So it's similar to salad tossing. Have you heard
that? Salad tossing. I don't think Omarchi is
really a distribution though. I think it's just
an install script. Another one that I don't know
about and I've heard a lot is low key. What is
that? Have you ever heard of something is very
low key? Like the register, the pitch is low,
like a voice? No, no, no. Okay, okay. And I said
I'm not quitting and I quit. Have you noticed
a lot more and more and more people self -diagnosed
with ADHD and taking medication? If they're self
-medicating with other stimulants, that's drug
abuse. That's not prescribed. If I do some crystal.
So that I can focus, right? Is that what you're
suggesting? If you're listening to this as a
podcast, remember that it was originally recorded
as a video. If you're not following along, you
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Alright, so let's get started with this chapter
then. I have a new guest. Someone that I've seen
in my comments for quite a long time. I didn't
even know you had a channel, man. Why didn't
you ever? It's insane. Do you not just stalk
people who comment on your videos? That's all
I do. Man, there's so many, you know. That's
true. I feel bad that I just don't reply to all
the comments because I'm doing a lot of stuff,
you know, throughout the day. Work, videos, editing,
a lot of stuff. So if you're watching this. Yeah?
Yeah, you're busy. Yeah, man. So if you're watching
this and I don't reply to your comments, I read
them all, you know, because you get a notification,
but I just don't have the time. If someone asks
a question, I usually reply, but it's getting
more difficult every time. So, Tokisuno, how's
it going, man? Going all right, man. What about
you? Yeah, I'm doing good as well. Where are
you from? Where are you at? I'm from Canada,
the great white north. Yeah, Toronto. Okay. Now,
why do you speak Spanish? Well, you type in Spanish.
Can you speak it? Let's see. Pues sí, yo puedo
hablar español. Ah, ¿puedes hablar bien? No.
Vamos a ver qué tal. Si entiendes todo lo que
digo y todo, ¿puedes hablar bien? Eh, más o...
Pero la duda es que... In those days, I didn't
speak a lot of Spanish because for the majority
of my life, I only spoke English with my mom.
I didn't speak English, I didn't speak Spanish
because... I mean, I only started learning Spanish
when I was 15. You started with Spanish when
you were 15. Sí. En esa situación está mi hija.
Ella tiene ocho años, pero mi esposa y yo solo
le hablamos en inglés. Acá en Guatemala todos
hablan español, pero ella habla solo en inglés
con nosotros para que lo practique. Pero ella
habla español con sus amigas, ¿no? Sí, ella habla
español con sus amigos, con nosotros solo en
inglés. Y eso es mucho mejor que... porque...
I was born here in Canada, so I only had the
opportunity to speak Spanish with my friends.
I mean, I only had two friends who spoke Spanish.
And I didn't want to speak because I wanted to
speak with my other friends who only speak English.
spanish english i what is toki suno what does
that mean do you know other languages i guess
you do right i do i do so uh for context i i'd
like just finished my four -year bachelor's degree
in linguistics i did it in four and a half years
because i got owned by the registrar office because
i took too many language courses and because
of that They didn't let me graduate because I
needed to take some other courses that weren't
linguistics related or language related, which
I think is stupid. Just let me take my language
courses, man. And they let me go like above,
like much more above like the limit, but they
didn't tell me. So I just thought I was fine,
but I wasn't fine. And I was sad. But yeah, I
have a background in linguistics and I made this
channel when I started my degree. And when I
started, I didn't really know anything about
linguistics, really. What is that about? What
is that career about? I have no idea what it's
about. Can you just share with us? Linguistics
is the science of human language. It's a very
broad field of study. It's like saying you study
computers. or like or like sorry it's like saying
you study programming like what does that entail
because there's so many different sides to programming
you know or like i'm a writer okay what do you
write there's so many different genres and like
niches and like types you know so i was really
into like when i started my degree i was really
into conlangs which are constructed languages
and more specifically like auxiliary languages
which are supposed to be the bridge between two
language like it's supposed to be like an intermediary
language for all languages you know so like there's
a language called interlingua and it's supposed
to be like a common language between everyone
who speaks i think a romance language um and
there is a conlang made by a canadian linguist
who actually lives close to me um her name is
sonia lang and she created this language called
tokipona and tokipona is a language where like
the whole philosophy behind it is like thoughts
we over complicate a lot so but we use more complicated
language so it's to simplify things so it's a
very simple language very simple syntax it only
has 120 words in it and I chose my name as Toki
Suno all one word all lowercase even though grammatically
in Toki Pona like it's a simple language but
it still has grammar and grammatically my name
makes no sense because it's like I'm pretty sure
it's supposed to be like Toki Li Pona or something
and it's supposed to like I wanted it to mean
hello son Toki meaning hello and suno meaning
sun. But I didn't know what I was doing. So I've
been like flamed in the Tokipona Discord server
before for being like, your name is not correct.
That was like three years ago. But yeah. What
is the purpose of this Tokipona thing? Like,
is it to create like a universal language or
something? Or what's the goal? well yeah um like
it's supposed to be a universal language without
fulfilling the needs of like because like a lot
of universal languages have this lofty goal of
being like replacements for naturally constructed
languages um where they want everything to mean
they like like you want to be able to like express
full thoughts and have like dense like in -depth
technical dialogue and whatnot. Whereas like
Toki Pona is meant kind of as like, you know,
like a pigeon languages, right? Or like, like
a Creole. It's, it's, it's kind of, it's like,
it's like, so these, so Creole languages were
developed in order to communicate between two
ethnic groups of people. It's why you have languages
in like Haiti, for example, you have like, haiti
was kind of like owned by the french right through
colonization and because of that haitians speak
their own krail and what it is it's like a mixture
between their french that they retained along
with native words Okay. And Toki Pona is kind
of supposed to be a bridge language between everything
because it's very, very simple. It doesn't have
a lot of sounds. Syntax is very simple. And it's
just supposed to facilitate the need to communicate
simple thoughts to one another. Okay. Now, there's
a language going on out there that I don't understand.
The Gen Z language. The Gen Z. Yeah. I listen
to a lot of different words. Loki. Glazed? I
don't know what all that means, man. So, you'll
have to teach me. We will have a section in the
call which we will go over this mysterious language.
I know what Riz is. Well, I don't know. You know
what Riz is? I don't know. I'm not sure. I think
I do. I think I do. But I'm not sure if I used
it correctly. So, you let me know. Okay? Now,
something that I wanted to ask you as well. Now…
Why do you know Spanish, by the way? Like, how?
Why? Okay. So I kind of explained it in Spanish,
but not everyone speaks Spanish. So I grew up
with, like, an immigrant mom and, like, a Canadian
dad. My parents actually met abroad. Both of
my parents worked in the States when they met
on cruise ships. then they settled in canada
like my dad was born and raised here so he just
moved back and then my mom used that so then
she could come live here after she married my
dad and then like you know become like a permanent
resident here um and then when i was born i really
liked the comedy of my dad and how funny he was
And how well and eloquently he spoke. Because
my dad used to work in radio. Yeah. And he also
taught me how to speak English, which is why
I talk like I'm talking in front of a camera
all the time. Even to myself, I talk like this.
So I didn't learn Spanish because I didn't want
to. I wanted to be just like my dad. And my dad
still to this day speaks barely any Spanish.
Bad. Bad on him. You should have learned by now,
man. Exactly. But like he needs to use English
for he needed to use English for his job all
the time. He couldn't afford to like throw in
another language and then like mess up his English.
And he's like a very like he's a perfectionist.
So he stayed only on the English path, just like
practicing English speaking. He did like lots
of things like wedding hosting and like like
being like an emcee, like a host for like events
locally and whatnot. yeah i didn't want to learn
spanish just because i wanted to be like him
and uh when i was in grade nine uh because like
in canada or at least in ontario where i'm from
like that's the province i'm from uh you need
to take french for five years and you do that
from grade four until grade nine so in grade
around grade seven and eight i was already getting
like super tired of french and i was like oh
i should just learn another language instead
That's when I got into like being a weeb and
like looking at like Korean and Japanese and
like Mandarin. And then like I was like, all
right, I'm going to learn Spanish because my
mom speaks Spanish. I want to be able to like
speak to my relatives in Chile. I want to be
able to speak to like my grandmother, who's like
my only at that time was my only living grandparent.
All my other grandparents have died, had died
at the time or like were about to die. Like my
aunt, like. Oh, my aunt, my grandmother died
a year later when I was in grade 10. And then
my abuela died when I was in grade 11. So that
gave me like a year and a bit in order to like
learn Spanish. So I learned Spanish like literally
in high school, like lots of people when they
go into like public education and they learn
a language or like, oh, this is the worst thing
ever. I learned absolutely nothing. And I feel
like in my case, I still got like the normal
like public education Spanish treatment, but.
I would be on like HelloTalk every single day.
I'll be on Twitter trying to find like Spanish
speakers. I would be like watching Hola Soy German.
Oh, okay. I would be on the grind. And what does
your mom say? Is she happy that you finally learned
Spanish? Yes, yes. And she's kind of indifferent
because she kind of, she was kind of like, okay,
if you don't want to learn Spanish, that's fine.
I'm not going to force you to. learn spanish
if you're so this against learning spanish but
if you want to learn it that's cool we can speak
spanish and you know i came around to it eventually
so yeah okay now there's something i wanted to
ask as well what do you think when people call
the united states america because i live in guatemala
i'm in america and i'm like but i've noticed
it's not just uh people in the u .s phones All
over the country. Everyone calls it America.
Not only the people in the U .S. Do you have
any thoughts there? Yes. Language is weird. And
let me explain. So. A lot. OK, so at least in
like Canada, because it all depends on like geographic,
like how you were taught geography and geography.
We all think. It's one thing. It's never that
one thing. It's different everywhere. Like, you
look into what a continent is and a subcontinent,
your mind's gonna be fucking blown, dude. It's
all different. None of it makes sense. Like,
you can look at Australia, right? And Australia
is a country. And it's a continent. But then
you have other things within the subcontinent
of Australia. And then you have... like the islands
around like new zealand and new zealand i think
can new zealand be a continent was i like on
crack when i read this okay it's not considered
a continent um but like like yeah it's it's stupid
so america because they've just called themselves
the united states of america of america for so
long that like Like, you know, it's just a short
form of abbreviation of the United States of
America. Like when you talk about Mexico, you
don't say the United States of Mexico. You just
say Mexico. Right. Yeah. So and like colloquially,
colloquially, we've all just sort of agreed that
just saying America means the United States of
America. But also this is where geography comes
in. In Canada, we are taught that there are like
three Americas. There's North America, South
America, and Central America. And, like, North
America consists of, like, Greenland, Canada,
the U .S., and Mexico. Yep. Right? And then there's
Central America, and then there's South America.
So then when, like, I hear South Americans a
lot on, like, social media saying, like, I'm
American. But these but like these Americans
don't know geography. So they think like I'm
wrong. And like technically both sides are not
wrong. It's just we're all taught different things.
Yeah. I don't know, man. I just I'm American.
And but I see that people from Europe on Twitter
call people in the United States American. Right.
So you Americans, you Americans. And there's
no way around it. It's not going to change. But
I'm like, why, man? Why? Let's just call them
the way that they should be called from the United
States. Right. But it's not going to happen.
It's just the states like people here like we
will also call like we'll also call the states
the states, you know. Do you call them in Canada?
How do you call them? Do you call them Americans?
We call them American or we say they're from
the States. And the number one thing you should
never do is call a Canadian an American. If you
call me an American, no, fuck you. I'm not American.
You live in America. I'm not American. I'm Canadian.
I'm Canadian, okay? I'm never going to say I'm
American. Just because I've grown up with the
division between Canada and the U .S. The U .S.,
Constantly makes fun of us. All the time. Fuck
those guys. There's beef. Between Canada and
the US, why? Who's better? In your biased opinion,
who's better? In my super biased opinion, I love
Canada. I was born and raised here. I love having
healthcare. I love having free education up until
university. I love that my tax dollars still
go towards subsidizing my tuition. Like, it's
great. It's awesome. There's a lot of problems
here. But I think compared to the U .S., which
is all what Canadians do because it's the only
country we're like really connected to because
Greenland is just so far up. Like, you know,
like I'm like, that's the only that's our only
neighbor. That's our only neighbor. We share
the largest border in the world. Now, the largest
single country border. Now, someone else in Discord
also mentioned that Chile and Peru, Chile and
Peru, they're like the same thing. Is that not
right? I don't know. I'm just saying what I read
in Discord. Chile and Peru are not the same.
They're two different countries. Our people and
our culture can be similar, but it's all just
geopolitics. What constitutes a country? What
constitutes a language? Go look at fucking...
Like Serbians and Croatians, right? Serbians.
Why so serious Serbian? Right? Why so serious
if he's still there? I think he's from Serbia.
Yep. Go ahead. No, I'm just playing with you.
I know Peru and Chile are completely different.
But how is the relationship there? Is there any
beef with, you know, Chile and Peru? Like Serbia
and Croatia? Yep. Or Serbia and Croatia? No,
no, Chile and Peru. No? No, I feel like all of
South America hates each other. We all hate each
other, but in a loving way. I feel like South
America, we're all like super racist towards
all of us. And we're just all chill about it.
You know? Yeah. I don't care if they call me
Mexican. I'm right below Mexico. I'm from Guatemala.
