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Now, Nate, who's on the podcast with me, told

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me that Papa West is the best thing ever. And

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he will tell everybody that it's the best distro.

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It's what he uses. He swears by it. So I don't

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really care for Papa West all that much. I just

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think it's an older version of Debian, actually.

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I'll make a sponsored video if you just give

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me the desk. But you have to make a 10 minute

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long video. What is your audience going to think?

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They're going to call you a sellout. I don't

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care. I don't care. I would have happily taken

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their desk. I actually had to give them my actual

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address. So I thought, well, you know what? I'm

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going to get killed. That was definitely a serial

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killer. It's given up. Have you ever told it?

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Claude does it better or Deep Seek does it better.

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I told Claude, I actually told Claude that today.

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I told him you're way better than chat GPT. If

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you're listening to this as a podcast, remember

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that it was originally recorded as a video. If

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you're not following along, you can go to my

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YouTube channel. My username is Linkarzu. And

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if you want to support me to keep this podcast

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going, you can donate in Ko -fi. I'm going to

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leave a link in the description. All right. So

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let's get started with this chapter then. Hey,

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Matt. How's it going? Hi there. How are you doing?

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I'm doing good, man. Thanks for coming on today

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and sharing with us. Sure, sure, sure. I guess

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most of my audience knows you, right? Because

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if you search for Linux, three people are going

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to show up usually. That's going to be you. DistroTube

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shows up a lot of the times in Brody, right?

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So I have watched your videos. who you are, basically.

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So my name is Matt. I run a Linux channel called

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the LinuxCast, very creatively named. Mostly

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it's just regular content, but we do a podcast

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every week as well, which is why we call it the

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LinuxCast. Everything else is just kind of Linux

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-related stuff. I try distros, applications,

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stuff like that. So yeah, that's pretty much

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it. Also, that's an awesome keyboard. Oh, yeah.

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Which one? We can talk about keyboards in a little

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while. Oh, definitely. Hey, you put a keyboard

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on the screen. I'm going to get distracted by

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it. So you can't blame me for that. Yeah. And

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what is. I've noticed that you have a podcast

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you mentioned, right? So I'm always curious,

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like, so is the Linux cast like. a crew or is

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it just you or how does that work is it more

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than one people so it's me uh drew who does just

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the guy linux on youtube um and nate who's nate

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picks tech world we do it together and then there's

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another guy tyler who's zany on youtube he's

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there every once in a while so there's four of

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us who do it normally and then we have guests

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every once in a while like this past week we

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had nick from the linux experiment on so yeah

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but the channel is yours right or is it a channel's

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mine yep Oh, okay, okay, okay. So I'm looking

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at your videos here and you talk about Linux,

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home labbing, NixOS. I'm curious about NixOS.

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And recently, macOS. You have, let's see, 67

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,000 subscribers. How did it all get started?

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Like, why did you decide that you wanted to start

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doing YouTube? And how did it become so popular?

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Because it's a big channel. OK, so I've been

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the Linux cast itself started in 2017 when one

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of my friends and I decided we're going to switch

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to Linux. And at that point, there was no YouTube

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channel. We just did it as an audio podcast because

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he and I've been podcasting since 2009 for something

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else. And we just decided we're going to switch

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to Linux and make a podcast about it. So that's

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really how I started the podcast was because

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I switched to Linux because of, you know, a friend.

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We did it for a little while. I stayed using

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Linux. He really didn't. So the podcast kind

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of fell down. Not very many episodes. And then

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just kind of like none at all for like two years.

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And then I hopped into the analytics on Spotify

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for the podcast and realized people were actually

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listening to the podcast. There were many years

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old at that point. I was like, you know what?

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Maybe I should start doing this again. I'm going

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to say like mid 2020, like halfway through the

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pandemic, you know, we're all at home. I really

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had nothing to do. I was still using Linux full

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time. So I was like, I'm going to start the podcast

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again. And then in September of that year, I

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decided I needed to put the podcast up in another

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place. So I started a YouTube channel. And at

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first it was just the podcast. And then December,

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the pandemic got worse a little bit. I had more

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time on my hands. So I started making videos

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and basically that's, it got probably by, I'm

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going to say late February of 2020. Okay. I have

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the, I have the years wrong. So that was December,

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2020. I believe it's in March, 2021. Yeah. March,

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2021 district tube shouted me out on his channel.

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I went from 400 subscribers to about 1400 subscribers

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in a day. And then since then, it's just kind

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of grown slowly but steadily. I mean, I'm not

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like going to be Mr. Beast anytime soon, but,

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you know, it's just slow and steady. And yeah,

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now I've been on, you know, Brody's podcast a

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couple of times. I've been I've talked to Nick

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and a few other people and it's kind of that's

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the way it's been. So really, it's all DistroTube's

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fault that I'm where I'm at. I blame him. Yeah,

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but it's 67 ,000. That's a lot. Has it, like

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you mentioned, has it been growing gradually

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or have you had more like bumps, like big bumps

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in subscribers or has it been like steady the

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whole time? There have been a few big bumps.

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So I had one video. on the live display manager

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that went viral you know it got like 200 000

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views and that ended up getting you know that

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ended up getting like two or three thousand extra

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subscribers quite quickly um but other than that

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it's been very slow and steady like 30 or 40

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a day and it just grows every once in a while

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i'll have a big day every once in a while At

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least there for a while, I was getting like,

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you know, 10 subscribers sometimes, you know,

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and that was a slow day. And then I have 14 or

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15. It was last year was my best year where I

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was averaging between 60 and 100 a day. It's

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slowed down since then just because my life has

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gotten a lot busier. I haven't been making as

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many videos. Have you ever felt like discouraged

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to stop doing YouTube or something or you're

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just all in to YouTube? kind of right now to

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be honest with you i'm at a point now where i

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feel like i don't want to talk about distros

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very much anymore i've i'm just kind of i've

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been gone on the whole distro review you know

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first look thing for a long time and the long

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-term reviews which i do like to do but those

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take a long time to accomplish and You know,

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there's only so many times you can talk about

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the big Linux topics. Like, are there too many

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Linux distros, you know, Vim versus Emacs or,

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you know, the best open source browser or, you

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know, whatever. There's only so many topics.

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And I feel like, I mean, I have over a thousand

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videos and I feel like I've covered everything

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that there is to cover. And so it's really hard

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sometimes for me to go through and do figure

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out what I want to do. And now I've tried, I've

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thought about transitioning over to doing more

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like. how -to and tutorial content but those

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are harder videos to do and they don't hardly

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ever do as well because they're more niche you

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know they're just like you're only ever going

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to view that video if you need to know how to

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do that thing and so that's not it's not it doesn't

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feel as rewarding because there's it's a lot

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more effort for less reward you know so right

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i'm at a point right now where i'm still kind

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of I feel like I'm on a transitory period where

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I need to figure out where I'm going with the

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channel next. I still have some content in the

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queue or whatever to pop out, and some distros

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that I'll end up looking at and stuff. The one

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that just kind of really demoralized me the most

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was actually the most recent video I did. I did

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a NixOS video. I assumed that it was going to

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do well, because usually those do. It bombed.

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I don't know why, but it did. That's just YouTube.

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Sometimes you're like, oh my god, this thing

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is going to... It's going to rock, and then all

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of a sudden, 10 out of 10, and nobody watched

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it. The mysterious ways of the algorithm, you

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know? Yeah. Same here, man. It's like, you don't

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know what to expect. You know when some of them

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are going to be a huge hit. You know, I had four

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guests recently. DT was there, DJ, and another

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Niobe maintainer, and another Emacs guy. I knew

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that was going to be big, but usually... I have

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no idea what's going to happen. It's hard to

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predict. That's for sure. Yeah. And is YouTube

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your full -time job or you do something else

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besides it? No. I have another job. I edit words

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for a living. I studied history in college. And

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for a long time, I was writing for a historical

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magazine online. And since then, I've been working

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for them. Oh, God. 13 years now, 14 years, something

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like that. So it's been a long time since I've

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been working for them. And over time, I've just

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kind of gotten promoted. Now I edit for them.

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So I'm a top editor for them. So I edit other

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people's history articles. That's basically what

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I do. Interesting. Okay. Okay. I had no idea.

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I thought it was going to be related to IT or

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something. So it's not at all. I am not at all

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good with computers. They don't like me at all.

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I pretend to be good at computers on TV, but

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I'm not actually good with computers. It's just

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like things just go wrong for me all the time.

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They wouldn't want me in their server room. First

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off, if there was a Windows server in there,

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I'd probably overwrite it with Ventoy. And what

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does your family think about you doing YouTube?

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Like, do they know you're popular? Do they share

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it? I think that the vast majority of them think

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that it's cute. And that I should probably grow

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up and get a real job. Because I don't think

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my editing as an editor is actually that much

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of a real job either. Because all my family is

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like boo -collar guys. You know, they did real

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work. for a living like out in the factories

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and stuff and you know i sit in front of a computer

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all day don't really consider that world world

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work but the the youtube part of it i think my

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mom is shocked that i make money off from it

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uh any amount of money like she she i think she'd

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be less shocked if it was like you know all right

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you made 10 bucks or whatever but like you know

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i mean i made a little bit of money and they're

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like she like enough money that I had to claim

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it on taxes, right? And she was like, really?

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And that was kind of shocking to her. But most

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of them, I think, just think it's a hobby, which

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is what it is. Yeah, it's a hobby. Is it still

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fun, right? Right now, you said that you're in

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a transitioning period and you're trying to see

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what the channel is going to, you know, be about

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in the future, maybe. Do you still find it fun,

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you know, to come up with videos? Are you a one

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-man band? Do you edit? Do you do everything

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or you have someone behind? So I edit all of

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my videos. The podcast is edited by Nate, who's

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also on the podcast, which I'm eternally grateful

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for. That thing's an hour long. I edited it for

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years. I don't want to edit. But mostly I'm a

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one -man band other than the podcast. As for

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do I have fun? Sometimes. Usually the videos

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that I have the most fun on are the ones that

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do the worst. And so that kind of deters me from

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doing the ones I'm interested in. But more I

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have fun with the podcast. I have fun with the

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Linux user group that I do twice a month. You

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know, just a bunch of people getting into a room

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and chatting about Linux. That's fun. The more

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I have more fun when I have free time, I've been

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goaded into trying Emacs again. And I'll tell

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you this, I don't hate it this time. So I've

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had a lot of fun putting that together. I switched

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to NixOS recently because my two -year challenge

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on OpenSUSE was over. I've had fun putting that

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together. So I feel like in the last month or

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so, I've rediscovered Linux a little bit in terms

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of the channel. I don't know about the fun part,

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but the Linux part, I've actually kind of had

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some more fun recently. So, yeah. And how does

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it go with analytics? Because I have a problem

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with that, man. I limited my, you know, YouTube

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analytics application, the YouTube Studio app,

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so that I can only see it 15 minutes a day. And

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I uninstalled it, but I reinstalled it. And I

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just keep coming back to it. I hate it because

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it doesn't make a difference. It doesn't change

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anything. But it's... Like I don't know it's

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tough. Do you do you have a problem with that

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or no when I first started? Yes, absolutely.

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I think that that's, I think if you start getting

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any views, like if you start seeing your videos

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get like 50 views, all of a sudden it becomes

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a thing. Like, oh my God, I have 50 views. I

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got 50 subscribers. You know, I freaked out the

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first time one of my videos got like a thousand

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views. Like I went crazy. I was in that app probably

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every five minutes that day. Like, oh my goodness.

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I actually remember the day that DistroTube shouted

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me out on his channel. I probably actually just

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kept it open, to be honest with you. It was just

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like because they could just keep seeing the

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views and the numbers go up now I'm like it wasn't

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like gonna ever go to him like a million subscribers

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But for me going from 400 to 1400 and in 24 hours,

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that was crazy I was like, oh my god I just gonna

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keep going going and then because you know what

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to get monetized on YouTube you have to get to

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a thousand subscribers like when I fight The

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funny thing is actually think I don't know how

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I can show them But I actually have the screenshots

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of the YouTube studio app like several times

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throughout that day every time I hit like I hit

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500. I hit 700. I hit 1 ,000. And then it's crazy.

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And then when that live video went viral, I also

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did the exact same thing with that. Because it

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didn't go viral when I published it. It was like

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six months later. I opened it up one morning,

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and all of a sudden I had like 30 ,000 views

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for that day, which is absurd. And I was like,

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what the hell happened? So that day I was like,

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I took probably took like 50 screenshots of every

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time. Like, oh my God, it just keeps going and

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going and going. So yeah, I had a serious problem

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looking at that over and over again. And the

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subscribers thing was a big thing because it

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constantly grows. Like I get more every single

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day. And even now I still open it up twice a

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day, at least. It's gotten better. I don't open

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it up. Like I'm not attached to it. But I do

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open it up twice a day, usually in the morning.

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I'll see how it did overnight. Usually it's like,

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oh, my God, I lost five subscribers. Yeah. And

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then, you know, I'll open up at night and see

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how the video I published that day I did or,

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you know, put a post up or something, you know.

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But it's usually just twice a day now, whereas

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before. Yeah. All the time. Like constantly needing.

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Checked it, refreshed. Like, I don't know if

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you ever experienced it, but I have an Android

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phone. On the Android phone, sometimes if you

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refresh too often, it kind of like freezes. So

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you have to like manually kill it in order to

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get it there. And that was very frustrating for

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me sometimes. So yeah, definitely. Yeah, it's

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pretty addictive, that thing. Now, in one of

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your videos, you mentioned that you're 40 years

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old. Is that correct? Yep, born 1985. Man, you

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look pretty young. Everybody says that it's the

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baby face. I have actually gotten carded. So

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fairly recently, which is hilarious because I

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haven't been 21 in 20 years. Oh, yeah. I thought

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you were like 30. It was like, yeah, he must

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be 30. And when you said 40, I was like 40. And

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you look younger than me and I'm 38 right now.

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But yeah. I had my gray hairs in the back. Oh,

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yeah. Okay. Now, something that I want to discuss

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with you is something that I noticed in your

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videos as well. Recently, you bought a Mac, right?

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So would you mind sharing with us why that happened

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and how has the experience been? You love Finder.

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Tell me. You love it, right? I hate Finder with

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a passion, and anyone who likes it is my mortal

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enemy, actually. I've decided this. It is bad.

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So I'm a file manager, a connoisseur, I can't

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even say the word. I'm the king of file managers.

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I'll put that on a shirt. Finder is atrocious

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as it gets really really bad I was astonished

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to find out that it has tabs because the last

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time I used Mac it did not have tabs So kudos

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to them. They're actually adding tabs. It took

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them about as long as it as Windows did with

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Windows Explorer but overall the Mac's fine I

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had a Very hard time getting NFS set up on it

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because my videos are always stored somewhere

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else and I was gonna do the editing on it so

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you want you asked why I bought it because I

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have become attached to DaVinci Resolve. And

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DaVinci Resolve on Linux is, well, it's garbage.

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It's not very good at all. Specifically installing

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it. Installing it is very, very difficult, especially

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if you're on certain distros. Maybe I'll talk

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about that here in a minute. At the time I was

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on OpenSUSE, I installed it with DaVinci Box.

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It worked for a little while. And then an update

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came through and it stopped working. I tried

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multiple things. I tried installing it on the

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hardware here. I tried installing it on the other

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hard drive on another distro. I tried installing

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it on another computer that I have that had an

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NVIDIA card in it. Because usually the NVIDIA

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stuff will work. Nothing worked. Now, Nate, who's

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on the podcast with me, told me that Pop OS is

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the best thing ever. And he will tell everybody

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that it's the best distro. It's what he uses.

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He swears by it. I don't really care for Papa

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West all that much. I just think it's an older

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version of Debian, actually. But it's not actually.

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Don't tell him I said that. Anyways. He got burned.

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Yeah. But anyway, so I installed Papa West on

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there. I did get DaVinci Resolve installed, but

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it wouldn't run. So after messing around for

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like three weeks, trying to get Resolve to work

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on Linux and having to suffer through the indignity

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of using Kdenlive, which Kdenlive is not actually

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that bad, but once you've used Resolve, it's

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really, really hard to go back. I decided I'm

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going to buy a Mac. I found a fairly good deal.

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I got one of those little M4 Mac minis and then

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proceeded to ruin the deal by ending up having

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to get an SSD to go along with it because that

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ballooned the cost up and I ended up having to

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get a stand to go with it and all the accoutrement

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to go with it. And I got that set up and moved

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the monitor over and gave it a dedicated setup,

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had its own keyboard and everything. And turned

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it on and I was like, well, this is pretty, but

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almost useless for me. It just feels useless

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to me. And it's not that it actually is. It's

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just that it's very constrained more than I'm

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used to. I'm used to doing whatever I want. I'm

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used to doing things in a certain way. I'm used

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to when I want to actually use. Say, for example,

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I mentioned NFS. NFS is hard to set up on macOS

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because the macOS user is not actually 1 ,000

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like Linux is. macOS users is 500. And that means

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you have to go back to your Linux machine and

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basically create Mac its own user on Linux in

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order for you to share between two things. It

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has to be a member of the NFS groups and everything

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that's associated with it in order for that to

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actually work. Otherwise, you can get to any

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NFS, but it's all it's all read only. So it took

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me probably three or four days to figure that

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out. And a ton of trips to chat GPT because there's

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there's very few people actually apparently who'd

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share files between Mac and Linux and especially

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with NFS. Now, Samba, there's a lot more like

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documentation out there, but I can't stand Samba.

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So I had to use NFS. But anyways, yeah, that

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that was. That was probably the hardest part.

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Resolve, though, worked fantastically well. Like,

00:21:51.890 --> 00:21:54.730
exactly how it should, had all the codecs and

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stuff, which you never experience on Linux, no

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matter how well you get it to run. And I think

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the other thing that I had the biggest problem

00:22:01.609 --> 00:22:03.369
with was the scrolling. And it's not the direction

00:22:03.369 --> 00:22:05.809
of the scrolling, it's just you have to install...

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Like, I have a MX Master... I don't actually

00:22:10.440 --> 00:22:13.480
use this very often. I use an Elcom Huge as my

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main. But for that setup, I was going to use

00:22:16.619 --> 00:22:19.779
the regular mouse. And in order for the scrolling

00:22:19.779 --> 00:22:23.960
to work very well, you have to install the Logitech

00:22:23.960 --> 00:22:27.210
software. This is a new experience for me because

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on Linux, it just works, which is a weird thing

00:22:29.869 --> 00:22:33.490
to say, right? Usually in Mac and Windows, it

00:22:33.490 --> 00:22:35.750
just works. But there I had to install the software.

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On Linux, it worked fine. And I don't know if

00:22:39.630 --> 00:22:41.309
you've ever experienced Logitech software or

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not, but it's basically like installing a Trojan

00:22:44.809 --> 00:22:48.369
horse onto your computer. I have it installed

00:22:48.369 --> 00:22:52.589
on Mac. You cannot uninstall it easily. And it

00:22:52.589 --> 00:22:55.109
pops up all the time. Like you did an update

00:22:55.109 --> 00:22:57.450
yesterday. Why do I need to do an update again?

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I don't understand. It's so stupid. How often

00:23:00.049 --> 00:23:02.990
are you updating this thing? I cannot uninstall

00:23:02.990 --> 00:23:05.369
it because it comes with an uninstaller. I don't

00:23:05.369 --> 00:23:08.109
know where the uninstaller went. So now I don't

00:23:08.109 --> 00:23:12.829
use the Logitech, what, microphone? Is it a microphone?

00:23:12.930 --> 00:23:15.130
I think. But I cannot install that thing. So

00:23:15.130 --> 00:23:17.569
I just disabled it and it's just whatever. It's

00:23:17.569 --> 00:23:22.700
running there still. Even if you reinstalled

00:23:22.700 --> 00:23:25.000
Mac OS, it'd still find its way on your computer

00:23:25.000 --> 00:23:27.279
somehow. It's like a cockroach. It can't die.

00:23:28.490 --> 00:23:31.890
Yeah, so overall experience on macOS was fine.

00:23:33.450 --> 00:23:36.390
I'm in a situation right now where I don't actually

00:23:36.390 --> 00:23:38.690
need it, which is hilarious, because when you

00:23:38.690 --> 00:23:40.990
arranged this podcast, I was still using it basically

00:23:40.990 --> 00:23:43.269
every day to edit videos. But since then, I've

00:23:43.269 --> 00:23:46.650
switched to NixOS, and NixOS has Resolve in the

00:23:46.650 --> 00:23:49.329
repositories. You can just install it from the

00:23:49.329 --> 00:23:54.529
repositories, and it works. It works. It doesn't

00:23:54.529 --> 00:23:56.430
have the codecs that you want, which is fine,

00:23:56.470 --> 00:23:59.470
and the update. This that came down murdered

00:23:59.470 --> 00:24:03.089
it. But, you know, I managed to fix that. OK.

00:24:03.269 --> 00:24:06.170
But anyways, yeah, I have a Mac. It's for sale.

00:24:06.630 --> 00:24:11.170
Oh, so you're done with the Mac already. I'm

00:24:11.170 --> 00:24:15.450
not. OK, so probably not. I'm going to keep it

00:24:15.450 --> 00:24:18.369
as a back because, like I said, Resolve is notoriously

00:24:18.369 --> 00:24:23.390
flaky on Linux. Like eventually, like yesterday

00:24:23.390 --> 00:24:27.190
afternoon, I did an update on Nexos. And I went

00:24:27.190 --> 00:24:33.630
from 20 .0 to 20 .0 .1 on Resolve. And I booted

00:24:33.630 --> 00:24:37.150
into it today to edit a video. I already had

00:24:37.150 --> 00:24:39.529
the project saved. So I double -clicked on the

00:24:39.529 --> 00:24:42.289
project. Usually it just loads up. Today, it

00:24:42.289 --> 00:24:45.609
froze. And for the life of me, I couldn't figure

00:24:45.609 --> 00:24:47.049
out what was going on. I opened it up in the

00:24:47.049 --> 00:24:49.089
terminal and thought maybe I'd see some errors

00:24:49.089 --> 00:24:51.769
or something. And I hopped on AI again to see

00:24:51.769 --> 00:24:54.009
if they could help me out. I called one of my

00:24:54.009 --> 00:24:57.480
NixOS friends. And basically, you know, it was

00:24:57.480 --> 00:25:00.660
just a bad update. So I had to learn how to go

00:25:00.660 --> 00:25:04.779
back. But my point is that yesterday, if you'd

00:25:04.779 --> 00:25:06.880
asked me, absolutely, I'm selling the Mac because

00:25:06.880 --> 00:25:11.940
it's expensive. I get my $100 back. But with

00:25:11.940 --> 00:25:13.619
the experience I had today with Resolve, I think

00:25:13.619 --> 00:25:16.119
I better keep it because if I have to edit a

00:25:16.119 --> 00:25:21.140
video and Resolve does its Resolveness. I probably

00:25:21.140 --> 00:25:22.920
better have something that I can edit videos

00:25:22.920 --> 00:25:27.759
on. But right now, it's literally not on. It

00:25:27.759 --> 00:25:30.059
is connected to my KVM switch, which I probably

00:25:30.059 --> 00:25:33.119
will end up changing because sometimes that has

00:25:33.119 --> 00:25:35.660
problems with connectivity with the keyboard

00:25:35.660 --> 00:25:39.740
or whatever. But I may end up putting it on its

00:25:39.740 --> 00:25:41.559
own monitor again or something. I don't know.

00:25:42.940 --> 00:25:45.819
Just in case you decide to keep it. I hate Finder

00:25:45.819 --> 00:25:48.480
as well. It sucks. It's terrible. We could be

00:25:48.480 --> 00:25:52.259
friends. Yeah, it's terrible. I gave it a try

00:25:52.259 --> 00:25:55.740
and I tried to use it for a long time. Now, I

00:25:55.740 --> 00:25:59.059
finally gave up. There's this tool. If you see

00:25:59.059 --> 00:26:03.480
my screen right now. It's a finder alternative.

00:26:03.740 --> 00:26:06.299
It's called Forklift. It's not free, you know,

00:26:06.299 --> 00:26:09.920
but it comes in a subscription that I paid for,

00:26:09.960 --> 00:26:12.519
so I just installed it. And it has a dual pane

00:26:12.519 --> 00:26:16.059
thing, right? So on each pane, you can have multiple

00:26:16.059 --> 00:26:20.799
tabs. You can have the thingy on the side, the

00:26:20.799 --> 00:26:24.019
preview on the other side, and you can hide them.

00:26:24.180 --> 00:26:29.299
So if you ever want to... better finder on macOS,

00:26:29.539 --> 00:26:32.359
I would recommend this one probably. I haven't,

00:26:32.359 --> 00:26:34.640
I tried another one and it was really buggy.

00:26:34.740 --> 00:26:38.599
It was horrible. This one works decently. It

00:26:38.599 --> 00:26:43.160
looks very nice. I will, so I know you're a little

00:26:43.160 --> 00:26:45.240
disappointed that I'm no longer like a Mac user,

00:26:45.380 --> 00:26:47.500
but so, but we can talk about my previous Mac

00:26:47.500 --> 00:26:50.329
experience if you want. So back in college. I

00:26:50.329 --> 00:26:52.730
was a full -time Mac user. Like I used Mac full

00:26:52.730 --> 00:26:55.529
-time. I had one of the white clamshell Macs

00:26:55.529 --> 00:26:57.569
for a couple of years because every university

00:26:57.569 --> 00:26:59.589
student had to have one. They like threw those

00:26:59.589 --> 00:27:04.069
things at us at Michigan State. Like every six

00:27:04.069 --> 00:27:06.490
weeks or whatever, they would have like a deal

00:27:06.490 --> 00:27:07.970
at the computer store. Like you can have one

00:27:07.970 --> 00:27:10.109
of these for like $400. Like, okay, well, hand

00:27:10.109 --> 00:27:13.869
me two. And then when I got out of college, I

00:27:13.869 --> 00:27:18.940
bought a 2009 iMac. one of the big chunky boys,

00:27:19.119 --> 00:27:22.839
before they did the remake. So I was a Mac user.

00:27:23.180 --> 00:27:25.940
Granted, I'd been out of college for 15 years,

00:27:26.160 --> 00:27:30.059
so it's been a minute. But back then, just because

00:27:30.059 --> 00:27:33.039
we were talking about Finder, because Finder

00:27:33.039 --> 00:27:36.559
was worse back then. It was really bad. Because

00:27:36.559 --> 00:27:40.259
they didn't even have tabs back then. There was

00:27:40.259 --> 00:27:42.539
one called, I believe it was called Pathfinder.

00:27:42.759 --> 00:27:45.779
Oh, I tried that one and it was buggy. That is

00:27:45.779 --> 00:27:47.099
the one that I tried. Well, it may not be still

00:27:47.099 --> 00:27:49.039
maintained or something because it's been around

00:27:49.039 --> 00:27:50.539
for a very long time. But that thing, you could

00:27:50.539 --> 00:27:53.440
attach like seven panes. You get seven panes

00:27:53.440 --> 00:27:55.720
all over the place and had a built -in terminal.

00:27:56.019 --> 00:27:58.759
It was amazing. It was also like $80, I think.

00:27:58.859 --> 00:28:00.980
That was before the whole subscription mania

00:28:00.980 --> 00:28:04.420
where everything was a subscription. You know,

00:28:04.440 --> 00:28:05.960
I paid for that. I was like, oh, that's awesome.

