 I wasn't having that you were wrong. Okay. I'm gonna go ahead hit the hit the live button now All right. Okay. I think we're live I don't know if Everything is coming through fine. So howdy to everybody that's in the chat welcome to the new year We're gonna be starting a podcast very soon If we could get some yeas or nays on the audio and the video this time because I'm looking at the preview in YouTube right now And it's 360p here Yeah, 360p, so I'm hoping that's not for everybody It's 1080p 60 for me. Good. Okay, cuz man, are we blurry and I have my glasses on Everybody's saying we're good. So we got some yeas Welcome everybody. Happy 2023. You said glasses and that just reminded me. I haven't taken my contacts out in three days That's a problem. That can't be good You're not supposed to sleep with those things in man It's fine, it's fine. I'm sure it'll be fine. Yeah, it'll be used to my eyeballs. It's okay Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean like I'll have I'll have just like permanent contacts. Wait, is that like Well, no, that's just LASIK. I They thought that so I don't know if they're any good or not But they advertise on TV ones that you can leave in all the time Well, I mean that the ones that I have in like I'm supposed to be able to leave in for a certain amount Like I can't remember how long it is like I think it's like like a week or something like that But even then like the the optometrist or like, you know, whoever it is that like gave it to me was like You still shouldn't When you enter REM at night your eyes go back and forth really really fast and that makes them, you know Irritate your out your you know eyes Will be good it'll be good, but yeah By the way, man We we need to do this because I don't think we've actually talked talked Since like the new year and Christmas, I know we've sent messages, but like happy new year, man I hope you had a fantastic Christmas. I hope you and your family were good. Oh I did I had a wonderful new year is what much as could be possible I hope you had a good new year and Christmas as well. I got yourself a new calendar. I saw that you can't show that on stream Yeah, yes What he's talking about for everyone in chat is like before we went live I turned my camera around and For Christmas my so every year my aunt gets me a new calendar And every month of the calendar is just like it's got a picture at the top with a dog Taking a taking a deuce and so every month is just a different dog taking a deuce. It's it's done very classily Okay, it's very class Thanks. Thank you Isaac for the the super chat. I don't recommend anyone run that command But if you know if you run that command you'll have a lot of fun guaranteed don't don't listen to that guy, okay? It's a good idea you'll just have a lot of fun What what would happen if you did that on Mac with it would that work on Mac? I don't know. We could try it Okay, I'm so not gonna see that. Oh, I you should you should definitely do that on camera. I Would love it if I just started running it the stream just like cuts out on my end It's just like well Tyler's gone. He may come back. It died And then he died. This is like this. You know what Tab? Dies in Chrome you get that Jim is dead graphic that comes up like Tyler is dead All right, are you ready to go? Yes, sir. All right. I'm gonna go ahead and hit record in audacity. Oh balls Hold on a second Yeah, did you break audacity everything reset? Like now all of a sudden I'm back into mono for whatever reason or back into stereo when I need to be mono I'm this is Matt testing in audacity to ensuring that he's recording through the right microphone Sorry to everybody who just listened to that I Just slapped the mic like a I can't even say the word anymore. Thank you YouTube. I can't even say the word All right I was I was a hundred percent Really really really hoping that you were gonna say that you forgot that you had like chain systems or something And you didn't have a have audacity installed No, I was all ready to go but while I was waiting for you to come online I got this bright-ass idea decided I'm gonna install an audacity thing because the white things bothering me and the problem is is that the place where you install Audacity things doesn't exist when you use the flat pack version. So I had I I Created that folder and then all of a sudden now Our audacity has completely reset itself to whatever. It's not great. It's not great But it's okay. It's working. All right now. I'm now you're ready to go Yes, sir Well, why do I always have issues with my gear because it's the way things work Yeah, well, I mean especially when we're talking audio and Linux like bless Linux is hard It's not it's not really a Linux issue. It's just the audio solutions for Linux. They're just They're they're great like like don't get me wrong audacity is fantastic. It's it really is great, but Audacity is not it's not always Perfect it likes to change settings, which I Don't know about you Matt, but I don't really know that you can blame that on on audacity. That might just be a pipe wire slash Oh, no, it was definitely my fault because I did that theme stuff. That's my fault If I hadn't created that folder, it would still be the same. It was still be working So what you're saying is is customization is the root of this issue. Yes All right, I can't I cannot be the case. Are you are you recording? No, but I can be you should be recording because I'm recording. All right, I Am now. All right, you can do the class whenever you like All right, three two one Hey, we still got it. It's good, sir. All right I want to do I You just have a natural high face, you know that resting bitch face that everybody says damn it. Oh, she was gonna happen You have a resting high face Well Today, he's not wrong. I I have I have a pin and I did hit it a while ago Fantastic So you should have got the the you should have had the lava lamp long Oh, yeah, that's true Well, my mom actually so Okay, so this is another present that I got for Christmas But my mom got me a lava lamp and it looks like a bong and she actually did want me to set it up behind me He always on camera But yeah, it's over there like there's no space for it back here anyway, but all right, let's go ahead and get started Well for those of you who are watching after The stream ends there will be time stamps. I always say this like after you've already listened like 15 minutes of us BSing So I apologize for that, but there will be time stamps after the the stream ends They usually show up around 8 o'clock p.m. Eastern time that's parts not going to change So if you want to watch this afterwards or if you have to come back or whatever You can jump to the place where you left off whatever happens to be so those things will appear Also, if you notice we're trying not to swear because YouTube has these new rules That basically say you can't swear and still make any money. So Already you notice that I've already slipped up one time There is a running pot on how often we swear in this episode all proceeds go to Matt's pocket I was gonna say the charity, but I ain't get I am charity Yeah, that's what I mean. I mean, oh, I think I think we are the best charity around Okay, so that's it for the pre-show announcements. Let's go ahead and get started See if I remember do this. It's been like three weeks. So you can be surprised if I even remember the name of the podcast There we go Hey everybody, welcome back to the next cast. I'm your host Matt and I'm Tyler. Yes, he is So welcome to season seven of the Linux cast. That's just absolutely bonkers For those of you who are keeping score. We started the podcast in 2017. You're wondering Matt There's some math there that doesn't really add up. Well, there was one year that we did like three seasons. It's okay Just don't think about it too hard. It's gonna be alright But yes, this is season seven episode one Welcome to 2023 such as it is. It is another I Think I made this joke last year. We made it around this the Sun one more time, which is, you know, good Hey gosh, gosh dang it. God dad gum. I'm gonna gum it. I'm never gonna remember the the replacement words Oh, I I used to like when I was a teenager My mom went through this phase where she didn't want to swear anymore because she was worried about something I don't even remember what so every time I wanted to say the F word. I said by humbug instead I Was like the middle of July and I was like bomb bug That was horrible. I was like 12 years old. That was a long time ago. Alright, so this is a nice cast We talk about lengthy things Normally we do news we talk about the news but this time We're doing predictions. So before we jump into those We're going to discuss a little bit about what we've been doing But I just want to before we jump into anything just point out the fact that I listened to that entire prediction episodes from last year and Was constantly