I don't care, you know? uh yeah central america
is like a huge country we're not too different
from each other you know you go to all of them
they're gonna look the same somehow kind of different
but the same people is gonna be different in
some of them it's i think it's because like because
of how close central america is you probably
have had like similar like native populations
that have like sort of like gone up and down
and traveled around because like the native people
of like like los andes Or, like, a lot different
compared to, like, all the different native tribes
in, like, Mexico and, like, Central America.
We're just off topic, man. Yeah, we talked about
language and all that, but this is not what we're
going to talk about only here. I want to know,
how does all this connect to Neovim? There's
a lot of rain right now. I don't know if you
can hear it. It's, like, super vague. It's fine.
Yeah, it's... The thunders are really heavy and
the rain is extremely heavy right now. So you
may hear that in the call. Now, how does all
this connect to NeoVim, Linux? What happened
there? Okay. This is where I have to get out
my deep, dark confession. Okay? Yeah. You're
a Windows user. You love Windows. I hate Windows.
I fucking hate Windows. I only use Windows because
I use DaVinci. Uh -huh. And DaVinci on Linux
just sucks. It's so bad. Mac is Unix. It's just
like Linux, man. I'm poor. I've had this gaming
computer. I only just upgraded the CPU this year.
Aside from that, it was running a Ryzen 5 3600.
And before that, it was running... Actually,
that's a lie. I upgraded the CPU in this a year
or two after I built it. But then after that,
eight years, same CPU. Oh, okay. Yeah. And then,
yeah, I have a MacBook, but it's like super old.
I have a 2012 Unibody. It was running like High
Sierra. So yeah, this is my deep dark secret.
What happened there? My deep dark secret. I used
to be super into Luke Smith. Oh, okay. i used
to be so into luke smith luke smith because like
think about it okay it makes sense his name is
luke my name is lucas same name he was into like
um thinkpads right um i was getting into thinkpads
through watching like jv schultz um and then
he started like and he's a linguist he's a linguist
okay okay so you follow the steps vim Yes, I
did. I ran VanillaVim. I ran VanillaVim for like
a year. I had my own VimRC. I customized it by
this guy. Just all one file looked terrible.
I used folds even though I hated it. I could
barely understand completion. And I used... um
i use just stock vim with like my own little
um like vimrc to do all my writing or like just
personal writing just like because i saw what
luke smith was doing with like digitizing old
books and he had like this plugin called uh vim
ipa and it's and it's for typing the um or no
it's called vimling and it's a plugin he wrote
in vim script in order to write the international
phonetic alphabet and i needed to use that because
i needed to do like phonetics classes and phonology
classes so I could type in all these phonetic
characters on my computer without having to use,
like, an external keyboard, which kind of gave
me a little edge over, like, my other classmates.
Just off of, like, pure typing. That's it. Not
grades -wise. I sucked. Especially phonology.
But, yeah, like, because of, like, Luke Smith,
I got into ThinkPads and I got into, like, Terminal
shit and I got into NeoVim. It's why my most
popular video on my channel is talking about
how I used an X61. a thinkpad x61 for about a
year let's see um let's see let's see yes sir
this one why i value old tech yep okay um and
that was a laptop a friend of mine gave me um
like he just his family just wasn't using anymore
it was hella old and yeah i used that for A little
under a year. It has like a Core 2 Duo. Oh, I
had one of those. I had a Core 2 Duo way back
in the day, man. I don't know. This was like
15 years ago. It was the E8400. I remember the
model. Damn. Dude, do you want to know what my
first desktop processor was? What? A Q6600. Oh,
I got that quad core, bro. I got that quad core.
Yeah, yeah, quad core. I remember I didn't get
one of those. I rocked that E8400 for years.
I couldn't afford anything else, man. That was
my computer. I used Windows. I had a Hackintosh
back then. I installed... I don't remember which
macOS version I installed. I didn't like Mac
too much, but it was a pain to install macOS
back then because... Hackintosh back then? Old
Hackintosh? I'm glad it's dead. It was terrible.
It was so shit. So what's the next logical step
then? Are we going to see you in the forest like
Luke Smith? Or what's going to happen there?
Dude, I've thought about it. And now that I've
seen Sylvan going out in the forest, I'm like,
maybe I should just embrace this. I have a forest
right outside of my house. But I have really
bad allergies. I would have to be out with a
mask and a lav mic, you know? But yeah, I used
on that ThinkPad because I learned how to use
Vim on my MacBook. On that ThinkPad, I learned
about tiling window managers. What I would do
is that I would do all my schoolwork on my MacBook
and then I installed Mint on that laptop and
I would read the i3 documentation and figure
out how to configure i3. And then eventually
once it was good enough, I just made that my
main computer and I plugged in like an old desktop
computer. And that was my study computer until
this year. Now, you do LaTeX or LaTeX, however
it's pronounced. I did LaTeX. I did LaTeX because
of Luke Smith. okay and what about this other
one that sylvan talks about types i've literally
never used it i've never touched it in my life
because i don't like because like i don't know
i've never had to use types before i know sylvan
does a lot of like math stuff and i don't know
how good their language packages are i've never
had to use it because by the time i finished
writing like documents for classes i was like
that's like it was over like i i knew that types
existed but at the time i heard that it just
wasn't as good for linguistic stuff so i just
never touched it and like right now i don't need
to use it so what do you use do you use latex
a lot or you just used it for a period of time
i use lot tech for like three years for university
and right now i just use org mode arc mode okay
okay like if i were to write a if i were to write
like a paper right or like an analysis and i
needed to use citations i would 110 go back to
law tech because it's just more comfortable for
me okay and i know how to do like my workflow
in emacs in doom emacs in org mode it's just
not the same i need like i'm so comfy within
la tech and using like and like importing in
like my citations and whatnot it just makes more
sense for me okay so where do you write or did
you use right latex on neo vim or emacs neo vim
well at first vim and then neo vim oh okay and
Why did you decide to go with org and not Markdown?
And how do you type org? Do you use like the
Neorg plugin, I think it's called, right? For
Neovem? Is it Neorg? No, I use DoMemax. Oh, for
org. For org mode. Okay. I actually did used
to use Neorg. What happened? How was the experience
there? It was okay. I think... New York would
be a much better project if the developer dedicated
all of his time towards New York. But unfortunately,
he's a gigachad and works on, like, other really
cool shit. So New York is just kind of on, like,
the back burner. Because, like, he's doing rocks,
too, you know? Like, it's Vyro. Yep. Like, Vyro's
a really good developer. What is? Let's see.
V -Y -R -R -H -O. B -Y... You spelled it right
before. Instead of I -O at the end, it's H -O.
Yeah, like that. Let's see what happens. Let's
see what shows up. Just want to find his GitHub
here. It'll be like the contributor. No, go to
contributors on the New York repo. Here? Oh,
there he is. So he's working on other projects.
Let's see. Let's sort them by stars. So, Lua
Rocks, okay? And, um, he's working in other stuff
than... Yeah, yeah. Like, his other projects
have their own, like, organization profiles.
You know? Okay. So, like, Lua Rocks, um, which
goes hand -in -hand with Rocks .envim, and, um,
Neorg, are, like, Really, really good projects.
And he's been focusing a lot on ROX and LUX,
which is a Lua package manager. LUX. Okay. Okay.
But he's the main contributor to this New York
project, right? I think he is. I think he's the
main developer because he still runs it, but
he still has other contributors and there are
other core contributors, but he is by far the
most. So your experience with New York wasn't
as good as in Emacs. How has it been in Emacs?
Oh, of course not. Because Emacs is an operating
system. It has everything built in. In New York,
you could have a calendar, but it's just not
the same as the one on Emacs Org Mode. Because
Emacs Org Mode can do it all. When did you start
with Emacs? With Emacs? um probably 2022 2023
i was just bored and like i would do a thing
where like once a year i would um configure vanilla
emacs oh okay i'll just go down the rabbit hole
commit do vanilla emacs then i would just never
use emacs again uh -huh and then i would just
use emacs again and just do the same thing it
was like the definition of insanity i even had
um uh joshua God, why did I forget his last name?
Joshua Blaze. No, another Joshua. He is a...
Hold on, I'm going to pull it up on my monitor.
Yeah, I'll switch to your screen. You let me
know. Ready? Do it. Joshua Petitma. This guy.
I have him on Discord. I got into an over an
hour long Discord call of him trying to help
me install... emacs from like compile emacs from
source on ubuntu because i used to use ubuntu
and he uses art so it was like the versions for
things that he had that would like show like
that would like agenda compile to like a file
and then conky would like show uh -huh like your
agenda on your screen um that was like out of
like his scripts were like out of date for my
emacs version because like it was on like i think
on like ubuntu it was like on emacs 26 but he
was only 28 or 29 so i had to compile from source
and he was like very patient like very helping
with me um yeah and he helped me install doom
from there and i was like that was the first
time i installed doom and i didn't use doom for
three years uh -huh and then i just installed
doom again after a while because to be Oh, fuck
off, man. Yeah, my light went off. Did you hear
a thunder? I did. God damn, it was a pretty strong
thunder. The light went off, but everybody came
back. It's not my thunder. I have a time -honored
light. God, bro, are you okay? Did you hear that?
God damn. I just hope... I don't lose power,
man, because if I lose electricity, I have UPS
all around the house. So the Internet is not
going to cut off in here in where I'm at. I'm
not going to lose power, but I just have like
30 minutes before they die. this would be like
all right lucas time to go to bed now oh so what
is it alexa or it um i use like these are just
like cheap bluetooth bulbs i use this app called
casa oh i i have those yeah i have them connected
to alexa man it's just trash do you use alexa
have you used i don't use it because i don't
i don't think it's good i just automate it off
of a timer a piece of man it's just and I it
just made me look like a fool with my wife because
I told her okay we're gonna automate stuff around
the house I bought like eight light bulbs and
I bought three Alexas motherfuckers are just
trash man yeah they're terrible when the power
goes out and it comes back all of them turn on
and it's like could be three in the morning and
all of them come on and I'm like I have never
Fix that because I think if I get the switches,
the smart switches, I wouldn't have that problem.
I don't know. I have to look into that. Oh, no,
I don't use smart switches. I literally just
because I don't want to overcomplicate it. I
just have them on a timer and I do not touch
it. I just have a bunch of scenes that I cycle
between. Yeah. Now, going back to your channel,
why did you decide to start a channel then? That's
a good question. I just remember what we were
talking about before. Before my lights changed,
I started using Emacs again just because I saw
Doom again and I was like, maybe this is worth
it. And I saw people doing academic writing in
Doom and org mode and everything and I was like,
hmm, this is pretty good, man. And then I saw
And then I saw Orgrom. I didn't really understand
how Orgrom worked super well. I saw people using
it, I just didn't really understand it. And then
I saw James Schultz use it, and I was like, well,
I'm a James Schultz clone, so I'm going to just
take what he's doing. Who is James Schultz? He's
a study with me, digital minimalism YouTuber.
Let's see, let's see, let's see. You want to
share it on your screen? Is it like Sylvan and...
no no nothing like sylvan are you a sylvan fan
of course i am yeah i remember when i had more
subscribers than him oh yeah he jumped up really
quickly man he did because he's consistent yeah
okay look at my screen this guy james jones but
like i like i never damn 14 million views I never
used to watch him. I never really watched or
cared about his study with me videos. I was more
into like this type of stuff, like his setup
videos. I just really liked his tech videos because
it kind of felt like a blast from the past. You
know? Like... Oh my god, I don't have ad block
on here. No. I have to watch a Disney Plus ad?
I'm a peasant. Yeah, like this right here. This
got me. Like, around this time, I discovered
Luke Smith 2. And I was like, ooh, I have the
itch for old ThinkPads now. Like, look at this.
This is probably still my favorite laptop design.
An X61 with a Japanese keyboard. No trackpad.
You just have to use the pointer in the middle.
So it's like purely keyboard driven. It's like,
ah. It's like, look at that. Dude, that's like
chef's kiss right there. But is it useful? Like,
what can you do with it? Like, maybe... Oh, it's
just the form factor. Okay, but is it powerful
enough? Well, what would you run? Like, NeoVim,
right? Yeah, just Vim. And because it's so old,
it doesn't support, like, OpenGL 3. So you can't
use the GPU accelerated terminals. So what do
you use then? Oh, back then I used to use XFCE
for terminal. I see. And UX term. Okay. So this
is what got you started in YouTube, right? Is
this why you decided, okay, I'll do it. Okay,
let me actually show you what got me into YouTube.
And it was this YouTube channel, okay? This was
another study channel. It was really popular
back during COVID because of her really aesthetic
language study vlogs. She doesn't make content
anymore, which sucks. But, you know, she probably
gets loads of like revenue just off of her like
legacy videos. She does have like a couple of
like really popular ones. But yeah, I really
like these videos and I want to do them. I initially
never wanted to put my face in front of a camera.
So like for context, I have been doing YouTube
since I was like nine years old. Oh, on this
channel or a different one? No, no, no, no, no.
i've gone through like a lot of channels like
most youtube holy you heard that like most channel
like most youtubers i feel like i've gone through
like a lot of channels i have gone through a
lot of channels i started doing youtube when
i was nine um i was in grade three and like i
just wanted to do like gaming content forever
and then there was a while when i was in grade
10. grade 10 yeah i'm mainly just around like
grade 10 grade 11 um i like do you know like
those like artists like draw my life videos or
like just like animation story time videos i'm
not that young i think okay okay so it was like
i used to want to do that too so i had a channel
on that burned out super hard and then vowed
to never make a YouTube video again. It's actually
super corny. Like, check out my screen right
now. This is about to be another lore dump. I
had this other channel called My Name's Lucas.
