the-wan-show

[brave shell]

ctrl + scroll wheel

[stark quiver]

Can also do it with the trackpad, pinch to zoom

[arctic fossil]

That doesn't quite achieve the same effect

So it's a mobile device specifc thing?

[crude sandal]

Touchpad does, zooms in wherever the cursor was, like a touchscreen

[inner idol]

Is that Sphere in Vegas?

That got me thinking about how we might end up with Sphere and Warner Bros. foisting AI slop into the 1939 classic The Wizard of Oz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gpwcaNyIrY

It reminds me of the arguments against colorization of black-&-white movies in the 80s

Even compared to the AI filters & processing in older James Cameron movies (except for Terminator 2) and upscales of Wallace & Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death, Jaws 3-D (in 2D 4K), and The Sugarland Express, this is more revisionist than those, and more likely to add slop than those or the human-assisted AI patches in the 4K restoration of Se7en.

The only good parts I'd accept from Sphere's Wizard of Oz edit belong in a 4DX showing of the 2013 3D conversion, to be honest.

The wind effects, debris and things

Most cinemas equipped with 4DX probably can't fit the pyrotechnics that Sphere has due to size restrictions, though.

and Ben Mankiewicz of TCM doesn't deserve to be hooked into all of this, to be honest.

Did he get paid to get roped into this nightmare? Most likely.
Does it go against TCM's original mission statements and goals and stuff? Yeah.

Also, the Sphere cut with AI slop runs shorter than the original theatrical cut, similar to the early IMAX DMR blowups of Apollo 13 of Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones, except Sphere doesn't have platters to worry about like IMAX did back in 2002.

[woeful crescent]

See o hate most times they mess with a movie, like the erra or DNR and sharpening.. but the Sphere version of Oz doesn’t bother me cause it’s already its own art piece.. just putting up normal film isn’t gonna look right, it’s never going to be accurate to the original, so I give them leeway there.. also there’s a studio that worked on it that says Google vastly overstated how much was ai vs the studio fx house.. but either way to me it’s a more unique situation than most of the AI slop I hate..

[scenic fiber]

nice

[plain aurora]

What the f instagram? Turning on location sharing by default and allowing people to find you via a map? I am going to have to have some awkward conversations with friends today. What the actual ….

[plain aurora]

Just found out that the info Linus and co got given was wrong, it’s off by default and us only atm. Mannnn wan had me get out of bed early thinking my friends safety is at risk.

[random trout]

Also, ... The app has a bunch of pop-up screens that explain why it wants location permission. They're fairly well written too, but if people choose not to read them and allow permissions anyway, welp...

[plain aurora]

I stopped using Insta years ago because it was becoming a distraction. If I wasn’t running a Facebook page for my business I would have quit that too

[brave shell]

yes

[tiny nimbus]

https://help.aol.com/articles/dial-up-internet-to-be-discontinued

[inner idol]

I can't believe that they still had dial-up internet in 2025

[plain aurora]

I can.
some places can't get boardband and at least with dailup you can still do some things like get email

[potent apex]

https://www.igeeksblog.com/homepod-mini-2/

[tiny nimbus]

“Everything We Know So Far” articles should be avoided at all costs

[tiny mauve]

Didn't (and won't) read it but I can tell you what they know so far: fuck all.
I can also tell you my opinion on whether or not you should buy it: fuck no.

[flat carbon]

https://www.thegamer.com/steams-adult-content-ban-has-been-plotted-for-a-year/

[rain girder]

Why does Linus always have the EA app open while doing the WAN show? (it's probably not always, but it's at least the 4th time I've seen it)

[wind hound]

gaming

whenever Luke talks about ai

[woeful crescent]

There are part of my province that only in the last couple of years got options beyond dialup.. and I would imagine that there are still parts of Canada without much other option.. Starlink.. sorta.. most other sat net I've seen still need some sort of wired uplink.. lots of areas with no cell coverage or cable.. etc..

[woeful crescent]

He installed it a few shows ago to look up what was in his Library I think, and since they are WANShow laptops and not used for anything else, probably hasn't removed it or maybe even rebooted the laptops since.. would be my guess anyway..

[tender prism]

Does he have xbox gamepass

[plain aurora]

It’s not their own laptops

[tiny nimbus]

That “I Love Building Computers” livestream that always ends up on people’s YouTube auto play queues is quite the time capsule

• Earliest hint of the LTT Screwdriver, when someone says in chat “missed opportunity not having an orange MegaPro” and Linus says “I’m saying nothing”
• Pre-dates The ABCs of Gaming block book coming to the store
• Name-drops Taran, Alex, Andy (behind the camera), and Nick Light, all now gone from LMG

[tiny nimbus]

https://www.wired.com/story/securam-prologic-safe-lock-backdoor-exploits/

In a followup call, Securam director of sales Jeremy Brookes confirmed that Securam has no plan to fix the vulnerability in locks already in use on customers’ safes, but suggests safe owners who are concerned buy a new lock and replace the one on their safe. “We’re not going to be offering a firmware package that upgrades it,” Brookes says. “We’re going to offer them a new product.”

[rain girder]

Idk

[spice cairn]

bruh what a fucking stupid typical CEO take... this should be a major recall

[flat carbon]

watch enough of lockpicking lawyer or others that do this stuff and you'll realize basically all forms of locks are garbage

just differing levels

[high kelp]

locks just keep honest people out

[spice cairn]

and dumb people

[random trout]

Wow. And with a comment like that, I'd be paying to mail the safe directly to their HQ with a note taped to the front. I understand the mentality from a money money making standpoint, but what a slap in the face.

[flat carbon]

owners should mail it to them via their front office window

Beyond Liberty Safe, Securam ProLogic locks are used by a wide variety of safe manufacturers including Fort Knox, High Noble, FireKing, Tracker, ProSteel, Rhino Metals, Sun Welding, Corporate Safe Specialists, and pharmacy safe companies Cennox and NarcSafe, according to Omo and Rowley’s research. The locks can also be found on safes used by CVS for storing narcotics and by multiple US restaurant chains for storing cash.

[novel cedar]

So…when does Scrapyard Wars come to YouTube

It was supposed to be a day early for FP

And it released Friday evening

Sunday afternoon and nothing so far

Does anyone know how valuable their weekend upload slots are? I know Friday is trash bc WAN show

So if their weekend ones aren’t good it makes sense it wouldn’t go up until Monday

[random trout]

I recall it being something like 48 hours \ a couple days between some Floatplane releases and YouTube releases in the past. Unlikely to include weekends since those are non work days, but we'll see tonight \ tomorrow morning I guess.

[brittle moon]

https://www.floatplane.com/post/TUiqFE8W6U

[novel cedar]

Ah, thanks so much! I appreciate it

I was totally off the mark and just heard what I wanted to I suppose

[brittle moon]

yw 🙂

and floatplane early releases (when they happen) are usually 24 hours early iirc so that might have been where you got it from

[inner idol]

I think they have more of a passion for Scrapyard Wars, which is why they have a 72-hour early access for these rather than the usual 24-hour window

[plain aurora]

It’s worth the wait I promise

Could always be the fact that it’s easier to do Monday releases for YouTube to keep with their schedule

[flat carbon]

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/technology/us-government-nvidia-amd-chips-china.html

[jolly oar]

Gotta kick up to your capo

[inner idol]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1242854743215440023/1399287051987451975/chris_farts.gif

Former
WAN Show
guest
Chris
Pirillo
pictured
above

Last seen
on WAN Show
back in August
of 2013.
12 years ago!

[tiny nimbus]

This seems bad https://www.theverge.com/news/757538/reddit-internet-archive-wayback-machine-block-limit

[inner idol]

The Internet Archive is looking like Apollo again

Apparently, it's June 2023 all over again

[jagged robin]

https://youtu.be/9alJwQG-Wbk?si=VUI90gDChr4NvbRF

This seems like a good idea for a topic.

Cool project

[hushed sigil]

Has LTT ever mentioned Playnite? You'd think with all the console PC stuff they'd have had it on their radar. I get that they love Valve but openly say it's only based till GabeN leaves so a platform agnostic big picture mode seems like a great pro-consumer topic to cover

[flat carbon]

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/itchios-mass-delisting-of-paid-adult-content-has-also-affected-safe-for-work-games-with-yuri-or-lesbian-themes-devs-claim

[spice cairn]

damn who could've seen this one come

:l

[woeful crescent]

Even Ray Charles coulda seen it..

[slim hollow]

I was seeing reports of this the day of the action

[spice cairn]

i know it was / s

[tender portal]

Wrong channel, moved to #lttstore

[tiny mauve]

You can probably reach more people on printables. I don't have the screwdriver so this isn't a request, but I wouldn't waste even a temp email on bambu lab, so I do have a bias.

[inner idol]

Payment processors are treating itch.io like it's Jordan Peterson and Patreon so much that apparently it's January 2019 all over again.

History repeats itself.

[tiny nimbus]

https://www.theverge.com/science/758275/drought-delete-files-email-data-center-water-uk

[inner idol]

Deleting files to save water?

Are hard drives really that water-hungry? ...or thirsty?

[tiny nimbus]

Server farms with less stuff use less water? idk 🤷‍♂️

Thirsty af AI servers are less thirsty when they have less data to scrape?

[plain aurora]

Water cooled data severs

I can see deleting files making a difference

[primal tapir]

Hi, I am looking for a specific segment of WAN show where Linus goes through the 4 pillars of fair use... I cannot for the life of me find the clip, I know it was around 2-4 years ago but thats about it :/

There were some mentions of it in the react content related streams some time ago, but I am on about an earlier mention where he goes through all 4 - any idea???

[inner idol]

Not sure about the older fair use arguments talks, but I do know of the February 2019 streams from when the Vox Media saga was going on.

It also mentioned how thelinuxgamer handled the Fullscreen claim to his response video to LTT's "Linux Gaming Finally Doesn't Suck"

[primal tapir]

I'm watching the 2019 one now... it's not what I was after :/

[inner idol]

Maybe it was February 2016 when the Fine Bros. tried the React World thing that went horribly wrong?

[primal tapir]

no where near that far back... would be somewhere around 2021-2023

[inner idol]

Not sure what controversy happened that time that warranted mentioning those four pillars

The most I can think of were in the 2010s

[primal tapir]

Pretending I Endorse Your Product Is Fraud - WAN Show August 4, 2023 - min 53.05, pretty sure this is it!

[inner idol]

My browser would've stopped me in my tracks by opening a Tumblr tab on its own
https://discount-supervillain.tumblr.com/post/145348794022

Harsh Boogie

forgot I had some of the soundtrack songs of Kiki on my playlist until one popped on while I was drawing this.

-# #Steven Universe #Connie Maheswaran #Kiki's Delivery Service

Tumblr · Jun 3, 2016, 9:37 AM

Maybe our phones really are listening.
-Linus Sebastian, 2024

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m9Nz43WDgXg

[tiny nimbus]

https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/115020787198072549

David Gerard (@[e-mail])

I r journalist, so I called up DEFRA. The fellow insisted that deleting emails saved water. He couldn't speak on the record (not so useful for a media desk really) so I have also emailed DEFRA to enquire how much water deleting 1 email or 1m emails saves, and how this remarkable claim made it into the press release.

gov.uk/government/news/nationa…

GSV Sleeper Service · Aug 13, 2025, 9:38 AM

[flat carbon]

https://wccftech.com/intel-unveils-usai-narrative-emphasizing-its-patriotic-mission/

[trim obsidian]

Yep - increasing water usage because more CPU cycles are used deleting data than it simply sitting there. haha

[plain aurora]

Yeah I thought the use of the file itself would take more than it just being there

Here if we need to save water it’s “4 minute showers once a day, no baths, no watering lawns”

[tiny mauve]

4 min? Absolutely impossible. I've got curly hair, it's a 4~6 minute job just to condition it, and the weather just won't let me skip it. Shampooing and washing the body is only like 3. Now it's 7 at a minimum. Then I've got to waste like 7~21 minutes planning/dreading the rest of the day and/or the next day, and also try and figure out how I'll solve every problem with the world once I become the world's (benevolent, but with a firm hand) dictator.

All in all, I need at least 30 minutes.

If there's no other way, I'll just have to press "muckduck a complete stranger" button 7 times and get 2 extra minutes for crying in the shower because I just can't figure out why is it that one whatever-personal-or-uni project I'm working on at that moment is going to shit.

[plain aurora]

Don’t worry it’s the same issue here

Me in and out in 4? Not happening

[frozen agate]

My normal cleaning everything shower is 20 minutes...

Four minutes can get to hell

I ain't skipping my hair care.

[tiny mauve]

Don't even get me started on when I started taking Ritalin and would take the pills a few minutes before showering so I could just hop out and start doing the shit I had to do.

[frozen agate]

Lol

[tiny mauve]

I REALLY solved every problem known to mankind those times

The worst one was almost 1h30...

[plain aurora]

yeah ah if i am doing karaoke in the shower..... its not 4 minutes.