amazed at how wrong we were So bad also Isaac. Thanks for another Super chat also. Nobody put that in your terminals. Don't do that Um He keeps giving people commands you should not run. Don't do that. I've given really bad commands, man It's just gonna freeze everything up. All right Also, if you want to see what that command does watch my video on it. I did that On camera on purpose when it comes to what you were talking about with Our predictions from last time I gotta be honest our last one was hard to watch Especially like for me when I was talking Like it was it was rough like I was extremely surprised at how consistently Bad of my predictions. Your last prediction was hilarious given the fact how the year turned out Especially how much of a fanboy of that product you actually ended up becoming Yeah It was so bad. Anyways, if you want to know more you just can't stick around and wait because it's it's gonna be good You're gonna be you guys are gonna laugh at how wrong we were when our predictions. Anyway, so anyways, Tyler What have you been doing in the last three weeks that has been doing with tech? What's going on? well, so I've mainly been working on a a Mainly Python solution surprisingly I mean not not really necessarily surprisingly, but I just I wasn't I was expecting to do the project in a couple of different ways but ended up going with Python, but I've been building and like an automation like scheduling software for a social media marketing company that Like me and a few other guys started So I've been working on that like a lot. It's been honestly a lot of fun the only thing that I will say is like Having to work with the Facebook API is really annoying Like exceptionally annoying. I Also was able to find out this is a Very Fun, but I don't know if you know this or not But Facebook won't allow you to read their documentation on the API without having a Facebook account Like why? Why would you but Like it's just it's so upsetting like I don't there's there's so much stuff about Facebook that upsets me but yeah That's what I've been working on. It's been it's been a lot of fun and then me and my sister with our like dog walking and like Dog well mainly just pet care business. We've been doing We've been doing really well and we're also potentially looking at opening up boarding facility And so that'll mean this kind of scheduling software will be really handy there So it's been a lot of fun been working on it and just trying to decide like Kind of like what we're what we're gonna do with it in the long term how we're gonna make it work But yeah, what about you what you've been up to man? Well, I don't know I wrote something down here. So I've been working on so Funny enough you've been getting into social media. I've been reducing my social media output So I still have a Twitter, but I don't tweet to it anymore. So that's gone I've moved all of my almost all of my social interaction to master Don and I used to spend an awful lot of time on YouTube like watching a whole bunch of channels and then I'd get into the you know the The rabbit hole of watching the algorithm stuff that they suggested to you right you'd go to the home page and you say Oh, that looks good and then it just one video after another over and over again, right? so There is a way to take the subscribe any channel You want and turn it into an RSS feed So I've done that for all of the channels that I've subscribed to and put it into no news boat So that I only watch the videos of the channels that I care about I no longer get into the algorithm stuff that YouTube gives me and I don't go down that rebel hole and more and I watch way less YouTube than I used to like I still watch the channels that I care about but I don't ever discover anything new because I'm only Watching from the channels that I you know have subscribed to in the past So Yeah, it's a It's surprising how much time I've noticed that I've saved by not Messing around on YouTube so much. So that's been pretty good I've also been doing the same thing with other sites where with reddit and stuff where I used to spend a lot of time on reddit So I've taken some of the bigger subreddits that I follow and put them into RSS feeds The problem with reddit though is that like half the stuff that I did on reddit was like images like Unix porn Unix porn is pretty useless in a RSS feed because it's at least in a RSS feed that is in the terminal where you can't see images So it's kind of it's kind of not as good there, but Yeah, that's what that's basically what I've been doing Most of the just in my free time Also tonight I start my Python course. So that should be fun. We both do the Python Yeah, so I'm gonna be starting my Python course this evening. So that should be fun Hold on. Are you doing the like six-hour free one? Yeah Yeah, yeah, I did that one That one's actually it's really really good I will just say though if you're like me Do not forget that there is an option to go like one point five time speed through it Because it's a really long course and it's not like you talk slow. There is a lot covered there But trust me when I say I didn't have any issues watching through it at that speed and it does help Get through it much faster because I mean like let's be honest six hours is a lot of time But yeah, it's a fantastic course. It really is good. Well, I plan on breaking it up into You know several days Maybe even a week or so and just doing it at I'm not doing it for a job or anything I'm just doing because I want to what I want to do is be able to Develop something like it my own it doesn't even matter what that way the next time we talk about something regarding developers I can no longer have to say I'm not a developer, but this way I'm a developer I'm gonna say I was gonna swear, but I stopped myself. I did it already I mean if you stopped yourself, you're doing good. You're doing good. I hate the filter man I think you got a cell filter. It's worse on the podcast because everything's live anyways Well, I mean as long as we as long as we think about it through this perspective. We're good. We're not We're not Dirtying the minds of children That's why we're doing it. See if you're if you first of all you have to be 13 years old to have a YouTube account So I granted you don't have to be 13 year old 13 years old to watch YouTube, but you do have to be 13 year old granted, I don't I've never really understood that like We all know that kids are dumb But they're smart enough to lie on that form that says they're third They're age, right? We all we all know this Well, and also especially if you know somebody with like a seven-year-old kid You also know that kids on YouTube like It's just It's happening So all right, so my you I've talked about this before my mom watches dr. Phil like every day She can't stand the guy, but she likes watching him, right? The other day he had a um An episode on the the tiktok challenges And apparently there's this tiktok. There's a couple in there. Freckin really stupid There I go didn't filter that one did I No, I can't help it, but the one of them is Car speeding down the highway seven miles an hour they crawl out of the window and stand on top of the car Oh, that's that's smart. It's called car surfing. Don't do that by the way. It's dumb, okay The second one is the they'll eat they'll either it's called the blackout challenge They'll either hold their breath until they pass out or and these are like little kids like four or five years old They'll choke each other until they pass out. Several of them have died Like and they record this stuff like Those kids I just like the fact that I live I live in a version of this universe Where somebody who is just in a regular old conversation with a buddy has to Explicitly say that you probably shouldn't get out of a car going 70 miles an hour and stand on the top of it I don't do that How do like how does no one have common sense anymore like How what happened I I do I People blame tiktok, but I don't Like you can't You can't blame that all on tiktok some of I mean But it's I think it's facebook's fault because facebook was first right The like that everybody likes once the likes and that's you know, whatever That's not the topic for today. We don't need to get into it But it just when we're talking about kids being smart enough to lie to that thing say they're 13 years old Just remind me like yeah kids are pretty stupid too Anyways, um Moving on to the contact information believe it or not this stuff hasn't changed since the last time you listened So it's basically going to be the same so you can find all of our stuff at the linuxcast.org. That's our website There you'll find past episodes all of season six five four three two and most of one all the first four episodes which are In the vault as disney would say, you know, eventually those things will come out just like bambi does every 20 years It's gonna be great Anyways, uh or the McRib if you if you're In of the McDonald's persuasion, I guess anyways, uh the links cast at orgas where you find all that stuff along with blog posts Which I do occasionally post so it's a great place to browse Also, there are comments there now so you can go there and leave comments You do have to unfortunately have a github account to do so so Unfortunately, there's no anonymous posting on the on the blog and there's nothing I can do with that because I want I didn't want a heavy commenting system like discuss or anything like that Where I had to put in a whole bunch of like java script and stuff. This was like literally the two lines To put in comments on my blog, which is great. 