Windows 11 Is Getting Faster - WAN Show May 15, 2026

Timestamps [0:00] Intro, good-news framing, topic rundown, and sponsor list. [2:11] Topic #1: Windows 11 is finally getting a responsiveness boost. > 5:00 Why this should be celebrated even if Microsoft is obviously late. > 6:44 Meta smart-glasses tangent, neural-band controls, and POV sports recording. > 10:08 Apple as the "least-bad" smart-glasses privacy bet. > 13:52 LTTStore ad buying, Meta / Google data hunger, and why this tech will normalize fast. > 19:41 Discord, Teams, WhatsApp, and why the glasses still feel niche day to day. > 23:42 Apple smart-glasses leaks, comfort complaints, and the limits of current wearables. [24:35] Topic #2: Google's "Google Book" / Aluminum OS laptop push. > 25:56 Qualcomm's "Windows on Snapdragon" branding and MediaTek's opening. > 27:45 Glow Bar jokes and bringing back the glowing Apple logo. > 30:54 AI widgets, time-zone shortcuts, and custom phone workflows. > 35:15 Google's best AI pitch is using your phone less. > 36:05 The "Gemini books your date" demo is pure Silicon Valley nonsense. > 36:54 Setting alarms and dictation still fail in ways that kill trust. > 40:02 Filmot / YouTube transcript search succeeds where Gemini and ChatGPT fail. > 41:53 Brainstorming, checklists, and why they still do not trust the final output. > 43:44 Using it to settle text arguments and catch tone before hitting send. [44:53] Crankiness tells, braces progress, and noticing when you're tilted. > 47:23 Luke's "speed" tell and why recognising you're off the rails is the hard part. [50:02] LTTStore's UV collection. > 50:34 Sea wool from oyster shells, UPF protection, and why the polo took years. > 56:47 Shipping in-season, balancing fashion-world timing with LTT quality standards. [1:00:37] Check-out-messages. > 1:02:40 Archive / retired-products page plans for the new store. > 1:07:10 More polo colors, "ease of wearing," and designing for normal people. > 1:10:14 Why LTTStore works better now that more specialised teams can influence one launch. [1:12:13] Floatplane's all-hands presentation unexpectedly becomes a company-wide hit. > 1:13:13 Making a dense infrastructure talk understandable enough for the rest of LMG. > 1:16:45 Media-side staff realise how much off-camera infra and dev work they never see. > 1:20:05 Internal presentation videos, Minecraft footage for attention, and why LMG is still weird. [1:24:02] Topic #3: Amazon Now expands 30-minute delivery. > 1:24:37 Dark stores, pricing, and what 30-minute Amazon actually looks like. > 1:27:11 Whether Luke would use it anyway if it saved him from hand-watering plants. > 1:31:39 Patents, Amazon Basics, and why he still avoids the platform. [1:37:57] Floatplane exclusives. > 1:38:05 Tech House backyard cleanup with an excavator. > 1:39:08 Reese gets a Setup Doctor episode. > 1:40:41 Tech Roulette and why Samy thinks it is his magnum opus. [1:42:24] Sponsors. > 1:42:24 AMD. > 1:46:59 Cape. [1:48:59] Topic #4: The Steam Controller can scream the Wilhelm scream when dropped. > 1:50:24 Linus spirals over low-effort Shorts beating much bigger projects. [1:52:51] Topic #5: Trump Mobile's T1 phone might actually ship. > 1:55:24 The original renders were fake enough to become their own story. [1:59:46] Topic #6: The Sony Xperia 1 VIII immediately derails them. > 2:05:46 Linus begs Sony for a BVM-3110 and explains reference-monitor brain rot. [2:10:07] Topic #7: Unitree's giant mech makes the Tesla Optimus pricing story look silly. > 2:13:58 A $650,000 mech is somehow cheap in context. > 2:21:44 How much money it would take for Linus to fight one. [2:24:03] Topic #8: Install a Russian language pack for free malware avoidance. [2:27:25] Topic #9: LTT Labs starts digging into UPSes and "dirty power." > 2:29:16 Scrapyard Wars instability, warehouse power, and why that set now lives on a UPS. [2:32:35] Sponsors. > 2:32:35 MotionGrey. > 2:33:31 XSplit. [2:35:56] Topic #10: MIT revives a 40-year-old triangular zipper. > 2:39:30 Weird historical single-rail / gyro ideas and why some elegant inventions still die. > 2:40:16 Quick motorcycle project update after a wrong CNC part arrives. [2:42:45] Topic #11: Startup uses recycled glass for 3D printing instead of melting it back down. [2:47:48] Topic #12: Starlink asks for passport checks, selfies, and travel registration. > 2:50:04 Ubiquiti / rifles / Starlink and the uncomfortable line between control and overreach. > 2:53:09 Iran, communication shutdowns, and why this slippery slope is not theoretical. [2:56:10] Topic #13: Linux gets Space Cadet Pinball and 3D Movie Maker. > 2:57:11 Why 3D Movie Maker ruled even when it was janky and limited. [3:00:47] Topic #14: AMD backports FSR 4.1 to older Radeon cards. > 3:03:50 AM4 longevity and putting a brand-new chip in the oldest compatible board. [3:05:20] Topic #15: Meta employees protest mouse-tracking software used to train AI. > 3:06:51 Training the models that might replace them right before layoffs. > 3:09:50 Whether exploiting employees is actually