And I made a goodbye montage. This is a montage
video of my time on YouTube. from like 2011 to
2017 uh -huh synced up to a one ok rock video
and i said i'm not quitting and i quit oh my
yeah and then like i after this i was like i'm
never making a youtube channel again and then
like covid hit and i was so depressed uh -huh
like um i would sit down like um i would like
lay down in bed and i would just watch south
park clips and like futurama futurama clips i
used to watch johnny tuchelos who made he used
to make lots of like video essays on um like
simpsons lore and i would like go to bed at like
four and wake up at like just in time for my
class and i would just be in bed with my macbook
just still in my underwear at like 2 in the afternoon,
unshowered, feel like shit, and just on my Zoom
lecture, kind of, but I'm also falling asleep.
And then, like, I just wanted something to do
again. I wanted to just flex my creative muscles,
and I saw Creative Toki's videos, or Creative
Toki's videos, and I was like, or Smart Toki,
and I was like, okay. I'm going to try doing
that because I want to learn languages already.
And I feel like this would be really cool to
do. And my channel kind of started off as that.
And then it very quickly deviated because then
I got like the Linux brain worm and I never recovered.
Yeah. Once you go down those rabbit holes, because
it's just it's not just one man. You can't go
in so many. You cannot go out of there. And it's
just going to keep getting worse and worse. Right.
What are the plans like? What's the future of
your channel? Is it going to be tech -related
or what? I think I'll always want to do some
sort of tech video, no matter what. I'm really
into personal philosophies and whatnot. The whole
reason why I got into all this Linux shit and
Thinkpads and whatnot was because of... Luke
Smith and James Schultz. And James Schultz at
the time was, and still is, was like a strong
advocate for a concept called digital minimalism.
And what digital minimalism is, it's the concept
of dividing up devices for their own tasks instead
of using one device for everything. Like for
example. I have two. I use two computers. I have
one computer. That's strictly for like gaming.
And editing. Because like it uses Windows. That's
like my designated Windows machine. All my Windows
related needs. Are all on that machine. But all
my like programming. Productivity related tasks.
Are all on my other machine. And it's that separation.
It's the separation. Because if I. it's like
okay i'm gonna try and do all my studying on
the computer that has like a good cpu a good
gpu i can i have i have two monitors so i can
just open up twitch i'm gonna try and multitask
and do other things my attention is constantly
being grabbed at because everything is like eye
candy eye candy more candy for your brain very
nice like you know so yeah i like on on windows
like it was just super like just using like my
gaming computer for like my studies was like
super overwhelming because i can never get anything
done i can never get into a flow state with all
of these things and like i at the time was undiagnosed
with adhd i am diagnosed with adhd now um and
i do take medication for it right here what is
it um what sylvan takes No, I don't take what
Sylvan takes. What does he take? I think he takes
Adderall. I don't take Adderall. I take Vyvanse,
which is just another stimulant. It does the
same thing, but just different bodies react to
different stimulants differently. For example,
I used to be on one called Concerta, and Concerta
was destroying my heart. Just absolutely like...
oh yeah like against my heart dude i remember
one time i was i was just sitting down like trying
to study for something just just sitting okay
i was getting like 130 bpm heart rate god damn
that's like panic attack levels yeah you were
high definitely yes sir yes sir and you know
like uh stimulants they make you really thirsty
too like the jim carrey movie have you watched
that movie Which movie? Hold on. Keep talking
and I'll show it to you in a little while. Okay,
okay. And I also have a really small bladder.
So I would just be... At the time, I also drank
coffee too. So I was high on caffeine. I was
high on like Concerta on like a stimulant. Have
you watched this movie? Yeah, that was me. Have
you watched it? Me, myself, and Irene? No. Jim
Carrey's The Goat though. This is a great movie,
man. This scene is just amazing. I just wrote
it like shit, but Google understood what I was
trying to say. Yes, sir. Okay, yeah, go on. Yeah,
that was me. I would drink caffeine, and then
I would just take the stimulant, too. I had to
pee all the time. My mouth was constantly dry.
I was like a tweaker, dude. It was terrible.
But I take Vyvanse and it's just fine now. I
feel like if I were to take Adderall, I don't
know how that would affect me. But yeah, I do
take a stimulant just because of focus. And I
can't put myself to do one thing properly because
of the ADHD. Yes. I want to learn more about
and hear more about that. And you were diagnosed
properly and you went through all the different
tests and all that stuff, right? Bro, okay, let
me tell you about ADHD tests, okay? ADHD tests
are the biggest... It's probably different for
me because I have a family doctor. I'm very lucky
to have a family doctor. She's seen me and known
me my whole life. I have all these symptoms that
I think are related to ADHD. I'm having a hard
time in my major. I'm having a hard time in university.
I really feel like... having some sort of like
aid would help me a lot like instrumentally and
she was like okay something you said to her yeah
i need crack and i need meth which is what what
it is basically and she's like okay um and this
was during covid too so i couldn't actually physically
see her but what i had to do is i just had to
fill out a form I'm not even shitting you. It
was four pages of like, how do you feel about
this symptom? And then it was like four options,
like strongly, kind of, not so strongly, strongly
disagree. And it was just all of that. And I
answered it honestly. Like, I'm not going to
lie on a fucking medical form. Okay. I'm like,
I'm too honest for that. So I filled it out and
like, I almost aced it. I almost answered like
strongly relate on like everything. And then
I was like, hmm, maybe this is a sign. Maybe
this means something, you know? And then I sent
it to her and she's like, yeah, you have ADHD.
I don't even need to see you. I know you. I see
game. Game sees game. And yeah, then I got diagnosed
with ADHD and I take that medication and it helps
a lot. Going back to the whole digital minimalism
thing, so then you split your focus. You have
a tool for the job and you have it do it well.
In all honesty, I could be using WSL2 and be
programming on Windows. But then I would hate
my life and everything I stand for. So I use
Linux because I respect myself. i have two phones
one phone is like has the phone number from like
everyone i knew in high school and like more
because i you know i want to be in contact with
them still but i also want to have a separation
so i have another phone with a sim card in here
it's like 20 a month and that phone um has like
like only two people have that three people have
that phone number um a friend of mine went through
a really really hard time with like some stuff
in his family and when everything went down he
couldn't get in contact with me at the time because
my uh my phone was on silent because i was in
a meeting and i was like hey man take my phone
number and He's like my only non -family member
that has this phone number. And then aside from
that, it's my mom, my dad, and my uncle that
lives in the States. And this phone is just purely
for like focus, like learning. And isn't it so
difficult to be charging all that stuff? Now
that I think about it, if I have this computer,
I have the word computer. God damn, I have to
be charging that. It's a thing bad. If I would
get another computer for my... work only related
stuff, I would have to charge that one as well.
And isn't it too much? Doesn't it just become
too much of a hassle in the long run? You're
considering the fact that you're thinking I need
to charge things. I use two desktop computers,
bro. I'm not charging these. And that phone,
that phone over there that the webcam is on top
of that I try to use as a webcam. sometimes i'll
just leave it dead for three days you know i
don't need to fucking use it like the important
people i need to contact me in my life have that
other phone number the phone number that they
have and it has the ringer on all the time if
they want to get in contact with me they can
call me i live with my parents we don't live
in a very big house you know like we're all here
Yeah, like it doesn't it doesn't matter that
much. I don't need to be that connected. Yeah,
it's a it's a good idea, actually, because notifications,
I just keep my phone in silence all the time
just for work related notifications. I do get
those. But man, yeah, notifications are just
crap. It's it's too much now. Exactly. Have you
noticed, you know, people your age? Have you
noticed a lot more and more and more people self
-diagnosed with ADHD and taking medication? Have
you seen that increasing? What do you think there?
I think there are more people getting diagnosed
with ADHD. I think there's a lot of people that
self -diagnose themselves with ADHD, which my
whole philosophy behind self -diagnosing is that
lots of youth don't have the funds or the means
to get a proper diagnosis. For them to actually
do research and see if there's anything wrong
or see if they properly relate to anything, I
don't see that as too much of a problem. If they're
self -medicating with other stimulants, that's
drug abuse. That's not prescribed. You know?
And I'm very, very strict on my... medication
use i only take it if i'm gonna code or i'm gonna
or i'm gonna edit a video so then i can just
lock in you know but if i'm gonna be like gaming
the whole day i'm not gonna take my vivance that's
a stupid idea this shit is so expensive in canada
because it's a controlled substance meaning like
like it's dangerous it can be sold on like black
markets or gray markets it can be sold as like
a street drug so like i don't have insurance
My parents don't have insurance anymore. I'm
at a university, so I don't have university insurance.
I have to go on government -funded drug plans
and whatnot in order to get the medication that
I need. Dude, if I didn't have any aid, I always
get three months at a time of my medication.
It would be like $500. Every three months. Are
you fucking kidding me? This is worth pennies.
In other countries. But in Canada… But in Canada…
It's… It's like gold. Like, bro… I just want
to focus. Now… It has happened to me as well.
I'm 38 right now. And I just cannot concentrate.
It is extremely freaking difficult because of
all the distractions, man. I'm on Twitter. I'm
on YouTube. Especially YouTube. God damn. It's
just that time sink for me. And… I just… Flip
through all the different applications, social
media stuff. It's painful. And I don't do my
stuff. I cannot, you know, sometimes I get like
an hour or two when I just go all in. Discord,
man, there's a lot of stuff. So, I don't know.
Should we all be medicated then? Or, or, or,
could we work? This is my take. Because I saw
Sylvan's take, and I think it's both right but
extremely wrong at the same time. I think medication
is a band -aid. It's a band -aid to the problem.
And the problem is the other things that take
your attention. And we could end it at that,
but it also goes deeper. It's also your relationship
with these things. right um like let's say for
example let's take alcohol for example because
we both share that i think like other people
can drink alcohol right and they're fine they
don't have a they they're like oh yeah i can
have a beer or like i can take a shot occasionally
like like casually but then it's like If you
or me take a shot, it might be over for us. You
know? Because we don't have a healthy relationship
with it. So when you have all these other substances,
them being... having your Discord open all the
time, having Twitter open or like TweetDeck open
on another monitor, having YouTube readily available
on your phone all the time, having Reddit open,
all of that, you're basically dangling all of
these vices away, like all around you. and you're
just dangling them in front of you like you're
like the pig you're like the pig and then there's
a carrot right and it's like and you're just
there and it's like you're you're looking at
it and you're just chasing towards it because
you want to get the small bit of dopamine that
you can get from it and you're just constantly
task switching so you can never let your brain
rest on one thing so i've thought about it self
-control is something that i lack a lot and if
i would you know Put that into practice because
the brain is a muscle, right? You have to train
it. What? Go ahead. Self -control is one of the
biggest bullshit lies of the modern century because
people will just say, oh, I can't do this because
of self -control. If I practice self -control,
I could do this. Why are you making it hard on
yourself by still dangling all this shit around
you and then saying, oh, I don't have self -control.
I lack self -control. There are so many other
things you can do that are in your control in
order to make, like, in order to make it both
less appealing and easier for you to get done
what needs to get done. You know? Like, if I
did nothing, if I did nothing. Like do some crystal
so that I can get, so that I can focus, right?
Is that what you're suggesting? No, I'm not suggesting
that. But you in the comments, I am suggesting
that. Get it twisted. No, what I mean is self
-control. Say, for example, if I said, okay,
this is a self -control issue, so this is a skill
issue, which means I'm just going to continue
doing what I'm doing, which distracts me, which
doesn't allow me to get the work done that I
want to get done to the quality that I want to
get it done at. And I just keep on doing that
over and over again, bashing my head against
the wall, changing absolutely nothing. And then
saying it's my self -control. Is it the self
-control or is it the system that I've put in
place that I keep on trying to brute force? You
know, it's like you're running a test and the
test just keeps coming back as failing and you're
like. Maybe this time it will work. And it's
not going to work because it hasn't worked for
15 years. You know, like for me, like I studied
the same way up until I reached like 20, 21 years
old when I was in university. And I realized
before I had no idea how to study. I had no idea
how to focus. I had no idea how to keep myself
accountable. I had no systems in place. I had
no, I had no, I had a terrible working environment.
So there was distractions. all around me that's
why i have like physical barriers of entry to
doing different things hold on let's get hippies
for a while have you ever considered or tried
meditating and all that stuff related to meditating
and all that stuff but Have you ever tried it
deeply, like taking it seriously? I have not.
And that's something that I want to experiment,
you know, because I know about meditation. Everyone
has told me about meditation. I know the benefits,
but I haven't done it religiously, we could say,
right? And do it two times a day. I don't know,
30 minutes in the morning, 30 minutes at night.
And I want to be held accountable for that. And
I just want to practice it. see what happens,
and see if it brings a benefit. Have you ever
tried it? Okay. Let me just start off by saying
this. If you're saying, I want to get into meditation,
then right off the bat going, I want to do 30
minutes, that you're shooting yourself in the
foot. It's like saying, I want to program in
C and never segfault. Ever. I will never segfault.
And I'm going to write code four hours a day
without a single segfault or memory error. Like,
you're just lying to yourself. It's just all
a disillusion. Yeah, it's not going to happen.
I have tried it like goddamn 20 times. And I
just tried for one, two, three days. And then
I just quit. I don't continue. Because you're
not making it easy on yourself. Yeah. You're
not making it easy on yourself. It's not a sustainable
method. And I feel like with a lot of this stuff,
there also has to come a lot of self -compassion.
