 Hey everybody, welcome back to the next cast on your host Matt and I'm Tyler All right, so Tyler This is different. I think actually it's like Quality here like So if you're watching the video version of the podcast whether you're watching in the live stream if you're watching live We do record this live every Thursday at three o'clock p.m. Eastern time or round thereabouts We're always late like we're always good and then we usually bullshit for like a half an hour So we do record live So if you haven't subscribed to the YouTube channel YouTube comm slash learnings cast we do this record live But if you're watching the video that comes out, you know a day later You'll notice that the quality has changed just a bit No green flashes anywhere to be seen. It's kind of it's so good And all we had to do is stop using discord and use jits. Yep. That's all we had to do Just that free and open-source software fantastic. Yes, it's good Yeah, it's it's really good. We'll talk more about it when you do your pick because it's good. Anyways, Tyler my friends What have you been doing? Quite a freaking bit for anybody who keeps up with Like my dot files, which I don't know that there's anybody out there that does but I've updated my dot files heavily I Am in the midst of adding like a proper table of What key bindings I use and all that type of stuff But I actually have updated it with what I use on my system. Why I use it And also because I now have like rounded corners animations all that stuff through the custom pi com I I linked to that as well. So just in case anybody wants it I've updated that and then I have also put my computer into a cardboard box, which is awesome I've literally like this. I know it sounds Completely stupid and it is stupid like I have a computer case that I could use But I've always wanted to see if I could put a computer in a small cardboard box and make it Look just like an old shipping box that you wouldn't think anything of Maybe even a shoebox, which I don't have any of those, but that's besides the point and I've actually done it Like the thing is is I the reason I wanted to do it was mainly because I like the idea of sleeper PCs like the idea of having a very Powerful computer that no one really would look at or notice even as a computer and I've actually Done it and I can also tell people if you've ever wanted to make a computer in a cardboard box One of my worries was structural like integrity like picking up the box and then just having everything move and like destroy each other Actually, there's a reason we ship stuff in this shit It's pretty stable and I can pick everything up just fine And I've also discovered that securing computer components inside of a box with Velcro is surprisingly effective my PSU motherboard Hard drive everything in this seat is in this thing is Velcro it into place Gorgeous it's it's awesome. So, yeah He's gonna she's gonna show us like there's a Cardboard box back there you guys are seeing a video right now. That's his computer Right back here this thing and you can only tell that it's a computer by the one back side back here that has a Power cord and you know all the cords running out of it I can honestly tell you that I've never had the interest of putting my computer my $1,000 computer in a cardboard box Well, I will say it is remarkably fun. It is a really fun and easy like I don't know Hobby, I don't know like It's a very interesting task. I'd be perfectly happy to do it with someone else's computer It's just not anything I would be interested in doing but it sounds like a cool project It's it feels like you know those computer cases that are like basically just test benches, but they're They have the motherboard like bottom where you put the motherboard and stuff everything connects to that and then the outside of it It's just like a Open like there's nothing else there. It's just it's just a tray and hang it on the wall Okay Those always look cool Like you see those on the like those YouTube channels that do setup videos Those always look really cool and then I think about you know, I live on a dirt road And anybody who knows who if you have ever lived on a dirt road before dust is a thing that Like literally you can go through and polish everything in your house And make it shiny and within a like a half an hour The dust is back Especially in the summer when like it's dry and it's not you know like snowy or whatever Not so bad in the winter It's you still get dust in the winter that don't think you don't but it's not in the in the summer Like the the dust just I mean literally it falls into your house like snow. Yeah yeah Luckily, I don't have that issue, but I mean I do have to dust it out because there's obviously known dust you know Collector or anything dust filters. So I could never do one of those open box open cases As it's cool as they look Y'all talk about firewalls yet. No, we we just got started man. We're a ways away from that And you must be welcome to this We'll get into it That ram jam wants to know what your thermals are like in your The thermals are exactly the same as They were in the I have a like the oldest computer I was using or case was a is one of those cheap rose will ones Like if you search like rose will case and you find like a 30 dollar one with a blue front power button That's the one I had. Um, it's pretty popular for people who want to cheap Cheap out on computer cases like a lot That's what you go with And so that's what I was using. Uh, the the thermals in this box are technically Technically better Even though I have if I tested it with prime 95 or the equivalent of prime 95 I guarantee you the thermals would be better But from my from what I've done right now, which is just You know playing games and stuff. It's the same like the cpu temperature is exactly the same It's it's hovers around 68 degrees with a decent load on it Um, and then it'll drop down a few degrees My room here is not my computers will never go below like 62 degrees c somewhere room there So it's pretty much the same it's glow sec has the same Worry that I have is that your cardboard box will catch on fire And burn down burn down your house I mean that's a that's uh That's a reasonable worry But the motherboard again is mounted with velcro Underneath the screw holes so all the screw holes that would normally have like a standoff underneath them There's some like there's velcro underneath there So the motherboard is lifted off of the cardboard box anyway And surprisingly enough there is Like I so at the back here right above the cpu fan. There is a A fan like mounted blowing out and at the very top I have it like if you can Look I was showing Matt before we started but you can kind of see this this is folded over here Um, if you've ever known people who like fold up their boxes Like you take one lip fold it over fold the other one and then you put the other one underneath there Um, so since I've got it folded like that. There is a a gap that I can fit Literally three. Oh my gosh if I could make this thing good lord. There we go No, you still can't see it But there's like a I can put three fingers back here in this hole There's a hole right in the middle of this box here I can stick my fingers through there and I can feel the air coming through Quite a bit. So there's there's some pretty decent air flow in this thing. So overheating and catching on fire Not a not really a problem Again, because I'm also not going to be pushing the shit out of this thing. I'm not not going to be doing anything crazy Um, even when I compile on gin too, I don't use all the cores. So I was going to say when you compile stuff goes Stuff tends to get hotter. Um, all right Well, I mean I've I've put it under a gaming load already and uh for an hour The thing the thing was with gaming is gaming is going to attach your gpu not your cpu, right? Well, I'm I've taken the gpu like the dedicated gpu Yeah, so if if there was going to be any overheating issues any fire hazard problems I'd already know um, and again because it's mounted with a velcro I can easily remove the motherboard and check underneath it to see whether or not it's getting hot enough to You know, like gorge sins. Yeah hardboard. Yeah sin something or whatever. I've by the way, I've checked that it's it's totally fine all right All right, so uh for me personally, I've been so this is actually what I did two weeks ago We didn't do a podcast last week. That was my fault Uh, just life has been Yeah, we're all fine with it because it's normally my fault. Okay Feels good If you'd wait a minute, I would have found a way to figure out how to blame you on it anyways Anyways, so some of the stuff I'm gonna be talking about is from two weeks ago, but I went I've first of all I've discovered that one of my filler words for all my videos is going through so if you hear me say that I'm trying to stop that but anyways, I Rice i3 into a girl box thing and I redid poly bar and I learned a lot more about poly bar that I didn't know Uh, in terms of especially in terms of padding and stuff. So that has been a lot of fun And you can if you're a member of my discord server, you can see pictures of my rice right now And I'm going to be streaming sunday night where I'm going to go through and um Rice i3 like five or six times because I'm on different themes so I can switch back