Jan 15, 2016 - The WAN Show Document

[LinusTech]

 

Soundcloud Link: https://soundcloud.com/thewanshow/the-wan-show-no-headphone-jack-on-the-iphone-7-jan-15-2016

 

Main News Topics

Parents get almost $8,000 bill for Child’s Xbox Microtransactions

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/525680-parent-gets-8k-bill-for OP: thedigitaldoctor

Source 2: http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/ottawa/pembroke-xbox-bill-8000-1.3397534

• father in Pembroke, Ont, CA is warning parents to keep an eye on childrens gaming habits

• Dec 23, Lance Perkins got a credit card bill for $7,625.88

  • 17-year-old son used card to make in-game purchases for one of the FIFA soccer games

• Perkins had given his son a credit card for emergencies

• son confessed to using the card illicitly, although he too was shocked by the amount

• contacted credit card company, unless he charges his son with fraud, there’s nothing they can do

• Xbox responded and said they would look into the charge

• Microsoft said there’s a setting that prevents minors from making purchases without parents permission

Oculus Co-founder Building a -43 degree Propane Phase-Change-Cooled PC

Source 1: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/01/palmer-luckey-is-building-a-42c-propane-pha

Source 2: http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/oculus-palmer-luckey-is-building-a-

• has experimented with liquid nitrogen in the past, huge pain to work with

• new project is very small super-powerful PC with no heatsinks and no fans

  • cooled by liquid propane

  • boiled into gaseous propane in an expansion block

  • can compress back into a tank under high pressure

  • OR vent out of a burner nozzle for supercooling to subzero temps

  • if he had more time, he would vent propane to a small turbine generator hooked up to the PSU

    • can’t justify that kind of work right now

• boiling point of propane is -42 degrees celsius

iPhone 7 Leaks “Confirm” Apple Abandoning Headphone Jack

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/522201-iphone-7-leaks-confir OP: Section35

Source 2: http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2016/01/06/iphone-7-loses-headphone-jack/

• pair of sources within Apple’s Chinese supply chain have independantly confirmed Apple will ditch the headphone jack from the iPhone 7

• will use the Lightning port instead

• move driven to engineer thinner new models as well as drive users towards wireless headphones

• Apple will introduce audio output profiles to compensate for loss of headphone jack

  • will set the iPhone 7 to switch between different wired and wireless output profiles depending on scenario

• ditching the 3.5mm jack will free up more space within the phone

• already petitions circulating against removing the 3.5mm jack

The Problem With Overclocking On Non-Z170 Chipsets

Source 1: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/overclocking-with-non-z170-chipsets,30962.htm

Source 2:

• hardware modifications and firmware support must be added to work on a chipset like H170 or B150

• although increasing clock speed on processor should increase performance, there’s some serious problems that can occur

• non Z-170 chipsets modded to enable overclocking will lost hyper-threading support

  • unable to use C-states to reduce voltage and power consumption when system is idle

• Asus states that using modded chipsets will also lose support for some instruction sets

• any non Z-170 board designed to overclock would have significant reliability issues

  • resulting in numerous CPU and mobo failures

• Super Micro has found a way to enable overclocking on H170 chipset without losing hyper-threading support

  • says they were the first OEM to develop a non-Z170 chipset capable of overclocking

  • C7H170-M H170 boards have been available for three weeks now

According to Palmer Lucky, “Your Crappy PC is the biggest barrier to VR adoption”

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/525935-according-to-palmer-lucky-your OP: Qub3d

Source 2: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/01/oculus-founder-your-crappy-pc-is-the-biggest-b

• entry-level cost to get into PC-based VR goes beyond $599 for the Oculus

• Luckey says as demand for VR drives adoption of high-end graphics hardware

  • “In the near future, that demand will push PC tech to the point where even that “crappy PC” will be able to power a convincing VR experience

  • If ‘normal’ PCs get good enough to run VR, then the majority of people will be able to buy a relatively cheap headset and just use whatever computer they already own to drive it”

  • “VR needs to be something everyone wants before it becomes something everyone can afford”

    • Uses evolution of cellphones and pricing as examples

• Luckey says that Oculus has been working with all major hardware vendors to optimize for VR

• Nvidia estimates 13M PCs will be capable of running Oculus in consumers homes this year - to put that in context it’s less than 1% of PCs capable of delivering a good VR experience right now - NVIDIA

*Global PC Shipments Fell 8.3% as of Q4 2015

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/526160-global-pc-shipments OP: zMeul

Source 2: http://venturebeat.com/2016/01/12/gartner-global-pc-shipments-fell-8-3-in-q4-201

Source 3: http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/3185224

Shipment Chart

• Q4 2015 marked the fifth consecutive quarter of worldwide PC shipment decline - Analyst Mikako Kitagawa said

• holiday sales did not boost overall PC shipments

• Gartners outlook in 2016 is 1% decline compared to 2015

  • with potential for a soft recovery in late 2016

 