00:28:06.259 --> 00:28:10.339
Actually, when I think of the best file manager

00:28:10.339 --> 00:28:13.279
of all time, that's the one that I think of because

00:28:13.279 --> 00:28:14.859
you can have all the panes. You can put them

00:28:14.859 --> 00:28:17.559
wherever basically you want. It worked really,

00:28:17.680 --> 00:28:21.019
really well. Now my favorite is Crusader, but

00:28:21.019 --> 00:28:24.200
even then I don't use that anymore. I just use

00:28:24.200 --> 00:28:28.519
Ranger. It's just faster. And it's a terminal

00:28:28.519 --> 00:28:31.359
-based one, right? Ranger or, okay. And you can

00:28:31.359 --> 00:28:36.440
use it on Mac as well. Yeah, probably. I'm sure

00:28:36.440 --> 00:28:38.839
you can install it with Brew because it's just

00:28:38.839 --> 00:28:40.859
a Python program, so it's not anything special.

00:28:41.079 --> 00:28:44.680
But on the Mac, I just have Ranger on there,

00:28:44.700 --> 00:28:51.019
or Finder. The thing is, I spent money on the

00:28:51.019 --> 00:28:56.890
hardware. And I just had no interest in spending

00:28:56.890 --> 00:29:00.410
any more money on it. So I knew that there were

00:29:00.410 --> 00:29:02.369
alternatives to Finder out there. I knew about

00:29:02.369 --> 00:29:04.849
Pathfinder, but I'm sure my license is long since

00:29:04.849 --> 00:29:07.589
gone. Even if it was like an eternal license,

00:29:07.890 --> 00:29:09.609
I doubt very much I could go find it because

00:29:09.609 --> 00:29:12.460
I've changed email since then. So I would have

00:29:12.460 --> 00:29:14.460
had to buy it again. And I just had no interest

00:29:14.460 --> 00:29:16.420
in spending any money whatsoever in the Mac App

00:29:16.420 --> 00:29:20.200
Store. Now, I did have an iPhone. I've had iPhones

00:29:20.200 --> 00:29:22.819
off and on over the course of the last 10 years.

00:29:22.880 --> 00:29:24.960
So I have an Apple account. I have a lot of iOS

00:29:24.960 --> 00:29:27.500
software. But I don't have a lot of Mac software

00:29:27.500 --> 00:29:29.579
anymore. Because last time I used it, the Mac

00:29:29.579 --> 00:29:34.500
App Store wasn't even a thing. Getting in there,

00:29:34.579 --> 00:29:37.279
I did explore. I got some free stuff. I downloaded

00:29:37.279 --> 00:29:40.859
a Mastodon client. Toodles, I think was the name

00:29:40.859 --> 00:29:44.279
of the app. I don't even remember. I downloaded

00:29:44.279 --> 00:29:46.099
Vivaldi, but that wasn't in the App Store because

00:29:46.099 --> 00:29:48.660
everything you want isn't actually in the App

00:29:48.660 --> 00:29:51.079
Store. Firefox wasn't in the App Store. Yeah,

00:29:51.119 --> 00:29:53.539
that sucks. The App Store completely and 100

00:29:53.539 --> 00:29:57.809
% sucks. do everything through brew and the app

00:29:57.809 --> 00:30:01.210
store. I, I never use it unless I have like no

00:30:01.210 --> 00:30:04.009
choice at all, but I rather go to the website

00:30:04.009 --> 00:30:06.710
and download it from there than using the app

00:30:06.710 --> 00:30:12.569
store. I will. Okay. So I will say that the way

00:30:12.569 --> 00:30:15.069
Mac installs programs, like traditionally, not

00:30:15.069 --> 00:30:17.609
like brew, but like being able to, you get a

00:30:17.609 --> 00:30:19.529
DMG or whatever it is, and it pops up this window

00:30:19.529 --> 00:30:21.069
and says, here, drag this from here to there.

00:30:21.190 --> 00:30:23.710
It's installed. Congratulations. You know, that's,

00:30:23.710 --> 00:30:27.039
that is, that is like, the way app images was

00:30:27.039 --> 00:30:29.859
supposed to be. And the fact that they didn't

00:30:29.859 --> 00:30:32.880
do that is really weird. But that's like the

00:30:32.880 --> 00:30:35.099
greatest way to install a program ever. Like

00:30:35.099 --> 00:30:36.759
you just download this thing, you drag it into

00:30:36.759 --> 00:30:39.400
your applications folder, it installs. You don't

00:30:39.400 --> 00:30:41.000
have to worry about dependencies or anything

00:30:41.000 --> 00:30:42.880
like that. It just installs. That's probably

00:30:42.880 --> 00:30:45.240
the greatest part about Mac is just you can do

00:30:45.240 --> 00:30:50.319
that. And no other, like Windows still has wizards

00:30:50.319 --> 00:30:53.299
that look like they were developed in 1998. You

00:30:53.299 --> 00:30:57.380
just hit next. All the time. Yeah, yeah. And

00:30:57.380 --> 00:31:00.240
here's a 12 -page EULA that nobody's actually

00:31:00.240 --> 00:31:03.819
going to read. And excuse me, would you like

00:31:03.819 --> 00:31:06.420
it if we closed Windows Explorer and attempted

00:31:06.420 --> 00:31:08.220
to relaunch? If you can't relaunch, you have

00:31:08.220 --> 00:31:11.019
to reboot. Of course, and then afterwards, you

00:31:11.019 --> 00:31:13.579
have to reboot. So Windows hasn't got it. Linux,

00:31:13.799 --> 00:31:16.339
I love Linux because obviously, you know, Linux

00:31:16.339 --> 00:31:21.759
nerd. It has 12 million different ways of installing

00:31:21.759 --> 00:31:25.079
packages, and none of them are the best. None

00:31:25.079 --> 00:31:26.759
of them are the worst. They're just what they

00:31:26.759 --> 00:31:29.640
are. So the fact that the best part of the Mac

00:31:29.640 --> 00:31:32.160
was the way it installs packages, just being

00:31:32.160 --> 00:31:34.779
able to draw it. Now, some of the applications

00:31:34.779 --> 00:31:37.880
eschewed that. DaVinci Resolve installs with

00:31:37.880 --> 00:31:40.519
a wizard. A couple of other ones install with

00:31:40.519 --> 00:31:42.880
a wizard, just like it's a Windows program. But

00:31:42.880 --> 00:31:44.940
most of the time, you just drag it over. And

00:31:44.940 --> 00:31:46.740
that's a very good experience. That's the way

00:31:46.740 --> 00:31:49.920
installing applications should work. But Mac

00:31:49.920 --> 00:31:51.759
is the only one that actually does that, which

00:31:51.759 --> 00:31:54.980
is disappointing. There's another small application

00:31:54.980 --> 00:31:57.920
that I want to just share with you just in case

00:31:57.920 --> 00:32:01.500
that you decide to give it a try. It's called

00:32:01.500 --> 00:32:04.259
Trickster. It changed the way that I work in

00:32:04.259 --> 00:32:06.900
Mac. I don't even use the Finder too much now.

00:32:07.119 --> 00:32:09.619
But if I bring it up, in my case, I just type

00:32:09.619 --> 00:32:13.180
G and it comes up. So it monitors whatever folders

00:32:13.180 --> 00:32:15.500
you want to monitor, right? So let's say that

00:32:15.500 --> 00:32:18.910
I stop recording this video. And I bring this

00:32:18.910 --> 00:32:21.430
app. It's going to show up there so I can drag

00:32:21.430 --> 00:32:25.589
it to DaVinci, for example. Right. Or if I download

00:32:25.589 --> 00:32:28.490
a photo and I save it in my downloads, it's in

00:32:28.490 --> 00:32:31.269
since it's monitoring that folder as well. And

00:32:31.269 --> 00:32:34.109
I show up here in this trickster little app and

00:32:34.109 --> 00:32:37.269
I can drag it to whatever, whatever I want to

00:32:37.269 --> 00:32:42.769
upload it. Right. So for video editing and media

00:32:42.769 --> 00:32:46.910
related stuff, it's kind of useful just in case.

00:32:47.599 --> 00:32:50.579
You want to keep it in mind as well. What do

00:32:50.579 --> 00:32:53.160
you use to edit your stuff? DaVinci as well.

00:32:53.579 --> 00:32:57.000
DaVinci. You're one of us then. Good luck ever

00:32:57.000 --> 00:33:01.220
leaving. You're not leaving the cult, man. Yeah.

00:33:01.380 --> 00:33:04.539
That way it's easy to transition into Linux if

00:33:04.539 --> 00:33:11.220
I ever do. Now, regarding NexOS. What happened

00:33:11.220 --> 00:33:16.509
there? Okay, so. I do these challenges. Basically,

00:33:16.750 --> 00:33:19.750
it's a challenge. So I'm a big distro hopper,

00:33:19.750 --> 00:33:22.809
or at least I was. I love to install Linux and

00:33:22.809 --> 00:33:25.789
move from distro to distro. But at a certain

00:33:25.789 --> 00:33:27.390
point, I just got sick of it. And I wanted to

00:33:27.390 --> 00:33:29.730
challenge myself to get out of that habit. So

00:33:29.730 --> 00:33:32.630
two years ago, I challenged myself to use the

00:33:32.630 --> 00:33:34.710
same distro for two years. That was OpenSUSE

00:33:34.710 --> 00:33:38.269
Tumbleweed. And in July, that two years was up.

00:33:38.619 --> 00:33:41.000
I won that challenge. I'm very happy to say that.

00:33:41.220 --> 00:33:43.579
But I wanted to challenge myself again because

00:33:43.579 --> 00:33:47.359
OpenSUSE was very, very good. I always show the

00:33:47.359 --> 00:33:50.240
sticker on my videos. I got myself an OpenSUSE

00:33:50.240 --> 00:33:53.200
sticker. I need to get myself a NixOS sticker

00:33:53.200 --> 00:33:58.240
so I can equal opportunity. But basically, the

00:33:58.240 --> 00:33:59.779
time was up and I wanted to challenge myself.

00:34:00.400 --> 00:34:02.859
to a new distro because OpenSUSE was just, it

00:34:02.859 --> 00:34:04.660
was very good, very, very stale, but I needed

00:34:04.660 --> 00:34:07.359
to move on to something different. So I, I chose

00:34:07.359 --> 00:34:09.840
between NixOS and Gentoo. I decided on NixOS

00:34:09.840 --> 00:34:12.920
because I've had some very interesting conversations

00:34:12.920 --> 00:34:16.739
with the, with the community. They're very prickly

00:34:16.739 --> 00:34:23.739
folks, the NixOS guys. So I, I, so, all right,

00:34:23.739 --> 00:34:27.400
let me tell you a story. I made a video. entitled,

00:34:27.400 --> 00:34:30.079
NixOS is not a real distro. I wish I actually

00:34:30.079 --> 00:34:31.920
had my hat. I have a hat that actually says it

00:34:31.920 --> 00:34:34.079
on there. It says, NixOS, not a real distro.

00:34:35.059 --> 00:34:37.159
I did that in spite of those people. But anyways,

00:34:37.260 --> 00:34:39.199
I made a video basically claiming that it wasn't

00:34:39.199 --> 00:34:40.619
a real distro, because there's so much different

00:34:40.619 --> 00:34:44.059
about NixOS than traditional Linux distros. There's

00:34:44.059 --> 00:34:46.380
just stuff that's not where it usually is. It's

00:34:46.380 --> 00:34:49.159
all stored in one directory, basically. Everything

00:34:49.159 --> 00:34:51.679
else is different than... Linux is, and it just

00:34:51.679 --> 00:34:54.119
kind of emulates a Linux distro. And it's all,

00:34:54.199 --> 00:34:56.199
instead of using a regular package manager, you

00:34:56.199 --> 00:34:58.579
configure it in a configuration file, all this

00:34:58.579 --> 00:34:59.920
stuff, right? So I just got on there. It was

00:34:59.920 --> 00:35:02.980
very, I didn't say anything negative about NixOS.

00:35:03.000 --> 00:35:05.039
In fact, I'm pretty sure I said it was an excellent

00:35:05.039 --> 00:35:10.239
operating system, but that triggered. So many

00:35:10.239 --> 00:35:13.860
people. Like, they were mad. Some of them were

00:35:13.860 --> 00:35:15.639
so mad that they left death threats and told

00:35:15.639 --> 00:35:18.619
me to go kill myself. So I had to pull the video

00:35:18.619 --> 00:35:22.980
down because they got so upset about that. And

00:35:22.980 --> 00:35:25.059
at that point, I was like, I'm done with NixOS.

00:35:25.139 --> 00:35:27.699
I'm never touching this thing again. But I figured

00:35:27.699 --> 00:35:31.139
that that was letting them win. So when my two

00:35:31.139 --> 00:35:33.119
years was up on OpenSUSE, I decided to go to

00:35:33.119 --> 00:35:36.460
NixOS. And I've been there now for, oh, I don't

00:35:36.460 --> 00:35:43.019
know. 35 days is how long I've been on there.

00:35:43.139 --> 00:35:47.539
So yeah, I've had a good time. It's a very good

00:35:47.539 --> 00:35:52.340
Linux -based operating system. It's not a distro.

00:35:52.760 --> 00:35:55.239
It's not a traditional Linux distro. I will stand

00:35:55.239 --> 00:35:59.480
by that. So I don't know what's your experience

00:35:59.480 --> 00:36:02.619
with Linux. How much Linux have you actually

00:36:02.619 --> 00:36:07.599
used? I installed Arch like a week ago or two

00:36:07.599 --> 00:36:12.630
weeks ago. And that was your first? My first

00:36:12.630 --> 00:36:14.690
experience with the desktop with Arch because

00:36:14.690 --> 00:36:17.269
I have used Linux in servers, Debian. I have

00:36:17.269 --> 00:36:19.929
like three servers. I run like, I don't know,

00:36:19.949 --> 00:36:24.329
20 Debian VMs. But just that, you know, just

00:36:24.329 --> 00:36:28.670
SSH, no graphical. So that's the really confusing

00:36:28.670 --> 00:36:32.949
part for me because I didn't want to do the manual

00:36:32.949 --> 00:36:36.489
thing because what am I going to learn? pasting,

00:36:36.489 --> 00:36:38.550
copying and pasting commands. I'm not going to

00:36:38.550 --> 00:36:41.889
learn too much. Probably I will, but I have my,

00:36:42.010 --> 00:36:45.530
you know, I have experience with Linux, not desktop

00:36:45.530 --> 00:36:48.429
at all, you know? So that was the really confusing

00:36:48.429 --> 00:36:50.869
part. Like, should I go with Hyperlens? Should

00:36:50.869 --> 00:36:53.829
I, there were like 20 different options in the

00:36:53.829 --> 00:36:56.250
Arch install thingy and I was like completely

00:36:56.250 --> 00:36:59.349
lost. And then I chose the incorrect greeter,

00:36:59.449 --> 00:37:03.050
someone told me, and I was like, what? Confusing.

00:37:03.190 --> 00:37:08.510
Yep. Too many options. So there is this thing

00:37:08.510 --> 00:37:10.090
going around the Linux community at the moment,

00:37:10.110 --> 00:37:13.449
and it's perpetuated by Arch users who claim

00:37:13.449 --> 00:37:16.469
that Arch is a new user distro. It's just not.

00:37:16.789 --> 00:37:22.130
And it's not even that you configure it and install

00:37:22.130 --> 00:37:25.769
it in a TTY, which is that text -based installer

00:37:25.769 --> 00:37:28.530
that you saw, right? That's, you know, it's not

00:37:28.530 --> 00:37:30.329
even that. It's just that it's, you're right,

00:37:30.389 --> 00:37:34.519
it's too much. It requires too much foreknowledge

00:37:34.519 --> 00:37:37.619
to be able to correctly get to where you need

00:37:37.619 --> 00:37:41.059
to go. Now, people will come at me and say, well,

00:37:41.119 --> 00:37:43.539
Matt, I did. Arch was my first sister. It works

00:37:43.539 --> 00:37:46.949
very, very well. OK, well, that's great. I'm

00:37:46.949 --> 00:37:48.969
very happy for you. But for the vast majority

00:37:48.969 --> 00:37:52.389
of people, Arch isn't that. There's a reason

00:37:52.389 --> 00:37:55.369
why Ubuntu and Linux Mint are the distros that

00:37:55.369 --> 00:37:57.630
we point new users towards because it's a lot

00:37:57.630 --> 00:38:00.349
easier. It's installed with a graphical client,

00:38:00.550 --> 00:38:03.210
just like Windows is, just like Mac OS is. You

00:38:03.210 --> 00:38:04.949
know, you install it basically the same way.

00:38:05.329 --> 00:38:09.289
It runs through user creation. It runs through

00:38:09.289 --> 00:38:11.570
time zone selection, all that stuff, right? There's

00:38:11.570 --> 00:38:15.510
a reason why we point new users towards that.

00:38:16.369 --> 00:38:17.949
Arch just doesn't have any of that stuff. It's

00:38:17.949 --> 00:38:19.710
all different. It's like pointing somebody towards

00:38:19.710 --> 00:38:21.869
NixOS. Where NixOS, the installation isn't hard,

00:38:21.989 --> 00:38:24.650
it's the post install, which would be much harder.

00:38:24.789 --> 00:38:26.929
So the reason why I asked you about your experience

00:38:26.929 --> 00:38:29.570
with Linux was because once you got into the,

00:38:29.610 --> 00:38:31.250
and you would know this from running servers,

00:38:31.469 --> 00:38:33.590
you go into like the root directory, you're going

00:38:33.590 --> 00:38:35.750
to have certain things like the USR directory

00:38:35.750 --> 00:38:37.789
and the ETSI directory and all this stuff, right?

00:38:37.849 --> 00:38:39.869
And they're going to be populated with a bunch

00:38:39.869 --> 00:38:43.329
of stuff. On Nix, the ETSI directory is there

00:38:43.329 --> 00:38:46.619
and most of the stuff is normal. It's the USR

00:38:46.619 --> 00:38:48.159
directory, which I always just call the user

00:38:48.159 --> 00:38:50.000
directory, which is completely different. It's

00:38:50.000 --> 00:38:53.000
empty. There's nothing in it. It's completely

00:38:53.000 --> 00:38:55.679
different than any other distro out there because

00:38:55.679 --> 00:38:59.199
they do it differently, and it's fine. So my

00:38:59.199 --> 00:39:03.219
experience with Nix so far has just been it does

00:39:03.219 --> 00:39:06.079
a lot of things the same way as all Linux does,

00:39:06.179 --> 00:39:08.500
but there are certain things that it just does

00:39:08.500 --> 00:39:12.050
differently. Some of them... have grand advantages

00:39:12.050 --> 00:39:16.449
over regular Linux. Some of them are just kind

00:39:16.449 --> 00:39:22.639
of pains in my ass. NixOS has been a very, it's

00:39:22.639 --> 00:39:25.039
been fun for me, but I would never, like, I wouldn't

00:39:25.039 --> 00:39:27.539
tell you to go install Nix, right? Everyone tells

00:39:27.539 --> 00:39:29.820
me in the comments, you should try Nix. They

00:39:29.820 --> 00:39:31.840
stopped already because I was like, no, I'm not

00:39:31.840 --> 00:39:34.559
doing that. Probably what they're talking about

00:39:34.559 --> 00:39:37.380
is because you can use Nix on Mac. Yeah, Nix.

00:39:38.780 --> 00:39:41.239
It's basically like another version of Brew.

00:39:41.380 --> 00:39:43.139
I mean, they work completely differently. So

00:39:43.139 --> 00:39:46.800
Mac OS fanboys and Nix fanboys get it. I understand

00:39:46.800 --> 00:39:48.559
they work differently, but the idea is that they're

00:39:48.559 --> 00:39:50.539
both package managers. basically what you'd use

00:39:50.539 --> 00:39:53.760
them for. I wouldn't do that. Brew is perfectly

00:39:53.760 --> 00:39:57.260
fine. Now, Nix has more stuff in it and gives

00:39:57.260 --> 00:40:00.480
you access to more stuff, but you'd have to learn

00:40:00.480 --> 00:40:02.679
how to do all the Nix things in order to actually

00:40:02.679 --> 00:40:06.119
make it useful. And Brew, you just copy that

00:40:06.119 --> 00:40:08.159
curl thing off from their website or whatever,

00:40:08.280 --> 00:40:10.059
install it, and all of a sudden you have access

00:40:10.059 --> 00:40:13.179
to every command line tool you've ever could

00:40:13.179 --> 00:40:16.889
possibly want. Or you can create a file. I have

00:40:16.889 --> 00:40:19.550
files, you know, in which I specify all of my

00:40:19.550 --> 00:40:22.070
packages, you know, my root packages. I have

00:40:22.070 --> 00:40:25.170
a script which allows me to set up a Mac in one

00:40:25.170 --> 00:40:28.170
hour, right? It installs all of my packages,

00:40:28.329 --> 00:40:31.349
clones my .files, configures everything, everything

00:40:31.349 --> 00:40:36.909
in root is, you know, what are the benefits of

00:40:36.909 --> 00:40:39.510
Nix? I get, you know, and people tell me that

00:40:39.510 --> 00:40:42.570
it's, you can reproduce your machine pretty easily.

00:40:43.519 --> 00:40:46.619
Is that a real benefit? Okay, so, well, first

00:40:46.619 --> 00:40:48.980
off, it depends on how often you have to reinstall,

00:40:49.039 --> 00:40:50.559
right? Because if you have to reinstall a lot,

00:40:50.639 --> 00:40:52.519
like if you're someone who hops from distro to

00:40:52.519 --> 00:40:55.019
distro, Nix could be, you know, that kind of

00:40:55.019 --> 00:40:57.059
thing for you. But basically what Nix does, and

00:40:57.059 --> 00:41:00.079
the Nix Western guys are going to... hate me

00:41:00.079 --> 00:41:03.039
for this but they basically nix os is an install

00:41:03.039 --> 00:41:06.519
script the thing that you created with brew nix

00:41:06.519 --> 00:41:08.380
does automatically because it has a configuration

00:41:08.380 --> 00:41:10.679
file which is basically a script instead of written

00:41:10.679 --> 00:41:12.380
in bash or whatever you wrote your script in

00:41:12.380 --> 00:41:16.039
um it's written in the nix language and nix language

00:41:16.039 --> 00:41:18.380
is kind of like bash only everything is a function

00:41:18.380 --> 00:41:21.300
instead of things being a lot of different things

00:41:21.300 --> 00:41:23.559
right now there's there's loops and stuff in

00:41:23.559 --> 00:41:25.219
nix just like every other coding language or

00:41:25.219 --> 00:41:27.320
you know whatever but you basically everything's

00:41:27.320 --> 00:41:30.320
a function And the idea here is that you have

00:41:30.320 --> 00:41:32.780
a configuration file. It has a list of all of

00:41:32.780 --> 00:41:35.380
your applications and settings. You take that

00:41:35.380 --> 00:41:37.840
configuration file over to your new machine or

00:41:37.840 --> 00:41:40.400
when you reinstall on your old machine or whatever,

00:41:40.559 --> 00:41:43.420
you point Nix towards that old configuration

00:41:43.420 --> 00:41:46.539
file, enter a command. It rebuilds everything

00:41:46.539 --> 00:41:49.079
from the ground up. You reboot. You have everything

00:41:49.079 --> 00:41:52.280
that you started off with. Basically, probably

00:41:52.280 --> 00:41:54.719
what you did with Brew. You created a script

00:41:54.719 --> 00:41:57.349
that... reinstalls all of your stuff. Nix has

00:41:57.349 --> 00:42:00.090
some extra advantages depending on how you use

00:42:00.090 --> 00:42:05.599
it. So if you're on the OS... You can use Home

00:42:05.599 --> 00:42:08.320
Manager outside of NixOS, but I don't have any

00:42:08.320 --> 00:42:10.519
experience with that. You can use something called

00:42:10.519 --> 00:42:13.340
Home Manager on NixOS, which will extend that

00:42:13.340 --> 00:42:16.659
ability of installing applications to all of

00:42:16.659 --> 00:42:19.460
your configuration files. So things like your

00:42:19.460 --> 00:42:23.380
Ranger configuration file or whatever, like whatever

00:42:23.380 --> 00:42:25.360
application you have, you have all these settings

00:42:25.360 --> 00:42:27.699
or whatever, they're installed inside of Home

00:42:27.699 --> 00:42:30.159
Manager, with Home Manager rather. And then when

00:42:30.159 --> 00:42:33.489
you go to a new machine or reinstall, You point

00:42:33.489 --> 00:42:35.170
it towards those configuration files, it builds

00:42:35.170 --> 00:42:37.789
everything up. You're set with a system set up

00:42:37.789 --> 00:42:41.949
exactly how you want. So, go ahead. Who creates

00:42:41.949 --> 00:42:44.210
these configurations? Let's say for Ranger, right?

00:42:44.530 --> 00:42:47.570
Do you create it from scratch or are they libraries

00:42:47.570 --> 00:42:50.030
in which you go, okay, so here's a template for

00:42:50.030 --> 00:42:53.050
Ranger. I'm going to use it. to start or how

00:42:53.050 --> 00:42:55.610
does that work well you can you can create one

00:42:55.610 --> 00:42:59.510
from scratch if you want to but you usually just

00:42:59.510 --> 00:43:01.210
start off with their default one like they have

00:43:01.210 --> 00:43:02.670
a default one that has filled out with a whole

00:43:02.670 --> 00:43:04.309
bunch of comments or whatever it tells you exactly

00:43:04.309 --> 00:43:07.010
what each line does and then you set your settings

00:43:07.010 --> 00:43:09.050
so like mine i've been using mine for probably

00:43:09.050 --> 00:43:11.210
six years or something that's been just over

00:43:11.210 --> 00:43:13.610
time when i need a new key by now i'll go in

00:43:13.610 --> 00:43:16.230
there plop one in but the The thing about all

00:43:16.230 --> 00:43:19.110
this whole discussion, though, is that you have

00:43:19.110 --> 00:43:22.150
got to be very familiar with the command line.

00:43:22.550 --> 00:43:25.630
And that's where it would never be a good thing

00:43:25.630 --> 00:43:28.690
for a new user because you don't want to point

00:43:28.690 --> 00:43:31.000
someone who... to an operating system that relies

00:43:31.000 --> 00:43:33.000
on that. Now, the next guy will tell you, well,

00:43:33.019 --> 00:43:35.880
you can edit your configuration file in VS Code

00:43:35.880 --> 00:43:38.099
if you want to, which is true. But you still

00:43:38.099 --> 00:43:40.519
have to hop into the terminal to run the command

00:43:40.519 --> 00:43:43.679
to rebuild the system. So you have to have that

00:43:43.679 --> 00:43:46.559
extra knowledge. And that's where it kind of

00:43:46.559 --> 00:43:48.559
falls apart as a new user distro. But I don't

00:43:48.559 --> 00:43:51.840
think I've ever, unlike Arch, where there's people

00:43:51.840 --> 00:43:53.440
all over the place now saying that Arch is a

00:43:53.440 --> 00:43:55.880
new user distro. I don't think I've ever seen

00:43:55.880 --> 00:43:57.840
anybody say NixOS is a great new user distro.

00:43:57.880 --> 00:44:00.900
It's a developer distro is what it is. It's for

00:44:00.900 --> 00:44:04.300
developers and for people who distro hop a lot,

00:44:04.360 --> 00:44:07.639
which is really good. It's also for people that

00:44:07.639 --> 00:44:11.500
are nerds who enjoy getting into a configuration

00:44:11.500 --> 00:44:14.780
file and dealing with, like we talked about Resolve

00:44:14.780 --> 00:44:18.539
earlier. Or yesterday, I did that update. It

00:44:18.539 --> 00:44:20.940
killed Resolve. In order to fix it on XOS, I

00:44:20.940 --> 00:44:22.659
had to do this really complicated thing called

00:44:22.659 --> 00:44:25.420
an overlay. And basically what that entailed

00:44:25.420 --> 00:44:27.840
was me going back several generations, which

00:44:27.840 --> 00:44:29.860
is basically like a snapshot of my system, kind

00:44:29.860 --> 00:44:32.199
of like time shift. It's not exactly the same.