and forth between them That'll be sunday night. Um, but yeah, I've learned a lot about poly bar I thought I knew a lot, but I learned a lot more. Uh, I also have been Oh, I got my i3 configuration file down to 15 lines Like 15 lines, man. It's so good. I don't know why that impresses me so much, but it does like It's the smallest i3 configuration file that anybody's ever seen. It's so good uh Because it turns out that there is an include functionality in the i3 spec So you can actually include other files like you would in uh, like c or python or whatever Yeah, you can you can include to another file. So I've went through and organized all of the different parts of my i3 config into different files And then at the beginning it's just include this file include that file include that file And then there's just a few other lines that have to be there like setting the mod key and stuff That are there. So that 15 lines long, uh, I again don't know why that's impressive, but it is impressive for me Uh, the other thing I've been doing is I'm messing around with task warrior I've been wanting to do a video on task warrior for a while And right now my to-do list is controlled by to-do list and that is a proprietary piece of software And it's really good. I really enjoy to-do list It does a lot of good stuff But I would like to move over to a free and open source alternative and task warrior is the one that keeps getting recommended to me so far I'm not impressed with it. It's fine Uh, I will say most of my problem with it is that you have to remember the flags that Are used in the terminal in order to do certain things like add tasks Safe tasks are done. So it's worth it. You got to remember all that stuff And uh, it'd just be a matter of getting used to that stuff, but it's not necessarily something that I'm I've gotten to yet. So we'll see how that goes. So those those that's the stuff I've been working on I'm Linux. I've also been uh Today I'm going to be working on getting a samba shares up because I recently switched from endeavor to arch Linux best the vanilla arch And all my stuff obviously got wept out. So I have to go through and Reset you know set up all my samba stuff so I can actually get to my files Something that I haven't done yet. I just haven't had a chance. So that's that's good today All right, so we got through the first section just fine So contact information which I don't actually have the the new contact information actually in this file So this is the old contact information But I think I remember everything so you can follow it on twitter at the next cast you can Subscribe to all of our stuff at the linuxcast.org Which is actually a website like it wasn't like a hoax two weeks ago Or whenever it was and we announced that there's actually a website there. It's still actually there It has been updated now. 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Um, the price for that domain is stupid It is not affordable The worst thing you can do is own a domain and then let it go. Yeah, I'm just gonna put this out there So I owned at one point the linuxcast.com Like I owned it and then ricky and I stopped doing the podcast for like a year and a half So I was like you went we're probably never gonna come back to this and nobody's listening to the episodes anyways At that point that was true That was like in like five views of an ep or listens an episode So I let the domain go away like I'd stopped renewing it When I came back in 2020 and found that were the fuck people were actually listening to this So I just better do something with it. I went to get the domain back and hover wants $900 Yep for the domain that I created Yep No, see it's the same thing. So what is today the 10th? Uh, yeah, okay. So I have until tomorrow to like I have to renew my domain zany.org Uh for my gemini capsule by the way, I actually have a gemini capsule. Uh, you can check that out Um, it's like a website, but better because the web's shit. Um, but anyway, um, I Went I have to renew it by tomorrow and now when I first purchased a year of this domain I considered getting it forever because it was about $120 to get it for lifetime Like I'll never have to renew the domain again I didn't do that. I went with the cheap option and just paid for a year Now for me to renew my domain, uh, it went from like I believe it's like five Bucks to get the domain originally now. It's $35 for a year. It's $65 for two years And $420 for a lifetime of the domain I use hover and it's $15 a year and it's pretty much always been $15 a year. I would murder a donkey For a lifetime option They don't have it obviously. I mean Why would they it seriously give us $15 a year forever is going to be way more than spending $150 for whatever But I would love an all lifetime option because there's certain domains that I'm just always going to want now because I'm always going to want the Linuxcast.org I have the history One that I'm going to hopefully someday quit my job and create my own history stuff I have the domain for that all set up. So I renew that every year, even though I do absolutely nothing with it right now I have the one for the distro watch The distro watch replacement that I really want to do it's called distro db I own distro db.com And it's like it's a really cool domain, but I haven't done anything with it yet But I want to renew it because I don't if I do decide I'm actually going to go through with that project You know, I want to keep the domain if I know I will regret the fact that if I let that go and then decide to do the project I'll have to buy the damn domain you know I'm not able to get tyler youtube channel can anybody help it's youtube.com slash zany og And that's with a capital z and a capital zero g or uh, og Tyler can you put that in the chat? Yes, no problem. I can do it. OBS doesn't want me actually type things So, uh, I'm going to put it in here. Uh, it's zany og Spelt just like that. Um, I'm not going to do the full youtube link because then it'll get blocked But just do youtube.com slash zany og. Are you not a moderator? You're not a moderator. We'll actually block you No Now I want to make this perfectly clear someone else is a moderator on my channel, but you know, that's besides the point I I don't know you. You could do anything That's true. I mean, I don't know you. I just do a podcast with you. Come on, man If I had firefox open and I could actually you know go in and Change that I'd give you moderates that's right now, but I can't actually do it. Oh, shit. I'm sorry uh to I'm gonna butcher your name your username og in chat Just so you know, it's youtube.com because I am a dipshit. I forgot this. It's youtube.com slash c Slash zany og for channel. Yeah, you don't actually need to see Oh, you don't Okay, you learn something new every day All right Um, the domain name ownership is addictive because especially if you're like the entrepreneurial type and you go through And uh have ideas all the time like oh, this is the next big thing. I'm going to become ilan musk I'm going to go by the domain name because that's the first step to success is buying the domain name, right? And then that domain name just sits there in languages forever and ever and ever Well, I mean like that's the thing like The the sad thing about domain names is like when it comes to buying domains like has an investment You see people buying like dumb domains like xyz.com and you're like It's sold for $30,000 may just maybe I should start buying and reselling domains And you like you have an idea you probably should Buy the domain for especially if you have if you find out that it has like a unique You you come up with a name and it has the unique thing and the domains available You buy that domain. Yeah, even if it costs you $15 or $20 a year Because especially even if you don't ever do anything about it Maybe someday someone else has the same idea as you like uh, disney or or nike or apple has the same idea as you And they want that domain they could come. Hey, you know, I'll give you that domain for you know 100 grand Whatever You're like, I'm on that case. I mean, hey, it's worth my while Hey, so it's paid for those it paid for the domain registry All right, moving on to the news tyler Every week you and I we scour the interwebs for the breaking news and it's obvious that people have come here For the news because there are no other sources news on the entire internet And we're the most timely of things always we always break into the to the Your regularly scheduled programming to bring you the most latest news So tyler, what have you found for us this week? Well fresh off the press Right here. Uh, I hope everyone knows that mason 22 is out and uh, it's it brings a A lot of improvement for gaming. Um, you get like I mean you can read into the article it Fixed it. There's a lot of things that it fixes and adds support for Particularly, I hope everyone like keeps us in mind It adds direct or directx 3d 12 so directx 12 support or open gl es 3.1 support Which is big And you can also through this article there is an entire Paragraph it starts with games like and it just goes through and these are all the different games that you can see a noticeable improvement in because of this and this even includes apps like battle.net firefox mpv Steam all of these are going or should perform much better