 So Tyler this is the Linux Cast in case you didn't know this but in case everybody else didn't know this is the Linux Cast and we talk about Linux things and usually there's about a 10 minute period at the beginning where I say one of us here isn't using Linux usually that's the case but this week we don't have I how am I supposed to make fun of you if you're using Linux I don't understand you can't I and I just want to make this clear to everybody this is also the podcast where I get to say this so I say everyone should go and head over to Matt's he's got a fantastic paid patreon and you could become one of his cool patrons who support him you can also buy merch at our store he has his own merch on my store it's confusing I know he's trying to evade taxes it's all right but you should go and support because when he hits a certain level he has to become a high tier Gentoo user like myself he's scared but it's okay coming to the coming to coming out of the dark side into the light is it's a good thing I know it's scary but it's good it's good see there was a there was a point there about a month and a half ago where it looked like I was on a you know steep incline towards that number but I've lost about $40 a month since then so I'm not worried about it I'm not I'm not worried about having to use Gentoo any time soon so I haven't look that's just a Christmas time all right I say their money but look here's what's happening now people are getting raises and shit you about to you about to hit it man you about to join the light all right nobody wants to see you over there on the dark side right I'm still using Manjaro all right so Tyler I have a feeling all this talk about the forbidden distro has to do with something to do with what you're using right now so what have you been up to in Linux this week I had a whole bunch of great help from Josh or Josh Willie Ben Fitzpatrick of course my roommate Scott Archcenter yeah I had a whole bunch of help from people who have used Gentoo or are using Gentoo and they convinced me to just go ahead give it one more shot with their help and I have to be honest I had a successful install which didn't take too too long again it's still Gentoo so it's not like it was a 20-minute install by any means but it it what it was nice and now I mean I have Final Fantasy 14 like online because Scott's super into that game right now and I have it running flawlessly on here I have all of my games like that I've tested out working great yeah I genuinely don't have any problems with Gentoo whatsoever which is very very interesting and also DWM works amazingly with my vertical monitor over here which is so I would just like to put in a bet I don't know if anybody wants to take me up on this bet that by the time we get to the podcast next week he'll no longer be using Gentoo but I don't understand why like what why would that happen Tyler my friend I've known you since like March of last year maybe even a little bit earlier than that I hop a lot and you hop more than I ever did and my friend I was the biggest distro hopper ever like I had that title for a long time and then Tyler comes along the woo I'm King Hopper yeah that's a horrible name but that's what she said like you use you installed Manjaro four weeks ago with me yeah for 25 minutes and I don't think you made it 25 minutes I think that was very generous I think it was more like 15 minutes but I'm pretty sure you use like three distros that day yeah so well I did not like it when Manjaro's like oh yeah your entire expat drive doesn't exist I didn't say that you didn't have a good reason to hop I'm just saying you know I know a lot so I will put a fiverr on the fact that you will not be matter of fact I will literally put if you're still on Gen 2 next week I will a high patreon contribution on your on your patreon to $10 okay actually I would prefer it if next week how about this next week if I'm still on Gen 2 you do nothing if in two weeks time I'm still on Gen 2 you have to install it on your main machine no no that's not that's that's too much that's asking too much that's asking too much I had I have my I'll help you I don't I could have Mr. Gen 2 himself of me I still wouldn't do it I had I had very much have my point where I will install Gen 2 there's there's a monetary value that has been set so we know when that will happen and I will do it live on camera I will do it all right well how about this if it if in a week I'm still on Gen 2 you have to take the goal where you install Gen 2 down by $10 okay go from 350 to 340 sorry yeah $10 is $10 for that all right all right so my week in Linux has not been as fun so I finished my MX Linux review last week and I really liked MX Linux I spent almost two months in it so the fact that I spent that long it kind of tells you how much I enjoyed it and so I decided I was going to find another distro to do my next long-term review on and I chose void Linux now I've had experiences with void in the past and they at that point I couldn't even get it installed this time I got void installed I got i3 installed like a xorg installed I got all this stuff it's actually working really well I was really impressed actually with the software availability I thought that for sure the repos are gonna be pretty sparse in terms of software but there's actually a lot of software available there the only thing I couldn't matter fact the only thing I couldn't find install is discord and that's kind of like a cross-the-board distros or discord is nowhere in any repo other than like the a you are like nope no that's not true engine till you just emerge discord that's not in a repo that's you compiling and I'm sure I can do that on any oh no no no no no no you can get the binary to you just emerge the binary but anyways the point the I love this love this podcast the point is yeah yeah by the end of that memory murdering you when choking you with your gen two anyways the experience was actually pretty good until I got to the point where I wanted to connect my external hard drive and found that there's no capability to connect to any external hard drive and void by default at least for me like for whatever reason so normally so I don't set up an FS tab for all my external hard drive I don't like having them connected all the time at boot it's just not something that I like having to do because I don't need access to them all time so I just connect to them when I want to use them so normally when I want to connect to an external hard drive I'll open up my file manager and just click on driving it mounts right yeah that's like across the board every Linux distribution I've ever used works just fine that way so I open up crusader which by the way was in the repose awesome right and there are no drives there like there wasn't even a category for removable media which is always the case so I thought crusader was point so I installed tunar there is no removable media there either so I was like fine maybe there's a dependency somewhere I'm missing or something like that and I thought maybe it was like an ntfs thing right because Linux doesn't always play well with ntfs and non-freen stuff so but the thing is it wasn't just my ntfs drive it's also the two ex t4 drives I have in my computer that aren't the void drive those weren't showing up either so I got into the terminal and decided just to mount them the old fashioned way like you do in arts Linux and couldn't get that to work either I just would not see it I got to mount fine but then I tried to cd into it and said I had no permissions to cd into it like what the hell is going on it doesn't make any sense so that's where I left void a couple days ago I just all like gvfs