00:44:32.260 --> 00:44:35.920
It's not a backup. It's more like a working mechanism

00:44:35.920 --> 00:44:38.599
for going back in time. But anyways, I went back.

00:44:39.050 --> 00:44:41.070
got Resolve working because it went before the

00:44:41.070 --> 00:44:43.070
update. And then I had to go into my configuration

00:44:43.070 --> 00:44:45.510
file, use something called an overlay in the

00:44:45.510 --> 00:44:49.230
next language to pin Resolve to this version

00:44:49.230 --> 00:44:51.449
so that it doesn't update the next time I update

00:44:51.449 --> 00:44:54.369
my system. It took me three hours to figure out

00:44:54.369 --> 00:44:56.690
how to do that. It took me a lot of trips to

00:44:56.690 --> 00:45:00.530
Claude in order to do it. And when Claude obviously

00:45:00.530 --> 00:45:03.710
failed, because it always fails, I had to go

00:45:03.710 --> 00:45:06.849
to an actual real person and have him help me

00:45:06.849 --> 00:45:10.530
figure it out. And it took forever. That's just

00:45:10.530 --> 00:45:12.469
not the kind of experience you can have as a

00:45:12.469 --> 00:45:13.989
regular person. And even someone who's going

00:45:13.989 --> 00:45:17.090
to use Nix on, like, say you wanted to use Nix

00:45:17.090 --> 00:45:21.559
on Mac. you're still going to have to deal with

00:45:21.559 --> 00:45:23.659
all that stuff because Nix basically would then

00:45:23.659 --> 00:45:27.559
take over for Brew or basically everything, right?

00:45:27.719 --> 00:45:32.659
So it's an experience for developers and nerds,

00:45:32.659 --> 00:45:36.420
basically, but not anybody else. I still think

00:45:36.420 --> 00:45:38.559
it's fantastic, but it's not for everybody. Yeah,

00:45:38.559 --> 00:45:40.719
something that I've realized is that I don't

00:45:40.719 --> 00:45:44.039
like spending time troubleshooting when I don't

00:45:44.039 --> 00:45:46.300
need to. If I want to open Resolve, let's say

00:45:46.300 --> 00:45:49.480
that I want to record the video. and edit a video

00:45:49.480 --> 00:45:53.599
and it doesn't work, I don't want to spend time

00:45:53.599 --> 00:45:56.239
figuring that out. You know, I want to figure

00:45:56.239 --> 00:46:00.599
other stuff out, but not that, you know? So maybe

00:46:00.599 --> 00:46:02.519
it was a one -time thing and it doesn't happen

00:46:02.519 --> 00:46:04.639
all the time, right? Because that's what the

00:46:04.639 --> 00:46:08.179
Nix users are going to say, you know? But is

00:46:08.179 --> 00:46:11.119
that the only experience that, you know, weird

00:46:11.119 --> 00:46:16.659
experience you have had with Nix? Well, I don't...

00:46:17.099 --> 00:46:20.619
I wouldn't say that it's the only way. So I've

00:46:20.619 --> 00:46:25.159
had some prickly things with Nix. So things like

00:46:25.159 --> 00:46:28.280
the Valdi won't install from the repositories

00:46:28.280 --> 00:46:30.780
anymore. You have to install the fly pack. It's

00:46:30.780 --> 00:46:32.800
fine. It's just because whoever maintains that

00:46:32.800 --> 00:46:35.619
particular package hasn't updated it or hasn't

00:46:35.619 --> 00:46:38.670
fixed it or whatever. So there was that. I've

00:46:38.670 --> 00:46:42.389
been working with someone on my Discord who's

00:46:42.389 --> 00:46:46.090
having some issues with getting the GPU. Actually,

00:46:46.170 --> 00:46:48.789
just now, the GPU. Hey, there I heard the thunder.

00:46:49.130 --> 00:46:54.389
Yeah. I've worked with someone or somebody in

00:46:54.389 --> 00:46:55.889
the Discord who's having problems getting the

00:46:55.889 --> 00:46:59.269
GPU part of Btop, which is like a system manager

00:46:59.269 --> 00:47:02.230
kind of thing, to show. And that's a Nix problem

00:47:02.230 --> 00:47:03.789
because it didn't have that problem anywhere

00:47:03.789 --> 00:47:09.340
else. For me, I've had some prickliness surrounding

00:47:09.340 --> 00:47:12.039
audio every once in a while, but that's a Linux

00:47:12.039 --> 00:47:14.860
in general thing. So that just happens from time

00:47:14.860 --> 00:47:20.539
to time. So my biggest one was this resolve thing

00:47:20.539 --> 00:47:23.739
that happened today. It was the most disappointing

00:47:23.739 --> 00:47:29.079
thing. My time with the Mac was fine, but it

00:47:29.079 --> 00:47:32.199
was a tool. And that's what computers are supposed

00:47:32.199 --> 00:47:34.469
to be. They're supposed to be tools. I didn't

00:47:34.469 --> 00:47:37.409
want to do anything on the... I think I installed

00:47:37.409 --> 00:47:40.329
Hearthstone on it, but I didn't play it. It's

00:47:40.329 --> 00:47:42.449
just there. That's what I do with all my games.

00:47:42.570 --> 00:47:46.150
You fell dirty. It's in the Mac. Yeah, well...

00:47:46.150 --> 00:47:49.789
The thing is, it just... It was fine, but it

00:47:49.789 --> 00:47:52.909
was just... It was just a... It was a thing.

00:47:52.949 --> 00:47:54.650
I went in there, I edited a video, I got out.

00:47:55.110 --> 00:47:57.900
On Linux... I can do my work, but I also have

00:47:57.900 --> 00:48:01.539
a lot of fun, because I'm a Linux nerd, you know,

00:48:01.579 --> 00:48:05.360
having, you know, getting into Emacs again, even

00:48:05.360 --> 00:48:08.679
though I hate Emacs with a passion. I love NeoVim.

00:48:08.699 --> 00:48:11.559
Like, NeoVim is my thing. But someone bet me

00:48:11.559 --> 00:48:14.139
about Emacs, and my pride couldn't handle it,

00:48:14.159 --> 00:48:17.539
so I'm using Emacs. But I've had a really good

00:48:17.539 --> 00:48:21.170
time. I feel like I had a really, really good

00:48:21.170 --> 00:48:24.730
time configuring Emacs this time. It's just been

00:48:24.730 --> 00:48:26.909
a fantastic time. I've had the same experience

00:48:26.909 --> 00:48:29.469
with Next. I've had a good time doing that. With

00:48:29.469 --> 00:48:32.329
the Mac, I never had a good time. It was just

00:48:32.329 --> 00:48:36.929
a tool. And I still listen to this day. So I've

00:48:36.929 --> 00:48:38.550
been listening to some podcasts about the Mac

00:48:38.550 --> 00:48:41.510
for years. Mac Geek Gab is one of my favorite

00:48:41.510 --> 00:48:44.329
podcasts. I've been listening to them for probably

00:48:44.329 --> 00:48:48.960
close to 20 years. I don't use Mac. I mean, despite

00:48:48.960 --> 00:48:50.659
having bought one, I don't actually use one.

00:48:50.719 --> 00:48:54.659
So I enjoy the idea of the Apple ecosystem. Like,

00:48:54.659 --> 00:48:59.880
I have an iPad here. Like, it is deader than

00:48:59.880 --> 00:49:03.179
a doorknob. Every once in a while, I'll charge

00:49:03.179 --> 00:49:05.480
it to make sure it still works. I did buy, like,

00:49:05.539 --> 00:49:09.019
the $150 pencil that goes along with it because

00:49:09.019 --> 00:49:11.159
I had aspirations for taking notes on this thing.

00:49:11.280 --> 00:49:14.940
Yeah. That didn't that didn't work. I have it.

00:49:14.980 --> 00:49:17.800
I had hopes of buying one for taking notes, but

00:49:17.800 --> 00:49:21.000
I know that it's not going to happen. If I could

00:49:21.000 --> 00:49:22.500
give you some advice and you like you come into

00:49:22.500 --> 00:49:24.679
money or something and you decide, you know,

00:49:24.960 --> 00:49:27.800
I can buy whatever I want without any fear of

00:49:27.800 --> 00:49:30.550
my budget. Get the mini. Get the little one.

00:49:30.710 --> 00:49:33.230
Because this big one – because I'm a big reader.

00:49:33.309 --> 00:49:35.630
I like to read a lot. Like I read upwards of

00:49:35.630 --> 00:49:37.409
80 books a year. Not this year. I'm going to

00:49:37.409 --> 00:49:39.449
be quite a bit behind because I've been busy.

00:49:39.530 --> 00:49:41.909
But usually that's around where I'm at. And I've

00:49:41.909 --> 00:49:44.429
recently had to – well, recently, like within

00:49:44.429 --> 00:49:46.630
the last year or so, I've had to go digital because

00:49:46.630 --> 00:49:48.489
I've run out of room on my bookshelves for physical

00:49:48.489 --> 00:49:51.929
books. So I've gone completely digital. And I

00:49:51.929 --> 00:49:56.659
don't really care for – I have a – kindle paperweight

00:49:56.659 --> 00:49:58.599
here somewhere i don't know where it's actually

00:49:58.599 --> 00:50:02.079
at which is the point i don't use it i end up

00:50:02.079 --> 00:50:04.300
using my phone but what i wanted was a slightly

00:50:04.300 --> 00:50:06.840
bigger screen so i bought an ipad my mistake

00:50:06.840 --> 00:50:09.500
was getting the big one so this thing is like

00:50:09.500 --> 00:50:13.320
what 1 .2 kilos or you know, pound and a half

00:50:13.320 --> 00:50:14.800
or something like that. I think it's not, it's

00:50:14.800 --> 00:50:17.159
not, this is, I mean, I'm a, I'm a big manly

00:50:17.159 --> 00:50:19.519
man. I can, I can, I can, I can handle this thing.

00:50:20.340 --> 00:50:23.619
But man, you, you read on this thing. It becomes

00:50:23.619 --> 00:50:29.199
heavy, really, really heavy. And especially when

00:50:29.199 --> 00:50:31.380
you're comparing it to a, you know, a phone and,

00:50:31.400 --> 00:50:35.860
you know, oops, it, yeah, it was, it was a bad

00:50:35.860 --> 00:50:40.619
experience. I definitely should not have, Got

00:50:40.619 --> 00:50:41.639
the big one. I should have got the mini one.

00:50:41.699 --> 00:50:43.579
So if you come into money, get the small one.

00:50:43.679 --> 00:50:45.219
You'll be much happier. It has all the features

00:50:45.219 --> 00:50:49.780
in a smaller package. Interesting. OK, now I

00:50:49.780 --> 00:50:52.000
watched the video about Nix going back to that

00:50:52.000 --> 00:50:55.880
real quick. And man, I ended up more confused

00:50:55.880 --> 00:50:58.800
than when I started because he was rebuilding

00:50:58.800 --> 00:51:01.320
something. You mentioned something about rebuilding

00:51:01.320 --> 00:51:04.219
right now. So if I want to make a change in an

00:51:04.219 --> 00:51:07.659
application, I go and edit a file. And the changes

00:51:07.659 --> 00:51:10.139
are not hot reloaded. I have to do something

00:51:10.139 --> 00:51:13.400
else. I have to, what do I have to do? Rebuild

00:51:13.400 --> 00:51:15.820
the whole system or what? Well, okay. So the

00:51:15.820 --> 00:51:17.719
way that it works is, so you go into your Nix

00:51:17.719 --> 00:51:19.900
configuration file. Say you wanted to install

00:51:19.900 --> 00:51:22.579
Vim. You can go in there. You put the word Vim

00:51:22.579 --> 00:51:24.500
where it's supposed to go, which is a certain

00:51:24.500 --> 00:51:28.199
section. And then you exit the file and you run

00:51:28.199 --> 00:51:34.840
a command. It's sudo nixos rebuild switch. And

00:51:34.840 --> 00:51:36.280
then maybe something else if you're using a flake.

00:51:38.360 --> 00:51:41.099
Basically, what that does is it creates a new

00:51:41.099 --> 00:51:43.619
generation. So I mentioned generations earlier

00:51:43.619 --> 00:51:45.760
when I said I had to roll back, right? So basically,

00:51:45.840 --> 00:51:49.500
every time you run that command, NixOS is creating

00:51:49.500 --> 00:51:51.820
a new snapshot of your system. The one before

00:51:51.820 --> 00:51:55.380
you ran it didn't have Vim installed. The new

00:51:55.380 --> 00:51:57.460
generation does have Vim installed. But say for

00:51:57.460 --> 00:52:01.480
whatever reason, Vim was broken and it decided

00:52:01.480 --> 00:52:04.019
it was going to crash your system. It's not going

00:52:04.019 --> 00:52:06.570
to happen. It's Vim. But let's just say. And

00:52:06.570 --> 00:52:11.349
the idea behind generations is you could then,

00:52:11.449 --> 00:52:15.530
because that snapshot is broken, you can reboot,

00:52:15.829 --> 00:52:20.429
get into your boot menu, and select the previous

00:52:20.429 --> 00:52:23.210
generation where your system was loading. And

00:52:23.210 --> 00:52:25.190
go in there and you know that it's working. Because

00:52:25.190 --> 00:52:27.809
that version didn't have the package that broke

00:52:27.809 --> 00:52:30.809
the system. That's the idea behind, at least

00:52:30.809 --> 00:52:33.489
one of the ideas behind NixOS. So yes, you do

00:52:33.489 --> 00:52:36.960
have to rebuild. Rebuilding seems onerous right

00:52:36.960 --> 00:52:38.880
when you say use the word rebuild you think you're

00:52:38.880 --> 00:52:41.199
like you you didn't it was like Legos or a wrench

00:52:41.199 --> 00:52:43.500
or something It's really it's a it's one command.

00:52:43.699 --> 00:52:48.460
It usually takes between 10 and 15 seconds to

00:52:48.460 --> 00:52:50.860
run okay, so it's not so it's basically like

00:52:50.860 --> 00:52:54.250
brew install Whatever, right? It takes a little

00:52:54.250 --> 00:52:56.050
while to install something from brew. This is

00:52:56.050 --> 00:52:58.090
basically the same thing. It's just instead of

00:52:58.090 --> 00:53:00.630
doing brew install vim, you're getting into a

00:53:00.630 --> 00:53:02.929
configuration file first, putting vim in there,

00:53:03.090 --> 00:53:07.949
then running the install command. It's more complicated

00:53:07.949 --> 00:53:09.570
than that because there's more stuff that can

00:53:09.570 --> 00:53:11.789
be tacked onto it. There's more stuff that you

00:53:11.789 --> 00:53:13.670
can do with it. But that's the general idea.

00:53:14.190 --> 00:53:16.889
It's not that much more complicated than installing

00:53:16.889 --> 00:53:18.750
with a package manager like brew or whatever.

00:53:19.750 --> 00:53:22.920
It's just... It's just using different terminology.

00:53:23.039 --> 00:53:26.039
It's rebuilding the system because it's creating

00:53:26.039 --> 00:53:28.159
that snapshot, which you can then go back to

00:53:28.159 --> 00:53:31.199
if you need to. And if I want to make a change

00:53:31.199 --> 00:53:34.199
in my FIM configuration, let's say, just modify

00:53:34.199 --> 00:53:36.860
a setting, you know, just a Boolean, something

00:53:36.860 --> 00:53:39.719
that I switch from yes to no. Do I have to rebuild

00:53:39.719 --> 00:53:44.010
the whole thing? It depends. Okay, so if you're

00:53:44.010 --> 00:53:46.690
doing just like you have a NeoVim configuration

00:53:46.690 --> 00:53:51.309
file now, right? If you still have that NeoVim

00:53:51.309 --> 00:53:53.650
config, whether it's in VimScript or Lua, and

00:53:53.650 --> 00:53:55.750
you make that change, it works just like you

00:53:55.750 --> 00:53:58.650
did now. It's exactly the same. If you're using

00:53:58.650 --> 00:54:01.030
something called Home Manager, that thing I mentioned

00:54:01.030 --> 00:54:03.429
earlier where basically you can have your configuration

00:54:03.429 --> 00:54:07.440
files come with you on a rebuild. then yes, every

00:54:07.440 --> 00:54:09.639
time you make a change, you would have to rebuild

00:54:09.639 --> 00:54:11.960
the system. Now, I do not use Home Manager, so

00:54:11.960 --> 00:54:14.699
I can't tell you how long that takes, but any

00:54:14.699 --> 00:54:18.420
amount of time is too much for me. I make changes

00:54:18.420 --> 00:54:21.699
too often, so one of the things that I do is

00:54:21.699 --> 00:54:25.679
I like to make my system look pretty. I have

00:54:25.679 --> 00:54:28.099
a Window Manager, I use Hyperland, I have a bar

00:54:28.099 --> 00:54:30.420
at the top, I like to configure that and make

00:54:30.420 --> 00:54:35.800
it look nice. I have several pre -made themes.

00:54:35.980 --> 00:54:37.519
Right now, I'm using something called PyWall,

00:54:37.599 --> 00:54:39.500
which is basically like Material You on Android.

00:54:40.019 --> 00:54:41.920
Basically, it takes all the colors from the wallpaper

00:54:41.920 --> 00:54:46.320
and applies them to the system. I change my wallpaper

00:54:46.320 --> 00:54:49.119
five or six times a day. If I were to use Home

00:54:49.119 --> 00:54:51.699
Manager, every time I did that, I had to rebuild

00:54:51.699 --> 00:54:54.500
the system. Now, the Home Manager guys are going

00:54:54.500 --> 00:54:56.820
to say, that's not that big a deal. Just stop

00:54:56.820 --> 00:55:01.639
changing your wallpaper so much. No, I'll do

00:55:01.639 --> 00:55:05.619
the way I want to do. But for most normal people

00:55:05.619 --> 00:55:08.420
who aren't me, rebuilding it every once in a

00:55:08.420 --> 00:55:09.920
while to make a change, not that big a deal.

00:55:10.000 --> 00:55:12.219
Like if you make one, you probably have had your

00:55:12.219 --> 00:55:14.940
knee of them config for a long time. You probably

00:55:14.940 --> 00:55:16.920
don't make a lot of changes in it. You make it

00:55:16.920 --> 00:55:18.980
once a week, twice a week, whatever. Rebuilding

00:55:18.980 --> 00:55:20.840
is not going to be that big a deal. But if you

00:55:20.840 --> 00:55:22.960
make a change every day, like I've been getting

00:55:22.960 --> 00:55:26.440
into Emacs. If you look at my GitLab commits,

00:55:26.800 --> 00:55:30.110
I've probably made, three or 400 commits over

00:55:30.110 --> 00:55:32.230
the course of the last week and a half or so

00:55:32.230 --> 00:55:33.769
as I've been doing this Emacs thing. Because

00:55:33.769 --> 00:55:36.090
every time I get in there and I have a working

00:55:36.090 --> 00:55:37.650
config, I always want to upload it and make sure

00:55:37.650 --> 00:55:39.670
that next time I mess it up, which I'm inevitably

00:55:39.670 --> 00:55:43.250
going to do, I can, you know, go back to a working

00:55:43.250 --> 00:55:48.150
version. Yeah. So the idea of having to rebuild

00:55:48.150 --> 00:55:51.269
my entire system every time I made an Emacs config

00:55:51.269 --> 00:55:55.809
change, it would have driven me running away

00:55:55.809 --> 00:56:00.010
from the system. Like in the first two hours,

00:56:00.190 --> 00:56:01.789
like there's no way I would have ever made it.

00:56:01.849 --> 00:56:05.130
So Home Manager for me just has not, the idea

00:56:05.130 --> 00:56:07.570
of being able to take your configuration file

00:56:07.570 --> 00:56:11.010
in like basically script form and go to a new

00:56:11.010 --> 00:56:13.230
computer, like it's laptop I had beside me, put

00:56:13.230 --> 00:56:17.010
it in a USB, install NixOS, give it the configuration

00:56:17.010 --> 00:56:20.190
files, have it run one command and then have

00:56:20.190 --> 00:56:24.190
everything. That's a fantastic idea. And the

00:56:24.190 --> 00:56:26.329
app stuff, I'm all behind. Like I think that

00:56:26.329 --> 00:56:31.679
that's great. The configuration file stuff, there

00:56:31.679 --> 00:56:36.460
are ways you can get around configuring everything

00:56:36.460 --> 00:56:39.559
in the next language. Like you can have it just

00:56:39.559 --> 00:56:44.780
basically point the config files from one place

00:56:44.780 --> 00:56:46.619
to another where they need to go and all that

00:56:46.619 --> 00:56:49.440
stuff. You can do that in theory, but you still

00:56:49.440 --> 00:56:50.980
have to do that whole rebuild thing every time

00:56:50.980 --> 00:56:52.920
you make a change because it's going to rebuild

00:56:52.920 --> 00:56:57.510
the symlinks basically. And that's... fine for

00:56:57.510 --> 00:56:59.429
some people, but for me, it was just never going

00:56:59.429 --> 00:57:01.269
to work. So the idea behind what I basically,

00:57:01.309 --> 00:57:04.489
what I've done is there is a program called GNU

00:57:04.489 --> 00:57:08.190
Sto. It's a program by the GNU people, basically

00:57:08.190 --> 00:57:10.610
the same people who do all the other stuff. If

00:57:10.610 --> 00:57:12.730
you want to show something on your screen, you

00:57:12.730 --> 00:57:15.389
just open it and I can switch to it. I don't

00:57:15.389 --> 00:57:19.860
have it up, but basically the idea... It's very

00:57:19.860 --> 00:57:21.280
simple. I don't even have to show it. It's just

00:57:21.280 --> 00:57:23.840
basically one program. It just links. You have

00:57:23.840 --> 00:57:26.860
a Git repository. You run this command. It moves

00:57:26.860 --> 00:57:30.860
all of those files where they need to go. It's

00:57:30.860 --> 00:57:32.880
done. So basically what I've done is I've created

00:57:32.880 --> 00:57:37.380
a script that allows me to rebuild my NixOS system.

00:57:37.659 --> 00:57:39.920
And then you stow with my configuration files.

00:57:40.510 --> 00:57:42.469
to do it that way. It's more traditional. It's

00:57:42.469 --> 00:57:44.690
kind of like your brew script or whatever to

00:57:44.690 --> 00:57:47.130
install the applications. It just moves all of

00:57:47.130 --> 00:57:49.570
my stuff where it needs to go. And I use that

00:57:49.570 --> 00:57:51.550
on this laptop over here. It works fine. And

00:57:51.550 --> 00:57:55.070
I don't have to do all the crazy home manager

00:57:55.070 --> 00:57:59.090
stuff that you don't have to do. I do it in my

00:57:59.090 --> 00:58:02.329
CSHRC file, you know, symlinks. I don't use Sto.

00:58:02.389 --> 00:58:05.030
I just created my own method of, you know, symlinks.

00:58:05.170 --> 00:58:08.130
I guess a lot of people use symlinks. So I just...

00:58:08.480 --> 00:58:10.420
Or my .files created all of the symlinks that

00:58:10.420 --> 00:58:13.179
I need for, you know, directories. And that's

00:58:13.179 --> 00:58:16.099
the way that I manage it. I did the same thing.

00:58:16.119 --> 00:58:18.579
In fact, I was very arrogant about it. Like,

00:58:18.579 --> 00:58:21.559
I don't need Sto or Chesmois or whatever. There's

00:58:21.559 --> 00:58:23.159
another tool called Chesmois or something. Everyone

00:58:23.159 --> 00:58:27.139
recommends that as well. Yeah. I don't need that.

00:58:27.239 --> 00:58:29.440
I just did my own script. It works all fine.

00:58:29.519 --> 00:58:31.500
I don't have to rely on anybody else's work.

00:58:32.679 --> 00:58:36.039
And then I tried Sto. Man, it is really, really

00:58:36.039 --> 00:58:37.980
good because it's very, very simple. Literally,

00:58:38.340 --> 00:58:43.340
all you do is you have your GitHub directory.

00:58:44.059 --> 00:58:47.380
And then you have basically your file tree in

00:58:47.380 --> 00:58:50.139
this directory. So you have .config. But it has

00:58:50.139 --> 00:58:53.199
to be in that structure, .config, right? It does,

00:58:53.219 --> 00:58:55.380
yes. So in your .files, when you go there, you

00:58:55.380 --> 00:58:58.099
just see the .config and everything. Yes. I don't

00:58:58.099 --> 00:59:00.699
like that too much. See, I didn't either, but

00:59:00.699 --> 00:59:05.139
it's just so easy to do compared to what I was

00:59:05.139 --> 00:59:08.980
doing before that it's kind of won me over. I

00:59:08.980 --> 00:59:13.289
do. Like the idea of not having to have everything

00:59:13.289 --> 00:59:16.230
in .config and then have it moved over that way.

00:59:16.289 --> 00:59:20.590
I enjoyed that old way. But this was just literally

00:59:20.590 --> 00:59:24.309
you just go into that file and just hit stow

00:59:24.309 --> 00:59:27.389
period. And it works. Everything is moved where

00:59:27.389 --> 00:59:30.829
it needs to go. And it makes scripting so much

00:59:30.829 --> 00:59:32.269
easier. Like I have this whole script that I

00:59:32.269 --> 00:59:36.650
used to use with like ln -s and then path after

00:59:36.650 --> 00:59:38.989
path after path. Like over and over again, like

00:59:38.989 --> 00:59:42.849
for hundreds of files. And like, I spent, you

00:59:42.849 --> 00:59:46.449
know, hours doing that. Yeah. And. With Stow,

00:59:46.590 --> 00:59:50.010
it's just done. And so for all those people who

00:59:50.010 --> 00:59:52.510
told me years ago to use Stow, because Stow is

00:59:52.510 --> 00:59:54.969
like older than we are. It's been around for

00:59:54.969 --> 00:59:57.389
a very long time. I'm sorry. I should have done

00:59:57.389 --> 01:00:00.050
this ages ago. It's very, very good. They were

01:00:00.050 --> 01:00:03.710
right. Yes, they were right. Stow is magnificent.

01:00:04.349 --> 01:00:07.550
It's going to be one of those tools that I use

01:00:07.550 --> 01:00:09.829
that just has to be installed on every system.

01:00:09.989 --> 01:00:13.340
So, yeah. I have to give it a try. And other

01:00:13.340 --> 01:00:16.940
folks recommend a lot this Chemois or however

01:00:16.940 --> 01:00:19.500
it's pronounced. Those two, they tell me to use

01:00:19.500 --> 01:00:23.400
one of the two. I haven't yet, but maybe someday

01:00:23.400 --> 01:00:28.619
I'll give it a try. Now, how did your home labbing

01:00:28.619 --> 01:00:31.420
continue? Did you ever continue with your home

01:00:31.420 --> 01:00:34.159
lab? What's the status of that? I do have my

01:00:34.159 --> 01:00:36.039
home lab, but actually underneath this desk,

01:00:36.059 --> 01:00:40.559
it's very funny. four computers on underneath

01:00:40.559 --> 01:00:44.079
this desk. I have my main, my main one. I have

01:00:44.079 --> 01:00:48.900
a, a couple small Lenovo think centers, and then

01:00:48.900 --> 01:00:52.079
I have my big HP workstation, which houses Proxmox.

01:00:52.420 --> 01:00:58.340
And so I, I have Proxmox with a few virtual machines

01:00:58.340 --> 01:01:02.860
and a few LXC containers. And basically I run

01:01:02.860 --> 01:01:05.559
everything in Proxmox and Portainer and all that

01:01:05.559 --> 01:01:07.659
stuff. So yeah, I still have my home lab. I,

01:01:07.659 --> 01:01:11.289
at the beginning. I was very much like, oh, my

01:01:11.289 --> 01:01:12.789
goodness, look at all these Docker containers.