on your systems with this new update, which is awesome And now this is completely not relating to this news article, but it is a piece of news with nvidia getting hacked and like Blackmailed into uh into doing I don't know a nice thing and opening up their drivers for open source Who knows we might not have an absolute utter garbage open sourced nvidia driver here before too long All right, so let's just talk about that for a second There's absolutely no way in hell that nvidia actually open sources. There's no no no There's no way that actually happens Well, not because of this my my kind of hope is that just the pr shit storm they get because of this Maybe six months from now we get an open source driver. Yeah, I don't I don't think that that happens The the thing that might help is that because that information is out there the people who develop the new The new new vote nouveau or whatever hell it's called the open source driver that you know Nobody should actually use maybe they can go through that and get some ideas Now they could never actually use that code because it would be you know trademark infringement But if they could get ideas on how stuff worked Maybe they can make the open source version of the the driver that does exist better. That'd be oh, yeah Oh, well, I mean ream like even though you can't use the code directly reverse engineering the code Now that you have it 10 times easier 10 times easier also, maybe I mean because AMD is now opposed to reverse engineering that stuff So maybe they can take some and make it make their open source stuff better. That'd be cool as well That means like that's kind of what I mean like you're you're killing my dreams here But like what I mean is I'm hoping that the pr shit storm of just stuff happening around them because of this leak Forces them to be like, hey, maybe just maybe create an open source driver. Not a bad idea No, not gonna happen. If anything what's gonna happen is because they're the most petty company in the world They'll decide that you want to know what maybe the linux community doesn't need a driver at all Fuck you guys, you know, we're gonna take it right off from linux all together And you guys won't have a proprietary driver. If you don't if you don't want our proprietary stuff We don't give you one at all. Fuck y'all, you know That's more that I find that more likely me I know i'm i'm debbie downer. I can't help it. It's not that you're a debbie downer. It's just You know, I I guess i'm just naive and would like to believe that it video is not that dickish of a company But they are but they are We know they are Yeah, like As big of a dick as microsoft has been over the last 30 years Nvidia has always felt like a bigger dick to me We could just always feel like that. I don't know really why I feel that way, but it's definitely feels that way Well invidious like In invidious the schoolyard bully who just doesn't get caught Like, you know, there's the there's the other one who's just blatantly a bully always gets caught that'd be microsoft Yeah, but then then there's invidious and they just get away with the bully and everybody knows they're the bully There's they're the they're the bully that the teachers know about But can't stop because their daddy's the really rich rich daddy that gives the money to the school And video is the one that doesn't get caught ever, right? Yeah, I think we've dragged this metaphor as probably as far as long as it possibly could be um Anyways, so yeah, so moving on so I've already Then maze a thing the thing with the steam deck stuff Is that we're going to be seeing more and more updates like this that change like All everything about gaming probably weekly for like the next year because Companies now that the steam deck has proven to be such such a success and people are still really interested in it They're gonna be working on the software more and more Like google itself now has decided that they're going to create a Uh an option to run games on linux similar to proton. They're going to do their own version of that And while I don't really necessarily think that you know Forking something they're not forking it but they're creating something new but what I mean is Making something new that does exactly the same thing something that else exists I don't think that that's always the best thing. I still think that There are companies out there that would trust google More and use their software because of that trust So think maybe things like epic or whatever because like epic and google don't really compete Whereas epic and and uh steam they're direct competitors. So there's a reason why epic every time they try to use a steam product they're They feel icky maybe they'll be more interested in this new google thing And which could possibly lead to More games coming to linux if other game developers who don't want to work with steam could Use that instead of proton now whether or not that ever actually comes to being this is google We're talking about they could work on it for the next 10 years then decide to cancel it. That's I mean Let's just talk about stadia for a second Exactly. Yeah, like seriously. We all knew when stadia came out that they were going to do this And like stadia is on its death now Like we heard the bells if you if you're using stadia and you truly believe it's not dead You're delusional. Yeah, like don't Like we told you at the beginning. I think we said said it on this podcast Don't buy games through stadia. Just don't do it Those things are going to be abandoned eventually because it's google even successful products like Well, I mean, it's exactly like the person who uses like dos on one of their old computers to like play around with and they're like See dos is not dead. It's not a dead project Like no, just because you can still use it doesn't mean that it's alive and being developed There's big difference Yeah, that's stadia And the thing is I don't understand why why they're giving up on it like I don't Sure, it hasn't taken over the world but Well, it's google if it's not an extreme success. They kill it like that is Hands down like microsoft's still having their xcloud thing. I don't know anybody who uses it But I'm sure it's still there microsoft will keep it around for a long while before they cancel it the nvidia um What's it called the g-force now? That's supposedly really really good. Um, I haven't used it yet, but I've I've been thinking about it because there's like In order to play some like windows like steam games or whatever It seems like that might be a better option than proton in some cases I know hex I know hex DSL likes it a lot. Um Still works pretty well pretty well So, I mean There obviously there is some success to be had in that area Why would you give up after like a year and a half sure the launch for stadia was just shit But it's a google thing all of your launches are crap Yeah, like seriously, they've been doing the pixel phones now for 15 years. Those phones are still terrible and they're still going They're I mean, they're good phones, but their launches are terrible. They don't like on paper They don't try to sell them and it always it always takes them about eight months for those phones to actually be stable Like this latest one like they'll get to the point where that phone is really really good But it takes eight months for them to get the software right, which is I mean maybe Hold off on the search engine stuff and focus some energy on your actual software stuff But can we take a second to acknowledge the fact that chrome and google and not chrome But google is now going to be contributing to a fragmentation issue on linux Which I hope everyone understands how ironic that is because we're talking about a company here who very much Works with other industry companies that understand fragmentation is not a good thing And they're like, how about we just how about we just contribute to the problem just this once See the thing is is that android used to be fragmented af and it used to be way worse I mean it still it still is but no nobody No, but google's a company that understands that's a problem like Well like this this the hack that you the not the hack but the the vulnerability you covered in a video yesterday That affects android and because like the the the most used android version is like seven Like most of those people not going to get to fix that's going to cover that flaw No, right and that's the that's the problem with android and that's the problem It always has very few people use android 12 and it's not because they don't want to use android Because it's gotta be using the newest shit, bro. Yeah got to otherwise your your your shit out of luck I don't I don't understand that about About like google as a company like you you understand fully just how bad fragmentation is because you have to deal with it on a daily basis How on god's green earth? Are you the company that's like? Oh, we don't have enough problems to deal with around here. Let's fix that issue. Let's let's go ahead and do more work Well, they decided to create a new operating system called fuchsia And like this is definitely going to fix it. Um, I mean we're talking about a company here that kills projects if they're not hyper successful why like Why would you want to do something that's already being done? Like