[cursive tiger]

i'm on rainwater collection so i shower for a good bit longer in winter than summer (and also because outside is cold and the shower is warm lol)

but that does also mean there won't be any ai datacentres guzzling my drinking water

[woeful crescent]

Sometimes I forget we are all living in a simulation, other times I read what's above, on my phone, and on my desktop type "illegal to" and it auto-completes "collect rain water" cause thats what I was thinking cause I remember some places where it is an issue.. 😐

[flat carbon]

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/14/tech/intel-trump-us-government-investment

[plain aurora]

tbh if it keeps them in the game and helps them turn around, i'm for it. Because we can't have AMD be solo.

[trim obsidian]

No kidding. We already have HEDT priced consumer socket CPUs and what they're trying to call HEDT is priced like a full on server product. If there was no Intel, they'd probably be trying to get $700 for a Ryzen 5!

[plain aurora]

all we have to do is look at GPU's

[trim obsidian]

Yeah, Nvidia jacks up prices and shrinks memory bus widths - and AMD just follows right along. IMO the 9070 XT is a $499 card max.

[plain aurora]

you don't want to see how much i am paying for parts in NZ.

https://www.pbtech.co.nz/category/components/graphics-cards

[novel cedar]

I miss pre-billet labs drama LTT

It’s Thursday

And we’ve had only two videos this week

I get that SW10 is huge

But like…man

Still a shame people get so upset about every single darn video they make being as accurate as possible

When like 60% of what they make can be described as Tech-tainment

Or whatever Linus calls it

[shadow beacon]

Sham show in about 20 hours WW

[novel cedar]

Yeah, wonder if they’re going to upload some pool robot video tomorrow or something in addition to WAN show

If not, only two videos in one week would be pretty odd

[plain aurora]

well floatplaners get episode 2 of SYW

[novel cedar]

So sad to be the oppressed in a two tiered system 😔

[tiny mauve]

If it makes you feel better less bad, I've compared a few of the prices and we've (🇧🇷) still have you beat by about NZD 100~200

[plain aurora]

ouch

[plain aurora]

to be fair, we are paying LTT for the right to see it.

early*

[novel cedar]

Oh, absolutely no doubt

But it’s funnier to talk like Miette than pay 3/5/10 dollars a month, isn’t it?

[plain aurora]

meh

I joined for the chat

[bronze adder]

I really hope they talk about the whole Roblox situation this week on WAN

[plain aurora]

what did that boss do give me the TLDR version.

I know that people are pretty much saying off with their head aka bye bye boss

[bronze adder]

A online YouTuber who was working with the police to catch PDFs was banned and they basically said that the creator and their team were basically PDFS when doubling down on asking why he got banned and he has a lawsuit against him from Roblox. Essentially (and I agree) Roblox doesn’t do enough to protect children with the games they allow, and now Louisiana is suing Roblox.

[plain aurora]

https://tenor.com/view/red-flag-red-flags-guy-running-with-red-flag-ignoring-the-red-flags-man-running-with-red-flag-gif-9274875786215349752

At first I was like but it’s pdfs but then my brain finally clicked. 🤮

Tbh Roblox has been toxic from the get go

[shadow beacon]

Hang on a sec

[brittle moon]

Why Is Roblox Shielding Child Predators? - WAN Show August 15, 2025

[bronze adder]

Look at that it’s the headline topic

[novel cedar]

Also BS CompTIA thing

With legal threats

Pulled from even FloatPlane :(

[bronze adder]

That got pulled awhile ago I thought

[novel cedar]

Yeah, but within the last year

Luke is talking about Langley house days

[plain aurora]

Tbh I would be floored if it wasn’t

[simple mango]

Roblox took too far to the point where the LTT group is talking about it

[inner idol]

Does Roblox have it worse than Minecraft?

[plain aurora]

https://tenor.com/view/perfetto-yes-gif-26163077

[woeful crescent]

I use Amex for my expensive purchases, cause of the extended warranty.. but you gotta pay it off every 20 days as their rates are quite high..

[crude sandal]

Absolutely

[inner idol]

I guess I was lucky being a de-facto Minecraft player over Roblox even as far back as late 2012.

Single-player or multi-player

[random trout]

Same with my cards, but I pay them off (never ever carried a balance) every month. Only reason I have credit cards is because you have to play the game if you want credit for a house, and the warranty doubling is nice.

[full coyote]

absolutely, there isnt as much or really any communication between other people on minecraft, and minecraft has ways to play alone on a solo world, something that roblox lacks for the most part

not saying it doesnt happen, but it definitely is not as prevalent due to the inherent nature of the game

[crimson parcel]

Im gonna buy something form the ltt store and I wanna send a merch message, but I wanna know how long it could take to have it appear on the stream

[random trout]

Depends on how many others have sent in merch messages... We do not have any insight into this.

[crimson parcel]

Hmm

[bronze adder]

30 minutes

Thats What I would say if you submit it now you got a chance of it being read

the later you submit it the odds go down and since we arent at Wan After Dark you got time.

But if your question is too extensive it might just get a bad lame 1 sentence response.

[crimson parcel]

Its an interesting question

[bronze adder]

If it was about a topic they covered already they likely won't go back. But your at the Mercy of Dan.,

[crimson parcel]

Maybe hasn't been covered

Dont really know

My question sounds unique

[bronze adder]

Yolo, you get a product anyhow

[crimson parcel]

I guess

Water bottle for school

[woeful crescent]

Dialup Sounds just made me remember ATM0 ..

[brittle moon]

it really depends on how long the queue is, which varies a lot week-to-week. Most merch messages just get a reply at the bottom of the screen, but they do get to every one

[crimson parcel]

Dan is mighty and all powerful

[bronze adder]

did it get read?

[novel cedar]

New CSF video????

Nerd sports coming back?

Wait, I think this has been talked about on WAN a few weeks ago

[west vapor]

Oh, by the way, that person who spoke inappropriately in the twitch chat earlier during the show had their account removed

[crimson parcel]

Yup, and it was the last merch message to get talked about in its own part! Im so lucky

Go watch it on YouTube

[plain aurora]

They are not bringing back the channel but doing a CSF video. From the SYW annoucement on FP:

Then we’re taking a short break to finish up the last two episodes. But we’re not leaving you empty-handed:
On Friday, August 22nd, a new Channel Super Fun video will be released on Floatplane
Public release follows Monday, August 25th
To be 100% clear, the Channel Super Fun video is a one time thing, the channel is still on hiatus - Sammy

And yes. Second video is just as good.

[novel cedar]

Oh I know they’re never bringing that channel back

But getting a new video is just as good, imo

[cursive tiger]

that was quick for the wan vod

[bronze adder]

Never say never. CSF was a great channel it's a shame they've stopped doing it. It's weird seeing Dennis be gone now who basically was the Host of CSF. CSF was the original vlog place and the best place to see teambuilding. I wish they would instead of launching that CSF video they should do an ohmage back to the "Shock Collar Showdown -CSF's Triumphant Return" would love to see that make a return. It's been a two year Break since the last CSF video, and there are so many things that could've been a CSF video. The law mowing video could've totally been a CSF video.

[plain aurora]

True but with LTT being the type of company they are now, they really need to see a ROI on each channel to justify it's existence, yeah that lawn mowing one would have been one but it was also a sponsored one and the money the sponsorship would have justified a main channel showing.

But yeah never say never, you are so right with that one

[bronze adder]

They just use the channel so badly

It screams a TikTok type of channel to me where they do small little pranks or small little shenanigans. Like the floatplane exclusive of moving Coltons desk like an inch could've been a CSF video.

They just ultimately choose Floatplane Excuslive over CSF.

[inner idol]

Heck, even the water balloon Bam launcher that started it all

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7oI2HPutucw

I do love the shock collar video, especially when paired with the final part of the mineral oil PC video series that it coincided with / tied into.

Let's not forget about the rubber band guns.
These also gave us humorous blazes of Linus' awkward glory... glorified humor... clash of idiots?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eW2w8DxfLV0&pp=0gcJCa0JAYcqIYzv
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7DTOtlsAxQQ&pp=0gcJCa0JAYcqIYzv

[bronze adder]

Taran has and will always be in the top 5 of LTT employees. The prank of his melting screen priceless.

[shadow beacon]

Change channel super fun to badminton's super fun and give it to smash champs to keep the channel alive

[inner idol]

That could work

[wanton token]

Also they can use the C and the S for Champ and Smash

Idk what would the F br

Be

[tender prism]

Dennis 💔

[bronze adder]

Horrible

Horrible idea

That’s like the same vibes of just buying a YouTube channel

Plus that audience isn’t their target audience anyway.

[shadow beacon]

True 🤣

[flat carbon]

https://www.reuters.com/business/trump-administration-talks-take-10-stake-intel-bloomberg-news-reports-2025-08-18/

[flat carbon]

https://wccftech.com/softbank-invests-2-billion-in-intel-as-part-of-a-broader-move-to-gain-exposure-to-semiconductor-innovation-in-the-united-states/

[tender prism]

Up 5% after hours

[tiny nimbus]

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/volkswagen-gating-a-new-vehicles-full-horsepower-behind-monthly-subscription-3239138/

[plain aurora]

Hasn’t someone else done that before and got roasted?

[rose karma]

bmw has done with seat heat i think

Tesla have done, but that was a one time payment and not subscribetion¨

[plain aurora]

I’m sure someone limited engine power, European car.

[flat carbon]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn438z3ejxyo

bye vpns in the uk I guess

[trim obsidian]

I mean I'm sure that's what they want, but a VPN could simply block all the adult sites and make them come up with some different reason for their BS.

[shell lava]

Why would kids use a vpn to watch "corn"

[flat carbon]

they don't this is just the typical

https://tenor.com/view/wont-somebody-please-think-of-the-children-think-of-the-children-think-about-the-children-children-the-simpsons-gif-20004023

to try and force laws through

notice how it's all tieing together with the recent lewd game ban push worldwide

and not just lewed games, violent ones like GTA, duke nukem etc they want gone

[shell lava]

Oh man that is sad

[sand crescent]

So much nonsense

[inner idol]

What I'd want from them is this

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1173088611676192790/1377788627731484762/rc_building_smack.gif

The games stay and they F__K off.

[random trout]

By this logic, I'ma need to ask the UK to install blindfolds on everyone that can only be removed when you reach age of majority. Actually, earplugs too. And tie their hands behind their backs. After all, UK wouldn't want kids being able to see, hear, or feel another human body lest their imaginations run wild before the UK says they're allowed to... /s

This whole thing reminds me of schools banning cellphones. Like, sure, okay removing temptation to use your phone entirely is one of the solutions of all time, however, it greatly punishes those who are capable of self control. Perhaps the solution here is to either a) parent your kids or b) not have kids, rather than blaming technology for exposing kids to things they shouldn't see. 🤷

Anywho, I just hope they recognize that banning VPNs will have deep repercussions and sets a very dangerous precedent.

[flat carbon]

all political theater to get what they actually want, control and information on what people are doing online

[rapid robin]

If only there was a payment method that nobody had control over. Something that allowed people to send value on a P2P network where no one could ban your transactions. That would be wonderful !

That way nobody could blcok you from buying games from Steam

Or any product from any seller

[trim obsidian]

I think what you mean is 'If only Steam didn't get rid of that payment method.
https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/1464096684955433613

[rapid robin]

Yeah, I know 😕

If it's high fee and volatility that truly was the problem, they could use stablecoins on a cheap chain (e.g. Arbitrum or BASE). But those are even more controlled than VISA or MasterCard...

Or they could use Lightning, the fees are less than a cent per transaction. Would still be subjected to BTC volatility, but it's much less volatile than it was in 2017

[flat carbon]

valve could create their own credit card and payment processer if they really wanted, they have the capital

heck gabes building a new 300 million science vessel just to give to researchers to explore the ocean

[rapid robin]

They'd still have to interface with their customers banks' and could be blocked there

[flat carbon]

valve could create their own bank

[rapid robin]

In every country where they operate ? I doubt it

[flat carbon]

local co-op banks

[rapid robin]

It would be very dumb anyway since it would be much more simple to just accept Bitcoin (or any stablecoin if they are afraid of "volatility")

[upbeat plover]

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/physics-of-badmintons-new-killer-spin-serve/
Maybe too NSFW for WAN Show. Spinning cocks and such.

[inner idol]

Even NSFW: Top 10 Animated Goth Girls is just as too NSFW for WAN Show acknowledgements of RebelTaxi videos talking about Panty & Stocking With Garterbelt

same goes for the older main PSG review on the same channel

Speaking of which, anybody here seen the original or the new revival series?

[bronze adder]

I’ve said this and I would 100% become a Valve bank member

[woeful crescent]

No way does Valve want any part of doing that..

[bronze adder]

If they took a survey on gamers I think 70% would get a steam card

[plain aurora]

I would tbh if they did a thing where you can load money onto your account and use it when it’s time to buy a game I totally would

[woeful crescent]

You can load up Steam with money.. but thats different than being a bank, and still would need Banks/CC's to work with them to get the money there in the first place..