01:01:12.969 --> 01:01:14.889
I'm going to install everything. I'm going to

01:01:14.889 --> 01:01:20.369
self -host the world. And eventually that slowed

01:01:20.369 --> 01:01:23.670
down. Some of it was just like, what do I actually

01:01:23.670 --> 01:01:27.690
need a Pastebin of my own for? Pastebin exists.

01:01:28.150 --> 01:01:30.489
I can just go use it. I use it like once or twice

01:01:30.489 --> 01:01:33.389
a year. I don't actually need to host this thing

01:01:33.389 --> 01:01:36.820
on myself. So I don't need my own Pastebin. Maybe

01:01:36.820 --> 01:01:38.179
if you're a developer or whatever, that'd be

01:01:38.179 --> 01:01:39.559
really cool to have, but I'm not a developer,

01:01:39.599 --> 01:01:41.480
and I don't share code with anybody other than

01:01:41.480 --> 01:01:47.719
putting it on GitHub or GitLab. Eventually that

01:01:47.719 --> 01:01:49.300
slowed down, but every once in a while now I'll

01:01:49.300 --> 01:01:51.320
go find, I think the most recent thing that I

01:01:51.320 --> 01:01:53.559
installed was something called Glance. I'm going

01:01:53.559 --> 01:01:55.500
to make a video about that. Actually, I actually

01:01:55.500 --> 01:01:57.139
have a video already made for it. All I got to

01:01:57.139 --> 01:01:59.059
do is edit it. And it's basically this homepage

01:01:59.059 --> 01:02:01.800
that you can set as your homepage on your browser

01:02:01.800 --> 01:02:05.320
or new tab or whatever. And it shows you, it

01:02:05.320 --> 01:02:07.000
can show you your bookmarks. It can show you

01:02:07.000 --> 01:02:09.800
the status of your Proxmox server. It can show

01:02:09.800 --> 01:02:12.079
you the status of your Docker containers. It'll

01:02:12.079 --> 01:02:15.690
show you like. subreddit feeds for Reddit, basically

01:02:15.690 --> 01:02:18.309
whatever you want. No, it is configured with

01:02:18.309 --> 01:02:22.389
a YAML file. So if you're like me and you can't

01:02:22.389 --> 01:02:27.750
stand YAML, every time I hit one extra space,

01:02:27.889 --> 01:02:30.070
it's like, oh my God, I'm going to freak out.

01:02:31.969 --> 01:02:35.730
It's just, I can't handle it. But anyways, it

01:02:35.730 --> 01:02:38.769
is configured that way, but it's very good. And

01:02:38.769 --> 01:02:43.780
I've enjoyed self -hosting. It's not as, I don't

01:02:43.780 --> 01:02:47.500
think it's as useful as I'd hoped it to be. So

01:02:47.500 --> 01:02:51.079
there are some things. For I think the one thing

01:02:51.079 --> 01:02:54.260
I use the absolute most is the fresh RSS. I use

01:02:54.260 --> 01:02:57.440
RSS like crazy and fresh RSS is amazing. Like

01:02:57.440 --> 01:03:00.360
I have hundreds of RSS feeds in that thing. I

01:03:00.360 --> 01:03:02.500
have it on my phone. I have it on my iPad when

01:03:02.500 --> 01:03:05.980
it's charged. I have it on my computer. I spend

01:03:05.980 --> 01:03:08.800
probably two or three hours a day in RSS because,

01:03:08.820 --> 01:03:11.260
you know, just, you know, before bed or in the

01:03:11.260 --> 01:03:12.639
morning or whatever else that there is basically

01:03:12.639 --> 01:03:15.719
my way of reading the news. Nobody's actually

01:03:15.719 --> 01:03:17.420
covering the news in the feeds. I think so. I

01:03:17.420 --> 01:03:19.360
have no clue what's going on But you know you

01:03:19.360 --> 01:03:21.179
get my point That's the thing that I use the

01:03:21.179 --> 01:03:23.579
most the thing that I built the thing the server

01:03:23.579 --> 01:03:26.519
for was Plex I don't use it nearly often as I

01:03:26.519 --> 01:03:29.079
should so first off I don't watch I don't have

01:03:29.079 --> 01:03:31.880
a lot of time So I can't watch movies and TV

01:03:31.880 --> 01:03:33.260
shows as much as I want, but I might do I use

01:03:33.260 --> 01:03:36.289
Plex The music is where I was really hoping for

01:03:36.289 --> 01:03:39.610
it to change my life at. Because I have a music

01:03:39.610 --> 01:03:42.409
library of something like 80 or 90 gigabytes.

01:03:42.769 --> 01:03:44.869
It's not the biggest one you're ever going to

01:03:44.869 --> 01:03:45.989
see. Someone's going to tell you, oh, I have

01:03:45.989 --> 01:03:48.789
two terabytes. Good job. But I have a fairly

01:03:48.789 --> 01:03:51.190
large thing going all the way back to the early

01:03:51.190 --> 01:03:53.449
90s. I've been collecting these things from CDs

01:03:53.449 --> 01:03:55.670
and stuff. And they've all been digitized. The

01:03:55.670 --> 01:03:57.309
problem is that they all have really, really

01:03:57.309 --> 01:04:01.699
crappy metadata. Like really, really bad. I'm

01:04:01.699 --> 01:04:03.280
probably going to get you demonetized for this.

01:04:03.280 --> 01:04:05.360
You may want to post edit this part out. But

01:04:05.360 --> 01:04:08.139
I got a lot of stuff from back in the early 2000s

01:04:08.139 --> 01:04:11.780
when I was in college. So and if you've ever

01:04:11.780 --> 01:04:15.630
downloaded anything, you know. like that, you

01:04:15.630 --> 01:04:19.670
know that the metadata is shit. It is really,

01:04:19.730 --> 01:04:22.809
really bad. Often, sometimes it's not in English.

01:04:23.190 --> 01:04:25.949
Sometimes it's non -existent whatsoever. So it

01:04:25.949 --> 01:04:28.690
just says unknown. Sometimes it's completely

01:04:28.690 --> 01:04:31.469
wrong. So like I have some country music stuff.

01:04:32.269 --> 01:04:35.829
This is all exactly the same metadata. It all

01:04:35.829 --> 01:04:38.480
has the same song name, same artist. None of

01:04:38.480 --> 01:04:41.940
them are right. So the problem is I have this

01:04:41.940 --> 01:04:45.079
entire music library. Hardly any of the music

01:04:45.079 --> 01:04:47.659
metadata is right. It's almost impossible to

01:04:47.659 --> 01:04:49.519
fix. Someone's going to say, well, Matt, you

01:04:49.519 --> 01:04:51.460
should use Beats or you should use MusicBrain's

01:04:51.460 --> 01:04:54.460
Picard. MusicBrain's Picard is this application

01:04:54.460 --> 01:04:57.380
you can feed your library into, and it will supposedly

01:04:57.380 --> 01:05:00.820
go through from what it knows and try to fix

01:05:00.820 --> 01:05:03.760
all the metadata. I did that. It made it worse.

01:05:03.880 --> 01:05:06.219
It made it way, way worse. I guess so much better.

01:05:06.280 --> 01:05:08.820
All of a sudden now I have like 12 songs called

01:05:08.820 --> 01:05:11.280
Boy Named Sue from Johnny Cash. Like I don't

01:05:11.280 --> 01:05:15.320
even have that song, but I now have 12 copies

01:05:15.320 --> 01:05:17.599
of it somehow. I don't understand. So it's really,

01:05:17.679 --> 01:05:20.199
really bad that I've never actually gotten beats

01:05:20.199 --> 01:05:22.900
to work. So that's something to try some other

01:05:22.900 --> 01:05:24.739
time. But the point is, is that I have all this

01:05:24.739 --> 01:05:27.519
music. None of it's labeled. I shouldn't say

01:05:27.519 --> 01:05:30.739
none of it. A good part of it isn't labeled properly.

01:05:32.579 --> 01:05:36.760
And some of it's like in really old, like MP3,

01:05:36.840 --> 01:05:40.400
very low quality stuff. So if you're there jamming

01:05:40.400 --> 01:05:42.579
down to Breaking Benjamin or something like that,

01:05:42.579 --> 01:05:44.880
and it's like really, really good audio levels,

01:05:44.900 --> 01:05:47.360
and all of a sudden Shinedown comes on in the

01:05:47.360 --> 01:05:50.139
next song, and it's like half the volume. Yeah,

01:05:50.139 --> 01:05:54.659
half the volume. I remember using a program back

01:05:54.659 --> 01:05:58.079
in Windows many years ago to level the gain of

01:05:58.079 --> 01:06:01.639
the songs. It was a nightmare, yeah. So Plex

01:06:01.639 --> 01:06:04.219
has that built in. Plex has the ability, but

01:06:04.219 --> 01:06:07.000
there's only so much leveling it can do. And

01:06:07.000 --> 01:06:11.460
it doesn't do a very good job. So the next one

01:06:11.460 --> 01:06:13.000
comes on, it's like really, really, you got to

01:06:13.000 --> 01:06:14.820
crank the volume so you can hear it. And then

01:06:14.820 --> 01:06:16.519
the next one comes on and it's normal level.

01:06:16.579 --> 01:06:18.659
And all of a sudden, oh my God, you know what

01:06:18.659 --> 01:06:21.099
I mean? You got to pull the headphones away from

01:06:21.099 --> 01:06:22.760
your ears because it's blowing your eardrums

01:06:22.760 --> 01:06:28.250
out. My goal of being able to get away from the

01:06:28.250 --> 01:06:30.369
streaming services, which was why I built the

01:06:30.369 --> 01:06:34.289
Home Lab to begin with, I'd call it a failure

01:06:34.289 --> 01:06:37.349
because I can't do it. There's only so many options.

01:06:37.489 --> 01:06:42.210
I can either go through artist by artist, song

01:06:42.210 --> 01:06:45.989
by song, fix the metadata, and make sure everything

01:06:45.989 --> 01:06:49.710
is the proper level, which would take me 10 years

01:06:49.710 --> 01:06:53.369
probably with that much music. Because despite

01:06:53.369 --> 01:06:55.949
what people will tell you, there's no real automatic

01:06:55.949 --> 01:06:59.849
way of doing it. Or I can delete everything and

01:06:59.849 --> 01:07:03.369
just go buy everything new. And I've considered

01:07:03.369 --> 01:07:05.909
that. But first off, it would take a lot of time

01:07:05.909 --> 01:07:09.550
because it's going to take a lot of money. There's

01:07:09.550 --> 01:07:13.590
a place online you can go buy used CDs. You used

01:07:13.590 --> 01:07:14.969
to be able to go into Best Buy or whatever and

01:07:14.969 --> 01:07:18.449
buy a CD for like $10. Like, okay, $10, $9 .99.

01:07:18.610 --> 01:07:21.030
It's great. That was even like a new release.

01:07:21.190 --> 01:07:23.289
And then it eventually went up to like $15 .99.

01:07:24.670 --> 01:07:28.510
Reasonable price. I can pay that. Used CDs now

01:07:28.510 --> 01:07:31.690
sometimes go for $30 or $40 a piece. And I'm

01:07:31.690 --> 01:07:37.610
like, okay, no. I'm not paying that amount of

01:07:37.610 --> 01:07:41.670
money for a used CD. Even a new CD I'm not paying

01:07:41.670 --> 01:07:45.280
that amount of money for. I'm not doing it. It's

01:07:45.280 --> 01:07:47.320
because a lot of these have become collector's

01:07:47.320 --> 01:07:52.300
items. Oh, yeah. It's crazy. And then you have

01:07:52.300 --> 01:07:54.920
to rip it, right? Then you have to... Yeah. Well,

01:07:55.019 --> 01:07:58.159
I wouldn't even mind if it was a reasonable cost.

01:07:58.340 --> 01:08:02.019
If I could buy two or three CDs a month, just

01:08:02.019 --> 01:08:04.719
every month, replace everything with two or three

01:08:04.719 --> 01:08:07.239
CDs, $30 a month, I can afford that. Eventually,

01:08:07.239 --> 01:08:10.710
I would get done. But you can't buy for it's

01:08:10.710 --> 01:08:13.190
the cost. It's not like I I have some I've got

01:08:13.190 --> 01:08:17.130
some old like TV shows on DVD I got a DVD player

01:08:17.130 --> 01:08:19.029
that will rip us. It doesn't take very long.

01:08:19.210 --> 01:08:21.109
I can do that It's not that big a deal. It was

01:08:21.109 --> 01:08:24.270
the money behind it That was the big deal and

01:08:24.270 --> 01:08:27.470
you know, I got a little bit of money But I ain't

01:08:27.470 --> 01:08:30.390
going to go through and in and spend through,

01:08:30.489 --> 01:08:33.590
you know a hundred dollars a month on three CDs,

01:08:33.770 --> 01:08:36.449
you know, in order to do it. It's just not, it's

01:08:36.449 --> 01:08:39.989
not that important. Not when I can for $10 a

01:08:39.989 --> 01:08:42.430
month or $12 a month or whatever it is, get Deezer

01:08:42.430 --> 01:08:47.069
and have millions of songs available to me and

01:08:47.069 --> 01:08:50.050
I can just play it and it works with last FM.

01:08:50.170 --> 01:08:52.270
So I've started scrabbling all of my plays and

01:08:52.270 --> 01:08:54.430
then post all of that stuff on my, on my blog.

01:08:54.810 --> 01:08:56.810
And so it works with that. And it just has all

01:08:56.810 --> 01:09:00.890
these songs like. Despite my, I don't want to

01:09:00.890 --> 01:09:03.510
have to pay that much money every month. I don't

01:09:03.510 --> 01:09:05.310
want to have to give them my data and all the

01:09:05.310 --> 01:09:06.710
stuff that goes along with using a streaming

01:09:06.710 --> 01:09:12.989
service. But actually hosting your own is much

01:09:12.989 --> 01:09:16.229
harder and more time consuming and much more

01:09:16.229 --> 01:09:19.050
expensive than I expected it to be. So that part

01:09:19.050 --> 01:09:21.149
of it has definitely been a complete failure.

01:09:21.899 --> 01:09:24.779
Yeah, I try to do that as well. You know, manage

01:09:24.779 --> 01:09:27.840
my own music, you know, metadata. I went through

01:09:27.840 --> 01:09:30.460
all that and I just gave up. And now I just pay

01:09:30.460 --> 01:09:34.000
for Spotify. My wife has it. I have it. We have

01:09:34.000 --> 01:09:37.359
it on Alexa in the living room. I don't care.

01:09:37.520 --> 01:09:40.260
I just pay for that. I don't even listen to music

01:09:40.260 --> 01:09:42.140
anymore, man. Do you listen to a lot of music?

01:09:42.140 --> 01:09:43.840
Because I don't even know what to listen. I'm

01:09:43.840 --> 01:09:45.840
tired of listening to music because I'm like,

01:09:45.920 --> 01:09:49.130
OK, so I'm. bored of the songs i don't want to

01:09:49.130 --> 01:09:51.449
hear the songs that i listen to all the time

01:09:51.449 --> 01:09:54.050
but i'm not open to listening to music to new

01:09:54.050 --> 01:09:57.810
music so i'm in a vicious cycle in which you're

01:09:57.810 --> 01:10:00.409
in the old man cycle is what you're in yeah and

01:10:00.409 --> 01:10:03.609
i can't escape it so i am older than you but

01:10:03.609 --> 01:10:06.850
i haven't got there yet so i i have a very eclectic

01:10:06.850 --> 01:10:08.909
taste in me so to answer your question yes i

01:10:08.909 --> 01:10:10.710
listen to a ton of music i have music going on

01:10:10.710 --> 01:10:16.109
all the time like like constantly um so It's

01:10:16.109 --> 01:10:17.789
definitely worth it for me to pay for that kind

01:10:17.789 --> 01:10:21.189
of thing. But my music, the reason why I'm so

01:10:21.189 --> 01:10:23.130
okay with it, because my music taste is all over

01:10:23.130 --> 01:10:26.090
the place. So I like country music. I like...

01:10:26.680 --> 01:10:29.479
hardcore metal and rock and roll and a little

01:10:29.479 --> 01:10:32.279
bit of R &B and I like rap and I'll listen to

01:10:32.279 --> 01:10:34.859
some classical music and jazz and I'll listen

01:10:34.859 --> 01:10:36.979
to like every once in a while. There's a few

01:10:36.979 --> 01:10:39.659
channels on YouTube where it plays lo -fi music.

01:10:39.739 --> 01:10:41.579
I'll go listen to that for a little while, even

01:10:41.579 --> 01:10:43.500
though I have no interest in that kind of music.

01:10:43.560 --> 01:10:45.960
It just it's soothing. So I'll listen to it.

01:10:46.420 --> 01:10:52.239
So I'm all over the place in terms of. So I don't

01:10:52.239 --> 01:10:55.779
get tied down to, I do have a playlist of favorites.

01:10:55.819 --> 01:10:59.939
It's like 200 tracks long. It's just been compiled

01:10:59.939 --> 01:11:03.159
over the course of forever. And every once in

01:11:03.159 --> 01:11:04.880
a while, I'll go listen to it. Like just favorites

01:11:04.880 --> 01:11:06.979
or whatever. A lot of times I'll just pop on

01:11:06.979 --> 01:11:10.380
a mix or something that Deezer has recommended.

01:11:10.699 --> 01:11:15.659
And it will, you know, how this last time, this

01:11:15.659 --> 01:11:17.840
last one that I was listening to had, I don't

01:11:17.840 --> 01:11:20.109
even remember where I started off. I don't remember

01:11:20.109 --> 01:11:22.029
what, like you can click on a song and have it

01:11:22.029 --> 01:11:26.069
play the radio basically. And it played some

01:11:26.069 --> 01:11:28.770
like 90s alternative. And then it ended up on

01:11:28.770 --> 01:11:31.890
Kelly Clarkson. Like it was all over the place.

01:11:31.890 --> 01:11:35.590
And I really actually enjoy that. I mean, I couldn't

01:11:35.590 --> 01:11:36.890
tell you any of the songs that were actually

01:11:36.890 --> 01:11:38.229
played, but most of the time it's just in the

01:11:38.229 --> 01:11:40.010
background while I'm sitting there trying to

01:11:40.010 --> 01:11:42.380
figure out why this person in front of me. wants

01:11:42.380 --> 01:11:45.060
to spell the word the wrong several times you

01:11:45.060 --> 01:11:47.659
know and and it just keeps me from banging my

01:11:47.659 --> 01:11:49.420
head against the wall while i'm trying to figure

01:11:49.420 --> 01:11:52.260
out why people don't know how to do regular grammar

01:11:52.260 --> 01:11:54.619
you know when they can just use the spell checker

01:11:54.619 --> 01:11:57.619
you know what i mean so um the music helps it

01:11:57.619 --> 01:12:01.399
keeps the it keeps the demons away oh okay yeah

01:12:01.399 --> 01:12:04.739
i i like keeping music in the background as well

01:12:04.739 --> 01:12:07.859
but I always tell Alexa, Alexa, play classical

01:12:07.859 --> 01:12:11.140
music and it always plays the same damn song

01:12:11.140 --> 01:12:13.699
and I'm tired of it. So I just don't use it anymore.

01:12:13.880 --> 01:12:16.340
I'm like, whatever. I'm not going to listen to

01:12:16.340 --> 01:12:18.640
anything. I don't like being in silence. I don't

01:12:18.640 --> 01:12:21.020
like it. I like having music in the background,

01:12:21.260 --> 01:12:24.260
but I don't know. I'm in a tough spot at the

01:12:24.260 --> 01:12:27.279
moment, man. Which, I mean, I don't know what

01:12:27.279 --> 01:12:28.939
type of music you end up listening to, but if

01:12:28.939 --> 01:12:32.199
you go to YouTube, a lot of times these places,

01:12:32.319 --> 01:12:34.220
there'll be channels or whatever that stream.

01:12:34.939 --> 01:12:37.840
certain types of music, and that's a good way

01:12:37.840 --> 01:12:40.079
to have something in the background that doesn't

01:12:40.079 --> 01:12:42.659
have a lot of lyrics or whatever to it. It's

01:12:42.659 --> 01:12:46.039
just kind of like beats and tunes, and it fills

01:12:46.039 --> 01:12:47.739
the silence, but you don't have to go through

01:12:47.739 --> 01:12:48.899
and play the same thing over and over again.

01:12:48.979 --> 01:12:51.680
I will agree with you that Shuffle has sucked

01:12:51.680 --> 01:12:55.779
for decades, and it continues to suck. It will

01:12:55.779 --> 01:13:02.119
play Lewis Capaldi 12 times. So the first thing

01:13:02.119 --> 01:13:05.880
you do in basic computer science course, probably

01:13:05.880 --> 01:13:08.800
one of the first things to do is write a random

01:13:08.800 --> 01:13:11.359
number generator. It's like four lines long,

01:13:11.479 --> 01:13:13.899
right? And depending on what language you're

01:13:13.899 --> 01:13:18.819
doing. If it's C, it's more like 30 lines long.

01:13:20.630 --> 01:13:23.369
I don't even know that for a fact. I'm just throwing

01:13:23.369 --> 01:13:25.090
numbers out there. But anyways, one of the first

01:13:25.090 --> 01:13:28.170
things you do in computer science 101 is write

01:13:28.170 --> 01:13:31.630
a random number generator. My random number generator,

01:13:31.890 --> 01:13:34.130
when I took that course, was better than any

01:13:34.130 --> 01:13:38.869
shuffle that has ever been invented. It can't

01:13:38.869 --> 01:13:40.750
be that hard. Literally, just look at the playlist,

01:13:41.029 --> 01:13:43.810
find out how many tracks there are. Then use

01:13:43.810 --> 01:13:46.210
your random number generator to split those things

01:13:46.210 --> 01:13:48.310
up and make sure that there's no numbers that

01:13:48.310 --> 01:13:51.869
are... together, actually together. Now, I'm

01:13:51.869 --> 01:13:55.170
not a developer, so maybe that's harder than

01:13:55.170 --> 01:13:58.710
it sounds, but to me, it sounds very easy not

01:13:58.710 --> 01:14:01.890
to put numbers in order. Numbers can't be in

01:14:01.890 --> 01:14:06.090
order. It feels like... Make it a little bit

01:14:06.090 --> 01:14:08.710
more random. We're not demanding too much, but

01:14:08.710 --> 01:14:10.409
just don't play the same thing over and over.

01:14:10.989 --> 01:14:13.970
Right. And if you're playing a playlist of all

01:14:13.970 --> 01:14:18.659
the same artists, and or maybe your playlist

01:14:18.659 --> 01:14:22.500
is only six tracks long, then it's more on the

01:14:22.500 --> 01:14:24.739
user, right? But if you have a track list of

01:14:24.739 --> 01:14:28.720
like 200, you should be able to listen for a

01:14:28.720 --> 01:14:31.659
few hours without hearing the same song. But

01:14:31.659 --> 01:14:35.220
even on YouTube, even on YouTube, if you have

01:14:35.220 --> 01:14:38.100
music playing on YouTube, like all day long,

01:14:38.239 --> 01:14:41.319
you're going to hear the same song pop up at

01:14:41.319 --> 01:14:44.090
least three or four times. How hard is it for

01:14:44.090 --> 01:14:46.930
YouTube to say, if you've played this song before,

01:14:47.289 --> 01:14:52.529
do not play it. That's an if statement, okay?

01:14:52.649 --> 01:14:57.810
Like, if played before, do not play, else play.

01:14:58.289 --> 01:15:02.670
I've written it for you. It's so obnoxiously

01:15:02.670 --> 01:15:05.810
stupid. And I don't know why they can't fix it.

01:15:05.869 --> 01:15:09.810
It's the silliest thing. Yeah. Now, moving on

01:15:09.810 --> 01:15:13.390
to other topics. I wanted to ask you your thoughts

01:15:13.390 --> 01:15:16.409
because I have not seen that you have sponsorships

01:15:16.409 --> 01:15:20.449
on your video, like the usual 60 second ad, you

01:15:20.449 --> 01:15:23.510
know, like Brilliant or, you know, what other

01:15:23.510 --> 01:15:27.590
notion, whatever. What are your thoughts on sponsorships?

01:15:27.949 --> 01:15:30.170
So I would take them if they were offered to

01:15:30.170 --> 01:15:33.109
me, but they are not offered to me. It's not

01:15:33.109 --> 01:15:36.569
100 % true. So like I have a sponsor of ProtonMail.

01:15:37.840 --> 01:15:40.380
And by sponsors, I mean that they've signed me

01:15:40.380 --> 01:15:42.600
up for their premiere program, which basically

01:15:42.600 --> 01:15:44.260
just gives me a higher percentage for people

01:15:44.260 --> 01:15:46.479
who sign up. They don't actually pay me anything

01:15:46.479 --> 01:15:49.119
unless someone signs up. I still don't use it.

01:15:50.020 --> 01:15:52.199
I've thought about putting an ad in front of

01:15:52.199 --> 01:15:54.239
the podcast. I think that most people would be

01:15:54.239 --> 01:15:58.279
okay with it. And maybe I will end up doing that.

01:15:58.340 --> 01:16:00.500
But for the most part, I don't get offered them.

01:16:00.619 --> 01:16:03.699
I don't go searching for them. And when you put

01:16:03.699 --> 01:16:07.510
your YouTube email on your channel, And you get

01:16:07.510 --> 01:16:09.649
any subscribers at all. Like if you have two

01:16:09.649 --> 01:16:11.590
subscribers, you're automatically going to get

01:16:11.590 --> 01:16:14.449
at least one email for something stupid that

01:16:14.449 --> 01:16:17.409
says they're a sponsor or they want to do a paid

01:16:17.409 --> 01:16:22.210
collaboration. 95 % of them are scams. And I've

01:16:22.210 --> 01:16:24.170
never been good at figuring out which ones are

01:16:24.170 --> 01:16:26.090
scams. So I just assume that they all are. So

01:16:26.090 --> 01:16:29.649
the only reason I have the Proton one was because

01:16:29.649 --> 01:16:31.989
I was able to figure out that the person sending

01:16:31.989 --> 01:16:36.920
it to me actually worked for Proton. And I did

01:16:36.920 --> 01:16:40.020
a ton of research before I messaged them back.

01:16:40.079 --> 01:16:43.020
Usually I just delete them things and I get probably

01:16:43.020 --> 01:16:46.800
60 a day. And the stupid thing about it is that

01:16:46.800 --> 01:16:49.380
they always use a different email address. So

01:16:49.380 --> 01:16:52.520
you add one to spam. It doesn't matter if you

01:16:52.520 --> 01:16:53.920
add it to spam. They're just going to use a different

01:16:53.920 --> 01:16:55.539
email address and it's still going to come through

01:16:55.539 --> 01:16:59.439
your inbox. I've put in filters inside of my

01:16:59.439 --> 01:17:02.100
email program to try to, anytime it says collaboration,

01:17:02.539 --> 01:17:04.619
I just automatically move it to a different folder,

01:17:04.739 --> 01:17:07.140
which has probably ruined some relationships

01:17:07.140 --> 01:17:08.500
with YouTubers. I think I sent you an email.

01:17:08.680 --> 01:17:11.600
I think. So that's probably, if you use the word

01:17:11.600 --> 01:17:13.880
collaboration, you probably ended up in my spam

01:17:13.880 --> 01:17:18.090
folder. There's no real way around that because

01:17:18.090 --> 01:17:20.529
that's like the word that they'll use is collaboration.

01:17:20.810 --> 01:17:23.689
Like I'm Mr. Beast or something. Like why would

01:17:23.689 --> 01:17:25.609
you want to collaborate with someone who has

01:17:25.609 --> 01:17:30.390
$60 ,000? I will tell you this though. I had

01:17:30.390 --> 01:17:32.949
like a really big old wooden desk for a long

01:17:32.949 --> 01:17:35.029
time and I needed a new desk. My biggest regret

01:17:35.029 --> 01:17:38.109
ever is not reaching out to a desk company. Because

01:17:38.109 --> 01:17:40.890
if you go on YouTube and watch like desk setup.

