 streaming live during this time where everything is open and all the conferences are happening or maybe they're not quite happening yet again, but here's some ideas where we could just join here. If people can join, if you have some news, some topics, you work in a company that's doing something cool, you're not working in any company and you want to talk about something cool or something that's not so cool, whatever you want to talk about, you can come and talk and we can discuss, maybe other people can join. We can screen share, we can talk about the news topics. This is just an idea I have right here. So I'm just going to get over to the waiting area, the waiting room right now. So just waiting for some to see if somebody wants to join, it will be interesting to see. If you have a webcam, if you do Zoom calls, if you do teams and Google chats, what do you call them? The hanging Googles, the Google Meets. And if you do all these kind of things, the Webex and all this stuff you already set up, you just click, you join, maybe you watch my YouTube channel and you have some comments. Maybe you're waiting for a nice sunlight readable display so you can work over here and you don't have to stay in here to do the work. Maybe you have some, so you want to talk about RMV9, maybe you want to talk about the MacBook M1 which I'm using right now to live stream. Maybe you want to talk about the latest crazy scandals, whatever is happening, let's talk about it. You can join with your webcam. If you are watching and you might be interested to talk about something, you're welcome to join. The link is in the chat, the link is in the YouTube description right here below. Anybody can join. I know it's strange, it's weird, but this is the time to be weird and strange. This is the, what do you call this, lockdown thing that's happening. And I can also just stop this little video. This is, I'm testing out this thing where I can just put a video. If I'm busy, I want to make a sandwich or something. I can just put on the video and then come back. I don't know if this is interesting to watch or not. Maybe I need to prepare something. Like I will try right now to share a window so I do like this. I'll be sharing some content and some articles where I could just like talk about the stuff. Hopefully not by myself. Hopefully somebody wants to join. Somebody's watching my YouTube channel and thinks it might be cool to try, just try. Just wear a t-shirt or something and then you can join right here. So this is an experiment just to see how it's going to go. I didn't announce this beforehand. I'll try to announce it next time earlier to see if that might help and tweet it. I didn't even tweet this. So maybe try to do it again, you know, like tomorrow or something here and back. This little video, interstitial, how do you call it interstitial, the video comes in comes out. And I can do some screen sharing of the latest tech meme stuff that's happening. Let's try right here. I just need to switch to my browser window right here. So there is a bunch of articles that may be interesting to be talking about, you know, like Logitech. It's such an awesome company doing webcams and mouses that for some reason are the best. They also had a mouse, what's called a universal remote. This is finished. So there are talking in the US, for example, they're talking about investing $150 million to have some silicon capacity. This is a great idea because Taiwan just invested $100 billion. I'm sure the US can do a lot with $150 million. Maybe it'll pay for a website. That's what they usually spend on making websites. But okay, so those are just some examples of stuff that can be talked about. But right now I don't see any people joining. So let's say we try to do it at a different time. Maybe I need to kind of like say a time in advance and see if anybody might join. Let's see, maybe you can write in the comment if you might be interested, but you didn't see it live and you want to come back later. Just write a comment and let's connect and let's do a video later. Trying to do some videos, you know, like there's no conference happening over there. So I can't just walk up to people and interview them like I do at conferences, right? Because there are no conferences. And all the virtual conferences are virtual conferences right now. So they are virtual, yeah. So let's check it out. Maybe I can prepare a little bit to say something next time. Maybe you can send some links. What you think would be interesting to be talked about. Maybe you have some ideas. And then I will just be playing some videos. We have somebody joined right here, Shashank. You joined. Hey, Shashank, I see your logo. I see you don't have a video. Can we hear you? Let's check. Let's check it out. You like to talk about Steam? Is that a Steam logo? Maybe. So maybe you see there's a little icon down there where you can choose your source for the sound. And maybe you can choose your source for the video. And then you can kind of like try again. Let's see if I'm just going to hide you a little bit for a second and see if you can figure it out. Oh, there. How's your sound now? Can you speak now? Yeah. Can you speak? Oh. Hey, how are you? I'm doing great. Hey. Where are you calling from? I am from India. India. That's nice. Like on the left, on the right, or down, or up, where kind of... Downside. Down. Like Bangalore maybe? Yeah, I'm from Bangalore. Bangalore. Like Bangalore. Isn't that the place where all the technology is like made right now? Yeah, mostly all the software. Yeah. So do you work in tech? Yeah, I work in tech. Do you do something like awesome, something cool? I'm an engineer. So I work mainly on Wi-Fi. Cool. So it's not easy to have a stable Wi-Fi connection, right? The Wi-Fi is kind of like a micro-oven spectrum. So is there a lot of debugging to make sure everything is good, or what do you do with the Wi-Fi? Do you do... Is it secret? You don't have to say if it's a secret. Maybe you don't want to go into details, right? Nice. Yeah. So all things related to Wi-Fi, so something like OpenWRT? Oh. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So what do you do with that? Like are there a lot of devices that use that? Like once, like home routers, things like that. All right. Do you want to join with your video, or is it a secret? You don't have to. Video. You don't have a camera? Yes. But the internet is really good, right? The internet, like in India, everybody has like gigabits or not? Like how's the internet where you are in Bangalore? Like I guess everybody has very fast, no? Yeah. Yeah. So I'm getting like 200 Mbps speed, but I mean I can go higher, but I think that is efficient for me. Okay. You can download all your stuff with that, right? That you need. Yeah. More than what I need. Maybe... Can you speak a little bit closer to the mic maybe so we can hear you a bit more clearer? Maybe do you have some... Do you have some... Yeah. Yeah. It's clear. Do you have some opinions about some of these like news and stuff that's happening? What's your... What's your interest? Everything tech. So what do you want to talk about? How about... Who do you think is going to win? Because I just saw that your logo is something to do with the Steam. Is it the Steam logo or not? The gaming thing? That's the OBS studio. Ah, OBS. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. So it's like a virtual webcam. That's not something I have put up. Cool. Because there is this funny fight happening between Apple and Epic. So who do you think is going to win? Do you know the story? I think Apple does have a monopoly over everything. So which is good in a way because like privacy concerns they have to say in everything so what can be done, what cannot be done. But I don't think... Yeah, I think Epic would be on the right side now. What do you think? Well, I'm hoping that I'm pretty sure kind of like normally in a normal way in a normal society Epic should totally destroy Apple in this lawsuit. Like it should be like a no-brainer that anybody should be able to put their apps on an app store and not have Apple take a commission on everything that happens inside the app. I can imagine if Apple was taking 30% on every Uber ride, how would Uber even exist? It would be impossible, right? Because like the commissions are like that means there's no money left for the guy who drives the Uber car. So I'm just thinking... I think they should reduce the commissions maybe like 10% or maybe even less. Because they're not contributing anything to the app, right? So just providing the ecosystem, that's it. Yeah, what I think is a little bit weird is that Apple and Google insist on taking 30% when they make no money on the app store. They only make money selling hardware in Apple's case. Well, they make so much money when I buy this MacBook for like it costs like something like $1,000, right? And it costs them $200, $300 to make. So that's where they make the money selling the hardware. So why do they need to milk money out of all these developers? They can charge a commission if they want, but they should let the developers have alternatives ways of payments if they want. And I don't like a normal system with normal politicians. I think it would be a no-brainer to just mandate it. I don't know what the EU is doing. What are they waiting for? Why is it so slow to get things done? That's just a little bit my opinion on that. Yeah, it's new for everyone. So I think it will take some time to settle on the system, right? Yeah. So how about did you watch my videos before? Are you subscribed or how do you see this? Yeah, I am interested in your videos where you go to the shows and review the different hardware. Yeah, there's no shows. Are there any shows right now in Bangalore? No, none. Why? What's happening? Everything has moved online now. Like conferences, everything is online. Have you been to any like online conference of the last year that was like good? I went for one which was regarding the Wi-Fi. It's not the same thing, like visiting and watching online. It's a completely different feeling. What happens in like Wi-Fi conferences? New technology on Wi-Fi like 11AX, the new thing and new hardware released from different vendors. What is this 11AX? Maybe you can talk about it a little bit. Yeah, you know about this 11EN, right? 