 is 28, and 61 is 16

[@kevinbusker3634]

I think the color change on lttstore ( 37:46 ) is a bug. It wouldn’t change for me when I was looking at a beanie and I know it used to go to the color that you clicked to show you what you selected.

[@kevinbarnard3502]

What I have always found funny about which units of measurement places use now is that most places that were once ruled by monarchs and emperors and, possibly, created Imperial units use metric while the US that formed against imperial rule uses imperial. On a side note, all those whatever mm sockets attach to the ratchet on a 1/4 or 1/2 inch square notch.

[@fooltimer]

wild guess for the views/subs could be with YT adding that auto play with toggle on/off sound while scrolling on "home page" which lets you find vid you find interesting, turn on sound and watch it/listen to it from there without the hassle of gettin ads

[@anewbimproves5622]

Milk at work isn't even that unusual in the UK because we mostly use milk in our coffee and tea instead of creamer.

[@RastaJew]

Americans don't know that normal countries use milk in their tea and coffee and not "creamer." I wouldn't even know where to buy "creamer."

[@phatec]

24:34 "it's aboot 3 der eh", I'm Canadian as well.

[@WillyTrip]

Dan saying, "why do I want some coffee now", sent me 😂

[@sorrynotsorry8224]

As an Australia, I just wanted to chime in on the topic at 2:00:00. I'm not a Floatplane subscriber so I can't comment on those streams, I have noticed that there are some sites that stream very poorly to me in particular but everyone else (including other Australians) have no problems with.

[@maartenvandenberge7116]

hearing you talk about canceling reminds me of our public transport system, you have subscriptions you buy online but you need to call them during business hours to cancel

[@Peekofwar]

I canceled my grandmother's Prime subscription the other day... At one point I thought I might be done, but then saw the option to continue cancelation. Considering I'd heard from the WAN show that they do this, I knew to look out for this.

[@dalton6173]

From my understanding the reason that they still use floppy disk for the nuclear football and for nuclear facilities is to keep it as secure as possible because it is analog and it is hard copy analog it is much more difficult to steal the codes or to make a fake copy or to do anything with whatsoever. Yes it is possible for any country to get stuff for floppy disk however to get the exact look of the distance they use or at least close enough to pass the visual inspection of just having it in your vision then it's still pretty hard to do that considering very few eyes have laid eyes on that particular disc.

[@PurpleKnightmare]

My parents and older brothers were clueless, I'm Gen X, and I was very savey in tech growing up. I been in IT for decades. They kept asking why a computer, and later I got a job at IBM.