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That white powder in the wrist band may be Thorium. Get a radiation detector that can detect Alpha particles (normal Geiger counters don't do this). If so, it's probably not so spicy that you need to be overly panicked. Just don't sleep with it on, or wear it, basically, ever. Keep it in a plastic bag to contain the radiation. Google around, Chinese rubber with thorium inside is a thing and wearing it long term WILL give you cancer.

I fundamentally disagree with you that using an AI to bookmark and cite podcast / long format content is a bad thing. The fundamental fear of LMG is that this makes monetization difficult. I argue that this technology is essential to preventing monopolies, and for that reason alone, it is imperative that it continue to exist, rather than to try and stifle it with childish 'muh copyright' or 'muh license' nonsense. By far, the biggest issue is monetization of copyrighted works. That's a huge hairball and worthy of discussion, but that discussion keeps not happening, because nobody wants to learn the uncomfortable truth that the price the market will *actually* bear for their content is 25¢ when they think it should be $10. The LTT store is an example that if you make a quality product, you get sales. Gamer's Nexus employs around 10 people with mostly store sales and a few sponsored videos here and there. People are more than willing to spend their money on products worth owning. If the movie industry, for example, would sell a 4k HDR .mkv version of their new movies, without DRM, for $12 (the cost of a matinee ticket), and then release that .mkv the same day that the movie released in theaters, two things would happen: 1. The theater industry would largely die off 2. Nobody would see a particular reason to pirate movies, because the movie industry would be offering the same thing the pirates do, with probably as good or better quality, in a timeline the pirates can't compete with. This is the Steam/Valve approach to movie content. Netflix tried to change that model, and go to one where you could stream any content that you wanted to see, collect one monthly fee, then pay that fee out as a royalty to the rights holders. The problem was they tried to coerce rights holders into accepting that their content was worth X, when all the right holder had to do was act like a toddler and throw a tantrum while saying "no! My content is worth y!" and suddenly, content started flying out of Netflix's catalog. Well, that, combined with everyone realizing that what Netflix was offering was not particularly complicated to setup. If I were to truly try and work through all the nuance of the 'monetize royalty' problem in this post, it would be close to 20 pages long. But, instead, let's cherry pick an example. You make a new Marvel movie. As part of the copyright on that movie, you declare the royalty is $10. So the matinee tickets are set to $12; $10 to Marvel, $2 to the theater (this is actually better than theaters get now). When the blu-ray comes out, I can buy that blu-ray, rip it, encode it as an MKV, and sell it for $11.50. $1.50 to me, to run the server and pay for bandwidth, and $10 I MUST sent to Marvel as their copyright cut. But, as long as they get their $10 cut, and I distribute it in a way that I can keep count of sales, we're good. And anyone who fails to pay is accountable for the $10 per 'copy' they made to another person. "Legally unenforceable!" Not any more enforceable than trying to say AIs aren't allowed to parse video transcripts. Now, the problem with this model is Marvel has an incentive to set that fee to be so high that nobody would pay it. "$11.50 for a .mkv download, 6 months after theater release? Screw that!". But 25¢? For 25¢, I doubt anyone would fail to pay that. Heck, even $1-5 would probably be acceptable. And so you end up with the reality being that you need a model a lot closer to whomever is making the copies MUST pay a royalty to the creator, but whatever they charge as that royalty must be clearly set aside as such. "Well then it's a race to the bottom and the people who can make the best copies as fast as possible win!" Yes, it is. In fact, we have a word for that industry: manufacturing. The manufacturer who can copy a product in the most efficient manner wins. AIB partners for Nvidia, blu-ray and CD printers, vinyl record makers, CNC parts manufacturing, on and on the list goes. These companies copy goods, tack their costs onto the cost paid to the IP holder, and the final sales price is a result. The problem with digital goods has always been that the limiting factor on cost is electricity and physical floor space for the server. IE: very very tiny. And charging 0.00001¢ per copy never made much sense to anyone. (or closer to maybe 40¢ in the case of a 8GB movie). {40¢ is not made up, it's based on AWS Ohio 'Data Transfer OUT From Amazon EC2 To Internet' pricing as of 12/24/2022} And so we come to podcast content. LMG, probably Joe Roegan, and others view this auto-citation robot as an existential threat which will decrease their revenue. In reality, the revenue they are due is whatever the market will bear, and as this technology exists to circumvent things consumers do not like, the rights holders should be in no position to say 'no! We don't like that!'. The customer is always right, and in this case, the customer is saying that your value is whatever they choose to give you, not whatever you can squeeze out of them. It's an unfortunate truth to realize that your ability to 'hold people accountable to pay you' is little more than trying to enforce the age old ideal of 'might is right' by proxy. "I say my content is worth $1! and I can get a man with a gun to talk to you if you disagree!" No. Why do we tolerate this? Embrace the change, make content people are willing to pay for, and live off what you get. Embrace capitalism, not authoritarianism. Be a leader in a new form of copyright where anyone can pay you a set fee per copy, and as long as that money comes in, you're considered square. If you set that fee well, you'll make money. If you're greedy, you won't. Simple-as.

