what's the purpose of the um arch linux high
striped rust dev sucks like do they help do they
help with with circulation is there a purpose
to them or okay there's there's there's a long
there's a long bit of lore to that um uh using
rust and using arch like eventually using it
will turn you trans and that's like kind of where
the socks come in now because people spend a
lot of time sitting down they don't do a lot
of physical activity. They're not good for your
circulation. No. Especially not for my legs.
Neary is a bit different to a regular Tyler.
So this is actually a scrolling window manager
where I can make another window here and basically
I have infinite horizontal space so I can say
if I want to put this one here I have all three
of these windows here I can spawn another one
off to the side. And what are your thoughts on
currently the state of Let's start with Windows.
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are we doing today? We have a special guest,
Brody. How's it going, man? Yeah, not too bad,
not too bad. How about yourself? I'm doing good
as well. You know, I really appreciate you being
here. It's kind of late where you are, right?
It's only 9 .40pm here. The funny thing is I
actually was doing someone else's show earlier
today. No one ever invites me to anything, and
today I'm doing two people's shows, so it's a
nice change for me. Nice. Really appreciate it,
man. It's tiring doing all these videos, right?
And, well, who are you? I know who you are, but
just in case there's people that don't know,
you mind sharing a little bit about you? Like,
what do you do? I... My main thing is making
Linux videos. I do that. It's Linux and a lot
of general tech stuff as well. Sometimes I'll
talk about, you know, programming. I'll talk
about other random things. But for the most part,
it's Linux stuff on the main channel. And I also
do my own podcast, Tech of a T, where I've done,
I think it's 273? or something like that, somewhere
in that range. Just bringing on random people,
learning about open source developers, learning
what people are doing in this world and just,
you know, meeting people and learning a bit.
And I was curious, is there a reason why you
kept those separate? Because this is your name,
right? So you could have kept them here. Is there
a reason why you kept the podcast in a different
channel? uh the main reason for that is youtube
i don't know if they still do it but i know youtube
for a while did sort of punish the promotion
of videos if you uploaded multiple things in
a day so if i wanted to do the podcast and then
clips for it maybe i could have a separate clip
channel but if i just have the podcast itself
it's not really going to get recommended when
the other video gets like uh uploaded so it kind
of like it kind of throws everything off. It
makes a lot more sense to have them separated
so they don't interfere with each other. I have
thought about that too, because I'm doing these
interviews and everything is mixed in my channel.
I have a playlist and I created a podcast there,
you know, but I don't know how it works. I haven't
done clips on my own, you know, these long videos.
So what happens if I create a clip and I share
it in the same channel? Will I have some sort
of trouble? look youtube's kind of a black box
and i can't really say exactly how it's gonna
behave but that's my general understanding that
if you do upload multiple things in a day things
can kind of get a bit weird with actually sending
videos out to your audience so i i think it makes
more sense to separate it but i know some people
do it all together on one thing anyway so I guess
try it out, see what happens, and if it goes
well, stick with it. If it doesn't, you can always
change it afterwards. Yeah, yeah. I see you have
103 ,000 subscribers in the main channel. Why
did you get started with YouTube? Why did that
happen? Why did you decide to take that step?
Well, this isn't my first channel. I think if
you go to the About section, it should show you
the age of this channel. I want to say it's like
20... Because I've had it before. Yeah, 2013.
I've had it before I was actually making videos
on the channel. I uploaded like random things
here and there. Like, you know, oh, I saw some
funny looking bird upload a video. All of that
stuff's gone now. But I've had a channel basically
since, I want to say like 2007. I've been making
videos here and there, random things. Back then,
it was a lot of like gaming videos. I did. Some
runescape videos, things like that. I took my
hand at doing some art stuff at one point. You're
not going to find that on that channel. I'm saving
the name of that channel for a special occasion,
because there are still videos on the old one.
But yeah, I've sort of always enjoyed doing that.
I was never really the kind of person who really
talked much when I was at school. I'm not really
the kind of person who likes to, you know...
I guess be that like center of attention generally
in real life but for whatever reason I kind of
enjoy the idea of digging through these topics
and then I guess putting them together in a easily
consumable form and that's kind of what the main
channel is it's a lot of the time taking some
you know really long mailing list thread or something
like that and then breaking it down so people
kind of know what's sort of going on without
having to go and do all that digging themselves
And I see that on your main channel, you have
moved away to something more like a news type
of thing. Is that right? Like, did you ever do
tutorials, like tech tutorials? Early on, I definitely
did a lot more of that, and I kind of want to
shift more back in that direction. I do like
doing the news stuff, but I also just like to
dig into... It's less tutorial stuff, more digging
into various... I've done videos on different
shells, on different window managers, on things
like NeoVim. I like to dig into stuff like that
rather than doing your general, this is how you
install Linux kind of tutorial. If I'm going
to do that, it's going to be for something very
specific, like doing something on the Arch Linux
install script. I have tried my hand at more
general tutorials as well, but... I don't know,
I feel like there's people who can handle that
stuff better. I find the deep diving into a specific
topic a lot more interesting, and I feel like
I can handle that a lot better than just, you
know, there's like hundreds of tutorials on how
to use the terminal, right? I don't really think
I have anything to add to that. Okay, interesting.
Do you do YouTube full time or do you do something
else? So right now I basically can do it full
time. I'm not at this stage. I still have another
job. I work there a few hours a week. The main
reason I haven't is I always feel like at some
point something's going to just collapse. And
I'm always worried that like, you know, I wake
up one day. the mca strikes channels disappeared
and now i have nothing so i just i haven't gotten
to that point where i just feel comfortable taking
that next step and actually doing it full time
but effectively i am right like the amount of
hours i'm putting into it it's pretty much full
time it's just technically i have another job
okay okay and would you recommend someone trying
to start a channel do it How do you say the process
has been? Is YouTube easy? Look, it's, look,
working on oil rig is hard, right? I make videos.
I read things on the internet and I talk to a
camera. It's not actually hard, but it is definitely
time consuming and trying to find the, I think.
You've got to find the thing you're actually
interested in because a lot of people will say
oh, I'm gonna make a channel I'm gonna make this
I'm gonna make that But if you don't personally
find the thing you're doing interesting, you're
not gonna keep at it And yes, there are these
channels that kind of blow up after like one
or two videos Absolutely, but the majority are
not the majority are going to be You will grind
you will make a lot of videos you make a lot
of things. No one cares about And if you don't
care about it yourself, like you're not going
to keep at it. Maybe you'll do it for a month,
two months, three months. But if you don't like
what you're doing, you are going to give up eventually.