whatever the thing is there is a couple dependencies somebody in the discord told me that I should try to install I haven't had a chance to come back and try them yet but that experience just have really kind of soured me so far and boy there are certain things Tyler they have to be working in order to be considered a computer it's just like in order for your car to be considered a car it has to have wheels it has to have a steering wheel and all the things that make those things connected you know an engine otherwise otherwise your Fred Flintstone you're gonna be going along the ground with your feet it's the same thing true with a Linux distro there are certain things that just have to work and one of those things that has to work is the ability to connect drives if you can't connect drive she can't load anything it doesn't work so there that was a broken experience the other thing is that I did this week or I'm working on is and everybody's gonna hate me for this I'm gonna I'm gonna try out Emax again okay I have a reason I have a reason so I moved all of my writing from like Google Docs and Libre office into them and it's been a fantastic experience like I've seriously not regretted a single time but them at a certain point once you get to a certain word count like you get to 100,000 words and it slows the fuck down like it gets really really laggy at over a hundred thousand words and I don't know why like it has nothing to do with line counts because I mean a lot of like programs are thousands of lines long before whatever reason word count seems to be the limit like there seems to some kind of limit and at a certain point it just lags like you can press J to go down and there's like a noticeable delay between you pressing the key in the cursor actually moving down a line so that's been annoying so I decided I was going to try Emax again and see if I can get markdown to work really well in that and see if the longer documents work well in that if not I'm gonna have to find a a gooey markdown editor to do so and that means recommend obsidian for that is it open source mm-hmm there must be one that's called obsidian that tried one called obsidian it was closed source should be an it's an I believe it's an open source markdown editor okay if I have to get it I wrote I really don't want to leave them I love them everything about them I like except for this one thing like if I could get it to not lag or on the edit long documents all the time and the lagging thing really bothers me it's like the fucking green thing that keeps flashing on my screen it's one of those things let's you can kind of put up with it but it's really fucking annoying yep all right so now that I've had some water it's time to move on to the contact information if you want to get in contact with us you can do so at the next cast on Twitter you can subscribe to all of our audio feed and stuff like that at the linuxcast.org no there's not a website there yet I've been really fucking busy I can't help it you can contact us via email email at the linuxcast.org I would like to go back to that previous point just for a second even if I hadn't been you know really busy the last couple weeks they're probably 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links for you Tyler what is your link of the week your news link with of the week mine is that there's a new version of Firefox out and it's I mean it's got some new like themes to it colorway themes which is awesome and it removes some printing support and I don't know it's got some other minor chain changes which for a browser that is literally burning to the ground awesome dryer stun but for a for an OS that is literally or OS for a browser that is literally burning to the ground at the current moment yeah we got more themes thinking you wanna our browser kind of sucks what can we do to make it better I know more colors wait themes themes we haven't had themes women we've had themes like I don't have themes for an hour now we're just adding built-in themes that aren't by developers just imagine being a company where your your whole entire existence is based on the court argument that you're a competitor to Google and that is like dwindling as it is like you now only have like 4% of the market share and even those people are considering leaving and you're like but in court we could argue we did make new themes I mean Google doesn't do that all the time like that's because they're busy making a good browser exactly that's I don't God Mozilla's poorly run I know it hurts like you what you employ 750 employees Mozilla and this is all you could do you have you have all of this talent and you're like what should we focus on let's dedicate like 25 of them to making it like to reskinning of you know somewhere about you know two months ago when they were deciding to do this there was somewhere in Mozilla headquarters they were in a conference room and they had a four-hour meeting trying to decide which colors they chose for the theme and they're like let's have a salmon colored one and let's have a oh I know mint colored and then there's this really bright yellow and ooh how about how about lavender purple and baby blue you know I just imagine all these high like highly overpaid executives just spending hours well this be like you know we worked hard today we accomplished a lot just colors I just see I just see that there they're in that meeting taking fight trying to figure out colors but they run out of ideas so they send that it's an intern out to head to sure I'm sure when Williams to get a color palette this is exactly how this went down that that happened with execs and then a team of like 14 devs were told this is their two week project and you're like two weeks two weeks to our cut seven funny at the end of the two weeks the lead of that the engineering team comes back like sorry man we couldn't do it in time we're going to need some extra time it's so horrible CSS CSS wasn't working right yeah for whatever reason we there's a good extra there's extra curly bracket in the CSS in the CSS file and we just can't find it where no matter what we try oh god that's so mean all right oh man let's go ahead and move on to mine so my news item of the week I got my laugh it's a hard my face hurts all right so my my news item of the week is that Katie Plasma tried out to for which is the next LTS release of Katie Plasma has been released and it has a ton of new features a better support and K-Runner for stuff it has a new like GNOME based like flyout view for for applications and stuff like that which looks really nice there is some new effects and stuff like that and there's better support for Wayland and pipe wire and there's more tweaks to the menus and notifications systems as well so it's a really big release and it looks amazing and unfortunately it's not a man jar oh yes I can't even try it well I mean there's man jar before yeah like like we're arch-based but we're not really arch-based anymore it's really weird and we don't really want your arch stuff get your arch cooties away from us but we're gonna take it eventually it's really weird I don't know I have thoughts about man jarrow I mean you won't even bother thinking about it once you once you start using gen 2 I mean it's just how it works you know probably the feature that I'm looking forward to the most in this is that they fixed supposedly the ability for Windows to remember the last display they were on in multi-monitor setups it's something that kind of wanted for ages it should have been there forever now hopefully they can get it so that you can also select it so that it follows the mouse when you don't want it to go pop up pop up on