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🗓️ 8 May 2023

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0:00 Start

0:05 Topics

1:22 Intro

1:49 Topic 1: Discord Usernames

2:08 Background

5:00 This doesn't make sense

8:37 Counter argument

10:51 How would you run it?

13:24 Discord vs Slack/Teams

15:51 Why is this happening?

19:03 Topic 2: OBS supports AV1 Streaming

19:58 Why this is important

23:15 H264 vs AV1

25:59 Floatplane AV1 and updates

33:00 LTT Store Update

33:29 New t-shirts

34:42 Cyber Stats Mousepad

36:55 Merch Messages 1

37:00 Future of Handheld Gaming

44:03 LTT's Audiences

53:14 Topic 3: EA Woes

55:22 Ultra settings in games

57:15 Dubious claims

58:13 Topic 4: Pixel Fold

1:00:24 Phone stats

1:01:04 Foldable phone woes

1:10:07 $1700

1:17:12 Sponsors

1:21:31 Proposal Pt 1

1:25:10 Merch Messages 2

1:25:13 Biggest crowd mishap

1:28:00 Favorite South Park episode?

1:29:02 Young vs old in tech

1:31:46 Justice for Dan's christmas album

1:33:08 Topic 5: Open Source AI

1:39:12 The problem with rumors

1:44:20 Topic 6: AMD 7040u

1:46:40 Chip specs

1:47:56 Microsoft Hardware

1:54:41 Proposal Pt 2

1:58:25 Topic 7: Biofire's Smart Weapon

1:59:59 Luke's gripes

2:01:25 Linus' smart weapon idea

2:02:12 WAN Show: After Dark

2:03:17 Private chef

2:07:08 8 gigs of VRAM

2:11:21 Computing Competition

2:12:39 Bird Seed

2:13:01 Liability

2:15:28 Licensure in tech

2:17:40 LTT products flops vs tops

2:21:13 Future tech

2:23:44 Parrot video calls

2:25:21 WAN show format

2:27:54 New channel ideas

2:29:53 Big and tall LTT store

2:30:31 Windows File Explorer

2:32:10 Workplace communication

2:35:25 Linus' 10 points for good videos

2:42:06 Sponsor disclosure

2:43:12 Big business

2:45:30 History of tech changes

2:46:15 Speakers practicality

2:47:26 Gaming now vs then

2:50:40 HR software

2:52:02 Custom screwdrivers

2:52:46 Videogame soundtracks

2:55:21 Roast of Linus

2:55:55 Leadership skills

2:57:19 Ultrawide monitors

2:59:09 Windbreaker variations

2:59:47 Folding phone woes

3:00:02 Bigscreen Beyond

3:01:34 WAN Show: Rapid Fire!

3:04:26 Outro

Transcript

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0:00.0	What is up bells and W's and welcome to the WAN show we've got a great show lined up for you guys today lots of great topics actually including
0:15.0	what discord discord is taking away the four digit numbers at the end of user.
0:23.0	How could they do this you can't be Luke number 8,642
0:29.0	was Luke 001 and they took it away from me no way I have no idea why.
0:35.0	They must have given it to a more important Luke probably yeah rude probably Luke Wilson.
0:41.0	In other news EA is blaming gamers for using hard high-end hardware on Windows 10 for Star Wars Jedi survivor performance issues
0:52.0	we're going to be getting into that what else we got today that's the one I wanted to talk about and you got
0:58.0	wrecked the pixel fold was officially announced after you know just like every other pixel device it was leaked to
1:05.0	every wow it's a folding phone that's a man that wants to replace his phone also OBS adds AV1 for YouTube live streams
1:13.0	which is actually huge we'll talk about that actually huge not huge but like we're lying to you huge
1:21.0	actually huge huge
1:42.0	Why don't we jump right into our headline topic which I completely forget what it is right discord
1:48.0	I have to change my name yeah me too I guess this is written I okay let's go through the facts first
1:55.0	okay the our original article here is from the verge but also from discord themselves this is not fake news
2:01.0	discord usernames will be evolving so instead of five by hashtag eight nine three six oh Phoebe probably pretty sure
2:10.0	now we're going to be Phoebe handle at Phoebe is cool because you are obviously not going to get at Phoebe
2:19.0	which I think the idea here is that it's going to make usernames easier to share
2:26.0	but we know from experience right the people just camp them and stuff
2:31.0	every creator's name is just going to be gone yeah up to literally thousands of numbers after it
2:38.0	I mean I learned this way back when having a good at hotmail.com email address was a mark of being kind of cool and with it
2:46.0	oh yeah I was cool with it
2:50.0	and then the same thing happened with Gmail and then the same thing happened with Twitter
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