It's not you that has… You… Your… bad focus is
the product of all these systems in place by
these insane engineers and psychologists making
things as addictive as possible right that's
all intentional and the fact that it's working
means that their studies are going to to use
like they're working on you um so you do things
so then they make them less appealing for you.
Like putting your phone on black and white or
something like that. So with meditation, when
you want to like get into it, you need to start
super light. There's actually this app. We should
try something. We're going to try something.
We're going to try something in my Discord. I'm
going to create a channel or something and we
should do like a challenge, you know? What is
that? Use this, man. This is a free meditation
app. I think it's from... I even paid for one,
man. I paid for an app. A yearly subscription.
Never. Never. Bad. Bad. But let's do something
in Discord. You know, let's see if someone else
joins the challenge. Doing it twice a day. We're
going to start small and see if we can see any
benefits, you know, months. Let's see what people
say in the comments. They want to do it or not.
And if they are up for it, we can try something
Discord. We can come up with something. Pull
up my screen. Pull up my screen. See? This is
what I used. I don't meditate right now because
I kind of fell out of the habit. It's the same
with my reading habit. I fell out of my reading
habit. And I still have a goal to read like fucking
50 books this year. And I've only gotten like
four done. um but i'm also kind of i'm also like
when i read i read pretty fast but like that's
besides the point medito is um a free app developed
by like a non -profit and it has like guided
meditation and has like a has like a 90 day free
course on it and you can select how like you
can do three minute, five minute, 10 minute.
I would just do three minutes, you know, that's
it. That's all I would do. I just sit down on
my desk after I was done streaming and I would
just do like a cheeky three minute meditation
and that's it. And this is free. You don't like
it's free on iOS. It's free on Android. Like
it's chill. Interesting. We can we can try to
do something. Let's see. Let's see what people
say in the comments. I'm interested. And if it's
like a challenge in which you do it with other
people, you're held accountable. And you're like,
God damn, I don't want to do this, but I'll just
do it because these MFs are going to do it. If
not, then Linkarzu is going to drone strike my
house. Oh, yeah. But we're all over the place,
man. What were we talking about? Hold on. We're
talking about... Focus, I think. Okay. Stimulants
and Sylvan. Yeah. Stimulants, we already talked
about that. Meditation. What are your thoughts
on alcohol? And we're going to go over your workflow
as well, just in case someone's still watching
this and they're like, so what are these guys
talking about? We're going to go over your workflow
so you just can show us, you know, your stuff.
But we're just covering. other topics as well
any any thoughts on substance abuse alcohol drugs
yeah it's bad i think it's bad yeah um have you
done it i okay i've done edibles twice in my
life the first time nothing happened the second
time i had a super bad trip and i was just walking
around my friends uh my friend's uh living room
we were watching uh you know the movie the dictator
oh yeah the funny one yeah the funny one yeah
yeah yeah where the guy starts like yeah guy
yeah yeah yeah yeah uh yeah i was we were watching
that movie and the only scene i remember from
that movie my whole time was the beginning of
the movie the near the end of the movie when
that woman has like the huge breasts and she's
like beating the shit out of people with it and
the ending the credits and i drank four liters
of water probably four or five liters of water
just pacing around and just sipping water because
i got super anxious and i had really bad cotton
mouth um aside from that i did like i just drank
i just didn't have a very good relationship with
alcohol um everyone in my family at least on
my dad's side is an addict and has like addiction
problems in one way or another like my i have
a cousin or like an uncle who like would basically
are multiple uncles that would religiously stock
trade while they were teaching classes they'd
be teaching and then on their macbook and on
their phone they would have like a stock ticker
up you know what is that like do you know what
day trading is yeah i think i'm not sure like
Day trading is when you start trading stocks
when the market opens until it closes. Okay,
okay. And it's very unhealthy. It's high risk,
high reward, I feel like. Or like medium risk,
high reward. But the mental toll it takes on
you is fucked up. Because you're just watching
yourself lose hundreds of dollars and gain hundreds
of dollars. And that can happen just because
of that. And a lot of it is out of your control.
it's like gambling pretty much yeah yeah it is
it is it's 100 gambling if you're a day trader
if you are an investor it's different but if
you're a day trader then you're constantly monitoring
buying selling buying selling and it can get
really unhealthy because like you're it's like
that's your relationship with money now it's
obsessive um i have other members of family who
like have problems drinking i lost my aunt at
a young age Which is, like, my dad's little sister
due to substance abuse and how it, like, destroyed
her body. Yeah, and that was pretty hard. And
then, yeah, my grandmother also was, like, a
part of that. But, like, she lived. And seeing
the toll that it took on her and seeing her,
like, getting sober from that. And then seeing
all my other family members egg people on to
drink even though they're sober because it's
a family event, a family thing. It's like, just
fuck off. I don't like it when people enable
people purposefully. I think it's very scummy.
I think it's very shady. I kind of feel like
if I was in a room with Sylvan who'd be like,
yeah, man, just try meth once. You gotta try
it once, man. You know, you got to know the experience
of it. I'm going to be like, no, what the fuck?
I don't want to do that. Yeah, like I, yeah,
substance abuse has been very prominent in my
life. I did have a drinking problem at one point,
but it wasn't like super bad. Like I wasn't like
getting blackout all the time. It was just like
I was going through a hard time in my life. And
I used to have this rule where I would not drink
during. Like, when classes are in session. Because
I hate, like, drinking and then waking up and
feeling like shit the next morning, you know?
And I don't like, like, I like having control
over my brain and over my mind. And substances
make you lose control, right? so i would avoid
that but then there came a point in time where
i broke that and i would just you know i would
drink some beers a couple of beers just like
when gaming or when studying or something i did
sometimes we're like i think one time like me
and my friend took like two or three tequila
shots before going to study with friends we could
not study at all we were just like so fucked
or just we were so tipsy we couldn't focus um
the last time i got drunk um it was in march
of 2022 and i was so fucked i drank way too much
um i was basically i was basically just like
wandering around i remember like um i remember
very little from the night but i do remember
parts where i was like texting people and then
i woke up the next morning and i was like on
like people that didn't need to hear it and like
a couple people thought i was gonna die or thought
i was gonna like kill myself and i was like being
super vague with my terms and i was just like
i was a mess i was a mess i like a friend picked
me up and got her friend to drive me back to
her place and i slept on her couch um and i had
to get my dad to pick me up And it was like at
my university is it was bad. But it wasn't a
constant thing. I just knew at that point, like,
I don't want this to happen again. And I don't
like this isn't a good thing for me. So I'm never
going to drink again. I never drank again. Oh,
really? How long have you been without drinking
right now? Three years. Three years. Oh, that's
good, man. That's good. Sorry. No, go ahead.
No, you go, you go, you go. I don't know. I was
just going to let you know that I did spend like,
I don't know, 10 years. Yeah. From age 17 to
age 27. Yeah. Around 10 years, 17 to 27 approximately.
Yeah. Drinking pretty crazy stuff, doing everything.
But just based on my experience, I don't recommend
it because I just destroyed my life basically.
And I just. I lost a lot of time, man. Yeah.
Those 10 years, I could have used them for something
else. Now I'm catching up. I'm old already. I'm
38 and I'm starting to catch up right now. You're
old. Old. Yeah. Yeah. But you guys have an advantage.
Young people watching this, if you don't do that,
you're just... Dilvan is 20, right? Yeah. He
has an advantage. Wait, he's only 20? Yeah, he's
only 20. You're 23, right? I'm 23. I was born
in 2002. Yeah. So you kids have an advantage.
If you don't go that down that route that it's
going to take 10, 15 or even more years, even
your life, probably your life away, you can do
a lot of stuff, you know? So, yeah. Yeah. It
was like, I'm glad that I was able to have the
awareness and like the experiences and like the
support systems. and just like the general knowledge
to like understand that this was not gonna end
up well and then just put a stop to it and like
dude like like i'm sure you can relate to this
like addiction dreams you have addiction like
the addiction dreams were like you you dream
that you relapse you drank and then yeah yeah
and i wake up and i'll be like oh oh my god oh
my god like i had a dream like like when i get
like super stressed i would like have a dream
where i would like be like oh yeah it won't be
that bad and then i just get like in the dream
i'm like fucking like fov 3000 just like walking
around i'm like super drunk and like the worst
way possible and i'm like no i drank no yeah
that's horrible yeah Addiction dreams go crazy.
I used to... I also still do have, like, addiction
dreams with, like, pornography. Uh -huh. You
know? Because, like, that's a drug in and of
itself. Yeah, it is. And, like, man, that's a
really accessible drug. And it's a drug and it's
on your device there. You can do it by yourself,
hidden. God damn, it's really... Dude, it's the
silent drug of, like, the modern era. Before
you need to, like... Look inside of a tree stump.
And then if the magazines were there, they were
there. Yep. You know? Yep. Now it's just like
you type in, you just type in one URL. Or just
type in one word. And then you get everything.
It's fucked up. Yep. And people don't know how
damaging it is for like your brain. Like I unfortunately
due to like friends got introduced to it at like
a very young age. And I feel like it took away
a lot of time and experiences for my life. Yeah.
And it wasn't until like recently that I got
like better at it. And like, it's like, like,
honestly, when I stream every single day and
just code. bro i i don't have the urge to do
anything i'm fucking tired i wanted and then
after that i just want to do other things like
i'm gonna go around the house i'm gonna like
do chores or i'm gonna take a nap because like
i'm probably really tired or like i'll play guitar
and my life is just so much better you know you're
busy yeah but yeah that's the problem with addiction
right we think it's just beer it's just drugs
no yeah addictive personalities find something
and it can be anything you just switch Alcohol
or something else. Like Twitter. I used to be.
Dude I used to be so. I don't know what I was
thinking. When I was like 13 years old. I was
like you know what. I see a lot of people are
on Twitter. I'm going to get addicted to Twitter.
And then I was addicted to Twitter. From when
I was 13 until I was 20. Like what the fuck.
Why did I do that. Like I was. always on twitter
man always in high school my school did not care
like they cared but they didn't care that much
so you could still access twitter and shit on
the school wi -fi dude my screen time when i
was in high school was probably in like 10s to
12s you know per day And I was always on Twitter.
I was chronically online. And I still am chronically
online, just on a different side. And I'm on
a more healthy, productive side of being chronically
online. At least you pull up the videos and you
stream and all that. So we feel that we're doing
something, right? Yeah. Well, at least I feel
like I'm doing something. Studying web development
four hours a day. Getting into a deep work mindset
and whatnot. The streaming that you do, is it
related to linguistics or is it related to web
development? So I do a study with me streaming,
which is I do something called Pomodoros, which
are sections of time where you study and sections
of time where you are not studying and like you're
taking a break. So what I'll do for like accountability
is that I will study for an hour. And then have
a 10 minute break. Talk to my chat. And then
study for another hour. And then 10 minutes talk
with my chat. I see. All these other streams
I was doing. Or a lot of these other streams
I would do 50 -10. Just because it was better
for like. Time keeping in my head. Because I
would do 50 minutes of studying. And then 10
minutes of break. And then I would just add up
to a solid hour. So if I wanted to do a 5 hour
stream. I would just do 5 Pomodoros. yeah i do
this for accountability like it's just meant
to be thrown on and like someone else's background
like if people feel like they want to have something
open on the other screen like i have rain sounds
oh and and what are what are you starting like
web development like what yeah what tools are
you using um i'm going through full stack open
if you know what that is no it's from the university
of helsinki no show us your screen if you want
to show it all right all right Let me know when
I'll switch to your screen. Yeah. Get in. This
is from the University of Helsinki. For some
reason, they don't remember in cache what language
you use. So every single time I log on here,
every time I go on this website, I have to change
it to English. Also, you may hate me for this.
I am an avid light mode user on all websites.
I was a light mode user before I became a base
person. I was a light mode user as well. And
everyone was like, but why are you using light
mode? And I was like, because it's the thing,
you know, but now I'm just in dark mode. I don't
know why. I have like a neurological problem.
I think it's also due to like having astigmatism.
When I look at white text on a black background
for a long enough time, it starts to get fuzzy
in my head and it gets harder to read it doesn't
do it with programming but if it's like a web
page because every web page does dark mode differently
and different web pages anti -alias fonts differently
and browsers do it all differently so it's never
consistent um but if i'm reading white on a darker
on what like black text on a white background
i can just read it easier and it's just easier
for me to get the information that i need from
just this instead of having to like argue with
like 18 websites on all their different dark
mode color schemes like at least light mode color
schemes are all fairly consistent you know dark
mode color schemes are so inconsistent across
everything that like i can't trust it i can't
trust it oh okay so what is this about then is
it like a complete course yes so this goes up
to using relational databases oh right now i
am like like in the course you need to like make
like you're developing like separate like applications
and can you use neovim or you have to use that
you can use neovim that they specify no fuck
no Of course I use NeoVim. But you have to figure
it out on yourself or on your own, right? How
to set it up and all that stuff. What's the editor
they recommend? I think they recommend VS Code,
but also this course is meant for people who
have some sort of background in programming,
I feel like. And the support you get, I feel
like this community is very... different compared
to something like the Odin Project, which is
another full stack online web development curriculum.
They strongly recommended their own tools. They
recommend using Visual Studio Code and using
Ubuntu. And if you don't use exactly what they
recommend, then you cannot get any technical
support. You need to figure it out yourself.