your sixth monitor and you know that'd be cool that used to be a feature but they pull it out or something or it doesn't work it does is really weird so yeah I'm looking forward to that actually coming to man jarrow because it looks like I'm gonna be on man jarrow for like another week because I still got you know I can't switch to the next one in my like versus series until I actually go through and compile all the stuff that I want to record in man jarrow and then actually shoot that part of the video and then I can go to endeavor which is where is my next stop and I'll spend like a month in that although I wasn't I was not expecting to spend a month in man jarrow it was only supposed to be two weeks but it's been so fucking busy I haven't had a chance to actually go through and you do that first part of the video yet so I don't know whether or not I'll spend as much time on the other two obviously the other two are endeavor and arco so I've spent a lot of time at Arco so that would be a big deal so yeah so that's the news now moving on to the main topic which is is brave a good browser or is it just a crypto scam I'm gonna make that the title when I publish this because that's obviously going to get some views so I spent a good two months using brave as my primary browser and I made a video about why I was switching away from it eventually but my question for you is do you think brave is actually a good browser or do you think that they've just taking chromium and added crypto into it obviously it's it's it's a fine browser because it it's chromium which is just which is just chrome without some extensions and then there's the crypto added on top of it which is just your opinion of whether or not it's a scam or not which I mean if we want to all right let's just all be honest if there's one person in the stream who can honestly tell me that you would be interested in investing in bat I need you to go down to your local psych ward get checked out immediately because you are not okay brother and I wish the best for that is a terrible investment it's a stupid idea like honestly alright I don't care if you like crypto or not but let's think about it honestly okay so you have a problem with ads that's that's the only problem you have a problem with ads you don't want to see ads it doesn't matter who's serving you the ads that no one's ever said that that's a problem with ads it's just the fact that you're getting ads so brave whole thing of let's replace it and give you ads served by us replace who shows you the ads yeah that that doesn't matter at all does nothing and then also the whole spits of creators will earn more is a complete load of bullshit because all right at least at least with regular ads the creators of the website or you know of YouTube channels they get your ad revenue like that that's they get ad revenue from it so they make money guaranteed if you're blocking it the only way to earn bat is when someone gives it to you and there's not a good chance like if you watch a few small creators you're most likely going to give your bat to the bigger ones that you spend more of your time watching but it's even more than that not only do you have to get people to give you the cryptocurrency but you also have to be signed up to receive it yeah and the like I went you went through and done this I went through and signed up for to receive it and that such that whole process is such a pain in the ass to sign up for you have to sign up you have to sign up but for an account with brave and then they shuffle you off to a payment product like a crypto payment processor what I don't know what the other one is but the other one of them is Gemini and honestly guy that thing is run by the Winklevoss twins yeah the Winklevoss twins didn't even know they were still freaking alive I thought that they died in some kind of incestuous glory or something I don't know like or either that or Mark Zuckerberg had them killed I didn't even know they were still around but they were it was hilarious because you go through this process you sign up for brave and then you sign up for the Gemini thing and then about a few hours later you get an email from the Winklevoss twins and obviously it's like a good pre-selected email like everybody gets it but still like I got this email like wait a minute the Winklevoss twins like what the fuck it was so weird and then you have to sign up you have to give them you have to in order to have a Gemini account that actually is can accept payment from brave you have to give them an actual bank account information yeah so it's not private right and then you have to go back to brave and you have to link the two counts together it's a such a pain in the fucking ass and all of that for a dollar a month if that dude I could be loaded in that and I genuinely would not go through the hassle of getting it out like I'm not interested and I mean what am I gonna do how is that ever gonna be worth anything like how is it ever like the answer to that question is it's not ever going to be worth pennies it's the exact same problem that Odyssey has okay is that it's an it's a it's a shit coin but an actual shit coin you know yeah it's like a shit coin with purpose yeah it's still nothing like it's not a scam like an act like the shit coins everybody is thinking of yeah the literal literal scans but it's still just as stupid as those coins just in another way you know I mean yeah like yeah the idea of being able to monetarily contribute to create creators in a way that is not shady as fuck like YouTube is a good idea we can just put that out there it's a good idea but the way brave has gone through and done it it it's not a good idea the way they've done it yes and they're they're advertising or marketing about it is very confusing because it's because it's like we're solving a problem but you're not so you're just showing me different ads like it doesn't it doesn't matter there's still ads like if I don't want to see ads I don't want to see ads I can I can okay so I will say that the ads they serve are less annoying than the full page ads you'll get if you like visit if you have a fidget like the verge without an ad blocker they like do whole like background ads and stuff like that it's annoying it like takes it takes their website that normally loads in like four or five seconds which is already freaking slow and it makes it like a 30 second load time it's so stupid so I will say that the ads that brave serve at least get rid of that problem like they're they're faster to load they don't make the web slower they just pop up on your screen so you know every five seconds the biggest problem I have with their ads is that they're all horrible like I don't give a shit about crypto and every single advertisement they have is about fucking crypto like how is this company making money without actual advertisers like it doesn't make any sense to me like they don't like there was no actual I mean like every once in a while you'll see an advertisement from someone you know I saw one well yeah but hold on let's just be honest about it who who is interested in marketing to the people who use brain I mean people will buy advertising on anything if it's cheaper well but no but like I don't think you understand my point like all right so let's say for an example you just made a new game all right you want to reach the most people possible right you have a fixed budget you don't have endless amounts of money are you gonna spend your money to try and market to the people who use brave I know what we should do we should advertise the Linux cast on brave because it probably be really cheap well no see the thing is is the reason why you