[plain aurora]

Wait you can? I’ve never noticed the option

[woeful crescent]

Yep, you can also buy Steam Giftcards, and get money from selling cards and such

[plain aurora]

My debit card works with them but for some unknown reason I have to have double in the account for it to go through

I knew about the gift cards

[woeful crescent]

https://store.steampowered.com/account/store_transactions/ --> Add Funds to your Steam Wallet

[plain aurora]

Just thinking when the usd to nzd is a nice number might be a good idea for me to start doing that

[woeful crescent]

I try to always keep a balance because I like blowing money on epeen I mean Profile Badges :p

[plain aurora]

I just buy games on sale

Couldnt say no to finishing my ff13 collection for $20

[crude sandal]

You greatly underestimate the cost and difficulty of running a bank and payment processor

[cursive tiger]

if russia and china can't do it then good luck motherfuckers :3

[flat carbon]

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/19/lutnick-intel-stock-chips-trump.html

[flat carbon]

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/softbank-reportedly-considered-buying-intels-foundry-division-outright-before-investing-usd2-billion-into-the-company-as-equity

[trim obsidian]

no it is not for sale

[spice cairn]

https://x.com/ChibiReviews/status/1958304066926223672?t=8dVCNHQqOKxjt80B6yWUoQ&s=33

Chibi Reviews (@ChibiReviews)

IMPORTANT NEWS

PayPal is apparently suspending accounts permanently if they purchase ANY content on Itch io with their service according to this Reddit Post

Sharing this because its super important for everyone to know ASAP

X · Aug 20, 2025, 11:04 PM

yo what if like we don't do this

[neat kiln]

Interesting.
Sounds like my account gonna get suspended

[tiny nimbus]

https://fixvx.com/DNIGabbard/status/1957623737232007638

DNI Tulsi Gabbard (@DNIGabbard)

Over the past few months, I’ve been working closely with our partners in the UK, alongside @POTUS and @VP, to ensure Americans' private data remains private and our Constitutional rights and civil liberties are protected.

As a result, the UK has agreed to drop its mandate for Apple to provide a "back door" that would have enabled access to the protected encrypted data of American citizens and encroached on our civil liberties.

vxTwitter / fixvx · Aug 19, 2025, 2:00 AM

https://www.theverge.com/news/761240/uk-apple-us-encryption-back-door-demands-dropped

[woeful crescent]

Good.. A backdoor for one is a backdoor for all.

[woeful crescent]

https://x.com/spigen/status/1958570471022370864

Spigen (@spigen)

@TrumpMobile ??? bro what

X · Aug 21, 2025, 4:42 PM

[real stag]

Dont know if this new feature from firefox is really "AI" but just wanted to share how "AI" features should be advertised. Useful feature and fully locally done.

[cursive tiger]

the 60% of floatgoats on firefox rejoice

[tiny mauve]

LibreWolf > Firefox

[tiny mauve]

More importantly, verifiably locally done. #FuckRecall

[bronze adder]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/legal/mozilla-warns-germany-could-soon-declare-ad-blockers-illegal/

Great who said let’s make Ad Block Illegal this is outrageous.

[tiny nimbus]

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/bank-forced-to-rehire-workers-after-lying-about-chatbot-productivity-union-says/

[plain aurora]

It’s not funny seriously however as a kiwi I am required to say haha when ever Australia does something stupid. As they should the other way around so…

Ha ha (glad the staff are getting their jobs back)

[full oriole]

Ad block != Ad block
Ad block = network security policy.

[full oriole]

It's just something waiting to be hacked tho the difference is that backdoor would be a legal hack

[cursive tiger]

"ad block is piracy and piracy is a crime" linus must feel so vindicated

[cursive tiger]

well at least they're not intentionally making it easier

[full oriole]

Yes but it's not piracy if you don't own it

Therefore not a crime

Either case I'll unplug the Internet before I relinquish ad block - whatever [insert insult] challenged that deserves to be disappeared like Epstein

[cursive tiger]

i like the sentiment but i don't think the law works that way

[woeful crescent]

Adblocking is one of those situations where both sides have a point, and the correct answer is that no laws were written with it in mind, so any decision either way its likely over-simplifying it to make it fit one..

[full oriole]

I mean if a site or service is going to deny me usage of their site unless I allow ads and blocking said ads becomes illegal then I have no use for that service or site. Plain and simple. I've got my own physical media of DVDs and Blu rays so I'm not gonna be losing much. Plus again, my network security policy is to block anything that could be malicious in nature and by that definition any ad meets that definition therefore it can't be illegal. Network security and data protection trumps all. Regardless of what the law says.

Plus then if I'm forced to allow ads and my data gets stolen or hacked because of said ads then I can sue the ad provider, the company the ad was serving and everyone else in the chain.

This is one of those fk around and find out, play stupid games win stupid prizes things.

Most of the entire gaming industry services (epic, origin, EA, Ubisoft, etc...) are already blocked under that same network security policy for not moderating their communities and enabling toxic behavior that contributes significantly in a negative way towards my health

[shadow beacon]

BBC reported "ai psychosis" yesterday it's a non medical term used to describe people having psychosis cause they believe everything the ai tells them

[brittle moon]

My Favorite Website Is Gone Forever - WAN Show August 22, 2025

[turbid shoal]

preshow!

full live!

[olive bronze]

man ground news is really doing a promotion, all the streamers are promoing it

[full coyote]

linus's headrest is upside down lol

[olive bronze]

its always upside down

[rapid robin]

as usual

[kind hill]

What's the website? Can't watch the stream ATM

[plain aurora]

So far i haven't found anything bad for it and quite a few are using it as a source to find out if things are left or right or neutral, it does look interesting and at least subscribers are getting great things

[full coyote]

anandtech

[plain aurora]

alontech

[olive bronze]

ground news entire purpose is not to supply news, but to evaluate news sites to tell you if they are left, right, or middle

[kind hill]

Oh damn, rip twas a good forum

[full coyote]

anandtech forum is still up, but everything else isnt

[rapid robin]

Forum is still up

[plain aurora]

yeah website just directs you to forum now

[kind hill]

Ah, wonder how long they'll survive

[full coyote]

if im interpreting the icann lookup right, the domain expires in ~ 1 year

[sharp light]

Hey Hive Mind, Im interested in your thoughts. I have an RTX 4090 suprim Liquid. Newegg is offering up to 1600, so i figure i might get 1400. that means a 5090 for 1100 or so and im trying to decide if I want to pull the trigger

[woeful crescent]

I would assume you can sell a 4090 on FB MarketPlace for quite a bit more than what NewEgg is gonna give you..

Also, personally, without a super specific need, 4090->5090.. not sure that would be worth $1k

[olive bronze]

i'm not sure the difference is really significant between the 4090 and the 5090

i mean, if i had the 4090, i'd probably hold onto it until the next generation. i dont think the difference is significant enought to warrant the switchover

[bronze adder]

Dan cares about the discord no way

[little stirrup]

Calling FP users? Bad idea

There's a decent chance they'll be on the toilet

(Insert joke about floaters)

[olive bronze]

this badminton thing looks hilarious

[woeful crescent]

Boo on the change to video AR.. as someone on an Ultrawide..

[full coyote]

that is a wild difference between the two videos

[brittle torrent]

GrapheneOS ftw

[round ermine]

Nvidia is STILL the problem with getting SteamOS to be ubiquitous

Steam Big Picture's UI runs like ASSSSSS on nvidia GPUs

And the instant sleep mode feature also doesn't work either.

[round ermine]

Ok Linus. Remember when Intel did this same crap

[shadow beacon]

W sham show

[full coyote]

yes, and also the lack of support from game developers who use linux incompatable anti cheat

[trim obsidian]

It's the ad that is the piracy. Stealing my time and the advertisers money since I don't have any spare to give to either.

[cursive tiger]

again, not as far as the law is concerned

[flat carbon]

https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/23/the-trump-administrations-big-intel-investment-comes-from-already-awarded-grants/

While Intel says the government is making an “$8.9 billion investment in Intel common stock,” the administration does not appear to be committing new funds. Instead, it’s simply making good on what Intel described as “grants previously awarded, but not yet paid, to Intel.”

Specifically, the $8.9 billion is supposed to come from $5.7 billion awarded-but-not-paid to Intel under the Biden administration’s CHIPS Act, as well as $3.2 billion also awarded by the Biden administration through the Secure Enclave program.

[trim obsidian]

It's basically blackmail unless the investment is in lieu of any of the previous requirements. Though I do hope that the administration was smart enough to make sure Intel does not sell off foundry since they aren't investing because of the design side and foundry IS intel.

[dreamy pilot]

Was anything mentioned on wan show about this weeks episode of scrapyard wars being delayed or am I just misremembering when it goes up?

[woeful crescent]

They are giving the editors an extra week

But they released a channel super fun vid on FP to hold you over..

[dreamy pilot]

cheers

[plain aurora]

I know right it ended on a cliffhanger. I’m looking forward to Saturday (I’m in nz wan is on sat for me)

As someone who is a entry level editor I can totally understand the one week delay

[cursive tiger]

i'm glad they started the season later this year to make the cadence more frequent though

waiting several weeks between episodes is tough, you forget what's going on by the time the next episode comes out

[vale kettle]

Does anyone know when they talked about business calendar the Andriod app?

[plain aurora]

its recent i would say the last two months

let me check spotify because i know it was to do with yvonne having to use android because of that

hmm got to find the ones that have timestamps

[woeful crescent]

https://x.com/dexertonox/status/1959339553938198613?s=46&t=hzluSmkiEkQTncps8sUTvQ Not surprised at all given Kick's rep..

Dexertonox (@Dexertonox)

Kick founder and CEO Ed Craven is listed at the 5th top donator to Jean Pormanove, the man who recently died mid-livestream on the site

Viewers would gift subs as "acts of violence and physical and moral humiliation" were conducted on the streamer

Kick's CEO had donated 150

X · Aug 23, 2025, 7:38 PM

(that is that CEO was active on this, not the death itself, since that was already covered)

[flat carbon]

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/intel-warns-us-stake-could-hurt-international-sales-future-grants-2025-08-25/

[blissful pivot]

https://9to5google.com/2025/08/25/android-apps-developer-verification/

Well

[tulip hatch]

"My faverite website is gone forever"

Cry me a river.

He didn't even notice it being gone smh

[frozen agate]

He literally did notice it had gone that's the whole premise of the topic???

[timid ruin]

Besides, I didn't know my favourite grocery store was closed for like 2 or 3 months until after it did. One of my favourite bars closed and next time we wanted to visit it was a year later and it was permanently closed.

Even if it's your favourite website, you won't visit it daily, unless it's part of your work. It takes time to come across these things at times, especially if you have 3 kids, a company to run, a motorbike to paint and several other projects to handle. So yeah. It's not a priority when you have your life stuff to attend to.

[woeful crescent]

https://www.techspot.com/news/109188-florida-schools-introducing-armed-drones-respond-shootings-within.html

[plain aurora]

Car will be self driving
Will not need indicator
You will need to pay $350 for the right to manually indicate.

https://youtube.com/shorts/ecvavAZ_L5s?si=UoBlJyXeDx_VbqeV

[cursive tiger]

yeah i found a really nice restaurant in town right before covid and then they went out of business during lockdown

i didn't find out until 2021 when i wanted to go there on my birthday

[timid ruin]

That's exactly what has happened with the bar as well. It was a steampunk saloon with great draft beer and outstanding food. They didn't exactly go out of business, they just changed the business model from a standard bar to a rental property (like, events and such), while keeping the place in its original shape.

I'm glad they've found a way to survive, but also sad that I cannot grab a bite and an ale there anymore.

Also, sadly they haven't gone back to their original modus operandi after COVID

[bronze adder]

I'm shocked they didn't talk about robloxs response video the other week to the whole situation

[rare tartan]

I think it was planned originally. I don’t remember why they decided not to.

[old sapphire]

https://www.youtube.com/live/9IKoRtysDE8?&t=847

Does anyone have the video he is talking about here?

[woeful crescent]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIOcbclh370

[old sapphire]

I tried searching Level1Techs with a bunch of keywords and couldn't find it

[woeful crescent]

I found a LTT Forums post asking the same question and this was linked lol

[plain aurora]

Hey the guy who was talking about Yvonne's calendar app? i believe it was also mentioned in the switch to iphone series

[tiny nimbus]

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/27/datacenter_water_challenge/

[flat carbon]

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/intel-details-everything-that-could-go-wrong-with-us-taking-a-10-stake/

[cursive tiger]

have they tried putting them in places that have water

[olive bronze]

any crazy schedule changes for tonight's wan/

[frozen agate]

as always, check whenplane, if it is know about, it'll be there 🙂

[rare tartan]

They’re pretty good about announcing changes on their socials, too.

[brittle moon]

I disagree. If they announce it, they usually only announce it in one place, and it’s been a random place every time

Sometimes it’s Twitter, sometimes it’s YouTube community post, sometimes it’s a floatplane post, sometimes it’s a Facebook (??) post

[woeful crescent]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgyk2p55g8o

[olive bronze]

maybe he really did want thousands of waters.

[plain aurora]

I mean… he might be that dehydrated’

[tiny mauve]

Sometimes it's to the room, as though declaring bankruptcy, and sometimes it's just to the mirror, by themselves

[tiny mauve]

Or trying to run his own AI server farm

[plain aurora]

Oh it could be a AI ordering water for the server to keep itself alive

[tiny mauve]

It's achieved self-awareness. We're fucked.