Which for me is fine because I went through some
of the Odin project just fully on my own because
I know how to set up a text editor. I know how
to set up an LSP. I know how to create projects
and use Linux directories. I've done it for years.
But some people don't have that experience. But
I do, so skill issue. Okay, so what is it about
then? this course that do you do you use javascript
what is it or what frameworks or so it looks
like it builds up to using react native and typescript
um and it's just for making full stack web applications
like it's called full stack open for a reason
so you're you're using react you're like by the
end of it because like right now like like for
databasing you use mongodb um you use native
just javascript um express um axios for communicating
between the front end and the back end um and
then like the for um which one was it i think
it was uh no not this this and this um this was
like configuring like an http http server and
then um This was adding in token authorization,
like logging in as a user. Okay. And what's your
progress so far? What module are you on? I am
on part 5B, like this area. Because I don't think
they've touched this part of the course in a
really long time, this ESLint section, because...
it is completely inconsistent and outdated from
like their other portion where they talk about
it so like here they're configuring it using
like um common js and in an eslint config mjs
and then here it it uses common like no this
uses common js this uses modular module js but
but it uses an es lint rc which is deprecated
now and this structure of configuring this is
also deprecated and using an es lint ignore is
also deprecated oh i see okay so it's like i'm
i'm like it's just really fucking annoying so
instead i just I made like three issue requests
on GitHub. I'm like, fuck this. I'm just going
to learn how to test the front end. And then
I finished Dream. That was today. And how has
the experience been? Do you recommend this course?
Yes. Have you learned a lot? I feel like I have
been learning a lot. I feel like the Odin Project
is overall a better course for just learning
not just full stack web development, but just
general like computer science concepts and techniques.
I feel like if I didn't at least go through foundations
of that first, I wouldn't have been as able or
capable to follow along with full stack open.
But like it's because of that experience that
I feel like I am excelling and doing well what
I want to do. So like if you go back to my screen
here, I have this is my main repository. And
I keep track of like what I've completed. And
inside of here, I have a bunch of directories
for like the individual parts. And then that's
what I end up submitting. When I inside of here,
my following along area, I have. So what you
do is that you build a project through like the
course lessons and the tutorials. And then the
actual exercises is doing stuff with your own.
um like your own project that they give you so
if i go into part four right here it's tmux sessionizer
by the way um you see i have blog list back end
and front end so everything that i had to do
actually uh let me just do back end god i suck
god i suck like inside of here this is like all
of the backend for that project. And then if
I go back and then I go to the front end, oh,
dockside, by the way. Yeah, we can talk about
your workflow now that we're here. If I see something
that I feel curious about, I'll ask you. Okay,
okay. Yeah, everything else all in there. It's
like you take this the shit that you take from
like what you learn in the course and then you
have to Fuck I hit my knee Yeah, is it burning
sometimes you hit your elbow and it starts to
burn no it's my knee oh oh My god, I didn't like
that. Um, but yeah you just take the stuff that
you learn and then you put it into the project
that they tell you to write and yeah, I feel
like it's pretty cool i've never like i've never
written an http server before i never really
understood how the back end communicates with
the front end for the longest time and just going
through this it just made me understand the web
more and how the web works and dude it's just
duct tape it's just post requests it's just pull
it's just put requests it just gets it's all
what it is Just a lot of duct tape and like super
glue. And that's just all what the web is. It's
so crazy. Yeah. And what are your thoughts on
doing or using AI for all of this stuff? What
are your thoughts on AI in general? Not for this.
It doesn't make sense because you're learning
and of course you have to learn. And this program
is designed for that. So if you use AI on this,
it's extremely dumb and it doesn't make sense
at all. or doubts maybe to explain stuff that
you don't understand could be useful but um do
you use ai i had to use ai recently for one project
this is the only time i've used ai for a programming
project and um let me actually just open up actually
no hide away my screen for a second because i
just need to pull up chat gpt yeah yeah because
it has like my full legal name here okay let
me just uh remove this and then what i'm gonna
do actually hello yep i'm here oh no i'm trying
to there we go yeah i'm just hiding my username
my name okay now you can share my screen okay
so i got this error message on conform on confirm
like conform .envim yeah the formatter yeah with
prettier and it was giving me all the bash escape
codes until instead of telling me what the fuck
they were so it's like oh unexpected um comma
here and it's like okay bro where is this what
is what does this mean and this is what it raw
put out I don't know. I don't know what this
is. So I just asked it to just convert the escape
codes and that's it. That's all I've asked it
to do. And that is the only time I've ever used
AI in a programming project. Yeah, but it was
not related to the project itself. You just needed
help with an error. So it's a valid use case,
right? Like if it was like for errors in general,
I never use AI. If it's something like it's converting
weird like symbols that are not being shown on
my screen or something, it's like, sure, I could
be a nerd and take this input and learn how to
write my own escape code to character like converter
and processor. But I don't want to do that. There
are certain things where it's like, sure, that
can be a cool learning experience. I don't want
to do that right now. But this was more of a
NeoVim thing than related to the project, right?
So it was not, yeah, it's a NeoVim thing. So
yeah, that's good. I'm not really for AI. I think
AI is cool. I think it has a lot of good uses.
I think personally, I value my own cognitive
abilities a lot. So I tend to avoid touching
AI or using AI features in everything. Because,
you know, I really like thinking. It's why I
got sober. It's why I'm straight edge. I don't
do anything at all. Yeah. And it's a constant
battle with the AI, man. Kitty just released,
well, COVID from the Kitty terminal released
sessions, right? He emailed me, I don't know,
yesterday or the day before. And today I decided
to give him a try. And I wasted more time explaining
to ChatGPT than figuring out myself. God damn
it. I had to explain it well so that it didn't
get it, didn't understand it. Yeah, there's only
so much it knows. And when it's something that's
so cutting edge, like a brand new software package,
it's not going to know shit. People need to understand
that all what AI is, is just really, really complex
linear algebra. That's all it is. It doesn't
know anything. Yeah. It's just prompting. Yeah.
Yeah. So do you use it as a tool sometimes or
not at all? No. No? That's the only time I've
ever used it. Okay. Or like for like actually
getting something done. Okay. Aside from that,
I think I use it once when I was with my ex and
she had an essay due, but she didn't know what
to title it. So I was just... feeding like we
were just using chat gpt and i'm a shitter i
like fucking around so i just like i just kept
on feeding it just like really shit prompts of
like what to name it just like all right name
name the title based off of this but in like
dr seuss's prose you know yeah the only time
i've only used it to make it right in different
writing styles just for fun okay now Let's move
on to something else because we've been here
for how long? An hour and a half. We're getting
close to two hours. Now, what do we talk about
now? We talked about NeoVim, your workflow. You
want to take us over your workflow? Yeah, we
didn't really go over my workflow. Let's go over
it. Yeah, let's go over it. You ready so that
I can switch to your screen? Yes, sir. Yes, sir.
Okay. All right. So I use Fedora 42. Okay. Every
time I install a distribution, I always install
it by the XFCE spins because I always use the
base XFCE programs. That's just what I prefer.
What is XFCE? You're talking to a Mac user, man.
Is that like a desktop? It's a desktop environment.
I like the XFCE because when I first installed
Linux Mint onto that old ThinkPad, I installed
it with XFCE. because it's kind of windows -esque
um like basically let me just do this this is
basically this is the setup that i ran so you
can run xfce with chicago 95 and it just makes
it look like old windows and this is all i did
um i didn't like um you can also install like
a bash theme so it can make it look like the
windows terminal so it uses like the backslashes
instead of the forward slashes i never use that
because i think i thought i looked fucking dumb
so i just i just use oh my zsh which i don't
like it but you know it was when i was starting
um yeah this is on a and why fedora why didn't
you go with arch um i actually just made a video
on this uh basically i don't use arch because
i feel like arch is very much like The whole
idea behind Arch is putting it together yourself.
And there got a point where I felt like sometimes,
you know, I just need to plug in a USB or something.
Yeah, you need to do something. And then I need
to mount, but I need to mount it. And I remember
to unmount it and doing that all in the terminal
instead of it just being automatic, like what
most Linux distributions have by default. Like
small annoyances, like small sort of hiccups
just got really annoying for me. So I reached
a point of using Arch. It's like, okay, I don't
use the AUR anymore. I don't feel comfortable
partitioning my main drive on Linux. Yeah. Because
you can blow it up. Is that why? Yep. And I,
in general, don't need a lot of what Arch has
to offer anymore. Because in reality, all I do
is that I have a web browser and I have a terminal.
And then over here in another workspace or something,
I will have Spotify. That's it. That's all I
use. And I like having the tiling and whatnot.
Oh wait, I forgot these don't tile now. Why didn't
you go with the GigaChat distro, Debian? Debian?
I didn't choose Debian because I've never used
Debian. That's really it. I've used Fedora. I
actually really like Fedora. I like having still
more up -to -date cutting -edge packages without
having to do all the arch maintenance. I think
the time I spent in Arch was very productive.
I learned a lot about managing my system and
debugging things and learning how all the pieces
interact with each other inside of a Linux desktop
environment or just the Linux experience in general.
I just don't need it now. And so I just choose
to use Fedora because I feel like it's like...
arch with all the shit that i like about arch
with none of the downsides that i had with arch
um i i do think because like that you're probably
gonna ask this because i do have people that
have like mentioned this before using a different
spin of arch like using endeavor oh what are
your thoughts on omarchi I call it... I'm not
saying it right. I know whatever. Omarchi. I
don't know what it is. I don't know how the fuck
it's pronounced either, dude. Yeah. What are
your thoughts? Have you watched the videos by
DHH? No. Are you a DHH fan or hater? I'm a DHH
fan because I really like Ruby on Rails. But
I also can acknowledge that DHH... is a character,
you know? You can have it both ways. You can
like DHH, but also recognize how opinionated
he is and how stubborn he is. He is super stubborn
and super opinionated. If you watched Primogen
and TJ's interview with DHH, he didn't shut up
for like an hour straight. It was just him talking.
It was impressive. uh and like after that i was
like dude that's my goat right there that's my
goat that's my g huh um but yeah i like i think
i think omarki omarchi whatever however it's
pronounced i feel like it's kind of different
compared to like um what i was talking about
which is like i always think about antergos but
antergos is gone now antergos used to be a arch
distribution um manjaro um catchy um endeavor
uh there's another big one i'm missing i don't
remember um i think they're all a waste of time
personally why i think arch was designed and
this is probably like a super pompous alias way
of thinking i think arch was made with a purpose
in mind And it fulfills that purpose well. And
I think getting away, like adding layers of abstraction
around the purpose of Arch to like, sure, adding
a graphical installer, that's cool. What was
the purpose? What do you think the purpose was?
I think the purpose of Arch is to, it is a Lego
set. It is a DIY. kind of DIY centered Linux
distribution where you get given all these tools
and you have to learn how to make them all work
together in order to have a decent experience.
Like a puzzle. Yeah. You use Arch because you
want to fuck around and find out. And once you
start getting into the realm of other Linux distributions
that are all based off of Arch, You're getting
away from what makes Arch good. Okay. Why use
Arch in the first place? Why do you need an Arch
-based distribution when Arch is right there?
You can use Arch install. You can get it done.
You can get it done with Arch install. It's fine.
You don't need a Calamari GUI installer. You
don't need it. I know it's scary to only use
a keyboard. But promise me, if you want to use
Arch and you still want to use the mouse, you
can use the mouse just after you install it through
Arch install. Like when you install Arch through,
well, Arch, because it's not really Arch. It's
just based off of Arch. It's like saying you're
installing Ubuntu, but you're installing Mint.
Mint is not a Debian -based distribution. It
is an Ubuntu -based distribution. like it's like
yeah it's like saying i'm installing ubuntu but
you're installing mint you know it's not the
same they have different forms they have different
communities they have different maintainers the
same goes for the people at arch versus the people
at manjaro versus the people at endeavor versus
the people like catchy valve invests in arch
right valve is not investing in manjaro they're
investing in arch and what does arch give you
it gives you the wiki right the arch wiki is
designed for arch and the arch wiki is designed
for arch users who know what they it's for people
who know what is installed on their machine once
you get to the realm of these other installers
you don't know what the fuck is installed on
your machine because you didn't configure it
right instead you're using like ubuntu in your
own sick twisted mind but like with duct tape
You know? Because you don't know what the fuck
is going on. It's still supposed to be a rolling
release distribution, but when you have a rolling
release distribution like that, you should at
least know what you have. You should at least
know what you're doing a little bit. It's like
you're just using a more unstable Linux distribution
with worse documentation. Because if you have
a problem with these Arch -based distributions,
you're not allowed to go on the Arch forms. Oh,
okay. You can't ask for help on the Arch forms
because you're not using Arch. You've already
lost a huge resource and a huge community of
people that will help you. I've gone to the Arch
forms. I've gotten good answers. I've gotten
good support from people. I've had problems with
AUR packages before. And I used Arch. So I was
able to get support. But if you have an AUR problem
on Manjaro, and then you go to the Arch forms
because of your... Manjaro AUR problem, you're
going to get laughed away because you're not
allowed to ask for it because you're not an Arch
user. Now, what about someone that has the money
and has the resources and can pool their money
in documentation and maintaining a distro like
Omarchi, right? What are your thoughts there?
Because, you know, it's not an... I don't think
Omarchi is really a distribution though. I think
it's just an install script. I think it's just
a customization script. It's like saying, oh
yeah, what do I think about the Linkarzu distribution?