only see crypto ads on there is because if you're if you're using brave most likely you're interested in other crypto crypto yeah and that's that's true and I think that's the reason why I annoy me so much is because I'm not into crypto like at all like I understand I mean I'm not super into crypto I have crypto but like I don't know I'm not interested in every time I say I'm not into crypto there's always gonna be that one commentary well man you should get into crypto you'll make a lot of money like well I'm pretty sure I missed that boat already um you know if I had Bitcoin like three years ago when it was like a thousand dollars of coin or something I'd be a happy man but granted I would have cashed out the minute went to five thousand dollars of coin there's no way I was gonna like seriously I wasn't there wouldn't be no way I would have stuck in that the whole time but that's even kind of beside the point it's like going back to what I was saying is like the the idea that they were they had is sort of a good one because being able to directly contribute some kind of money from you directly to the creator is a good idea I mean that's the reason why Patreon is successful the reason why things like Libre Pay you know exist you know the problem is they excuse me the problem is they've gone through and muddied the water with with a cryptocurrency that nobody wants and is never going to be worth anything so even if the creator has gone through and signed up for their gone through the signup process to be able to receive it they're gonna have to go through and receive a very large amount of bat in order to actually make anything worthwhile you know I mean so and then you also have to deal with the like you lose money when it comes to exchanging it and then you have to get out of bat into some other kind of currency like actual money or a stablecoin or bitcoin or whatever you want to do and then that's going to take five to seven day business days for it to get into your count and then you're like okay so like it's just it's one of those things where it's like it's just it might be nice if you explode and you randomly earn a shitload of bat that you just weren't expecting to cool maybe then but the odds of that happening it's it's exactly like winning the lottery yeah like I'm sure I'm not even I'm not even sure I can't I don't have brave installs so I can't I can't actually go see but like I wonder if like for the bigger Linux creators like DT if he's gone through and set this up I wonder if he has like I know Brody has but I would very be very much interested to know like how much they earn because I bet you it's not very much like like I know that when braved it was doing its like referral codes or whatever when they're trying to get people to actually sign up for brave through creator codes then people were actually making some money because I know Luke Smith was talking about at some point he was making a couple thousand dollars or something I don't know at what frequency uh on referral codes from brave but they don't do that anymore now it's just built the advertising revenue going to bat and then being contributed by you know viewers or whatever like I just don't that's the that's the whole point behind this is that just feels like they've added so many barriers to making it good like the coin is you know not great in the first place but even ignoring that making the process so hard that that you have to have two processes on both ends of the spectrum like the creator and the person who's giving the money they've made it so convoluted to get from point A to actually getting the freaking money that chances are people just aren't going to do it so I I bet you the vast majority of people who use brave who just have kind of stumbled upon brave I bet you very few of them actually go up into that little button at the top and say hey give this creator money I bet you very few people do it um I mean that's kind I mean it which means by the way brave the brave corporation gets to keep all of their the money that they've gone through done they don't actually have to transfer hardly any of the money that they make to actual creators because nobody's actually going through that process yeah I mean the the the main thing about brave is it doesn't really solve what I would say is the actual issue in browsers at all everything is chromium based everything is chrome based like the entirety of browsers is chrome based that's a good point it's crazy do you do you think that if let's just say for argument's sake everything was exactly the same like they've gone through they've created bat they've had the same process for giving creators money all this stuff everything's exactly the same the only difference is that instead of being based on blink it's based on firefox do you think our opinions then would change on brave no no because it would still just be another firefox clone and firefox is dying it we we need a new web engine that's I don't care that it's not perfect but it has to be half decent that's not firefox it's not chromium it's not chrome none of that bullshit it needs to be its own thing I think brave is a good contender for it because they're doing their own search engine that's working out very well I mean they're doing while they've got a lot of gimmicky shit going on they're also doing a lot of good things as well so I mean we can't we can't completely neglect those see but at the same time they need a new web engine okay so I need yeah I agree with you that we do need more web engines out there and I think that brave would have been a good corporation to do that because the guy who started brave is from firefox like he split off from firefox because he wasn't happy with them it would have been good if he went out and actually created something original other than taking chromium and just doing another chrome browser and the thing is for me even if that was always a pipe dream it would have been nice if instead of basing it on chromium maybe at least like the minimum he could have done or they could have done was basing on firefox but at least then it'd feel a little bit less I don't know scuzzy you know it's really it feels like well let's be practical about this let's say you want to make a browser that works for the most amount of people are you really gonna choose firefox yeah I mean it's a good point but it makes me sad exactly I know I'm not saying that it's good but I'm just I'm just saying let's be practical it's a good point but it makes me sad I we've I think you and I both agree we said at the beginning that brave you know itself is a good browser but it's a good browser not because it's brave but because it's chromium right yeah that's the reason why it's a good a good browser and the reason why I left brave behind wasn't because it wasn't a good browser but because it felt odd for me to have this extra functionality that had been added on to it this crypto stuff and then not use it because like I left it up for like a month or almost two months the whole time I was using it for the most part because I wanted to see just using it how much crypto are bad that I would I'd earn and the grand total was $2.76 translated between baton to the actual you know money and that's just you know sitting there having an ad pop up every like five times an hour which by the way if you use a window manager and you're using dunced those ads are completely fucking useless anyways because you click on them the ad just goes away you know because dunce doesn't have clickable notifications like you can't actually click on it have an action and just not the way dunced works so you click I mean I'm just probably a worker on that