[plain aurora]

https://tenor.com/view/hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy-dolphin-so-long-thanks-for-all-the-fish-gif-19528108

There’s only a few times one can use that gif. This be one of them

[chrome wadi]

Is wan canceled or just late?

[brittle dew]

Never canceled always late lol

[brittle moon]

Android Has Become Apple - WAN Show August 29, 2025

[chrome wadi]

ok

[brittle moon]

not any more late than usual. average lateness for the past 5 shows is 1h 6m and we're only at 14 minutes late rn

[jagged spire]

Wait what time is it supposed to start?

[brittle moon]

4:30

[jagged spire]

Wow

[round ermine]

I refuse to get a Pixel ever again. When my 6a get its free battery replacement, I will ride it for another 2 years then move onto a Fairphone or something.

Preshow live

[wicked inlet]

Given the WAN title, just gonna leave this tweet here. There will still be sideloading but it'll more like iOS sideloading where a computer will likely be necessary to sign with a personal cert. Not even Apple requires submitting an ID for their (personal) sideloading so I doubt Google would. Apple just requires an Apple ID, not sure if they'll make it forced through a google account since that's a bit iffy tbh
https://x.com/ssamat/status/1961184185697370593

Sameer Samat (@ssamat)

@HaCon86 @Ahoomanman Yep, this should all be doable without verification.

X · Aug 28, 2025, 9:48 PM

[round ermine]

My 6a had amazing battery life. THEN GOOGLE KILLED IT WITH FIRMWARE

And the Pixel 10 line will degrade its battery performance after 200 charges

So seriously, I refuse to touch Pixel anymore because of this

[round ermine]

DOOM???

[woeful crescent]

Linus gets it.. https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/09/21/the-protip

2007.. fuck now I feel old..er.

Luke looking to revisit the Geneva Checklist..

[tiny mauve]

The better approach is to refuse updates as a whole. It's how I live. It's great.

[woeful crescent]

You must work for my local Grocery Store.. Windows NT4 for life! 🙂

[full coyote]

so whats even the point? if a malicous actor signs it themselves wouldnt it just install?

[wicked inlet]

No, personal certs won't work on other people's devices

The exact flow for how it's gonna work wasn't announced though. Apple makes this work by having the personal cert tied and shared through an Apple ID. Hopefully it doesn't require a Google account, since not everyone would want to use those

Since what Apple does works in the EU, at the very least it shouldn't be any worse than Apple's approach.

[vague oyster]

“We don’t know why our views are down, it must be YouTube”

Nah. It’s a lot of lower quality videos over the last six weeks with sloppy structure and they really haven’t been interesting or engaging

[idle zinc]

Honestly tech being slow or not its a team of professional engineers, Writers, and so much more there isnt much of an excuse for slop, Im not a hater and i love ltt but it cant just be put down to “Tech is slow”

[tiny mauve]

It's probably some level of nostalgia or smth but it feels like the quality of videos hasn't improved enough compared to the massive drop in quantity since the drama

[brittle torrent]

Idk, I found the desk vid decently entertaining

[vague oyster]

It was the first good video in a while

[brittle torrent]

Things like that I think means if tech is slow, silly video ideas like that should florish

[wicked inlet]

same. Love the project vids in general

[idle zinc]

I used to be able to watch every LTT video full length and be entertained, Now some (not every) video just feels a bit gutless

[vague oyster]

A couple of the more senior writers leaving or moving to different roles in the company definitely has a lot to do with it

[idle zinc]

Idk man, i think taran leaving in 2022/23 was the start of the downfall we’ve been seeing

[vague oyster]

Taran, Colin, Alex, Jake (he’s more infrastructure than he is a writer now)

[idle zinc]

You can only reuse an idea so much and i feel like the Intel/Amd tech upgrades just feel boring nowadays, Seeing the engineering team and all the projects they do feels so much more interesting and i think they need to utilise it more

[idle zinc]

I love jake he needs more screentime imo

[tiny mauve]

Ironically, while project videos are usually my favourites, it felt... incomplete? Idk really, it felt like it was too short not so much in a "I want more" but in a "they cut too much" type of way if it makes sense

[vague oyster]

Like I’ve been a viewer and FP sub for six going on seven years now and it’s just… not what it used to be anymore.

[vague oyster]

It went too perfect if that makes sense

[idle zinc]

The solution is jank it always has been

[brittle torrent]

So we want to see it succeed but with bloopers it seems?

[vague oyster]

The project vids have turned into Linus intro, CNC montage, writer commentary, Linus outtro and it’s not as satisfying as it used to be

[idle zinc]

The last good desk “computer” build for me was the one that used a thunderbolt dock back in 2019

[idle zinc]

I agree it feels less like a few relatable people doing a project together and more like a corporation using outlandish machinery to complete something and poop it out into content. Idk its not all the videos but its growing more and more

[tiny mauve]

It's always weird seeing people want more Jake, not because I disagree, I like the guy and his presentation, but because I always think back to a livestream back when he'd just started in LTT and people in the chat kept talking about how annoying the guy was (tbh I agreed with them back then)

[vague oyster]

It’s really funny— Linus is blaming the tech industry and the changing sentiments and Luke is very much like nah fam it’s us our content sucks

He just can’t say it

[idle zinc]

I remember the same. I used to not like him but hes grown on me over the years

[idle zinc]

Lukes honest and Linus just doesnt want to admit that hes not operating things right

[round ermine]

They force the updates. If you connect a Pixel to the internet, it will get updates

They cannot be opted out

Anyways, on the current topic:

AI regulations should just force criminal charges on the AI executives for anything their AIs cause

This would force them to either find a way to make the AIs safe, or just kill it all

Both are acceptable.

[tiny mauve]

Oof. My condolences.

Even if you list the connection as metered?

[cursive tiger]

honestly if i had a pixel i would probably have installed graphene by this point

[spice oak]

I think what google will be doing with Android is it will be just like how ssl certificates work on servers. The public certificate will be signed with google's android device certificates. And android will only need to check for 2 things. That it is signed with one of google's android device certificates. And that it hasn't been revoked. This does mean that developer certificates will last 1 year at the most so that when revoking a developer certificate, google doesn't have to keep it on their servers forever, only until it is past its expiry date.

This is also how Apple does it's certificates for developers on iOS and Mac.

And before anyone says anything about having to submit their certificates private key to google, you only need to submit your public key.

[scenic fiber]

Look at the quote on this old pinball machine

[elfin siren]

late reply but i think the issue is its completely slopified for modern youtube, i want to see designs, failures, plan changes, explainations, something like what diy perks or zac builds has been up

i can see why they dont want that though, they feel that they have to canter towards the low attention span monkeys at typewriters that they think are the most of their audience

[warm vine]

re: YT viewership
I noticed I am getting random like 4-60 views suggestions in my feed on the right... that will sometimes autoplay

It's wild

Also I believe the West's political landscape has taken a lot of oomf out of daily views because for people with little time might be checking political news over hobbyist news

[trim obsidian]

recommendations are based on stuff you have watched and stuff that other people who watch the stuff you watched have watched. Particularly if you share or utilize links with the tracking information still attached.

I always strip the tracking part but they've figured out the stuff I share with my friend because he is now usually having watched it hours ago just about every time I share him something. haha

[woeful crescent]

Jake and Elijah on Luality's stream atm after fixing her stuff lastnight

[trim obsidian]

they're with bunny girl

[woeful crescent]

Ya this was not on my bingo card lol

[tiny nimbus]

I wonder how this August compares to previous Augusts in terms of LTT viewership, my first thought was “everyone’s on vacation (from YouTube)”

[plain aurora]

YouTube is acting strange for me. It only shows me new stuff from subscribers if I look them up. I miss them in my subscribe feed

[tiny nimbus]

I’ve noticed no changes to my Subscriptions feed lately, all the new stuff is still there

[marble frigate]

I never get community post notifications from channels I subscribe to, but do get them from other ones I watch often but not subscribed to 🤷

[tiny nimbus]

https://wandering.shop/@susankayequinn/115115492391302621

Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 (@[e-mail])

Firefox users:

Reblogs

185

Favorites

142

The Wandering Shop · Aug 30, 2025, 3:03 AM

[cursive tiger]

this belongs in #pilot-toast because 45% of them use firefox

[tiny nimbus]

100% of Floaties are Firefox users and also liars

[plain aurora]

I’ve already disabled that, don’t want ai features 😂

[brittle moon]

the feature itself sounds fine to me, but they probably should have had some sort of prompt asking if users wanted to enable it or not instead of just silently defaulting to on

[timid ruin]

I assume it's a desktop only issue for now? Since the Android app has a lot less features

[spice cairn]

thanks i just turned it off

[astral brook]

Truly finite wisdom

[limber jewel]

https://youtube.com/shorts/3sSbNI4x-Z8?si=pdez-fNHIAMl4nEu

Linus 5 minutes after trying to cool a PC with a slushy machine

[flat carbon]

https://www.thegamer.com/collective-shout-details-it-seeks-removal-of-games-whether-legal-or-not/

In a new interview, Caitlin Roper, campaigns manager at Collective Shout, revealed that "legality is not the defining factor" in the games it targets, stating that men who are defending the games "perpetrate crimes of violence against women."

[spice cairn]

ffs women also are defending our right to buy whatever the fuck we want with our money

[cursive tiger]

if i'm not mistaken the whole point of the laws in the first place is to define where the line should be

[tiny mauve]

And therefore the best way of breaking it

https://tenor.com/view/beavis-and-butthead-head-bang-beavis-butthead-breaking-the-law-gif-17916412

On the topic of breaking the law:
On yesterday's SYW episode there was an anti-piracy thingy on the screen when, I'm assuming, they played one of the blurays. Are those still a thing today? I pirate all my movies, so I'm haven't seen those banners in ages

[unkempt glade]

Just listened to last weeks wan show, i think school starting back up might be what is causing some of the view drop. I know it not all of it though.

[frozen agate]

the most likely cause imho is the recent algorithm changes that happened. They basically crushed discoverability for me, I have so many small creators on my feed that I do not even care to watch and it isn't because I changed my viewing habits that's for sure. Now I find it harder to find stuff to put on as background noise because I don't even get recommendations that are any good for me.

in the first 10 videos on my recommended feed:

• 2 are things I would watch
• 3 are political commentaries
• 1 is a gaming video
• 1 is about medical science
• 1 is a historical documentary on the second small global disagreement of the 1930s and 1940s
• 1 is a video abut "England's Most Underrate City", not sure why im supposed to care there.
• 1 is a video about the shortest railway branch lines in the UK.

so in 10 chances, only 20% of the videos are something I'd ever even click on. the remaining videos are all entirely out of whack with my feed.

[brittle moon]

actually, my youtube feed has been slightly better recently than it has been for the past like 6 months. before I would scroll for >5 minutes and not find a single thing i was interested in, but i havent had that problem for a bit now

[trim obsidian]

I've been struggling to stay out of my recommended and so it just keeps sending more distractions. I should just ubo the whole recommended away!

[unkempt glade]

Now that i think about it i have been getting a lot of politics and foreign content (mostly on Ukraine and Russia) recommended to me even though i primarily watch tech, hacking/cybersecurity, and car stuff.

Very interesting time for youtube

[trim obsidian]

There are multiple buckets that make up the recommendations. What you watch - what other people who watch that stuff also watch and what people that they know you know watch.

[unkempt glade]

Thats true, but i never watch anything political.
I just went through my top 20 recommendations, only 2 of the videos are ones i would watch, the rest are shorts and political stuff or the recent Roblox stuff, which i watch one video on when it first happened.

I am still trying to figure out how shorts are even coming up as i have the m.youtube.com/shorts and youtube.com/shorts domains blocked on my network.

[trim obsidian]

It would be lovely if there was a big friendly button that said get these shorts out of my face.

[tiny mauve]

ubo not ideal for this, I recommend using "unhook" it's what I used to use before moving to FreeTube, and it's great. I used to remove pretty much everything on a video's page other than the video and the description. It made YouTube almost usable again.

[tiny mauve]

The only reliable way of blocking shorts I've found was using tampermonkey

[unkempt glade]

Ok, i will give it a try

[tiny mauve]

BC I no longer regularly use YouTube's website I hadn't realised it, but apparently I stopped using Tampermonkey when I moved browsers, so now it's a simple button in "unhook" to hide them

I just tested it and they do be hidden

In the channel view and in searches

[unkempt glade]

Where is “unhook”?
Is it in youtube settings or tampermonkey?

[tiny mauve]

It's an extension

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-recommended-videos/

[unkempt glade]

Ah, cool

[tiny nimbus]

https://mastodon.social/@campuscodi/115131519955168823

Catalin Cimpanu (@[e-mail])

TP-Link failed to patch a vulnerability in its routers for more than a year.

The bug is in a protocol that allows ISPs to manage routers deployed at customer premises, also known as CWMP or TR-069.

TP-Link was notified of the bug in May last year.

medium.com/@mehrrun/zero-day-a…

Mastodon · Sep 1, 2025, 10:59 PM

https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/02/eu_gps_jamming_russia_response/

https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/115135281939068791

BrianKrebs (@[e-mail])

And just like that, the largest known DDoS has nearly doubled in size over the past couple of months. Cloudflare promises more details, and says the largest attack (11.5 terabits per second) came from Google Cloud.

