RTX 5090 Power tips, Unraid Storage Done Right, + Huntarr Security Disaster | Ed&Stefano Unleashed

In the March episode of Ed & Stefano Unleashed, we're talking Unraid storage layouts done right, the Huntarr security disaster, vibe coding and whether AI-generated code can be trusted, NVIDIA's latest driver chaos, the Windows 12 subscription rumour, smart TVs secretly turning your home into a botnet, and the ongoing hardware shortage hitting RAM and hard drives alike. 

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We kick things off with the new Unraid product portal, teases an upcoming local AI Uncast video, and reveals his new RTX 5090, which idles at just 7 watts. The community storage deep dive covers when to use XFS vs ZFS, why you should never format array drives as individual ZFS pools, and the one trap that can silently wipe data when adding an old drive. 

Then the Huntarr security incident gets a full breakdown, including how a simple curl command exposed every API key in your entire *arr stack, and how to use AI agents to audit open source code before running it on your server.

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Episode Takeaways
◦ Unraid product portal live at product.unraid.net for bugs and feature requests
◦ RTX 5090 idles at 7W. Enable NVIDIA persistence mode to drop from P0 to  P8
◦ XFS for your array, ZFS for irreplaceable data. Never format array drives as individual ZFS pools
◦ Huntarr stored all *arr API keys unencrypted. Regenerate everything if you ran it
◦ NVIDIA driver 595.71 stops fans spinning. P2000/P4000 users need the production v580 branch
◦ Steam survey: Windows 11 down 10%, Windows 10 up. Linux gaming is coming
◦ Windows 12 rumoured to be subscription-based and AI-focused (disputed live on air)
◦ Microsoft banned "microslop" on their Discord, then shut the whole server down
◦ Smart TV apps silently enrolling your home IP in AI proxy networks
◦ Hard drives and RAM both surging in price. DDR4 128GB kits fetching £500+ in the UK

Chapters
0:00 Welcome and housekeeping
2:04 New Unraid product portal
2:29 Local AI Uncast teaser
3:33 RTX 5090 idle power and NVIDIA persistence mode
5:58 Stirling PDF mention
6:09 Community storage deep dive: XFS, ZFS, and Unraid arrays
20:06 Huntarr security incident: your entire *arr stack was exposed
24:38 Vibe coding, AI-assisted development, and code review
29:17 NVIDIA driver 595.71 kills GPU fans
32:14 Legacy NVIDIA cards on Unraid: use the production branch
34:58 NVIDIA hiring Linux gaming engineers: Proton and Vulkan
36:40 Steam survey: Windows 10 up, Windows 11 down, Linux on the rise
45:24 Windows 12: subscription-based, modular, and AI-focused
45:59 The rumour gets disputed live on air
49:41 Battlestate Games fined for storing Russian user data outside Russia
52:30 App-forced insurance rant
56:10 Microsoft bans "microslop" on Discord
58:02 Copilot summarises confidential emails users never sent
1:00:19 Smart TV apps as an AI proxy botnet
1:04:09 Western Digital out of stock, hard drive prices surging
1:07:00 RAM prices: sell your DDR4 now if you have spare
1:10:46 New EUV chip technology could increase yields 50% by 2030

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Transcript

Welcome And Show Roadmap

SPEAKER_02 0:10

Welcome to Ed and Stefano.

SPEAKER_01 0:13

Hello everyone and welcome back. So all of you self-hosters, data hoarders, home labbers, and everyone who's ever justified buying a GPU to their other half as a business expense, well, you are in the right place. This is the Ed and Stefano show or Eden Stefano Unleashed. We are live, Stefano.

SPEAKER_00 0:30

And I got an important thing to mention. So I recently saw that on the internet they're like, oh, most Americans spend$266 a month on their hobbies. I don't I think that that budget's a little low for us home lab hobbyists.

SPEAKER_01 0:44

Yeah, yeah. Maybe a week.

SPEAKER_00 0:47

Yeah. Maybe maybe a week or a couple days.

New Unraid Bug And Feature Portal

Local AI Plans And GPU Power

SPEAKER_01 0:50

I'll tell you what, Stephanie, I can't believe it's March, but I really do love this time of year because I know summer's ahead of us. You know how in Game of Thrones I always say winter's coming? Well, this is my time, summer's coming, and I'm here for it, man. Anyway, we've got a cracking show today for you guys. We've got a bit of housekeeping, a couple of announcements, including a shiny new GPU I've got that pretty much cost me a kidney, but we'll talk about that later. And then we're going to do a proper community chat about storage layouts on Unraid because I keep seeing questions come up in the forums and various other places. And so I think, you know, we should have a bit of a chat about that. After that, we've got a security story that's been doing the rounds. I'm sure a lot of you may have heard about that. Then we're going to finish off with our normal news roundup. We've got some NVIDIA news, Windows 12 rumors, and more smart TV stuff, all the usual cheerful stuff. Well, anyway, so first of all, we've got a quick announcement from the Unraid team here. I'm going to share my screen. So I hope all of you guys can see that there. So basically, the forums have always been great for discussion and helping each other out, but they're not ideal for tracking bugs and feature requests through to completion. Things can get buried in long threads and duplicates pile up, etc. So there's a new portal here. If you go to product.unrade.net, you'll be able to see where you can do things such as, if we click here, OS bug reports, feature requests, and we can see here bugs and feedback on this page here. So really useful, I think, to be able to have it this way. Let me switch back to our other view. So in other news, we've got an uncast video coming up soon, which is going to be on local AI. The whole point of that is not just for people with massive GPUs, it's going to be for normal people, basically just saying, does the hardware you already have sitting in your server is that actually going to run local AI? So it's going to be about what you can realistically expect from different hardware. Can it run on a CPU? You know, how about kind of like facial recognition on things like frigate? All of those kind of things we're going to address and you're going to be able to see what type of thing you can reasonably expect and sensible starting points that's not going to leave your bank ringing up asking if your card's been stolen. Now, to do this video properly, if you remember, do you remember last time, Stefano, I was talking about the RTX, um, what is it, 3060 as being a good card because it has 12 gigs of RAM. Well, I thought I need to buy one of those because recommending it isn't enough, so I've managed to get one of those. So that's going to be in the video next week with various bits of tests. But also, I managed to snag myself this week a 5090 because apparently I've given up being a financially responsible human being. It's about time. Now, those of us who've been watching for a while, they know that I've been giving Stefano a bit of grief for months about his 4090 because he's had that massive card just sat there, and all he does, well, he just plays Tarkov with it. So I think it's like one of the most expensive Tarkov machines in the self-hosting community. I've always been feeling jealous with my 50-70 Ti. But um Yeah, I've just about caught up with you, mate. You know, your era flexing that 4090 is over now. But I I just want to show you guys something. I'm gonna share my screen again because I was actually really shocked about this. So here we are on my server at the moment, and for those of you who can see there, my 5090 idle is drawing only 7 watts, which was absolutely shocking for me, because my 5070 Ti was drawing 23 watts idle, and I was a bit upset thinking this was going to make my server use a whole much more electricity. So it's actually using less, and you can see here currently the whole server is idling at around 100 watts, 109 watts there.

SPEAKER_00 4:50

That's really good.

SPEAKER_01 4:50

So I was actually really shocked about that. Enabling Nvidia persistence in the driver, the card was just not going out of um P0 state until I did that, and now it's going down to P8. So yeah. I'll talk about that in the in the video about AI, anyway, to how to keep the GPU using less power when it's idle and you're not using it.

SPEAKER_00 5:12

Is it too late to have to make a request for that video, Ed? As in, is it possible for you to get an RTX Pro 4000 and compare it against the other cards that you're gonna do?

SPEAKER_01 5:25

Um I'm not sure if I can get hold of that card. Um I do have probably about 10 GPUs I will be kind of looking at. Um I've got things I'm not gonna go too much into it. We'll we'll we'll we'll talk about that in in the video. I'm sure everyone's not here to hear about what is coming up in the video.

SPEAKER_00 5:42

If there's any way I can get you to take a look at that card, I'd be interested in seeing how I can help.

Unraid Storage Layouts Explained

SPEAKER_01 5:47

Yeah. Other other well, I'm not gonna talk about it now. I'm not gonna I'm gonna we're gonna go off the little dungeons. Not even a little. I'm sorry, man. Anyway, any of you guys who missed it, the latest video on Young Car Show is Sterling PDF, a really useful PDF tool that doesn't have a subscription, which is really nice. So, Stefano, you'd like that one, I think. But anyway, I think let's get into the community stuff. And what I wanted to talk about really was storage in Unraid. So, anyone in chat, if you can just let us know what file formats and storage are you using? Are you using an Unraid array? Are you using pools, that kind of thing? So, Stefano, I know I ask you this every month, and I know what the answer is without even having to say, have you ever tried ZFS? No, well, we all knew that guys.

SPEAKER_00 6:35

Come on, like I feel vindicated with what we're about to talk about now.