11EN, 11AC. Yeah. It's like how 4G, 5G is for cellular networks. It's for the Wi-Fi. So they come up with like new features, more throughput and more reliability and things like that. So when I go on this page here, it mentions 2021 like in the title. So does that mean it's brand new? Yeah, it's brand new. Like manufacturers like D-Link, TP-Link, all these guys have come up with the routers this year. So it takes time for everyone to adopt this. There's a lot of interesting things that have been happening over the last decade like all these MIMO kind of things. A lot of this is in every single phone and it allows much better Wi-Fi than 10 years ago, right? Not sure whether the consumers will be needing these kind of things because they don't care about all these things as long as they get a reliable connection. Yeah. Like something like a 5G. So they are going for the high speeds but in real world where do we use that kind of data speeds? Yeah. I've always been interested to see this thing that was at one point Larry Page, I think it was 12, 13 years ago, he was talking about white spaces. And there was all this idea of using the spectrum of analog TV for better internet like everywhere. And I really don't know how much has been happening. Like I think I guess some of those bands are kind of used for 4G, 5G. But is anyone like, isn't there like so much more potential out there to get better wireless internet? What do you think? White space like a long distance Wi-Fi? Yeah, like 5, 10 kilometer Wi-Fi. Sorry I keep talking but there was this thing that was called FON where you had a FANERA router at home. And they were pretty much giving them out or they were selling them for 10, 15, 20 euros. And then if you can lower my sound a little bit on your speaker or something like that, I get some kind of echo. Maybe you can click next to mute, you can click echo cancellation. I'm not sure if that might help. Yeah, that would be good. The FON was like a thing that I was using for 2, 3, 4 years where I was sharing my Wi-Fi at home with all the neighbors. And that gave me access to millions and millions of hotspots around the world. And I'm thinking if everybody could have a little hotspot at home on their fiber or cable or DSL or whatever it's called that they have at home or Starlink. And they could be sharing 1, 2, 3 kilometers around a free, white spaces-based hotspot that would cover pretty much the whole planet with free internet. I think that would be great but I've never seen anything like that kind of like boosted or happening. There is the Lora one, right? I don't know if that's in the white space but it sounds like it's mostly for IoT, low bandwidth. There are so many technologies for long distance like Lora but I don't think we can use that kind of thing for Wi-Fi, I mean for data. Alright, have you been on YouTube streams before? Do you have a channel or something? No, I don't have anything. You're not like a YouTuber? No. You're not a podcaster? You watch? Yeah, I watch. Yeah, there's a lot of watching happening on the YouTubes. So if anybody new is joining and if you see that like in the chat there is a link you can just check in the YouTube chat. And if anybody else would like to join you just click the link and you can join. And maybe we can have like a discussion. There, yeah, oh, it just left. So I was just suggesting that more people could join. And there you have the link right there. If anybody else is, oh, you're coming back? Hey, you're back right here. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I'm back. Alright. And I'll just put the ticker just to see if anybody is watching that we'd like to talk about some topics also. What else should we talk about? Like just any of the other topics? Do you hear about anything cool that's happening recently? What do you think, let me share the screen right here. This, I think is interesting that China is also going after their own a little bit. But I think I think I'm not sure if the issue is the digital currency that you know Ali pay is number one as far as I know in China with the digital payments online. And but the Chinese government is coming with their own digital currency. Which I don't know if it's like a move to to a little bit kill Bitcoin or to kill the US dollar or to just provide a digital currency because it makes sense. I think it should have been done like 20 years ago. But now they're talking about doing the digital currency. Maybe Jack Ma was saying no way or I don't know didn't agree. Yeah, because it's important for these giants in China to agree with the little bit with the government or something. But I don't know 2.8 billion is also maybe it's nothing for for Jack Ma for Alibaba. So I don't know if this means a lot or not. Yeah, they were supposed to come up with a new IPO, right? And there is something called the ant, right? Yeah, the ant, the ants, where the ants are working together to build a big ant hill. Yeah, so Jack Ma is there with the metal. He's talking a lot with the he speaks like English with like, you know, at all the what do you call those international conferences talking about all this kind of stuff. And there's a lot of, you know, stuff happening where the US is trying to block China's progress the way I see it. Because China has so they've been working so hard, you know, like working overtime. Like crazy to pretty much dominate all manufacturing of electronics and technology. I don't know what's happening in India because India has always been trying to talk about they want to assemble something. But I don't know the value of just assembling. You want to have the whole value chain. And I don't think you can just move that to any other country. So China is totally dominating this kind of stuff. And it seems that the US is doesn't like to see someone overtake them, which maybe China is on the on the path of doing within maybe just a very few years. There might be a bigger economy than the US. I don't know how to compare with the EU, but so I think it's I think it's got to do with that. I don't think they're really worried about Huawei phones spying on people. I think it's just Huawei was pretty much number