Rapid Fire

EKWB to Recall all EK-XLC Predator 240 and 360 AIO Watercoolers

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/526518-important-notice-e OP: Naeaes

Source 2: https://www.ekwb.com/news/656/19/Important-notice-from-EKWB-EK-XLC-Pr

• initially estimated as limited risk situation with small percentage of units developing a leak over time

  • turned out to be a more widespread problem

• received some feedback in December 2015 about the leakage issue

• identified issue in the faulty O-ring in EK-Supremacy water block used in unit

• leakage may occur between copper cold plate and bracket on water block after heated up

• warning all customers of Revision 1.0 EK XLC-Predator units

  • contact EKWB for replacement or refund

  • will also refund customer any computer component damage created by a leakage

• As of Jan 4th, they have released Revision 1.1 version

  • Revision 1.0 backplate is not compatible with Revision 1.1 backplate

No More Cracked Games in 2 Years?

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/522505-no-more-cracked-ga OP: DuckDodgers

Source 2: https://torrentfreak.com/no-more-pirate-games-in-two-years-group-warns-160106/

• found of Chinese cracking forum 3DM warning that given current state of anti-piracy tech, in 2 years there may be no cracked games to play

• claims come after attempts to break Denuvo security on Just Cause 3 pushed group to their breaking point

  • Denuvo is a secondary encryption, protects existing and underlying DRM products

• Fifa 2016 still protected by Denuvo, was released in Sep 2015

AMD Significantly Cuts Radeon R9 Nano Pricing -Selling for $499 USD

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/525191-amd-significantly-cuts-d OP: Mr_Troll

Source 2: http://wccftech.com/amd-radeon-r9-nano-499-us-price/

• $649 -> $499 USD

 

Mushkin announced a $500 4TB SSD at CES

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/526393-mushkin-announced OP: Rahnie

Source 2: http://techreport.com/news/29583/mushkin-previews-a-500-4tb-ssd-at-ces

Source 3: http://www.techpowerup.com/219116/mushkin-shows-off-a-500-dollar-4-tb-ssd.html

• overcomes capacity limitation by multi-controller SSD subunit RAID

  • host-transparent, machine reads as 4Tb, but is JBOD of two 2TB subunits

• uses 3D MLC NAND flash to keep densities high

Intel Confirms Skylake CPU flaw is making systems crash under heavy load

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/525225-intel-skylake-cpu-flaw-i OP: GoodBytes

Source 2: http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2016/01/11/intel-skylake-crash-erratum/1

• Intel confirmed erratum affecting latest Skylake processors

• causing hangs during certain computationally-intensive operations

• OEM partners to roll out hotfix by BIOS update soon

• fix already in with the OEM partners

• problem originally reported in November 2015

• no manufacturers have said when they will release the hotfix

Valve Switching Over to 100Gbps Infrastructure

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/527362-valve-switching-over-to-100 OP: Steven9595

Source 2: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/01/valve-deploys-100gbps-int

• currently averages 450-500PB of data per month, 4-5 exobytes a year

• 10M concurrent users, growing 75% yea-over-year

• Level 3 “one of rfew providers that offers 100Gbps Internet ports

• Level 3 operates a global IP backbone with capacity of 42Tbps

  • 100Gbps Internet ports in 26 markets in North America and Europe

  • Didn’t say how many or what Valve was using before upgrade

2015 Steam Winter sale bigger than Summer sale, 46M games sold

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/525604-2015-steam-winter-sale-b OP: Technicolors

Source 2: https://medium.com/steam-spy/about-steam-winter-sale-76a75abe152a#.xnshlmxwu

Top 15 Games Sold

Data Provided by SteamSpy

• Steam Winer Sale brough at least $270M in revenue

• almost twice as much as Summer Sale

• top 3 games sold were Fallout 4, GTA V, Witcher 3

• didn’t have “flash sales” this time around

• people played more during the winter sale

• most popular discounts purchased were 50%, 66% and 75%

 

Dell announces UP3017Q 4K OLED Ultrasharp display that costs $4999 - CES 2016

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/521828-dell-announces-up3017q-4k OP: kameshss

Source 2: http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/6/10722396/dell-usb-type-c-4k-oled-ces-

Source 3: http://www.pcworld.com/article/3018710/hardware/dell-unveils-stunning-4k-ole

• 1.07 billion colors

• 400,000:1 contrast ratio

• 0.1ms response

• 100% RGB color space

• can hit 97.8% of DCI-P3 color space

• utilizes pixel-shifting feature to reduce chance of burn-in

• features “presence” detector to tell if you’re in front of the monitor or not

  • will switch off display if you aren’t

AMD have begun shipping Polaris GPUs from Foundries - 2 different Polaris chips and 4 different GPUs spotted

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/524670-amd-have-begun-shippin OP: Mr_Troll

Source 2: http://www.overclock.net/t/1587294/zauba-amd-have-begun-shipping-p

Source 3: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/

• AMD have begun shipping from foundries

• two different Polaris chips/families, each with 2 different SKU/GPUs

• First actual die shrink in a very long time - 1

Jide Technology’s Remix OS 2.0, Android-Based coming to PC and Mac for free

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/522251-remix-os-android-based OP: kameshss