I love google Yes said no one All right moving on to My piece of news this week. I Shows this one. This is actually the one that I chose for last week. So the steam deck Is here and the reviews Are have been mostly good the only negative thing about the hardware that I've heard Is that the fans are really loud? And I'm guessing that that's something that they can fix in in software Those fan curves can probably be changed because a lot of the like the temperature stuff that they the thermals and stuff that people have tested They said the thermals are fine that there's no reason for those fans to be running all the time So I'm assuming that the the fan curves can be fixed the surprising thing that has the thing that has surprised me the most about this launch is that I expected there to be For this thing to go out to the normal reviews places like you know the verge and you know Ars Technica and I mean really ars Technica But the verge and gadget and those sites like that they review the thing and their number one complaint would be well It doesn't play any games Sure it has 400 games that are for it And it that's more than any console that has ever been launched It has more games available for at launch than any console has ever existed But I almost was 100% sure and I think we talked about this on the podcast That when the reviews came out there'd still be people out there who would say well, it doesn't play this game therefore It sucks. It's bad. Um, I have not seen that Most people seem to be very happy with the games that are there Yeah, don't knock over your desk there your computer's in a cardboard box May have may have swung my chair around on accident. Whoops I Anyways, I have not seen that kind of criticism. Most people seem to be very happy with the games that are available and are Almost universally optimistic that as time goes on There will be more games that are available for it. Um, I've been highly impressed with with people's acceptance of that Even people who have no interest whatsoever in Linux now There have been critiques over the steam OS itself like it feels incomplete, but This is all we're talking about their software is always incomplete Yeah So well, I mean unless you want to wait 15 years for the game to come out. Yeah Yeah They feel like their perfection is like they're always tweaking stuff and I think that eventually the steam OS thing will get there Uh and be a lot better. That's why I'm kind of really glad That my steam deck won't be here until later in the year Same so Now can we just go ahead and and talk about this for just a quick second? Isn't it nice to be talking about a company and their problem be the fact that they're fucking like They're nitpicky and perfectionist about stuff It's just a nice problem to have, you know in this day and age most companies Don't care. Well, that's the thing that really Surprised me the most is like usually when these review places get Something and it feels incomplete. They've lambasted for being incomplete like when apple sends out Has a new Feature for their iphone the developers have to support and the support there just isn't there yet Like it's going to take months and months like when the app store first came out Or when they made a change to the app store it took took a while for the developers to You know support that feature The review sites almost universal say well, you know, it's good and it's going to be way better in the future But it's not there yet. You know I didn't really hear that with the steam deck stuff. Like they had critiques critiques for the software, but almost everybody was like Yes, eventually this thing will get way better But also it's four hundred dollars and is a fucking computer, you know Like if you can hook this up to a monitor and have a computer and i've heard that the monitor the The actual computer support like if hooking it up hasn't been all that great, but again, I expect that to be better Well, it's multi-monitor support on linux. That's that's literally what it comes down to of course. It's not perfect My biggest complaint from the things that i've seen is that the lack of ios like it has one usb-c Well, but i'm going to go ahead and i'll defend it here You literally should like if you're going to purchase this console You should already know that you either need a usb-c hub or you should be buying one for it Because it's it's it's one of those things where if you buy any other console You're going to spend like 60 bucks on a on a game 50 bucks on an extra controller no matter what Essentially count your usb dock as the extra controller that you buy with your console no matter what because It's not it's not just that you need it, but if you want to get Expand a massive amount of expanded functionality out of it You're going to buy it anyway So 50 extra bucks to get a nice usb-c dock to do everything that you want to do I don't think that's a dongle hanging off my console does well you should well, but then also at the same time you You're not going to be using your console like that all the time I also don't want to chords hanging into my console all the time either so it doesn't really matter Well, again, you're not you're not meant to have that thing plugged in all the time anyway Of course battery life's not that great, but you still you don't have the one cable plugged in so man I'll come up. Well, let's argue about that for a second. The battery life's not great No, when you're playing apex legends on a handheld device, of course the battery life's not going to be great I know I'm just I'm just saying that it could be better. I'm not saying that it was Not unexpected. I mean like we expected it to be but it is like There's that football coach. We they we are who we thought we were, you know, yeah But it is what we thought it was going to be but it would have been cool To see it exceeded expectations just a little bit But it didn't in terms of battery life but also $400, you know, it's $400 and I don't know if anybody I mean everybody else seems to be living under a rock, but uh Hello inflation like that gas is six thousand dollars a gallon Dude, it's it is five dollars out here. I am that is nuts Yeah, yeah, it went just one over four like 40 here and um And that's that is absolutely insane and it was like if you have a diesel like a pickup Oh my god, you're you're so screwed. Just just die right now. You're not going anywhere Just you can't afford it. Either that or go go to the bank get yourself a mortgage now get you a tank of gas This is I obviously this is going to be a problem for a while because uh, Putin is a horrible person and obviously Yeah We don't like the fact that now like if you say like No, no, like Putin's not that bad of a guy. You're just like you were you were alone in the world like There was there's two people in the world that do that. There's there's there's a republican who's running for like The senator something here in michigan Who who said um, you know, Putin's just going after ukraine because ukraine's a horrible place or whatever Like he said that simultaneously while While russia bombed like a maternity ward like oh, yeah We definitely should be defending the russians And then the other one is cucker carlson on fox news like oh, it's definitely america's fault. It's all america's fault Because he doesn't like you know I love it. It's just it's so bad. We have gone off the fucking rails. Yes. We have but When you start talking about prices these days when we start talking about like buying a computer part like When the steam deck was announced It was a good thing to buy And it was a good price even then Uh, because you know, even if it was it turned out to be like a failure or whatever $400 for hardware wise. You got a great deal. Yeah, it was a good And that was a year ago when it was announced Nowadays $400 is like what $800 would have been then You know, I because you know inflation, but it's just not so anyways, uh Move on to the freaking main topic We can't talk about gas prices. It's just it's just depressing and it would make everybody really really upset and depressed Because sorry folks It's just gonna be bad anyways The main topic should you use a firewall in this day and age? So tyler your answer to this question and your thoughts on it Um Yes, you should and I don't know that there's many people who would advise you to not use a firewall um Let's just go ahead and say If you don't use a firewall in this day and age, it's only because you just didn't Install it like it's it's not because they're hard to set up hard to use Um, I mean sure there there might there I guarantee there are some firewall solutions out there that are just Terribly difficult to get set up but As far as I know Those are not the ones that anybody's using ufw has uncomplicated right in the title exactly exactly and it's uh uf Using ufw is exactly as it would sound uncomplicated. You just I mean, it's very simple and straightforward most like Ufw is a good example of a program that understands that like flags and the way in which you use the program should just Make sense Like even if you if you're not familiar with how to use it once you start learning how to use ufw Like you don't have to ask questions about what something in a command meant because it's pretty self-explanatory like that that's Why I would say using a