You know? You have a script. It's not really
a distribution though. Yeah, makes sense. I feel
like distributions are more larger in scope.
You know? They have their own... They maintain
their own kernel for whatever reason. And those
kernel changes are based off of their own software
packages that they have. Just installing a bunch
of programs on a machine and installing a theme
doesn't really make it a distribution, in my
opinion. Good point. Yeah. I think Omachi is...
Or Omachi, whatever the fuck it's called. DHH
Arch. I think it's fine. if you know what you're
doing but if you don't know what you're doing
then it's daunting and it's annoying because
you're not going to really know or understand
how to set things up the way that you want it
to because it's his opinionated setup and dhh
is very opinionated dhh uses used like text mate
until like last year do you really like what
This dude is a psychopath. He didn't want to
move away from using Mac OS because he used TextMate.
TextMate is what kept him on Mac OS. Dude, if
that's not autism, I don't know what is. Yeah.
I want to try Arch. Well, no. I installed Arch,
actually. But I just... Nah. I don't have the
energy. I don't have the time to go. I used the
Arch install, the script. I didn't go the OG
way. Yeah, I didn't either. No, with the script.
And yeah, you know, but I didn't learn much because
I renewed basically all the things that I needed
to do. Someone just starting, I think it's a
good experience because you could learn a lot
of stuff, confusing as hell. But now there's
a lot of resources, a lot of videos that... you
know, people that has done it for a long time
that can guide you. So, you know, I don't know.
I don't know how to feel about Arch. I think
Arch is cool. It's just not for everyone. And
then I feel like some people are really stubborn,
so they probably won't switch away from Arch,
even though it's not in their best interest to
be using it, or it's not worth their time. And
I feel like... people are really stubborn and
want to feel like they're a part of something
instead of like you know accepting and moving
on to something that might be easier or might
be more that might be a better tool for the job
instead of just blindly being like oh but Arch
is the best Linux distribution you know like
some people they use Arch that's cool Like Leachess
is a great example. Leachess' server, I think,
used to be run off of Arch Linux. But now it's
switched over to Ubuntu. But it still ran fine
off of Arch. You can still do it with Arch. But
there was just a better tool for the job. Okay,
let's continue. We took a turn there. So what
is it? I use Awesome. Okay, that's the window
manager. Is that correct? Yes, it is configured
in the Lua. So if I go, I have an alias just
to go, oh, fuck off. And you just do an application
on the entire screen, right? On the entire workspace.
What's up? You do the application, one application
on the entire workspace to occupy the entire
screen or you use tiles? Well, these are all
like, like this is tiled. So like if I want to
bring over my, what's on workspace two. um you
see i can just bring it over okay and if i just
want to keep everything on here then i can i
just don't use it as much i use it if like you
know like say like there's this right and i want
to like i still want to like practice typing
and using like vim motion so i'll just write
this out but i don't want to like keep on having
to go like back and forth back and forth back
and forth okay then i will just actually move
it over And then go to wherever it is. And then
just like write it out here. Okay. And then just
move it back. Okay. Yeah, I use a very base.
Like this is pretty vanilla Lua RC. I didn't
change around too much. I just defined like my
default programs up here. And why? You started
with Vim, you said. Why did you switch to NeoVim?
I heard it was faster. because of primogen admit
it oh yeah 100 % I watched his video on how to
configure neovim because when I first installed
neovim I didn't understand that you used a different
command to invoke neovim I would like make changes
to a neovim instance and then just type a vim
in the terminal because that's what everyone
else did because everyone aliases vim to neovim
and I was like why How come when I type in Vim,
how come when I type in Vim, it's still Vim and
not NeoVim? I don't understand. And then I would
uninstall Vim and only keep NeoVim and still
type in Vim, not knowing that people use fucking
aliases. So, yeah, I was a noob. Then I watched
Primogen's guide on how to configure NeoVim.
Like, his really popular guide. Like, it uses,
like, Packer and everything. Really weirdly obfuscated
configuration. I honestly hate that video now.
I think the configuration he made in that video
is super shit and super overly convoluted. But,
you know, it helped me understand more of, like...
configuring vim and then eventually i wrote my
own vim okay configuration that's what i was
gonna ask so you have your own config based off
of kickstart or what no no no i when i started
configuring vim i don't think kickstart i don't
think kickstart was out yet um because because
like bless you So Kickstart was not available.
It wasn't available yet. Okay. So I basically
took my original Vim RC off of... Let me just
go on GitHub. You scavenged. Just like all those
other Discord kids, right? Yes, sir. But like...
Hold up. I can go to like my old dopped files.
And like... Find my original VimRC. What are
your thoughts on distributions? Have you used
one? I think, judging by how I talked about Linux
distributions, I think you can tell where I'm
going to go with this. I'm still using LazyVim,
man. That's crazy. I have it pretty customized,
but I want to switch to my own. I want to use
Kickstarter. Here it is. Here it is. My OG, the
last commit I ever used. I used Vundle. Look
at this. Look at these headers. Oh my god. For
toggling dead keys, for when I was typing in
my linguistics courses. Spell check. I used F7
and F8. God, what a based configuration. Oh,
I used to use space to type in colon. Oh. That's
crazy. Dude, I was insane. I should have been
locked up. Yeah, okay. So how I started configuring
Vim was through watching Luke Smith and then
reading medium articles on how to configure NeoVim.
And from there, I just learned how to configure
Vim. And that's how I learned Vim. I learned
Vim the same way, like the same, like I would
kind of call it like the same boomer way that
probably like people before learned Vim. But
like I was doing it in like 2022, 2023, where
you just use Vim. And you just edit text and
you learn from that. Just base vanilla Vim. And
then as you go, you learn what settings you want
to enable. And then you enable them in your Vim
RC. And the Vim script language is very simple.
So then you just learn how to do it from there.
And then eventually I was like, okay, NeoVim
is this hot new thing on the block. And then
I learned how to configure NeoVim. And then I
just continued using NeoVim from there. Like,
I watched how someone else configured NeoVim,
saw how shit it was, and then just wrote my own
configuration. Like, learning how, like, different
sub -modules are, like, sourced in NeoVim and
whatnot, and how the, like, the NeoVim, like,
Lua runtime, like, checks through code and whatnot.
And then it just made sense to me. And I watched
like tutorials on like how to make NeoVim plugins.
And I tried to like make a plugin and it sucked,
but I still made it. And yeah, I'm a very, I'm
a very staunch believer of like, if you want
to get good at NeoVim and if you want to use
NeoVim like decently well, like for me personally,
just ditch distributions. I don't think distributions
are worth it. I think distributions get away
from the core idea of learning NeoVim. If you
want Vim motions, you can install Vim motions
on whatever text editor you use. There's no shame
in that. Lots of people do it. It's fine. JetBrains,
if you use JetBrains, just use fucking Vim motions
on that. JetBrains is sick. JetBrains is so good.
You don't need to use a terminal application.
If you want to use the terminal application,
just learn how to write things out first. If
you don't even know the file structure works,
learn how that works and learn it by like editing
files, editing configuration files. That's all
I did when I first used Vim. I was just editing
configuration files, writing terrible scripts
in Python. And then I would learn, oh, I want
syntax highlighting. How do I do that? Turn syntax
on. cool all right i think swap files are shit
how do i disable these you know and then it was
just kind of learning from there and then just
learning what it is that like made sense to me
so like if you go back over to like my screen
um everything for my neovim config um aside from
like snippets and spell is just like you know
like lua spell stuff Maya knit .lua just requires
one thing. Okay? And when you go cd lua, I have
one folder. Lucas. Fuck off. I'm having a skill.
Please! I can't type my name! What about autocomplete,
man? You know what? I'm too stubborn. I can do
it. I can do it. No, dude, I type fast enough.
I also have aliases. Although this is actually
going to be hella embarrassing. So let me just
go here. CDZSH, ZSHRC. The god aliases. Oh, okay,
okay, okay. These are all, these are aliases.
Aslexic abbreviations. Okay. Yes, sir. Look at
all these awesome vim abbreviations. Uh -huh.
Okay, show us about your workflow a little bit
more because then I want to go over the words
that we talked about. And I also want to go over
your recent changes from your keyboard because
you ditched the split keyboard. I want to talk
about those three things. I actually don't use
the split anymore. Yeah, I want to talk about
those three and then we're going to wrap it up
because we've been here for two hours. So everything,
do you know how Lua plugins work? Any of them?
I have an idea, I think. Everything is sourced
through an init .lua file. Whatever folder you
have, it like, okay, so you see in here, I require
lazy and config. Like I'm just requiring config,
no extension, right? You go inside config. It
also has an init .lua and this sources the other
files that are inside of here. And this is so
then if I'm in init .lua, I don't have to type
in. config .autocmd, config .remap, config .ops,
because I don't like how this looks just like
stacking on more things. I think it just looks
really ugly. So in order to do that, you have
a folder and you have an init file inside of
that folder. NeoVim will look for the init file
inside of the folder so you can just call the
folder itself without having to call all the
different submodules inside of it, which makes
my init file very small. And then just the lazy
config and then plugins. I used individual folders
for them or individual files for them because
I used to like, I used to just have like a big
plugins folder. I mean, a big plugins file, right?
And then I would try to like organize it in a
way where like different plugins were like in
their own categories and whatnot. And after a
lot of just doing that and just never having
it the way that I wanted, I was just like, fuck
it. Everything is in its own folder. Everything
is in its own file. I don't care anymore. I'm
not going to make a development .lua and like
a spelling .lua and like a UI .lua to like just
categorize everything. Like I'm not going to
do that. I also have diagnosed OCD, if you can't
tell. So I do take Zoloft. And when I was off,
when I was not on Zoloft, dude, the categorization
went crazy. I was so anal about where every single
plugin was. And if it wasn't, I felt like there
was insects in my skin crawling. And it was like,
it felt terrible. Yeah, everything is just called
inside of here. It's kind of for the purpose
of like, if I just have one init file here, right?
And it's just Lucas. And this is the only thing
you need to call my config. This means that anyone
can just install my config. Put the Lucas folder
inside of their Lua file. Comment out where they
init their own config. And then this is it. These
are all the changes you need. And you can just
use my config. And you can test it and try it
and see if you like it. If you don't like it,
sure. Then you don't like it, but you learn.
You know? And NeoVim is a very integral part
of my whole process. Same with Tmux. I use Sessionizer.
I use ZSH. My ZSH is pretty minimal too. I use
Antidote. I don't like Antidote. I used to actually
just source all my plugins through a Bash script.
But I was like, hmm, let me try Antidote. And
I've just been too lazy to switch off of it.
That's literally the only reason why I'm still
using Antidote. But yeah, I used to use Phish.
I used to use Bash. Never really gone to NewShell.
But I think ZSH is just... ZSH, I think, has
the best Vim integration. You used the... What's
the name of the... The CLI tool. Vim... I don't
remember. To use Vim motions right in the terminal.
I used it. It's like ZSH Vim motions or something.
Let me see here. I'm going to my ZSH plugins
.txt. Yeah, ZSHVI mode. Yeah, that one. I use
that one. It's awesome. Yeah. I used to use Phish,
and then I got tired of using Phish because I
want to be able to still write scripts properly
and integrate them into my proper file. Also,
I think Phish's configuration scheme is just
stupid. It doesn't make any sense. It's just
stupid. Why? like vim i sorry for zsh i just
have a zsh rc i have the history the comp dump
is made automatically and then like the zsh env
that's in like your home directory um like just
sources what i need here right and it just this
is the the home directory Like my Z dot deer
directory, which is like my configuration home.
It's added into the path. It gets sourced and
that's all what that does. But like fish. Oh
my God, dude. Have you never seen fishes configuration
scheme? No, I've never switched to fish. It's
actually just, it's stupid. It's like, dude,
like you, like if you want to like torture someone,
like, like give them like. Give them fish and
tell them to, like, configure it properly. So,
fish has, like, different folders. So, like,
you can create functions, but also you can use
functions to define aliases. And also, all your,
like, exports for, like, defining environment
variables, forget all of that. They have their
own scheme because they use their own .fish language.
So, you have, like, set .x whatever the fuck.
and um set fish and variable yeah uh fuck off
you have like set ux and then using set g and
then x like you know like like for me in my head
seeing that there's universal and global why
the fuck is there a difference between that why
do we need that That doesn't make any sense.
Oh, set -d -x? Bro, this is like a Tmux configuration.
Like, what are we doing here? Like, are we trying
to trick the CIA or something with this shell?
Like, it's a war crime. Yeah. No, I have not
used Vish, and I'm not planning on doing it.
Don't. Yeah. It's cool. Not worth it. What else
do you want to show us on your workflow? I was
going to show Doom, but that has a lot of personal
stuff on it, so I can't really show that. I think
my setup is just very basic. I have a bind for...
Actually, let me just turn on screen key. Hello?
Where's my screen key? Oh, because it's supposed
to be in an area that it can't access now. Oh,
okay. Because of my resolution. The change of
the resolution, okay. Yeah. So if I do prefix
A, so control A is my prefix, and then O, I open
up a sessionizer. And then if I hold alt and
then hit these brackets, then I can go between
my different sessions. I don't use it too often.
but it's still a key that I have. Control A and
then S is probably my most used key. Whenever
I am whenever because typically there is a difference
between how people when they use using different
sessions versus different tabs or different terminal
instances. where like you see these are two different
sessions full stack and part 4 .zsh if I'm trying
to get something from one thing into another
thing I will just have I will open up a different
instance of ghosty and then connect to a different
tmux session and then use these as splits but
if I am going to split something in like say
I want to open up vite config and then I just
want to do like package dot json like i almost
never do this i almost never use like the actual
like splitting instead most of the time so i
have a prefix h for horizontal and prefix v for
vertical for these splits and i use these for
like if i'm doing like quick testing so say if
i'm gonna run like npm run uh test or just npm
test I will just keep that over there. Most of
the time, if I'm running a server for the backend
and for the frontend, I will just create something
and I'll just call it serve. This is actually
something in my tmux config. So if I go here
and then tmux .conf and I go... Where is it?