Yeah. Yeah. Pretty good points. I almost gave
up, you know, I just did like three months. No
one watched the videos and I was like, nah, why
am I even doing this? I don't even know if I
will continue doing this. I hope I will, you
know, but it's really tough. It's discouraging.
A lot of the times, but I guess you just have
to keep going. Right. Absolutely. Yeah. If it's
something you actually want to do, I think you
need to be able to enjoy doing it just as a hobby
because there's going to be that long period
where, especially when you're trying to like
get your foot in the door and try to like establish
that initial audience where. You can't be motivated
by the number of views you're gonna get it. It's
you know, it's fun to be like, oh this video
got a hundred views Wow, this video got a thousand
views. That's cool. But if that's the only thing
that's driving you early on like You are really
going to struggle. Yeah. Yep, and I have a question
here. Do you take sponsorships? I watch your
videos, but I don't think I have seen like This
video is sponsored by, you know, the usual stuff,
like NordVPN and all that stuff. Do you take
sponsorships in your videos, or what's your take?
I have worked with a company in the past. I was
sponsored by Linode before they got purchased
by Akamai. When they got purchased, they just,
like, cut all of their sponsors, so I wasn't
working with them anymore. I think they might
have re -established with a couple of really
big channels afterwards, but... Before that point,
they were kind of like working with basically
everyone. I'm more than happy to work with a
sponsor, but... At least, okay. There's two separations
here. On the main channel, I kind of want to
deal with sponsors I actually like. So, you know,
working with Linode or... Like, um, if it's going
to be a VPN company, I want to be able to talk
about it as a real product. I don't want to say
things like military grade encryption, quantum
encryption, uh, using this is going to protect
people from spying on you. I don't want to, I
don't want to do that. And I don't really want
to work with like mobile game company unless
I actually like the game. Um, so yeah, like.
If it's a company I like as, as an example, let's
throw an example out there like, um, boot .dev.
This is a company that's been sponsoring a lot
of YouTube channels recently. They're like a,
they gamify learning programming. I would happily
work with them. Um, on the podcast, however,
podcast, I will, I will work with anyone because
I, I, the podcast, look, if someone wants me
to sell something dumb, hey, that's gonna, that'll
be totally fine. Oh, you don't care there. Too
much. No, the podcast, I think if someone wants
me to work with something dumb, I'm more than
happy to just like have some fun with that one.
Even if it's a mobile game, whatever, right?
Okay, interesting. Especially if they let me
have some fun with the ad. Okay, okay. Now, moving
on to other topics, you want to share two of
your favorite music bands. What are you into,
into music? i'm kind of into a bit of everything
like i grew up like my my parents were like really
into like acdc and suzy quattro and things like
that so i kind of have like there's a part of
me that really enjoys that i enjoy you know things
like lincoln park three days grace um i like
like nowadays i like a lot of anime music like
it's really hard for me to just like pin down
two specific things but you know what let's say
um lincoln park and uh slipknot there we go there's
there's two we can go with how old are you by
the way i'm 27 27 okay so you still watched lincoln
park in mtv back in the day uh a little that's
a little bit before my time at least in australia
i don't mtv wasn't really I think it was a thing
on, like, paid TV, and we didn't have that, so...
Okay, okay. Now that you mentioned Australia,
how is the situation there with insects? I hear
that it's not that great. Are there a lot of
spiders, crazy stuff, or it's just fake news?
Um... I think it's definitely a bit overblown,
for sure. Like... Yes, you'll see the odd spider,
and yes, they're going to be fairly large. But
for the most part, it's going to be fairly harmless
spiders, like a daddy longlegs, where it's not
going to hurt you. Flies are something people
don't talk about. Flies you get a lot of in the
summer. If you're anywhere, even remotely rural,
you're going to be covered in flies. Mosquitoes
come out constantly as well. Honestly, the thing
that people don't talk about, which is a lot
more concerning, is snakes. Snakes are, like,
a spider, you know, a spider's not, look, you
can just step on a spider, what's a spider gonna
do to you? You can crush it with your hand. What
if you're sleeping and you don't notice, right?
And it bites you? Yeah, if you're not, if you're
sleeping, it's not gonna hurt you. Usually if
a spider's gonna bite you, it's because you've
gone into its, like, territory, you've gone,
like, put your hand near a burrow, something
like that. Snakes are a lot more concerning,
because you can just be walking through tall
grass when it's, you know, when they're on their
way to a rock to get some, like, sun, and if
you step on one, you're not gonna kill the snake
by stepping on it. You're gonna be in for some
trouble there. Do you wear boots or something?
Oh, look, a lot of people kind of get used to
it and don't really care, but I tend to wear
enclosed shoes whenever I'm walking somewhere
that I can't see the ground. Okay, okay. And
what about movies? Are you into movies? Not as
much as I used to be. Like, my parents, they
had, like, a big DVD collection, a VHS collection
before that. Nowadays, I don't really watch that
much in the way of movies. I will say that I
am a big fan of the Fast and the Furious series.
Okay. When I watch a movie, I kind of like to
turn my brain off. I don't really want to deal
with a movie where it's like, you know, deep
plot, really have to think about it. Obviously,
there's some things I will like that are like
that, where it's like a really meaningful movie,
like, you know, Forrest Gump, something like
that. But a lot of the time, I just want to watch...
Like a dumb action movie, like a Jason Statham
movie, Fast and the Furious, something like that.
Just to entertain yourself, basically. John Wick,
you know, that sort of deal. Okay, and are you
into video games? I see that you play sometimes
in lives, right? What video games are you into?
For the most part, I like a lot of sort of...
Character action games and RPGs, things like
that. Right now, on my stream, I'm playing through
Kazan the First Berserker, which is basically
Dark Souls. And, yeah, I've played, like, the
main thing I usually go to is, like, JRPGs, like,
really long JRPGs, like Final Fantasy, things
like that. And have you felt as you age, right?
Because I'm older, I'm 37 at the moment. I used
to play games when I was younger, but as I age,
I feel that I just don't want to invest my time
in games anymore. Have you felt that or you're
still like full into games? Definitely my taste
in games has changed. Like when I was younger,
I used to play a lot of Call of Duty and other
like multiplayer games where there wasn't really
any sort of... progression through the game.
It's you're playing the game against other people.