Arlo is Jake's cat. So petition Jake to put more Arlo in Sarah's streams.

I've been looking forward to this one. I had no idea Sarah and Jake were a thing. The 6" joke is the best joke in this entire video. And I agree, Arlo stole the show. Jake's cat is just too puurrrrrrdy.

It comes down to trust. I'll watch LTT content and read their data, but I won't ever trust it. LTT has shilled too many shitty products over the year with their fundamental 'show it in its best light' concept for me to every trust them. GN? GN I trust. GN will actively shoot themselves in the foot to say what is right. Linus has done this in the past, but not to the same degree or intensity that Steve has. So...for me, GN.

Imagine if Linus took a page out of Akamai/Google/Facebook/Amazon's playbook and starting OEMing LTT branded 10G Ethernet switches? 4 years ago Akamai was ordering semi-truck fulls of 48-port 10G (+8 100g uplinks) switches for ~$6500 each. They had to have their own firmware engineers to make that work, but that's a huge part of why Akamai's network is so stable, same for AWS. LTT could make a killing undercutting Cisco and others by 1/2 or more for the customers who only need a few basic features (tagging and native vlans, ZDT firmware upgrades, etc). How many options exist in a Cisco nexus firmware that literally never get used, but are still attack and bug surfaces? This is why these companies OEMed their own servers and switches. Now being an integration tester for that would be super hella fun. But...again, not enough to live in Canada for.

If I lived in can-a-derp I'd give this more than a passing consideration. My personal love would be in testing enterprise equipment (Fiber Channel storage arrays, fiber channel and IP switches, disk packs from big vendors like Dell and Western Digital vs DIY solutions like 45 drives and backblaze). But I'm a US citizen who is never going to move across the border. And, yes, I am qualified to test all of that stuff. I did it as my day job for about 5 years and loved it. My main focus back then was finding bugs. And boy did I find some good ones.

Anyone see the theory floating around on Reddit that Citadel Capital ((one of)the major hedge fund behind the whole Gamestonk thing) is actually a puppet that Bezos uses to short-sell Amazon competitors out of existence whenever Amazon wants to expand into a new market space? The DD on it requires enough tin-foil to wrap the moon, but the base theory...I gotta say, given how fast Bezos is chucking out lawsuits to stop anyone trying to compete with him, it kinda sorta makes sense. Quacks like a duck, shits like a duck, looks like a duck, lays duck eggs...

The funny thing is...nuclear power is actually perfect for crypto mining. Cheaper, cleaner, safer, etc. No, I do NOT want some randome joe buying a nuclear plant and 'owning' it. I want that run safely and properly. But the technology is an ideal fit. Nuclear excels at running 80-100% for 12 months straight.

Re-read. I spent multiple paragraphs talking about how Linus could start by giving Riley autonomy. James is not managing anything. He's more of a secretary than a manager. A manager would make the videos happen without Linus's involvement and come to Linus with a plan "Ok, you show up at X for voice-over for Sarah's build." rather than coming to Linus with the most timid of attitudes to say "Linus sir, we have a problem that you must resolve, here are some options." This is not a demerit to James. He's made toothless by Linus being the final say on literally every non-trivial decision James could make. Taran and Brandon both get autonomy because Linus can't do their jobs. Linus himself admits this. "We'd love to shoot in 60 FPS, but if I did I think half my shooters would quit." (or a quote from Linus VERY similar to this during the last WAN show). Linus can't approve their work because Linus doesn't understand their work. Not in the way he understands, for example, writing. Floatplane answers to Linus. Luke is the closest thing to a manager LMG has as Linus actually trusts Luke to handle all Floatplane related day-to-day tasks. Linus still heads the strategic decisions and overall view, but Luke is still pretty neutered on what direction he can take Floatplane because of being bound to Linus. Think about how VMware moved away from supporting certain Dell/EMC software solutions even though VMware was owned by EMC and spun off as a separate company, can you see Luke ever doing that? No.

