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The WAN Show

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🗓️ 20 January 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Timestamps: (Courtesy of Ben Fayers)

2:39 - NSA Exploit Reveal
3:47 - Floatplane Password Character Limit
5:24 - Back to the NSA
6:33 - Linus runs away to shout at a microphone
7:17 - Luke wasn't paying attention to Linus (more NSA Chat)
9:20 - Windows 7 is dead
9:50 - Linus is back (Win7 conversation continues)
10:25 - Luke moves to Windows 10 (W7/OS conversation still going)
13:14 - (Tangent) Linus' gets crushed in beat saber.
26:27 - Discussion about TQ Video "Why is windows 10 free now"
30:40 - SPONSOR - Freshbooks
31:20 - SPONSOR - Humble Bundle
32:00 - SPONSOR - Displate
33:00 - LTTStore updates
33:40 - Nick's Twitter postings (and Linus lack of meme-ery)
34:50 - Apple may be forced to ditch the Lightning connector (EU voting on all devices using single connector)
38:25 - "USB Type C is not particularly well understood" (with example)
45:46 - (Tangent) Linus' Plex Server is fixed
46:00 - NVIDIA drops pricing of RTX 2060 to 299(USD?)
46:23 - "to the rumoured upcoming 5600XT which is releasing on ..." (Linus' makes sure he's not about to leak something)
46:38 - Back to GPU Talk
47:40 - LTT Minecraft Server Launch Soon™️
48:23 - Scientists build living robots (Xenobots)
50:38 - Cooler Master redesign thermal paste syringe
52:58 - Corsair iCUE to support Asus motherboard RGB control
54:50 - Two random things from Luke (and Linus' broken Valve Index)
57:15 - Luke is banned from WoW for 6 months
58:10 - Like was in a dungeon with his family members
58:48 - Luke's personal WoW classic launch day story

Transcript

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0:00.0	Oh, sorry. That's fine. I just wanted to note that feature request because it's good.
0:03.4	An error occurred. Please try again later. But also it says live and excellent condition. I love this so much. Hey Jake! Oh he wandered off okay I'm just
0:18.0	gonna snap this is probably the quickest way for me to do this. I'm just gonna snap
0:21.8	a quick picture of this because this is hilarious. We have a
0:25.2	call with them probably next week. Like we actually have a contact at YouTube that's like
0:31.7	actively working on the development of this panel and yeah
0:36.0	we were must be hard right now we were like straight up honest with them we were like
0:40.8	look the way that it's so confusing to use because the way it messages
0:44.7	things is terrible. Yeah. Like it's undecipitable. And so me getting like excellent connection live by the way there's a problem. You't you can't do that anyway we're live
0:54.2	well hey so ladies and gentlemen we've got a fantastic show for you guys today the
0:59.9	NSA has revealed a major flaw in Microsoft's Windows operating system.
1:05.6	Apple may be forced to ditch the lightning connector.
1:08.2	Luke got banned by Blizzard for six months.
1:12.0	That's a major topic. That's right. Well, I'm fascinated to hear about it. Okay yeah yeah
1:16.2	it's a great story and you don't have to go home but you can't stay here
1:20.6	Windows 7 is dead. Dead as a door nail, dead as... I mean you can still use it.
1:27.8	Yeah, you can still use it, but like... People used XP for a long time. They didn't anymore.
1:34.0	No.
1:35.0	Yeah, but you should really not boot a Windows XP operating system on your network.
1:39.0	Yeah, yeah.
1:41.0	Let's roll that intro.
1:42.0	Go, go, go.
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