Infosec Exchange · Sep 2, 2025, 2:56 PM

[tiny nimbus]

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a64781017/ex90-lidar-iphone-16-pro-max-sensor/

From back in May, but TIL not to try to point my phone camera at a LIDAR system

[tiny nimbus]

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/09/google-wont-have-to-sell-chrome-judge-rules/

[trim obsidian]

I really should have become a judge. Far too many morons out there. Although I suppose at least in this case it's the argument that's flawed. Google shouldn't own a web browser because they have an advertising business. Not because of a search engine.

[plain aurora]

https://tribune.com.pk/story/2564653/dragon-con-removes-vendor-oriana-gertz-for-violating-ai-art-ban-at-2025-convention

As a graphic designer and artist affected by AI art...
GOOD.

[tiny nimbus]

I dislike that this will probably lead to settlement without Broadcom facing any significant consequences https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/03/tesco_sues_vmware_broadcom_computacenter/

[keen bloom]

This is why their meal deals cost £4 now

[plain aurora]

Anyone know the situation behind youtube cracking down on premium? If me being on it will get my brother's account banned i am so getting off and this will backfire as unlike the others that made more, this time since youtube has a free version....

[unkempt glade]

Whisper “Floatplane”

[cursive tiger]

yeah i'm getting a hell of a lot of politics, and lots of ai slop videos with like 10 views about the most random shit i don't care about

[flat carbon]

https://www.polygon.com/steam-visa-mastercard-paypal-censorship-project-2025-early-access/

[tiny nimbus]

https://www.macstories.net/news/instagram-launches-an-ipad-app/

https://mastodon.social/@film_girl/115141377359708681

Christina Warren (@[e-mail])

Instagram is finally on iPad! That’s amazing. Oh. Wait. Oh no. It is not a good app. Like I’m fine with React Native iPad apps, truly. But this has perf issues on an M2 iPad. Sigh.

Mastodon · Sep 3, 2025, 4:46 PM

[tiny nimbus]

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/08/29/uk-still-demanding-global-access-icloud-user-data/

[plain aurora]

Yikes i don't have M series ipad so its going to be horrible

[tiny nimbus]

https://www.theverge.com/news/772101/midjourney-ai-generator-warner-bros-lawsuit

[full coyote]

can the uk just

fuck off already

[plain aurora]

UK: Does super awesome thing
UK: Okay here is a bunch of not so great things.

[frozen agate]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1wgn3lre14o

Potential WAN subtopic to go with the already probably headline topic of google winning at Monopoly™

[flat carbon]

https://apnews.com/article/anthropic-copyright-authors-settlement-training-f294266bc79a16ec90d2ddccdf435164

[brittle moon]

I MET LINUS - WAN Show September 5, 2025

[tiny mauve]

They're trying to lower video length.

Ffs

[tiny mauve]

...

[brittle moon]

title changed toI Met THE Linus - WAN Show September 5, 2025

[woeful crescent]

Dan is gonna regret that comment..

"Reach out and we'll have a look at your channel.." meanwhile Dan gets bothered so much at WORK that he has a sign telling people not to bother him :p

[woeful crescent]

Valve Time, theres a link I use a lot when people ask about why stuff isn't on time 😄

[round ermine]

Ok, if you are one of the people that are looking into Silksong, but never played the original Hollow Knight

Get the original game first

Silksong is designed with the expectation that the player at minimum got the normal ending in Hollow Knight

Cause the difficulty curve is significantly harder than the original game

You'll be getting your ass kicked in silksong if you are unfamiliar with Hollow Knight

[shadow beacon]

Couldn't watch sham show live so I'm watching the vod

[unreal haven]

this may be related to the Wan show and the views being down https://youtu.be/uGNUcLEWE18?si=x7wLKyvme_9lgX82

[plain aurora]

It's across all channels sadly, like my recommended feed makes no sense. Sometimes i don't even get everyone i followed update wise on my subs its becoming a rough experience for all

[brittle moon]

my recommendations actually got better recently. Before, for like 4+ months, my feed was like 90% stuff that i had 0 interest in. I would tell youtube i wasnt interested but it would keep suggesting the same stuff that i had 0 interest in. but thats not happening anymore

[trim obsidian]

You see that ?si=x7wLKyvme_9lgX82 on the end of your link that you sent? It ties your feed to the recommendations of anyone that clicks it by association. Since you 'know' these people, you must share interest with them.

[plain aurora]

Woah that could explain why my recommendations is now off big time

[trim obsidian]

https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions
To be clear though - this should show only the channels you are subscribed to and all of them at that. Though I do believe they will stealth unsub you if you skip too many videos.

[plain aurora]

Yeah i do go to subscriptions if i want to see what the ones i've subbed to have added

[azure bone]

does the team know about the technical issues with the latest WAN show episode on Floatplane ? The time skips, the infinite buffering issues. It's in the comments but not seeing it here

[tiny nimbus]

Watched the whole thing back on YouTube and didn’t notice any buffering or skips

[azure bone]

sorry, it was on Floatplane

[tiny nimbus]

Ah, you should link your accounts then so you can ask in the Floatplane channel https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/976027-how-to-link-discord-to-your-floatplanecom-account/

[elfin cloud]

maybe they fixed it. i had issues on floatplane starting around 1:30

yeah looks like its fixed now

[cursive tiger]

i doubt it

i haven't watched a jayztwocents video in forever and i'm still subscribed to him

[elfin cloud]

i suspect that i too am missing videos at time from the subscription list. i browse it every day and add what i want to watch to watch later. the suddenly a few days later i see a video from a subscribed channel i previously did not see in the subscription list.

of course by that time its in the subscription list. not sure if it's a timing issue. some sort of api limitation (i mostly use the official tv app). or i am starting to develop some early dementia.

this was never an issue until a few weeks ago. so that is also very sus.

[tiny mauve]

I've been YouTube-free since '23 '22, so its possible something's changed since, but, while I was never unsubbed from any channels, for years prior my subscription page would often be missing a couple of videos from some channels, sometimes even videos from the few channels I had notifications turned on for (so it couldn't be a timing issue because I would hardly ever watch videos right after the notif. and I would only use the notification link if I couldn't find the video in my sub page)

[proud valley]

I'm still mid wan show vod watch, but I wanna throw in my two cents about youtube views.
Some time ago some youtuber mentioned how over 50% of their clicks werent coming from the subscriptions tab. And I very often save my videos to Watch Later, or when I'm just scrolling about, a fresh video drops in the recommended tab, before I could even check my subs, and that may count as a "discovered" video, not as a sub clicking a video they were gonna watch anyway

[trim obsidian]

That is true. I put almost everything over 1 hour into watch later and anything that I don't want to watch at 2x into a different private playlist to watch outside of the feed. Basically I refresh and sort it all out between the queue, watch later and playlist, then watch the queue and fill in the rest of the time with the other two locations. (currently almost 2 days worth of content in each location. I need to trim.

[proud valley]

Same here. Long form almost always goes to watch later. And I also have phases where I let the list build up to quite some many videos. I very rarely run out. It's often about what I'm in the mood for.
I also make a mental difference between videos I actually want to pay attention to, or just put it on as background noise.
Like talking head videos, like GN's news videos, or TechLinked, all get listened to quite close to release.
Buuuut I admit, that LTT's biggest head scratcher, the recent desk video, I not only watched like a couple of days ago, so nearly a week later, buuut I did bundle it into the background noise list, so I barely paid any attention to it

Meanwhile there are some creators, whose videos I watch like two weeks later, because they require a nice calm alone time, and a bowl of snacks.
And honestly, I'm sad I havent been doing that with the new scrapyard wars season. I watched them as procrascination from other tasks, but I definetly didnt apreciate them enough

[tiny mauve]

My current watch later playlist is 423h long. Your self-control is admirable.

Tbf though at this point I expect to actually watch only like max 5% of that, but saving the videos to WL helps me ignore them instead of wasting away watching the whole internet

[timid ruin]

Evidently, I don't YouTube correctly....I watch perhaps 2-3hrs worth of videos per week (!) plus WAN show (since that one is family time with my partner, otherwise I'd watch it on Spotify). I have a few channels that only drop videos on specific days, and there are some followed channels that are occasional drops, but I rarely miss content I really care about (since my partner watches most LMG videos, he pre-filters a lot of content for me, so I only need to queue up what I really want to watch....and with multi-episode contents like Secret Shopper or Scrapyard Wars, we'll just wait until all episodes drop and make them family time).
On my channel I'm yet to run into a members only video, but on my partner's YouTube Premium it's definitely a thing, especially from a hoofing channel we often watch together. Otherwise I haven't experienced any big changes, apart from some very occasional missing videos from my Following list which is my default YouTube home tab anyway on my Firefox startpage (I never know the precise name, but the small quick icon page when you open a new empty tab).

[tiny nimbus]

I see even DankPods Wade has been talking about ending YT channel memberships and going Floatplane-only, specifically because of the way all the members-only videos litter his channel page seen by channel members and non-members alike

[plain aurora]

Man. Every day I seem to find yet another video talking about how YouTube has changed things and the views have gone down. I don’t envy creators right now, it’s such an unstable platform.

I don’t help LTT views on YT I do move to FP if I’m wanting to watch something, the FP team really made streaming look crisp snd nicer

[woeful crescent]

3 streamers I follow all brought up youtube, and mentioned the views either naturally or after I asked if they were experiencing it too..

They were relieved when I mentioned other big channels said it seemed to be numbers only, that ad revenu was still stable, but its causing a lot of stress

[shadow beacon]

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNdbRXUCq/

[tiny nimbus]

https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/08/microsoft_valuelicensing_latest/

[tiny nimbus]

https://www.theverge.com/news/774077/nintendo-switch-modder-ryan-daley-lawsuit

What will it take for Linus to finally set up Jellyfin and ditch Plex https://forums.plex.tv/t/important-notice-of-security-incident/930523

https://mastodon.social/@jgobble/115170981125162157

((Jann Gobble)) 🏳️‍🌈 (@[e-mail])

Oh, yeah! #Plex got hacked!

They SAY passwords were hashed, but PLEASE #reset your plex #password and force a sign-out on ALL devices using their interface as follows:

When doing so, there's a checkbox to "Sign out connected devices after password change," which we recommend you enable.

Irritating...especially cos they don't say WHEN this happened!

@lisamelton @briankrebs

Mastodon · Sep 8, 2025, 10:15 PM

[mossy socket]

They SAY passwords were hashed, but PLEASE #reset your plex #password and force a sign-out on ALL devices using their interface as follows:
I mean thats just standard

[tiny nimbus]

https://apnews.com/article/chinese-surveillance-silicon-valley-uyghurs-tech-xinjiang-8e000601dadb6aea230f18170ed54e88

[tiny nimbus]

Bye bye Broadcom https://www.theverge.com/news/774941/apple-iphone-17-n1-wi-fi-bluetooth-thread-networking-chip

[cursive tiger]

i use bookmarks like an old man

[tiny mauve]

I use bookmarks almost exclusively for text, mainly bc my left hand fingers muscles got memoried to my shiori shortcut over the regular ctrl+d

[tulip hatch]

Remember when you could not hold the iphone 4 on the Bottom side, or you blocked the reception?

Antennagate

[cursive tiger]

my laptop has started doing a similar thing lol
if i close it it completely loses wifi signal and it goes really bad if i put my palm on the trackpad

[tiny nimbus]

Yikes https://mastodon.social/@zackwhittaker/115176267465333718

Zack Whittaker (@[e-mail])

I asked Plex a bunch of questions about its data breach of user account information, but the company wouldn't say why it hasn't force-reset its users' passwords and is instead asking users to do it, or said how and to what degree it scrambled those passwords.

techcrunch.com/2025/09/09/plex…

Mastodon · Sep 9, 2025, 8:39 PM

[spice cairn]

"fantasy and cat ears"

WTF master card and Visa

[oblique fossil]

W Visa

[spice cairn]

the fuck you mean "W Visa"

this effects like all games

[oblique fossil]

Excellent

Thats why I said W Visa

[spice cairn]

yo shut up

this a bad thing

fuck sake a person with a fucking anime profile pic tryin tell me that master card and Visa banned service for "fantasy and cat ears" is a good thing??

like get out of here

[oblique fossil]

Seems great to me

[frozen agate]

your profile picture literally portrays fantasy content @oblique fossil, are you going to pay them $1450 US to keep using it?

[oblique fossil]

Nope, because its not adult content 🙂

[frozen agate]

Wonderful, who said it isn't adult content? Because I don't think that Visa, or Mastercard said so, which means that it could be interpreted as adult content

[oblique fossil]

is it NSFW? No.

Steam games are, however.

[frozen agate]

on whose authority?

[oblique fossil]

Can you prove it?

[frozen agate]

I could turn around and argue that your depiction of a fantasy person in your avatar is not safe for work because it does not fit in with common workplace etiquette (such as having a profile picture of your face), or no avatar at all

when rules are laid out this vaguely, it affects more than just the intended content.