but it doesn't matter the the thing is if you if you did happen to see an advertisement that you wanted to click on you click on it it doesn't even work like it was completely pointless so they were actually paying me for no reason other than to have that thing and it's not if they were paying a lot of money but still the point point is if you actually had to be in a desktop environment in order for those ad those ads to actually work do advertisers found out that was pretty common oh my god well you had to think that I mean a lot of people probably are in the exact same situation they're using window managers and they don't have a notification system other than dunced install so I mean so that's the reason why I left Brave it was because it just felt like I didn't need any of that stuff why am I using this thing that has no great extra features on top it's basically just chrome and I have to put up with the feeling that I'm not supporting them in some ways and also the crypto thing was always felt kind of shady to me and it's like it's really weird also I missed the user chrome thing a firefox so I'm just switching back to firefox but I guess the my biggest thing about chrome and we kind of devolved into talking about cryptocurrency there for a while and maybe I mean that I mean it is directly related to brave I mean that is a big thing about let me ask you this question if the if instead everything's exactly the same we're putting ourselves in another scenario that's just like that okay let's just say everything is exactly the same except for instead of creating their own cryptocurrency they just use bitcoin like every time every time you did the the you got an ad you got a a minuscule amount of bitcoin or something no it wouldn't be anything different you don't think so okay I I haven't I agree with you because I mean it would still be just I mean still a gimmick like it's just a gimmick like you're not fixing the problem of ads at all you're just substituting it and you're not you're not addressing an issue like I mean look here's the real thing people who are running websites and who have advertisements on them as long as you see three or four advertisements on a page on a website trust me that website is not I mean they might not be making boatloads of cash but they're at least doing okay and if you watch a lot of youtube and you're worried about you know people not being supported the like the way they should just get youtube premium like you won't ever have to see ads on youtube ever again and youtube actually does give creators more money for your views every time you watch something and like I mean I can say that for a fact now that I'm actually being monetized yes if you're using youtube premium I do make more revenue and it is noticeable like I mean it's just it's one of those things where it's a it's a gimmick that doesn't solve a real problem like that's the core issue it's not I'm not even upset at gimmicks like gimmicks are fine but I mean it has to be cool and and if you're going to try and solve a problem actually solve the problem yeah I just keep trying to think of a solution that they could have done instead but I don't my biggest problem with is not that they aren't solving the problem because I don't know that there is a solution for that particular problem that is available to be spread across every platform so like you brought up youtube premium that's a solution for youtube it's not a solution for joshmo's website.com you know what I mean well there's but that that's the core that's the core issue though is the the whole idea is is that creators no matter where aren't making enough money so the idea that brave has is well instead of taking ad revenue and letting a company take a portion of it and then distribute it to each creator that you view let's take all that ad revenue give it to you and you choose who you support but the problem is is nine times out of nine times out of ten you'll funnel that into your favorite creator and the other ones who might not be your favorite but you still watch don't get any support at all and so like even though people creators might not be making enough money you know in like wherever they might be online like it it doesn't solve the problem like it actually might even make it far worse well yeah that's true because that you're gonna have to look into the point where we're talking about earlier how it's hard to sign up for but also it's a it's a much more minuscule audience so any amount that you are going to is going to be so small is it even worth you know paying well I mean like let's say you're only making two dollars and fifty cents a month that's not you know everybody knows it's not a ton of money so if you're only working with that amount of money you're going to give it to one creator and let's just say that the people watching this like those people the people who are watching this podcast live would own like you would only choose to give either matt or me support instead of if they watch my video watch like this podcast your video and then another one of mine like we both make revenue off of that it's with bat only one of us would make revenue right well I mean they do have that auto contribute thing but that auto contribute doesn't it doesn't make sense for the amount of money that they're dealing with you know I mean if you turn on auto contribute and it just contributes to everybody who is eligible that you're going to be able to contribute to you're talking about giving those creators probably pennies and well like I understand that every penny counts and that over time it might add up to a certain amount of money and that's probably true the bigger creators are probably probably would be able to bring in some money but you the thing that has surprised me most Tyler about being a youtuber over the last year and a half is actually like because you always hear how hard it is to make any money on youtube like you always hear that oh you're never gonna make a dime on youtube like you can make all these videos and you're gonna you can have all these views like I always talk about my mom who watches Dr. Phil he had somebody on there so you always have to hey he had somebody on there about uh who wanted to be a youtuber and he brought up all these figures about how much money you'd have to make in order to make you know a really good living on you like sure you do have to you know get a lot of views and a lot of subscribers to earn a significant amount of money on youtube but what surprised me the most about this is that even at like my size like I'm at 8,000 subscribers 8,500 whatever I still make a couple hundred dollars a month you know that's real money you know that pays for food though for the whole month you know so I mean my point of bringing that up is is that even if brave had been successful in solving the problem with which you're talking about the fact that they have created such a shit cryptocurrency that's worth absolutely nothing doesn't give there's no hardly any possibility and of anybody making any real money and the few people who do make money it's it's become so hard to make that amount of money you have to have you know tens of thousands of subscribers in order to make any appreciable amount through this it's not like with youtube where if you have 8,000 subscribers or a thousand subscribers or you know two thousand subscribers you make at least a little bit of money you can be surprised that you know you get a few hundred dollars a year even it's still you know more than you're ever going to earn through bat at least so I mean the biggest it just feel if they maybe if they'd left crypto out of it and had it just be like I