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The WAN Show

How We Did The April Fool's Office Prank - WAN Show April 5, 2024

The WAN Show

Linus Tech Tips

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🗓️ 6 April 2024

⏱️ 238 minutes

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You never want to cut corners on your PC’s power supply. So check out what Seasonic has to offer at: https://lmg.gg/SSBG850 Visit https://www.squarespace.com/WAN and use offer code WAN for 10% off Check out the MSI AEGIS RS2 14th at https://lmg.gg/MSI-AEGIS-14-WAN Big Publishers Are Gaming Google Search https://housefresh.com/david-vs-digital-goliaths/ Timestamps (Courtesy of NoKi1119): 0:00 Chapters 1:30 Intro 2:08 Topic #1 - Covering LMG's April Fools shoot at the old house 4:51 What could've been, David's idea, everyone actually worked there 8:14 Linus on who was involved & the costs of doing this 13:19 David's on-set video idea, how the neighbors dealt with this 17:03 Cars shot was perfect, news reached out about the "C&D" letter 21:14 BTS video was an hour long, "this video was a tax write-off" 25:46 Some jokes were cut out, staff's commitment & energy was great 29:34 David's final thoughts on this project 30:15 Merch Messages #1 ft. David 32:38 Most difficult stunt to pull off? ft. LTT's past April Fools 39:38 FP price will go up, current subs will be grandfathered in 43:15 Mad Max joke, characters, PS5 jailbreak joke, David leaves 46:04 Wearing Terry Fox Foundation's shirt, Luke reading the note & shirt 50:35 Topic #2 - Amazon's "Just Walk Out" system to be closed 1:07:28 LTTStore's limited Welcome Hole shirts 1:11:02 Merch Messages #2 1:18:31 Best way to keep my family safe while running a home lab? 1:21:23 Sponsor - Seasonic 1:23:54 Sponsor - Squarespace 1:25:06 Sponsor - MSI 1:26:19 Topic #3 - Linus's reaction to his car being broken into 1:36:50 Merch Messages #3 1:37:08 Thoughts on Ross Scott against Ubisoft killing The Crew? 1:43:40 Why is 256 characters the default for NTFS paths? 1:46:26 How do we guard against detached decisions? ft. Driving, "Dan leaking" 1:59:33 Topic #4 - Intel's chip fab in Germany finds ancient burial mounds 2:01:20 Topic #5 - Google deletes incognito details to settle $5B lawsuit 2:02:26 "Welcome to the WAN Show!" - Alive Luke 2k24 2:03:49 Topic #6 - Discord's Quest, GAMER EDITION ads 2:08:31 Luke on Discord's model, Teams to be decoupled from Office 2:15:54 Topic #7 - Google to shut down Podcast internationally 2:19:52 Topic #8 - YouTube's "Jump Ahead" skips to best parts of videos 2:22:49 Showcasing comparison charts & color edits 2:24:06 Testing out comparison bin 2:26:38 Topic #9 - Truth Social is now public, initial value of $8b 2:29:48 Linus suggests against investing, compares revenue with FP 2:33:57 Gambling's huge sponsor offers & revenue 2:37:27 LMG going public scenario, Luke points out Linus's risking habit 2:43:26 Gaming hotel business idea, mentioning Mario 2:46:50 Topic #10 - Developers say that indie games funding dried up 2:49:13 Topic #11 - Outlook accused of sharing user data with 801 companies 2:50:48 Topic #12 - Linux backdoor found that targets encrypted data 2:54:15 Topic #13 - Twitter indirectly sells data for government surveillance 3:01:40 Topic #14 - HouseFresh calls out Google's recommended product lists 3:08:28 LTT Labs debate on using AI voice, viability, compromises, profits 3:21:42 Merch Messages #4 3:22:39 Advice for a timid person to have their voice heard in a convo? 3:26:27 What would Luke's new car of choice be? 3:27:19 Changes on LTTStore products we missed? ft. After Dark 3:29:33 Disclosure of AI in your content? Would you care? 3:32:40 How much of Linus's kids remember Langley's house? 3:35:22 What's Luke's rarest Pokémon GO finds in his collection? 3:35:46 What's your first action if you woke up to a Freaky Friday? 3:43:38 Have you tried a virtual challenge like The Conqueror? 3:45:30 Reference material helpful for an engineering manager position? 3:49:36 If Luke was CVO, would he start LTT Labs knowing the ROI of it? 3:52:40 Elaborating on Mattermost's problems 3:54:33 Thoughts on Framework and the earthquake? 3:56:59 Favorite flower? 3:57:31 Outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What is up everyone and welcome to the WAN show?

0:03.2

We've got a bunch of great topics for you guys today

0:05.2

including a special guest.

0:07.4

That's right, we've got, oh, there he is.

0:09.3

He's kind of in the middle of the frame now.

0:11.1

Oh, he's leaning, he's leaning out of the frame now. He's leaning, he's leaning out of the frame now.

0:13.7

It's got the, yay there we go. We've got David on the show to talk about the incredible amount of effort

0:21.6

that went into this year's April Fool's prank. I'm really not quite sure how he pulled it off

0:26.7

But you guys might not realize this if you're not subscribed to float plane. We actually had a lot of those people working out of the house.

0:36.0

So it was, the joke was that it wasn't really a joke.

0:40.5

So we're going to talk about everything that was involved in getting entire departments of the company moved into that residential house for almost a week for some of them.

0:50.0

It seemed pretty inconvenient.

0:52.0

We're also going to be talking about how AI it turns out is just underpaid foreigners.

0:59.0

Yeah. It's like that always has been meme.

1:02.0

Yeah, exactly.

1:03.0

What else we got today?

1:05.0

Discord wants you to monetize your friends.

1:08.0

That's...

1:10.0

I don't know about you guys, but my friends are worthless,

1:12.0

so good luck with that discord.

1:14.0

I don't have any.

1:17.0

Zero time zero situation.

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