[oblique fossil]

<@&750150305383186585>

[hollow parcel]

Ngl I think shes rage baiting you two

[frozen agate]

lol, I ain't getting rage baited, but yes, I know what you're saying Kobold

[oblique fossil]

might be, but regardless, shouldve been civil.

[brittle moon]

"fantasy"????? thats extremly vague (im sure its vague on purpose)

i guess according to visa and mastercard, fantasy is now adult only content

[plain aurora]

So.
As someone who has the 14pro, the 17 standard has my attention, I'm not sure if i should go and get the 17 pro now esp with so many of the features i would go for pro for is now on the standard and the cost of the pro in NZD would be insane.

[oblique fossil]

17 looks good w 120Hz

[plain aurora]

yeah thats what i was thinking because i went to pro in the first place as i was on a android that had a high refresh rate and the 14 standard looked horrible

[oblique fossil]

17 Pro has a great camera system if thats what ur after

[plain aurora]

thats the thing, the only difference is i will loose out on a telephoto lens

all the other cameras are on the base level

Ill see what the NZD pricing is before deciding but the base model does have my attention

[spice cairn]

ikr its crazy

[cursive tiger]

guys cat photos are ||stuff|| now 🔥

[tiny mauve]

Gonna be honest: I do not get the point of HRR on a phone. On a monitor 120+ Hz is absolutely essential to me, but on a phone it's just a waste of battery life IMO. I turn it off immediately.

But tbf I basically don't use my phone. My screen time avg is literally sub 1h30

[oblique fossil]

Bruh, If you become a power user, you will NEVER go back

Also, on iPhone, its increases battery life as the display can go down to 1Hz

[tiny mauve]

One of my goals for life is to never become a phone power user. I much prefer using a desktop with a proper keyboard or at least a laptop. I enjoy having a healthy neck and upper back.

[plain aurora]

i find things are just more fluid on a HRR display.

i went pro because the android phone i was moving from the standard models looked sluggish compard to the pro and also some of the other features

[tiny nimbus]

The 14 Pro still has its 48MP main camera, so the three 48MP lenses on the 17 Pro aren’t tempting me much

Going from 3x to 8x Optical zoom might be tempting but not at the price, plus the resale/trade-in value of the 14 Pro has tanked

[plain aurora]

Oh yes it’s tanked hard in the last year. I think last quote I got was $750 I paid $2k (nzd)

I have a main camera so photos was not the main reason why I got it. But the lenses are nice

Thanks to this phone I’m making a calendar to fundraise for two kitties who live at the pools.

[tiny nimbus]

When my phone camera is good enough to capture the Milky Way I’m not in a hurry to upgrade

[spice cairn]

where the fuck are you where your night sky isn't full of light pollution

:0

[tiny nimbus]

Middle of nowhere lol

[plain aurora]

Woah did you have it on a long exposure?

[tiny nimbus]

Full 30s

[brittle moon]

oh dang

too much light pollution in my area to get a picture that nice, but somewhere i have a picture where you can start to make out something like that (i also have a 14 pro)

[plain aurora]

Makes me want to try some night photography with mine next winter

[tiny nimbus]

Night mode is good enough on the 14 Pro and obviously better on newer phones, pair a 3-second timer delay with the 30s exposure so you have time to steady the tripod or just lay the phone face down like I did

[plain aurora]

Yep I do that with my 90d

[limber jewel]

Do you know the iso value?

[tiny nimbus]

12,500

[limber jewel]

Mine maxes out at 3200

Samsung Galaxy S20 FE

[plain aurora]

Random but related, a friend introduced me to project indigo, it’s quite fun, a camera tool by adobe (that’s free)

You can get more out of the camera hardware, when you download thr photos from iCloud you get raw photos

[tiny nimbus]

If I could justify the cost I’d buy Halide. I can already choose to shoot RAW and process it later but I haven’t felt the need to, plus I don’t use iCloud for storage

[plain aurora]

Yeah there’s quite a few things I would love to buy but the justification isn’t there.

I only use it as a way to get the photos off the phone as I have windows and I found the cable really hard compared to android

[oblique fossil]

BABY CAT 😻

[cursive tiger]

my city takes it really seriously, they have red or sodium lamp street lights and quite strict restrictions on building stuff with a lot of light emissions

[spice cairn]

ah neat

wish it was like that here.... can barely see the stars at night

[cursive tiger]

oh you can still very rarely see the stars here because of the weather but the once a month or so when the sun is out it's great

[uneven jungle]

hi guys, is there a way to search wan shows episodes by topic? i was aware of thewandb but it doesn't seems to work anymore, also found wansearch but is broken as well

[rapid robin]

I don't think the episode DB is on the project's Github : https://github.com/TheWANDatabase

[tiny nimbus]

W Discord https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/world/asia/nepal-protest-genz-discord.html

[brittle moon]

https://whenplane.com/search

[frozen agate]

It is not, but Whenplane is the successor to WanDB

[shadow beacon]

sham show today!!!

[tiny nimbus]

Uhh is YouTube auto-dubbing English videos into a foreign language for anyone else without the option to turn it off, and are they doing it on purpose because I’m using an ad-blocker?

[tiny mauve]

The last time I opened a video on my phone (in the browser, I don't have the app), 2~3 months ago, that did happen. No adblocker

[brittle moon]

ive been seeing them occasionally. i have premium

[plain aurora]

Yep it’s done that a few times

I’m premium too

[tiny nimbus]

Seems to be happening with every video on a channel/video large/popular enough to have autodubs, and it’s not limited to a single language

[plain aurora]

Even suggesting videos from different countries

Then the captions are not in English 😆

[tiny nimbus]

I turn CC on and that’s in English, my account language/country is correct

[brittle moon]

the weirdest thing ive seen youtube do (with regards to languages) is to have the default caption for an english video (as an english user) to be in some other language ive never even heard of before. It does that to me occasionally

my language is english, the video is english, the auto-generated captions are english, just sometimes it randomly decides to translate the captions to some other language

[tiny mauve]

In my case I wasn't logged in, and it dubbed from French to my vernacular (PT) but the subtitles were still in English

Absolute mess

[tiny nimbus]

ffs Quinn (SnazzyLabs) started speaking in Spanish for a sentence or two and that freaked me out

[tiny mauve]

When YouTube first implemented this feature bug, FreeTube took a minute to update. When Derek (Veritasium) started speaking Portuguese I, too, freaked out.

[tiny nimbus]

It’s kinda funny hearing the official MrBeast dubs

[tiny mauve]

Funny isn't a word I would use for this, but I really hate non-animated dubbed content

[brittle moon]

I Ordered My iPhone - WAN Show September 12, 2025

[round ermine]

Preshow

[brittle moon]

main show is live now

[unkempt glade]

Really surprised me Linus might be going back to iPhone.
(I haven’t seen anything yet just saw the title)

[woeful crescent]

It doesn't surprise me.. he's said before he already has an iPhone handy for some stuff that only works (or work well) through it.. and I think the learning from the last switch (both what he learned during it, and feedback from people about his issues) make it more appealing a second time around..

Thats not to say I expected this switch, I didn't, but it doesn't shock me either...

[plain aurora]

Tbh with android locking down side loading we may find more people moving over, esp since the base model has improved so much

[hoary tundra]

Anyone know the code from the Vessi shoe ad?

[frozen agate]

Step into fall ready with versatile, ultra-light Vessi Sneakers. Vessi claims they are fully waterproof, and they come with a 1-year warranty with 30-days of worry-free returns. Enjoy 15% off your first pair at vessi.com/wanshow at checkout!

[iron flame]

Ooh wan show chat

[hoary tundra]

Thanks Altrius

[timid ruin]

Apart from the ads that sneak in when I use Firefox Focus on my phone (due to location they're non-English), I haven't noticed this at all, and I rarely watch non-English content. Sounds absolutely bizarre. Does this happen from any browser? All I've noticed is that sometimes it takes a few minutes for a video to start (and YT has a popup message something like "See here why it takes too long"), which I assume is an adblock thing. But it doesn't really bother me anyway.

[timid ruin]

You can pay him in cute cat videos/GIFs

[plain aurora]

I just saw something on facebook, I am on iOS but is this what android looks like now on the latest update?

[timid ruin]

Not mine it ain't

For incoming calls I also haven't seen any significant changes

Then again, I'm using an ASUS ROG, and themes effect all phone apps heavily

What I find extra annoying tho, there's one bloatware (Cross-device services, that are meant for Chromebooks, which I don't and won't own), which acts independently - if I uninstall updates, it automatically reinstalls them every day just after midnight. If I disable it from the system app screen, it re-enables itself when I restart the phone. That was not an issue until my phone came back from repair in June and received a full firmware and OS update to the most recent....

[plain aurora]

Oh yes I know what ROG themes can do to ROG devices, I have a laptop.

But man that bloatware sounds very annoying

[shadow beacon]

Ai generated video summary on YouTube

[brittle moon]

That feature seems occasionally useful, but the like 1 or 2 times I’ve wanted to use it since it started showing up on some videos a few months ago, it’s nowhere to be found.

[north sundial]

I remembered seeing the wan-show mentioning a decent decline of viewers of their video, then it hit me. Maybe Youtube algorithm can't distinguish the difference between public videos vs members only because I can click "Not Interested" and it will reduce my chance of seeing more of your videos of Linus Tech Tips as a whole, not just membership only videos.

[brittle moon]

my guess is that youtube just got better at excluding bots from the views counter? because from what i've heard, revenue and engagement is basically the same

[tulip hatch]

What is "YouTube Featured"

[random trout]

https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1lzrp5i/what_does_youtube_featured_means/

[autumn cove]

My guess is it's the viewers fault the views on their videos have dropped

[pastel fox]

I was just getting to the afterdark in the wan-show (cant watch live cause in europe), and there is once again mentions of Battefield, Linus even talks about Battlefield Vietnam being the first with helicopters.
I'm pretty sure Desert Combat released first and it had helicopters.
Non the less BF DC was played Sooooo much on our lan parties. Way more than the base game. Tho admittedly, 4v4 in any old BF is a pretty lonely experience 😄

I'm mostly surprised that, afaik, they have never mentioned Desert Combat.

[tiny mauve]

4v4 on BF3's Grand Bazaar was pretty ok

Mostly because people would just stick to alleyway for ages anyway

A number of BF4 maps were also pretty decent for 5v5 in domination, at least in competitive, idk if LAN for fun would be as decent

[pastel fox]

We mostly played the Battle for Midway-map in BF1942

[twilit spear]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX1eEe8erkQ

I posted this in pilot-toast, but thought it'd be worth sharing here. It looks like the decline in viewership is that views are not being registered by users using adblockers.

[brittle moon]

ah that would make sense

[trim obsidian]

I figured they'd pull a move like that to actually get creators to push against blockers.

[wind hound]

but it doesnt affect revenue? so why push?

or at least not majorly according to LTT

[trim obsidian]

Youtube $

[tiny mauve]

Maybe so they (YTrs) can have an inkling of how much they're "losing" and add a "piracy is a crime"-like banner at the start of their videos

(I've not watched the video, I'm assuming "blockers" means ad-block users and they're "responsible" for the drop in views)

[brittle oracle]

This could also explain why different channels are so differently hit. Ecspecially tech-savy or nerdy content in general is way more likely to be viewed by people on desktop with ad blockers while content that is made for a more general audience is probably more likely to be watched on mobile or TV
that move is very smart and incredebly evil.
It will suck the algorithm even more down the spiral of bs content

[tiny nimbus]

The Spiffing Brit weighed in (and references WAN more than once), spoiler: he blames ||the audience and the time of year||, and claims to have the data to back it up https://youtu.be/MGTKaALdHzc

I also don’t know whether he’s pronouncing the word “algorithm” that way on purpose or not

[brittle oracle]

after reading the comments from Joshs video, I have no doubt what so ever that - maybe additionally to a change in the recommending algorithm - YT changend something with desktop view count

[cursive tiger]

it's just his lovely southern accent

[cursive tiger]

i still don't feel like that would explain the likes and revenue being exactly the same though

[brittle oracle]

but changing the way a "view" is counted could provide an answer to that, if youtube already deducted ad-blocked views when paying the creators. They maybe just changed the viewcount mechanism. The payment mechanism could have been using this counting system for while already.

[wanton token]

So what about people that pay for premium but have adblock on anyways

Or it is just the views that counted for revenue

[timid ruin]

Also, honestly, what can creators do, really? They can talk against it, but that isn't really gonna change anything, tbh.
The other thing is, several countries make it not just legal but pretty normal to run political ads around elections. Now, if you want to play content at school (it's pretty common for teachers to play educational content to their class), you most likely won't have Premium and likely also don't want to accidentally play political ads (this is an actual situation a friend of mine had, he was teaching history in a special needs school, and during election season there was 2-3 (!) ads during short videos - now political content can get you in trouble while teaching, so he literally had to use adblockers to avoid breaking the school rules). I know it's a niche example, but there are legitimate situations where ads (or at least certain ads) should absolutely be turned off.

[oblique fossil]

Or expense premium with funding

Ot YT could make a educator program?

