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and that's not even counting the EU because the EU has some privacy concerns so facebook can't launch threads yet there but 100 million in less than five days is a staggering amount you might have seen some of your favorite creators joining threads and then posting about it we have not because to be honest i um wasn't a big twitter user i didn't even have my own twitter account hardware sugar didn't have one although we might have to do it for threads i don't know i'm still on the fence just managing the existing social media channels already takes up a lot of times i don't know we have time and energy and effort because we do try to have distinctive content what we post on facebook is different from what we post on instagram we just don't put our youtube videos onto our facebook page so we really try to differentiate the content based on the people who watch us or read our content on the different channels so i don't know exactly how threads would be able to differentiate itself at least for us but definitely an interesting time for facebook and for its founder mark zuckenberg who has gotten into a passive aggressive spat or should i say to be fair he didn't start it apparently elon musk started it tweeting that because prior to threads being launched elon had already raised some beef with mark and challenging mark to a fight like a literal physical fight zuckenberg actually is a martial arts champion i forget which particular sport he focuses on but he has won several tournaments elon is older is not as well versed in martial arts so most pundits have it as mark winning within you know by a mile but so elon musk came out with this bizarre tweet challenging mark zuckenberg to a fight zuckenberg quickly agreed it hasn't really progressed from basically slapping each other online although there was a report that rom or italy was offering up the colosseum as the venue for the fight originally it was supposed to be vegas and then elon tweeted something about the colosseum which the city of rome has denied that they actually offered it to him i think elon has also challenged zuckenberg on threads itself like he had some statement that competition is okay but copying or cheating rather is not implying that he might sue facebook for copying twitter facebook responded by saying that there were no former twitter engineers who worked on threads so kind of a bizarre series of events between these two tech giants some see it as frivolous but i mean to be honest that would be like the match of the century nevermind paquiao may weather i mean these are two super rich white guys going at it because they have ego i mean that that's all that is basically although i did read an interesting report that the beef goes way back a couple of years ago a pre-pandemic i think facebook was set to launch a satellite to focus on internet in africa the satellite was supposed to help provide internet access to africa and it was supposed to or it did go it was loaded onto a space x rocket i think one of the falcon rockets which unfortunately blew up so mark zuckenberg at the time posted on facebook that he was saddened by the loss of the bird the loss of the satellite and it was such a loss to the people in africa and apparently internally in space x which is also owned by elon that didn't go down very well i mean going public and kind of having this pa palungkot or effect na oh you know that satellite was meant to service africa and things like that although you know so much has happened since then i really no one really knows what's going on in the mind of elon musk supposedly the root of their beef may stem from the loss of that satellite may go on to more big company news microsoft has gotten the go ahead to buy activation blizzard so this deal was announced a long time ago but there were concerns about antitrust or monopoly issues in fact the purchase was already blocked in the uk again on by the country's competition commission a lot of countries now including our own have competition commissions which examine proposed deals and if they find that there's a large risk of a monopoly coming into place or anti competitive practices then they will block the deal in the states the agency in charge of antitrust is the ftc and they do have an ongoing case against this acquisition but they filed in court an action for preliminary injunction asking the court to bar or prohibit microsoft from continuing with the purchase now the court i believe it's a district court in california has come out and ruled in favor of microsoft saying that it will not be issuing the preliminary injunction and microsoft is free to go forward with the purchase of activation blizzard and so with the decision of the california court and so with the decision of the court the regulator now in the uk has had to do an about phase and said that okay well we're willing to approve the deal with certain conditions which is normal in these kind of approval of big companies buying other companies usually there are conditions that need to be met just i find it kind of funny that initially the position was heck no but then when some just some court it's not even you know it's not a court of appeals not the supreme court of the state it's just some court in the state says that i'm not even giving approval to the actual sale i'm just saying that i can't or i will not bar microsoft from buying activation blizzard so i won't issue the preliminary injunction