firewall in this day and age is should be a given Like like I don't have a firewall on this system But it's because it's pretty new arch install like pretty new it would take me about five minutes to get it set up And also since I'm about to hop anyway, I'm not going to do it But like it once you have a system set up If you don't already have a firewall installed like there's no reason to not go and do it It's not complicated and you definitely should have it The common thing that I hear is like, uh, well, you know, you need it because x y and z might happen to you and I'll disagree with that like there's There's not really a big chance of you again Most people are not really prime targets for that stuff like you're right hackers have other targets that are much more lucrative than your Yeah, well, I mean a hacker coming after me like even if they steal all my information I've got like 40 bucks to my name dog Like it doesn't matter. You're not getting away with the individual attacks that happen Is going to have to do more with malware and ransomware And that's all that that all happens because you clicked on a link like seriously never ever ever Ever click on a link that you don't know exactly where it goes to And also, can we just be honest don't fucking install scripts and run scripts willy nilly Like just please don't That's the only way I want to make sure you're gonna have problems I'll go back to what I just said Very careful what you click especially okay Excuse me Especially if you use discord if you use discord don't click on a link ever No, okay, unless you like you know No, no even if you know the person who's sending you the link like your friends with them Tyler sent me a link and I didn't know he was sending me a link like if it just came out of the blue I wouldn't click on the link because I would assume the his account got hacked because that happens All the time on discord like I read all of your links that you send me like the jitsie link that you saw me Read it out completely because like it's important I will click on a link like if Tyler says hey man, I'm sending you the audio I know that link is coming. I can I will then click on it Like I know that that's you and you sent that to me but if like three days from now you and I aren't talking like Not like we're mad at each other But we're just going about our days and I all of a sudden in the middle of the day get a random text message From Tyler giving me a link. I'm not clicking on it because I didn't know that it was coming Okay, and that's the thing especially on discord people get their account tech all the time now Most of the time those links are going to lead you to fake nitro things The word they try to get you to sign up for nitro when it's not really signing up for nitro They're stealing your credit card Uh, first of all nitro is a fucking scam anyway, so don't sign up for nitro Even if you're getting it directly from discord, it is a complete scam. Yeah, right. Yeah, it's just not good but just don't Don't click on links, but a firewall is not going to help you with that that that's all to do with willpower And intelligence. Okay In this day and age Don't click on links. Well actually hold on. I'll disagree with you. It's not intelligence. It's that ty lope has knowledge dog because It doesn't it doesn't mean you're not intelligent. It's not intelligence. It's it's it is knowledge It's it's the no of not. Hey, don't do this, but you want to know my mother's 80 years old She knows it. Okay. She and she she learned it when she first started on a computer because Oh man when we first got her into a computer, she was very resistant to get like we bought our laptop It sat in the box for eight months. She didn't want to get on it get on it, right? We finally did get her onto the internet and on the on our computer And she sent it for an email address and started doing stuff and like yahoo answers or stuff like whatever Like she started getting these emails saying hey, you won a 500 gift card to target or a 500 laptop or whatever And she'd show them to me like Matt. How do I sign up for this like mom? Those are scams and she was so upset with me Like how dare you take away? I I won this. Oh, yeah I won this money and you're taking it away from me. Like how dare you like she was very upset with me But I mean now she's learned her lesson because she she watches dr. Phil I mean we talked about this a lot of time and dr. Phil has these like the the women who get um, like, uh, what's it called? Catfished when they get fat and catfished by someone over in Nigeria or whatever You know, so My grandma was the same way like why why won't you let me like you're trying to give me a thousand dollars? Like it's free money. Why can't you just take it? You know, like no, it's not for money Like they may send you a thousand dollars, but they'll require you to send them a hundred thousand dollars first Or they'll send you that a thousand dollars. You cash it. It's a fraudulent check You're now now out two grand. Yeah, plus you're on on the on the hook for check fraud and going to jail Yeah, exactly yeah, so Yeah, the the the whole link thing but the We did meander off the whole firewall thing So my thought on to answer the the question should you use a firewall is exactly the same yours And is yes and the reason why I wanted to talk about this kind about this topic Isn't because I thought we'd have different answers. I wanted to rant about something Okay, okay Wait, hold on if you're gonna rant that's perfect. I have to pee again really quick So start your rant and I'll be right back. He's really got to learn to go before we start the podcast This was a really good rant and he's gonna miss it I like seriously Doing a podcast by myself now. I was like he's not even here buddy. Hey buddy. Come on, man. We got to do podcast All right, so my rant There are very few things That I think that windows does better than linux like there's not a Lot of things out there that I think that windows is actually good at for the most part I think linux is or windows is a piece of utter garbage The problem is Or the thing that There are excuse me The one thing that windows does do that is absolutely better than linux is that it has a firewall installed by default And I don't understand in this day and age why there's not a universal firewall That we all use which we all most people who use a firewall on linux use ufw That they use it or they use a front end for ufw if they're using gfg ufw or whatever it's called ufw seems to be the one that we've all agreed upon Should be the one that everybody uses. It's the most it's uncomplicated. It's what they can you know It's just something that's easy to use So why isn't it installed by default like this is something that should be enabled by default out of the box on every single linux distribution It should be absolutely No exception to that every single linux distribution should have ufw Now you should be able to uninstall it if you want to like it shouldn't be something that is like tied into your Uh, it shouldn't be like snaps that is hard to uninstall on on a on a boon too. Yes, right If you want to install it and not use it that should be your choice, but by default it should be Installed and enabled or at least it should be like during install of your distro It should say hey, would you like to have a firewall enabled? Like a checkbox do that and have it checked by default most people are going to just leave it there and Bam you've solved a lot of security problems for a lot of people who aren't Interested in going into the terminal and setting up ufw or I've never heard of ufw or don't know what gufw is, you know, it should be Something that is Default even if we don't use ufw. It may if there's something else I don't even care if they're if we do the traditional linux thing and everybody creates their own firewall You know, I wouldn't care that there should be a firewall enabled by default on every single linux distribution Windows does this like windows has a firewall enabled by default windows has this is the one area where windows has gotten something right like it has for a firewall enabled by default and You know why they've done like Windows is a security nightmare. So they've had to take action to solve security problems And that's the reason why there's a firewall on linux or on windows by default linux hasn't had those problems They haven't had to go in through because they're not popular enough for anybody to really give a crap About You know causing them problems at least on the desktop street like in the in a service space is obviously different But if you're running a server you obviously know to run a firewall. You probably have a firewall built into your network You probably run most server distributions come with one. So right The the point is on debt on desktop linux. It should also come with a firewall by default That was my rant which you You know I mean, I may have missed the first part of it, but um, Nevertheless, I think I can can fully say I agree with all of it Because there should be one it goes like I asked me do I use ufdw on my machine? Of course I do And of course I do it's one of the first things I install it's it's everyone who distro hops Has that one little line of programs that you always copy and paste no matter what distro you're