You're playing the game to sort of improve at
the game. My love for JRPGs is kind of a more
modern thing. I've always kind of enjoyed them,
but I used to play a lot more of games like that
or games like RuneScape and like other MMOs where
sort of there's no ending point to them. Whereas
now I kind of enjoy games where it's kind of
like the opposite of the way i watch movies like
where a lot of the times movies i just want kind
of nothing but with games i kind of want that
in -depth story the the instant character arcs
things like that and then i do like my just you
know my action games where i can turn my brain
off as well but that's sort of that's sort of
secondary in a lot of cases okay okay now i have
a question and it's an honest question and make
it may seem like a joke you know but what's the
purpose of the um arch linux high striped rust
dev sucks like do they help do they help with
with circulation is there a purpose to them or
okay there's there's there's a long there's a
long bit of law to that um I don't even know
how to explain to someone who asked that question.
I don't even know. I have the answer, but I don't
even know where to begin. Basically, I guess
the meme is that there's this whole long -running
joke that... uh using rust and using arch like
eventually using it will turn you trans and that's
like kind of where the socks come in um there's
a lot more to it that's like the surface level
thing it's like a it's like an uh i guess an
ironic um like the the socks are kind of an ironic
thing it's Again, I don't know how to explain
it to someone who asked this question. But I
get it. It's basically like a... It's a really
long inside joke. But do people actually use
them? Or is it just a meme? It's kind of like...
It's a bit of both. It's kind of a meme to some
people. I have them as a joke. I have cat ears
as a joke because I think they're funny. But
for a lot of other people, it's kind of this...
It's kind of this aesthetic of being like...
a linux user it's like oh i use arch linux i
have a thinkpad i uh i i don't know i i wear
the programmer socks the striped socks and it's
like this It's kind of, I guess the simplest
way to put it is it's kind of the same thing
as, like, you know, someone who is emo. Like,
it's, like, this is the look of being an arch
user. This is the look of being an emo. It's
basically that. Oh, okay. Now, because people
spend a lot of time sitting down. They don't
do a lot of physical activity. They're not good
for your circulation. No. Especially not for
my legs. No, definitely not. Just get up and
walk around. I've got a standing desk here for
a reason. Okay, okay. Now, do you mind sharing
with us a little bit about your background and
how you ended up in tech? Like, how did it start?
Did your family raised you with, you know, were
tech people in your family? Like, what made you
love tech? Was it school or how did all that
start? To the question of other tech people in
my family, absolutely not. My mom and my dad
both came from farming backgrounds. Both their
families have been farmers for generations. I
am basically the tech person in my family. But
I think it sort of started before I got into
computers. I've always been the kind of person
who, if you... hand me a torch for example i'm
gonna pull it apart i'm gonna work out how the
torch works how does the battery connect to the
light like how how does the light turn on you
know things like that and i've always sort of
enjoyed that sort of aspect of it um i didn't
and i didn't have a computer until i didn't have
a family computer i reckon until like 2006 actually
so i was eight or so then and That's sort of
when things started because that's when I I could
have got on the internet and I had a cousin who
was a software developer at the time and I kind
of got interested in like using software and
like At some point after that I kind of got interested
in the idea of like, okay. Well, I I like tearing
things apart Well, what happens if you you know?
Tear software apart like how does how do you
make software like what what goes into that?
And it sort of evolved from there. I started
watching tech YouTube channels like Linus Tech
Tips. I eventually built my first computer. And
somewhere along the line, I heard about this
Linux thing. I think the first time I heard about
Linux... I don't know if it was from this, but
one of the early times was definitely when the
Steam machines were coming around. Like Valve's
first attempt at doing Linux gaming. But I didn't
use Linux back then at all. I think what... changed
things for me is late high school I had well
before that I had um yeah sorry I'm trying to
like remember the history myself so my 10th grade
we had a robotics class we were doing like lego
mind storms so it's it's a little lego kit where
you can do like electronic stuff and build little
robots with it uh I had a lot of fun with that
I thought it was really cool it was like a combination
of the software stuff I was getting interested
in and then also hardware stuff Then in my 11th
and 12th grade, we had an actual programming
class doing Java. It was like game development
with Java. It was with this really basic library
called Greenfoot. And I really, really enjoyed
that. And a lot of the friends I had at the time
were also into that as well. Some of them have
gone on to do indie game development. And from
there, I was just like, you know what? Let's
actually pursue this thing. And I ended up going
to university for software engineering. Yeah,
somewhere along the line there, I actually swapped
to Linux because, you know, I'm a software developer.
I was learning this Git thing. One of my lecturers
was using Linux. I think he was using Arch at
the time. Yeah, I reckon it was Arch and i3.
I was like, okay, let's just see what it's like.
I discovered Linux YouTubers, and then I decided
to be one because I thought I could make better
videos than them, and they weren't initially.
Oh, yeah. yeah makes sense okay so that's and
what does your family think about what you do
like do they agree with you doing youtube channels
do they understand or is it like brody like what's
happening man like how do they feel um so my
mom obviously you know being a mom is Was kind
of concerned early on, especially when I went
through my degree and it's like, well, I'm going
to do this YouTube thing now. I'm not going to
go get a programming job. It's like, oh, well,
you know, you can get a programming job eventually.
Every so often she asks me that, like, oh, you're
going to apply, you're going to do a programming
job. I get it, right? Like, she's concerned and,
like, wants me to do well in life. My sister,
she, you know, she doesn't really care. She does
her own thing. To be fair, like, she's just kind
of happy to be done with university. She was
too bothered by, like, her own stuff for the
past couple of years. And my stepdad, he's, you
know, pretty chill with it as well. He's just
like, you know, that's cool. I've never really
had any, like, pushback for it because I didn't
really start doing it until I'd moved out anyway.
So, you know, it was kind of a bit too late for
my parents to do any, like, major pushback against
this. Like, I don't live with you anymore. You
can't stop me doing this. And do other people
in your family understand your passion for Linux
and IT and that stuff? Or are you just the only
one? So I mentioned that cousin I had who's a
software developer. I'd never mentioned that
I had a channel. Randomly, he messaged me. He
was like, hey, I got a recommendation for one
of your videos. I was like, I didn't know you
were doing this. That's cool. I was like, yeah,
thank you. I appreciate it. A lot of the rest
of my family, because my... you know, I was saying
that the farming background, a lot of them also
don't really have much of a tech background as
well. So for a lot of them, it's, I basically
just explain what I'm doing as I'm a technology
journalist. And that's usually enough because
the second I say I make YouTube videos, I get
the obvious question. How do you make money on
YouTube? What do they pay you for? How much do
you get paid? Do you ask everybody you meet how
much their salary is? Yeah, when I had to explain
my job to my dad, you know, I was a monitoring
engineer in the previous company. I used to manage
monitoring tools, you know, tools that the company
uses to monitor whatever they needed to monitor.