don't know actual money like real money maybe this would it still feels like it'd be really small and not a great idea but adding the crypto stuff on top of it in terms of and that's why I brought up the the bitcoin thing because like for me maybe if it had been bitcoin that and the coin was actually worth something like maybe that would have been okay but the coin is worth hardly anything you know well I don't even think the coin matters that much because it's not something you want to invest in like it doesn't like the the coin itself is kind of the the reason it's the ultimate form of a gimmick is no one's ever going to let's say there's no other use for this coin it's just this right well yeah it's just for essentially giving giving what you earn through advertising to creators you know no one's ever going to invest in the coin like I mean why would you go out even let's say it's bitcoin like let's say they're not using bad as bitcoin would would you go out and buy bitcoin to give it to a creator instead of just giving them money on patreon or there are multiple other ways of monetizing a channel another thing to think about with the bitcoin angle is that if you had bitcoin to give you're not giving that bitcoin if it's worth a hundred thousand dollars a coin you're gonna keep that fucking coin here's something we haven't even talked about look even if that was a investable token or something that was like actually like investment worthy that people wanted to the fees for sending it in between each other would increase proportionally and then you wouldn't ever want to give it well yeah and I think that that's exact I think the exit there's there's just so many things that are wrong with it like the coin is worthless and it has no ability to become more than what it is right now it's literally this is it's a single use coin it's this is the only thing you you're never like even if it's uber successful in doing what it does you're never going to be able to say well you want like garner bryant said he bought his house with cryptocurrency whether or not you believe that or not whatever uh you know you're never going to be able to say well I bought it with bat like you know you didn't yeah no that's just never going to have it even if it became uber con you like you're just never going to be able to say that because in order for the reason why bitcoin has gone up is is at least that it has some functionality beyond just existing you know what I mean it has people are interested in using it as some kind of currency to trade between people you know uh there's not a lot of goods that you can buy with bitcoin but they're like amazon will actually there are a lot of goods that you can buy with it but typically you're buying very expensive goods with bitcoin yeah well I mean because the you brought up the fees in order to offset the fees they have to sell expensive things but like I'm pretty sure even like big retailers and stuff like that have at least thought about using bitcoin and stuff like that they're never going to say well you want to bring us your bat we'll take that too it's just never going to happen I would be a I I genuinely don't think I mean someone would have to deck me in the face to make me believe I wasn't sleeping if I walked into Walmart and they were accepting back right I genuinely would think I was dead like and and and I think that out of all the problems that this has that is probably the biggest one is that it has no growth potential like in in order for any money that you have earned through bat the only way to get that appreciably to something that you can actually use you have to go to Gemini or whatever it is translate that into another currency whatever that is and then you can finally do something by that point you've earned so little anyways by the time they take 15 or 20 or whatever the the number is what did you actually earn yeah and you spent all this time to get stuff like to get revenue that if you weren't worried about it and it wasn't even a thing you two just takes care of it for you yeah well I mean don't I mean don't get me don't get us wrong you two obviously takes entirely too much money off the top of everything that they send creators they take like 60 it's ridiculous but it's still actual money that you get you know and and I will say one thing the it sounds ludicrous but if you think about it YouTube is giving you not only access to market yourself but also they do all of your hosting for you as well they they take care of your community management for you and they also they have to deal with what we ask of them and what we ask of YouTube is insane not only do we we want them to store essentially all the information you know like too much information that's even fathomable to understand but we ask them to store that and as well to try and like manage our you know chats so that we don't get spanned by Russian they have to take all the data that they store and stream it out to billions of freaking people in 4k you know I mean yeah so yes they take too much money but they actually also have people watching and there's like an actual audience you know I mean it provides it provides value right it's the service that they provide is really incredible as much as we shit on them because they can be lackluster at many a many a times but but oh and yep they are doing a good so obviously not perfect like they have some like tfo in the in the in the comments or in the chat says something about comments like comment moderation is a huge thing and they're horrible at it like they're really really bad at it but obviously you can't expect perfection I mean you can try but with it with with how big youtube is it's very it's very hard to like keep keep everything not just monetized but also like moderated as well like you have to monetize things ensure that people aren't ruining relationships with your you know your marketing networks and you also have to make sure and moderate their chat so they they're not tuned to delete the platform for somewhere else all right so that was a really really good conversation very good normally we don't get into that kind of stuff I've been very reluctant to talk about cryptocurrency like on the channel and in a podcast because it always like every single time without a doubt I guarantee when I put this if I put crypto in the title when this goes up tomorrow for everybody else I guarantee there'll be comments in the comment section saying but crypto is awesome and if you say anything against it how dare you you fat bastard you know what I mean you know it's just it's absolutely guaranteed uh and it wouldn't have it wouldn't matter what we actually said about crypto either like if we could say crypto is the best thing to ever happen to humanity and we'd still get that one commenter who was not happy with what we said you know uh I mean you you have to think about it like this like crypto is one of those things where it's a not only is it a niche market but it's also one of those markets where the people in it are highly invested like most of the crypto bros that you know will come in and develop those comments have like a large portion of their life savings in crypto and if you're if you're downing crypto their whole like you're literally everything about your poo pooing on their life for his well and if you change enough people's mindsets about it their investment price will drop and in their mind you're responsible for killing their investment okay so I'm not a financial advisor I got you have to say that right that's the thing that you have to say when you're gonna get a financial advice anyways but I'm not a financial advisor but here's the number one