SPEAKER_01 6:40

Well, a lot of people when they first start setting up their server, they're wondering what's the best thing to set up. Should they set up an unraid array? Should they set up Z pools with ZFS? Should it be like a hybrid mix of the two? So basically, my opinion is is the easiest way to think about it, in my opinion, is replaceable versus irreplaceable. So bear with me here. So for the unraid array, it's very, very flexible. You can always add drives and you can have up to two parity drives there. So you can have two drives fail and you'll be able to rebuild your system. Now, my opinion, if you're using the unrayed array, use XFS as a file system. Don't use Butterfs and don't use ZFS. Now, there is a there is a slight exception for the ZFS bit, which I will speak about in a moment. But use XFS all the way through because it's a very robust file system and it doesn't mind disks getting very, very full. It still works very nicely with drives getting full. So if you've got media, put your media on an unrayed array with XFS, in my opinion. What are your thoughts, Stephano?

SPEAKER_00 7:52

I I pretty much agree with you. I like like every answer in the IT world, it's always depends because it's like, what are your goals? So there's always a good answer, but it just really depends what you're trying to do. So that's why I think we've got to always um uh I don't know what the right word is. We've always just gotta say it just depends, basically. But I I I agree. And we've got a lot of people in chat saying that uh they use just defaults, XFS array, butterfS pool for their cache, uh default array setup. Um person said hybrid. Uh Omar said that he's been waiting for ZFS to enable expandable pools, and I guess he'll migrate when that happens.

SPEAKER_01 8:33

That is already a thing.

SPEAKER_00 8:34

There you go.

SPEAKER_01 8:35

Omar, that is actually a thing. You can actually expand your pools uh well, you can expand a V dev one disk at a time. So that's something that's been built in for a few months now, I I believe. It's something in the ZFS world it was asked for for a long, long time, it was a long time coming, and that is actually a thing.

SPEAKER_00 8:53

Another person just chimed in saying they switched or they have XFS. Uh we have a question actually, too.

SPEAKER_01 8:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:00

Uh so Mad ManChris, he says, Hello, quick question. Unbalanced, still the best way to shrink the array.

XFS For Arrays And ZFS Caveats

SPEAKER_01 9:09

Um yeah, I I would say unbalanced is a good way to do so. You can just move the data from one drive, clear it off, put it somewhere else. It's probably the easiest way to move data off a drive. Just um select the data that you want to, or select the disk, select all of the shares on there, and use scatter and scatter it to the other disks, and then you can clear that drive off of everything, and then you can shrink your array. Um but going back to the array with XFS is it's very easy to expand as well. So a lot of people when they have media, they sometimes think like when I when I first started, you think like eight terabytes, that's loads, because you come from maybe being used to having your laptop in one terabyte, so you think eight terabytes, you think, well, that that's just like you know, eight computers, you know, I'm never gonna need more than that. Right. And so if you set up a Z pool, a ZFS pool, it's much harder to expand. Like we were saying to Omar earlier, yes, it is, you are able to expand a pool, but it takes a lot longer and it's a lot more difficult. So being able to just put a disk in and expand out as maybe your media collection grows, I think you know, XFS really shines. I think in the Unraid array, go with XFS, don't go with ButterFS. And what I see some people do sometimes is they format every drive in their array as ZFS. So that is a mistake, in my opinion, and you shouldn't do that. Because say you've got 10 drives in your Unraid array, 10 data drives and maybe two parity drives. You format those 10 drives as ZFS, and what you've actually got is you've got 10 individual Z pools. Yeah, each one on its own. So you're not getting the striping and the data, you know, across all of them. They're still protected by the Unraid parity, but you're actually, in my opinion, making the array less effective than it would be if you didn't use ZFS. Because ZFS, it doesn't like you filling it up more than 80%. And in the unrayed array, what you're going to have happen is depending on how you set up your shares, you might have it as like fill up, you might have it as high water, etc. So you can end up filling up some of these individual pools over the 80%, and then it starts getting slower and less efficient. ZFS being a copy on write file system, it doesn't like drives to be full. You know, a rule of thumb, in my opinion, is to try not to fill up a Z pool more than about 80% if you can. It will still work going above that, but the algorithm changes and it can get pretty slow. Now, the one caveat I would say with ZFS in the Unraid array is if you've got a few disks in there, I think it's okay to have one formatted as ZFS. The reason being is if you've got other ZFS pools in your Unraid server, maybe you if you've got a single cache drive, by default it's ButterFS. Okay. But I think in 2026, why use ButterFS when you can use ZFS? So even if you've got like a single drive, um, you could have it as ZFS, you could have your app data on there and that kind of thing. And then what you can do with ZFS is you can actually snapshot and replicate that data elsewhere. So if you don't have a mirrored pool, it's quite nice to be able to have your single drive ZFS pool in the cache drive and be able to actually replicate that data to somewhere else where it's protected, which that single drive in your Unraid array is protected, and it's also protected by the parity. So if it fails, so you're not getting like all of the advantages of ZFS, like with check summing and that kind of thing, but you are getting the advantage of being able to use it as a backup target. So only ever have one drive in the Unraid array, is my opinion. So when would you want a ZFS pool?

SPEAKER_00 12:53

Never. Stephen.

SPEAKER_01 12:54

I mean I'd I'll tell you like one day we're gonna do this live and then I can actually kind of grab hold of him and shake him. I should have done that when I was in Huntsville, Alabama, shouldn't I?

SPEAKER_00 13:06

Yeah, you could have been like Homer, and I could have been like uh that kid whose name escapes me.

SPEAKER_01 13:10

Yeah, Bart. Yeah. Yeah, so you know what I was saying earlier is um the easiest way to think about it is replaceable versus irreplaceable. So think about things on the unrayed array. You can put things there, you've got your parity so you are protected if you lose a drive. But think about things that are replaceable. Your Blu-ray rips, if you lost them, it's annoying, but you can re-rip the Blu-rays. It's annoying, but it's doable. But photos kind of aren't. Think of like you can't retake your wedding photos, the baby pictures, or that last photo you might have taken of your grandparents before they sadly passed away or something. So those are the kind of things that I think is irreplaceable. Now, the great thing about ZFS is it does checksumming on the data. It mathematically checks that the data's okay. So when you've got more than one drive in a ZFS pool, it can actually protect against bit rot. So bits basically flipping. You've probably seen photos before that you might have taken ages ago and you've stored them on a hard drive somewhere, and you come along and you see there's maybe a little line in it, like the JPEG looks a bit corrupted. Well, then basically, you've probably seen that in like videos and photographs where you might get a bit of corruption. So ZFS will protect against that. So for really important things, if you stick it on a Z pool, then you're gonna have the best data integrity, the best protection that you can have, in my opinion. So don't put all of your data on there, just your most important data put on a Z pool. And also it's gonna you're gonna have like faster reads and writes on ZFS because it will stripe the data across the drives, especially across NVMEs or SSDs, you're gonna get really good performance. So that's something to consider as well. Now, another thing that I think sometimes people trip up on sometimes is recently we've added many different file systems that the Unraid array supports. We've got NTFS, which is really awesome, and the XT4, two examples of things that you can put in. So we've spoken about this before on the show. It's nice if you've got an old drive with photographs on or something, you know, you've had it on a shelf somewhere and you want to put it into the server. One thing to note is don't just stop your array and add the drive with the data on, then start it up again. Because what you'll find will happen if you do that is because it's a new drive going into the array, in order for parity to be correct, it is what's called cleared. So when you first add it to the array, when you've already got the parity there, it will actually zero that drive so it doesn't affect the parity of everything else. Because a drive with all zeros on basically doesn't affect the parity calculation. So it just means you don't have to do that. So keep in mind if you want to add another drive, maybe from an old Windows machine or something that you had, and you think I just want to have that parity protected. You know, it's an old four terabyte that's like years old, and you think, yeah, may as well chuck it in the array. If it fails, at least I'm not going to lose everything. So what you want to do in that in that case is I'll just share my screen actually.

SPEAKER_00 16:13

Have people been reporting they've lost data when doing this?

SPEAKER_01 16:16

They haven't, no. Um but I've heard people ask questions about adding it, and it's something that I think it can trip people up and just want our viewers not to actually have that situation. So I'll show you on this server here. This one naturally doesn't have parity on it, so it's probably not the not the best one to demonstrate with. But what you would do is you would stop the array.

SPEAKER_00 16:39

All of our poor Spotify people are gonna have no idea what you're showing.

SPEAKER_01 16:42

I know. So for everyone who's listening sound only, I'm just showing the screen of my Unraid arrays, stopping the array at the moment. We'll have to give this a little bit of time.

SPEAKER_00 16:51

Yeah, but I like seeing this cool loading screen that Unraid came up with because it reminds me of like a sound waveform.

SPEAKER_01 16:57

It it is like that, yeah. Another thing it reminds me of is have you been to the gym before and you do the kind of thing with a rope where you um like a jump rope? Like you flip it up and down like for exercise, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 17:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 17:09

Yeah, it kind of reminds me of that as well.

SPEAKER_00 17:11

AJG has a question that's completely off topic if you want to take it. Yeah, let's go for it. While we wait. He asks off topic question, but I'd really appreciate hearing from the UNRA team on the impact OS age verification laws proposed in California, Colorado, and New York that might have on the company and the user base. That's a really good question.

SPEAKER_01 17:32

It is a really good question. I've heard of it myself, but I'm not really sure on the details of it, to be honest. Um and I've heard it discussed quite a lot online. I really couldn't give you an answer, I'm afraid. Um that would be something I would probably post on the forums or I think it's too early to talk about.