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So, um, thank you for your 61 cents a week I have no clue where that 61 cents a week goes because I've never seen it But apparently it is there somewhere. Uh, maybe you have to withdraw it. I don't even know That's how little I use liberapay. So that's the contact information now uh, every every year since we started the podcast we've been doing um predictions now last year was tyler's first year and uh, we did, uh We did predictions and i'm struggling right now because my borg base backup says this wants to go So i'm gonna have to type in my password Uh, which is great. It's fantastic. I love I love when this random stuff comes up Like half the time this doesn't even work and it had to work right during the podcast Thank you for that. That's awesome. Love it. Anyways, uh There was anyways predictions. So last year was tyler's first year. So we each did three Linux predictions and you guys are just going to be so amazed how Wrong we were Like it was so bad. So tyler Your first prediction my friend from last year you want to read this thing out to us because we're gonna laugh our asses off sadly so, um I said that last year was going to be uh, the year that, uh Element really took off people stopped talking about matrix And they implemented grid mode All of which not didn't happen Like as far as I know they still haven't implemented uh, grid mode and I will pause for a second Just so anyone can tell me that i'm wrong On that if anyone he really wants to using matrix. He really wants the point at least take half a point I mean, I'll I'll accept, you know, like a quarter of a point at the at the at this moment like it's But yeah for the mode. All right for like the majority of the point element should have taken off and it has absolutely not The best part about the prediction was that we were talking about joe rogan Well, Joe rogan made this other thing really super super popular And I was like, well, yeah, who do you think would do this for for element matt daemon? And then of course matt daemon and tom brady and stuff getting trouble for that, uh, fgx stuff So they can even probably a good thing they can tell me that was so good Yeah, you were uh By the way me telling you how wrong you were about this was the only thing that I got right Actually, I remember watching that And I was like, oh, I was like, well matt must have gotten something right And then when I looked at the actual like list that we have in the show notes and and everything was wrong I was like, that was that's right. That wasn't an actual point Look Okay, so you guys remember that um seen from billy madison there at the I think they're at the end of like the triathlon or whatever it is and the principles like that is the most utterly moronic thing I have ever seen ever heard in my entire life Everyone in the room is now more less is less intelligent for having heard of it I award you no point and have made the lord have mercy on your soul God that's such a great great clip. I should watch that. I should watch it right now screen. That's so good Anyways, uh, tyler was wrong on that uh, zero points. Uh, so my first one Surprisingly was also wrong. I said that solace would fold as in not exist That didn't happen. They're still chugging along. Um, They're still just on the same version of budgie They were at the beginning of the year other than like a point release or something like that, which is not surprising But it is still there. So nothing major new has happened with solace, but they still exist um See I thought the solace would fold because like everybody was fling the project, but no it's still there um Don't know anybody who uses it. Uh, raise your hand in the the live chat if you use currently use solace linux um I'm I'm guess I'm great guessing there's maybe there's like one person like hey, I use solace. It's fantastic Solace is like really good distra, but nobody you like I very very rarely meet anybody who uses it Um, honestly, I'd kind of be surprised if half the developers actually use it. It's one of those distros, right? Um, anyways, uh, zero next. Thanks for the the super chat. I'll read your Prediction out later if you if that's okay. Um, we'll put it at the end as a special hot take Okay. Um, so tyler your second one from last year Oh, my second one is um Distributions based on ubuntu will no longer be based on ubuntu at least some of them, you know Uh, I I can't remember did I Which one did I use as an example? Well, you talked about linux mint and how funny it would be if they if they Moved it like I was pretty sure I brought up linux mint, but I wasn't sure if I was all like I don't know why I think I saw something on zoren like yesterday or maybe the day before and that's why I'm thinking of zoren But I wasn't sure if I talked about zoren, but yeah, like um It would be it it would have been a good a good prediction if snaps hadn't Have really just kind of faded in general like no one's Yes, people are still using snaps snaps are still definitely a thing but snaps really aren't nearly as as big of a Vocal point, I guess in people like talking about Problems they have in linux anymore. It's normally not just a snap problem so uh I think I think maybe if snaps had been more egregiously bad this year Maybe I had been right there. Maybe some projects would have moved away The thing with snaps is that they did get better a little bit like when they've Finally moved when they moved firefox two snaps. They realized that they had to make it faster because it was so utterly horrifically slow to load So they finally had to fix the problem now that doesn't mean snaps are fast It's just means that they're about 50 to 60 print faster than they used to be so That was always the biggest problem, right? So yeah, I don't know. Um, this one here I don't remember commenting on it, but I do remember thinking like There's no way that this is good Uh, um mainly because I was miss you. I think you were talking about the the derivatives, right? You're talking like a minute linux mint zoren and stuff like that. See I in my brain when I heard you say it I thought you were talking about some of the flavors I was like, there's no way that You know like Ubuntu mate is going to go away from Ubuntu, you know, I don't know why I was thinking that way But that that kept me from thinking that this right one thing I will say though Is that if you had meant that you would have been closer to getting a point because mate and kaboom to and stuff have started to Differentiate themselves in terms of ubuntu by including flat pack and stuff like that. So That could that could have been a partial point, but you know But Not getting that one. Sorry No, wait, we're gonna have some really big brown numbers at the end I'm just gonna say Okay, so the the second one for me was canonical will become more obsessed with flutter. I thought for sure That they would have done more with flutter But honestly for as much talk as they made about flutter when they announced that they're going to do a new installer They have done nothing with it They have serious. I mean even the so You wouldn't think that an installer would take that long, but it's been two years Since they started working on that installer and I used it the other day or a couple weeks ago And it looks like first of all, it looks exactly the same as the old installer So any benefits they had from flutter have to have been pure developmental, right? It had to have been something for the developers to be good, right? But also um Like it shows no user benefit whatsoever and it took it took two years So either there's something wrong with flutter Or they're not as enthusiastic as they thought that they were because like I said, it took two years now granted They had an LTS in the middle of that So they were probably focusing mostly on that but still it just feels like it took way too long for a Installer that doesn't really provide anything new but also I thought that they would like there is there the only other thing that happened with flutter In the last year was that somebody rewrote the snap store in flutter. That was the only other thing that I saw For a regular base ubuntu that so I haven't