thing you can do if you're going to invest in something don't put all of your eggs in one basket the fucking phrase exists for a goddamn reason don't put it all in crypto you fucking dumbasses okay and also like you should here's a little expansion on that you shouldn't put most of your eggs in one basket either no no no like like I understand that there's the the whole FOMO right the fear of missing out right everybody sees like oh people are becoming billionaires investing in in in bitcoin I don't have that fear missing out because I've already missed out okay we'll see here's the thing all right let's say there's a shiny new cryptocurrency coming out that everyone's saying it's gonna you know well for one if you ever hear we're going to the moon or going to the moon stay the fuck away from that yes because that is a scam 100% unless your name is Elon Musk because he says that all the fucking time to well no because it's because Elon Musk like Elon Musk is aware one because he'll put money into something it'll say it's going to the moon and then he'll sell it off like a week later after all the hype so he makes a shit lot of money no matter what biggest rug puller ever yeah but I mean when it comes to crypto like even if like you you hear that there's a new crypto coming out and it's you know it's going to be the hot the hot new thing check it out if the technology behind it seems like it's going to solve a problem or that it's actually really cool and really unique you if you've got 25 bucks throw 25 bucks at it if you got 50 bucks throw 50 bucks at it it won't hurt anything here's the thing do not invest a lot of money into it because most likely it won't work out and here's the thing if it starts going up don't invest more money keep it in if it's like bitcoin imagine if you put if you put money in bitcoin when it was like three dollars yeah and it's worth like 57 grand now like you're very well off yeah very well if you if you can get the money out well yeah the thing is is there's always a thing don't gamble more than you can afford to lose right it's the whole thing you tell him buddy oh he's seeing he's seeing our neighbors it's just it feels to me with the whole cryptocurrency and we kind of got into this anyways but it feels to me that when crypto is talked about people lose their rational minds about everything they they look they see other people earning a shit ton of money they see all these these influencers or whatever on tiktok and youtube and stuff like that saying oh i you know i bought a ferrari and i bought you know look at this you know hermes watch or whatever and you know i have billions of dollars because i invested in crypto and you should definitely do that too she also take my course and it's 200 a month or whatever you know they see this stuff and they forget to use their common sense it just has never like the idea behind like a decentralized currency fantastic idea like it's it's such a good idea to not have a government control of the money supply uh they're obviously environmental issues that we can talk about that they need to be solved and all this stuff the idea behind it is good just like the idea behind it nft actually a good idea uh but uh cryptocurrency and nfts have been both guarded by everyone else into making it and not such a good idea because it that there's no there's too many people who have taken advantage of everything i mean we all know crypto is littered with scams yeah like and even if you do the due due due diligence like you said you check it out and it looks okay even if you do that there's still a good chance you're going to get scammed yeah like because there's no way to tell like because i mean there are charity coins that people have highly checked out and still end up being scammed because because the people behind these coins have some money and they've paid influencers who people for whatever reason trust you know like you know to show them out you know to pull the rug yeah and then they it's literally it it's just it's it's so hard so that's the reason that's i mean beyond the fact that i feel like i've already missed the train i also have seen so many of these scams just think that you want to i like my money too much like yeah i could probably put some money into these and into something that i know for sure is not going to scam i give i put some money to bitcoin or whatever but even then it feels too much like going to vegas and putting some money on craps you know what i mean yeah like well i mean it's the same thing it it it literally is like the lottery yeah you're buying your ticket to the lottery like like yeah you might see that money grow but for the most part it's probably gonna land on a number that you didn't choose you know what i mean so uh that that's everybody's always asking well what's your thoughts on crypto well there's my thoughts on crypto nobody's gonna be happy with it because like the vast majority of people seem to be like oh crypto is awesome all right so uh there's a good reason why we call it crypto nonsense by the way um and and by the way the own i i have two different cryptocurrencies that i own i own bat and i own uh the library coin whatever that's called um lbc right those are the only two i own and they're they uh are worth like maybe four cents combined so maybe maybe that's the reason my my opinion on crypto is so bad is because the only two crypto that i own are so completely worthless all right so um every once in a while mental law will post a thing on this community thing and somebody give him like eight hundred dollars in bitcoin like like maybe maybe you just have to be that size in order to actually get uh actual cryptocurrency all right okay wow we actually spent a long time on that topic so let's go ahead and move on to the thingy of the week as we've become to call it so tyler what is your thingy of the week oh i'm glad you asked mine is uh just in case i've never talked about it uh before publicly i think i have a lot sure there's a website that you can go to uh so this is not i mean it is i mean i get i guess technically it's a web app but still there's a nice website you can go to called terminal dot sexy and it is an absolute fantastic website uh you can go there and you can uh browse a scheme browser find a whole bunch of different color schemes and uh then you can export them by the way mad i'm looking at the stream and uh when the window is smaller um the scheme the import export there's supposed to be scheme browser and other stuff there um but you won't be able to see when it's smaller yeah i can't make it any bigger for anyone who's sadly yeah that's good just so anyone who's watching knows it will be there when the window yeah it looks better full screen yeah um but um you can go in there browse a whole bunch of different color schemes and uh easily export it to your x resources file alacrity it has a whole bunch of different export templates uh export templates um so it's a fantastic website if you've never heard of it before and you know you want to mess around with your your terminal color schemes it's a great place to go i highly recommend it they've got they've got a pretty good selection of color schemes plus you can obviously go through and just completely make your own um yeah uh the most confusing thing about a terminal ever is trying to figure out what color goes where you know i mean yeah trying to figure out what color of these 16 colors actually affects what thing in the browser is trying to figure that out uh i i'm terminal for life probably knows because he knows everything about the terminal it's literally in his name but i guarantee you everybody else has no clue what color