SPEAKER_00 17:52

But there's not enough information from the government.

SPEAKER_01 17:54

Yeah. You know, what what I've heard generally, not in to do with Unraid, is with a lot of smaller Linux distros and things like that, they would just say this isn't designed for use within California under these conditions or something. But I've I've no idea what's going to happen, to be honest.

SPEAKER_00 18:10

I'm pretty sure Unraid can argue it's not like a a desktop OS, so it's not applicable.

SPEAKER_01 18:16

Yeah. And they always assume that they've got some kind of centralized kind of user login. A lot of Linux distros don't have that. So um, yeah, here we are. So what you would do is you'd come to new config, you would select to preserve all of the all of your configs, that keeps all of your drives how they are in the same order. That's very important. And then you would just say, yes, I want to do this, click apply. And then when you come back to the main screen here, it gives you all of your drives where they where they are. Then you would add your drive, you'd add an extra slot or what have you. Imagine I've got two parity drives here. You would add the extra data drive in, and then because it thinks it's a new configuration and there's no parity, it will then recalculate the parity and it won't erase that drive with data on. So sorry for a very long-winded explanation there, guys, but um I just would hate to think of someone adding a drive in there to protect their photos and inadvertently erasing it and finding they come back and see that there's nothing on there and the drive's blank.

SPEAKER_00 19:20

Yeah, that would be bad. Real bad. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:22

So what are you running in your Unrate server? I'm assuming XFS and a Butterfs cache drive, Stephanie?

SPEAKER_00 19:29

That's exactly right. And it hasn't changed since I started using UnRate.

SPEAKER_01 19:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 19:34

Ten years ago.

SPEAKER_01 19:35

And how how much storage have you got there? That's a good question. Let me double check real quick. And um, chat, how much storage do you guys got rocking in your servers at the moment?

SPEAKER_00 19:44

I've only got a measly 33 terabytes of storage. Yeah. And I'm I'm using 17 terabytes of it. But like you were saying earlier, the reason why I'm sticking with XFS is because I on my server I keep a lot of my YouTube videos. And so um yeah, I just think it's better for media, like you were saying.

Hunter App Security Meltdown

SPEAKER_01 20:02

Yeah, definitely. Anyway, so let's move on to another thing that's been spoken about in the community a lot, is the Hunter security incident. Bumps, bumps, bumps. Stefano, can you explain what Hunter is to anyone who doesn't know what it is?

SPEAKER_00 20:18

Hunter is an application that tries to go and get missing things on your behalf, essentially.

SPEAKER_01 20:25

Yeah, so it's part of the what they call the R ecosystem.

SPEAKER_00 20:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 20:30

And it tries to automate I th I think kind of gaps in your media that the other R apps might not go back and fill in. So I think this came out under a year ago, didn't it?

SPEAKER_00 20:42

I think it was Yeah, 2022, I believe.

SPEAKER_01 20:44

Are you sure? No. I I thought it had only been out about this time last year, maybe 10 months ago. I might be wrong, but I'm pretty sure it it hasn't been around very long. So it's just like a a convenience app, I guess you'd say, that sits on top of the R ecosystem and it tries to automate stuff that people forget. So the problem is recently is it turned out to be an absolutely security nightmare. It got security audited, and the problem was it the tool was holding all of your API keys for your media stack, and they were all basically unencrypted and just held, and you could basically query the API of Hunter and just get all of the API keys for the whole of the R stack. And so I'd say anyone who's running Hunter or was running Hunter, I would suggest to probably not run it anymore. The danger mainly is is obviously if you're exposing it to the internet, probably if you've got it in your own house, none of that's exposed to the internet at all. You're not at so much of a risk. But people who are running it and they have it exposed to a reverse proxy or things like that, I would say don't only just delete Hunter and take it down, but also go into your other applications. And regenerate fresh API keys. So just like, you know, recycle your API keys and make some new ones. I know it's a bit of a pain that you have to put them into the other apps, but you know, there is a chance they've been compromised.

SPEAKER_00 22:12

Yeah. And so in the way that they compromise it's actually extremely simple by just using a simple curl command, which is funny. Like it you would think like most people are like, oh yeah, well, they probably to get access to all your API keys, it was like this really convoluted process, but no, it turns out it's just a curl command.

SPEAKER_01 22:31

So as well, just remember like it's not only, you know, if you can access, say, one of the other R's API, well, that container knows maybe APIs and that kind of thing of your indexes and and things like your newsnet logins and that kind of thing. So a lot of things could be actually stolen from that if someone actually got access to it. So it's not just them having the API key of your R container, and you're thinking, well, who cares about that? Well no, because you know, from that, then your indexes can be compromised, your usenet can be compromised, and that kind of thing.

SPEAKER_00 23:03

So to go back a bit and on storage, a bunch of people in chat posted. Eric says he has 104 terabytes in his array. Nice. Voss has 110 terabytes plus parity. Chiller has 130 terabytes.

SPEAKER_02 23:16

Oh wow.

SPEAKER_00 23:17

Some really big arrays in here. And then more modest, you know, more more applicable in real life, because he's on that$220 uh a month budget as a hobbyist. Run with it, has 20 terabytes.

SPEAKER_01 23:29

Yeah. And so, you know, what's everyone storing on there? How many people in chat don't have a media server? I'd love to know who isn't using a media server. Um, so I think most of us probably are.

SPEAKER_00 23:40

Yeah. I uh I mean I have media online, but I honestly haven't updated it in forever. So I've never used an AAR app or ARR app. Um I see it talked about so much online, but I've like I like again, a lot of our services here. So like if you have ATT internet, you get HBO included with it. Or, you know, like I just have streaming now, which sounds atrocious, but it's honestly been very nice. Uh it is becoming more and more segregated though, so it's kind of like I'm looking at that pirate hat I have, you know, again, I'm like, man, is it time to go back? Because we're having the same problem.

SPEAKER_01 24:17

Only if you're ever gonna download something, just it's cosplaying Blu-ray, sir. You know, it's cosplay pirate.

SPEAKER_00 24:25

And now the uncashed show is banned because I forget about these things. But anyway, the whole point is is like streaming is becoming worse again.

Vibe Coding Needs Real Reviews

SPEAKER_01 24:32

Yeah, well, we can all agree on that, I think. But going back to the Hunter thing is what people found out about is saying, Oh, you know, this has been vibe coded and so it's got no security. Yeah. So some you know, been using an AI agent to help generate the code. Then what happened is when people started questioning this and saying, hey, you know, this security is really bad, I think people started getting banned off the Discord for Hunter. So they're literally deleting comments, any criticism was being deleted, people were being banned off the Discord channel for Hunter. And the final thing that happened is the actual um GitHub just got taken down and the whole thing was just scrapped and not nothing was said about it at all. Now, is using an AI agent bad if if generating code? I've got my opinion about that. I'd love to know yours, Stefano. Is it you? What's your thoughts on uh using AI to generate code?

SPEAKER_00 25:29

People do it. It's it's I think it's here to stay, vibe coding is here to stay. I guarantee you the whatever the Huntar replacement's gonna be, it's gonna be vibe coded. So obviously, I think I think it's good to use because it's very helpful. It expedites you know the production of these things.

SPEAKER_01 25:42

Yeah, most definitely.

SPEAKER_00 25:43

But the issue is you have to do diligence. You have to have someone code review, no matter what kind of coder you or developer you are.

SPEAKER_01 25:53

But also something that I kind of thought, like, why did the guy never do this? Is if you're using an AI agent to generate code, you can just use another AI agent to just say, please security review this and tell me all the security flaws in it. And you can even use the same agent if you just use a different session so it hasn't got the context of all of that code. You literally point it to the same bunch of code and say, Yeah, what's the problem here? Right. If he had if the guy had been doing that, he would have probably caught 90% of what the problems were and being able been able to actually address them. So, you know, I was actually shocked that that wasn't a thing. But in my opinion, vibe coding is great because it can accelerate development a lot. Yeah. Um the problem is because when people don't know anything about the underlying ideas and they've got no idea about coding at all or the any type of process underneath it at all, it can be difficult and more easy to fall into traps. But it brings me on to saying, like, when you're self-hosting things, don't always just trust because something says it's open source and because you're self-hosting it, that it's going to be perfect. When you're self-hosting things, you are basically your own IT department and you are your own security for your IT department. So, but one thing you can do if you're worried about any apps that you're installing, if they've got a GitHub, just download the repository, and if you've got access to any AI agents, download it and point the AI agent to it and say, are there any security problems with this? And actually ask ask your AI assistant to review the code before you go and install that thing onto your server.

SPEAKER_00 27:34

Is there a particular sorry, is there a particular AI agent you would recommend to like look at security flaws like that?

SPEAKER_01 27:42

Um codex, which is open AIs. I like clawed code, Opus 4.6, I think, in my opinion. You know, if you if you pointed like really any AI agent, I would say the best would be like um Codex or or Claude. Okay. Just just pointed at the code base. You can use something like um what's it called? Visual code, Visual Studio.

SPEAKER_00 28:01

Yeah, Visual Studio Code. VS Code.

