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Where Will This End? - WAN Show November 25, 2022

The WAN Show

Linus Tech Tips

Tech News, News, News Commentary

4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2022

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Make compliance easy with Kolide at: https://www.kolide.com/WAN Get a $100 60-day credit on your new account at: http://linode.com/wan Start using AnyDesk today at lm.gg/AnyDesk Timestamps: (Courtesy of NoKi1119 NOTE: Timestamps may be off due to sponsor change) 0:00 Chapters 1:13 Intro - Dark Mode 1:42 Topic #1 - Mercedes's EV acceleration subscription 1:50 Linus on Alex's stance 3:20 Everything is included, so why lock features? 5:33 Shareholders & revenue, discussing automobile companies 8:14 Trickle-down economics, Linus's perspective on taxes 14:26 New Jersey banned similar vehicle subscriptions 16:16 Homelessness, Elon Musk on $6B "solving world hunger" 18:42 Devil's advocate on Mercedes charge & warranty costs 20:30 Subscription offers up to 24% more horsepower 22:18 Topic #2 - Intel's On-Demand Sapphire Rapids CPUs 25:08 Discussing Ai 1 airbag vest's subscription pricing 27:16 Topic #3 - eufy uploads pictures without user consent 28:31 Facial recognition, snapshot of feed 29:09 eufy replies: "this is for notifications," disproved instantly 30:10 Remotely start a stream of unencrypted feeds via VLC 31:47 Recapping the controversy, LTT is done with Anker 33:51 Does the Smart Scale send "pictures" to the Chinese government? 36:13 Luke's girlfriend's interactable robot vacuum 37:05 LTTStore Black Friday deal 37:44 Sponsors 45:25 Floatplane roast on Luke not buying anything 46:54 Topic #4 - The last seven days in Twitter #2 47:05 Elon on "Freedom of speech is NOT freedom of reach" policy 49:20 Elon's poll on reinstating suspended accounts, delaying Blue Verified 51:29 Elon's poll on offering "amnesty" to the banned, Blue to launch on December 2nd 53:07 Luke's hot takes on Twitter & news on social media 56:34 Balenciaga's controversial children campaign 1:02:10 LTTStore wallet & tie ideas 1:04:13 LTTstore tie design, FP poll: do you wear ties? 1:06:38 LTTStore wallet & passport case design 1:09:26 Merch Messages #1 1:09:54 What is on Linus's & Luke's Christmas lists? 1:15:57 Would have Luke hired Linus for LukeTechTips? 1:17:12 Topic #5 - Meta focuses on AI 1:17:41 Linus on machine learning versus AI 1:19:43 Cicero AI, performs greatly in the game Diplomacy 1:22:18 Linus discusses Google Assistant's voice recognition 1:22:57 Galactica AI, generates scientific "answers" 1:26:22 Linus explains his stance on machine learning 1:27:20 Topic #6 - Marvel "used to be good" 1:30:58 SOLIDWORKS to sponsor an LTT video 1:33:32 Merch Messages #2 1:36:00 LTT content are mostly "top-end" complaint 1:39:18 LTT's audio production video explained 1:39:57 Why are companies becoming more abrasive to our wallets? 1:40:43 Thanksgiving holiday traditions 1:42:28 Thoughts on an alternative to car subscriptions 1:43:20 What does Linus wish to accomplish in 10-20 years? 1:45:01 Labs to host a trustworthy UserBenchMark competitor? 1:45:45 Luke stops Linus from showcasing beta Labs site 1:48:46 Creating an environment where people can freely criticize? 1:56:40 GoXLR mixer, Luke's experience 1:57:48 Why Linus hasn't done mystery science theater, thoughts on Disney & Star Wars 2:01:52 Update on the Floatplane as a service idea 2:03:05 Twitch losing streaming credits 2:04:21 Delaying content with other creators if one does not receive a sample? 2:05:24 LTTStore Backpack bundle in the future 2:06:10 Outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

What is up, everyone? Happy Friday and welcome to the WAN show. We've got a great show lined

0:08.8

up for you this week. Actually, that's a lie. We've got nothing this week, but we're going

0:12.0

to make the most of it because we do have a few things to talk about starting, of course,

0:17.6

with subscriptions. Why is everything in line for subscription? Mercedes. Mercedes is going

0:25.2

to be locking better acceleration performance behind a subscription. Never mind a paywall. It's

0:33.6

a subscription. Also, this week in the Elon Twitter, we've got an update on all of that. We're

0:40.1

going to, you know what, let's not even make that a main topic. No, forget it. Let's talk about

0:44.3

UBC's UPC. That's right. A sub-brand of charger slash battery giant anchor has been spotted

0:51.9

sending pictures and video to their cloud servers without user consent. We'll be discussing that.

0:56.4

What else we got this week? I'm going to call it to just randomly bolded lines of text because

1:01.2

those are often the most fun topics that we have. One of them says Marvel used to be good.

1:07.2

And I'm interested in this. Use your desperation topics. But another one says I got a car. What's

1:12.0

up with that? Did you buy a new car? Oh, I tried to roll the intro and it broke.

1:22.2

Dan. Dan. Dan. What's happening? Way to go, Dan. What is happening? We could act it out.

1:32.2

Cool. Well, that was fun. Why don't we jump right into our first topic of the day? Subscriptions.

1:39.2

Come on. Not excellent. Oh, man. Okay. I want to jump in real quick here and say that the

1:47.2

editorializing in our notes is unacceptable. And the writer who worked on this topic, you know who

1:54.4

you are, Alex Clark. Oh, wow. Yeah. Hold on. Okay. These are not my words. Not satisfied with

2:04.2

just making the worst electric cars around Mercedes will now be locking increased acceleration

2:10.0

under a $1,200 yearly subscription. All right. This is me now. This is me so much. Can I just say

2:17.9

that even though Alex is so angry about this, he's you can almost tell that subliminally he has

2:25.9

kind of accepted the premise of a subscription. And here I will explain what I mean by that.

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