Try to explain that to your parents. It's like,
what are you doing? He asked me like three, four
or five times. He doesn't get it yet. Right,
right. Hard to explain all this stuff, yeah.
Yeah, I get it. I have noticed that all of the
people that do tech stuff are into instruments.
I had a call with DistroTube, I don't know, a
few weeks ago, I think, and he's in the trombone.
He was in the trombone. I don't know if he still
does or not. Are you into any instruments? Yes.
At the same time, I just don't put the effort
into... I just don't really put the effort into
practicing. So I have a guitar back here. I don't
know if you can see it with the way the camera's
cropped. Oh, I see it. Yeah, there we go. Yeah,
I have a guitar back there. I just don't practice
it anywhere near as much as I should, so I'm
not very good. But, yeah, I don't know why that
would be the case. Why people in the tech space,
sort of are also interested in music in an instrument
yeah yeah maybe it's i don't i don't know i'm
sure somebody's probably like can probably come
with some idea for that um i do want to get a
keyboard i kind of want to learn a key uh learn
the keyboard but i also don't have space that's
the ultimate problem for like anything it's like
okay i could do it but like where am i gonna
put it yeah Could it be that we were looking
for fame in music, we didn't get it, and now
we're trying to do it in YouTube? I don't know,
maybe for some people, but I started a couple
of years ago, so for me, I was long into doing
the YouTube thing already. Okay, you started
with YouTube first, okay. And we already went
over this. Okay, your editor, we're moving to
other... to more technical stuff right now. What's
your main editor as of today? If I'm dealing
with just general config files, things like that,
I'll usually just use... I just go NeoVim. I've
tried to get into doing programming in NeoVim,
and it's just never clicked with me. So my main
code editor, that is going to be VS Code. If
I'm... Well, I also do stuff with Godot. And
when I'm doing that, I just use the editor that's
built into it. But yeah, generally, it's going
to be VS Code. Okay. If you want to get serious
work done, VS Code for config files, readmes,
markdown, stuff like that, I assume, NeoVim?
Yeah, yeah. Also, that's also what I use for
my... I see the next thing on the thing you have
there. You're going to ask about note -taking.
It's going to be the same answer for that. Note
-taking I use VimWiki for, which is a plug -in
for Vim. I've considered doing the whole Obsidian
thing, and yeah, I get it. Obsidian's really
cool. But at the same time, I've used VimWiki
for five years, so moving off of... That's the
problem with moving to any of these new tools.
I don't want to move five years worth of notes.
Yeah, for sure. But the Obsidian app itself,
is that what you have thought about the Obsidian
app or? That would, if I did go to something
else, it would be Obsidian. Yes. Well, just my
personal experience. I did Obsidian for quite
some time and I just moved back to new them.
Well. I started with NeoVim after and I just
moved everything from Obsidian to NeoVim because
basically Obsidian is just, you know, markdown
files. You create a vault, which is technically
a folder. So I just opened my Obsidian folder
in NeoVim and I do everything there, you know,
image viewing. I can even paste images. So I
don't need Obsidian anymore. And well, once I
started with NeoVim a lot, I didn't have the
Vim. power that i needed back in obsidian so
it started to feel not enough for me anymore
so i just decided yeah i'm not using obsidian
anymore i'm full neo vim now so do you use vim
wiki do you use it in neo vim or vim i near him
you have him okay okay now do you use your own
distribution or um no your own config in neo
vim or do you use a distribution I use my own
config. This sort of comes from when I was planning
to do programming stuff and properly learn NeoVim
for that. I've pieced something together over
many, many years. I haven't even converted it
over to Lua yet, because I had it from back on
regular Vim, so it's in the VimRC format. I've
moved it over, and then I've done random reworks
and all this stuff. It's one of those things
where I know I probably should, and there's a
bunch of outdated plugins as well, and I just
don't have the interest in messing around with
it at this point to really bring it to a good
state. Yeah, and you know it's going to be not
only a day of work, that's just going to be probably
months of work. Yeah. I guess you don't want
to take that jump, right? Not right now. Maybe
at some point. I can mess with it any time in
the future. And have you thought about trying
a distribution like LazyVim, for example? I have.
I've played around with a couple of them in the
past. The problem I find whenever I do that,
and it's the same problem I have with something
like OhMyZSH, I never remember the... bindings
that other people make the shortcuts like any
like weird commands they do it's the same problem
i have when i use a different window manager
i want to configure things to be the thing that
i'm comfortable with so effectively i end up
just rewriting the config myself so I guess I
could use something like that as a baseline for
a lot of the functionality and then rebind things
to sort of bring it to the state I'm happy with.
But again, it's just not something that I've
really felt the need to do at least anytime soon.
Okay, makes sense. What tool do you use to push
to version control? Do you use the command line
or do you use a tool? Yeah, I just use regular
Git. Yeah, okay. I learned regular Git. I've
messed around with... I've used Turtle over on
Windows. I've used like the GitHub GUI a couple
of times. If I'm going to use something besides
Git, I'm going to use the GitHub CLI tool. But
usually Git does like 99 % of what I want anyway.
Okay. Have you tried LazyGit? That I have tried.
The problem that... I always run into with any
of the GUIs, any of the TUIs, any of the interfaces
on top of Git, is even if it's not explicit,
they tend to implicitly push you towards a certain
kind of workflow. And if that workflow aligns
with the way you want to use Git, it's great.
If you ever run into a situation where you're
sort of like butting heads with the way it wants
you to work... It ends up just feeling less convenient
than just using Git commands. And again, I tend
to like shortcut stuff that I want to be using
anyway. So I'm writing out the full Git commands.
I'll write scripts around stuff that I want to
be using. So I'm kind of like building up my
own tooling around Git anyway, just to work the
exact way I want it to work. Okay. Okay. Great.
What are your thoughts on Tmux? Are you a big
Tmux fan or not at all? I kind of get the Tmux
thing, but for me, I've always been a big tiling
window manager user. So it's kind of a lot of
the stuff I want from Tmux, being able to place
tiles of my terminals. I do get the whole benefit
of the SSH session stuff. That's great. And if
I did that more often, I probably would use Tmux.
But my desktop basically does the majority of
what I want from Tmux, the tabbing, the tiling.
Um, yeah, so for me, like I kind of have the,
my, my entire desktop kind of feels like TMUX.
Yeah. Similar to what DistroTube said, you know,
he uses the window manager, but there's a question
that I have, you know, for tiling users, cause
I'm not a tiling user. I don't like tiles. Isn't
it too complicated? Like thinking, okay, so.