SPEAKER_01 28:03

Yeah, VS Code. Install the extension and then just ask it to review and have a look through for any problems, and then at least you'll have an idea what you're installing onto your server. So that's the great thing about open source code when it's open source, even if you don't understand the code yourself. Well used to be great before, like a lot of people would say, Well, yeah, it's open source, but I don't understand the code. Well, kind of back in the old days, we would just rely on the people that did understand the code, they would they would audit it and go, Oh, hang on, there's a problem with this, you know, we can see this. But now you can do that yourself. So not only with the vibe coding, you can actually at least check the security a little bit, in my opinion. I don't know what you guys think of vibe coding out there in um chat.

SPEAKER_00 28:44

I hate it.

SPEAKER_01 28:45

If you've um ever you know tried to make anything yourself with it, I'd be interested to know.

SPEAKER_00 28:49

There's no excuse. Yeah. No, I'm kidding, I tease.

Nvidia Driver Bug And Lessons

SPEAKER_01 28:53

But interestingly, as well, is it's not just small projects and things like that that are having issues with this. Even Nvidia managed to face plant this week. So with that, let's get into the news. I'm gonna just bring up and share my screen again here. So yeah, so basically Nvidia released some driver that had a glitch in it, and apparently what was happening is it would actually stop fans from actually spinning. This got released and very quickly it was pulled down. But apparently this was in to do with um AI coding as well. So it got just released very quickly by Nvidia, and you'd think they'd have enough GPUs to be running a very good, a very good um model, considering most of their GPUs power, all of the data centers around the world. But yeah, so even giant companies like trillion dollar companies, they are susceptible to bad code not reviewed. So, my opinion with AI coding is it's not the AI coding that's the problem, it's the process of things not being reviewed properly.

SPEAKER_00 29:58

Yeah, yeah, 100%. That that's really why I always like kind of dog on vibe coding. It's because it's not really like AI coding and all that stuff in general, it's just it's the processes. And I like because like software development has very defined processes for developing, reviewing, and uh updating code. And a lot of that gets skipped when you're vibe coding.

SPEAKER_01 30:21

Exactly. It's a very powerful tool, and if you put it in someone's hands, it can backfire. It's a bit like giving like a a lightsaber to a Padawan. Yeah. I was gonna say like giving a Ferrari to a five-year-old. The five-year-old might love it and kind of go really fast in it and thinking, yeah, this is great, but I tell you, it's probably gonna end badly unless things are kind of dealt with in a proper way.

SPEAKER_00 30:45

Um so what's funny about this NVIDIA, this is like their second driver issue, right? Because they had one the other day that ruined people's overclocking or whatever.

SPEAKER_01 30:53

Something with the voltage rate? I didn't hear about that one actually.

SPEAKER_00 30:56

Uh so I think it was NVIDIA 59. What what update is this? 59.5?

SPEAKER_01 31:02

This is um 595.71 driver. Okay, that I think it's the same update then. So yeah, that you know, that's pretty pretty crazy. Can you imagine like you're playing Tarkov on your 4090 and you think the fans are going well? You just updated the driver and it breaks your graphics card and you can't play it again, Stephanie.

SPEAKER_00 31:21

Brother, uh this is the secret to gaming right here. Once you get a driver that works, you never update it or change it until something breaks again. Yeah, I have been doing that for decades on NVIDIA, and it has never steered me wrong. Yeah, that's probably a good idea.

SPEAKER_01 31:36

It's the old saying, if it works, don't try and fix it.

SPEAKER_00 31:40

Exactly, dude. Because I I do not trust NVIDIA. I never have, because the every now and again something slips through the cracks. And man, I this like it has saved my goose so many times. I still haven't up there. I don't even know what driver version I'm on. I'm sure it's old.

SPEAKER_01 31:54

Like super old. Um talking about drivers and NVIDIA drivers, okay?

SPEAKER_00 32:00

Yes. Nvidia drivers are bad and okay.

Picking The Right Nvidia Driver

SPEAKER_01 32:04

If you update your server to a newer version of Unraid, and sometimes you'll update your um graphics card drivers, the NVIDIA drivers. So recently with things like the Nvidia P2000, P2000, and some other Maxwell, I think Pascal, Volta, recently, I think it was beginning of this year, the end of December, beginning of January, NVIDIA made them legacy drivers. So I'm gonna share my screen again here. So if you've got one of those cards, that's me.

SPEAKER_00 32:37

I'm the I'm this person. So go on.

SPEAKER_01 32:39

If you've got a P2000 and you put it on latest driver and you are running the like what it is here, 595.47, it won't work. And you will find you will start your container that may have your Plex MB Jellyfit in and with transcoding. And the container won't actually work because it will have a runtime error, because you need to use the production branch here on V580, because that is the last one that has support for those older cards. So these latest drivers, they don't have support for things like P2000. So sometimes when you update your Unraid server, you update the drivers as well here. You know, you may uninstall the dri NVIDIA driver, reinstall it, that kind of thing. But just be aware of that if you're running an older card and you find your transcoding stops working or you're not actually able to even start the container. Come here and check that that if you're using one of those older NVIDIA cards, go to the production branch, not the latest.

SPEAKER_00 33:34

And if there's a go ahead, go ahead, sorry, sorry.

SPEAKER_01 33:37

If you're using a 5000 series, you're going to need to use this driver here, the open kernel driver. Otherwise, it won't work as well. It will look like the driver's loaded, but you'll find it doesn't work properly. So with very new cards, use the open kernel driver here, and any old cards use the production branch, and everything else in between use latest.

SPEAKER_00 33:57

So I've actually been deploying NVIDIA drivers on Linux, like Red Hat and Ubuntu for a very long time now. And I've never just used latest because it always breaks. Even if you have like the newest graphics card, there's always a problem with it. So I've always like used an older driver first, like during the deployment phase, and then later on, you know, you can switch to latest. So it's funny that you bring this up because I think I'm pretty confident I've been using production anyway on my P4000. So I was like really nervous at first because I was like, oh God, please don't tell me I have to like do something crazy. But no, that's this is like that's easy, that's perfect.

SPEAKER_01 34:38

What generation is the P4000?

SPEAKER_00 34:40

Uh uh Pascal generation, I don't know.

Linux Gaming Momentum With Proton

SPEAKER_01 34:43

Oh, is it right? Yeah, right. Yeah. It's old. It's real old. Talking about Nvidia and drivers, etc., we've actually got some really good news, I think. You know, I think this is pretty good news, and I know you probably do as well, Stefano. Is if we look at this news here, Nvidia are hiring engineers to optimize Proton and Vulcan API performance on Linux. So they're looking for developers to basically make the drivers for gaming much better on Linux. So I'm wondering if are they seeing the writing on the wall a little bit, Stefano, that people are getting a bit fed up with some of the Microsoft, you know, Windows 11 and stuff and all of the drama with Windows 11 and the kind of AI things being pushed into it.

SPEAKER_00 35:27

I'm hopeful that this is this is the way it goes and is the way that it looks. But I'm also nervous because Nvidia has a custom Ubuntu operating system that they use for like their DGX sparks. So I'm also scared because I'm wondering if maybe that they're doing this to have like a new product line of AI um, I guess like for their AI operating system, whatever their NVIDIA OS is. So that way, you know, you can, oh, you have an old 5090, or I guess an old 5090 sounds silly, but if you have an older graphs card, you can now plug this thing into like their new fancy widget, and you know, it has more support for all these different types of uh software layers, like Proton.

SPEAKER_01 36:13

But but Proton is just for gaming, isn't it? Yeah, yeah. Am I wrong?

unknown 36:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 36:17

No, you're not wrong. But I'm just saying, like, I hope it is the way it looks because I'd be I'd be terrified that it's gonna be something totally opposite more for the data.

Windows Friction And Windows 12 Rumors

SPEAKER_01 36:27

Linux gaming is gonna like kind of come into its own really, really soon. And I think we can probably see that's probably gonna be quite likely when we look at our next story as well. Is if we look at Steam here, um, the Steam survey in February 2026 is if we look at the OS version here, Windows 11 is down by 10.43%. And it doesn't show it on this actual chart here, but apparently um gaming on Windows 10's gone up by a similar amount. So it seems to me that a lot of people have been downgrading from Windows 11 onto Windows 10 due to just not really being happy with Windows.

SPEAKER_00 37:08

Here, if you Oh wait, where did that they did change it? There was there was a link I sent you uh when we were looking at stuff that showed the differences, but now I now I can't even find it.

SPEAKER_01 37:20

Well, if you can't even find it, Stefano.

SPEAKER_00 37:24

Yeah, because I was like because it was really interesting. I think wait, wait, did I just find it? No, that's CPUs. That's hardware. No, that's not helpful. Yeah, so coincidentally, like I didn't participate in the hardware survey for February, but i too also downgraded from Windows 11 to Windows 10 on a like completely unprompted, completely no real reason in particular. Um there were some reasons, but no real reason anyway. It was more for experimentation experimentation purposes. But what doesn't make sense about the the shift from Windows 11 to Windows 10 or the increase in people using Windows 10 is Windows 10 is absolutely out of date. Now, my Windows 10, after I installed it, it's been like two weeks now. It's still getting updates, so I'm not sure what what's going on there because when you go to the Windows update, you can sign into the extended security updates.

SPEAKER_01 38:13

Um I think it goes on to about October this year, doesn't it?

