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The WAN Show

My Reaction Channel Is Getting Called Out - WAN Show January 27, 2023

The WAN Show

Linus Tech Tips

News Commentary, Tech News, News

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2023

⏱️ 189 minutes

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

0:00 Chapters

1:30 Intro

1:55 Topic #1 - DarkViperAU on reaction channels

2:06 Linus confesses he only read the video's comments

3:08 Summarizing last WAN & Linus's impactful size

8:43 Linus on community backlash & perception

10:45 Collabs, pressuring, zoned ads & fair play

13:26 Matthew's points, Luke on "react" content

15:58 LTT's GPU tier list video, low-effort content

19:38 Discussing & defining reactions on YouTube

23:07 Matthew on transformative content

24:49 James's small creators showcase idea

25:42 Linus on LTT's reacts, Luke on reacting to mineral PCs

28:12 Is there value in providing good reacts content?

30:04 Ethical reactions, LTT's GTX Titan "benchmark"

33:03 LTT's unpaid intern's "C-clamps"

36:14 Original Sauce - CaseLabs returns from the dead

43:11 Would LMG consider making their own cases?

44:38 Linus apologizes for reading off the script in Arc video

46:52 Luke notices Linus reading on the video and laughs

48:24 Reason behind scripting the video

50:43 Discussing new AMD & Radeon challenge

50:48 Bricked BIOS, summarizing the challenge & adding Jake

52:32 Luke's GPU not fitting, forced into watercooling

55:10 Merch Messages #1 ft. Dan's Noctua hoodie

1:16:20 Topic #2 - Activation lock scraps MacBooks

1:16:56 Explaining encryption feature

1:17:54 Proposed solution

1:20:28 M2 MacBook Pro SSD slower than M1 models

1:24:29 MacBooks lock, Jonathan's reaction to Apple

1:27:46 Sponsor

1:31:52 Topic #3 - Microsoft's Power-Savings option triggers outrage

1:32:53 A terrible take & an adult man's tweet

1:33:49 FOX's "Woke brigade is after video games"

1:35:20 FOX's boomer guide on XBOX, Microsoft on savings

1:41:02 Confusion behind Microsoft's wording

1:44:42 Funny comment on fighting savings, why do people care?

1:45:48 Topic #4 - Linus's experience with Ludwig's bidet

1:47:16 Linus's bidet experience & "the upper hand"

1:49:52 Linus on fancy toilet & pricey stores

1:52:28 Luke thought of getting a bidet

1:54:46 Luke is alone, Merch Message #2

1:58:29 Topic #5 - CNET used AI tools for finance articles, corrects again

1:59:02 "Thoroughly edited," corrects half of it

2:00:44 Medium bans unclear AI-authored work, theft problem

2:03:17 Anti-AI idea for plagiarized scholar articles

2:05:15 Linus mentions "TikTok's enshittification" article

2:08:56 Pros & Cons on competing with BuzzFeed using AI?

2:11:39 Topic #6 - Cryptominers AMD GPUs cracks

2:11:56 Topic #7 - Samsung's 990 Pro SSDs failing

2:12:53 Topic #8 - Google drops support for OnHub

2:16:04 Recalling Google Clips camera

2:15:04 Can we trust Google products? Luke on "smart" bird feeders

2:18:54 Cole-Bar responded, Luke on Linus's face & updating passwords

2:22:28 Topic #9 - AMD "calls out" older AMD GPUs

2:24:28 Topic #10 - LTX 2023 update

2:24:42 Tickets to go live this Monday

2:27:35 Merch Messages #3

2:36:20 How many hours a week do Linus & Luke work? ft. history with Yvonne

2:50:39 LTT to react to The Verge's build video?

3:01:50 The next Nintendo console to be similar to Switch, or a fixed station?

3:11:28 Outro

Transcript

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0:00.0

What is up, everyone? And welcome to the Wancho. We've got a lot of great topics to go through today.

0:10.0

I cannot believe how quickly Dark Viper AU, sorry if I'm pronouncing that wrong.

0:17.0

Dark Viper responded to our plans to make a reaction channel, but he did.

0:24.0

So we'll be talking about that.

0:27.0

Let's react to that.

0:28.0

We're also going to be talking about perfectly good two-year-old MacBooks.

0:32.0

Okay, I was with you. Perfectly good up until... I don't know.

0:37.0

Okay, so they're for MacBooks. They're perfectly good and are apparently being scrapped because of activation lock.

0:43.0

Okay, in all seriousness though, yes, MacBooks are perfectly good if they're two years old. And that's a bad thing.

0:48.0

But it's also a bit more complicated than that. What else we got today?

0:51.0

You know, stuff, CNET issues mass corrections for AI-written articles. This is actually hilarious.

0:58.0

It's like really funny.

1:00.0

And what else do we do? What else do we do?

1:04.0

Linus talks about washing his butt.

1:06.0

Really?

1:07.0

Yeah, why not?

1:08.0

Seriously, you don't want to do public backlash against Microsoft for reducing gamers' power bills.

1:12.0

It's pretty funny too.

1:13.0

I don't even understand.

1:15.0

It's actually hilarious.

1:17.0

Okay, because I don't get it.

1:18.0

Yeah, you won't get it any... No, don't read it now.

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