01:17:42.169 --> 01:17:46.189
videos, all of them have contacted desk setup

01:17:46.189 --> 01:17:49.609
companies and all of them, some of them are like

01:17:49.609 --> 01:17:52.670
four or five thousand subscribers total. Like,

01:17:52.729 --> 01:17:55.729
why didn't I do that? I paid a thousand dollars

01:17:55.729 --> 01:17:59.270
for my desk. If I went to the company that made

01:17:59.270 --> 01:18:01.689
this desk and said, hey, I'll make a sponsored

01:18:01.689 --> 01:18:05.649
video if you just give me the desk. But you have

01:18:05.649 --> 01:18:09.090
to make a 10 minute long video. What is your

01:18:09.090 --> 01:18:11.090
audience going to think? They're going to call

01:18:11.090 --> 01:18:16.550
you a sellout. I don't care. I don't care. I

01:18:16.550 --> 01:18:20.569
would have happily taken their desk. And I have

01:18:20.569 --> 01:18:23.770
no morals whatsoever. I am very cheap. Just give

01:18:23.770 --> 01:18:25.890
me the desk. I will say it could be the worst

01:18:25.890 --> 01:18:28.569
desk in the history of the world. If it's free,

01:18:28.670 --> 01:18:31.050
I'm happy about it. I'll say good thanks. It's

01:18:31.050 --> 01:18:34.609
not actually true. Someone did send me this Linux

01:18:34.609 --> 01:18:36.989
phone. This thing is called the... I don't know

01:18:36.989 --> 01:18:40.500
how it's called. Anyways, I... I wanted to make

01:18:40.500 --> 01:18:42.699
a video about it. It has really good hardware,

01:18:42.800 --> 01:18:45.640
really crap software. It's called the furry phone,

01:18:45.819 --> 01:18:49.000
I think. Furry, like your audience? Like furry?

01:18:50.479 --> 01:18:57.619
I think it's more the kind you're thinking of,

01:18:57.680 --> 01:19:00.800
yeah. Anyways, that's what they call it. Yeah,

01:19:01.079 --> 01:19:04.739
F -U -R -I, furry phone. Oh, okay. I thought

01:19:04.739 --> 01:19:08.750
with two R's, but just one R. Okay. Yeah. Anyway,

01:19:08.770 --> 01:19:11.289
it's a crap name, but they sent they sent to

01:19:11.289 --> 01:19:14.109
me like back in, I don't know, October of last

01:19:14.109 --> 01:19:17.489
year and in in expectations that I would make

01:19:17.489 --> 01:19:19.970
a review. And I was right up front with them

01:19:19.970 --> 01:19:21.310
say, hey, yeah, you can send this to me, which

01:19:21.310 --> 01:19:25.510
is first off was very. It was a little nerve

01:19:25.510 --> 01:19:27.390
wracking because I don't have a post office box.

01:19:27.529 --> 01:19:29.289
I actually had to give them my actual address.

01:19:29.350 --> 01:19:32.149
So I thought, well, you know, I'm going to get

01:19:32.149 --> 01:19:34.789
killed. Definitely. That was definitely a serial

01:19:34.789 --> 01:19:38.329
killer. But, you know, someone's going to send

01:19:38.329 --> 01:19:41.489
me for something. Anixo is this, you know, mad

01:19:41.489 --> 01:19:44.609
user. Yep. Yeah. They're coming after me. But

01:19:44.609 --> 01:19:46.489
anyway, so they sent me this thing and I didn't

01:19:46.489 --> 01:19:50.430
actually end up making the review on it. I couldn't

01:19:50.430 --> 01:19:52.409
get conscious. They sent it to me for free. And

01:19:52.409 --> 01:19:56.789
this thing is so bad that I felt bad. And the

01:19:56.789 --> 01:19:58.310
thing is, it's not even their fault that it's

01:19:58.310 --> 01:20:01.250
bad. It's just Linux on mobile is crap. It's

01:20:01.250 --> 01:20:03.970
garbage. It's not good. And they've been working

01:20:03.970 --> 01:20:05.989
on it for 20 years. It's never going to be good.

01:20:06.630 --> 01:20:10.189
So, you know, I couldn't make that review. But

01:20:10.189 --> 01:20:13.550
anyways, the point was, I will take free things

01:20:13.550 --> 01:20:16.090
if they wanted to send it to me. But I just don't

01:20:16.090 --> 01:20:17.989
get those kind of offers. I regret the desk.

01:20:18.029 --> 01:20:20.890
thing immensely because there's obviously companies

01:20:20.890 --> 01:20:23.149
out there that will look at someone who says,

01:20:23.270 --> 01:20:25.609
I'm a YouTuber. They won't look at the subscriber

01:20:25.609 --> 01:20:28.310
count or the amount of views that they get. They'll

01:20:28.310 --> 01:20:30.270
just send them a desk, like a thousand dollar

01:20:30.270 --> 01:20:31.869
desk. They're going to send it to them. And like,

01:20:31.970 --> 01:20:34.970
why didn't I do that? Like that would have been

01:20:34.970 --> 01:20:36.909
that would have been great. I've been waiting

01:20:36.909 --> 01:20:39.350
on BenQ because I have seen, you know, other

01:20:39.350 --> 01:20:43.369
YouTubers talk about BenQ monitors. BenQ, if

01:20:43.369 --> 01:20:45.840
you're watching this. I want a monitor and I

01:20:45.840 --> 01:20:48.079
will talk about it in a video. I think Matt as

01:20:48.079 --> 01:20:50.859
well, because they offer like a 4K monitor. Have

01:20:50.859 --> 01:20:53.560
you seen that in some videos? Yeah, I would.

01:20:53.600 --> 01:20:57.680
I would happily take a new monitor. Yes. I would

01:20:57.680 --> 01:21:02.479
also talk if if. Any keyboard company out there,

01:21:02.539 --> 01:21:06.000
no matter what crappy keyboard you sell, wants

01:21:06.000 --> 01:21:07.739
to give me a keyboard, I will take it because

01:21:07.739 --> 01:21:12.159
I love keyboards. I would happily take all the

01:21:12.159 --> 01:21:13.960
keyboards. I mean, I make videos about all of

01:21:13.960 --> 01:21:15.340
them, but some of them I definitely will. I've

01:21:15.340 --> 01:21:17.880
always wanted to start a YouTube channel about

01:21:17.880 --> 01:21:20.079
keyboards. And if someone wanted to send me a

01:21:20.079 --> 01:21:23.479
starter kit of, I don't know. 10 keyboards, I

01:21:23.479 --> 01:21:26.960
have 10 videos ready to make. I'd be there for

01:21:26.960 --> 01:21:30.199
it. It'd be grand. Unfortunately, those guys

01:21:30.199 --> 01:21:33.739
do look at the subscriber count, so you have

01:21:33.739 --> 01:21:35.600
to be pretty big in order to actually get those

01:21:35.600 --> 01:21:38.560
things for free. Because keyboards are epic.

01:21:40.619 --> 01:21:43.500
They're pretty expensive. Which keyboard do you

01:21:43.500 --> 01:21:45.260
use, by the way? Which one are you using at the

01:21:45.260 --> 01:21:50.720
moment? So I have a Dactyl Manuform. And it is,

01:21:50.880 --> 01:21:54.640
I will actually, if I can, I will try to get

01:21:54.640 --> 01:21:57.119
it up on camera for you so that you can actually

01:21:57.119 --> 01:22:01.159
see. Give me just one second. All right. Yeah.

01:22:02.430 --> 01:22:06.510
It is an amazing keyboard that was entirely too

01:22:06.510 --> 01:22:09.890
expensive. Let me know when I can switch to your

01:22:09.890 --> 01:22:11.770
screen. You're going to show it on your screen?

01:22:12.449 --> 01:22:15.350
Yeah, you can actually see it right here. Let's

01:22:15.350 --> 01:22:19.409
see. Oh, I have seen that one. Okay. That's not

01:22:19.409 --> 01:22:21.590
the exact one that I have. It's from the internet,

01:22:21.729 --> 01:22:26.260
but it's very close. It was... uh obnoxiously

01:22:26.260 --> 01:22:28.920
expensive and just just the keyboard itself without

01:22:28.920 --> 01:22:31.460
any switches or keys was five hundred dollars

01:22:31.460 --> 01:22:36.050
and then i added Yeah, no switches. Are they

01:22:36.050 --> 01:22:37.989
hot -swappable, the switches? Yeah, they're hot

01:22:37.989 --> 01:22:40.090
switches. You can just plug them right in. Yeah,

01:22:40.090 --> 01:22:43.550
if it had been soldered, I probably wouldn't

01:22:43.550 --> 01:22:45.109
have got it. I've soldered a little bit in the

01:22:45.109 --> 01:22:48.289
past. My soldering's not great, mainly because

01:22:48.289 --> 01:22:50.590
of the big man hands. And you've got to be very

01:22:50.590 --> 01:22:51.949
precise with that kind of stuff, and I'm just

01:22:51.949 --> 01:22:55.289
not that precise. But yeah, they're hot -swappable,

01:22:55.430 --> 01:22:57.270
and I've switched them several times. So I've

01:22:57.270 --> 01:23:00.649
probably put close to $1 ,000 into this one keyboard.

01:23:02.350 --> 01:23:05.409
The problem isn't even that. I have a keyboard.

01:23:05.489 --> 01:23:09.130
I collect keyboards. So I have probably within

01:23:09.130 --> 01:23:11.750
this room and then the room over, I probably

01:23:11.750 --> 01:23:18.329
have 50 keyboards. And I've spent tens of thousands

01:23:18.329 --> 01:23:21.250
of dollars over the course of the last 20 years

01:23:21.250 --> 01:23:23.250
on keyboards. Now, unfortunately, I don't have

01:23:23.250 --> 01:23:25.289
them well displayed and they're not in very good

01:23:25.289 --> 01:23:29.060
condition because I'm a user of keyboards. So

01:23:29.060 --> 01:23:31.800
if I buy it, I'm going to use it. And the problem

01:23:31.800 --> 01:23:33.720
is I'm also not very good at storing things together.

01:23:33.779 --> 01:23:38.439
So I have Ziploc bag after Ziploc bag of keycaps.

01:23:40.180 --> 01:23:44.079
They're all mixed together. They're not by set.

01:23:44.680 --> 01:23:50.460
And they're not by layout or form factor or any

01:23:50.460 --> 01:23:52.319
of that stuff. They're just all mixed together.

01:23:52.560 --> 01:23:56.100
So that's not good. And then they, you know,

01:23:56.140 --> 01:23:59.560
I have probably the same thing with all the switches.

01:23:59.619 --> 01:24:04.369
Like I probably have, I don't know. two or three

01:24:04.369 --> 01:24:07.949
four five thousand switches within my house somewhere

01:24:07.949 --> 01:24:09.590
you know different kinds because i've tried all

01:24:09.590 --> 01:24:12.409
of them and you know whatever now it has it has

01:24:12.409 --> 01:24:14.930
slowed down so since i've gotten this keyboard

01:24:14.930 --> 01:24:17.390
it's slowed down i haven't bought a keyboard

01:24:17.390 --> 01:24:19.529
in over a year which i think is great i used

01:24:19.529 --> 01:24:21.229
to like buy one every few months it's it was

01:24:21.229 --> 01:24:23.310
it was insane not because i necessarily even

01:24:23.310 --> 01:24:24.770
wanted to use it was just like oh my god that

01:24:24.770 --> 01:24:27.390
looks cool i'm gonna buy it um but since i got

01:24:27.390 --> 01:24:32.810
this one It's great. I have no interest whatsoever

01:24:32.810 --> 01:24:34.109
in going and getting another one. I've seen some

01:24:34.109 --> 01:24:36.470
other ones. I've thought about buying another

01:24:36.470 --> 01:24:38.789
one of these when I had the Mac set up and I

01:24:38.789 --> 01:24:41.029
thought I was going to be using Mac for a good

01:24:41.029 --> 01:24:44.390
portion of my day to edit videos and stuff. I

01:24:44.390 --> 01:24:46.850
didn't want to use the Alice layout, actually.

01:24:49.270 --> 01:24:54.779
It's within reach. It's funny. You guys think

01:24:54.779 --> 01:24:56.840
that I'm kidding when I have a keyboard addiction?

01:24:57.180 --> 01:25:01.680
Actually, there's more. I won't get all of them.

01:25:01.779 --> 01:25:03.680
But anyways, I had this over on the Mac. And

01:25:03.680 --> 01:25:06.880
the Alice layout is fine. I like it a lot. If

01:25:06.880 --> 01:25:11.359
you are looking to get into a split keyboard,

01:25:11.659 --> 01:25:13.579
an Alice layout is a great way because it's very

01:25:13.579 --> 01:25:16.619
close to a regular layout, but a little bit apart.

01:25:16.979 --> 01:25:20.439
So it gets you used to using two halves of the

01:25:20.439 --> 01:25:23.699
board. Without having to deal with things like

01:25:23.699 --> 01:25:26.640
tenting, things like positioning of the two halves

01:25:26.640 --> 01:25:28.880
and stuff like that. This is set. You can learn

01:25:28.880 --> 01:25:31.279
on that, figure out how to get your hands there.

01:25:31.699 --> 01:25:34.500
And then you can move. So my first split keyboard

01:25:34.500 --> 01:25:38.819
was a Moonlander. Oh, how was that? Did you like

01:25:38.819 --> 01:25:41.720
it? It was atrocious. It was horrible. Why? And

01:25:41.720 --> 01:25:44.989
it wasn't even because the... Keyboard itself

01:25:44.989 --> 01:25:47.250
was bad. It's just because it was my first experience

01:25:47.250 --> 01:25:50.810
with a split keyboard. And that one is obnoxious

01:25:50.810 --> 01:25:52.350
when it comes to trying to get it in the right

01:25:52.350 --> 01:25:54.529
position. You have to deal with the height and

01:25:54.529 --> 01:25:57.869
the angle and all of this stuff, right? And I

01:25:57.869 --> 01:25:59.409
could never get it comfortable. I could just

01:25:59.409 --> 01:26:02.010
not get it. I was like 10 words a minute by the

01:26:02.010 --> 01:26:04.489
time I was done. I sold it to a friend. You remember

01:26:04.489 --> 01:26:07.689
if it was difficult to type the B, the B as in

01:26:07.689 --> 01:26:11.109
boy and the N, which are on the bottom corner.

01:26:11.529 --> 01:26:14.239
You remember? Because I had a tough time with

01:26:14.239 --> 01:26:18.699
those. Oh, yeah. So on, like on this Alice layout

01:26:18.699 --> 01:26:22.560
that I showed you, I have B on both sides. Like

01:26:22.560 --> 01:26:27.520
the end, the very last column in the middle,

01:26:27.560 --> 01:26:30.840
I have B on both sides. Because sometimes I have

01:26:30.840 --> 01:26:33.840
the stupidest keyboard, stupidest typing layout

01:26:33.840 --> 01:26:36.649
ever. Sometimes I hit the B with my left hand.

01:26:36.770 --> 01:26:38.470
Sometimes I hit the B with my right hand. You

01:26:38.470 --> 01:26:40.350
never know what it's going to be. So I had to

01:26:40.350 --> 01:26:42.930
have it in both places. Now, with the actual

01:26:42.930 --> 01:26:45.750
split keyboard with the dactyl, I don't have

01:26:45.750 --> 01:26:48.890
that problem. So I was able to use the one on

01:26:48.890 --> 01:26:50.949
the left side for something else. But on the

01:26:50.949 --> 01:26:53.149
Alice, when I first started it, yeah, I had to

01:26:53.149 --> 01:26:55.210
have that in both places. And it's even worse

01:26:55.210 --> 01:27:00.430
because on the dactyl, when I first got it, my

01:27:00.430 --> 01:27:07.409
biggest problem was that I had You have to really

01:27:07.409 --> 01:27:10.869
curl your index finger on your right side to

01:27:10.869 --> 01:27:12.590
get to the period, right? Because it's really

01:27:12.590 --> 01:27:14.170
far down there and it was very uncomfortable.

01:27:14.449 --> 01:27:21.250
So what I did was I moved the period key up here.

01:27:22.909 --> 01:27:28.100
So basically it's on a row above. And it's worked

01:27:28.100 --> 01:27:30.479
really, really well on the split. But every time

01:27:30.479 --> 01:27:33.619
I go to my laptop where it's just a regular QWERTY

01:27:33.619 --> 01:27:37.840
keyboard, I'm pressing. Yeah, it just messes

01:27:37.840 --> 01:27:40.560
with my mind. So I'm actually much faster on

01:27:40.560 --> 01:27:42.279
a split keyboard now than I used to because I've

01:27:42.279 --> 01:27:44.930
made those changes. And like the one that you're

01:27:44.930 --> 01:27:46.609
seeing on screen right now is actually worse

01:27:46.609 --> 01:27:48.850
because it has fewer keys than mine does. Mine

01:27:48.850 --> 01:27:52.689
has six rows instead of four rows. So I actually

01:27:52.689 --> 01:27:57.630
have an extra row there. Now, I thought about

01:27:57.630 --> 01:28:00.250
this. When I first bought it, I had no clue what

01:28:00.250 --> 01:28:02.789
the thumb cluster really needed to be. So I bought

01:28:02.789 --> 01:28:07.710
just three on each side. Where I bought it was

01:28:07.710 --> 01:28:09.770
able to have six on each side, like what you're

01:28:09.770 --> 01:28:12.210
seeing there that has six on each side. And that

01:28:12.210 --> 01:28:14.869
would have been amazing. I would love to have

01:28:14.869 --> 01:28:17.970
that. And I will probably one day with like a

01:28:17.970 --> 01:28:20.789
tax refund or something, buy me a new Dactyl

01:28:20.789 --> 01:28:24.710
with the six in the thumb cluster on each side.

01:28:25.810 --> 01:28:28.750
Mainly because the way I have with only three.

01:28:29.710 --> 01:28:33.109
I can only have the super key on one side. The

01:28:33.109 --> 01:28:36.050
other one has to have shift and enter and all

01:28:36.050 --> 01:28:39.149
the stuff because I ran out of keys. Now, I tried

01:28:39.149 --> 01:28:42.909
to do the different layers and stuff like that,

01:28:42.930 --> 01:28:45.310
and it works for some things. But when you have

01:28:45.310 --> 01:28:51.770
the... For example, in the middle on the left

01:28:51.770 --> 01:28:55.649
-hand side, I have the enter key. It's a little

01:28:55.649 --> 01:28:56.609
bit different in this one because, like I said,

01:28:56.670 --> 01:29:00.600
I only have three. The middle key on the left

01:29:00.600 --> 01:29:04.779
-hand side, I have that to space. And in the

01:29:04.779 --> 01:29:06.600
software, you can set it so that if you hold

01:29:06.600 --> 01:29:08.779
down the key just long enough, right, you can

01:29:08.779 --> 01:29:11.680
set it to something else. So I set that to the

01:29:11.680 --> 01:29:14.199
super key, which I use all the time. But the

01:29:14.199 --> 01:29:17.260
problem is I can never quite get that timing

01:29:17.260 --> 01:29:19.199
right. So every once in a while, I'd accidentally

01:29:19.199 --> 01:29:21.619
press a key binding when I was just meaning to

01:29:21.619 --> 01:29:24.399
put a space in there. So I haven't been able

01:29:24.399 --> 01:29:27.380
to quite get that down there. So if the next

01:29:27.380 --> 01:29:29.760
time I do end up buying a new keyboard, which

01:29:29.760 --> 01:29:32.600
I'm eventually going to fall off the wagon, it'll

01:29:32.600 --> 01:29:34.680
probably just be another one of these, but with

01:29:34.680 --> 01:29:37.520
the six clusters. Now, the place that printed

01:29:37.520 --> 01:29:43.619
mine has a keyboard. That is very tempting. It's

01:29:43.619 --> 01:29:46.699
basically this, but instead of it being just

01:29:46.699 --> 01:29:49.640
uniform for everybody, they take pictures of

01:29:49.640 --> 01:29:54.079
your hands and they customize the curve of the

01:29:54.079 --> 01:29:57.000
keyboard to your hands. Plus, you can get it

01:29:57.000 --> 01:30:00.619
so that it has a trackball on both sides. And,

01:30:00.680 --> 01:30:05.199
oh goodness, do I want that so bad. If I had...

01:30:05.420 --> 01:30:08.920
If I had that, I would be so very happy. But

01:30:08.920 --> 01:30:13.319
this one was expensive. That one was way off

01:30:13.319 --> 01:30:15.399
the price range. It was like well over $1 ,000

01:30:15.399 --> 01:30:17.939
by the time I was done pricing it out. So basically

01:30:17.939 --> 01:30:20.380
just picture what you're seeing on screen, but

01:30:20.380 --> 01:30:25.199
with a trackball on each side. Man. You know

01:30:25.199 --> 01:30:27.840
which one I purchased if you look at my screen?

01:30:28.159 --> 01:30:31.069
Well. I pre -order it because it's not out yet.

01:30:31.130 --> 01:30:32.890
This is the one that I'm using right now, the

01:30:32.890 --> 01:30:37.149
Glove 80, right? It's been great, but I'm using

01:30:37.149 --> 01:30:41.850
too few keys. It has 80 keys and I'm just using

01:30:41.850 --> 01:30:45.789
40. So one day I was just, you know, in my Discord,

01:30:45.949 --> 01:30:47.609
someone showed up in the Discord and told me,

01:30:47.670 --> 01:30:50.149
hey, you were looking for a Korn that is flat.

01:30:50.409 --> 01:30:53.909
So this is not expensive. Half the price because

01:30:53.909 --> 01:30:57.340
it's a prototype. It's not out yet. And it's

01:30:57.340 --> 01:31:00.979
really flat. It's just 42 keys. Yeah, 42 keys,

01:31:01.100 --> 01:31:03.039
I think, you know. But that's what I'm using

01:31:03.039 --> 01:31:05.659
right now. Just 42 keys. But look at it. It's

01:31:05.659 --> 01:31:09.060
beautiful. This is the regular sized Korn. Big

01:31:09.060 --> 01:31:12.239
for me, right? I have it. You have it? The Korn?

01:31:12.659 --> 01:31:15.239
It's not that exact one, but yeah, I have a Korn

01:31:15.239 --> 01:31:19.869
keyboard. So I use all of my keys as my problem.

01:31:19.970 --> 01:31:23.090
I actually don't think I have enough keys. So

01:31:23.090 --> 01:31:26.609
I just told you that I wanted three more on each

01:31:26.609 --> 01:31:30.159
cluster. Because I love keyboard. The thing about

01:31:30.159 --> 01:31:32.619
Linux, and especially in Vim and stuff, you know,

01:31:32.699 --> 01:31:34.600
that's your Vim user, key bindings are everything,

01:31:34.739 --> 01:31:38.000
right? And the more key bindings you have, the

01:31:38.000 --> 01:31:40.899
more key bindings you can use. Now, obviously,

01:31:40.960 --> 01:31:42.920
you can get creative with key chords and all

01:31:42.920 --> 01:31:45.340
sorts of stuff. So if you don't have as many

01:31:45.340 --> 01:31:48.380
keys as you need, you can do that. But I like

01:31:48.380 --> 01:31:50.560
having a dedicated key for everything. So the

01:31:50.560 --> 01:31:56.229
more keys, the better for me. So I have the Korn.

01:31:56.430 --> 01:31:59.170
It's the best sounding keyboard I have because

01:31:59.170 --> 01:32:02.649
it's made with a stainless steel base. So it

01:32:02.649 --> 01:32:06.250
sounds thocky, like crazy. If you're in the keyboard

01:32:06.250 --> 01:32:07.949
community, you know what the word thocky means.

01:32:08.430 --> 01:32:11.350
Not actually a word, I'm pretty sure. But anyways,

01:32:11.470 --> 01:32:16.979
it sounds spectacular. It kind of sounds like

01:32:16.979 --> 01:32:22.380
this one, but not quite as good. I had it on

01:32:22.380 --> 01:32:24.319
my desk for a little while just so I could every

01:32:24.319 --> 01:32:26.199
once in a while reach over and press a few keys

01:32:26.199 --> 01:32:28.680
just to hear it. That's how good it sounded.

01:32:28.840 --> 01:32:30.619
I was never able to quite get used to it because

01:32:30.619 --> 01:32:32.819
it didn't have enough keys. And there was so

01:32:32.819 --> 01:32:35.180
much stuff that had to go on other layers. And

01:32:35.180 --> 01:32:38.239
I've never been good at layers, like ever. I'm

01:32:38.239 --> 01:32:40.060
assuming that if I put enough time and effort

01:32:40.060 --> 01:32:43.479
into it, I could get used to using layers. But

01:32:43.479 --> 01:32:46.199
I haven't yet. And it's kind of like the time

01:32:46.199 --> 01:32:49.260
I switched to Dvorak or Colmac and trying to

01:32:49.260 --> 01:32:52.020
do those. I never really gave it enough time

01:32:52.020 --> 01:32:54.819
to... And what are you on right now? Qwerty?

01:32:55.359 --> 01:32:57.939
Qwerty, yeah. I'm probably going to be on Qwerty

01:32:57.939 --> 01:33:03.800
until I die. I got the best at Dvorak. I got

01:33:03.800 --> 01:33:06.020
up to 30 words per minute on Dvorak, which is

01:33:06.020 --> 01:33:08.720
serviceable. My biggest problem with all the

01:33:08.720 --> 01:33:12.020
alternative keyboard layouts is that they, at

01:33:12.020 --> 01:33:13.840
least most of them, some of them are different.

01:33:14.720 --> 01:33:16.720
There's a Colmac version that keeps the copy

01:33:16.720 --> 01:33:19.399
and paste keys where they are, like on Qwerty,

01:33:19.520 --> 01:33:23.210
which is good. But every other... layout moves

01:33:23.210 --> 01:33:28.510
c and v like one has c over here v over on the

01:33:28.510 --> 01:33:32.449
other side and i use copy and paste all the time

01:33:32.449 --> 01:33:34.770
like literally probably thousands of times a

01:33:34.770 --> 01:33:38.130
day and moving those key bindings was nuts and

01:33:38.130 --> 01:33:41.550
also once you get used to hjk and l being in

01:33:41.550 --> 01:33:46.229
where they are spots trying to get those in a

01:33:46.229 --> 01:33:50.380
different place is horrendously confusing to

01:33:50.380 --> 01:33:52.239
your mind. And you can get into Vim and, like,

01:33:52.239 --> 01:33:55.420
remap those to whatever the key layout has in

01:33:55.420 --> 01:33:58.800
those positions. So, like, with Dvorak, I think

01:33:58.800 --> 01:34:03.060
it's something like EIO... No, it's... See if

01:34:03.060 --> 01:34:08.579
I can remember this. It's like NT... I don't

01:34:08.579 --> 01:34:10.180
remember. I can't remember. But anyways, it's

01:34:10.180 --> 01:34:12.659
something really weird. I did remap Vim to those

01:34:12.659 --> 01:34:15.159
letters so that basically it just took the place

01:34:15.159 --> 01:34:18.279
of HJKNL. still mess with my mind because i was

01:34:18.279 --> 01:34:21.100
still expecting hjknl all the time and it's just

01:34:21.100 --> 01:34:24.699
because i expect i use hjknl everywhere like

01:34:24.699 --> 01:34:28.539
i've built it into my browser yeah it's you don't

01:34:28.539 --> 01:34:30.359
use it only on even and that's something that

01:34:30.359 --> 01:34:33.140
i tell everyone i i use it everywhere on mac

01:34:33.140 --> 01:34:35.340
because there's an app that allows you to use

01:34:35.340 --> 01:34:39.399
emotions on any app you know even slack discord

01:34:39.399 --> 01:34:44.180
email doesn't matter so If you remap it on Vim,

01:34:44.279 --> 01:34:46.140
you're going to be good there, but not everywhere

01:34:46.140 --> 01:34:48.039
else on your system. And that's going to be a

01:34:48.039 --> 01:34:51.739
problem, right? Yeah. You're right. You just

01:34:51.739 --> 01:34:56.060
put it in the browser. I've spent the last week

01:34:56.060 --> 01:34:58.619
and a half trying to get Emacs to function exactly

01:34:58.619 --> 01:35:03.640
like NeoVim. That's my point. So this whole Emacs

01:35:03.640 --> 01:35:06.859
thing, if you want, you can actually... Here

01:35:06.859 --> 01:35:10.560
in a second, you can switch to the screen, show

01:35:10.560 --> 01:35:12.119
my screen here. This is my version of Emacs.