one in the world for smartphones. They already overtook Apple like three years ago and they were just about to overtake Samsung. So of course the US doesn't like that. So they just go and they kill them. They just they pretty much go in Europe and say any country that works is Huawei. We're going to scream at you something like that. So yeah. And also all the important telecom infrastructure, if they start using the 5G hardware from Huawei, they have control over everything. I think that was also one thing. Yeah. So there I can maybe go back to. Sorry, let me go back to the articles right here. Let's see if there's another. Basically, I'm pretty much like opening some of the latest stuffs that are on the tech meme. Something new happened. Do you know this website called tech meme? He's talking about Miami being a tech haven, you know, like I saw him talking about that he would want to pay government employees with Bitcoin, some weird stuff like that. What do you think about Bitcoin? I just wish I had invested more. Yeah, this is the this is the thing where when I did my video. I just trying to see if I can load it up. I did a video in 2012, I think interview with one really cool expert who she she was hanging out with all the. Yeah, I can't quite find it. She was hanging out with all the early Bitcoin pioneers and stuff. And yes, if I just put $1,000 on Bitcoin when I interviewed her about this stuff, I would have $4 million right now. Something like that. And I thought like all the other art coins, I thought they would take over Bitcoin. Yeah, yeah, I mean, I don't see why if you have a platform like cryptocurrency and anyone can just click a button and make their own cryptocurrency. Why should one be more valuable because you can just have another one. So I don't really it's like when they did this dog coin about dogs and cats and stuff, it was like a joke. And now it's worth, I don't know how many billions. I don't really see the point. I don't really why would you put value on one and not the other. Yeah, but that's what I was always thinking. And but if I put just $1,000, I'd have $4 million right now. So then I could like I could organize a real conference, not just a YouTube chat, right? Maybe there's a chat comment here saying, my South London garden is asking, did you see the news about the US banding CPA makers from China? Yeah, they're that would be funny because China claims that Taiwan is part of China. So if they ban TSMC, that means the US can just close down. They can just give up. They can just say, OK, bye bye. We're done with technology because what do you think about the AMD versus Intel battery? Well, I did some videos at AMD five, six, seven years ago, eight years ago, they had an arms processor. They went the whole process of making arm for servers. And, OK, they're trying to kill Intel and the x86 and may, why not? Maybe, OK, but I'm more excited about the M1, the processor I have right here in this MacBook Air. I think that's I've always thought that the arm processors the future because an AMD is probably great and beautiful. But you have to run like seven fridges, the amount of power to power seven fridges to run your desktop PC that has an AMD chipset. Like, I don't know how many hundreds of watts these these x86 processors consume. Maybe I'm a little bit wrong. Maybe it's not that many fridges, but it's some power. How did they come up with the virtualization yet on the M1? The virtualization of, did you talk about the VMs? Can you run VMs on it? I haven't tried myself. No, I didn't try any of that yet. I see that there's some talk about some people are trying to run native Linux on it, like to find a way to, I think their hold up is, I guess is mainly to do with the custom GPU that Apple has made for the M1, I guess. It's going to be a challenge, I guess to, yeah, Apple should just provide some kind of perfect driver with Linux support and just say, hey, do whatever you want with your Macs and run native Linux on them, right? Wouldn't that be nice? That we can get from that. Yeah. I went to all these conferences with the guys from the Linaro, like Hardcore Linux experts, and they've always thought it would be so great if they could have a decent ARM powered laptop to do their work. And it's pretty much the M1. But I don't know how many of them are happy to do their work on the Mac OS. I've got lots of crashes and all kinds of weird, I can't even figure out how to switch from one Chrome tab to the other, like in a smooth way, like it's not quite like I'm doing control right and left, but nothing happens right now. I don't know, there's all these kinds of bugs I have with my, when I try to use the Mac. I'm not complaining. I think it's working great. But it'd be great if I could run another OS on this hardware that anyone could do that. And why would Apple care? They just want to sell the hardware. Why would they want people to force people to use the Mac OS? The people who would install Linux is just, I don't know, it's 1% or less than 1% of their users anyway. So what are they afraid of? I'm not totally sure. They were giving an option, right, in the earlier Macs to load Linux? Or was it just Windows? Are you talking about virtualization? No, like full install. I think the Apple guys have been saying that Windows, if they want, they can do some kind of support native. And there is some stuff happening a little bit. I'm not totally sure. I'm not sure how they accelerate everything and how's the performance for people