PCIE is the Future, The Discord Issue, & You'll Own Nothing | Discussion w/ Wendell of Level1 Techs

We gave Wendell our small sound chamber last week (the one from before we built the new big one), so while he was in town, he brought a box of oddities. We decided to just film a wandering discussion about the industry and his thoughts -- I was mostly there to learn and ask questions. There's no specific objective, but more of a fun conversation about PCIE and the future. Hope you all enjoy basically watching us hang out! Check out Wendell's channel here! youtube.com/c/Level1Techs

Honestly if tech keeps moving towards you own nothing, then I will simply transition to, well then I don't buy anything. If I don't own it when I buy it, then I won't buy it.

Wendell is who all these tech tubers call when they have a problem with anything, he doesn't get nearly enough credit.

I particularly enjoy Wendell's content when he is getting enthusiastic over a solution he discovered to a problem that was so niche that only about 0.00000001% of users would ever think to attempt that particular use case. The enthusiasm is just fun to watch.

I am an engineer in other fields, and I seriously can almost see an information gap that will happen in like 10-15 years. A lot of old stuff is nicely archived. But these days, EVERYTHING is being shared on either extremely short term ways (discord is a good example) or it's being kept by individual organizations (like YT) don't won't be available anymore some day. I can already remember certain computer and hardware related websites with an absolute insane amount of information that are gone and lost forever.

Wendell's Box of Oddities sounds like a mystical corner shop. "Come stranger browse my catalog of cast off enterprise gear. All these PCIE lanes could be yours with the right breakout cable."

If purchasing isn't owning then piracy isn't stealing. Although I don't know how that's going to work with essentially hardware as a service that we seem to be trundling towards, but I'm sure somebody's going to figure it out

I host my own Plex server, and my girlfriend thought it was pointless when we have Disney plus or whatever, but then HBO took shows down, and Willow went away from Disney after 7 or 9 or however many weeks, and now she used Plex as much or more than I do. Owning my own data is important to me and it's becoming important to her.

Steve, each time you touch upon the existential threat of the You Own Nothing plan, I feel extremely grateful for your service. Thank you for spreading awareness about this to more people

We demand more Wendell and Steve.

Re: Fastest enterprise drives in a gaming PC. Yes do it Wendell, give us the spiritual successor to the 15K SCSI drive tests from back in the day.

This is why Physical Media must remain a thing, record your digital content to physical storage and when Sony take your digital stuff away, you have a copy of it on physical media.

Wendell is the kind of nerd that other nerds go to for learning. Steve doesn't pretend he knows everything and doesn't bs anything, i appreciate both guys, they're great

Any time Wendell is a guest on any tech show, you know it's going to be a great episode.

I'm dealing with the "Sony remotely deleting products people purchased" problem by never purchasing a Sony product again.

It’s really a lot of fun to watch this dynamic. I love seeing people who love learning, and Steve loves to learn from Wendell!

Wendell has been delivering A+ quality content for a long time, the more involvement he has in the online tech sphere the better. Awesome to see GN working with L1T.

Well there ya go. You nailed it. When you mentioned the time savings at scale when you moved your benches to NVME from SATA, you more or less explained how crucial enterprise storage speeds are. Multiply your test bench latencies on SATA by a bajillion and you understand why Big Data wants storage throughout as absolutely fast as possible.

Local GeForce Now was what NVIDIA called Grid before and the idea was for offices that needed tons of workstations could just buy a single NVIDIA Grid server for the office with enough power for everyone but the cost of ownership was significantly less than a workstation per user.

In theory, this SHOULD mean that consumer desktops would get more lanes and more pcie slots to take advantage of all this. As opposed to the current trend of low lane counts and only one x16 slot and maybe an x1 or 2 if you're lucky.