I need to have just two applications in this
screen because if I open a third one, it's just
going to make it smaller and it's just not going
to make sense at all, right? So do you have to
be moving stuff around, organizing windows? Isn't
that too cumbersome? So, yes, with a regular
tiler. And I can show you a bit of a demo here.
I'm not actually using a regular tiler at this
point. Let me switch to your screen. There we
go. So right now I'm using a tool called Neary.
So we spawn a window like that. I can make it
take up the entire screen if I want to. And there
we go. We have like two windows here. But Neary
is a bit different to a regular tiler. So this
is actually a scrolling window manager where
I can make another window here. And basically
I have infinite horizontal space. So I can say,
if I want to put this one here, I have all three
of these windows here. I can spawn another one
off to the side. So this is something I've been
trying out very recently and it kind of eliminates
that like space problem because now if I, if
I have too many windows open, I can still go
to a second workspace and add something here,
but I don't really have that like space concern
that you would have had with the most other things
that people are using. Um, I have traditionally
used things that like people like DT have been
using and I do like them. Uh, but this. I do
think is a much better way to do it. And don't
you have to be searching for stuff? Like you
have to keep track in your mind, like where stuff
are, right? Isn't that a problem? Like, okay,
so I remember that I have this application on
desktop one, the other one opened in desktop
three. Like, do you have to be jumping around
and trying to find the thing that you're actually
looking for? If you're unorganized, yes. But
if you are comfortable using a tiler, you tend
to sort of fall into an idea of like, okay, I'm
going to put this specific thing here, I'm going
to put this thing here, and this window over
here. So you kind of learn where you end up placing
things. And a lot of, a lot of tiles also allow
you to name your workspaces as well. So you can
say, this is my terminal workspace. This is my
development workspace. And then sort of use that
as like a mental guide. So you place things in
logical groupings where you don't end up losing
them. Okay. Makes sense. Makes sense. I have
to give tiles a try, you know? I don't know.
I'm just used to stacking mode. So I don't know.
Yeah. And operating system. Next question. Of
course, everyone knows what it is, you know,
but why did you choose Linux as your main operating
system? And what were you on before Linux? So
I was on Windows 10 right before, but for a long
time, I actually was a Mac OS user as well. mavericks
that was the last one i've used so it was a while
ago but i i did use i think i didn't use mac
os from i reckon snow leopard to mavericks uh
i because my uh my high school uh they used macbooks
as their like school laptops so i kind of got
used to the mac os stuff from that uh the reason
why i end up going to linux is I was using a
lot of Linux tooling in university. I was using
Git. I was using, you know, GCC and all, like,
various other tools you're going to be using
either in a Linux virtual machine or nowadays
through something like WSL. And I really got
interested in what these Linux YouTubers were
doing. You say you kind of really don't get the
Tyler thing, the whole managing Windows, but...
I started seeing videos of people using tailors
like DT and like a bunch of other people. And
I really liked the idea. I thought it was super
cool. I'd never seen something like that. And
I really wanted to try it out and just see what
it was like. So I kind of just dived headfirst
into it. Going straight from Windows 10 to Arch
Linux. I did it at a bad time. I did it at the
start of university semester. Wouldn't recommend
it. And you bought the socks at the same time?
Or you got those later? No, I got the socks a
bit later. Okay. But yeah, I was using a lot
of Linux tooling anyway, so it kind of just made
sense to use Linux. Okay. And what are your thoughts
on currently the state of... Let's start with
Windows. Are you a Windows fan still? What are
your thoughts? I've become less and less interested
in Windows over the years. Initially, because
I do that whole, you know, I like gaming, I like
PC gaming. When I first switched, there was definitely
a lot more games where Linux just really couldn't
do it. And Windows, I kind of had there as a
backup for a couple of games. But now that we're
in the whole Windows 11 thing with all of the
data collections, even more data collection stuff,
the direct OS integration with AI tooling, using
that to train on your OS data without your consent,
the even more inclusion of ads directly in the
operating system. Just like, I can't. Like, anytime
someone asks me to help them with something on
Windows, like, I'll try, but I just don't care
at all about Windows at this point. It's not
a fan at all. Do you consider that you hate Windows?
I guess so, but I'm also not going to tell someone
not to use the thing they like. If Windows is
working for you, if Windows is the thing you
need for your workflow... It's your computer.
It's your life. Do the thing you want to use.
If I can convince you to use Linux, hey, that's
awesome. Come out. Come try and see what it's
like. But if Windows is doing what you want it
to do, it doesn't really bother me. Okay. Makes
sense. I was recently hired at a new company.
And I'm going to be using Windows, a ThinkPad
with Windows. I try to go with a different operating
system. There's no choice. You know, it's just
one of those big corporate. So there's nothing
you can do. And Mac, what are your thoughts on
Mac recently? Have you played with it recently?
I have been so out of the loop with macOS for
so long. I honestly... I have no idea what's
happening in the Apple ecosystem. Okay. So you
don't have any thoughts on macOS at the moment?
Not really. I haven't heard anyone really complaining
about it. I know Apple's just doing the normal
Apple thing they do where they come five years
late to something and they say they invented
it by giving it a new name. But besides that,
like... I saw a recent Apple event where they
announced that iPadOS has a calculator now and
everyone cheered. So I don't know. Yeah. Yeah,
definitely. Yeah. I didn't use macOS back in
the day, but now it's a little bit better, I
would say. You get at least window managers and
you have a few options, right? It's getting better
if you're more into the Linux side of things.
It's not Linux, of course. You know, it's not
as cool as Linux, but you have a few options.
So I would say it's decent at the time. And do
you think there's like a rivalry between Mac
OS and Linux communities? Or what are your thoughts
there? I can't really speak for anybody else.
I have quite a few Mac viewers in my audience
because a lot of the tooling we use on Linux,
because it's like a lot of it has that Unix base.