thought and that wasn't canonical That was somebody in the community that that ubuntu then adopted, right? They pulled that project in but somebody else created it So that was really weird I thought I thought they really in all honesty have not shown any enthusiasm towards flutter in any other projects I think it's just been the installer and I mean, that's about it. Like I've I've seen other stuff about flutter Like I've seen youtube videos on flutter and like people doing stuff with it, but well not like Canonical Martin Wimpris is working on a Desktop environment a brand new desktop environment because first of all, that's exactly what we need is another desktop environment But he's usually he's building one with one of his partners or whatever In flutter and so that's the only other thing I've heard about flutter since then It's the so the google and flutter or the canonical and google partnership on flutter. It was really hard to say Was put into place when he was the desktop lead So it's very possible that he was the one that was so into flutter But now that he's not at canonical anymore canonical doesn't really care anymore, but um, I don't know if you feel like this, but I mean We've to and I think we've talked about this before but it feels like every year that we go on Ubuntu or canonical becomes less and less interested in the actual Ubuntu desktop like it feels like Every year it just becomes more and more like Who cares like even inside of canonical like they don't it feels like they don't care like The the the desktop lead for Ubuntu was always somebody that the community really knew um now I can tell you his name like I'm sure that he's somebody he's somebody in In Someone who interacts with the community a lot, but I just couldn't tell you his name before that I could tell you exactly who the desktop lead for Ubuntu what for Ubuntu wasn't before that I could tell you the name now. I can't um, so It just feels like they're I don't know It doesn't feel like it's dying. It just more feels like it is Meh like nobody cares even canonical right right. I don't know So yeah, that was not a point by the way That did not happen. So tyler your third one. Oh, this is a good one guys. Listen to this. This is great The third one for tyler was fantastic. Yeah, so so if you ever If you ever want proof that I'm not a complete like, you know ego maniac narcissist or anything, um, let me just demonstrate how completely and utterly stupid and like, um idiotic I can be And hopefully I will learn from this. Uh, the steam deck will see most people running windows on it The thing is is that I would have why did I say this? I'm pretty sure I agreed with you at the time I was like it made a hundred percent sense because there was no way That valve was going to get enough Linux games to work on the steam deck in order for it to be good um So that they were gonna and because that was absolutely going to happen I think we both thought that They were gonna have to put enough work into windows development in order to get that to work on the on the device, but Wrong Yeah, like so wrong like not only did valve Did valve do a good enough job that most people don't want to install windows on it windows themselves was so bad that For I think a majority like after they came out with the initial drivers I'm pretty sure like there was really horrible I can't remember what it was like power management or something. It was some aspect of the drivers. The audio There was no audio Yeah I think that they did that on purpose because there's been a meme in the linux community about audio sucking out Linux like here you go windows no audio Yeah But I mean it's just it is one of those things where like It's sad that I can understand me making that but also like come on have some faith like Of course, it would all work out like it's it's more funny That you went on to like the device so much when you bought one, right? Like the fact that you ended up liking it so much and you probably didn't even consider putting Windows on it. Did you? No, no Not at all I'm pretty sure that's the vast majority of people they just use it and if they've come across the game That doesn't work. They just you know move on give themselves a refund and move on. Um, yeah, that would that I laugh out loud When I was listening I was like, uh, uh, there's no way Well, I don't mean also like the ironic thing too is I haven't even changed the distribution on it like I've tried but There's some quirks with other distributions and a lot of them like Like it wasn't until a few months ago or whatever when valve added Some support for all of the device parts and stuff in the base linux kernel So some other distributions weren't fully compatible with the device but really in all honesty like valves own Linux system is so dang good There's really not much reason to change and like I didn't expect valve to get it so right like good on them no, um Yeah, I I'm surprised that they Sorry, apparently the dog's coming to visit Oh good Um, I don't know why she wants to come in here. She's just gonna want to leave. Hi I'm in the middle of something Hello, she's like not anymore not anymore. All right, so where are you going? This is ridiculous. All right Okay, um, who knows 11 just sucks now It's Nate All right. All right. So here here we go moving on to the next part. So this is where it gets fun We're going to do three new predictions for 2023 Oh, wait a minute. Hold on. It's like I missed one. I missed my last one I'm sorry for last year. I said that the discord would have a big scandal that didn't happen Honestly, that's the one that I thought like I usually choose one that I know is going to happen for sure So I at least get one point. It didn't happen. Um It just you know, I I expected that one to happen It is very surprising that discord has made it without any major scandals Well, I mean, I thought that they're I mean because I mean there if you pay attention outside of the linux space the linux space is actually fairly self-contained and most people are fairly well behaved. Like yes, we have trolls and But if you look at my ban list on my discord, I have like six people that I've ever banned in like two years You know, and I think like three of them are the exact same person. I'm pretty sure. Um but If you expand outside of the linux space in the discord You know community and join other servers, especially in like fandom, right? If you get into like Harry Potter and stuff like a family. There's some atrocious crap there And you know, it just Just seriously some of the stuff is so bad And I just figured some of that stuff would have to come back and bite them because you just see some nasty nasty stuff In other servers. Um, thank god. It doesn't come to linux all that much, but still it's it's pretty bad Um, I think some of the reason why it has gotten a little bit better is because of automad um So I know the people in my discord hate automad because it literally doesn't allow them to say anything nasty, but We don't want the server to get banned Sorry folks Anyways, uh, that was my last one. It did not happen. So, uh, let's count out the points for last year. Shall we? Uh, let me get my calculator out. Oh, yeah, that's right. We got zero points zero zero points Um, god, I hope we do better this year That's just embarrassing Look this year is going to be better. Okay. It's gonna be better. There's just for prediction, by the way If he gets that one wrong We get all of them wrong next year. Okay, so, um Moving on now we can move on to the 2023 predictions. So we like said we've each come up with three predictions for Uh, this upcoming year. I will go first And then uh, tyler you can go next. Okay. So my first one for the 2023 Is that valve will not this is this by the way is the one that i'm sure i'm gonna get right. I'm absolutely 100 positive Valve will not release a steamback 2 this year I guarantee I I would bet money on this that they will not. Yeah Well, I I think that's a little cheeky though because like I think there's probably a chance that they might announce one I mean, you'll still be a towards towards the middle of the year at best But okay, let let me put a provides on so that we can make a judgment next year if this happens If they even if they if they announce one, I'm wrong. Okay, because I'm saying they won't even announce it this year Um, I would go so far as to say they won't announce or release one next year, but I'm not as confident about that. Um It is valve man Half-life 3 you and I say more also the end the index is now like five years old the four years old something like that They have not released a sequel It's still like a thousand dollars When you have like the quest to whatever how it is like 300 bucks um, so I'm not confident that they'll even ever do a steam deck despite its popularity but or steam deck 2 is what I should say, but um It definitely won't happen