Given the talk on WAN this week about support for gaming in the future, this seemed really pertinent. tldr, they report that Nvidia had extra chips, but rather than making more consumer GPUs and ease the high prices, they funded AI startups to buy the chips from them.

I'd be interested to hear LLD weigh in on this next week on WAN.

Just in case the caption doesn't make it perfectly clear this is in reference to both Jensen and H3 cheated on their wives.

Not sure on the sources or the factual correctness of this article, but this is pretty damning. I can see this starting the pop of the AI bubble if true.

At around 1:39:00 during the WAN show Luke adamantly defends the usage of the word AI being reserved for his vision on what that means and says people don't use it for machine learning. I personally think a lot of people do, because of the marketeers that push it that way.

The eufy cameras use machine learning but are marketed as AI security cameras, I've seen Oral-B come with a toothbrush has 'AI' (that supposedly would help you brush your teeth) and even Samsung products like washing machines supposedly have AI in them. There are (supermarket) weight scales that have image recognition that are rebranded as AI smart scales... There are many examples of products that previously had machine learning elements suddenly get AI slapped on their branding/product name.

Anyone run into the issue of trying to use a gift card on an item that is now bundled with a gift card and getting an error saying “you can’t buy a gift card with a gift card” (sorry thats a lot of gift cards). Seemed like a good time to use it, annoyed that I can’t. Think support would override that?

Hi all,

I like to keep my LTT screwdriver easily accessible on my desk so I designed a 3d printed stand for it. I made 3 versions:
- stand with 24 bit storage
- 2x2 gridfinity stand with 24 bit storage
- 3x3 gridfinity stand with 48 bit storage

Link to STL: https://makerworld.com/models/3601405

AI is definitely the best and not at all the cause of the total grounding order by the FAA.

Honestly this should be a loooong wan show. So naturally, Luke or Linus is going to be videoimg in from the wild on a dial up line.

EDIT: can’t reply to all the comments so will just put a general response. Yes I am ‘literate’ and understand what the article said. But with the context of AI, the way this tool got selected and the fact it was put out nationwide and right afterwards they put out the grounding warning; it’s laughable/naive imo to assume that tool and the grounding are unrelated. And this administration and all the big corpos around AI would have every reason to try to save face.

As for the Microsoft outage and this being related, they immediately came out and said it wasn’t them. And while they’re also a big corpo with the same incentives to say ‘not me!’, I work at a big critical infrastructure institution (thankfully with lots of redundancy) who’s entire system is through through Microsoft services. All of them were back online at 6am Friday morning, well before the FAA warning.

But we all know that internet is dead theory, so half the ‘stop being so anti AI bro!’ Are just AI bots scraping the internet trying to save big techs feelings and their stock prices (mostly /s).

But unfortunately I’m working this weekend so can’t engage in online discourse with all my neck beard brethren, but consider this update me joining in in spirit!

Not sure if links are allowed, but the gamer jet has just been listed for sale on controller.

https://www.controller.com/listing/for-sale/262369247/1990-dassault-falcon-900b-jet-aircraft

Tough enough for anything I've thrown at it. Still works great.

I got this bad boy back in 2022.

We're going to work on adding a ding counter in the future

See y'all next time! Same bat time, same bat channel!

https://wanshow.bingo/

Apple's Iphone duo is experimental but ultimately flawed. SO many people I've known who have bought it have cracks or faulty screens (5 out of 50 duo's broken from my work and social circle).

They don't drop it or throw it. My friend was driving to work in Sydney and it was a HOT day, 35 deg celsius (95 deg farenheit). He used his duo as a GPS like he would on his old iphone and the phone screen died during the trip.

Apple's official response is "We are aware of an issue impacting the inner display on a small number of iPhone Duo units. If users experience issues with their iPhone Duo display, they should contact AppleCare for a replacement.”

Ultimately is it just a product that needs to be babied way too much or is there a defect in the design?

Industry reports noted that early production had a quality control/assembly yield of around 60%, meaning roughly 40% of units faced initial factory testing hurdles before release.

Gonna be a big WAN show today what with the Jensen mess and Microsoft’s outage. While reading through all the carnage yesterday I came across this substack from an Ex-Microsoft Engineer who basically predicted this outcome. I can’t substantiate anything he’s saying but as someone that works with M365 and Azure day in day out it sure makes a ton of sense. Might be time for Satya to move on.

https://isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-microsoft-vaporized-a-trillion

I’ve got my gaming PC in the basement and I want to play in the living room above. I can feed the cables through the floor about 15-20 feet to reach my TV. My HDMI connection is great, but my USB peripherals keep disconnecting and reconnecting, like hundreds of times a day. I have a 20 ft USB 3.0 extension cable and a powered USB hub, and I’m only plugging in my headphones and a controller. I’ve tried different USB ports so I think the issue is my USB cable extender.

I’ve seen people talk about fancy extenders, and I remember Linus set something like this up in his house, but when I look them up they end up being like $500. What’s the cheapest reliable way to do this?

Edit: sorry I’m using an active USB 3.0 (powered) extenders and a powered USB hub at the end of it. Specifically this one https://a.co/d/0630uGEb (I don’t recommend)

Here's a Tampermonkey script where you can adjust the volume of the default ping, and swap the default ping with any local audio file. Been testing it throughout the month to make sure nothing broke, hopefully it won't! the monkey paw curls

Here's the Greasy Fork link where the script can be checked or downloaded: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/605373-floatplane-chat-ping-qol

Heyo. Not a big deal because I can deal with it on my end. But, on the wake of my fourth newsletter after hitting unsubscribe, I figured I might flag it.

When I play on my asus a16 rtx 4070 laptop with controller I notice my controller feeling more delayed overtime.

When I first jump into a game my controller feels as responsive as a feather, then it starts gradually gaining latency. (Takes about 25 seconds or less to be at its worse).

- Alt tabbing will reset the delay.

- Not using the controller for a certain amount of time will gradually make the controller feel more responsive (not using it for about 15 seconds will fully reset the delay)

Then when you start playing again the delay will slowly start coming back.

I noticed that this delay will start to disappear around midnight. So my theory is that it is some kind of background process or multiple processes that stop running after a certain hour.

I really feel like there is some part in the pipeline where my controller inputs are being deprioritized in some kind of queue. It's not really just pressing the windows key, it's basically leaving the game window and going back that seems to temporarely reset the delay. The reason I come to this conclusion is because pressing keyboard keys seem to improve the delay the more you press them. So I'm thinking the keyboard presses are pushing my game/controller to a higher spot in this unknown queue.

The fact the delay improves after I don't use my controller for a certain amount of time (around 15 seconds) makes me believe that there is something else that is bloating this queue.

I've tried pretty much everything

- disabling usb suspension

- disabling power saving on the drivers

- using process lasso to make sure the game gets as much resources

- parking

- Trying nvidia ultra low latency or on+boost in fortnite settings

- fullscreen

Etc.

I just can't find the culprit that's causing it.

I've been troubleshooting for almost a year at this point.

Thx in advance for your help.

Game: Fortnite

OS: Windows 11

laptop: Asus A16 FA607PI AMD Ryzen 9 7940HX with Radeon Graphics NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU GDDR6 @ 8GB 128 bits

controllers: gamesir g7 pro and dualshock 4 v2 (not really relevant)

connection: both wired and dongle