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The WAN Show

China Got No Game - WAN Show October 20, 2023

The WAN Show

Linus Tech Tips

News Commentary, Tech News, News

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2023

⏱️ 194 minutes

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Summary

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Timestamps (Courtesy of NoKi1119) Note: Timing may be off due to sponsor change:

0:00 Chapters

1:14 Intro

1:47 Topic #1 - US to stop NVIDIA from shipping RTX 4090 to China

3:33 Limited exports to KSA, UAE & Vietnam, other GPU variants

4:34 NVIDIA's $400M quarterly sales, is this going to do anything?

6:21 Local factories, governments' influence on companies

8:16 Topic #2 - Jon Stewart's "The Problem" will not have a third season

8:52 Topic #3 - NY lawmakers demand background checks on 3D printers

10:40 Linus on Luke's "realistic view," banned products, anarchic book

14:02 Implications, shotguns, policy makers, hand-made guns

21:22 Policy makers, Linus on the size of Canada & its inhabitability

27:18 Topic #4 - Apple to update sealed iPhones remotely

28:15 Linus loves this, Luke is worried about this

31:02 Future Secret Shopper 3 parts, Linus on versions & updating

33:15 Linus's steam updates theory, Luke rejects it ft. Windows updates

39:21 Linus on seamless MacOS updates compared to Windows

42:01 Topic #5 - Linus wants Steam to improve SH's system information

44:44 Luke shows average hardware, Linus on how this is misleading

47:47 LTTStore's new dropout jacket

48:36 Linus mentions audio guy & Luke's response

51:54 LTTStore's new controller ornaments

56:38 Potential bits holder, color coding, Linus on its issues

59:25 Linus breaks the table, discussing lanyards & carabiner

1:07:08 Merch Messages #1

1:20:48 Topic #6 - Twitter's "Not a Bot" program to charge users in NZ & PH

1:21:58 Recalling XtremeSystems & Martin's Liquid Lab

1:25:46 Controversial Tweets, SSSniperwolf's react & doxx situation

1:26:57 Linus breaks the bits holder, Sebastien's response

1:28:29 Luke doesn't care about X & bots, Linus mentions Zuckerberg

1:30:20 Huawei's Kirin 9000S bot comments on HotHardware

1:37:44 Sponsors

1:41:51 Merch Messages #2

1:49:22 Topic #7 - Skull Island: Rise of Kong is terrible

1:53:52 Topic #8 - AMD's Anti-Lag+ update

1:56:56 Topic #9 - Marketplace tech repairs caught snooping on devices

2:02:18 Topic #10 - Mountain Dew LTT screwdriver

2:02:32 Linus has the screwdriver, the user's offer, Linus's thoughts

2:04:48 Linus teases Ariana's AMD system upgrade, "written off" Linus

2:05:52 Adam's system upgrade video, ECC squad

2:06:58 Topic #11 - Valve's presentation on recommendation systems

2:09:05 Recalling internet's enshitification, Amazon shopping

2:11:45 Topic #12 - AMD's Threadripper 7000 series releasing next month

2:13:18 Recalling first gen Threadripper's price

2:14:01 Merch Messages #3 ft. WAN Show After Dark

2:14:42 Companies you want to have WAN Show's level of transparency? ft. Handshake, BlizzCon devs

2:18:40 Aspects of Linus that changed over the years? ft. New CEO, spending habits, consumables

2:39:10 Downsides of reposting videos like the SS 3? ft. Oldschool Runescape

2:45:18 Any advice to encourage a girl's interest in tech?

2:46:05 A path not taken with LTT that you're most curious about its outcome?

2:49:28 Things you've done professionally you'd never do again?

2:57:46 Will there be a tipping point where the market want to push back and own products?

2:57:46 Topic 13: Qualcomm announces RISC-V Android chip

2:59:16 If an AI can predict appliance settings, would you use it?

3:00:38 Storing a large movie library - MicroSD, SSD or USB stick?

3:02:00 What is the worst RMA experience you had?

3:03:11 What defunct products have you seen that have a cloud-based config?

3:05:19 A proverbial hill you'd die on that people wouldn't know about?

3:08:12 Why Build Redux was not included in the Secret Shopper 3?

3:09:13 How do the dropout hoodies hold up at the gym?

3:10:50 Any issues with the pool cooling? Video update?

3:11:39 What was your best deal ever?

3:14:38 Dan's & Luke's favorite Starfield mods?

3:15:55 Outro

Transcript

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0:00.0

everyone and welcome to the wan show there is a ton of news to talk about this week so if you

0:04.8

hate it when we get distracted from shilling for l t store dot com and randomly bantering

0:10.9

then you are not gonna have a lot of fun today. Let's get right into it. No delay. New York

0:16.0

lawmakers are debating background checks for 3D printers. Oh, and our headline topic,

0:22.4

NVIDIA, is no longer allowed to export RTX 4090s to China.

0:28.0

How will they game without 4090s?

0:31.0

It's actually impossible.

0:32.0

I mean, they're going to look back on their lives and think how much of my life did I spend without

0:37.2

Ray tracing that's an older reference but come on it still checks out. It still checks out. What else we got today?

0:43.0

Apple to potentially update phones while they're in their boxes still?

0:47.0

Okay, no, that is actually cool.

0:49.0

No, that's wild.

0:50.0

I actually really like it.

0:51.0

Because that means they can turn them on remotely.

0:54.2

Well, we'll talk about that later.

0:55.4

That's nuts.

0:56.4

We'll talk about that later.

0:57.4

I don't know what's going on with that.

0:59.3

And Twitter's going to charge users.

1:01.5

I don't know.

1:02.1

I was told not to read the dock. I don't know what other

1:04.9

other topics are in here. I've been I've been told there's like a lot of them.

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