[tiny nimbus]

Linus was talking about WhatsApp notifications on iOS needing contact photos, so this is kinda relevant https://mastodon.social/@mysk/115204746326765802

Mysk🇨🇦🇩🇪 (@[e-mail])

🤯 Instagram is testing new iOS push notifications that include a profile photo. Each time the notification is shown on your screen, it triggers a GET request to fetch that image, letting Meta track every on-screen impression.

The app still misuses push notifications to send detailed device analytics about the device (uptime, battery, volume, locale, timezone, memory, CPU, etc.)

#privacy #infosec #privacymatters #Apple #iOS #meta
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[timid ruin]

Like Adobe and O365? Absolutely.

But yeah, "expense it" is not a thing for school teachers lol - it's not even an Eastern European specific issue. Unless you buy Premium from your own pocket (which in weaker currencies isn't feasible from a teacher's income), you won't have it. But yeah, my point is, adblock usage is in some cases essential and definitely excusable...and it's not even the creators' responsibility anyway. The whole "let's punish creators for viewers avoiding ads" is ridiculous.

[cursive tiger]

well you already don't get revenue if people are using ad blockers so it does make a lot of sense

[cursive tiger]

lol what funding

[odd grail]

WhatsApp notifs already include contact photos on iOS

[tiny nimbus]

Wait, was it Teams he was talking about then

[odd grail]

No, it was WhatsApp

But he assumed the contact photos were exclusive to Android

They've been on iOS for at least a few months

Er, make that years

https://www.macrumors.com/2022/01/06/whatsapp-profile-pictures-ios-notifications/

What is time anyway

[tiny nimbus]

https://tenor.com/view/hypnotize-clock-watch-the-clock-hynotist-gerald-fitzgerald-gif-16815497

Oop Charlie just posted an update to the YouTube viewpocalypse situation referencing Josh Strife Hayes’s update, claiming (via a YouTube please-don’t-share-this confirmation) that the reduction in “Desktop” view count was due to adblocked views not counting any more

[trim obsidian]

Exactly the point. Change the narrative from 'use your adblockers we only get a fraction of a cent per view - consider our Patreon - even just a dollar a month is far more than we'd get from ads anyway'.

[maiden shadow]

If YouTube hadn’t made changes over time that make ads more and more frequent, play more ads each time and have now basically 80% of the ads unskippable maybe more people would be inclined not to have an adblocker

[timid ruin]

This ^^
Ads are part of a lot of things. There's a difference between something being reasonable (such as customiseable ads based on interest or at least the option to opt out from certain types of sensitive topics; reasonably limited amount of ads corresponding to the content one is matching etc), and being just money-obsessed and grabbing. I mean, if you want to make your platform subscription-only, please do. But creating or recreating something that's utterly unenjoyable due to the lack of ad content- or quantity control is a joke. I do use free phone apps that have apps, and they work fine the way they are, but the fact that I can no longer use Facebook for what it's intended (aka seeing updates from friends I'm not in a daily contact with) without scrolling pages and pages of junk recommendations (not even ads per se) is really getting under my skin recently. And all platforms do this. My partner pays for YT Premium, and it's still shoving members-only content into his face. But again, I'm especially talking about situations where ads are not just a nuisance, but can be harmful, because money is above user experience.
And to put this on creators is especially spineless, not to mention, likely absolutely useless.

Anyway, I'm done ranting.

[cursive tiger]

and yet it's still much better than tv

or at least it used to be
today mediaworks (one of new zealand's major private media businesses) didn't manage to sell any ad spots in my region during the 6pm news, which i've never seen before in my life

[timid ruin]

TV here in Europe was pretty regulated. There was typically an ad break every 30 or so minutes during movies and shows, and no as breaks during news. An ad break consisted of about 3-5 minutes of ads and about 1-2 minutes of programme recommendations. It was easy to go for a bathroom break, pick up a snack or just do whatever during the break, and it made it easy to record movies to VHS back in the 80's-90's and early 2000's without ads. The national stations could stretch it further, they could air movies under 100 minutes without any ad breaks.

These practices haven't changed much, except that a lot of these channels are now streaming online, which makes a lot of the content available for everyone free of charge and often also ad-free. So yeah, I'd heavily argue whether YT is better than telly, but then again, I've heard that it's actually rubbish in the USA and Canada, so I'd imagine Australia and NZ is similar to the US model

[tiny mauve]

I've heard that it's actually rubbish in the USA and Canada

I usually watch IndyCar on pirate streams bc I prefer the English commentary. Rubbish is a compliment to US TV ads. The amount of ads in general, but even worse, amount of pharma ads, is a fucking joke. Not to mention that it's an actual break. In the middle of an ongoing race. I assume it's the same with other sports, which would be even worse, as racing can have really long lulls in action compared to other sports. Here (🇧🇷) we just get a side-by-side. We still get to see the action (or lack thereof) and they still get to show us ads. For sports with breaks eg football, besides a few side-by-side ads during the match, they do break, but only during the breaks.

I'd imagine Australia and NZ is similar to the US model

I don't know how long or bad they are, but I do know Taskmaster AU has like 6 segments compared to 4 on the OG. And I believe TM NZ has 5, but I could be wrong. Mind you, this is a 45-ish minute show without ads

[cursive tiger]

yeah we have similar regulations here, but the ad breaks sometimes have empty spaces if in your region specifically there aren't enough ads to air during that time, but this was the first i ever saw a completely empty ad break and it was right when some of the highest numbers of people watch

in terms of advertising we're not quite as good as the uk, but much better than the us and canada from what i've heard

we also don't anymore have tv licenses, which i think is probably negative overall but not a horrible thing

[timid ruin]

I'll be honest, I have no clue how TV currently works. I stopped watching telly when I was 12, so I'm very behind the technology, but mum loves watching rubbish shows and series, and she only ever signed up for Netflix apart from the TV service. My best educated guess is that there's a TV box you can plug into your modem, so it's technically also streaming, but it handles the mix of channels you pay for.

And then it all goes into a TV monitor or smart TV

But I'm pretty sure ads still work the same way

(oh yeah, just checked one of the mainstream channels, it's now working like Netflix; two packages, with or without ads and either monthly or yearly - I'd imagine tho that there are still packages via an internet provider's TV-box that collect several channels together for cheap with ads, so it's essentially retaining the feel of TV under the coat of streaming)

[cursive tiger]

yeah here you can stream if you want to but i'm still on uhf

[shadow beacon]

you ever feel like slow clapping really loud for no reason ? just me ?

[full coyote]

https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/s/x9ZGjZE113

Someone made this really neat wan show intro

[frozen agate]

that would be NoKi

[tiny nimbus]

I still think it’s way past time they adopted this intro on a permanent basis

[maiden shadow]

I agree

[trim obsidian]

Oh wow that adblock stat block seems very tinfoil hat to help gain evidence for a case against adblock creators.

[cursive tiger]

no the creator wanted too much money to license it iirc

[tiny nimbus]

Never heard a number, I just thought Linus didn’t want to spend any more money on WAN than he had to

[cursive tiger]

no neither but i seem to remember hearing him say that

i could be wrong though

[solemn pelican]

Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but recently Hack Club, the non profit organization empowering teenagers to code around the world, got extorted by Salesforce.

We use Slack for our main source of communication, and Hack Club has negotiated a deal with Salesforce to pay $5,000 per year to use Slack. Everything has been perfectly fine for years now, and Salesforce had good relations with Hack Club. Last night, they told us if we don't pay $50,000 one-time plus $200,000 every year, our Slack workspace will be deactivated and all of our chat logs will be gone.

They gave us 5 days to figure out a solution. Large corporations like these need to be called out for their bullshit, and I'd love it if we can get this topic on the WAN show. This has been a huge headache for everybody working at Hack Club HQ; they've been working all night trying to export over a decade of chat logs and attachments. Not to mention you need to contact Salesforce directly to request a data export, so we've been needing to resort to other open-source tools to accomplish this.

Currently looking into getting a Mattermost self-hosted server up as a Slack alternative. If we can get this covered and call Salesforce out on their bullshit this Friday, maybe they'll learn not to mess with non-profit organizations like this!

Thank you!

Cybernews covered this too -> https://cybernews.com/news/slack-price-raise-hack-club/

What's bizarre to me is how they didn't give us any prior notice, not even a months warning. I'm hoping we'll be able to export all data before it's gone forever.

[tiny nimbus]

https://www.theverge.com/news/780013/starling-home-hub-discontinued-google-nest-apple-home-bridge

[solemn pelican]

Quick update, Slack has responded. Supposedly this was an error on their end, but I'm not sure if that's actually the case -> https://x.com/SlackHQ/status/1968716216404439173

Slack (@SlackHQ)

@sqs @hackclub We made a mistake. This was the result of an oversight in our billing process, and we are returning Hack Club to its previous nonprofit pricing while we work with them directly to ensure their workspace remains fully accessible. We value the work Hack Club does to inspire and

X · Sep 18, 2025, 4:38 PM

[novel cedar]

YouTube has Bell stanced up

[tiny nimbus]

lol https://bskx.app/profile/shacknews.com/post/3lz344mxmb22a

[solemn pelican]

lol blaming it on wifi, what a joke 😂

[barren bloom]

Idk how to ask for topics on wan show but here’s a topic, “what are your thoughts on Jimmy Kimmel being pulled off the air, from the pov of being on his show”

[tiny mauve]

Wrong late night Jimmy

[barren bloom]

Oops the YouTube video was right. They’re easy to mix up

Mb

[tiny mauve]

I'd say "no worries" but I saw your about me. Outrageous. Ferrari > all

[cursive tiger]

scania make the best racing cars

[frozen agate]

Not to get political but clearly the real superior team is Haas

[tulip hatch]

Don't let this distract you from the fact, that USB 3.0 interfers with 2.4 GHz (WiFi) frequency: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/content-details/841692/usb-3-0-radio-frequency-interference-impact-on-2-4-ghz-wireless-devices-white-paper.html

[frozen agate]

super early wan today potentially....

thumbnail and title already

We Know Why No One's Watching LTT - WAN Show September 19, 2025

[maiden shadow]

Wan is now

[potent apex]

Yeah I have a dc sever

[round ermine]

BUT I'M AT WORK

[woeful crescent]

Same!

[glossy apex]

Early ahh show

[tiny nimbus]

Pre-show live already WHAT

[potent apex]

Well it starts at 10:15 if you are watching on YouTube and the pre show started at 9:58

[maiden shadow]

The next floatplane exclusive will be "Why wan early" 😂

[round ermine]

There goes my entire evening plans

[tidal marsh]

Earliest pre show ever

[elfin cloud]

europe thanks you for the early show lol

[maiden shadow]

This is a much better time for the wan show indeed

[plain aurora]

Just as I am waking up, normally I would be like yay but I got carboot today 😂

[tiny nimbus]

Poor Dan didn’t get to sleep in today

[maiden shadow]

They used this one today

[kind hill]

Why is it so early

[maiden shadow]

Not gonna complain about it being early really

[woeful crescent]

“It’ll arrive when it’s ready” is a good reason if he didn’t actually say last winter that the Modmat was ready.. if you’re not going to provide updates (and you’re not required to, at all) you shouldn’t fault people for speculating..

[twin moth]

eu friendly show ty ltt

[long idol]

Why is wan so early

[twin moth]

(but why tho)

is to adapt with where ever's timezone luke is in rn

[fallow nova]

THANKS OBAMA

[long idol]

Oh, ok

[twin moth]

no im asking 😭

[dusk kiln]

the space Luke is in looks so damn familiar but I can't place it lol

[west vapor]

Luke looks like he’s in Linus’s garage

He off sick? 😲

[woeful crescent]

He’s at someone’s place cause he wasn’t sure if he could say whose place during preshow..

[west vapor]

Mini split

Ohhhh

[tiny nimbus]

Oh hey Dan fixed the remote cut-out in the scree-share scene

[full coyote]

This Xbox menu thingy just looks like the Xbox app fullscreened

[half gulch]

Admin, I sent an email. There is a way to enable Full Screen Experience on desktop computers, if you want to test performance delta and whatnot.

The (silly) way the Reddit person found to enable it is the worst possible way.

These bits have been in Windows for months, fully working. They even work in 24H2! Been using it for weeks and weeks and weeks.

okay, that's it, i'll be heading off now

it's evolved a bit over the months (windows name size changes, font changes, overlay text, etc)

lots of fun changes along the way. anyway, the cat is out of the bag, a random person on Reddit found a build that doesn't need any patching to make it work, so...yeah. reply to the email if you want to play with this on a desktop/laptop/whatever for performance comparisons or w/e

[ornate quest]

Luke's law: if it has a screen and an internet connection, it will force ads on you

[fallow nova]

Why the fuck is wan show live

[plain aurora]

Reasons

[tiny vigil]

Speaking of the current topic on the WAN Show https://youtu.be/O_Q1hoEhfk4 LOL this one certainly does NOT affirm you if anything it dunks on you. Even shows the dunking in the reveal trailer LOL

But yeah very early WAN Show today

[bronze pilot]

Wan show after dark:

Looks outside:

Noon:

[tiny vigil]

Yeah super early today for some reason. It is 3:30pm for me and yeah they started at what feels like noon here

[bronze pilot]

they started at 10am

[tiny vigil]

I am EST here so yeah not the same timezone

[plain aurora]

They started at 5:15 NZT ☺️

Which meant I actually got some wan with breakfast live

[maiden shadow]

So they never did address why they were early

[frozen agate]

they were early most likely because of the sale which is going on, by going live early, they ping all of the euro-subs and the euro-subs can go watch, see the sale is on, and then lmg cashes in on the increased traffic

[plain aurora]

And depending on where Luke is, it may be easier to keep the streak alive

[frozen agate]

Looked kinda like Luke was at home tbh

[tiny vigil]

Yeah pretty sure Luke was at home with his bird

AKA his bird popped up on screen at least once that I saw

[plain aurora]

They might also have things on in the evening. Can’t wait to watch after work and see the birb

[olive bronze]

oh the stream was way early today?