Oh, it's this. This bind right here. will prompt
you what to rename your thing to, your session
to when you make it. And I just find that to
be useful. Yeah, if I go here and I'm in server,
normally what I'll do is that I'll just create
a different split and then just go like seeding
to the front end and one seeding to the back
into the other one. And I just have both of my
servers running just in their own session. Let's
go with the language stuff. Let's go with the
words. Go for the words. Yeah. Like, do you have
like a list? Or do you have... Honestly, I'll
just pull up a list. Oh, really? Yeah. Okay.
Do you have some words you want me to understand?
Do you want to understand for me? There's a few
that I don't understand. What is goaded? What
does goaded mean? Okay. This is one I'm very
well versed in, okay? This is a 23 -year -old
explained to a 38 -year -old. Over the internet,
what does goaded mean? So, do you know what the
abbreviation GOAT stands for? Nope. It stands
for greatest of all time. Oh, okay. Okay, I've
heard of that. So, it kind of turned into an
abbreviation. No, not an abbreviation, an adjective.
Where, like, adjectives can, like, nouns can
become adjectives, you know? So, when you say
something is goaded, You're saying it's like
really good of like high value. Like that's my
goat. That's my like for me, that's the greatest
of all time. When you say something is goaded,
you're attributing the goat feature onto the
item. So like say I have a capo right here for
my guitar. This capo is goaded. Okay. So it's
like. I don't know. It probably isn't. It's used
very loosely. Lots of people use Goated in different
contexts. And some people use it sarcastically
and ironically. But it's supposed to be like,
this is of high value. This is very valuable.
This is very good. Oh, okay. Okay. Makes sense.
The other one that I don't know about and I've
heard a lot is Lowkey. What is that? Hmm. That's
surprising. Okay. Low -key? God, you're right.
This is a stupid one. Okay. I don't know where
this came from, actually. So, low -key is...
Have you ever heard of something is very low
-key? Like the register, the pitch is low? Like
a voice that is low? No, no, no. Okay, okay.
So... Low -key? entails something isn't... Dude,
okay. So, say I use NeoVim, by the way, right?
But I don't tell people I use NeoVim every breath
that I take, like most NeoVim users, like me.
I use NeoVim, by the way. You would be a low
-key NeoVim user because you are just using NeoVim
without letting people know. It's sort of like
allowing the... God, I had the word for it. It's
like instead of explicitly describing something
as what it is... You let room for interpretation
while you continue doing what you're doing. Like.
Or, for example, OK. You can have like. There's
a say there's a guy on a football team, right?
But like an American football team or. Because
this wouldn't matter as much in South America
because everyone in South America, everyone in
Latin America is a weeb. We all watch Dragon
Ball. like we all watch naruto like it's chill
there not chill was not chill in north america
for a very long time so say you're like a football
player american football player you're on the
high school team you do like the hut hut hut
you know i don't know how it works i've never
played the sport um and there's a guy on the
team like it's the quarterback that's a position
i don't know what it means but he is like like
he is traditionally like like a chad you know
like he's masculine he like picks up girls he
like drives around late he like parties with
his friends but he enjoys the cheeky demon slayer
you know he likes to catch up on what's up to
date on the season on crunchyroll So because
he doesn't make that explicitly part of his identity,
it is low key. So if he's ashamed of something
that he does. Not ashamed. No. It doesn't have
to be. It doesn't have to be shame. Okay. Like
NeoVim. I could use NeoVim and just not tell
anyone about it and just use it. Right? Without
being vocal about it. You can still like, you
know, post your dot files online. But it's not
like a part of your identity. You're just like
low -key, a NeoVim user. Makes sense. But if
you talk about it all the time, you're high -key,
a NeoVim user. It's like two ends of the extreme.
There's no middle ground. That's high -key, okay.
I thought there was only low -key, so there's
high -key as well. There is high -key. There
is a contrast. There is an antonym. Yeah, there
is an antonym. Okay. What about glazing or glaze?
What is that? Glazing. Okay. That's a good question.
I'm glad you come to me. Let's try to keep them
technical related so that I follow. Yeah, yeah,
yeah. NeoWim related, preferably. NeoWim related.
Or tech related. Glazing is like being... Like
when you glaze something, you are giving an unnecessary
amount of praise to it. Like you're looking at
it... Only from like rose -tinted lenses without
seeing the reality. It's like kind of being delusional.
Like, you know? Okay, okay, okay. Like, Neobim
is the greatest text editor ever. There is no
downside to it. Okay, okay. Like, Theo and ChatGPT5,
I think it was. I don't know if you heard about
that drama. No, I don't. No, okay. I think Theo
generally just puts out stinker takes. Why are
you so rude with Theo, man? I think Theo, I've
just watched Theo give so many bad takes on things.
And it's really only two videos. My entire idea
of Theo is based off of like two or three videos.
It's the one where he switched off of Arch, then
went back to Arch, went off of Neovim, then I
think he went back to Neovim. And then he did
his thing with where he talked about pirate software.
And I feel like everyone in that circle, that
new pirate software in the tech sphere, like
Prime and Theo. And they talked about the pirate
software and the stop killing games movement.
It's just like, dude, you were you were lost
in the sauce. Uh huh. Like you just got got you
got played. By by a nepo baby. Uh huh. Uh huh.
Did you watch this video? Hold on. This video
was amazing, man. I do not watch Theo. No, no,
no. This one. Oh, I cannot. I will not be able
to find it anymore. Is it Coding Jesus? No. There's
an animated one, but it's not this one because
this one is only 217 views. Which video was it?
No, 52 views. It doesn't make it. Maybe type
in TJ DeVries. No, but it's just an animated
one. Prime. Was it posted on Reddit? Yeah, it
was on Twitter. Oh, it was on Twitter. Yeah,
I think I saw it on Twitter. I will not be able
to find it, but it's a pretty funny... It's similar
to this. But it's not this one, because this
one is only 39 views. I don't know if I want
to read a point. Shut the fuck up, Prime. Yeah,
it's an amazing video. I'll look it up, and I'll
share it in Discord, or... If someone in this
court knows what I'm talking about, just let
us know. But yeah, go on. I really want to know.
Yeah. I'll look for it. Okay. So, yeah. It's
like saying... It's like giving a heightened
amount of praise to a delusional level. Something
that doesn't deserve it, right? Yes. It can still
be used in an ironic way. I feel like a lot of
these terms are used... Commonly in ironic scenarios.
Like. Oh Primogen is a 10x dev. He is. He is
a gigachad programmer. You're glacing there.
Yes. Okay. Because Primogen is not the best programmer.
You know. And I know that. He's still a great
programmer. He's still done so much for the programming
sphere as a whole. You know. And for Neovim as
a whole. But it's like. It's like saying Primogen
is like the greatest NeoVim user ever. So it's
similar to salad tossing. Have you heard that?
Salad tossing. I don't think you know. You know
the other way that's used, right? Is it the same?
Are they synonyms? Sex. Salad tossing is sex.
No, but not in that specific way. Figuratively
speaking, you know. You need to search this up.
What the fuck are you talking about? Is this
like a poor translation of like Spanish to English?
No, I had a coworker. Why is licking a butthole
called tossing salad? Well, you see, I had a
coworker. He's from the US and we just used to
joke around with that when he was praising the
boss, you know, like he was like, oh. talking
good about the boss and all that stuff so i guess
that's lacing in in a way as well okay do you
know the term buttering up oh does that also
sound sexual to you yeah it does fuck is it um
no it's not it's not yeah it's kind of using
like an older way like you're buttering up someone
you're buttering up someone and it's like You
are giving them a lot of flattery. Okay. Okay.
It's using the same way of glazing. Oh, okay.
Okay. What other ones do you got? Let's see if
I know them. I'll tell them what I think about
them. You ask me and I'll give you. You cannot
see my screen right now, right? No, I can't.
Okay. That's good. That's good. Don't look at
my screen. Because I want to find something.
I'll be accurate and I will find out. You'll
see. I'll get a high score. Okay. You get a high
score? Okay. Snatched. How do you spell it? Bro,
like... Like snatch? Like to... Like they look
snatched right now. Like you're looking snatched.
S -N -A -D -E -G? S -N -A... Okay. S -N -A -T
-C -H -E -D. No. In English. Say it in English.
You don't know Spanish, bro. S -N -A -T -C -H
-E -D. Snatched. Snatched. Okay. So... You look...
Like... I would assume it's like you look...
Fit. Awesome. Like, you know? You look fit. You're
in good shape. Right? You got it, right? No,
you have the idea of it, right? You see? I got
it. It's positive. Uh -huh. They look really
good in an outfit. Okay. So, like, this is kind
of, like, it can also be, like, queer lingo.
Uh -huh. It's, like, I'm bisexual. Uh -huh. So,
like, when you say, like, okay. Have you ever
heard, like, someone has a good outfit and it's
like, damn, they ate? No. What does it have to
do, man? They ate. Like, if you see someone with
an outfit that looks really good, it's like,
damn, they ate. Why? I don't know. They ate.
They ate with that. They ate with that. Okay,
they got laid because of the suit. No, not that
eight. No, I'm saying eight. Eight. The past
of eight. Yeah. No, I hadn't heard that. Nope.
That's probably more around queer communities
online. I think it's definitely a queer thing.
Okay. A clap back. Clap? Back. Clap back. Someone
that is supportive. No, it's an action. So, like,
you're hitting someone with a clapback. You're
hitting someone with a clapback. I have no idea.
It's a response or a comeback after you've been
called out. Oh, okay, okay, okay. Have you heard
it? No, I haven't. How about living rent -free?
Like, but all these Linux... Or arch boys do
with their parents. Okay, no. I should be more
specific. Okay. Living rent -free in someone's
head. Oh. That you're in love with someone, maybe?
No. No? It means that you can't stop thinking
about someone. Okay. But it can be, it can mean
other, I mean, it can be used in lots of contexts.
So say, like, someone really pissed you off.
Uh -huh. And you just keep on talking about it,
like, every single day. Like, damn, that person
pissed me off that one time. Then you would say,
like, you have to stop letting this get to you.
They're living rent -free in your head. Why are
you letting them live rent -free in your head?
Oh, so you say it to someone else. Yeah, so it's
like, or to yourself. Like, I'm letting them
live rent -free in my head. Like, they're living
rent -free in my head. It's like the idea, the
conceptual, like, the concept of someone in,
like, someone just, like, existing in your mind.
Like the idea of them is like in your head, but
it's taking up space, you know, and it could
be somewhere else. So it's like they're living
rent free. Okay. Makes sense. What about drip?
D -R -I -P? Like the water. Sounds sexual. So
I have no idea, man. I just, no, it definitely
is, right? It's not. It's the farthest thing
from being sexual, actually. No, what is it?
It's, like, it's another way of saying, like,
like, like, you know, like, swag? Yeah. Yeah,
like, like, like, they have, right? Yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah. Like, like, or, like, cool trend,
like, trendy, stylish, or, like, like, you got
the drip. You're dripped out. Like, you're looking,
you got... really stylish fit on like i'm wearing
like a fucking tuxedo top right now you know
like oh i'm dripped out of my mind right now
oh so it's related to wearing shorts okay but
it's related to how you dress then yes okay it's
it's like cosmetic like dude like he's like they're
dripped out of their mind right now okay okay
now i need to learn the technical related ones
are there any of those that apply to the technical
community because these kids come saying Shit
in my Discord that I don't understand. Um...
Maybe, like... You know what finesse is? Finesse.
To be... Um... Delicate. No. Not even close.
No? It means to trick or manipulate someone to
get what you want. Oh, okay. So, like, have you...
Like, have you ever heard, like, oh, they finesse
the system? Oh, okay. It means you manipulate
the system to get what you want. Okay. I hadn't
heard that that way. But is that something that
Gen Z uses? Is that like... I think so. I use
it. Okay. No, I hadn't heard it. I'm also now
considered to be older Gen Z. I also say Z because
I'm Canadian. Uh -huh. Yeah. How about... You
know what salty is, right? No. What? Okay, that's
actually really important. You actually do need
to know salty. Yep. Salty is like when you're
being toxic online or like you're being jealous,
you know? Okay. And I think there's a lot of
toxicity and jealousy in like the programming
sphere. I feel like salty, very, very useful
to know. Okay. I didn't know. Okay. I just want
to hear your thoughts about the keyboard. Why
did you decide to go back to a regular keyboard?
Because I was watching one of your videos and
you mentioned that. So are split keyboards a
mistake? Be honest. No. They're not a mistake.
I just didn't have enough keys, man. I needed
a number row. I needed to have both. I still
don't use a normal keyboard. I use an HHKB. I
like having like the semicolon and the colon
and then having like the apostrophe and the double
quote. And what did you have before? A corn or
what? I had a corn. So it cuts off right here.
