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I Am Hard... [REDACTED] - WAN Show March 17, 2023

The WAN Show

Linus Tech Tips

News Commentary, Tech News, News

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2023

⏱️ 237 minutes

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

0:00 Chapters

1:31 Intro

2:09 Topic #1 - Linus's home server update

9:48 Luke's AC quote, Linus on borrowing GPUs, Aj's reponse

13:30 Linus asks Dan about showing pictures, Teams rant ft. Worried Luke

14:42 Linus explains custom & proprietary pins, sends photos to A Prime

17:22 Photo of Linus's janky solution, kicked PSU story

20:09 Photo of "custom 20-pin", Linus on "borrowing"

22:35 Linus's convo with the logistics team on RAM

26:22 Luke on coming back to LMG & his pairs of cloth

27:33 Linus on color coding his wife's & children's socks

29:35 Luke on someone's "office," lack of good headsets

34:12 Linus on LTT Labs & the size of LMG buildings

37:28 Luke on the productivity of local V.S. remote work

38:57 Topic #2 - Mint Mobile sold to T-Mobile

43:42 Ryan Reynold's insincere statement, Linus does math.

47:32 Ryan's football team, selling a gym, discussing benefits

50:55 Merch Messages #1

52:37 Anything mechanical you prefer for its simplicity?

58:05 What tech should be realized by now?

1:06:48 Luke's birb that passed away, Linus's cheat sheets & birthdays

1:14:35 Sponsors

1:20:12 LTTStore's new shape sorter toy ft. Luke unboxing

1:25:42 Baby's first PC idea, issues with magnets

1:26:51 Buy team red's CPU pillows, get a chance for a real CPU

1:29:15 Topic #3 - OpenAI releases ChatGPT-4 & ChatGPT Plus

1:31:46 Discussing power-seeking large models

1:32:08 Reselling software, #HustleGPT on github

1:35:36 ChatGPT capabilities, Be My Eyes

1:37:27 ChatGPT hired a human to solve a CAPTCHA for it, it can lie

1:40:01 ChatGPT to be able to see, can write malware code

1:42:08 Midjoruney no longer has issues generating hands

1:43:48 Linus on paying for ChatGPT to resell products

1:45:52 Luke on AI hallucinations & people misusing Bing

1:48:36 ChatGPT in Google Docs, Gmail & Microsoft 365, Teams

1:55:28 Linus leaves, Luke on Office 365 Co-Pilot's videos

1:57:28 "Dan" talks, Linus on AI hands, Luke on companies using ChatGPT

2:02:00 Topic #4 - Samsung fakes moon images via live processing

2:09:15 Topic #5 - Cloud offers pool heater if you host its server

2:13:47 Topic #6 - Cerebral leaks info of 31M patients

2:14:52 Betterhelp ordered to pay 77M in damages

2:15:08 GoodRx fined for sharing info, WAN writer's note

2:19:12 Dating sites' accurate data & the ad industry

2:22:32 Topic #7 - Luke's "Mineral oil" PC & NAS update

2:24:01 Colton took over Linus's office, Linus's offices history

2:28:10 LTTStore looking for volunteers to try out 5-6XXL

2:29:52 Topic #8 - Meta lays off 22,000 within 4 months

2:33:01 Meta's history of employees, recalling LMG's history

2:34:23 LMG & Floatplane are currently hiring

2:35:44 Merch Messages #2 2:39:52 How much content waste is in LMG?

2:47:51 Why are companies focused on PCI-E speed & not count?

2:52:33 Did Linus's publicity help Framework grow?

2:56:50 Devil's advocate, VP winner of merch rewards program

3:12:58 Why did Luke stay in LMG instead of relocate?

3:23:21 If you got an offer to go to the moon, would you?

3:36:20 Choose a main focus for Steam Deck & Nintendo Switch

3:38:38 Requirements for LMG & needs, would you consider the right resume?

3:56:54 615 merch messages answered this show

3:59:13 Outro

Transcript

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0:00.0

What is up and welcome to the WAN show everybody. We've got a great show for you guys today.

0:04.9

Big topics today. Why do I just take the hard path for everything? Okay? I've got some,

0:15.2

I've got some stuff to talk about. I want to just, man, I upgraded my home server this week.

0:21.3

And sometimes it's better to just use consumer hardware than trying to take some commercial

0:27.1

solution and put it into your mechanical room at home. In other news, what else we got this week

0:32.9

to talk about? Oh, I love this one. Samsung is under fire for their phone cameras generating

0:40.8

extra details in their moon pictures. This is actually a pretty deep rabbit hole for us to go

0:48.1

down. I'm really looking forward to the conversation. What else are we talking about today?

0:51.2

This week was relatively historical in the world of generative AI and large language models

0:56.8

and stuff like that. There was multiple major like game changing announcements every single day

1:03.6

this week. And Luke will talk about them for at least an hour. I'll try. I'll try to, I'll try to

1:09.0

keep it contained. I'm going to try. I have some strategies planned to keep it contained. We'll

1:14.8

see how it goes. And we're talking about it. Bit mobile. Bit mobile. Bit mobile. Bit mobile. It's

1:22.0

he sold it or something, right? Yeah. Yeah. He sold it in more like a billion dollars. Wow.

1:26.8

Right. Ryan Reynolds. What can't that guy do? Very rich.

1:34.7

Or what did I say? Quite wealthy.

1:37.9

No, no, you called me quite wealthy. And if I'm quite wealthy, that is stinking rich. Oh,

1:56.7

mega wealthy. Yeah, that's pretty ridiculous. We'll talk more with that later. All right.

2:02.0

What's worse? I am hard mode. That has to be our first topic because that's what we used for our

2:06.4

title. I just make life more difficult for myself for no reason. When show, for example, has

2:12.6

officially hit internal meme status to the point where I was on set finishing up a shoot. And as I

2:19.2

was saying goodbye to everyone and telling them I'm on my way, my way over here, they just kind of

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