using You have that one line of programs that you install Absolutely first you update your system And then you install these programs mine mine are always if firefox if it's not there Caden live audacity ufw Crusader and rofi Those are the things I always install those are like the five or six programs They're always there and then there's a few more that have to go that I don't really remember right now But the point is ufw is one of them. So yes, no Of course I do I mean everybody should and that and that's the point Both tylan and I have talked about this like this is something that everybody should do everybody should have Therefore it should be something that is by default on new linux like every I mean It doesn't have to be a specific one doesn't have to be ufw, but just you should have one installed I agree I and the and the argument for having one installed is not that you're going to need it, but that it's so ridiculously simple and will And stops so many different potential threats that there is Like it it makes no sense not to have one installed no sense Steve does fire fuck or does fedora actually have one enabled by default. I didn't know that Uh, I don't I don't think they have one enabled by default. I don't think I I get like I'm pretty sure I remember having to install ufw on my own and doing it myself, but Um, maybe you're right, but the as far as I know fedora doesn't have one As far as I know, there's not a single linux distro out there that does have one installed by default No, I've never tried anything like cali linux or black arch or anything like maybe those do Um But I I know there's one popular one that has it installed or ufw installed by default I can't remember what it is. I don't I don't think it's elementary os I know it's one of those like very much for new users. Maybe soaring. I I can't remember. It's one of those ones But I don't I don't I don't I don't if there is I've never tried it. Um, so That's that's the thing like at the end of the day This is such an easy thing to do like I mean, we say don't use ufw, but everybody I mean I don't think that there's anybody out there that thinks ufw is bad, right? And I mean, I'm sure there's somebody out there saying well They don't do it this way that I want to do it and I'm gonna create my own But there'll be always be that person in the linux community But most people I think have settled on the fact that ufw is probably the best one Well, I mean, if not the best the easiest like I I don't even think it's a like Honestly, I don't think I'm having a rational conversation some with someone if they tell me that ufw They is not simple like I where if we're working off of the base that ufw is complicated or You don't like it because it does stuff in a more complicated or convoluted way Then whatever you're using I I don't think we're having a rational conversation So we're being told in the chat that mint is the distro that has ufw enabled by default That's uh, again, I know it's one of the very popular New user it had to be mint right because I hate mint. Of course, they're the ones that do something right Yeah, you have to acknowledge that they do some stuff, right? Okay Oh, I don't want to acknowledge that but good job mint. I'm actually doing the whole podcast just cuts here It just cuts to black. This is the end Serious, all right, but the the point is Is that this this whole scenario? It's such an easy step for People to take but most people probably don't especially new users, especially on like a boon too and linux mint and zorn and something like that those Those districts should absolutely definitely have this enabled by default Because I mean also too the odds that a new user is going to do something that requires messing with a firewall at all is pretty low Anyway, so I don't see a reason why not to Right and and there's more and they're more likely to get into situations where the firewall will protect them You know, if you're a us, uh, you know a very Experienced computer user you have more common sense and knowledge about what things to avoid Whereas a new computer user probably doesn't have that experience, right? So I mean to a new user someone asking to connect to a port on your ip address. They're like, I mean Hey, they're they're offering me technical support. So why not? Yeah, and we're all we're gonna do is put a whole bunch of money in your bank account Yeah, yeah We're gonna help you get that 200 dollar refund for that thing that you can't remember you bought I mean every every time you hear those stories of people who get conned like that You're thinking about how can you possibly be that gullible? I mean, how can you possibly be that way? But the thing is is that there are People out there who just don't have that kind of knowledge to avoid that they don't have the Synicism that is embedded in every computer user that should be there To know that there are bad people Just like there's bad people in the city and in this in the country and stuff like that will stab you and take your money There are bad people online to do stuff to you and some people just don't have that basically what boils down to street smarts to Know that there are bad people online that will take your money and ruin your identity and all this stuff And it's just they think the best of everybody, you know, they get on You know into the youtube comments and just have great old conversations with people. They're all everybody's my friend What's that? It's that all it's that old statement, you know, like Uh, you you end up Oh, god lord. What what was I gonna say? Oh my god trust but verify No, um Ignorance is bliss like, you know when you don't know better You're really happy and you think everyone's super nice and they only want the best for each other Then you find out there's some real pieces of shit out there that you need to avoid Just probably about a month ago or whatever my mom got an email that looked exactly like an email from Like amazon credit card service like she has an amazon credit card or something that are used to I don't even know And it looked exactly like what you get from amazon Right I had everything like and it didn't have like the normal stuff Usually you get something like that and you know, it's a scam right away because they misspelled the word the and you know It's you know, it's not not a great grammar was definitely not there You know, they were absent that day in school, but the this one looked legit but The thing that because the way they get get you is They create they make their name look like the actual email address You know like it like it looks like uh, you know security at amazon.com or whatever like oh my god This is exactly from amazon, but do you actually look at the actual email address? It's like And it has a whole bunch of numbers and letters and it's at you know joshmo.co.uk.co The ones that are the most evil are that like they're so close like they're like security at amazon dot Like c o t or c o t m like they've got the weird like dot domain I'm like god like those are the ones that get me because my grand like my grandfather's gotten those And like they'll all they'll come close to getting me because they're They're so close to a real email that you'd get and the email is completely accurate until those last three or four letters Yeah, so so whenever you look at someone who's been got conned Don't think them necessarily gullible just because they got con it's just because it can literally happen to everybody because those things Those fucking criminals are freaking clever, you know You know You get blocked by something and and they just come up with something different so I mean, that's why that's why I said it's not intelligence because like that's That that's a big thing in the linux space that I see that's like very common is assuming People should know something that you know like common knowledge to you is not common knowledge to everyone else Like that's a big thing like the whole arch meme is kind of predicated on that What makes the arch meme so popular is that's very common in the community like assuming that because I've used arch for a while or Even that I haven't used arch I've just recently gotten into it if you start asking me questions about arch like you should have seen or Had access or know the same information that I do because it's freely available and I found it So why can't you find it? Yeah? That's really common. Yeah, it's you're right because you're it's not intelligence. It's it's not even really knowledge. It's it's Awareness like you gotta have the knowledge to be aware that this stuff happens all the time So you have to be aware 100 percent of time. It's uh, you're what you said you were watching harry potter It's constant vigilance, right? Yeah, you know It's always making sure that what you're clicking on is what you're supposed to be clicking on And you're always aware of what the url bar says at the top You make sure that what you're entering your information into is what you're supposed to be entering information to And not just being aware but being very constantly looking at things for those little itsy bitsy differences that It's going to get you Actually, you know what you saying that kind of made me think That's probably why like a lot of people think that nerves are very cynical Like when you're very into