suddenly the regulator in the uk is like okay wait well i think we can make it work because the eu has already signed off the greater eu has already signed off on the purchase by microsoft so the concerns are of course activation blizzard is a humangus publisher and they do publish on multi platform so there's xbox ps nintendo n pc but if microsoft now owns it would that mean that they wouldn't publish the activation blizzard games on playstation which is a big deal let's say for call of duty the modern warfare franchise is one of the tent pole franchises for playstation so for at least the us antitrust case that's where the bulk of the arguments came from note that the fdc is still pursuing its case against microsoft against the deal all this says is that the court will not issue a preliminary injunction against it and that the sale or the purchase depending on your point of view can go forward now whether that will be declared as void in the future whether it will be reversed that could still happen but for now it's looking very positive for the eventual acquisition whether that's good for your favorite franchise or not whether it's overwatch starcraft world of warcraft or heck warcraft in general call of duty i mean activation blizzard has so many well known franchises whether that's good for your franchise only time will tell topping out the big company news there was a rumor this week that evga was closing shop that its employees in taiwan were not reporting to work and some of their high profile employees from the gpu division because they did stop manufacturing gpus last year that these high profile employees were no longer coming into work but evga has denied the report although there wasn't any clear rebuttal like no no we're very much in business and in fact here are some new products and so a lot of people have been wondering what evga has been up to a well respected brand both for gpus and for psus they've been wondering what evga has been up to it will be recalled and evga exited the gpu market because basically they retired being treated like crap by envidia currently you know envidia doesn't bother to coordinate with its board partners the returns the margins are quite miserable and then everybody thinks that oh gpus you must be making bank if you make a gpu if you're anywhere along the gpu production or distribution pipeline then you must be making money but evga a third party provider or manufacturer an aib of envidia cards was very clear that no no our margins were super small just like our retail margins for our gpus so it's easy to claim they're overpriced but really guys if you take a look at the money out that we have to do and then money in the margins are teeny tiny especially because the retailer is the last one um the higher up the chain you go the higher the margins you usually have the highest margin of course probably being envidias but like at the retailer level the margins are just tiny so that's it for this week to be honest i've been thinking of mixing up the format a little like instead of this being a weekly show i would do it twice monthly so every other week and then the remaining two weeks we would be doing another show but i'm still kind of thinking about it a little on the fence it would talk more about the internet in general sort of like internet culture rather than more specifically focused on tech news but we'll have to see how it goes and mulling it over so far that's it if you enjoy or dislike this podcast please do let me know in the comments so i can kind of steer the boat towards a direction that is interesting and relevant for our viewers if you're listening to this on the friday that it came out please do check out our new video dropping later this afternoon on the 4060 and the weird discrepancy between how tech youtubers described it versus print media tech journalists described it it's really kind of interesting the divide like one is super negative the other one is cautiously positive about it and yet they're talking about the same card we're talking about the same space you know you're gonna use it for games all of them are experts whether you're from the print media or from the or from the tech youtuber space doing research for that video i did find it interesting that the tech youtubers focus on a lot of details which i think are not really important for that card i mean they tested it for 4k gaming expecting 4k gaming from a 4060 srp 300 is not realistic so i don't even know why they put those details in it's well sorry to scratch that i mean it does make a good headline oh i got only 10 fps or whatever from this game using this card but then you just jump into the details and it's like well it's 10 fps because you were trying to run it at 4k and who runs a 4060 at 4k a lot of the details were there to make a point that was an unfair point you know it's like you're asking a Ferrari it's like you're asking a key a pride if you guys remember the key a pride back in the day to race a Ferrari those are just like two different classifications of cars just like a $300 4060 is better served at 1080p which it's really quite good at and even decent at 2k so do check out that video when it drops later this afternoon if you're listening to this episode not on the friday that came out well you can still catch that episode anyway it's up on our youtube now thanks for lending me your ear na rin yung excellent table management namin and cpu cooler 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