this year. So That's my first one. Uh, you have thoughts on that Tyler are you disagreeing with me? uh I don't know I think it might happen. I think it might happen, but I I think you're I think there's a good chance that you'll end up right. I think there's a good chance you'll end up right Nate asked, uh, didn't they already announced a steam deck 2 they didn't announce it But they've hinted that it's that they are working on it. Uh, so uh, it's possible that I All right, like look like look, let's be completely fair about this and like let's let's go a little bit into this Valve is has worked on a lot of things. All right. I'm sure valve for the past like 18 years has hinted at the fact They've been working on half-life 3 Okay, have we gotten a half-life 3 in the past couple of decades? No, we haven't we've gotten a half-life alex But that doesn't count. That's not 3. So Like they they seriously they should have just called that 3 I mean, no, no, no, they shouldn't have because I played it it was it is It is not half-life 3 at all But it is a good experience and a good Prequel to half-life 3 It's just the sad part is is I know I won't see half-life 3 until my grandkids have grandkids So i'm dead. So yeah Yeah, you're probably right. Um, but yeah, so no steam deck 2 this year That's my first personal prediction. So tyler your first one for this year And please dear lord make me right about this one um web 3 NFT crypto Metaverse all that bullshit. Oh, dang it Heck never. All right, so that stuff is going to see heavy regulation and It's going to get more like just investigated by proper authorities and people are going to lose interest in them and We're not going to be talking about it or hearing about it by next year Fingers crossed I think you had the first part of it, right? But I think we'll probably still be hearing about it But probably mostly only in the negative aspect, but that's basically happened already like well I'm thinking it's probably just going to be like there's not going to be major news articles and headlines about it anymore just because It won't be a thing that people do anymore Like I mean all I mean also. Can we just please acknowledge the fact that there is no way that two Generations like away from now they're going to look back at how idiotic the idea of people buying each other's chapegs were Like there's there's no way if you know any Evidence whatsoever that mac os is based on bsd your lips are out of sync Like there's all the proof you need to know that that's based on bsd That's so good. Um, I think I think I mostly agree. I do think that we will talk about it But mostly negative, but if you think about like that's already happened because When was the last time you heard anything positive about crypto outside of the crypto bros, you know Everybody who's talking about it now. There's nobody bullish on it or whatever it's called whatever, you know So I think that It'll just continue to get more and more negative as as you say more and more of the scammers are caught and prosecuted and We can all hope hopeful I made a comment in my video yesterday about their fake money That's what it is. Most of it's fake money. Like somebody somebody came back to me like bitcoin's real like, okay I think you know, honestly here here. This is this is a dumb conversation for me to have but um If crypto had just stayed at bitcoin like if it just been bitcoin And there was nothing else they didn't they didn't start with these weird Like markets or whatever where you could trade bitcoin or what which are all Ponzi scams, by the way every single one of them You know, and they didn't come out with all these Damn it youtube shit coins. Um, you know, if dogecoin had never existed like all that stuff Crypto would have been just fine. Um, it still would have been very niche Um, and very unstable like they would have been going up and down there goes tyler. He just walked away Please make NFC um, uh, but anyways I just I think if it was just bitcoin, it probably would have been just fine but I still think that you know It would have been a very niche product The green war Sorry to get out and let the dogs out Well, your dog is leaving my dogs over there Doing what dogs do hi I said I talked to her so she came to come say hello. How you doing? They want to see you on camera. You come up here Come up here. No, all right She doesn't listen to me. She jumped on me when I don't want her to do anyways Um, yeah, all right moving on to my next one. So micro. So this is the vaguest prediction I've ever given But I want I was going to say microsoft is going to buy canonical, but that's not going to happen So my prediction is microsoft will buy something big in the Linux world this year Uh, whether that is canonical or something else. I'm not sure why but it's going to be something big They'll they're going to buy it uh similar to the like the github x acquisition Right, they're going to do they're going to buy something big that has to do with open source this year and it's going to Just like github did piss everybody off because it's microsoft and That's I mean like I said, I don't know what it's going to be. So that's the reason why it's vague Um, but it's going to be something because I don't think Like we know the IBM is failing right like I don't know if you've read any of this stuff But IBM itself is not doing all that great in terms of like It's vision for the future But red hat continues to prop that company up And while microsoft obviously is not having any problems making money Uh, I do think that they look at that and think that you know Maybe buying a open source cloud company like I don't know canonical would be a good idea Uh, so I think that that's probably going to happen, but I don't think it's going to become It's probably not going to be canonical, but it's going to be something different. There'll be something big So that'll be interesting to see Everybody hates microsoft by the way like everybody hates microsoft. Yes So, uh, your next one Uh, my next one is that I will be streaming on youtube every single day this year for four hours Every day starting when Uh today, but the schedule will be posted tomorrow. So, uh, yeah And if you miss one day, you're wrong by the way Oh And also, uh, just so you guys know how like Serious I am about um getting back and doing all uh all my youtube stuff properly um I also need to get with you about uh, I want to I want to host my own website similar to the the way yours is set up Man, like I kind of like yours. It's more tech space and like Seems like it's kind of simple to To manage and set up. Okay. So I will I will point you towards, um J dog, he will he will I'll get you set up because he set it up for me Um no word. Um Because he wrote a script where all I have to do is run the script. It will update the site It's fantastic. Everything else is written in markdown Um Yes, tyler said he's going to stream Again and not only stream again, but he's going to do it today For four hours What so what is the what is the topic of this mythical stream? Um, well this one. I don't I've really Uh, this one. I'm just going to be Just chat like I've already got it scheduled so people can see it I'll post it on discord and I'll post in your discord too. I'm going to look I I don't believe you Yeah, no, it's it's actually scheduled. I swear to god. Um, but uh, it's scheduled for at six I think it's five thirty or six o'clock my time Yeah, five thirty my time But um, anyway, I'm just going to be uh, it's there watching youtube I I told you y'all look at this is it's there I'm actually going to be back. I swear But yeah, um, I I think I'm just going to be watching videos and then messing around on macOS like just chatting whatever People in chat want to see me do I want zero ad streams back That's what I would like to see is you play some zero ad. I'll even come play with you Look, if if that's what people want and assuming you're in chat and you want that we can do that It won't be today, but I'm just saying in the future Zero ad I'd love to see that come come back because that was fun Even though I was bad at it the one time I played so It's totally fine. I'll I'll give you a fair chance. No, you are right That totally won't I totally will not stack the odds you are my favorite ruthless ruthless man um Really am I know I will say one other thing though. Um I am very excited to um To see your next prediction um All right, just just saying I know you're about to get in to it. So um, I'm very excited to see this one Come true and it'd be good. I want it to be Good when it gets implemented. Yeah, we'll see. All right. So my last one Is that we'll see classic window managers classic tiling window managers classic floating window managers Move to Wayland this year or at least begin to make plans to do so so and when I talk about classic ones I'm not talking about new things like hyper land or sway I'm