Yeah. It cuts off right here. I have this one
right now. So you want one of these? Yeah. With
more keys. But I don't use them. Look. Yeah,
I wouldn't use all the keys on like… I would
use it like a Lily 58. A Lily 58 would be ideal
for me. Okay. This is not used. The numbers are
not used. Yeah, I saw your video on you configuring
it. Yeah. So, I don't know. What do you miss?
The number row. Is that it? Number row and just
having more keys in general to do things that
I didn't want to have different layers for. You
know? Having like a navigation layer. Sure. I
don't care. But having number layers. And whatnot.
And having like all of these keys. Like after
the alphanumeric. After the alpha keys. Just
like being in completely different spaces. Like
I type in different languages. Very frequently.
Okay. So I switch to the different software layouts.
That those languages have. But when I move around
all the keys. because i'm trying to maximize
productivity and writing code it makes it harder
to type in those languages okay that's a good
point i also like a big a big part of why i switched
to is because like i could still do it with the
corn but i would also have to use alt grave all
the time i don't want to use alt gray for everything
i don't want to be like oh let me do this just
so i can type any you know in spanish yeah yeah
like like people watching are not gonna get it
yeah exactly like bro oh yeah bro let me do this
just so i can type in niño like terrible that
was a word with an accent in spanish yeah yep
it's it's awful yep um I rarely type in Spanish.
I rarely type in Spanish. So I'm fine with that,
you know. But yeah, I would imagine it's even
more difficult in other languages. Like, I don't
know, Japanese or other ones. Is it more difficult?
In Japanese, it doesn't really matter that much.
But like, say you're typing in like Finnish or
German. It's infinitely worse. Because it's designed
to have the extra like letter keys right next
to where like the P and the L keys are. but if
you don't have those keys anywhere because you
switch them out for different keys like beside
my p key it would be my delete key my backspace
key you know so then they're all in different
places and it makes no sense okay okay um yeah
i i stopped using a corn because i didn't like
um i just not enough keys for the most part i
feel like if i was only coding it would be cool
I also feel like if I didn't have a super clunky
acrylic case, it would have been more portable.
But, you know, it takes up a lot of space still.
I think the stands that I use, the MagSafe stands,
also do take up more space than I would like
them to, and they add extra weight. They're not
light, they're heavy, and they're supposed to
be heavy because they're supposed to keep my
keyboard on the ground, like stable. But also,
they don't because of how fucking heavy it is.
Why else don't I use it? I don't have access
to the base firmware for it because this is an
AliExpress corn. So the firmware is just fully
locked. I can still use QMK. Sorry, not QMK.
I can still use Vile. But I can't access the
actual C code firmware and do something like
Joe Scotto does. And why would you want to do
something? I don't know what you're talking about.
Joe Scotto makes hand -wired keyboards. Oh. And
he does a lot of, like, vial stuff. And what
is that useful for? Just, like, layering. The
AliExpress is not CMK, so... Or is it... It is
vial compatible, but they don't upload the firmware.
like the seller doesn't upload the firmware they
just flash the firmware and they do not give
the firmware back like so you can't really like
update or do anything with it once you have it
you cannot modify like the keys you cannot switch
you can you can but you also don't know what
they've done to the firmware you don't know because
they could be running a key logger you don't
know yeah okay yeah makes sense like there could
be some phone home stuff that you don't know
about makes sense yeah another the the final
reason why i don't really use it right now not
not not like ignoring all like the portability
problems that i have with it um my girlfriend
bought it for me and she broke up with me recently
so i don't want to use it so you're doing a I'm
going to Google this. It's like you're just acting
like a kid, right? You're like, I don't want
to use it because I'm a little kid. I feel like
when you're going through a breakup, it's a lot
more deep than a berrinche. I'm playing with
you, man. But you just don't want to use it.
Yeah, right now at least. i i did like move a
lot of the stuff that like i had from that relationship
just like out of my line of sight just like and
i get over the relationship and just having the
keyboard there and just being constantly annoyed
with it just being knocked around and everything
oh like made it worse okay it just it just added
on to the frustration i was just like you know
i have old reliable right here And like, you
know, I like going around, I like using other
people's keyboards, other people's computers.
If I'm constantly using like an ortho linear,
it'll just kind of be weird. And it's just another
thing to add along to like my carry, like to
like my EDC. And I don't see it as like super
necessary because I already type pretty fast.
Snippets solve a lot of the problems that I had
with using QWERTY. And in general, I'm already.
I think I'm faster at typing code right now than
I've ever been before. With the Raider keyboard.
I have a final question for you. What up? What
about sponsorships? Have you thought about them?
If they come up in your channel? And what are
your thoughts? No? I'm too small. Okay, okay,
no. I don't upload enough. Okay, but when the
time comes. And what are your thoughts on other
YouTubers taking sponsorships? What would you
think of Sylvan? If he starts promoting Notion
tomorrow in one of his videos or he starts promoting
a VPN service or something. Bro, fuck it. Get
the bag, you know? Would you take them? Yeah,
of course. Dude, we are going to be small micro
internet niche known personalities on the internet
for only so long. If I can get anything out of
this, that would be fucking awesome. I actually
do voiceovers for this guy that I met on Reddit.
His channel is called Coding Jerk. And he's this
Russian guy who makes explanations on low -level
zig shit. And he posted one of his videos on
Reddit. And a lot of people were just talking
about the AI voice. And I told him, because he
used, it was so, okay, it's actually so funny
because the AI voice he got was like a fucking
cowboy. It was like, howdy there, partner. Today
we're going to be talking about. Can you show
the channel or it's not, it's, or you signed
an NDA? I can't open up YouTube on this right
now because I have it blocked. This is my focus
computer. Let me. Coding jerk. Coding jerk, just
that or without the. Coding jerk, all one word.
Let's see. Voting. Derek. Yeah. All those. All
those. Let's see. I don't think I voiced this
one. Which ones have you voiced? Which one is
the one with the cowboy? Okay. The cowboy one.
Okay. Go to videos. Uh -huh. I want to listen
to that. Uh -huh. Did he bring it down or no?
no i don't think he put it down um i think it
it was his first video yeah it was his first
video this one yeah yeah because i did the video
after that one he did this one yes okay okay
but the zig 14 one is like today we're going
to be talking about zig 0 .14 i don't believe
it man i don't believe it it is so fucking funny
and yeah and then i i said like i will voice
your videos for free oh yeah like i because i
want people to enjoy the content and like and
like gain actual like knowledge and understanding
from these videos and not only because all because
most of the comments were like about the ai voice
i'm like this sucks because these videos are
good uh -huh okay i want people to have the to
like take to like learn something from the content
and not just be like oh ai voice sounds like
a cowboy you know and you did the rest of them
you did all of these not all of them some of
these he did voice because i did go mia for a
bit because i was sick um maybe maybe another
funny not funny but like a thing to like end
off everything with it's like because i only
bring this up because it's to say that like i
am helping this guy and i'm making money off
of this now because he ended up like paying me
he pays me now for video and that's cool like
and like he's happy with the stuff that's it's
a cool relationship that we have now and like
we talk on discord um he's a really cool guy
and like it's something of value that i've attained
through connections and like my abilities of
being able to speak clearly and do voiceovers
and I feel like doing that in of itself is some
form of sponsorship. It's work. Yeah, and if
there's work, bro, YouTube is basically freelancing.
I'll take what I can get. If I have to do a Notion
ad, I fucking hate Notion. I might not take Notion,
but dude, NordVPN? Why not? They had a security
breach two years ago. I was a part of that breach.
Pay me. You know? Brilliant. I think Brilliant
is whatever. Sure. I'll take Brilliant. Brilliant
looks interesting. I think Notion. I hate Notion,
but I feel like for a lot of people, it's fine.
Sure, people can use Notion. People can use what
they want. They can use Ubuntu. They can use
VS Code. I don't give a shit. If they like it,
good on them. But there will come a time. If
they are of the right mindset. Where they will
get curious. And then they will go to the dark
side. And that's what matters. Yeah. I also like.
I. This is also like kind of serious. Just to
like end off everything. So I. When I was in.
My third year of university. First term. I had
a really bad fall. And as a result of that, I
had a lot of physical body problems that came
with it, that came with complications of the
brain swelling. And that led to me, in some weird
freak circumstances, developing Crohn's disease.
What is Crohn's disease? It is an autoimmune
disease where your body is confused, your stomach
is confused, and it tries to kill all the bacteria
in your stomach. Your immune system is working
on overtime, and it's an autoimmune disease.
I have to take medication now in order to calm
down my immune system, but it also has side effects,
which can be really annoying, like fatigue and
whatnot. I want to try and make money with this.
And I think. It's not just about the money. I
just released that video. About me not using
Arch anymore. And I got so many comments. And
I really like having that discussion. And I feel
like. If I'm creating any sort of dialogue. And
I'm just talking about shit. That I find interesting.
And I'm just putting out things. That I find
interesting. And other people also find them
interesting. That is like. 80 of it and then
the 20 of it is whether or not i can make any
sort of money off of this you know because working
uh we're going out and working like an actual
job right now would be near impossible like i
don't want to be working at a gas station and
just passing out like at the counter because
i'm exhausted or like i'm on the toilet for an
hour because i'm having a crones problem because
of like stress or whatever you know I don't hate
anyone for taking sponsorships. People have their
own circumstances in life. People have their
own situations. If they need the money, bro,
fucking take the money, bro. I came from Counter
-Strike. I came from the Counter -Strike community.
I've been playing Counter -Strike since 2015.
When I was in grade 8, my friend gambled up to
an AK Redline and lost it all. All in our hotel
room in Quebec on our grade 8 trip. We were 14
years old just gambling. You know? And that's
what CS taught us. It taught us about gambling
and addiction. And people would take gambling
sponsorships constantly. It is still the most
unethical shit, but you know what? Game sees
game. Anomaly, big CS YouTuber, retired his dad
just by taking a lot of gambling sponsorships.
You know? That's sick. oh man yeah if i get a
world of tanks fucking sponsor me as a study
streamer fuck it dude we ball i'll do it raid
shadow legends come on dms dms email games yeah
i don't know if i would do the games man i i
i honestly don't know if i would either but also
i kind of think i would because it'd be really
funny yeah imagine seeing a linux youtuber being
like and this is sponsored by tension impact
Yeah, you got the audience already, so why not,
right? Yes, sir. Yeah, this is a Linux code review
video sponsored by Rage Shadow Legends. Yeah,
man, I just hope you get better. Is there a cure
for that? No. Or what do you have to do? It's
a chronic illness. Yeah, and what happens? You
just have to... What? I just live off of medication.
to like help mitigate it and i also can't eat
a lot of food like dude if i eat spinach if i
get a little bit of spinach it's over for me
oh really it's fucking doomed yeah any like hard
fibers it's over for me like i'm like like i'm
done for like two days it's really bad and like
if you don't watch your diet enough you can start
like basically creating holes inside of like
your intestinal lining so like people like if
you see people online that have like crohn's
disease and they have like have you ever seen
someone that has like a little like poop bag
on like their side or something yep yeah that's
called a stoma and it's when your intestinal
wall is so damaged that your poop has nowhere
else to go so they've relieved so they've removed
so much of your inner lining so instead it's
in a bag Those are in cases that are super, super
extreme. I'm the farthest away from that because
I only developed it two years ago. But people
like that probably developed it when they were
kids and didn't know. They didn't realize how
bad it was. So I'm fortunately on a very good
side relative of having Crohn's disease. And
you live in a first world country. You have access
to health. God bless Canada. Man, I hope you
get better. And thanks for sharing that as well.
Appreciate all the time here. We've been for,
what, three hours almost? Damn. I don't know,
man. Yeah, three hours. I'm going to leave the
link to your YouTube channel in the video description.
I'm going to share the video. Remember that it's
going to take a little while because I have other
videos. Yeah, I know, I know. Share. Okay. So,
thank you very much. I also want to thank the
supporters, the people that, you know, support
me as YouTube members. The first CEO, it's web23,
web23 .com. I don't have sponsorships, but I
have these guys. I have a few of them, you know,
that, you know, contribute to keep the channel
going. So, thanks everyone. Any final words,
Tokizuno? become a member of Linkarzu. Give him
your money. And then after that, give me your
money. Give me your money afterwards. You have
memberships already? I have members. Yeah, I
have members. I'm partnered. Yeah. Yeah, I've
been partnered for a bit. This is the one time
I've ever been partnered on YouTube. I've been
like so happy about it. But like, you know, like
when you go on like YouTube Creator Studio on
like the far right and it's like your earnings,
like how much you need to earn before you hit
the $100. Uh -huh. Yep. Yeah bro I'm at like
$12 right now. I showed my dad yesterday. We
were at the gym. Like we were doing arms. We
were doing bicep curls. And I'm like look at
this dad. I'm making it big. And he's just like.
Whoa look at him. Look at him go. My son's in
the big leagues. I've only gotten one YouTube
check ever. Yeah. And I use that to pay bills.
Yeah. I got one too. I set the threshold to $1
,000. And I had to wait like over a year, man.
Over a year. You know? A year. But hey, you got
the big $1 ,000. That's huge. Well, but still,
they take out of taxes. So you don't get $1 ,000.
I got like, I don't know, $800. That's still
a really good amount. For a year of work, man.
Hey, not for a year of work, but you know. It's
still like good for like just on the side, you
know, it helps. Any amount of money is helpful.
That's why you should sponsor me and Linkarzu
so we can make money and then we can become 2000x
engineers. I'm not an engineer. Yeah, me neither.
All right. All right. Thank you very much, man.
Talk to you later.