Linus is his own worst enemy. Jocko Willink talks a lot about leadership. One of the fundamental pillars of that is delegating tasks. But then Jocko goes on to explain how you delegate. "That's a great idea, make it happen." and you give the entire thing to them. Look at the body language of everyone in this video. They all answer to Linus and they know it. Nobody owns anything, because success is Thanks Be to Linus, and failure is your fault. There's no reason to strive or achieve when your 'rewards' are because of your boss, but your failures are because of your own failings. Look at the criticisms Linus receives about working at LMG during The Wan Show. He is absolutely hostile to anyone who says working at LMG is anything less than awesome. And if you don't let him flex the rules, and you hold him to the letter of the law, then you can GTFO. Smells like unpaid overtime to me. Start with Riley. He 'owns' Techquickie. He chooses guest hosts, he does script reviews (and loops in someone like James, rather than Linus, if he is reviewing his own script), he talks to Ed, he resolves scheduling conflicts, etc. When a Techquickie goes wrong, there needs to already be a culture within LMG (this doesn't exist now) of saying "Ok, I failed, why did I fail?" because Riley, in this case, would have so much ownership of Techquickie that any failure would be his fault in 99% of cases. So when Riley asks "Ok Linus, I failed, how/why? What am I not seeing?" then you have a conversation as peers to troubleshoot what went wrong. Similarly, when Riley really wins, he gets those rewards directly and divvies them out himself. Revenue up 30%? Then he gets to budget how that 30% gets spent. He has final say, not Linus. That's delegation, and it gives Riley the means and tools to not only succeed, but be personally invested in success. If Riley is greedy, and those funds could help other parts of LMG that are unbalanced, he can choose to do so, but he can also use it as a carrot on a stick to say "These problems are structural, fix them, and then I'll give you the money." I don't want anyone to misunderstand, Linus is not 'evil'. He's pushed well beyond his limits. But he's beyond his limits because he created a cult of personality by hiring people with a personality fit first, and a talent fit second. Madison was the one time he had to bend that rule, and, well, he's never once acted positively about her outside of begrudgingly admitting her ROG reboot video was one of the best they've done in years. He's not acting, he actually dislikes her. And that's very telling, because she's a strong A-type personality, and he cannot stand being around another one of those. Linus has to admit that the success of LMG is because he is a good strategic leader, and give up the tactical leadership to his direct reports. But doing that requires Linus to admit that someone else can take what he's built and make it better than he can. That's something Linus can't do right now for reasons I don't have the information to comprehend. A knock-on effect of this is that he can't demand non-competes from ANYONE once he does this. If your on-screen talent is good and drives business by writing good scripts in a timely manner and running the ship on their own, then you can't simultaneously tell them that they are only able to work for you. Any sane person will say "uh, hell no" to that in a heartbeat. When I say Linus is his own worst enemy, I'm not kidding. It runs DEEP with him. He's been like this for decades, and for him to change will require a monumental change in his way of seeing the world.

I think it would be HILARIOUS for an act similar to the UASF to come around and lock the accounts holding Tesla's 1.5 billion in BTC. As in, they cannot send or receive on those addresses, the mempool rejects transactions to/from them. It would be a bit untractable as a problem though, because he'd be able to move the bitcoin in a few hours prior to the UASF reaching consensus levels (if not sooner) and then we'd be blacklisting the wrong addresses. IDK, I flip flop back and forth between "We have the tools to punish this asshole" and "his effects on the market are so small it's really not worth worrying about." *shrug*

Summary The need for Right to Repair extends even to McDonald's Ice Cream machines. A franchise requirement to use a specific Taylor ice cream maker gives Taylor a monopoly and McDonald's doesn't care because the franchises bear the burden of the cost, rather than McDonald's itself. The company that made and sold a tool to help the problem gets shuttered. Quotes My thoughts Technically not my thought, but: The problem with right to repair, and the fact that you don't own anything, is already so far ingrained in society that the meme of "Just don't buy Apple" doesn't work. Even business-to-business contracts are infected with this cancer. The real way to make progress with Right to Repair is to make it, effectively, impossible to have a large business that even has the kind of leverage needed to pull off such a monopoly. But, I'll settle for schematics, board views, and access to component-level parts. Sources https://www.wired.com/story/they-hacked-mcdonalds-ice-cream-makers-started-cold-war/

Oh boy! Bitmain launching a new miner! Hurry up and order! They'll take your money today, build your miner, use it for 3 months in their warehouse while building newer, more efficient models, and once their v1.1 is available, finally ship your model to you and blame 'unexpected demand' for the delay. Bitmain is a scumbag company. I wish chip fabbing was as easy as buying a CNC router. I'd love a side project to make ASICs in a non-scumbag way.

My advice is to take it apart and repair whatever broke. Or at least try to. Electric toothbrushes are dead simple. A battery (usually non-lithium ion), a copper coil to move the magnet at the end of the head, and a controller board to chop the battery power into pulses / charge the battery. that's it. Dead simple. If the case doesn't have screws, find someone who can 3D print you a new one with screw holes? "It's a lot of work!" it is, but these companies literally build this shit to be e-waste, and I'm a little tired of being told that I'm the problem when companies go out of their way to make this shit garbage the second it breaks.