talking about Like things like bspwm dwm open box things like that now There are some that already have done this like q tile already has a wayland implementation. That's already happened um The one that I'm the most interested in so that and I'm not and I'm not talking about forks either Like I'm not like dwm has a fork that does wayland called dwl I've heard that it's awful. So, uh, I don't know whether that's true or not, but I'm more interested to see what the actual window manager teams do when it comes to wayland now. It's possible like I would Honestly, I would see like open box do something. I mean open box moves really really slow But sort of the others like that's the thing about the classic window managers that they move Really really slow. I don't honestly it's possible that bspwm has been abandoned um And the reason I say that is because I don't think they have had a commitment in like a year and a half I may be wrong about that. Um I may have just made that up in my mind But I I believe I've saw that the last commit for them at least was a long time ago So it's possible that that won't happen for bspwm. I know dwm that so You know this right you used to use dwm before uh, they were on version 6.2 forever Right. Oh my god forever. It was for a long time They're at 6.4 now like They moved from 6.3, which was just a version number bump. That's all there was no new features for 6.3 But they almost immediately moved to 6.4 like I and I didn't know because I mean they don't they have a mailing list But I don't follow it so I didn't really know But um Come on. Let's be honest who follows the dwm Like I kind of want to now because apparently it's exciting. It's where it's all at now Right. They keep moving up versions like like if we didn't get to see seven by the end of the year Well, but that's the funny part like Most of the like version by version change like the changes are normally so little If even a change well, that's that's absolutely true And I'm sure 6.4 wasn't like some major Like release or whatever But the fact that they moved a version number so soon after going to 6.3 Just was it blew my mind because 6.2 was there for years right, I I don't even I think it came out in like 2018 or something like that was it's some crazy Long ago year from from here, right that 6.2 came out and then like Five four five months ago 6.3 was there and it was just a version bump And then the other day I was watching Linux dabbler do something with dwm and it was like I'm going to install version 6.4 I was like 6.4 I mean like It it very well could be that like suckless is like an actual like they're a team of like Vampires like software vampires like they come out of like hibernation once every few years And they just cram a whole bunch of versions out They do a whole bunch of like, you know small media work Because I mean you can't do much with 2000 lines of code like let's be real So you you know you like do a little bit of stuff and then they pass out They go back to sleep for you know and hibernate for another three years Yeah, very well could be what they do. I think you just compared them to locusts Pretty sure you did I was trying to stick with a vampire analogy, but Locusts is a little bit more Honestly of my three predictions. This is the one that I'm pretty sure I'm going to get 100% wrong because those Window managers, especially the three that I named move so slowly They make xfce looked like a highly developed project I mean So I wouldn't be surprised whatsoever to find myself be completely wrong On either of these things on this one here. So It'd be interesting to see that I'm not but it'd be If I had to hedge my bet I would say That it's more likely that we'll see forks of these that take off than the actual Window managers themselves in London, England, but my prediction is that one of them will We'll see Um, I don't know And that's my least confident confident one So tyler your third one my third and uh final prediction is ai and linux will become a big part of um Small businesses success um Which I think is kind of Kind of already starting to happen But I uh, I made the prediction. Hopefully it's something that like Does end up being more true for the majority of small businesses and start seeing a lot Smaller businesses like actually able to compete because of ai um like a a good example ai and linux because um I mean Like I I'm part of a new small startup and we're using linux Uh, like we'll have our linux server that runs runs our software and then um, We have just one artist And uh, we're gonna be augmenting his work with uh some ai art art that I could say I mean I've been getting into ai art and it's actually like It's phenomenal what it can do like it is crazy It's very good, but Yeah, I think we're gonna start seeing that in a lot of smaller businesses and I can't believe how fast chat GPT has taken off like that thing. Uh, Dude, I actually use that for creating our softwares. Um are uh getting its name And like it is remarkable how good it is like All I'm saying all I'm saying is that someone needs to get Will Smith have him just We need to put the Chris rock thing behind him. He needs to come save us from the inevitable i-robots. I'm just I'm just saying that that thing is happening. Uh, and you're all crazy with the ai stuff, but um If if I had a bonus prediction, I would say that uh ai is going to be the next crypto Well, I I I agree with that But only in the sense that it's a new emerging technology I don't think ai is going to be nearly as filled with scams as it is as it is with um I read this other day The bing software or the bing search engine is going to start using uh chat gpt for their searches, right and Like I like I've watched some of the videos on chat gpt sometimes. It's very very wrong Like it's phenomenal how right it is sometimes But also it can be very very wrong and it's very confident when it's wrong, right? Like it will tell you confidently In it it's wrong sometimes, right and but we have we do have to be all right Like let's let's let's level the playing field here. Let's be completely honest. All right If chat gpt integrates in with bing bing might actually be usable like look chat chat gpt can be wrong But it will probably be wrong also or less than bing out of date, right? The last update to chat gpt's data set was in december and they do it like once every six months So it's searching for anything that's you know after december not going to work Until they do the next update on the data set. So be I don't know But like let's be honest bing probably doesn't update for There the robots go out and search for robots.txt files just every like six months or so That's great. Okay, uh eddie asks eddie. Thanks for the super chat He asks I have always been a linux android guy, but I'm seeing more linux worked with iPhones Can you be a good linux citizen and use an iphone? What do you use well? I am on an android phone and I use linux tyler is the biggest apple fanboy now that you've ever seen in your life He can't he can't be a good linux citizen because he doesn't even use linux I do I do I just for personal use. I am much more of a I I look I lean towards convenience Especially now when it comes to like what I need to like Since I'm Doing a lot with my sister's business and I'm constantly on the move taking care of dogs and doing all that stuff I convenience is very important to me and max are decently secure and very convenient But that being said Linux like look Mac hardware is extremely expensive like it just it just is even Even the more cheaper things with their new mac m1s like they're more affordable, but we're still talking like a thousand dollars So that's a lot of freaking money You can do a lot of what mac comes with out of the box in linux with a few scripts that you can write up in like two hours And kde connect Yeah, like I mean there's there's plenty of different solutions in linux to have something that like that's one of the reasons why I really enjoyed My mac is because it it really the only reason why I go with max now Is just because of the integration with the iphone where I can get text and stuff on all my devices Like that's really just about it Like really in all honesty like linux has pretty much every single like Switching over to a mac was very easy because of linux like they are They have a lot of similarities, but linux is honestly in in its actual usability and Ability to change the way that you interact with stuff. It's better like it just it just is Surprisingly mac does have solutions like you can get window managers and stuff, but The solutions on linux are far better. That sounds like a really good idea for a stream by the way the window manager thing I'd watch that. Anyways, uh eddie to go back to your question. Uh, can you be a good linux citizen and use an iphone? Yes, you can of course you can um If you are going to become a bad linux citizen Just