Source 3: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/remix-os-2-pc-mac,30921.html

Remix OS for PC

• 2.0 Android-based OS available for Alpha-stage download Jan 12

• Based on Lollipop

  • Remix OS should be upgraded to Marshmallow soon

• says devs won’t need to modify their apps to work on Remix-OS PCs

• users can install Remix 2.0 USB drivers, and use as portable device between computers

US Gov’t Calls for Vehicle-to-vehicle Tech in all new cars to reduce crashes

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/525308-us-government-wants OP: jos

Source 2: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/us-government-v2v-new-cars,30970.html

• announced will require Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) comms to reduce car crashes up to 80%

• V2V is wireless signal through which cars can communicate with others in proximity

  • will share things such as speed and direction

  • if danger is present, driver will be warned about it or auto assistance can be engaged to avoid an accident

  • may be able to communicate with infrastructure such as stop signs, lights, etc

• technology will be phased in over a number of years

[Agent181]

oh shit its friday.... this week went by fast

[Nexxus]

It gets really hard keep a channel whitelisted for ads when im forced to sit though a 1:40 ad featuring 2 blond bimbos talking about some fashion shit in my city and how I should follow them on instatwitbookspace and I cant skip said ad

[werto165]

oh shit its friday.... this week went by fast

It's Saturday m8 Well in some places. 

[vanished]

Well at least we don't have to worry about that D-shaped audio jack catching on

[Enderman]

It gets really hard keep a channel whitelisted for ads when im forced to sit though a 1:40 ad featuring 2 blond bimbos talking about some fashion shit in my city and how I should follow them on instatwitbookspace and I cant skip said ad

if you refresh the page it should eventually put a skippable ad that you can skip after 5sec

[Nexxus]

if you refresh the page it should eventually put a skippable ad that you can skip after 5sec

Noted thank you

[vanished]

if you refresh the page it should eventually put a skippable ad that you can skip after 5sec

I came to this page reading from the bottom up so I read your reply thinking "that sounds like more work and time than it's worth" but then I read what you were replying to and I take it back

[VAkena]

The use of Comic Sans MS is real..

[pcman365]

apple has always been mad

[sunil6512]

Link to the montage video Luke was talking about in the start ? 

[MSTRBKR]

Aha Linus finally mentioned a DAC towards the end of the iPhone 7 segment. I was beginning to think he wouldn't. The signal must be sampled and converted by the DAC - there is no simple adaptor for this one. A cheap one would work, but what's the point in a thinner phone when there's an adaptor hanging off the bottom! A cheap one won't sound good. Alternatively every set of headphones would need it's own DAC within it, which will need electricity to run. So that leads me to believe they want people to buy wireless headphones since they need power anyway. There is so much fail here.

 

But maybe everyone should have a quality portable DAC and use that, to experience what good sound really is.

[RZeroX]

Link to the montage video Luke was talking about in the start ? 

[mikat]

[EthanCoow]

So........ How do actually spend 8000 dollars on FIFA????

 

WUT!!!???!?!?!?!?!?!?!

[Joseph Stacklin]

Something I wanna point out... USB-C for the iPhone 7

 

​Users already have the lightning that is reversible? So would it really be a bad upgrade?

[MayorPotatoSalad]

Linus mentioned fan control on Asus motherboards without having to go through AI-Suite, anyone know what he was talking about? 

[JokerFire]

Linus mentioned fan control on Asus motherboards without having to go through AI-Suite, anyone know what he was talking about? 

i would just like to take the time to say i LOVE your logo

[SansVarnic]

58:00 - Linus digs a hole and keeps on digging. . . . . 

1:10:01 - Join the Church of Newellism on Steam !! Yay  <_<   (Not judging) 

 

Edited January 19, 2016 by SansVarnic

[vanished]

58:00 - Linus digs a hole and keeps on digging. . . . . 

It's OK, I can make that joke; some of my best friends are racist

[SansVarnic]

It's OK, I can make that joke; some of my best friends are racist

It's cool, its just funny how he keeps digging that hole deeper while fumbling over his words try to explain himself. I couldn't stop laughing, reminded me of a few friends I had.

[vanished]

It's cool, its just funny how he keeps digging that hole deeper while fumbling over his words try to explain himself. I couldn't stop laughing, reminded me of a few friends I had.

actually I think there was an official guide to this problem.  He should take a look

 

[welshtony]

Got to be honest the iPhone 6 and 6s are the first iphones that I have liked the look of but if it is true they are looking to remove the 3.5mm jack I wont be getting it.
A major selling point for them at the moment is Apple Music and if they remove that jack allot of customers wont get the benefit from it what so ever, I just hope they dont make that mistake.

Also on a side note, you guys seem to have had a few issues with changing scenes lately. Have you considered switching from xSplit to obs? Myself I stream now and then and find OBS much better on my system and just a smoother transaction. Just an idea that's all