It's going to work just fine on Mac. And like,
I don't really, I don't know. I feel like a lot
of the people who use Apple devices aren't really
techie people to begin with. Obviously there's
like weird switch where a lot of my university
professors were. hard apple people they were
developers on apple because they used to use
unix back in the 80s and apple is kind of like
the it's the modern corporate unix um but i don't
really find as much rivalry i i i sort of feel
like a lot of people i don't know i feel like
a lot of people like fairly welcoming of it and
there's a lot of big projects i know that are
developed by apple people they work great on
um on linux and Vice versa as well. And yeah,
at least from my experience, it doesn't seem
like it. Hmm. Okay. Okay. Now I asked this question
to DistroTube as well, you know, cause, um, Oh,
well, what are, I did watch your PewDiePie video,
you know, that reaction that you did. What are
your thoughts like on him bringing a lot of new
people over to Linux? What are your thoughts
on that? I actually have a plan to do a video.
a sort of follow -up video to this sort of comparing
the way that linus tech tips did their video
and pewdiepie did his video because i feel like
with pewdiepie he genuinely wanted to learn linux
he wanted to become a linux user and wanted to
understand like why this was a thing that people
like and he came out of that really enjoying
it and i think that was very beneficial because
people It wasn't someone sitting there for 20
minutes just complaining about Linux. Yeah, there
were certainly problems, absolutely. But it sort
of showed what Linux was capable of and made
people excited for it. And I saw a lot of people
trying it out after that. Whereas with the LTT
stuff, they kind of just... I don't know if they
want it. Luke seemed like he was going fine with
it, but... Linus, I don't know if he wanted to
come out of it hating it, or what the goal was
there, but it... I feel like there are a lot
of problems there that could have been addressed
with just a little bit more thought, and it's
just like, the second something goes wrong, give
up, the thing's broken, move on to something
new. Yeah, it's like if someone would ask me
to review Windows right now, I would probably
wouldn't do my best job, and... Wouldn't make
it look good. Something like that happened with
Linus and Linux, right? And you mentioned LTT.
Were you a fan of Anthony? Well, it was Anthony
back then. It's now Emily. Did you enjoy Anthony's
back -in -the -day videos? Absolutely, yeah.
No, I felt like that was some of the best content
that was coming out of LTT. Like, I think at
this point, I know that LTD's talked about wanting
to do another Linux series. And what I really
wished happened is there was sort of like a discussion
with Linux people about like what went wrong
there, like how to fix problems. And I don't
know, I do think having some sort of Linux voice
around. whether it be whether being Emily or
whether it be anyone else like having someone
there who's actually a Linux user who can really
talk like through the problems because Yes, it's
it's one thing to go in blind. Most people aren't
going in blind like they're going in with YouTube
videos. They're going in with tutorials They
might have a friend who uses Linux who can guide
you through things when you have a problem So
I was subscribed to the LTT channel. I used to
enjoy their videos, Emily's videos. I used to
enjoy them. That's the ones that I watched the
most. Right. But ever since Emily left, I don't
watch them. I unsubscribe from the channel. I
watch a few of them sometimes just to see what's
going on. And I just see marketing stuff, you
know, ads basically. Right. So would you like
to see? emily back in the channel or what are
your thoughts there with ltd she's moved on for
i don't i don't know what reasons she'd left
the company i'm sure there's some reason there
um i would like them just to have some i don't
know like i'm sure they've heard this plenty
of times like you know more go back to the roots
what the channel used to be like doing a lot
of like fun tech stuff i i i i feel like ltd
is one of those channels that's hired so many
people that they can't really make a change because
they need to make the videos as sort of general
as possible get as many views as possible because
if they don't do that you can't afford all of
the employees you've got at this point it the
ship's basically too big to turn yeah it's turning
like into a mr beast type of thing i guess right
okay and um This is something else that I also
asked DT advice about. Like, I've been wanting
to try Linux, but I don't know which distro to
play around with. What I'm looking for is this
stability. Mainly, I want to turn my computer
on and I want it to work. I want to record videos
and I just want the audio to work, OBS to work,
and everything else, you know, to work as well.
That's the reason why I'm still in macOS. But
what would you say is a good distro to try? I
don't want to be installing dependencies. If
I'm going to install a package that is going
to break other packages, I'm probably not into
that. Right, right, right. Well, I've been an
Arch Linux user for the past five years. I'm
not going to tell you to use Arch Linux, but
honestly, I... You can't really go wrong with...
I know people want to recommend various different
fancy things, but you can't really go wrong with
a basic recommendation like Ubuntu or Fedora.
Everything's going to have problems because you're
not having the full level of testing that you
get from something like a macOS or Windows. You're
going to run into a lot more issues because of
that. But of the things that are out there, There's
absolutely nothing wrong with those as recommendations.
I do think the... It's kind of a hit and miss
for some people, but I would generally steer
people clear of the GNOME desktop as their first
experience, just because it is such a different
kind of way to use a system. I guess coming from
macOS, it's probably more familiar, but I would
still probably push someone more towards the
KDE side, so... a kubuntu or fedora kde let me
just quickly show you my screen so you can maybe
have a better idea of how i use it you know and
recommend something there so oh this is your
screen this is my screen here okay so one app
on the screen at a time i go to my browser terminal
if i go to youtube oh i'm not gonna open youtube
because i don't know if i have my analytics up
there or something but that's basically what
i do you know just a single app on the screen
window manager basic stuff i don't need fancy
animations you know if you notice i just switch
between the apps like that and that's the way
that i switch between basically all the different
applications with with keyboard shortcuts uh
just the bar on the top that tells me like the
application that i'm on and a few other things
that i need just need to see like if i have packages
that i need to update that's why i have this
little icon here that tells me you have 10 packages
that you need to update. So I just go in and
update every now and then. Right. So basically
this I don't need anything fancy. I just need
something stable. And that looks cool. You know,
I don't want to I don't want it to look really
outdated and stuff like that. But stability and
just this basic functionality. I don't know if
the window manager I should use this I3 or if
there's something else that I should be aiming
for. Well, if this is the kind of workflow you're
doing, honestly, yeah, window manager would make
a lot more sense to you. When I start recommending...
This is a problem, right? If I'm going to recommend
something, I want someone to be going straight
to Weyland. But I... I... I don't know the full
extent of your workflow. I don't know if there's
anything currently on Wayland that wouldn't work
for you. The Wayland version of i3 would be Sway
in that case. But I do think try out i3 and just
see how that goes. And there is a... i3 version
of fedora if you wanted to use that fedora i3
and that should give you like a good starting
point to work off from there okay and what is
wayland is it like the window manager because
i just hear all these words in your videos wayland
right compositors i have no idea i just know
that window managers exist in mac os but in linux
you guys talk about so much different stuff that
i'm confused right understandable um okay so
x11 is this protocol set from 1984 yeah uh this
has been the basis for unix graphics since then
like whether we're talking linux now i guess
linux back in the early 2000s uh sun and pretty
much every other unix system that's come along
since then you actually can use x11 on mac os
as well i think i think there's a thing called
Zephyr? Something like that. I don't know. I
don't remember what it's called. But there is
a way you can make use of that as well. So this
is like a really old protocol set that was being
used for graphics. And being an old protocol
set, it was designed at a very different time
for using a system. Back when, you know, the
original reason it was designed is universities
would have a big main system and then people
would connect to it from a terminal. So you didn't
have these... individual personal systems you
would basically be using one big computer and
then remote into that um whereas wayland is a
more modern approach started around the early
2000s specifically designed around personal computer
use and there's a lot of sort of i guess Security
flaws that exist inherently in X11 because of
the way it was designed, like no access control
for your shortcuts, for example. So writing a
keylogger on X11 takes two lines of Python code.