SPEAKER_00 38:16

But you have to opt into that, otherwise you do have to opt in, which I haven't done because when I go look at my Windows update settings, it says that it's end of life and I need to upgrade to Windows 11, but it's still updating. So that was really strange. I but I don't really know I can't speak enough to know exactly what's going on there. But also, there's lots of people, especially in my circles, that are trying out Linux for gaming. Oh, good. But the I think the biggest hurdle is is always going to be these anti-cheats. And I hate to say it, man. There's two things that can that need to happen. One, Windows 12 needs to absolutely suck. And two, Windows needs, if they really want to stay in this game, they really just need to build, rebuild their kernel brand new from scratch, and just let go of all of this legacy support. It's gonna hurt. I I hate saying it myself, but it needs to happen because it is actually hurting Windows so bad right now, trying to support you know all the way back to Windows 7 on Windows 11, hell, even XP technically.

SPEAKER_01 39:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 39:18

But it it's killing the operating system. It is literally killing the operating system.

SPEAKER_01 39:22

Yeah. I when I go onto Windows, which isn't that often, I'd say, oh, it just looks such a to me a dumpster fire, you know. Um just today I actually went on a Windows machine and I just went on the properties just to think, oh, what's the hardware in here? And it it had 64 gigs of RAM in it, okay? Okay. And then a little message came up underneath it saying something like, um, does having more than 16 gigs of RAM help your computer? And I was thinking, like, why is that coming up on the on the actual system page? Maybe have it for someone who's got 16 gigs, but when it's actually got 64 gigs in this person's computer, we don't need these little messages telling us things like that. Or at least please have some way of turning off all of those little messages that are kind of, I don't know, quite patronizing little messages. Like, yeah, you know, we don't need to be kind of told, oh, this could be better with this. And, you know, no, just go away, give me like just what I want to see without me having to scroll through a whole wall of other text and distracting things for what I'm trying to look for.

SPEAKER_00 40:22

And and you know, to that same, I guess, I ideology, right? So like you go online and people are always complaining about, you know, oh, Windows pop-ups here, Windows pop-ups there. And then there's always those people that are like, oh, you can just use um Rufus and remove all these things and do all this stuff to customize your Windows 10 operating system to remove all the bloatware. But you know, I'm sick and tired of hearing that argument because it shouldn't be like that in the first place. If you look at the Linux operating system, it became it's super bare bones, and you have to add in all the additional features you want, which sounds silly when you think about from like, oh well, you know, users aren't that knowledgeable, especially if they're not tech savvy, blah, blah, blah. It's actually better for them this way because they don't have all this bloatware. And we with the power of AI now, you know, you can just be like, hey, I really am trying to do this thing. Do you have any recommendations? The AI could be like, yeah, you should install the Microsoft 365 app or whatever. Yeah. Like I I'm so tired of people saying, Oh, just remove the bloatware. That shouldn't be the answer. That should not be the answer. I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_01 41:32

It's a bit like um getting something that's like already sick and you have to remove the illness from it, you know. It's better to be healthy first, you know.

SPEAKER_00 41:42

But it's like I just I I understand, like, I agree with the sentiment. Like, and I love that we have the ability to remove stuff. I love we have the ability to customize Windows operating system to really deep load it or whatever. Like, I love that stuff. I really do. But again, like this this sympathizing or just like putting it on the user is is not the right way. I don't I don't care that we have the ability, it's just not the right way.

SPEAKER_01 42:06

Yeah, definitely. You know, um the user shouldn't have to go to the effort to get rid of things they don't want. It should be just easy.

SPEAKER_00 42:13

And and and worst of all, it's forced upon them. And that's what it really makes it egregious.

SPEAKER_01 42:19

But that's that's unfortunately that's Microsoft's business model now. Windows is no longer an operating system for you, it's basically a delivery platform for their other services, in my opinion. Uh here it's about to get a lot worse, eh? Yeah, it is. But before we again talk about anything like that, I just want to go back actually to um just a couple of things I found quite interesting here on these um stats here. Is I was quite surprised to see that the most popular RAM on Steam at the moment is 32 gigs. I thought that would say 16. Yeah um and I wonder if that's gonna stay 32 gigs over the next year um with more, you know, because obviously the price of RAM and 32 gigs now, if you're building a new machine, would be quite expensive.

SPEAKER_00 42:59

Yeah, that's a good question. Um I I can I personally the only reason why I got 32 gigs of RAM instead of 16 for my gaming PC is because of Escape from Tarkov. Otherwise, I would have 16 gigs.

SPEAKER_01 43:12

Does Escape from Tarkov really need 32 gigs? No, it actually needs 64. Are you serious?

SPEAKER_00 43:18

No, no. I'm 100% sure if I gave it 64 gigs, it would use 62.

SPEAKER_01 43:24

Yeah. So it'd leave you two left.

SPEAKER_00 43:27

Yes. For the Windows operating system.

SPEAKER_01 43:29

Interesting here seeing the most popular graphics card is the 5070. I thought it would be an older card, to be honest. Um, so you know, it's quite a new card. It's in the last 12 months, it's been out. And this I felt found quite interesting. So the total hard drive space, the average, is one terabyte. Yet the average free space is over four terabytes. And I thought, how does that actually kind of click together? If the average size of the hard drives in a machine is a terabyte, but the average free space is four terabytes, is it I have no idea. Is it a TADIS like Doctor Who? I don't know. Yeah, maybe. Or compressions really kind of come forward a lot more than we ever thought.

SPEAKER_00 44:09

Alright, Ed, I figured it out. All right. Where OS version is, just click on the line where it says OS version.

unknown 44:16

Ah.

SPEAKER_00 44:17

There you go. Now we can see the full breakout.

SPEAKER_01 44:19

So 40% of people are using Windows 10.5 are using Windows 10.

SPEAKER_00 44:24

That's an increase of 12.46%.

SPEAKER_01 44:26

So yeah, so it's actually gone up more than Windows 11's gone down.

SPEAKER_00 44:30

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 44:30

So that I would say maybe people have been migrating from seven to ten and refusing to go to eleven, maybe that's where the extra percentiles come from. Probably, yeah. Mac's not really kind of rocking very well here though.

SPEAKER_00 44:41

Yeah. It's crazy to think. Okay, let's let's talk about this real quick. If Halo released on Apple, right? Like when they trans when they made it a first person shooter, not the uh third person shooter that was going to be. Let's let's pretend that it came out the way it is today, but it released on Apple instead of the Xbox. I wonder if Apple would be the gaming tyrant that is Microsoft. That would be crazy to live like a world to live in.

SPEAKER_01 45:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 45:08

And you can play Halo on Apple, by the way, or on Mac OS, by the way.

SPEAKER_01 45:12

Yeah. Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah. Yeah, it'd be an interested interesting alternate timeline. It would be to see that.

SPEAKER_00 45:19

Maybe Mac would actually be, you know, more than 0.0% on these charts.

SPEAKER_01 45:24

Anyway, we've got a very, very exciting operating system to look forward to, Stefano. And I'm sure you'll be, as soon as this comes out, you'll be just jumping straight onto it. You'll be getting rid of you'll be getting rid of Windows 10, and you're going to be going to this one here.

SPEAKER_00 45:37

Finally, Windows 10, 11, and 7 are the worst operations.

SPEAKER_01 45:40

We've got Windows 11. Yay! And apparently it's coming this year. And you're not going to be able to buy this up this operating system off Windows. It will buy you. You're going to have to subscribe to it. So in order to use your computer, you can pay Microsoft a monthly fee. So that's something to really look forward to. And it's going to be fully modular, subscription-based, and AI focused. And I think, in my opinion, that is why with this story, Nvidia are hiring engineers to optimize Proton and Vogel API on Linux. Because they see the writing on the wall that we're just not going to really be very happy with Windows 12. I think that Microsoft really I think they're so just far in with, you know, kind of AI and things. And you know, they're, you know, Windows 11 was basically just selling their subscription models of 365 and other things like that. That they think, well, we may as well just make the whole operating system subscription based, and you're going to be able to have like, oh, the the the Office version of Windows 12, or do you want the this version of Windows 12, or whatever version of Windows 12?

SPEAKER_00 46:51

Hold up, hold up. Omar just dropped in chat that this has apparently been discredited.

SPEAKER_01 46:55

Oh, has it?

SPEAKER_00 46:56

That would be great.

SPEAKER_01 46:57

I hope so. I really hope so.

SPEAKER_00 46:59

So maybe not as scary, but I I guarantee Windows or Microsoft will still find a way to make Windows 12 terrible. I mean it's they're going agentic with their operating system no matter what. So even if it might not be modular subscription based, it will still be AI focused, period.

SPEAKER_01 47:18

Yeah, but remember like what Microsoft does is they do one good operating system, one bad. True. So we had Windows 7 was good, Windows 8 was terrible. Yep. Windows 10 was good, Windows 11 terrible. So it's time for a good operating system from Microsoft.

SPEAKER_00 47:31

So I don't I really don't think Windows 11 is as bad as people make it out to be. Like honestly, like as much as I hate or like like ragging on Windows, it's Windows 11 really isn't that bad.

SPEAKER_01 47:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 47:42

It's got a lot of bad stuff, but the operating system itself is actually very good. It's just all these like pop-ups and like, hey, do you want to use OneDrive today after you told me no 15 times before? Do you want to use Cortana?