because you use something proprietary then I am also a bad linux citizen because I use proprietary stuff all the time Including right now. I'm using youtube Um, you know and I use google docs all the time for work so, um Well, I mean, especially if you if you work remote or Like run your own business or anything like the odds that you're not going to have to use something proprietary for something Is really low like it doesn't make you bad at like a being part of the linux community because you use something proprietary And honestly the people who tell you that you're a bad person or like Not a real part of the linux community because you use something that's proprietary Like just don't listen to those people like They're not all that put together themselves. They're obviously the bad ones. Um, because Like look use as much open source software as you possibly can and then Find the tool that works best for the job even if it's not open source It's just that's that's the way you got to live your life You do the stuff that you can do When you can do it if and the and the thing is guys You know, we say we say android is linux But android has so much proprietary nonsense on top of it that it's not proprietary I know we like saying that oh well linux runs the vast majority of phones in the universe But and technically true it has the linux kernel on there But it's not really linux And the vast like a lot of the brand new phones coming from the bigger Manufacturers now are so locked down. You can't even put Third-party ROMs on them anymore like Samsung You can't root those things without them disabling the the camera system like you can't do it Um, you could you or just trying like especially if you're on like the Big big carrier in your country like normally like because like My family we're on Verizon and Verizon is so locked down like any note That's like not from like Seven ten years ago like the samsung note series like they're all so locked down. There's you can't root them I mean you can't unlock you can't do anything to those devices and Normally also It's it's also one of those things where it's hard to run a de-googled phone When you're like when you're doing professional work because a lot of apps that you're going to be required to use Really require them Wait what the a lot of apps like that won't work on root rooted phone like if you want to do Anything I mean No, there's a lot of professional apps like that but there's also like if you want to do any banking on your device You have to use this regular google phone. It can't be rooted. Um, they they check for that Like it just won't work. Um, I mean, I'm sure there are exceptions out there But for the most part like I know my bank would not work on a rooted phone. That's why I haven't even attempted it. Um Now maybe when this device gets outdated I move on to the next one or whatever I'll play around with it But as a main device, I don't think it's ever going to be possible So just to go back to the the question, of course you can't right? I mean you can you can use whatever you want if you will use just linux on one computer You're you're still all right with me um So and actually someone in chat said don't let dt hear this stream and like I will go ahead and defend derek for a second Like derek constantly talks about proprietary software being garbage But he's he's also never said nor ever implied that you're a terrible person for using proprietary software He just disagrees with people making it. He's like you shouldn't make it like which I Look, that's a pretty good argument. Like I really don't disagree with him there Most software probably should be open source. Get a pine phone. Everyone tells me Matt you gotta get a pine phone gotta get a pine phone and make it your regular phone. I I've watched videos about the pine phone and it looks fascinating, but guys I'm not a gamer in regular life, but I use games on the phone And none of those are on the pine phone I wasn't gonna stop you but the funny thing is as soon as you said Python like in my head all I saw was you Looking at a pine phone in your hand and going. Where's the clash of clans? Exactly, man. How am I supposed to play clash without android or iphone? um Also, I downloaded against an impact. So that's going to be something I want to get into playing plus I mean like wards with friends is on there and I've been doing the new york times crossword puzzle on there So, you know, I do we we are so bad because I've been playing bloons tower defense like crazy lately I know it's such a good game It's a it's a dig. Okay, so Totally gone off the right when I first got my iphone when so When the iphone first came out with a with an app store there was this mafia game I don't it was a term based like time game where stuff you're you got stuff based on the time that passed And uh, that was before there was in-app purchase So if you wanted to buy stuff for the game, you'd have to buy a new version of the game That had the gold that you wanted for the stuff. So I bought like Man, I must have spent hundreds of dollars on that game. It was nuts. I didn't remember what the game really was about I don't I it was it was some mafia game. That's all I remember. Um, but man I've been a mobile gamer pretty much since that time. Um, and that's the reason why I I stick to I couldn't use a pine phone. Um, if all I did was ever make phone calls I'm sure it'd be fine. Um, but I never make fine. I never make phone calls I mean, I don't do that. Anyways, now that you're opening up about your mobile gaming I just have to ask you a question and please answer with honesty Have you played Diablo immortal? No Okay Good, I just have to ask because like you're talking about spending money on a mobile game And I just I just had to check to make sure like we didn't need to like get you help You know, like save you financially from yourself No And to be honest with you I don't spend any money on in Most of the games that I play now are 100% free to play And About a year ago. I decided I was not going to spend any more money on in-app purchase I used to spend a ton of money on clash of crayons like clash of clash of Clash of clans. Yeah, that's the one clash That's clash. I still can't say it's like I have a stroke clash of clans. There we go I used to spend 100. I mean, I've had to have spent like hundreds of dollars on that game Like spending like because they were around this time of year They would like for 50 bucks or 100 bucks. They give you all of this loot, right? I mean, I was like tons of tons of stuff and you could like almost upgrade your entire base On that one purchase and you know, it's like Normally that stuff's like 300 dollars and it's like a hundred bucks. Like, hey, I'm saving some money. Um No, this is the problem with mobile gaming. They do this shit to you. Yeah, I'm like, like, I mean you'd be dumb not to like I mean, it's 300 dollars worth of stuff like because that's how a diablo immortal gets a whole bunch of people because they're like Here's 150 dollars worth of loot, but it's it's available for 15 dollars But they do that to you like 40 times in a week And I always knew as I was doing it that it was dumb like I knew that Really shouldn't be spending money on it, but I I couldn't help it You know, it was it was an addiction and I wanted my base to be really cool But I've I've gotten past that I don't buy in at purchases anymore like at all so The the thing is is that is like I just I I don't and that and that's fine the um It's just kind of the point now where if it's free to play I can do perfectly fine free to play Oh, the one thing I was going to say is like if you guys ever want to see somebody who spends a lot of money on clash of clans There's a guy on youtube who does clash of clans content and he makes I mean he he spends he buys every single deal that they ever have in the store like he spends 10 probably tens of thousands of dollars, but he can he he has uh like three million subscribers or some nonsense And each of his videos gets 100 or 200 thousand views So he's making all of his money back me. I spent I didn't spend that nearly that much, but still You know, I wasn't making it back on youtube content. So Yeah, it's still so is that women is that is that true? Diablo immortal cost players 110 thousand dollars to fully upgrade a character. Is that true? Oh, yeah No, it's it's super expensive. Well, it's well it can cost that much when it's like um, when we're talking about Fully upgrading like You get everything for a character. Yeah, it can definitely cost out that like I mean, I know there's plenty of players like plenty of diablo mortal players who spent like 40 000 dollars on the game easy That's nuts. I mean that's that's insane. I I would I diablo isn't diablo from um The same guys who did diablo one two three. Wow, okay So even with all the activision blizzard nonsense that everybody everybody hates