Awe man! My merch message didn't go through when I bought a cat cave! I tried to say "I'm going through flight training right now in college and I found out that if I use AI for anything in the studies I will get charged by the FAA and be considered a threat to national security!"

F* no to smart glasses. I don’t want to be recorded constantly in public or in private for that matter.

This is probably my boomer moment, but smart glasses from US megacorps freak me out and this is where I'm personally drawing the line between cool tech and self-imposed surveillance with a smile.

Linus looks like Sacha Baron Cohen's Ali G. with those glasses and the backwards cap... 🤣

Bravo. Microsoft provided actual proof that, for more or less the last 10 years, does not care for the users. We knew that but it has a different weight when it comes from the head's mouth.

Shopping Shoutouts would be a great rebrand for the coms/ merch message issue. Rolls off the tongue, proper alliteration, and shopping implies buying from a proper store. Hope Linus sees this!

I'm done giving Microsoft any grace. We've all been their battered wives for years, and this is them bringing home roses and telling us to "give them one more chance, things will be different now." I'm done forgiving Microsoft.

Thank you for giving consideration to moving the clips to another channel. I can say the "personalized" subscription notifications don't always work, but for this episode it did give me a live notification and hasn't pinged me about any clips in a couple of weeks now, which is exactly what I want.

It would be valid that it’s only boosting frequency for a fraction of a second, except this is the Windows 11 start menu. On our (fairly recent, still sold new for $700-1000) office systems, it takes literally 12 seconds to open the “switch user” submenu, so if they double the frequency, maybe it’ll only be chugging for 6 seconds to open the world’s simplest menu. Granted, this change also won’t much affect the work systems, since one submenu of the start menu hitting 100% CPU for 12 seconds is already long enough to cause frequency scaling to ramp up even before the change

Regarding glasses: You can cover the LED and trick them into thinking it's in low light there's a whole video about it from Christophe part of the Johnny Harris media outlet.

Microsoft should decouple the start menu and explorer from internet access.

Someone needs to figure out a wearable QR code that instantly crashes these glasses recording people in public.

I had a dream in which the WAN show was 6+ hours long

3:39:35 the comma in most of Europe is the decimal point, not the thousands separator.

The meta thing is like....hiring "people" to steal their skills and knowledge and then firing them. Imagine getting a 250k student loan to learn the skills/knowledge they seek, only to get used and exploited in the end. This is terrible.

Even after the Linux challenge ends, I think attempting to include Linux news in every WAN show will help Linux grow users. Also I want to know what cool stuff Linux is cooking up while watching one of my favorite shows with some of my favorite people.

And people are mad? YES!! I AM PISSED! Microsoft pushed an update that bricked my first-gen Surface Pro X.

Imagine a MacBook with an RGB logo at the back

I really appreciate you guys talking about the clips thing. I legit use youtube 95% of the time for LMG content and was bummed about the change and my sub feed. (Literally unsubbed to both because of this). Whatever decision you guys take at least I feel the concern was heard. Thank you both.