SPEAKER_01 47:56

You know, the thing as well with Windows that I always used to just not like about Windows is the forced updates at certain times where you just can't get around it. You reboot your computer and you find out that it's gonna be 20 minutes before you can use it again because of some Windows update going on that you didn't stop it doing.

SPEAKER_00 48:13

Yeah. And so in in chat, too, to kind of go back to this thing. So WeHolmes says that PC World actually issued an apology for this article. And uh and then Omar actually um kind of chimed back in to what we were saying, and uh he said that the issue with Windows these days is the hostility towards the users, which I agree with. I I it is it is a hostile environment, and that's what makes me dislike Windows 11.

SPEAKER_01 48:39

Yeah, definitely.

SPEAKER_00 48:40

Every operating system is better than the Windows Mistake edition, Eric. Literally every one.

Tarkov Developer Data Compliance Fine

SPEAKER_01 48:45

Anyway, we've got a s a story here for Stefano, and Stefano, I'm sure, is gonna tell us all about this one because it is about his most favorite thing in the whole world. We have got Escape from Tarkov Dev has been fined two million rubles, which I think is about 25,000 US dollars.

SPEAKER_00 49:03

I don't know, chump change.

SPEAKER_01 49:04

For a protection lapse.

SPEAKER_00 49:06

What is that, like a Graukas card?

SPEAKER_01 49:10

So Battlestate Games. Um are they a big company, Stefano?

SPEAKER_00 49:14

Battlestate games, are they a big developer or are they I guess it depends on how you want to define big, like in terms of revenue, sure. In terms of team size, maybe not so much. Um I would say I would say that they're uh a small developer in terms of like if you compare it to the rest of the gaming community.

SPEAKER_01 49:34

Right. It's pretty interesting, really, how things are going on the internet at the moment. So being fine because they weren't keeping Russian users' data in the in inside of Russia for this game, it just seems like if more and more countries kind of do this kind of thing, it's gonna make it very difficult for, I would think, indie game developers and stuff. Because if you you know, if you had like an indie game that has user data that's stored, if you had to have data centers in every country to store that, it's gonna make developers who are small not be able to really do anything.

SPEAKER_00 50:05

So what's what's funny about this article too is they're also finding Google and um shoot, I can't remember the other company they're finding. So so a part of this too, Google's been fined as well for the the same the same thing, not handing over, or I guess not categorizing uh Russian users' data. Right. But what makes this actually kind of scary, so Tarka Escape from or BSG, Battlestate Games, they're a Russian developer, right? I I play the game, but I am also at the same time uncomfortable and nervous about what data they're collecting, right? Which makes me a little makes me feel a little bit better every day that I refuse to use my Windows computer for anything personal, especially as it becomes more agentich, uh as especially as Copilot starts reading your emails and reading everything and stuff like that. So like it's it's scary because I might actually get roped into this by accident because BSG may actually submit my data to the Russian government by mistake. Just you know, simple human error or something like that.

SPEAKER_01 51:08

Am I allowed to do a little bit of a rant about something? Yes, of course.

unknown 51:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 51:13

So you so yesterday, yeah, my daughter's learning to drive and said, Oh, can I go out with mum and drive in the car? So I said, so I said, Yeah, no problem. And I wanted to buy her like an hour's worth of insurance. So I thought, oh, I'll I'll do that. The first one I tried, they said no, they're not going to insure her for some reason. Um the second one said yeah, so I filled it all out online. It was something like um£25 for the hour. And I clicked the buyer that goes, Oh, to buy it, you have to like download the app. And I thought, I hate downloading apps, and so I had to download the app and then like log in with the email address I said it was. To actually then do it, I had to like, you know, then click on the email, so I had to open the email in my phone, which I don't normally do. I just thought to myself, you know, this is absolutely crazy. Then what it wanted is it is it wanted like, you know, you know, obviously it you know, her driving licence, fair enough, but then it wanted a a photograph of her, so she had to take a selfie. And then the next thing it wanted is said, like, oh, before we do it now, you've got to go out to the car and take a picture of the front and the back of the car. I'm thinking, this is just getting a bit crazy for an hour's worth of insurance. You want the photographs of the car, you want a photograph of the person, and you want this app. And the thing that actually frustrated me is we've got gig up, gig down, internet. The phone was connected to the Wi-Fi, and it must have taken about a minute and a half to download that app. I'm thinking, what the hell is in an app to buy to submit payment details for insurance?

SPEAKER_00 52:34

I'm surprised you went that far, man. Honestly, if they would have been like, oh, this app is required, I would have just been like, Nope. Bye.

SPEAKER_01 52:41

Well, if you were to ask my family what words were coming out of my mouth, it would be I'm sure they were quite colorful. They they were, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 52:50

So, you know, this actually it reminds me of this uh this kind of meme that's going around right now where um where so they're like, oh, millennials, anytime they're gonna go make a big purchase, they pull out a laptop. And it's like I I understand the sentiment of it like from the perspective of people who grew up with with smartphones. Like, yeah, it seems kind of silly to pull out a laptop to make a big purchase or really do anything with, but I think that's actually kind of describes the problem with companies these days, is they using those apps is a great way for them to hide finer details because there's just not enough screen real estate for people to understand what they're doing. And like, man, dude, I I know it may it, I feel maybe I'm a boomer, but I'm gonna use such a good app story coming up.

SPEAKER_01 53:38

I want to say, I'm gonna keep it to the to the right time.

SPEAKER_00 53:43

Okay. But yeah, I might be like a little old school, but I I would prefer to do every transaction through a web browser. I know it sucks, I know it's difficult, it's extra work, but it honestly the experience is honestly generally better 90% of the time.

SPEAKER_01 53:59

Oh, another thing the app wanted as well, it wanted precise location, you know, not just location data, it wanted precise location.

SPEAKER_00 54:05

So I wonder if that's like some like weird UK thing where they're trying to make sure like um maybe not weird, but like they're trying to be like, oh, we're trying to make sure terrorists can't get you know insurance or something.

SPEAKER_01 54:16

Well, that's always the excuse.

SPEAKER_00 54:18

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 54:19

It's gonna be like you know, to to protect people or to stop terrorists is always the excuse to steal your data.

SPEAKER_00 54:25

Or like Omar says, it's probably just the app driving telemetry.

SPEAKER_01 54:28

Yeah, you know, so it reminds me, you see, after all that, I was really busy at the time as well, and so I didn't remove the app afterwards. So as soon as the podcast is finished, I am going to remove that stupid app off the phone because I do not want it there. Anyway, so sorry about that um sidetracking everyone, but I think we should start bashing Microsoft again. What do you reckon? Yeah Yeah, you know, we we do we do every month, so and you stuck up for them a little bit earlier on as well. So I know, right?

SPEAKER_00 54:57

That's weird for me.

Microsoft Discord Censorship Backfire

SPEAKER_01 54:58

So you know I was a bit shocked about that, Stephanie. So anyway, this is a really funny one, guys. I think is I'm sure you've all heard about this already. But Microsoft gets tired of micro slop and bans the word on its Discord and then it locks the server after the backlash. So, Stefano, come on man, tell us about this. Tell us about what happened.

SPEAKER_00 55:18

If you don't want people making fun of you, maybe you should listen to your customers and give them what they're asking for instead of ignoring them. And this is just typical Microsoft behavior where they're ignoring customers and pretending like there's not issues and wondering why everybody hates them.

SPEAKER_01 55:33

Yeah. Ridiculous. It started, they just tried banning the actual word on the Discord, then people were, I think, doing like micro slot with an O instead of a P.

SPEAKER_00 55:43

Yeah, and it's getting through the filter.

SPEAKER_01 55:46

People actually had their accounts banned, didn't they, from actually continuing trying to do it? They actually banned people off their Discord. And I think they shut down the whole server for a while because they were just literally walls of text people.

SPEAKER_00 55:58

I I want to say too, you know, like on Windows Central or whatever, whatever that Microsoft help uh like you know how you can like post on Microsoft like, hey, I'm I'm trying to do this thing. Oh yeah. And they have like a board, a web board. I think if you say microslop on there too, you can get banned from ever asking a question again with that account.

SPEAKER_01 56:16

Yeah, well it's very naughty. You should never ever criticize Microsoft or call it that.

SPEAKER_00 56:21

That's I mean, it's like I understand it's hard, it's very hard to take criticism. It's extremely difficult. I and I get it. But I mean, it's been decades now, and you're just doing it to yourself, and every year that goes by, it's like the users are literally like, hey, we don't want this thing. Well, you're getting it anyway. Hey, we don't want this thing.

SPEAKER_01 56:42

Well, you're getting it like at what point do you just Because like users don't know what they want. Microsoft knows what users want. You don't know, okay? Just remember that. Okay, that's true. You're too you're too stupid to know what you want and and there's a price for it.

SPEAKER_00 56:59

And I mean, like, there there are certainly uh thousands of users who truly don't know what they want, but then you have plenty of people who are smarter than you know myself in every single way who know exactly what an operating system should be like and and what it should provide to users, and Microsoft won't even listen to those people.