computers like very much into computers and the nerdy techie stuff Like you do end up you have like when you Again, it's the ignorance is bliss when you understand just how much shit is out there to get you and to like steal shit from you You you become more cynical like it's hard not to you you you don't trust things like you would you you would otherwise yeah, it's It's definitely the reason why I know I've become more cynical because you just you see this stuff all the time And some of it. Yes, some of it like those ladies on dr. Phil Those people should not be so gullible Okay, yeah, like like there's some people that definitely should use common sense better like or you know like at all No, but some people just fell for scams that are easy to fall for for anybody even if you are You know not a light or you're you're very technologically knowledgeable You can still fall for that stuff because you missed the fact that it was dot You know or or dot instead of dot com or whatever So it's one of those things so like That's the reason why just to go back to the topic Taking the steps you need to in order to protect yourself even if it's as simple as installing ufw Or if you're really a nerd using ip tables I mean if you want to use whatever you want to do Um, I was looking at you there tfl Whatever you want to do just long as you take those steps to protect yourself that that's It's like we're wearing a seatbelt. You know You don't expect to get into crash. You don't expect for somebody to t-bone you But wearing a seatbelt can save your life. It's like giving a covid vaccine You know, yes, who cares has become political and all that nonsense But you're not you're not doing this because brian told you so you're not doing this because trump told you So, you know, I I love that argument like like i'm going to get a vaccine because of some political reason like I I love how like this has totally changed like Right, dude, if you're if you're anti like if you don't want to do something don't do it Like it's the same thing with the firewall like if you don't want to get protected That's fine, but you know the whole point of this conversation is not that you need to do it But that it's so simple and can save you through so many different things You should just go ahead and do it, but it's fine if you don't like it's okay Long as you know that at the end of the day, you're vulnerable to certain things, you know You you know, whatever The the point I was making was that you know, you don't do this because of other people Like you don't do this because I told you so or tyler told you so you don't do this because it's the right thing to do You do this because you'd want to protect yourself And That's the bottom line. It's it's it's it's any of these things that are are meant to protect you And people have somehow made it, you know You know complicated at the end of the day. It's really very simple take as much Take as many steps steps as you can to protect you On the internet make sure you're You know and you even if it's just something as simple as Being aware and using a firewall and using fire software if you're on windows those three things You're probably good. Those are the minimum things you should do and then if you become more nerdy You can add things like using a vpn and all this stuff. You can dive down the rabbit hole as much as you want to But you take those minimum steps which everybody should take and You'll Be happier and you'll be safer even if they just run in the background and you never think about that No, okay Allow a route login always. Yes 100% okay, so just a story on that on The arch Linux GUI which I used to install arch Linux this time if you delete sddm the the display manager And then you reboot your computer. It logs you into root automatically Like automatic Like No, that's not the way it's supposed to work man. Just don't do that I know I don't know if that's the same case if if it's just on vanilla arch Linux If that's a vanilla arch Linux thing like if you're on vanilla arch links you install it the traditional vanilla arch Linux way And then you install sddm or light dm or whatever and then you uninstall it If you then you log back in if it takes you to a tty where you are logged into root automatically I don't that I don't know if that's the case, but on this instance of arch Linux We're using the arch links GUI if you uninstall sddm, which is what comes by default on the plasma version at least and then log back in or Reboot and go back it takes you to a tty where you're automatically logged in as root Now this is what we call Um, not a problem kids. This is a hundred percent fine. This is one of those nifty features that microsoft would add in their OS it is it's a feature. Um, yeah It's not it's not a it's not a security flaw where for whatever reason they've clicked they've enabled automatic login Not a bug not a bug feature So every week so we move down to the main topic every week tyler and I Rack our brains for things that we are interested in using and sharing With the community and then I bumped my mic um Don't worry. I'll do it too here to say these headphones are bigger. So they're also they also have Metal on the outside so the you're gonna hear clings all the time every time I hit the microphone But anyways, so, uh, the thingy of the week is what we've called it For lack of a better name the thingy of the week. So tyler still pretty accurate It's what we've adopted tyler your thingy of the week Munn is pretty easy because uh, Obviously, I don't prepare for stuff like I should so this is on the fly jitsi Because it's awesome and we've replaced discord. So let's go. Uh, can we like talk for just a few about? Uh, how nice it is and how we won't be going back to discord Yeah, jitsi is so when we when tyler first joined the podcast we Did our usual diligence and we tried everything like we tried discord. We tried telegram We tried elements. We tried, uh, jitsi and the one we settled on was Discord because of the way it did grid mode And that's that's the reason why we we tried it Because at the point at the point when that happened jitsi apparently didn't have grid mode or there was some reason why we didn't choose it So we we settled on discord and um, we kind of lulled ourselves into a sense of this is as good as it's gonna get right? It's It's one of those things where it wasn't great, but it really felt like our only option Yeah But then I got a new camera and you got a new camera and for whatever reason Discord does not like the lie to take brio like we have the same power No, it does not it doesn't it does not like it and every like You can't even say like every five seconds. It's there's it's not that Oh, it's it's completely random. Sometimes it'll go 10 minutes without saying a green flash Other times it'll do it like five or six times right in a row It's the dumbest thing and anybody who's watched the Podcast in the last few weeks since they got this camera will have seen this On my feed and and hopefully in one of the podcasts I believe it was in one of the podcast But one of the flashes was egregious like it you didn't have a flash for like three or four minutes And then it flashed and it was solid green for like I counted like five seconds Yeah, and then it came back it was bad and like everybody talked about this and like in the comments like What is this annoying green flashing like yes? I know it's discord thing is discord so We decided that there's no way to fix it like there there is a Vf v4l loop back or something like that that would have solved the problem But it's complicated af like it was not an easy solution And even that one is supposedly I had heard supposedly it fixes it I distro hop way too often to have to set up something that complicated every single time I want to do a podcast so What we decided to do is we'd find something different. So last night tyler Yeah, you know bringing up and say hey, man, let's go through and try to find an alternative So we did we spent a good two hours. We tried telegram. We tried element and we tried jitsi the Telegram was just not an option The the quality there was kind of so bad. It was just it was so bad like And then it was like and then your camera would be tight like my camera your camera Whoever it's like actually like you're sending the video your feed is like this big It's like maybe 20 pixels in the bottom right hand corner And you know that while they did for the bigger picture the pierced in on the other end So you can see them all they did was to take that little one and they blew it up They didn't like you can see pixels on his nose Like you the pixels were this like an inch wide. It was that bad So then we tried element and the quality there an element was actually really good But they don't have grid mode Like they refuse to implement grid mode and we have to have grid mode because we have to be side by side Yeah, but we have to take a second here Thank christ. They removed the dialer. Yeah, the dialer is gone fine that that thing caused so many what the f's and like What is it even used for is this thing black magic? Like what is it? Because because I'm pretty sure nothing Exactly like it did nothing I have wanted to call 911 for it just to see if it actually like if that's its function Like that's the only thing it can do like if you're having