But my only reason for being kind of wary of
recommending Wayland is there are things that
are still a work in progress, like... Global
shortcuts for OBS. So if you want to use your
key bindings in OBS when the window is not, like
when you don't have the cursor over the window,
that's something you'd want to have, their global
shortcuts. Or you want to use push to talk in
Discord, that would also be global shortcuts.
Most things have gotten pretty solid, and the
majority of Linux users now are using a Wayland
-based environment. But... There's still those
issues where things can kind of be a little bit
rough, but by going X11, you lose out on a lot
of modern display features like variable refresh
rate and different refresh rates on different
monitors and other things which are nice to have.
So it's the better solution to go with Wayland.
It's just, there's... there's like issues there
that you might run into depending on the kind
of system you're using where it makes it kind
of hard to recommend it without really having
a full understanding of everything else you're
using but basically like um it's pretty the the
tldr is it's the protocol set being used behind
the graphical server so i3 runs on x11 or the
implementation of it the xorg server and then
sway is a re -implementation of that made to
run on wayland instead hmm okay yeah mac os you
don't have like a lot of different features i'm
not gonna i'm i'm not used to fancy stuff so
as long as i can have one application on the
screen at a time and something very important
as well is this padding section that i have here
so i guess that's something that you can configure
right so if you notice this on the right side
this is the padding section of the because i
use the window manager in stack mode right so
This here is just the padding that I left there.
So I can keep this application there all the
time, right? So even if I switch to other app,
that one remains there in the padding section.
I have never seen a window manager on Linux do
that. That's actually really cool. Yeah, but
it's just the padding. It's just something that
I came up with, right? Because people usually
leave padding on the top, bottom, left, like
everywhere, right? So I just left... Right, right,
right. Just the padding on the right side and
just put that application there manually. This
is not managed by my window manager, right? So
I can move it around. Because it's just, you
know, laying there, basically. Right. Okay, okay.
You could probably replicate something like that
on i3 as well, because you can set padding. But
I guess the way you would do that is you'd probably,
you'd probably pin that window. So it's going
to display on every workspace. Yep. I pin it.
Yeah. Yeah. That would be the way I would go
about that. Probably I3 then, right? Yeah, i3
is pretty easy to get your head around. So if
you want to learn the intricacies of a Linux
window manager, it's very easy to configure.
It's pretty well configured out of the box. It's
very well documented. There's a lot of tutorials
on how to use it if there's anything you're unsure
about how to use. It has a IPC that you can use
to interact with it through a programming language.
It's just generally all around good. And if you
then eventually want to swap over to Wayland
because you learn more about how that side works
and you feel like there's something there that
is going to improve your experience, you can
take that directly to Sway because it's one -to
-one compatible. Yeah, the problem is that I'm
not going to feel cool if I use i3. Everyone's
talking about Wayland these days and I'm going
to be making videos about i3. It's like, do you
live in the 80s or something, right? So Wayland
would definitely give me more content, I think.
Maybe you'd stand out still using X11. There's
less and less people doing so. I think most Linux
YouTubers at this point, besides, like, there's
a couple of people. There's one guy who, he runs
Debian, runs really old window managers that
came out in the 90s and haven't been updated
since the 90s. So I guess you can fit right in
there. Oh, I think I've seen him. Jay? Okay,
I was thinking of someone else. I was thinking
of Drew. Just a guy at Linux. Okay. And one of
the recommendations that DT gave me for the stability
that I'm looking for, he mentioned, what about
Debian? Debian stable? You just use flat packs
for applications that you need to run like OBS,
stuff like that. What are your thoughts on that?
My only concern with Debian is... how new the
hardware in your system is going to be. If you
want to run a really new GPU, you're going to
run into problems in those first couple of months
on Debian until updates start rolling out. If
you're the kind of person who runs a generation
back, it won't be a problem. But Debian... it's
slow to update which means it's slow to get new
hardware support so you got to be a little bit
cautious about that yeah that's the next topic
actually what are your thoughts because if i'm
gonna build a linux machine probably i'll use
something that i have laying around to start
with but if i decide to take it seriously i don't
want to build it myself i know hardware compatibility
is not the the way that it used to be in the
past, which is what was a little bit painful.
I remember my first days with Ubuntu back in,
I don't know, 20 years ago, right? Right, right.
I would probably purchase a System76 or a Framework
laptop, you know? What are your thoughts on those
two companies? I've personally not used their
devices. I do know a number of engineers at System76.
I've had the CEO of the company on the podcast
a couple of times. Really cool dude. Everyone
there is great people. I think they're doing
great work on the software side. I can't really
comment about their hardware as I've not really
used it. But System76 is basically... They're
basically a... What's the word for it? White
label? Is that it? Where you take existing laptops
and you repackage them with new software. I install
Coreboot on them and install their Linux distro
and things like that. So because it has their
distro on it, you kind of know that it's... Linux
is going to be well -supported on this hardware.
When it comes to framework... I've not spoken
to anyone there. I can't really comment on that,
but I do know they specifically have Linux community
employees there, and they are very focused on
ensuring that Linux support is good, even if
that's not something they are directly offering.
So everything I've heard about the company, it
seems like Linux support is basically perfect.
Yeah, makes sense. would probably be one of my
two options. I think I would go more for the
framework side of things. I'm not sure, but okay.
Right, right, right. Now, the way that I share
my camera, I don't have a professional camera.
This is my phone, the one that I'm using right
now, and macOS just recognizes it as a camera.
Right. Is there... I'm not planning on buying
a camera. Is there... some alternative that you
know of in Linux that you can do something kind
of similar? Probably the easiest thing you can
do is, even though it's called this, it works
on iOS as well, there is an app called DroidCam.
You can use that and either over Wi -Fi or plugged
into a system. use that as your camera it's i
don't know how quality is gonna be i i don't
use droid cam myself anymore i've used it for
a couple of things here and there um but i always
use the free version which had a 480p limit to
it i think the paid version is like three dollars
or something like that so it's not like a big
expense um so i can't really comment on that
for the ios ecosystem there's definitely ways
you can do it Is it going to be the quality you
get from, like, the macOS 4 integration? Probably
not, but it's something you can test. Okay, okay,
thank you. And window manager, well, we already
talked about that. You prefer BSP, more right
tilings. And monitors, are you a single monitor
guy or multiple ones? I have three monitors.