01:35:12.340 --> 01:35:17.300
And this is exactly what my NeoVim looks like,

01:35:17.380 --> 01:35:19.579
actually. The only difference is there's all

01:35:19.579 --> 01:35:23.039
these .el things there in the recent files. That's

01:35:23.039 --> 01:35:24.720
because I've been messing around with the configuration

01:35:24.720 --> 01:35:29.859
all the time. And so I've spent this entire time

01:35:29.859 --> 01:35:33.060
getting my Emacs to function exactly like NeoVim,

01:35:33.140 --> 01:35:36.420
like in every way possible. And I've succeeded.

01:35:36.640 --> 01:35:39.739
I've really succeeded. Every Vim binding you

01:35:39.739 --> 01:35:44.300
can imagine is in this. So the reason why I'm

01:35:44.300 --> 01:35:46.640
in this, I'm a big Vim guy. I have a hat over

01:35:46.640 --> 01:35:49.899
that says, I love Vim. I'm that big of a Vim

01:35:49.899 --> 01:35:54.100
fanboy. And it's really hard to pry Vim out of

01:35:54.100 --> 01:35:55.560
my hands, even though I've tried multiple times

01:35:55.560 --> 01:35:57.199
to try other things just for content reasons.

01:35:59.199 --> 01:36:01.079
On my Discord, there's a guy named Darth Vader.

01:36:01.239 --> 01:36:03.899
I should have known better than to move to the

01:36:03.899 --> 01:36:06.880
dark side. But he was saying bad things about

01:36:06.880 --> 01:36:09.739
OpenSUSE. And OpenSUSE is a Discord that I'm

01:36:09.739 --> 01:36:11.880
really, really happy to have used for two years.

01:36:11.920 --> 01:36:13.600
And I'm very proud of it. And I like it. And

01:36:13.600 --> 01:36:15.619
I like other people to like it. And he was talking

01:36:15.619 --> 01:36:19.699
crap about OpenSUSE. So me and my big mouth decided

01:36:19.699 --> 01:36:23.439
to challenge him to use OpenSUSE for two years.

01:36:23.949 --> 01:36:27.229
And he said, sure, as long as you use Emacs for

01:36:27.229 --> 01:36:29.470
two years. Now, I have used Emacs many times

01:36:29.470 --> 01:36:32.250
in the past. Every single time I've said, this

01:36:32.250 --> 01:36:35.489
is stupid. I don't want to use it anymore because

01:36:35.489 --> 01:36:39.109
it's stupid. Everything in this program here

01:36:39.109 --> 01:36:41.729
is a key binding. So if I do like meta X, you're

01:36:41.729 --> 01:36:43.930
going to see all this stuff. If I do control.

01:36:44.909 --> 01:36:46.550
x or whatever it's going to show you a whole

01:36:46.550 --> 01:36:49.029
bunch of extra things you can press you know

01:36:49.029 --> 01:36:51.829
i kind of and you can't learn all that nonsense

01:36:51.829 --> 01:36:55.409
no emacs users you'll learn a few of those things

01:36:55.409 --> 01:36:57.189
the vast majority of times you're going to need

01:36:57.189 --> 01:36:58.590
this little cheat sheet that shows up there at

01:36:58.590 --> 01:37:02.810
the bottom and you know whatever so you know

01:37:02.810 --> 01:37:06.319
my big mouth is like You know, you've got to

01:37:06.319 --> 01:37:09.239
use OpenSUSE, and I'm going to use Emacs. And

01:37:09.239 --> 01:37:12.000
so, like, fine, I'm going to win this thing.

01:37:12.060 --> 01:37:13.920
So first off, I have an advantage. He's never

01:37:13.920 --> 01:37:17.039
used a distro for two years ever, as far as I

01:37:17.039 --> 01:37:18.859
know. He always hops off from them eventually.

01:37:18.960 --> 01:37:22.420
So I have that advantage. But also, I'm a big,

01:37:22.439 --> 01:37:25.180
fat cheater. Because I went through and made

01:37:25.180 --> 01:37:29.550
this as close to Vim. as I possibly could. And

01:37:29.550 --> 01:37:33.170
I've succeeded. You can even see there, welcome,

01:37:33.270 --> 01:37:35.210
Matt. This is hell. Remember Vimit's letter?

01:37:35.409 --> 01:37:39.010
Yeah, I read that. So I just got to put that

01:37:39.010 --> 01:37:42.090
up there. So I've had fun doing that to the point

01:37:42.090 --> 01:37:46.130
where I have my... Before I modularized my Emacs

01:37:46.130 --> 01:37:48.939
config, it was like... almost a thousand lines

01:37:48.939 --> 01:37:51.220
long. It was crazy because I did almost everything

01:37:51.220 --> 01:37:54.279
by hand. And when I say everything by hand, I

01:37:54.279 --> 01:37:56.880
mean I went and stole everything by hand from

01:37:56.880 --> 01:38:00.159
as many people online as I possibly could. Because

01:38:00.159 --> 01:38:02.859
other people have done this before me. I just

01:38:02.859 --> 01:38:05.079
basically took the parts that I needed. Everyone

01:38:05.079 --> 01:38:07.659
steals from everyone. So that's what I've been

01:38:07.659 --> 01:38:10.159
doing. That's how I cheated. I'm using vanilla

01:38:10.159 --> 01:38:13.300
Emacs. It even says GNU Emacs right up there

01:38:13.300 --> 01:38:16.479
at the top. So anybody who's questioning that

01:38:16.479 --> 01:38:20.029
this isn't actually It is actually Emacs. But

01:38:20.029 --> 01:38:25.350
the problem is that it functions exactly like

01:38:25.350 --> 01:38:29.229
Vim for me. So I'm cheating, and I will win that

01:38:29.229 --> 01:38:34.250
bet. I will happily gloat for the next 10 years

01:38:34.250 --> 01:38:37.609
in his face when he eventually fails at OpenSUSE.

01:38:37.750 --> 01:38:39.869
Because he's already complaining about how OpenSUSE

01:38:39.869 --> 01:38:42.649
is a useless distro, and how it's the worst distro

01:38:42.649 --> 01:38:45.250
he's ever used. And we're only like 10 days in.

01:38:45.310 --> 01:38:49.579
There's no way. He's making it two years. I wrote

01:38:49.579 --> 01:38:52.560
this on my blog. I will actually be mad now if

01:38:52.560 --> 01:38:55.079
he comes to me like tomorrow and says he's hopping

01:38:55.079 --> 01:38:56.939
off OpenSUSE because that means the challenge

01:38:56.939 --> 01:39:00.720
is over. I've spent. Like, every furry moment

01:39:00.720 --> 01:39:03.560
for the last 10 days outside of work and away

01:39:03.560 --> 01:39:06.659
from family, configuring this thing to the way

01:39:06.659 --> 01:39:10.039
I want it, right? If he comes tomorrow and says

01:39:10.039 --> 01:39:12.960
he's failing, I'm going to be so pissed off because

01:39:12.960 --> 01:39:16.380
I put all this work in. And I'll let you in on

01:39:16.380 --> 01:39:18.760
a little secret. Because it acts so much like

01:39:18.760 --> 01:39:21.760
Vim, I could use it forever because it's just

01:39:21.760 --> 01:39:23.899
Vim for me. Now, people are going to be like,

01:39:23.920 --> 01:39:26.720
Matt, why don't you use Org Mode? I don't need

01:39:26.720 --> 01:39:28.640
any org mode stuff. Just keep that to yourself.

01:39:28.819 --> 01:39:31.680
I don't need it. I have Markdown. Why not org

01:39:31.680 --> 01:39:35.390
mode? Once you get into org mode, it's kind of

01:39:35.390 --> 01:39:37.609
actually kind of like home manager on NixOS.

01:39:37.750 --> 01:39:39.989
Once you put your stuff in there, it's hard to

01:39:39.989 --> 01:39:41.890
get it out. Like you can go through and write

01:39:41.890 --> 01:39:43.609
all of your configs in org mode and stuff like

01:39:43.609 --> 01:39:44.930
that. But then what are you going to do if you

01:39:44.930 --> 01:39:47.670
just go decide to use them again? All of your

01:39:47.670 --> 01:39:49.890
stuff's in org mode. You can't actually get that

01:39:49.890 --> 01:39:51.409
stuff out there without doing something, going

01:39:51.409 --> 01:39:54.170
to Emacs, translating it all to whatever it's

01:39:54.170 --> 01:39:56.250
supposed to be, and then moving on. It adds an

01:39:56.250 --> 01:40:01.050
extra step. And all of my work is done in Markdown.

01:40:01.449 --> 01:40:04.970
basically so why would i add like someone someone

01:40:04.970 --> 01:40:06.989
in my discord was arguing with me like you should

01:40:06.989 --> 01:40:08.789
use org mode but why would i want to do that

01:40:08.789 --> 01:40:11.710
i'd have to learn something new just to translate

01:40:11.710 --> 01:40:14.510
something to markdown which i already know it'd

01:40:14.510 --> 01:40:20.760
be like learning c but in order to It'd be like

01:40:20.760 --> 01:40:22.779
learning C and then translating everything over

01:40:22.779 --> 01:40:26.279
into Python that you already know. It'd be silly.

01:40:26.479 --> 01:40:29.100
There'd be no reason to do something like that.

01:40:29.239 --> 01:40:32.680
So I have no interest in Markdown or org mode.

01:40:33.640 --> 01:40:36.979
It's like a walled garden that it'd be sealing

01:40:36.979 --> 01:40:38.979
me into, and I have no interest in doing that.

01:40:39.140 --> 01:40:42.960
So all of your notes are in Markdown then. Did

01:40:42.960 --> 01:40:45.680
you start with Markdown? Because I started with

01:40:45.680 --> 01:40:48.979
Google Docs, and I'm talking about, what, 20

01:40:48.979 --> 01:40:51.539
years ago. Google Docs, I took a lot of notes,

01:40:51.720 --> 01:40:55.560
thousands of, you know, pages of different Google

01:40:55.560 --> 01:40:57.760
Docs documents. I don't even look at them right

01:40:57.760 --> 01:41:00.979
now. I didn't migrate them to Markdown. They're

01:41:00.979 --> 01:41:04.079
still in Google, you know, but then I moved to

01:41:04.079 --> 01:41:08.140
Markdown. So did you start with Markdown? No,

01:41:08.159 --> 01:41:11.300
most of my notes actually started in Google Keep.

01:41:12.450 --> 01:41:15.529
I use that as well. So Google Keep was my place.

01:41:15.630 --> 01:41:18.069
And yeah, I think it supports Markdown. Maybe

01:41:18.069 --> 01:41:22.909
it just started. I don't even know. So the vast

01:41:22.909 --> 01:41:24.810
majority of my note takings happens on my phone,

01:41:24.869 --> 01:41:27.250
or at least it did. And for years, it was just

01:41:27.250 --> 01:41:28.930
Google Keep because Google Keep would sync to

01:41:28.930 --> 01:41:30.250
my Google account. I could get it everywhere.

01:41:32.010 --> 01:41:34.229
If I needed to take a snippet or a copy and paste

01:41:34.229 --> 01:41:35.590
something, I'd just pop it in there and it'd

01:41:35.590 --> 01:41:37.789
sync everywhere. And it was great, but I hate...

01:41:38.270 --> 01:41:39.810
relying on google for things because eventually

01:41:39.810 --> 01:41:41.949
they're going to kill keep and you know obviously

01:41:41.949 --> 01:41:43.850
google has all the privacy stuff that goes along

01:41:43.850 --> 01:41:46.109
with it and stuff like that so i've i've been

01:41:46.109 --> 01:41:48.689
on a constant lookout for a note -taking solution

01:41:48.689 --> 01:41:51.409
that works for me and i this last like few months

01:41:51.409 --> 01:41:54.489
i found one so i have obsidian on my desktop

01:41:54.489 --> 01:41:58.289
and i have next cloud on my desktop my vault

01:41:58.289 --> 01:42:04.439
rely it resides in my next cloud So it gets synced

01:42:04.439 --> 01:42:07.140
with NextCloud. And on Android, there's an application

01:42:07.140 --> 01:42:10.119
called Quillpad. I believe it's just one word.

01:42:10.560 --> 01:42:15.000
Yes, one word. Q -U -I -L -L -P -A -D. And it

01:42:15.000 --> 01:42:19.880
is basically Google Keep. It's exactly like Google

01:42:19.880 --> 01:42:26.560
Keep. So that connects to my NextCloud. Obsidian

01:42:26.560 --> 01:42:29.420
Vault, and they sync back and forth between each

01:42:29.420 --> 01:42:31.220
other. And that's how I've been keeping notes.

01:42:31.319 --> 01:42:34.180
It has been spectacular. It has been so good.

01:42:34.199 --> 01:42:38.340
So because the application on Android is so similar

01:42:38.340 --> 01:42:40.739
to Google Keep, I haven't really noticed a big

01:42:40.739 --> 01:42:43.359
difference between thing. I was using a self

01:42:43.359 --> 01:42:45.180
-hosted application called Memos for a while.

01:42:45.560 --> 01:42:48.220
That's also very much like Google Keep. The problem

01:42:48.220 --> 01:42:50.399
is it doesn't, as far as I know, it does not

01:42:50.399 --> 01:42:51.880
have an application. Someone told me that does.

01:42:51.960 --> 01:42:55.239
I never actually found it. So you had to use

01:42:55.239 --> 01:42:56.899
a progressive web app in order to actually use

01:42:56.899 --> 01:43:00.260
that. So QuillPad is much better. I do have my

01:43:00.260 --> 01:43:02.500
qualms with NextCloud, but it works fairly well

01:43:02.500 --> 01:43:04.539
for small text files. It doesn't work very well

01:43:04.539 --> 01:43:07.140
for bigger files because of other stupid reasons.

01:43:07.359 --> 01:43:10.680
But this setup has worked fantastically well.

01:43:10.739 --> 01:43:12.619
All of my stuff from Google Keep now has been

01:43:12.619 --> 01:43:15.760
moved over. That was a pain in the ass. That

01:43:15.760 --> 01:43:20.979
was not fun. I didn't move everything over. I

01:43:20.979 --> 01:43:23.399
didn't need grocery lists from 20 years ago.

01:43:23.439 --> 01:43:27.520
That stuff got deleted. I had a novel idea from

01:43:27.520 --> 01:43:29.539
high school or whatever. I wanted to keep that.

01:43:29.539 --> 01:43:30.680
I don't think I'm ever going to write the novel,

01:43:30.779 --> 01:43:32.380
but it was cool that I had the idea, so I wanted

01:43:32.380 --> 01:43:34.680
to keep that. I had a whole bunch of stuff like

01:43:34.680 --> 01:43:36.479
that that I had to move over. Basically, that

01:43:36.479 --> 01:43:40.840
was a manual process. It was not a good thing.

01:43:40.920 --> 01:43:42.720
Now, they will let you export your data, but

01:43:42.720 --> 01:43:48.399
it's in a mixture of XML and JSON. Theoretically,

01:43:48.420 --> 01:43:50.779
I could like vibe code like a script or whatever

01:43:50.779 --> 01:43:54.000
to pull all the stuff out, I suppose. But by

01:43:54.000 --> 01:43:58.239
the time I got to figuring that out and stuff,

01:43:58.279 --> 01:44:00.880
it was just easier just to go through this stuff

01:44:00.880 --> 01:44:02.979
and organize it the way I needed to do anyway.

01:44:03.100 --> 01:44:05.180
So, yeah, that's that's where my note taking

01:44:05.180 --> 01:44:09.199
situation is right now. I'm on this my next I'm

01:44:09.199 --> 01:44:14.199
on like a scripting. um like extravaganza or

01:44:14.199 --> 01:44:15.340
something right now i've written a whole bunch

01:44:15.340 --> 01:44:17.680
of scripts lately for for specifically for my

01:44:17.680 --> 01:44:21.359
blog but i want to do one for notes i'm still

01:44:21.359 --> 01:44:22.760
going to use this setup that i have but i would

01:44:22.760 --> 01:44:24.880
love to be able to look to have like a a rofi

01:44:24.880 --> 01:44:26.800
script like a like a thing you have popped up

01:44:26.800 --> 01:44:29.960
earlier on your screen but only for like a It

01:44:29.960 --> 01:44:32.340
is like a menu selector thing, kind of like Alfred

01:44:32.340 --> 01:44:34.680
on the Mac or whatever it's called, right? But

01:44:34.680 --> 01:44:38.199
you pop that up, and it will show you an option,

01:44:38.319 --> 01:44:40.180
say new notes, and it will let you type the note,

01:44:40.239 --> 01:44:42.159
and it will just kind of save in a file, and

01:44:42.159 --> 01:44:44.000
that will sync to my phone. I'm going to script

01:44:44.000 --> 01:44:46.359
that. It's going to be awesome. That's my next

01:44:46.359 --> 01:44:48.140
scripting opportunity. So that's going to be

01:44:48.140 --> 01:44:51.020
good. With your current note setup, do you ever

01:44:51.020 --> 01:44:56.319
get scared of, you know, deleting part of a note?

01:44:57.050 --> 01:44:59.670
And I guess you don't have them in version control,

01:44:59.930 --> 01:45:02.909
right? So you cannot go back to a previous state

01:45:02.909 --> 01:45:06.909
on that note. Or do you also keep them in, you

01:45:06.909 --> 01:45:10.750
know, GitLab or whatever? No, they're just in

01:45:10.750 --> 01:45:16.909
Nextcloud. But Nextcloud, if you're in some things,

01:45:16.930 --> 01:45:19.529
at least if it's in the notes directory, does

01:45:19.529 --> 01:45:23.010
keep versions. So if you want to go through and

01:45:23.010 --> 01:45:25.430
go back to a certain version, you can do that.

01:45:25.789 --> 01:45:27.409
Now, it doesn't apply to everything that's in

01:45:27.409 --> 01:45:29.010
your next cloud directory because that would

01:45:29.010 --> 01:45:32.449
take a ton of space. But the notes directory,

01:45:32.810 --> 01:45:40.090
it does keep a series of like a historical thing

01:45:40.090 --> 01:45:45.369
for you. I don't use that often. I think I've

01:45:45.369 --> 01:45:47.810
switched note -taking solutions so much because

01:45:47.810 --> 01:45:51.239
I've wanted to get off. keep for so many years

01:45:51.239 --> 01:45:54.640
i've moved back and forth so many times i think

01:45:54.640 --> 01:45:58.279
i've lost so many notes that i'm immune to feeling

01:45:58.279 --> 01:46:02.260
bad about it so if i were to delete one it's

01:46:02.260 --> 01:46:05.180
not that big a deal um and it's not like i'm

01:46:05.180 --> 01:46:07.199
putting rocket science in there if i if i lose

01:46:07.199 --> 01:46:08.979
something eventually the thought will filter

01:46:08.979 --> 01:46:10.880
through my brain again and i'll just make the

01:46:10.880 --> 01:46:14.600
note again so yeah eventually yeah it won't be

01:46:14.600 --> 01:46:18.659
that big of a deal and probably i do have a i

01:46:18.659 --> 01:46:22.380
i do backups of my next cloud folders too, like

01:46:22.380 --> 01:46:25.779
to Borg. So chances are, as long as that thing's

01:46:25.779 --> 01:46:27.619
still running, I have a backup of it somewhere

01:46:27.619 --> 01:46:31.319
too. Oh, okay. Okay. I used Obsidian for quite

01:46:31.319 --> 01:46:33.899
some time as well. I loved it, you know, but

01:46:33.899 --> 01:46:37.359
ever since I moved to Nuvem, I view images, I

01:46:37.359 --> 01:46:39.760
paste images in Nuvem. I basically do everything

01:46:39.760 --> 01:46:43.220
in Nuvem nowadays. So I just moved away from

01:46:43.220 --> 01:46:47.760
Obsidian. What is it that you love about Obsidian?

01:46:48.270 --> 01:46:51.750
so much is it on the plugins it's fast right

01:46:51.750 --> 01:46:54.989
i like the i like the plugins uh i think it's

01:46:54.989 --> 01:46:59.789
so when i first got introduced to obsidian my

01:46:59.789 --> 01:47:02.189
biggest problem was that i don't want all of

01:47:02.189 --> 01:47:04.789
my stuff in one vault and you can't have two

01:47:04.789 --> 01:47:07.310
vaults open in the same window at the same time

01:47:07.310 --> 01:47:09.350
with obsidian which always drove me nuts but

01:47:09.350 --> 01:47:11.489
eventually i got over myself and just put everything

01:47:11.489 --> 01:47:13.590
in one vault and just use a whole bunch of directories

01:47:13.590 --> 01:47:17.199
for stuff But I think what I like about it is

01:47:17.199 --> 01:47:20.420
simply that it's the best Markdown editor I think

01:47:20.420 --> 01:47:23.680
I've ever seen. It does a fantastic job with

01:47:23.680 --> 01:47:27.840
Markdown. You can get other ones that are very

01:47:27.840 --> 01:47:30.039
close to that, but it just does a really good

01:47:30.039 --> 01:47:33.619
job of doing solid, pure Markdown. For example,

01:47:33.680 --> 01:47:35.760
there's an application for Vim called VimWiki.

01:47:36.159 --> 01:47:38.920
Right. And VimWiki, I used it for a long time

01:47:38.920 --> 01:47:41.399
with notes, but it doesn't use pure Markdown.

01:47:41.439 --> 01:47:44.560
It uses its own little brand of Markdown. So

01:47:44.560 --> 01:47:46.939
like headers are different. Right. And for years,

01:47:47.060 --> 01:47:48.939
I also used something called ZimWiki, which is

01:47:48.939 --> 01:47:51.500
like a graphical version of VimWiki. It, too,

01:47:51.579 --> 01:47:55.220
uses its own version of Markdown, which means

01:47:55.220 --> 01:47:57.760
when you go to use a Markdown application, all

01:47:57.760 --> 01:48:02.119
of those things are wrong. Yep. So. I just wanted

01:48:02.119 --> 01:48:04.899
an application that just did markdown really,

01:48:05.039 --> 01:48:08.850
really well. And Obsidian does that. And then

01:48:08.850 --> 01:48:10.529
you add in a whole bunch of the other things

01:48:10.529 --> 01:48:12.329
like the plugins. And like, so like I have a

01:48:12.329 --> 01:48:14.289
habit tracker in there that works really well.

01:48:14.369 --> 01:48:16.409
I really love the daily notes thing where it

01:48:16.409 --> 01:48:18.329
will basically create the daily note for you

01:48:18.329 --> 01:48:20.430
and just pops up every time you open it up and

01:48:20.430 --> 01:48:22.130
you can just go do your daily thoughts or whatever

01:48:22.130 --> 01:48:24.149
you're going to journal or whatever. You know,

01:48:24.149 --> 01:48:26.850
I've been basically tracking everything I've

01:48:26.850 --> 01:48:29.729
been doing lately so I can blog about it because

01:48:29.729 --> 01:48:34.630
I'm a blogger now all of a sudden. You can basically

01:48:34.630 --> 01:48:36.470
just write down everything you have in there.

01:48:36.510 --> 01:48:39.149
There's a plug -in that allows you to do a key

01:48:39.149 --> 01:48:41.890
binding that will put in the exact time of that

01:48:41.890 --> 01:48:44.609
key binding. So you can kind of keep track of

01:48:44.609 --> 01:48:47.170
your time throughout the day. Really cool. And

01:48:47.170 --> 01:48:49.069
also there's like, I have also like a word counter.

01:48:49.149 --> 01:48:50.970
So it'll count how many words I've written that

01:48:50.970 --> 01:48:54.770
day. Not very many lately, but that's really

01:48:54.770 --> 01:48:57.869
cool. So I really do like those plugins. And

01:48:57.869 --> 01:48:59.850
also the UI is really cool. I mean, I really

01:48:59.850 --> 01:49:03.109
do. I like the UI. So it's good stuff. The UI

01:49:03.109 --> 01:49:05.970
is good. What about the data view? Because that's

01:49:05.970 --> 01:49:09.710
one of the things that I did not use in Obsidian,

01:49:09.729 --> 01:49:10.970
the data view plugin. You're talking about like

01:49:10.970 --> 01:49:13.920
the map thing? No. No, no, there's like a database

01:49:13.920 --> 01:49:18.039
that it has in which you can pull up data from

01:49:18.039 --> 01:49:21.239
other nodes and create like tables and I don't

01:49:21.239 --> 01:49:22.779
know, it's something. Oh, you're talking about

01:49:22.779 --> 01:49:26.380
bases. No, data view is what it's called. Okay,

01:49:26.460 --> 01:49:27.899
because they're coming out with something like

01:49:27.899 --> 01:49:31.779
Notion has with like the database stuff in Notion.

01:49:32.079 --> 01:49:34.619
Those are called bases. I'm not quite sure what

01:49:34.619 --> 01:49:36.319
you're actually talking about. I don't use it,

01:49:36.359 --> 01:49:41.079
obviously. Oh, okay. The only thing I use, I

01:49:41.079 --> 01:49:44.119
have a couple of canvas things basically that

01:49:44.119 --> 01:49:47.899
I've created for tracking and stuff. But that's

01:49:47.899 --> 01:49:49.460
about as far as I've gotten. Otherwise, I just

01:49:49.460 --> 01:49:53.600
use. This is the one that I'm talking about.

01:49:53.699 --> 01:49:58.260
Hold on. Where? How can I zoom in? Oh, leave

01:49:58.260 --> 01:50:01.439
it like that. So you just specify this like in

01:50:01.439 --> 01:50:06.020
a code block data view and you, you know. Type

01:50:06.020 --> 01:50:08.300
a query, right? And it's just going to query

01:50:08.300 --> 01:50:11.600
all the different nodes, you know, table. And

01:50:11.600 --> 01:50:14.060
it's just going to show the different rows from

01:50:14.060 --> 01:50:18.119
games, sorting and all that stuff. So and then

01:50:18.119 --> 01:50:22.680
it displays it this way organized in your Obsidian

01:50:22.680 --> 01:50:26.239
file. So this is going to produce this. I didn't

01:50:26.239 --> 01:50:27.920
use it because it's not going to be compatible

01:50:27.920 --> 01:50:32.060
if I leave Obsidian. So I just wanted to know

01:50:32.060 --> 01:50:35.189
if you had any thoughts on it or not. I have

01:50:35.189 --> 01:50:38.210
something similar for tracking, but it doesn't

01:50:38.210 --> 01:50:43.550
use that view. It uses... Oh, I probably can't

01:50:43.550 --> 01:50:44.609
show it because it probably has some other stuff.

01:50:44.750 --> 01:50:48.609
But I have a canvas in there that has something

01:50:48.609 --> 01:50:50.449
very similar. It uses that same nomenclature.