[tiny vigil]

Yeah SUPER early today

Likely because of the MAJOR sale going on today

[fervent wasp]

https://youtu.be/tWKTC0nVI10?si=6K6ierJJy6FCMS63

Interesting how this channel is bucking the trend of both view downturn, but also revenue downturn. May be worth grabbing their data

[tight mauve]

im curious, doesnt the image in lukes background look like a qrcode?

like one of those shape shifted ones that somehow still works

[jagged spire]

Why was Wan so early?? I missed the whole show! Now I'm sad

[gloomy sail]

https://tenor.com/view/thor-banned-discord-hammer-mjolnir-gif-1994015921512866670

☝️ Linus entering the subreddit after today's WAN show

[plain aurora]

What happened?

[gloomy sail]

He generally wasn't impressed with speculation on the subreddit, and suggested that they might take a more active role in moderation and just start banning people.

[plain aurora]

Tbh that’s fair

I got the first 20 minutes as I needed to get my booth ready at carboot

[gloomy sail]

Could always just ignore it 🤷‍♂️
Someone getting a few hundred upvotes on some obscure subreddit is pretty nothing burger in my opinion

People have short memories too

[abstract mist]

Wtf wan show already over

Wan show is at a decent hour in EU and i come at a very late hour

[gloomy sail]

Yeah, it was early for some reason

I still didn't manage to catch it live 🤣

[abstract mist]

🤣

[timid ruin]

I've only actively watched that part, as I wanted to wait for my SO to watch the whole show together (we're one WAN behind still )

[plain aurora]

I’m three behind I get ya

[timid ruin]

He basically got annoyed by speculations regarding team members, which was the main reason he wanted to delete comments and such, as he thought it was disrespectful and often more of a conspiracy theory than an informed guess...etc (like ppl leaving or Luke travelling unannounced etc)

[plain aurora]

I can totally see why, I get annoyed by them too

[timid ruin]

Not sure if he was mentioning more general topics as well, but here's when I tuned in

[plain aurora]

I was watching before breakfast so my brain be 😜

I just want to get home and rest now 😂 busy day

I’ll rest to the wan 🤣

[timid ruin]

I don't read Reddit unless I'm looking for some super specific stuff that is only really mentioned there (like parenting experiences or such nontoxic stuff), but I understand misinformation being annoying....went to a Russian highschool, rumours and gossipa were the norm there, it can become such a nuisance

[timid ruin]

GG! Have a great evening!

It was evening for me then, and it's like 5:30am now, just fed baby so probably should go back to sleep

[plain aurora]

Carboot then two photo shoots back to back, it’s 3:30pm haha

How’s bubs going?

I live and work at a church, I call it coronation street

So much gossip

[woeful crescent]

I think Linus was just in a mood today, cause really, banning people for speculation? If you don't give people answers, then people are going to speculate.. its human nature.. ignore it, or correct it, and move on :p

It kicked off today with the modmat topic.. with linus saying "I said it'll be ready when its ready".. except he said it was ready, and was there, and was ready to go "Next week" months ago, followed by nothing.. not expecting people to speculate is unrealistic..

[plain aurora]

I did get that vibe he was borderline ranting

[woeful crescent]

Sure, the idea "pending legal action between LMG and GN" is an unlikely take, but so what? Deny it, or correct it.. going off at the person and not saying bans sounds like he was already in a bad state..

I saw his response to the post on Reddit..and to be fair, I'm not even sure if the original commenter said Legal action between GN and LMG, I thought he said legal action, and in the same comment mentioned it being at the time of the GN stuff, but I could be wrong.. cause all I took from that thread was how Linus responded..

[cursive tiger]

those are some very specific refresh rates

[timid ruin]

Bub's in dangerous territory - crawling fast, climbing, standing, everything a 6-months-old shouldn't yet be doing she's wonderful tho. She LOVES the LTT shapesorter tho, especially putting the pieces in her mouth, so

[plain aurora]

hahah my friends son is the same, just add another 12 months to him lol, runs like crazy and trying to commuicate with us in the office

[maiden shadow]

What you don’t want a 59.9400599400599Hz refresh rate screen? 😂

[tiny mauve]

I'm more of a 753.22900785369617714243034583 rad/s man, myself

[plain aurora]

Me: Eating dinner while watching WAN
Luke: This major problem with Asus strix/scar gaming laptops .... mouse not responding....
Me: WAIT WHAT. that's what i deal with from time to time!

I have my MX master 3 S connected and every now and then, and its completely random i lose control of the cursor

[timid ruin]

Interesting. That was never an issue for me, but on the other hand my new Scar has complications during startup - it has a hard time booting the OS.

[plain aurora]

That’s strange, I did on my first one ever had problems starting the laptop but that was due to the hardrive having a bad boot sector and over time it destroyed itself. It was one of the first gen nvme

The cursor is the only issue I have, it’s slow but it’s because it’s not that powerful to begin with. Slow compared to today’s laptops

But fast enough to keep up with what I need I just need to be patient

[timid ruin]

Yeah, it's likely something similar. My SO said to contact the retailer, as it is still under warranty, but I just managed to install everything on it recently with the baby on the side, and I really don't want to wipe the whole thing and start it over

And it didn't even manifest until after I installed my single PC version of Adobe and Office offline lifetime licenses

(I mean, I installed a lot of my software, but I was waiting with those two so that I could activate the software keys once I'm sure everything is fine, and then a few days later it started having the booting issues )

[plain aurora]

Wait are you running cs6 on windows 11?

I’ve heard some major windows issues because people installed that

[tiny mauve]

Obligatory reminder that it's right and just to pirate Adobe software.

And tbh, Office as well.

Licences should never be single PC, but single user, if "single" it must be

[timid ruin]

Cs6? As in Counterstrike? Nah. I don't play shooters at all.

[plain aurora]

Adobe Creative Suite Six.

[timid ruin]

Aaaaaa

But nope

Just a standard Adobe Acrobat

[plain aurora]

A friend installed it and required to use a backup to go back to where it wasn't installed

[timid ruin]

Yeah, I got a local lifetime license which doesn't work with online features

So no Creative Cloud stuff

But Windows is fine

The issue I encounter happens before windows even has a chance to load

Right on the ROG welcome screen

Once the Windows logon screen appears, everything is good

But sometimes it takes a few restarts to get to the logon screen

[random trout]

I didn't know Adobe still sold those. Or maybe they do but just for Acrobat Standard / Pro?

[timid ruin]

So, Adobe last had perpetual licenses for Adobe Acrobat Standard and Pro 2020. These can still be found as existing codes from resellers (I got it via a Hungarian online market, where the actual retailer was Romanian). These are still legit, but obviously outdated for cloud stuff. I only need Acrobat for pdf creation/editing and some other basic stuff on a sporadic basis, so I didn't want an expensive subscription. This perpetual license was like $40 or so and it's working perfectly. However, this doesn't have any of the Creative Studio stuff, such as Photoshop.

Same with Office 2024, I only need it for Word and Excel, so I bought the perpetual license (which is the last one Microsoft will ever release)

It's basically all just still existing keys redistributed

[random trout]

Ah righto, that makes sense. Legit keys from legit resellers leftover from when Adobe still offered perpetual licenses for a given version. I miss those days. Still holding onto my CS6 license from 15+ years ago cause I also only use the basic functionality of their suite.

To be fair, I don't mind software subscriptions for some types of software, but if I don't use all the features, the developer must offer a price point that makes sense for my limited needs. (I'm not paying for X subscription if it includes 20 major applications or features of which I only need 5. Have a subscription that gives me just the 5 I need or I won't be your customer.)

[plain aurora]

Tbh I miss 5.5 and 6. Those were great versions

[plain aurora]

Totally agreed. Wish Disney would do a layered sub, as in you choose what channels to pay for rather than the whole lot. They told me it’s $170 to renew and Urgh I dont watch sports 😂

[cursive tiger]

i'd be freaked out if my screen was turning that fast

[timid ruin]

Totally fair, I feel the same way. I use subscriptions for streaming services (I would even consider my Twitch channel-specific subs in this category), where a single-access license wouldn't make sense (the movie rental features very quickly can rack up costs, and you don't end up owning the media anyway), but for a software that currently knows the thing I need it for and I really don't need support/updates, I really do want the option to just hold a version locked license. I have the same for Snagit (I think 2021 maybe), and I love how I can just keep using it forever. All I'm forfeiting is the latest version upgrade option for every yearly version release, but honestly, how much upgrade do you need for a screen capture/basic editing software?

[tiny mauve]

keep using it forever with an asterisk, if it needs internet to be activated.

[timid ruin]

Snagit doesn't need internet activation as far as I can tell. The software key is tied to a version number, works like old software pre-internet.

Adobe needs internet or phone activation, so it is what it is. Probably Office was the same....

[tiny nimbus]

https://mastodon.social/@campuscodi/115238572840117045

Catalin Cimpanu (@[e-mail])

There's been a hostile takeover of the RubyGems package repository, with some rando dude having full control of everything now

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Mastodon · Sep 20, 2025, 8:44 PM

[tiny nimbus]

lol and also lmao https://www.threads.com/@katienotopoulos/post/DOyscYHjaqe

[tiny mauve]

I'd like to add rofl

[tiny nimbus]

Re: speculation over employee departures, wild that I found out from a Zip Tie Tuning collab that Tivy left LMG. Infra videos won’t be the same

[cursive tiger]

i get that they can't all stay forever but it is a shame to see so many people who've been with them for so long and helped to shape the channel in so many ways leave in such quick succession

[timid ruin]

I mean, if you've been with the same company for so long, I can see how there's only so far you can get without being either independent or trying something completely different. I feel like around your mid-30's it's a natural change, especially if you had a very good experience in such a nice but still pretty small company. If the environment inspires you to be more or be something different, it's not really a shame. I miss Alex for example, but it's great to see how he enjoys his own YT channel.

[cursive tiger]

and i guess it does make sense that the ogs would all reach that stage of life around a similar time

[timid ruin]

I mean, they are around the same age, so yeah

[glad lotus]

$$$?

[plain aurora]

I mean gone are the days where one would get a job at the same place for all their life, since he has the income to go out on his own, why not. It makes natural sense.

[tiny nimbus]

I wonder how much it all cost https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/09/us-uncovers-100000-sim-cards-that-could-have-shut-down-nyc-cell-network/

[jade cradle]

Just saw someone doing the AirPod thing on their ears that Luke does.

[tiny nimbus]

Fucking yikes

A source familiar with the events told me that Shopify’s pressure was both carrot and stick. Essentially, do what we ask and we’ll reward you with more funding, long-term financial stability. Don’t do this and you’ll never see a dollar of enterprise money again.
https://joel.drapper.me/p/rubygems-takeover/

[tiny nimbus]

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/09/youtube-will-restore-channels-banned-for-covid-and-election-misinformation/

I hear Pichai has swerved all the way right

[spice cairn]

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[cursive tiger]

me trying to tell if this is some weird emoticon or just random characters

[frozen agate]

looks like it is a facepalm emoticon

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[south saffron]

Hey everyone, I saw on one of the recent WANs a conversation about the new Microsoft launcher and lack of custom filters. Since then I made it my mission to implement in my app. This isnt a sales pitch or marketing as im in Beta testing. But finding like minded people is hard. If anyone wants to give it a try drop me a dm.

Desktop Mode & Controller Mode shown with FILTERS!

[frozen agate]

This actually looks really good imho

[south saffron]

Im trying my best, I made it for myself to start with to control smart home devices via webhooks. It evolved from there into a full blown launcher with smart home integration

[south saffron]

Custom Filters & Couple more screenshots of the mainwindow.

[south saffron]

If anyone wants to give this a try even LTT team drop me a message and ill sort you a copy. Only 40 spaces left on my closed BETA

[random trout]

Post it on GitHub for everyone to view (and subsequently review the source code) and maybe we'll take a gander.

[south saffron]

I’d love to share it more openly, but right now the project includes sensitive components like encryption/decryption logic and Home Assistant authentication handling. Until I can properly isolate or abstract those parts, I’m keeping it in a closed beta to avoid exposing any potential security risks.

Once it's cleaned up and safe to open-source, I’ll definitely consider putting it on GitHub for wider review. Appreciate the interest though and happy to share a beta copy directly if you're still curious to take a look!

[tiny nimbus]

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/09/amazon-fire-tv-devices-expected-to-ditch-android-for-linux-in-2025/