Copilot Privacy And Email Summaries

SPEAKER_01 57:21

Yeah, but it's very unf unfair to call it micro slot because of them pushing all of the AI. Yeah, because this next story I think just proves that there's nothing wrong with what they were doing at all. So let me just share my screen again.

SPEAKER_00 57:34

Hey, I noticed you spelled is organizations in the UK you guys spell organizations with a S.

SPEAKER_01 57:40

Yeah, we we we spell it correctly here. Correctly.

SPEAKER_00 57:43

I just noticed that because I was like, hey, that's supposed to be a Z.

SPEAKER_01 57:47

Oh, you said Z and not Z. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 57:50

I was translating for you, so you understand.

SPEAKER_01 57:52

Oh thank you. I wouldn't have understood. So yeah, um talking about micro slop, well, Microsoft bug basically had co-pilot summarizing confidential emails.

SPEAKER_00 58:04

So surprise, surprise. So it was not here, it was not a bug. They just didn't program it in there to not do that. They're lying through their teeth when they say it's a bug. Sorry, go ahead.

SPEAKER_01 58:16

But it's pretty bad that you know you flag an email confidential and it basically indexes it and summarizes it. But I am going to kind of defend Microsoft just a little tiny bit.

SPEAKER_00 58:26

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 58:28

I know, I shouldn't do really, but I want to be fair, is it didn't actually send out the information to anyone else. It was only summarizing it for the users who are using it. So allegedly.

SPEAKER_00 58:39

Allegedly, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 58:39

But it was actually just uh I think it was just um indexing their sent stuff and their drafts. So it was actually summarizing emails they hadn't even sent. So I thought that was pretty wild.

SPEAKER_00 58:51

The uh I love this this whole like summarizing email thing is so silly to me. Like maybe okay, so SPX Labs, my YouTube channel, okay? It's a business. I get like emails all the time, but I've never had an email from anybody that's like a book that needs to be summarized. I can almost read the entire email before like so. I use Google, I use Google Apps as our platform for SPX Labs, and before Google can actually summarize the email, I'm already done reading it. So I don't know like who out there needs a summary of just like two to three sentences. And if you're writing emails longer than that, it's a you problem.

SPEAKER_01 59:31

Yeah, yeah. I'll tell you, I hate it when you get an email that's really long.

SPEAKER_00 59:35

Oh my god, do I actually have to read all of Yeah, I mean I don't, I really won't read it. If it's too long, I just don't know.

SPEAKER_01 59:40

I will never send an email that's really long, and I always try and put in the subject a little bit of kind of what the email is.

SPEAKER_00 59:45

Yeah, if like if the subject line should already give you basically what you can expect from the email, and the body should just be a longer explanation of your expectations. When I say longer, no more than two to three sentences. And if it's requires paragraphs, that's a phone con or that's a conversation, a voice conversation. Yep, definitely. You're using technology wrong. It's your fault. This is why everything is bad. Because everyone's using technology wrong.

Smart TV Apps Building Botnets

SPEAKER_01 1:00:10

Remember a minute ago when I was saying, Oh, when we're talking about the phone app and stuff, and I said, Well, there's an app story coming up that I can't wait to talk about. Well, any of you guys, would you like to become a part of a botnet?

SPEAKER_00 1:00:21

Well, yes, absolutely. I can mine Bitcoin for you too.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:24

Yeah, so well, if you want to become part of a botnet, you could actually just have an app on your TV. So smart TV apps are silently scraping web data for AI training. So this is a really interesting one, I think, because certain like apps you're putting on your TV, they're using your internet connection to scrape data for AI training because it's coming from a residential IP address, and so it gets around the blocks that are put up for stopping that kind of thing from the computer.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:55

Is there not some UK law that can protect us people in the United States from this?

SPEAKER_01 1:00:59

I don't know. I th I think it's just happening everywhere. I can't remember the company it's called. I think it's called one of the major ones called Bright something. Does it say in the article here? Bright data operates a global proxy network designed to collect publicly available web content and customers are voluntarily joining the network. So they say they're voluntarily joining the network, but what it will often be is hey, do you want to watch this movie without any ads? And like click accept or decline, and then you've got all of your terms and conditions, but what you're agreeing to is basically becoming part of this proxy network to scrape data for AI companies. So the first thing that's happening is that the price of your RAM's going up because of AI companies. Yep. And then they're using your internet connection to scrape data to make more, so they need more hardware, so it would go even more expensive.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:51

It kind of this kind of reminds me of exactly like when Bitcoin was becoming very popular. So you'd go to a website and it would be mining Bitcoin on your hardware, and then everyone's like, oh, well, you know, now my computer's slow, so I've got to buy an even more better graphics card and a more better CPU and a more better RAM. And then there was like shortages because of all of that stuff.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:11

But you know, you know, one, how is this even allowed? Because if scraping data is blocked for companies to be able to do it because they don't want it to be scraped, how is a company then able to use, you know, ah, we'll pretend that we're residential users and literally if we tried to do something like that, it would be considered really bad. But these big companies doing it, using other people's, you know, oh, oh, you've agreed to do it, so it's fine. How many people actually know what a proxy net is and what this is, you know, when they're clicking it, they'll think, oh yeah, I'd like I'd quite like to watch that without any ads. And they'll just click yes. And so it's using their internet. They say, Oh, it's not it it's set up so it won't actually do it well and affect your own internet use. So it will only kind of do it and not use your bandwidth so it won't slow your internet down.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:58

Oh, thank you. That's that makes it actually so much better.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:01

But here's the thing, yeah? What I was thinking when I was reading about this is sarcasm for everyone in chat, by the way. Is like um surely if things get like throttled and stuff from things being used, maybe your IP address could actually get banned from certain things because you're scraping so much data, and so your own residential IP address gets banned, but oh you know, they're not gonna care about that. Well, that you know, it sucks to be you. You know, you agreed to it, and like, you know, we've got apparently they've got 150 million people, million computers with this on that they're scraping data and selling it to AI companies with. So another reason I do not like smart TVs, I have a smart TV and I've never connected to the internet once with it. I just plug my NVIDIA shield in. Amen. But you know, probably it's apps I could download on the shield as well that would probably be able to do this, but it's pretty, pretty crazy, I think. You know, smart TVs crawling the web, basically turning your television into a botnet and using your own.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:58

I hate everything. Everything's smart, everything with the word smart in it, I hate it. I don't have smart lights, I don't have smart anything. I hate it all.

AI Shortages Raising RAM And HDD Prices

SPEAKER_01 1:04:07

Yeah, so yeah, it's pretty, pretty crazy, man. Anyway, we speak about this every month, and it's not getting any better. Is hardware is getting harder and harder to get and getting more expensive. So at the moment, Western digital say they're out of hard drives at the moment, um, due to AI, like I'm sure, as well as um RAM going up. You guys have noticed hard drives going up a lot. I went onto Amazon the other day and saw a hard drive I bought this last summer in July. I think I paid, it was actually a refurbished drive, 28 terabyte refurbished drive. And I think I paid about$280 for it. That same drive now is I think$470. And it's six months on, same drive refurbished. It made me very glad that I bought it back then, but it's just crazy, you know. So you know, AI is taking up the hard drives, the RAM the women, the children. And it's getting um more and more expensive all of the time. They reckon that by the end of this quarter we might see another 50% increase in RAM, apparently.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:16

Jeez. Uh did you see so Corsair recently um so you they had this huge that they were letting people buy RAM and then they're the RAM shortages were getting extreme, so they would cancel people's orders. You remember all that, right?

SPEAKER_02 1:05:28

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:29

Okay, so now all RAMs will I'm making this number up. Let's just pretend it's got like a 500% markup, right? So now Corsair is like, oh hey, uh, we're offering 25% discounts on all RAM purchases. It's like, am I really getting a discount though if you mark it up 500%?

SPEAKER_01 1:05:45

I'll tell you like RAM nowadays. Like I I went online the other day to see what I could sell to fund this stupid graphics card that I bought.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:55

Um I've got three servers, and each one of them's got 128 gigs of RAM in each. I bought probably the 128 gigs when I bought it, probably didn't cost me more than 200 pounds at the time. So I thought to myself, do I actually need three servers with 128 gigs in? I thought, no, I don't. I could probably just have one with 128 gigs and two with 64, and that would be absolutely fine. I could probably get away with the other two actually having 32. So I thought, oh well, I wonder how much 128 gigs of DDR4 RAM, because it's DDR4 I've got, is actually selling for. And in the UK it was selling for about 500 to 550 pounds for 128 gig kit, which in US is probably 700 for DDR4. So that got me thinking, so if you've got a lot of DDR4 something you want to upgrade, you could probably sell your RAM that you've already got and get quite a good price for it. That actually buying the DDR5, it wouldn't be a huge amount of difference to upgrade. So it reminds me of the housing market. If you're if you've already got a house, it's like getting on the not the housing market ladder, on the ram market ladder.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:01

Do you know what I mean? Uh yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:03

Actually, while you were looking, I I'm looking this up. I'm trying to look this up as quickly as possible. You could how much did you say it was in American dollars? Well, I'm just 700.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:11

I'm I'm thinking like 500 pounds is probably$100,$650,$700 US. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:17

You could buy. All right, let me look this up. You could buy about. Yeah, let me close this pornography I'm looking at first.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:28

This is a family-friendly show, Stefano.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:31

I am closing it, Ed. Alright. You could buy half a gram or like four half grams of gold instead. And this in 30 years will be worth more than any RAM or whatever that you buy. Because this will likely appreciate.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:50

I forgot that I can just share my screen. I could have been doing this the whole time. I could even show like you know our chat, like everyone in chat right now. Because they love that stuff.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:58

Yeah. So yeah, don't forget you can share your screen as well as me sharing mine.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:01

So I should have done that earlier when we're talking about uh uh Steam.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:05

Yeah. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:07

Okay, okay. Since now that you've you've taught me this technology, I'm gonna distract us even more. I know you love when I distract us from things. RTX Pro, okay? Please. There's gotta be a way. There's gotta be a way. This is cheaper than a 5090.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:20

It is.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:21

But maybe not in the UK.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:23

I've already sold one of my kidneys. I think I need the other one else.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:25

I'll I'll like I said, let me know how I can help you obtain one of these, and I will I will gladly do it. Because I I really wanna know.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:35

How much V how much VRAM's it got?