that company now They're still spending all the money in in in their mobile game. Okay. All right. All right, so We went way Thank you We can blame it on eddie, but also thank you for the super chat. It was a good discussion Okay, um, I should say I I don't know if I I think I got this after the last show I don't know if I talked about this, but did I talk about getting the pixel seven? Did I talk about all the nonsense I had to deal with with the One plus 10 pro that I had I had to send that back and I ended up with a pixel seven Yeah, so I've been using this now for two or three weeks. It's a fantastic phone By the way, also pro tip. I did this on mass down the other day But if you if you don't have an iphone like some of us here And you want the fantastic magsafe stuff They make cases for android phones that have magsafe in the back And then you can use all the magsafe accessories that apple has including, you know Docks and stuff like that. So, uh, there are also like pop sockets and stuff that go along with them. So, yeah The uh, if if you're on android and you have looked been looking at the magsafe stuff, obviously They do make cases for most of the modern phones That have magnetic like rings them and if you can't find a case that has one They actually make little magnets you can put in your existing case They'll work so Yeah, good stuff Like I like I have two I have two magsafe cases now and they're awesome They're so good. Um, now I don't have to go to iphone ever again because I don't have to be envious. I have it I'm good. Thanks Well, that's a good for you I just got padded on the head All right moving on to the last episode the last episode the last part of the episode and That is the thingies of the week now the thingies of the week for those of you who don't know if your first time listener or whatever Is a section where we come up with things that we want to suggest or things that we found that we have enjoyed Uh, we could have named this section anything else the template still says absolutely by the way Never gonna change it but it's just never gonna get changed 10 years from now It's still gonna say absolutely the week even though it's not it's not nor has ever been called that But we call it thingies of the week get your mind out of the gutter Tyler what is your thinking of the week this week? Mine is kitty um I would hope that most people who watch your channel and Used to watch my channel Would know kitty. It's a absolutely killer terminal. Um, it's fantastic. It's GPU accelerated It works on everything Like i'm pretty sure I'm pretty sure you can get kitty on windows too. Like you can get it on windows mac linux bsd like It's everywhere. It's it's a phenomenal terminal. Like it just really is I freaking love kitty and one of the one of the things that I really like about kitty on um Mac os is It actually has an a like in the config file you can set it so that you can actually change the mac os tidal bar color to match the background of your terminal and stuff, which is actually just Really nice. That's just Yeah, it's fantastic. Um, so so you didn't know this but I am switching to kitty actually I downloaded it I haven't messed around with it yet, but um You you know about uber zug? Yes, I do so they've abandoned that product right they even pulled it down like it's gone And uh, there is a a copper repo for fedora, but it will not build So, uh, that was the image preview thing I was using for ranger And so now I've had to look for something different now the ranger does have w3m support, but it is so slow um, also it Like if you stop if you take the window out of focus the the image disappears So that's the knowing as hell, but apparently kitty has built in image support for ranger Um, it gets built in so that's the reason why I'm switching to kitty I have like I haven't gotten around to it yet, but that's that's next on the list of things to do so it should be fun um You'll like it it I I cannot I cannot recommend kitty enough as a terminal. It's so good I It just it really is um Because I think I think I moved I checked out kitty after I heard alacrity was Like not going to get support or whatever like there was just issues going on with alacrity and so I gave kitty a try and At first I was like, I don't know that I'm going to like this and it was probably like within 20 minutes of starting to use it Where I was like, oh, this is awesome Like the config file is super simple. It's fast. It's just It's a really great terminal and also this is a Very minor detail that most people won't care about but they actually have a phenomenal logo and like Like app like they're designed for the app logo and everything is it's actually really good Uh, like really good by terminal logos are notoriously bad Exactly so is having a good one is like Like it's phenomenal like I mean They either go with the logo of just like the you know, like the the greater than sign on the underscore That's usually that's something or they do what alacrity did like alacrity has this like really weird like console looking thing It's really ugly. All right, um Move so my my thingy of the week is something also in the terminal It's called kickstart vim and I've put a link in the the show notes Basically what this will do. So I've been resisting Moving my nvim configuration from vim script to lua. I've been resisting it because I can't stand lua I've I've talked about this several times It's a toss up on any given day and what what language I just like more lua or haskell It's almost usually haskell, but lua is like a close second. I don't like it I don't care for the way it works and the way things are laid out, but I've been using awesome window manager off and on on various computers for a review So I've been using lua more. So I figured going it's about time. I decided to move my nvim configuration to lua The thing is is and you guys know this and I proclaim it loudly and proudly. I'm a lazy bastard. Okay I do not want to do this thing myself. So I I Google on youtube's moving to your config to Lua, there's not really a good way to do your config to lua, but someone who actually develops a nvim created a script. It's basically just a It's an init.lua File that's all you got to do is you put it on your Machine and you're in the proper place and it will run packer at the beginning and and saw all the stuff That you need to do and then bam, you have a configuration file a very simple configuration file Built in lua with some Fairly sane plugins things. I mean it's it is geared toward developers. So if you're not needing anything like Telescope or tree sitter or anything's like that You're probably not going to be happy with this because it's going to be too much for you But given the fact that I'm going to be starting to develop some stuff in python I figured, you know, what the hell I'll just have this stuff built in Anyways, it was astonishing simple. It's like six or seven hundred lines. So it's not like a huge Uh configuration file and um, I will also link to the the video description or the video that went along with the kickstart.vm Or nvm And the guy who developed it walks you through every single part of the configuration file. So, you know exactly What each part does which is the best part because I I'm a dumb ass. So it was much easier to You know Just do and actually understand also Uh hoof long. I'm sorry. I I I just haskell and it's okay that you like it. I just dislike it I can't I can't get my head around now. I'm too dumb for haskell. I say this all the time I'm just too much of an idiot to understand haskell And I just I just won't put in the time for it There's there's too many brackets and question marks and plus signs and stuff like that that mean Absolutely nothing to me. Um So yeah, that's my problem and it's always me problem. Anyways, that's it for this episode We did make it over an hour if we'd stopped right after the the Predictions we would have been done in like 15 minutes, but we'd be asked for a little while But that's it. So that is it for this episode before I go I should take a moment to thank my current patrons if I can do so Remember how to do that you can support me on patreon at patreon.com slash linux cast Thanks to everybody who does support me on patreon and youtube you guys are all Absolutely Amazing this is serious seriously without you the channels would not be anywhere near where it is right now So thanks so much for your support on patreon um Also, if you left a super chat, I think I thanked everybody who did live with their super chat So I super I super appreciate the super chats on youtube as on the live stream We record this live every Uh friday at three o'clock p.m. Eastern time if you want to watch live youtube.com slash linux cast We'll see you next week. We'll be where we will every week. I have some kind of mental issue at the end We'll see you next week. It's horrible It's all good, man. Bye