number 10 applies to like we know that it's the green color but where does the green show up what when does that show up what does it does it apply to variables does it apply to your prompt what does it apply to nobody knows all right that's why this website is so good uh yeah you can actually go through and kind of see where what color is actually going to show up i wish they had like you know how they have different modules on here i wish they had a neofetch one like in one of their things like you have a neofetch one so you could actually go through and see what the colors would look like in the neofetch that'd be awesome but they don't yeah um so yeah turn for life or a term of life text a term terminal not sexy should actually be terminal for life domain name that'd be awesome dude that would be awesome yeah yeah that'd be like terminal not sexy that should be his url what's wrong with it anyway so my uh my um my thingy of the week is called gallery dl now i talked about this in the top apps of the month a couple months ago and it's one of those applications where i actually still use it now basically what this does is it allows you to go through and download things from a multitude of websites usually images uh but applies to some other things too so for example it works with wall haven so you can go through and use gallery dl it's a it's a it's a cli tool you do gallery dl dash and then a link to a wall haven search you do that and it'll literally download every single wallpaper in that search so so for example you go to wall haven and search for enemy schoolgirls because that's what you do um yeah of course i mean of course obviously um of course and then you put that no more needed to be said of course you put that url in that you know gallery dl thing and it will literally download every single wallpaper at the fullest resolution into a folder of that search now it has a list of like over a hundred different websites that it it will work from including reddit pinterest and things like that 500 pixels so a lot of legitimate websites will work with us um if you go to the if you go to the page where this has all the sites that it works with you'll notice that there's a lot of porn uh word uh so a lot of awesome a lot of hentai stuff i'm going to say and if that's if that's your thing rule 30 rule 34 exists for a reason my friend i'm just trying to mad because i i believe this tool would be most likely used for like wallpapers and now i'm just trying to imagine how many guys out there have a hentai as their wallpaper as your wallpaper no that's not the thing is it's not just for wallpaper so like for it also has anime stuff so if you're into anime and want to get into that stuff it'll actually go through a website if you search for if it if it works with this and you get into you go to the website you search for whatever you want to do and it'll actually go through and download every single thing in that search to your computer so if it's if it's a whole bunch of anime comics or whatever or a comic book or whatever hell they're called obviously not in anime so i don't know what they're calling graphic novels mongos or yeah yeah that word um but anyways you can go through do that um i think said there don't get scared away just because like half the websites that it works for are porn i'm just gonna say that okay uh the coolest thing is that there's some websites out there will actually work for like um written things too so if you're into written stories like fanfiction or whatever you'll actually download some of that stuff too as well so it's really cool um obviously i don't download any of the porn sure anyways um that's gallery dl links for all this stuff will be in the video description um we all know matt had to do a few downloads just for science just to make sure it worked you know for science obviously i wanted to make sure that the the horse porn.com thing actually worked right yeah yeah yeah i mean just have to check it out somebody somebody is going to go look and see if horse porn.com actually exists i guarantee that's gonna happen so and if it doesn't if it does exist i have no clue by the way it's a thing not not my kind of thing but look after you search it don't be surprised when your local authorities stop by to just give you a little check up make sure you're all right also i'm just don't be surprised at what you see you know because chances are that's going to be the one URL that took it literally you know that's exactly what it is you go there you get what you asked for i hope not no actually what it is it's not a porn site it's a dating site oh god i i actually wouldn't be surprised if that website doesn't exist it's just it's just hor like it's just like a farm no it's just like somebody who films their horses it would be absolutely hilarious if it does exist and it's actually like a like a quilting club or something for old grannies or something they just didn't realize what it was they have no idea like they make a whole bunch of horse quilts they have no idea well we have unix porn so basically that's just it's just for them for their the quilt you just load it up and it's a website of beautiful horses you're like wait what people out there painting their horses and they call it racing they rice their horses oh god and i haven't laughed that hard in a long time that's so good on that note i think we better wrap this shit up all right if uh if you want to get in contact with us all the contact information happened earlier in the video you should go back and listen to that because i'm not doing it again you can support me on patreon at patreon.com slash nicks cast tyler is patreon.com slash the official zany wait on patreon oh on patreon no it is aka zany you really need to get those URLs lined up bro there's i i can't remember shit and you want me to remember two different URLs just buy horse porn.com and create a reader i'll just serve all of my content he gets the website done before i get my website done i'm just saying this is definitely gonna happen well i mean if anyone want my only source for web content like if you actually want to go to my website the only one that i have up is my gemini capsule and i actually am going to be updating that very very soon okay um anyway i'll probably be doing a chronicle some gen two if you actually make it a gen two for another week which i don't sorry man don't got faith in you anyways yeah we'll see before we go we should take a moment to take my current patron sidae devon patrick elf primus marcus megalin jackknife tool steve a sabragirlin exgeric mitchell archer and carbidated jeremy shon odin martini marik camp josh really j-dog peter a chris bull dark band at six in vlad i always do that better live than i do when i'm recording a video i swear to god sometimes it takes me nine takes another to read all those videos or all those names so anyways thanks everyone for watching coming up next week uh what were we talking about next week off i don't even know for good lord too many workspaces dammit see told you yeah yeah yeah yeah now next week we're gonna be talking about will source-based distros become more popular than ever um i think so i don't think so i i think matt and a whole bunch of other creators are gonna start shilling them i think that's what's gonna happen tfl in the in the in the chat just said i don't see Tyler last thing on gen two either so your friends just have no faith in you my friend i'm just sorry it's just it's that well look i'll just go ahead and say it i look forward to seeing all of you guys next week on gen two yeah on gen two i will believe that one i see anyway so that is it for this week we'll see you next week