SPEAKER_00 1:08:37

24 gigs of DDR7. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:40

And what I can't see the screen, it's very small. What what GPU is that?

SPEAKER_00 1:08:44

Oh sorry. This is a RTX Pro.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:45

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:46

I always forget. Like I'm on 4K and everyone has like different monitors. I always forget about all that resolution stuff. So this should work.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:51

And have you heard of what what's what's that graphics call called? The V V100? I think it's Volta architecture.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:58

No, I have not.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:59

You can get them fairly cheap and they are 32 gig cards, but I I I don't think um I don't think they have like a cooling fan, so you have to kind of mod them. Oh. Yeah, maybe. Um another GPU is the P40. You can get them for a few hundred dollars. They have 24 gigs of RAM, but they're pretty old.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:17

So Yeah, my problem with that though is like if you want to have an actual good experience with AI, you really can't get the I I hate to say this. Like everyone's always like, oh, well, I can't afford a thousand dollar last card. I understand, but unfortunately, if you want to have a good time with AI, you're gonna have to put money into it.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:33

Yeah, but not as much as you might think as you'll find.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:36

Yeah, yeah. Like a Mac Mini again would be a good alternative or something like that.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:39

The thing is with a Mac Mini, the RAM's quite slow. Yeah. So it's not it's not as fast. You know, fast RAM is also very, you know, it's not just how much RAM you've got, it's how it's the speed of the RAM. And um having full. Look, this one's in Portugal.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:52

This is an RTX A5000 and it's in Portugal. Yeah. And this is a different card. This is much older, uh, because I think it's PCI Gen 4. Also 24 gigs, but it's got tons of tensor cores. Because I think while RAM and speed and all that stuff's important, I think tensor cores and RTX cores and all that stuff is is pretty important. I don't know how RTX cores is actually important to AI, but anyway, anyway.

EUV Breakthrough And Chip Yield Hope

SPEAKER_01 1:10:15

So anyway, we don't have to talk about AI graphics cards all of the time, as we spent quite a lot of time speaking about that last time. But I want to finish this week on a little bit of a positive story, even if it's not positive for right this very moment. So I'm gonna share my screen.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:32

Positivity? We don't do positivity online.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:35

No. We're meant to be like a a doom and gloom show. The end of times. The end of personal computing as we know it. So here we've got a new way of making chips called EU V Light Source Advanced that apparently could increase chip yields by 50% more. So yeah, it's not right now. But one thing you could say is this probably wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for the shortages that the AI boom or AI bubble, however you want to like call it, would have happened. But apparently it it's an absolutely like reading through it, it's an absolutely amazing engineering feat. How they do it, I just don't know. It's something like um a laser hits a piece of um, I can't remember what type of metal it is, a droplet of it 150 times a second from three different lasers, and it's a tiny little droplet. And apparently it can increase the yield of chips by up to 50% more by 2030. So if you can hold on till 2030 before getting your new gaming rig or your new home lab, we might be alright in four years' time.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:44

So this triggered a memory of uh of another fascinating technology, which is actually the blue LED.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:53

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:54

And I don't know if anyone's ever like is interested.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:58

It's very hard for them to do, wasn't it? It took yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:00

Yeah, yeah. So there's some great maybe it might be uh Veritasium or whatever that channel is. Somebody out there, one of the great, great YouTubers out there, has a fascinating story and video about how they did the blue LEDs. I'm hoping they can do a video about this because this also seems very interesting. Because just like the the um technical precision and engineering that has to go into that. It just it would be astounding to actually get highlights and better details on how they came about it.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:30

Uh I tell you what, man, I can't even get my head around. When you think about, you know, how thin, what do they call it? Is it the lipography or whatever? Of chips, you know, like um yeah kind of like three nanometer things and like the how is that even possible?

SPEAKER_00 1:12:43

I have no idea.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:44

How is it possible? You know, it's just incredible. And how many transistors, you know, I just think to myself, when you hear how many transistors are on a chip, it's like millions or billions. How do you even design that?

SPEAKER_00 1:12:54

I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:55

It honestly How do you design something with so many parts? Obviously, like you know, it's computer aided to design it, and but it's just all of those parts that kind of fit together to me.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:05

I I just assume they're lying to us about it, to be honest. Like it's I don't because they always tell us, like, oh, like we don't have the technology to build the pyramids again, and then we're putting billions and billions of transistors on a like mm-h nano microscopic scale or whatever.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:21

I I think I think they're lying, and they've got Merlin somewhere and he's just magically kind of waving a magic wand and it just works.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:27

I mean at this point I would believe it, you know. Like I I'm over here, I can barely wrap my head around S SSL certificates, okay? Because every time I think I understand SSL certs, there's something new that pops up that just totally ruins my experience with SSL certs. So there's no way in hell I'm ever gonna get my head wrapped around anything CPU manufacturing or even technology related.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:51

It's unreal, isn't it? It really is crazy. We live in wild times, like you know, what a time to be alive, all of this things we've got. Think of the last hundred years. If I was sitting in my chair a hundred years ago, I could probably sit out, look out the window, and I'd see a horse and cart going past, and that would be how someone's going along the road.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:09

Anastasia tech. You know, like where are we talking about? Uh I don't know if this is like true again, but we're we were talking about on one of the uncast shows how like electrons were getting too big for the gates on CPUs or something like that.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:24

So like at what point like how like if that's if that's the case now, then how are we even making things smaller than electrons, which are quite large, is my understanding. I don't know. Yeah, because they they leak.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:35

Pretty soon we'll have we'll have CPUs built in quarks.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:38

Yeah, it's it's it's un it's unreal you know what we've managed to achieve in the last hundred years as a species, I think.

Wrap Up And Community Goodbyes

SPEAKER_00 1:14:44

In like this, like overnight almost, right? Yeah, it's pretty crazy.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:48

Uh anyway, guys, that I think that kind of brings us to the end of our news segment and really to the end of this month's UNCAR show. I really hope you enjoyed it, guys, and thank you very much for joining us. Now um What are you laughing? What sorry I had to do.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:05

So Sim just joined us. He's like, hey everybody, and I was like, Hi Sim, bye Sim. Because we're leaving now.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:12

Sim, man, I'm sorry. You're gonna watch this on Wednesday. Um what what time is it? Um 9 central?

SPEAKER_00 1:15:19

Uh 10.39 central right now, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:22

So we we we start um nine central time.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:24

Oh, when we start, sorry, yeah, nine central time. And we're always late, so you have time to make it.

ASTEP 1.5 Video Plug

SPEAKER_01 1:15:31

Yeah, we're always five minutes late because the m there's sometimes gremlins in the technology and we have a little technical hitch. But umore says don't forget to delete the app. Oh, yeah, thank you, Omar. I will um as soon as I finish this, thank you very much. Um anyway, thanks very much for hanging out with us. Um I'm gonna give a a selfless self-plug as I am releasing a video probably tomorrow on ASTEP 1.5. And for those of you who don't know what ASTEP 1.5 is, it's some self-hosted music generation software, a bit like Suno. It's pretty much like a Suno killer, in my opinion. I released the container on community applications. I can't remember if it's last Sunday or the Sunday before, and so there's a video about using it. Um so if you've got any type of NVIDIA GPU and you like music, just be prepared to start playing with it at night. And before you know it, it'll be 3 a.m. and you'll be thinking, I just want to make one more track.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:29

Um chat. I know I know N has a pretty big head because everybody knows who he is and everything about him. But when he says I, he means on Space Invader 1, his channel for anyone who may not know.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:42

Oh, yeah, sorry, sorry. Not on the MCAS show on Space Invader One. So yeah, little um a little um shameless plug for my Space Invader One channel.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:52

Sorry, Ed I it was a perfect opportunity for a joke there I couldn't pass up.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:56

Anyway, everyone, thank you very much. And um it's March, so we've got good weather coming up soon. So Not in the UK. Not in the UK. Well, we you know we're getting very close to our two or three days of summer we have in our summer, so I'm getting excited for the three days of sunshine we might have. But you know, everyone else out there, have a great weekend, and we'll catch you all next time. And any last thoughts, Stephanie?

SPEAKER_00 1:17:20

No, no last thoughts. I'm dying.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:22

No last thoughts. Okay, well, thank you very much, guys, and we'll catch you next time.