who do the Windows on Mac thing. But this M1 is so cool, especially when I do my video encodings. I edit video in 4K 60 and I just click a button and it just takes three minutes and it's like crazy. Like I used to use a shadow cloud computer with an Intel Xeon and a GTX 1080 on the cloud, just so I can do editing in 4K 60 without everything crashing on my, you know, because my laptops are not like the newest, most expensive except for this one, because I was waiting for the ARM Mac for maybe 10 years. So it's very interesting to see what's happening. I think they have... Yeah, please go ahead. Yeah, I was thinking to get the Mac Mini with the M1 and then I found out that they don't support any virtualization yet. So I run Linux for my development, so I had to choose AMD. Nice. Do you have one of those new MDs? Yeah, 5600. Is that a super epic one? Oh no, that's the cheapest one. All right. There's another company right here, Google. I've been using a Samsung Chromebook Plus for five years now and it's an awesome Rockchip 3399 based ARM laptop, a Chromebook. But I totally think that Google has the potential to... They would have had the potential for more than 10 years, but now they can maybe do it where they can come with an alternative to the M1. And maybe they can say it's Chrome OS, right? But then on every Chrome OS you can just run whatever Linux you want. So they need to have a really nice performance ARM chip in one of these. I think hopefully it's arriving imminently and hopefully it's going to be the half the price of the MacBook M1. And Microsoft also is working on the similar thing, right? So they will not be used. Yeah, I've been using the Windows and ARM for a couple years and it is... I mean it works, it's smooth and everything, but there are very few apps supported. Like even the Chrome, I can't even run Chrome natively on my ARM-powered Windows laptop. Those are Qualcomm, right? 8C with something. Yeah, I have the 850 I think, the previous one. So then there was 8CX and 8CX Gen2 and now there's Rumored Gen3, which is... I think it's been delayed a little bit because Qualcomm saw the M1 and they kind of said, okay we totally have to beat it, at least not release something that's below it. So I think maybe the hold up is that Qualcomm is trying to get something that's even higher than the M1. And hopefully they should price it lower, but Qualcomm usually doesn't do that. But they should price the... like not have restrictions in terms of the cost of the end device. As far as I know Qualcomm has all kinds of rules where you can't sell a cheap phone with their high-end chip. You have to sell more expensive phones, for example. And they shouldn't be doing that with laptops, they should say, oh you want to do a $399 M1 killer? Go ahead, they shouldn't restrict it at all, hopefully. So it becomes more popular, so more people can afford this and have something that really I think can kill the Microsoft. Yeah, it will be interesting to see all these companies coming together in the long process. So it's just that the M1 that I have right now, I haven't connected it to the power where I am. I need to figure that out. I'm just going to put this video thing so I can find my charger, okay? If you don't mind. I'm just going to be on... Alright, I'm back right here. So now I got my low power but running out of battery. MacBook back on the power because it would be weird to just disconnect in the middle of a show. But I also have to get ready because I have an interview lined up. I'm going to interview Annette Kempf, who's going to talk about embedded. So if you're interested, maybe you can ask some cool questions in the live chat during that interview. So it should be coming up. Let me check how soon that it's going to be. It might be actually in like 20 minutes or something. But I have to read up on the topics and prepare the screen sharing for that. Alright, maybe I'm going to just go full screen right here. I don't know how's the light right here. I'm just setting it up and going over SIM card because in the place where I am, that's the only way to connect. So hopefully it's been good quality. This improvised Charback's conference. Any other beautiful view? Where is that? I'm right next to the SpaceX launch headquarters because working on the next rockets to go to the Mars and the moon. No, I'm not actually. Okay, yeah. Just hanging out in the corona. This is right here. There's many places in the world where there are very few people and the air is good and it's super, very, very, very cheap. So just like cheaper than staying where I would otherwise be because when there's no conference, we need to try to see if we can set up some interviews. So this is to do more interviews online. So if you have any, if you know some cool companies, some startups, Shashank actually you muted, I don't know if that's on purpose. If you know some startups, if you know some cool tech companies that are doing something cool, the Kickstarter is like something cool, please let me know right in the comment and maybe you can try to see if I can interview them on my YouTube channel. So I'm just gonna, I think stop this Charback's conference for now, but I'll figure out if I need to do this in regular times or when it should be stuff like that. So thanks everybody for watching. Thanks Shashank. Thank you, nice talking to you. Nice to speak with you. Thanks for coming on my YouTube channel to talk about the latest tech stuff. Alright, thanks everybody for watching.