01:50:50.510 --> 01:50:52.789
It has the three ticks or whatever and then whatever

01:50:52.789 --> 01:50:56.090
for that. And what that does is it shows a calendar

01:50:56.090 --> 01:50:58.729
for tracking. So it does something kind of like

01:50:58.729 --> 01:51:01.859
that without the table stuff. I do have... something

01:51:01.859 --> 01:51:06.199
like that uh maybe called dashboard or something

01:51:06.199 --> 01:51:09.239
like that i i installed it from like a youtuber

01:51:09.239 --> 01:51:12.340
who was telling me telling people what the best

01:51:12.340 --> 01:51:14.880
plugins to avail to download i downloaded like

01:51:14.880 --> 01:51:17.539
all the plugins i just haven't used it so um

01:51:17.539 --> 01:51:23.909
the thing is like i do well with note -taking

01:51:23.909 --> 01:51:26.449
if the note -taking solution is pretty simple.

01:51:26.989 --> 01:51:29.569
It's when I start adding in complexities that

01:51:29.569 --> 01:51:31.529
kind of gets... Now, I've added some complexity

01:51:31.529 --> 01:51:33.289
to mine, like I've added the word counter, I've

01:51:33.289 --> 01:51:37.329
added the tracking stuff. But as long as I don't

01:51:37.329 --> 01:51:41.390
add more stuff to it, I feel like this is the

01:51:41.390 --> 01:51:43.130
best solution for me. If I were to add in all

01:51:43.130 --> 01:51:46.090
this extra stuff, I don't know that I would...

01:51:46.090 --> 01:51:48.609
So I have Notion. Notion has all this stuff.

01:51:48.750 --> 01:51:51.250
It has databases, and you can link between...

01:51:51.310 --> 01:51:54.470
and obsidian does that right but i don't use

01:51:54.470 --> 01:51:57.090
it because if i did that like i did in notion

01:51:57.090 --> 01:51:59.789
i just ignore it like it's just too it's just

01:51:59.789 --> 01:52:02.729
too complex it becomes a job you know i have

01:52:02.729 --> 01:52:04.569
to start managing and organizing stuff i don't

01:52:04.569 --> 01:52:07.890
like when i get into the quill pad thing i just

01:52:07.890 --> 01:52:10.270
write the note and leave behind most of the time

01:52:10.270 --> 01:52:13.130
i don't put it in a in a notebook it's like the

01:52:13.130 --> 01:52:17.300
directory It's just in there somewhere and eventually

01:52:17.300 --> 01:52:19.380
I'll go into up sitting and move things where

01:52:19.380 --> 01:52:21.220
it needs to go But it's just I want it to be

01:52:21.220 --> 01:52:27.699
like my memory is horrendous if I If I don't

01:52:27.699 --> 01:52:30.000
write if I don't get in my in the know like right

01:52:30.000 --> 01:52:32.199
away, it's gone like it's immediately gone So

01:52:32.199 --> 01:52:35.399
it has to be something that's like I'm very quick,

01:52:35.439 --> 01:52:38.880
like very quick. Otherwise it's gone. Yeah. If

01:52:38.880 --> 01:52:41.840
you ever decide to give NeoVim a try, it does

01:52:41.840 --> 01:52:44.560
have the same syntax that Obsidian, depending

01:52:44.560 --> 01:52:46.859
on the plugin that you install. I installed an

01:52:46.859 --> 01:52:51.460
LSP. It's called Marksman. So at least the linking

01:52:51.460 --> 01:52:55.199
of the notes works quite well, right? So if I

01:52:55.199 --> 01:52:59.939
GD here, it's going to take me to the other notes

01:52:59.939 --> 01:53:03.159
and I can go back, you know? So, oh, hold on.

01:53:03.600 --> 01:53:07.659
Control O can go back to the other node. So I

01:53:07.659 --> 01:53:11.039
just opened my Obsidian Bolt actually in NeoVim

01:53:11.039 --> 01:53:13.439
and I just implemented the stuff that I needed

01:53:13.439 --> 01:53:19.060
or that I missed from Obsidian. So if I open

01:53:19.060 --> 01:53:22.039
this file in Obsidian, it's going to be the exact

01:53:22.039 --> 01:53:24.340
same thing. It's going to work the exact same

01:53:24.340 --> 01:53:27.279
way than in NeoVim, you know, because I wanted

01:53:27.279 --> 01:53:29.960
to keep that compatibility that you mentioned

01:53:29.960 --> 01:53:35.930
actually. Oops, I went to the wrong thing. I

01:53:35.930 --> 01:53:39.329
have mine set up almost exactly the same way

01:53:39.329 --> 01:53:41.409
in NeoVim. I don't use Marksman. I think I use

01:53:41.409 --> 01:53:43.550
something very similar. It doesn't have the linking

01:53:43.550 --> 01:53:46.270
capabilities, but at least shows the markdown

01:53:46.270 --> 01:53:49.489
in a similar way. Now, actually, it's probably

01:53:49.489 --> 01:53:50.829
a good thing that I wasn't able to show you,

01:53:50.850 --> 01:53:53.189
because if I went into NeoVim, I'd regret my

01:53:53.189 --> 01:53:56.439
time in Emacs. But yeah, I have something very

01:53:56.439 --> 01:53:59.460
similar to that. But I don't get into my notes

01:53:59.460 --> 01:54:01.579
very often there. Most of the time it's for other

01:54:01.579 --> 01:54:03.039
Markdown things that I do. Because I actually

01:54:03.039 --> 01:54:06.979
use Obsidian for other Markdown stuff, or at

01:54:06.979 --> 01:54:08.640
least I did before I got into the Emacs thing.

01:54:09.779 --> 01:54:12.800
Okay, okay. How much time do you have left? I

01:54:12.800 --> 01:54:15.039
think you have to run, right? Yeah, we're a little

01:54:15.039 --> 01:54:18.000
over, but that's okay. Okay, okay. I wanted to

01:54:18.000 --> 01:54:20.979
ask you about browsers as well. Yeah, go ahead.

01:54:21.600 --> 01:54:23.380
Ask your questions. I'm going to go ahead and

01:54:23.380 --> 01:54:27.229
do it. I moved from, what was I using? Chrome.

01:54:27.329 --> 01:54:31.710
Then from Chrome, I went to, what did I? Yeah,

01:54:31.789 --> 01:54:34.229
it's been Chrome. But I tried Vivaldi, right?

01:54:34.329 --> 01:54:36.970
I used Vivaldi for a few, you know, for a few

01:54:36.970 --> 01:54:39.630
months. It had an issue with WhatsApp because

01:54:39.630 --> 01:54:44.289
I use PWAs a lot. For WhatsApp, I use PWAs. And

01:54:44.289 --> 01:54:46.710
the reason is because I can switch to those applications.

01:54:46.810 --> 01:54:50.109
Like YouTube, I use a PWA because I like switching

01:54:50.109 --> 01:54:52.350
to each one of my apps with a shortcut, right?

01:54:53.990 --> 01:54:56.489
Vivaldi had an issue with WhatsApp. I could not

01:54:56.489 --> 01:55:00.689
download files from the PWA. So I got tired of

01:55:00.689 --> 01:55:03.789
it and I just went back to Brave. I'm on Brave

01:55:03.789 --> 01:55:06.949
now, right? So what has your experience been

01:55:06.949 --> 01:55:10.489
with browsers? Vivaldi is the only good browser.

01:55:11.810 --> 01:55:16.010
That's my experience. Brave, you can turn the

01:55:16.010 --> 01:55:19.380
crypto nonsense off, but it's still there. um

01:55:19.380 --> 01:55:22.180
and i have no really no interest in crypto nonsense

01:55:22.180 --> 01:55:26.659
um so it also it's just too chrome for me like

01:55:26.659 --> 01:55:28.539
it looks exactly like chrome does and i don't

01:55:28.539 --> 01:55:30.920
want if i want to use chrome i just use chrome

01:55:30.920 --> 01:55:36.220
um so brave was out for me firefox is just like

01:55:36.220 --> 01:55:41.039
yeah who uses firefox like i i want to use firefox

01:55:41.039 --> 01:55:43.460
it's free and it's open source and it fits right

01:55:43.460 --> 01:55:45.479
in with the whole linux thing and it's great

01:55:45.479 --> 01:55:49.739
but mozilla is like The worst stewards of a browser

01:55:49.739 --> 01:55:52.039
ever, they don't put any effort into it. It's

01:55:52.039 --> 01:55:57.439
not great. Edge and Chrome, I was never going

01:55:57.439 --> 01:56:01.079
to use those anyways, right? Vivaldi, my thing

01:56:01.079 --> 01:56:05.520
about Vivaldi is that I have, at one point I

01:56:05.520 --> 01:56:07.640
was a tab hoarder. At one point I had thousands

01:56:07.640 --> 01:56:10.180
of tabs open all the time. Some of them were

01:56:10.180 --> 01:56:15.630
years old. Now, I'm not there anymore. I'm reformed.

01:56:15.710 --> 01:56:19.649
I went to a group or anything. So right now I

01:56:19.649 --> 01:56:22.100
have. four, five, six, seven, eight, nine tabs

01:56:22.100 --> 01:56:24.060
open, which isn't, you know, not bad. That's

01:56:24.060 --> 01:56:27.579
a huge progress, yeah. I'm very proud of myself.

01:56:27.720 --> 01:56:31.560
So one of the main features of Vivaldi is it

01:56:31.560 --> 01:56:33.899
has really great workspaces. So you can kind

01:56:33.899 --> 01:56:37.020
of organize things. So I was a very organized

01:56:37.020 --> 01:56:39.140
tab hoarder. Like everything was in its proper

01:56:39.140 --> 01:56:42.939
place. It was categorized. You know, it was in

01:56:42.939 --> 01:56:44.840
tab stacks and everything where it needed to

01:56:44.840 --> 01:56:49.220
go. At one point, all of that stuff was there.

01:56:49.260 --> 01:56:51.439
Now, I don't even use workspaces very much anymore.

01:56:51.699 --> 01:56:54.119
If I need to show something on camera and I don't

01:56:54.119 --> 01:56:56.119
want to show all my regular tabs, I'll do it.

01:56:56.180 --> 01:56:58.159
But right now, I'm just using one workspace.

01:56:58.479 --> 01:57:02.579
Now, the feature that keeps me on Vivaldi is

01:57:02.579 --> 01:57:04.720
something called tab stacks. It's basically tab

01:57:04.720 --> 01:57:08.720
groups. But the way they do it in the UI where

01:57:08.720 --> 01:57:10.920
it's actually a one, it becomes like a multi

01:57:10.920 --> 01:57:16.880
row tab stack. It's really, really good. And

01:57:16.880 --> 01:57:20.579
like right now, I'm learning Rust. So I can't

01:57:20.579 --> 01:57:23.500
actually show you this because you'd get a double

01:57:23.500 --> 01:57:26.920
video or whatever. But I have a tab stack of

01:57:26.920 --> 01:57:29.539
all the Rust things that I'm doing, you know,

01:57:29.539 --> 01:57:31.680
trying to learn in a tab stack. It's just grouped

01:57:31.680 --> 01:57:33.960
there and it can stay there forever. It will

01:57:33.960 --> 01:57:38.399
reopen when I reopen the browser. And other browsers

01:57:38.399 --> 01:57:41.279
do have groups. They just don't do them as well

01:57:41.279 --> 01:57:44.970
as Vivaldi does. Add in all the other little

01:57:44.970 --> 01:57:47.229
things about Vivaldi that I like, the UI, the

01:57:47.229 --> 01:57:50.930
ability to move the UI around so that it is customized

01:57:50.930 --> 01:57:52.890
the way I want it. Because sometimes I'll feel

01:57:52.890 --> 01:57:55.449
in a feisty mood and I'll put the address bar

01:57:55.449 --> 01:57:57.899
at the bottom. Sometimes I want at the top. Sometimes

01:57:57.899 --> 01:58:00.000
I want tabs along the side. Sometimes I want

01:58:00.000 --> 01:58:01.779
them at the bottom. Sometimes I want them off

01:58:01.779 --> 01:58:04.800
altogether. Now you can do that in Firefox. You

01:58:04.800 --> 01:58:06.840
have to use CSS to do it. I don't want to have

01:58:06.840 --> 01:58:08.340
to do that. I want to have it automatic. It's

01:58:08.340 --> 01:58:11.399
in settings with Vivaldi. I can do that. It's

01:58:11.399 --> 01:58:16.390
very, very easy. If I want to have the... Bookmarks

01:58:16.390 --> 01:58:22.770
are on the bottom. It's just a check box in the

01:58:22.770 --> 01:58:25.229
settings. It's very, very easy. So I like the

01:58:25.229 --> 01:58:28.590
UI fluidity. There are some Firefox forks that

01:58:28.590 --> 01:58:31.489
allow you to do something similar. They're trying

01:58:31.489 --> 01:58:33.550
to emulate Vivaldi, but they just don't do as

01:58:33.550 --> 01:58:35.789
good of a job yet. And they all have this really

01:58:35.789 --> 01:58:38.810
weird way of doing workspaces. Like on Vivaldi,

01:58:38.909 --> 01:58:43.539
when I use a workspace... and I open up another

01:58:43.539 --> 01:58:47.119
window of Vivaldi, I can go to that workspace

01:58:47.119 --> 01:58:49.560
in any instance of the browser I want. It'll

01:58:49.560 --> 01:58:51.920
have the same tabs. Now you can only have it

01:58:51.920 --> 01:58:54.199
open in one instance at a time. So, you know,

01:58:54.199 --> 01:58:55.779
it will tell you it's opening on the window.

01:58:56.079 --> 01:58:58.359
In every other browser that does workspaces,

01:58:58.359 --> 01:59:01.659
for whatever reason, the workspaces are very

01:59:01.659 --> 01:59:04.079
specific to that instance. So if you were to

01:59:04.079 --> 01:59:05.739
open up another version of the Zen browser, for

01:59:05.739 --> 01:59:09.840
example, you could go to the workspace. other

01:59:09.840 --> 01:59:11.880
workspaces you created, but the tabs won't actually

01:59:11.880 --> 01:59:14.460
be there. Those are specific to that other client.

01:59:14.800 --> 01:59:16.939
And that's just not the way workspaces for me

01:59:16.939 --> 01:59:19.000
are supposed to work. So switching to another

01:59:19.000 --> 01:59:20.800
browser is basically at this point, something

01:59:20.800 --> 01:59:23.800
that I sometimes dream of because I want to use

01:59:23.800 --> 01:59:26.079
an open source browser and Vivaldi's not. It's,

01:59:26.079 --> 01:59:28.840
it's, it's, what do they call it? They call it,

01:59:28.859 --> 01:59:33.920
they call it, it's not, they use a really weird

01:59:33.920 --> 01:59:37.699
term for it. They use, I'm forgetting, but basically

01:59:38.590 --> 01:59:40.369
it's source available that's what they call they

01:59:40.369 --> 01:59:42.529
call it source available so you can go look at

01:59:42.529 --> 01:59:44.829
their code you just can't do anything with it

01:59:44.829 --> 01:59:48.069
right so um i don't i don't know whether it'd

01:59:48.069 --> 01:59:51.869
be open source but it's just so good i can't

01:59:51.869 --> 01:59:53.689
leave it behind so yeah vivoli is the only good

01:59:53.689 --> 01:59:57.289
browser and if you're a tab hoarder there really

01:59:57.289 --> 01:59:58.890
are no other browsers you should be using like

01:59:58.890 --> 02:00:02.229
you should use It's just the best one you can

02:00:02.229 --> 02:00:04.170
go through and organize the workspaces in addition

02:00:04.170 --> 02:00:05.810
to tab groups. It's like having two different

02:00:05.810 --> 02:00:08.689
versions of tab groups. It's like having subfolders,

02:00:08.689 --> 02:00:10.569
basically, is what I'm talking about. And you

02:00:10.569 --> 02:00:14.710
use vertical tabs, right? Oh, hell no. Every

02:00:14.710 --> 02:00:16.609
once in a while, I'll try it because, oh, it

02:00:16.609 --> 02:00:20.689
looks cool. But then I'm like, no. Even in my

02:00:20.689 --> 02:00:23.289
reformed state where I don't have nearly as many

02:00:23.289 --> 02:00:26.260
tabs open. But it keeps things organized, and

02:00:26.260 --> 02:00:28.380
you have a lot of space. Just look at how much

02:00:28.380 --> 02:00:30.779
space. I know, and it looks so good, but it just

02:00:30.779 --> 02:00:35.340
doesn't work at all. It does. It really doesn't.

02:00:35.399 --> 02:00:39.100
Maybe I'm brave. Can you hover over those and

02:00:39.100 --> 02:00:41.159
have it expand like that? Is that how that works?

02:00:41.880 --> 02:00:45.140
What do you mean? When you go over to that side,

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do you have to press a button in order to get

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to expand? No, just hover over it, and it shows

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that little card. Yeah. See, on Vivaldi, there's

02:00:55.239 --> 02:00:57.319
no way to actually get that to expand. You actually

02:00:57.319 --> 02:00:59.960
have to click and drag in order to get the whole

02:00:59.960 --> 02:01:02.399
title up there. Or you have to hover. Like, hover

02:01:02.399 --> 02:01:04.979
and it'll show you a little card. Like, it's

02:01:04.979 --> 02:01:08.279
showing you there. But on Vivaldi, you can't

02:01:08.279 --> 02:01:10.399
get it to show the whole, like, tab. It just

02:01:10.399 --> 02:01:14.180
shows just the icon. Or you have to drag it out,

02:01:14.220 --> 02:01:17.600
like, your... Oh, like, expand this. You mean

02:01:17.600 --> 02:01:19.560
make this... Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, exactly.

02:01:19.760 --> 02:01:21.520
You have to do that in order to get to show everything.

02:01:22.680 --> 02:01:27.100
So maybe that's just the browser. Vivaldi just

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doesn't do them as well. Maybe if I could hover

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over them so I can actually see what it is. Because

02:01:31.439 --> 02:01:34.920
sometimes I have four or five YouTube tabs open.

02:01:35.840 --> 02:01:38.840
In the Rust tab group, for example, I have three

02:01:38.840 --> 02:01:42.560
Rust videos open. And if I were to just have

02:01:42.560 --> 02:01:46.020
the icons layer along the side, I just have three

02:01:46.020 --> 02:01:49.369
YouTube icons. And in order to find the one I

02:01:49.369 --> 02:01:50.970
want, I have to go over there and hover instead

02:01:50.970 --> 02:01:53.630
of just going immediately. So it adds a level

02:01:53.630 --> 02:01:56.550
of resistance to my workflow that I just can't

02:01:56.550 --> 02:01:58.810
get over. Despite the fact that they look amazing.

02:01:59.529 --> 02:02:02.069
I would love to have them over there. And every

02:02:02.069 --> 02:02:03.729
once in a while, I will put them over there.

02:02:03.789 --> 02:02:07.010
But it usually lasts about a half an hour. And

02:02:07.010 --> 02:02:08.810
then I go back to either top or bottom. Top or

02:02:08.810 --> 02:02:10.590
bottom is usually where the tabs are. Right now,

02:02:10.630 --> 02:02:13.949
they're along the bottom. Oh, okay. Yeah. I think

02:02:13.949 --> 02:02:17.670
I got used to NeoVim because my files are, you

02:02:17.670 --> 02:02:20.069
know, everything is done vertically in NeoVim.

02:02:20.189 --> 02:02:22.949
Tmux sessions, everything is vertical. Files

02:02:22.949 --> 02:02:25.609
in NeoVim, vertical. So I wanted to have my tabs

02:02:25.609 --> 02:02:28.569
the same way because I got used to looking at

02:02:28.569 --> 02:02:31.489
things vertically. I don't use tabs in NeoVim.

02:02:31.569 --> 02:02:35.350
I don't use tabs. I don't use Tmux windows, which

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are like tabs, we could say. You use tabs on

02:02:39.229 --> 02:02:41.920
your terminal, right? Oh, yeah, all the time.

02:02:42.000 --> 02:02:45.640
Yeah, you're a big tab user. I use tabs everywhere.

02:02:45.800 --> 02:02:48.579
So if actually you switch to my screen here,

02:02:48.659 --> 02:02:51.279
you can see my Emacs config. On the top, it has

02:02:51.279 --> 02:02:55.680
a tab. Okay. And so if I go over there and I

02:02:55.680 --> 02:03:00.520
press control T, you can actually see. You can

02:03:00.520 --> 02:03:02.899
actually, it opens up another tab. So if I, you

02:03:02.899 --> 02:03:05.840
know, like I open up my config, you know, one

02:03:05.840 --> 02:03:07.619
of my Nix files here, I can actually switch back

02:03:07.619 --> 02:03:09.579
and forth between the tabs and, you know, whatever.

02:03:09.739 --> 02:03:12.340
The dashboard goes away once you go away from

02:03:12.340 --> 02:03:15.279
it, but that's just a Emacs quirk. But anyways,

02:03:15.359 --> 02:03:16.579
I can switch back and forth between different

02:03:16.579 --> 02:03:19.939
browsers. It's better than having like a vertical

02:03:19.939 --> 02:03:22.680
split, you know what I mean? So you love tabs,

02:03:23.020 --> 02:03:25.609
actually. If I switch to mine. You're going to

02:03:25.609 --> 02:03:28.170
notice that if I want to see which files I have

02:03:28.170 --> 02:03:31.449
open, you cannot see. I cannot see. I just know

02:03:31.449 --> 02:03:34.210
that I have four files open, right? Four buffers

02:03:34.210 --> 02:03:36.710
that are open because of the number that I put

02:03:36.710 --> 02:03:39.109
here, right? Four. But if I actually want to

02:03:39.109 --> 02:03:41.770
see them, I bring this up and here they are,

02:03:41.850 --> 02:03:45.850
right? The four different files. It's always

02:03:45.850 --> 02:03:48.449
vertical for me. I just got used to this vertical.

02:03:48.569 --> 02:03:51.130
Okay. Okay. Switch back to mine. I'll show you

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because, because in Emacs, you can actually do

02:03:53.270 --> 02:03:56.409
the same thing. So if I do leader key B, you

02:03:56.409 --> 02:03:58.489
can actually see, I have basically the same thing.

02:03:58.510 --> 02:04:00.829
It shows all of my buffers and, you know, you

02:04:00.829 --> 02:04:02.590
know, I can, I can go to, you know, I've got

02:04:02.590 --> 02:04:05.670
another whole thing here, you know, and it would,

02:04:05.689 --> 02:04:07.670
it would show the thing. And it was, so I have

02:04:07.670 --> 02:04:11.690
both, but I do like to have multiple. things

02:04:11.690 --> 02:04:14.329
open at the same time. It's just the way that

02:04:14.329 --> 02:04:16.770
I've always worked. And in Vim, I have it set

02:04:16.770 --> 02:04:21.050
up exactly the same way. Even with the same keybindings.

02:04:21.649 --> 02:04:25.489
I told you, I recreated NeoVim in Emacs. That's

02:04:25.489 --> 02:04:28.329
exactly what it is. People will ask, why didn't

02:04:28.329 --> 02:04:30.770
you just use Doom Emacs? Doom Emacs did this

02:04:30.770 --> 02:04:32.770
for me, but one of the rules of the bet was that

02:04:32.770 --> 02:04:34.590
I couldn't use a fork. I had to start from vanilla.

02:04:34.750 --> 02:04:37.350
So that's the reason why I've done this. So he

02:04:37.350 --> 02:04:39.649
played you dirty. The other guy played you dirty,

02:04:39.789 --> 02:04:42.319
right? That's why I'm going to win. I'm in this

02:04:42.319 --> 02:04:45.920
game to win. I will beat him. It's just a matter

02:04:45.920 --> 02:04:49.279
of time before he comes crawling and says, well,

02:04:49.340 --> 02:04:51.180
I got to go back to Nix or I got to go to Arch

02:04:51.180 --> 02:04:53.399
or Ubuntu. It'll be some distro because he'll

02:04:53.399 --> 02:04:55.739
find some package or whatever that isn't in the

02:04:55.739 --> 02:04:57.739
open build service and he'll have to move away.

02:04:57.880 --> 02:04:59.439
So yeah, I'm going to win. I'm definitely going

02:04:59.439 --> 02:05:03.500
to win. Have you used any of these new IDs, the

02:05:03.500 --> 02:05:07.579
AI related stuff like Cursor or Windsurf or what

02:05:07.579 --> 02:05:11.340
is another one? I don't know. But have you used

02:05:11.340 --> 02:05:16.600
any of those? No. I do a little bit of AI stuff.

02:05:16.760 --> 02:05:19.220
Usually I use it for tech support. Recently I've

02:05:19.220 --> 02:05:21.520
been using it for figuring out how to do the

02:05:21.520 --> 02:05:25.960
Emacs stuff. But when I need AI stuff, I just

02:05:25.960 --> 02:05:31.840
go to Claude in a web tab. The only AI I've ever

02:05:31.840 --> 02:05:34.640
installed on my computer is called Whisper. And

02:05:34.640 --> 02:05:41.210
that allows you to basically transcribe If you

02:05:41.210 --> 02:05:43.649
wanted the transcript for this video, you could

02:05:43.649 --> 02:05:45.409
run it through Whisper and it would give you

02:05:45.409 --> 02:05:48.270
all the transcription. It's cool, but it took

02:05:48.270 --> 02:05:51.289
forever. It also set my computer on fire. It

02:05:51.289 --> 02:05:56.329
exploded. Luckily, I did it during winter because

02:05:56.329 --> 02:06:00.310
it warmed the room up quite nicely. After that,

02:06:00.430 --> 02:06:02.390
I was like, I have no interest. I have a good

02:06:02.390 --> 02:06:06.300
graphics card. Yeah, it's a generation old. But

02:06:06.300 --> 02:06:09.520
it shouldn't make it sound like an aircraft carrier

02:06:09.520 --> 02:06:12.939
in this room. So I don't really do any AI stuff

02:06:12.939 --> 02:06:16.439
locally. Everything is in a tab. Oh, OK. I use

02:06:16.439 --> 02:06:19.779
AI the same way. I use ChatGPT. That's just what

02:06:19.779 --> 02:06:21.699
I started with. You know, that was the first

02:06:21.699 --> 02:06:24.220
thing. So I never moved to something else. So

02:06:24.220 --> 02:06:28.039
I just copy, paste, you know, into the app itself

02:06:28.039 --> 02:06:31.500
and then into my editor. I don't use. Is that

02:06:31.500 --> 02:06:36.739
the way you use it as well? Basically, I switched

02:06:36.739 --> 02:06:39.739
to Claude in the last few days because they came

02:06:39.739 --> 02:06:42.720
out with ChatGPT -5 and it is buggier than crap.

02:06:43.340 --> 02:06:46.199
It's really, really, really... It freezes all

02:06:46.199 --> 02:06:50.319
over the time. And it just gives you... It always

02:06:50.319 --> 02:06:52.939
gives you wrong answers. Every once in a while,

02:06:52.960 --> 02:06:54.960
it's going to give you something that's blatantly

02:06:54.960 --> 02:06:58.239
wrong. ChatGPT -5 gives you wrong answers all

02:06:58.239 --> 02:07:03.380
the time. So I used it a lot in my process of

02:07:03.380 --> 02:07:04.939
trying to figure out how to do this emaxing,

02:07:04.939 --> 02:07:07.699
right? And I'd get it to a point where it was

02:07:07.699 --> 02:07:10.579
workable. I'd do the Git push in order to get

02:07:10.579 --> 02:07:14.260
it up onto GitLab. And then I'd move on to the

02:07:14.260 --> 02:07:15.859
next thing on my checklist to try to figure out

02:07:15.859 --> 02:07:17.380
how to get to be as much like them as possible.