My layout's kind of weird. My main monitor is
a horizontal monitor because, obviously, you
need a horizontal monitor because it's a computer.
I've got a vertical monitor off to my side here.
This is usually where my Discord is, where my
emails are, various Twitter feed, things that
take up a lot of vertical space. I also have
a third monitor, which is actually... half behind
my main monitor where i can only see the top
half of it so i'm effectively looking at a square
and that is my glorified teleprompter i could
use an actual teleprompter but i just put my
notes right next to my camera so if you ever
watch my videos and you notice i'm looking like
slightly off from where the camera is um yeah
i'm looking at my notes Oh, and do you read like
the entire video? Like it's all written or do
you improvise in your videos? Like the new stuff
that you go over? Um, it's gotten more scripted
as I've gone on, but I don't really follow the
script in a lot of cases. So I kind of use what's
there to hit each point that is important. And
then I usually fill in the gaps as I'm going.
Okay. Okay. Great. And what terminal? do you
use? I currently I'm using alacrity, but I have
used ghosty a couple of times. It's cool. Like
I get it. It's, it's, it's, it's cool. Um, I've
used ST, I've used console, I've used tons of
terminals, but I always just fall back onto alacrity.
Yeah. And is there a reason? Um, honestly, I
have a good config for it. I have a bunch of
keybinds for it that work nice. I've got it nicely
configured. I've got it themed the way I want
it to be. So every time I try something out,
I'm like, yeah, this is nice, but now I'm going
to move my alacrity config over. Okay. Okay.
Makes sense. And what about your keyboard? Do
you use a special keyboard or what do you use?
Can we show it? There we go. There we go. I have
a Logitech G915. It has low profile switches.
If you look up the price for it, I did not pay
the full price for it. I got it half price during
Black Friday. I just have a lot of Logitech hardware
here, like a Logitech mouse here. I've got another
Logitech mouse. I like Logitech gear. Oftentimes
you don't have official configuration support
for software on Linux, but Logitech has a lot
of community support. So I'm pretty much, I'm
happy with Logitech gear. I've always liked Logitech
gear and I can configure it on Linux. So I'm
kind of happy. Have you thought about split keyboards?
I have. I have bad typing habits. So when I try
a split keyboard, it takes me a lot of time to
really get comfortable using it. So it's just
never really been something I've stuck with.
Okay. And which layout do you use? Is it QWERTY
or something else? Yeah, I just use QWERTY. Okay.
Normal, regular person. Yeah, I use QWERTY too.
Yep. And what about Homelab? Do you have a Homelab?
What are your thoughts there? I've definitely
considered messing around with some stuff. Not
at this point. Not a Homelab, I have a VPS for
my website and things like that. But I know there's
a lot of other people and DT is probably a great
example there with his giant audio server and
a bunch of other... a bunch of other fun stuff.
I don't really have anything in that way. I've
got a four -port switch under my bed. That's
my own lab. Okay, okay. And what are your thoughts
on AI? We're almost done here with the questions.
What are your thoughts? Are you in favor of AI
or are you on the complete other side? I think
there's definitely use cases for it. like you
know medical imaging dealing with x -rays things
like that i use whisper to generate subtitles
for my videos and then i modify those by hand
so i definitely think they're at their their
use cases for it um but i feel like a lot of
things it's kind of just like how do we eliminate
as much human element to it as possible how do
we make it as cheap and easy as possible rather
than worrying about necessarily the quality but
quality is getting there and that's that's the
scary part where especially if you look at like
modern demos like vo3 with um modern video generation
and audio generation at the same time it's like
scary good and i think the big concern that i
have is how easy it is to scam people now who
are not very sort of tech savvy it was already
pretty easy with early stuff now you could now
it's basically Almost perfect for someone who
has no idea what they're looking at. Yeah, especially
they have our face, our voice in hundreds of
videos. So, you know. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Are you
working on any projects at the moment that you
want to share? It's a bit of a very early pre
-alpha right now, but I've gotten into doing
some game development stuff recently. I've been
working with the Godot game engine. working on
a little platformer. I've kind of always enjoyed
doing game development. It's super early right
now. Basically, it's pretty much just built off
of the Brackeys Godot tutorial. So there's not
really anything to show there. It's still using
all of the placeholder sprites and all that.
But yeah, that's the main thing I'm doing right
now. I've picked up projects here and there along
the way and kind of just dropped them. But this
one's sticking with me, at least for now. Okay,
and where do you share that? In your main YouTube
channel or in a separate one? Right now, I haven't
actually made any videos on it, but I don't know
where I'm going to put it, actually. I'll work
that out when we get there. Okay, wonderful.
And the last stuff that I have here, the last
question is, what's your experience with the
open source community? What's your take on it?
Is it aggressive? Have you had bad experiences?
What's your overall take on it? an open source
and dealing with the community and that stuff
i think the majority of people are genuinely
just trying to make something cool like they
they make something cool that they personally
want and they share it and you know people also
like the idea and they keep up with it and that's
that's awesome i do think there are certain communities
and certain subsets of certain communities where
i guess they've been in they've got a lot of
attention for a long time and kind of feel like
they're a lot more important than they really
are and kind of let that like position of like
a de facto standard go to their head in some
cases not everyone in these projects for sure
but there's definitely like everything you get
involved in whether it's gaming whether it's
sport whether it's anything else there's always
going to be people you meet who are like You're
not a good person. I don't want to be around
you any longer. But I think the majority of people
just want to do something cool. Okay, okay. Wonderful.
All right, Brody, so I'm just going to share
your channel here on my screen. Well, I guess
probably all of my subscribers are already subscribed
to your channel because I just have a few. So
I'm going to leave your links in the video description,
YouTube channel. Are there any other links that
I should leave there? There's lots of links you
could leave there, but the channel is going to
have all of the links to places I use, even links
I don't use anymore, like the Odyssey, which
I haven't uploaded to in a long time, or the
Instagram, which I don't use, or the Matrix,
which is... Three years dead. I need to update
those links at some point. I need to get around
to that one. But yeah, no, that the YouTube and
the podcast, pretty much the main things and
everything else you can get to from those points.
Okay, wonderful. So again, really appreciate
your time, you know, for sharing with us. I had
a lot of questions. It helped a lot and hope
to see you next time. Absolute pleasure. I enjoyed
it. Okay. Bye.