a call with somebody and you Need emergency services like you have a dialer for like I don't I honestly have no idea But it's gone anything that is gone. But yeah, they don't have grid grid modes So we can't do the side by side now I know That some there's like a technology called ndi or something like that Some applications have and I'll look into that and see if we can try that because I think jitzy supports that as well and that's where Like obs would be able to take the actual feeds of each of our videos And use them as actual like inputs So you wouldn't have to I wouldn't have to like screen capture the video Which is what I have to do now, but anyways the next thing we tried was jitzy and Um, man, is it so good? I guess so good even last night like last night the quality wasn't all that great On your end like you we could it was fuzzy But it's way better today like it was 360p last night like today 720p and that's fine Because I'm gonna it's smaller anyways But it's it's so good like the the latency not a problem Uh Lots of settings and stuff like that Like we can change the background if you wanted to change the background and stuff like it's really really good They have more backgrounds and blur effects and stuff than discord does like What? Huh? Like in the fact that I was considering paying nitro for the privilege of getting more of those shitty backgrounds and I didn't even know discord had backgrounds to be honest with you Well, I was considering paying discord to be able to do 1080p Yeah, yeah, they recently added that into linux It was in windows for a hot minute and then all of a sudden they're like, I guess we'll push it out to the linux people Yeah But anyways, yeah jitzy turns out freaking amazing really really good Um, we're we're gonna spend the next week trying to figure out how to self host it because apparently with a self host You can change the quality up to 1080p And if we can do 1080p video cameras like like actual use 1080p On a video camera on a on a webcam Like it's gonna be like awesome. It's gonna be so good. Um, the video quality might actually impress Yeah, like people actually want to watch the cast instead of saying well, you want to we're here for the jokes The video quality is just meh. All right. Yeah, they just load up the video and they just they just listen to it Like it's a podcast. I'll just Spotify Most people probably do that anyways, but that's and that's okay There is by the way there for those of you who just are subscribed on youtube And you want to watch or you don't want to watch this whole like hour long thing. There is an audio version of the show linuxcast.org there's links to our anchor page where you can find more links to The places where we have syndicated the podcast. So it's on apple podcast. It's on spotify It's on like pocket cast and all those things it's on like 10 different platforms You can go there. You can also find the rss feed if you want to use your own pod catcher So if you're using something like the the the The tui pod thing that I don't remember the name of you can enter the url there There's a there's a open source RSS feed that you can use and get all the audio stuff there as well So that's the linuxcast.org in order to get those links and stuff. So Um, my thingy of the week is called link short now. I don't know if this is open source or not I don't I don't really care at this point. Um But I found myself more and more sharing links to stuff like in video descriptions And if you put like a video a link in your video description is like A random link like it's like it's like it's 10 miles long and has random, you know, like Stuff in it. It looks nasty, right? It's like it looks really bad So I I needed a link shortener. I just used to use bitly all the time And then I have to go to a website paste in the url Get the new url then go back to the what the site I was on paste it there It's pain in the ass, but there's a extension called link shortener. It's in firefox. It is in chrome It's an edge and all that stuff. I think they're all called the same. Um, and uh Tyler's distracting me now with backgrounds But anyways link shortener it's it just sits up in your bar you click it It gives you a shortener link for the linkage of the the tab that you're on. So that's really cool. Um, and it's uh Definitely very useful. I like I use it all the time now So that's my thing either week. So Wow that by the way, we recorded for an hour and 20 minutes. We've been Live for an hour and 47 minutes And we were going before that for over an hour. So we've been going for almost three hours now and I am So sick of looking at your face. I'm just saying I know I know Like I I loved you at the beginning, but now I'm sorry man. It's over. See I see I'm still fine with you But man, I have I've been having a look at my own web came and I'm like, damn like I hate myself now so much It's just it's not good So that is it for uh this week's uh podcast coming up next week I don't even know Yeah, I need to do some episodes. I need to fill some stuff. Tyler needs to come up with the topic So it's because it's his turn. We alternate topics by the way I don't know if anybody I actually know this but we go through and uh, we alternate topics So I do one he does want to go back and forth or at the very least we try to we try to but Tyler's a slacker Yeah, exactly. Yeah, and I'm also a slacker but I'm more so He's a big He's just more talented when it comes to slacking. What can I say? You're you're you're very good and talented slacker Tyler means a lot. Most people don't and most people don't acknowledge it. It's in its upsetting. Thank you very impressed. You should get a t-shirt uh head Head slacker on a t-shirt Chief slacker the master master slacker chief slacker. I like that one Anyways, so that Have no clue what we're doing next week. We record this live every thursday At three o'clock p.m. Eastern time unless something else has come up and we had to cancel or postpone or whatever You can also find uh, usually I announced that kind of stuff on my community page on the youtube channel So youtube.com slash limit cast if you haven't subscribed before I go. I'd like to take one thing my current patrons Siddha Devon patrickle fred maklin jackson tool steve sabri leneys garrick samuel mitchell r center carver did jamie shone Odin marnie andy americ camp drash really did dog peter a crucible dark vandesdijk vlad aim primus Oh By the way, when I record a video it takes me 10 takes to record all those names because I'm always mixed up on jacksniffin tool I just stuttered through it. So I always have to start over for whatever reason when we're live I can do it in one shot. It's so weird Let me just go ahead and thank my patrons for only being like eight of y'all. So it's really easy Yeah, tyler does have a patreon page. I don't know what the url is because he don't don't chill it man I'm completely fine. Hey look. I got eight people like maybe nine who are like super supportive Awesome people and it's really easy to remember all their names and say them all yeah We all want to be like dt dt dt shows those the his patreon page at the end He's got like four pages long Yeah, it's like two thousand dollars a month or whatever We all want to be like dt, but I I can read out We all don't want to have to say stuff like because you start off saying your patrons like and then and then you're like Oh, now I see why bigger youtubers have just a page and they don't even attempt to say five of them So the thing is is dt still does say the names of the top tier patrons and I would like to ask him how many times he has to redo that at the end because he says them really fast I'd like to know how many times he has to does that do that take because I bet you if he's anything like me I bet you it takes him a couple times I mean that's the thing like I genuinely don't think people understand how upsetting it can be to like record A lot through a video get a lot of a video done and then has spend like Six takes on like a 30 second portion of your video because you can't say shit properly The hardest part of my video every single video is saying the names at the end And it's not that I'm I feel ungrateful for saying that these people give me money Uh, but I'm just saying that sometimes it's hard Saying the names is hard because I tried to go to my biggest problem is I try to go through them fast Right, I tried to make them fast I should if I went through them and said, you know, just did them slow I would do it all in one take but I do go through them too fast. So anyways, well, let's be honest The aggravating part is the fact that it is so easy You just have to say these names and you're thankful because these people support you and you're like this should be easy But it's not Go ahead so that I should sing them Okay I would lose all of my subscribers if I started singing like every single person would run for the freaking hills I'd ironically create another account and subscribe just for that It's so I can't I can draw better than I can sing and I can't draw I'm sorry Also, I keep bringing up the the thing I've really got to not put the mouse over the busy call Anyway, I I forget that many times because I'm just here playing around in my mouth and it's like a fidget spinner Anyways, that is it for this show. We'll see you guys next week