02:07:17.739 --> 02:07:21.020
I'd do my own research and do the Google and

02:07:21.020 --> 02:07:22.479
stuff because I'm trying not to be too reliant

02:07:22.479 --> 02:07:25.319
on AI. If I ended up having to go use AI, though,

02:07:25.500 --> 02:07:28.850
I would, you know, it would... I'd put my question

02:07:28.850 --> 02:07:31.270
in. It'd give me the solution. I'd read about

02:07:31.270 --> 02:07:34.050
it. It would look good. I'd put it in the configuration

02:07:34.050 --> 02:07:36.689
file. It would do the thing that it was supposed

02:07:36.689 --> 02:07:39.409
to do, but it would break something else. So

02:07:39.409 --> 02:07:41.449
then I'd have to spend an hour trying to get

02:07:41.449 --> 02:07:45.250
it to fix what it broke in the first place. There

02:07:45.250 --> 02:07:46.829
was like multiple times where I had to download.

02:07:47.010 --> 02:07:51.350
I had to basically go back to a different. commit

02:07:51.350 --> 02:07:53.569
in order to actually get to a working configuration

02:07:53.569 --> 02:07:56.689
file again because it just broke everything.

02:07:56.890 --> 02:07:59.430
And Cloud has actually been much better than

02:07:59.430 --> 02:08:02.090
that. It does get things wrong every once in

02:08:02.090 --> 02:08:04.270
a while, at least in my very limited experience,

02:08:04.489 --> 02:08:08.710
but it's also phenomenally faster. It's almost

02:08:08.710 --> 02:08:14.489
instantaneous compared to ChatGPT. I did use

02:08:14.489 --> 02:08:17.489
Claude because ChatTPT was really stupid, you

02:08:17.489 --> 02:08:20.050
know, like a year ago and I was tired of it.

02:08:20.109 --> 02:08:24.050
And I was like, F this, I'll try Claude. Because

02:08:24.050 --> 02:08:28.050
I was configuring NeoVim heavily back then. So

02:08:28.050 --> 02:08:30.670
when you're doing that kind of stuff, you know,

02:08:30.729 --> 02:08:34.270
it gets complicated. ChatTPT couldn't do it,

02:08:34.289 --> 02:08:38.149
so I tried Claude. It was not doing a good job.

02:08:38.250 --> 02:08:41.500
So I was like, F Claude. I'm going to go back

02:08:41.500 --> 02:08:47.380
to ChatGPT. And I don't know. I don't know. Maybe

02:08:47.380 --> 02:08:50.859
what I was doing, it was not too familiar with

02:08:50.859 --> 02:08:53.159
at the time. Maybe it's gotten better. I have

02:08:53.159 --> 02:08:55.659
no idea. I have to give it a try and explore.

02:08:55.920 --> 02:08:57.760
But the thing is that each one of these things

02:08:57.760 --> 02:09:00.680
is $20, right? So I paid $20 for ChatGPT. I'm

02:09:00.680 --> 02:09:02.859
not going to pay $20 for Claude. Or I don't know

02:09:02.859 --> 02:09:05.920
how much Claude is right now. It's $20. 20? Yeah,

02:09:05.920 --> 02:09:08.579
it's 20. What I did was I canceled ChaiGPT and

02:09:08.579 --> 02:09:10.399
just paid for Claude, right? It was time for

02:09:10.399 --> 02:09:14.239
the renew anyways. And I really don't want to

02:09:14.239 --> 02:09:15.979
pay. I have to pay for these. But I've used the

02:09:15.979 --> 02:09:20.319
crap out of these things in the last... It's

02:09:20.319 --> 02:09:22.319
really good to go... It's basically like a better

02:09:22.319 --> 02:09:24.640
version of Google for me because it will just...

02:09:24.640 --> 02:09:31.100
It will... 200 for Claude. For a year. That's

02:09:31.100 --> 02:09:33.399
for the whole year. No, I... Do you pay that

02:09:33.399 --> 02:09:36.479
monthly, Rumen? 200 a month for a clot? Man,

02:09:36.560 --> 02:09:40.520
that's... Yeah, go on, sorry. Yeah, so I've used

02:09:40.520 --> 02:09:44.520
so much of these things, so it feels okay to

02:09:44.520 --> 02:09:45.840
pay for them because I think I get my money's

02:09:45.840 --> 02:09:48.079
worth out of it. I don't think it will... I think

02:09:48.079 --> 02:09:50.439
if there's like a month where I don't use it,

02:09:50.479 --> 02:09:52.000
I'll just happily just cancel. That's the reason

02:09:52.000 --> 02:09:55.460
why I didn't pay for it for the full year. I'll

02:09:55.460 --> 02:09:57.180
just pay for it even though I could save like

02:09:57.180 --> 02:10:01.689
40 bucks. I'll just pay for it monthly. If there's

02:10:01.689 --> 02:10:03.310
a month where I don't use it, I'll cancel it.

02:10:03.430 --> 02:10:05.569
The thing is, for me, it's like Google. I can

02:10:05.569 --> 02:10:07.829
just go there, I can ask a question, and yes,

02:10:07.949 --> 02:10:10.090
it will tell me how to do the thing I'm doing

02:10:10.090 --> 02:10:12.770
and just give me the code, but it does a good

02:10:12.770 --> 02:10:16.069
job of usually explaining what it does, and if

02:10:16.069 --> 02:10:17.850
you read through that, you can actually learn

02:10:17.850 --> 02:10:20.329
things. My worry about the whole AI thing is

02:10:20.329 --> 02:10:21.909
that people will just take the code and just

02:10:21.909 --> 02:10:24.970
go. Copy -paste it and not know what's happening.

02:10:26.619 --> 02:10:29.180
So just pro tip, read the stuff because then

02:10:29.180 --> 02:10:30.920
you can actually learn where it's done. And you

02:10:30.920 --> 02:10:34.239
can see a lot of times you can stall any like

02:10:34.239 --> 02:10:37.479
failures by reading what it's done because you

02:10:37.479 --> 02:10:38.819
can say like, wait a minute, hold on a second.

02:10:38.859 --> 02:10:40.239
You're doing something there that doesn't make

02:10:40.239 --> 02:10:42.640
any sense. Rethink that, you know what I mean?

02:10:42.659 --> 02:10:44.859
It will come back with another option. Another

02:10:44.859 --> 02:10:48.869
cool thing about quad is that it will. it will

02:10:48.869 --> 02:10:51.489
it will iterate on itself within the conversation

02:10:51.489 --> 02:10:53.949
so it will it will like give you some things

02:10:53.949 --> 02:10:56.289
and like it'll be like halfway through like wait

02:10:56.289 --> 02:10:58.149
a minute this isn't the right way to do it so

02:10:58.149 --> 02:11:01.109
it'll stop it'll start over again um and that's

02:11:01.109 --> 02:11:03.829
something that chat chat jbt doesn't do on its

02:11:03.829 --> 02:11:06.119
own you have to tell chat bt when it screws up

02:11:06.119 --> 02:11:09.020
and it will go and then oh you ever use chadji

02:11:09.020 --> 02:11:10.840
patina you tell it did something wrong like oh

02:11:10.840 --> 02:11:15.380
you're right absolutely you know i'm so i'm so

02:11:15.380 --> 02:11:18.560
sorry i made a mistake let me fix that for you

02:11:18.560 --> 02:11:20.039
as if you were the one that made the mistake

02:11:20.039 --> 02:11:21.859
in the first place the condescending piece of

02:11:21.859 --> 02:11:28.479
sorry i found claude to be much more personable

02:11:28.479 --> 02:11:31.000
i know it seems really weird but it just it doesn't

02:11:31.000 --> 02:11:35.039
it doesn't try too hard to Chad GPT is like that

02:11:35.039 --> 02:11:38.119
one friend you have who thinks he's right about

02:11:38.119 --> 02:11:42.199
everything he does. And even when he's proven

02:11:42.199 --> 02:11:46.260
wrong, usually he somehow manufactures a way

02:11:46.260 --> 02:11:50.319
to make it look like your fault. Once you get

02:11:50.319 --> 02:11:52.659
the first, you're absolutely correct. You know

02:11:52.659 --> 02:11:54.960
it's just going to be shit after that. It just

02:11:54.960 --> 02:11:57.539
goes down here. You're going to go in circles

02:11:57.539 --> 02:12:04.350
after that. It's gone. You lost them. When I

02:12:04.350 --> 02:12:06.649
was using the ChatBGP, I was doing some work

02:12:06.649 --> 02:12:09.930
with the bar I use here in Hyperland. I was trying

02:12:09.930 --> 02:12:13.149
to create a new design. And this uses a really

02:12:13.149 --> 02:12:16.010
weird version of CSS. I think it's called SCSS.

02:12:16.270 --> 02:12:18.369
And so it's like a pared -down version of CSS,

02:12:18.569 --> 02:12:21.170
right? And nobody knows what it does include,

02:12:21.350 --> 02:12:22.970
what it doesn't include. So it's just easier

02:12:22.970 --> 02:12:26.710
sometimes to go ask. And the thing is that...

02:12:27.050 --> 02:12:30.649
Chat GPT will not remember that this bar doesn't

02:12:30.649 --> 02:12:34.369
use full CSS. You have to remind it every single

02:12:34.369 --> 02:12:36.390
time. And it's not that you have to remind it

02:12:36.390 --> 02:12:37.869
every single chat, which is, you know, fine.

02:12:37.989 --> 02:12:39.789
If you don't remember stuff between chat, that's

02:12:39.789 --> 02:12:42.329
whatever. It seems like you should be able to

02:12:42.329 --> 02:12:44.409
do that, but, you know, let's move on past that.

02:12:44.729 --> 02:12:47.750
Sometimes you have to remind it 12 or 13 times

02:12:47.750 --> 02:12:50.710
within the same chat. Like, you can't even remember

02:12:50.710 --> 02:12:52.970
the chat history? Like, come on, man. This is

02:12:52.970 --> 02:12:57.210
stupid. Like, this stuff is... And sometimes

02:12:57.210 --> 02:13:00.670
you'll get into chat to AI and like, man, this

02:13:00.670 --> 02:13:02.670
seems like magic. You know what I mean? Like

02:13:02.670 --> 02:13:05.189
this is the way things are supposed to work.

02:13:05.250 --> 02:13:06.430
You're supposed to be like, it's like having

02:13:06.430 --> 02:13:09.210
a Jarvis, you know, around where you can just

02:13:09.210 --> 02:13:10.949
ask things, right? If you've ever used like the

02:13:10.949 --> 02:13:13.310
chat GPT app, there's like a button on there

02:13:13.310 --> 02:13:15.329
that gives you a floating circle and you can

02:13:15.329 --> 02:13:17.970
talk to it, right? And it's kind of like having

02:13:17.970 --> 02:13:22.069
Jarvis and it'll show you do stuff. And every

02:13:22.069 --> 02:13:23.470
once in a while, it's like that. Like, it's really,

02:13:23.489 --> 02:13:26.659
really cool. The vast majority of the time, though,

02:13:26.859 --> 02:13:30.640
it's not so much magic as it is just slightly

02:13:30.640 --> 02:13:32.920
better Google. You know what I mean? It's just

02:13:32.920 --> 02:13:35.380
going to give you some results. And just like

02:13:35.380 --> 02:13:37.840
with Google, sometimes those results are from

02:13:37.840 --> 02:13:40.720
2008. You know what I mean? And they're not quite

02:13:40.720 --> 02:13:43.640
where they need to be. So you have to use it

02:13:43.640 --> 02:13:45.619
with your own caution. That's the way I've been

02:13:45.619 --> 02:13:47.920
dealing with it. And sometimes it's not in the

02:13:47.920 --> 02:13:50.140
mood. It's just like. It doesn't want to work.

02:13:50.300 --> 02:13:53.060
But when it gives you the answer, you know, I

02:13:53.060 --> 02:13:55.520
compliment it. And that's fucking stupid. Maybe

02:13:55.520 --> 02:13:58.539
it works. And I tell it, man, that's awesome.

02:13:58.680 --> 02:14:01.060
You did it great. I just wanted to continue,

02:14:01.260 --> 02:14:04.140
you know, doing things right. Because if it gives

02:14:04.140 --> 02:14:06.619
me the first, oh, you're absolutely correct.

02:14:06.800 --> 02:14:09.159
I know it's fucked. I know I'm done. I'm not

02:14:09.159 --> 02:14:11.659
going to get anywhere. So I compliment it. So

02:14:11.659 --> 02:14:14.699
it continues, you know. Same way. I say please

02:14:14.699 --> 02:14:20.750
and thank you to this thing. Like I say, good

02:14:20.750 --> 02:14:24.329
job if it gets it right in the first try. The

02:14:24.329 --> 02:14:26.270
funny thing is if you've been an editor for a

02:14:26.270 --> 02:14:28.890
little while, it tells you that you're absolutely

02:14:28.890 --> 02:14:31.210
right and you're in that loop where it's just

02:14:31.210 --> 02:14:35.340
constantly getting something wrong. Finally,

02:14:35.340 --> 02:14:36.960
you've just been in it for so long. Eventually,

02:14:37.039 --> 02:14:39.420
ChatJPT will just stop being chatty. It will

02:14:39.420 --> 02:14:41.600
just throw an answer at you. It will not say

02:14:41.600 --> 02:14:44.119
any words. It will just give you a splot of code.

02:14:44.260 --> 02:14:48.500
No explanation whatsoever. It's just code. And

02:14:48.500 --> 02:14:51.260
you're like, what does that even do? What does

02:14:51.260 --> 02:14:53.859
it mean? Why did you choose this direction? And

02:14:53.859 --> 02:14:58.779
it's like, you know, it's given up. Have you

02:14:58.779 --> 02:15:01.680
ever told it? Claude does it better, or DeepSeek

02:15:01.680 --> 02:15:05.359
does it better. I actually told Claude that today.

02:15:05.460 --> 02:15:08.220
I told him, you're way better than ChatGPT. Oh,

02:15:08.239 --> 02:15:13.859
man. And it's true. It's way faster. ChatGPT

02:15:13.859 --> 02:15:15.739
was so slow, I had to get away from it. Because

02:15:15.739 --> 02:15:19.520
it was literally freezing the tab. You know that...

02:15:20.539 --> 02:15:22.460
thing that comes up every once in a while, maybe

02:15:22.460 --> 02:15:24.060
it doesn't do that for you very often, but every

02:15:24.060 --> 02:15:27.020
once in a while, a tab will crash in your browser

02:15:27.020 --> 02:15:28.840
and it'll just like show you the JavaScript logo.

02:15:30.199 --> 02:15:32.439
It was doing that in ChatGPT. It was like showing

02:15:32.439 --> 02:15:34.500
me, it was like just completely crashing and

02:15:34.500 --> 02:15:38.859
I had to get away from it. So, yeah. Yeah. I'll

02:15:38.859 --> 02:15:42.640
cancel ChatGPT and try Clot, you know. Every

02:15:42.640 --> 02:15:45.119
time I have to use ChatGPT for me, it's like,

02:15:45.239 --> 02:15:47.920
oh man, here we go again. It's not pleasant,

02:15:48.039 --> 02:15:52.279
but it's way faster. I don't know Lua. I don't

02:15:52.279 --> 02:15:54.520
want to learn Lua. I don't understand Lua. Lua

02:15:54.520 --> 02:15:58.739
is difficult. It's different. It's really different

02:15:58.739 --> 02:16:01.399
for me and I cannot get my head around it. So

02:16:01.399 --> 02:16:11.770
AI has been really useful in that case. I'll

02:16:11.770 --> 02:16:14.590
give it a try. I'll cancel ChatGPT, try Claude,

02:16:14.609 --> 02:16:17.189
see how it is, and then come back. I keep coming

02:16:17.189 --> 02:16:20.689
back to ChatGPT. It seems you're staying in Claude,

02:16:20.710 --> 02:16:25.710
right? I mean, I'm not married to it or anything,

02:16:25.829 --> 02:16:28.829
but if it stays the way that it is right now,

02:16:28.930 --> 02:16:30.850
yeah, it's phenomenally better, at least for

02:16:30.850 --> 02:16:33.030
what I've been doing. It's been getting the answer

02:16:33.030 --> 02:16:38.819
more correct. lately anyways, and I can't discount

02:16:38.819 --> 02:16:40.920
the speed. It's just so much faster than ChatGPT.

02:16:41.459 --> 02:16:46.020
I'd rather have the wrong answer faster, because

02:16:46.020 --> 02:16:50.200
ChatGPT is going to get it wrong anyways, but

02:16:50.200 --> 02:16:52.319
it's slow. So at least give me the wrong answer

02:16:52.319 --> 02:16:54.899
quick, because then we can move on and try to

02:16:54.899 --> 02:16:57.239
work towards the part that's going to actually

02:16:57.239 --> 02:17:01.229
work. And I do like the iteration that Claude

02:17:01.229 --> 02:17:04.870
does where it will look at it. It's doing something

02:17:04.870 --> 02:17:06.989
and then like something in the back of his mind,

02:17:07.010 --> 02:17:09.729
like, oh my God, this isn't going to work. Now,

02:17:09.950 --> 02:17:12.969
ChatGPT will allow you to upload all of your,

02:17:13.010 --> 02:17:16.030
like say you wanted to do your NeoVim config

02:17:16.030 --> 02:17:18.450
up there, right? You could upload the whole configuration

02:17:18.450 --> 02:17:21.819
up there and it would be able to. to look at

02:17:21.819 --> 02:17:23.959
that, right? No, in the chat GPT, you can do

02:17:23.959 --> 02:17:26.479
that. You can upload the whole thing, and then

02:17:26.479 --> 02:17:28.159
it can just kind of know exactly what your whole

02:17:28.159 --> 02:17:30.620
configuration is about. But it's really dumb.

02:17:30.680 --> 02:17:33.760
It doesn't get it, right? I tried uploading a

02:17:33.760 --> 02:17:36.659
zip file, I remember, you know, very specific

02:17:36.659 --> 02:17:39.659
NeoVim config, and it didn't do it. And I was

02:17:39.659 --> 02:17:42.540
like, if, you know, I had to do it manually,

02:17:42.659 --> 02:17:47.879
you know, small pieces at a time. So I do like

02:17:47.879 --> 02:17:49.860
that about ChatGPT where, at least in theory,

02:17:49.979 --> 02:17:51.719
you can upload the zip file. Cloud, you can do

02:17:51.719 --> 02:17:54.299
that. So I have like 30 files, which are part

02:17:54.299 --> 02:17:56.200
of my Emacs config. I had to upload them all

02:17:56.200 --> 02:18:00.719
into the project. But once I had the project

02:18:00.719 --> 02:18:04.200
knowledge, I found that it was able to actually

02:18:04.200 --> 02:18:06.860
put things together better than ChatGPT ever

02:18:06.860 --> 02:18:10.520
was, which I thought was good. There's this thing

02:18:10.520 --> 02:18:14.819
called Cloud Code, I think, that has access to

02:18:14.819 --> 02:18:19.200
your... to the files not only i have not used

02:18:19.200 --> 02:18:22.780
it but i think it has access to all of the files

02:18:22.780 --> 02:18:25.899
in a project for example in it and access the

02:18:25.899 --> 02:18:29.120
the context rumen says that's what he uses so

02:18:29.120 --> 02:18:32.739
you use clot code right rumen and doesn't have

02:18:32.739 --> 02:18:35.860
access to the context or not have you tried that

02:18:35.860 --> 02:18:39.129
by any chance matt or no No, because I don't

02:18:39.129 --> 02:18:41.829
put any of that stuff. So I think cloud code

02:18:41.829 --> 02:18:43.809
is something that you can download on your computer

02:18:43.809 --> 02:18:46.770
and have it. But you can, if you want something

02:18:46.770 --> 02:18:50.190
similar, attach your GitHub account so it can

02:18:50.190 --> 02:18:52.389
kind of see all of your repositories, and you

02:18:52.389 --> 02:18:55.049
can get it that way. I'm pretty sure that the

02:18:55.049 --> 02:18:56.829
cloud code is something that you put on your

02:18:56.829 --> 02:18:58.770
computer, but I haven't used it, so I can't tell

02:18:58.770 --> 02:19:03.469
you that for sure or not. It sounds like a pretty

02:19:03.469 --> 02:19:07.629
good idea to have it on your computer. I'm afraid

02:19:07.629 --> 02:19:11.690
that if I get too comfy with it, I'll just use

02:19:11.690 --> 02:19:15.110
it all the time. And I found myself, the more

02:19:15.110 --> 02:19:17.430
that I use AI sometimes, I feel like I'm getting

02:19:17.430 --> 02:19:21.770
dumber by the second. So I've tried my hardest

02:19:21.770 --> 02:19:25.729
to not use it. And my first response is always

02:19:25.729 --> 02:19:29.329
to go find the answer myself. I'll go do the

02:19:29.329 --> 02:19:32.270
actual Googling, just like two years ago before

02:19:32.270 --> 02:19:35.549
AI was even in our minds. Go to a Google search.

02:19:35.790 --> 02:19:38.430
See if I can find the thing on Stack Overflow

02:19:38.430 --> 02:19:41.709
or whatever it is. And if I can't, then I will

02:19:41.709 --> 02:19:45.659
go. to ai and ask the question now granted most

02:19:45.659 --> 02:19:47.600
of the time i still do end up on ai because it

02:19:47.600 --> 02:19:51.579
just feels faster sometimes and as long as i

02:19:51.579 --> 02:19:54.360
remind myself to read what it's doing i can at

02:19:54.360 --> 02:19:57.299
least remember, you know, to try to at least

02:19:57.299 --> 02:20:01.079
think that I'm learning something. But like your

02:20:01.079 --> 02:20:04.979
guy in the chat, Ruman, says, Google has the

02:20:04.979 --> 02:20:09.399
AI stuff now. So even when you're trying to be

02:20:09.399 --> 02:20:11.360
good about it and go do it the old -fashioned

02:20:11.360 --> 02:20:13.200
way, it still gives... Like the other day, I

02:20:13.200 --> 02:20:16.159
asked for help with a bash script. It just gave

02:20:16.159 --> 02:20:18.540
me the answer at the top. I didn't want the answer.

02:20:18.600 --> 02:20:21.020
I wanted the experience of going, figuring out

02:20:21.020 --> 02:20:25.219
how to do a case on my own. It's comfortable.

02:20:25.719 --> 02:20:29.219
I must admit, because I hated that search at

02:20:29.219 --> 02:20:31.219
the top. The result at the top, I was like, this

02:20:31.219 --> 02:20:33.860
is crap. I never read it. And I skipped it, you

02:20:33.860 --> 02:20:37.940
know. But recently I've been noticing the answers

02:20:37.940 --> 02:20:40.620
that it gives. And I've been like, okay, this

02:20:40.620 --> 02:20:43.479
one was right. Because I know that what it's

02:20:43.479 --> 02:20:45.440
saying is right. I can confirm it. And I'm like,

02:20:45.559 --> 02:20:48.600
okay, not too bad, you know. So I don't know

02:20:48.600 --> 02:20:51.520
what's going to happen with search, actually,

02:20:51.600 --> 02:20:54.180
you know. Yeah, I don't know. Gemini is one that

02:20:54.180 --> 02:20:56.899
I wouldn't ever subscribe to. Like I have it

02:20:56.899 --> 02:20:58.500
free for like six months or whatever. And I thought,

02:20:58.600 --> 02:21:00.459
well, you know, because Google's good at that.

02:21:00.520 --> 02:21:02.319
I give you a free six months trial to kind of

02:21:02.319 --> 02:21:05.500
hook you in. But I also have Google stuff around

02:21:05.500 --> 02:21:08.000
my office here. So if I want to turn the lights

02:21:08.000 --> 02:21:09.920
off, I say, hey, you know, whatever, turn the

02:21:09.920 --> 02:21:13.899
lights off. The problem with Gemini is that it

02:21:13.899 --> 02:21:15.799
keeps a history of everything, including every

02:21:15.799 --> 02:21:17.680
time you turn the lights off. So you go into

02:21:17.680 --> 02:21:21.670
the Gemini UI and all of your. Your history is

02:21:21.670 --> 02:21:23.809
just turn the lights off, turn the lights off,

02:21:23.850 --> 02:21:25.989
turn on. So if you want to actually go see the

02:21:25.989 --> 02:21:27.870
history of like when you're trying to work on

02:21:27.870 --> 02:21:29.950
something real, you have to scroll through all

02:21:29.950 --> 02:21:31.909
this stuff. And it's just it was not good. So

02:21:31.909 --> 02:21:34.350
maybe I should just use different accounts for

02:21:34.350 --> 02:21:36.309
that kind of stuff. But I just have the one Google

02:21:36.309 --> 02:21:40.260
account. So. Anyways, yeah, I am going to have

02:21:40.260 --> 02:21:41.879
to hop off here pretty soon. My dog needs to

02:21:41.879 --> 02:21:44.799
go out and I need to go do my stuff. But the

02:21:44.799 --> 02:21:49.440
AI thing is really, we've done multiple AI episodes

02:21:49.440 --> 02:21:52.920
on the Linux cast. It's just one of those topics

02:21:52.920 --> 02:21:54.120
that's going to keep coming up over and over

02:21:54.120 --> 02:21:55.819
again because it does feel kind of like the future.

02:21:56.250 --> 02:21:58.930
Yeah. All right, Matt. Really appreciate it,

02:21:58.950 --> 02:22:01.049
man. I'm going to leave your channel in the video

02:22:01.049 --> 02:22:03.469
description. I still had a few other questions

02:22:03.469 --> 02:22:05.629
that I want to go over. Maybe we can meet another

02:22:05.629 --> 02:22:08.590
day or something. I'm willing to do this again

02:22:08.590 --> 02:22:11.069
if you want to do another episode in the future

02:22:11.069 --> 02:22:14.190
or whatever. And just keep those for the next

02:22:14.190 --> 02:22:16.569
time. I'm pretty much always around. I'll keep

02:22:16.569 --> 02:22:19.690
them there. I just also want to thank the CEO

02:22:19.690 --> 02:22:22.670
because I have memberships right now. So one

02:22:22.670 --> 02:22:26.079
of the... deals is that if someone becomes a

02:22:26.079 --> 02:22:30.000
CEO, it's $50 by the way, I have to say their

02:22:30.000 --> 02:22:33.899
name on every video. So that's web23 .com. So

02:22:33.899 --> 02:22:36.399
I just wanted to share out there. I'm also going

02:22:36.399 --> 02:22:38.540
to add the credits here. I'm going to leave a

02:22:38.540 --> 02:22:42.719
link to your video, to your YouTube channel in

02:22:42.719 --> 02:22:45.360
the video description and everything, Matt. Really

02:22:45.360 --> 02:22:47.600
appreciate the help. Any final words, anything

02:22:47.600 --> 02:22:50.139
you want to say at the end? No, this has been

02:22:50.139 --> 02:22:54.280
very fun. We covered the gamut of a lot of things.

02:22:54.819 --> 02:22:57.600
The next time I'm on, my challenge will be to

02:22:57.600 --> 02:22:59.680
get you to switch off from Mac OS and switch

02:22:59.680 --> 02:23:04.110
to Linux. I will come prepared. better next time,

02:23:04.129 --> 02:23:06.729
and I will try to turn you into a Linux nerd.

02:23:06.809 --> 02:23:10.090
I'll even send you a hat if you successfully

02:23:10.090 --> 02:23:13.229
use Linux full -time for two years. You're going

02:23:13.229 --> 02:23:15.469
to join the challenge, man. I'm married to Mac,

02:23:15.649 --> 02:23:18.549
man. I have the iPhone. I have everything. You

02:23:18.549 --> 02:23:21.129
can still do those things without the computer.

02:23:21.309 --> 02:23:22.870
You don't have to have the computer. It's not

02:23:22.870 --> 02:23:24.729
like you have to plug into iTunes anymore, man.

02:23:24.750 --> 02:23:28.709
It's not the 90s. We'll see. Everyone keeps telling

02:23:28.709 --> 02:23:31.790
me to switch to Linux, but... I don't know. I

02:23:31.790 --> 02:23:33.829
don't know if I'll give up eventually or not,

02:23:33.950 --> 02:23:38.030
but we'll see. All right. All right, man. Thank

02:23:38.030 --> 02:23:39.370
you, man. Have a good day.